skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Google wrongly called me a serial killer" is a story many news outlets would love to run. He has the capacity to give them massive amounts of bad press, in a time where US regulators and politicians are closely looking at the dangers of automated algorithms from tech monopolies.

I think he has a very good chance of receiving a settlement, Google will not want to take this to court.
Yes I hear you - the difference is that we have to moderate for the general case. It's a bit like poker. You can win with an inside straight, but not in the long run.
I have a clock that keeps mars time: https://files.catbox.moe/o99ods.jpg

I synthesize a little martian electrical grid: HP5071a atomic clock --10MHz--> HP3325a --58.394657765 Hz--> HP6827a bipolar amplifier --~100vac--> clock.

Plus side I can have as many sync motor mars clocks as I want and it's only using random gear I had laying around, downside is that it's not very energy efficient, perhaps about 150W. :P
The wizard of odds made it
Were you ever emailing a company a serial number of a device or told your friends that you made a killer deal on something?

Probably that's why :-)

Please don't kill me.
They did not write about people who used their IRAs to invest in startups that went belly-up and lost money.
They did exist, that's where the connection to IBM census machines comes in. The earlier census made targeting undesirables easy.
- “Ah, Mr Thiel, I see you’re holding some shares there of a precious little company. Would you want to sell me some to put in this here tax shelter maybe?”

- “Why, yes, Mr Thiel, I’d love to sell you some of my shares here for your fine tax shelter there, let’s say, hmm, 1.7 million shares.”

- “Aye, let’s do it then, Mr Thiel. Mind you though: you can only sell yourself up to $2000 worth, Mr Thiel, per year. Now say, Mr Thiel, how much are those shares there worth, you reckon, Mr Thiel?”

- “Well, Mr Thiel, I’ll write you receipt over $0.001 per share. What do you say, Mr Thiel?”

- “Very well, Mr Thiel, that sounds about right. $1700, of course, Mr Thiel, just under the $2000 limit, what a happy coincidence, Mr Thiel. You’re so savvy in valuing shares!”

- “Of course, Mr Thiel, thank you, always eager to help, Mr Thiel.”

- “The pleasure is all mine, Mr Thiel. We are so fortunate, are we not?”
This was my first reaction as well, but on second thought, this seems like a flagrant abuse of the Roth IRA. I'm not saying Thiel should be punished, but something is clearly wrong here. Let's say I invest in a freelancing company that only employs myself, and buy 100% of the equity for $500, which I use to buy a work laptop. I only take 1/3 of my income as salary and then leave the rest of the money in the freelancing company, which invests it in stocks. Combine this with a Double Irish arrangement, and I could basically avoid paying taxes completely.
You're still using the system specific X/Wayland, Pulseaudio, and the system video drivers. I would bet that a majority of game bugs come out of one of those.
> That obviously not necessarily true. One can imagine a change in law that limits tax sheltering of this type for any individual to say, 10mm. A tiny fraction of the population would be affected.

Or limit the types of assets that can be held in an IRA to those that are publicly traded and can be bought on the open market. It seems like an important part of this scheme was Thiel basically got to set the price of some shares he sold himself, because they weren't publicly traded at the time.
> that is they don't have to know but if they want to know they can.

For the people that I'm defending here, there's no difference.

> Its great that I don't have to hide it or worry about it being leaked.

...so are you saying you're worried about a law like this?

> Yes, this is the most pragmatic way to deal with privacy issue, as much as possible information has to be make public for everyone.

I'm guessing you think the best way to deal with revenge porn is to have everyone post nude photos of themselves publicly?
It appears he started on Bloomsday 2010, and in episode 321, from 2016, he remarked in an introduction that he planned to finish it within ten years from then – which Wikipedia cites as evidence of it being "planned" to run to 2026, whilst completely missing the bit where he’s really talking about an there being an extra episode once a month and jocularly remarks that it is to reduce the weekly podcast from 25 remaining years to ten.

I hadn’t heard of this until today. This is amazing.
Github to me is "Programmer LinkedIn" honestly. I treat it basically as my personal portfolio as do many people.
Says in the article he was below the limit.

If you're reasonably wealthy and you start a firm, there's no problem just taking a smaller salary. It's a little bit surprising that the rules don't address this though. Why not just say Roth IRA is for people with net worth under some figure? Or as mentioned in the article, put a cap on the amount of tax exempt money?
Ask HN: Is Reddit working for you? (or is it down)
casbin, see above. less third party dependency risk heartaches and infrastructure maintenance barnacles.

agreed that it's wild that this isn't solved for b2b apps in 2021. the 80's were when most fundamental innovation happened here, then fundamentally more flexibility in the xacml days (~arbac), yet here we are...
literally same

meeting right after meeting, but about real stuff.
If what he did was legal, I dare you do do the same. I bet you any financial/tax advisor would strongly suggest you don't.

What he did wasn't actually legal. He just got away with it.
If I'm not watching politics on YouTube how would YouTube have nothing available on the far left to offer me?
Have you read about Bill Gross and his feud with a neighbor?
https://www.businessinsider.com/bill-gross-legal-battle-scul...

Or, Rand Paul:
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/rand-paul-attacker...

Without specific information, I'd expect that in any similar situation, both parties had reasons for doing what they did, and it escalated because neither of them would back down. Obviously it's not something that only rich people do.

And beforehand without specific information, I would've assumed that Paul was at fault and Gross was not, based on public images and politics. But it was seemingly the opposite.
I'm having a hard time understanding what this is and the page does a poor job of explaining it. The only question it answered was, "wait, so does this mean anyone can develop games for Xbox consoles?" The answer is, "No, not without access to the NDA'd extension that lets you do just that."

OK, so what does this let you do then? interact with Xbox services (friends, leaderboards, achievements, etc.) on Windows?
Got a link? I'm interested to see how its even possible to distinguish that.
Logo is close to "a lisp with no parentheses", and it also doesn't have any special forms. You can have parens, but they are optional. Compare:

item random size :list :list

(item (random (size :list)) :list)

It poses challenges for making parse-trees, though, especially since Logo traditionally has dynamic scope: you can't actually know the valence of a function until it is evaluated!
As a late adopter to Win10 who hadn't been in a Windows environment since the early days of Win7, I was shocked how jarring ugly and inconsistent it was.

Win11 from what they've revealed looks like a moderate improvement? But I know what they're not showing is how the desktop will look with several non-native MS applications open, the nonsense of the theming across Office applications, and Explorer with its inexplicable tab bars.

It makes me disappointed that something so ubiquitous and essential to peoples' work can't aspire to be aesthetically, if not beautiful, at least nice.
> When you took the oath to become a lawyer, you didn't swear allegiance to whatever state you happened to be living in at the time

My New York bar oath says: "I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support the constitution of the United States, and the constitution of the State of New York." You don't swear loyalty to the constitution of a mere administrative subdivision.

> And sociologically, I'd venture that most U.S. citizens think of themselves as Americans, not as Marylanders or Texans (OK, granted, a lot of Texans think of themselves as Texans first, which isn't a good thing).

I think that depends on the context of the question. If you ask people in the abstract, I agree most people identify as American first. But people have very well-developed affinities and prejudices about their states versus neighboring states that verge on nationalistic sentiment. Texans do, of course, which is something I find charming. But so do Oregonians. Having spent much of my adult life in Georgia, I can tell you exactly what I think about Floridians, Alabamans, South Carolinians, Mississippians, etc. (A lot of these sentiments play out through college football, the way they play out through soccer in Europe.) My wife, being a fifth generation Oregonian, would not move to California to save her life. Having relocated to Maryland, we have both cultivated an active dislike of Virginians (what the heck are they doing here, with their license plates?)
When you create a tax shelter, someone always asks "what if someone uses this to create an enormous amount of wealth"? This is not just true for the US tax code, but has been true for probably every tax code in history. When that question is raised, the first thing to contemplate is how likely it is to occur. And if it is not considered likely, then this risk is accepted.

Fuzzing may be a good analogy. Fuzzing can be used to test POST request processing when the logic is too complicated to validate via more formal means. We try a large sample of inputs. If they pass, then the test passes, even though we cannot be confident that the code will handle every input string correctly.
The literary device in the novel is effect preceding cause. Like, very early in the book the hypersonic v2 - and how series it is for things to blow up and then you hear it - is introduced, but if you miss it then that then you miss all the other times we see the same concept.
Don't work for a company that wants to "manage" your computer for you. You are assuming liability regardless if you manage it or they manage it. What you end up getting is usually crappy hardware, a bunch of redundant software that is terribly managed and outdated, and being told how to do your job and what software you can use even though you're supposed to be the expert.

The same people installing SolarWinds and requiring you use Outlook with 10 different comprised extensions will be the first to try blaming their employees for installing Docker or kubectl because it wasn't approved software yet you were brought in to be the container expert.
I agree, they should have done the boring but worthwhile work of updating the control panel, font selector, etc. But nope. Add more inconsistency. And make the start button harder to click while you're at it.
Other countries only allow shares of publicly traded companies to be added to tax shelter savings accounts. This seems like a reasonably fair way to prevent people with significant resources from taking advantage of the system in ways the general public cannot. Someone getting returns in excess of hundreds of thousands of percent should be able to afford paying a few percent in tax to help pay for the infrastructure society has provided to make success in industry possible.
Who cares if it’s criminal? Do you only read crime reports? I was unaware that a Roth IRA could be exploited like this until this piece enlightened me.
Of course it’s all legal. That’s not the point.

The point is that this is one more example of how the wealthy and powerful have more opportunity than others, even given the same laws.

This is no different in that aspect than the problem of rich people being able to hire the best lawyers to defend themselves, while the poor receive overworked public defenders. Everything equal, the wealthy have more opportunity.

If we want a society that is equal opportunity, our laws and regulations need to account for the natural emergent properties of wealth. Our progressive tax system is a narrow, feeble attempt at doing that, but it’s certainly not enough.
The actual chart: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E4m6HfFVIAMw5BW?format=jpg
Yeah it's kind of insane.. but I'm very happy with my snappy M1 lappy
Oh hell yeah, as soon as it works on the pixel 3 I'm jumping ship.
Also because people (justifiably) don't want to distribute their games as source, so they can't be packaged sanely.
Gotta build your own version to neuter all the "managed by your organization" tomfoolery though :(
Thanks for excellent explanation! I'm disappointed your work on Authzed hasn't hit HN front page before, not for lack of trying on your part!
My personal favourite is FAAAM: Facebook, Amazon, Alphabet, Apple, Microsoft. Obviously the AAA league can be whatever order you want.

Microsoft is more deserving of a slot than Netflix, and Google is just a subsidiary of a company called Alphabet now, however weird and arbitrary that division is in practice.
If you kill a cow belonging to a rancher, I think they are going to object, and it's not because they think eating beef is wrong.

Every moral standard is arbitrary if you don't recognize the distinctions being made.
Yeah I never understood the association with infinite jest and being hard other than it’s long. The book is super funny and enjoyable to read.
Of course, and that's another option, too. Make truly distributed applications that don't rely upon servers you own serving everyone, and you pay no hosting costs at all.
But there are still non-third-party things in Control Panel. Microsoft hasn't moved all their own settings over to Settings.
You don’t need two classes of shares for this you are over complicating things
Right, but like - if you later find a buffer overflow that the fuzzing missed - you'll fix it right?
The innocent until proven guilty only applies in criminal court, not in civil court by the way.

Personal privacy is good, but there are some societal things that should supersede the right to personal privacy in my opinion - I don't think any single right should be absolute.
Sorry, what does "bake a request for records" mean?
IMHO they're facing some kind of outage. When I open reddit, it is waiting long seconds, then it is loaded quickly. Navigating on the site is as usual.
It's down I think.

https://downdetector.com/status/reddit/
Sure, but do they count? They would survive in the heart of a star.
Credit Reform, Fintech Charters and the Van Buren Decision
I don't think it matters whether they fix it or not. Evidence help with establishing the severity, but in most countries this sort of thing would be classed as defamation of character. This guy should be entitled to something and ought to sue regardless.
Because what the code does should be obvious without looking at the documentation. Plus editors will autocomplete function names by looking at the name, not at the documentation. Thus using meaningful names can speed up the development.
I carry 3 and I just flew to back home to Europe for the summer.

- 1 MbP for my actual job. I’m not admin. I can’t even trigger a update.

- 1 MBP to access the parent company system. Like … 1 a month. ( it has a vpn client that I can’t install on the first one … that’s all )

- my personal laptop. Because I can’t do shit beside working on the two first.

It’s ridiculous
Installed it for a friend. Most of his steam games were working and some who didn't I easily installed them with Lutris Iirc.
Libre office may not look super polished but it really covers any normal person's use case and beyond. The only thing he does not get are updates but automatic updates are coming soon anyways.
I am a programmer and I run Linux Mint myself on all my machines because it just works. Any software that's not in the packages I use an Appimage or Flatpak or language specific packages manager such as cargo.
See https://www.redditstatus.com/
Are you saying that Peter Thiel should have known that he would turn PayPal into a multibillion dollar business, and because of this, the shares were not really worthless?

EDIT: That was sarcastic, but re-reading, that basically is what the article is saying:

> Get a sweetheart deal to buy a stake in a startup that has a good chance of one day exploding in value.

20-20 hindsight
That's exactly what a serial killer would say!
Wonder who the first exclusive listing is.
Except if these were founder shares, he would likely be disqualified. "Disqualified person...an officer, director (or an individual having powers or responsibilities similar to those of officers or directors), a 10 percent or more shareholder, or a highly compensated employee (earning 10 percent or more
of the yearly wages of an employer)"

(2)Disqualified person
For purposes of this section, the term “disqualified person” means a person who is—
(A)a fiduciary;
(B)a person providing services to the plan;
(C)an employer any of whose employees are covered by the plan;
(D)an employee organization any of whose members are covered by the plan;
(E)an owner, direct or indirect, of 50 percent or more of—
(i)the combined voting power of all classes of stock entitled to vote or the total value of shares of all
classes of stock of a corporation,
(ii)the capital interest or the profits interest of a partnership, or
(iii)the beneficial interest of a trust or unincorporated enterprise,
which is an employer or an employee organization described in subparagraph (C) or (D);
(F)a member of the family (as defined in paragraph (6)) of any individual described in subparagraph (A),
(B), (C), or (E);
(G)a corporation, partnership, or trust or estate of which (or in which) 50 percent or more of—
(i)the combined voting power of all classes of stock entitled to vote or the total value of shares of all
classes of stock of such corporation,
(ii)the capital interest or profits interest of such partnership, or
(iii)the beneficial interest of such trust or estate,
is owned directly or indirectly, or held by persons described in subparagraph (A), (B), (C), (D), or (E);
(H)an officer, director (or an individual having powers or responsibilities similar to those of officers or
directors), a 10 percent or more shareholder, or a highly compensated employee (earning 10 percent or more
of the yearly wages of an employer) of a person described in subparagraph (C), (D), (E), or (G); or
(I)a 10 percent or more (in capital or profits) partner or joint venturer of a person described in
subparagraph (C), (D), (E), or (G).
The Secretary, after consultation and coordination with the Secretary of Labor or his delegate, may by
regulation prescribe a percentage lower than 50 percent for subparagraphs (E) and (G) and lower than 10
percent for subparagraphs (H) and (I).

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/26/4975
Founder/CEO of LTSE here. Happy to answer questions if anyone wants to know more, AMA
Anything that only has analogue out really—it's only games for 360/PS3 and newer that were really designed with LCDs in mind. Anything older is best played on a CRT, although that's impractical for most people and becoming harder with every passing day.

That said, as much as I love playing old games on a CRT, I'm in a PAL region, and in today's world of high-refresh rate screens 50Hz is nausea inducing.
Firstly, I can’t even begin to fathom how you could characterise people trying to determine what happened to their relatives, and where their remains might be, as a “culture of, effectively, horseshit”.

Secondly, as far as I can tell you have made no substantive claims in this thread, your dismissals of the efforts in the article being backed solely by assertions, at a variety of levels of verbosity.

If it is as important, as your many posts on the topic indicate you believe, to discredit the progress these people claim to have made, then I think you should try and provide some evidence to support your case.
Thinking though how I use UIs, I like having one sidebar per screen edge because:

- I can spatially separate OS-level and program-level controls instead of visually/mentally hunting around in the same general area of the screen

- The effective clickable surface area of a button next to a screen edge is effectively infinite. For example, you can "crash" the mouse pointer downward onto a minimized window such that the bottom edge stops your mouse pointer from overshooting, and clicking will maximize that window. If you stacked OS-level and program-level control bars onto the same edge of a screen, one of them loses this UI perk
That would only measure public content. A large portion of US users have stopped engaging with public content on FB. A lot of people want to use FB to communicate with loved ones and news is just shoehorned in awkwardly. They don't engage with public content because either because it got them put in timeout or because they realized it was like shouting at a brick wall

It's not surprising that the ones that still engage with public content are people you could imagine enjoying shouting at walls.
Peter Thiel turned $2k in a Roth IRA into $5B
It is also because on Linux developers above the kernel have very little concern in keeping their APIs and ABIs stable and improving (it isn't just keeping some 29839283 year old library around that never receives any updates, you need to keep stuff up to date - imagine, e.g. SDL1.2 without support for HiDPI - though sadly most of the time not even that keeping around happens with distros dropping older libs left and right). Notable exception being Xorg, so of course the CADT model ensured that it has to be abandoned in favor of Wayland which while being barely usable has already managed to break compatibility with itself.
Your being very optimistic here and changes will make the existing v poor US pensions system worse.

edge cases make bad law eg using the small number of social security cheats to reduce entitlements to all or the tiny tiny number of cases of elector fraud to disenfranchise the poor and BAME.

Dunblane and the Dangerous dogs act in the UK are related.

This is the sort of thing that fringe "hobbyist" activists do assuming they aren't paid agent provocateur's
use 9.9.9.11 for ECS support
See also https://unifiedpush.org/ which has a Gotify connector
I love the shocked Pikachu face when I show up at someone's desk, let them know their laptop is part of an ongoing investigation, and IT will be by soon to give them a new one.
Thank you for posting this.

I had not appreciated the scale of this. There are 368 episodes, spread over almost seven years.
He wasn't a billionaire when he started the IRA account.
Depends on the business. If you buy into the office365 thing it actually makes it easier to set up a business network across a number of machines without having to dork around with Active Directory or anything hideous like that. Up to 25 people I think it's pretty good. I'd much rather set up a clients business on Office365 than have to install an Exchange/AD server on their premises.

However the real reason to install Pro is to get access to the virtualisation services, which aren't enabled on Home. Most users doing development now benefit from that (think Android emulators, Docker desktop etc). The enterprise versions are just overkill for a lot of small businesses.
Is it same in EU? If I read the law correctly I understood they need a good reason to monitor and they definitely need to notify you and ask for consent.

I have been using my work laptop quite heavily for personal use and I would prefer not to stop honestly.

I believe my intentions are pure and to provide value, I understand world is not perfect, but I would not want to work for an employer that needed to monitor me.
Dropbox owns more hardware than Backblaze.
In 2021, SHA1 is neither a reasonable or recommended password hash for any project. Use a tool like bcrypt, scrypt, or argon2 instead.