skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s not only about crime but about economic warfare. Sanctions against countries and individuals, and bans on taking terrorists’ money, help countries meet their geopolitical goals.

Also it doesn’t cost countries much to pass these laws (they do have to pay people to enforce them). The majority of the cost is an invisible tax on consumers and shareholders.
This is frankly getting ridiculous. I don't use any NSFW Discord servers nor do I intend to, but the level to which Apple (tries to) moderate user generated content is concerning. What's next? Is Apple Mail going to helpfully filter any email it deems NSFW?

I currently use an Android phone and wanted to go back to iOS, because I just preferred the overall experience, but this might just be the straw that breaks the camel's back for me.
A $1.2M Bank Error Buys a House, and an Arrest
> Wealth was just created without anyone loosing it.

If you use the wood for the spoon, it means someone else cannot use that wood for making a ship or heating their house. You cannot go and make a million spoons to get rich without either having money to invest or breaking a few laws. And this happens because the amount of wood (or resources, in general) is not only finite but relatively scarce.
U.S. calls for pause Johnson and Johnson vaccine use over blood clot reports
This is the approach I take, and I like it.
The juxtaposition is really pretty amazing and, ultimately, frustrating to see.

You can see the far-reaching impact of the odd "Violence yes! Sex no!" American morality in so many places. One recent example that struck me: GTA Online, a game rife with violence and destruction and even sex (surprisingly for an American game), but the chat has a profanity filter that filters words that are otherwise present in the game's scripted dialog and soundtrack left and right.
What i mean is that the shareholders should be able to reclaim lost value from any CEO who can be found to should have known the company was breaking the law, in civil court.

The shareholders should be held financially responsible for any fines not levied directly at the board or the executive team, hence why their liablity should be capped to the value of the shares.

The point is to force the large institutional investors to really care about the integrity of the boards they elect, so it might be worth putting in an lower limit to exclude retail investors with trivial amounts along with holders of non-voting shares from liability.

The government would not be holding or owning the share they would be paid their fine in USD raised by the company from either newly created shares, or fresh investment in the case it's not publicly traded. And if they cant it's up the current owners to either pony up loose all of their investments. It should be up to the company fined to market those shares not the goverment.

Remember that issuing shares without generating investment money devalue the existing shares, which is the point of the operation.

IT might not be the one true solution but letting fines be paid from revenue disincentivize the owners from caring that much about legal fines.
Now break that 60% down by demographic. Also, the rate has been going down over the past 2 decades, and I'd wager it will continue to go down.
Yeah but the big difference with technical debt and fiscal debt is that with technical debt you can remove debt by changing requirements.
When I lived in Edinburgh a couple of Polish guys I knew would, whenever they got drunk, corner you and seriously interrogate you on whether you are “ready to fight and die for your country” (my answer was always “no” which really frustrated them). I thought it was just them being peculiar, I never thought it could be more widespread.
If you really want to pick out an American moral peculiarity, it ought to be the blasé relationship to torture: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3342908
They set it themselves on each channel manually. afaik, no manual or automated NSFW tagging by admins, only server owners.
The solution is just a land value tax.

You don’t get taxed on improvements to the land, you get taxed on the value of the land (ie based on the value of the surrounding land... a vacant lot—or a lot being “renovated”—pays the ~same tax per acre as a 3 story apartment building next door instead of an order of magnitude less).
I know you're asking for practical advice and for that I don't have much to offer. But I do notice a lot of assumptions and judgments in your language which may not be true. There is no such thing as a 'dead end' in a career, that's just a thought you have. Same with the idea that you can't code for the rest of your working life. Or that 35 is old.

These are all just thoughts you have which very well may not be true. Why don't you dig into those thoughts, why you have them, and see if you can think about them differently.
It's worse than that. You can't engage in financial transactions with another person without probing into the details of their life (and reporting everything upstream to the state), or you're a criminal too. The Stasi worked this way.
Yep, exactly my point. The phrase is saturated with meaning.
> We've had a wealth tax in the past.

Who's "we"? I can't find any references to a wealth tax in US history.
Very helpful! May not save a ton of time, but as someone who performs this action 100 times per day, every little bit helps.

My personal plug for my Github WYSIWYG wishlist item: create an easy way to make images smaller (not full width). Everyone on our team gripes about the fact that, when posting screenshots (common in code review threads), they immediately bump up to full width, making portrait images look massive.

The only way to get around this is to paste the image, wait until it uploads, then replace the Markdown image tag ([text](url)) with <img src="url" width="400" />, which is incredibly annoying to do 15 times per day.
Another somewhat click-baity headline. They're restructuring within Mozilla, not ceasing the program.

No mention of how this will affect licenses. DeepSpeech is a great thing IMO and it would be sad to see it go restrictive, license-wise.
Entrepreneur Raised $87M to Simplify Your Data Protection
Hoarders did it first by almost a decade. https://github.com/jfhbrook/hoarders/issues/2
Android here, that link is busted for me unless I install the app. seems like a reddit problem to me
I don't know when they started exactly, but Wikipedia says that the founders of the O'Tacos chain started their first tacos restaurant in Grenoble in 2007.
The Operating Cost of New Features
It is really great tool too see what used to be very popular posts in the past.

I have one observation. Posts linking to twitter - https://deephn.org/?sort=score&filter=%7B%22score%22%3A%7B%2... - have most of the preview occupied with navigation and other not interested parts. So maybe it is possible to use some hacky solution to show the content part for the most popular websites, or if multiple pages are downloaded from the same domain the content part could be detected automatically.
A gas station attendant being able to afford a newly built house is a historical anomaly. The kind that only happens after half the population dying of plague or after a world war. The current trend is just a return to the normal state of affairs.
Their tunnels also aerate soil, like earthworms. Though, IMHO, it's pretty foolish to look for specific, enumerated "benefits" of native animals. They co-exist with a variety of other organisms in complex ways and removing any one of them can have unexpected fallout[1].

Also, if we're asking this question about ants, I really hope no one asks "But what are the actual environmental benefits of humans?" about us.

[1] https://ethology.eu/how-wolves-change-rivers/
I like the concept.
But not sure "majority hold the power" is a good or even a "nice" thing.
There needs to be place for nuance I guess, but I understand its tough to codify it on a platform.
Still, good stuff, well done
Technically right ; but this is the border between French Guyanna and Brazil.

I doubt the condition of the exercise in the North-East of France are transferable there.

(Although, don't get me wrong, I'm pretty sure there are people in the French army with some ideas about how to wage war in a tropical forest.)

That being said, it's still nice to have been alive during a span of ~50 years without any actual full-on people-are-killed-in-your-neighboorhood warfare.
Can you name some of the latest NATO member that were defended by NATO?
This is similar to what's happening in the UK - https://www.ageid.com/
Actually the first time in decades I applaud a, any, French policy decision.

Readiness for war is a topic Western European societies have shied away from for decades (some more, some less).

Just because their foreign first-world peers are all concerned with craft brews of beer and coffee, bycicle highways and never sufficient equality demands (e.g. lesbian extremists blocking a Berlin memorial for gay concentration-camp inmates, until they got their lesbian inmates commemorated as well, although there never were any lesbian inmates) - doesn't mean the rest of the world is concerned with that as well. Or at all.

It also doesn't mean that lower-status pockets within first-world societies are or that first-world middle-classes will still be in the coming future.

Just look at the pathetic state of the German military which openly states that it isn't "wehrtauglich". For years now. Look at the public "outcry" in Germany about it: Crickets. And look at the rampant anti-americanism in Germany: In full motion (as in other EU countries), although the US is the only defense Western Europe has.
Pretty boring.. I was expecting developers asking for coffee, jobs and tons of depricated warnings like every decent node project
They've only been offensive in the past few months. The decades prior to that it was fine.
>Can we please stop having US morality controlling Internet?

Citation? I don't see anything in the announcement that indicates this is being driven by "US morality". Given the US has one of the largest porn industries on the planet, I think it's a bit of a leap to make that claim without some proof.

>What about Discord blocking servers full of war scenes and car chasing with shootings?

What about it? They're a private company who may choose to not be associated with that content. If you tried to post raw war footage on HN it would be immediately removed and you'd likely face a ban if you kept doing it repeatedly. Is that "US morality" or just a choice about what content they want to host/link to?
IANAL, but I've been involved in a few acquisitions and when you get to the part about code ownership, the acquiring company will often do a license scan of the entire dependencies folder (which includes sub dependencies). So if any of those files show up as GPL, you technically could be in violation.

Now, if a package licensed as MIT includes a dependency on a package licensed as GPL, I don't know if that's a violation by the parent project owner because the parent package doesn't actually distribute the GPL code, but rather includes a reference to it, so that the installer running "npm install" fetches it.

But I would imagine that the end user who is pulling those packages and actually installing all the dependencies would be in violation because the final packaged code used to deliver the service actually contains the GPL code.
How can we learn more about this indexing service?
Choosing Between Boring and Technology
As someone who has tried tacos in Mexico and what we call Tacos in France, I find the latter to be an insult to the former. One offers a burst of flavors while the other is just "regressive" food in the sense where it's mostly unsavory carbs and low quality meat that have the gross taste of any of the industrial sweet sauce that it contains. Mexico is good at street food, France just isn't.

Also real tacos are "scalable" : Not really hungry? Get one or two. Really hungry? Get four or five.

(I call it regressive food because it is generally the type of food that your body craves after a stressor and generally bad for your health in the long term. Massive energy intakes and sedentary lives don't go well together)
That's too bad, the Arduino was probably the cheaper part. I have a technique which I use when bringing up new circuits and breakout boards for the first time, which is to wire resistors in series with all of the i/o pins. This will usually be good enough to limit current flowing through output transistors and protection diodes, so each device can tolerate minor mistakes in wiring or coding, 5 versus 3.3 V disagreements, or an errant scope probe touching the wrong thing. You can use rules of thumb for RC time constants to work out resistor values, but typically 1k for output lines and 10k for input lines have served me well as starting points.
Name: Wreck DNS vuln's affect over 100M devices
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Tumblr was supposedly over child porn: https://techcrunch.com/2018/11/19/tumblr-booted-from-app-sto....
I watch far, far more This Old House TV than I should.

As an engineer, it satisfies all of my urges to understand how things work and see other people work who are both highly skilled and who enjoy coming to work together. If you haven't ever watched before, I'd highly recommend it.
Then we should have a substantial land value tax. If they want to park their wealth in unoccupied housing, they’ll have to pay dearly for it. And they won’t get a cheaper bill by leaving it unbuilt or unoccupied.
For someone as smart as Elon Musk to never be able to start their own companies they really have to be born in a real shit hole country, in a real shit hole part of the country. Even in India or China they would be identified and given opportunity.
Switching banks is pretty trivial.

I'd never use a service that forced themselves into my device like that.
Not quite. Tumblr just followed rules and applied a weak filter hidden in the settings. Then yahoo bought them and killed it for #ads
> In Finland, we’ve been known only for Nokia phones.

What about Linux?
Geometric algebra, which i implemented in software in Julia: Grassmann.jl
https://github.com/chakravala/Grassmann.jl

In the future, geometric algebra will likely be part of everything we do, but it is still very unknown as of now.
Reminds me of the infamous dropbox comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224
You should probably not take memes about the French surrendering as gospel truth about their actual capabilities. They are a nuclear armed state, have been involved in Afghanistan and across North Africa for decades and in general are one of the more capable land armies in Europe.

That said any army will always be planning for high intensity war, and also for low intensity war, and also for small scale anti-insurgency ops, and also for protecting national interests abroad, etc etc etc. Preparation for that is a key element of any army.
A few years ago, I saw my first "Original French Tacos" place in Valence, France, and thought it was a hilarious concept (A restaurant in France, with English signage, advertising a Mexican dish and claiming it as French). But I learned a lot from this article.

One interesting aspect of these tacos is that they are essentially "laundering" the food of a minority treated with suspicion (North African / Arab immigrants) by disguising it as a different kind of exotic food. In the US, incentives might be the opposite: In some places, Mexicans might find success selling Burritos as "Döner Kebab".
And decentralized demand - e.g. individual investors and institutions to a degree (individuals who give their buy-sell power to an org) - will be more accurately voting at least than say the gullible layperson buying into the Bitcoin hype-MLM; most people buying Tesla stock arguably mostly aren't betting/investing based on nothing - there are many good, valid reasons to see Tesla taking off exponentially and even owning 40%+ of the EV market - and they're optimizing for battery-solar tech and energy business as well.

P.S. I'm not trying to convince anyone here of Tesla's value, I've shared some of my thoughts before, and there are plenty other people who have done a thorough job detailing the ecosystem and its potential.
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Care to fully explain your argument rather than writing three click-bait sentences and a link?

Additionally, much of the CSS on that site fails to load for me. Might just be because I'm using various privacy extensions, but if a website needs to go to a tracking service to load CSS, then it isn't a website I want to use.
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Grab to list in the US through biggest SPAC merger, valued at nearly $40B
> Is the same chip then available with different addresses

This is sometimes done, though more commonly in my experience is there are some input pins which the chip uses to determine the actual address.

This might be as simple as one to three inputs which should be connected to ground or supply voltage to encode the last bits of the address.

Other chips are a bit more creative, and allows you to, in addition to ground and supply, tie the address pins to the I2C clock and data pins. This allows it to generate four combinations from per address pin.
Easy. When you have the idea that you’re in a fight for your life it’s very easy to make a mistake.

For us IT folk, it’s wise to recognize this: When you think you just deleted the entire server or something horrid, it may be wise to take a few minutes to pause and relax - so as to not compound the mistake because your mind is racing.
Also, I know these problems exist.

But you said increasingly. I disagree, I'm hearing less bitching about this than ever from people running Graphene or Lineage.
I've often thought this about those dark strip malls and grocery stores. They need to be incentivized to either lower the prices so low that someone will move in, or to demolish the building. Just marking it off as a loss every year while it slowly decays destroys the property values nearby.
I assume you are using Symspell for fuzzy search and prioritize candidate frequency over edit distance. My input "algolai" returns results for "angola" even though "algolia" was just 1 transposition away. Anyway just dropping in to say that stuff on your github helped me figure out a lot while building a search engine from scratch. Good luck with SeekStorm!
Citation? I don't see anything in the announcement that indicates this is being driven by the US.

Not "the US" but the US-based Apple Store who have a track record for banning chat apps that they disagree with.
You can ask the ADA why this might matter.

And no, this gas can still doesn't work anywhere near as well as the one I used to be able to buy. I'm still far more likely to overfill, just for example. And it's still far slower.

Quit gaslighting me.

Edit: I'm really out after this edit. What I mean by gaslighting is the absurd pretending that this new style of gas can works better than the old style. You want to know what I might be doing with my other hand? How about holding the lawnmower still? Or tipping the blower so that I can get the can nozzle into the proper hole and see when it's getting close to full? Especially with such a stubby spout, this sort of thing becomes even more important. Yeah. Quit gaslighting me. I'm not crazy for thinking the new cans are worse in every respect--even the best of them.
RMS never "represented" anyone, and name-calling like "Uber-Toxic" really sets a childish tone regardless of merit.

I don't see how this "letter" says anything new, honestly. It's rehashing all of the same arguments, all of the same disdain, all of the same conclusions as the hoard of other letters.

What's the point of this?
Software is always going to have mistakes and there is always going to be a better way to do things. That said, there are best practices that help to reduce the cost of those inevitabilities. Technical debt is when people throw those best practices out the window which leads to the inevitable outcome of a project that becomes extremely expensive to maintain. If it goes on long enough, and gets bad enough it might become so expensive that the team needs to declare technical bankruptcy and abandon the entire thing.

Another common thing I've seen with most projects that take on significant amounts of technical debt is a chaotic team structure that is constantly in fire fighting mode. While there are times when you are working on a throwaway/POC/low funded MVP for a startup where it might be appropriate to take on that debt, I have seen far more instances of people using the rationalization of "All of these practices are great, but (we don't have time, money etc. etc. etc.)" when in reality, to achieve the end goal everyone is looking for they are actually omitting non-optional things and shooting themselves in the foot.
Yes. I have to make a mental pause before saying or writing he/she in English. It feels weird to have to think about gender so explicitly when talking and writing.

I don't see any evidence that you can promote genders equality meaningfully by changing the language, but I believe there is some truth to the weak form of the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis (the theory that the particular language one speaks influences the way one thinks about reality).
Sevastopol is critical to the Russian navy. It’s like Mexico taking over San Diego. It will not be allowed to happen.

The Crimea was not historically part of Ukraine, though for political and administrative purposes it was assigned to the Ukraine soviet republic. Given its criticality Russia took it back.
> Is the world getting safer? I think so. Is the risk of large scale war like France is planning for decreasing? I hope s

This is very much the feeling people had before World War I. The thought was that the web of alliances Bismarck had built would prevent war, similar to your comment about the EU.

It seems that this sort of interdependence acts more like a buffer to prevents small-scale conflicts, but results in large-scale conflict once it does actually come due to a cascading effect of allies being pulled over the brink.

We may not see another real major war in our life-times, if we're lucky, but there's a very real chance our children or grandchildren will see the largest war in history.
Environment is a vital influence on your creativity
> If you intentionally discount a product based on the fact that they advertised it to you, you’d be making a decision based on some property not intrinsic to the product, which means that you might not purchase the optimal product.

Very true, I've considered this many times. What it comes down to is that I value companies that prioritize investing in their product rather than their advertising, so on the whole I'm more likely to get what I want if I stay away from products advertised to me.

> This would all be ok if the tradeoff was a strong signal to the seller that advertising has a negative impact on sales, but I’m positing that the impact of that one sale is negligible and well within the noise threshold of an extremely noisy process. For all you know, if the seller notices at all, they might conclude that they didn’t advertise to you enough.

This argument kind of ignores the whole underpinning of economics. Let's consider a different situation and apply your argument. Let's say a company sells a toothbrush that doesn't clear plaque away very well. Over time, as I use this toothbrush, I'll find that I'm getting cavities on my back teeth. So I stop buying that brand of toothbrush. Under your argument, my doing that would be a weak signal, because it's just one sale lost for X dollars spent on advertising. The seller doesn't notice, and keeps on pumping out toothbrushes, and lots of people get lots of cavities. I know this is not analogous to the situation you're talking about, but it's still a plausible situation, and if your argument is correct, it should be correct across most situations it's applicable to.

And thanks, I do enjoy your confirmation of my power.
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