skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The main issue I see with all these tax avoidance measures is they are all based on not realizing profits in the tax year they were earned (and realistically it'll become tax evasion in spirit if not by legal definition when a future govt lowers taxes or offers amnesty).

Obviously a short comment isn't going to have the rigor needed to solve such a complex problem or figure out appropriate exceptions. Having said that I honestly believe appropriate governance laws that recursively apply to subsidiary and owned companies would be a very effective (even if not perfect way) for a single country to start realizing tax on their multi-nationals before the much slower wheels of international agreements can grind the problem away.

My poorly thought out solution is along the lines of:

Any company owning shares in another must attempt to vote every year that that the subsidary (or just invested in company) company pays out a dividend proportional to net profit and 3rd party investment since the last such passing vote.

Any subsidiary incorporated by this company must apply these rules and any investment in the company is taxed when the subsidiary incorporates or buys stock in another company.

They must also attempt to vote that any company they have shares in follow these same rules.

No temporary transfer of shares or proxy appointment should effect the outcome of these mandated votes.

I'm sure there are issues with my implementation of this idea such as longer planning of a warchest for growth or perhaps intuitive structures such as a subsidiary that manages all international subsidiaries but it was more to highlight a particular structure than to be exhaustively tuned.
This looks like numerology.

Massage the numbers until they fit. 1/4 of one degree of a coordinate system that hadn’t been invented yet? Why not 1/8? 1/2?
Glad to help.

I looked at the repo again in more detail; and I must admit that I got distracted by the comments and missed out on the intent behind your demo.

While I am not a fan of the interactive demo before you can start using an app, I think that what you've shared is: 1. not that and 2. looks excellent for presentations and landing pages.

My feedback still stands, but I was imagining a much different use case which may not align closely with your product.

Random thought: it may be cool to see this implemented in a "picture-in-picture" fashion on a documentation site where the documentation scrolls to the relevant area as you navigate the app in the pip window.
> I can't do that with Whatsapp because it's closed source. I can't do that with Signal because nobody has Signal. Everyone has email.

Are you saying the install base for people who use GPG with e-mail is larger than the user base for Signal, or are you saying you can send people instructions for decrypting e-mail but for some reason not instructions for installing Signal?
It's just a couple from Australia running it.

They're pretty cool and nice. If you send a support request, it will be one of the developers... who are also the owners.

They also have an option to destroy all the data they have on you.
It seems a little irresponsible for an academic publication to make a claim like

> always listening, recording, and possibly saving sensitive personal information

without any evidence to support it. I get that they're just setting up context for their device, but they're also making some pretty serious (and widely disproven) accusations.
> Republicans as a group care deeply about the Constitution

Well, they say that a lot, I can't see any evidence that it's particularly true in general (it's definitely true that there are things that they care about that they cite their particular interpretation of the Constitution to support, though on issues like executive vs. legislative power their deeply held Constitutional beliefs seem to flip 180° when you flip which parties are in power in the respective branches; the Constitution seems to be more of an identity touchstone than a document whose actual content is of particular concern.)
The timing and content of this announcement is...confusing. I'm definitely not an expert in this, but the details here of the financing seem pretty general and straightforward, i.e. the type of document I'd assume they would've already drawn up when partnering with edly several months ago [0]. And that still doesn't explain why Lambda and Allred wouldn't have this info prepared by the time The Verge and NYMag (the latter which was a 5 month investigation) came calling around. It also doesn't explain why edly took the partnership announcement pages down the same day that @dhh started tweeting about them [1].

And then there's the issue of two prominent Lambda executives (one of them an investor, IIRC) stepping down this afternoon. [2]

[0] https://www.theverge.com/2020/2/12/21135134/lambda-school-st...

[1] https://twitter.com/dhh/status/1227317343539335168

[2] https://twitter.com/KateClarkTweets/status/12302421245005701...
Don’t underestimate the thermodynamics of a slight breeze vs. Passive dissipation alone.
Glad to see this.

I worked in insurance for a few years and I am sometimes flabbergasted that it's legal. Good job analyzing where (some of) the sticking points are and working through them.

I hope this actually works and gives us a new model that makes me stop seeing insurance like some kind of evil empire.
Certainly not. But now you get in a much different business where you don't sell to consumers, but now you have to own/operate all your hot spots.
Did you run Windows Update? Windows used to ship all drivers with the OS, but since 2018 they don't by default and instead match you in the cloud. You still might not have had to run the software suite; it might have been able to match and ship your drivers from the cloud.

I'm pretty sure that M$ has a bigger driver database than linux.
Since the original HN post[0] is about 2.5 years old now, one would expect there to be more data released by LS regarding job placement/salaries before a potential student would sign a $30,000 ISA. I've been a fan of the idea of up-skilling at a bootcamp for those who either don't want to spend 4 years getting a CS degree or being unable to finance its associated costs which can be in excess of $75,000. In an increasingly tight labor market, there's fewer jobs available in the 'middle' where companies seem to be either wanting an experienced SME in a specific domain or less-experienced programmers to do testing rather than development.

I think the bundling and selling of student CDOs works for a company in its early stages, since the costs for recovering unpaid tuition can range from high to being declared a total loss. Some of the anecdotes make it seem like the company doesn't receive enough feedback from employers in order to strengthen parts of their curriculum that make interviewees fail at some stages during the interview process. Creating a complete curriculum takes more than bundling together Leetcode and Hackerrank problems, where the actual teaching reflects that bootcamps and a CS education aren't in direct parity with one another. [1]

Regarding the finances, student loan debt through an established institution can't be removed through filing for bankruptcy. This allows access to federal loans and underwriters that give better rates and agreements for all the business parties invloved. I've been denied refinancing my loans from multiple companies for a combination of those effects including not graduating and having too low of an income. The business seems like a good idea but too fixated on higher short-term valuations in order to attract VC capital; rather than fixing its underlying structural problems.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15011033

[1] https://hackernoon.com/bootcamps-vs-college-11dd76a4d127
Regular student debt is effectively nondischargeable in bankruptcy due to special provisions of federal law, it’s one of the hardest types of debt to escape from.
And pretty much ever since the GCHQ/conservative UK government have been freaking out about it and it's been one of the main reasons they wanted out of the EU.

The GCHQ really, REALLY wanted out of the fundamental charters of rights. I mean the ECJ has ruled like twice or thrice against their mass surveillance activities, but they've managed to buy time by "updating the law" in ways in which a new ruling was needed to show once again that their mass surveillance laws are STILL violating the charter.
Ha, I was wondering how you managed to reverse the hash and then had a facepalm moment.
Wait, there are finance applications that don't forbid floating point numbers ??
Same. I was offered a promotion at my current job, but it would require being on site at different locations. I turned it down because I get paid well enough to work from home, plus I get an extra 2-3 hours of free time every day since I don't have to get dressed or deal with traffic.
FWIW, Larry also contributed some of his historical knowledge to the Talk page [1] of the Wikipedia article and also edited the article himself.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Cut,_copy,_and_paste
Noskul, rhymes with nostril
Of Modes and Men, the Story of Larry Tesler
Mueller claimed this was the case, but - his report, as released to the public, did not present evidence to establish these claims (nor, in fact, most claims in the report regarding Russian interference).

Also, "including possibly through Wikileaks" means nothing. "Including possibly through my second cousin's DIY basement mail server."
What about the fact that again, you've engaged in identity politics here on HN? My entire point is that it's hypocritical to decry identity politics while also engaging in identity politics.
I agree with you, but I think it's a very debatable problem as to whether addressing the result (money buying influence in politics) or the source (voter education) is a better plan of action.

Unintended consequences abound, should Citizens United be fully overturned and financing be more tightly policed. Maybe those are good, maybe they're bad.

Personally, a 50% tax on any political speech spending, dedicated to funding voter media literacy and education, seems like a better approach.

Give everyone the freedom to speak, but teach everyone to listen critically.
I don't believe this is correct. It will just spawn green threads, which are neither system threads nor processes. You'd really want to use syscall.ForkExec: https://golang.org/pkg/syscall/#ForkExec

EDIT: thinking about this further, I don't think that would be right either, as state from the process won't come over with the fork. So maybe there isn't a way?
>Having agents of your company who have received a warrant addressed to your company pretend that your company has not received it, whether the purpose is to evade the warrant or to avoid drawing attention to your fraudulent front companiest (as, again, in this case.)

It never says they pretended not to receive it, or that they didn't obey the "command" fully. If they had not obeyed any subpoenas, I assume they would have been charged with doing so.

> It does not say it has both companies info on it. Even if it did, directing employees to pretend your firm has not received a court order naming your firm when in fact your firm has received it is not legal.

It says it was sent to the Channel Partner - it's not clear how but I assume it came through an email to the Channel Partner.

"Even if it did, directing employees to pretend your firm has not received a court order naming your firm when in fact your firm has received it is not legal."

I don't understand your theory where responding to a subpoena and signing it as one entity is "pretending" you haven't received a court order.

We'll have to agree to disagree on whether the set of facts in OP represents a crime. But even if so, it remains the case that everything described in OP, if it happened at a company that hadn't committed fraud but was using shell companies legitimately, would have been perfectly legal.
I also work in this space, producing interactive content for physics education. I have an evolving framework for visualizing vector fields, such as electric fields. Example content includes an explanation of Gauss’s law http://www.vizitsolutions.com/portfolio/gausslaw/, where the graphs, texts, and equations are interactive, and changes to any of them are reflected in all of them.

A truly general framework will be tough, because of the different nature of different types of content. For example, even within physics I am working on a quantum simulation, where the simulation and interactions with it will be very different from the electric field examples. Perhaps for some very general interactions, eventually… I will definitely be evolving in that direction – for example making the electric field models easier to edit.

I have advocated this approach at a number of conferences, but the reception from companies has been lukewarm at best. They are able to sell content with limited interactivity, and the cost for this is comparatively high.

All of this content is founded in correctness, and in research proven instructional design principles, which do include gamification.

BTW, all of the code is openly licensed, and I encourage its reuse and solicit feedback on functionality and future directions.
Totally reasonable to do it just not someone dictating salary

In your case you don’t want to move out, in my case when I move back I’d like to receive the same pay since I’ll be doing the same work
The Ars article is at least very transparent about its conclusions and what evidence they're based on.

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/06/gucci...

"We still don't know who he is or whether he works for the Russian government, but one thing is for sure: Guccifer 2.0—the nom de guerre of the person claiming he hacked the Democratic National Committee and published hundreds of pages that appeared to prove it—left behind fingerprints implicating a Russian-speaking person with a nostalgia for the country's lost Soviet era."
Aerion Supersonic AS2
Ancient ‘megasites’ may reshape the history of the first cities
Another good question is: _why_ would they go out of their way to align these megaliths so precisely?
Learning something new on your daily commute
The Deep Learning Compiler: A Comprehensive Survey
Which is here: https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/02/lambda-schools-job-p...
New Gwern.net feature: local link archives/mirrors
> I can send an encrypted email to anyone and be guaranteed that only that person has access to it, even if I have to give them instructions on how to decrypt it.

Genuine question: how would you send me an encrypted email, and give me instructions for how to decrypt it? I have no published public keys; you'd have to send me a keypair that you yourself generated - how would you do that part securely?
"Users can be tracked without cookies being sent"

How? Stylesheets can't use fingerprinting or Flash cookies or anything like that, only scripts can.
How do I securely communicate what the new email address is? How do I hide IP-level metadata? How do I hide time-level metadata? How do I do PFS?

At some point you're going to keep adding lipstick to the pig until eventually you have something morally equivalent to the pathological example I gave.
How to eliminate regular expression denial of service
Yes, I agree that the microphone has to be responsive to ultrasound. That doesn't seem to be the only requirement, though:

"When these tones arrive together at the microphone’s power amplifier, they are amplified as expected, but also multiplied due to fundamental non-linearities in the system"

"In practice, however, acoustic amplifiers maintain strong linearity only in the audible frequency range; outside this range, the response exhibits non-linearity."

That suggests to me that the nonlinear mixing isn't occurring in the MEMS structure, but rather the amplification stage. Perhaps the authors' language is imprecise?

They do say immediately after the last bit:

"The diaphragm also exhibits similar behavior [non-linearity]."

Is just the diaphragm's nonlinearity sufficient for the effect?
So, given the underlying risk, I think the premium for wildfire in CA will be going up in general with or without this. The moratorium on non-renewal only lasts one year, and really just reiterates existing law. Most insurers have been trying to adjust their rates long before this came out.

How much is hard to say. An old mentor of mine always said, "There's a price for every risk, but sometimes it's as much as the limit of insurance." That's a bit geeky but basically, as wildfire becomes more common, the models will adjust to accommodate. Community efforts to make their communities more resilient will go a long way though, like mentioned above.
I think what they're doing here is running a DNS server on a VM that only answers to requests for specific ACME address prefixes. Then at the actual domain, say example.com, they may ask for cool.example.com but it's a CNAME record that directs to something the DNS server is authority over, say xyz.io or something along those lines.

Therefore ACME's DNS request for checking via DNS validation is validated directly by the tiny DNS server due to the CNAME record directing traffic to it.

I've never done this my self neither, but I think it would be along those lines.
Two stories stand out to me, from people who were in the upper ranges of competence where I worked at the time.

1) She didn't know what MD5 was. Had never heard of it.
2) He attended a meeting, seemed to keep up then emailed notes talking about 'Jason encoding'.

I thought these are pretty general concepts to anyone even in passing, you should probably know they exist at least? But maybe I'm in a bubble.
That's kind of odd for Science Magazine to use a conspiracy theory YouTube channel as their source...
super cool. if anything else it exposes haskellers sense of humor
I still don’t get it.
The ECJ has determined that this ruling will have no effect post-Brexit because it will have no jurisdiction on any case not already before it pre-Brexit.

https://curia.europa.eu/jcms/upload/docs/application/pdf/202...
Ha ha, yep. I do this kind of thing all the time.
Or maybe people like Bloomberg because of his policies and positions, and concluding that it’s simply because of money is a logical fallacy.
I made one step lower: a collection of microservices that wrap up the APIs of services I use into a cohesive interface and authentication (JWT).

The intention of the project was less about the cohesive interface and more just making it easy for me to do automated data dumps.

https://gitlab.com/TheWatchers

It does feed back into a dashboard I wrote but the code is super simple and dumb. I don't even know if I have open-sourced it. Let me check. You'd have to go in and change stuff probably because it was never meant to be given out.
Delivery of fonts aren't what's used to track people. Rendering of fonts is.

Different machines render fonts in a unique way. Consider different GPUs (hardware differences), different drivers (kernel/driver differences), browsers (user-land differences), and sizes (user settings) can all contribute to a font being rendered differently per-user and increasing entropy of a particular unique font id.
> When does your success turn you evil?

Maybe I can help. The view is that calling the accumulation of wealth "success" is a misnomer because there is hardly anything he as a person had to do compared to the collective effort of all of the people who labored to carry out the orders from above. The workers who made his "empire" what it is have been shafted, since the result of all of their work is that most of the profit goes to the few people at the top. It is wrong to say that Bloomberg did as much work. It is wrong to say that Bloomberg provided opportunity for those workers, because opportunity to be subjugated is not opportunity at all. Opportunity would be to earn 100% of the proceeds of your work so that you have the opportunity to achieve what you want. Employers unilaterally deciding how much money to pay their employees is fundamentally unfair by definition, courtesy of the word "unilaterally". Choice is a false concept in capitalism as you cannot choose from all possible options, just the ones that are graciously handed down from the plutocrats.

Also: the economy we live in is not "nice". It is if you have significant investments in the stock market, but relatively few people actually do. Of the total invested wealth, 90% of it belongs to the top 10% percent of the population. If you are not a part of this club, chances are you are hurting more than you were 15 years ago.
Me too, but there appears to be something like a visible crease in that side.
> So, what are the odds that this is or isn't a coincidence?

The odds of the sides of the pyramids being reasonably close to some convenient multiple or fraction of some other pair of measures that are related to each other, and that that would happen by coincidence alone, is about 100%.

It's much lower for any particular pair of measures, or any particular fraction or multiple, but given all the possibilities for both base measurement pairs and fractions/multiples, it's near certain that any pair of measurements would fit that with some other pair of measurements.
Creating and validating digital signatures using UniPDF
How would Dunning Kruger cause young men to commit crimes?
1. Maybe not. WikiLeaks is a leaks publication outfit, not a counter-intelligence outfit.

2. Suppose it had been a "cut-out" (though I'm incredulous of that). Do you believe they should have refused to publish in that case?
Hey man, I * scrolls back 6 pages * love a good stack trace.
Maybe the fan’s cooling effect keeps the solder cold and brittle.

You just can’t win.
Isn't authentication just as important as encryption for secure communication?

What is the benefit of being both anonymous and encrypted?
Well, to be fair, it sounds like that it at least started out as a project where the programmer and the user were the same person?
SQLite's quirks page [1] actually suggests the same thing:

> In retrospect, perhaps it would have been better if SQLite had merely implemented an ANY datatype so that developers could explicitly state when they wanted to use flexible typing, rather than making flexible typing the default. But that is not something that can be changed now without breaking the millions of applications and trillions of database files that already use SQLite's flexible typing feature.

I wish they had done this in the first place. I wish even now that they implemented a pragma to enforce types (and introduce the ANY type for folks who explicitly want it). But SQLite has enough good things going for it that I'm happy to use it in spite of this problem.

[1] https://www.sqlite.org/quirks.html
It's hexadecimal ascii
They can't examine anything, because AFAIK the servers were physically destroyed before official US authorities got to them. They relied on CrowdStrike's analysis.
http://www.unit-conversion.info/texttools/hexadecimal/#data
Pathetic. People in the UK can make any legislation they want now.
This is why you need locking on a script like that :)
No, but you're Alfred Einstein of lazy analogies.
Yeah, companies that want remote employees really need to drop the COL thing and pay everyone similar rates. At an old job, I was getting $120k doing remote work in a high COL area, and we were looking to hire another team member. Did a bunch of interviews, found someone who was a perfect candidate, and was more qualified than all of us currently on the team. The project manager wouldn't hire him because he lives in Detroit and wanted $125k, and they said that someone living in Detroit doesn't need that much money.
Probably because no one was spoon feeding you or holding your hand. Plus the fact that people who can teach themselves are probably a little more driven or competent to start with.
I admit he got me good with his "Scottish Army MRE" video though in my defense, who expects an April Fools video in January? I really enjoy his teardowns and the accompanying circuit diagrams - amazing stuff.