skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This has not been my experience in the US. The eSIM QR code appears to be one time use with two major carriers I've used (AT&T/T-Mobile). I could not simply scan the previous QR code when I got a new phone I had to go into the store and request another.

A physical SIM in contrast always works. I was already questioning whether I'd ever need to upgrade from the 12 Pro but this type of needless regression makes it an easy decision.
As far as I know, the princely state of Travancore was not under British rule (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Travancore) and the quality of life, education and health care often rivalled or exceeded many parts of Europe.

The primary, middle school & women's education always figured high in India in contrast to Europe where education was only for the elite until about 150 years ago.

Systematic dismantling of traditional education systems and disenfranchisement of temples which was the support structure of the society was common in territories under direct British control.

https://www.amazon.in/BEAUTIFUL-TREE-DHARAMPAL/dp/8175310952

Documents in detail the uprooting of the Indian education system and substitution of elitist English education.
Keepass + Cloud File Storage + Keepass plugins = about the same thing as Lastpass except you have more control; This could be a positive or negative thing I suppose though. :D
I know a lot of people have fond memories of this kind of thing, but from a designer perspective, is it good that a game is so boring that players are willing to pay real-world money to skip parts of it? Runescape set up a system that was so grind-heavy that players broke server rules and wrote automated scripts to grind for them, and other players gave them money to do that. Because the minute-to-minute gameplay of Runescape was bad; people were willing to pay $10 of real money to remove 4-6 hours of gameplay from the game.

Well frankly, that's 4-6 hours of gameplay should never have been in the game in the first place. Players should not feel bored playing your game for that long, certainly not bored enough to pay money to get out of it.

I have no doubt that learning how to exploit these systems was really fun for people, because learning how to exploit systems and build macros and read economic signals and avoid detection from a company is genuinely really interesting, fascinating work. It's just a shame that the only way Runescape could (inadvertently) enable that experience for people was to make a crappy grind process for an even larger portion of their playerbase.

I can't get away from thinking of the experience 58x14 is describing is a failure of game design. 58x14 has fond memories of this because they were playing an entirely different much more exciting hacking game than the crappy grind that Runescape's designers had built and intended for the majority of their playerbase.

And I think that perspective is worth keeping when we look at play-to-earn games. These are boring games, and some people are doing some fun economics stuff on top of them. That doesn't make the core gameplay any less boring though, and the fun economics stuff only works because a lot of other players are having a miserable time with the intended mechanics. I don't like praising a design ethos that says that a nontrivial portion of your players will be bored and will pay someone else to play the game for them.
Maybe there were markings in charcoal, paint, chalk or whatever, but they didn't last.
It sounds exactly like any company I have worked for. From small to big.
This is why I rolled my own cryptography to generate random passwords for each site I use.

There is a tradition here that we tell programmers they must never write cryptographic code, that they will screw it up, and so on. To which I say: Yes, I agree that writing crypto code if you don’t know what you are doing can cause problems. It should not be done unless you know what you are doing; if you think using MD5 in any cryptographic context is secure, you don’t know what you are doing and shouldn’t be writing code using crypto.

If one wishes to write crypto code, the first thing is to realize that it’s very important to choose an algorithm wisely. Use one which has been made by an esteemed cryptographer, has been released to the academic cryptographic community, and has not been broken by said community.

Never try to make your own algorithm. Unless you know the difference between differential cryptanalysis and linear cryptanalysis, you have no business making your own algorithm. Even if you do, you have no business making you own algorithm and using it in production without releasing it to the academic cryptographic community so they can analyze it and see if it’s broken in some way you didn’t see.

It’s not just algorithms. It’s how to use an algorithm. If you don’t understand why it’s a bad idea to use a block cipher in ECB mode, then you probably shouldn’t be writing code that uses a block cipher in live production.

I would not have anyone write crypto code for production use unless they have read Applied Cryptography cover to cover; while somewhat dated (it came out before AES, MD5 getting broken, SHA-3, or post-quantum crypto) it is an excellent introduction to the basics.

That said, I have written my own password generator. I have read Applied Cryptography. I know MD5 is broken. I know to random pad plaintext before encrypting it with RSA. I know not to use a block cipher in ECB mode. I have written cryptographic code used in production and it hasn’t ever been shown to be weak or broken; I have revised the code when purely academic attacks have been made against it: I started transitioning from AES to RadioGatún[32] back in 2007 because, while purely academic, I felt the cache timing attacks made it too insecure for me to continue using it in production code.

My password generator takes a master password, and it appends it to that master password the name of the site I am visiting, then runs it through a strong cryptographic hash (RadioGatún[32], for the record, which has been around for over 15 years and remains unbroken) for over 500,000 rounds, to generate a secure password. Since it’s not an online service, there is no point of failure where hackers could get in to the online site; since it’s not a browser plugin, there is no point of failure where a browser security hole or a Javascript hack can get at my master password.

The code is open source and available here: https://github.com/samboy/PassGen/
An authoritarian title for an authoritarian (but coherently distributed) world. By contrast, no one attempted to define "the" web2 stack, nor web1 stack.

Thankfully the article is more a mix and match. Still, I can't help but note this push for certainty & strong coherence, uniformity. It does not feel like a flexible, malleable universe to me, unlike the webs before.
I wonder how many cheap plastic Happy Meal toys will someday thousands of years from now be dug up and deemed to have special religious significance to our culture.
As long as miners can't pay the power company with their mining rewards, bitcoin can't exist outside the fiat system. The mining reward denominated in the currency the miner has to pay their electricity bill in MUST be higher than the electricity cost to mine the reward, otherwise the miners go bankrupt.
If two of your four points concern roads, especially how "massive" they are, then I think many people would disagree with your definition of nice.
My wife has a PhD and I've always been impressed with her skillset. Although she's not quite ready to join "the industry", there's truly a massive gulf between the quality of research, writing, organization and analysis she can produce compared to what I've encountered in the workforce.
The over use of occupational licensing has some well documented negative effects, see https://www.econlib.org/library/Enc1/OccupationalLicensing.h... for some points about it.

However, physical therapists already have an occupational licensing exam. You could argue that it’s not hard enough, as it does have a high pass rate for those who have graduated from a PT university program, but then you start drifting into “no true Scotsman” territory.
Greetings from Wisconsin. I'd describe the attitude towards work a bit differently: I think we tend to have generally healthy attitudes about work-life balance. I've not seen the 996 culture here except in some rare cases. When we work, we work. Then we go home. There's probably a different age distribution among tech workers, that might be reflected in our attitudes. I have colleagues who are past 65 and still enjoy coming in and doing their thing.

Not everybody hates the winter. I love it. Right now I'm looking out at a nice snowstorm, and hoping to take a long walk in it. I believe the trick to dealing with the weather -- hot and cold -- is to get out and embrace it. If you're outside every day, the seasons won't take you by surprise. You'll figure out clothing. You'll find the nice places to take walks or ride your bike. It doesn't have to happen all at once, or even within the space of one year.
Liteqube puts Qubes OS on a diet
Use any service you want, Syncthing, Dropbox, etc. Keepass is smart about saving. If the DB is modified in the background while it's open, it will merge your changes rather than overwrite.
Only works up to and including Android 11, though.
There are no PAYG eSims available in the UK, I'd like to set one up with my watch but they all require a Monthly plan.

Is this just part of the roll out, and it will be available in time, do eSims require a Monthly plan?
I like how that last "if you think you've been hacked" link effectively says "yes, probably", without offering an actual solution on how to get your content back.
I'm not sure about this, but I think the correct term might be "negative sum." The winners gain less than the losers lost for the reasons you mentioned.
Accessibility is the one area fashion barely matters.

I don't care if I look like Molly Millions or a 60s psych experiment. I'll take anything that makes it easier for me to use a computer. If I could have sensor fusion with my eye tracker and mental commands for mouse operations that'd be a killer app for me.
I'm under the impression that EPM is more of a project management role than a traditional PM role given how tops down Apple is?
The perceived irony is facile; living in a nice safe area with easy commutes to a large amount of places is fantastic.
You're right mainly. Self-assessment was a filter he used, it wasn't the definition in itself.
Spinning Language Models for Propaganda-as-a-Service
There is something really wrong about doing something that you know is complete garbage and yields no benefit to anyone else in terms of productivity. But after one level of indirection we see all sorts of tasks around us that people do and also benefit no one, for example when someone destroys a pallet of watermelons or fills up a swimming pool with orbeez that end up in garbage hours later. The person who cultivated the watermelons or the worker that toiled in the orbeez factory to make them saw the fruit of their labor yield no benefit to anyone else in terms on productivity. This type of task happens far too often.

Only difference is, there is no masquerade in the NFT app a16z funded.
Would $180k over 4yrs move the needle if making $340k yr salary? Think not.
Given the intricacy of the smithing that seems less than sensible, it's not like the size of the items changes significantly, so having markings you can just wipe away and needing to re-measure and re-mark the item regularly sounds far from optimal.
That, however, is an economic decision unrelated to load following. Being able to load follow but deciding not to build the last plant that would be used 5% of the time is not the same as not being able to load follow, and being forced to have batteries or alternative production means.

> France meets its peak electricity demands with fossil fuel generation, hydropower, and imports.

Hydropower is used for peaks a lot, because France has a lot of reversible hydro, but fossil plants and imports aren't routinely used for peak use.
> I know if you have PhD you (probably) worked really, really, really hard, were able to focus on a single problem for years,

Focus, yes.

Hard work - not a requirement. Depends entirely on your professor's requirements to get the PhD. Most of what I saw in my time in engineering/physics: Just consistently do the work and stick to it without getting too many distractions. Hard work merely made you get the PhD quicker.

Of course, if your advisor is fussy, this strategy won't work.

The one other observation is that when you look at the output and career trajectory, there isn't much correlation with the value of the PhD and how hard the advisor makes you work. Most of the value of the hard work slave driving professors make you do goes to your professor, not you,
who is talking about securities? I'm talking about micropayments
With US swamped by omicron, Biden scraps travel bans
Is ransomware that rare an occurrence? I could see ransomware being the taxes of web3.
I miss read a bit when replying in the other comment, for 4 side-by-side 80 column windows, you'd need to bring the font size to 9, which isn't as comfortable as 14 for me in my side-by-side setup, but then 1.25x is also an option.
I don't know what people consider "eager" in Guix. In the `package` DSL all input fields are thunked, so they are not eagerly resolved. You don't need all values of your language to have lazy semantics --- delaying evaluation of some values is enough. Just because Guile Scheme is no lazily evaluated by default does not mean that "Guix is eager" is a useful statement.
I believe there's a website called ogusers, I can't personally vouch for it, but I've heard from friends that's what they use
Oh. That is true. I did not run into this issue personally but I just checked and they indeed do not have such option. It is kind of bizarre they don't have this functionality.
What is the patent number?
Just said same thing. Making $360k yr. and wouldn't even feel it.
First off, stop saying "the Midwest" like it's one unified culture. That's like saying all humans are the same.

Secondly, Minneapolis specifically is very cosmopolitan. I live here, and there's a vibrant progressive culture.

I've seen far more Trumpling culture recently on a drive through Illinois and Indiana than in my last ten years of living in Minneapolis.

I will repeat - do not _ever_ call "the Midwest" one culture again.
DoE spent $1.1B to build carbon capture demos
How much is Zuck paying you to post this? How many lives was it worth?

People on this forum NEED to look at what they contribute to the world, i imagine some of them wont want to.
reaaallyyy!?!?! its simple. assume no privacy. someone is always watching.
Wow, you were ahead of the curve here @gregsadetsky! Looks like real news articles are coming out about this now! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29716715
> Not everybody hates the winter.

Absolute truth.

> I believe the trick to dealing with the weather -- hot and cold -- is to get out and embrace it.

I used to routinely need to walk >2 miles over the course of a day in Chicago winters. I assure you, I still hated it!

100 degrees and humid? No problem. Sub-zero? I'm leaving!
Having lived all my life in several packed downtown metro areas all over from Delhi, Mumbai, NYC to San Francisco, being safety aware and conscious of your surroundings is pure common sense and not just a specific city problem. Yes, the political class and municipality can absolutely do better to quell the concerns for the wealth and demand the metro area attracts as someone pointed out earlier, although that’s a tangential discussion IMO
You need NFTs to have something to trade with your cryptocurrencies. And you need cryptocurrencies to trade NFTs.
Great point - it's not quite as trivial as it appears.

But I think you could just use the same approach: "Every turn, keep suggesting a strategy until you receive the same strategy you suggest". Once that happens, then you both execute that strategy.

Both players are trying to collaborate here, so they'll naturally subordinate themselves on the first opportunity to win the game, they'll implement randomness or backoff naturally.
No, it's the super heroes and Disney figurines what will be considered deities - their sheer volume will make them a frequent archeological finding.
Lunar architecture: small step for 3D printers, giant leap for humankind
VR/AR is miniscule with relatively high potential. We'll have to wait and see what they come up with, it could be great, it could be niche, no way no to know.

EV has huge potential, but has a lot of competition, and Apple would be late to the party and without any serious advantages, technological, ecosystem, or otherwise. On the contrary, they'd have to build delivery and repair networks from scratch ( assuming they delegate all manufacturing). Even for their endless financial reserves, it seems very improbable they'd get anywhere serious within 10 years in the EV market.

Laptops - that's a tough market with lots of competition and long retention ( as in people rarely upgrade, and tend to stick to manufacturers), many of it Apple simply cannot and could not overcome ( Windows will probably remain the de facto enterprise standard for some more time). They finally have a serious technological advantage beyond more abstract, subjective or niche ones ( better UX or light or long batter life) advantages.
When China does things in the way the US does them, while the US goes angrily; "No, no! When you do it it's evil!", then it's very relevant to point out how both are doing these things.

Particularly as the US's reach and impact is literally global; The free decentralized web does not exist anymore, by now it's not even a handful of US corporations who control the majority of web traffic [0], so the DoDBots are working with a home advantage that's pretty much global.

It's gotten to a point where even established mainstream media are using US social media [1] as their "sources", rarely ever following up on the actual person behind the account.

And the US does this in cooperation with their Five Eyes partners [2], so in addition to global reach and home advantage, they even have several teams on the same side playing the game.

It's gotten so ever-present that the US had to change the Smith-Mund Act to make domestic government propaganda proper legal, just like it used to be in the USSR [3].

And that's exactly where a lot of these accusations against China come from. It's these outfits that flood social media with posts like "China transporting Uhyrus in trains, just like Nazi Germany!". It's these outfits that turn some "It's regulated in China" into "Omg it's banned and they gonna organ harvest you for breaking the rule!" FUD.

The very same outfits were behind Saddam's people shredder, and organizing fake witnesses for US hearings [4]. Creating a bunch of sock puppet accounts is just a regularly Monday morning for them.

[0] https://staltz.com/the-web-began-dying-in-2014-heres-how.htm...

[1] http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2011/mar/17/us-spy-ope...

[2] https://theintercept.com/2014/02/24/jtrig-manipulation/

[3] https://foreignpolicy.com/2013/07/14/u-s-repeals-propaganda-...

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nayirah_testimony
The point that the other person was making, is that if you are arguing that these "games" are actually a good/effective way of making money for kids, you are lying.

That's the problem. The issue is they there could be people who are tricked into believing that this is an effective way of making money, when it is clearly not for most people.
Revealed: Palantir’s Top-Secret User Manual for Cops (2019)
Meanwhile, I'm over here with an effective 4.7% pay cut as my "merit" increase.
My passwords from Chrome propagate automatically to my Android apps.
> If the financial instrument that underlies the project were to stop going up in value XX% per month, would you still be interested in the project?

I use this yard stick when reviewing all of my tech investments. Providing real value with interesting technological innovations is why ETH outperformed every other alt-coin, just like why Amazon and Google survived the dotcom bust. It seems fundamentally unfair to ask this question specifically of “crypto/NFT/web-3” when it applies equally to all assets and projects.
Since OpenPGP is normally used in offline and stateless applications like encrypted email and encrypted files there is no need for some sort of session oriented authentication. The content itself is signed and thus authenticated. So the MDC is not normally needed either, it is just an integrity check for the edge case of unauthenticated encryption. The only time the alleged deficiencies of the MDC come into play is when doing symmetrical encryption.

This article covers this in more detail:

* https://articles.59.ca/doku.php?id=pgpfan:authenticated

So if OpenPGP never gets upgraded authenticated encryption no one will care much.
> The Midwest is largely Trump country.

Minnesota, the state being discussed in the article, hasn't gone red in a presidential election since 1972 - longer than any other state. (Only DC has a longer blue streak.) We were also the first state in the midwest to legalize gay marriage via legislation rather than a court order.

Yes, the rural parts of the state are very conservative. (The district just north of me was Michele Bachmann's.) But this is true nationwide - just look at rural California or Washington.
NFTs are the equivalent of decentralized RS party hats.
> 1) Medical tests have four quadrants--not 2. The accurate quadrants are "positive test--positive diagnosis" and "negative test--negative diagnosis". The problem quadrants are "positive test--negative diagnosis" and "negative test--positive diagnosis".

The solution to false positives is not "let's not test and bury our heads in the sand". The solution to false positives is to test a lot more to monitor the progression of disease.

> Biopsies can result in infections ... If you are testing a lot of people and the disease is relatively rare, you may kill more people with false positives than the disease itself

This is junk science. People troll through records looking for correlations and publish when they find them. Many prospective studies show that biopsies don't increase mortality rates.

> A negative test with a positive diagnosis is problematic because people will tend to blow off other signs since "the test was negative". This can delay lifesaving treatment.

If you have symptoms you will be given a test anyway. So you need to deal with base rates, false positives, etc, regardless.

> 2) The body often clears a lot of diseases. Lumps that could be cancerous often disappear. Swellings come and go. Viruses do more and varied damage than we originally thought. The body repairs itself and reversion to the mean is a thing.

So the solution is to monitor them constantly.

> 3) Diseases may not even be that problematic. Sure, aggressive prostate cancer is an issue. However, practically every single man will eventually get prostate cancer. Most men die of something else before prostate cancer is an issue. Is it worth risking becoming incontinent or impotent from a prostate cancer treatment?

Yup. I said that above. The problem is that without universal screening we don't know anything about which cancers are going to be a problem and which are not. And we don't have data to target drugs and interventions. The solution is to have universal screening and regular followups, then use the data to narrow down who needs treatment.

> 4) Will the positive test even lead to a correct request for treatment? People demand antibiotics for viral infections all the time. My body never gets rid of strep throat, so I will force my doctor to give me a quick strep test when I have a persistent sore throat. The first time I did this my doctor was literally stunned when I simply thanked him and got ready to walk out since the test came back negative. Everyone else will demand antibiotics even if the test is negative.

You can demand whatever you want. What does that have to do with anything?