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Is difficulty of implementation really a reliable indicator for the complexity in players understanding the mechanic?

Jonathan Blow did a talk[1] at GDC a few years ago about implementing the time rewind mechanic in his game, Braid. It ended up being a pretty complex system that required a lot of ingenuity to come up with a design and implement it, but the end result is pretty straightforward and easy to understand for players.

[1] https://youtu.be/8dinUbg2h70
Obsolete DECnet Networking Code in Linux Kernel Expected to Finally Be Removed
Your security tokens can be reset using SMS.
And the "get lucky" transforms in "build a network"
The actual TOTP secrets are (or should be) encrypted with the backup password that the user chose, so access to the backups wouldn't automatically result in compromised TOTP secrets unless the backup password was weak.
Why we don’t want investors
Meanwhile, manufacturers are waiting with baited breath for a few people to trickle out of workforce development programs to fill jobs across a wide range of LIGHT manufacturing jobs using CNC, and additive 3D technologies. They will even hire you with no certificate, training, or proven work history with the expectation of training you. Unfortunately, most people given this opportunity have to be fired for a lack of productivity (bad work ethic).

The world is waiting to be grabbed by the balls...still. Dump your shitty gig and get a job.
lol if you look at any Tesla forums, this is still very much the case with all cars they make. The refreshed Model X seems to be hot garbage from a quality control stand point.
One of the single best books on data collection, privacy, and ownership:

https://www.amazon.com/Habeas-Data-Privacy-Rise-Surveillance...

In short, once you hand your data over to someone else, Third Party Doctrine applies and you lose MOST of your protections around privacy, warrants, etc. This applies to banking, communications, library records, etc, etc. Almost anything done in public does not have the "assumption of privacy" and therefore gets even fewer protections (usually none).*

If we want to roll back the surveillance society, we MUST abolish Third Party Doctrine and enact data ownership rules. Unfortunately, there are a LOT of dollars flowing because those rules are minimal and weak at best.

* Not a lawyer but have followed and researched this one extensively.
Metaverse jobs that will exist in the future
Achieving an open-source implementation of Apple Code Signing and notarization
Blaseball: Birthing Hope Through Chaos
U.S. Treasury Sanctions Widely Used Crypto Mixer Tornado Cash
This seems like a strong signal that mixers work as intended. I don't see sanctions being effective as it's a lot easier for someone to create a new mixer than it is for the feds to investigate and sanction one. In either case it'll be entertaining to watch this unfold.
I'm not with you, at all, but I did have a knot in my stomach the otehr day reading a quote from one of the founders of MidJourney, David Holz who apparently said

"Within the next year or two, you’ll be able to make content in real time: 30 frames a second, high resolution. It’ll be expensive, but it’ll be possible. Then, in 10 years, you’ll be able to buy an Xbox with a giant AI processor, and all the games are dreams.".

As someone who used to take quite a lot of psychedelics, there's something quite terrifying about the promise of this premise - it takes me back to the wrong sort of trips where the ever-unfolding strata of reality became too much bear and I'd end up mentally cowering beneath the unrelenting bigness of it all.

The infinite dreamspace is unholy-big and nt somewhere I'd much choose to get lost.

Or maybe I totally will...

- ed - Notwithstanding the obvious realisation that I could just take the helmet off, or remove the contact lenses, or whatever we have in a couple of decades.
What it's like to make policy at TikTok
I won’t publish my gitlabfs plugin for 1.7k different programming languages then.
Please drink verification can.

https://m.imgur.com/dgGvgKF
If capture could be that that cheap. Is there any reason to stop most of emissions? Just capture it back.
Yeah that's advice for those who read so much that they cannot have time to do (I'm one of them :) A kind of procrastination.

Maybe there's a tipping point where the advice starts working, but anyway not great advice for a complete starter.
They're selecting for the easiest marks they can convert.
See edn extensible data notation. https://github.com/edn-format/edn
I'm not sure that the differences are that huge. AP is more capable, but also has more phantom braking issues.

The cars themselves have more range and charge faster, but its not an order of magnitude. Maybe charge times on a road trip have dropped by ~50%.

Service has generally gotten worse as well, as the company has really struggled to scale. They've added a lot of mobile service and service centers, but they still can't keep up with the pace of growth. Good thing is that most of the newer cars aren't needing service much, but when they do it can be problematic.
Living in a pod and eating insects.
Yes – I believe the author took the Design Patterns book and went to town.

The classes were small (< 100-200 LOC), they fit together well, and the code was well tested. It was a SyncML parsing library developed in-house in Objective-C.

What helped, I believe, was him coming from a Ruby / RoR background (extensive OOP usage) and the fact that this was his 2nd attempt at writing this, after he wrote a similar library in Ruby.

I think about some code to this day and try to emulate wherever possible. Although I think the guy that wrote it was also a very smart person and experienced programmer, so I don't beat myself up if I can't quite make it to that standard.
Amazon’s Roomba deal is about mapping your home
Tesla ranked 27th out of 28 car companies on Consumer Reports 2021 reliability rankings. They also ranked 30th out of 33 in JD Power's measurement of how many first-year issues new cars had.

You're definitely not alone
> Cash itself has never been sanctioned though?

Ethereum isn't being sanctioned. Tornado is. If you transact with Tornado, you're in violation of the law. If you don't, you're not, whether you use Ether or not.

> if the government said “we’re now keeping a database of cash serial numbers that are hereby banned” would everyone need to install the “cash checker” app and scan each bill they receive?

Law enforcement has long used marked bills [1]. The cash isn't "cancelled." If you randomly end up with one, you're fine, in the same way that if you unknowingly end up transacting with a wallet that transacted with a wallet that touched Tornado, you're also probably fine. But if your garage has a box of marked bills, or if your wallet did a big transaction with another wallet that does lots of Tornado activity, you're going to be on law enforcement's radar.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marked_bill#cite_note-4
The issue is that this goes both ways. The eu is regularly imposing harsh rules on american tech. With deglobalisation there will be job losses as there will be fewer open markets.
If you were to send money through tornado from now on, and this was discovered and linked to your identity, you would face a criminal liability in the US.
If we understand "straightforward" in the sense that small changes in the input lead to predictable and small changes in the output, then I can't see how this is reasonably true for pretty much any optimizing compiler.

Just today we had this nice example on the front page where initializing a variable differently completely changed the codegen for large parts of the program: https://jpieper.com/2022/08/05/debugging-bare-metal-stm32-fr...
At least on government and banking level there are sanctiona against bring cash USD / EUR to Russia and might be Iran / North Korea. Private person can do that, but any bank or country that will sell cash to Putin's regime will likely end up being sanctioned too.
> FairPlay (v3) authentication and decryption of AES keys - the first and only Python implementation. Credit to @systemcrash for implementation.

Damn... that took a lot longer to extract the keys that AirPlay 1 did. I'd love to know more about this story.
yes, Europe had multiple colonies all over the world to extract raw material. Very easy to do that when you have a strong army. A monopoly on violence lead to that "development".
I would definitely offer a lower price for custom domain -- 99/month seems excessive, but no I haven't thought too much about pricing yet - would love to hear your thoughts on what you would be happy to pay for what features!
I don't know what you want quantified, since it's not a quantitative claim: it's a perceptual claim about how 60% of anything seems like a big number when it can actually be explained by relatively small changes in consumer behavior.

> Maybe so, but your food choices seem to be similarly driven by some kind ideological motivation.

No, not really. I like animal products a lot. I think the closest ideological interest I have here is broad environmentalism. My understanding is that that's a common interest, to say the least, and that I am not particularly stringent or earnest when it comes to it (at least in terms of my individual choices).
This is an attempt to criminalize privacy. Tornado Cash is a decentralized privacy protocol.
> Security training is ineffective against phishing attacks like this.

I wouldn’t say that. There’s a significant effect of training on the number of people that click. The big problem is that the attackers have to only get it right the one time.
100000x Incorrect. VPNs add a layer of security at the network level. You do not rely SOLELY on a VPN. You add it to drop network traffic that does not belong, decreasing the noise level in other logs, highlighting threats elsewhere.

This is one of the worst pieces of advice to be repeated ad deafenun.
Ah, you're right, there's a parenthetical saying "(Except MS Terminal)" that I missed.
> Also it would void my warranty

No. For automobiles especially, your car's warranties aren't voided unless your modifications contributed/create a problem in the car. For Tesla, perhaps they could argue that removing the modem means they can't diagnose effectively because it's offline and not reporting any errors, but if a motor died they'd still have to fix it despite the modem being ripped out.
PUSH is just an alias for CONS, useful for emphasising that you're working with a stack.

The free list holds all the cons cells not in use. Note that in this machine, there is no way to create or destroy cons cells - that's the whole point! Rather, when you need to cons some values, you pull a cell off the free list and populate it (see the implementation of CONS), and when you want to throw a cons cell away, you put it back on the free list (see the implementations of POP and FREE).
I downloaded Monzo on the Play store and installed it. During registration it asked for personal data like my address etc then proceeded to tell me it’s a UK only app. I was shocked. I’m in the EEA and thought I could use the app. It should be clear in the app’s description that it’s a UK only affair. I imagine this has happened to many more people other than me.
Rust on embedded seems a hell of a lot more viable for large, complicated projects. You can basically use the entire standard library (sans io and alloc, obviously).
> it's a lot easier for someone to create a new mixer than it is for the feds to investigate and sanction one

Sanctions enforcement tends to pay for itself. It's hard to create new mixers from prison or when your bank accounts keep getting frozen. (It's easy to set up a cash business and launder money. Most people don't do it. It's still a thriving industry.)
Nothing so brash. Make the largest banks check (the federal reserve already does), and add consequences on handling banned bills that will encourage smaller customers to check before they get to thr FR level.
> ...so I'm not sure which ideology you were referring to.

Any ideology that's mainly about something other than food (e.g. choosing a vegan diet out of concern for animal welfare).

You're not going to get anywhere close to 60% adoption of fake-meat without coercion or some unrealistic level of popular ideological commitment.
> it's also a lot easier to convert AC to DC than the other way around. If we start transporting with DC, we take on a number of problems/challenges that we don't deal with now.

Which brings up a very good point: What happens when grid-scale battery storage is common? Does a DC grid make a lot more sense then?
kbclip was my immediate thought too! It's such a cool tool, everyone should check it out.
Surprising it took them so long.
Kraken has had it listed for ages in the US without enduring "legal hell."
Product Design and Apparent Usability
They can track all funds that exit the mixer. They may not know how those funds got in the mixer but they can require all exchanges that have a legal presence under their jurisdication to reject any funds who's history originates from the mixer.

And yes, taken to an extreme it does indeed mean that every coin becomes inaccessible given enough time. Welcome to the real world consequences of interacting with systems that are counter to wider societies aims.
>So, we either go to Github, where our licenses are abused for their shitty M

As long as it's on the internet MS can scrape the data so not being on Github is only a temporary defense.
In a Boolean like that, the command would be to match either of the words, A or B. But sometimes our ranking systems might find that A seems more relevant, so it could get weighted more. That's still a Boolean match, though. And you don't need to do that. By default, we'll search for any of the words (OR) that are entered.
A friend's kid recently asked me how important getting a degree was...

A degree has never been important for actually doing the job of being a developer. Self-taught coders have always been around; when my Dad learned to code in the 1970s compsci degrees didn't exist. Everyone was self-taught.

Over time employers started to defer checking if someone could write code to universities - if the university would award you a degree then that was enough for employers to believe that you could hack something together that worked. Degrees became important not as a unique thing that gave you the knowledge to write code, because you could learn that on your own, but as a shortcut to getting an interview. The degree proved you'd done the work.

Now though, the pendulum has swung back and employers don't fully trust that graduates have really done the work. They want to test people know what they're doing. That gives newly self-taught devs a route in, because passing the tech test actually means more than a degree to a lot of businesses. The fact that demand for devs is outstripping the number of devs graduating doesn't hurt either.

All in all, I think the necessity to have a degree is behind us in tech. You can get a junior role without a degree in an increasing number of companies. That said, there are some parts of tech that move more slowly. If you want to write code in a bank or in something hard like aviation, then a degree from a good school will probably continue to open doors for a couple of decades yet...
If you would like a custom model on your code (or language) this is one of the unique capabilities of Tabnine. We have done this on lots of code already and do it all the time for companies across the globe. Your code is your code. Transparently I am with Tabnine.
Payday loans of the startup world
Yes, at YouTube I inherited the Pilot Studio iOS codebase from Will Kiefer. This included a solid iOS application framework and a couple really nice prototypes. We hired some great folks, extended "PilotKit" quite a bit, and built a dozen incredible apps with it (Motion Stills, and the UX experiments that became YouTube Live and YouTube Stories, plus a bunch of fun internal stuff).
William Shatner discuss the future of robotics in 1984
>(It's worth pointing out the level of double standard here: Tesla's location history storage is actually much more limited in practice than what you get on iOS or Android, yet... no front page articles on HN about those?)

What double-standard? Those very iOS/Android storage practices have been frontpage fodder innumerable times (and will continue to be), and they're routinely brought up in the comments of tangentially-related threads, such as this one with your comment. That they're not on the front page at the exact same time as this piece doesn't mean that there's a double-standard.
>>* Someone stole my money. * But they used a privacy enhancing service to hide it. * So the authorities have no recourse.

The resourse can't be

* ban the privacy enhancing service

If cash were introduced today, it would be banned under that principle.

Real privacy means criminals will use it. That's the price society pays to not give the government enormous surveillance powers.
Without digging deeper into the protocol, I imagine these sanctions may be completely ineffective.

The announcement says they are sanctioning 40 addresses associated with Tornado, can't those addresses be cycled out of commission and a new set be put in place?
+1 for kbclip!
This reads like fossil fuel conglomerate propaganda. The first sentence posits an unproven alternative with a complex, expensive and almost entirely hypothetical infrastructure. Hydrogen is not addressed further, and fear-uncertainty-doubt tropes concerning battery powered vehicles are liberally applied. Many of the bullet points on this laundry list are disputable. Just take 'batteries take too long to charge' -- I drove a Nissan Leaf as my main vehicle for 8 years. Even given its tiny 24Kw battery pack, I was able to use home charging for 95% of my driving needs. For the last 5 years of service, I even used 120V 'trickle' charging during the evenings and it was sufficient. Now I have an electric vehicle with significantly higher battery capacity and a much faster charging network, as well as a 240V home charger. It is even more flexible and I am freer to take long road trips. When charging the car during such trips, I get out and exercise, play with the dog. It is a small adjustment that occurs infrequently during the life of the car. Most of these bullet points can be addressed in a similar manner. Enough of the propaganda!
The trick is to either: get rest or change job.

I am always most productive after actively focusing on rest. Today I solved in 2h what I've been struggling last 2 days because I went sunbathing, swimming and to cinema over the weekend and work didn't feel daunting anymore. I could chose to work over the weekend and try to complete because it because it felt like I am behind schedule but that's not a healthy nor correct way.
I wouldn't really say that it doesn't care about information security.

The DNA is actually pretty well protected, tightly wound inside the nucleus, which has pretty strong access control checks on what can enter and what can leave. It's always possible to break those protections, but a lot of effort went into "sandboxing" the rest of the cell and the nucleus.

There are also strong checks on code circulating where it isn't supposed to be. If you let RNA or DNA run around in plain sight in the blood, your immune system will react immediately with extreme prejudice and excessive violence.

But of course viruses and vaccines wrap that code in a protective layer (much like malware wraps itself with packers, obfuscation, and sophisticated delivery methods before reaching the target).

And then like you said, that protective vesicle needs some sort of static key to enter cells, it needs to target an appropriate receptor to gain entry.

Where things get complicated is that, while it would be really good to have per-host random keys, instead of a fixed set of receptors than anyone can trigger by 'putting a square shape in the square hole', the lock and key system of proteins is not one where you can generate a random receptor and the key that matches it from a seed, like you could in cryptography.

It takes huge effort and long optimization times to find a protein that matches a random receptor pretty well. The consequence is that it's non-trivial for viruses to jump between animals that have slightly different receptors, or to find a new target in a particular host. It takes a lot of optimization time to find even just a single static key that matches.

But the corollary is that it's nigh impossible for a human body to add a random per-host mutation to every receptor and everything that binds to it. It's a good idea in infosec, but because of the way proteins and chemistry work in biology, we don't have any mechanism to create the sort of defenses you care about.

Evolution does care very much about retroviruses, and in fact the defenses it put in place are able to brutally murder the overwhelming, oppressive majority of them. I think the impression that it's missing some obvious defences is due to the fact that the kind of defense that works really well in biology is very different from the kind that works well in infosec.

There are cases where evolution goes wrong, because it optimizes for the replication of the genes instead of the wellbeing of the host, that's true. But in the case of retroviruses, the host almost always loses fitness after an infection, so defending the genetic code against viruses tends to be strongly aligned with what evolution "cares about" (insofar as it "cares" about anything)
dear feds:

ring signatures

signed, n people in a chain of trust that is m long

stop fighting, you're not going to win :)
I think we should work against this point. Eating meat is a fundamental part of the human experience. We're losing our agricultural genomes that can never be replaced. We need to encourage people to eat a broader variety of meats from smaller producers, not eliminate meat consumption.
> Not land - countries.

Yes, most (all?) land belongs to countries. You're being weirdly pedantic. But then, once it's annexed, it's just part of the USSR. Remember how we don't say "the Ukraine" anymore? The reason why we _used_ to say that is because it _used_ to be accurate because there wasn't a country, it was a region of the USSR.

> you can’t claim with a straight face that Russia brought with it the technology or culture

That's not really the claim I'm making. The claim I'm making is that the USSR space program being called a "Russian" space program isn't really egregious (and, I think, colloquially true). The technology that space program developed is appropriately called Russian, even if each individual working on it isn't Russian, even if every component wasn't made by Russia. The program is a Russian effort and the result was a Russian rocket.

> the brains part came from Ukraine, not Russia

NASA doesn't only employ natural born Americans. The guy who developed the Russian guidance system was Ukrainian. It's still Russian.
He suggests through practice. You start with something small but easy that you don't want to do, and make a habit of doing it anyway. His favorite small first step seems to be getting up early.
What proposed alternative reduces vehicular emissions by more than switching to EVs?

As I mentioned, I'm all for the reduction of automobile usage as a generality, but that's not as low-friction as a transition to EVs.

We can lament our situation all we want, EVs are what they are. I am not saying they're a full climate solution.

Automakers are switching over them purely as a product decision, with relatively little government regulation pushing them in that direction. (Any regulatory bans on ICE vehicles were easily enacted without industry protest because automakers already know that ICE vehicles will not be competitive products by 2030)