skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As someone who enjoys hacking, looking at that list sounds terrible.

As a regular user, most of that list doesn't sound too bad. Their future devices will automatically have these features enabled, they're not likely to change those settings to "break" their device (from the perspective of Trusted Computing) so they'll have a smooth experience getting into it.

- Can't block ads? A lot of average users already don't/don't know how, but this one would probably would affect a lot of people. Probably a bad thing no matter how you slice it.

- They'll have a better experience online as they won't be interrupted with captchas. Wouldn't you prefer if you never experienced captchas and logins were smoother and easier? So a wash to a positive for an average user.

- This makes it an easier deal for streaming services to let you cache their DRM'd content offline and makes the deals they have to cut with media companies potentially cheaper. Once again they're probably buying off the shelf computing devices which will probably work seamlessly with these restrictions, so they either won't notice anything or potentially get more features than they have now with those services they're already using. I'm not necessarily a fan of DRM but the market has largely spoken, people prefer streaming rather than actually owning the media.

- Fewer cheaters in online games sure sounds like a positive to me.

- My bank account online is more secure? This is a bad thing?
I'm not convinced this is about smartness, so much as an ability and willingness for people to learn.

Learning is hard, it makes people uncomfortable, sadly. Which means that the easy road is to stoop to their level, which is what we're seeing.

It sucks that you got screwed by large corporations, and I don't know the story, but that sounds more like standard business fuckery than "software for smart people"?
No, Windows 10.
You're giving them yet another lever with which to control your life while maintaining maximum freedom for themselves.

Since I don't consider the overthrow of capitalism to be a realistic near-term goal, I am quite worried about near-term power grabs such as these.
I don't think there was an inference that the books are opaque, just that people reading these books in 2022 are already weird ducks. Well, as weird as anyone reading, say, Tao Te Ching or other non-standard-academic-curriculum "classic" books you'd have to go out of your way to read.
> For physical objects, scarcity is an unescapable fact.

But when we’re talking about very expensive paintings, the physical scarcity of the raw materials plays essentially no role in the valuation. Provenance is everything. Sure, the canvas and paint is scarce, but the cost of canvas and paint is vanishingly small. Make no mistake, provenance is the reason people pay lots of money for original paintings.
I watched as Monero was gradually dropped from a lot of the major exchanges over time with no real reason being provided. Same with zcash. My conspiracy theory is that there is a coordinated effort to make truly anonymous coins unusable.
IMHO, I don't think it's ever safe to assume that someone, even if they're in tech, would readily know what file format X is or have the right software for it. If in doubt, you should provide them the way to easily see whatever it is you want to show them, whether it's a x-ray or a hiking map or a giant party banner.

When I got my scans from the radiologist, they came on a CD-ROM (remember those?). I had to dig up my old disc drive from storage, then loaded the files onto my phone. At the orthopedist, I just showed it to them right on the phone with a Android DICOM viewer. I also brought the original CD, along with the same files plus 2-3 different viewers on my laptop, juuuuust in case. There's no way I was going to risk another clinic visit, at what, $300/visit?, just because they couldn't read the images. I'd do the same anytime I was visiting another professional. I don't assume to know their tech setup or level of file format expertise... that isn't what I'm paying them for, after all.

As an aside, in my brief investigation into DICOM (a format previously unknown to me before my injury), I discovered that it's actually a pretty complex format, with different viewers having pretty different UIs in terms of how they handle layers within a file (in both time and space), overlays and contrast adjustments (to emphasize/deemphasize certain artifacts, apparently), different collections and naming schemes for the same body parts, etc. Some of them were barely more usable than a JPEG viewer, while others could interpolate/extrapolate the data into a 3D point cloud and create rough anatomical models by combining collections of images from different angles. It's quite a complex system of raster imaging plus metadata, and no two viewers worked quite the same, even between the several free and/or open-source options. It reminds of the nonstandard mess that is file packaging for GIS (geographic information systems) -- a lot of power, but no simple system for organizing that power. In that sense DICOM is more like a database of radiological data that happens to be plottable in 2D (and sometimes 3D) space, rather than a simple image. If you export it to JPEG, you get a static output in time & space and lose a lot of the power of DICOM.

There are a loooooooot of ways to store imaging data out in the wild, and many different versions & viewers for each format... rather than looking down on someone for not keeping up with the tech stacks du jour, why not just help them get what they need to do their job more effectively? Especially when they're working to heal you.
It was. There has been a time, when many people thought Macs were inherently safe systems, just because there was way less malware for it, than for windows.
I considered that, I haven't really used it enough yet to commit for so long though. Put it on my mental 'backlog' as it were for now while I have the existing subscription (good until the card its on expires iirc), and in the mean time this popped up.
I think it probably depends a lot on scale.

For a lot of small or medium businesses 4.2% + $.30 is about 1.5-2% more than they would pay for barebones card service. But the addition of tax reporting, and periodic billing more than make up for the cost of having to hire an employee or other service to handle this. PCI compliance, advanced fraud detection, etc...

As you scale, sure, you should maybe think about in-sourcing this, but how many hours per year of employee time do these services save.

This is a great article for comparison, but I think a lot of people who haven't run businesses would be shocked at the cost of handling money. Having worked at a bank I would not be surprised if cash is more expensive than credit card fees.
No Android or Linux app. Subscription is high (like others have said). Appears no offline version (might be wrong) and the text is stored on their servers be default unless you manually delete it.

I'll not be using it but good effort though.
Congratulations on sticking with it despite the early hurdle.
I don't think anyone is saying high fees are a feature. What I am saying is that the tradeoff that nano makes to avoid those fees makes it a poorly designed protocol. Low or no fees is a fantastic feature - as long as it doesn't degrade the main use of the system - which in the case of nano it certainly does.
The reaaon is that those houses are not built in the desert. Your point is invalid.

You have to protect the plants from the drought and humans from sandstorms. You
can not cover a km wide 100m tall city, it has to be 200m x 500m. (numbers are arbitrary, but it has to be compact and as always, biger is cheaper, if 200x200 already covered "up" it is.

But of course the whole idea is just "clickbait".
There exist different levels of invasiveness. I've had issues with EAC multiple times, forcing me to reconfigure my system just so it'd let me play games. Something like VAC might not be as good at catching cheats as EAC, but it rarely causes problems and works great on a wide variety of systems and setups.
The conclusion must be that they're not actually very smart people.

Likely that a lot of these "smart" ceos are people that were in the right place at the right time that fortunately had hired the right people that drove their success. To them the internet was a golden goose. Maybe NFTs are the next golden goose? They're running on pure hopium trying to cargo cult their way into their next billion and not really understanding anything about how they got there.
Arm SystemReady white paper [pdf]
https://archive.ph/y56hb
Nicely visualized! I wish the first party docs for excel were this good.

This is also an interesting content marketing approach, subtle. I think the value you are adding with the doc buys you enough good will to make an even more overt ad pitch for your tools.
As an anarchist hippie, I still enjoy the Civ series, including decimating neighboring countries and claiming their territory as my own… after they declare war on me first, anyway. And the FPS genre has been brought up in another subthread - though to be sure I greatly prefer sci-fi or fantasy-themed ones like Halo or Quake to the more "realistic" Collar Doody games.
as a civilian, I am repeatedly amazed at the relentless, intrusive and manipulative tactics that the "heroes" use on the "sheep" .. I am quite capable of managing my own affairs and have invented and solved using computers for decades. I have a sense of personal sovreignty that is offended and threatened by one-way-mirror, controlling, destructive Spy-vs-Spy comic books being played out by eternally funded jerks. I am not running to DELL to save me from "scary" hacks -- indeed, I am being victimized and trodden on by DELL and "state actors" .. DELL is a "state actor" ..

ugh
Do you mean self-hosting or style guide?
Unfortunately, at this point the solution is to play hardball and say "start either vetting your customers better or providing us with accurate uuids so we can block/report them for you, otherwise we will no longer route calls originating from your voip service".

Perhaps even connect the call to a automated message that says, "we're sorry, <voip telco> has had its services disconnected for fraud. Goodbye"

But US phone companies don't want to do that because of the potential revenue loss.
If ordinary Russians look out at the world and perceive that they and their culture are despised and hated, they'll rally around their xenophobic leader.

If Russians look out at the world and see a consensus that their leader has impoverished their nation for his personal benefit, they'll be more likely to question his motives.

Ukraine's best shot at winning the war is for Putin to lose the support of Russian soldiers. That should be one of the top priorities, and it will be better accomplished by driving a wedge between Putin and the Russian people than by driving them together. (Though delivering more HIMARS is an even higher priority.)
Why is this strange? Wartime changes many things, and propaganda is a powerful weapon.

> Freedom Fries

How about "Today Baghdad, tomorrow Paris!"
In fact, in the pursuit of eliminating memory-safety and security bugs, Rust can sometimes makes some privacy bugs more likely.

For example, in GC'd/RC'd languages, if we have several UserAccount instances and a bunch of long-running operations on them, any particular long-running operation will just hold a reference to the UserAccount itself and modify it at will without any confusion.

In Rust, the borrow checker often doesn't let us hold a reference from a long-running operation in practice, so we work around it by putting all UserAccount instances into a Vec<UserAccount>, and have our long-running operations refer to it via an index. However, we might erase and re-use a spot in that Vec, meaning the index now refers to some other UserAccount.

If the operation uses that "dangling index", it can lead to leaking sensitive data to the wrong users, or data loss.

When using Rust, one has to use discipline to avoid this bug: use IDs into a hash map, or generational indices, or Rc<RefCell<T>>. Each has its own performance hit, but that hit can be worth it to prevent privacy bugs.

In the GC'd/RC'd language, this would still be a bug, but it wouldn't cause any mixups between different users' data.

I'm not saying we should always use GC'd or RC'd languages for privacy-sensitive purposes, but one should be aware of the particular shortcomings of their tools and have proper practices and oversight in place to mitigate them.
It had to happen soon or later. Firmware (and therefore hardware) is the absolute best place to put malware into: no way to detect it as it runs at higher privilege than everything else, including the operating system itself.
That's the reason we should push for open firmware and hardware everywhere whenever we can: if hiding spyware into systems becomes technically trivial as updating a firmware image, I expect it to be abused pretty much everywhere.
Be precise: paying for a link to a JPEG.
The dreadfulness of the city comes from economic conditions, but if you are a citizen, economic conditions come from:

* How hard you can make business compete for your business (∝ range^2 * density)

* How hard you can make real estate compete for your business (∝ range^2 * density)

* How hard you can make business compete for your labor (∝ range^2 * density)

Having options is good, density gives you options, but range gives you options squared. The absence of cars improves density, but it also decreases range by 10x and range^2 by 100x. It is far from obvious to me that density improvements outweigh this on balance.

Density has undeniable efficiency benefits, but if they accrue to capital (primarily, entirely, or more-than-entirely) and you are a laborer in Magnasanti, the outcome is not good for you.
Related: The $10,000 reporting threshold in the US has not been updated since the 70s. There have been multiple bipartisan attempts to update it to $20-30k (which is still half of what it should be according to CPI) but for some reason they have not gone anywhere. Most CTRs are basically spam at this point. A lot of people are seeing that the current BSA system incentivizes filling out SARs on everything possible to absolve yourself of liability instead of providing actionable intelligence but no one wants to change anything because they will look "soft" on crime/terrorism/Russia/whatever nonsense. Something like 95%+ of SARs don't result in any sort of criminal referral which is a pretty bad false positive rate in my view.
It's not explicitly mentioned in this way here, but I feel like the underlying assumption is something like "If you think they need the $20k plan, and you sell them on $10k, they'll increase to $20k based on usage then expand into $30k [(this is basically the chart in the article)] - but if you sell them on $20k, they'll stay there."

I don't see why you would intentionally undersell. How does that have any bearing on whether or not they expand into higher tiers, or whether or not they refer new customers to you?
Way more efficient to go up the well to get materials than down the well and have to haul them back up.

Either way space mining is so expensive nobody has done it. Whenever space mining does happen it will be use insitu or bringing things closer to the Sun.
OK then you agree that Amazon taking down Irreversible Damage was wrong, and that it should also be in every school library, or it's obviously a sign that the Left is going to ban books everywhere?

Removing something from a curriculum is not the same as banning it. There are many more books that are not in school libraries than there are books that are in them.
The regulators are acting in the interest of society, to a first order. People actively don’t want privacy and decentralization because it means crime, theft, and economic instability.
RustDesk does have a quick connect style runner like TeamViewer that works just the same. It wasn't super performant, and on Windows it did not gracefully handle UAC prompts, so it definitely has some rough edges, but it functions much like its closed source predecessors did early on in its life.
> My biggest concern is that I've yet to find a VR headset that I can use for more than about ten minutes before feeling nauseated from motion sickness.

Sometimes I see these issues being brought but and I always wonder if they are associated with experiencing applications that make your virtual body move artificially without actually moving in real life, instead of staying intact like in Beat Saber or jumping by teleportation like Half Life: Alyx allows?

It seems a popular mistake for VR newcomers is to get in—or be put in—a rollercoaster or drive a car where these kind of problems are very visibile.
Sure, fine, if that works for you, that's all good. FWIW I also make a living working in Rust right now.

I still see broadly that most users don't care, nor should they. Quality speaks for itself. If Rust helps with that, that's fine, but in the long run it's overly techy branding. Of course this is an open source thing, so really geared to nerds, so there's that.
> Questions they ace provide not much information (once it is established that they ace them), questions where they're totally out of their depth neither.

Agreed. The aim, for me, is to watch someone (try to) solve a problem and communicate about it. Ideally I'd like the question to rely on some previously unknown concept to see them pick up a new idea and run with it.
Mediawiki is pretty standard though. I don't know if there are enough clients to justify the work, but it's something that's been on my mind for a while.
These sort of plausible deniability arguments only work in people's heads. Judges and prosecutors never buy these arguments.

...and even if you think you can convince a jury, it's still enough to issue a search warrant, whereby the prosecutor will find more than enough charges to force you into a plea deal.

Your initial anonymity is your most important defense.
As someone that's never used TeamViewer, is that a more complete description than simply being a "TeamViewer alternative"?

Skimming through the readme, I don't know what this gains over VNC and RDP solutions. Seems to be the same thing, but a different protocol?
Yes. It's called "fractional reserve banking". We did the same thing when the dollar was pegged to gold.

It works pretty well, as long as people trust the banking system. When people lose trust in the system, they all take their money out at once. So you get bank runs, and everybody gets screwed. It happened a lot in the 19th century -- they called them "panics".

With a fiat currency, the central bank can mitigate the disasters by printing more dollars and loaning them to the banks. Because of that, people don't worry as much about their bank, so the runs don't happen in the first place.

So if we waved a magic wand and replaced dollars with any fixed currency, you'd still get inflation. The money supply M0 would be fixed, but the M1, M2, etc. currencies would inflate exactly the way they always have. Only with greater opportunities for bank panics.

In the meantime, cryptocurrencies are very inflationary. Any one cryptocurrency is fixed, but cryptos as a whole are minted freely. So unless one used a fiat to ban all but a fixed number of cryptos, you get inflation anyway. The only thing preventing that from crashing was a continuous influx of new people trying to buy cryptos with dollars, often misled by fraudulent transactions making them seem viable. Once that crashed, you got a "bank run" on cryptos.

So we again watch as the crypto fans recreate 20th century economics on fast-forward.
That coordinated effort is not some big mystery; the exchanges that operate in major jurisdictions cannot offer Monero due to AML/KYC compliance rules.

Monero is only available on the exchanges operating on the fringes of the banking network, or which don’t connect to banks at all.
Nowhere in the article does it mention NFTs being at the heart of the layoffs. The article later says, "The Ottawa-based company will cut jobs in all its divisions, though most of the layoffs will occur in recruiting, support and sales units, said Mr. Lütke".

No mention of NFTs, though wouldn't be surprised if they scale back on that. I _would_ be surprised if they drop support and development for them completely.
Chemical controlling life and death in hair follicles identified
I think you are confusing the great reset with the great replacement? The first is more anti-elite/class warfare and has no racial narrative behind it. The second one is about racial replacement and amounts to thinly veiled racism. Am I missing something?
Profits, look at Apple. They're not even close to selling the most phones, but they're making the most money from the smartphone market. When you have one of two choices and the second choice is much less profitable, from a business perspective, you're losing.
I cannot agree enough. From another comment I made:

> one thing that I _really_ like that a lot of UI has been leaving by the wayside is making it clear when something on-screen is supposed to be interactable.

> Buttons look like buttons. Menus are always in the same place (in-window or top o' the screen, macOS style) instead of having to play "find the hamburger" in every single application. Title bars are exclusively for identifying and manipulating windows. You don't have to worry about accidentally clicking some control when you're just trying to move a window.

> The titlebar thing really gets my goat. Firefox uses the titlebar as a tab bar, so you switch or close tabs if you try to grab the titlebar to move things around. Slack has a big ol' search bar in the title bar. macOS[1] Mail.app and Calendar.app litter the titlebar with buttons. One of the basic functions of the window manager, _moving windows around_, has been hijacked to put controls there in the name of reducing clutter when we have _insanely_ high DPI displays and we can easily afford to give a little screen space to a few controls.

> Drives me crazy.

> [1] I'm at work, so I'm on mac. At home I run pop!_OS and KDE, but I have similar complaints there.
Enhancing 3rd-Party Library Support in GraalVM Native Image with Shared Metadata
But at least you could load your own OS.

Chip manufacturers could even decide that nothing good happens on open source operating systems, so you're now only allowed to run Mac or Windows operating systems.

The point is really that they're taking full ownership of the chips from you.
Even without querying prod db, postgres://billing.and.analytics.internal is available to most engineers in small startups.
As a bit of an Anarcho-Libertarian who is often in the middle of these conversations from either side, I would imagine part of the problem is your framing of this issue as if it is only coming from one direction, when there is plenty of evidence that both sides are into things like banning books[0] it's just a question of which books they want banned.

[0] When It Comes to Banning Books, Both Right and Left Are Guilty | Opinion: https://www.newsweek.com/when-it-comes-banning-books-both-ri...
Also, many youtube videos on the topic cover how to do it, and offer some various setups you can use if you don't have proper bookbinding tools.
Safe for investors is not the same as safe for workers.
Let's pretend that in my mind, "NFT === JPEG === scam for idiots and speculators" - what is a "blockchain domain," why does it have to be an NFT (or why is being an NFT better than not being one), and how is it different from the above?
NordVPN speed is also absolute garbage.
Launching Laravel Bytes
Thank you for the information. Do you know if hobbyist licenses acquired before the divesture will still be honored?
Let me correct that for you. People are willing to exchange their privacy for safety. If it was possible to have both i doubt anyone would choose nonprivate
Do they sell these in stores for cash? That would be the best anonymous way to do it.