skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have no doubt that there are elements of the story that are correct. But the shocking part of the story is the size of the amounts and the poor reporting by what should be an ace journalistic team coupled with common sense makes me doubt that the scale is correct.

Plus the recent the story that Sanjay was put in jail due to a rubber check. Doesn’t sound like a guy who just got away with 1 B euros.
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If "someone might commit a crime and facial recognition could help find the perpetrator" is appeal to fear, the argument of "nobody ever commits a crime so why would you ever want the police to have facial recognition" is appeal to living in a fantasy world.
I don't see how different language would protect you from this kind of vulnerability. Array of callbacks looks identical everywhere. Rust or Java would protect from out-of-bounds memory access (and that is a very good thing in that case), but this particular bug would be present.
Is the watch really accurate to measure deep sleep?

Are there any other watches/devices which measure deep sleep?
> a field where programs don’t have logs, gateways don’t exist, checksums and securing data integrity is not a thing

Yes, that's the field of voting machine construction - it's lowest-bidder garbage built by and sold to people with no concept of reliability.
My Linux VMs are VMWare Fusion. I keep and edit code on my Mac (the host). The Linux VMs mount my code folder using NFS.
This is one of the least asked questions that I learned today. If you are raising a seed round from VC, please check the size of fund. If you can make a case of return 20% of their fund during the exit after series A, go for it. e.g. you have raised $1m from $10m fund for 10% equity and your company gets an acquisition offer for $20m. The VC would favour your acquisition because you would contribute 20% to his fund. However if you raise $1m from a $100m fund, the $20m exit wouldn’t excite your VC and instead he would ask you to raise a bridge round and push you to aim for $100m exit in the future. A 20m in hand is better than $100m in bush.

P.S: I am not suggesting you to become short sighted at series A but it was a context to help you understand my point. Just wanted to remain grounded and help you understand with achievable targets.
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Does your friend get anything if I pay to read the article?
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They use too many resources (both CPU and RAM) relative to the functionality that they offer.
Can someone throw some light on why Google is not using ARM Trustzone technology? Many current Android OEMs are using it, particularly Samsung KNOX is security mechanism all built around trustzone technology.

What advantages does these Titan chips offer over the existing trustzone technology.
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How about https://postmarkapp.com/ ? It is more tailored to "transactional emails", but seems pretty close to what you describe
In those cases, Google Scholar usually gets PDF links:

Designing an Alpha microprocessor:
https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/0155/d9a203497acf81c90e82a9...
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It seems this is the future warning for a lot of things. Coffee, bananas, cocoa are all crops I have heard this about. But if places like Canada warm up by a bit and the season extend just a bit, would that not make them prime conditions for growing a lot of these things? Perhaps demand will bring on new supply.
Plain HTML version:

https://groups.google.com/forum/?_escaped_fragment_=topic%2F...
At a previous team a colleague was a big proponent of BBC MicroBit [1], I have seen it sell around 15-20$

You are expected to code in your browser, then download a binary and copy it over to the little device that is recognized as a usb-drive. You have scratch-like javascript ide [1] and a python ide [3]

I remember a presentation about the ways they used in a class of 8yo kids. They were making simple games, managed to network them to create simple pagers.

It is the most hardware thing you can get with the lowesr barier to entry, i.m.o :)

[1] https://microbit.org/resellers/
[2] https://makecode.microbit.org/#
[3] https://python.microbit.org/v/1.1
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Hi, I'm in the process of building a static page where we want to make it possible for users to give a monthly gift. If it is possible I would like to avoid setting up a back end so I'm looking for a SaaS that I can embed on my static page to start charging recurring payments. Do you know of any such solution?

Thanks!
In the US, there is only one meaning for billion. Thousands (10^3), millions (10^6), billions (10^9), trillions (10^12), quadrillions (10^15), etc. And 99% of people would have never heard of milliard or billiard or any other -ard.
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No it's not. I fly regularly intra-EU and maybe once (?) have had to take my shoes off in the last 5+yrs....can't even remember. I don't know which airports you transit/use but I go throw most of the major ones across EU pretty regularly.
Going further one will need a word for "the kind of a kind", "the kind of a kind of a kind" and so on.

One solution is TypeInType, that is the type of a type is another type (not kind or something else). That's where Haskell is going with the work of adding Dependent Types to the language.

The problem with TypeInType is that it is logically inconsistent - it leads to Girard's paradox, analog to Russel's paradox in set theory.

The correct solution is type universes where every type lives in some type universe indexed by a natural number. For example terms are of type 'Type 1', 'Type 1' types are of type 'Type 2' and so on. The usual 'Type' is then just the first universe level 'Type 1' and 'Kind' is 'Type 2'.

Type universes is what most proof assistants employ, e.g. Agda, Coq, Lean. Idris uses TypeInType which is easier to use and there's no need to massage your program until all type universes type check but is logically inconsistent so one has to be careful to not reproduce Girard's paradox in some form or another.
Aha thanks, that's interesting. I guess that leaves their tuning and custom apps in there then.
The public is going to have their own armed flying drones too eventually. The future is going to be so incredibly cyberpunk.
I've always wondered what is the process that generates this kind of proposals. Was it a single person? A group conspiring from within to perpetuate the power of the TSA? Or from outside, influencing or enforcing the directors to take some actions?

How do they come to be? And what strategy do they use to bootstrap the authority and support of the project? Puss in Boots always comes to my mind.
Are they blocking archive.org or cache/snapshot sites? It doesn't stop them blocking your site but would allow you to share links, etc.
Does anyone have any stats on Reddit (users, revenue etc) because $1bn seems like a pretty low valuation for one of the most popular sites on the internet?
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It's proportionate to the cause.

If we're talking about the Jim Crow south, that's one thing. King even wrote a whole essay about how white moderates 'tone policing' the civil rights movement needed to get on board or get out of the way. And he was right. Emmett Till's lynching had just happened, they were being categorically denied rights, and then getting fucking attack dogs unleashed on them, churches firebombed, etc, when they spoke up.

Some of the noisier people on twitter and in our workspaces in 2018, however... their net effect is giving talking points to Sean Hannity. At least 80% of America is turned off by their rhetorical excess.

King's body of work was productive. He was after results, not after feeding his own ego or outrage.
This reminds me of the way most application developers aren't security experts, and it's taken decades with a lot of very public hacks for awareness about the risks to be spread and for a set of security practices and middleware to evolve (hashed & salted passwords, CSRF mitigation, input sanitation, etc.), to make it feasible for normal developers to create reasonably secure applications. It seems something similar needs to happen in tax administration (and tax law) to make tax systems that are not exploitable. Maybe a new class of white-hats to "pen-test" the tax systems using loopholes and shell companies instead of 0-days and scanners?
The quote in the English text is:

"In Denmark, journalists and the authorities are also investigating the cum-ex trades. Tax payers have lost up to €2 billion * , that’s nearly €350 for every Danish man, woman and child."

That's correct - mathwise.

*: https://translate.google.com/#en/de/billion
I was a little skeptical at first as well but I initially got involved when doing a career quiz and then by helping out with the Estonian chapter of Effective Altruism and I'll say that at least on an individual basis they're quite open to other thoughts and opinions and acknowledge that what they believe doesn't necessarily follow for everyone (ex. the idea that you can 'earn to give' - it only works if you have the personality type where you can do a job such as Ibanking and can satisfy your need to do good by giving and not actively participating as much)
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I don't think it's "just" an official change; whether a cause or consequence of the official change, I've encountered Czech people saying "Czechia" in English a lot more often in recent years than earlier. (E.g. the place I bought my bike from redesigned their website and the new one says "Proudly made in Czechia" where the old one said "Made in Czech Republic"). Of course these things are gradual but I do think it's a real change.
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the road to hell is paved with good intentions.
Open/Closed would still conceptually act as properties, but by promoting them to types you enforce the property at compile time rather than runtime. Note that they are not used on their own, but to describe a `Connection`. This lets you statically enforce the fact that you must only send data through an open connection, for example.
"If we want to lead, we need to make a choice between people and profits."

As an AMZN shareholder, I pick profits. Well, growth actually.
Since when is "limiting the powers of the state" a "leftist narrative"? Because that what it boils down to.
The German government did know about this stuff I think from 2002 or 2001 on, but still did not stop it until around 2012 in Germany and did not warn other countries, so it went on in those.

I just can not understand, how the government of my country could work this way. It really borders to actively supporting this scam.

In my opinion, not only the people that have done this (including many banks!), but also responsible persons in the government or ministries should take responsibilities.

But in Germany, if you are big enough or in government, you can do nearly everything without effects.

Banks already have looted the people of many countries in 2008/2009.
The book "Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams" gives some insight about what we know about sleep.
I was looking for something like a while back. Bookmarked.
It takes 2 clicks to generate PDF from your LinkedIn or StackOverflow profile.

Makes no sense to maintain manually written resume when you are already maintaining your employment and experience history on LinkedIn.

All the relevant data is in their database, just click the export to pdf button, if somebody insists on PDF, and attach that to the email.
Many, if not most, chip companies are fabless these days, including the very major ones (Broadcom, Qualcomm, Nvidia, etc. I think even AMD).

It means that they do not own any foundry/factory to produce chips.

They design chips then send the designs to a third party foundry for production, like you would perhaps do for PCBs.
How many pro-choice people do
you think are persuaded by

Symmetrically, how many pro-life
people do you think are persuaded by the people screaming "woman-hater/sexist/misogynist" outside of Planned Parenthood?

If you can't explain your
argument in a calm, rational
manner,

You overestimate the efficacy of explaining in a calm, rational
manner. As a university teacher with > 10 years experience, I can tell you with extreme, and reliably reproducible experience, that explaining in a calm, rational
manner is also typically overrated. Year in, year out, I tell my students to test their coureswork before submission to ensure it compiles, year in, year out, I tell my students not to cheat etc etc ... and year in, year out, a large number of students ignore my calm, well-argued and perfectly rational advice.

What screaming (or the university equivalent: bad grades) achieves is not so much conviction, but communicating urgency. How to react to urgency a different matter.

A second social function of screaming (re-)producing simple us/them group identities.
And essentially that's the idea that the VLIWs with no interlocks have - one I worked on made the output registers of the execution stages architecturally visible
But even if that's true - does printing more dollars affect the price of crude oil on the international markets for instance - if the interest accrued on those loans exceeds the loss of value due to inflation, then they're still ahead overall. And that's the sort of thing that people take into account already when making investments.

And that's not considering that the same would happen with any alternative investments, nor the fact that risk is an important part of an investment calculation, and US debt is considered "risk-free".
I'll chime in to add Thailand to the list of countries which require your shoes to be off as you pass through security.
They should have the companies themselves submit their share register as of the in-dividend date to the tax authority (which the company has to know anyway, since you can be damn sure that they're not paying dividends to people who didn't own the shares!). No register no refunds.
When I buy games or movies, it's only on physical media. Then again, maybe I'm just old fashioned when it comes to this, because I don't believe in paying real money for non-physical goods and services. I don't trust a company to maintain a server perpetually - after all, evidence has consistently shown that they will not. With non-physical media, someone else holds all the cards and can restrict access to something which you paid for. With physical media, that data is with you, offline, for the life of the disk. They can't take it away without breaking into your home, office, or storage facility and stealing the item from you.

Paying for something on Valve's platform means that at any time, Valve or some other group can revoke your access. The same goes for Netflix. Things get added and removed from their catalog so often that I could never bother keeping it straight, even when I had a free account for a few months. All I knew was one day, I wanted to watch something that they'd had and it was gone. That was the day I made absolutely certain that they had no payment information and would end the free trial gracefully and without trying to take my money.
I don't use that version of Skype. My client still connects just fine.
It's a relatively small sample though. 5 failed drives.
Because attacks on physical ballot collection doesn't scale as well as on electronic ones.
TSA and airport security-theatre in the USA is such a mind-boggling concept to me. Im flying a lot within Europe, especially between Sweden and Switzerland, and i have never had to show my passport to anyone. More often than not they don't check the fluids in my carry-on, and i get to keep my shoes on. The security check usually takes 5-10 minutes including the time spent queuing.
Terry v Ohio makes pretty clear the criterion for detaining someone against their will. Too bad all of our rights go out of the window at airports.
C language votes, in principle, to add support for Exceptions
WG14 is currently meeting in Pittsburgh. N2289 (http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n2289.pdf) was discussed yesterday. The committee voted with 15/2/2 favour/against/abstention to agree, in principle, with the direction of the paper, pending empirical experience gained from testing a prototype compiler in the real world.

C++ intends to adopt something of a similar form: http://wg21.link/P0709

So HackerNews, have Exceptions finally won the battle of the one true best form for handling failure and disappointment? Or are these not "true" exceptions, and really everybody is just copying Rust? Discuss!
Ask HN: How do you overcome your self doubt?
Hey HN,

I just turned 23 and am wrapping up my master’s in CS and Computational Biology at Georgia Tech and Harvard in 2019. I had a non traditional path to computer science, and have mostly taught myself programming, algorithms and machine learning.

I want to either work on challenging, technology defining projects and maybe even research, but I’m honestly scared of coding because I have 0 confidence in my ability and feel i’m going to break something.

My knowledge is brittle and limited, and I just can’t see myself building anything interesting because I freeze up when studying something technically complex.

How do you overcome your fear? I used to have high expectations of myself, but I just get scared thinking about the future now.
The argument usually is "this will be used to target minorities/dissidents/illegal immigrants"
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people often don't do what's best for them. But that's a separate issue from trying to convince someone to join your cause. If you're representing advocacy group X and you're being melodramatic and throwing a tantrum, rather than pinpointing the issues you want to solve and proposing solutions, I'm much more likely to think that said group is composed of adult babies making childish complaints and unworthy of respect or attention. You'd be essentially leaving it to me to independently discover if there is any value in the group, rather than taking the opportunity to inform me yourself.
I can imagine 50 vs 60+ would make a big difference...In the case of the latter they are much closer to retirement (potentially <5 years vs 15-16 years).

Not saying it should be that way but I bet some people will think a >60 year old may just look to hang around/coast for a few years waiting for retirement.
I’m not ignoring that, I’m asking how the economics works. 5G will involve deployment of tens of thousands of cells in the US alone. Even 4,500 nano sats won’t offer similar capacity unless each sat has massive capacity. Moreover, mobility is crucial. If you can’t put the reciever in a cell phone, the utility is greatly diminished. Unless my math is wrong, it sounds like the answer to your question is: people are investing in 5G rather than sats because it offers more capacity and a dramatically more valuable (mobile) service. The benefit of being able to cover the world with internet isn’t important to the FCC or US cellular companies.
Philippines too. Hong Kong sometimes. Japan never.
In the same way, not wanting to let the police have this technology due to concern of surveillance is appealing to fear.

People forget that, in the USA at least, the police investigate and pursue crimes that have already been committed. They do NOT pursue crimes that have not happened and do NOT scan for people who have not committed a crime. As you all should know, license plate scanners, for example, are looking for specific plates of people who have already committed crimes.
But then do we understand as well how physical data works, what's the actual shortcomings etc. ?

Personaly I don't think I do, yet even at my personal level I have anecdotes of ink just fading out of paper, or countless of widespread voting frauds from decades ago.

I have the feeling we are putting paper and physical media handling to a higher standard because we don't know as much about it.
To do good requires understanding the issue at hand and devising a measurable plan for improvement.

This is not what many, if not most people do, or want to do, when they "try to do good". They simply want to do something based on what _they_ see as 'good'.
correctiv.org is producing phantastic investigative journalism on a regular basis. one of their most important revelations recently was about a pharmacist who was selling heavily diluted cytostatic agents for chemo therapy. several people died because of this [1].

really awesome about correctiv is that they not just release their findings - they really make sure that something is going to be done about it. for example the government didn't do much about above mentioned case - they didn't even bother to inform the patients. so correctiv rented a shop in that town (Bottrop) where people could inform themselves about the matter.

if you want to support them: https://correctiv.org/ueber-uns/#unterstuetzen-sie-unabhaeng....

the one thing I find most concerning about these kind of revelations is that it seems that journalism is more and more responsible for work police should be doing.

[1]: https://correctiv.org/ruhr/alte-apotheke/2018/08/10/trotz-an...
If your threat model is "being attacked by a surveillance actor", the fact that "nobody else can get at your stuff" (which is something that you are in a position to at least theoretically defend) is not very reassuring ...
Nope, same here. Feels a bit (a bit) like religion for atheists.

For example I don't dislike Nick Bostrom but I feel like he's being quoted so uncritically in this article - not totally unlike how a few years ago some HN commenters could quote Paul Graham essays as holy scripture.
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And even if it were ... so what? Security is security. Either it is, or it isn't. No trust involved.
It's simply not inevitable. I'm so tired of this rhetoric.
"it's going to happen anyway, so give up". No, it's not going to happen if you actively oppose it.

For example, cops in Europe cannot execute crawling, begging, unarmed people. And if they try, they won't be getting away with it. Guns exist, cops exist, and guess what, cops shooting people doesn't exist. Why? Because society is an active thing, and if a society opposes a behavior (including the usage of tools, like amazon's rekognition) they can stop it.
That's not a proper solution and I hope it isn't the one that my country of residence, Norway, will choose. It is simple protectionism. And it is extremely regressive. If they want to figure out a way to efficiently charge the VAT that would be different (even though VAT is also a regressive tax). Charging a USD 15 fee to apply the USD 1 VAT to the USD 4 cost of the goods I have just received from China is absurd.
Yes the point is to ensure that resources sre allocated efficiently, not use the resource as a revenue generation tool for the government.
Has this kind of thing stopped, then? https://techcrunch.com/2016/11/28/uber-background-location-d...
Yikes, that site needs an epilepsy warning. :(
Curious, if fingerprints are allowed constitutionally, why not faces as identification? Laws might not allow it, but they'll change them
In a way, they are forced to do this by their nature. As an abstract entity they should not and will not care about consequences other than making their job easier.

But it operates in a world where other entities might come in play and counter. The problem is that I don't hear the voices of these other entities. Is TSA that powerful on its own?
While names, locations etc doesn't necessarily make something trustworthy - the absence of them do feel way more sketchy.
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Statistics show a strong correlation between personal wealth and conviction rate for those accused of serious crimes.
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