skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is cool. Good to see. Thanx for posting this. If someone is coding some serious math hackery, drill down into the app and you'll often find someone's variant/version of the old IMSL library routines, written - in Fortran - back in the 1960's. Why? Because that code was extensively tested and was deemed trustworthy. And even better - just went to my bookshelves and found it: "Optimization Techniques With Fortran" - James L. Kuester, Joe H. Mize, McGraw-Hill, 1973, ISBN 0-07-035606-8. It's just an awesome book - it's 9inches by 11 inches, 500 pages chock full of detailed explanations of many of the state-of-the-art circa 1973 optimization techniques for search methods, linear and quadratic programming tricks, least-squares (linear and non-linear methods), dynamic programming (a math technique for making a series of interrelated decisions), and so on. The book has code, examples and detailed explanations - with numerical examples - and flowcharts even, to explain exactly how the code works, and what the program is actually doing.
And its all Fortran - some of it IBM/360 Fortran - all in Courier font that's easy to read and use.
I had a client that just typed in all the code for a Simplex LP program, and used it to construct a big optimization solution for how to structure the re-investment actions of a large bond portfolio in a treasury department of a big organization.

Before there were neural networks and image-hacking, there was the gritty math-hacking to optimize big gobs of interrelated stuff that had to happen in the right order. It was almost always done in Fortran, and I suspect a lot of it still is. (And if it was not done in Fortran, it was done in APL. Ask an Actuarial scientist, if you doubt this..)
Please don't laugh at Fortran. It can not only help you fly your spaceship to another planet (and get you home again!), it can also make you (and your client) rich, since you can build solid, bulletproof code from those old libraries that just works, and hence create flaw-free solutions to really critically important applications.
This proposed extension looks useful.
Then you watched a different video. The crowd was not "calm".
There is no set amount you need to make or save. The goal is to learn what you don't need. One of the things you don't need is to say FU.
What's your point? Ban all the deceitful garbage.
Yes, I agree. I myself have always wondered about the opposite strategy: literally zero corporation tax, compensated by an overarching income-agnostic personal income tax which would go up to stupidly high percents in the stupidly high income brackets, say for the sake of the argument 80% above 1 million €/$/£, 90% above 10 million, 95% above 100 million etc. I don't necessarily mean these specific values, but you get the idea.

This income tax wouldn't care if the individual's income is salaried, or dividends, or stocks, or real estate, or whathaveyou. Any transfer of wealth from an un-taxed business to a taxable individual would count equally. Of course, the zero corporation tax would be conditional on all of a corporation's profits being distributed to individuals in states subject to the zero-corporate-hardcore-income tax agreement. I'm sure it would be extremely difficult to implement correctly, and to avoid tax avoidance schemes it would also require strong levels of capital controls with non-participant nations.

I may be a bit naïve, but intuitively I feel that erasing corporation tax altogether but highly taxing all individuals' personal profits may encourage innovation and reinvestment, and perhaps even make UBI a feasible option.
Yet there is no other proof beyond that one single Amazon review

I mean I'm all in for some good HN rage but there is no proof beyond that one person. Also no other review mentions this problem (just by searching around). Linux distros can pass Secure Boot just fine but maybe the reviewer just simply didn't know that

Honestly if I were in the US I'd just buy one to test this then send it back to Amazon because I very much doubt it's true
we estimate about <30% of matrix users are on matrix.org based on synapse phonehome stats.

the “unblocking” requests to abuse@matrix.org are to remove the servers with spambot accounts from the blocklists we publish as matrix.org; nothing to do with centralisation.
> Why journalists don't call it as fraud?

Because those who write these laws are the same signing the journalists' paycheck.
Ah, that's right. I was a bit confused because in France you deal with the vendor, not the producer.

I would ask Amazon why this is blocked and that they are selling something that is not proper (and Amazon cannot refer me to the producer because they are responsible).

I now got the fact that he was trying to make the laptop work, rather than just getting a refund.
Easy.

Tell people that everything from when they were young is "right" and that everything new in the last n years is "wrong".

You won't even need to do much research. Hand around people of the age that you're targeting, and just parrot their opinions.

(WARNING: This doesn't work if the people you hang around are perpetual learners and constantly challenge themselves. If they're the kind of person who takes language classes "for fun", run away -- their opinions will have nothing to do with your target.)
Is the whole concept of international agreements offensive to you? I don't see how this one is special. Bigger countries always have more influence, such is life.

Sovereignty goes both ways. No country is obligated to deal (allow trade or capital flows) with any other country they don't want to. If this agreement will even have such enforcement.
“Americans pay many fees and taxes that go to environmental concerns”

Doubt. Environmentalism is a fraction of a fraction of a fraction of a fraction of US governmental spending.

Edit: it’s .2% of the budget. Defense is a whopping 14%. We spend 70 times less on environmentalism than military and we’re not even at war.
Source:
http://saveepaalums.info/EPA+costs+to+taxpayers
Thanks again for pointing out my mistake.
>They still destroyed a woman’s life.

>After she checked out of the hospital, Isabel Fall ceased to be Isabel Fall. “I had a few other stories in the works on similar themes, and I withdrew them; that is the most concrete thing I can say that I stopped doing,” Fall says. “More abstractly, more emotionally, I have stopped trying to believe I am a woman or to work towards womanness. If other people want to put markings on my gender-sphere and decide what I am, fine, let them. It’s not worth fighting.”

>Isabel Fall was on a path to living as an out trans woman with a career writing science fiction, and now, she says, there will be no more Isabel Fall stories. She is done writing under that name, and she now considers “Isabel Fall” an impossible goal to achieve, a person she will never be.

And the conclusion:

>“Isabel was somebody I often wanted to be, but not someone I succeeded at being,” she says. “I think the reaction to the story proves that I can’t be her, or shouldn’t be her, or at least won’t ever be her. Everyone knew I was a fraud, right away.”
I believe that allowing updating the database from Windows itself is enough to satisfy the requirement. No need to allow doing it from firmware setup. Microsoft's own devices do it that way.
In many Android phones you can't record calls and call recording apps don't work.

When I recently reported a crime police didn't show up and when I asked them to come for a follow up, they lied that I have not asked anyone to come. The lovely lady even said "We listened to your call and you didn't ask us to come when incident happened."
This is a great read for any founders getting started. Notifications can make or break initial engagement velocity.
FWIW, if your employer participates in employment verification systems with the credit agencies (like equifax), your salary and some other basic info of you working their is listed. You'll just need signed authorization from that person and their SSN. $30 bucks later you got their salary.
If I can’t upload my own signing keys to be trusted, it’s as good as useless to me. So, option (2) would be ok, but having to rely on _Microsoft_ to run Linux on my laptop is exactly the sort of scenario everyone was afraid of 20 years ago.
I'm in Texas and it's making the news here. There are international news sites that are already talking about how crazy it is and that no other place in the world has been closed so long under lock downs? It's starting to resemble the Soviet Union or something, you would think the people would tell the Government to go fuck themselves by now.
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Not entirely true. Disturbing the Peace is an offense that police can respond to.
Personally I tend to be skeptical of anything that discusses nationality at all when it comes to climate change, unless we can somehow move all of the pollution outside the environment (into another environment)
When you see companies asking everyone to commute back to the office does it seem like climate change crossed their minds?
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The all-time high temperature record for Canada was set in Lytton on 3 successive days Sun-Tue (46.6ºC, 47.5ºC, 49.5ºC).

On the 4th day, it burned to the ground.
>The idea that politicians and bureaucracies can defer to external international conventions to be the bad-cop for wildly unpopular policy decisions

It's as though so many people saw Brexit and completely refused to learn anything from it. In the UK prior to Brexit the EU was often the scapegoat for things that politicians wanted but knew they couldn't get popular support for, the classic example is how the unpopular (and ultimately abortive) attempt to switch the UK fully to the metric system was very much seen as "petty-minded EU bureaucrats getting one over on the British public" in the tabloids when the reality was that almost all of the effort was Westminster's doing, mostly because business interests had been calling for it as a way to ease international trade.

The problem is that while falsely blaming an external outgroup for your problems isn't immediately dangerous, it can quickly spiral out of control. Around 2013 blaming the EU for bad policy-making on a wide range of things like immigration, the refugee crisis, a percieved decline in law and order, a creeping sense of political control over public discussion, and a whole list of other things reached its peak and the referendum was basically wrenched out of Cameron's hand. Eventually if you subvert a democracy by blaming your own unpopular choices on an outgroup, the inevitable question people start asking is "why don't we just get rid of $outgroup then? As you say, $outgroup cause all our problems so let's get rid of them and solve all our problems at once" which many billions of pounds and geopolitical bridges burned later is exactly what happened.

If nations as you put it "defer to external international conventions to be the bad-cop for wildly unpopular policy decisions" then things like Brexit are the inevitable result. Not only is it inherently wrong to sidestep democracy like that in my opinion, if supranational organisations are blamed for things that are unpopular then their influence will eventually be damaged by this. Organisations like the EU, the UN, and others aren't just limitless negativity sinks for domestic politics - all that political negativity has to go somewhere and eventually it just spills out.
The American Action Forum is nowhere close to “center-right”, only they call themselves that. It is a conservative think tank that almost exclusively works for Republicans.

Their figures aren’t even in “let’s debate” realm. They cite $36 trillion just for universal healthcare when even the CBO admits that Medicare for All would save $300-600 billion per year. This is nowhere close to good faith accounting, it’s intentionally misleading
> I have never seen an actual usecase for Map that isn’t solved better with plain old JS objects. Curious if anyone else has?

With a Map, you can easily and efficiently associate data with DOM nodes without changing them.
This isn’t “EMI” at all - this is putting a magnet next to a magnetically sensitive device. Just because “EMI” has the substring “magnet” doesn’t mean they’re the same thing. This could happen with any kind of magnet.

EMI specifically means interference introduced by electromagnetic waves - not problems introduced by a static electric or magnetic field.
I think I do that, on the off chance that a person might have multiple listings, and my general preference for precision. I probably also figured it'd be easier for them to know what I was referencing if I used the exact same text.
How many days until I'm a tax-paying citizen of Amazon.com Inc.?
> Unfortunately, the purpose here will be to use the fact that most users use a non-free OS to turn these TPMs against the user in order to make DRM harder to break.

Stallman[1] and others[2] have talked about just this issue for over a decade now.

[1] https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/can-you-trust.en.html

[2] https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/tcpa-faq.html
Don't Be Evil wasn't a new principle. It was a foundational one, on which the company grew.

That's why it was scrapped, and the following new principles were listed:

* Respect the opportunity (wtf?)

* Respect the user (lol)

* Respect each other (ahahaha)

Hope it makes sense now :)
> but might discourage future versions of him from getting started

The people getting started would have lower costs too.
Perhaps it’s a workaround for Amazon’s commingled-stock problem. Third party can’t override Secure Boot to install a root kit and then return the laptop in a way that ends up with it commingled with “new” stock, if third parties can’t write to CMOS memory in the first place.

(Of course, they could still install a “hard mod” root kit by e.g. reflashing the BIOS through its JTAG pins, or just desoldering it and soldering on something else. But that requires a much higher tier of resources, one that also enables other classes of attacks that don’t involve putting the stock back into the first-party warehouse.)
I remember seeing the Self Employed launch from inside the company. It was somewhat of a skunkworks project from 3 engineers and they got a lot of internal PR for creatively targeting the gig worker market. I guess the plan was to eventually branch out to other self employed people, but the initial motivation was Uber drivers and such rather than small business owners, because that would cannibalize the QuickBooks Online market. It doesn't sound like much has changed in the 5 years since I left. It sounds like you fall a bit in between their product offerings, but I wouldn't count on them handling all your needs because they'd rather people like you just moved to their full QBO product.

I also remember attending a session that Intuit offered on the competitor landscape and being quite surprised that Wave wasn't covered. Intuit just doesn't take them seriously, but their products, to me, seem better than just about every competitor covered in the session, including Xero. They've got a self-employed offering [0] that might be worth experimenting with since you can start for free and only pay when you need the premium features.

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The benefit of changing shareholder laws is providing CEOs with legal cover for making better decisions.

As far as I understand the legal landscape, if a solar panel manufacturer turned down a capture and kill takeover offer from an oil company, they'd have to make a case on how it would be financially more beneficial for them to remain independent.

They'd get a summary judgement against them for saying "We think oil will cook our planet, and we will continue doing the less profitable thing because we want our planet to survive."

Which... seems insane that that couldn't be a valid defense. But then, our legal system isn't overly tuned to heading off planet altering, existence-scale threats.
Four problems with your post:

First, Acer (the manufacturer) is doing it, not Amazon.

Second, it does appear to be systematic.

Third, refund policy is irrelevant and implies (falsely) that the issue is simply a consumer choice problem.

Fourth, you ignore what is troubling: it represents the loss of general purpose computing devices as a product category, even in that last bastion of "freedom", the personal computer. Acer is a major manufacturer, and this shift is ominous.
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Just want to point out the A-to-Z Guarantee from Amazon. When you're dealing with problematic sellers who refuse to remedy defects, mention the A-Z and watch them cave. Couple A-to-Z complaints and the seller is kicked out Amazon.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=...
Obviously everything depends on the specifics of the project but for anything with a database of some kind, a way to do versioned schema migrations/rollbacks.

A job queue is slightly more debatable but most sites with some kind “app” like behaviour will have stuff that can benefit from out of band processing.

Not that you necessarily need to “build” those things yourself of course, but they each require some setup/integration for your workflow/app/deployments.
Most probably, they outsource most of the software engineering to consultancy agencies known for H1B abuse.
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Registries basically:

* Manage the database of all domain registrations in a TLD, and manage the infrastructure that registrars (the companies that customers actually interface with) use to create and update those records.

* Manage whois, although IIRC .com and .net use a "thin whois" model where the TLD whois server redirects to a whois server run by that domain's registrar.

* Run the authoritative DNS servers. This is the most critical component, since if the authoritative servers for .com and .net went down, it would basically be an "Internet outage" - an enormous amount of things would break if recursive DNS servers couldn't resolve .com or .net domains.

It's an important function, but as others have pointed out, it doesn't justify the price increase, Verisign's profit margins are huge. And the fact is that Verisign doesn't actually own .com or .net, they're basically a contractor for ICANN.
Not at the moment. I’ve been struggling with this really hard but have decided to wait. I WFH, don’t really have contact with many people, have good hygiene and in generally good health. I’m in my early 30s and am looking to get pregnant this summer. The risk of GETTING covid first and then hospitalization or death in my age group is low. Taking the vaccine is a 100% event with a small % of side effects. The side effects can effect women (short term at the least) so I am not looking risk family planning. I have a young child but they are at even lower risk of developing problems from covid (shes healthy). I don’t have any underlying illnesses.

As well, I’m not comfortable with the fact that THIS is the only way out of the pandemic. I’m waiting also on the ivermectin clinical trials (and others) to be “official” despite many studies have confirmed it reduces covid symptoms. Vaccines have become so political that I am with another poster here where I don’t want to be pressured to make a hasty decision on my health when I’ve done a lot of research and have taken my own risk based decision.

Doesn’t mean I’ll never get it but everyone says to make a data driving decision and I’ve made mine on the data we have right now.
This is not always true. There are chips where the radio DSP cores have their program loaded into main memory and it's unsigned. You talk to them with mutexes and shared memory pages. There is also no legal basis for requiring radio controllers to have signature enforced firmware loading.

He's being sarcastic. It's think of the children but with electronics and PII.