skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not to belittle the quality of the reporting and research by the ICIJ but a hefty chunk of the site's narrative about hiding funds puts way too much often unsubstantiated focus on how evil and "dirty" the whole thing is, as a default position, which is not entirely healthy or particularly honest in philosophical terms, mainly because it by default implies that government having a right to snoop and intervene into every facet of private financial transactions is an inherently good thing.

It is not. Governments regularly engage in nefarious and dishonest financial dealings on a scale many private entities don't come close to matching. Governments also often terribly squander vast sums of public finances that they managed to squeeze from the private world, and yes, there is a very valid argument or two in favor of financial privacy being a necessary thing in the modern world, instead of just viewing it as something that automatically comes with criminal connotations just because some owners of assets seek to keep the nature and movement of theirs private.
My experience is “they love us” isn’t as strong a retention predictor as cold hard usage metrics.
United States vs. 6 employees of GRU (pdf)
I fundamentally disagree with this, but on different grounds. I absolutely believe that groups of people have fewer rights than individual people. A corporation should have no right against self-incrimination, for instance. An LLC should have no right for freedom of religion. Groups are, by definition, not a monolith, and defending the rights of the group often infringes on the rights of the individual. Extending individual rights to the aggregate is absurd, and the abuses of it lead to the worst outcomes in case-law.
Look at Japan for an example of a country (there are probably others?) where exchanges are not allowed to list or trade Monero, Zcash et al.
I totally agree with what you've written, with perhaps one small clarification/caveat/nuance. A mistake I've made in the past was to think about "controlling" emotions, as if emotions and logic were mutually exclusive, opposing forces. For example, take your excellent example about how a maladjusted fear response can make you afraid of things that aren't actually dangerous. The solution to this problem is not to try to "control" the fear, e.g. by telling yourself "there is nothing logically to be afraid of". The solution is actually to experience more of that fear - in a controlled, gradual and safe manner, which is what exposure therapy is all about.

Again, I'm not saying that this is what you meant by "controlling" or "moderating" emotions, but just want to clarify that learning how to express emotions in a constructive way usually makes an argument that much more forceful that trying to "rein in" your emotions and make them subservient to logic.
Is this a form of personality cult?

> Marlinspike is the C.E.O. of Signal, the end-to-end encrypted messaging service, which he launched in 2014; he is also a cryptographer, a hacker, a shipwright, and a licensed mariner.

What's all the hype about Signal? It's a bad application.

Let's see. Install it. Oh, it starts with a screen about Terms and confidentiality. But... why does Signal get me to agree to things if it's so much about privacy? Are they... reading our chats?

OK, next. Oh, it needs access to Contacts and Media to improve communications. Right -- because nothing like that sweet social graph. But I can skip this one.

Oh, now it wants my phone number!

Experiment complete. Let's uninstall this app.

I fail to see how this is any better than Whatsapp.
I don't think it's problematic to place more specific constraints on larger companies, including a requirement to use open protocols, and to allow federation.

In general, corporations are artificial entities that are established by society via laws that it enacts. They don't even have a natural right to exist, much less a right to operate without any constraints. This is very different from real persons.
A church shouldn't have freedom of religion?
Chrome OS is faster and has way less bloat than Android. It also has Crostini now which has gained momentum with GNU/Linux developers
So much overanalysis.

Discord "won" this round of social musical chairs because of pure luck, just like AIM and MySpace and Friendster and Facebook and Snap and Tiktok, etc. In a few years, its users will be "old" and then the next generation will flock to some other "cool" service.

You can't control, nor predict, nor copy anything about this sort of service. It either gains traction, for whatever reason, or it doesn't. Once it does, network effects take over and growth is exponential.

Analyze Discord to death, it won't give you any clue how to duplicate it.
Routers still support WPS?
NASA is launching a 4G phone network on the moon
The reason why it’s not possible is that property/casualty insurance ordinarily spreads risk across a broad base whose risk is mostly indistinguishable from one another, and where the likelihood of claim is relatively low. The problem is that once you look at a flood plain map it’s easy to see whether you need flood insurance or not. And if the only people who buy the insurance are the highest risks, it makes little sense to sell it.
Nokia bricks, haha.
Gabe Newell applies for NZ residency
I think you could validate an address by initiating an SMTP session to send an e-mail to that address, then aborting it. After issuing the RCPT (recipient) command, you'll get back a status code from the server telling you if the recipient is valid (250) or invalid (e.g., 550). At that point, you send QUIT without sending any DATA (so no message will be sent if the e-mail address is valid).

There are examples of successful and unsuccessful RCPT attempts here (scroll down to the second sample SMTP session):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_SMTP_server_return_cod...

This is an entirely valid use of the SMTP protocol (getting back that status code is how you find out if a message to an address was undeliverable), but I suppose that if an e-mail provider wanted to prevent this kind of validation, they could stop accepting connections from subdomains of Experian that repeatedly aborted their SMTP sessions.
Better than randomly shutting it down like so many other websites. It will be on The Internet Archive in no time.
My problem is more with the title:
"The Future of Computing and Programming Languages"
implies some kind of overview and outlook. They more or less discuss a small set of current technologies completely out of context (not even mentioning/hinting at current work/ research directions outside of LLVM and the Swift universe) then venturing off into very speculative topics (in which both are none-experts).

It's a really questionable title and in my opinion bad framing.
I wonder if the interpretation could change for classifying it as a money transmitter if there is an identifiable "owner" or "administrator", e.g. an account that has power to stop/upgrade the contract, or extract fee revenue in a way unprivileged accounts can not.

Looking at how ICOs were treated, I don't find it that far-fetched.

This could also be relevant to decentralized exchanges like Uniswap.
the original article confuses clarity with formality

you can be perfectly clear in lowercase and with sparse punctuation

acronyms can be ambiguous, but to say then that we should all write formally is a huge leap

frankly anyone who can't write clearly like this is a poor writer

i also doubt it really excludes non-native speakers unless you're using a lot of slang/abbreviations
Disclaimer: I don't work for Experian. I suspect only one of their devs could answer this affirmatively.

There are different approaches. As a sibling comment mentioned, you can use any login protocol that responds with a different message for users vs. non-users.

Off the top of my head, you have POP, IMAP, SMTP, OAuth, Gmail's undocumented HTTP API, Gmail's documented HTTP API, and web scraping.

You probably can't do any of those at scale.

To solve the scale issue, you could buy databases of verified email addresses, which are not expensive. For any address found in those databases, you know it's registered.

If it's not in your database, you can do a live check.

Alternatively, you could make a business arrangement with Google, which is also possible for a company like Experian.
I wonder what the security implications of this would be. Did the QR code connect your phone to the machine locally, or is there some menu out there for every freestyle coke machine on the open internet?

If it's the latter I'd wager there's probably a way to remotely create a huuuge mess at some random five guys location.
For this reason the Great Famine is sometimes characterized as a genocide perpetrated by the British landlord class.
By watching a variety of news sources over the past four years?
I just have to say that this is really excellent work.

Especially impressed as I've watched this movie at least 100 times over the last year. My 20 month old daughter is infatuated with it (not to worry, we usually limit viewing to a song-scene or two per sit down). The songs are involuntarily memorized and cries of "mana song" (sic) can be heard each time the toddler gets into the car. To the point that my wife, 3 month old daughter, the oldest, and myself are dressing up for Halloween as TeFiti, kakamora, Moana, and Maui, respectively.

If the OP should see this - what prompted you to want to attempt it, was it just the availability of the dataset or were you drawn into the story by screaming children as well?
I use opalstack. Its from the old webfaction team. Great service at a good price.
I'm watching lectures on YouTube.

You can find many by searching "<topic> lectures" and then filtering for playlists.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLyQSN7X0ro203puVhQsmC...
So, it´s RUSSIARUSSIARUSSIA again? Pathetic.

"signatories presented no new evidence"

This means that they´re guessing it´s Russia, but they don´t hava a clue.
Thanks, but that still doesn't find any of those links.
I've had this issue with some websites that use transactional e-mail services to send their e-mails. A temporary failure on your domain or email provider will flag the address as bad seemingly permanently on their e-mail provider's side so that it will instantly fail any future sending attempts to that address even after the original issue is resolved.
Ive never heard of an exemption on virus warnings. If I upload an exe to a github repo and try to download it, chrome will warn me that it's not commonly downloaded. Same for Google drive - even if it's scanned for viruses, chrome might throw a warning that requires you go to the downloads page and allow it.
I prefer the 'give them more rope' approach.

Instead of retorting your point explore theirs and walk them through scenarios where it will be wrong. Arguing your point directly always just ends in a tennis match.
you dont have to tho

i havent used any but ive been perfectly clear
Not to mention a whole lot of intermediate-level piano sheet music! At 92, a fine gift to those younger generations who want to get in on some irreverent fun.
Fly a camera drone inside the shop
They’d rather wait it out at home while their salary is paid by magic. Unfortunately that’s not how it works.
Not to say I disagree but are there any studies about coding practices that tell us anything?
Your vague insult aside, what kind of information are you looking for? The technical summaries of the language are widely available elsewhere, were you expecting those in a comment here? Note that the linked podcast goes into those details directly, so I’m partly assuming readers here are aware of the content before reading the comments.
There's not a single piece of information in the article, other than the opinions of people who have no personal knowledge of any of the discussion other than what they read in the news.

DNI Ratcliffe is speaking for the entire IC. Like him or not, he's not an idiot, and to claim he has no previous experience when he sat on the house intelligence committee and was a prosecutor with significant experience in national security is a bit silly.

https://www.dni.gov/index.php/who-we-are/leadership/director...
For myself.

General chat: Proper punctuation. Keep sentences terse. Reply promptly. Leave no room for ambiguity.

Direct message: Often if a matter takes place outside of a public channel, it is because a duty or responsibility is being delegated to you or a sensitive subject is involved. One should take extra precaution to speak forthrightly to ease the recipient, but also take measures to be prompt and present.

Makes a world of difference.

The most important thing I've learned about online tone is that it's less about what you say and more about how you tell others to speak to you.
Absolutely. If it helps you garner more attention on kickstarter, I'd be happy to provide you asset mockups for product design.
In case anyone was wondering, "Moana" means sea/lake and "Motunui" means "big island" in many languages of the Pacific.
> C was specified by K&R in 1978.

No it wasn’t. K&R was far removed from many C implementations of the time, wasn’t ever written as a formal spec, and had gaping holes of undefined behavior.

An educational textbook isn’t a formal language specification.
Do you see CoinJoins as implemented by Samourai and Wasabi to be possibly liable in the same way?
You're revealing your own lack of aspiration while condescending toward older people.

Some people have prominent positions or intend to do important things in their life and they don't want to see personal conversations being leaked under the threat of blackmail.
"The Last Graveyard"

Hopefully they incorporate poetry by Xu Lizhi:
https://libcom.org/blog/xulizhi-foxconn-suicide-poetry
And I'm claiming the article hit the wrong point. It's not covering the fact that Foxconn has no intention of running an actual operation in America. Partly because it's a 1000x better deal to just open another factory in China. This whole thing is obviously done with an ulterior motive.

Either the topic is deliberately being avoided or the writer doesn't know.
This reminds me of the relational interpreters Will Byrd and company build in minikanren. (See barliman)
Very cool stuff!
I love relational programming. Relation interpreting still blows my mind.
Global STD Diagnostics Market $186B by 2027
You're comparing size only. There are far more aspects of a car's design which determine practicality and market perception. Current market prices aside, the ID.3 is designed to be perceived as a cheaper car by dint of being a hatchback with lots of hard interior plastics.

To be clear, I'm not criticising the ID.3, my next car is probably going to look more like the ID.3 than the Model 3. But nonetheless there's a market that's excited by the Tesla's blistering performance and driving dynamics, while there's another market which is more excited by the ID.3's practical and conservative construction.
> School's purpose is not to teach obedience or even getting a job. It is there to teach us critical thinking, and consequently, how to be a good citizen.

I'd say the plague of fake news shows that the current crop of educated population is not capable of critical thinking.
It would be difficult. In particular, unlike in our world, it's very difficult to create anything like a stable membrane or barrier in the game of life. And patterns are extremely susceptible to falling apart if perturbed. So you would generally expect a game-of-life-based entity touching anything to die as a result.
If you're the author of lodash I'd say it's had an impressive impact. However your choice of words betrays you. How can you define neatness without taking culture and aesthetics into consideration. Lodash doesn't make possible any things that weren't possible before. It just provides a succinct notation for common use-cases with for loops. Which use-cases are common depends on your programming culture. Which library looks most fashionable at solving them isn't that much different from reading Vogue.

Even comparing it to for loops is in itself biased, because there are other cultures that are able to do looping without looping at all, like how John McCarthy favored recursive functions. Then the Common Lisp crew invented their own preferred predecessor to lodash called the LOOP macro. I'd bet Urbit does something even crazier.
This out of core pipeline is a super cool idea! I work on OptiX and this is the first time I’ve seen someone try this kind of thing. There are different kinds of out of core rendering, and not all of them would be guaranteed to finish without running out of memory. This one is, as long as all the individual meshes can fit in GPU memory.

Chris are you on HN? I am curious whether some savings might be possible here by not snapshotting the IASes and GASes. Instead you can snapshot only the raw geometry, and then rebuild the GASes and IASes before every launch. It may be faster to rebuild the BVHs than to copy them from CPU ram!

*Oh incidentally looking through the code I also noticed that the GASes could be compacted which will save a lot of memory and time/bandwidth on the snapshot copies during rendering. Since you do compact the IAS, I am assuming it's problematic to try and compact the GASes?

In any case, nice work!
Needs FFG SWRPG as an option. Saga edition and D6 are both totally different games.

Can this integrate with other tools in the community, like RPGSessions.com? What about mysheets.com? Or myRPGTools.com? What about OggDude’s character builder? What about the various dice rolling programs?

Can you also handle FFG Genesys, which is very similar to FFG SWRPG?

What about virtual tabletop games?

Do you handle audio chat, background music, and video as well? What about shared maps, like roll20?

I’m already in a number of different Discord servers for various different SWRPG campaigns, and while the games themselves don’t cost me any money, Discord certainly does. And if I want the Discord server to perform reasonably well, then I have to get yet another Nitro subscription, and that kinda gets old after the first half dozen or more Discord servers.

And scheduling is a hard problem that I have yet to see anyone handle right.

Speaking only for myself, I’m not looking for a 24x7x365 convention. I want to play with the same group of people every week (more or less). It could be a really large group, so maybe only a small subset of us can get together for any one game. But still the same group of people, albeit perhaps with a few different options for GMs.

Give me a reason to use your community system instead of the various Discord servers I’m on, please. Not only will I be happy to give you money to do so, I’m willing to give you extra money if you can make that experience even better for me.
I don't think Apple cares what technology is actually being used to run the app (whether it be webkit or native code), they just want every streaming game to be a different app on the store so they can selectively assign age ratings and $other_reasons_probably_money. This obviously doesn't apply to safari-based apps - Apple can't do anything if MS gets xcloud.microsoft.com working on iOS.
I don't understand what is supposed to be nihilistic about treating evidence as evidence. If it's fraud, the evidence will say so. If it's nonsense, the evidence will say so. Sometimes the evidence is fine, but is being misinterpreted, and sometimes then indicates something more interesting than had been guessed. Guessing wrong is not fraud. Reporting exactly the results you got is what is supposed to be expected, whatever the results suggest.

It took much longer than it should have to converge on the unit charge, just because everyone after Millikan was afraid to report a result too far from his.
This is a very incorrect view of property taxation in silicon valley. Google and Apple are not going to be harmed in the least, because Google and Apple already pay a disproportionate amount of real property taxes in Santa Clara County. If Prop 15 makes legacy businesses pay a fair assessment on their parcels, relative newcomers like Google will be helped, not harmed. Google is Santa Clara County's largest taxpayer, paying $65 million in secured property taxes last year. If older large companies like Intel begin to pay realistic assessments, it won't be so skewed.
I can guarantee you there is minimal barrier to any individual getting a job in fintech besides being fine with extracting fees from people ill-equipped to pay them, or acting as a formerly impractical middle-man/transaction facilitator by adding a few microprocessors and sensors to something.

As long as you can maintain the belief you're "helping people" while your company extracts the majority of their revenue from overdraft and late fees, and deliberately targets the financially rocky due to the increased likelihood of fee extraction; you're golden. As long as you don't pay any attention to the drastically different life between the call center folks, and the engineering department, and can somehow shove the resulting cognitive dissonance out of your head, you should be fine.

If you can't do any of those things... Just stay away... Which is easier said than done, seeing as every tech business eventually evolves toward fintech at some point.
Yup - you're probably thinking of this one and the other similar comments in the (mess of a) thread: https://github.com/LibreSignal/LibreSignal/issues/37#issueco...

Makes it pretty clear that OWS does not want people using third-party clients with the official Signal servers.
I don't think "guild" has gaming baggage except to gamers? I think of medieval history.
It would decrease interest rates.

A $1,000 1 yr bond is a promise to a $1,000 in 1 year. If you'd pay $500 for it than the interest rate is 100%. If you bid it up to $750 than interest rates drop to 33%.
That's the point of the analogy. Rights like freedom of religion and freedom of speech must extend to corporations as well.
I think I read somewhere that Louisiana loses about 20% of its local municipal revenue per year due to corporate welfare and tax breaks.
i disagree, as a very early adopter of discord. early discord was rough around the edges, but it was still 10x better than any competitor because of how atrociously bad teamspeak/mumble/skype/ventrilo were. using skype was one of the worst communication experiences i have had on a computer - the fact that discord voice connections were semi-stable, not a complete hassle to set up, and had individual servers as well as DMs already made it better than any of its competiotors.
no

you hear pauses, which can be communicated in more than one way

as shown here

...was this unduly hard to understand?
"Corporations" here typically being not for profit corporations such as unions or public advocacy groups (including the eponymous "Citizens United").
Also confirming that clearing all history & website data does not clear it on iOS.
not a single one of those were or are the alternatives to discord, except for slack now.

the actual competitors were teamspeak, skype, mumble, and ventrilo.
As I understand it, even objects with no velocity in space still have velocity in time, and the curvature of spacetime shifts it from the time component into the spatial components. In other words an object's velocity is a 4 dimensional vector, and the curvature of spacetime causes the angle in 4d spacetime of that vector change, while still preserving total momentum, thereby accelerating the object in space while decelerating it in time. So as an object falls into a gravity well, it actually moves more slowly through time, transferring more and more of its total momentum from temporal motion and into spatial motion.