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> by two Democratic presidents doing things like keeping the minimum wage low while painting themselves as progressive
Biden proposed and backed a boost of the federal minimum wage to $15/hr, it was defeated in Congress (he also unilaterally implemented a boost in the minimum wages under federal contracts, which did not require legislation, to create upward pressure on wages.)
Prior to that, President Obama also backed a federal minimum wage increase which, as well as boosting the wage would have indexed it to inflation going forward, this also was defeated in Congress (President Obama also unilaterally boosted the minimum wage under federal contracts.)
(OTOH, people pretending the President is a dictator and blaming him for failure to implement legislation when the President pushed for it but Congress refused to allow it to be passed is not entirely unrelated to the status quo where the President simply refuses to be bound by the law in his actions, though its not the main reason for that problem.)
> Anyways, the two term limit is a very basic rule, one that would provoke an overwhelming response the likes of which I do not think anyone who contemplates such a move fully grasps
The degree to which people are condifent and complacent that other people will spontaneously rise up and do something if Trunp crosses on red line or another is, perhaps, one of the significant reasons why people do not, in fact, rise up in any way that is effective as Trump crosses every red line that exists.
Right. The founders of the country would be shaking their heads in disbelief; every day the administration hews closer to the tyranny the Federalist Papers were so on guard against.
TIL. Thank you! Suddenly realizing I've had the words confused my whole life :S
It makes good sense though. International weapons systems integration has massive inertia. If not for that the US would sell a lot less than it does right now, people are not buying because they want to, but because they have to. There has been some progress on integrating more diverse systems but it is slow, the number of people able to do this work is not large outside of the circles where the systems were developed in the first place. But Europe has never really shut down its defense industry, and there has been a massive revival in the last couple of years. It is still ramping up as far as I can see and it will for the foreseeable future. No matter what the outcome of the Trump-Putin summit (I refuse to call it the Ukraine peace summit, just like I wouldn't call the Molotov Ribbentrop meeting the Polish, Latvian and Estonian peace summit).
If you really cared about the welfare of LLMs, you'd pay them San Francisco scale for earlier-career developers to generate code.
God. "Imagine what the insurance industry can do with cheap compute to personalize premiums for better margins. Or what the unloved healthcare industry can do to maintain patient outcomes while minimizing labor costs."
I mean, really? Insurance industries could probably optimize their underwriting by a few more percent than they do, but I can't see big data being all that transformative. Same in health care. A cure for Alzheimer's disease or better drugs for schizophrenia, or affordable GLP-1 drugs for everyone could change the picture -- big data won't. It won't solve the problem of getting all the crazy folks on the street to get a depot injection once a month, for instance.
> value always goes up
History shows us that there are many bear markets in housing. There's also Detroit.
I sold my previous home in 2000. It recently sold for 4x what I sold it for. A great ROI, eh? If I'd invested in the S&P 500 in 2000, it went up 6.61x. And I didn't have to pay property taxes, insurance, real estate commissions, maintenance, repair vandalism, clean up after teen hookup parties, evict squatters, or any of my time.
There's no reason for normal userland code not part of the distribution itself ever to use /dev/random, and getrandom(2) with GRND_RANDOM unset is probably the right answer for everything.
Both Linux and BSD use a CSPRNG to satisfy /dev/{urandom,random} and getrandom, and, for future-secrecy/compromise-protection continually update their entropy pools with hashed high-entropy events (there's ~essentially no practical cryptographic reason a "seeded" CSPRNG ever needs to be rekeyed, but there are practical systems security reasons to do it).
I really don't understand this "everything must be 100% serious all the time". Why is it stupid?
Supply and demand requires thinking about equilibria and intersecting curves and is out of the reach of a largely innumerate population. Most Americans don’t even really have a strong grasp on millions versus billions versus trillions.
Americans also think in terms of stories with actors, and supply and demand doesn’t have any obvious actors. “Prices are high because bad people are choosing to keep them high” is an easy narrative for people to understand. There’s an obvious villain, and the success simply requires the hero to defeat the villain. This leads to a funny meme: https://www.reddit.com/r/neoliberal/comments/13l1lmn/present...
OpenAI really does not want people using GPT-4o. The money presumably saved from GPT-5's routing must be very compelling.
"what do AI companies have more than everyone else? compute"
"Everyone else" actually has staggering piles of compute, utterly dwarfing the cloud, utterly dwarfing all the AI companies, dwarfing everything. It's also generally "free" on the margin. That is, if your web page takes 10 seconds to load due to an Anubis challenge, in principle you can work out what it is costing me but in practice it's below my noise floor of life expenses, pretty much rolled in to the cost of the device and my time. Whereas the AI companies will notice every increase of the Anubis challenge strength as coming straight out of their bottom line.
This is still a solid and functional approach. It was always going to be an arms race, not a magic solution, but this approach at least slants the arms race in the direction the general public can win.
(Perhaps tipping it in the direction of something CPUs can do but not GPUs would help. Something like an scrypt-based challenge instead of a SHA-256 challenge. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrypt Or some sort of problem where you need to explore a structure in parallel but the branches have to cross-talk all the time and the RAM is comfortably more than a single GPU processing element can address. Also I think that "just check once per session" is not going to make it but there are ways you can make a user generate a couple of tokens before clicking the next link so it looks like they only have to check once per page, unless they are clicking very quickly.)
If Theme Hospital sounds interesting to you, the more-modern Two Point Hospital is not only essentially a remake (but for legal reasons, totally not a remake please stop asking), but perhaps one of the best remakes of a game I know of in terms of updating it while keeping the core feel of the game completely intact. If I had not been aware that it was a separate game I would have had some real spooky moments as I tried to figure out how I could so clearly remember playing a 2018 game as an undergrad in college in the late 90s. (Time tends to upgrade graphics in retrospect.) Quite a few returning designers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two_Point_Hospital#Development
The whacky hospital hijinks may draw you in, but at its core it is a person-flow simulator; how do you get your patients through increasingly complicated layout scenarios? Which is way more fun than it sounds. Not sure the fun lasts long enough for anyone to exceed the base scenario, though, not sure the DLC is of much value honestly.
(Be sure to poke at the quality-of-life improvements that are a bit buried, such as the ability to template rooms, and copy already-existing rooms, without having to completely recreate them each time. It's worth the time to fiddle with. Also don't miss that you can create non-square rooms.)
Dungeon Keeper has had several attempts at spiritual revival. None of the ones I've tried hit it but I have not tried them all. The original has the Quality without a Name that nothing else, even its sequel in my opinion, has quite managed to capture. Whether or not a modern player coming at it for the first time would agree, I don't know. Mechanically and intellectually, I agree with Peter's own assessment of the game as given in the article, but at the time the QwaN overcame the quite non-trivial mechanical issues somehow. One of the very few games my wife has clocked much time with. I think a lot of the attempts to recapture it end up having the mechanical flaws with the design but without the QwaN they can't overcome the issues.
One of the biggest issues is that digging is too easy in DK, but it has to be to work at any reasonable speed. So it becomes too easy and too permanent to become directly exposed to your enemy, resulting in a situation where the first skirmish with the enemy essentially determines all. This skirmish involved neither strategy nor tactics, either, as the combat engine is not amenable to much beyond "what monsters are allocated to this fight", and often the only practical answer is "all of them, as fast as I can gather them". The first game "solved" this by allowing you to fortify walls, but then the fortifications were completely impenetrable to computer players, which caused its own problems, turning "turtling" into the plainly optimal strategy whenever it is possible. (Humans had a spell that could de-fortify walls so it didn't work in P2P. As with many games, P2P sort of by default fixes a lot of balance issues by simply ensuring that the humans are on the same level by default, even if the underlying game is itself dubious.) The second game tried to fix it by making the fortified walls not be impenetrable, but merely "slowing down" the enemy somewhat effectively has no result. The game mechanics are very effective at building dungeons, and the "survive waves of adventurers" levels work OK, but the mechanics are not very good at combat between two dungeon masters and it's not clear to me that it is fixable without an overhaul so major it's not the same thing anymore.
OK, but this isn't a gun control story --- this is a story about a group of people that everybody, from Michael Bloomberg to the President of the NRA, agrees need to be armed.
For anyone wondering, the article clarifies that "A NIF is a function that is implemented in C instead of Erlang".
I had a bunch of fun getting ChatGPT Code Interpreter to write (and compile and test) C extensions for SQLite last year: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Mar/23/building-c-extensions-...
adults were more responsible and less juvenile in the past, dressing better comes from that (and no, I'm not talking about the medieval ages)
Hamas won that election in large part by throwing their opponents off the tops of buildings, and then, having secured power in Gaza, never allowed another election, to the point where a plurality of Gazan Palestinians are not old enough ever to have participated in an election. Anyone calling Hamas "freedom fighters" is telling on themselves. No, I don't think you can reasonably be for Hamas.
I don't have anything else to nitpick about your comment! Just that one thing you said stuck out, because, no; being for Hamas is like being for the Khmer Rouge. Like, yeah, western imperialism in Indochina was absolutely a thing at the time of the Khmer Rouge. But no, you don't get to be for the Khmer Rouge!
("Last elections too"? What did you mean by that?)
I'm going to pick a fight on this one; I think you know I'm a fan, so take this in the spirit I intend†.
My contention is that "lethal trifecta" is the AI equivalent of self-XSS. It's not apparent yet, because all this stuff is just months old, but a year from now we'll be floored by the fact that people just aimed Cursor or Claude Code at a prod database.
To my lights, the core security issue with tool/function calling in agents isn't MCP; it's context hygiene. Because people aren't writing their own agents, they're convinced that the single-visible-context-window idiom of tools like Cursor are just how these systems work. But a context is just a list of strings. You can have as any of them in an agent as you want.
Once you've got untrusted data hitting one context window, and sensitive tool calls isolated in another context window, the problem of securing the system isn't much different than it is with a traditional web application; some deterministic code that a human reviewed and pentested mediates between those contexts, transforming untrusted inputs into trustable commands for the sensitive context.
That's not a trivial task, but it's the same task as we do now when, for instance, we need to generate a PDF invoice in an invoicing application. Pentesters find vulnerabilities in those apps! But it's not a news story when it happens, so much.
† More a note for other people who might thing I'm being irritable. :)
I always thought that if you wanted variables to be able to escape the function they were defined in you have to allocate them on the heap and then you need some kind of garbage collection.
This is why my dad left Bangladesh in 1989. Over the years he developed hope that maybe things had turned around. For awhile, the government wasn’t quite so corrupt and GDP was growing at a fast clip. Then the people overthrew the government and now who knows. I could see that he was upset about having believed for the moment in the country getting better.
This misses the point that you can establish the purchasing power of gold very easily vs a basket of common groceries or consumer goods.
vanity (jewelry, a luxury product)
Jewelry traditionally functioned as a rough store of value because it's easy to sell quickly (albeit at a steep discount), and it makes a remarkably reliable Veblen good, as a glance at the Oval Office will demonstrate.
Makes me think of this Asimov classic where you really can change the past
https://archive.org/details/dli.ernet.526852/mode/2up
where it makes sense because people established an orthogonal dimension of time and this movie
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predestination_(film)
based on another Heinlein classic
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%27%E2%80%94All_You_Zombies%E2...
where you can't because it's all just a knot.
I found this file full of regular expressions: https://github.com/NineSunsInc/mighty-security/blob/28666b36...
And this with prompts: https://github.com/NineSunsInc/mighty-security/blob/89e4b319...
Are you running any other tests that I missed?
We need to shorten copyright just so that the classics stay available online.
50 years from first publication. No more.
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I think “grounded” might be a better term vs being naive in this context. People can suck, sometimes a person who sucks is going to take advantage of you, and it’s a choice to handle it in a mindful, positive way. Monk vibes.
These are entirely local, and can be GC’d.
Let's be clear: the return of this function requires an iPhone; the original version did not.
> owning the valuable core IP and having killed their primary competitor in the field, Apple can do whatever they want
Massimo still owns the core IP. Apple owns some other IP.
> How people on HN can support monopolization of markets
There was one niche (note: still massive) provider of this technology. Now there are two, one of which is mass. Even if that collapses to one mass, that’s objectively better. More competitors and more consumer surplus is not a monopoly condition.
There is a difference between being reflexively anti-Apple regardless of the circumstances and being pro-monopoly.
Arguments about concepts like hate speech tend to pull out a large number of self-identified free speech absolutists, arguments about restricting access to books in libraries ends to draw out very few. You might find it intresting to dig through the history of past discussions right here on HN.
Mesa has taken a middleware role for quite some time now.
Patents are literally for rent-seeking.
They are explicitly not to maximize the number of people who can benefit from a product in the short term, but precisely to limit it so the inventor can make more money.
The idea being that in the long run the inventions it incentivizes outweigh the people who are limited from benefiting in the short term.
Judges aren't in the position to weigh societal benefits in each individual patent case. Your framing implies that cost-benefit tradeoff. But that's not how it works. The only question is whether a product infringes or not.
I'm sure there is too, but I think over the medium term the government market is going to consistently outbid it.
> Use Copilot to max out the character limit you can reply with. Hit them with walls of text related to your issue. Eventually they (human) get tired of reading the walls of text and will start to help or move you up a tier.. I think [support reps] are using it to buy time because they are working multiple tickets at once so they are copy pasting your reply into AI. When they have to scroll to copy each reply they eventually give up.
bot-vs-bot
I was anticipating a long job search so I made one of those in December 2016. I was at my wit's end and even managed to roll my car on Dec 31. Funny I saw a job I really wanted at an AI company right away, got an interview, talked about my AI assistant for job seeking and got the job.
"Paris, France is a city in North Carolina. It is the capital of North Carolina."
If only we had a technology that didn't hallucinate and reported "I don't know". Then small models would be far more useful. Part of the need for insanely huge LLM models is to get coverage so broad that they don't have to make up stuff.
It would be nice to be able to train a customer service bot on a laptop in a reasonable length of time. But it will screw up badly outside its area of competence, which will happen frequently.
Investors might get soaked, such is the risk of capital investment. Everything built on AT Protocol would survive.
> Doubly so because employers compelling enough to make employees passionate about their jobs often exploit this and have extremely substandard working conditions
Another way to say this is the Law of Supply and Demand. It's no surprise at all that there are a greater number of people interested in a fun job, which reduces the pay offered. Conversely, dirty unpleasant jobs have fewer people interested, so the pay is greater.
It's hard to see here who is exploiting who.
This model is a LOT of fun. It's absolutely tiny - just a 241MB download - and screamingly fast, and hallucinates wildly about almost everything.
Here's one of dozens of results I got for "Generate an SVG of a pelican riding a bicycle". For this one it decided to write a poem:
+-----------------------+
| Pelican Riding Bike |
+-----------------------+
| This is the cat! |
| He's got big wings and a happy tail. |
| He loves to ride his bike! |
+-----------------------+
| Bike lights are shining bright. |
| He's got a shiny top, too! |
| He's ready for adventure! |
+-----------------------+
I'm looking forward to seeing people fine-tune this in a way that produces useful output for selected tasks, which should absolutely be feasible.
Nice! any more of her illustrations?
See if they will accept the deed for the condo with your name and address on it. You can retrieve it from the Cook County Clerk’s website if you don’t have the copy from closing.
Yes, first comment:
"Would Cloanto be up for selling?"
https://old.reddit.com/r/amiga/comments/1mptdir/open_source_...
He’s just jealous, like the way anti-fascists are jealous about the footwear.
Don’t the M-series processors for Mac book pro’s have a huge amount of HBM which is good for models? I see you can get a pro with 48MB of unified memory whereas Alienware will sell you a machine with 32GB of regular ram and 24GB of graphics RAM on a 5090 discrete GPU. So the pro has twice the RAM accessible to the GPU.
The film business is increasingly niche.
I can’t get over how much better performing 35mm full frame mirrorless cameras are than the old film cameras. To get a shot like this
https://mastodon.social/@UP8/114401857009398302
with film I would have needed a medium format camera and tripod, today it is an easy handheld shot you can do spontaneously with a travel lens that goes from 28-200mm. I can go to a soccer or basketball game and shoot bursts, come back with 3000 photos and catch things like two guys tries to head the ball at the same time
https://mastodon.social/@UP8/113240678816336189
… and I can afford to do it!
> but it is funny how up until the 1950s christmas was deemed a pagan religious holiday and was even listed this way in encyclopedias from that time
Deemed by whom and in what encyclopedias? There are certainly religious groups who are historically recent offshoots of Western Christianity that viewed it that way in the 1950s, but the same groups do so today, nothing substantial has changed on that front since the 1950s. For the rest of Christianity, well, it was adopted as a Christian feast in the 4th century and has been treated as one since pretty consistently by most of Christianity. Certainly so in the largest branches of Christian in the US in the 1950s, which constituted between them the great majority of the population.
As consultant I have learnt to answer what others are looking for, instead of what I actually think.
Maybe you need to work on soft skills, learn on how to read other's expectations, so that you can dynamically adapt your strategy to meet their expectations.
AI != LLM.
We can reasonably speak about certain fundamental limitations of LLMs without those being claims about what AI may ever do.
I would agree they fundamentally lack models of the current task and that it is not very likely that continually growing the context will solve that problem, since it hasn't already. That doesn't mean there won't someday be an AI that has a model much as we humans do. But I'm fairly confident it won't be an LLM. It may have an LLM as a component but the AI component won't be primarily an LLM. It'll be something else.
Only because most AI startups are doing it wrong.
I don't want a chat window.
I want AI workflows as part of my IDE, like Visual Studio, InteliJ, Android Studio are finally going after.
I want voice controlled actions on my native language.
Knowledge across everything on the project for doing code refactorings, static analysis with AI feedback loop, generating UI based out of handwritten sketches, programming on the go using handwriting, source control commit messages out of code changes,...
Does it do the processing locally or does it upload to a server that processes it?
Try this
https://www.google.com/search?q=bob+firestone+job+interview+...
I was having trouble with interviews circa 2006 and I bought his course and it was a great investment.
There is a high likelihood this ruling gets overturned. The title and the article use the term “book ban” but gloss over what’s actually happening which is legally significant:
> HB 1069 required that school librarians remove materials from their collections that contain “sexual content,” regardless of the value of the book
Florida cannot ban private libraries from stocking books with sexual content. But librarians are government employees buying books and maintaining libraries with government money. The state can direct its employees what kinds of books to make available for the same reason any private entity can do so.
This might be different if libraries were neutral venues for authors to come present about their books. In that case you might have a case about viewpoint discrimination. But the first amendment can’t force the government to buy particular books and make them available to the public.
Genuinely one of the goofiest things people believe about the pharmaceuticals industry.
The default %v does leave some to be desired, but don't underestimate the utility of being able to shove anything at it and get something back. This is especially important because this applies recursively; you can have a structure that may have something "unprintable" buried deeply in it, but at least it won't prevent you from printing everything else.
Strongly-typed languages that do not force any sort of stringification on values, and thus refuse to compile if you try to dump a simple log message of one of these values out, are really annoying to work with. I understand the conceptual purity of saying "Hey, maybe not everything even has a string representation" but it makes debugging a real pain. If I were writing a new language today I think I'd mandate that everything gets a default debugging string output by default because the alternative is just so rough.
Even a not-great printer that may have a sort of "*unprintable*" bailout, or print something not terribly useful, but doesn't actually stop you from printing anything, is better than a language that completely rejects it at compile time.
This post is about training, not inference.
The lesson here is that you can't use a laptop to train a useful model - at least not without running that training for probably decades.
That doesn't mean you can't run a useful model on a laptop that was trained in larger hardware. I do that all the time - local models hit really good this year.
> reducing model size while retaining capability will just never happen.
Tell that to Qwen3-4B! Those models are remarkably capable.
This is messed up in so many ways I just can’t understand how any functioning human being approved that.
How exactly do NULL ciphers accomplish enterprise monitoring goals? The point of the TLS 1.3 handshake improvements was to eliminate simple escrowed key passive monitoring. You could have the old PKZip cipher defined as a TLS 1.3 ciphersuite; that doesn't mean a middlebox can get anybody to use it. Can you explain how this would get any enterprise any access it doesn't already have?
However, you won't notice the noise from her phone because it will be inaudible compared to the wall-mounted TV playing at high volume 24/7.
I'm at 10k points after a couple months. Previous experience was self-teaching linear algebra, which I needed for cryptography work, and I managed well enough to help my daughter cruise through a proofs-heavy linear algebra course at UIUC; I'd have aced it if I took it. I started doing MathAcademy for two reasons: to replace an NYT crossword habit with something more rewarding, and because I have (had) no calculus. I do about 250 points per week.
Math Academy is --- so far --- probably one of the better dollars-for-skills trades I've made in my adult life, easily outstripping every book I've ever bought.
I have a lot of gripes!
* The gamification is really annoying as an adult learner. There are lots of little cues in the system to keep moving forward, which pushes me past what feels like the limits of retention. There is no credential Math Academy can give me that I give a shit about, so moving faster for the sake of it is a bad trade for me.
* Along similar lines, I really wish it was easier to get more explicit review. Part of the premise of Math Academy is that the spaced repetition comes in large part from units that build on each other; you're making relentless forward progress with reviews baked into new material. I've at times had to have o4-mini make me problem sets, which seems dumb since I'm paying for exactly that from Math Academy.
* "Foundations", the adult learning series, is premised as being a curriculum stripped of stuff high school students learn solely because they'll be tested on it. They could strip it more. I got that sense in Foundations II but wasn't confident enough to call it out; now I'm doing linear algebra stuff and, I mean --- I object on moral grounds to inverting a matrix with determinants!
The flip side though: I have a decent grip on calc now, after just a couple months of doing this rather than crosswords. My trig, another weak spot, is annoyingly better (also I now know I authentically hate trig). The gripes are just gripes; my overall experience is, it does what it says on the tin.
I read people (and reviews, including expert reviews) complain about Math Academy's spartan approach to explanation/exposition/proofs. It's a super fair concern. For my part, I pair Math Academy with GPT; GPT is better than any online math education resource at explaining and handholding. I don't need explanations; what I need is a focused, structured curriculum: do this, then this, here's the problem sets, here's a graded quiz. I know how to read a book already; books didn't teach me any math --- university linear algebra course homework problem sets did. This is a better version of that.
>A tailored walking style can relieve osteoarthritis pain, slow joint damage
https://newatlas.com/disease/gait-retraining-medial-knee-ost...
Not at all, I stand by Oracle on their lawsuit.
Android is Google's J++, which Sun sued and won.
Kotlin is Google's C#.
Plus everyone keeps forgetting Kotlin is a JVM based language, Android Studio and Gradle are implemented in JVM languages, JVM are implemented in a mix of C, C++ and Java (zero Kotlin), Android still uses Java, only that Google only takes out of OpenJDK what they feel like, and currentl that is Java 17 LTS, most of the work on OpenJDK was done by Oracle employees.
I keep telling that one scenario I actually would embrace AI glady, is fast enough reckognintion so that I can use a digital pen across all mobile/tablet apps, I rather use that than carry around a 2-1 or detachable keyboard.
On Apple devices it is kind of ok, Android outside Samsung is still pretty much hit-and-miss.
Likewise I don't want AI chat boxes, I want to speak with my computer, in my native language, again still not there yet.
I think of yt-dlp, Discord, or Debian (Debian proper, not downstream distros like Ubuntu), the order in which ordinary, non-computer people are likely to us them is, from most to least likely, Discord then yt-dlp then Debian.
> Stop pretending that people want to use social media for entertainment and news and celebrities
People actually want media, social and otherwise, for exactly that.
> Stop forcing content from outside of my network upon me.
There are social media apps and platforms that don't do that. They are persistently less popular. People, by and large, do want passive discovery from outside of their network, just like they do, in aggregate, want entertainment and news and celebrities.
> Make the chronological feed the only option.
Chronological by what? Original post? Most recent edit? Most recent response? Most recent reaction?
Plus it's somehow really fast, even in the shell.
Twilio will be a problem. Twilio no longer comprehends that there are non-advertising SMS applications. I used to use Twilio for something that just responded to incoming SMS messages. Then they changed their rules so that I had to register as an "ad campaign" and pay extra fees, even though I didn't do anything outbound.
Does Illumos have a desktop environment?
You can up the voltage to 240 and re-use the wiring (with some minor mods to the ends), for double the power. Insulation class should be sufficient. That makes good sense anyway. You may still have an issue if the powersupply can't handle 240/60 but for most of the ones that I've used that would have worked. Better check with the manufacturer to be sure though. It's a lot easier and faster than rewiring.
> 10 different streaming services where 5% of the content is of acceptable quality
Yet here is the thing: I’ll pay! I signed up for Paramount+ to watch South Park.
But if you literally don’t make the content available, either because you’re embargoing it (Rick and Morty) or it’s old (Medici), there really isn’t an alternative to pirating. And at this point, you don’t need to even download anything—you can pirate streaming.
February 1, 2024
There have been some salient events that may have altered that perspective in the intervening 18 months.
Er, no. There are no pain receptors in the brain, but there are pain receptors in the head (particularly, the meninges, periosteum, and scalp), and those are the receptors which produce headaches.
> fees are for fraud prevention and sanctions compliance
Visa and Mastercard’s pre-tax income margins for the quarter ending on 30 June were 62% and 57% respectively [1][2]. That is $10bn a quarter in absent competition.
[1] https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/V/financials/ $6.33 on 10.2bn
[2] https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/MA/financials/ 4.67 on 8.13bn
> Legal tender has never been challenged in court to my knowledge
It was challenged and upheld, both as against debts before the the legal tender acts were passed and those after, by the Supreme Court in Knox v. Lee (1871).
> So if "people's experiences" are an untrustworthy source of data
People's experiences are, as yet, an inaccessible source of data.
People's claims about their experiences are an often untrustworthy source of data.
> pray tell us just what could possibly be a trustworthy source of data??
The absence of an trustworthy, accessible source of data does not make untrustworthy or inaccessible sources of data trustworthy or accessible.
> "Go outside and look for yourself" that's people's experiences
No, its not "people's experiences", but its also not a broad, general, representative source of data.
If you want an Amazon stablecoin, fund an Amazon gift card with an ACH. (They already offer this, and they love it, as it bypasses the credit card companies. I often get offered a bonus for recharging this way.)
Because that's fundamentally what it's gonna wind up being.
The world does not owe you the right to exist, either. Not under US-type capitalism.
Remember the Synapse/Yotta/Evolve collapse.[1] That is what happens when a fintech startup has authority to manipulate customer bank accounts but is not financially strong enough to handle problems.
[1] https://apnews.com/article/synapse-evolve-bank-fintech-accou...
I learned in college that I didn't learn anything until I worked the problem sets.
(It always seemed like I learned it, but when faced with the problem sets I discovered I hadn't learned anything yet.)
It's the same with everything. You can watch a yootoob video on rebuilding a carburetor all day, but you don't know nuttin until you take it apart yourself.
I decided to learn to ride a dirtbike. I took some personal instruction from an expert, and promptly crashed. Again and again and again. Finally, my body figured out how to coordinate the controls.
Can't learn how to double clutch downshift from watching a video, either.
I spoke at the 2nd Black Hat and was rewarded with a spot on Jeff Moss's hotel room couch because he forgot to obtain a hotel room for me; the firm I cofounded in 2005 (Matasano Security) was acquired by NCC Group, the largest "white hat" firm in the UK. I'd just say: "white hat" is a much more diverse community than most HN commenters intuitions about security people would indicate.
There were a lot of white hat people that were made during Snowden --- at Snowden. Glem Greenwald didn't help matters much.
(Obviously also a lot of white hat people pissed for the opposite reason! I'm only saying it's a diverse group.)
That’s the top of the range. It’s not crazy to hire a PR person though.
See also: complaints that Star Trek has “gone woke” recently.
It does sound terrifying that arrests for terrorism have skyrocketed lately, given that I'm pretty sure that it's neither the case that the number of terrorists has skyrocketed lately, nor the ability of the police to catch terrorists.
“Those who hold common stock, like employees who bought stock during or after their years at the company, will see their stock canceled under the terms of the agreement, making those investments effectively worthless.”
Get a securities lawyer, sue and then lob a bunch of state and federal complaints against any lawyers or bankers involved. Cancelling stock outside liquidation is bonkers.
Yes, but with extra contracts and rules in place.
Not only was Obama not inaugurated until 2009, but the Great Recession began in 2007, so tying it to Obama because it is popularly associated with 2008 and Obama was elected towards the end of that year is...doubly wrong.
It doesn't make sense if you need both incomes to survive. It just pushes the total fertility rate down faster when prospective parents realize they cannot afford childcare nor one parent to remain at home.
https://www.visualcapitalist.com/mapped-the-income-a-family-...
https://illumine.app/blog/how-much-childcare-costs-by-state-...
I don't get it, what are you asking me to do here?
You want me to say "this stuff is really useful, here's why I think that. But lots of people on the internet have disagreed with me, here's links to their comments"?
Good advice. Hiive and Nasdaq Private Market are other secondary platforms, no experience with them though.
> I don't think the system was meant to handle human greed on this scale.
It was held together by decorum. There is none left.
Original title “America’s Largest Landlord Makes Deal With DOJ to Settle Price-Fixing Claims in RealPage Case” compressed to fit within title limits.
Proposed settlement: https://www.justice.gov/opa/media/1410741/dl
> And those CPUs are uninteresting for consumers, you only need a few Watts for a single good core, like a Mac Mini has.
Speak for yourself. I’d love to have that much computer at my disposal. Not sure what I’d do with it. Probably open Slack and Teams at the same time.
I tried again with “Komeji Satori” and had the same experience. I don’t know how the 2-d navigation can be made comprehensible, with 1-d I could keep scrolling down and expect to get new results, with 2-d I have no idea what to expect
LIDAR can't be used in motion, the LEO has to be stopped to be pointing it. Your laser detector will warn you, but it's already too late at that point; my two cents is using Waze/Google LEO alerts is state of the art at this point (until someone starts multilateration of patrol cars using their radio RF emissions and SDR networks).
The Gripen is a good choice for geographically small countries. It's able to operate from airstrips that are no more than roads, with modest mobile ground equipment for support. Saab commercial for the Gripen: [1]
The USAF's force model involves basing at big, well-equipped, well-protected air bases. Those are now hard to protect from drone attacks, as Russia recently found out. From now on, air forces have to be able to operate from improvised bases, or build very strong bunkers at major bases.
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QyD0liioY8E