skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>The SEC’s complaint further alleges that Bannon tipped Sood with material, nonpublic information concerning Bannon’s employer, Fortinet Inc. As alleged in the complaint, Bannon learned in early October 2016 that Fortinet was going to unexpectedly announce preliminary negative financial results. Bannon allegedly tipped this information to Sood, who used it to trade. After learning the information, Sood allegedly tipped Wylam and Ramaiya, who also traded.

It's like the stock market equivalent of the blockchain. No matter how long or convoluted the chain of communication is , they can always piece it together.
Most stories are in general, but sci-fi in particular looks at society, politics, and their relationship to technology. Sci-fi frequently addresses issues of wealth inequality. I'm always amazed at how many people didn't realize Blade Runner was a critique on Reganomics.
Part of the challenge of fining someone is, to fine them in such a way that it is painful, and achievable. Fining someone 100million for 1 million in trading would be a punishment that no one would be able to pay back. Also, would just immediately invoke a chapter 13 bankruptcy, which I think, would discharge these. So basically you would just be issuing public bankruptcy with such extreme amounts.
Large businesses have the biggest lobbying groups so their agendas get the most attention, though editorial campaigns, laws, etc.

There are a few groups concerned with personal freedom, and so personal freedom is not forgotten, but is deprioritized over what business wants.

Children have almost no advocates I would argue. The only people lobbying "on their behalf" are trying to gain power in some way, using fear, etc (similar tactics are used to restrict business and personal feedom).

So it's no surprise kids get the short end of the stick.
The problem is even more pervasive than that. There is an irresistible tendency to try to make universal statements rather than just sharing anecdotes and not generalizing from them.

Like, for example, I just made two universal statements, didn’t I?
> the only people who like it are the people high status enough to not be subject to it

Everyone at the SEC is keenly aware that bagging a high-ranking financier is a ticket to higher office.
The book review cites much concrete evidence --- done by actual scholars doing the tedious work of digging through "boring" archives --- undermining Gladwell's conclusions.

Yes, there are many conclusions to draw about these sorts of things, but getting facts wrong and omitting other information does not for a valid interpretation make.

He's a sophist storyteller.
Amazon Is Opening Its First Full-Size Grocery Store with Just Walk Out Shopping
Do you think no one in finance has thought about financial regulations until crypto came around? I can assure you there were (and are!) many people paid quite a lot of money to “rethink the solutions in the face of the modern regulatory ecosystem and clean out the cruft that truly has no modern purpose”. One of the reasons securities regulations are “expensive” to comply with is because they’re constantly changing. Why are they constantly changing? Because we’re rethinking how, when, and whether the various regulations ought to be implemented.

The regulations implementing Federal securities laws are perhaps the most nimble, iterative, and “listen to your users” driven regulations in the US.
National Parks were getting more popular pre-pandemic. It will be interesting to see if this new hiking and outdoor vacation craze will subside when cities and other tourism spots open fully. Or if this will be the new normal for National Parks.
>the Stanford Prison Experiment is an awful example of science.

This may be true, but I don't think the evidence you give supports your assertion.

>It was a researcher who wanted to prove a point and created the conditions to collect the data to prove that point

"prove a point" is the hypothesis

"created the conditions" is the experiment

"collect the data to prove that point" is the observation
Democracy depends on open discussion and community between individuals. In that context, you can consider this type of interaction a vulnerability or attack surface.

What do you think might be an effective way to mitigate this vulnerability?

The only thing I can think of is "Don't be a jerk".
You have to consider the counterfactual in which there is no deterrent. Just because it doesn't deter all doesn't make it useless.
Google isn't really working for me either. I mean, it isn't the effective tool it used to be in the distant past.

Having saying that, yes, Google does work for me more than any of the alternatives and most of the times I can find even the most arcane and niche stuff I'm looking for, after investing few hours. Investing this level of efforts in DDG have never been fruitful and I have given up long ago trying anything but the most trivial stuff.
The unit under testing could be the API interaction. If I wrap an external API in a client library I would test it’s behavior before then mocking that out when testing other code that uses the library.

I think situations like external API hit a fuzzy line between unit/integration. For testing an API unit I would reach for some way to save, re-play, and re-record those interactions just for sanity sake.

To me an integration test would be multi-step behavior, not just testing a specific request does a specific thing but a chain of requests, or verifying side-effects.
Read what he's written, wow. Very uniformed opinion.

https://wikileaks.org/google-is-not-what-it-seems/
OK; https://github.com/harvester/harvester

Security and performance aren't the only driving forces; there are a lot of technical and operational benefits to the abstraction and standard interfaces that you get when running stacks that might otherwise look like someone took an Xzibit meme too far.

Also remember on a modern system, there are often at least 2 additional layers at work abstracting interfaces to the "bare metal" OS already.
gVisor does more than filtering, they basically reimplemented the syscalls in an application kernel. At least with seccomp the performance overhead is minimal.
He held up a bottle of water and said "agua".

Why assume it's a rejection of the Coca-Cola corporation vs soda as a choice of beverages?
> Why wouldn’t auditing be trivial? It’s just checking the level of funds in account and whether they’re present over time.

Except that we know for a fact that Tether is not mostly backed by bank deposits. They hold a bunch of different types of assets, some (most?) of which is probably debt with varying levels of collateral. Assessing debt risk is doable but mote complicated than just checking a balance number.
> There is no exact science, physics isn't an exact science either.

Which is why I said “exact theory”.

> You need softer definitions like "Hard" and "Soft" precisely because there are no exact results in any science we have. And it is fine to use soft definitions for these things since categorising scientific fields doesn't need to be a science.

There are exact results every day, but those are not delimited cleanly by “fields”: a theory is exact or it is not.

> A hard science is where replication is expected to never fail, if replication fails once then the theory is thrown out. Applying that to social science studies would seem ridiculous, no social scientist would want that, so they want their field to be soft.

And this criterion is never mentioned at any point in the Wikipedia article linked.

It also seems a useless definition as replication can always fail due to flukes, and the confidence numbers chosen for replication, typically within 0.05, are very arbitrarily chosen.

Whether it is “replicated” or not is a rather arbitrary delimitation of an arbitrarily picked number, and 5% is certainly not improbably low to begin with.
Additionally, Pogba did the same with Heineken yesterday. Yet that stock (HEIA:AMS [0]) went up 1.39% today, without any other clear signals that would cause the stock to go up that much.

Correlated (maybe even caused by)? Who knows, it is the stock market after all, so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.

[0]: https://live.euronext.com/en/product/equities/NL0000009165-X...
@dang The horizontal scroll is broken on this page. Maybe one comment formatting broke it?
> Do you want to say we should abolish free market?

Don't build a straw man.

FTDI has every right to charge whatever they want, just as I have every right to call them greedy bastards who would rather play dirty games with their drivers than acknowledge that their products haven't been priced competitively for years.

If you really want to play this game... One could argue that in a truly free market, the copycat chips would be legal.

But it's not even about quality vs. price. FTDI's legitimate competitors often have better designs while also selling them for less. FTDI's only advantage is that they were early, and people are often reluctant to change an existing design that already works.
sounds awesome! tor as a system service with a professionally managed network. beyond making ad tracking harder, i wonder what sorts of new application spaces this may open up. i can already think of one! (and no, it's not some shady illegitimate/illegal bs)
Wieliczka Salt Mine
You have to tell a story. And people like it.
2021 Could Be California’s Worst Fire Season Ever
If your life depends on it, would be good to have redundant power and cooling.
super good point. it is questioned, but the doubts are mostly ignored
Can you point to any CIA coup or assassination since then?

Please don't say Libya. That wasn't the CIA and there was a UN resolution. Please don't bring up the Iraq WMD story... the CIA didn't actually lie, it was the White House that massively overstated the evidence for the beliefs it actually had. And much later they actually found WMDs in Iraq.
If you short, you'll pay both interest AND dividends on that stock.
I’ve yet to get over the term ‘Agile’.
AI Weekly Update – June 16th, 2021
I never knew that newspaper existed - but now I’m very educated on current affairs in Edinburgh!
Does anybody know, how iCloud+ VPN would compare with Cloudflare WARP in terms of better privacy protection.
if $y is untrusted input then you need to quote it or you've introduced shell injection attack to the script.
Do you have an alternative solution, to getting around the problem of the fact that they don't have infinite resources?

Do you think that they should just go after crimes, at random, even if that means that much less crimes are successfully caught, because of the inefficient use of resources?
I wonder how an arbitrary event like this is fed into trading systems that are highly automated. Somewhere there must be a human that says "oh that is bad". Then what? How do they judge how bad it is? And how does that become input into algorithms?
Assuming the machine code has no concept of a function call, isn't it true to say that pass-by-reference doesn't exist at the machine level? Function calls are a high level concept that compile down to machine code.

A typical CPU deals with abstractions like jumps and copies, and has no real concept of a function call. It seems fair to say that, at the level of a typical assembly language/machine language, there is no argument passing, and therefore no evaluation strategy. Same goes for a Turing machine.
I suspect the answer includes it not being Linux, even with the compatibility layer available.
> And so we'll end up fighting battles mostly by destroying drones instead of people. Once you've knocked out all the enemy drones, they'll surrender because humans can't fight drones.

A war like no other?
The conflicts at the heart of F1's TV graphics push
OoT was the first to master both story telling and third person control. It was a step above SM64 as it made you feel connected with the game's lore and characters.
https://archive.is/Y6H89
"A nu type of shell"
Yep. See [0] for a demonstration of do-it-yourself audio tape but the same applies for hard drives.

https://youtu.be/g1JlUcFKm5o?t=537
Most of his holdings are in AAPL these days. Making a fortune selling processed sand to the masses, fueling the diabetes and obesity epidemic.

As has been similarly said, it costs $100 to make, sells for $1000 and its addictive. What’s not to like about investing in it.
I’ve wondered how much do that is exaggerated for sake of the magazine he was writing for at the time. Could you imagine someone actually paying to write on someone’s back?! But nevertheless, seems like things were as crazy as crypto is today
Amazon workers claim HR executive blocks for diversity and inclusion efforts
I mean, you can drop in 5.56 or even magnum rimfire rounds like 17HMR (anything that is supersonic past eg 200m) and that issue is mitigated. The swarms could hypothetically still detect muzzle flashes, so that could allow them to respond.

But the real issue is that the threat is a swarm, why are you taking potshots at it. Whatever weapon you use should be able to consume as many of them as possible at once.
Which is quite frankly disgusting even if society does have a somewhat merited hatred of bankers.
fraud penalties are not dischargeable. I'm not sure if this sort of penalty is a "fraud penalty," but you could structure a fine where it's with you for life.
This report is almost entirely studying the ability of people to move up from poor to middle class. That's one kind of mobility sure and those countries focus social programs heavily on evening out everyone's income. That's exactly what I was saying.

What I'm talking about wrt low mobility is how often people in those countries go from poor or average to wealthy or from wealthy to average or to poor. Generally wealthy people stay wealthy there and average income people stay average income.
That study's data supports this -- it's very easy to obtain a mean income if you had less; after that movement is very low. This should be obvious but if you have very low income inequality then there's very little potential to be either rich or poor.

This isn't even a criticism! It's great that people can generally earn a living there. I'm just stating what everyone seems to know there -- that it's very hard to become wealthy and generally looked down upon as a goal. Scandinavians don't like to boast. Startup costs for new businesses are high and you can't just go buying up tons of real estate to rent out to people because land ownership is heavily regulated. I can't even buy an apartment as a non-resident foreigner (in Denmark) without a very difficult to obtain government approval. Danish monetary policy is having its banks charge customers penalty rates for having a meager cash savings.

In the US we have much greater swings in fortune, good and bad. Heck, I've been both a millionaire and homeless within my lifetime. That kind of outcome is absurdly unlikely in Scandinavian countries.
I'm taking a 1-year sabbatical / gap year as a 30-something
SSI.
If you mean NYC, most of the tap water there comes from reservoirs upstate.
Why I no longer contribute to Racket
I’ll post what I posted a week ago:

> Insider trade a million, you’ve got a problem. You have to insider trade a billion so that you’re untouchable. This is probably the hourly volume of insider trading at many hedge funds like SAC.
Removing the freedom for kids to move around alone is a huge social inefficiency. Where kids just walk to school alone or walk to a park to play with friends alone kids are not that expensive to maintain. But with constant supervision needed then parents need to drive the kids to their destinations and either stay with them there or drop them of at some paid event where the organizer supervises the kids.
Typewriters, slide rules, abaci, film cameras, fountain pens, morse code, ham radio, vinyl records... what else?
I think the problem "de-risking" childhood is only an instance of the bigger problem of what Roger Scruton calls "Risk De-aggregation". Risk Deaggregation is taking a single point of risk (and its associated metric), and optimizing to reduce that risk as if it exists in isolation from other risks. I.e. Risk occurs in aggregate, not as individual threats. Risk deaggregation happens everywhere from Climate Change policy, to Covid, to children.

I think this type of risk deaggregation arises from the fact that in a sufficiently complicated space (climate, economy, children, etc) there are really only two heuristics:

1) Ignore all but a manageable number of variables and optimize for them

2) Recognize a larger number of necessary variable, acknowledge there is no optimal solution, and balance the trade offs between those variables. [0]

Heuristic 1 is the easiest, requires no nuance, and seems the type of thing our political and media class love to latch onto. Heuristic 2 actually requires admitting you don't get everything you want, or at least the things you want will cost you something you dont.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satisficing
Will Basel III Send Gold to the Moon?
I did read all of your answers. From them, I was at least able to understand that you've got a personal problem with docs. No shame in that, many people are the same. That must be part of a bias such as those that you talk about so often.

Now, you associated "I am a researcher in that field" with "docs think their patients are inferior beings". So, how about a reference supporting your statement? Or were those statements accidentally associated?
blockchain seems like a terrible solution as it directly ties every person to their vote in a non anonymous way.
Sure, here it is: https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/380564412135768064/84...
Generally, as a country you're better off when the US is "helping" you, rather than Russia or China.
How does a loss of demand/liquidity not have a direct effect on blockchain token prices?
King of Cards
I went back to my old school for a tour/"try and get Alumni to donate money" event.

I was shocked at the changes, especially in the "Elf and Safety" (Health and Safety). Pupils are required to wear body and head padding for Rugby. Junior pupils in primary school cannot do full contact tackles until they are older in high school.

I wasn't the most sporty at school, but I appreciated the rough and tumble of rugby, football and military cadets.

Coupled with the digitisation and removal of old whiteboards/blackboards, made the place seem less-tangible and some sort of controlled environment..

Changed times I guess...
How would you go about adding DRM to insider information to prevent trading on it?
Yes, thank you, that’s essentially what I’m arguing against. There’s no reason galactic civilizations should continually progress especially when each settled system is effectively cut off from its parent by light years of distance.
The realities of science as actually practiced rather complicates the religion of "trust the science!" (which usually actually means "trust the scientists!")
That's about the deprecated Thumb-2, this article is about ARMv8, they are wildly different.
I would be much more concerned about some well intentioned rando calling the cops on you because there's a child unattended.
Getting hired is just applying to another job posting. The interview process is two-step, with a project-based technical component. The job itself is also two-step: first year is similar to contract work, with good employees brought into the fold not long after.

It looks like DOJ is trying to make an example out of some lowly frontend/freelance developer. Her work includes:

- creating a "web panel used to access victim data stored in a database"

- added a feature that "showed an infected computer or ‘bot’ status in different colors based on the colors of a traffic light"

- added a feature that "allowed other Trickbot Group members to know when their co-conspirators were working on a particular infected machine"

One thing DOJ accuses her of is "developing tools and protocols for the storage of credentials stolen and exfiltrated from victims infected by Trickbot." But its pretty obvious they don't know what "frontend developer" even means.
Yes, indeed. However it's nice to see directly the mechanisms that let Kata do its magic.
Lina Khan: The 32-year-old taking on Big Tech
"According to me, AI systems should be built with the first purpose to not harm anyone. Not another human nor a group of people nor another robot. The goal should be to help everyone and reduce their sufferings."

This sounds similar to Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics[1]:

First Law: A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.

Second Law: A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.

Third Law: A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.

Asimov wrote a lot of stories exploring the consequences of these laws, and thinking up the many ways in which they could be circumvented.

I've also heard of a parody of Asimov (I forget by whom), featuring a robot with a faulty human detector.

The point is that such safeguards are likely not going to be nearly enough to keep humans safe.

Some people don't think strong AI should be developed at all, but I doubt humanity is going to be effective in stopping it. It's just too tempting because of the potential to give its creators incredible power, also because of natural human curiosity, and possibly for religious reasons (as these entities may be seen by some either as gods themselves or as ways to contact gods).

As technology advances and the possibility of developing strong AI comes closer and closer, and within the grasp of more and more people, it's likely that someone's going to do it.. if it's possible at all.

After that, it's hard to predict what's going to happen, as the singulitarians made clear.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_laws_of_robotics
Argand Lamp
I made this calendar app a few years ago after being frustrated by the calendar app jQueryUI and not wanting to load jQuery for a calendar.

The calendar was designed for real world businesses to take appointments and set opening or closing hours, hence localization is implicit (based on the location of the business.

The calendar is JS plus CSS but could easily be pure JS. It uses no libraries and has no dependencies, so it is quite "plug and play".

I'm not a professional developer, but am looking to become one so any criticism of my work is more than welcome!
I'm still reeling from "six-figure gambling debt".

Man, who are these people?
How does it differ from Firecracker?
Author here for all your questions about obscure Apollo hardware :-)
> Using sophisticated data analysis, the SEC was able to uncover this insider trading ring

I wonder if there's any ML involved here.
God forbid if you steal a pack of gum, have an oz of weed or write a bad check though.
Let's see if I got this right...

1) SpaceX was unhappy with a regulation they are legally forced to comply with.

2) SpaceX blames the regulating authority for costing SpaceX time and money.

3) SpaceX offers to "help improve" the regulations.

Gee, I can't see anywhere this could go wrong. Maybe ground based astrophysicists fighting to see through Starlink constellations could chime in here? It seems the problem is with SpaceX's understanding of the term "regulations."
This thread seems to equivocate between arresting people for a crime and that thing being considered a crime. Obviously, changes in laws can either influence public opinion, be a sign of changing public opinion, or both, but the correlation is hardly one-to-one. Very few people consider it okay to cheat on a spouse[0] despite it not being criminalized.

Reading articles about the surge, I'm seeing statements from police and company spokespeople but not hard numbers. Larceny as a whole appears to be down from one source [1], but up according to another [2].

[0]: https://news.gallup.com/poll/1681/moral-issues.aspx

[1]: https://www.sfchronicle.com/local/article/San-Francisco-s-cr...

[2]: https://twitter.com/ShellenbergerMD/status/14048520268827525...