skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The public presently has very little information about Trump’s personal financials. He has refused to release his tax returns despite long precedent and intense political pressure. His excuses for this have been very weak.

The idea is that the reason for this secrecy is that he is hiding something which would be politically damaging, such as the long-rumored (and denied) financial links to Russian oligarchs
UPDATE: This inspired me to finally write something more long-form: https://medium.com/@recallsingularity/how-i-use-rust-and-god...
Yes this is the main problem. People like the parent commentator look down on young students for being irresponsible when the other side of the deal is even more irresponsible. Lenders are incentivized to loan out as much as possible since they know they will get paid back.
But isn't it less biased to dump it all?

With the only reason for not releasing being risk to arguably ~innocent individuals.

Also, it's relevant to note that Holocaust investigators have not redacted names of ~responsible individuals from their releases. Indeed, they've targeted them.
Good move. I'd much rather it worked well for one backend then sucked mightily on all of them. Eager mode means that for the first time ever you can _easily_ debug programs using the TensorFlow backend. That will be music to the ears of anyone who's ever tried to debug a complex TF-backed model.
Here are the promised citations:

1. $10 trillion divested: https://gofossilfree.org/divestment/commitments/

2. Chevron's shareholder proposal: https://www.asyousow.org/resolutions/2017/12/31/chevron-corp...

3. Chevron makes up about 1% of the S&P 500. 1% * 10% * $10 trillion = $100 million = 78 million shares of CVX at price during 2018 shareholder meeting

4. If 78 million shares voted YES on proposal instead of NO, vote would have passed with 52% in favor (as opposed to 54% in original post)

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Also, for those interested in other arguments against divestment:

1. Economics Nobel Laureate Oliver Hart wrote a paper calling on companies to maximize shareholder "welfare" (including environmental concerns) not just financial value. In this paper he explicitly calls for a fund that uses engagement rather than divestment. https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3004794

2. Luigi Zingales (co-author of above paper) calls on UChicago graduates not to divest, but to engage in his 2019 convocation address: https://promarket.org/dear-graduates-heres-what-you-can-do-t...

3. In the New Yorker, philosopher William MacAskill goes into more detail than Bill Gates on why divestment is ineffective: https://www.newyorker.com/business/currency/does-divestment-...
I don't know if it really gets to the core points quickly. I think the information hierarchy is a little bit lacking if I can't even tell where the person has worked within a few seconds of looking at their resume - the document designed to convey that specific information. It's also very long in my opinion.
https://goaccess.io/
I mentioned this to my parents and they basically brushed it off. We were told from middle school onward that you need a bachelors degree to succeed. We were even shown graphs about average lifetime earnings. High school students are woefully unprepared to weigh the financial decisions that college requires.
I would say it still worth a visit to see it first hand. Protest and civil disobedience normally occurred during the weekend. r/HongHong even has a link to a Google Calendar on all the events that are going to happen.
The problem is that to someone on the fence about vaccination, they take legitimacy from articles that appeal to emotions and don't back up facts with data. Anti-vaxxers write the same way.
You (and to be fair, others) are using "lynch" grossly inappropriately here.
What a fascinating rabbit hole. Most of these obviously come from users not giving even a single fuck, but what about #9, "trustno1"? For some reason I suspect those guys are thinking they're really clever and no1 will ever guess that.

I'm also kind of surprised not to find some variation of "sesame" on here.
I think (hope) in the next years we will see an increase of personal sites. With products like Ghost, it's easier for everyone to make one and it doesn't involve a ton of coding. You can focus on the content and own everything. I wonder if we'll be able to connect these personal sites together like a crowdsourced Medium?

Edit: I'm talking about self hosted Ghost
>CFAA – 18 USC 1030(f) explicitly allows this.

Unless yoy can produce the lawful authorization given to access these computers, that subsection does not permit their actions.

>Snowden did not understand them because he has the reading level and the technical ability of an elementary school student.

So your argument is that the documents he revealed don't detail a mass surveillance program. Would never have guessed that.

>I know people who implemented the systems at the dot coms that send information to the FBI in the PRISM slides

All the dot coms listed by PRISM deny being a part of such a program. If you're legit, you're probably burning bridges here.
The breakdown is probably close to the percentage of paying versus open source customers that we have.

We are working to better educate our users on the value that our paid version can offer, but it is very important for us to be good stewards of the open source community that has grown around the project. You can read more about our pricing strategy and stewardship here: https://about.gitlab.com/company/stewardship/#what-features-...

On the revenue side, Sid publicly shared an update recently: https://twitter.com/sytses/status/1156571842653478913?s=21
I think the user you are responding to is attempting to undermine anything that can loosely be construed as a defense of Stallman. A bit of a dirty tactic, IMO, but the lines of battle have clearly been drawn.
Been writing a trading bot over the past 6 months and I was shaking my head vigorously at literally every single point the author brought up.

At this point the only real “arbitrage” opportunities are through derivatives (swaps and futures). However, there is still enough inefficiency in the market for individuals to squeeze out a bit of profit.
We can agree to disagree over Elon Musk, but I can give you a good use case for Ring off the top of my head:

My parents bought a Ring (I am heavily against it for every reason you wrote, plus I can’t stand the idea of a company owning my family’s video footage, I asked them to let me set up some sort of CCTV system but they just want the easy way)and it provides them with a quick, cheap motion activated video feed of their home straight to their phones from anywhere in the world. This isn’t even a doorbell function, the thing can be configured to detect motion over a selection of distances and send you a notification straight to a live video feed.

Sure that can be manually set up but for a lot of people who aren’t too tech savvy, grabbing something like a Ring from bestbuy is quick and easy to get running. Maybe the issue could be helped if a someone sold something like an arduino based doorbell / cam, with easy to use software or an app like Ring that didn’t call back home.
Bad Karma
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Campaign finance violations (his personal lawyer is currently sitting in jail for an illegal campaign contribution he carried out at the direction of Donald trump). Obstruction of justice is pretty well documented in the mueller report. Those are just the obvious ones
> There once was a girl named Kallie,

Whichturned into incest erotica focused on Kallie's dissatisfaction with penis size and her sister's envy solely by selecting the top results.

So, there's that.
Abusing VPC Traffic Mirroring in AWS
Awesome projects! I'd love to hear your thoughts. I'll shoot you an email tomorrow.
My 2 cents: keep supporting it for free for a little bit longer, and then if there's no way to keep managing it yourself, make the leap and monetize. If people don't like ads/paying and leave, then you'll at least have a large userbase that can recover.
Keybase
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Perhaps, but my intuition is it wouldn't make a whole lot of difference, because the reason you can't get off a heavy planet is because of an exponential runaway effect.
Actually I disagree, as a Centurion Mayan Order member (think 33rd master mason) there is a definite litany of secret societies who understand and rule thought manipulation more than you think....

I’m happy to link you to some lessons which that secret society gave out... if you want to see what they teach...

Have you been to the George Washington Masonic temple in DC

Look in the auditorium at all of the busts of us presidents who were master masons....

The only one whom I don’t think is going to be on that list is trump
That was my experience too. B2 is great value and a heck of a lot easier to configure through their web portal than S3.
Signficant leverage in the realm of reputation and public perception which is quite important to large instituations?
> How is it we value free speech, but there are certain discussions you just cannot have, even in a rational and measured way, without risking making yourself completely unemployable.

Like just how prominently Jews feature in these depraved scandals? Epstein, #MeToo, Anthony Weiner.

Larry David: "I couldn't help but notice, a very, very disturbing pattern emerging - which is that many of the predators - not all, but many of them are Jews."

https://www.jweekly.com/2018/01/24/tough-jewish-men-admit-me...
Although this comment may seem a bit extreme: I looked at the rubbish that Fitbit installed on my laptop several years ago. I decided to throw my Fitbit out after scrubbing my hard drive of their software. So, although it's fair to assume their software's probably improved since then, I'm not buying.
Just curious how this works out for you? When I tried this, even when the spot bid was way above current price, it would often be stuck in a pending state since spot instances don't get created immediately. Do you get spot instances to be created immediately on demand somehow?
... especially when they are trigger happy and don’t experience consequences for shooting people
Many suspect he is deeply in debt to and sustained by various Russian banks. A positive cash flow would dispel some of that concern.

I personally doubt he is, but it’s a more reasonable concern considering how unwilling he is to disclose his financial situation.
Also, for desktop software, I have found that small releases are a lot less risky.

You experience small issues, one by one, instead of a massive amount of bugs coming all of a sudden.

For example, last time I updated a Linux distribution with 6-month releases this was the case. Whereas with a rolling release one, it's just much more pleasant.
It would actually make sense to have ICANN create an official TLD for Handshake.
Many Worlds, but Too Much Metaphor
Can't wait to receive some analogized memes from my radio via SSTV.
Adversarial justice systems require that people have a right to be defended by a lawyer when tried by the state in a court of law.

This is because court procedures are complicated and idiosyncratic and most people would not be expected to have the skills to defend themselves. The state is trying to take away a person's freedom so part of the social contract is that it has an obligation to provide them with independent help to navigate the process.

As far as I'm aware, Minsky had no legal case to answer and Stallman was not his defence lawyer. So while Stallman certainly has the right to defend him, in doing so he was risking his own reputation in a way that a criminal defence advocate (even when their client is found guilty of the most heinous crime imaginable) does not.
This is really interesting, thank you for sharing!
Markets are flush with cash and there is a huge amount of spending and growth in "green" energy sources like solar and windmills. Not sure anyone is really without sufficient capital to create green technologies, except perhaps lack of funding for nuclear.
That’s what I am thinking. I hate it when my browser or a phone app suddenly looks different without warning.
If everyone could afford to hire a PI to dig up dirt on some random person they didn’t like, it would be a highly regulated industry. Because it’s mainly a service only the powerful or wealthy can afford no one bothers.
I don't think they have that in yet:

> However note that it does not support most TensorFlow 2.0 features, in particular eager execution.
I'm not sure I follow this post.

All cultures mimic, adopt and modify aspects of other cultures. See: New York pizza, Australian beer etc. It doesn't follow that the resulting outcome is any less a valid expression of national cultural identity.

Likewise, I don't follow the connection between having a national identity and having national borders.

I once invited my neighbour over for dinner. He introduced me to his BBQ recipe which I now make all the time for my family. But he also got drunk and pissed himself on my couch. I won't be inviting him to move in with us any time soon, despite us having some culinary cultural overlap.
Charging money to fix something because of who they are seems unethical to me

First of all, I believe that everything people do is according to some ethic, or set of criteria that motivates them, so there's no such thing as "unethical."

Secondly, it's not charging money because of who they are, it's charging them because of what they have, which is money, which is a desire to have a bug fixed, and which is not expertise in doing so.

Thirdly, charging money like this is not antithetical to free software, and as a matter of fact is promoted by FSF. Here they are dispensing with your argument in the first sentence: [1]

Fourthly, if they were going to submit a PR they would already be doing so (and maybe they have), but as the story goes, the lion's share of coding is performed by Stenberg. PR's are free and money is also a resource. Why not put the resource in the place with the most expertise?

In what way is the money I suggest not a donation or support fee? Lack of contracts to complicate things? Lack of tax writeoffs? These companies don't pay taxes anyway.

1. https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/selling.en.html
That was not Stallman's statement.
In fact, Stallman's argument rests on the foundational belief that the girl was forced to service Minsky.

He reasons that because it would have been in the best interest of Epstein not to disclose the harm that's being done to the girl, she would have been convinced to present herself to Minsky as willing. Thus it is argued that Minsky might have had a sexual encounter without having realized that the girl is being forced to do this. In such a scenario, it is proper to accuse Epstein of harm, but wrongful to accuse Minsky of sexual assault.

All participants of the discussion should refer to the original MIT email thread and not base their opinions on secondary information. There is also a quote from a scientist who names himself as an eyewitness and clears Minsky of wrongdoing. He was not listed by the girl as present during the event and it may be too early to accept his words as the truth. However, if the girl's account corroborates his, then even the harshest critic should be obliged to exonerate Stallman's statement.
It reminds me of the role of the lead in "Twelve Angry Men".
"It’s a question fit for Benjamin Franklin.

Prior to the American Revolution, Franklin had been the postmaster for the British Crown, establishing postal delivery routes throughout the colonies. In the early days, it was only official government communications that passed through the post, and it was “sealed against inspection”.

Later, when the mail could be used by citizens, carriers would regularly read others’ mail along their long routes for entertainment.

Franklin, eager to maintain the sanctity of the mail in a time of political upheaval, developed a set of regulations and affixed locks to postal carriers’ saddle bags. Franklin’s early regulations became part of the basis for privacy law, as did the Fourth Amendment rule about unreasonable searches, which the Framers certainly intended to cover postal mail."

source: https://slate.com/technology/2013/06/nsa-surveillance-why-th...
In my opinion the near-dystopia today is a direct result of advertisers being able to measure what works and what doesn't. I think in the past, advertisers may have had power, in a sense, but they were imprisoned by assumptions and prejudices about what viewers/readers were like, that were heavily colored by wishful thinking of elites. Now they can hone in on how the average person really thinks to manipulate them, and that's what's constructing hell.
I understand that one is privileged to some extent to have been able to pay off student debt. But, I can't help but think it could be problematic to cancel all student debt and in effect penalize all those who worked hard to save and pay off their debt.

Only a couple years ago it was advantageous to pay off your student debt quickly to avoid interest. Now it seems beneficial to pay the monthly minimum only and hope that the debt gets forgiven by the government at some point...

Does any one know if any of the Democratic candidates have talked about this issue?
The other investors will sell the now marginally overpriced clean energy funds and buy the now marginally underpriced fossil fuel funds. Stock prices and capital available remain the same.
Yes, we appear to be seeing that "protection" scenario play out right now, as a matter of fact, where an acting DNI is actively running interference for the Trump administration.

Thanks, but no thanks.
He was famous before stackoverflow; the success of stackoverflow was attributed to it's creators having a large audience to seed it with questions and answers.
This isn't true any more. The vast majority of commercial flights navigate with GPS, and follow GPS waypoints with the AP. They are so accurate that international flights across the ocean apply SLOP (strategic lateral offset procedure) to the route so they don't run into each other.
Thanks for replying - why do you think you want to do that?

Although, I can see a good reason for it in a case like Trump, if it's from the point of view of someone that is trying to muster resistance against him - from that perspective, true arguments against him are clearly better than false arguments, as the latter can be counterproductive. So I totally get that.
Seems like a reasonable solution would be to create vehicles that give the riders the illusion of privacy. Open cab vehicles, such as modern cars and buses, are terrible at at providing privacy for more than one person. If, instead, you have vehicles with modular, single-occupant “pods”, then it goes a little way toward solving the problem of sharing space with unknown others.
Totally. I think of this as the "next bus" effect. If you see your bus pulling up, do you run for it? If the next bus is in 5 minutes, no. If it's once a week, hell yes.
The whole online backup thing would be great if I wasn't already bumping up against my ISP's 1TB monthly transfer limit.
Oh no!

Perhaps you need to either switch to a deterministic physics approach with fixed point math or do some research on float determinism (which is much harder).

Or, give up on lockstep and move to client-server replication with prediction on your own ships?
Oh yeah the law has all sorts of things to increase charges.

In some jurisdictions having a crowbar while “committing a crime” turns the crowbar into a burglary tool. Better yet: having a burglary tool can count as evidence you were committing a crime (see an interesting bit of logic there?)

Or CA using possession of condoms as evidence women were sex workers. Immediately resulting in a reduction in use of protection (remember the anti-prostitution laws are all in the interests of “public safety”). Literally the interpretation of reality chosen was one where if a woman in a specific location had a condom they were automatically a sex worker, carrying evidence of sex work.
I did piece it together from context but it’s a bad headline. It doesn’t even say growth slowed. It says China slowed, and growth was low. It’s just grammatically bad, and probably deliberately misleading.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megachurch
I don’t believe that’s the case. My understanding is that the government holds on to the loans but hires servicers to interact with borrowers. These servicing contracts are subject to competitive bids and that’s why people regularly get new processors.
It's free, and it works in wine. What else do you want?
If you're concerned about the best interest of the public and US citizens then maybe you should spend less time worrying about Snowden and more time worrying about the NSA's inadequate monitoring, life cycle, and DLP practices. Billions of dollars were lost and countless orgs were negatively affected by the release of Eternal Blue alone.
They are yesterday's grad students, of course.

Higher education is a ponzi scheme, from books to peer review to administration.
Maybe beneficial to the small game dev to focus on a single platform at expense of the ecosystem, not beneficial to the ecosystem. These devs have got bills to pay, and individually it's hard to push against the current, so it's an understandable trade off.

This is the tragedy of the commons.
BK still hits your credit score and employers might not hire you knowing you BKed on your obligations.

BK's on your undergrad also would make it harder to take out loans for post graduate courses.
Bill Gates generally supports higher taxes on the very wealthy, like himself. Not sure why you decided otherwise.
you didn’t need to take it there
Your desktop application for Windows (which I do not use personally, but have set up for a couple other people) is pretty great as far as backup provider applications go.

The one thing that wasn't spectacular was the signup flow. I found it a bit confusing: IIRC if you subscribe to Backblaze from the prompt in the application, it doesn't automatically configure when that subscription is purchased, so you have to download the custom installer or whatever the normal process is (I don't exactly remember, except that it was a bit less smooth than I wanted).

Nonetheless, once that was out of the way, my brother's two-seat setup works great, and it has given me considerable peace of mind that he will not simply lose all of his audio production files, and be crushed.

B2 is great value and I use it wherever I can.
This seems like a great idea in theory- potentially better than the so-called luxury ETFs that only invest in what the fund manager deems as socially-responsible companies. If your expense ratios are low, and you allow me to have a meaningful say in how I or the fund as a whole votes for better climate outcomes, I would be personally interested.

I'd love see how you guys do it, and will be following your progress.
Its a giant fucking puzzle and it takes a lot of awareness and attention plus retention to see how all this shit fits together.

The pedopaths have coopted many industries, tech being just one of the most important ones....

Snowden revealed tools used by deep state AND pedopaths to share, monitor and control their invisibility.
For quite a few products, releasing takes time. QA, auditing the security, localizing, generating the builds, executing exhaustive in-depth unit tests, flushing caches, writing release notes, publicating on different websites... it can take a while!

When the cost of the release goes above a certain amount, due the sheer number of features or the thoroughness of the release process, it starts to make sense to mutualize release tasks between a bunch of features.

Bundling those features on a time basis is quite often a local optimum between an acceptable delay for the product team and an acceptable cost for ops/release/qa/...