skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This doesn't strike me as quite as ridiculous as it did on first glance.

One, you've got a giant vertical wall that can have building integrated PV for windows.

TWo, you've got a shaded area on the north side.

Three, they're building it partly undergound, which is good for hot climates.

Four, it's planned as a post-car, walkable city which in general is an exciting concept.

Five, it appears to be going for an enclosed living area, which is seen as dystopic by people who live in moderate climates, but has always made sense to me for regions with extreme weather (hot or cold) and doing it on a scale that might avoid the downsides of feeling like you're shut in.

Redundancy of infrastructure in a linear city strikes me as a potential problem, as is the fact that one end is near the sea and the other end just seems randomly inland. If there's some purpose to the location that I'm not aware of (joining two important places for example) then it's an interesting response to the 'organic' growth of sprawl that occurs when you have two cities linked by a fast communication route, by planning it in advance.
Needing to have a big team so that you can refactor into microservices, which you need because you have such a big team is a very "the bureaucracy is expanding to meet the needs of the bureaucracy" sort of thing.
For now (and I haven't seen an annoucement of a coming change about it), only trustlets signed by Microsoft can be executed in the VSM (Virtual Secure Mode), so you won't be able to write a malware or a rootkit that leverages it to hide the execution flow.
I nod along with a lot of the things he says, but only because I’m already deeply familiar with them. I think for someone less familiar it’s easy to get an illusion of learning, as he frequently exaggerates to make a point and makes some basic mistakes here and there.
"Compelling evidence" and "It did come from the wet market, period." are a far cry from one another. Not disagreeing with this evidence that points to the origin of the outbreak.

It will be interesting to see the historical forensics develop as we actively combat COVID and future SARS-type viruses on a global scale.
It takes a bit of motivation to get me there, but once a month usually works out for the most part. I summarize my thoughts on stuff going on in the world and with my life.

I don't use any fancy software. Just some markdown files in a private git repo.
> Science isn't religion and it isn't always honest

Weird. Reads to me as if you're saying religion is honest?
DALL-E including shutterstock watermarks in images for unrelated prompts
Queueing at the front would imply that there's a possibility of never being served. Queueing at the back never has that being the case.

It seems to me that the math about the queueing isn't properly weighing that scenario.
I would assume you get a lot of shit protocol when an inmate kills themselves on your watch. Why would the guards be interested in that?
I don't know of any DEX that does this currently, I'd be happy to make the exchange though
How to analyze Linux malware – A case study of Symbiote
Pretty much everything you've outlined is an irrational fear.

ICEVs catch fire a lot, it's just not reported because it's not news.

https://www.nfpa.org/-/media/Files/News-and-Research/Fire-st...

> The others are range anxiety, energy storage portability and battery replacement costs.

Unless you frequently take long road trips, range anxiety isn't a thing for 200+ mile EVs. Batteries in EVs are currently warrantied for mileage far beyond the distances that most ICE owners drive their cars during it's usable life.

The horror stories you hear about people having to pay to replace batteries are usually because they failed to do something like have proper insurance.

> If I run out of gas on the side of the highway

Do you often run out of gas on the side of the highway and need AAA to deliver you gas? I have never in my life run out of gas.
They are scammed more than others in number of people, that's precisely what the table and the FBI report show!
Young people may not want to work hard (when was that ever not the case), but they also respond to incentives. When they understand that higly specialized jobs are the surest path to their desired standard of living and consumption, many of them get cracking.
I find https://www.slicer.org/ awesome once you get past the initial learning curve.
I absolutely have zero google apps on my iPhone. Also don’t use TikTok, Facebook or any of their subsidiary services. It works well.
> (in my opinion) ugly

There's your answer.
I consider it crazy that there is talk about banning literary classics
I am quoted in this article, but it ended up being kinda negative and clickbaity. I've been working at home for ~8 years as a software engineer for startups. I'm now a founder (1.5 months in) and I've found Flow Club to be the socialization, structure, and community I was missing as a solo-founder. I'm not paid by Flow Club. The article talks about FocusMate and CaveDay as well. If you have ADHD (or suspect you might have it), I highly recommend looking into these tools.

You can see the full email I sent NYT and more context in this Twitter thread: https://twitter.com/rickyyean/status/1549509805315747842
Google gained a tremendous amount of goodwill early on because they provided incredibly powerful free tools - search, web mail with 1GB of space, etc. -- which was so much better than what stingy incumbents offered (Yahoo Mail's free tier offered 10 MB of email storage at the time). But the rest of the industry has (mostly) caught up technically with them.

But cleverness and free tools will no longer be enough, since they're invading people's privacy (as ad revenue motivates them) and failing in customer service.
I might agree with this if applications and devices were not created by people who have degrees and jobs explicitly aimed at getting and holding your attention. If there were not people who, because of mental disorders (or just being young) become addicted more easily than average.

It's a war for your attention, and your phone is their primary gateway to your attention.

Don't blame the victim when there's a multi-billion dollar market that hinges on victimizing people by getting - and keeping - their attention.
The way I see it "Move To Earn" is a new web3 business model StepN gets the credit. It is an Australian star-up who has earn $120 million in the first quarter and pivoted their tokenomics each month. The shoes of StepN as company have not been easy to fill in by the team.
Maybe, but the advice won't matter is you're getting screwed in your reviews and such.
Why is it a conspiracy theory then?

It seems like the facts are not disputed. Just that people disagree with the policy.
This is the second tech adverse article [1] I've come across recently from Wired. The first was someone who doesn't use a password manager. I'm starting to see a pattern here.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32176748
The unbanked don't have much in the way of assets. Hyperinflation doesn't impact your savings if you have no savings. They get by using pre-loaded debit cards instead of bank accounts and credit cards. Cryptocurrency doesn't solve anything for them.

It won't happen.
Aside: Does HN auto-replace certain terms in titles? Pretty sure I wrote "Dall-E" here.
> Provide better debugging info for your creators! They should know which client (or at least that a modified client) is being used.

> Ditto. These tickets should be easy to auto-close if you force folks to include info about their client.

As a (former) modder, though not for VRChat, I can definitely empathize with this. Code quality with mods is a freaking wild west where modularization isn't really a thing and everyone monkey-patches everything. Supporting your mod/content amidst other mods is in the gray area where the etiquette expects content creators to support their stuff even though there's no "warranty" on the label, so you get significant variance in how demanding players are or how accommodating content creators are.

That said, I don't think anti-cheat is the answer here. Officially supporting mods and driving modified clients down a predictable path where you'll know when and how a client is modded seems like a better approach. Modders benefit from having real infrastructure to work with, and as the game dev you can ask players to turn off mods for troubleshooting.
I would argue that the complexity of TPMs[1] and UEFI[2] leads to a larger attack surface with more bugs present, making it easier to launch attacks such as the one described. The opaqueness of these technologies and inability for and difficulty of security researchers to investigate and debug implementations of these technologies does not help either. There is no chance of a typical system owner having the time and skill to understand TPM and UEFI technologies in enough detail to know whether their systems are vulnerable or compromised.

[1] Example: 176 pages at https://trustedcomputinggroup.org/wp-content/uploads/PC-Clie...

[2] Example: 2540 pages at https://uefi.org/sites/default/files/resources/UEFI_Spec_2_9...
Scientists propose converting tall buildings into batteries
This! ^

Tech companies are all subjects to the government in which they operate.

They have become spies. The real terror is when you can't buy chips that don't spy on you.
I believe AMEX tries to mix all of their card types together (prepaid, corp, etc..), so you can't do that. But I do agree for MC and Visa, I think you can figure out many of these with BIN information.
I'm not going to say they are the most technologically sophisticated marketplaces per se. Not doubting that this might be some obvious "litmus" test.

However, I'm willing to bet this is simply due to face value claims around Monero and not because the last mile problems are solved or its provably anonymous was considered in earnest and thereby vetted deeply.
People like to think that evil bosses will fire people for shits and giggles a la "Black Fridays" in Arrested Development, but finding and training people is such a hassle, the theoretical "you can be fired whenever for no reason" is rarely abused to that extent.
Thank you for pointing out that the analogy is not perfect, there are fundamental differences (such as depression being a defined pathological condition and shame being an emotion ranging from healthy and useful to pathological). But I will not be surprised if you can see structural or biochemical differences in the brains of people suffering from pathological shame.

My main point in both the statements you quote is that "choosing to own it" is too hard or difficult for some people and, in practice, not an option although it is in theory. And perhaps it can become a realistic option with enough psychosocial support or psychotherapeuric treatment. It is not about wanting enough or being stupid, see e.g. borderline personality organization (not the disorder);

> Healthy people might have trouble visualizing what it is like to live with this "borderline" level of personality organization. Healthy people understand that who they are is not determined by a particular action, in a particular moment in time. They know that if they behave poorly one minute, this one bad behavior, in this one moment of time, does not define who they are. They are still able to recall all the wonderful things they have done in the past, and plan to do in the future. People with a fragmented sense of self are not so fortunate. If they just did something "bad," they literally become a bad person (i.e., they start representing themselves as an entirely bad person with no redeeming qualities). When this occurs, they can no longer access any of their good qualities. This is a terribly painful state to endure. (https://www.mentalhelp.net/personality-disorders/three-level...)

In general, we should be careful to tell others to just choose differently (I am not accusing you of this) as it may often be rephrased as just be someone else - which is possible in some regards, difficult in others, and impossible in many cases
It looks like the dystopic cities from Blade Runner, only with vegetation instead of acid rain.
Anna Karenina was an Oprah book club selection. War and Peace occasionally pops up on bestseller lists.
This. And then escalate to senior management, all the way to Sundar Pichai.

Additionally, write your congressional and local state representatives, and give them the facts.
> These sort of plausible deniability arguments only work in people's heads. Judges and prosecutors never buy these arguments.

What exactly do you base this on?

First of all, Mullvad (like any serious VPN operator) do not log IP:s and 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.

But let’s assume for the sake of argument that they did: let’s assume they log IP:s and sales of gift cards down to the social security number of the person who bought it.

Now assume that I’m running a corner store where I sell among other things these gift cards, that I bought from Amazon at a small markup.

Someone uses these gift cards and the tracking (that doesn’t exist) leads back to my store.

I’m defending myself in court in a democratic western country where people are assumed innocent until proven otherwise.

The jury (in the US) or the judge (anywhere else) is informed that I buy these cards in bulk, I sell dozens of them a week, and the IP (that Mullvad doesn’t log) is a dead end.

Do you seriously believe that a judge or jury anywhere would sentence me for the crime brought forward, or that this would even hold water enough to be prosecuted in the first place?

This is almost exactly analogous to selling anonymous SIM cards (where they still exist). One is used for a drug deal. Me, the shop keeper, is prosecuted in this alternate universe because I’m selling the cards.

Really?
This one [1] is famously detailed. There are 23 pages in the manual dedicated just to logistics. A famous example of the level of detail is that Italian troops require an extra portion of water supplies to cook pasta.

As per the linked article:

> Reviewer Luke Winkie pointed out that "If you and your group meets for three hours at a time, twice a month, you’d wrap up the campaign in about 20 years.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Campaign_for_North_Africa
> Trains have much higher capacities and so don’t fall victim to congestion as easily.

All it takes is one stopped train to cause a big mess on most commuter rail lines.

Commuter rail does better than cars on-peak, usually, especially with limited stop service. But off-peak, cars with no stops and point to point routing and no wait for the next take much less time.
Even there though, the dead comments are rendered in a light grey font which is so close to the background colour as to make them pretty much unreadable [for me anyway]. Even highlighting the almost-hidden text doesn't help much as the highlight colour is similar in brightness to the grey text.

That smacks of churlishness to me. 'You can choose to show dead comments if you want, but the site will still make it difficult for you to read them'.

I always mean to add something to my *monkey scripts to render the dead comments in a visible colour. But it's not the most motivating issue in my intarwebs browsing. So I've not bothered yet.
Square laws are applicable in situations where a traveler can travel from any arbitrary point to any other arbitrary point. Bandwidth isn't considered, but it's definitely the greatest limiting factor for routine human travel today.

Example: crowd crushes are bandwidth spikes
I can't imagine a future where they aren't the norm. I don't know whether it's 3 years away or 20, but I'd bet it's closer to 3.
If your threat model includes 3 letter agencies then you are fucked. Don't be a child pornographer or a terrorist I guess.
The exceptions to the norm are interesting to read about and discuss. Not wanting a smartphone is the exception to the rule in today's world.
SEC Enriches Fraudsters, Lawyers as Secrecy Shrouds Tips Program
Bible Black and South Park are technically "cartoon characters", that doesn't mean acceptable for kids.

Please don't let your child talk to strangers - in person, in Roblox or VRChat, in sketchy forums, etc. If you do, set boundaries for them and have the talk about danger.

If you let your kid talk to strangers, strangers will talk to them.
in Ireland, as someone living alone, I spend close to 40 euros a week.
4 euros for a kilo of ground beef
4 euros for a kilo of whole chicken
7 euros for a kilo of pork
and 4 to 5 euros for fish
and 2 to 4 euros for rice and wraps.
onions, garlic, fresh tomatoes are around a euro for a pack that's enough for a week. 5 to 10 euros for spices but they last for atleast a month. I throw in a few frozen veggies into rice which again is euro or two.
I dont order or eat out, I generally do this to eat clean healthy food but the addon benefit is I notice I save a lot more when compared to my colleagues and I generally look healthier even though I eat a lot more.
> Cant disagree more.

Me too :-) I don't accept anyone's authority to tell me what I should or shouldn't read (watch, listen to, etc.); and I wonder at anyone who would.

However, I couldn't help noticing that the vocabulary of your comment ("negative selection", "descendants") was rather biological. As I am sure you know, it isn't just the Moscovites who have navigated their way through the communist times, but the populations of the former Soviet republics as well. I also think I won't be too far off the mark if I say that superficial social adaptations or morality aren't hereditary, and people are very malleable creatures.
Your comment reads as incredibly tone-deaf, but I'll give it an honest answer.

Hierarchy of needs. Maslow is obviously not accurate, but people focus on basic survival and prioritize themselves and their families first. You do not even reach the level of contemplation of politics until you have food, shelter, comfort and a degree of safety. Most Americans struggle to satisfy all of these consistently.

If you want more people to care about privacy, solve their basic needs first. Then they will care about big picture items.
Theodolite
Storing the index of an item in a vector in an actual application (vs in some tightly bounded api of a small, purpose-built library used by said application) is highly non-idiomatic and would emit noticeable stink in any code review. It’s just too hard to remember to update all indices after removing an entry. I’ve seen this mistake made in C, C++, rust, C#, JS, and Python code bases and it is usually someone that hasn’t been around long enough to understand the implicit technical debt in certain approaches that would suggest such a thing, regardless of language.

The most obvious/naive solution along the lines you spelled out (in rust but really for any language) would be a hash map of ids/values, otherwise Rc and maybe some weak references.
> How easy is it - for both sides - to get set up?

I suspect this is a huge sticking point. The last time I tried to pay for something using bitcoin, I failed. I tried again with monero and, once again, failed. Zelle worked just fine.
That's not foresight, it's out-of-hand speculation. But I guess people who don't wildly speculate would never invest in crypto in the first place, heh.
It's not absurd at all. It already happens on a large portion of computing devices in existence (iOS).
Advertisers on Hacker News don't understand how much of the engineering world wants the entire targeted advertising world to go up in flames. :-)
Did you see Walmart's earnings? This is sector-wide.
Hi HN,

I did this little project over the weekend and thought you might find it fun. It's a mock UI for Slack running in the terminal. The demo is written in C++ using ImTui. You can quickly give it a try via the Emscripten port [0].

Cheers!

[0] - https://slack.ggerganov.com
So how can i sequence my DNA ? Get an illumina machine and learn biochemistry? Comeon, the 23andMe ban makes 0% sense.
I have always wondered how much money laundering is in mining.

It seems pretty benign to buy a whole bunch of CPU/GPUs on the used market and then have them mine you cryptocurrencies (not just monero, but notably monero is CPU favorable). This might be a massive onramp for fiat to cryptocurrencies.

A quick google talks a lot about tumblers and other buy/sell strategies, but I'm curious about mining.

I would hate to be the lackey who suggested it to their boss last fall only for them to see their laundered money fall > 50% though.
Privacy against who? I don't particularly care if Visa / Mastercard know where I'm shopping.
Makes sense to me: Shopify is adjusting to market conditions in real time.

During lockdowns a lot of people moved their shopping online. When lockdowns lifted some shopping moved offline.

Also during lockdowns, lots of people tried their hand at online sales. Some worked, some didn't.
> They have (from memory) 13 countries on their borders

they have all of them on one side (Western border), and majority of these countries are small and weak. Comparing to Germany, which is surrounded by potential enemies (I am talking about pre WW2 time), Russia had significant advantage.
You have to walk to the train station, wait to get on the train (plus buffer for unreliable/full trains), wait at every stop in between, and walk to your final destination. You're right about congestion, though, and rush hour probably does dominate the equation for commuters.

Still, in the city you pay a lot more for real estate and get a lot less. It is very important for models to include that aspect: do the benefits of density accrue to you, or to your landlord?
I have argued the same as you, it needs to be open source to fix the first two points.

For the third one, nobody is forcing you to buy a specific product, but yes, it will be hard to avoid.

But like for vaccines, individual consent is at odds with the greater good. Society needs computing that it can trust.

Maybe the solution is a healthier hobbyist market where you can buy "use at your own risk" unlocked computers? Maybe we need laws to force manufacturers to make such models? I don't know. But most people, from my mom to my CEO need a computer that will run what it is supposed to run.

It's not 1990 any more, PCs do way too important things.
I think if it’s compiled binary, for me, that naming is less useful.

In fact, my perception from just the naming is that it’s some sort of academic or personal project built in Rust (because the author probably was interested in dabbling with the language).

And with a personal project, I associate “this is something not ready for production”, even though it very well could be.
To survive? I don’t think cultures have points. They survive or die, and it’s a bit strange to use a specific cultural value as a measure of success of all other cultures.
significantly better, depending on context
I agree. Also I think Shopify is centered in Ottawa, Canada — where I suspect he’s also free from being accosted in restaurants and bars.
I understand where you are coming from, but good luck running a business without advertising. Especially if you want to create a new business.

The main problem is that most advertising is annoying or irrelevant to the user. Google search ads are usually the least hated of all ads because they are relevant and not annoying. If other ad systems could do a better job of adopting those qualities then people would not mind advertising as much.
Be just in your quest for justice. If the UK goes on a killing spree to restore the empire, that has zero to do with Shakespeare or Milton. Don't blame the centuries-dead guys for the current generation's going genocidal.

Sure, there may be plenty to boycott. Boycott anyone who supports the genocidal regime. The dead ones didn't get a say, though.
Better documentation for method resolution than the Reference has would be nice. But at the moment the Ferrocene spec just says

> 6.12:3 A method call expression is subject to method resolution

with "method resolution" marked as being a missing link.