skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> no meaningful financial punishment

OK, so require community service. That doesn't cost me as a taxpayer, and even benefits me indirectly. Community service is also a far better rehabilitation strategy than locking people up when they aren't a physical threat.

Or delayed financial punishments that are proportional to your earnings in the future.
Do you have anything to back up your claims or is it just that you'd prefer China not to be involved? Because I've found multiple sources backing up the claim that China was in fact involved.

This book (https://books.google.com/books?id=iyQps4i41JoC&pg=PA344&redi...) mentions Southern China as one of the origins of narezushi.

This one (https://www.businessinsider.com/the-complete-history-of-sush...) goes even further by specifically talking of Southern China as the origin and suggests that the influence of northern invaders explains why you won't find much signs of it in modern China.

This documentary (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31jXkTLbYFE&feature=youtu.be...) links sushi to the introduction of rice cultivation to Japan. Through China.

And apparently (https://scholarspace.manoa.hawaii.edu/bitstream/10125/17154/...) when it comes to the arrival of rice to Japan, it's not a question of whether or not it came through China, but which of the three possible routes it took.
There's more than one way to do this. If the purchase is refunded on the device, the app can be uninstalled at the same time; this is how Google does it. If the app is refunded on another device or in the browser, then all it takes is for the app store to keep track of app licenses (which it already does) and remove apps when their license disappears.

It seems odd, though, that Apple wouldn't have an API that allows locking app functionally behind licenses; on Android [1],

> With Google Play Licensing, your application can query Google Play at run time to obtain the licensing status for the current user, then allow or disallow further use as appropriate.
> ...
> Note: The Google Play Licensing service is primarily intended for paid applications that wish to verify that the current user did in fact pay for the application on Google Play. However, any application (including free apps) may use the licensing service to initiate the download of an APK expansion file.

In other words, the licensing service checks for both IAPs as well as if you've paid for the app itself.

[1]: https://developer.android.com/google/play/licensing
This is the first bit of one of those ACLU articles. IMHO it doesn't sound like anyone is being "dumped", rather, the ACLU is choosing to focus on a particular audience. Which there are a lot of legitimate reasons to choose to do.

Also the statistical makeup each community is going to vary; so in some places you might be correct about "half to a local majority" of the community being white (not sure if that's what you meant), in other places, it'll be the other way around.

"The increasing use of surveillance technologies by local police across America, especially against communities of color and other unjustly targeted groups, has been creating oppressive and stigmatizing environments in which every community member is treated like a prospective criminal. Many communities of color and of low income have been turned into virtual prisons where residents’ public behavior is monitored and scrutinized 24 hours a day."
What I see happening in real life is..

Hacker has access to Foo that's how they got your creds. If they want more access they will use the admin account to gather all info Foo knows.

Hacker picks a global service. Paypal, gmail, appleid, godaddy and tries all usernames/passwords.

When they hit 2fa they attempt a code. 99% of times it fails. You get a warning/change the password and get scared.

User receives an email saying that you have beenhacked. They have proof you did something illegal or something illegal has been planted. Send bitcoin here or this video will be sent to all of your friends/work/family.

----

2fa usually locks you when you need it the most (no battery/texts not going through/paid bill latertexting is turned off can cause this)
Proof-of-work based on hash mining for reducing spam attacks
Came here to say this. This video of his really opened my eyes to what Blender can do (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lY8Ol2n4o4A) and makes a cool entry point into that world.
Courts have ruled that robbery is not necessarily violent. If you walk into a bank and say "Excuse me, could I trouble you for a moment of your time? Please hand me all the money in the safe", that's not violent: no threat is made, no gun is brandished, and so on. (It is still a robbery, of course.)

https://blog.federaldefendersny.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/...
Of note: as of last October, if a PayPal merchant refunds a customer for any reason, PayPal is no longer refunding their payment processing fee. The merchant will need to refund that to the customer at their own expense to grant the customer a full refund.
20. All education institutions will be held to similar standards of audit and disclosure as a ‘not for profit’ entity. Surpluses, if any, will be reinvested in the educational sector, according to the NEP 2020.

21. There will be transparent public disclosure of all these financial matters with recourse to grievance-handling mechanisms to the general public. The accreditation system developed by a National Accreditation Council will provide a complementary check on this system, and a National Higher Education Regulatory Council (NHERC) will consider this as one of the key dimensions of its regulatory objective.

22. All fees and charges set by private HEIs will be transparently and fully disclosed, and there shall be no arbitrary increases in these fees during the period of enrolment of any student. This fee determining mechanism will ensure reasonable recovery of cost while ensuring that HEIs discharge their social obligations.

23. Through a suitable system of graded accreditation and graded autonomy, and in a phased manner over a period of 15 years, all HEIs in India will aim to become independent self-governing institutions pursuing innovation and excellence. Upon receiving the appropriate graded accreditations that deem the institution ready for such a move, a Board of Governors (BoG) shall be established. Equity considerations will also be taken care of while selecting the members, according to the policy. The BoG of an institution will be empowered to govern the institution free of any external interference. It is envisaged that all HEIs will be incentivized, supported, and mentored during this process, and shall aim to become autonomous and have such an empowered BoG by 2035.
My guess is the actual sun has periods of less activity / heat.
Re: peer comments noting the difference between violent & non-violent crime. The penal code is full of blue-collar crimes that carry exceedingly stiff penalties.

For example, possession of 12 grams of LSD carries a mandatory minimum sentence of 10 years under federal sentencing guidelines.
What I've learned over the years is that the lines always get tapped. The just do. Whether it's the telegraph, the telephone, or fiberoptic cables under the sea. The lines get tapped if at all possible.

I don't believe for one second that the CCP doesn't leverage Chinese made networking gear for intelligence. They probably even leverage third party gear too. This stuff is all so insecure everyone is in everything anyway.
"McCarthy had, in fact, no such list. He did not have even a single name."

The FBI Venona project (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venona_project) detected a significant number of Soviet spies operating in the US during the "McCarthy period." After the fall of the Berlin Wall a number of documents were recovered from the East Germany that substantiated the FBI work. Senator (D) Daniel Patrick Moynihan wrote about this in detail in "Secrecy" https://www.amazon.com/Secrecy-Experience-Daniel-Patrick-Moy... (See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moynihan_Commission_on_Governm... for context)
The simplest, least time consuming for you, and probably safest in terms of result, would probably be the way it works when your employer patents something that you've been working on as an employee (which is my experience): Hire a lawyer.

Process in a company goes along the following lines:

A specialised lawyer is hired. You write a document describing your invention. The lawyer reads it. You present it to them, they ask questions and take notes. They draft a patent, may ask you some questions along the way. They go through the draft with you. There may be a couple of iterations. If all is OK they apply.

A lawyer knows how to draft a patent in order to have it granted while maximising its coverage: A patent really is a legal document so the wording can have a big impact on its value, it should be clear but as wide and general as possible.
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Please, be careful throwing this kind of idea out there, people at Apple/Google, who obviously have run out of ideas long ago, may be reading this.
I really think a bookmarking service alone is not sufficient for the modern web. The modern web is ripe with linkrot and disappearing websites.

A bookmarking service combined with user friendly archival website or a user friendly IPFS is the way to go.

I know there is the Wayback Machine but it takes so long to load an URL that the user experience suffers.
Onboarding Engineers During Covid-19
You can set it up so your local bookstore gets a kickback from Libro.fm, too.
I work in the medical imaging space, specifically with implementing deep learning into clinical practice. I see a lot of people making a lot of fuss about what type of network or loss function to use. I would argue that this focus is misguided 90% of the time. Sure, maybe using a very specific network architecture and custom loss can edge you out by a 2-3% performance gain. But is that making or breaking the fundamental clinical application? I would argue that it usually is not. Instead, I've seen how much of the deep learning in medical imaging is driven by the quality and diversity of source data, which in the medical space can often be scarce for a number of reasons.

I'm reminded about this tweet, which emphasizes that
a lot of your performance is going to be down to how good your datasets are [0].

[0]. https://twitter.com/lishali88/status/994723759981453312
> $179MM of assets

Uh, that's only if you think they are worth $179M. I might be your competitor, think your software is crap, and worth $0 to me. This is a heavily subjective number.

$10000 in hard cash though is $10000 no matter how you look at it.

I do agree that white vs blue collar crime is an issue but I don't think that's the issue here.

On the other hand though I am dismayed at the fact that this guy is getting more jail time than rapists often get (e.g. Brock Turner). Although it's still a crime, I don't consider intellectual property crime to be that serious in the grand scheme of things. Intellectual property is not even real property to me, and real property is a far cry from human bodies.
Turkish Airlines Announces Deep Pay Cuts to Avoid Forced Layoffs
Yea sure, CRDTs interesting and all, but what if it mentioned blackchain 50 times? Research groups often worship a particular technology for some imaginary practical applications. Take something like collaborative editing, It's "straightforward" to have a people edit a local document and then use a server as the central point of authority, but that is not an open academic question so people want to do it without the central server. Marijn Haverbeke has made this point more eleganty [1].

[1] https://marijnhaverbeke.nl/blog/collaborative-editing.html
Stealing intellectual property and trade secrets isn't the same as stealing hard assets.

Bernie Madoff was a white collar criminal that stole real money from clients and is serving life in prison.

Google may have been damaged, but they can still use their software that was stolen.
If I made a comment like that Dang would have words with me. How does this move the conversations forward? I made a comparison with the political platform of two popular social media platforms. What do you think in regards to this issue?
The takeaway is to favor committing white collar crimes rather than blue collar.
24. Stand-alone agricultural universities, legal universities, health science universities, technical universities, and stand-alone institutions in other fields, shall aim to become multidisciplinary institutions offering holistic and multidisciplinary education.

25. All institutions offering either professional or general education will aim to organically evolve into institutions/clusters offering both seamlessly, and in an integrated manner by 2030.

26. Both capacity and quality of agriculture and allied disciplines must be improved in order to increase agricultural productivity through better skilled graduates and technicians, innovative research, and market-based extension linked to technologies and practices.

27. Institutions offering agricultural education must benefit the local community directly; one approach could be to set up Agricultural Technology Parks to promote technology incubation and dissemination and promote sustainable methodologies.

28. Legal education needs to be competitive globally, adopting best practices and embracing new technologies for wider access to and timely delivery of justice.

29. Healthcare education needs to be re-envisioned so that the duration, structure, and design of the educational programmes need to match the role requirements that graduates will play. There shall also be a much greater emphasis on preventive healthcare and community medicine in all forms of healthcare education.
There is, and if both took $10k the violent crime deserves a harsher punishment. But when 18,000x the money is taken, there is a fair bit of hurt for a fair few people.
But sim swapping is more a targeted attack. There are probably several orders of magnitude more opportunistic attacks than targeted attacks.

If you can make opportunistic attacks fail and require targeted attacks, you still have a big advantage.
Ahh !! ok.

I just wanted to make sure that it was purely for entertainment and I wasn't missing something about the bigger picture here. =]
30. Technical education will also aim to be offered within multidisciplinary education institutions and programmes and have a renewed focus on opportunities to engage deeply with other disciplines.

India must also take the lead in preparing professionals in cutting-edge areas that are fast gaining prominence, such as Artificial Intelligence (AI), 3-D machining, big data analysis, and machine learning, in addition to genomic studies, biotechnology, nanotechnology, neuroscience, with important applications to health, environment, and sustainable living that will be woven into undergraduate education for enhancing employability of the youth.

31. The new policy seeks to expand access to higher education for 50% of high school students by 2035, and achieve universal adult literacy before that date.

32. Govt is targetting 100% gross enrollment ratio from pre-school to secondary level by 2030.

Some other sources:
https://www.hindustantimes.com/education/new-education-polic...

https://twitter.com/DrRPNishank - Human Resource Development Minister. His department would be renamed to Education Deparatment under the new policy.

https://twitter.com/narendramodi - Prime Minister. This new policy was one of the election promises.
That option is slightly less convenient than just requiring a WHERE or LIMIT clause, because it specifies that the WHERE clause has to have a key constraint. You can still do approximately the same as the 'WHERE 1=1' trick with something like this:

UPDATE users SET email = lower(email) LIMIT COUNT(email)

if you want. I kind of like that, because it requires you to be more explicit than just putting 'WHERE 1=1'. It seems like mistakes would be fewer, too, because putting LIMIT COUNT(email) isn't just some default boilerplate you can get used to typing.
A Style Guide for SQL
What I'm going to watch closely is where wide-spread surveillance and hard law & order measures will be implemented and how people react. The typical scenario is lawlessness that then leads to people voting for a strongman that enacts authoritarian policies. But I can absolutely see people voting for more public surveillance and law & order from a position of wealth as a replacement of social control / delegation of control to the state. Basically: you no longer have the grandmother on the window sill keeping an eye on the street and informing the parents of misbehaving kids, you'll have a camera.

I can certainly see the allure. I wonder how a competition within the Western System between surveillance and anti-surveillance locations will fare. Techno-authoritarianism can be very efficient, and even more so when it's not used to keep a corrupt system from toppling over (this is where somebody might jump up and say that that's exactly what it's doing in Western countries, but that's besides the point for local surveillance), and the question becomes how much more efficient it would be and how willing people are to trade privacy for comfort.
The Many-Worlds Interpretation is the simplest one, because it makes no assumptions beyond, "The basic rules of Quantum Mechanics are correct." It's also very counter-intuitive, but very elegant.
so does he have to pay google/waymo back that 800K on top of the 179MM ?
Here's a proper, non-clickbaity title for that description: "Many fear permanent job loss" or "Job loss anxiety grows" or "Nearly half of all workers fear permanent job loss". There's a difference between statistical probability based on economic analysis and sentimental analysis based on current mood. Sentiment does matter, but it's also easy to be unrealistically pessimistic in the midst of a trough.
Data Stewardship: The Untapped Potential of the Internet
Turkish Airlines Signs Codeshare Agreement with Pakistan International Airlines
Yeah, I know.

OP has stated they've left their home twice in the past 5 months, the last time 4 weeks ago and they just tested positive.

The chance of them being an asymptomatic carrier is actually pretty low, otherwise we wouldn't be doing 14 day quarantines.

Is it possible OP is a rare edge case? Sure. But not likely.
OpenAPI?
> possession of 12 grams of LSD

Reader's note: that's between 50k and 100k doses.

Not that I disagree with your point.
thanks. yes, i do prefer a management position. any suggestions on what should i do in the next two months?
There's a project called GIMPShop which was supposed to make the UI of GIMP more like Photoshop; I don't know what the current status of it is though.
> some might consider corporate espionage

I don't know about "consider," he plead guilty to theft of trade secrets and was charged with crimes defined by the Economic Espionage Act.

But I think most engineers don't know that stealing IP from your former employer is a federal crime punishable up to 10 years.
I don't agree Jack Dorsey thinks this way. I believe Facebook is bias towards dollars, Jack strikes me as an ideologue and someone that really believes in his personal impact
Perhaps, though I suspect he didn't start his benchmark series that way. Once it got popular he may have gotten more requests (for essentially free marketing) and need a paygate.

His articles are extremely well documented, so there's nothing stopping anyone from performing the same benchmarks.
Err...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Globalism
> Second-top comment: unfairly strict

I see that as a misread of the truth behind the second comment. The comment is in relation to "A startup that has its IP copied illegally would be lucky to not be ignored by the feds."

The first comment references unfair leniency in relation to the person doing the crime.

The second references unjust application only in favor of the powerful.

Those are not the same dimensions and are not comparable.
That is absolutely true. But given that a competitor did pay for those assets, literally, then a market value for those assets was established.

If he had stolen the IP, and the acquiring company decided to pay $0 for it and not take it, then your assessment would be correct.

But a company decided that those assets were worth north of $100MM and paid for it.
The whole point of this kind of thing is to be able to influence the software that your business relies on.

It's certainly possible that Microsoft (or any other company with the $$$) can influence the strategic direction of Blender in ways the harm competitors and/or other Blender users. I'm not sure why that's such a controversial concern to have, that kind of thing happens all the time. There are likely mechanisms in place to protect against it, but what are they and are they good enough? I don't think "just trust me" is a good approach to take.
If I say the product wasn't useful to me, that's going to be completely true.
Switzerland faced similar warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed -- it's only in 1848 that Switzerland came to peace.
Ah, I forgot to include the twelve stages of proactive, redundant backups. :) I usually do the same thing -- local snapshots if the database is small and the app is less critical... or a careful review of the central db backup history and a documented rollback plan if it's a bigger system.
> For example, consider a regulation that standardizes a "social contacts list" and requires that ecosystems in which a use can maintain a list of contacts must be capable of import/export in this standard format.

So now every social network must be similar enough to facebook that facebook can import its social contacts lists (and thus must beat facebook at its own game) or so different that it doesn't even have social contacts lists (and thus isn't competing with facebook at all).

This sort of regulation may hadicap a dominant player in the field, but it also handicaps everyone else, and the dominant player is best positioned to play with a handicap. Things only get more problematic if lobbyists from the dominant player get the regulations made in such a way that the handicap for everyone else is worse. You can only regulate what already exists, so regulations by their nature will always enshrine the status quo.

Breaking up monopolies and preventing mergers which significantly reduce competition is much more reasonable than prescriptive regulation in cases where innovations in technologies and business practices can reasonably be expected.
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Not necessarily: consider a case where the goals of the organization doing the donating, and your goals don't align.

Now I'm saying it will be a net negative in this case, but the possibility is there.
A stove is not a satisfying example. The recipe in this case is developed using Apple's kitchen utensils and delivered in a recipe book printed by Apple. There are entanglements between Apple and the Developer that go beyond the "tool vs method" abstraction. Some of these are forced on the Developer.
From the article: "He (Kevin Mayer) says TikTok will also reveal its data flows to regulators, and is calling on its rivals to do the same."
it can be allowed by conforming to phytosanitary proceedures, this means inspection and permits. This is common and regular proseedure for agri/horti culture
I would assume fraud would be fully refunded, no? This is more about legitimate Apple-sanctioned returns, not fraudulent transactions. I may be wrong, but I hope I'm not lol
Isn't this article missing the point of the internet?

It talks about an ambitious (but ultimately aborted) top-down project to build thousands of interlinking mainframes.

But building large networks wasn't particularly novel. It was the idea that you could build a logical layer that potentially linked any network.

The key to the early internet was you didn't necessarily need to build anything physical. You could link up several existing networks in any which way you want, despite involving disparate organizations, systems, and infrastructure.