skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not OP, but I have a story to share:

I worked for a company which is selling a tool that allows windows users to spoof unique identifiers of their computer. A lot of software these days grabs MAC addresses, disk and monitor serials in order to identify users.
So, this tool just hooks into the windows kernel, and returns made up identifiers when a program requests them via the windows API. It does not change any files on the user's disk, and it does not modify any other programs in RAM. Literally the only thing it does is hooking the kernel like a 3rd party anti-virus. It is basically like the "randomize MAC address" and "change advertising identifier" on modern smartphones. Just for windows.

Well, one day I woke up with this email in my inbox: https://i.imgur.com/g91KDqE.png

They stopped the payouts, as this tool was deemed as a "restricted product".
The cited point as the reason of the termination is the following:

> Compliance with Applicable Laws: You must use the Services in a lawful manner, and must obey all laws, rules, and regulations (“Laws”) applicable to your use of the Services and to Transactions. As applicable, this may include compliance with domestic and international Laws related to the use or provision of financial services, notification and consumer protection, unfair competition, privacy, and false advertising, and any other Laws relevant to Transactions.

As it came to light, a 70bn company namely Activision filed a lawsuit and subpoena against us as the tool is used to bypass their (poorly) implemented anti-cheat. Nothing had been decided in court yet (whether the product is unfair competition or piracy), but stripe still chose to just kill the account for our core product.

I'm glad that they didn't lock away the money for 180 days minimum like PayPal usually does. Employees need to be paid, and this just sucks for everyone.
Weird? Gallon of milk a day
The real question is probably, why were you "forcing yourself" to believe in things? Whole situation sounds contrived or perhaps not explained well.
"We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold."
It was never a solved problem, it was an addressed problem. And the method of address poorly allocated credit.

Maintaining records for art transactions, and thus enacting a fee structure that would benefit the artist when art is traded, traditionally meant introducing a middleman - and the associated overheads are why "fine arts" are known as a gatekept world and commissions have become the default for digital art. A sneer like "yeah well did you commission art before NFTs" is tautological. Commissions are the business model because they're available with minimal financial technology, not because they're ideal for society. The result you want is "more art is produced and more artists can afford to produce at a high level". But not everyone is interested in commissioning a large quantity of art of their furry OC getting porked. And likewise, people have trouble commissioning an artist to work freely without adding some kind of externalized upside like "build my own personal brand". There's a saturation point to that business model in and of itself.

It's only been relatively recently that artists also started to be able to access intellectual property law as a business model, but running an IP business involves a perpetual defense of property through legal enforcements, since we are in the age of mechanical reproduction. So it also has barriers to entry and ongoing overheads. I don't hear anyone saying that game developers should all work on commission, though.

The proposition of NFT art is just a revision of the gallery system - make intellectual work an asset, but on a much broader scale. The fee structure is automated, and the art itself is open to viewing and therefore doesn't need the same degree of IP enforcement as a paywall model; the only provenance question is the initial one of whether you actually minted your own work. And naturally, among the first people to have jumped on this are charlatans who have tested that exact question of initial provenance.

But I can say, having closely observed and participated a little, that NFT art on the whole is not uniquely bad or good, it's still "just" an art market, just one geared towards the artist who is interested in making their brand a speculative investment. And that is another way to get art made.
Princeton Crypto Alumni Give $20M for Blockchain Research
I've recently gone back to the .NET world after a decade long foray into mobile and front web dev. Honestly, I wish I'd gone back sooner.

.NET isn't popular with the cool kids, and you rarely see it mentioned here on HN. But man, it's just a joy to develop in. The C# language is incredibly elegant, the libraries are very well thought out, and Visual Studio with Intellicode just feels like a modern miracle. Development just feels really, really fun again.

One point to keep in mind with .NET: it also opens up the world of Unity dev to you. And there's a ton of really fun development to be done there in games, VR, etc. At the moment my days are filled with cranking out APIs for business apps, while my nights are filled with playing around with cool VR ideas in Unity. All in the same IDE and language.

The downsides to the .NET world: as others have and will mention, the great bulk of the opportunities out there will be in the business world, doing fairly mundane dev. But, they're stable (and relatively easy) jobs. Also, I find more often than not that your typical .NET project is horribly overengineered with layers upon layers of needless abstraction. (Now that I'm realizing just out easy .NET dev is, I'm beginning to suspect all the needless abstraction is just bored devs making themselves feel relevant.)

But you won't go wrong with either choice. iOS dev can be a lot of fun too. Good luck!
That’s the approach I used as well in the second half of the article - I just mentioned the transformation law in the beginning since that’s what most physics students encounter first.

Most of the article tries to provide some intuition behind why multilinear maps, which sound like a fairly abstract concept, might be relevant in physics. The key link being the importance of coordinate invariance.

I didn’t go into deriving the coordinate transforms from the multilinear map definition as I didn’t feel that it’d provide much better intuition, but I did mention the equivalence near the end.
An AI rejects him for life insurance, Mitch wonders if he can escape his fate
This is a good example of policy you get when the people making policy don't understand (or understand but don't want to understand) physics but do understand that the transportation lobby is well-funded and well-connected.

On one hand they get a bunch of kickbacks for their reelection war-chest and some roads fail 5 years after their re-election is over anyway and someone else will be blamed for it. On the other hand they directly fund their opponent who is unlikely to turn down those dollars, possibly fail in their reelection bid, and successfully save some roads that everyone will just assume would have lasted anyway.

It's not hard to see that it's practically impossible for any other outcome, the system is practically designed to create this kind of situation.
Russia is facing existential risks now that it wasn't as late as one month ago. If the Soviets couldn't "hold" to AFG, there's no way he can hold UKR. The "long term geo-politically maximizing" strategy here is quite clear, just look at what China has managed to achieve in the past 30 or 40 years. Russia may have made big mistakes before, but that does not exactly help if they keep making big mistakes.
I think this system should improve enforcement. Now, the state will bill you for driving on the lane with an automated system. They can bill every single person in the lane. It doesn’t depend on the police prioritizing the issue anymore.
The entire quote in context:

> “[W]hen you search, you expect unbiased results, but that’s not what you get on Google,” Gabriel Weinberg, founder of DuckDuckGo, a privacy-focused search engine, writes on Quora. “On Google, you get results tailored to what they think you’re likely to click on, based on the data profile they’ve built on you over time.”

"Unbiased" is a bad word to use, but what they were getting at is that Google tailors search results per-person based on a data profile. I don't see how anyone even at the time thought that this meant that DuckDuckGo was not ranking sites, that's what a search engine does.

I genuinely don't understand the controversy at all about this. "Who determines what is misinformation" is an argument for search engine diversity, not for destroying the entire concept of a search engine. Of course DuckDuckGo downranks and upranks sites.

The real controversy here is why after all of these years they still haven't gotten around to downranking W3Schools.
You ignored the "slave state with an absolute monarchy" part I think. Not like they are even comparable, unless you are saying the BBC journalists could justifiably be fearing for their lives if they criticize the UK government? All state media aren't created equal, and aren't equally independant. Otherwise the BBC, aljazeera and RT would be all equal since they are all state media after all.
You gonna tell them if he steals cookies from the cookie jar? I see your point but I ask where you draw the line.
Wikileaks publishes everything that is material and verifiable. To claim otherwise is ridiculous - show me something that was material and verifiable, was denied publication by Wikileaks, and was later published somewhere else reputable. It would be pointless for Wikileaks to deny something because it's not like they have a monopoly on publishing.
See also: "It Was A Long Time Ago And It Never Happened Anyway"

https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300192377/it-was-long-ti...
Disclosure: I also used to work at D-Cubed, on the 2D constraint solver, but I haven’t for a long time and I’m speaking only for myself here.

Am I the only one to find it crazy that basically all of engineering is using the same proprietary constraint solver that only one company knows how to build?

Perhaps, but it’s a surprisingly complicated problem and at the same time a highly specialised one. Having the big players in the CAD world, who all need to solve much the same problem here, essentially funding a small group of specialists enough to work on it might just be economic incentives doing their job.

I have no insider knowledge about this, but given that D-Cubed was first bought by UGS (a customer, and a direct competitor of many of its other customers) prior to becoming part of Siemens, I expect the lawyers all had provisions in place to deal with any dependency concerns.
Assets are a hedge against inflation. Stocks, real estate, art, etc.

The more utility and stability, the safer the investment. The more speculative or novel, the riskier the investment.

Real estate and property are typically pretty safe and have some utility.

As are bonds (but most might not keep up with high inflation, just dampen the effects).

Novel assets like crypto, NFTs, etc. will likely produce higher variability in returns (either positive or negative).
In a word: buffer.
“Whoopee! Man, that may have been a small one for Neil, but that’s a long one for me.”
Invest in stuff — TINA, "there is no alternative." Stocks and crypto if you highly prize liquidity and are investing for the long haul (e.g. you won't take the money out again until decades from now). Real estate, not because it's crash-resistant but because it has tangible utility.

Most of all invest in your community and relationships. Those are always the best prep, whether we're talking financial or disaster preparedness.
What about AlphaGo, AlphaZero (chess)?

Optimization is also data, given a local state, can you identify the sequence of transformations that will get you to a better state. The reward is instantly measurable and the goal is minimizing the total cost.
Yes, I also noticed that while modern monitors tend to become larger, they still have the same 0.3 or 0.2 mm pitch (80-120 dpi) as many years ago. Even on cheap smartphones the text looks better than on monitors.
BPA is probably still safer than the actual food we eat out of it... Especially the soda.

Although food seems to be improving(But getting more expensive at the same time) and BPA isn't good.
Fellow hobbyist here. Actually your biggest health risk is industrial asthma from flux fumes. I know professionals who have spent a good fraction of there lives soldering with no lead poisoning issues. Lead needs to be consumed or inhaled for it to be an issue. The guy I meet who did have lead poisoning, large bore rifle shooting coach, from spending to much time at the “wrong end” of the rifle range. Lots of lead dust there.
I believe there is a sign that says “fastrak flex required”, but it might not be obvious to everyone what that means.
Yes they do but slower. In the past gold was used for wires from terminal to pads. Gold as far as i know is not so subceptible to form whiskers. But gold is expensive and now they use copper instead of gold.
New safety and emissions standards are part of it, but don’t explain everything. Engines have gotten more powerful and more efficient, and the extra power isn’t just to keep up with additional weight due to all the new required safety features (which are a good thing, BTW!). Compare 0-60 times and handling between old and new cars. A new Accord Sport does 0-60 in 5.5 seconds, which was firmly in serious sports car territory in the 90s, and was borderline supercar territory in the 80s.

Materials and fit and finish of new cars are also way better than they used to be. Reliability has greatly improved too over the last few decades, though that’s plateaued somewhat in the last decade or two, likely due to increased complexity. Remember, in the 80s and even into the mid-90s, cars often came with 5 digit odometers because they weren’t expected to last more than 100,000 miles.

If there were a robust market for brand new 2005 Civics, automakers would capitalize on it. The Mitsubishi Mirage[0] is the closest thing on the market I can think of to this. It has the feel of an economy car from around 2005, and sells brand new for $14,000, which coincidentally is almost exactly the non-inflation adjusted MSRP of a 2005 Civic. It sells poorly. Most people don’t want to buy a new car that feels like it’s 15 years out of date.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5aCsNs3eYTE
1) I drove from San Mateo to Sunnyvale daily for years pre-pandemic using the HOV lane (Took a bus, carpooled etc) . So happy to not live in the Bay Area anymore (for many reasons, but that aside) - that commute would be absolutely awful now assuming everyone goes back to the office and everything goes back to normal. It used to take 45 mins anyways on busy days with the carpool lane. I'm not convinced everything will really ever be back to normal in the bay area and full RTO is a pipe dream (also an aside), but that traffic will still be a mess because bay area.

Now everyone can pay to play and probably only buses will ever be able to use it (plus all the cheaters! - cheaters are everywhere). Note that one of the "selling points" of the express lanes was that during peak congestion, the HOV lane becomes "Bus Only" to give preference to the most effecient mode of transport (8+ passenger busses/vans iirc)

2) If you have a Clean Air Vehicle, you need to order a special CAV toll tag to avoid paying full fees. Some freeways are still free, others will give you a discount. This link has the full details

https://www.bayareafastrak.org/en/support/clean-air-vehicle....
Why else would it be flagged except for a large number of Russian sockpuppet HN accounts flagging it?
I think the failure to grok stems from you imagining yourself in this position and thinking about how you'd feel instead of imagining other kinds of people and how they'd feel.

If it helps, women tend to think about parenthood differently by nature...probably because their involvement in the act includes giving birth. A woman would likely find it more difficult to maintain that "sperm donor" separation. If the wife of the man is that kind of person, they might find it very hard to imagine the man maintaining separation (much the way you find it hard to imagine not maintaining it).

Even meeting once is spending time, attention, and emotional resources. And for the family, even that little bit can be the seed of questions of whether one meeting means there will be more. If I were in the man's position, it wouldn't be worth distress I'd cause. Better to have none than one.

However, we're getting into increasingly hypothetical territory. We're doing a lot to assume emotions and motivations on people and assessing their validity. Valid or not, I do see a world where I'd make the same choice this man made, and I wish them the best for it.
What makes a great opening line? A great rest-of-the-story. Nobody praises the opening line of a story that they otherwise think is rather boring.
I invest in crypto, but it's worth noting that prices follow the stock market / larger economy. Correlated asset.
Show HN: Pantry tracker with progress bars/alerts when items are about to go bad
I would go for a Maserati quattroporte 1999
I assume it's the "law of conservation of expertsexchange."

They don't downrank w3schools because something will just replace it. ;)
This is exactly what I do
We've had this bet with Do Not Track, and the whole idea died as soon as one browser set it by default.
Is this request publicly readable somewhere? Would be very interesting for tech historians.
Yes. Voltage has a big effect on whiskers.
The central point is that you need access to information to determine if a war is wrong and stupid. It is clear how censorship and propaganda can alter perception of who is the the good or bad guy.
And a Flat Earth take on how to chart a flight path isn't relevant because...?
Put it on a stone tablet to be on the safe side
how much of the uproar over this is about implementation vs intent? disinformation isn't worth being returned when the user is seeking information. like if you are looking for the health impacts of soda, you probably don't want coke writing your answers.

I'm all for neutral platforms, but it feels like you either opt out of editorializing and end up with trash driven by SEO, or editorialize and marginalize some content producer or consumer. any play feels like a losing move from the business's perspective.
Bertrand Russell turns over in grave.
Indiana has one of these too, and I _loved_ it. Blocking traffic is super unsafe for all kinds of reasons:

- Sometimes people need to get by (emergencies)

- You're a blown tire / unexpected road hazard away from swerving into the car next to you

If you're driving the same speed as the car next to you, feel free to tap your breaks, let them ahead a couple lengths, and then tuck in behind them. It's safer!
Also great for Colorado ski trips when the Traction Law is in effect. Normal rental agencies will never guarantee a compliant reservation (unless you spend triple to rent a vehicle class you can reasonably expect to comply) but the filters on Turo make it simple. The insurance situation is a little dicey though; apparently only a handful of insurance policies (thru insurance agencies and credit card benefits) cover P2P rentals, maybe like 25% of them or so.
Seems like a bad move, DDG is only used by terminally tech-brained libertarians.
A "mealy" apple is spelt differently https://www.thekitchn.com/food-science-what-makes-apples-957...

And pronounced not quite the same either as the usual Southern African word for "an ear of maize", or the products made therefrom, e.g. "meilie meal" (1) and "mieliepap" : corn porridge / grits (2).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mielie_meal

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ugali#South_Africa
Yeah, with Czech tractors - https://twitter.com/kamilkazani/status/1501369950463836164
> A low-power Raspberry Pi will be good enough

Great, now you have some DYI solution with no warranty and no support. Also if it breaks you need to repeat the whole DYI process.

> , your existing network hardware most likely has a console

Haven't seen 'outbound' serial on network gear... for ages? And it dosn't help for

> that can be connected to it and then remoted into

if I can't run custom apps on the said router.

Sure, pfSense has apcupsd but the most pfsense platforms are already in the 1U server grade.

And if we talking 'low power RPi' than a chance of both having a serial port and a custom binaries are pretty low.
People always be conjugating "be" incorrectly. It's actually hallmark of a very common English dialect, which people speak and understand all the time without issue:

https://abagond.wordpress.com/2008/09/09/ebonics-time-and-te...
DARPA developing new cognitive science tool to identify those at risk of suicide
Seemingly they did not prepare early enough like the French [1] at the time. IMHO the whole cert trust chain is broken. Is there actually a services that serves cert fingerprints seen from another place in the world that can help detect a MITM?

[1] https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2013-1...
Google rolls out rapid Air Raid Alerts system for Android phones in Ukraine
I do the same but you still need to be careful when running Zerotier to listen only on IP addresses that the ZT link is assigned. I run a private mailserver and I've made sure that there are no sockets listening on any non-ZT externally routable IP address. (I guess for good measure I could have nftables drop traffic coming in on those ports on my WAN link.) But with Tor you just point it to a service listening on 127.0.0.1 or [::1] and you're in business. For me ZT is fine, but for folks who want to muck around a bit less, I can see the appeal of Tor.
I got used to it by doing 12-12 then 14-10 then 16-8 then 18-6. I believe I did 10 days on each phase as 1 week seemed too "quick". It was just my moderate way of weaning myself off breakfast. I have tried the 24 hour fasts and I just can't make it and not be miserable.
The three incompatible scenarios are:

1. The accused was nowhere near the scene of the murder
2. The accused was at the scene of the murder, and in fact committed the murder, but on accident
3. The accused committed the murder on purpose, because the victim had it coming.
Let's say you make a "bare minimum" car and after all of your design costs, you can get the MSRP down to say $13,000. The problem is that once I'm already paying 13k for a "bare bones" car, I'll probably think, well, why not just pay $15,000 to get a car with sound/speakers, adjustable seats, air conditioning, automatic windows, etc. Behold, that's basically what a Chevy Spark costs (before supply chain crunch). If I'm really trying to save money beyond that, I'll just buy a used car.

What would be nice though is a car that doesn't get redesigned every few years. If I know that redesigns will only happen every 10 years, then that means cheap parts will be abundant and maintaining the car will be much cheaper.
Find it funny people are downvoting this. It's a known thing. If you have any pretty friends - you can get out of tickets very easily by just being pretty and making something up. You won't have this privilege as an unattractive person. No different than being pulled over and judged differently because of your race. Police are incredibly biased.
That's a quite good idea for another Wordle (/Worldle/Globle/...) clone, but i think it could be a separate project to this one.
And the corollary: "Even if it didn't happen, it's still horrible!"
Why can't I zoom in on mobile?
Convert Curl Commands to Code
I'm glad this essay mentioned the opening line of 1984. It's one of my favorites: "It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen."

I looked up some of the author's writings. She had an interesting opening line in one of her short stories, entitled "Endangered":[1]

"The artists were kept in cages."

[1] https://americanshortfiction.org/endangered