skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As an alternative heads up, our entire experience of reality is subject to the whims of poorly understood chemical and physical homeostatic states. I just recently decided to pursue some genetic testing due to the night and day difference in my mood and motivation supplementing methylfolate (B9) and methylcobalamin (B12) had on me.

It turned a mild bout of depression and long standing un-medicated adhd on it's head to the point that I feel like telling anyone who is looking for a "strategy" to first make sure their biology is in order. It helps loads. In any case, if someone knows how sound the science around MTHFR is I'd love to be wrong on the internet and hear about it (about 1 in 5 is the rate I was quoted for abnormalities with that methylation cycle).

https://www.additudemag.com/mthfr-adhd-genetics-puzzle/
For me it's emotional factor. And what causes good, positive emotions - the combination of all aspects. Visual, sound, gameplay, ux.
Unfortunately your game didn't work on my device.
To give an un-biased example: there's a great puzzle collection on F-Droid calles just... "Puzzle" (many in one). Lots of classic puzzles there from sudoku to minesweeper but... I'm not inclined to share it.. yet. Because while puzzles are ok by themselves, 1) the graphic design and "eyecandiness" is zero, 2) no catchy sound as well, 3) there's no motivation to play any puzzle again - no even single-player score board. It gets boring after one or two successful matches.
On the other end, looking at commercial japanese games make me feel "Wow, this is cute/amazing/beautiful/clever/well put/etc. I want to show this to my friends!". So, human trials are a must if you're not confident as a designer. )
So, any game can be boring or viral totally independently of the gameplay itself. And people don't share boring games, at least to not to look boring themselves =)
PS: OK, I should confess I'm somewhat related to game development.
You should try Windows ME. Although some people said it was stable for them.
I think an interesting comparison now is between payment service providers (including Stripe) and all-in merchant of record services (like Paddle).

At some point all the extra fees for additional services add up and using a PSP isn't so attractive financially any more.

All the extra admin and integration work you still need to do with a payment service provider can also be a barrier.

I'm surprised the MoR market hasn't become more crowded and competitive already. It's often suggested around here that if something is core to the purpose of your business then you should do it and if not then you should outsource it as much as possible. MoR seems like the logical conclusion of that argument for a lot of financial activities.
For connecting between two Windows machines, I want to use the RDP protocol, but the built-in RDP client and server don't take care of the NAT/firewall traversal and such. Is there a software solution like TeamViewer or RustDesk that just does the leg work to set up the connection and then hands it off to the Windows built-in RDP libraries?
Google "Saudi Arabia linear city" and you'll likely see an ad for neom.com [1]. It's worth checking out the site for the impressive but bizarrely fantastical concept art. A BBC article [2] about Neom mentions it will have an autonomous legal system drafted by the investors.

It feels like Saudi Arabia is trying to create the next Hong Kong. Maybe the linear city plan is more of a way to convince investors there's enough real estate room to expand. Or perhaps there's a reason to need an autonomous legal zone stretching from the Red Sea to inner Saudi Arabia.

[1] https://www.neom.com/en-us/regions/theline

[2] https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-trending-59601335
Use Payoneer instead!
Guys, stop trying to guess what you did wrong. Google is a bad player.
I was being a bit provocative with Pluton :-) I know it presses people's buttons...
Cool, enjoy getting almost no new business creation in the world. I'm sure you will love living in a world where incumbents pretty much have total control over everything.
I think you balance the two tricks by defining "Figure out enough to get started" as "Understanding the problem (without overthinking it)."

For me this means walking through use-cases of an idea "on paper" while resisting the temptation to actually design the solution. Once you've defined the verbs/nouns of the system you're much better prepared to "dive in" and build something. That, in turn, will uncover things your paper system forgot or burst your illusions about certain use-cases causing you to rethink them. Rinse, repeat.
Strawman arguments are weird. Especially owning the corner store piece.

Nevermind the fact that you're at trial where a judge and jury is looking at this. Nevermind that the point the GP made was that if you have someone knocking on your door motivated to find something they will find something.

I am assuming if you are a nefarious actor, the goal is to not have this kind of attention, ever. You do this in all of the traditional ways - insulate and delegate.
Who are we to say there is nor sustainable way?, but in the case of StepN they have been using a ponzinomic way to run it.
One of my nits is implications that Great Works require some sort of extra mental exertion. I've read many Great Works and it's not just that Crime and Punishment is better than As the Crawdads Sing <ugh> but it is also more engaging. People think that these books shouldn't be read without understanding Russian history or society and without careful comparisons of the best translations but it isn't necessary.

One of my mantras as a reader is that I no longer am in school and no one is going to make me write a paper or discuss overriding themes. I can read the way I like and enjoy what I like and if I missed all the mustard seed references than it doesn't matter to me.

I could go into a side discussion on how literature is taught but I'm sympathetic to English curriculum developers who have to give students some books to read and have some criteria by which they can make sure students have read and understood it.
It’s a great compromise. It allows Mullvad to sell physical cards without becoming a logistics company, and anyone who doesn’t want cards (or doesn’t want to support Amazon) can use one of the numerous other options available, including paying with cash.
One of the big issues with TCP is a lot of communication isn't well-suited to the stream model and is message-oriented, so yes, like the author says, you have to go implement ACKs. And then you want multiplexing, which streams also fail at. Before you know it, you built a worse version of HTTP2.
I'm thinking of getting a smartwatch just to test out your theory. I got one for my wife because she's always leaving her phone in her bag with the ringer off (or so low she can't hear it) and I can never reach her. So on the upside, the watch makes it so she gets my messages. On the downside, the watch makes it really annoying for her to reply so often she doesn't.

So, while I despise the interruptions, I'm also sympathetic to the way my friends and family and coworkers feel. If they write me and I never respond, it makes them feel bad. And if it's something timely/important, it can cause real anxiety or problems.
No, not really. You're thinking of Discord.

Fortnite and Minecraft do have chat features in them, but those are features tacked-on as a last resort. In the case of Minecraft you don't even have voice chat. In the olden days of the Xbox 360's heyday[0], all we had were one-on-one voice channels or in-game chat, the latter of which would be an absolutely toxic nightmare of getting shouted and screamed at.

Furthermore, Fortnite and Minecraft are games whose camera and movement controls are optimized for the specific game mechanics they feature. If you want to create a generic 3D world, then you have to also create a generic set of controls to move and look around that world; and those controls are always going to be awkward and difficult to use.

Maybe you built a regular house, in which case Sims-style point-and-click-to-move and a fixed camera angle would be your best control option. Or maybe you built a racetrack with cars, which means you want WASD-steering with a car-locked third-person camera. Your FPS level wants first-person or over-the-shoulder third-person.

Second Life tried to do all of the above, so they gave you a default behind-the-head camera that vaguely works in open spaces, but you have to use Maya-style camera orbit controls to look at specific things. You can scroll to zoom to first person, but you can't use any of the builder controls in that view because of mouselook. And all of this was complicated enough that Linden Labs felt it was necessary to add "easy" movement and camera controls driven by UI buttons, but not to add click-to-move for third-person mode.

The thing is, when I look back at Second Life I can't really think of a way that it could have been done better. I can think of features that it's missing, but that wouldn't fix the clunkiness of the controls. Anything I could think of to fix camera movement would bias in the direction of a particular 'genre'; and making people switch between "FPS mode", "car mode", and "hanging out mode" would be a total pain.

This isn't even getting into the other problems these projects have, like the fact that 3D worlds are really expensive to build, or that the copyright maximalists will have a field day suing you over all the pirated content that your users will inevitably port in.

[0] As in, "blades dash" era 360
Yep. People complain about social strata discrimination, leetcode interviews, blatant racism and sexism on hiring... Well, any real solution to those requires accepting a few bad hires and dealing with them later.

Otherwise people will always go into voodoo practices trying to avoid the inevitable failures.
The only answer is this: they are much harder to use.
Honestly, it's exactly this that made me choose to work here over a higher total comp elsewhere. It's what's kept me even after the stock crashed so hard.

Tobi isn't a sociopath. The people he puts at the top aren't sociopaths. They're genuinely nice people, trying their best, and trying to do their best for everyone despite hard situations.

It truly is just a book club disguised as a publicly traded company.
I think it's the opposite. Theft and economic instability were the norm until we developed things like economic regulations and a banking system. The Wild West was not known for its economic stability for example. Neither were the Dark Ages.
I wrote this 10 years ago:

"The other issue with Google is there is no button I can push to send an email to complain to Google about my terrible user experience or to get support with improving it. Larry Page should be reading such an inbox, because this is a huge weakness for Google and they probably don't even realize how bad it stinks. "
It was told me years ago, so I'm not sure of the details. What they are doing is probably switching the traffic to the main DC, not switching off completely one.
Its interesting that after the Ukraine invasion started, Tor bridges and relays haven't increased.
> SB 8 does provide that only one plaintiff may collect a bounty from an abortion provider for each alleged violation of the law.

Hmmm, seems like the out is to have someone on staff to claim the bounties and then return them.
In theory yes, more functionality means more surface, but then some aspects are fundamentally designed to be less exposed or dangerous. We will keep on finding a bunch of bugs in those implementations, but I suspect the end result is better than what we could've ever had with BIOS.

I don't think there was any chance for a typical system owner to have the time or skill or even the foundation required to understand if their machine's BIOS is vulnerable or compromised. UEFI provides some basis to actually start with that process.

I also think there is a real opportunity to write open-source versions of these components in safe/verifiable languages. That way we could have our cake and eat it too.
Historia docet historiam numquam docere.
>It is not fraud, it is just lying. Lying is not illegal.

Lying to get a financial gain is the definition of fraud.

That said, it's one of those technically illegal things that no one in a million years is going to get charged for.
To be honest, this seems like a bizarre choice. Rc<> would not only be more idiomatic, it seems like it would even be more ergonomic because you don't then have to worry about passing your whole Vec around everywhere you want to access one of its elements

Doing it with an indexed Vec is basically re-inventing your own memory management system on top of the native one, which as you point out can get very contrived and error-prone. Because then you also have to re-invent allocation/freeing, removal of holes, etc etc.

People sometimes do this in VMs/interpreters where they really do need custom/"unsafe"[1] memory management, which makes sense, but it's definitely not needed for application code like this

[1] Of course it's still memory-safe, but it's more fallible in terms of panics and bugs, as you've pointed out
Starting to implement? They promised a fix like 2 years ago. I have about as much faith in the FCC accomplishing anything significant as I do in buying an extended auto warranty from a random caller.
This is not a good article. At a technical level it's confused about a whole bunch of things:

* SMM has been part of x86 for decades. The Secured Core requirements around SMM actually reduce its power.

* The claimed requirement to remove the third party UEFI CA certificate from 2022 Secured Core PCs is entirely unrelated to Pluton (it's required regardless of whether Pluton is enabled or not, and even whether the CPU has Pluton or not)

* Most of the description of Pluton is actually a description of a TPM. You don't need DICE for remote attestation. TPMs are already a hardware keystore.

* System firmware is already being updated via Windows Update. The discussion about Pluton and Windows Update is around Pluton getting firmware updates that way (the existing story around firmware updates for TPMs is largely not good)

* Existing TPM-based remote attestation already includes the secure boot state

The short version: everything that the article is worried about being enabled by Pluton is already possible, and has been for years.

But there's a meaningful point here. Remote attestation can certainly be used to restrict access to resources in ways that are incompatible with general purpose computing, or which reduce user choice. Remote attestation can also be used to give end users confidence that their machine is in a good state without constraining what they do with it. As a technology, remote attestation can be used in both good and bad ways. We do need to keep track of whether anyone is threatening to use it in bad ways and react appropriately.

(But tbh remote attestation as an attack on general purpose computing isn't the really scary thing about widespread remote attestation. Remote attestation ties back to the TPM's endorsement key, an immutable cryptographic key certified by the TPM vendor at manufacturing time. The straightforward implementation of allowing arbitrary remote sites to trigger remote attestation would tie all of these accesses back to a single piece of hardware, and would be a privacy nightmare.)
They can be cost effective only if you can travel in quiet parts of the year. I was also mainly referring to buying things in Europe/US/UK with a salary paid in a weaker currency.
I tried to mine it a few years ago on a couple of machines. The net benefit was close to zero and I realized even if I rented a lot of them, it was simply not worth the hassle. So this is from the "creator's" point of view.

As an user, I simply don't need it. Most of the time I buy physical products so I have to give them my real address anyway (I could set up an alternative way but again too much hassle for almost zero benefit). For these few times when I actually buy digital products, I simply don't care enough and I pay via Paypal. So yes, they can profile me using my Paypal address, but that's the price I'm willing to accept.

As a merchant, I simply wouldn't accept it because of high volatility and related problems. Also, in my country there are certain rules for entities of certain size and I'd need to do additional bookkeeping just for that.
I think it's ultimately because the "dumb blonde heiress" thing has made her oodles and oodles of money. She's far from a "started from nothing story," given her family. But that said, she's incredibly successful beyond that, at least in part because of her ability to generate free publicity at will.

Her perfume line brings in $2.5 billion in revenue. Her retail businesses bring in $4 billion in sales. That's on top of her music career, and being paid six figure sums just to show up at parties.

If she'd been sensible, I'm sure she could've gone off to Harvard or Wharton, taken over the family empire, and be sitting next to her vaguely-abusive father in a board meeting right now. But being a coked-out ditz is apparently very, very profitable, and has given her decades of staying power in the public consciousness.

That said, I do think it's harder to say if it was a conscious strategy (i.e. a publicity team sitting around saying, "Ok Paris, tonight you're going to throw a drink at Bill from TMZ, we've already set it up") vs the fact that one can be both a complete mess in some aspects of your life and well put-together in others. If the checks keep rolling in, and you're still having fun with it, I'm sure that "all publicity is good publicity" becomes a pretty reassuring mantra over time. Our obsession with Spectacle does the rest.

To draw a parallel: look at Elon Musk. He's built a personal brand around posting cringy memes on Twitter. Is he a moron? Possibly, in at least some senses. Has his public persona made him buckets of money and contributed to Tesla having a PE ratio that confuses the hell out of analysts? Undoubtedly. One's just targeted at twenty-something women who watch too much reality TV, and the other at twenty-something men who read too much Reddit.
Was there a driver or library for ATP or were you implementing that on PCs?
That is a good question. Maybe verification of the above data is "weak" so Brex privacy feature wins.

I do not how Google fraud system works but I know that Brex privacy feature is signal which is not good (from my experience in our company).

Sidenote: I also noticed that PayPal doe not like Brex privacy CC for subscriptions.
There is a diff between people not anticipating possible bad outcomes and acting on it. Since forever, people have complained about bosses, governments etc. still, to a large degree the easiest way wins and some people just need that ‘ease’ to survive their life. The needle of capitalism. And many that do see it as a big problem, disagree on the solution.
> Typically layoffs hit civil servants with a lag of a few years since government budgets are already decided before economic down turns, and only really impacted when the next budget is decided.

For federal government, it is usually delayed because downturns tend to provoke temporary countercyclical deficit spending, and thus hiring.

For state governments it is often sooner because operating deficits are structurally more difficult for them, so revenue cuts are reflected in spending more directly, though short-term circumstances may be addressed by furloughs, hiring freezes, real pay cuts via wage freezes during inflation, effective (temporary or permanent) pay cuts by altering employer/employee sharing arrangements for benefits, attrition, and other non-layoff means.
Can my mom get started with it in under 5 minutes? If not, it will never see wide adoption.
You can add your own "EV" certs to the Windows certificate store very easily.
These bans seem to be completely automated. But if the developer did manage to get a human being to take a look at their case, any attempts to circumvent the ban would surely not look favorable.
True, but you should be able to make 20 burgers for less than $20; easily if you already have condiments on hand. McDonald's burgers have 1.6 oz (1/10 lb) ground beef patties, and 80:20 ground beef is about $4/lb in most of the US.
They're still listing open positions for lots of engineering jobs, it kind of seems like for all the engineering jobs... https://www.shopify.com/careers/search

Curious if anyone with more context knows how to interpret that. The obvious one is that they didn't lay off and are still hiring like mad for engineering, but I don't know if that's the right read. Or they just haven't updated their job postings.

Or they actually have fewer engineering positions open than they used to even though it looks like a lot -- most of these positions actually maybe look like "tech lead" positions; it doesn't look like there are any/many standard/non-senior engineer positions open, and I think maybe there were a few weeks ago? Not sure.
I admit that this is speculation because I don't have the free time or desire to do some sort of deep dive, but the NFT market absolutely reeks of money laundering. Point being - why bother going through all that effort to actually mine stuff when you can just buy and sell NFTs a few times to clean money.
YMMV :) Moby Dick didn't do anything for me despite people telling me it's their favorite book. Even stripped of the diversions into the history of whaling I felt like it just went on and on.
This goes beyond plausible deniability, unless I'm missing something.

Buying a Mullvad gift card makes you at most a Mullvad customer. The cards are presumably one SKU, none of Amazon nor Mullvad know which one is sent to a given person.

I'm not sure what the connection might be to warrants here? Surely if a judge will sign on "hey this guy uses a VPN can we grab his laptop?", that judge would sign on any other flimsy excuse.
I'd say Google has fallen behind. Gmail is a good example. I switched to Fastmail, which loads on my PC in less than a second after I click the bookmark. Gmail takes nearly 10 seconds. And Fastmail provides a configuration profile to provide push notifications to the native iOS email client, something Google stopped offering 6-7 years ago.
If you are like me who subscribes to Jim Browning’s channel you know this technology would eventually be misused by scammers. Does Mullvad has any plans to counter it?
That's why I mentioned one needs to have discipline, to not use that particular solution.

We agree it's not the best solution. And it's easy for us to say that now, after I've spelled out why. You'd be surprised how many people don't know that this can be a problem.

Also, it amuses me that having a simple index into a Vec would be a "convoluted solution". It's the easiest solution of all the alternatives. It can also be risky for privacy.

Compare that to a GC'd language, where the easiest solution (just hold a reference) doesn't introduce privacy risks.
My father practice moved digital in the late nineties, they had a cd robot that would burn the dicom images together with a quite decent windows viewer from Siemens (actually it had nice contrast and zooming features) on the disk with autorun config (nobody cared at this time about security). The future was here...

Fun side aspect of the story is that they bought the wrong type of CD-Rs for the robot and I am still having empty CD-Rs from a batch of 500 or so I am using (once every other year).
... or programs could just display images instead of continuously approximating them (which is why unicode is so bloated and unreasonable about)
> All Florida did was add a criteria to their selection process to disallow books that include Critical Theory/Critical Race Theory or their praxis in the teaching of math, etc.

Yep, one state decided to do something about this divisive indoctrination of kids and the peddlers of that stuff obviously don't like it, hence the "banning (math) books" stories. If you actually read into this you quicky realize that someone is clearly lying and (this time) it's not the Republicans.