skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A mental health crisis is where the police cant charge you, so they take you to the mental hospital where you get banged up without trial, but not sectioned, drugs forcibly rammed down your throat otherwise you dont get let out any time soon for non-compliance.

The Police dont even tell you where they are taking you, basically if you dont do as they say, they arrest you and you get banged up in the cells, if you do as they say, you get banged up in a mental health ward.

To make matters worse, if you are a smoker, you are not allowed to smoke on hospital premises and because you are often stripped of your possessions in the first few days and not allowed out, with the hyper addictive changes to the tobacco, you'll invariably get one of their drugs that can incapacitate in seconds for showing any signs of violence or aggression, all be cause you cant have a smoke.

I thought the Nazi's were bad, but employees of the state take things to a whole new level.
Stanford faculty say anonymous student bias reports threaten free speech
No paywall: https://archive.is/aP6Im
Yeah, people tend to not be as happy with someone they can't see as a person--and not being able to say their name is part of that.
Related, PG’s “Change Your Name”

http://www.paulgraham.com/name.html
yeah there's a built in assumption that the behavior of the function we're estimating with martigale is continuous near the limit of the guess, and thus predictable over the interval of the guess and the prediction.
From my perspective as a user, maybe someone who would visit your domain, I’m indifferent to the specific TLD used. You might be able to compose a clever word that grabs my attention, which I’ve seen a lot from .ly domains.

However, from an email marketing perspective, TLDs are not interchangeable. Some TLDs (think .xyz) see a lot of abuse, tanking the reputation and deliverability for good actors using them too.

So my advice is to stick with TLDs that most good actors are using (.com, .io), giving you better baseline deliverability, because email marketing remains incredibly valuable for growth.
Right. I've been looking around for the full text, but haven't found it.

It's really annoying for papers which could be world changing if true. This is either a huge advance or there's some reason it won't work in practice.
The person tweeting was a VC, so for all we know the company didn't exist last year.
> You can set a read watchpoint using debugging APIs (ptrace);

What kind of read is sufficient to trigger this? If dota makes a read watchpoint with ptrace, my cheat process calls the linux equivalent of readprocessmemory on the dota process, then dota gets notified by the kernel? So every time a process directly interacts with the memory of another process, the kernel has to look through a list of which processes have called ptrace and run some kind of handler? As an aside it seems like this would be bad for performance of the whole OS

If ptrace is a syscall and ptrace (according to wikipedia) allows one program to intercept and manipulate another program's syscalls, then couldn't I just launch my cheat first, have it ptrace dota, and intercept dota's ptrace call, so that the read watchpoint never gets set up in the first place?
you put "supply glut" in scare quotes, but again, do you know that their motive is cynical?

they're talking to the public, i.e. investors, and they could easily be saying "our current sales figures are lower not because our product is not popular, but because there is currently a large inventory downstream to meet current demand. When that glut is cleared, expect our sales to resume."

if downstream sellers have sufficient inventory, the only way to induce them to buy more would be for AMD to drop prices. If AMD cards are in hot demand and selling out immediately, restricting supply would be artificially boosting prices. But if the downstream pipeline is full, it's not right to say that reduced demand from wholesalers while that glut clears is AMD artificially boosting prices.
Based on the news coming out about them lately, Neuralink seems like a lost opportunity to accelerate progress in this space.

A ton of money was dropped into improving HMDs, and a lot of improvements to surrounding technical fields got made, it is sort of unfortunate that physics fundamentally limits what can be done there.

If a similar investment had been made in BCI over 10 years, I suspect we'd be halfway to success.

However it is important that there are multiple companies dumping money into R&D, so that the best methodology wins. Even in HMDs, different devices learned from each other and everyone benefitted.

Of course implantable BCIs have more ethics concerns, and that likely is why the big tech companies didn't even try.

But the first company to get consumer level bi-directional BCI onto the market is going to become the largest tech company ever, orders of magnitude larger than anything we see today.

Based on your job, I'm guessing you are also sad that we've reached a local maxima regarding input devices! If machines were designed from scratch now days, meaning everyone had no prior expectations of keyboards/mice/touch/etc, I suspect we'd do everything very differently.
If it works, it's not AI - an old truism, but the heart of the problem. Just like you can't write a strict legal definition of an "assault weapon", you can't define "AI" in any way that would hold water.

There's a wide body of work ongoing, and huge incentives, you can't put the Genie back in the bottle.
They prevent fraud through authentication. If authentication is unreliable then behavior matters. But behaviour is more easily gamed and abused and has more false negatives affecting customers.
Surely there will be someone who will realize that you can approach this problem by building a matching engine based on Hall's Marriage Theorem[1], and then deploy it onto multiple regions for maximum anti-fragility, get promoted, rally some new hires to launch it as an extension of Google Workplace, get promoted again, abandon the project, and then have the feature die 10 months after public launch wondering why operating it cost so much money.

At least, that would be the Google WayTM of doing it, right?

1: https://brilliant.org/wiki/hall-marriage-theorem/
You're amazingly forgiving. I contact message buyers about unpaid items after 1 hour, again after 24 hours, and then at 4 days I cancel as "buyer hasn't paid"
Despite being repeated ad nauseum, this has been patently false for the better part of a century and has no relationship with reality.
This isn't so much of a problem since almost every other developed and even most still developing countries have a form of national ID which every citizen is encouraged and/or required to have.

It isn't a unique problem that the USA has and has been solved by almost every minimally organised country in the world.

American exceptionalism can go quite far sometimes.
There's still frequent debate in the US as to whether companies can refuse to serve some customers on the basis of religion or sexual preference. So I would say there's a long wait before customers have universal decent rights.

If there were not monopolies this wouldn't be a problem. But another failure of some countries policies is in taking funding from companies and then making exceptions to let them grow into monopolies.
The personally confounding thing was that I assumed there would simply be a withdrawal period and I would start to feel normal at some point. That never really happened, even years later. After hearing rumors I started looking at articles like this https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/do-adhd-drugs-tak... and this https://www.acnp.org/g4/GN401000166/CH162.htm and I started to think that perhaps taking these drugs as a child over a period of 8 years might actually have had a much deeper impact that I realized and after trying various things over the years I found some that seemed to help. The causality was a little funny. I started lions mane, it helped. Herbals usually don't do much and I started doing research into why it might help so much. Lion's mane increases nerve growth factor, and that led me down the rabbit hole.
the bright line ahead is the following litmus test: "energy transition" means what? almost zero fossil fuels in public infrastructure (EU/India) or .. let the market decide with all that entails (USA/RU/OPEC) ..
Decline and Fall of the U.S. Airport
That's the Netherlands for you!
If you liked that episode, you might want to see the show "Star Trek: Strange New Worlds", which tells the story of the crew before Kirk, and how the Captain of that crew (Pike) got into that position
hadn't considered this, thanks
Being in poverty and lacking in numeracy and other educational basics correlate. What you point out is no contradiction.
Look... if you want people to RTO, maybe make it so that there's less overhead? Reading this article made me just want to stay at my own desk at home.
I've been a very happy user of Earthly and this is one of the final pieces of the puzzle that I've been waiting on[1]. I've found Earthly to be the perfect balance between declarative, repeatable, flexible yet easily understandable.

While I've been fortunate to have early access to Earthly CI, the cool thing is that the Earthly primitives it uses are available for everyone to see in the latest launched version [2]. The only puzzle piece missing is distributing the compute amongst different machines but that appears to be on the team's mind.

And the zero-margin compute pricing is a breath of fresh air.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30869904

[2] https://github.com/earthly/earthly/releases/tag/v0.7.0
I'm developing an custom software service for an Australian customer; I'd like to charge them $1-5k/mo USD which I'd need to convert from their Australian currency. As the largest international money transmitter, Paypal is the obvious option, but I hesitate to do business with them because of years of posts like this.

Any other recommendations for invoicing Australians for software/SaaS from the US?
Oh, I was making a joke on parent's username.

In my local area flavored seltzer, e.g., Polar, has become the new soda. I can't speak of juice, though.
I've used Trainline [0] twice for cross-border train travel because it fits in-between those 2 options (Google Maps vs Nightjet).

[0] https://www.thetrainline.com/
Sometimes it’s nice to have a bit of fun.
not to mention some of us have tiny little cloned versions of ourself that are doing their best to perish for 20 hours a day
This is hazily remembering a presentation when I worked at ANL 5 years ago, but commercializable products are owned 1/3 by the govt 1/3 by ANL and 1/3 by the team that worked on it.

So I'd guess they will patent this and that's who will get the money when they do something commercial (make or license).
Hotels are reasonably protected to such an attack. There are almost always cameras in the elevator, and the electronics are typically, to some extent, tamper-resistant.
I do not understand the appeal of cheating in MP games. What is the point of being invincible in a FPS or unlimited gold in something else etc? It takes all the effort and skill out of it. It's like it's a buncha 12yos who cant stand "to lose".
Every gamer is a temporarily embarrassed pro?

I wonder if that same analogy applies.
At least you have some recourse and protection if something happens to your bank account, unlike an Xbox account where Microsoft can just deny access for any reason.

But I'm also grateful my credit union has an online portal that has 2FA with authentication app support and the ability to disable SMS, phone call and email 2FA options.
One thing well, can also be seen as listing directories in many different ways.
Most of the weight of the battery isn’t lithium, so the effect isn’t as bad as you might think.
That's an implementation detail. What the user sees is clearly a faked up web page instead of the web page the user requested.
How does using crypto eliminate the ability to claw back scammed money? There are services that use crypto as payment rails and also offer scam protection.
I can confirm for me (n=1) that things will not happen on their own when you are not trying to "force it". For sufficiently high attractiveness men, things probably do happen on their own, but for others they definitely don't.
I can only hope that FedNow works as promised and maybe, just maybe, we may have something a bit better than our current situation
Snowflake Outage in Azure-East US 2
Sometimes, you'll hear pundits say that these kinds of layoffs are aimed at "the bottom 5%" or whatever, but who's been around for these cycles knows that lots of good people get cut alongside the actual underperformers. There's also a lot of "last to be hired, first to be fired" in big layoffs, so presumably with those people you aren't losing too much tribal knowledge.

In some cases, the layoffs were targeted at particular areas of the company, like Amazon targeting their devices group. If they don't anticipate growth in that area, it may not be worth it (to management, anyways) to reallocate those employees to other parts of the company.

All that being said, these things tend to be driven by short-term financial metrics rather than long-term ones. A hiring freeze wouldn't have as dramatic an impact on next quarter's earnings.
I had an HP branded mouse like this; also had a 'presentation mode' where it functioned as a slide clicker + laser pointer. Good times.
A Letter from Amazon's CEO – Amazon Welcomes One Medical
The scripts are incredibly annoying. I would rather them just short-cut to "I cannot do anything useful for you at this point, and I cannot tell you anything that would help. There is no value in continuing this conversation."
Here you go, also it’s 136 not 163 :)

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6i60qoDQhQGaGbbg-4aSwXJv...
I think it depends on what the horrible is on a case to case basis.
I am so annoyed I can’t play league with those awesomely good boys. Seriously just let me stop interacting with angry man children and give me bots.
> Same thing with “pay with your face” they tried in China. They all are susceptible to replay attacks. It is garbage!

That's such a naive take on security. Reminds me of "salt shaker vulnerability": https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/hacker-restaurant-alexander-s...

Today, almost any time you use your credit card online in the US, you are susceptible to replay attack. Even PCI-compliant merchant can simply save your payment method for future uses (neither SCA, nor VISA's VAU is being enforced).

What exactly is the attack vector for face payments, if they are not used for P2P payments, only happen in public places with plenty of cameras, and are capped?

Just because it's "possible", doesn't mean it introduces risks that are not acceptable. Sure, you can risk prison time and get a bag of groceries for free. But stealing groceries old-fashioned way is less risky.
> The Weapons That Win World Wars

... and the cadavers that lost it.
I wonder if it would have been seen as a sign of prestige for startups if yc had become a domain provider for .yc
Write your way with Langchain Self-Critique chains
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Phenol_Plot
It isn't just paypal though, it is literally every traditional banking institution out there. People get locked out of their accounts (or even better, funds withdrawn by the government), all the time. I've had it happen to me.

This site also has a very very US focused attitude, especially around banking and finance. I wish comments from people from other countries with far deeper issues would speak up more so that people on this site would get a better understanding of what happens to them and why this is a bigger issue than just paypal.
Packet Pushers Podcast: Improving QoE with LibreQos
I had a similar issue with Instagram. My wife and I are performing magicians, I wanted to create an account to post stuff related to our act. Before I could even log in I was informed that my account was suspended for violating their TOS. No useful information about the alleged violation, let alone no ability to remedy. Seeing as how it was a brand new account and I never got past the registration form, I don't know what I could have possibly violated.

I contacted support, received some automated replies with instructions. After following those instructions I just never heard back.

I know that Instagram is a "free" service but they obviously depend on having an active and healthy user-base ... so in that sense I guess they just doesn't want our business.
Exactly. The Turks never destroyed Byzantium. The Byzantines destroyed themselves, and made life shitty for most of Europe in the process (a la the Crusades).
Vercel Cache API: A progressive cache, integrated with Next.js
This post is a blogspam dup of the neowin article linked from focusedone's comment
TIL about BibTex, very cool.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BibTeX
It's not intended to replace a bank. For one, bank-related regulations that protect consumers are missing from PayPal. It's best used for buying random nick-nacks, and never keep more than a couple hundred in your PayPal account.

Venmo etc. probably have similar risks.

Use a credit card for more expensive stuff. If you are not able to get a credit card for some reason, I'm not sure what to recommend as an alternative. Suggestions?
This is so true.

Sometimes even people without scripts are merely trained on a handful of expressions, and they just rotate through them.
Anyone know how a service that requires an account and API keys can suffer from a DDoS attack impacting their API?

Does that mean their API servicing infrastructure is the same as their public front end? Or that they're just unwilling to stop new account sign ups at the expense of existing users?
I didn't know you could do this. Thanks.
To expect a value of 200 means to have the average of 200 from this point in time onwards, assuming stock price is random walk. Not that the value tomorrow will be exactly 200. It could be 200, 201, 199, 202, 198 etc. the average expected is 200. If you possess no external knowledge such as insider information, then random walk is a sensible and obvious choice for stock price.
I've seen those, but only on Google properties.
They clearly didn't follow the Hulk Hogan program https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKkHQtmS01s&t=260s
Open Source: https://github.com/cnn-rnn
I don't understand the sentiment of this at all. It's fun to create things, I've learned the most from working on "toy" projects, it helps with job burnout, and could potentially become a new product/company/revenue-source.
I got a pre seasoned one and beyond the care to make sure it doesn't rust it seems identical to Teflon to me. Lodge, got it from Walmart.
HN: "finally all these brilliant minds can contribute something real to society now that they are free!"

<new start-ups are all focused on AI art and LLMs that put hundreds of thousands if not millions out of jobs>

HN: "wait, not like that!"
“American corporations” is also less than an atom thick, as there are many fewer requirements than citizenship, for instance. There is no requirement for an American company to be owned by an American.
How do you even cheat in TFT or league? especially in TFT. The game is basically an RNG game mixed with counting/figuring out probabilities.
If it's possible to greatly improve our species via gene editing, then it's grossly unethical to stand in the way if that progress.

Convince me I'm wrong.
I'm not in the PA that will be sharing desks but sit in one of the affected offices. I can see about 100 desks from where I am right now. All of them are assigned to someone, but only 6 presently have someone sitting there. Occupancy of our corner peaks at maybe 30%?

Something was bound to happen given all the unused real estate. But it's shitty that those of us who actually use our desks, because we rather like work-home separation, now might end up with a desk time share. Maybe all those people who didn't actually want to come to the office should have just filed for permanent remote?
Maybe I’m outdated but why not use simple make files?
this cvar has been around since 2016 which makes you think if it was really a honeypot or not
As a society, we want people saving for the future and investing in businesses. If someone’s doing actions that are beneficial to society, I see no reason to tax them. But as soon as you buy the Lambo … you get taxed.

Let’s take another example. Two middle-class households with exactly the same income. One household, is putting every cent they can towards a 529 plan for their kids college education. Any left over goes towards retirement. The second household, spends every dollar they have on luxury items and toys.

Why should both households be taxed at the exact same rate?
The key is a good pack like that used for hiking with a proper frame and a large padded belt, not a normal school type backpack that you carry just on your shoulders (often just slung over one shoulder). The proper pack setup loads your muscles more like squatting. The difference is pretty striking. I think 20kg is appropriate in that instance.

(Normal guideline is hike pack should not be more than a third your body weight to avoid injury, which for the average American male would be 60 pounds and the average American female would be 50 pounds… there’s enough margin so that even if you’re talking just those in a healthy BMI of like 23, there’s enough for a 44 pound pack for the average height American male and female.)
Baking anti cheats into the photomasks of our CPUs still won't fix anything.

You have to fundamentally alter how you serve these experiences to customers if you really want to solve it.
You don't actually need insider knowledge. Results trickle in, and you can adjust dynamically as needed. It's not especially hard at all, which is why this is so dangerous.

As for alternatives, the answer for a secure electronic system seems self evident. When you vote, you either choose or assigned a secret key. Your ballot and key are publicly posted. Suddenly you have a system where that is 100% confirmable at every single level. Observers can verify exactly the number of voters voted. Voters can verify their vote was counted and was for whom they chose.

The only downside is that you could also prove to another third party that you voted some way or another. Yet this feels largely academic. Coercion/bribing schemes are already illegal and at any meaningful scale they would collapse instantly because this would actually require your "widespread conspiracy." Add in a large "finders fee" for outing said conspiracies and the entire notion of them as a threat becomes silly.
How does it bring into question his motives? Did he say anything contradictory in this post? He did say it happened recently, but 5 months is still recent -- He may have simply been reminded of the pain of that experience recently
Honestly the solution to this is to have

1. Self hosted servers. Let communities do their own moderation.

2. As part of #1, cheating/sandbox lobbies.
Floating license basically
https://www.hurriyet.com.tr/ekonomi/ev-telefonundan-da-sms-d...

https://www.onedirect.de/gigaset-e720-eu-version

https://www.quora.com/Why-was-SMS-text-messaging-never-rolle...

The news says that TurkTelekom (home landline) now (2006) has SMS capabilities. Back then the company was only landline. There was no wireless landline. I think there is still no wireless landline. (Only few years ago Avea has merged with TurkTelekom and now TurkTelekom refers to both landline phones and one of 3 mobile service providers in Turkey)

Aroud 2006-2010 I was sending SMS from my mobile phone to my coisin's landline (yes, connected with a cord to the street) and because his phone didn't had SMS support a computerazied female voice would read the SMS for free. I think it is still valid.

I think you can search for dect phone with SMS support. I was thinking to buy one few years ago but they were a bit expensive.