skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, that's not what I was saying. Instead, I was saying that it might have been leaked by a single person, and everyone else might not know (well, in their hearts, they probably do) whether the virus escaped from a lab or came from the same place from which they took their sample (presumably the "nearby" bat caves).
iCloud 2021 – Sharing Your Pictures and Data for Free
Which happened in response to waht? Don't be posting such a biased, one-sided story.
That's expensive. You have to have someone do all that paerwork, the paperwork has to exist (printing and doc management), and there needs to be a hard copy of the business agreement on a per customer basis.

I mean, I'm kinda old timey, so ot"s not infeasible from my point of view; but in today's hyper-optimized, bottom-line over-fault-tolerance world, I don't see that happen all that much.

Heck, I have trouble getting a straight answer out of the youngin's to "What is a filing system?"
Of course it appears to be from Microsoft. Microsoft is right there in the name, and the extension uses their logo.

That Google allows this is clearly nothing other than gross negligence!
Ask HN: How to approach WiFi roaming in a home network
Hi! I live in a pretty big European house (so the walls are brick or concrete). I have installed 4 access points and flashed OpenWrt on them. They all have the same SSID and password set. They are connected to a main router via Ethernet, so there is only one DHCP server and gateway etc.

Unfortunately when walking around my house, smartphones fail to change the AP which means, they stick to the old one even when the signal is unusably weak. Sometimes even stationary devices connect to the wrong AP.

Do you know any way to fix this problem? I have read about 802.11r but the configuration in OpenWrt looks very confusing to me, as I am not really a network guy. (do I need a RADIUS server?), and guides I found online contradict themselves.

Thank you for your answers.
I'm sorry but this is just incorrect - OpenAI beat the previous year's champions in a 5v5 match the year after the 1v1 debut: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkGa8ICQJS8

There were restrictions / rules on the game (only a pool of 18 heroes were allowed), but they they won both games in a best of 3. You can see the progression / evolution of the training of the AI here: https://openai.com/projects/five/

It's definitely doable to train them to be good at extremely complex games like Dota / League, it's just that the resource requirements to train the engine are significant. After the bots were opened to the public, they had a 99.4% win rate against pubs, even accounting for cheese strats.
I think it is surprising. The US has a larger nominal GDP (which is what matter for this calculation), and USD is also rather unique as the global reserve currency. 60% of USD are held outside the US.

These stats would seem to indicate that either CNY moves much more slowly than USD (which would also surprise me) or that there are also colossal reserves of CNY outside of China (which I believe the Chinese government is actively working to prevent with capital controls?).

Population isn’t that big a factor. India has 36x as many people as Canada, but INR and CAD have about the same total cap.
This was a new (to me) scam tactic:

> the scammer pushed the "Blank Guest Monitor" button on the software to blacken Betty's screen so she couldn't see what he would do next: transfer $40,000 from her savings account into her checking account. The scammer then went into the HTML code on her computer (which determines what Betty would see on her screen) and changed the savings balance back to $180,035.74. He did this so when she looked, it would appear that nothing had been transferred but that her checking account had gone from $4,657 to $44,657.

> Why do this? To set up the story he was about to feed her: that he had made a horrid mistake and transferred $40,000 of his firm's money into her account instead of $400.

> ... So it wasn't hard for the bad guy to convince her that she needed to send the difference between $40,000 and $400 — $39,600 — to a bank in China to pay him back or else he will lose his job.
Yup, also that `like ‘foo%’` can use the index.
That was a statement of fact, I was not blaming anyone in particular. As I have said elsewhere, if anyone is to blame it would be Hamas, whose political campaign in 2006 was based on delegitimizing the peace process and two-state solution and which pressed a war with Fatah that greatly weakened the PA. It is not as if the Palestinians were told to build a functioning state on their own; they receive a lot of help from other countries, including from Israel itself (e.g. joint police operations, joint security patrols, etc. -- all of which are confidence-building and institution-building measures).
I liked Beastie as the FreeBSD logo as well, he's still on the page but the logo is now some sort of red bulbous thing, that still somehow resembles the mascot.
I don't think it's nefarious, more likely lazy. I suspect I spent more time reading it than the author did writing it.
Dump IR by PyTorch Glow Compiler
Because profits are easily gamed (e.g. via loans and IP licenses), the double Irish with a dutch sandwich depended not only on shifting profits (the dutch sandwich part) but also on a low-tax EU state (the double irish part, though that also involved bermuda iirc).

However, the loophole in Irish tax law was closed in 2015, and came fully into effect in 2020.

But the underlying problem still exists - after all, profit shifting isn't some tax loophole; it's an intrinsic possibility given IP law and intangible assets. I'm skeptical this is ever going to disappear - because how are you going to tell a legitimate low-margin firm that merely has high costs in the form of IP licenses and loan interest from a shell company that's engineered those costs to cancel out any income, such that all profit accrues to whoever holds that IP or granted the loan?

These tax avoidance techniques thus aren't really complex, and aren't trivial to solve - as long as you can shift profits into some jurisdiction with low or no taxes, but even more trivially simply by investing rather than making profits - resulting in lower-tax capital gains rather than income tax.

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

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/06/world/apple-taxes-jersey....

But even without outright tax havens like Jersey, profit shifting is a problem, because it encourages states to do a race to the bottom.

Personally, I think this game is lost; we should switch to taxing revenue and giving up on this profit-shifting whackamole; e.g. by much higher VATs instead.
Archiving the extension author's email address before it's taken down: harperrodriguez31@gmail.com

The same account has published another extension: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/iartbook-digital-p...

[edit] both have now been nuked - about 2 hours since this was posted.
> From what I can tell it's all based on old-fashioned debunked economic theories in the same vain as "trickle-down-economy".

As an aside, I find this (popular) sentiment quite amusing - what, exactly, is "trickle-down economics" and who can we credit for doing such an apparently thorough job of authoritatively debunking it?
Pay the $5 million over 50 years. If they commit a crime early, they keep the years they were crime-free and lose the rest.
Nice points indeed!

I would also say that the "library" one is basically valid for every language. In general is always a good thing to spend some time analyzing the possibilities before importing an external lib into your application.
> You have to go pretty far into conspiracy territory to believe they secretly want those children to die

Not really: it's well-reported that Israeli policy reasons about Arabs primarily in demographic terms. A stated Israeli priority is to keep low the number of Arabs in its territory. It's not even a secret.

You might find this so abhorrent and morally indefensible to be unlikely, but really it's just another day in the Middle East.
Matt Levine's Bloomberg column discussed this contemporaneously (https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2018-02-14/is-vix...). For Credit Suisse (issuer of XIV), hedging their exposure to XIV allegedly required buying volatility futures when the price increased. With limited liquidity, this moved the futures prices themselves. Credit Suisse has been sued (https://www.institutionalinvestor.com/article/b1rlv9r030854q...).

This collective price response wasn't a short squeeze, but instead it was closer to a gamma squeeze. It didn't rely on finite supply of any security, just limited liquidity and trade sizes large enough to move the market price.
I don't remember that Lowko made that video. Besatyqt made a video where AlphaStar clicked on a Barrack that was barely visible at the top of the screen, but IIRC it was only once, not a systematic trick. In my opinion, if the AlphaStar team just reduce the clickable area of the screen, it would have seam natural.
What does that have to do with the fact that Hamas derailed the peace process and continues to be the most significant obstacle to peace?
They will buy it tho.
I'm giggling like an idiot at the annotations on that PCB. Very clever.
And huge RSS buttons, don't forget your oversized RSS button.
You could even implement a feed as well if you have some time to spare.
Newton's CSS Cradle
I wonder if the account has been taken over by someone.
> they do not choose The Netherlands for low corporate tax rates, they are not the lowest in the EU by far, but because of "tax rulings". Those are agreements they can make with the tax authorities that ascertain them how much tax they will pay this year as long as revenue, costs, etc, stay within a certain bandwidth.

"They don't come to the Netherlands because the tax rate is low, but because they can negotiate an extremely low tax rate just for themselves"
That’s not weird and we don’t “have” to outsource making things. Labor is very expensive in the land of the dollar printing machine and shades of cheap leading all the way to “fractional” cost in the far away lands forced to collect their dollars.

As such anything that can be done faraway will be. My shirt can be made in Taiwan or Arkansas and it’s imperceptible to me. When so need to get an MRI flying to Taiwan is out of the question and a day trip to Arkansas is impractical. I need a doctor down the street I can see with a half day off work.
The Brain Networks Underlying Imagination
Even assuming that there is a specification, which is already a tall order:

- if this is something like automated theorem provers, it's something like (2). It's correct, provably correct even, but it's a bunch of nonsense that provides no insight to humans.

- if this is something like natural language query generators, it's something like (1), but with a much lower success rate (closer to 50% IME).

I don't even need to specify that AI-generated code is interesting, but we aren't even remotely close to being there.
EU extends sanctions against Chinese, Russian, N.Korean hackers for another year
Report it for illegal activity instead of posting a negative review, will have a bigger impact.
The 1788 Doctors' Riot
Amazingly, a huge portion of people believe, like this person, that the role of the legal system is to punish people rather than to produce a just and safe society. A huge amount of abuse in policing, courts, and prisons suddenly starts to make sense when you realize that people want people they perceive as low caste to suffer and they see crime not as a chronic condition but as an immutable property of one's soul.
How can I scrape data from Yelp and Google Earth?
It's worth mentioning that the restrictions they placed on the game were enormous, to the point that the human players were almost playing a different game.

It certainly beat OG in many aspects, but the beauty of dota is the ability to adapt in the game with different strategies, strategies which weren't possible with the restrictions.
What would increasing jail time achieve exactly? In your own words, thanks.
How on Earth is "Offered by: Microsoft Corporation" not verified in literally any way whatsoever. That's so poorly vetted it's negligent.

Maybe extensions and apps should be signed by domain ownership?
I think "trickle-down economics" is usually a synonym for the Chicago School, promoted by Milton Friedman and exported (often forcefully) by the US government.

As for who's responsible for 'debunking' it, Thomas Piketty is the name I'd usually associate with popularising the skepticism towards the Chicago School.
If the store made more money, why would they do anything? If it ain't broke, don't fix it.

Now, if the store started making less money because of scams...
Federated alternatives to PGP + Mail:

- Dark Internet Mail Environment (DIME) by Silent Circle and Lavabit (you can probably use it with no one)

- just use Matrix with your favourite client - https://matrix.org/clients/
> Here cash heavy businesses are rare

The divide here is certainly not between the US and much of Europe. If anything, the US is far closer to the Nordics than much of Europe based on the statistics I could find [1] and my own anecdotes from living in Western/Central Europe.

> For retail/coffee shops/any direct to consumer business you have to pay VAT and thus are required to always print a receipt to the customer.

For what it's worth, this is true in every European country and every part of the US and Canada I've been to. Virtually any store with a physical location will have some PoS system that manages this, and mobile businesses that provide services (such as the construction you mentioned) increasingly do so as well.

[1] https://www.statista.com/chart/19868/share-of-cash-payments-...
The rsync algorithm is pretty cool. I implemented it in C# a couple of years ago: https://github.com/zmj/rsync-delta
Welfare for the Rich
User research isn’t easy, but it’s worth it
Jobs Without Takers
Hundreds of PPP Loans Went to Fake Farms in Absurd Places
Ireland at least until recently didn't even require Irish companies to be administered from Ireland. It was also super laissez-fair on arm's length principles for valuing services provided between connected entities.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_Irish_arrangement#Conce...
Cicadas are the sound of summer for me. They're pretty ubiquitous in the eastern regions of Australia[1].

I remember collecting them and their shells as a kid.

With names like Green Grocer, Cherry Nose and Double Drummer[2], the hunt was always on for how many different types could be found over the summer.

[1] https://www.cicadamania.com/cicadas/tag/c-australasiae/

[2] https://www.cicadamania.com/cicadas/australian-cicada-names/
>From what I can tell it's all based on old-fashioned debunked economic theories in the same vain as "trickle-down-economy".

Eliminating corporate tax is a fairly mainstream idea in economics, that is hamstrung by politics.
In general this is a good idea. But in the case of Microsoft--good luck figuring out which of Microsoft's thousands of domains are legit! :)
Don't think that's accurate. All EU states allow a HQ like that.

What Ireland did differently was allow companies to offset huge amounts of tax with complex IP transfer agreements to offshore jurisdiacations (Bermuda primarily) - called the Double Irish.

And - more importantly - when this was "shut down" by the EU, there was another option called "Single Malt", which I believe is quasi shut down now or was meant to be in 2020. I'm not sure if there is a replacement but I imagine there is. You can read this all on the "Double Irish arrangement" on Wikipedia.

What Ireland has done differently is show multinational companies that even if the EU/whoever puts pressure on one scheme they will try and come up with another one. Personally, I think the tax loss is unjustifiable - I think Apple's EU corp tax rate was something like 0.002% or something. I don't have a problem with Ireland's aggressive 12.5% tax rate per se, but setting up schemes which deprives European states of corp tax revenue and charging far under <1% is not cool IMO.

It does seem that the US is finally fed up of this with the minimum corp tax proposals though.
Slack bringing Scheduled Messages support
we just talked about it. saw it in the news a few days back too
Not about taxes specifically, but about the problems of the free market policies: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bad_Samaritans:_The_Myth_of_Fr...
I never interact with those. If they get in the way of reading something I fix it with the DOM inspector (by hiding, not deleting them. In case javascript is looking for the presence of the element.)

This has more than tripled the amount of time it takes to read an answer from stack overflow but I refuse to do something just because of a bad GUI.
Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) is an FDA approved technology for broad, non-invasive stimulation for treating depression. However, new research suggests that stimulating multiple brain sites simultaneously may be effective for treating other brain disorders. Memory enhancement may be possible with this approach. In ten years, non-invasive brain stimulation will probably be common for all sorts of applications.
Not much trouble slipping into Palestine for a foreigner, but you do get interrogated on your way out of Israel right at the airport and if you say you went to the occupied territories you may get sent to the little room for further questioning, search or seizure of your belongings, notebooks, laptop, phone, etc. You might also get put on a list for secondary screening or outright ban if you want to go back. So think it though if you want to go to Palestine -- it is indeed considered a theatre of military operations by the occupying power
Also writing a review requires you to install the extension first.
The main problem is that there are such legal loopholes.
The only winning move is not to play - oddly apt for some of the EvilCorp sites!
If I take too long with stuff like this I get yelled at by either my GF or a coworker.
It might be legit. The Microsoft rewards app uses msandapp.bgcextn@gmail.com. I’m guessing 1 million installs makes that legit.

There’s no way even for technical people to make a proper assessment of the trustworthiness of the publisher.

Google has ruined the internet because they want Google Search to be the only “trustworthy” source online. Too bad they suck at it and Google search is a steaming pile of shit now.
Don't be childish. This is exactly what most services does, especially for sensitive actions, like going to account settings. 2FA is quite obvious and present, more and more services push it to users by default.

> Or a letter to your home.

What is even funnier in your comment is that Google actually sent physical letters (actual snail mail) with confirmation codes to be entered by a user via web. When confirming company address (and that you "own" that company on google maps, for instance. Large auction service on my local market did the same thing 17 years ago, to avoid scams...

I think demanding 2FA confirmation for such a sensitive action like downloading all your passwords is perfectly justified.
The calculations back then placed OpenBSD as being less used than NetBSD. While neither of those two BSD seem to have die, or perhaps just wasn't informed of their demise, OpenBSD looks to have overtaken NetBSD in usage (and news coverage).
Nice playlist! Have you written about your process anywhere? I'm sure there are a lot of people who would love to follow in your footsteps here.
I'm not an expert in the field, so I might be woefully wrong, but as far I know the Minoan hypothesis (i.e. Linear A encodes a language isolate that we call Minoan) is almost universally accepted nowadays, even though it was not yet the case right after decipherment of Linear B in the 1950s.

Most controversies that exist nowadays don't seem to be about Linear A being Minoan, but rather about trying to demonstrate a relation of the Minoan language itself to another language or language family. There have been attempts to link Minoan to Semitic languages , Anatolian languages and Etruscan, among others. Besides these attempts, I guess there still exist a small number of scholars who still argue that Linear A represents some form of Greek, but it's not a very popular opinion.

The fact that the language of Linear B is Mycenaean Greek as uncontroversial as the existence of the Indo-Eruopean language family or the fact that hieroglyphs encode ancient Egyptian. Anyone claiming otherwise is probably going to be politely ignored and thrown out of the room.
That's exactly it, dogpiling can be discarded as anti-competitive behaviour.
Focusing on tax compliance is misleading; because tax avoidance is legal. The point is that BEPS techniques allow businesses to have lower than average tax burdens - the fact that they can do it without fraud makes it worse not better, because there is less disincentive.

Then there's the fact that large corporations intrinsically damage the marketplace by making it less fluid.

Unfortunately, I can't find any clear stats on what % of GDP is due to large corporations and set that next to their contribution via taxes. I suspect larger corporations pay relatively less taxes than smaller ones, but I don't know how to test that hypothesis - any ideas?

E.g. https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/big-business-is-getting... notes that the fortune 500 revenue rose gradually to reach around 75% of GDP in 2013, but obviously sum total national revenue is much higher than GDP, so that doesn't really say much...
It would seem to me that Microsoft would choose to link it to microsoft.com so that customers can easily recognize its authenticity.
Zak Cope's 'The Wealth of (Some) Nations': https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43015121-the-wealth-of-s...
> Are these people you'd consider yourself very close with?

The recent incident, no, not at all. But I had an abusive ascendant as a child, who would encourage us to "speak our mind" and then punish us for it. I can spot the type for quite a long way away.

Unfortunately, being able to spot them doesn't prevent one from falling victim yet again. We tell ourselves it will be better this time -- well, it usually isn't.
Why not learn less? Why would I do that?
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Parsing JSON with various slightly specialized string fields like "email" or "url" and so on is precisely what I had in mind by simple input.

There's absolutely nothing there for "parser combinators" to do.

JSON parsing is a standalone step, and the values retrieved from it can be passed to another EXISTING (mind you) validators to handle the rest.

I live and breath this every day as I deal with forms and APIs for a living. And I never was like "oh man this is hard, if I only had parser combinators".

> If you think JSON primitives are "enough to express most input" then you missed the point

Unclear why you're trying to put words in my mouth, but JSON is enough to describe the composition of input (in terms of lists, dictionaries and leaf scalar values). Which as simple as it is, turns out to be a very significant part of the task.

Of course you have additional constraints on top of that.

But no need for "parser combinators". To JSON, a string is a string. Any additional operations performed on that string happen AFTER it's decoded from a JSON string format to an in-memory native string literal. Those are entirely independent steps. A simple function composition would do i.e. json => string => email.

And that's more or less how I parse arbitrary data input. All of which is simple to parse. Relative to, you know, say parsing a full programming language.
If someone makes predictions often you can quantify how likely the random hypothesis is compared to his prediction with p values...
Twenty firms produce 55% of world’s plastic waste, report reveals
Yep, neither of two is okay. If you sell guitars, make cards horizontal [1x3photo 7x3info] boxes, or figure out a good vertical arrangement. Test authors were picky on details, but missed an elephant in a scope.