skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ponzi_scheme:

> A Ponzi scheme is a form of fraud that lures investors and pays profits to earlier investors with funds from more recent investors. The scheme leads victims to believe that profits are coming from legitimate business activity (e.g., product sales or successful investments), and they remain unaware that other investors are the source of funds.

Sounds pretty Ponzi-like to me, even if that's not the intended mechanism of the company. I would agree that a literal, correct Ponzi scheme would involve no plausible way to make operational profits.

I think pump-and-dump is actually further from the dynamic the author is describing. Although pump-and-dumps don't absolutely have to be short-term, they tend to be.

From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pump_and_dump#Comparison_with_...:

> - Ponzi schemes typically come with the expectation of profit over a relatively-extended period of time and typically last for months, years or even decades before their inevitable collapse. By comparison, pump and dump scams are designed to make profits extremely quickly and are executed over a period of weeks, days or even hours.

> - Ponzi schemes are occasionally the result of investment vehicles that are originally intended to be legitimate but ultimately fail to perform as expected. By comparison, pump and dump schemes are invariably intended to be scams from their conception, although a fairly common tactic employed by pump and dump schemers is to take over a once-legitimate business (one that is either failing or defunct), or even just its name, in order to pump and dump its stock.
> Educations are relative.

No it isn't, Nigeria remains a poor country since its population doesn't get proper education. That keeps them much poorer than for example USA. Poor people in USA can be relatively rich from a global perspective since they get so good education, you couldn't keep the wealth USA currently has if the bottom 40% couldn't read like is the case in Nigeria.
It amazes me how much effort is being put into advances in Semiconductor manufacturing. Is there any more room left for Moore's law after this?
Apple already has a perfectly good CDN where everyone can download their entire OS with no authentication from well known HTTP URLs, and all Mac owners are licensed to use it.

There is no reason for us to play fast and loose with copyright law; our installer just downloads everything it needs (which is a lot more than just WiFi firmware) from their CDN and uses it. No redistribution required. There is literally zero impact to users, and nothing to be gained from redistributing.

For people who want to do fully offline installs, we'll provide a way of using a OS image on local media instead (though in that case users will have to download a complete OS image; when you use our script online, it does partial HTTP fetches and only grabs what it needs, so you only end up downloading ~1GB instead of a full 15+GB macOS image - though we could provide a script to download only the required bits and re-pack it as one file anyway...)
WASI could be used without wasm, in theory. So it doesn't have to couple changes on multiple axes together.

I agree with the other poster, WASI is the next step for those who like CloudABI and Capsicum, and may really win by being coupled to the browser.
Your original comment was why google would expend time/resources in verifying if his app is "legit" when he is using the Eurovision name and logo.

The point of it is not what you think it is, it is what your comment actually says.

Let's go full cirlce on this. Did you, the original commenter, read your own comment after you wrote it?
The chip is $4. The test is much more expensive than that.
I think the advent of DeepTomCruise [1] make us rethink the solidity of identity. A majority of those watching the videos appear to believe it is the real Tom Cruise, and really, there is no good way to tell any longer whether it is or not, without reference to external information.

There is no reason now that Tom Cruise even needs to exist as a real person, or needs to ever act in a movie ever again. Tom Cruise can just become an abstract concept, no longer a living object. Perhaps it is Tom Cruise himself in these videos. Perhaps the real Tom Cruise no longer exists. Perhaps the whole thing is an elaborate art project. Our certainty of its falsity is tied solely to whether we believe the story of those who claim to have created the videos. Is it easier to create fake videos of Tom Cruise or to create real videos of Tom Cruise and a fake story?

What is a Tom Cruise?

[1] https://www.tiktok.com/@deeptomcruise
when I book through work, I can just walk into the lot, get in a car, and head to the exit. the checkout kiosk they have at the exit just runs my card, and I'm good to go. Haven't had work trips since covid though, not sure how bad things are now. If I rented locally, they bring the car to the office parking lot, and I leave it there when I'm done. Talk about the good old days...
Link? I saw that data back then, and the number were lower than this preprint and lower than COVID, IIRC.
> Stability is a feature

so the USD going to the ground at 6% per year is a feature? Aren't currencies supposed to be store of value over the long term, you know, over dozens of years since you need hard cash to retire?
Should have recorded the call to use in your fraud case to charge back the money with the help of your bank
Airline loyalty programs are valued more than the airline operations
Complaining middle managers seems so weird in this day and age. In the past, when people stayed at jobs for decades, it made sense to complain about annoyances at work like having ineffective middle managers. However, you shouldn’t be working at a job with ineffective management in today’s world, where it is common to change jobs. If you are, then that reflect more poorly on you than on the managers.
This is cool, and I enjoy foone's tweets about hacking around on embedded electronics you can buy at your local pharmacy. I just hope the unscrupulous don't have a field day with the potential spin this story and headline can have.
I’ve never seen this actually applied to or even talked about with engineers because it’s absurd. What software engineer is directly selling to customers? Is there somewhere that has had them enforced?
> It's equally true that this class of mistakes represents an increasingly vanishing share of real world exploits.

Is this true? It seems implausible to me.
I have family members who refuse to clean knifes properly. I need stainless steel. Personally, I'd prefer to have high carbon, but I know it'd be a rusted mess in a month.
Abnormal MRI results are mentioned in the article, you could start there.
It seems very unlikely to me that there isnt at least *some* genetic information that would be of direct value in advertising. Like if Google took five years of personalized ad performance info and filtered that through the associated individual’s known DNA to develop a predictive model.
And it’s about half price @ 1000 units.
Ontario was reporting age/sex-delineated data to this effect as early as the summer - all while the media and public health officials were advising Ontarians (including < 40 yr old males) to "take the first vaccine you're offered."
It might be, but what you're gonna do, sue them from behind the counter? You probably don't even have independent (i.e. not relying on their website) proof that's what the site said... But even if you do, how many people would bother? Eventually, somebody would launch a class action, but by then clever marketing person who launched that promo would already be promoted.
What is the use case?

FYI All I know about crystal is that it's Ruby with Python style syntax.
Do most people prefer to work that way, and are you representative of most people?

If many people have an issue with the UX paradigm, which is more likely, that they all are wrong, or that the one thing in common is the thing that's suboptimal?
> Deflation forces the economy to grind to a halt.

extraordinary claim that requires extraordinary proof.
> C allows the developer to play fast and loose with the rules.

So does Rust, in unsafe blocks. Is there anything that can be done in C that can’t be done in unsafe Rust?
Gonna hijack and ask for some Django projects with a lot of forms, especially nested forms with a lot of relationships. I’d be curious to learn from other folks how to do forms, how the views work (update vs create), etc.
Looks awesome, it's darn near readable.
>I have never given correct information for those. I always sign up with the name of a president and the address of the White House. I’ve been using a phone number from 15 years ago for those.

I believe +1 (202) 456-1414 is the number[0] you want to use.

[0] https://www.whitehouse.gov/get-involved/write-or-call/
FWIW that's what like what I do in rsyscall https://github.com/catern/rsyscall http://catern.com/rsys21.pdf
It's JNDI, a network library namespace library sort of like DNS but using LDAP.

Going off what I've seen for DNS daemons in capability systems, the whole point is to not have a network capability on the client of the daemon at all, but only in the DNS daemon, who gets IPC channels setup by by some minter of capabilities in the TCB. That IPC layer lets you make JNDI requests, but because of the capability model is a non forgeable permission over the idea of DNS lookups both of the local cache and over the network if need be. The the DNS daemon is the only one with a network capability for a random UDP port to make requests.

So what you have in your fine grained caps is

DNS daemon
* IPC server port
* UDP port

client app
* client port to DNS daemon

If someone coded that DNS daemon as 'you know what, new DNS record type called CAFEBABE that is an arbitrary, untrusted server name and path to load some untrusted .class file from', both the above capability system implementation wouldn't help, and we'd take the DNS daemon authors out and flog them for implementing that. If it was in the RFC we'd take the writers out and flog them too. That's the best defense I've found unfortunately.

And the big issue is that there's tons of these caps even now needed for a system, and it's hard to manage it all even when explicitly in a big table. At best it sort of looks like Terraform, at worst it looks like JCL or an autotools script. It's real easy for it to expand out of someone devops person's mental scope, where we all take potshots on the Internet for not following some hardening guide instead of other guides on a breach.
I agree with you, but given that overall comments in here seem to agree with the article, I guess this is a two-way problem.
Japan under-tested a lot pre-Olympics in a desperate attempt to salvage the event. After that point they had no more reason to hide the data. Tests that have been carried out since show very low positive rates, so there likely aren't too many hidden, untested cases out there.
I don't take it every day but I often take it at pretty high doses (1200 to 1800 mg) due to an ear condition. The most adjacent condition is called Hyperacusis, which is the word I use most often in conversation, but in practice it differs in that, rather than simply having highly sensitive ears (i.e. sounds that don't harm others cause physical pain, but not permanent loss of function), it seems that my ears are very literally less able to withstand sound in general (i.e. sounds that don't harm others not only cause me physical pain, but also cause permanent hearing loss). I therefore have to be highly vigilant about the volume around me at all times.

NAC has been shown to prevent hearing loss if taken very quickly after an acoustic trauma (up to 1 hour). I keep a bottle on me at all times. This is fuzzy personal science of course, but I can think of some instances of two comparable sounds in terms of volume/exposure time, where I took NAC after one and didn't after the other; after the former I was fine except for maybe a temporary spike in my tinnitus, and after the latter my hearing loss either started at a particular frequency or permanently worsened. I'm a former professional musician/audio engineer/etc (this condition put a stop to that), so my ability to judge this stuff is higher than average.

No adverse reactions except for maybe a temporary increase in allergy symptoms. I have a ton of allergies (food and otherwise), and apparently NAC causes a large release of histamine. That said, I've also read reports that it's helpful for fighting allergies, so I guess always be wary of what you read when it comes to this stuff...
At that point, why not just use something like the original SoC from the Raspberry Pi 1 and use the plethora of Linux dev tools available?
> So what is the mortality rate of the vaccine? Because this is the myocarditis rate, and the vast majority of cases didn't even require hospitalization.

No, this is the rate of hospitalization or death due to myocarditis.

> The outcomes of interest in this study were hospital admission or death from myocarditis. Myocarditis was defined as the first hospital admission in the study period or death using International Classification of Diseases (ICD)-10 codes (Supplementary Table 6).
In the right circumstances, the NFL would spend $1E7-$1E8 on this or similar tech. It’s wild to think about how much of what we see on screens in a decade or so will be “computationally inferred”.
The Glimpse project started out as a less offensive fork but was planned to evolve into a rewrite project bringing GIMP level photo-editing to GTK3 but the devs got hit hard by the pandemic and it got put on hold indefinitely.
Recommendation of boosters is short-sighted and is only valid while this variant is active. Give vaccines to Africa instead so there will be no new variants. A first dose is much more valuable than a third
http://www.bjorner.com/DSN06920%20-%201983%20Sessions.htm (version #2 best, IMO)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LC2roZjsv44

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4siXnAuVb8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ex2UHrJg2h4 (perf. Lou Reed, GE Smith)
Also the MMR vaccine actually works as a vaccine. It does not just reduce symptoms while allowing infection and transmission.
In Europe sometimes it's the reverse. I had to literally drive to another country once (fortunately, in Europe it's much less of a big deal than in the US) to be able to rent a car with automatic. I can drive a manual, in theory, but with me decades out of practice and my family on board, I'd rather not...
I have been, in the past, that annoying person taking up lots of time at the ATM. Here's what I was doing: Depositing lots of checks (up to a dozen at once), with an ATM that in theory supported depositing a whole stack at once but in practice spat them back most of the time if you put in more than one. Oh, and you have to key in the value of each check, and navigate menu options after each individual check deposit.

I was very damn efficient considering how much I was doing, but it still took a decent amount of time.
If our high living of standard requires the subjugation of the rest of the world, maybe it's time to rethink the way we organize our global economy?

There's more slaves today than ever before (some say even per capita). Pacific islanders are being enslaved for your fish, south american labor leaders are being assassinated for your bananas, and indigenous communities are being violently displaced for the minerals needed for your computers.

If what we currently have really isn't possible without the above happening, maybe we need to step back and ask if it's really right for us to have what we have
Nordic is not really that cheap if you just want a Cortex-M4. You buy Nordic parts for their radios.

If you just want processing power, GigaDevices has an M4 at less than $1 last I checked. Unfortunately, it wouldn't work for the design we were working on as the standby power consumption wasn't great.
> The problem with deflation is that holding onto money becomes more profitable

Nope, it is only profitable if there are no better investments out there. You are forgetting a little thing called the stock market. Nothing happens in a vacuum.
The transistor is amazing.

What’s great about it is that we can completely ignore it and take it for granted 24/7/365 and it keeps serving us regardless.
The Digi-Key price is $4. The direct price when buying millions of units will be a fraction of the Digi-Key price.
> Is it just an American boilerplate type thing? Americans just think they should have non-competes?

No, they aren’t even legal in California so it’s just some employers and in some states. The financial ones in NY are actually pretty reasonable because employers will pay you during the time after you leave when you aren’t allowed to go to a competitor. Not sure if that’s legally require there or just the market expectation.
I do miss these early days of Uber/AirBnB.
Keep an eye on Denmark. After South Africa it's the country I keep my eye on.

The UK had a high infection rate of Delta, so it's still mixed data there.
I noticed several billboard ads for duckduckgo in my town since last year. Over the years, they also made their message clear, it is all about privacy, not bangs, not applets, or anything else duckduckgo is also good at.

I don't know how they advertise in other media but clearly, there is a serious marketing campaign going on, and it looks successful. That can explain the growth.
I watched a conference presentation by Scylla DB and a lot of the reasons given for their perf boost using C++ over Cassandra's Java seem like C# might address now in 2021. Span<T> in particular is a perf game changer for this kind of stuff.

Would be interesting if C# now would be a viable alternative to C++ for them.
Huh? But the person renting it isn't a drug dealer? What's the actual problem with the car?
It depends on whether you think of the break as success or failure. When I write a loop with a break it's usually some kind of search where the break happens once you've found something, and in that case the break is more of a success.
5-10% of your income while a kid living with your parents is very different than 5-10% when you're in college and using your part-time income to pay for tuition/housing/utilities which is different than using 2.5-5% of your income as an adult making minimum wage while working full time. Take a look at the introductory internet plans in the US and weigh it against minimum wage to see how much most folks are willing to pay for connectivity as a fraction of their income.
So how long before someone starts buying up covid tests to strip these out again and resell to the supply chain challenged?
Here's a thread from September summarizing some of the available data at the time:

https://twitter.com/KoenSwinkels/status/1443335179012038656

It includes a screenshot from this report, which is now updated through to December:

https://www.publichealthontario.ca/-/media/documents/ncov/ep...
Eh

For example, Elizabeth Warren wanted to throw out all our international trade agreements and renegotiate them to force the participants to comply with certain environmental and ethical standards. Some of those standards weren't even being met by the US

The idea has been given serious research, thought, and debate. It IS doable. The main issue is the will to seriously pursue it
did the same when I first tried, hah!
It is, but running a 3.5" display would be nice. You could probably make something work within the ~200K on this part. Really I just want a better/competitor for the ESP32.
If that were true, you could cross compile Windows 10 to Rust Source code (or whatever language you think its magic enough to be safe), compile it from that language, and then it would never have a security problem again.

Obviously that's not true.
The International Space Station can't last forever (2020)
What you need to do is connect assassins with angry people, just charge to connect people
The unvaxxed have to submit test results to do anything though, even attend work. So you might argue their testing rate is higher.
Yeah, Turo gets you the car you want. I used it to rent something I was wanting to buy and I was able to really get a feel for the model over a few days.
Yes, I've also had managers that start their day at some ungodly hour in the morning and so it wouldn't be unusual to receive emails from them at 5am. There was never any expectation to respond to emails straight away and the same should apply to emails sent in the evening.
Regulations are often different for hourly and salaried workers. At least where I am all tech is salaried.
This is interesting, except that you have no idea what you are talking about and no support for this argument. First of all, we don't even know that Omicron originated in Africa to begin with; it was merely first detected there. Second, no, halting booster efforts in rich countries in order to vaccinate Africa will not mean "there will be no new variants". Third, as to which is more "valuable", well, tell the people whose lives have already been saved by the booster doses.

Certainly I get the argument, various arguments actually, for vaccinating Africa, etc., but this isn't a very good version of that argument.
That's not the rental car company's problem, it's the bank's problem.

Credit cards allow them to get a lot more money after the fact than a debit card AFAIK in case you damage the car.
That's fine, but in some places, that's basically saying you're the type of person to walk through dirty streets barefoot. No matter how #freethefoot and for personal choice you may be, people won't want you bringing your dirty feet and whatever they carry into their home.
They can charge more on the credit card later if necessary (like if the car is kept too long or is damaged), whereas they cannot charge more on the debit card as it was authorized only that one time using the PIN.
The time format in chess changed.

It used to have adjournments where the Russians had a tremendous advantage. When Fischer played Botvinnik at the Olympiad in 1962, they adjourned. Fischer sealed his 45th move and Botvinnik gave the position to his seconds who sent it to Moscow to a room full of GMs. Botvinnik himself went to sleep and woke up to be handed a saving brilliancy.

The time format also really changed in that rapid and blitz are heavily contested. Magnus and the other super GMs even play bullet.

There has been some interest in FischerRandom or Chess 960.

Not a rule change, but computers have democratized chess and massively improved play. A modern GM would simply crush Tal. Stockfish taught a level of accuracy that is insane. And now players learn new strategies from Alpha Zero class machines.
I'm not sure where you are from but the only people who drive Chrysler 300s are drug dealers or really old people. It's just a strange car to drive.

Logically, there's nothing wrong with a Chrysler 300, but emotionally, everything is wrong with a Chrysler 300.

And we humans happen to be emotional beings. Well...some of us.
Seems like a configuration you would want as a cloud provider.
Think about it for a second instead of asking crazy questions. The drivers of your cars need to be incented not to wreck them. If you bore sole responsibility for insurance, drivers would take your vehicles to the racetrack, steal parts from them, go off-roading, engage in demolition derbies, drive recklessly, report them stolen, leave them in random places... and plenty more completely irresponsible behavior. Good luck finding an insurer for your "business assets."