skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Crippling student loans or medical bankruptcy does not exist in UK or any other European country, so that's a pretty bad comparison.

I was not referring to just payday loans.
Godot has really good plugins for vr headsets. They work great and are easy to use. I would really love it if they can do more to support AR and upcoming hardware.
That's worked remarkably well for Russia.
I literally wrote:
"CCP is bad in different way than any other political organizations."

When did I say they are the same as US government?
That was very inspiring. In my opinion, ageism is currently a passing fad. The tech world is currently going through a big churn in terms of what is 'new'. There will be a few frameworks / technologies which will stabilize which will rely on the "engineering" aspects of software which has been evolving over so many decades. Those people who've understood the fundamentals intimately are the ones who are valuable. Now and always.
AppImage does exactly that?
So from the wallet it looks like he transferred in the $154M on May 19, 2021, when BTC was about $36,600 (interestingly it was down ~14% that day, hello crypto volatility). Then when it was transferred back out on Dec 1, when BTC was about $57,000. Even if you take the opening price for May 19 ($39k) that's a tidy capital gain of around $69,822,000. Does Sony get to benefit from that, and should they be paying Ishii some investment fees here? Or maybe that just gets filed under "investigation costs." ;)
Exactly. This is probably the best outcome for the owner of the money. I remember reading a story about how the government recovered supposedly millions of dollars worth of diamonds but was unable to unload those diamonds for anywhere the amount the criminal bought it for. I would have thought the government would force the people who sold the diamonds to take it back and reimburse the government in full.

I don't get why that was not an option.
I still keep a collection of these on hand for locked down Windows machines where I am denied admin. Cannot install anything, but I retain the power to copy and run random binaries.
In the US, commerce and services are easily available to those with cars.
I have been through two unsatisfactory home servers (librem and privacytools) and am trying to decide what to do next, maybe even self-host. In the meantime, Signal :--P

Whatever I step to, I will need to get my extended family onto it, and that is a big enough hassle I don't want to repeat another move..

I saw that, E2E notwithstanding, your home server has plaintext access to all traffic, which makes me leery of using cloud servers.

The other big roadblock is that I don't know of any client that can manage multiple accounts. I would have to use e.g. fluffy for personal, and element for work.

And I found what was labeled a Signal-Matrix gateway, but could not figure out how to set it gu he. If you are not accessible via Signal, your existence fades.
And then there's the other side of it, where people accuse people on the other side of being shills with 0 evidence. It's extremely common in NIMBY v YIMBY fights.
Epic games come to Steam when they leave Epic Access, I had no idea Twitch could install games, and the games they'd support are likely the kind of trash I'm glad is being filtered out from other stores, and GoG is DRM free and therefore easily downloaded. Their client sucks anyway.
note that the tool linked is for binary files. ASN.1 is text, isn't it?
I like this one:
https://twitter.com/jack/status/1473165759224463360

Just the right amount of snark.
> Because in an alternative universe, they could have chosen to treat log messages like SQL where parameters are passed separately.

They did chose to do this. The vulnerability arises even when this is done correctly.

Pseudocode:

log("example: %s", userInput)

This is still vulnerable. The parsing that exposes the vulnerability occurs on both the format string and userInput here.
For a free market to be efficient, all price information should be public, including the price of wages.

Public price information would greatly benefit workers.
I find map/filter/reduce much easier to read if it is being used for a functional map, filter, or reduce operation or something not too distant from it.

> A straight for loop is infinitely better in every way.

A straight for, for-of, or for-in loop, as appropriate, is finitely better for imperative operations that don't naturally fit map/filter/reduce but need to be performed over some set of values.
Fundamental physical theory is being replaced with a pseudo-science
... 'feek' ?

If it were 'fk' sure, but the Q on the end makes me think of all the English words that come from French and end in 'ique', like technique. 'fq' looks like 'feek' to me.
But should most people do it primarily for that reason? At the end of my 4½ years, I think not.
The most powerful man in China is the Chairman of the Central Military Commission. “Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun” - Mao. The title President is less important so term limits on that position don’t matter. Recent ”anti-corruption” actions have weighed heavily on Jiang Zemin’s allies
From Wikipedia

> The Communist Party of China proposed amending the Constitution, for the first time after 2004,[3] including writing Scientific Outlook on Development and Xi Jinping Thought into the Preamble,[4] and removing the provision that the President and Vice President "shall serve no more than two consecutive terms" from the Constitution.[5]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_National_People%27s_Con...
The video reminds me that sometimes I feel tempted to add something to the graffiti in places in Shibuya, or Akiba where it's already teeming. Life here in offices day in and day out is extremely boring, and any given change you might want to make to your life whether you're a local or a foreigner has a hundred and eight barriers. I tell myself the excitement isn't worth the risk, but that's backwards; risk is part of the excitement.
Bell also basically had this same exact dream of tilt-rotors when they were designing and building the V-22. This was a huge part of the sales pitch of titlrotor development in general at the time.

I’m still highly skeptical of where this kind of vehicle, even if you can make it very quiet, fits in to reality. There are so many hurdles to adoption in the regulatory aspect alone that it seems intractable, but the economic aspects feel like the true nail in the coffin.
>I don’t really see anywhere to go.

Why do you need Apple or Google to make phone calls, or send SMS messages? You don't.

You've gotten used to a lifestyle with subsidized services in "the cloud" aka Someone else's computer. It's going to be an adjustment, but you're going to have to either give up your freedom completely to own your data, or actually pay for your own infrastructure.

It would suck if google and the rest went away in a flash, with no notice... but we'd all recover, likely in a few months, a year tops. Remember how things changed when remote work became a fact of life, and now nobody wants to go back? It would be the same if the tech giants disappeared, and forced the decision.
Consider yourself fortunate. There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of a YAML binge.
Thanks for the info, very interesting and not something I was aware of. Although I'd disagree with the idea that generic "deregulation" is the problem here, at least in this case. In my mind it's just a good example of all the inevitable "race to the bottom" dynamic that happen where the laws of the sales location can be skirted by instead only applying the laws of the production location.

Basically, locales realize they can get a huge economic boon to themselves that is only possible because they are essentially exporting their shitty policy outside their borders.

Tax havens are perhaps the best example. No country could survive as a tax shelter if businesses could only do business within their borders. But instead, you have small countries that offer no/low taxes because they can pull in tons of business from gigantic markets outside their borders.

It happens all over the place:

1. In the Marquette example, states try to pull in lots of banking business by having easy usury laws, but the vast majority of those banks's customers are from other states.

2. A couple states have gotten rid of "the rule against perpetuities" to attract perpetual trusts, even though most of the trust business occurs elsewhere.

3. Businesses can extract huge tax concessions from states by offering to set up headquarters in a state, even if most of the business is done outside that state.
The parent comment isn’t saying the food is bad or that they don’t like the buildings. They are making a human rights critique.

A few days seeing the sights is pretty irrelevant at best in this context.
>I don’t want Apple to do client side scanning. But if they do it, I wouldn’t be getting off their ecosystem. ... It sucks but I also think that leaving Apple has a very high cost as a consumer;

Isn't it a big mistake that many people unfortunately make when they are trying to evaluate personal freedoms rights and values in terms of consumer costs?

"I wouldn’t be getting off their ecosystem." One thing to consider is that if you would not you'll pay much more later even though at the moment it decisively appears relatively safe. Nevertheless by staying with them in such case you'll give them a clear sign that they can abuse you much more and they will. Why not?

>that the right solution may be through regulations.

The full control of devices you own is absolutely essential. It requires a complete transparency of basic components like cpu micro-code, firmware and hardware otherwise it can and will be abused.

Client side scanning is clearly the search without warrant. Hard to see it any other way.
If there’s a library in the area, spend time in a section or topic that you’ve always been interested in but never had the opportunity to explore and… explore it!
Well even as a Wumao myself, CCP screwed up at this event
> When I reached this point in the project, I found there was no clear path to translating what I'd developed into a static language (C++) because many of the ideas and systems I'd created in Io simply couldn't be expressed in C++ - or they made no sense there.

I’ve had a very similar experience with Haskell.
AWS Support able to access any S3 object due to permission change
Yes, but that same leader is conventionally also the President.

By eliminating term limits in 2018 Xi Jinping was clearly signaling that he did not intend on relinquishing power.
The Apollo Lunar Module had the ability to abort landing by dropping the descent stage and firing the ascent engine. So if they had run out of fuel while searching for a safe landing site they still had a safe alternative option.
Ok, we first have to start with acknowledging there are two different things under discussion:

* Sustainable, legal lending businesses operating in the payday loan space
* Better lending options than payday loans

I am not an expert in either of these [though I have worked with numerous people who are experts in these] so will not make blanket statements (which is why your statement was disingenuous, rather than saying look I don't know anything about this you instead chose to make an authoritative statement indicating sustainable business was not possible in this industry which is untrue) about them, rather only indicate some of the information available:

In the first group you have companies like:
* Enova [CashNet USA] - Had CFPB enforcement
* Avant - Also from a YC founder, had FTC enforcement action
* OneMain - Caps interest at 36%, actually has a carve-out in California lending law

These companies have been operating sustainably for years and looks like business is booming for them. Note how despite receiving enforcement action they were not shut down nor called "cheaters" by the CFPB like LendUp was? This is indicative that one can commit predatory actions in this industry and still be sustainable.

Now for the second group of better lending options than PayDay loans, that's a very wide field but let's assume we want to specifically discuss people who would otherwise be going for a PayDay loan. I'm going to link here to NerdWallet which actually has great overview of options: https://www.nerdwallet.com/article/loans/personal-loans/alte... Specifically, I would call out local credit unions as being a "good" option that is often overlooked despite providing a ton of loan capital in the U.S.

There are also a number of non-profits working to try to help people fall into the Pay Day loan space, in which I would specifically call out SaverLife https://about.saverlife.org/

Arguing whether or not PayDay loans are good (ethical) or not is subjective, as others have noted a high-interest loan can often be better than no loan, but what I would personally argue is that continued and improved government support for credit union payday lending (e.g. https://www.ncua.gov/support-services/access/advancing-commu... ) as well as more available physical lending options (e.g. Go to the Post Office for a loan) are very much worth exploring and supporting.
Fellow humans, there are alternatives to Apple and Google! Your neck need not be under FAANG's boot! You don't even need to give up any functionality:

CalyxOS: https://calyxos.org/ Privacy-respecting Android distribution that replaces Google spyware with MicroG, so you can have your cake and eat it too. Most everything will work as you're used to, but it does still talk to Google to make that happen.

GrapheneOS: https://grapheneos.org/ Very much like Calyx, but extra-hardened and with no MicroG. No involvement with Google at all.

LineageOS: https://lineageos.org/ The successor to CyanogenMod, will work with many different phones. More privacy and control than stock Android.

There are also many others: Sailfish, Replicant, e

Hardware-wise: CalyxOS and GrapheneOS run best on Pixel 3, 3a, 3XL, 4, 4a, 4XL, 5, 6, 6a. The path of least resistance is to get one of these phones and run CalyxOS (if there is an app you need to use that needs Google services like Firebase Cloud Messaging...note that many that can use FCM will run fine without), otherwise run GrapheneOS.

You can also buy a Librem 5 https://puri.sm/products/librem-5/ If privacy and security and hacking are really important to you.

Or a pinephone: https://www.pine64.org/pinephone/
300 nits no thank you
Hospital pointy haired bosses and admins like ICUs at 80% capacity.
> But it is undefined. English doesn't have strong dialects like Chinese does.

The second part is a more interesting claim. But broadly speaking, for any two Chinese dialects you could probably identify two languages, one being a variety of English, that stand at a similar distance from each other. The second language might or might not be called "English"; it might be called Scots, or Dutch.

Whether to pronounce a(n) with the /n/ realized is not undefined, but it is specific to the speaker. This is a case where variation within languages named "English" is more than enough to show disparities, as witness the confused Americans who copy the phrase "an historic occasion" from British usage.

I took the position, in my original comment, that I was responding to someone who didn't speak Chinese (and therefore didn't know how to pronounce "wumao") but did speak English (and therefore did know how to pronounce "an"). I didn't think I was speaking to someone who knew the pronunciation of "wumao" but wasn't sure how to use an article with it.

I don't think regional variation in pronunciation in China can explain an English speaker pronouncing wumao or Wuhan with an initial w-. The citation form of the syllable has no initial consonant, and all sources are explicit about this. Chinese broadcast media, in running speech, still doesn't produce anything an English speaker would recognize as an initial w-. (I'm having to rely, for this claim, on the television programs I found on youtube, linked elsewhere.) There just isn't a source that would provide an English speaker outside China with an example of using w-. So I assume what's happening is that people pronounce w- because they see the spelling.

(Also, I don't see many English speakers pronouncing it Taivan instead of Taiwan.)

I find it very plausible that regional variation exists, though, because I know the Shanghainese (吴 dialect) pronunciation of 勿 is -- using a pinyin-like spelling -- "ve" with an initial /v/-like sound.
I’m the “SpaceX intern” who said Satoshi is Elon Musk. There's more to the story
Learning Go Generics with Advent of Code
Juicy rumors. CCP officiers now become the hot target of actresses.
Wow... Not sure what's going on here.

But I suppose it's OK to respect people's privacy?
I think it depends on the type of generator. I know one datacenter I worked with had turbine generators that took a few minutes to get spun up. They were started and spun up by essentially a truck engine. Those generators were quite old, though.
Realizing that this game is played by many others, governments and private entities included, leaves me to conclude that the “Metaverse” has been with us for some time.

Where are those proof-of-biological-existence services to counter this? And are they lacking because the platform owners are disincentivized for some reason?
Great resource that I use off and on! However usually my first attempt on locked down machines will be trying to extract the MSI installer or installing exe with 7zip, to see if I can run the contents directly.
Lived in Western Europe for a while. Most innovative small businesses I've seen involved fudging the numbers in some way to get government grants.
Once again RMS is being proved correct. If you use non-free software, then don't expect your autonomy to be respected. I'm confident that within our lifetimes the absolute worst case you can imagine for this technology will look fair and reasonable compared to what will be coming.
If the contract between MIIT and Alibaba Cloud doesn't require sharing vulnerabilities in the first place, MIIT should be the one to blame. And if it is an exclusive contract, I would feel worried, as the vulnerability might be secretly exploited. But by reading the news, we only knew that Alibaba didn't sharing the information with MIIT immediately. There's high probability that it violates the contract, as this is what we usually know as a cybersecurity partner.

Look at the other comments. People are only interested in political attacks.
What do you think the biggest disparities are in the page? I've been considering trying to host an IPFS service for a while now.
Use MEGA for cloud file storage! It's wonderful and easy and zero-knowledge!

https://mega.io

Syncthing is also another great option. A little more setup, a little more control, significantly less trusting.
Phase doesn't really matter much in EE for an isolated sinusoid either. But when you compare the phase of a transmitted signal to a local reference, or you compare the phases of the sinusoids in an FFT to one another, or you're trying to synchronize the Texas electrical grid to the rest of the country, phase means a lot. Phases are almost always only useful in a relative sense.
I thought it was HK?
China's already sitting on a ticking time bomb thanks to the one child policy. I'm willing to bet that that's equally likely to set about a collapse.
Steet Fighter II, the game I mostly played in my childhood. Always been a big fan of this amazing game.
Maybe https://bootlin.com/doc/training/graphics/graphics-slides.pd...
> ideally something like an online jury of ones peers, but who don't know you) take a quick glance at the photo, determine it's your kids in the bathtub and not CSAM, and click "It's Fine".

How does someone who doesn't know me determine that it's my kids in the bathtub? (The answer can't be "you have to submit other pictures of your kids" because if I can get pictures of random kids in a bathtub, I can probably get other pictures of said kids.)
Explained: Internal working of the streaming SSR server with React 14's suspense
Don Syme explains in history of F# that there were multiple efforts to port OCaml to .NET, (Nemerle comes to mind), but none of those felt natural to use.

For F#, they started with OCaml syntax and semantics; then modified it to make it a true .NET language. They added features that were not in OCaml like inheritance & interfaces. and removed features that were unnecessary in .NET like functors.

https://fsharp.org/history/hopl-final/hopl-fsharp.pdf
Early F# compiler even had ml-compatibility mode which would make syntax closer to OCaml, it was probably used for bootstrapping.
See this is exactly what they said last time, they said hospitals were being overwhelmed then it turned out later that the emergency wards had been empty the whole time.

Anyway, I was suspicious so I looked up some of the hospitals you mention. It turns out they are actually short of staff not beds... because they fired them all for not taking the vaccine.

https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/athena-thorne/2021/12/...

The media is in full spin trying to cover up the reason why hospital workers are leaving, claiming it is because they are exhausted, and ignoring the fact they were fired.

https://www.fox9.com/news/people-are-exhausted-health-care-w...

The Hennepin hospital you mention is getting the army to send more staff

https://www.modernhealthcare.com/safety-quality/defense-depa...

Obviously they aren't short of beds or more staff wouldn't help.
What is it about Apple that makes them hard to leave?

There are some switching costs to be sure. I wrote a custom MP3 tag identifier at one point when switching off an Ipod. But do they just make exports cumbersome, expensive, or what?
The platform, app store, and many of the apps run in WINE and ReactOS.
This must be one of those DeFi hacks I keep hearing about.
Interesting project. Unfortunate that its name conflicts with one of nq’s executables (https://github.com/leahneukirchen/nq), but I’m not sure anything can be done about it.
Iwata famously implemented RLE in Pokemon Gold/Silver. That gains an easy 50% from all the whitespace.

Huffman coding would be the simplest algorithm to compress the repeated patterns in sprites, but I think even loading up the dictionary to decompress would run into memory limitations on these old systems. If nothing else it would cause hitching.
The only Apple device I use is my mac, but I probably wouldn't switch off it unless there was a more compelling option. There are other viable options, but viable only matters if there's some pressure. I certainly wouldn't sell my car if I had one because another car is equally good or marginally better, it would have to be way better and at least as nice to use in some way. In the future, a new mac is still the most compelling option, for my purposes.

The phone is basically a commodity though. I like Android enough, but I get the best value thing I can for under $500.
Wow, great rant! Rants are fun to read but beware, they contain more heat than light.
If it's faster spreading, it could "overwhelm the healthcare system" in areas where Delta would have been manageable.
People start using firefox?
Commuting. Suburbs are, generally, huge collections of roads that are ready for children to play on, so they're going to be relatively narrow roads, like 2-2.5 cars wide.

You have that kind of roadwork for multiple square miles. All those people need to go to and from work, and so that's increased traffic.

The larger the suburb, the further people need to go to get food, the longer they'll be on the road, the more cars will be on the road concurrently (most traffic in long commute times is going the whole length of the slow commute time because everyone lives further away)
Cool, I appreciate you sharing the info on your process!