skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> They wouldn't also have long or green hair.

What a weird thing to say. Yes, some of them had long hair; some of them had dyed hair.

> But to your specific point were the females also foot soldiers? Not, do you know of an example, but was it somewhat common?

It was a known tactic of National Action to recruit as many women as they could, because those women would then go on to recruit a lot of men.

They had enough women members to run a "Miss Hitler" beauty pageant.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/scottish-woman-named-m...

One of the winners went on to become part of the National Action leadership: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/national-action-...
No-one was stopping Star Theory employees from going to work for Take-Two.

The problem was when Take-Two messaged every worker at the company and said "We've just bankrupted the studio you work for. Come work for us on the same product you were working on before".
What about https://www.envkey.com/?
That was a frustratingly meandering and low-density listen. Here's the substance of the episode, the rest can be discarded:

> Now that we have agreed that not all speech is protected, is this particular speech we are talking about protected? The answer is that first we start with a presumption that a law punishing speech for its content or message or subject matter violates the First Amendment.

> We look to see if the speech falls into a short list of well-defined historical exceptions to the First Amendment; obscenity, defamation, fraud, speech that’s integral to criminal conduct. And if the speech doesn’t fall into one of those narrow categories, the government cannot restrict it, unless it can pass that incredibly tough test called strict scrutiny, which is almost always fatal.

> So how much does saying you can’t shout fire in a theater help you in doing that analysis? Not a bit. It’s empty words. Every time someone says it I get a little more misanthropic.

If you want more background, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shouting_fire_in_a_crowded_the...

So, as to whether it's illegal to shout Fire! in a crowded theater (which isn't on fire), I still don't know. The StackExchange folks lean toward it probably being illegal, especially if you end up causing a panic, depending on state. https://law.stackexchange.com/q/28853
From report it looks like it was the HSBC bank which was involved, and it looks like the banking transactions was executed in Hong Kong. But it isn't an US or Canadian bank, how does the rest of the argument follow?
Code goes under src/. For pdfs of receipts, notes I jotted in txt files, etc., I create a new directory each year and just leave everything in there unorganized.
That alleged trend doesn't concern me at all.

What concerns me is my declining power vs. State power.
Whistleblower cops should receive $500,000 for every fellow cop or administrator their testimony helps convict. As a tax payer, I will happily pay my portion of that award to help keep my local police clean.
Land taxes are actually better in those regards than income or capital gains taxes.

You can't hide land, and if you want the state to enforce your property rights, you can't alter your behavior in a way that lets you avoid paying the tax. That makes the land tax what economist call a "zero-deadweight" tax: it doesn't decrease economic activity or consumer wellbeing at all. There's also an economic theorem [1] that an LVT results in the optimal size of government: investment in public goods increases the value of land (and hence rent that can be charged for it), but also the tax on that land, so citizens have an incentive to vote in only those public works projects that increase rents more than their cost in taxes.

Whereas if you put a tariff on iPhones at the dock, Apple will pass that tariff along to consumers, prices will go up, and fewer people that want an iPhone will be able to afford one. The "HQ in Ireland" trick revolves around avoiding dollars at all: profits from a company's EUs operations are retained as Euros and then used to pay European employees or exchanged directly for RMBs to pay for Chinese goods.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_George_theorem
Task-based async/await in swift
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I assume they can still be disbarred for professional misconduct.

In general the justice system seems to have extensive functionality built to prevent its inner workings from facing the kind of personal liability that everyone else faces.
But they have actively disabled the abilities of add-ons to do the job completely. There's a lot of except-Google going on in Chrome.

I switched back to Firefox last year, and it's been a good change. uBlock Origin can do all of its job and not just some of the job.
Most of the other crimes are associated with prohibition.

When the penalty for drug distribution is a decade in prison which the government then uses as leverage to flip your distributors and then do the same to everyone in your whole organization, it makes it economically viable to use extreme measures to avoid prosecution. Snitches get stitches etc.

Whereas when the consequences of tax evasion are paying what you owe plus penalties and interest, you just pay the money (or go bankrupt). There is no incentive to spend five million dollars to avoid a million dollar penalty as a gesture of loyalty to your people or to keep them from flipping; you just pay the million dollars. There is much less incentive to murder witnesses and risk prison when the alternative was only bankruptcy and not prison to begin with. The violence is primarily attributable to the harshness of the penalties in the War on Drugs and what that justifies in order to avoid them.

Meanwhile prosecuting tax evasion is self-financing whenever tax evasion is prevalent, so it has a natural equilibrium at a low level of tax evasion. Prohibition is the opposite -- the harder you prosecute the higher the street prices get and the more lucrative it is to commit violence to bring in those high prices.
Google is just a digital Eye-of-Sauron[0] and very difficult to avoid if you do any meaningful surfing of the open web. They have their fingers in many different pies.

There is even small subcultures on the web dedicated to avoiding Google by doing things like running 'degoogled chromium' and blacklisting various Google domains in their /etc/hosts file. Sadly all these mitigations don't work because Google already has a dossier on many people and even if you don't have a Google account, Google keeps tabs on you via fingerprinting or other means and knows who 'you' really are (using simple correlation and heuristics).

Then this raises the issue of: what can be done? I prefer to just be nihilistic about it and accept that Google already has dirt on me, despite my mitigations (I have a bit of history blindly handing over personal data to Google for a number of years). I think young people these days in 2020 have a great opportunity to implement mitigations and are better suited than me to browse privately, since I'm already contaminated by Google. (I still mitigate however, but it's not enough).

[0] https://lotr.fandom.com/wiki/Eye_of_Sauron
I use a Nextcloud box with Hetzner. My general file org looks like this: Camera Upload (from Iphone) Documents zotero (webdav sync for publications with zotero).

Inside my "Documents folder" I have a shared folder with my wife (bunch of junk / pdfs), a personal one with a bunch of random crap, a linux folder full of config files / scripts / readmes / backups and a Work folder. Inside my work folder it's organized based on the company I was working for at the time, then by project or customer. I have been consulting for a few years, so inside that folder it's all organized based on the client, usually named by their company name, then inside of that it's individual projects. Granted, this is just me, so the org isn't too bad. I also have folders labelled "paperwork" inside my business which is, like it sounds, full of receipts, contracts, templates, etc. One thing I do that may be different to others is I'll keep invoices and company specific paperwork inside that companies folder. If I get an NDA from company xyz, it will usually go in xyz/paperwork or something like that.

I do the Doctor's office approach; each client or project is a folder where a bunch of stuff gets thrown in.

Maybe this helps you? Maybe not? Been working for me for a few years. For code I'll save the code in my Nextcloud and then also do commits with my git server.
I'd argue the US has, at the very least, a moral obligation to not make a deal with China which precludes releasing those Canadians.

Furthermore, I'd argue that it's in the United States best interest to do so (since it will affect the willingness of other close allies to co-operate on similar matters in the future).

Then again, the current administration doesn't seem to have much love for its traditional allies, but lots of love for the almighty dollar so who knows what will happen.
Hi all, this is a follow-up to two essays:

1) The parallels between anxious ideas and immune system threat prediction (discussed at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22475370)

2) The game theory of determining which imagined threats are worth our attention (discussed at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22760540).

Thoughts and feedback welcome as always :)
Ah, yes. The majority that forced Socrates to drink poison.
I always got the impression from her public persona that she thought she didn't need charisma, that she had "earned it", and that the power she had accrued over the years should be enough to deliver the victory to her.
https://www.eventbrite.com/ ?
TeamSpeak and Discord are oriented towards staying in one channel for longer periods of time which we found cumbersome. Squawk is more conducive to having many groups that you can switch between seamlessly: just push-and-hold to talk to a different group.

Technically speaking, probably very similar: Squawk is webrtc based and fully end-to-end encrypted.
> While tangential, it should be noted that creating jobs in Mexico and Canada will probably always be a net good for the US even if it means some net loss of jobs in the near term.

Yeah the rust belt job loss is only temporary. They will come back any day now.

> We want manufacturing in mexico because we're connected by literal rail lines and can ship products back and forth far more readily and in an environmentally friendly way.

Yeah I'm sure those Mexico factories have all the environmental regulations that US/Canada does.

> This may sound controversial but it's likely the only way forward for the US to compete with China long term.

The US has given China it's growth. It has exported jobs and exported it's middle class along with it. It has also exported much of it's high tech advantage into China. All for the short term benefit of the investor class and it's billionaires. Competing with China could start by not giving away every advantage.

> Trying to ostracize our neighbors and go it alone against a country 4x our size is not a geopolitically sound move.

The only ostracizing I do is towards the billionaires who shape economic policy to their benefit and everyone else's expense.
I've had a couple of X1s and T series throughout the years, and ran Ubuntu and Arch wonderfully. Save for the fingerprint sensor (where I think the issue is not drivers but rather that fingerprints don't have enough entropy for a keyring), they actually ran way better than my current Windows X1 which BSODs every 3 days.

I think the yoga subbrand is a lower end model, so maybe they're sloppier there?
There's a $HOME/src for all the source code. It's on a separate partition.

Subfolders for projects.

Every project has a directory named `my.tmp.dir`, thats in global gitignore. Everything project related goes there.
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On NAS with ZFS + backup on second NAS + Online Backup:
/music/
/picture/<picture taker (me, my wife, me and my wife, friends)>/<year>/

On every laptop/desktop i have a project folder which is backuped through git:
/project/

Then i have everything else i need in a google docs and its basically:
/docs/archive (stuff i don't need but don't wanna delete, old letters, old bills)
/docs/ebook
/docs/finance
/docs/flat
/docs/company/<companies i have worked for>
/docs/resume

It reflects more or less what i have in real paper folders. I'm still rethinking if i can go full digital but its not really urgent.

Passwords & Secerts are at lastpass, backuped on docs with very strong password. That change, made my life a lot easier :)
Does it not depends on the level of photographers? Assuming there is level 1 to 10 in DSLR users, surely there would be some DSLR users that flagship cell phone has reached a point where it doesn't matter to them?

I have been wonder at what point will Phones camera reached the law of diminishing return? I thought the iPhone 11 with night mode finally closed the gap for most consumers, we have a roadmap for another 5 years of Lens, Optical Zoom, and Sensors with better light sensitivity.

Apple likes to hype up features, but they still haven't come out and claim they have a DSLR like Camera system. I wonder when they will do that.
>I'm still baffled why no one has seriously floated this idea though.

It's not even a fringe idea that government policy is dictated by the wealthy class. What incentive do they have to do this?

The only way that it will happen is by regular people making it policy, and our current system doesn't give us a voice on what happens.
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Before the Harrison narcotic act in 1914 there was never such a thing as an "illegal drug" there were laws about adultering products with poison but the concept of illegal drugs or a "war on drugs" didn't exist before 1914 in the US.

I am not sure how addicts were treated by law enforcement historically but would be curious to hear about that. Just my own intuition says they probably were treated under existing vagrancy laws "Vagrancy laws took myriad forms, generally making it a crime to be poor, idle, dissolute, immoral, drunk, lewd, or suspicious."
HCQ and its derivatives were given not to thousands or millions but tens of millions sometimes for years on end. In tropical countries like Nigeria it is customary for visitors and residents alike to be on long term HCQ dosages.

I was quite surprised at the newfound fatality. Given that it was the Lancet, I took it at face value. Their political biases made them overlook the sheer flimsiness of the study.

Rather than a mess, it is showing us the messy humans behind the veil of "science". There is no platonic scientist - just humans doing imperfect science.
I'm with you but substitute WORK for Value Creation. It's way to easy to "create jobs" which are essentially busy-work with 0 to negative productivity. In the coming decades, economic productivity will become more and more important as gains from elsewhere start to taper out.
Huh. I'm from MN and I guess I never thought about it and assumed that was normal.
Let's not gloss over the hilarious assumption that wealth is fairly apportioned based on who "creates" it.
Another article, which includes the wallpaper in question and the reason why it crashes the phone.

https://techxplore.com/news/2020-06-wallpaper-image-android....
Higher education is a pretty low percentage of the population in Switzerland, so I'd say it's not surprising given the number of high technology companies.

As far as I know, some specialisations are simply not found at all (e.g. aerospace engineering).

But it's all over the economy really, Switzerland is really reliant an foreign labour. Just have a look at construction or healthcare.
no reexamination necessary, I'm drawn to emulate and recommend the humans that work hard toward long term goals. I like when Darwinism shows tangible progress against entropy rather than producing viruses that leech off of life.
I used to be for complete legalization for the reasons discussed here, but now i struggle with that because of how much destruction there is to people from meth and opioids. If those were legally available in smaller "safe" doses maybe it would be better. But this is just tough to contemplate.
Forgot to add; anything I get on the internet is in the Downloads folder. If it is anything I can get again I consider it junk and don't save it. If it's important it gets saved to zotero or put in my documents. Otherwise, it's garbage and I clean out my Downloads every other week or so.
To be pedantic, it's impossible to get to 0K due to quantum fluctuations. Even empty deep space is over 2K. In laboratory settings, we've gotten way below 1K. I don't think anything qualifies as a gas at that temperature. It'd be a solid or a BEC.
I think the right approach is to have both, if you are a serious photo-hobbyist. You need a phone anyway.

The value of a good phone-camera is that you most always have it with you.

A picture is only as good as the thing it is a picture of.
From my understanding, if it happens once, it's a crash, if it keeps rebooting it's a brick. If it can be recovered it's a soft-brick, otherwise it's a hard-brick.
They were giving weapons to... someone though?

Seems I remember Republicans going on and on about that to this day. Fast and Furious something?
I completely agree with this in theory, we ought to just make capital gains be taxed at the same progressive tax brackets as income.

That being said, how do we prevent people from just selling small amounts of capital every year, so as to stay below bracket thresholds?
It seems like corporations will develop psychohistory and use it for profit rather than some Hari Seldon type using it to save civilization.
This IMHO defends, not defuses the preceding argument. When there was risk of the market crashing, the federal government injected trillions _into the market_. This primarily benefits those with significant capital investments, not those whose ability to provide for themselves and their families is tied directly to regular employment.

Small business, retail and service workers, and employees whose jobs can't be trivially moved online are in desperate straights right now. The Fed's action did almost nothing for them.
Typo: The wealthy companies end up in a few places and don't have a limited interest in diversifying geographically. -> The wealthy companies end up in a few places and have a limited interest in diversifying geographically.
Agreed, but a server turned off has lower risks to leak information. And I think also they bought the expertise of the team to improve zoom, more than getting the solution per se. It will take some months to have this question answered (about what will really happen to keybase)
I don't know anyone believes anything anymore. He could be dead. He could be alive. He could have even committed suicide.

I honestly believe the only way we'll ever get the truth from elites is with "advanced interrogation" tactics.
Touch screen are too sensitive to be safe. Also there is a very high chance to mis-click (see HN upvote/dowwn-vote buttons). Much safer to use regular old mechanical buttons with tick-tacks.
What're the differences between the two?
I think this is a massive problem, and it produces just bizarre situations. Flat cultures produce weird side effects (you can have a stalemate that shouldn't exist) but extreme-status-hierarchy cultures just produce an entirely different level of crazy.

Years ago (not my current employer), there was a big offshore team that was a huge pain in the neck because their entire development culture was one of deception and defensiveness - they'd deliver garbage but then spend enormous amounts of energy managing up and propagandizing to their reporting chain and executives that everything was finished, high-quality, etc.

One of the security teams practically begged for someone to help get this team to fix the bugs they were filing. The other team was straight up closing pretty much anything they could as "incorrect" reports or classifying all the bugs as ultra-low severity (which is basically "will not fix") so that their metrics stayed perfect. Lots of issues like this. When they were challenged on it from the outside, by one of the guys who didn't have a sense for the political situation, the best way to describe the reaction goes way beyond "circling the wagons" - they went full nuclear, politically, on that guy. No holds barred, a total nest of vipers. For engineers who have never experienced companies with deep and vicious politics, it's hard for them to understand what it's like at companies like that.

Then one day, one of the best executives at the top of the chain decided that he was going to re-organize his directs and fold these teams together, under someone from the side of the house into which the security team reported.

Now, cultures of managing up are good at reading the waters and so you'd expect that they'd change their tune anyway, and they did, but the part that was shocking to all involved is, as a side effect of the exec shuffle, the security guy above was given an important-sounding but meaningless title, and suddenly the interactions between that organization and the security guy went from a one of subversion, political smearing, etc. to one of absolute and total deference overnight.

The offshore team wasn't any _better_, they were still marginal and you couldn't trust a single thing they said, but the instant attitude change from "defiant, we-are-power-adjacent, you'd better watch yourself" to "oh XXX, we're helpless, nothing can be done, yes we will try but.." due to what was essentially the change of a string in a database somewhere was just crazy to observe. Everything went from "that guy is terrible, that guy doesn't know, blah blah' to "yes, oh, XXX is great, we love XXX, he is helping, ..."
There are many Democrats in Mississippi and as a practical matter no primary system that simply ignored those voters would be viable.
Ah, the two most expensive, most corporate, software development consultancies Germany has to offer.
"Let us abolish policemen who carry clubs and revolvers, and put in a squad of poets armed to the teeth with poems on Spring and Love."

--Mark Twain, 1900
IANAL, but my understanding is that sanctions are generally enforced by restricting access to the US financial system (banks and such) for companies that violate them. In some cases there may be criminal repercussions as well.