skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Because of AML rules, the list of Non-Cooperative Countries or Territories [1], and FATCA/CRS reporting

Swiss, Czech bearer instrument companies were a thing pretty recently. Cypriot trusts were a thing just a few years ago (maybe still are?). Or do you define offshore as only those weird and incomprehensible third world countries half a world away? I'm pretty sure people thought the lists were meaningful in 2013, too, and yet they have grown since then -- and the structures used to get around them have changed as well.

The whole subthread is somewhat meaningless in the context of the article, though, because it would be ridiculous to expect Lebanon to have the same level of insight into company ownership as say, Austria, Germany, or the US.

> the only people still going through the hassle of using offshore to hide something are people who really want to hide something -- hence the red flag.

Offshore means tax optimization, and anonymous companies may be nothing more than an attempt at keeping competition from guessing your game plan. E.g. real estate investors. I suppose those might be red flags in countries with funny ideas about taxation (the US, parts of Europe).

> Wirecard is a scandal beyond comparison. It is unfathomable to me how this could have gone on so long.

I take it you haven't heard about the HSBC's drug cartel money laundering? From the perspective of a small business, stuff like that makes KYC/AML look like unneeded and annoying security theatre.
Just wanted to chime in and say I love Orbital Index and read it every week.

I understand this is a bit of a selfish request and entirely a matter of personal preference given my job, but I do wish you guys would talk a little bit more about up and coming companies in the Space industry so I'd know who to keep my eyes on. Not sure if the rest of readership would care but thought I'd throw the idea out there on the off chance others would also be interested.

I don't see any other newsletters / research articles out there that are anywhere near as knowledgeable and I expect more and more people to turn their attention to startups in this space (no pun intended..)

Anyway, thanks again for the incredibly high quality content!
Anyone know which CA did this? I'd like to add it to my list of 'entities to avoid doing business with'.
> The notion of spending $1000/year just to keep a company in existence seems crazy to me.

That's good, because in the vast majority of US states it doesn't cost anywhere near $1,000 per year to keep a company in existence.
The CA in question is CN = Sectigo RSA Code Signing CA
It is the level of indirection about the problem.

Kent Beck said something good about problem A.

Now somebody else is talking about "Kent Beck said something good about problem A" and there is the risk that "Kent Beck said so" outweighs the "something good about problem A".

Baudrillard writes about this phenomenon about the "precession of simulacra", which gets you roughly to the place Girard warns about -- Baudrillard reminds that there was something else in the past, Girard wouldn't care.

Steven Hawking said some absurd things about black holes in the 1970s that essentially postulated no quantum gravity (e.g. the propagator is not unitary and operators being unitary is almost the only thing you need to do quantum mechanics) I think the "cult of personality" held back work in QG for at least two decades, it wasn't until some brave people tried to calculate things with radically different methods and realized they were getting the same results and not by accident that the "information loss" concept is absurd, as is the classical picture of a black hole interior.
I recently discovered the multi-command shebangs and started using it to develop scripts in Golang. E.g. `//usr/bin/env true; go run `dirname $0`/*.go; exit $?` at the top of my Golang code's `main` package makes it a Golang script.

The multi-line shebangs take it a step further, and am glad this page exists as it documents how to do it in various languages.
Efficiency. Capturing it at the source is much more efficient both in terms of dollars per ton and also in terms of energy per ton.
One counterexample doesn’t make a point. I could list many people who are simultaneous experts in multiple fields and it wouldn’t help my argument either.
Apple is effectively doing this to Epic and others, but it could be done by any agreement of enough CA's as well.
> It was the destruction of a warez group.

Funny, one of my current tabs was the wiki entry for Razor 1911 for some reason, where it states that the DOJ claims it to be the oldest Warez group in operation (circa 1985).

> Putting the factually contraindicated feeling of the software publishing cartels that they're somehow losing money above the actual lives of actual people is a very f'ed up choice of priorities.

What you wrote was pretty sobering, especially with COVID and mass unemployment hanging over our collective heads... it is sad but somehow entirely predictable, the emergence and wanton profiteering from the Warfare State and Surveillance Economy was what was needed in further inflate and increase the IC's budgets after the end of the cold war.
Our startup chose Discord over Slack for customer chat
That’s rather presumptuous of you. I never said the solution is reparations. I’m not sure what the solution is. I have some ideas, but obviously it is a non-trivial problem.

We aren’t talking about other countries. I’m familiar with history. I know many terrible things have happened.
Lot to unpack in this response for sure. If you _personally_ feel you're being held up by this "mob based on the color of people's skin" I'm sorry you feel that way, but it shows a severe lack of of understanding when it comes to policing and how that affects communities of color.

If the police followed the "Rule of Law" there wouldn't be a disproportionate amount of Black men who face violence from the police. Should "bad cops" be held accountable? Or is everything fair game when "enforcing the law"?

Similarly, "accede or we will riot" is precisely the logical progression from "we've asked nicely to not kill us". Do you expect Americans to simply watch their family, friends and neighbors being extra-judicially killed?

It's this inability to empathize with a population, and an uncritical view of those who enforce the law that will lead to non-action, leading to more riots.
Kubernetes engineers keep your favorite software running
This is great if you're building a web page as marketing for some sci-fi game or movie.

Don't use this for a real application. Real as in used for making real money.
There are a few unofficial sites, for example PasteRack http://pasterack.org/. (A example of Fibonacci: http://pasterack.org/pastes/89478 )
Both. We've seen third parties do this on Windows and Apple themselves use this to punish developers who dared criticize them.
The algorithm behind Ctrl+F
Those are incredibly minimal requirements, basically equivalent to labelling restrictions on food. They're nothing like specifying a detailed spec for application delivery, permissioning, resource access, background update orchestration, UI design for installers and update management etc, etc. And yes this would have to be mandated, otherwise it would leave gaps for vendor implementation abuse. Remember Apple doesn't want to do this at all.

On your last point, not if you take away the two primary pillars of it's profitability - exclusive payments processing and store exclusivity. Revenues would collapse, which after all is the point of doing all of this, and they'd lose control of the platform. Why not simply close open access to the store and explicitly license every app. They could just do a deal with a dozen software vendors to develop the couple of hundred core apps and games they need, and to do bespoke development for other clients. No public signups as iOS developers.
I have to ask, but how does the scanner work - if i am clothed how does it reconstruct my underneath self?

Or is it actually penetrating the cloth?

BTW - great idea. It has to be the future of clothes shopping
No the real injustice is $25,000 for FINRA day trading / margin accounts.

Recent insane volatility could allow you trade from a couple thousand up to 25k in a few weeks - BUT you will most likely run out of day trades before that happens.

It's highly annoying.
It would be incredibly sad to see them go out of business, it's such an iconic piece of software.
Correct. Scottish English is a dialect of english, while the Scots Language is a germanic language that is different enough to have low mutual intelligibility (which means it's a different language and not a dialect... although this distinction doesn't have really clear criteria in Linguistics currently).
It's been discussed, so it's definitely thinkable.

And if getting an accredited-institution MBA, for tuition payments of anywhere from $22K to $200K, after about 17 years of other education (K-12, undergrad) isn't enough for someone to protect their own wealth from scams, what's the point of all that credentialing, anyway?
Congrats to the LaunchNotes team. Been following the product for a few months now, looks like a solid product. Nice that they made embeds work on the free accounts!
"Did you see that painting what Rothko did?,
Looks like it was painted by a two year old kid,
Hot air,
Hot air,
Ignorance is bliss, yeah?,
Well I'm not pleased,
Because you spread your opinion like a rectal disease,
Hot air,
Hot air,
Did you see that photo what Bellingham took?,
He needs to take a leaf out the screensaver book,
Hot air,
Hot air,
If all photos were as you wanted them to be,
That would be page three as far as the eye could see,
Hot air,
Hot air,
Forgive me you sound stupid,
Here lies the one I love,
Forgive me you sound stupid,
Here lies the one I love"
--Stendhal Syndrome by IDLES
There's another aspect of this situation that also discredits the system: that they can just go out and get a different cert from another vendor. How many such vendors are there? How long would it take for an actual bad actor to have all their certs discovered and revoked? If that time is long, then the certification process is of even more dubious value, since the bad guys would not be materially hindered by the certification requirement.
What did you transition to? It's true that everyone recommends them.
if you really care about it, can already detect it, and show a pop-up, surely it'd also be doable to show a header or something?

as others have said, the pop-up is really the issue here.
E-Golf is a really bad example as it's an old, ICE-based platform that is replaced by the ID 3.
The current Leaf, Bolt, or ID 3 are much better examples.
But you are right about the $30K line.
I don't think Tesla will touch sub $30k for a LONG time, they are way too addicted to 'best'. Even the Model 3 price has increasingly became more expensive with hard efforts to backtrack the original price with an intent to up-sell aggressively and to hide the $35K model.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24284425
I think you've mistaken revealed preference for supply constraints.
My speculation here is Facebook made this announcement very strategically. Now that Apple under pressure for it's handling of app store reviews, this would be the perfect time to criticize Apple in other areas.

Facebook is hoping people read the headline, don't read too much into it, and that would fuel anti-Apple sentiment that they are acting as a monopoly.

Because if you read just below the surface on this topic, you'll quickly realize this is a huge win for consumers and privacy advocates.
Didn't it need to use the afterburners for takeoff? It if were just for taxiing, a trivial solution would just to drag it to takeoff position.
> Piracy destroys jobs, opportunity and initiative.

So what? Let them be destroyed.

I'd rather sacrifice some jobs than watch gigantic media conglomerates take over the computing industry and destroy our computing freedom with their DRM. There is no other way for them to enforce copyright in the 21st century so that's exactly what they'll try to do. They won't rest until every computer available to the public is locked down like a video game console. That will of course spell the end of playful hacking as Hacker News knows it. Not only that, this sort of control over what software our machines may or may not run will be a stepping stone towards greater governmental control over key technologies such as effective free software encryption, paving the way for total population surveillance. Non-essential jobs are nothing compared to these important issues.

The copyright industry wants to sell what's essentially huge numbers to the public. That's how ridiculous copyright is. It's the 21st century, the age of information. Instead of worrying about job destruction, better to abolish it straight up so that people will be forced to figure out a new business model.
Then test the externalities. They probably have healthcheck endpoints....

Don't overthink everything. KISS
I run into the issue sometimes cross-volume, where the file gets extracted into a temporary directory then has to be copied to the actual destination, into e.g. a network volume or second hard disk.
Good. Let's burn Facebook to the ground.
Once a government authority seizes cargo, the authority takes on the entire responsibility,incompetence notwithstanding. Should have scuttled it offshore.
This is the quintessential HN comment. Completely dismiss an entire region of the human experience and entire field of experts by assuming that your own unfamiliarity means there must be nothing there worth learning.

An equivalent claim is, "Windows 95 can do 90% of what Linux can do already. Operating system programmers aren't worth admiring."

If I've learned anything in my life, it's that when a group of people take something very seriously that seems pointless to me, 99% of the time, it is my own ignorance preventing me from seeing what they see.
Maybe overshoot as well?
Pollock is wonderful, particularly in person. But more than I enjoy the art (Silver Over Black, White, Yellow, and Red in person is enough to bring me to tears), I really enjoy listening to people's anger ranting why its not really art, or why anyone could do that, etc. If art is intended to garner a reaction - Pollock accomplishes that in spades.

I personally find it wonderful and beautiful - the sf-tech crowds mocking the abstract and psychedelic tend to be a bit unaware where the world they both live and work in came from!
You downplay the fact that Firefox at the time had Google's backing to go after Microsoft. Opera was never a threat, it was the "token" choice for Microsoft to avoid further upsetting the antitrust agencies.

It's a whole different world today.
Why not? I mean, seriously. Why cannot the Foundation transfer $245k to the Corporation to help fund salaries of workers?

Apparently they can award $245k to an artist, so why cannot they award $245k to a developer?

I'm a big fan of Mozilla. Really big fanboi. I've been using a Gecko-based browser since the painful days of the Mozilla Application Suite. When Mozilla released the standalone Firefox, I was sold and it has been my primary browser ever since.

But the shenanigans that Mozilla (be it the Corporation or the Foundation) has been up to is really starting to doubt the long-term ability of Mozilla (be it the Corporation or the Foundation) to deliver what to me is their primary product; a software libre browser that is competitive in terms of feature set, usability and speed (and nowadays; respects my privacy).

I grant you; the Mozilla Foundation and the Mozilla Corporation are two different legal entities. But for me that doesn't really matter; I want them to deliver the bloody best browser there is, that's why I gave them (the Mozilla Foundation, not the Mozilla Corporation, my bad) my money.

If Mozilla (the Foundation) really wants to do advocacy, let them do advocacy for a secure, private, decentralized Internet. That's what their (Mozilla the Corporation) primary product is all about. Trying to have the fingers in all the jars is just bad optics and confuses the heck out of people that want them to focus on a good browser and maybe the surrounding technology. Like for example Common Voice[0] or Servo[1], two projects that are after the layoffs by Mozilla (the Corporation) seriously in danger of failing.

[0] https://commonvoice.mozilla.org/en
[1] https://servo.org/
Part of the reason this was spotted is that Scots grammar is not the same as English grammar.

Interesting article here on the actual history

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/scots-language
Agreed on both points!
Of course, it happens any time you create magic status differentiators.

As just one example, stories pop up every few years about sheriff's offices selling 'honorary deputy' or similar status to rich people. I guess sometimes people buy them as symbols, but more frequently for the concealed-carry rights.
So is this an alternative to firebase?
In response to WayToDoor, some archives contain thousands of files, and it's essentially doubling the number of filesystem operations by putting them in a temp directory and then moving. If the temp directory is on a different drive from the destination, then it's recopying all the data.

I thought the creation of the files in the temp directory was an unavoidable artifact of how drag-and-drop worked in Windows. If peazip can get around this, I might check it out.
Seeing as it was 70 years ago, should we still call it "modern" art or is that now an era — like mid-century modern.
Not to detract from the topic, but this has been covered on HN many times in the past year or so.

Also, my understanding (from past HN discussions!) is that SpaceX are working on making their satellites less problematic for astronomers in the long term, although obvs we’ll have to see how well that the turns out.
You're right — s/reparations/<responsibility [...] to reconcile our past actions that caused unmeasurable suffering for untold millions of people? >.

Whatever it may be, I want no part of it. To assume that all immigrants, who today represent 25% of Americans, are willing to sign onto policy positions that are focused on correcting (distant) past wrongs as opposed to solving the problems we have TODAY — is what I'm calling presumptuous.
Test coverage is the most conveniently accessible numeric value in the neighborhood of software quality, therefore it is software quality. Merging a change that reduces test coverage is reducing software quality. That's okay, sometimes we all have to cut corners, but defending this choice means you don't value quality, and are therefore not a culture fit.

/s
Great. Now make it work without javascript and you'll have me sold.
C Corps definitely have a lot of fees, and if you have a lawyer or anyone involved, it's expensive, too. The thing is that it's kind of hard to generalize about this in the US, because business formation laws vary so widely by state.

I have an Ohio LLC from when I lived in Ohio, because I incorporated it and the requirements to keep it are basically nil, especially if you don't have revenue through it. Other states have different requirements, and C corps have pretty stringent requirements compared to LLCs anywhere.

So you can get a similar experience in the USA where you have a simple, low-cost business that's easy to form and easy to operate. But as far as I can see that's not the target for Stripe Atlas: it seems geared toward forming C corps, not toward LLCs, which means you start with a higher level of cost.
That simple commercial proposition makes it a bit hard to stop for now, unless SpaceX changes course.

We of course should weight benefits and drawbacks. At least low-orbit Earth satellites aren't too long lived.
Another difference between the proposed Overture and the Concorde is the engines. Concorde used turbojets with afterburners during takeoff, while Boom proposes a turbofan design without afterburners, which should in theory make it quieter for communities adjacent to airports. However the XB-1 small scale version will use turbojets according to Wikipedia.
But that's part of what you're buying when you buy Apple. It would be one thing if Apple controlled 86% of the mobile phone market, and you as a consumer (or an app developer) didn't have much choice; but actually Apple only controls 14% of the smartphone market[1]. Both consumers and developers have lots of other options.

[1] https://www.counterpointresearch.com/global-smartphone-share...
They should really name the CA. It's quite common for 1 of the 60 tests on virustotal.com to turn up a false positive.
If the point is the conversation it generates, then it's not really art. Tt's either meta-art, or performance art, or something like that.
Most of EIDAS is quite fine, but there are really stupid ideas in there. Remote signatures are signatures where the key user is not the key owner. The key is located with some service provider who signs with the user's key on request. The security of this is as useless as it sounds, but for many situations here in Germany it is the only option because there are no officially accredited providers for signature card certificates anymore. Therefore it is all the bother of digital signatures with the insecurity of analogue signature stamps...
Very good point. People suspected of far less serious crimes based on far more tenuous “evidence” get their door kicked in, their kids rooms flashbanged, dogs shot, etc.
I just spent an hour or so playing it and enjoyed it, so thanks. Some random opinions:

* the control hints were too hard to read (15" MacBook), but no matter, it was pretty easy to work out anyway.

* it was too easy (and slow) at the beginning but quickly got too hard

* then I realised you can move and rotate the current block while paused, which makes it too easy as a game but still somewhat satisfying as a puzzle

* but frustratingly you can't rotate the camera when paused, which seems odd

* also the move controls don't adjust to the camera angle, so they sometimes work sidewards or backwards, which is confusing

* took me a while to work out what the hammer does

* the music is suitably hypnotic
Fantastic! Cannot wait to try it out!
It was my understanding that infra construction everywhere was pretty messy and bloody 100 years ago?

It's probably no coincidence that the heyday of subway construction in NYC was over not long after the immigration ban of 1924 removed a source of plentiful cheap labor. (Of course, the Great depression not withstanding new deal subsidizing of IND lines, general impossibility of private transportation to stay profitable, and then WWII diversion of the production obscures this.)
I would tend to agree that they have no place talking about guns.
The interweb is truly a bottomless pit
Interestingly, many Canadian provinces have had accredited investor exemptions for some time. Here's an overview for anyone interested (note that the exact rules will vary by province):

https://financialpost.com/personal-finance/managing-wealth/s...
It is an era, but the era is called "modern art".
I tend to think art should encompass all of the many ways it can provoke an interesting, thoughtful reaction in the viewer.

If we reduce art to just pretty things, then consuming art will rarely help us grow as people.
Congrats, LaunchNotes! I'm really loving this for release information sharing so far! It's changed how I keep my teams informed. Keep up the great work!
How many of those are capable of creating systemic financial risk, though?

People in the '20s were literally mortgaging their house and car to buy stocks on margin en masse because they took in advertising and word of mouth that told them it was a good idea. You could theoretically also do that at a casino, but practically speaking that's not a big problem.

Look at the crypto hype-train that got latched onto by people who didn't do their homework on crypto, or the craziness of WSB on reddit. We are still capable of letting that happen today.