skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And? The catholic church is under fire for the past few decades for harboring pedophiles.
No kidding. On the other hand, if it weren't for people like me holding the plane up by the armrests... bad things would happen, right?
Baloney. The whole reason that laws exist to punish the person paying the bribe, even if the bribe was originally solicited by an official, is to force that person to bring it to higher authorities, i.e. the FBI.

This type of corruption is even more endemic in other countries and I'm sure many companies would find it easier to just pay the bribe than comply with the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, but that's why the act was written in the first place.
Who cares if the projects keep going while VCs throw away their money. The only time throwing good money after bad decisions pays off is when you get bailed out by the government.
Yeah, Apple doesn't pay taxes, they sure got the last laugh.
Magnus - We're not raising simplistic issues about whether beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but addressing how those women are best helped. It's indeed heart-breaking to hear how difficult the situation is. For example, when they are overwhelmed with the decision, terrified about what everyone else will think, then perhaps a mental health professional would be the better option to help them through it then someone with authority (the surgeon) reinforcing to them, with research, that everyone else's opinions are essential. Edit: I'm not sure that's what's going on, but I think it's a reasonable concern about the survey and how it will be used.

I'm posting this because the two questions below about this issue didn't receive responses and the way the issue is addressed above seems to possibly trivialize the questions, but that could be unintended or a language issue. Sorry if I'm misunderstanding you.
Satya Nadella has done a remarkable job modernizing Microsoft. I’m super excited about Microsoft’s future.
According to the standards of the english language, no, it is literally not.

No, when one says it in response to BLM, they’re neither being an asshole nor or they saying you can’t emphasize anything. You can say whatever you want obviously. When people say it, they mean it literally, and they believe that the divisive rhetoric is harmful. Which seems to be supported by the evidence.

The slogan itself was born of a lie and a false narrative, which they continue to perpetuate. There’s no reason to continue allowing its use as a political weapon.
Testing and Cross-Border Risk Management Measures Manual [pdf]
This doesn't seem coherent.
This is exactly why governments love red tape and "oversight". When you have to come to GOVERNMENT to ask for permission, they can make it worth it for them.

No surprise this is so prevalent in NYC and Santa Clara. They can deceive people that the strong requirements is under the guise of gun control or some such.
90% of the Global Power Capacity Added in 2020 Will Be Renewable
This is pretty remarkable, but the IEA report published on Tuesday says almost 90% of new electricity generation in 2020 will be renewable, with just 10% powered by gas and coal.
I am so happy you posted this. There goes the rest of my afternoon.
I love short games. They fit into life better. When they tell a story, I appreciate them for much the same reason that I enjoy short stories and novellas: the author gets their point across.

I am not a fan of long games. They consume my time like the cookie monster consumes cookies. The worse games are full of filler. The best games are hard to set aside for a while without loosing track of where I am.

Yet the long games are usually more memorable on the sole merit of the time spent with them. If that is true for most players, I admire the developers for their ability to persist in a market where the odds are stacked against them.
Almost every commonly deployed system does.
Repost: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25187320
Exactly, and it's clearly permitted to pay in that case because being able to travel involves routine govt action. I have no idea where this legal advice is coming from.
Probably one of the best indie movie I've seen so far.
> you mean to encrypt the stream itself?

Yes.

And indeed Debian (raspbian) has a ton of components that I can string together, but it doesn't appear entirely trivial to make a low-powered system encode (h264 is expensive by itself) and encrypt a video stream of a decent frame rate and resolution and upload it to a standard file host, all close to realtime (perhaps up to ~4 seconds delay, that should be fast enough even if the intruder knows about the cam (Kerckhoff's principle) and immediately moves to pull the plug).

I don't think it can be done with entirely off-the-shelf components actually, it probably requires quite a bit of glue to make the components work together, cleanup files (locally and remotely), etc., but I'd be happy to be told I'm wrong :)

Edit: did you edit this in?

> if all you want to do is upload image files

Well kinda, but multiple images per second and preferably with some delta algorithm so they're not 100k×86400×fps = something on the order of 50GiB/day. A h264-compressed stream is an order of magnitude smaller. (Sunrise is the worst, increases the stream size by ~3×.)
Roku also sells your data, same with Google and likely Amazon.

Apple TV is what you want if you don’t want to have your data/viewing habits sold to outside companies.
Also some cities have restrictions on open carry of unloaded weapons as well (generally you have to be going somewhere with the gun iirc).
I played more bowling on the Wii with friends than I have almost any other game. It's fun, fast, and enjoyable for a large demographic. Hell, I know people who bought the Wii just to play the starter disk. I think there is a huge market for small games that are easy to learn and fun to play in a living room or in a small discord lobby.
Does that compete at all speed-wise with just plugging it into your computer via USB? I guess your local network should be fairly fast, but I would think that USB would still be faster (not to mention that you wouldn't need to find the right file from the terminal).
Yes, but I do not think it had to be this bad. Thoughtfully mediating the communication of billions of people is a massive challenge but one that could be tackled by the sort of highly intelligent and well funded teams that abound in places like Facebook. Unfortunately Facebook leadership lacks the character to try to fix a problem that is making them billions of dollars. Even if that problem is making the whole world worse off. I think history will judge them harshly.
Donut county... so mixed feelings about that one. I really enjoyed it, up until the final fight against the big flying robot cat thingie. I felt super betrayed about a game without stress suddenly flipping on all its principles. Suddenly it was a stressful action game. Super hard. Tried a dozen times. Failed. Became angry with it, put it down, never started it again, and now when you mention it my feelings about that game are like 30% niceness of the initial part and 70% bitterness about the crap ending. Or was it even the ending? I will not know.

To game makers out there: know your category, and don't break it.

There was an old space quest game that was like this too. Final mecha fight that turned a thinking game into an action game and with it turned friends of the game into enemies.
I imagine Apple's security team was interested in procuring CCW permits for use beyond Apple's property. Probably for executive security and things along those lines.

You're right that carry permits are not required on private property.
I know you're joking, but this is one of the many reasons I'm glad to be going out the door here in California. This state loves to criminalize normal people and decriminalize actual criminal behavior.

They won't cite you for public defecation but they will cite you for jaywalking, because jaywalkers can be squeezed.
The main reason is that I'd have to program another integration post-haste, and I don't want sloppy code out in the world because I was rushed. I have an existing relationship with Worldpay Integrated Payments by FIS, and so I'm getting in touch with their developer relations team again so I can start an integration for card-not-present. But that'll probably take a couple of weeks to test and get approved. My Stripe code has been battled-tested.

Anyhow, Stripe's decision on this account has left me scrambling, because the client's web store was built and ready-to-go, just waiting for the client's API keys, and now it's dead in the water.
I have a whole day on battery for normal usage, and competent gaming performance when I plug it in.

The M1 offers only one of these things.
The conversation exists because this guy in particular has talked and implemented various (in my opinion hostile) methods for commercialising open-source work.

See his "experiment" (https://github.com/feross/funding) and selling terminal ads during npm install (https://dev.to/adriansandu/npm-bans-terminal-ads-and-mozilla...)
Most of my home automation is Zigbee or Zwave not WiFi, Outlets for the most part are SYLVANIA SMART+

Zigbee/Zwave is controlled via Nortek USB interface connected to a rPI

Though I do have a couple of Shelly Devices, and some custom ESP8266 things
Yes, that enhances the illusion for sure
> it's interesting that _something_ happened in 1971

Why do you believe that this is true at all? Someone on the Internet just cherry picked some numbers and shoehorned some graphs to make a point. You could pick any year, and with enough data butchery, you could find all sorts of spurious correlations to all sorts of things.

By the way, until the 1980s, China was a dirt poor Third World country that was more or less irrelevant in international trade. In the 1970s China exported fewer things than, for example, Nigeria, Venezuela or Poland. The rise of China took place in the 1990s and 2000s. It is completely impossible that trade with China in the 1970s caused any noticeable change.
Maybe I'm unclear on what Mailchimp does. Do they host private mailing lists, or just do outbound 'opt-in-but-not-really' marketing?
This story reads straight out like the kind of scenario we have in our yearly mandatory ethics and anti-corruption training:

"You're conducting some business with [public institution] and the person you're talking with would like your company to donate something to the local charity. What do you do?"

Interesting to see that those hypothetical scenarios aren't so hypothetical.
For my own home automation setup I'm using a device called RFXCom. It plugs into a USB port and can send and receive all sorts of remote control signals, not just IR but also things like the Somfy protocol mentioned in the article.

It's really nice because to the hardware it just looks like a regular remote control. No soldering needed either.
I remember reading in the calguns forums a few years back that sheriffs had de-facto outlawed concealed carry in CA with this extortionate program.

By the way Apples head of security isn’t the only one. Nanci Pelosi has had a CCW for a long time while simultaneously fighting to suppress gun ownership in her own city and state.
They also charged the agents of the state.
He was in charge of the executive protection team. They are armed because leaders of well known companies face constant threats and are kidnapping targets (Apple would obviously pay countless sums to get Tim Cook back safely for example).

The Bay Area and New York are notorious for withholding permits because it creates artificial scarcity, and off-duty cops are the only ones able to fill the demand.
Calling it theft is a very far stretch. I know there are stories of police abusing this & taking cash of people in random traffic stops: That's theft. But a huge portion of asset seizures are forfeits from drug crimes. The DEA along takes about $500 million a year in this way, and state, country & municipal departments take even more.
I don't think you can really call it a generalized dot product, because it doesn't map to a scalar. The inner product is the well accepted definition of a generalized dot product, and convolution does not follow the axioms that an inner product must follow.
Pretty sure if it’s done ahead of time we can’t really call it “JIT” can we? :)
It is explained: People want healthy McDonald's but they won't buy it.
Deniability. i.e. the sheriff can say the permit wasn’t issued because its at their discretion, not because someone didn’t pay a bribe. That said, even with a "shall" situation there are hoops to jump thru that can be used to set this same kinda situation up.
The part of the test administered by the state is objective, in all three states in which I've obtained a license.

The part which is subjective is deputized to instructors, and one can shop around for a willing one.

The moral hazard you're alluding to is completely absent.
That's one of the two links I posted, which I think Stallman did not link in the faith you give him (nor do I think was written in that same faith), but that's subjective.

The other is where he's doubting that pedophilia is harmful to children. So yeah, that's pretty well "in support of pedophilia." That one isn't subjective, it's the words he typed, and try as I might I can't find an interpretation where he's not saying pedophilia is fine.
I'm coming from a place where I do know the jargon. That doesn't mean I have to like it.

There is obvious room for improvement. The syntax is not nearly as efficient as it could be.

Everything is made more arbitrarily complicated when it's represented by its departure from the Ionian mode. It would be much more efficient to use the chromatic scale as a base instead.

> It's complex, because simple music is for children.

Oh, I'm a child now? I'm talking about "simple" music? Get of your high horse. I wish I could say that your attitude was rare in music. Unfortunately, it represents the majority in professional circles.

The status quo is protected by this vain professionalism at a heavy cost.
Ask HN: Are there hourly paying jobs for pregnant women?
Hi I am a web/graphic designer who has worked on over 50+ projects involving web, logo, video, and any graphic item. I am quick to execute a project and can pick up stuff easily.

I had a good 3 year run and I was getting regular business from a guy from Asia. Unfortunately he is not responding from the past few weeks and I am totally out of work.

Can you help me find work? I can only work hourly and from home since I am pregnant and have to take care of an ailing family member at the same time. I did try finding work at a web shop but they were not so accommodating when they heard I was pregnant. I am sure they have their own reasons so I am not complaining.

It's best if I receive an hourly payment as I am really short on payments with a rent due this week and a couple of other bills to pay off. I can execute anything design related and which can be done using Adobe.

Please help me if you can. Someone said I can get work if I accept Bitcoin. So I started an account at 15tLDG1PvV1ux2r4wdtmDDNg2BvFfbL9gR . Not sure if this is how it works but I just want to work and get paid soon. I can do any online IT job if there are no design jobs available.

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I heard it was far easier to hack Android instead, and exfiltrate the decrypted messages at rest, on the local phone itself.
> Why the company?

Because you don't just randomly cough up a couple hundred anything from a company like Apple without it appearing on the books somewhere.

If it didn't appear on the books anywhere, then it sounds like Apple gave this department a quite significant "petty cash" fund and used this guy and department to do unsavory things so that the higher-ups can have plausible deniability.

Yeah, the company needs to get hammered, too.
> Quite in the vein of Apple sending the executables hash to some random server

Isn't Microsoft already doing that on a default Windows installation?

Edit: Yes, SmartScreen, enabled by default, seems to send:

Hash, name and signature for executables. (Also hashes of urls you visit (though I guess only in Edge?))
The loss of a viable ecosystem may make that a mute concern.
Carrying a gun makes it more likely that I’ll shoot myself?
And calling asset forfeiture "theft" is quite an extreme interpretation when it's mostly legitimate seizures from criminal enterprises (especially the drug trade).
You can use a keyboard and mouse on recent iOS versions as well (and it works very comfortably on iPadOS). You can also connect an adapter to use a big screen.

I disagree with your argument that smartphones should be general-purpose computers. I don't think that having a smartphone be a general-purpose computer provides a significantly improved amount of control for 99.9% of the population.
> A high-level exec at one of the world's most powerful companies paying off a local LEO for a permit instead of, IDK, contacting the State or the Feds, is beyond inexplicable.

The problem is that, at least in many jurisdictions, gun permits basically only exist as a means for police to solicit bribes. There's literally an entire industry of people whose job is bribing police departments to get gun permits. C.f.: https://www.google.com/search?q=nyc+concealed+carry+bribes
Getting the jump-seat while flying non-rev is typical, though, and not against any rules. Besides it's not like they could hide that from the corporate if the numbers of passengers was greater than the regular seats available.
Microsoft/EVA: Compiler for the SEAL homomorphic encryption library
They do not have to provide the reason. Does it matter if the real reason is illegal?
A lot of drugs worked for me for “about a month” and then completely stopped working. I’m fascinated by the phenomenon. It’s like the body REALLY wants to have that migraine, and will figure out workarounds, no matter where you intervene medically.
I'm reminded of Feynman's Challenger report:

"[T]here are several references to previous flights; the acceptance and success of these flights are taken as evidence of safety. But erosion and blowby are not what the design expected. They are warnings that something is wrong. The equipment is not operating as expected, and therefore there is a danger that it can operate with even wider deviations in the unexpected and not thoroughly understood way. The fact that this danger did not lead to catastrophe before is no guarantee that it will not the next time, unless it is completely understood. (...) The origin and consequences of the erosion and blowby were not understood. Erosion and blowby did not occur equally on all flights or in all joints: sometimes there was more, sometimes less. Why not sometime, when whatever conditions determined it were right, wouldn't there be still more, leading to catastrophe?"

Networks are unreliable and 'have you tried turning them off and then back on' works well and we have extensive experience with them; adding some retries is well within predicted workarounds and tricks. However, parsing a data structure should be straightforward, exactly reproducible, simple, and always work and use the expected amount of memory; adding on arbitrary amounts of memory is not a standard workaround, and, somewhat like Mercury failing to be where Newton's theory predicted it should be, indicates that your mental model of the system is not merely a little fuzzy on the edges, but fundamentally incorrect and must be replaced by a completely different theory (like relativity), and in the true model, the safety and correctness may be arbitrarily different than what you thought they were (in the way that Newton & Einstein make arbitrarily different predictions if you go fast enough).
I totally agree with you, but I think the clear implication of baryphonic's comment is that the State of CA was being "authoritarian" here by denying the permit, as opposed to the sheriffs dept. Which, I'd point out, doesn't make much sense given that it is in fact the State of California which is bringing the charges against these people in the sheriffs dept for demanding bribes in exchange for a constitutionally protected government service.
SCOTUS has not ruled on this issue, so it is technically undetermined. SCOTUS has ruled in other cases that there are some situations where people can be denied those rights legally, so determining the outcome is not as simple as reading the text. SCOTUS generally evaluates the law in a broader context than just the written text.
I wish I could get starlink. :( it will likely be 2+ years until it would be available to anyone
Reminds me of the incidents with people working in security for other tech companies, e.g., Uber^1 and Ebay^2.

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24227437

2. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23537357
I acknowledged that here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25193691. I never claimed I was giving legal advice.

But also, it seems like it's a bit of a grey area:

"As a general principle of the Foreign Corrupt Practises Act (FCPA), in the United States, firms and businesses in the US are prohibited from making any payments to foreign officials for routine governmental action. However, any payment that does not effect the decision of the foreign official is not considered a bribe. For example, a businessman in the States may make a payment to a government official to expedite a deal or transaction. Such a payment is considered a grease payment (and not a bribe), which is lawful under FCPA.

In this regard, it becomes necessary to understand when an amount paid turns from a grease payment to a bribe, which is illegal under law. This is a grey area under the law which is still to be clarified. There are numerous factors that could play a role in demarcation between the two, which include: the amount of payment, the frequency of the payment, the status/level of the foreign official to whom the payment has been made, the outcome of the case regarding which the payment was made, etc."[1]

The training at my company is pretty strict about never making any "grease payments", so certainly there's some doubt.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_Corrupt_Practices_Act#...
That's bad training. If they are stuck in a country because they won't pay the $20 exit fee because authorizing legislation was not properly adopted, then apple are idiots.

It will take one person dying because of this policy for apple to be sued to hell and back.
An opinionated list of best practices for textual websites
> The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1977 is a United States federal law that prohibits U.S. citizens and entities from bribing foreign government officials to benefit their business interests.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_Corrupt_Practices_Act
Hi! I'm one of the main researchers on this project. If anyone has any questions about the EVA compiler or homomorphic encryption in general I'd be happy to answer.
If you're a notable security researcher, Apple has the program for you: https://developer.apple.com/programs/security-research-devic...

That's their "official solution" to the problem, even if it's somewhat exclusionary.

For the rest of us, a checkm8'ed iPhone X works great.
Yes, I would also like to be able to carry around my own personal nuclear warhead. Just in case.
Yeah, the tricky part is to figure out how much to over allocate. Its often even harder to know when to scale it down.

An advantage of using realloc, is that a smart memory allocate can sometimes get away with not moving the memory, either by extending the allocation if the memory beyond the allocation happens to be free, or by doing memory address remapping.
From what I understand, Pluton is more in the vein of TPMs, so able to store and handle your cryptographic keys and to do measurements during your boot process. SGX is a hardware feature that allows an app to run securely (i.e. Without any possible interference from other apps or even the OS) in a hardware-enforced enclave. Completely different tasks and use cases, which might overlap - maybe you can use keys with Pluton from within an SGX enclave?