skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There were two judges convicted.[1] One of them was recently released because of the pandemic. There were also two others involved, a lawyer and real estate guy, who have both long been released.

[1]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kids_for_cash_scandal
This is a testable proposition. We can look at the list of billion dollar startups from 10 years ago (all 11 of them) and see how they fared since: https://www.forbes.com/sites/nicoleperlroth/2011/06/02/the-b...

Kayak, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Bloom Energy and Integra Telecom (Electric Lightwave) are still doing well, Groupon and Zynga are significantly diminished and Living Social, Gilt Group and Better Place are dead.

So the answer appears to be 50/50 and social commerce was a huge fad.
Not sure I got your point about DRM.

Regarding bad/good guys. Implementation/Configuration of RASP is in the hands of App Developer. E.g. Revolut disallow running on rooted phone. It is their choice. Our mBanking customers prefer to allow running with root but prevent app running on Emulator and with Hooking frameworks. Tampering is very followed as well. RASP diagnostic signals are also used withing Risk scoring system.
I used to sell both cloud products and server/storage infrastructure.

There are too many factors, often legal requirements and the umbrella company policies not being flexible, but , if you need 20 or more servers and redundancy and are legally permitted to go cloud, do it.
You can run non business critical parts of the it on cloud and see if it makes sense to the cfo.

Buying physical servers and the premises is one thing, but there's so much more to it, it's far from plug and play.
You need hypervisor, licences, one or two admins, it adds up.
Stop spreading disinformation and conspiracy theories here please.
Does that include the fuel burned to put them in orbit?
And for every step, WE WILL CHEER THEM ON.
PSA: in this article "Europe" seem to include the UK, which seems to be native to a lot of these "unicorn" companies.

The numbers might look different if the UK numbers weren't included.
something is rotten in the US.

There certainly are multiple things rotten in the US, but a glance at history shows us that this sort of challenge has always been nearly impossible.

Specifically, I'm talking about the challenges faced by a wealthy, technologically superior nation-state seeking to subdue a remote, decentralized coalition of irregular military forces whose fighters can blend in with the general populace when needed.

The birth of the USA was something somewhat similar, with the colonies' "ragtag" army defeating the British.

It's also something the Roman Empire struggled with. They conquered city-states with relative ease, rolling them into their empire with a combination of carrot and stick. Decentralized peoples were often another story.

It's also not like there's a shortage of writings about how Afghanistan is essentially unconquerable, thanks to geography and culture. "Graveyard of empires," indeed.

https://thediplomat.com/2017/06/why-is-afghanistan-the-grave...
Sorta; it depends upon whether the deal is scoped to specific AZs or not. At this scale the contracts are effectively bespoke.
FWIW as a former Calvinist I think your your assessment of Calvinism is wrong on multiple points. Because it was the presupposition of his hearers, dispelling the notion that “The rich must have been good in this life and the poor must be getting what they deserve” is the whole point of Jesus’ rich man and Lazarus parable. And the concept of “fundamentally good vs bad people” is also out-of-nowhere for Calvinist doctrine as they hold to “total depravity”, that all people are sinful and under God’s judgement.
You are absolutely right. America is a gilded cage and the paint is peeling.
Note that this is Berlin as in the pre-WWII name of Kitchener, Canada, not the Berlin in Germany.
Elon Musk Pans Pilot Version of Tesla’s Driver-Assistance Feature
The main difference between each of those scenarios and the one I describe is that we have words to describe them. From your post: freehold, leasehold, buy, rent, loan (and I'll add: mortgage). You don't need to read the fine print to know that these are meaningfully different.

I'm on board with the idea that there's a lot of arrangements in between full ownership and pure rental, as long as we have terms to describe the meaningful differences.
You ignore my previous point about the fact large segments of the white population also being vaccine hesitant. The problem is more obvious with black people because the demographic information collected during vaccinations doesn't generally include things like voting intentions, strength of religious faith, profession, understanding of who won the last election, or opinion on what caused the twin towers to collapse.

However, if you look at the cross tabs of opinion polling, supporters of a particular party are much more hesitant to get the vaccine.
If it's BigCo, this is usually managed by terminating the employees and replacing them.
More than eighty cultures still speak in whistles
The recent Chinese crackdown on tech entities and their use of data hints that the shape of the digital financial landscape depends sensitively on what is deemed acceptable (read: legal) information flow in any jurisdiction.

In this sense digital finance will be created by decree rather than as the unavoidable culmimation of some particular "tech innovation".

Underneath the huge risks there is always the potential that easier collection and dissemination of information will support a "better" financial system, somehow combining the best rather than the worst of "fin" and "tech".
Lol this kind of shit is ripe for abuse. Not even sure if it would be unethical to find a flaw in the pattern matching just to enhance your credit score.
You really should go read Apple's papers, FAQ, etc... on the feature. Not saying that has happened here, but there are a lot of knee jerk, uninformed opinions and information floating around. Also take a look at PhotoDNA, which is an older version of a hash system already in use by other providers.

In your example about planting CSAM, why would on/off device matter since the new feature only checks for items going to iCloud anyway? The planting CSAM attack vector is available right now for any device connected to FB, OneDrive, or Gmail, and I don't think planting material has been an issue.
"tens of thousands satellites, are all flying above OUR heads"

Do you feel threatened by them, or just resent the fact that they will alter the look of the night sky, especially around sunset and sunrise?

I can understand the latter, but communication satellites in orbit aren't a safety problem for people on the surface, unlike, say, every drone that someone flies in your proximity.

"4G works awesomely."

This is very local, I can't even get 4G coverage at some places literally on the border of Prague, a major European capital. Not a wilderness by any means.

"You are completely delusional."

Stop that shit. And do not attack my math, I actually graduated in algebra and number theory.

Seriously, to calculate returns on Starlink in the future, you need to assess several variables such as launch cost, manufacture cost, personnel cost and total # of customers. These are not yet known with necessary precision into the future, so we can only guesstimate. If we take Musk's admission that Starlink needs 30 billion USD to survive, 10 million paying end customers worldwide should be more than enough. That is not that much, compared to the world population.

And we do not know how much extra money are getting from customers such as the US Army which is really intrigued with Starlink.

"Those 20 years serving ARE still made today! Your comparison is invalid. "

So yes, they are. Do they provide a service on 2021 quality level? There are steam engines still in operation, but that does not mean that the technology isn't obsolete.
If you can’t do the time, don’t do the crime.
This is a bad idea. 3d printed objects unless filled with food-grade resins are not food safe as they cannot be cleaned (ridges of the layers) and tend to release a lot of not well characterized compounds.
If the people want Sharia, than they should be free to chose it.

Meanwhile, the west can go back home and instead of bombing democracy into these countries, we compete with their model (like we did with communism), we outperform their model and they will want our model.

We didn't win against communism with bombs, we won against communism with widespread increase of wealth. We had more wealth, more rights, more freedom, a better life.

Our own democracy and our own values have severely suffered after the downfall of communism, we are not on top of our game anymore. If young people from poor countries look at our countries and feel _hate_ instead of _envy_, then we are doing something wrong.

What we did is saying "here, look at our awesome democracy, which bombs your weddings, no matter if a Black progressive or and Orange lunatic is in power, doesn't even make a difference".

Almost all young people in Northern Africa are trying to run to Europe. They want what we have. Let's proof to them that democracy and liberal values are the way to get what we have.
> While bold cryptographic claims should be taken with responsibility, monero is researched and implemented by well known criptographers and researchers in a very serious way. Almost all (if not all) aspects of the protocol come directly from proven and well understood theory and published research.

I have a lot of friends and acquaintances who (despite my nagging) work at cryptocurrency shops, and I personally do some entirely separate work on provable computation. To call cryptocurrencies' use of zero-knowledge proofs "proven and well understood" is a tremendous overstatement: they're a brand new area within cryptography. We don't really know what their properties are yet, and we haven't even begun to comprehensively document weakness in construction, implementation, &c. the way we do for actually established cryptosystems. The deluge of published research on ZK/OT/&c. is evidence for this: everybody is scrambling to explore and publish on a new, immature research domain.
Swiss startups to watch, according to top VCs
I don’t personally have any interest in VSCode (tried it, eh), but I am profoundly grateful for its popularity and community because language servers are friggin legit these days, and so there isn’t really much downside to using a real editor. There was this uncanny valley decade where IDEs could actually do some shit that you wanted, but these days if your language is mainstream enough to have a serious IDE, it’s most likely got a monster language server as well. Life is good in code editing land.
Thanks. That makes a lot of sense, indeed.
How is it disinformation? Is it because it's not currently being used for evil purposes that we can't say it will theoretically be used for evil purposes in the future? Should we label all the anti-apple CSAM blog posts as "disinformation" because apple says it will only be used for CSAM and definitely wouldn't use it for political purposes?
I nominate Sweden to be the weirdest country when it comes to housing ownership.

When buying a flat or a non-detached house, you usually fall into an ownership law called "bostadsrätt". In essence, you don't buy a house. You buy stocks in a housing association, which grant you the right to use the chosen flat/house. The housing association is pretty much run like a company, with a yearly board meeting, a CEO, a CFO, etc. Your ownership is proportional to the surface area you bought.
The trouble with arguments like that are that they rely entirely on faith in the person stating them.

As with all science, it's not the volume of studies one way or the other, it's the quality. Consensus on a topic only comes over time, especially for contentious issues with public interest. The good thing about science is that it more or less always converges on the truth over time, but some are not willing to wait and make snap decisions on policy without stating that it's not backed by scientific consensus.
This is same thing that happened in Algeria back in the nineties, in Algeria if you let a clear and honest democratic process in the country make assure that an Islamic group will win by majority and that why Europe union (France) will not ever make it happen and Algeria now is in really very bad situation with corruption running by an authoritarian regime so that they can milk them with stupid economic trades.

And to put it in the bigger picture why USA will never let a democratic process in Muslims majority country happen is simply the existence of Israel, you know exactly what the first thing Muslims will do if they united.
Who said I loved bitcoin? I'm a crypto sceptic.
I had toyed with that idea. This was before ML visualizers had become decent. I was going to use the set numbers to help me figure out what I could or could not do. Think there are a couple of online resources that do that. There are a lot of sets so currently a "i have a pile of xyz pieces" and then just exhaustively going through them maybe with a % complete would be simple enough if you had a complete library of what pieces were in each set. You could get a bit clever with 'i have x piece which set is that in' and filter it down. Not sure if you could get away without it being basically O(m^n) though. But given how small the existing number of sets is compared to the compute power most computers have these days that may not be that bad to just brute force it? It really becomes a combinatoric problem and there are a lot of algs to choose (hehe) from. I personally was noodling with 3 or 4 SQL queries that did it.

With ML detection you can get a good ways decently the hard part is 'hidden' feature. Depending on orientation with some pieces they will hide features. For example a 2x4 flat looks the same as a 2x2 flat on many orientations (extreme example but shows off the effect nicely). I have seen some people use tumbling the piece or a few cameras to mitigate the issue.

My proj was more along the lines of how do you represent a single piece in memory without using a planar point system such as what ldraw did. I had toyed with the idea of converting between the two systems for memory reasons. But it became compute/IO expensive very quickly on collision detection with other pieces.
And you can lose your job for posting a controversial opinion in the US, completely privatized.

It's a way more stable system. Allow a very narrow band of opinions in practice while claiming that everyone's free to think whatever they want in theory.
When a group works well together you can't find any single winner when they succeed. Russia and the rest barely worked together at all, but still worked together well enough that you cannot find a single winner.
Stop calling opinions and projection of a possible future 'disinformation and conspiracy theories'. That you disagree with something does not make it disinformation. Nor a conspiracy theory.
That's why I said it is complex.
I'd really like to know where their costs are coming from, $400m/yr seems absolutely wild. I work for a large org who has 90-95% of stuff in cloud infra and we don't spend even close to this.
All of today's desktop browsers come with developer tools built in. How many people know that, and how many know how to use them?

Many Android phones come with unlockable bootloaders. Again, how many of those who bought such a phone know about this capability?

What I'm trying to say that it's fine to sell a device in a locked down state. What's not fine, however, is not providing an unlocking mechanism, possibly deliberately well-hidden like it is in case of Android bootloaders, for those who know what they're doing.
Thanks, it's not weird, I guess that's the point of HN.
The IMF, at least in its current form, shouldn't exist. The only way it can work is if artificial or instigated crises are periodically created to extract wealth from (or covertly tax) the masses so it can be redistributed to nations and NGOs that may or may not be risky lendees.

Credit scores might be a good idea in some respect but it shouldn't be possible for anyone but lenders and the individuals those scores represent, and they should only ever cover whether the person or organization is a good or bad risk for loaning them money or credit. Employers and landlords should never be able to know what your credit score is. At best they should know about your employment history, but if they want your credit score then they might as well ask what shows you watch on Netflix or if you look at porn, you know, for moral reasons.

Hopefully the system will be kept in check by decentralized tech, but who knows how long it will be before social credit will bar you from using the same internet as everyone else.
Plus there's far more mods available for honda than there ever will be for Apple. Modding them, tuning the ECUs, aftermarket hardware and software, you bet baby. The car hacker community is very alive
Is it just me or is this article entirely unreadable due to the in-page scrollable HP ads in the background? The page breaks aren’t calculated correctly so I can’t see half the text. Sigh.
I'm using one from few years and really like the shape but it starting have double clicks or not registering clicks at all and I would really prefer to have proper scroll wheel.
And looks like I will buy GameBall[1] that is completely new (so don't know long term reliability) because there are no other good replacements for Marble. They will be selling limited edition from today and standard edition should be available from September.

[1]: https://www.gamingtrackball.com/
"There are plenty of open computing platforms"

And roughly zero of them can make a phonecall, or a contactless payment, or to find directions on the go because they are not portable and internet connected.
NASA Timelapse Shows X-59 Supersonic Jet Being Built over Two Years
The small software startup funding problem seems like a very hard nut to crack. First I think its best to stop thinking of yourself as a "startup" and start thinking of yourself as closer to a normal business. PG's Startup = Growth article really explains this, and all the VC madness and overfunding comes from this expectation.

So you've moved the problem from getting VC funding to getting a bank loan like a normal business. But now the problem is that your small software business is still a higher risk proposition than a donut shop, because we've clearly validated that there's a market for donut shops, but your software company still needs to validate that it even has a business.

Now your software company sits in this murkey middle where your lack of potential is too risky for a VC, but your lack of market validation makes you too risky for a traditional bank loan.

Why then start a small software business? Because its the lowest risk proposition for the founder. Get 2 founders together and bootstrap a 2M ARR, with the appropriate development a business experience and a decent understanding of your market, there's a very high chance you can pull this off. Now you're looking at a $750,000 annual income and half an asset that is worth at least 10M at a 5x multiple.

Point being, given that the whole point of a small software company is to minimize founder risk in order to give the founders the best chance at a very substantial income, it shouldn't be surprising that the most realistic way to fund such a company is bootstrapping. I doubt there's a better answer to the problem since the whole reason you're in this situation is that you the founder wanted to keep all the gains while removing all the long-term risks to yourself. To make that happen you the founder are the one who has to front the cash.
Why not give it a go? Worst case you lose a few minutes of your time.
English is as much an eternal Lingua Franca for human-readable communications as C is for low-level high-performance programming: meaning that it isn't one at all. Both can be unseated with some effort.

C is already being slowly unseated by Rust, and there are more competitors like Zig on the way. English may or may not be unseated by Mandarin, given that American hegemony is waning, and (unfortunately) Chinese dominance on the global stage is rising.
Things like this don't happen at once. But we're slowly getting there.
The problem is that people aren't a monolith and fundamentalist sharia, like all religious nationalism, tramples all over minority rights. This is what makes me uncomfortable with the "if people want sharia" argument.
had a little "sidecar" TSR that would copy RAM into the monochrome display area every nth timer tick as a debugging aid; it was a window into running programs without being a full debugger.

Few people actually used dual monitors in the DOS / EGA era, so seeing one doing a matrix type display while the other was running games blew a lot of minds.

TFA says "f you are using an extended memory manager such as EMM386, you need to make sure that it isn't using the video RAM for its own purposes." ... you could just let that be a live window on "some random RAM" that way but it wasn't interesting. My TSR had more settings for screensaver uses than for debugging.
Why shouldn't it? The credit score is a tool to provide a measure of how profitable you can be to lenders. If you're paying off loans, you are a less desirable customer than those who carry loans. The lower score reflects that.
I believe shitcoin was a play on bitcoin, and not suggesting that normal coinage was shitcoin in comparison to bitcoin.
Honda could decide that every new sold car in future will phone home at the press of the ignition and check if the driver should be allowed to start the car. The software techniques to turn every car sold into a leasing service is not difficult to implement.

If there is such software is inside your civic then no, you don't own it. Honda does. The word "ownership" is in part defined by the ability to exert control. If Honda controls who drives the car, where, how and when, the owner is indisputable Honda.
“The so-called pandemic may end someday”
What is “so-called” in a pandemic responsible for the deaths of millions (tens of millions most likely) people in the world?
Could you provide an example where a democractic process has legitimately elected a religious fundamentalist group? That is how I understand "the winner" in your statement, as if the group was elected by the people.
Yes, but then both users would need to be on the same virtual screen.
I said it's good for your health, not that we're optimizing solely for health. You're right that the most frictiony setup could be beneficial.

But also, a higher performance bike will help you go further & faster. It doesn't mean you will end up exerting less effort, it just means that you will go faster and you'll keep putting in the same effort. With this time saving you can try new routes, feel more comfortable going further or bike packing with higher quality gear. It wouldn't change how long I ride for, but it increases the options for where to go.

Yes there are diminishing gains as with anything, but an entry level bike is still going to be below the Shimano 105 point of performance vs cost.
> and anyway is now probably self sustaining

As a German this is an interesting point.

While I'm no big fan of the big cities (Berlin, Munich, Hamburg) we see lots of successful* startups happening and gaining track there and in smaller towns.

University cities are often doing fine, too and are slowly but surely developing startup structures and everything else.

To me this looks more promising than concentrating all startups and money in one place and measuring everything against that.
Nail your business model slide
$1.45? A day? Really? That's pretty shocking.