skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If it's only one card, then you can say that. But if there is a pattern of Amazon account X buying these cards to be used for Mullvad account Y, then it's harder to deny. Is it possible to redeem Amazon gift cards without an Amazon account? I suppose another thing you can do is buy and swap cards with other people. Each card can be up to 12 months so you don't actually need to do this that many times.
NFTs aren't a pyramid scheme. They are a pump-and-dump scheme and involved lots of wash trading.
maybe I'm just very different from the target audience, but this article seems to run through a load of viewpoints that just don't make any sense. why on earth would you feel stupid for making the conscious decision to switch to a less distracting phone? who has this fear of phone dumbness that the article is talking about? it seems like an issue invented (by the author) through the semantics of the words dumb and smart. yes, some people may have social fomo, but that's not the fear of being some kind of luddite

I also completely disagree that it's a cop-out for a dumb phone to have genuinely useful features like maps, music and taxis - things you might have anyway in physical form
Could not agree more. Security only means control. I don't want security. I don't even want safety. I have never cared about either, and I'm now too old to die young, so I'm not afraid.

> "not secure by design" nowadays comes close to being a coveted feature

That's a huge market opportunity. I would buy "insecure" products over secure ones every time.
Not sure about mac related things other than you'll probably want to make your project installable via homebrew... some many distribution systems... such a pain
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I believe that you're biased by HN, since a lot of the discussion here revolve around over-valued VC-money-roided-up startups burning millions of dollar per months.

If you're looking at big tech, telco, banks and finance, there are a lot of companies where headcount waste is offset by revenue. Many of which are even making profits. According to wikipedia, shopify had a net income of ~$3B for ~$5B of revenue in 2021.
Brex privacy feature is used by a lot of scammer / spammers. Simple as that.
You're probably right about the corporation, but some of their component organizations and assets may survive as long or longer, albeit after being resold, merged, acquired a few times. It could happen, you never know.

After all, there are still pieces of the original Bell organization and infrastructure around in active use, just with the names on the business cards and buildings changed. I don't think someone 50 years ago could have predicted which parts would still be around and which long gone.
I would go one step further. What if we spend our time not on performative cancellation and condemnation of Russian culture, but on helping Ukrainians and learning how to fight the criminal Russian regime?
It has been a long time since I did work in C++, and I recall a number of foot-guns in the language.

Reading the design document for Carbon and looking at the samples, it appears that many of these are not as easy to access.

Things such as "not using the preprocessor for meta programming" by itself is a significant advantage.
Configuring a (simply, cheap, remote managed) network with adblocker for parents
No. I only ever use it as a last resort when I need some non-sensitive text double-checked. And by “use” I mean that it’s installed as a keyboard app on my smartphone (where I believe I can keep its possible logging activity to a minimum), but not used as an actual keyboard, only as a grammar checker to be activated whenever and wherever I need it.
Couldn't you cash-buy an Amazon gift card and then have it shipped to a locker?
It's irrelevant. No one knows the code on the card in the first place. You can't trace what you don't know.
You're right. I happen to agree with the sentiment about The Atlantic, but yeah, that's as bad as saying "Ooh, Fox News! We can't listen to anything they say."
FileWave MDM authentication bypass bugs expose managed devices to hijack risk
Okcoin's risk team stopped and reversed $1M scam targeting senior users
I spent years also thinking I had nothing I could teach that people would pay money for.

Heck, I had a couple blog posts that made HN front page and still I didn't think that people would actually pay me money for that content.

Then a couple months ago I realized I could take one of those posts about interview advice to software engineers and turn it into a more in depth video lecture. I was amazed to see people actually buying it (sold $7k worth of that course!)

In case it provides inspiration, I wrote about what it was like making the course here: https://twitter.com/ZainRzv/status/1525211786710077449
Yes; but in some cases the shade provided by the solar panels can increase productivity of the land (e.g. better quality wool, crops that don't like full sun, or even to protect crops from excessive heat in these ever hotter days.
That reminds me of when I was working in finance - an equity analyst came over to the developer aisle and started asking questions like "what is COBOL? what is Visual Studio?" because he was looking into Microfocus.

We - hipster programmers - were incredulous at first but actually seems like a great business model.
You said that you could in your comment:

> It's only "anonymous until use". If you transfer some amount to me, I can then retroactively find its source, and likely find a good deal of information about you and the other wallets you've used.

Regardless, obviously you can't. And no forensic accountant can either. I think you're just misinformed. You can draw some unreliable statistical relationships between adresses but that's it. And schemes like CoinJoin makes that sort of analysis even more irrelevant.
Add to the fact that the fuel is Lithium and you’re in for a badddddd time
Thanks for sharing, super helpful infos!
Isn't "Phlogiston" basically negative oxygen? Which is why it actually had reasonable empirical support at the time.

I've read that the guy we now credit as discovering oxygen, was actually trying to (and died believing he did) create 'de-phlogistoned' air, and because there was no phlogistons in it, things burned really well in it as it sucked the phlogistons out of the burning matter even faster than normal air.

The key difference is that for 'negative oxygen' to be a thing it would need negative mass as oxidised (or de-phlogistoned) materials gained weight.

Just looked it up on Wikpedia, in case I was repeating urban legends:

> During his lifetime, Priestley's considerable scientific reputation rested on his invention of carbonated water, his writings on electricity, and his discovery of several "airs" (gases), the most famous[7] being what Priestley dubbed "dephlogisticated air" (oxygen). Priestley's determination to defend phlogiston theory and to reject what would become the chemical revolution eventually left him isolated within the scientific community.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Priestley
Checking on Instacart and so including their markup, our local Market Basket has, for the veggies:

* Onions: $1.59 for 2lb

* Carrots: $0.89 for 2lb

* Garlic: $1.89 for 5 heads

* Celery: $3.09 for a bunch (~1lb)

The carrots are cheaper, and everything else is more expensive but mostly the celery. This "basket" of fresh vegetables is $6.67 vs €2.79 (2.4x). Exclude the celery and it's $3.55 vs €2.00 (1.8x)
Categories are an excellent idea if the system is small enough and everybody using it is familiar with the convention. It's just that you have to accept they are flawed, unaccurate, partial and biased.

That doesn't mean they are not useful.

Think about supermarket scales: each vegetable or fruit is in a single category. The category is flawed, but nobody wants to have to type a precise list of tags to filter what they need. You want to go to vegetable and chose tomatoes, not to have a inner debate about the tomatoes taxonomy. Isn't a fruit? Wait, is fruit a biology thing or a commercial concept? I don't care, give me my damn tomatoes!

It's the same for my notes. Some stuff are in weird directories. But I know how I sort them out, so I can find them quickly. I don't want to have to be precise or accurate, only find what I need.

Category don't replace tags, buts tags are mainly useful for advanced searches and filtering. Anyway, the best systems out there consider a category as a tag, just the main tag.
Would it be possible to write the reference compiler in such a way that the spec-relevant details and implementation details are easily separated?

I suppose a reference compiler needs only be functionally correct, not fast.
It would be magically convenient for all the people he had blackmailed over the years.
No the article says it's a 20 minute ride to the other side of the city.

Next you're going to say that a sky bridge 300m above the ground with a shin high guard rail is impractical.
What was the point of writing this though? You have an extremely anomalous use of and relationship to smartphones that makes you immune to the problems other people have with them. Yet those problems are widespread, and the ways you've avoided them aren't really accessible or acceptable to most of the people experiencing them.

You don't come right out and say it but there's definitely a virtuousness angle here. If other people were just good in the ways you are good, they wouldn't have these problems. They have in some sense the ability to avoid these consequences, and so they are choosing to have them. They deserve them, in a sense. Right?
> without missing much functionality (at least from a pure "functionality" perspective)

Does it support accessibility, DPI independence, layouts that automatically resize (important when you need to support different languages), right-to-left text...? Many "modern" toolkits struggle with stuff like this - it'd be really cool (and maybe even useful?) if Motif had that stuff down.
Yes, for now the internet is necessary to bridge all the gaps. But you can cover a 300 meter radius on each internet connection.

If the miner could pay each household for that coverage, it's a splendid idea - being able to grab information wirelessly.

It essentially opens up digital eyes into the real world.
The biggest issue is evolution. Cities are evolutionary to support change and shifts.

Unless the interior can be easily shifted in purpose and construction, but I kind of doubt it.

Then again, "overflow" settelements can function for evolution.

Soooooo many workers will die building even a part of this.
Not quite. If a user actively reports a message as spam and also tells their service provider to report it to the sending service provider, then the sender will receive a report per RFC 6449: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feedback_loop_(email) , https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc6449. That's what SES exposes.

If you get more than a tiny handful of these, shut the account down. Whatever the reason, users don't want the messages and it'll destroy your deliverability quickly. Assuming the sender is legit, they need to figure out why users don't like the messages.

However, the much more common case is that a recipient's mail provider categorizes a message as spam on its own, without any user involvement. That's what parent commenters are referring to.

That can be for any reason. Maybe the user has reported similar past messages as spam. OTOH, maybe other users at the recipient service have had low engagement with messages from the same sender. Or maybe there was a sudden increase in sending volume from a given netblock or domain.

Emails that the receiving system categorizes as spam do not trigger any notification to the sender. Other than by trying to deliver messages to canary accounts or waiting for customer complaints, you won't know this is happening.
> The point is that you can make H2 via the electrolysis of water at scale

Perfect, so there's basically almost free money on the table for those wanting to invest in this.

And then we get to transportation costs, afaik we're nowhere close to getting hydrogen-powered vehicles into mass production. And transportation costs represent a big part of the final price of food in some of the poorest parts of the world, think Central Africa.

And then there are refrigeration prices, which might not sound cool as an industry but which bring enormous food-related benefits. Good luck with keeping the freezers on in the same Central Africa with the help of green energy only.

Again, this green energy policy that is forced on almost all our throats here in the West from top to down looks eerily similar to the Maoist policies from the Great Leap Forward period, I sense the same "you're not a true believer" vibe if one starts stating the obvious. I don't think that my opinion or the opinion of the majority of the populace as a whole will manage to change things, unfortunately, but these things need to be said.
“You have full control of your data, with no concerns about security”

This makes me a little worried about non-memory management security bugs. Rust is definitely helpful in eliminating one major category of bugs, but the belief that this is sufficient for users to not have to worry about security is misguided.
I am happy and content where I am at
...
I have found a level of contment and peace
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I have found peace for now
...
But for now I am happy.

Tell us you're happy and have found contentment and peace one more time just so we know you really mean it.

Joking aside, there's nothing wrong with staying with a job you like if it doesn't quite pay market, but take care not to end up getting underpaid to the point you don't have a cushion. Curious if by "several chances to switch positions" you just mean recruiters have reached out to you though, because that's not quite the same thing.
I'm wondering if anyone has done a GDPR data request against them to find out exactly how much personal data they are keeping long term.
If everything about it is separate, that makes it pretty easy to split out into an independent organisation too.
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Yes, you'll likely have to keep re-doing it.

As far as scripts for it, this thread has some sage advice:

https://www.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/n3v0s5/disable_win...

The tools to disable telemetry and bloat:

https://github.com/irmatade/sharpapp
https://www.oo-software.com/fr/shutup10
https://github.com/Sycnex/Windows10Debloater

MSFT doc on what all telemetry is gathered, and what is considered "required" telemetry (although they give you enough info to block it at the router):

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/privacy/configure-w...

I do like Win10 as an OS. On the whole I'd say the Satya era of MSFT is a mixed bag, but better on the whole than it was before.
Categories are mutually exclusive.

Tags aren't. I much prefer searching in intersections of tags to searching for needles that may be in different haystacks.
This makes me wonder, is it possible that the pool of solutions available to Russia's leaders is objectively limited due to Russia's geopolitical and sociopolitical realities and they really don't have too much of a rational choice?
Hey, sure enough! I had completely missed it.
I'm assuming OP here was referencing Google's cloud services vs AWS. As in Google's abysmal behavior in regards to AdWords has spoiled them against using any other Google services.
I, for one, welcome our new undead arachnid overlords.
You’re not listening. They are literally calling for plannable power. I don’t think they’re stupid people either. You cover the base consumption using plannable sources, then use gas/hydro turbines for short term variation. The problem now is that when the wind/solar vary, you can only compensate so much with stored hydro before you empty the reservoir. Then electricity becomes expensive because you burn gas etc, or buy from elsewhere - which is EXACTLY what has happened.
I'm not sure. The value turned out to be less than investors imagined and so they are going to lose money, there is no way they get their money back.
As for those that caused it, if it's a ponzi scheme, as many said before, why would prosecution be a bad outcome?
Googler, opinions are my own.

Corporate cards have some of extra handling to deal with them. I know I tried to buy a WASD keyboard using a corp card, and their payment processor didn't let me use it either.

Looking around, it looks like when a Corp Card is issues (Capital one example[0]), they can lock the card to only be allowed with certain MCC (merchant category code). These are the codes that say what kind of product is being purchased. So it's possible the issuer of your corp card locked your card to certain MCCs. If your card in MCC locked, the merchant and processor likely won't know this until the payment has been tried, and there is a good chance the network/bank didn't send back a useful error code.

[0] PDF: https://www.capitalone.com/commercial/decomm/media/doc/treas...
A functionally correct and slow compiler is not very useful and is almost certainly a waste of effort to implement.
> Why is it so hard to give Google money?

Well, if you have a conscience, it will certainly make it hard on you to give Google money. Premier mass surveillance mechanism in the world, with various kinds of political bias in serving supposedly neutral search results in their various services.
All of which may be true but is irrelevant. Even if a barrel of oil gets burned just because it’s pretty and achieves 0% thermal efficiency, it still costs around $100, pumping a barrel of oil out of the ground and burning it in a bonfire still releases the same amount of CO2, and finding a way to synthesize that pretty barrel of oil for less money by direct carbon capture will be an economical way to prevent those emissions.

Energy conservation by improved efficiency is great, but it’s orthogonal.
Normies pay the bills.

Smart people are a surprisingly small minority.

"No one in this world, so far as I know ... has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people." - H. L. Mencken

I know plenty of people, myself included, who lost money overestimating peoples intelligence.
One of the big reasons I have always like CDE/Motif was that it, to me, is the epitome of function over form when it comes to a desktop UI and widget toolkit. It's actually the same reason I think the Windows' UI peaked around Windows 98SE. Things that are interactive, like buttons or window frame edges, look interactive and are easy to spot. Buttons look like buttons. Checkboxes look like checkboxes. Contrasting colors are used to separate window frames from window contents. Window frames had actual titles so that you could glance quickly to see the state of your system. You sat down with it, you knew immediately what was what.

NextSTEP/OpenSTEP/GnuSTEP feels similar to me. Yes, by modern standards, they are ugly as sin. But they were super, super usable for the users with very little ramp-up time.

By contrast, everything else is just so flat now. On my Mac, it's a regular Where's Waldo to figure out what is and isn't clickable sometimes. There is very little contrast between the window frames and window content ... if there is any at all, and I really dislike how they've largely done away with title bars entirely. And so much stuff is hidden in menus or behind obtuse, difficult to reach settings. I'll occasionally go look at Windows and it's not much better.

What's really frustrating is watching some of my elderly family members struggle to use newer versions of Windows or macOS because the UX has become so flat that using it can be very obtuse if it's not something that you use all day, every day. It feels like redesigning UIs is becoming a vanity project for companies to show they are "modern" ... rather than trying to make things better for actual human beings that use computers.
Russia to quit International Space Station after 2024
I also had a hard time ever keeping a journal until I sat down one day and started working through The Artist's Way [1], which my partner had on her shelf. There are parts of it that don't really work for me, maybe a little too self-help-y, but the main practice of what the author calls "morning pages" ended up getting me going.

It's very similar to what the article's author ended up hitting upon -- just sit and write out the internal monologue. Let it go freely and don't worry about it making sense or having direction. Don't think about it too much and don't be precious about it. If there's a thing that comes up and you want to work it out, that's fine, start unpacking it. If it's just "man I really feel tired today" and other things that feel like nonsense, that's fine too.

Personally, I went from never keeping a journal to having a daily journaling practice for maybe 5 years after following The Artist's Way for the 12 weeks of prompts it gives you. Now I'm only doing it a few times a week, but that's because I'm working on other things that the journaling brought me to.

[1] https://www.theartistswaybook.com/
I cancelled my Netflix subscription last night. I never expected that to happen; I just treated it like an Amazon Prime subscription for my deliveries (which I’ll continue to pay for until I’m 90). Let me explain why…
For reference: The nearest grocery store to me is 3 km away, down a hill and across an interstate that does not have a method for pedestrians to cross it, other than playing Frogger, if you know what I mean. And that store is overpriced and doesn't have a good selection. The next-closest store is 8 km away.

I live in a suburban area in a town of 30k.
What does the $500/mo cost consist of?
how would you know that until they do it to you? what does "adequate" mean legally?
I think Shopify did an ICO (or the NFT equivalent) for their own little cheap blobby avatar art. They sold thousands, starting bids at around 20k. So that was the play.
I don’t have a problem with central organization of effort; mathematician by education; there a real efficiencies in material
use and lack of redundancy.

The real problem is continued deference to old ownership memes; that a minority must be empowered due to past contract none of us were even alive to see signed. How do we know in real terms the truth given a past we can never experience?

Historical trends are one thing; that Bezos specifically is that special is another. This is the first period in history where the elders could hold power this long. It’s tacit ageism and everyone is too scared to say that to old people who would collapse in shock at the slightest whiff of real pushback, they’re so used to being coddled; they’re hardly a real threat.

Start telling your elders their past success does not give them ownership of the future.
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I think we agree in principle, but are disagreeing in the resultant law.

It sounds to me like you're advocating saying NYT, and rich people can give large sums of money, therefore why cant groups of people also do it?

I'm advocating for NYT and rich people should not be allowed to give large sums of money, and neither should individuals beyond their individual contribution cap.

The principle I am all for is that wealthy people and corporations should not be able to bring disproportionate resources to politics than their underlying democratic unit (a single unit vote in the case of a wealthy person, no votes in the case of a corporation). And therefore the caps for wealthy people should be the same as for middle/poor people, and caps for corporations should be 0 because they are not democratic political units.

I'm listening to https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/us-government-and-civ... to try and discern if maybe I have a completely broken idea of what citizens united is
Monitors output color via modulating three color channels. The modulation can either vaguely correspond to how the original wavelength would activate the three cone varietals in most humans, or can bear absolutely no relation to that.

Equating the two is possible, but lazy.