skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No one is forcing anyone to taking psychedelics. They are relatively safe, but not for everyone and dosage makes huge difference. Some people take other medications, like SSRI antidepressants, so it's either forbidden or not recommended for them, but for the rest I would personally recommend to try them at least once, to see the world from different perspective.

In my opinion it's like learning to ride a bike or to swim. No one has to learn it, but once you learn it, it's hard to forget it and it will help you in various situations.
Wrote the basics of a MMO emulator for metin2 in it with horde for multi node Game Server distribution (per map a process) and ranch for connection pooling, basic stuff like login and walking around, and having monsters spawn (it's a hack n slash MMO) multiplayer and PvE combat works, stopped at that point to further develop it deeper, since I kept musing about to advanced feature wishes like behavior trees for monsters /bosses

Elixir felt all around like s perfect fit for it , apart that some faster deep mutations likely would have been had to be ported to rust or c because the way I wrote it having 250 players on a single map walking around and seeing each other close by caused huge latency but no crashes
Scaled well across multiple machines and lots of players as long as they did not all bog down the same map process :)
Didn't even had to think s lot about how I structured it for the current state of development it was basic rapid iteration with mostly live recompilation on changes without having to restart anything
https://gitlab.com/zen_core/zen_core
Another similar case on shameless promotion due to fear it's the Spanish media depicting squatters as the worst evil ever, specially in morning TV talk shows targeted to middle aged women (housewifes/mothers with children).

Guess what? between the show sections, (and shows themselves) they are trying to sell home alarms with lots of ads in the morning to the viewers. Bingo.
Assembler optimizations without fallback to pure C for other architectures for example.
They didn't have the technical expertise. Ignatova is a lawyer and the other guy had a business/finance degree I think. This was before the days when anyone could just set up a simple ERC-20 token contract with the help of tools, Ethereum didn't even exist back then.

They tried to recruit a blockchain expert to built them a chain after they'd already started the ponzi but apparently didn't find anyone who was willing to work with them (for maybe obvious reasons).
How do you know you aren't the person in the Chinese Room? [^1]

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_room
I regularly donate blood even I'm not 100% sure of my blood type as it was only mentioned in passing the first time (which was many years ago).
This is essentially the kremlin propaganda defence.

“It’s all so complicated! Nobody could really know the truth!”

Come on.
> the mental and moral substrate of the techies building it

ding ding ding. tech-bros are going to enshittify society in parallel to enshitifying software.
There are tradeoffs - if you go against the zeitgeist and ban nulls then you risk people you need to please for success sticking their nose up at you. It is a bit like car safety features - if it is such a good idea why wasn't it taken seriously until say the 90s.
I've seen spiritual girls on TikTok deriving divine messages from using Stable Diffusio on their face, almost using it like an oracle.
When I was a younger (and more-foolish) web dev few years ago, already well in the decline of IE, I met someone much older who said he was one of the developers of IE. He must have seen it coming in my face from my grin, or he had experience on the topic, so he quickly reminded me of something that was absolutely true; back then when IE was released it WAS at the top of web tech development, the problem came with the trail of users still active years/decades later, since the tech itself was pretty good when it was released. Sure in some releases they might not have been literally the best, and they did employ shady techniques, but it's true that they were always technically advanced and competent releases.
The Arm Linux kernel allows you to use some of the "read ID register" instructions from userspace, because it traps them in the kernel and emulates them to present you with a slightly sanitized view of the available hardware: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/v5.8/arm64/cpu-feature-regis...

You can also look at the hwcaps (available in the ELF aux vector) -- this is the older mechanism.

It's true that there's no cross-OS mechanism to do this, but that's life -- often the OS wants to get in anyway to sanitize the answers (eg so it can tell you "feature X is not present" when it knows about a hardware erratum or the OS was built without feature-X support).
I am a nicotine addict who wishes cigarettes would have been illegal back when I started. I see absolutely no benefit for smoking. Alcohol and caffeine in moderation have some, but your doctor's opinion should still be the deciding factor.
That’s quite understandable, thanks!
If you are no longer certain that customer has access to their account, indefinite data storage becomes a liability, not a service.

„For the benefit of the customer“ is too vague justification for it, you need a more specific reason.
> Here is a general text on that: https://www.pcmag.com/news/nordvpn-actually-we-do-comply-wit...

This article (edited multiple times!) is not evidence of anything, let alone Nord co-operating with law enforcement to log customer data.

> Exact examples are hard to find in the press.

You said there are countless examples of Nord logging user data, why are you backtracking now?

> One that comes to mind is from a Belgian Telco company that was internally hacked by an employee hiding behind NordVPN. Nord when approached by the telco responded with the usual no logs, but after the telco involved the Interpol, logs were given and the attacker doxxed.

Give source or it did not happen.
Here is the thing. People abandoned religion not because it is 'irrational' but because of arrogance. Look at the present day - people are far from secular. They believe in all sorts of new age bs, astrology, self improvement narratives, visualisation techniques and the law of attraction. How is this more schientific? It's not, the real difference is that modern day 'spirituality' has the self as god. there isn't a creator, no god judges us... this is too inconvenient for the self - rather god is the mere universe that is supposed to serve the self without exceptions. god became a mere nature force under the command of human ego. This is why people believe in astrology, tarrot, crystals, political ideologies and what not - they worship the self.
> On macOS VirtualBox was a no-go because VirtualBox is an x86 virtualizer, so they don't have plans to support arm64 anyway

So apparently their long term goal[1] is to support Arm-on-Arm VMs, but they didn't even intend[2] to ship the x86-on-Arm version yet really, so don't hold your breath for Arm-on-Arm.

1: https://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?p=523070#p523070

2: https://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?p=537634#p537634
Isn't it a similar observation, though?

I've spent a lot of time thinking about random numbers, and how to pull random booleans out of pseudo-random numbers. No one would ever choose UUIDs to serve as a source of randomness. But the observation that "4" comes out really often in UUIDs is on par with the observation that you can't just take the first digit of a 32-bit unsigned, un-padded random number and expect it to be an equally weighted random between 1 and 9. Right? So doesn't that relate?
> While the astrology “model” is obviously wrong, it must have been useful to someone at sometime for it to have gained such a popularity.

I mean, this seems like a weird conclusion. People like believing in stuff, so they believe in stuff; arguably the nature of the stuff is irrelevant. Astrology is just one of thousands of religious/pseudo-religious systems. Romans preferred to do their divination through the study of entrails and birdwatching; must those also have been useful (except in the context of providing belief and ceremony)? (They did eventually kind of adopt astrology, but it was viewed as a suspect foreign practice at least until the early empire).

> Like the “flat earth model” is actually extremely useful if you don’t intend (can’t) travel significant distances - gives you a coordinate system

By the time anyone really had coordinate systems, educated people knew the world wasn't flat. There's this persistent belief that the world not being flat is a relatively new discovery (I think people confuse it with heliocentricity), but this isn't true. Modern flat-earth-ism is a creation of the 19th century, not a continuation of some traditional belief system.
The priority was to defeat Hitler and sending Western troops to the East wasn't feasible, so helping Soviet Union with lend-lease was seen as a lesser evil. The idea was then to defeat Soviet Union afterwards. However, the West was too tired fighting and since Stalin didn't look to move westwards, the war de facto got frozen.
ICE market is getting smaller fast and EV market is growing fast. This is a reality. Of course it doesn't happen in a year, but the trend is clear.

Just like the trend with hydrogen, where things are going absolutely no where and the waste majority of car makers who just 5 years ago were still betting on hydrogen have systematically dropped it.

Even the most hydrogen crazy Toyota expects its global hydrogen sales to be about Tesla production in a month in 2030. And those are optimistic numbers.

But don't let the real world prevent you from believing in easy to produce 100% efficient cars that can be fueled for free. Just keep living in a fantasy world, just stop spreading the lies in HN.
Well, put that way, life is an industry.
The problem here in NL with this scheme is that if they are stock and they are not traded on the open market (which would require an IPO) then all of the transactions would be required to be passed through a notary, the fees alone would wreck the plan.

There are no other ways to sell stock in an unlisted company. And yes, law firms would be a good candidate. As would almost any project based business. I wonder how the Mondragon company manages to work their way around such restrictions.
Honestly not surprised. I run from anyone that wants to know my star sign
Similarly, there is evidence and research which demonstrates the evidence that someone's name has pre-determined effects on that persons life; especially in the case of their career or what they are known for. Most surprisingly, even on the account that the individual didn't realize it until being told what their name meant!
The Alan Touring movie was also ugly by assigning credit of many people straight to him.

I wonder if Hollywood writers just can't imagine having accomplishments that required work of many great people.
I know there's more history to webkit, but that didn't really seem relevant to the rise and decline of IE... I glossed over it for the sake of brevity. (And yes I know, I still failed to keep it brief, despite that).

As for the decision to do a rewrite - sure Microsoft put pressure on Netscape, and that did influence their decision, and sure Microsoft might have killed off Netscape anyway - but the rewrite still was Netscape's own decision, and it was also Netscape who failed to pull it off successfully.
We had something similar in London recently. A pub band was covering Green Day when Billy Jo walked in to the pub and decided to to go up on stage and sing his own song.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhmrRqaM1s0
they really do close account. my account was deleted. probably because it only has giveaway games and i never played any of them.
My favorite is Scam Bankman Fraud
He's 61. It's very possible he's quite content with the worldview he has developed over the last 61 years.

Why would you create chaos for yourself when things are working just fine? Process is exactly how you get things done. I love running on chaos energy, but it only takes you so far.
If it makes them happy what's it matter?
This trend is visible in more than Islamic poetry: any spirituality that is not "secular" is seen as suspect and potential brainwashing. One can also see this kind of effect in "secular buddhism", which is presented as "the true message of the Buddha, with the archaic cultural baggage of antique India removed" - which forces to jump through some hoops, as the goal of Buddhism itself (ending rebirth) is seen as cultural baggage. Unfortunately, more often than not, it is just a way to avoid questioning one's own preconceptions and cultural baggage - that everything is "obviously" reducible to matter, that consciousness is "obviously" produced by physical processes in the brain...

Interestingly this is a theme one can find in Soufi literature: in the Conference of the Birds, from Persian author, and precursor to Rumi, Farid Ud-din Attar, there is the story of Archangel Gabriel seeing Allah deeply absorbed in listening to the prayer of a human. But when Gabriel searches, he cannot find who is this saint. Only when he finally searches outside of the Muslim world does he see that the prayer comes from an "Image Worshiper" (a sin in Islamic doctrine). What I get from this fable is that though the author recognizes the possibility for a human not exposed to the "true religion" to be of spiritual value, it can only happen if this human has a strong religious attitude of worship, prayer and devotion - he might pray to the "wrong" god, but with the right attitude. Which is kind of the opposite of taking out the religious elements - you might replace Allah by "the One" or "God" if this helps you resonate, but not dilute it in a vague formula such as "that which is good" or similar examples as described in the article.
Surely that was generated by an LLM?

Artificial indeed.
It's so sad that we still have imagination and a sense of magic in this universe? Oh the travesty.
> “Crypto is hopefully a label that will get dropped over the coming years anyways, and it’s just essentially the technology that you use to build certain products,”

"We don't like our scam to be put with other scams under common, people might figure it is is scam too fast"
A case study in brandicide.
I'm an illusionist (basically, I think that consciousness is an illusion produced by our senses to create a sense of self continuous over time, which helps a lot thinking about the future)

Altering my senses, deeply, risk to change my consciousness, change my illusion of self. If I were depressed or in a bad place, that would probably be a nice idea, but i'm really enjoying my life right now (and I like who I am), so I won't.
The education system failed
I think the reason why MS did nothing with IE6 dominance was that they didn’t want the web to be a viable alternative to Windows/win32/.NET. Or, perhaps, they didn’t believe it could be and as such it wasn’t worth further investment.

And now, two decades later, MS is shipping web apps as a part of Office.
What makes you think consumers have the bandwidth to do that for every single product they consume? What makes you think that requiring every single person does this contributes to a healthy economy? As a simple counterargument, how many children are you willing to let die due to contaminated raw milk in order for this absolute "freedom" to be honored, and what makes you think those values make sense at societal scales?
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What new features? Rate-limiting? $8 blue check amplification? Advertiser haemorrhage?
The only place where you find this mirror Talion punishment today are islamistic countries that implement the sharia. Do you really think they are paragons of fair justice?
Technically, narrowly, yes, fine, but having environments that foster those things is much better than living in a desert and having to build those communities yourselves. Many will not have the "opportunity" in the latter case because there's a million other things that come up all the time. It's about reducing friction in accessing those benefits.

The old adage comes to mind: "you loved your college years because you lived in a socialized infrastructure with walkable neighborhoods and the opportunities for spontaneously meeting old friends and new people alike".
But they're exposed to the alignment of the celestial spheres in relation to the Earth the same way. Imagine if the celestial spheres have a particular electromagnetic relationship with the Earth, this dynamic nature is a type of 'song' if you will. That song becomes imprinted. That's one way I've come to understand these views. Then you actually have some semi-modern approaches to the music of the celestial spheres and the orbital resonances being similar to musical intervals.
As a Uber driver you earn money for everyone you transport.

As a sales rep you earn money every time you make a sale.

Signing someone up with an Orb != making another Worldcoin Operator
most banks offer their own gateways so that is as close to the "wire" as you can get.
Trivia: at some point (around IE8, I believe) Google released a plug-in to Internet Explorer called IEFrame that displayed supported pages inside IE window, but using Chrome underneath. It was fairy popular.
On Arm this is generally a bad idea -- there are, or were, some corner cases where the kernel can know that an extension shouldn't be used, but it doesn't have a mechanism for "make the instructions UNDEF". The example I know about is ancient history now -- on the Cortex-A8 I think you could build a kernel without Neon support or perhaps the kernel might find there was a Neon-related erratum, but there was no way to disable Neon to force the UNDEFs.

The recommended approach is to use HWCAPs, or else to use the kernel's "emulated ID register accesses" functionality.
If you can prove that there is a person with the access to the account and it was the intent of the buyer for this person to have access, then fine, account can be kept. The email notification they send is proving exactly that.
> Lots of people contribute to walled gardens to produce the food you eat. Heck, the constructor of your roof literally contributed to your walled garden...

I don't think you know what walled garden means in software context.
Iggy.rs – A Message Broker in Rust
This is about mass surveillance, not about court orders for wiretapping a person who is being investigated for a crime.
This seems a pretty unfair comparison. Taylor Swift is a musical artist and creates art for people’s enjoyment.

Astrology is a long-running grift that has defrauded society’s easily exploited; mostly women.

They’re just not the same.
Thank you. I didn’t realize this point. For others:

> Exceptions to this policy

> A Google Account is considered active even if it has not been used within a 2-year period if one or more of these applies:

[…]

> Your Google Account has been used to purchase a digital item, for example, a book or movie.

https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/12418290?hl=en#zi...
> Ah, you're calling that suburban.

Because it is suburban. Are they not suburbs? Are they not apartment blocks?

> When I hear apartment, I imagine place like this: https://goo.gl/maps/hArPffCzEF8GZfHh6

Here's a different suburb: https://goo.gl/maps/1cNS3zAe76UgpDyb7 (Solna) and another https://goo.gl/maps/3CaqDMBrB9G1hhqu8 (Johanneshov).

Whatever to match your idea of an apartment blocks or suburbs or whatever other idea.

> we're not talking about some kind of physical or technological limitation but about politics - it would be very easy to add chargers to the parking lots

Literally in my text: "it's either too expensive or the existing infrastructure cannot support it."

But sure, it's easy.

> and it would be easy to have better public transport.

Stockholm has great public transport. You still need a car from time to time. And yet, all we hear is "it's trivial to charge, just"
I like to have some of what you are having giving the following statement.

If you want to evaluate the state of judiciary systems, just take a look at the number of international companies with local hubs present in each country. If you want to evaluate the state of the economic system, just evaluate the number of payment providers available in each country. And if you want to know where the drug hub is, just look who is selling the drugs in the neighbourhood.

It's far from ideal in all the countries you listed, but putting Kosovo up top is a joke.
On most people almost never make such drives. This has been pretty well researched. And those that do most of the time stop and make 15min breaks at least.

So the whole issue is that on very, very long drive you might lost 15min. That not the end of the world.
What if you already have enough important things to think about? Really weird to frame this as being afraid instead of content.
I could share tens, but the stories are too long for a reply here.

But I will address your point about being more open. I know several cases where it did make them more open but that was a bad thing since they where already too open. So it's like any other drug, including all the legal ones. An anticoagulant can save your life or kill you.
> Here if you zoom it a bit, you can see a very slight wobble in the pen tracks because it catches a bit of the paper's grain, and depositing ink, the paper "drinks" the ink which fattens the lines a tiny bit.

I think you're misattributing things. Plotters use stepper motors and so have a minimum distance they can move along each axis. Due to this, they don't produce perfect lines at an angle and do introduce similar artifacts to what you'd see on a screen.
And atheists don't generally recognise Richard Dawkins as the arbiter of their beliefs either.

If someone were to attack the arguments for atheism in good faith I would hope they would fight its strongest arguments and not just tackle a hack like Dawkins. I'd like to extend the arguments for God the same courtesy.
>childhood body image issues — issues that men can’t know what it’s like.

Excuse me? Men have their own flavor of stereotypical body images foisted upon them: Macho, six-packs, muscular arms, upside-down triangular back, etc.

For what it's worth though, men seem to care significantly less about body image than women do. Food for thought.
"The time of birth can also correlate loosely with personality. "

I mean it does have an effect, if you spend the first months of your life outside in the sun, or hidden inside. And the parents also behave different in summer than in winter. But to conclude that every person born in december must be like this and that .. is frustrating to deal with.
I like mTLS, I've worked in scenarios where both mTLS and OAuth are used separately and together, but if the comment here is suggesting certificates will be less complicated than OAuth then I would say I spent an equal amount of time banging my head against the wall with regards to learning and wrangling both, but maybe that's just me, would appreciate anyone else with experience in both to add their take.
I don't think the source of stereotype matters.