skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Replying to the person stating I provided "false" info, which is all supported by links and sources!:

It’s always “conspiracy theory”...until it becomes “conspiracy fact” years later.

Read Google’s (or Apple’s, or Yahoo’s) denial of participation in PRISM. The statements are examples of “Lying by Omission.” Verizon actually shared documents/orders it received from NSA, astonishingly. If one understand the basics of law, the omissions and doublespeak deniability are the most revealing and damning:[1] [2]

* “We have not joined any program that would give the U.S. government—or any other government—direct access to our servers.”: The NSA is not “the U.S. government”; neither are the contract intel companies that have access to data as middleman for NSA.

* “...does not have direct access or a ‘back door’ to the information stored in our data centers.”: But Google does not deny “indirect” access or a ‘door’ – otherwise its crafty attorney would have stated “neither direct nor indirect” and certainly would not have narrowed the access point to only a “back door.” Doublespeak.

* Regarding giving data to the government upon request: “Our legal team reviews each and every request, and frequently pushes back when requests are overly broad or don’t follow the correct process.” ‘Frequently pushes back’ – that’s laughable.

* “Press reports that suggest that Google is providing open-ended access to our users’ data are false, period.” Perhaps the press stated ‘open-ended’ but that’s not what Edward Snowden stated or leaked in documents. The prism program is not about “open-ended” access.[2]

The similarity of statements by the legal teams of Google, Apple, and Yahoo leads one to believe they are adhering to NDAs and FISA (Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act) restrictions about what they may say about PRISM or whether they ever heard of the program. So Apple, Yahoo, and Google all used doublespeak deniability in the carefully crafted legal pressers.

[1] http://www.thepaepae.com/google-denies-prism-direct-access-o...

[2] https://techcrunch.com/2013/06/07/doublespeak-denials-and-br...

Other resources:

[3] NSF / DARPA (indirect NSA) funding that backed the inception of Google: https://qz.com/1145669/googles-true-origin-partly-lies-in-ci...

[4] The PRISM slides: https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/special/politics/prism...

[5] References to Snowden’s leaked docs (one needs to investigate the offlinds to original leaked docs; difficult to obtain): https://www.cloudwards.net/prism-snowden-and-government-surv...

[6] A money paper trail: NSA paid the companies for compliance! (but these companies and their legal teams denied – and continue to deny – either having known about the PRISM program or making data accessible to the NSA and related contractors via said program): https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/aug/23/nsa-prism-cost...

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When in doubt, check your assumptions...because your assumptions are likely invalid.
Not everywhere, there's countries where it's "open ended", i.e. if your agreement expires, you default to a month-by-month basis until you renew it.
I think it boils down to "don't use a five dollar word when a fifty cent word will do".

It's not a matter of always using simple language, sometimes that doesn't cut it. Some concepts can't be broken down to the simplest words and still keep the quality of the conversation, the precision, the density of information.

I think it's just better to keep language as simple as it can be, as simple as the topic dictates. Don't complicate it just for the sake of sounding smart if the discussion doesn't require it.
I only buy movies through iTunes because they let you download an actual (DRM'd) video file, which can then be de-DRM'd. Unfortunately, recent versions of iTunes have broken all DRM removal software. I have a virtual machine with an old copy of iTunes for any new movie purchases, but if that ever stops working I won't be buying any more movies either.
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Wow, thanks for the mention of my channel (Effective Remote Work). Glad you're liking the videos!
Anecdotal fairy tales are the best fairy tales.
This has nothing to do with Catalyst. Apple Silicon macs will natively run the exact same binary as the iOS version, no Catalyst needed.
I guess ultimately the real solution is not to consume what they're producing.
Louis Rossmann - He's done some good analysis around rents in NYC.
Can it do stuff in 3d, like vectors in space and geometry of solids? At a first glance it is not clear if it can or cannot.

Also is there a comparable tools that do such interactive math animation in 3d.
But you're not publishing it! Copyright doesn't apply. That's what galled me.
I'm not sure about pokemon but for magic:the gathering, the oldest and most valuable cards have a fair amount of quirks which are hard to replicate, due to the different printing techniques (as well as some effects just due to the age). There's still fakes but they mostly scam unaware buyers (and usually for lower value cards). People who just want to play the game will often buy professionally made 'proxies' which are just as functional as the cards but don't have collector value (and aren't legal in events sanctioned by the designers, since it amounts to copyright/trademark violation).
Thanks for the question. And thanks for flagging that we cover in our FAQs. I'll also say that we experimented with video as an option before launching publicly and it's something we have thought a lot about. For the future. From our FAQs...

"...there are two reasons we are not using video as an interview medium today.

First, video chat creates technical challenges when an Internet connection is spotty. This creates both sound quality and consistency issues, both of which are detrimental.

Second, we receive consistent feedback from customers that the idea of sitting for an “on camera” interview, while intriguing on first consideration, becomes both intimidating and unnatural as guests get closer to the interview. We’ve taken that feedback to heart. Our North Star at Artifact is:

Every interview guest comfortable.

Everything we do is focused on driving at this North Star. The reason is that we find that the more comfortable customers are when they sit for interviews, the better they express themselves. The better they express themselves, the better the product we can provide to you. It’s that simple."
>20k+ a year

How??
Finally a usecase for Bitcoin
I don't understand the concept of "expiration" for an actual file that you have downloaded. How does it work, technically?
I think the point of being good with domain knowledge is not to act as a trader, but to understand the needs of a trader. It's a different skillset, but domain knowledge will help you with that.
I'm not sure the former owners of the houses would agree. They made good money from the houses they sold to Chinese people. Is that necessarily a bad thing?
Lower air quality in China points to iPhone 12 production surge
While zero tolerance policies at schools are awful, at least there they serve an arguably useful purpose: avoiding litigation against the school. In a CoC it's just an easy way for the commissars and nomenklatura that wrote/enforce the CoC to harm their enemies
The hospital chain I work for was hit with ransomware last month. Door locks, time clocks, and photocopy machines still worked, but all computers were down. We use paper records, but it was frustrating and inconvenient. We're not allowed to pay due to laws. Corporate started slowly building us a brand new, but terrible, network 5 weeks after the old one went down. Definitely caused a little staff burnout, but not more than corporate's relentless attempts to extract additional profit from us at the expense of our patients and our wellbeing.
Regardless, if a lesser module for $4.50 will squeak by, then that's what the designer should specify. And the programmer will make do.
DoorDash does this too: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23216852

In many cases, it can hurt the reputation of restaurants. Maybe your food doesn't travel well, or you don't have the capacity to handle orders beyond what you have physical seating for...
I've always found Vimscript (and Elisp, for that matter) to be an extremely unpleasant language to do anything in - which makes this all the more impressive. Like building a house out of toothpicks and wasabi.
> Our game in the app store could not include scrabble in the keywords because its copyrighted

More likely, because it is a trademark.
Did you win?

I mean, clearly yours was the best.
Yeah right. Keep numbers of educated people to a bare minimum so that generic person would have shitty job paying unlivable wage and be happy about it.

Educated people (at least ones having good general University type education) at least have better chance finding something useful to do and creating new opportunities.

My advice for those "academics" would be to undergo voluntary lobotomy and improve the world in accordance to their views.
I'd like to see digital ownership in the form of non-fungible tokens on Ethereum. That way, you can easily re-sell your ownership on decentralized exchanges. That's true digital ownership.
You could try working on an online business as an alternative. You already know how to make websites.

If you're better at programming than design, a SaaS might be an option. Otherwise, you could create content that could be monitized with affiliate commissions or ads.

Of course, an online business takes time, but it could be a valid strategy in the next 2-3 years to generate enough income to cover your expenses.
I have a feeling those are two different groups of people.
This might sound bad especially to you or the someone you know, but if the legal system (criminal or civil) was not able to act (presumably due to lack of evidence), then I don't think events or other organizations should act either.
I'm a veteran (US Army OIF II ~2003-2004) and wear a mask to protect you as much as to protect myself + my family. There are plenty of stupid people in the world, being a willing to serve in the military doesn't mean you're one of them.
I'm not aware of any definition of 'generic' that prohibits casting. It certainly seems like a very arbitrary condition. Basically I'm familiar with two definitions:

1. The abstract idea of writing an algorithm that supports a variety of types. This allows for casting, reflection, dynamic typing, etc.

2. The specific idea of a type system that allows for parameterized types (aka "typesafe generics"). This definition excludes castng, reflection, and dynamic typing.

Typically "typesafe generics" is what people talk about when they discuss "generics", but since you chose to pick the "dynamically typed languages are generic" nit, I assumed you were talking about (1).
2 properties at 1 million will probably require more time and effort though, right? Like they may be better off buying 10 200k houses, but the mob lawyer has more important things to do
If you cease consuming what they're producing in the manner they disagree with, that's kind of their goal.
I see the same thing and it's disheartening. At least we're not immortal, now that would be hell in such a system.

And the main problem is (imho) that people just seem to hate responsibility. It all stems from that, at the core it's all just shifting responsibility onto something or someone who will take it.
LOL "laws of economics"
You think Gene Roddenberry is down there?
It's a bit silly to chase down original authorship of an idea that is a minor detail visible to many people who work in a field.

It's like asking who was the first person to discover that all multiples of 11 have the same parity in the respective sums of their odd and even digits.
A gpg encrypted file.
(1) Copyright applies even if you aren't publishing; it's called copyright and not publishright for a reason.

(2) Providing an app on an app store is publishing, anyway.

(3) The issue here was almost certainly trademark, not copyright.
What's the "best" ordering app to use these days if I want to prioritize how well they treat restaurants? I've tried looking this up recently to no avail.

I know at the end of the day, "call and pick-up directly" is going to be it but occasionally I just don't want to go pick it up.
But isn't "outgroup members are not welcome" the definition of (mild) xenophobia? Indeed, religious disagreements are a major source of it.
Standup straight with your shoulders back and you will be more successful
Also, people haven't stopped torrenting at all in many parts of the world.
And if it’s from China?

This is going to be a controversial suggestion, but I have a feeling that we might already be in an asymmetric world war and our leaders might quietly know it. This year has felt like checkmate.
> 3. If the asset being purchased is a home, incentives between buyer and seller are aligned and prices are higher than the non-laundering market would support (esp if there's another launderer who's interested).

This is true but misleading. The money launderer doesn't want to throw away money. They want to launder money as cheaply as possible. That said, they are willing to pay far more than an asset is "worth" if they expect to be able to resell it for a price equal to or even slightly lower than they paid. The loss is the "price" of laundering. This supports higher prices for real estate, but not arbitrarily high prices, because if the launderer pays too much, they will simply have to resell for less, leaving money on the table that they could have kept.
Apple Silicon macs can run iOS/iPadOS binaries natively, no recompilation and no Catalyst needed. I think the experience of iPad apps will be just fine.
Thanks! That is incredibly helpful.
Thanks for sentiments and for sharing about The Listening Project! We absolutely have and much like NPR's StoryCorps, it has been a real inspiration for our team. Such a valuable effort.
Yes! Community is an important concept that we are losing during mass media, globalization, secularization, Covid, etc. This is sad since our direct community was what we evolved to interact with, some 20-100 people near us. I am hoping for the day we can have large gatherings again so we can re establish communities.
Not sure I agree, launderers don't worry about price, they need to move funds and do so on a fairly reasonable timeline. Losing a bit of money is part of the cost of doing business, as long as it's lower then taxes, its still a good deal. Also hyping up a neighborhood you have flippable assets in, lends to wanting to overpay to drive pricing up. Your assumption that fraud follows normal logic is flawed. Read a few federal cases about laundering and you'll see, many of them ain't so bright. And sometimes money needs to be cleaned on a timeline, so overpaying is again, just another cost. Dangerous people like to be paid on time too, so you flip what you can in the time you have.

Source: I know someone who, along with their family, was prosecuted for it on a very large scale.
This article doesn't pass the smell test, it is pure speculation. Their theory is basically that 1) quick successive buying and selling always drives real estate prices up and 2) money launderers always engage in such activity because they want cash. If 1) was true, the profit seeking motive would ensure that everyone would be doing it, not only money launderers. As for 2), I don't see a reason why criminals wouldn't also be long term investors. If a criminal successfully acquires real estate without raising flags, why risk immediately cashing it out? If they need cash for their criminal activity, why bother "cleaning" it?
This is not a paradox though, as your copy and paste states. It's just a theorem (as you stated) with a proof by contradiction. A paradox must be self-contradictory under all circumstances.
I use playon.tv which I purchased during my undergraduate and frequently forget about. It allows one to record content from services they are subscribed to in a DVR-like fashion. The interface is kinda jank but it works just fine. I recorded a bunch of shows i wanted to watch before i moved house and lost internet for a week.

On the implementation front, i believe they run a headless chrome instance and record the media as it streams in real time. So they aren't downloading the source files, just recording. This has the unfortunate side effect of baking in subtitles or if the chrome instance is asking for you to accept cookies it shows up over the top of the recording.

Apologies if this is a bit incoherant, whenever the owning of media comes up, it always reminds me i have the software installed
Or, maybe not. Nobody knows!
Investors have seemingly been pricing in the current consensus of a recovery in late 2021 or early 2022. There is a lot of money on the sidelines willing to buy dips. We might go sideways for a while unless there is a sudden shock.
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The company TransMeta was mostly PhDs. They fooled around so long, arguing and redesigning, not releasing, that Intel ate their lunch steadily improving scalar performance. My colleague who was worth $100M in TransMeta options at one point, is back to work with nothing.

So yeah, too many brains are a dangerous thing.
I know this is red meat for the anti-Amazon crowd, but this isn't and shouldn't be a surprise.

This is what happens with pretty much any digital good you buy. It's what happens with Kindle books. I remember having this very same conversation and debate on the Magic: The Gathering forums 18 years ago when Magic: The Gathering Online came out.

If you're buying a digital good and don't get a copy that you can download onto your drive and interact offline, go ahead and assume you rented it. Should be that way? I would argue no. But it's the world we live in.

No one refunded me the $2,000 I spent on Marvel Heroes when Gazillion abruptly shut the game down. I 'bought' all those digital goods, so why can't I play the game offline? Because I really just purchased a limited license (i.e. rented) to in-game items.
Dealing with your own subconscious biases is a continuous activity. I grew up in a society with deep structural problems around equality and those sorts of problems seep into every aspect of life. I think it would be arrogant of me to claim I'm somehow immune, that it hasn't influenced the way I think.

I have no problem accepting that I have subconscious biases around things like race and gender, but I work to recognise those biases and I do the best I can to mitigate them.

I don't think it's enough to pass a law and declare the that the war against racism has been won, society has to work clean up the mess and pay off the debt left behind. If that includes compensatory justice, so be it.
Yes, that was what I meant as well. But as I’ve read about the approaches currently available, all of which require manually opting in per component, I’ve had two thoughts:

1. Manually marking a component for hydration likely means shipping the whole structure below as JS, which may hit diminishing returns fairly quickly.

2. At least if you’re using TypeScript, enough is known (or could/should be) to determine which components are truly static. Next.js already has a rudimentary version of this. That kind of analysis could be a huge DX improvement.
I'm curious why they would need the owner's permission for listing? I can understand the issues around things like the alleged practice of replacing the businesses' information. But the idea of just having a third-party delivery service acting as a middle-man... The restaurant is still getting paid whatever they charged. I don't understand why they would get a say anymore than, say, a book store regarding me reselling books I bought on eBay.
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Is there any law against the military or government running an operation like this?

Shouldn't there be?

I feel like if military personnel and politicians were told "If you try this kind of thing, for training purposes or otherwise, you will serve <X> years in prison" it would be a good deterrent. And I feel like such strong laws should exist.
Well we had the very visible example of the Navy Seal who allegedly killed Osama doing just this. Not only refusing to wear a mask but suggesting that those of us who do are "pussies".

But outside of the military we have the people buying up guns to protect america from a mostly imagined antifa threat, who will not wear masks to protect against a very real viral one.

People have never been good at thinking though, similar stuff happened in 1918. oh well.
Single use kitchen gadgets and the Unix philosophy
Trading under another brands name -- by listing them as an ordering place with an unofficial dark kitchen associated in your app -- seems like the most egregious form of trade mark infringement.

Why aren't GrubHub concerned about the legal reprecussions of this?
One of things common to socialists and nazis...
We seem to pack most of our learning into the first quarter or third of our life, then taper off to almost nothing. That doesn't work for maintaining anything, so why would we think our ability to learn is any different? The physiological deterioration may be inevitable in some ways, but there are definitely other factors at play like habits, motivation, opportunity and lots more. Your example with your dad is incredibly rare in the general population, but probably a pretty common path amongst 67-yr-olds writing giant code bases, or 74-yr-olds still in programming jobs. I don't see it as defeating death as much as extracting everything out of life. Maybe the other side of the same coin?
I'll have to find the story, but there was a comment on hn when the last story about grubhub or other food delivery services. But there was a Italian place that didn't do delivery but they were getting bad reviews about cold pizza when delivered.

Then they found out company was delivering their food without their permission.
> The NSA is not “the U.S. government”

The NSA is a component of the US government, and if the NSA has something the US government also has it, so in the context of the sentence at issue, yes, if access was given to the NSA it was given to the US government.
They should lose their ass for this. It hurts the reputation of small restaurants when the food isn't good and it might not even be their fault. Shouldn't there be some kind of health code rules for food delivery?
This is partly true, partly wrong.
Each house bought for laundering money will be taken of the market for foreseeable future reducing supply.
Also house prices are very sticky, those (non-laundering people) who bought at the inflated price will likely not want to sell for lower, creating a situation where they might be stuck with their house in case of a temporary market crash, leading to further supply constrained.

The low interest rate environment and the levarage works both ways :)
Agreed - but if you live in China, the government already has your face mapped and is tracking you wherever you go... so maybe it is a zero additional cost for their citizens to give their face away to another application.
Premium also generously allows you to turn off the screen while listening.

Yeah, seeing that recently was a good reminder that my phone is not under my control.
When I looked this place up, there’s also a massive obelisk shaped pillar. This feels like a conspiracy theorists dream: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pico_C%C3%A3o_Grande?wprov=sft...
Again, the word doesn't appear to any user, nor is it in the app nor transmitted to the user. It appears in a database, one time. Probably was already there, because the Scrabble app was already there!

The app in the app store is irrelevant. The trademark is irrelevant (not marking this product, not infringing).

Does that hold water?
The people currently in charge of this in many organisations (perhaps not most, but certainly the ones you hear about) are bullies. When a bully comes up against an unprepared non-bully, the bully wins.