skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
After reading stories like this, I've moved to "single purpose" accounts with Google. I have a youtube account, firebase account and a google analytics account, and all of them are seperate from one another. My hope here is if google shuts down a single account, I only loose access to what that account did.
That can't be new though? Gotta be the most obvious target on any list.
The power of the USD and related sanctions isn't whether North Korea can move trivial sums of money in the process of modest criminal activities (trivial and modest in the scale of national economies of consequence), it's whether you can heavily limit their ability to freely trade with the global economy. Bitcoin and Ethereum are not going to help North Korea very much in the scope of what they'd require. The US will (sooner or later) notice if X country in Asia suddenly starts doing $20 billion per year in crypto-based trade with North Korea, and that X country can be damaged economically as necessary to dissuade (make it not worth doing).

That ability continues until you can convince most nations to abandon their currencies and turn all of that economic self-determination and political power over to independent crypto systems they have no control over. It ain't gonna happen.
>This has to be the saddest thing I've ever read

Here on HN a lot of people are lucky enough to be able to work on their own terms and on things they enjoy so you probably should not rush to that conclusion.

I grew up, very rural, plenty of family, not a lot of work. To me it was suffocating. Couldn't use my brain for anything. Work has given me the opportunity to travel, see other places, build some useful things (hopefully) that other people value and so on.
Yes. That too.
Articles should also be read carefully.

This was not related to the contract behaving in unexpected ways.
I think Google pulled out of all Russian interests about a month back, so they no longer need to censor anything for Russia. This might also be a warning for China that there's still plenty they censor for their rocky relationship that may cease to be censored if there is no relationship.
Brain-inspired computing needs a master plan
Had no problems with JavaScript turned off.
Archie comics announces “Archieverse” NFT to overwhelmingly negative reception
Same. Lived in Seattle for nearly a decade. Then I moved to San Francisco (which itself isn't known for being sunny or warm) and it was like I moved to LA. Such a dramatic difference to my mental well-being.

I grew up in a fairly dark, cloudy place and never thought anything of it, but Seattle broke me. I'm extremely sensitive to sunlight now.
Did they really learn the right lesson if they come out of it with the conclusion saving is useless?
Sorry, one detail (cannot edit the former reply): 1080p30 will be in the 1Mbit/s range (not «1MB/s»). That's maybe ~2.5x slower (not 20x).
I would completely unsurprised if Google kills off Voice specifically because there's a regulator who makes them provide customer support and they'd rather not.
There's a business opportunity. Call centers for receiving calls and only passing along the legitimate ones.

It's probably already been tried.
It may be more capable but that comes at a high cost in terms of usability, bugs, and vulnerabilities. Complexity is generally bad for security especially when the system doesn't seem well designed to manage it.
I don't think anybody is claiming Hunter went all the way to Delaware to repair his laptop. The Bidens have a house in Delaware so it is reasonable to suspect that Hunter was already in the state.
Glad to see you care!

I have advanced blocking in uBlock Origin and all 3rd party scripts are blocked by default. Not sure how DDG came there (maybe because I came to Kagi through it?), but I have checked agsin and for CF it says:

d33q65j1hc8iiu.cloudfront.net

assets.kagi.com

I assume you are using CloudFlare as CDN for your assets (can't check right now)? If so, it is a weird decision for a privacy focused search engine. Of course there are degrees to privacy, but CF is too big to be trusted imho.

EDIT: no, no extensions apart from UBO. :)
Where did I even say that people should use GIMP over Photoshop???
Smell of "air freshener" (incidentally, a blatant oxymoron) mixed with smell of excrement is in my personal top 5 of most horrible smells. It does nothing to hide the original smell, which is the job for ventilation, and once you have that you are really OK ditching the freshener.

An extractor fan works wonders.
Not at all, I just don't think the tired late 2000s trope of the religious boogeyman is still really relevant. The entire debate has shifted to something else, and honestly even amongst conservatives they don't have much of a voice anymore
Last I paid attention, some jurisdictions make it very difficult to access the contents of a safe deposit box after one of the owners has died. (Supposedly to discourage cheating on inheritance taxes with gold coins, or ...)

A bit of research might be indicated, before trusting this strategy to perform when needed.
Can anyone who can see the full paper tell me if there is a male/female difference?

Did they bother to break it down male/female?
At 33 I’m feeling something similar. I wouldn’t say that new subjects are hard, necessarily, but they do take a type and quantity of mental energy that’s not always available, making for a sense of tiredness in these situations.

I could be wrong but I feel like this would improve a lot if I didn’t have to work a job for a while. The bulk of each day’s mental energy goes into writing code, which doesn’t leave much for other things.
I actually work directly on this problem as part of my PhD. I work in designing simple "closure models" for Hall thruster anomalous transport that can be implemented in simulations to improve how well they match with experiment. It's a really interesting problem, and like the OP alludes to, it probably comes down to turbulence and plasma instabilities which are really hard to measure and even harder to include self-consistently in a device-scale simulation.

The really tricky thing is that the simulations show that basically every aspect of Hall thruster performance is extremely sensitive to the choice of anomalous transport parameter in certain parts of the discharge, but completely insensitive to it in other parts of the discharge. this makes validating models difficult, as many different models could agree in the small region of the discharge where it matters, but completely disagree in other parts of the discharge, and we would have little chance of discriminating between them.
Fair, not familiar with that, maybe they have a way to get cash out of the country?

Regardless, there are a lot of fraudulent and misleading companies US-based companies that should probably be shut down.
(2021)

After the response, the best thing would be to sue Google, of course. Not once, Not for big values. One small cause for each small annoyance. Not at the same time nor the same jurisdiction. Then read all the defences they make and mix then among the causes. If their system is so fragmented that they can't deal with your original problem of losing acess to your account, so they'll have trouble finding the pieces to defend themselves. And if they can find, even better, use it as a proof that they can connect the dots when they want to.

IANALITUSOA
So was it a NFT pointing to a hosted image, or a URL to the actual tweet permalink? The latter being marginally less ephemeral than the former.

But neither would encompass any kind of "ownership".
I tried this, but after missing a handful of important calls from doctors offices, banks, etc. I had to allow unknown callers. It’s unfortunate that regulators in the US seem to have no desire to actually solve this problem.
I'm pretty sure I've used this exact attack to escalate privs back when I was in high school, to work around the school's restrictions.
The apple apologists are in full swing in this comment section. $2000 laptops should do exactly what they claim, full stop.
It's a good idea to use something like gmvault [0] to ensure you have regular downloads of your mail corpus locally.

[0] http://gmvault.org/
I haven’t spent time around Seattle, but I’m wondering if you have spent much time in the Bay Area peninsula and how you would compare the climates of the two. Picking Redwood City as a good “middle of the peninsula” location (and whose slogan is “climate best by government test”) and comparing climate stats with Seattle, it seems to me that I would prefer Redwood City in nearly every category. The clearest advantage Seattle has is the extra hour of daylight in the summer, but of course you pay that back in the winter.
jmp.chat is better anyway and doesn't randomly kill your account.
I pronounce like Day-Mon (those influential and wealthy Ferengi).

Or De-Men when feeling less nerdy.
I guess my point is it's meant to be a consumer marketing name - and if I have to explain to them that "6E" has an "E" because it's the "same phy, but operates in a different spectrum" then they've failed to create a rational naming scheme yeah? Don't get me wrong, I get it. But I also get USB 3.2 Gen 2x2

Like ... why "E" of all letters?
https://www.livius.org/sources/content/oriental-varia/a-cont....
This reminds me of another writer that's been writing about open and closed systems, Tim Wu.

In his book The Master Switch[0], he makes a similar argument, though in the case of this, it was open access and net neutrality, but I think the overall message and patterns around that he talks about, it is very much similar to whats being talk about by Doctorow. The sum of his argument maintains that basically open systems allow for high periods of innovation, experimentation, and ultimately new markets, and eventually, when those open systems start to get dominated by a few players, they tend to close and become entrenched, until they stagnant, and become open again. He also suggests, as part of the conclusion of his book, that if as society it is encouraged, for instance, for base systems to be open, you don't have to sacrifice interim innovation and growth that come with open systems, and therefore encouraging innovation across all affected sectors.

Think about it like this. Large companies were once small, and when they were small, they built their backs on reverse engineering proprietary protocols and using open access systems, in which they were able to innovate in these spaces, while also able to maintain that innovation catalyst by inter-operating with common systems (e.g TCP/IP, HTTP) and reverse engineering proprietary protocols. In the case of Apple, for instance, one of their primary motivations in investing in AppleWorks[1] is that they actively reversed engineered the Microsoft Office formats, which afforded interoperability with PCs. Arguably, without open access systems and the ability to reverse engineer these formats, Apple would not be where it is today. However now, legislation and legal precedent has been set that would be it, at best, dubiously legal, for a competitor to do just that.

[0]: He gave a talk at Stanford based on the ideas of the book, which centered around net neutrality and open protocols, you can see that talk on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ij76dh_340w

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AppleWorks
Clear as mud.
I've been to Seattle twice. Both times I visited in July, and the weather was beautiful for the duration of the trip. When I returned home and asked a co-worker why Seattle has the reputation for rain, he replied "because you went during the two weeks a year when it doesn't rain."

When I moved to Boulder, CO, I was lucky to have a view of the foothills at work. I was initially surprised at how frequently there was lightning/thunder activity in the foothills, accompanied by a light sprinkle of rain in Boulder.

Another example of how metric selection matters I guess.
Why favor conformance to the mean expectation over reality?
I used to sell Blueprint code on the Unreal Marketplace so I am biased in preferring Unreal over Unity.

One nice thing about Unreal is how easy is it to give a modkit to users with Blueprint. You can keep all of your proprietary stuff compiled in C++ yet exposed to Blueprint which is pretty easy for any regular non-programmer to pick up. I have been playing around with the Conan Exiles modkit recently and you basically get access to everything that an actual salaried game developer would have access to. Heck, I could even turn it into a VR game purely with Blueprints (I'm actually working on this in my spare time, which admittedly, is few and far between).

Seeing the control flow of Blueprint live while debugging is also great for non-programmer, as it allows them to easily reason about what is and isn't happening.

You can talk about rendering pipelines and the marketplace all you want but Blueprint is the killer feature for Unreal Engine.

You could make Python scripting for gameplay logic a first class citizen in Unity, but even Python is harder to work with than Blueprint for less-technical creators and users.
Interesting - a decade later - we are just starting to see some legislation that replicates what Apple has been doing on their app store (that they are being sued over with claims that their policies are anti-consumer). Long long overdue. People chose apple because regulation and developer practices on the broader web are so horrible (despite claims that there is no fraud and the focus of the DOJ on apple, billions are literally stolen outside of apple with crickets from law enforcement).

The Apple model (if followed) would be as follows:

Subscription terms in exact same font as trial terms (ie, no newspaper $1/week offers with the silly super fine print) right next to trial terms.

Required notice in advance of subscription renewals, particularly annual or other long term renewals.

Click to cancel (after login / authentication etc)

Alert to cancel on disuse / uninstall - Apple will actually suggest cancelling a subscription if you do things like delete an app.

Clear subscription terms indicating auto-renewal or one time purchase.

Cancel anytime and use through end of current term, with end of term disclosed (you can still use through XXX).

No requirement to cancel within some days of end of term or 30 days before end of term (some do no earlier than 90 days, no later than 30 days before end of term).
It's even worse because some people are relying on batteries being used for storage to compensate for the volatility of renewables.
I have absolutely no vested interest in defending Uber, but every time one of these threads pops up I feel compelled to throw cold water on it because this website is so damn obsessed with predicting Uber's doom. I have comments that are 6 years old saying "no, uber is not dying", with a thread full of angry pitchforks sure I am wrong.

Nobody cares if Uber as a whole is more "efficient" as measured by some global measure of dollars invested into the service. They care whether -their- individual lived experience is preferable. The obvious takeaway is that urban residents are happy to pay more money overall on car services, so long as those services provide a higher quality experience. People do not like feeling like the end of a cab ride might result in a game of "pretend the card reader doesn't work", people don't like to feel like their destination is an imposition on the driver who will now sit up front fuming about where you've taken him. People don't like having their sense of decency pitted against each other to win a cab in a reasonable amount of time without rudely upstreaming someone. People don't like waiting outside in the cold. People don't like being surprised by how high the meter is when they get out. People don't like having no recourse when they accidentally leave their phone behind besides calling a rude dispatcher. People like cars with nicely maintained interiors that don't smell weird.

How hard is this to understand? The average ride experience you get in an Uber is better. Uber pioneered that improved customer experience by figuring out a solution (some social, some technical) to the biggest friction points. Uber and Lyft are the 700lb gorillas in the rideshare company space, which absolutely DOES have network effects, despite the facile claim otherwise in the article. This is the basis for thinking these companies have a promising future. It's that simple. The size of the circlejerk predicting that it's all going to fall over tomorrow is so embarrassingly, transparently motivated by _hoping_ that it's going to fall over tomorrow.
Interesting. I love Scott, but I didn't know there was a draft on ACX. The official page is on his website: https://lorienpsych.com/2021/06/05/depression/ I'll have to see how the articles differ...

1. Yea. It was hard to find someone with availability period, and our insurance isn't very good. You're probably right that I should just pay out of pocket, but I'm honestly pretty convinced that I have an actual brain chemical issue, so I'm dubious of the benefits to therapy

2. I think I do a decent enough job at this. I don't necessarily eat the best food, but at least I'm eating some fruits and vegetables and not Doritos all of the time. I don't really exercise much, but at least I go on 30+ minute walks every other day or so. I probably sit in my chair to much, but I imagine most on HN do that...

What led you to getting better? How were you able to function in such suffering for 10 years? Not to turn it into talking about me again, but I'm increasingly worried that I've wasted a year and may waste many more to this nothingness, which is quite concerning. How do you look back on your 10 years and say "it's OK, I needed to go through that/I'm happy I'm better now"?
Tobacco off the plant, or out of the drying barn, is a wholly different thing than the processed, homogenized, re balanced and engineered drug delivery system that is a cigarette.

Similarly valerian root isn't the same trip as Valium.

Some of the same engineering is at play here. The flavor and perfume people have some surprises for the rest of the world when their knowledge becomes more widely spread.
We used to call those sentences. Grouping multiple sentences together to form paragraphs were not difficult to read.
If you release a game "free" as in "free speech", how is it not "free" as in "free beer" as well? What would prevent people from redistributing it? Nothing.
https://www.fastmail.com/pricing/

Actually have to step up to $5/month (per user) to get custom domain names.
You're absolutely correct about the Windows ACL system. The discretionary access control system in Windows can easily be subverted by a poorly configured dynamic access control policy.

Windows is not a single-user OS. Even a standard "desktop" installation can support multiple sessions through terminal services, but usually it is not configured to allow multiple concurrent interactive sessions.
The Spanish state doesn't make any provision at all for secession or independence movements; it's all criminal. They even have a special court for dealing with these matters. Any attempt to campaign for independence puts you beyond the law.

In those circumstances, it's hardly surprising that independence campaigners broke a law.
I've emailed. At very least, thank you for caring.
I will make a bold prediction and say we won't find out all art is money laundering and wash sales soon.
You need to understand exponentials to really get it. Where I live, they only teach it in advanced math classes in 11th grade, so elementary school seems ambitious.
I have the blue one as well! Man, collecting all those animals for Noah's Ark was frustrating. Oh, and the falling rocks.
Our modern 'retirement' system is one of the greatest failures of our Civilization.

We confiscate a significant portion of the income of the young and productive, and direct it so that a certain generation can sit rich and idle for decades.

We would be better to abandon pensions, and direct the savings to eliminating sales and payroll taxes, to reduce Cost of Living and encourage work.

The expectation should be that you keep working until you are physically incapable of doing so (where a medical disability payment is available), whilst being able to enjoy the fruits of your labor from lower taxes. There's significant evidence that work maintains the body and mind in old age anyway.
Perhaps but what is violence? Are our antibiotics not violence on micro organisms? Would it not be possible for an AI to decide that, despite our surely built-in safeguards to protect us, we humans are a bacteria of sorts?
That is an interesting idea, but hard to implement in practice, to only allow mature enough people to vote. Being mature means different things to different people, but I suspect that even we we agreed on a definition we would find that a lot of adults would not qualify.
> the system has to be rearchitected to solve

If it was obvious how to, we'd be talking about that, but it's not even obvious how to. A process to solve a problem no one knows how to solve can get co-opted and yield something awful, so I am not inclined to start one yet.

Moreover, there must be plenty of room for innovation.

We're all using TCP/IP, which is a great win for interoperability, but also an enabler of proprietary application protocols above it because it didn't try to preclude them. We've missed out on some things though, in the CNLP/OSI side of things, but I'm not familiar enough with them to know just how tragic, if at all, that is -- we're pretty happy with TCP/IP anyways. Do note that no one forced TCP/IP on anyone. The best interop is that which arises w/o the use of force.
>Man drives car doesn’t necessitate that car drives man.

Fortunately that's not what I implied, and you fail to recognize the error in your own reasoning. I'll say this one final time, and I expect you'll intentionally misunderstand again.

Your point depends on the premise that free speech leads to the improvement of knowledge, which means that if a specific situation arose--even an isolated incident--where your premise of enhanced knowledge were untrue, then it follows that your conclusion that free speech is good would no longer be necessarily true. That is why your statement is false. The rest of what you've written is pseudo-intellectual fluff.

>But new knowledge is always created

This is not a given. You completely made it up. I wish you a pleasant day.
I have a feeling this is a case of lies, damned lies, and statistics, so let's look at typical summer rain day in Miami, the city of my youth, and #2 on the list.

You wake up and it's sunny. Throughout the day, clouds build over the everglades. You get beautiful puffy cumulus clouds dotting the sky. Around mid-afternoon, darker clouds float in from the everglades and intersect with the cool ocean breeze:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b0/Miamisum...

You get lightning and thunder and it starts to rain. It rains buckets of water of biblical proportions the likes of which you have never seen for about 30 minutes. Then it stops and suddenly it is sunny again:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPNwuPen1zQ

That's it. A rain day in Miami is typically a 30-minute extremely intense event surrounded by sunshine on both sides.

Compare that with my current city, #14 on the list, and typical of a mid-Atlantic state in late spring. Today, we'll have drizzle all day long and 100% cloud cover. I imagine this is much more like most Seattle rain days than a Miami rain day. We'll get less rain all day today than Miami does in 30 minutes. While they are both nominally rain days, they leave very different impressions.