skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure, you're not breaking any laws, just intentionally violating the spirit of the law for personal gain.

This isn't a court of law. I can understand trying to avoid language that makes it sound like you may have been in violation of the law to a judge or jury, but you literally described that what you did was intended to keep operating a service that had been banned by using an absurd technicality in the definition of the ban.

I'm honestly surprised it worked (though having a former MP of the tiny nation you were operating in as a lawyer might have helped) considering that your service still facilitated online gambling directly and was advertised as such, despite the randomness source being on a remote server rather than local.

In other words, using a non-local randomness source (like a remote server you cURL into or a webcam pointed at a bunch of lava lamps) is functionally indistinguishable from a local dice roll or other source of entropy. This "hack" is so flimsy it likely wouldn't hold up in court in a nation that is actually interested in pursuing such violations that has a population larger than a small city.
Now add a "like" button and make an additional list of "most liked" pieces, and beat streaming services at their own game :)
When the alternative is thousands and thousands of deaths, most of us are willing to temporarily give up a bit of civil liberty.
My Daughter Got Covid-19. I’m Done Being Tolerant of Idiots
Daftar Backlink PBN Dofollow Gratis – Karawang Portal
Worse, it's double-speak for SaaS APIs, aka. "you have to enter into a business relationship with us in order to use it".
How to Fix the EU Artificial Intelligence Act
This has been proven to be false repeatedly, yet people still claim it.
To everyone saying "Well it's just obviously a security", you may well be right. But securities law and the Howey test are actually pretty complicated. If the SEC has a rationale for why this product is a security, that's great, they should share it.

It's possible Brian is being dishonest in his presentation of their interaction. It's possible the SEC did give him a rationale and he just didn't like it. But if we take what he's saying at face value, the SEC's behavior here is unacceptable for a regulator, regardless of what you think of the crypto industry.
Yes, if you're only making small updates and not dumping tons of lines all the time the even an old e-ink display is plenty fast. It works the same way when you're menuing on an e-reader.
first off, I didn't claim all of them where. What I did say is that:

A) there are common sense rules of communication that are enforced everywhere for the most part. If you are screaming, yelling or generally trashtalking you will be usually not tolerated in any kind of private etablishment. This is not different online.

B) these rules should be applied evenly and transparently. If they are not (which is sometimes the case) this is a problem. This means removing posts that adhered to the rules because some mod didn't like them politically is bad. This also means leaving posts up that broke the rules because the person who posted it had some sort of power is also bad.

So if they didn't break the rules and their posts got deleted, this would be clearly something I'd criticize. If they did break the rules and it is just a case of "the rules are too extreme for my flavour of politics" then your flavour of politics could either be incompatible with common rules of human decency and behaviour, or the platform is needlessly strict with their rules or the enforcement of said rules.
Your deliverability will suck as pointed out here on HN for quite some time.

Also, your VPS provider can still be compelled to (try) deanonymize you.
It punches a pretty big hole in that ‘half of the people that get infected get Long Covid’ scare though.

And the new argument will probably be that, as Long Covid is not really defined anyway, the goal posts have now moved from lung damage to heart damage or something.
The clever science behind frozen ramen
Same. It was very interesting.
> Counter argument will probably be along the lines of "but we store your data even when you don't use it".

Yes the cost of building the product, infrastructure, running the company changes with the economy but even then the product pricing doesn't change frequently. If it does the customer will leave for the competitor anyways monthly billing or not.

So apart from locking-in within the platform, To show the MRR, ARR for that VC money is there really any merit for monthly subscription? Not everything needs to be a Netflix, Without complex licensing, two-sided market I'm not sure why every SaaS product has to compare itself to Netflix.

I've started offering lifetime subscriptions by default to my SaaS products, mainly because it seems hypocritical to not liking to pay monthly but expecting the same from my customers. One of the advantages of being an indie is that I can do this, I understand that a startup at the mercy of investors cannot.
Because the problem here is companies being pressured by states for political ends.
So okay, route around the banking problem by switching to crypto. It's just 100 times harder for somebody to donate, and for the foundation to spend, but whatever.

Now this rogue nation state targets your landlords, your water company, your kids' school. How much can you route around or DIY before you're a prisoner?

The fix has to be other countries pushing back, ensuring freedom.
What makes you think that this will work?
Historical Options Data API
> Some things I've been thinking about:

> I'd like to re-license the source code to MIT. This will happen soon (ie, for 0.5.8). It'd be great to make it easier to contribute the project, and I know the current license is a potential blocker. I'll need development help more now than ever.
> I plan on turning off Patreon shortly - I can't justify keeping it active if I'm not able to work full-time. (I plan on doing something similar to when I transitioned from Onivim v1 -> Onivim v2 - convert all current patrons to a lifetime license).

So that's why you can't buy a license anymore ? I had been hesitating for a long time, the only thing I'd want from onivim is an easy to use debugger for php/node like the on vscode has. With easy to move into variables and inspect content with the mouse, stopping the debugger, etc.

Every time I tried that with vim or neovim I can't get over the buffer management and keyboard navigation thing and generally get a lot of errors. I usually manage to see the value of a variable and then it all crumbles down in error messages. Probably pebcak but still :/.
The only thing I find cringeworthy is people who revel in “Covid Culture”, making a deliberate spectacle of what a good, compliant, obedient individual they are and what awful crimethinking, irresponsible saboteurs anyone who takes a taste of proper life again is. People who use the “it’s a pandemic stupid” line to sweep perfectly legitimate concerns about civil liberties, generational inequality, and the futures of businesses who aren’t massive chains under the carpet concern me far more than people ditching masks and going to parties do.
Zero Covid is up their with young Earth creationism and homeopathy in terms of completely irrational policies. Living where avoiding getting sick and avoiding others getting sick is your primary goal isn’t a life at all, it’s an existence like that of a diary cow or a battery hen. That might be distressingly close to how politicians and their patrons privately see us mere mortals, but it’s no way for a free society to function. We aren’t just economic fuel to be burned up for the benefit of society and discarded when we’re not longer useful, we are human beings and we need a life that’s more meaningful and dignified than “stop the spread covidiot”.
Coinbase: we not lending out money.

Coinbase: We calling it Coinbase Lend.
I think the lawyer who convinced the gov't that the operation was legal being a former MP and this taking place in a nation of less than 100,000 people is a crucial element to the story.

Incidentally both gambling AND fintech (including crypto) are on the list of industries I refuse to do work with. So I guess BTC gambling would have been off the table for two reasons.
> the contract writer could be adversarial

Fair enough, if you consider that to be counterparty risk. I prefer to think of that as an entirely separate kind of risk ('software risk'). This is partly because these contracts can be written by entirely separate parties having nothing to do with the counterparty (and sometimes provided as public infrastructure, since they don't cost the writer anything beyond the initial deployment cost).

I suppose to some extent it depends whether you consider the smart contract itself as a virtual counterparty that could default either through malicious coding or through bugs that allow hackers to steal assets.

I also don't see any problem with combining smart contracts and real legal contracts. If someone scams you in the DeFi world, they're scamming you in the real world too. I know that at least the UK Supreme Court has ruled that digital assets are property at common law.
Moral Majority Media Strikes Again
The only place you can see weight gains is by looking at Table I and working it out yourself for each subject, and only the last subject PW had an outlying weight gain in absolute terms but his starting weight was also an outlier - his relative gain was the same as all the others as well.

The paper is about how the weight of fat cells changed at different subject weights, not how much subject weight changed for a fixed food size - the only mention of food portions is with respect to ensuring weight was maintained, gained and lost for the different stages. "After desired or maximum obtainable weight was reached" indicates they weren't using weight as the outcome here.

The only place you can see the weight gains is by looking at Table I and working it out yourself for each subject, and the relative gains are all very similar: 23.3%, 25.3%, 21.4%, 20.0% and 18.0%. I'm guessing they wanted them to put on 20-25% of their body weight to give consistent and measurable changes to the fat cells.
I opened the sample site in brave on mobile and it doesn't load. Meh.
Don’t scale well rn. Mastodon Fediverse split-brain’d facing influx of manga drawings that are orthogonally illegal in two regions
Best advice I heard regarding reddit: disable old redirect and embrace the new redesign. Outcome - my reddit browsing has become minimal, focused and no longer enjoyable for procrastination.
@dang , we currently have two posts in the front page addressing broadly the same story, this one and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28452628

Perhaps it's worth linking them or adding a comment to that effect?
I actually agree with you. I think it is fair to say crypto is hard to get right — on the one hand there are lots of scams, on the other hand there is a large amount of investment in non-scams.
No apologies needed, I was just trying to add a new perspective :)
Is your assertion that, because you deem his actions immoral, they did not require intelligence?
Completely stupid analogy.
That is my fault--nonintutive interface. With this one, you need to select the songs you like and they are added to the list in the box. When you press play, that list plays. The idea was to create some customization without a login. Please see if that works for you.
Wait for it to come out. If current movies are anything to go by, expect your expectations to be subverted.

The lesson therefore of Hollywood is don't believe the hype.
A monk asked master Jōshū "Has a dog Buddha-nature or not?" Jōshū answered, "Mu variant"
They're trying to buy enough time to get enough people vaccinated before they "let it rip". Delta has an extremely high R value and will come back in force. This way we eliminate many more unnecessary deaths. Not hard to understand.
"Since UNIX times delays assuming tabs set every 8, this has become a defacto ‘standard.’"

Oh ...

It is something beautiful over such simple, small and hackable systems like this. Imagine how much control you actually had over your computer.
That is a good one! You were lucky!
You shouldn’t paste large blobs of an article here in general. https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que... (There are more recent instances of dang repeating the rule; can’t find them at the moment.) Also, @dang doesn’t do anything; if you have a question, send an email.
https://github.com/spikecodes/libreddit#building
Levels of Bach
Coq: Macro Assembler? (2013) [pdf]
What's defi without the software?
Maybe OpenAI could do it! I did create a playlist of their songs, so partial credit? https://www.locserendipity.com/OA/OpenAI.html
It's a bit more friendly than that (according to TJ DeVries from the Neovim team). It's more like both teams bouncing ideas off of one another and inspiring each other. And that can result in one release or another just looking like implementing features from the other project.
Do you have a source on that? I'd like to know more about it.
Will be nice to also integrate various decentralised reddit clones to this so that people will slowly get weaned off the original (not to mention the discovery of the new ones and your own differentiation from other reddit frontends).
How many "whatabout the US" comments does an average China critical thread receive?
To say 0% of people suffer some undefined consequence is about as honest as saying 50% of people suffer some undefined consequence.

2 morons dont add up to make an intelligent person.
Well, regarding the color thing, I figured it was a taste thing, and mine might be outdated or something.

But I particularly like it when I open a new window, it appears on top of the old ones, it looks like it's accepting input (the cursor blinks) but when I type, nothing happens. I have to actually click inside it for it to actually gain actual focus.

I'm thinking in particular of new Edge windows.
It reminds me of a place I worked years ago that had their own unique and I would say simple tech and they did hire from the street. What was standing between you and that job was a rigorous two week U program. Daily classes taught a small group of prospects the ropes and at the end a small number of obvious people were hired. It was always pretty obvious. Some of the people hired were homemakers, blue collar workers, even a Cobol programmer.
> we didn't perform random calculations on their server, thus weren't a gambling site under IoM law.

Does it really matter if you get your random number from /dev/urandom or a server in Switzerland?
There must have been a moment when the total recorded output of the world surpassed the total time a person, a city, a country (have we reached that point yet?) could listen or consume all of them. I suspect we will reach a point where songs are played once only, never to be heard again.
Always so hyperbolic. The state border controls are for quarantine.

In states that have covid under control, that means filling out a form stating you're not sick. Rather sensible requirement during a pandemic

The banning of country exit visas is far far more controversial and doesn't have wide spread support. It seems okay as a sensible precaution at the start of the pandemic in order to ensure quarantine places were available for people who want to return to Australia. The fact that it's gone on so long without any real effort to find a better solution is poor government.

Border controls in Australia, are widely popular. Much like in the US.

The border controls will be removed once the country reaches a steady state of vaccination levels and things are as back to normal as they will get. All other controls have been removed immediately once they were no longer required.

This mass surveillance is far more concerning, and people constantly talking about temporary quarantine controls are muddying the waters of an important topic.
Suggesting that anything less than running speed is relatively safe tells me that you have zero clue about the types of injuries involved in either activity.

The vast majority of inline skating injuries are forearm (typically wrist) injuries. This is usually from falling and putting ones arm(s) out to break the fall. This happens every single day at driveway speeds - Inline skate injuries at high speed (faster than you can run) are comparatively rare.

This whole sub-thread reeks of toxic skateboarder machismo. I lived around it long enough to recognize it (heck, I used to do it too). Now I just laugh.
And if you use png, the image could even display as a regular one on imgur.
Does it support Live Share?
Do you know how Huggingface can pay their bills? How do you monetize an AI that everyone can freely download?
Well, the NFA wasn't deemed unconstitutional so it's clear that not all technological advances are considered equal in the eyes of the law.
Kotlin Conditional Statements and Expressions
In defense of whoever wrote the original code: it probably would have been reasonably fast if it had been a database query with proper indexes. The filters would have whittled the selection down to only the relevant data, whereas returning basically three entire tables of data to then throw away most of it would have been extremely inefficient.

The mistake of course was not thinking about why this approach is faster in a database query and that it doesn't work that way when you already need to get all the data out of LDAP to do anything with it.
On top of that, from outside, US election system does seem... Easily rigged.

If my country allowed to vote without a national ID, I'd not trust the outcome of such election at all.
Do you remember when the hired codebreakers for the war effort and they tested them with crosswords.
Google Takes Down a Quran App from Play Store in China Because It Is “Illegal”
I suspect your anger derives from the fact that this would not be possible to get away with now, in any way shape or form, only ten years later. And truly the world is way more locked down now than it was then when people were like, "Bitcoin? What's that? you want to pay me to write a legal brief?" so, yeah. I feel sorry for kids ten years younger than me.

When I did it, the only thing I was really afraid of was getting arrested if/when I stepped back on American soil. There was redundancy so I could run the whole thing in Costa Rica if I had to cold shutdown the IoM servers. And the coin was in private wallets, mostly on my laptop. But I was very concerned about breaking any laws, anywhere. I was the only one to implement ID verification and fully block American players.

Call it a hack or whatever, they wanted my business and I needed their servers, and I split up my code so it would be legal according to their laws. Not too different from what a lot of companies do.
People were very eager after the twin towers were bombed to also go against their principles when confronted with reality.

That there is a legacy to this choice should be known and considered for.
just tried and i think i like it.
Finding good fantasy mapping blogs is hard, I don't know too many, to anyone else interested in this Here Dragons Abound[0] is really good resource.

Any others people really like?

-[0]: https://heredragonsabound.blogspot.com/
I think they're trying to be a bit too clever, with vim being the retro part and "futuristic" being used to signify contemporary/modern/IDE-ish.

Not really how retrofuturism actually works, as that would imply that a part of the editor would be how people in the past imagined the future to be. Which would be an interesting concept, but I'm not aware of any kind of editing interface like that. Too menial for pop culture. Retro-futuristic image manipulation would be in Blade Runner, but text editing?

Maybe the Tron 2 quasi-Emacs ;)

https://www.robscanlon.com/encom-boardroom/

https://github.com/GitSquared/edex-ui
Given the UK quarantine period was reduced by the chief medical officers "After reviewing the evidence" to 10 days from 14 by the start of 2021, it probably didn't make a difference.
The Seven Lesson Schoolteacher
> There are two ends, but if one of the ends decides to forward the content to WhatsApp, then WhatsApp can read it.

Translation: there are two ends, but one of the ends can send it to yet another end. That sounds like there are more than two ends.
This is pretty ingenious.
I wonder what happens if you "host" illegal content in imgur with this?
It works like you would expect from 50 different manufacturers implementing a standard.

Kind of works most of the time. I mainly use my Nvidia Shield for most things, but if I touched the playstation controller the inputs would compete for a bit and flip back and forth.

Just try it out, most of your stuff likely has it (if they're not 15 years old). They're called a lot of different things in menus between brands though, so google it for yours.
The crux of the article:

The problem lay in the reason the error spread, which happens to be the same reason underlying innumerable other media shipwrecks in the last five years. These include everything from wrong reports of Russians hacking a Vermont energy grid, to tales of Michael Cohen in Prague, to the pee tape, to Julie Swetnick’s rape accusation, to the Covington high school fiasco, to Russian oligarchs co-signing a Deutsche Bank loan application for Donald Trump, to Bountygate, to the “mass hysterectomies” story, and dozens beyond: the media business has become a machine for generating error-ridden moral panics.

News has become a corporatized version of the “Two Minutes Hate,” in which the goal of every broadcast is an anxiety-ridden audience provoked to the point of fury by the un-policed infamy of whatever wreckers are said to be threatening civilization this week: the unvaccinated, insurrectionists, Assadists, Greens, Bernie Bros, Jill Stein, Russians, the promoters of “white supremacy culture,” etc. Mistakes are inevitable because this brand of media business isn’t about accuracy, but rallying audiences to addictive disgust. As a result, most press people now shrug off the odd error or six — look at Maddow leaving her tweet up — so long as they feel stories are directionally right, i.e. aimed at deserving targets.

I never thought this could happen, but people like Maddow, Reid, and the editors of the New York Times opinion page have taken over the role once occupied by Jerry Falwell’s Moral Majority. As a kid I tilted blue in my politics in significant part because I couldn’t stand (or understand) crusading moralists like Falwell, whose entire raison d'être was driving millions of followers to hate and fear people they not only seemed to know nothing about, but claimed they hoped never to meet: gays and lesbians, punk and rock musicians, rappers, comics who used naughty words, fantasy gamers, and scariest of all, goth teens who drew pentagrams on their Trapper-Keepers.

Falwell and his imitators mixed a conspicuously un-Christian unforgiving attitude with undisguised glee at the suffering of anyone they understood to have brought divine retribution upon themselves. Sound familiar? Remember the fundamentalist opinion on AIDS patients, that “if the homosexual community would stop doing what they are doing, they would stop getting what they are getting”? Then there was Falwell’s take on New York after 9/11, that “when we destroy 40 million little innocent babies, we make God mad,” and “the pagans and the abortionists and the feminists and the gays and the lesbians [and] the ACLU… I point the finger in their face and say ‘you helped this happen.’”