skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>They're facing charges as an organization at the state level for laws that don't exist in Texas. The organization in New York will cease to exist and New York will have no jurisdiction over a Texan organization.

> Did you like it when the SCOTUS threw out the claim Texas made against Pennsylvania's election laws because the claim had "no standing"? That will be the same situation if New York tries to sue the Texas organization

IANAL, but that doesn't sound accurate. I don't believe court ordered fines are dischargeable in a reorg. If the NY NRA ceases to exist, and is legit dead, they'll need to start from scratch. Doesn't sound like that's their intent.

You can't just walk away from fraud charges by switching states. Phrasing your statement as "did you like it when..." is aggressive and political. It's also wrong. For the analogy to work, new york would have to be suing the NRA for things they did in texas after leaving new york. They're suing them for things they already did in new york, and then fled to another state.

Gun safety is a good thing, and maybe the NRA used to be more principled. These days it seems awfully corrupt. Even if you're pro gun-rights, the NRA just seems like a bad way to accomplish that. I'd call it a money grab by some sleazy execs personally.
That is a weird way of referring to value being collectively added to a free software project. I contributed to LibreOffice for five years before being hired. I even did onboarding without compensation, with increasing intensity and regularity. I quite happily worked alongside people employed by various companies and I learned a lot.
Go and rent a place in one of the many places that do receive this waves of migrants. Talk to people.
For those curious this seems to be about netblocks.org that are frequently quoted when it comes to internet connectivity issues.

It seems like they are collecting data without any consent and also making it up??
The PS5’s ultimate easter egg is 40k Playstation symbols you can feel
Once paranoia-based gun sales became a pervasive and profitable, it was my impression that manufacturers and their funding took over the NRA. Although causality may be reversed there.

I would also be curious to see if the left's accusations of foreign funding / interference had any truth.
I can envision an NRA where paying the CEO $800k/year is warranted. But this NRA isn't it. This NRA has tied its fortunes to the Trumpist GOP and promoting tired culture war narratives, seriously harming their political influence and their ability to advance gun policy favored by gun owners.
I had also understood it as a feudal Japanese term referring to revealing you have no blades hidden underneath. A reveal that must happen before a civil conversation can begin. Also I don’t think people are naked beneath their kimonos.
> In general, this doesn't seem like a great use of the HN self-post feature. If you feel this strongly about it, maybe write a blog post that can be formatted properly?

Thanks, I'll do that. I originally posted this on Twitter: https://twitter.com/keleftheriou/status/1357938977748078594

> How can you tell that? Seems hard to believe.

Tools like AppFigures can accurately estimate revenues from the official top grossing charts of the App Store. Here's a screenshot showing the app made ~ $211k this January alone: https://imgur.com/a/nTsePbX

The same developer has over 100 apps, although this one is their most "successful".

> I don't understand this part at all. It might be the case that a handful of normal users are getting scammed by this. But just what do "honest developers" have to do with this case?

I got tipped about this app by a small indie developer who has been severely impacted by this scam competitor. I have also experienced the same as a developer: https://twitter.com/keleftheriou/status/1356011069395755009?...

Also see this for how poorly Apple has reacted: https://twitter.com/keleftheriou/status/1356725674954788864?...

To better understand this, it helps to see how these people manipulate their ratings: https://boostyourapps.org

Screenshot of the above website: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EtZjqbmUcAA9sB2?format=jpg&name=...

Apple's marketing has very effectively convinced people that things like that aren't happening on their store:

“A safe and trusted place to discover and download apps”
“We want you to feel good about using every single one of them”
“No surprise purchases”
“Moderators review worldwide App Store charts for quality and accuracy”
“Removed over 60M user reviews that were considered spam”

I'm just trying to shine a light on all of this, because people have no idea about the extent to which this is going on.
> Then why can't I, a person looking to buy a home, or to start a business, skip the middle-man then and create a liability myself with the central bank?

You and your descendants do have a liability with the central bank. The Fed holds $5 trillion dollars of US Government debt, which is about $15,000 USD for every US citizen.

Don't feel too bad though because in the UK it's about $17,600 USD per capita
I think this includes "Larry Fink controls 8 trillion because that's what's at blackrock". It's dancing around controlling vs owning.
A fellow sportsfan maybe?
I wonder if it would help avoid some of these issues if all materials used in the building by all the different contractors and subcontractors and subsubcontractors etc were required to come through a single entity?

That wouldn't help with someone getting the dimensions wrong on a staircase, but it could catch things like a contractor wanting to use the wrong kind of pipe of floor material or appliance.
An analogue water meter reader using ESP32 and TensorFlow Lite
The last commit sponsored by DARPA was comitted 9 days ago so I would guess that is still the case.
> capital paid an average of ~5% risk free, staying remarkably constant in the past 2 century

Where is 5% risk free in the past twenty years?
can you link open source web based editors?
i have a need to use excel/spreadsheets
Al Jazeera’s Mahmoud Hussein Released from Jail in Egypt
A Breast-Shaped Cake Became the Symbol of a Sicilian City
The Fall and Rise of Iridium (2016)
Not to mention many auditors have minimal understanding of the stuff they check on. On a number of occasions I had to explain how the system worked to the auditor, and what's worse - they seemed to be OK with me just explaining that, without any double-checking.
“This Is for You, Dad”: Interview with an Anonymous GameStop Investor
You could argue there was substantially more risk with some of those first five IPOs.

Amazon looks nothing like it did in 1997. This was pre-AWS, pre-Prime, pre-just about everything.

Apple survived a point in the late-90's/early 2000's where they could have easily gone belly-up.

Netflix was only delivering DVD's by mail.

I'm not familiar enough with the environment when Microsoft went public.

Google was a solid company that dominated search at the time. They've obviously grown a ton since but their returns aren't remotely close to what Amazon, Netflix, Apple, or Microsoft would bring.
For those curious this is about https://netblocks.org that are frequently quoted here and in the media when it comes to censorship and internet connectivity issues.

It seems like they are doing so without user consent and making up their data?
Don’t forget stairs, the ultimate obstacles for AI and daleks!
Why is journalistic reporting on supra governmental entities a concerted effort to take this entity down.

In a democracy journalism is the fourth power. It is a vital part of checks and balances.

Using loaded comments to discredit journalistic reporting on governmental misdoings feels somehow as if there is an agenda hidden behind such comments.
Interesting that I was not informed of this when I got my vasectomy.

Still would have gone through with the procedure. 1-2% chance with the vast majority having their pain treated with a second procedure is not enough of a risk to stop me from being in control of my own life.

But still, it would have been nice to be informed of this.
The Extra Life Project
Basketball isn't physically taxing the way a marathon is, but I wouldn't say it "isn't very physically taxing". It's far more physically taxing than, say, baseball or maybe even American football. However, basketball is extremely skill-based, to the degree that extremely skilled players can sometimes defeat players with better conditioning. The very best players, like LeBron, have incredible skills combined with incredible conditioning.
Open secrets still shows quite a bit more spending on gun rights overall: https://www.opensecrets.org/news/issues/guns

Is that really even a surprise? Gun rights has an entire industry behind it.
You apply for a visa like every other country in the world.
This is certainly not.

As a data architect these are things I think about all the time, and this is a pretty good conversation starter.

The name drops to Donella Meadows and Ruth Malan alone validate this post's existence, required reading in my mind.

The main challenge to this approach is static visuals just don't quite capture interactions and flow the way he wants; even in Meadows' Systems Thinking, once you move to some of the more complex visuals, you can feel your inner "mental picture" struggling (which is the point! Systems thinking is a wicked problem!)

A tool I've thought about once in a while would be like LOOPY ( https://ncase.me/loopy/ ) but you could add actual load and performance benchmarks, test cases and simple conditional logic on all the edges to demonstrate failures, security gates, cache hit/miss, etc.

Combined with something like Will Larson's systems visual tool ( https://github.com/lethain/systems ) where you can crank up test scenarios to visualize and play through

I think something like this would be kind of mind blowing when onboarding new people; recommending changes to the system; and just generally testing assumptions about your non functional requirements that are for the most part supremely hand wavy.
I respectfully insist: you are mistaken.

MAD is a formal (i.e. mathematical) model. It is 100%, unequivocally rational. The problem is that this rational process leads to outcomes you and I dislike.

These "bad outcomes" are value judgements. That is, MAD's outocmes don't align with our values. Therefore, the problem with mad (on which we agree!) is based in something extra-rational: values.

Again: you and I agree there is a problem with MAD. Where you are wrong is that the problem is not "MAD is irrational". The problem is "MAD's logical conclusions run afoul of our values".
> cognitively demanding white-collar jobs

Tread carefully with such generalized conclusions. There are many factors at play, most important being economics. Im sure if you're on HN you can do research on the literature yourself.

Anecdotally, I'm black, have an undergrad degree in biochemistry and went the route into bioinformatics before going into software making good money and living really well.

I got lucky.

1) Born just before the countries first open and democratic election in the mid nineties.

2) Family moved into a really quiet, really boring suburb.

3) Mother was a teacher so thoroughly middle class and never have to worry about making ends meet.

4) My second older sister was a book worm, older brothers are engineers, first older sister is an analytical chemist. Younger brother is an investment banker.

5) unfettered access to public library 2min walk from my house - unheard of in my country for a black kid in the nineties.

6) school had a computer lab

7) Parents could afford my university fees and books.

Nowhere in this whole equation does my cognitive ability a gift from the gods. I was just well positioned to make the right moves and use the opportunities. Many black kids have no such opportunities and sports seems to be the only thing accesible. Notwithstanding every successful black person they is holding or kicking a ball or singing.

Next time, take a second to think things through.
"Bankers and financeers deserve their pay because they take all the risk"

*in theory* they do. after all, a lot of these financial-like practices (stock ownership, and such) are the legacy of oceanic trading trips, which are very risky. Over the time the 'markets' evolved and become more sophisticated (I think the rise of the spreadsheet allowed it all to become even more complicated) until today when some players get rid of any and all risk so that in the end "the market" (i.e. the government and "the taxpayer") suck it up.

I think there's some confussion about the fact that trading in a financial market is not a productive (value creation) activity, the only value they add is stability (becuase this is useful) but this is not strictly creative value (unlike, for example, manufacture). Similarly to rent, its value (usefulness) is about maintanance and stability.
What does "Incognito / Private mode detection" mean?

If I open an incognito window in Chrome (OSX 87.0.4280.141), run the supercookie demo, close all incognito windows, and open/run the demo again, I get a different fingerprint.

Only when I keep an incognito window open does the fingerprint stay the same.

Cookies seem to behave the same way.
Why, so I can give a few more dollars to book publishers when they take Archive for all of its assets after its reckless "library" tactics last year?

I like them, but they seriously need a change in management.
Unemployment is (hopefully) temporary - marriage, children, and divorce can permanently change your life.

Between 40-50% of US couples divorce[0].

Prior marriages substantially increase the chances of divorce[1].

41% of first marriages end in divorce.

60% of second marriages end in divorce.

73% of third marriages end in divorce.

I'm not against marriage but it's important to understand what's involved.

[0] https://www.apa.org/topics/divorce-child-custody

[1] https://www.wf-lawyers.com/divorce-statistics-and-facts/
The strategic gain is tribal. The tribe decided early on that COVID was a hoax perpetrated to do the US economic harm. Having committed to that, there's no way to walk it back.

There is a profit motive, in continuing to profit as before. That includes deprecating masks, because if masks were needed then perhaps shutdowns are justified.

But mostly it's about ego, which is even more important than profit. It takes only a few profiteers to spark a general reaction on ideological grounds. Defending their rightness and righteousness against their ideological opponents is emotional profit.
The thing about religion is that calling everything a strawberry could be one.
> What is the point of even having an “Auto” setting when it might not work, thus necessitating “Low” and “High” settings? In my book, that’s at least one setting too many. Oh, and by default, it’s wrong.

So which one shouldn't be there, which one is correct, and would the correct one also be correct in Europe or Asia?

This is pretty unhelpful.
> we know all of the American presidents.

But not their birth certificates!
The automation is in the harvesting of accounts, which I still have little idea how they are getting so many, although I am looking into it deeper. They are possibly able to scrape a huge list of verified accounts and then bruteforce it, possibly with an AWS cluster to prevent rate limiting by having access to large pools of IPs. Likely they have a list of 1000+ accounts they go through each one with a simple password, the same password for each account, and then work their way up to strings of numbers, words, and other characters. The posting process is not automated though. Verified accounts do not get filtered as easily if you change the profile pic. Notice how it changed it to Chamath, but without a verified account, likely twitter's algos would ghost any posts made by the account or suspend it. Upon gross inspection it really does look like the real Chamath, hence why it is so effective.
Learning DAGs with Continuous Optimization
My point is do your job well of course but dont pretend the output is something more than it is

At the end of the day, it's a paycheck for something you hopefully enjoy. And no matter how well crafted you think it is. Someone else is going to come along in the future and think its crap

Again going back to the chip on the shoulder
I feel like the Running Man is a good example of machine learning in sci-fi.

It dug into deep fakes and how they could be used to create a massive propaganda machine. I wouldn't call that boring.
... which is apparently pure speculation
Correct, their TV propaganda machine was absolutely wild. NRA TV for those that haven’t heard of it, they’ve stopped production on it now.
Israeli Jewish Antifa hacks KKK website, doxxes members
Doubt if that will ever happen as even older Intel Mac Minis still have issues running FreeBSD - https://wiki.freebsd.org/IntelMacMini
There was a recent news story about a 150 year old town hall in New Hampshire burning down. As of the writing of the article they weren't sure if any of the old town records were destroyed but it seemed likely. Towns should probably be digitizing all of these things now, and archive.org seems like a great place for them.
> And which side do you think those one-sided interpersonal problems are on?

Mine! Did you even read what I said? Y'all having trouble with that "generous interpretation" here.

> It never was about you in the first place.

No, it's about his wellbeing. He would be happier if he was happy to have me around. He'd be better off not spiting himself simply for the purpose of defiance.
Is this ballot measure representative?

This ballot initiative was two months before the NRA filed for Chapter 11, so I'd expect their spending was constrained.
Wow 20 years! Here’s the history: https://www.haiku-os.org/about/history
> And the finance industry isn’t even that rich. Johnson & Johnson is bigger than any bank in the world, why aren’t the rich and powerful in the pocket of Big Band-Aid?

Well, no. Maybe by market cap, but that isn't the important metric here. Power consists of what is controlled and stewarded, not just what is owned.

JnJ controls billions of dollars of capital. The largest banks control trillions of dollars of capital, each.

JnJ is core infrastructure for healthcare; banks are core infrastructure for everything that exists in the capitalist fabric of society.

Banks may not be that wealthy by ownership, but this isn't really the right lens for critically examining how much power they wield compared to other industries.

EDIT: To whoever downvoted me: this comment isn't a defense of finance. It's a statement of fact refuting one of the author's points.
Mathematics and development of fast TLS handshakes
There is a nice discussion around a GitHub blog post about them from 6 months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24146594

This could give some context to people hearing about ADRs for the first time
Stay as a developer and practice good security in your projects. At the end if the day, it's the developers that have to implement security standards into their code.

Furthermore, certain projects tend to have more security requirements than others. So maybe keep your eyes open for those opportunities. The most security intensive project in worked on was a standalone video game where there was a global leaderboard and save points in the game. Trying to protect the leaderboard from hackers was a fun security challenge. The leaderboard needed to be protected from networked API attacks, local file manipulation, and in memory variable manipulation. It really taught me a lot.
If you do not want to install a npm package for this you can use

tar -cv file | base64

It also supports compression!

tar -cv --gzip file | base64

Sadly it is not human readable, unlike this utility.
Try Kiwi or Firefox?
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> Not if you want to be trusted ever again.

Except, apparently you can! Here you are acknowledging the lie, and yet you still trust them.
It gets worse.. they've also attacked any researcher who has asked questions about their methodology, ethics, and data. I know because I was one of them. Very shady and toxic group.
Don't forget the "Invade the Hague" act if an American is put on trial at the international criminal court.
The numbers were similar in the background check referendum [0] in Maine a few years ago -- the NRA et. al. were outspent five-to-one by the coalitions pushing the measure (and the referendum still failed).

[0] https://ballotpedia.org/Maine_Background_Checks_for_Gun_Sale...
From their blog:

> For enterprise-class deployments, TDF has strongly recommended the LibreOffice Enterprise family of applications from ecosystem partners – for desktop, mobile and cloud – with long-term support options, professional assistance, custom features and other benefits, including SLA (Service Level Agreements).

My company doesn't need this. We just need a program do open documents and spreadsheets. We don't need an ecosystem, we don't need their cloud, we don't need mobile suppoet, custom features, "professional assistance" or SLAs.

> Despite this recommendation, an increasing number of enterprises have chosen the version supported by volunteers over the version optimized for their needs.

Let that sink in for a second. Basically TDF is saying "we know what's best for you - it's paying us for things you don't need".

It's completely tone-deaf and I'm seriously considering creating a fork called FuckTDF-Suite with everything being identical except removing all mentions of "Community", "Enterprise", and donation prompts.

First Elastic, now this. If you're just salty about not getting money and don't care about the principles of free software, go sell your soul and work for M$FT or Goolag.
Your comment resonates with me but I'm not sure I fully understand it:
"compliance transfers risk out of the project and onto the standard/model": If I choose to be compliant to a standard, some of the risks are mitigated, not transferred; some risks I have that are not covered by the standard are not mitigated or transferred, but still unknown, because I chose not to look into the threats (but just comply with some standard). So how does it transfer risk out of a project?

"A business PM won't problematize those things because it will demand a solution that gets in their critical path. The best they can do is manage it": If you identify a risk you can still choose to accept it and do nothing to mitigate it. So why does it demand a solution?

"you've reduced the flexibility of the business to manage that risk": Why? Again, risk identification does not automatically mean risk mitigation. If you're aware of a risk you may choose to detect problems instead of prevent them from happening. How else would you be able to manage risk if you are not even aware of it?

Maybe your comment is related to something I have experienced. I often think about a theoretical situation related to the movie the Matrix. Suppose there exists a complete risk analysis that provides insight into every aspect of risk for a company. By taking the red pill responsible management would instantly see all these risks, but it cannot be "unseen", so they would have to act to reduce them to acceptable levels (taking away resources that would otherwise be devoted to business functionality). Would they take the red pill or the blue pill? I think most managers would choose to stay ignorant.

[edit: wording]
The UK has a robust set of other parties. The Liberal Democrats ran hard against Brexit. They did not fare well.
Huh... I was thinking about investing exactly 1000$ in Tesla in 2010. Two things stopped me: my skepticism when it comes to stocks and I somehow didn't want to invest 1/3 of what I had at the time, though the path ahead of me was pretty solid. Looking at this, my only thought at the moment is 1 word, four letters, starts with "f". Take a guess :D
At the beginning of Neal Stephenson's Dodge, AIs exist as just fake news generators / filterers. They aren't sentient or sapient. Can't say more without spoilers.