skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Tax lawyers and accountants suggest an answer: Romney may have made use of an Internal Revenue Service loophole that allows investors to undervalue interests in investment partnerships when first putting them into an IRA. These assets can produce returns far in excess of those that could be generated from other investments made at the capped level.

> An investor could even set an initial value for a partnership interest at zero dollars, because under tax regulations an interest in a partnership represents future income, not current value, said Chris Sanchirico, co-director of the Center for Tax Law and Policy at the University of Pennsylvania Law School.

> Whether Romney used this technique, which is legal, when he put partnership interests into his IRA is a question that won’t likely be answered when he discloses his 2010 tax returns on Tuesday.

[0] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-campaign-romney-ira/h...
> more distant languages,

low resource translation is definitely still bad, you're right.

> near perfect translation just by putting each word through a dictionary, and the neural networks can disambiguate things and smooth over the problems in the output

Funnily enough, this is not a terrible explanation of how the current sort of approaches to low-resource MT work.
I honestly think modern coffee shops are the pinnacle of working environments.
You know you don't have to argue about who's in the wrong here? It's okay to accept that both the USA and China are in the wrong, not everything has to be a fight with a winner.

China for having uncomfortable amounts of government control/vision over the data and operations of Chinese social media companies.

And the USA for singling out Tik Tok seemingly arbitrarily, and banning it for "national security" reasons without going into any detail about what they are or what evidence they have for them. (And it potentially violating 1A rights, being inconsistent with treatment of other foreign companies etc etc).
Note there is a difference between saying one thinks TikTok is a national security threat to the USA, and saying one thinks the U.S. government should ban it (or so on). It's tempting to base your opinion of whether TikTok is a threat on how much you (dis)like authoritarian responses, but that's a logical fallacy.
Same. My coworkers who have young children at home seem pretty miserable.

I have a coworker that I haven't seen for weeks now because of their new part-time job as a homeschool teacher.

Childless couples and single people seem pretty happy with their new free time, even if they’d eventually like to return to the office.
Mm... I think you'd be hard pressed at this point to find any advantage that traditional methods have over deep methods.

Maybe this was true 4-6 years ago, but no longer.
Yes, that is another argument made against TikTok, separate from the argument I was responding to.

But it's also worth addressing.

As near as I can tell, it is unfounded; there is almost no evidence to support it. The one potentially shady thing I know of that TikTok got caught doing was checking the clipboard every second, which it no longer does. TikTok's explanation is that it was an anti-spam feature. I know of no network analysis showing they were sending back the clipboard contents, or that they are sending anything other than normal analytics.

(Also, as an aside & for what it's worth, I personally think the data collection of Facebook is far worse than anything alleged against TikTok. They require you to provide your real name, they encourage you to give tons of other personal info, & they use trackers to tie your fb profile to your browsing history on non facebook websites. Then they sell targeted access to this profile to any advertiser that cares to pay, as their primary business model.)

(As a second aside, if TikTok is somehow gaining access to more personal info than standard analytics stuff, I would view that, for iOS devices at least, as a security flaw. I'm not that familiar with Android, but I assume the same applies there.)

Lastly, if TikTok is doing something nefarious, the proper way to handle it in a country ruled by laws is to have laws against the nefarious activity and prosecute the company for violation of said laws.

The president waking up one day and declaring TikTok bad and banning it is ridiculous, authoritarian behavior.

IMO :-)
How do elliptical curves fit into this?
And I have spent many thousands more renting more space for my WFH office (upgrading our 1bdr) that normally my work would be paying for
I saw these during my onsite. I’m surprised they weren’t known externally...
Says who? You, the American? Your values are not universal.
It is government owned.
Highway tires are fine to lower the pressure on.
> maybe they aren't

They aren't though.

Sarcasm, to attempt to make a point just comes off as disingenuous trolling, by the way.

You would be better served by directly trying to make your point, instead of phase your "argument" in the way that you did.
Ask HN: Why Docker(moby) didn't release any new version in the past year?
According to https://github.com/moby/moby/milestone/76 20.03 milestone is past due for 6 months, and the last major version, 19.03, was shipped in 2019/07. Why there's no major docker version released in the past year? Does it indicate some issues in Docker Inc? Should I switch to podman or wait for a few more months?
> American’s are THE WORST overseas because we think ‘Merica way of life is world wide.
I've only ever used it for that! For files there's `File.open`! ;)
Static linking is okay and is allowed as a derivative work, but you need to ship object files.

https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.en.html#LGPLStaticVsDyn...

>(1) If you statically link against an LGPLed library, you must also provide your application in an object (not necessarily source) format, so that a user has the opportunity to modify the library and relink the application.

This is covered in sections 6 and 6a of the LGPL 2.1.
giant wall street lawfirm partners pull in 2m+ a year to help keep wall street bailout economics going.
trillions to 'bailout' a supposedly profiteable industry.

who cares if clerks are getting bonuses. how is the lawfirm capable of paying that much to begin with?

the new york times is a master of fakery and nonsense and noise and distraction. yes, you can do all of those things while spewing irrelevant and red herring 'truths' all day long.

here's a truth to chew on, the new york times is going to go bankrupt soon and before that happens, they will sell off that ugly excuse for a skyscraper that they had no business building to begin with.

as a life long new yorker,and someone who read the paper on the subway growing up on my commute to high school, i can still say that i will not be sad to see them go.

all the news that's fit to print, indeed.
And, of course, it's valid to use these characters in filenames because apparently the idea of making any filename invalid is anathema.
It's not any more or less intuitive to me than nip and over.

Where there's three or more items to be manipulated there's always at least ambiguity which way rot is supposed to rotate according to codebase author. With more than three items it's easy to see what can be done but no unambiguous and meaningful names. The only consistent stack word names that work 4 items deep are 2dup and 2drop.
And yet, you might find yourself being held legally accountable for what's posted
> If you're working with a "blank slate" PHP app (or whatever), where you've personally written most of the lines of code involved, typing can feel unnecessary.

> If you're glueing together Enterprise Bean Factory Proxies all day, then strong typing is practically mandatory.

Might that not be a problem, though? Shouldn't more software systems be small, elegant and well-architected rather than a spaghetti nightmare navigable only through an IDE?

I like types, I think they are great, I like editor tool, I think it is great. I even like a lot of the luxuries modern systems afford me. But … maybe we could stand a little simplification?
Are you sure it didn't work? How does the output look if you change the single quotes in "'$filename'" to some other character? (I mean, the point of this snippet is to parse the output of ls, i.e. assign each path to $filename, once, and then use it in some way. Of course the newline will still be there if you just echo the name.)
how much IU is this?
I have no doubt that all advocates for nuclear would agree Chernobyl is not acceptable, and that Chernobyl can't happen in more modern reactor designs.

If Fukushima is the worst case (and newer designs may even avoid/prevent Fukushima style event entirely), I'd say the cost is acceptable. ~300 square km area that's affected is relatively small, given the grand scheme of things - it would be certainly much, much less impact than coal mining has on land use and pollution (by mining itself, not counting the effect of burning coal).

So if I have a magic wand, I'd happily remove all coal mining and power plants, and replace them all with nuclear power plants (though not necessarily put them on the same location), and I think humanity will be better off.

In the really long term, if/when there's enough energy storage solutions, I think we may not need much of nuclear power plants anymore. But I think we can not wait for that to be viable as the climate disaster is already on its way.
For the TLDR of this, I think the major point is the depreciation of ssh-rsa keys. They recommend switching to SHA2 with either ed25519 or the NIST P curves. They acknowledge the large amount of existing keys out there using RSA as a challenge.
I seem to recall Ubuntu had a similar thing for PCs to drive multiple X sessions (a classroom's worth?) off a single PC: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MultiseatX

But it seems to have gone by the wayside as the upper limit is really the number of video outputs, and driving 30+ displays off one computer starts getting into custom setups that are going to be more expensive, even if the goal was just running 30 instances of Firefox on one computer. The wiki hasn't been updated in 6 years, so I assume it's not viable in modern Ubuntu?
Some complexities added since the early days of Linux:

- systemd

- dbus

- disk encryption

- cgroups

Not even counting things that aren't technically part of Linux but are still quite common, like:

- configuration management tools (ansible, puppet, salt, etc)

- docker

- kubernetes

- every language's reinvention of 'make' and their own package managers
There's another argument to be had about whether Chinese spying is "worse" than western spying because it's officially legitimized by the policies of the Chinese government. And whether it's also "worse" because China is more authoritarian and oppressive with it's own citizens.

I'm making an assumption here that because of these two things it's mostly generally accepted that the Chinese surveillance state is "worse" than the USA surveillance state (and I largely agree with that take, but figured I should still state my priors here in case this isn't uncontroversial).
This explains why law students apply to clerkships, not why firms pay bonuses for former clerks.
This sounds like a common and generic enough business requirement. Isn't there something off the shelf that they could have used instead?
OTOH, sometimes the CSV munger one writes today is still in use five years later, when the input CSV has a UTF-8 character for the first time, and suddenly it crashes and no-one knows where the bug could even be.
We haven’t moved yet but are thinking about rural North Carolina. Haven’t looked at prices for small plots of land, so maybe I’m off a bit.

I’ve considered an office shed too, but I’m a bit worried that’s still a little too close haha.
> both common wording in Judeo-Christian scripture

No such thing as judeo-christian scripture. Who created this term?

Edit: Instead of downvoting, why name this judeo-christian scripture so I may read it?
Came very close once, alas I changed teams at the wrong time and that particular codebase ended up at someone else's hands but I got to take a look.
While disappointed it was not going to be my assignment, it made me regain a little bit of hope in the field, it's truly not all code that is perpetually full of warts.
Are you startup or big company material?
At least Indian authorities seem to be relatively open about the censorship. Here in Kazakhstan they simply block everything they want, taking down many "innocent" sites as collateral damage, and write it off as "temporary networking problems" and "works for me, what are you talking about?".

For the past week I've had numerous problems connecting to TLS directly, without using a VPN. I still update my system directly from a mirror to avoid wasting limited data on a remote VM, that's how I discovered it personally. I worry they're trying to implement something nefarious behind the scenes, again.
From Github data, the overwhelming majority of all SSH keys added by users are ssh-rsa, which will be disallowed soon for older clients. Mind you there still a number of users with ssh-dss which is just comical.

Remember that you can download the SSH public keys of any user on Github and run these statistics yourself.

https://github.com/linus.keys

Linus for example seems to have two keys, a 1024 bit RSA and a 2048 bit RSA.
Look how that turned out with Fox News.

We gave an Australian US citizenship so he could get past the limit on foreign ownership of TV stations. He jumped right into bed with US political parties and has a chokehold on one of them by building itself, intentionally, as its media arm.

That said, I think the internet should be free for the most part. If we have to kick them out of the country and deprive them our markets then this should be done by law instead of by authoritarian decree. Google and Apple already have rules against apps that violate laws.

We had these laws and watered them down before because it would benefit a particular political party by putting an influence empire behind it. We just need to update and modernize the laws. Define specific things that are allowed and not allowed.

EG, GDPR-like privacy rules about not sending user data to Asia, with stiff penalties. Restrictions against allowing investment from individual and corporations (and subsidiaries) on a specific watch list, along with defined criteria for getting on that list. EG, Tencent's contending years ago to become the social credit provider for China to help manipulate populace behavior. I'd consider that a human right violation worthy of entry to a list after careful review.

Maybe if we had such things in place, the FBI wouldn't have had to wander around to all of the major US businesses a year or two ago, quietly begging them not to use Kaspersky because it was potentially sending data to Russia. They would either have not been on an approved vendor list due to their sanctions or they could provide sufficient evidence to get them on the list and then demand removal instead of beg for companies to do it voluntarily.

And if strengthening these laws means kicking out Fox News as well, so be it.
I came into an open plan workplace with low expectations due to so many complaints seen on community sites like this. But I was pleasantly surprised and found I like it a lot better than being isolated in an office. Keeping a team sitting together like you said is key. I also feel it's a little easier visiting other teams, since you can see them from afar and just walk over. Coworkers are generally good about being mindful about noise and grab a nearby meeting room when needed.

One thing that surprised me I didn't expect is, our building has an open ceiling design with the pipes, cables, lighting, structural beams, etc. all exposed. Furthermore they are sprayed with some kind of chunky foam material, and together this has pretty unbelievable noise suppression ability. In a previous building sound traveled a lot further due to flat ceilings, but here I can barely even detect that someone two rows away is talking, let alone make out what they are saying.
On the other hand, one of the laws that nobody bothers to enforce in Singapore is jaywalking.
It's a great thread in that it exposes his fraud as a genius business executive and transparency on potential leverage that foreign entities use to gain even more control over him than they already have.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Names_for_books_of_Judeo-Chris...
At a FAANG company, there are seldom any "just build" areas. Anything that is being built requires design, scheduling, marketing, documentation, etc. agreement across many teams in order to put out a coherent product or service.
That's fair.

Imagine, for example, an extremely convincing book is authored that convinces anyone that reads it that the United States government should disolve itself and its citizens should pledge fealty to China.

Quite credibly, the book could be described a national security threat to the US.

However, I would still argue that the book should not be banned, and that any country that wants to honestly describe itself as "free" could not ban the book.

Being a free country means giving citizens the right to engage with ideas that might not be aligned w/ the interests of its government.
People claiming this isn’t a Chinese company (“it’s incorporated in the Caymans! Hurrdurrr”) are either misinformed or not being honest.

From the Wikipedia link for ByteDance:

> ByteDance's first app, Neihan Duanzi, was shut down in 2018 by the National Radio and Television Administration. In response, Zhang issued an apology stating that the app was "incommensurate with socialist core values", that it had a "weak" implementation of Xi Jinping Thought, and promised that ByteDance would "further deepen cooperation" with the ruling Chinese Communist Party to better promote its policies.[7][8][9]

> It has garnered public attention over allegations that it worked with the Chinese Communist Party to censor and surveil content pertaining to Xinjiang re-education camps and other topics the Party deemed controversial.[18][19][20]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ByteDance
So then the OP is a LGPL header-only library, which is always statically compiled in every source. Do we need to do the same thing, and if yes, how we provide an application to allow recompiling?
Completely agree. Where I was working in 2016 in SF, many employees were reading FiveThirtyEight all day in the summer leading into the election and I occasionally mentioned "its clear how this data is not accounting for certain things" - you know like the entire rest of the country that isn't along the coasts. People didn't want to hear it and acted surprised, like really shocked and disheveled, relying on their filter bubble and FiveThirtyEight's one time stellar performance in 2012.

I watched how people acted like the "worst case scenario" would have been an opposition party getting a tie in the electoral college and not the landslide that occurred. For that party's re-election campaign I am seeing the same conjecture, modeling worst case scenarios about a "slim electoral college victory".

So instead I just placed undervalued bets on prediction markets for a nice payday. Peter Thiel essentially did the same thing, on a bigger scale and reaped disproportionate benefits.

People should just focus on the company's mission statement. I am glad more companies are taking a page out of Netflix's old culture document, dissolving the "we are family" bullshit in favor of a championship team aspiration.
It's better for the haves, it's worse for the have-nots, and normalizing separation will ensure the former won't have to realize the latter exist.
Looks like people are saying this is used internally at Facebook. Is there any proof of this?
> But China blocks American companies from their market, or extracts unfair concessions from them. So the US should do the same until they change their practices.

Maybe that is true. I'm not sure. But if this is the real reason and national security is a fig leaf, then it is contrary to the rule of law and the constitution.
What do you think sets him apart or what do you like about his message?
Makelaars Maastricht
Have used ESNI to successfully circumvent this in the past.
signed up. its not ready. you just get on a waiting list.
Right from the start, DeepL manages to drop information, making it seem as if it's describing a program that deters juvenile delinquency.

DeepL is doing a better job of generating text that seems to make sense, but this just helps to more effectively communicate the wrong meaning, and in a manner less detectable to people who would use it. This is a much more insidious failure mode.
Of course they play a role, and those same Chinese laws also dictate that any foreign IT company needs to have a local partner. But in the unlikely event of Google agreeing to a JV that cedes enough power to a local company, then sure, why not? That's how eg. AWS China operates: https://www.amazonaws.cn/en/about-aws/china/

FWIW, Google already has a substantial presence in China, but they don't target consumers there.
I can't speak for VirtualBox but I can confirm that VMware Player/Workstation do support Hyper-V now and are compatible with having WSL 2 installed simultaneously.

This information probably doesn't help you much if you're tied to VirtualBox though.
Remote makes communication harder and startups generally lack good process. Bad communication + bad process = a disaster. Startups can't have good process because they don't know what they're doing yet so process would be a slow down. Startups can also be very stressful and without the human empathy component (that is hard to gain remotely) small arguments can explode into epics nuclear explosions.

Startups are about balancing a bunch of things rather than having some type of optimal stable configuration. Working in an office let's you balance a bunch of other things more easily.
Exactly. The Most Vexing Parse is so popular it has its own Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Most_vexing_parse
>I've found it very odd how freely and openly siding with a political candidate has become the norm since 2016 at the tech firms I've worked in

Have found this to be the trend in general or the trend for supporters of certain parties/ideals only?
That agent was also Carl Mark Force IV, who is currently in prison for, among other things, surreptitiously trying to extort money out of DPR on the side and hiding that from the DEA. The prosecution withheld all evidence surrounding the corrupt DEA agent and Secret Service agent from the defense. I don't know if Ross wrote that message or not, but at the very least Force was already caught trying to frame the Silk Road administrator they had in custody for the theft. I find his testimony more suspicious than Ross's, and the logs were 100% up to him to write whatever he wanted.
SNI is part of the HTTPS request, which would travel through the encrypted VPN channel. All network traffic would travel through your VPN, which is encrypted. The other end of the VPN channel is in another country which doesn’t block the website.

Your computer <—-encrypted channel to VPN in other country—-> https communication to blocked website

What a country could do but we haven’t seen before, is block all VPN protocol traffic, effectively banning VPNs. This would be disruptive to business or politicians using VPN for privacy, so it’s not as politically feasible.
That's cleartext within your TCP/IP connection. If you use a VPN, that connection itself is encrypted.
It's almost like managing information requires trade offs.
https://en.tripadvisor.com.hk/Hotel_Review-g580110-d594766-R...

Here's the resort in question.
Pretty sure less than 1% of the population would be pissed off by being told not to work but still getting paid.

Also, its far more likely that men will be pressured into working despite this.