skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I just like Saudi Arabia for their treatment of migrant workers and the Kafala system. The treatment of women doesn't help either.
Luckily I don't have to imagine because I will never, ever buy a vehicle that allows for this sort of behavior.

The person should hire a lawyer and sue Tesla.
Maybe you disagree with them, but I have a hard time finding anything harsh about that comment. It's just their opinion on the phenomenon.
People already do this through "rent to own" places
I also wonder if discrimination plays into this. As in, I don't know if it's legal to exclude certain payment methods. For example, in the US there's a law that businesses can't charge a premium for credit over cash, but there was an exception for gas stations to offer a cash discount.

Brex itself might want to confront Google about the legalities of discriminating against their customers.

This has become a rampant enough problem that a startup could make a lot of money acting on behalf of businesses which have experienced losses due to large corporate behemoths selectively denying them service for dubious reasons.

Also if Google really does control 90% of the ad market, then this sort of situation is just exactly the ammo needed for an antitrust case. Google should be paying more attention to this for its own sake. Of course, with the US Supreme Court how it is, Google's probably confident that absolutely nothing will happen to it. If someone can read all of this and not understand what a great tragedy that is, then I just don't know what else to say. It's probably over and we may never see ourselves free of monopoly abuses like this.
InsureTech is one, I think.
The goal is that it's secured as well; the bios image itself is measured into the TPM and pluton as part of secure boot.
Both those need cash at the endpoint, and exactly here is the big problem.
"Incognito mode just means they clean the dressing room after you use it. It doesn't mean the dressing room has a door."
You don't have to throw out the baby with the bathwater. A few Arcs to hold onto a Users metadata is hardly going to be in the critical path of the app.
Here's a pretty good breakdown on where things currently lie:

[1] https://youtu.be/XXdmIETK6-0

Ultimately it seems to depend on what Musks true intentions are. Is this some kind of 4D chess move, or is he simply not interested in the company any longer? If it's the latter he likely ends up paying to walk away.
So you think that prosecution is going to go to court with just 1 piece of evidence and the entire case is going to hinge on the provenance of a Mullvad account?

Sounds extremely unlikely.
Kardashian sharing a petition for IG to stop trying to be TikTok
Why do you ignore that the one Federation that didn't teach Russian in schools was forced to change their policy? Russia can have all the written rules they want, they follow them the same way they followed their statements during February that 'they had no intention to invade Ukraine', or agree to allow Ukraine shipment of grain then bomb the ports to ensure no ships will risk docking there, or their law making non-defensive wars illegal (hence this is not a war to them).

China has freedom of speech and democracy guaranteed by their constitution, would you defend China's open press and elections next as quickly as you are defending Russia's hollow laws? (not anti-Russians here, my grandfather was Russian, but definitely anti-Russia today).
> As the author mentions, you can pick up a copy for well under $20.

It's a Dover edition. They love getting textbooks that are decades old and making inexpensive but decent quality paperback editions. In fast moving fields Dover editions may be out of date, but if the fundamentals haven't changed much a Dover book can be a great way to get started.

To a good first approximation if you are interested in some area of STEM and would be fine with an approach that doesn't include the last couple of decades are so of developments Dover is a good place to start.
Actual TWTR shares are currently a prediction market on whether the deal will go through or not, there’s no need for a low volume derivative prediction market. Short or long the shares to place your bets (or use options)
I don't know enough about the field to answer, but I'll ask another question: isn't this already happening?
The Air Force is going in a different direction and designing their next generation tactical aircraft with longer range to reduce the need for tankers.

https://youtu.be/_5bdmbOQZ_g
> Hotdogs and pasta salad sounds like something a desperate college student would cobble together. Not something the average american would consider eating.

This is just.. not true? These are typical picnic foods.
I always do that. I don't ask about improvement. I keep it neutral. So, what do you think?
Steamworks.js – Implementation of the Steamworks SDK for HTML/JS Based Apps
Why?

The author used greenworks for a long time and it's great, but gave up for the following reasons:

* It's not being maintained anymore.
* It's not up to date.
* It's not context-aware.
* You have to build the binaries by yourself.
* Don't have typescript definitions.
* The API it's not trustful.
* The API implement callbacks instead of return flags or promises.
* The author hates C++.
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It's probably related to a DDOS

https://status.torproject.org/issues/2022-06-09-network-ddos...
I spend far more time scrolling HN than I do on social media or on my phone. I have an HN problem, and no social media problem. Yet, HN has zero "engagement engineering" put into it.

And why is this? Because chose to start browsing HN, and I chose to not spend time on social media. My addiction is a product of my own choices, and nobody else's.

If you can show me that the majority of people addicted to social media and/or their phones were forced to use them, then that's involuntary. Otherwise, by definition, they voluntarily decided to use whatever social media app they're captured by.
It's not a maybe, Apple continues to be the leader in the space when it comes to profits despite shipping 87% less units.

"Apple has been the biggest profit and revenue generator in the handset business. In Q2 2021, it captured 75% of the overall handset market operating profit and 40% of the revenue despite contributing a relatively moderate 13% to global handset shipments."
There's some debate in the comments about the validity of the strategy and whether so and so was using the strategy in earnest. I think what's more interesting is the recent and current relevance of such strategies in a world of increased media, decreased privacy etc.

The term 'based' is currently used by de youths to refer to a person who employs this strategy.
The removal of "Don't be evil" should have been a hint.
I wonder what will happen during rush hours when everyone needs to use the transport system
Looks like ~45% probability that the deal closes before January 1st, 2024 versus ~27% probability that it closes before January 1st, 2023. So 3:2 odds that, if it closes, it will close this year rather than next.
> I have already been warned about engaging in flame war arguments

Instead, posted insults. But it's fine if you want to start taking the high road. I'll forgive you :-)

> your very incendiary claims that the land taken from other peoples was not in involved in wealth creation.

First off, if you read the known history of the indigenous peoples of America, they were constantly engaged in taking land from each other. (For example, read "The Commanche Empire" by Pekka Hamalainen.) Secondly, they lived at a subsistence level. This is not much in the way of wealth creation.

The Aztecs, Mayans, and Incas did go much further, and did create wealth from the land, but far less effectively than the Europeans did. They were also in Central and South America, not North America.

> also don’t think plundered land had anything to do with wealth creation

This is not what I wrote. I wrote that land is not required for wealth creation. It is not the common factor among wealthy economies. And whether it was plundered or not is irrelevant. (All land has been taken at some point in time.)

> It is not a reductio ab absurdum argument to ask you to give proof to a statement that you declared.

That's a misrepresentation of what I wrote about an office requiring land. Also, it is impossible to prove anything about economics. But what we can do is examine history. When we do, the common theme for highly wealth creating economies is free markets. Not land.
Zelensky, the current president, was democratically elected. Yanukovich fled to Russia after mass protests, when he attempted to reverse the process of association with the EU, as requested by Putin (it is one thing to be a “pro-Russian”, and another — to be a Kremlin puppet).

Stop spreading Russian propaganda.
Developer docs: What do you like to see first?
When using a new product, there are 2 types of information in the docs

1. Guides: Information that helps you implement the product / try it out
2. Education: Information that helps you understand the product, what it does, why its good etc

When you're browsing a product for the first time, what do you think should be a good balance between these two?

Which companies do you think get this most right?
I don't recall defending the Clintons.

Maybe if you didn't think everything was black and white, you wouldn't need melodramatic all-caps text so often.
Oooh, I wonder if there's an arbitrage opportunity here.
I don't know if other travelers have run into this but somewhat regularly when I arrive in a different major metropolitan area, I will get scam-spam calls within a day spoofed from that area code despite the fact that my phone number has nothing to do with that region and I haven't been in that specific location either ever or at least a longtime. It happens in both North America and Europe.

I know fake base stations might not be the reason for scammers targeting my phone but would be curious if others have seen this and have their own hypothesis?
I rather see a dystopian future from unregulated asset flow with no limits and no taxation. Cash for me is a good tradeoff between freedom and necessary control. I would e.g. opt into any equivalent digital currency that does not allow speculation , accumulating or transfer of amount greater than 10k per year or natural person.
The USPS didn't even offer parcel post until 1913.
Interesting, I have the exact opposite view based what I hear from friends who work there. Kaz alone would make me never want to work at such an anti-intellectual, purely opinion and aggression driven workplace.
I use them because we watch all of our stuff on a small laptop. Maybe my hearing is terrible, but I feel like in order to make out speech in many movies I have to turn the volume up entirely too high. So instead I keep it low and use sub-titles.
The pattern cannot prove anything just because I buy cards every month can't prove I use them for Mullvad. If someone gets shot on my street and I have a gun and none of my neighbors do and they cannot match the ballistics there is almost no case.
Norwegian broadcaster puts popular show online as no-DRM torrent (2008)
> I made a significant payment recently with cash and the only bills the bank would give me were 50€ bills

All the ATMs I've used (across Europe) recently have at least offered me a choice of bills (notes) when I make a withdrawal.

I took €300 out of a cash machine in Italy yesterday, didn't specify the bills, and got it all in €20s... left me thinking the machine must have had lots of them and wanted to shift some :)
The GP talked about Japan only applied rust protection on cars for the export market. Their domestic cars were designed to rust out.
Doesn't need to predict. It can just wait until you click, THEN shift and act as if you misclicked.

Who knows what the megabytes of Javascript are doing.
For some reason, Russia never had anything close to a democracy or any rights-enabling consequence of revolution. And that was certainly not for lack of revolutions.

It may be a coincidence (getting rights for the people is hard), or due to some structural issue. I don't believe anybody knows the reason, but yeah, it may be external because when modern democracy first appeared it was concentrated geographically, what usually happens when the causes are larger than a single country.
Did Gonorrhea Give Us Grandparents?
"I feel like this is more mundane on Tesla's part than many are making it out to be.
A mistake was made years ago. An employee recently discovered and "fixed" it.
Terrible communication and customer service, but nefarious? Nah."

At this point I feel like terrible communication and service is an intentional business strategy for some companies who found that by making support so baroque as to be inaccessible or just eliminating it entirely that they can slash costs accordingly. I do consider it to be nefarious in such cases.
This is true for more than just programming.
This is game!
I'm sorry, but if this is the cause, it's complete and utter bullshit on Google's part. B2B is their bread and butter. They should have this (paying via a corporate card) shit figured out (or at least not give opaque reasons to the failures).
Definitely the first. Beacons have better cross-platform support than most Microsoft products.
Science Fiction Dystopianism Shapes the Debate over AI and Robotics
This is gold!

I've been following Gergely's journey for quite a while. Personally I learn a ton from Gergely's writings / tweets.

As a fellow one-person business [1], the only thing I'd like to add here (after running my business for ~5 years so far) is that you are allowed to be flexible.

Businesses are different. Everyone's background / finance / skills are different. It's okay that you are doing something different from what you've read from the Internet.

For example, it's totally okay to do (or not do) micro-services for your little SaaS on the get go. It's also okay to try venture-backed route for a while then switch to do "lifestyle business". It's also okay to hire (or not hire) employees early. There's not one single formula that works for every one-person business.

Persistence really pays off long term. Good things might not happen until year 5.

[1] https://www.listennotes.com/blog/the-boring-technology-behin...
Defense and the arms industry is not a government "investment" in the normal sense, it's more of an infrastructure thing that doesn't directly contribute to national wealth but serves other non-economic purposes.

I'm speaking in terms of things like government equity stakes in a fledgling, or failing industry, the same kind of direct invrstment a VC would take on. The numbers are much smaller at that level because it's politically risky.
> one can probably safely assume they do not log who bought which gift card. They are also under no obligation to do so, as far as I’m aware.

You bring up a very good point. Unlike an electronic payment system [0], I assume the amazon gift card is not linked to your account on Mullvad's servers, so probably Mullvad marks the account as paid, but doesn't log the Amazon card number

0. Even that should be safe. Mullvad made a recent decision to get rid of subscriptions. Now that your account is never linked to your payment method, and we can assume that it's safe to use your personal credit/debit card. But I'd be careful, if someone is important, there is a possibility of someone tracking and logging their activities, credit card use, IPs before Mullvad purchase and after they connect.
This shows the distinction between the value of resumes (whether it’s school or job or whether) is in large part just signaling and not actually about skill set.
Measuring iPhone Rotation with Gyroscope
Worth highlighting that part of the soundtrack of the video is from the 1982 movie "Koyaanisqatsi - Life Out of Balance" (as referenced in the blog post), soundtrack by Philip Glass, and which is an experimental movie about, I guess, humanity's urban life at odds with the natural world.
However, it might seem like a trivial task to measure rotation knowing rotational speed from sensor of iPhone, it's actually not so easy. Integration in time gives errors and result to drift of measured angle. Over easy to cope with the drift is to account for gravity direction. More details in my post in Towardsdatascience.
It's both. All the content from the original is there, polished up to modern standards. And then there's a bunch of new material added on as well.

It likely feels more like a sequel if you choose the "played it before" option at the beginning of the game-- that introduces the new content much earlier. If you tell it that you haven't played before, it takes much longer before it starts introducing the new content.
trying to spark a genuine dialogue...

> definitely part of the dystopia.

How so?
Thank you for this feedback. I really appreciate it. I will incorporate it prominently on the web site.
Anyone able to explain how Tor nodes (entry, relay, exit, bridges, onion/hidden service, etc) keep from getting hacked?
I meant the opposite. I think between both imprecise definitions of left and right and even MORE imprecise definitions of "conspiracy theory," this study is completely useless.
When I worked at Office Max 24 years ago, they had a printing machine from IBM that looked like a photocopier with a PC on top. It took cassettes of wire and made it's own staples. I don't recall what the page limit was but I feel like it was several hundred pages.
But can you actually clean real money with NFTs? I assume no bank will accept your answer "I just exchanged my stock of coins"...
The reality of this strategy is that as soon as the customer realizes you undersold them, they will take their business elsewhere unless your offering is so unique and tough to reproduce.
> Seriously, even good old BIOS is susceptible to rootkits, there has been tons of them.

Were there? I couldn't find anything, but then again Google is garbage nowadays if you want to find older stuff.

To my understanding, the limitations of the old BIOS world would've made it much harder to hack on it other than maybe enabling hidden menus.

The UEFI world is so much larger, more powerful and already offers plenty of abstractions and services. You can probably write a relatively portable rootkit that works across a plethora of different Mainboards and Chipsets. And then you come in and try to fix it with secure boot, and when secure boot isn't good enough anymore you add pluton and then what?

And what's your threat model anyways? "Professional Hackers" nowadays are in it for the money. Why would they want to custom tailor a rootkit for your BIOS? Why would they want to target you with a generic UEFI rootkit? Apparently, crypto ransomware is perfectly capable of infecting a user on windows with secure boot enabled. No need for a rootkit.

Who is going to be interested in rootkitting you besides a government backed hacking op? And in that case, I fully trust them to be able to get around any secure boot measures either with yet another exploit, or because they have access to the signing keys one way or the other.
However, most of the cost is producing those kWh and it's linear with kWh produced, while an ISP's costs are about fixed per household...
What Is Multi-Cluster Kubernetes?
> Appears no offline version

Sorta, you can always run the server locally on your own machine. It's a bit wasteful, but not terribly so.

> No Android or Linux app

I mean you can just use the plugins for browsers, email, and document writing. It won't work in the terminal (would it on MacOS regardless?) but I wouldn't consider that a downside. I'll be waiting for the Emacs package myself, but I doubt I'll have to hold my breath.
Docker and the OCI Container Ecosystem
New hypothesis emerges to explain mysterious hepatitis cases in kids
The SM-6 has some limited ability to intercept hypersonic weapons. This hasn't been tested in a realistic way yet.

https://seapowermagazine.org/vice-adm-hill-mda-pushes-space-...
Except this was 1995, and Steve Jobs was not in any room at Apple. In fact, Jobs left Apple in 1985.
Wait, you can expand a line indefinitely? How? Eventually you will hit water or a mountain.
Custom Google Search Engines
The only path in a C++ release build is the PDB or debug information. This can be removed with a compiler flag. The only other indicator is a timestamp, which again can be modified with a compiler flag.

Using CI/CD can still give forensic indicators as the paths are still in the binary, even if they arn't your host machine path. In authoritarian countries where people have to worry about security services, this is a big threat which can get people killed. It also leaks information, even if you don't view the information as valuable, it's still fingerprinting.
> Contrasting colors are used to separate window frames from window contents. Window frames

THIS IS MY BIGGEST⁰ IRRITATION WITH THE MODERN WINDOWS UI. There is no standard window decoration or title formatting, particularly no standard way of differentiating between the active window and others. It is often difficult to tell what application has focus especially if you have two with the same theming on different desktops¹. And it only seems to get worse over time.

I keep thinking of writing a tool that hunts for the top-most window⁴ and draws a nasty great bright green box around it so current input focus is impossible-to-mistake obvious! Ugly but functional.

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[0] of several…

[1] looking at you MS Office, with nothing but a difference in text decorations²³ between focused and non-focused windows, though that is far from the only or the worst offender

[2] from white to off-white

[3] or, for non-maximised windows, for some apps, a slight difference in how dark that 1px border is

[4] excluding those that are set always-on-top, hopefully that is just a visual thing and the top-most on the task stack is actually the one with input focus
In my consulting business, I've found the opposite strategy to be true.

I, if anything, deliberately slightly overbid/oversell. Then when I deliver the product that they asked for less than I quote them, I get REAL word of mouth, glowing recommendations.

I also have found that this practice really weeds out the people that would otherwise give me endless problems like delaying or fighting payment, poorly defining their requirements, changing their mind dramatically half-way through, or failing to take my advice on things that will give them legal problems or cost them an enormous amount of money down the road. (And then come back and try to blame me for them not taking my advice.)

I also have the budget to deliver what they actually need at the quality they actually want.

Being proud of deliberately misleading people in a way that negatively impacts them feels really gross to me.
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