skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
McKinsey has a rather generalist and reader friendly take on it that won't break any laws:
If you look at their Exhibit 1, "Sanctions" is clearly a contributor to high risk in AML/CFT models. As your link showed, the Entity List is one of the first sanctions list created with CFT in mind.

Source: https://www.mckinsey.com/business-functions/risk-and-resilie...
Truck thefts are tipped off by workers in the logistics chain that have access to the bill of lading.

It isn't particularly sophisticated or uncommon. They look at the shipping paperwork and see "Sony", "EVGA", "Nike", etc. and text the container number to their friends.

Normally insurance deals with this and the public never hears about it. This is extremely odd to issue a public announcement.
I work for Esri and it's great. (we do GIS -- geospatial information systems. Our customers include all 50 (US) state governments, like half the Fortune 500s, most national governments...) Virtually everyone has an office, no open office nonsense. There's no pressure to be a 10x developer or whatever, you just do your job. Nobody gets let go for being a mediocre developer. Everyone's hourly, so if you want to work 40 hours a week and go home, that's fine, or if you want to work 60 hours a week and get 50% more money that's fine too. It is, for the most part, a very chill, relaxed work environment.

The owner is a good person. Big into environmental activism. The big company conference is mostly about all environmental conservation (also we added new features to our product). It's weird to work for a big company and get an e-mail from Jane Goodall at Christmas thanking us for the work we do.

The money isn't great though, that's the biggest downside. But personally the money isn't that important to me.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esri

https://www.esri.com/jobs
I saw so many California license plates in SE Asia.
On the other hand, maybe GA can help with differential forms. Differential forms involves exterior algebra, and I feel like some aspects of exterior algebra are elaborated upon in an insightful way by GA. For instance, the grade-2 elements of an Exterior Algebra can be understood as angular velocities in many circumstances. In GA, this is captured by the exponential map that sends grade-2 elements to rotors. I don't know if this can be helpful for teaching purposes.
I call this a dick move on EVGA's side, mainly harming consumers. I'm pretty certain they have insurance for incidents of this kind (theft), limiting the financial impact for them.
I happened to come across this project yesterday on reddit [1] and have spent the last day dreaming of building one. The quality of the documentation and activity on Discord is a big plus. First I need to build a super strong table for it to go on...

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/engineering/comments/qkn996/almost_...
>In the US that bandwidth is from conservative to very conservative. The democrats are a right wing party.

Nonsense.

Those (both American leftists, and Europeans who listen to them) who say that "Democrats in the US would be right wing in Europe/Canada" have to (for example) then agree that all major political parties in Canada and every European country outside the UK and Ireland are right of US Democrats, because there is no significant opposition to voter ID laws anywhere. Macron's Les Republicains got elected because voters liked his vow to get tough on unions and union pensions, and privatize more infrastructure, neither of which appears in Biden's campaign platform.

Speaking of which, several European countries have privatized post offices; not just telecom companies that were parts of PTTs, but entire postal services. It is the rare European country that hasn't sold off at least part of their postal services. The EU explicitly requires postal monopolies to end in member states; whether government-owned or not, EU postal services do not have the USPS's monopoly on first-class mail. Yet no major party in the US seriously talks about privatizing the USPS.[1] Does this mean that American politics is "far to the left" of that of Germany and the UK, both of which have completely sold off their postal services to private investors?

PS - For another example, consider the liberality of abortion laws in the US versus Europe.

[1] And no, it's not because of the Constitution. Article I Section 8 only gives Congress the authority "To establish Post Offices", as opposed to requiring a government-run one. Certainly nothing in the Constitution mandates the USPS's first-class mail monopoly.
> Setting up a mining farm with hundreds of free stolen GPUs isn't easy or cheap at all.

Still significantly cheaper than setting up a mining farm with hundreds of legally obtained GPUs.
This entire post seems pretty unnecessary. Not honoring warranty for products bought from unauthorized retailers is pretty standard in the industry. People buying graphics cards from the back of someone's truck or an eBay scalper are well aware of that. And are they implying they will take legal action if you buy one of these cards? Not like they weren't insured anyways.
That's primarily an argument to rotate keys quicker - computers don't care that they have to remember new passwords all the time (which is the main argument against password change requirements: it encourages bad practices from users), so you can do schemes like OAuth2's Refresh Tokens. (and even slow-ish rotation helps with keys forgotten in random places)
These GPUs will be resold without a doubt. Moving pallets of GPUs and setting up a mining operation somewhere will be quickly noticed. Much better to sell these at markup on Craigslist.
A lot of the crypto world is "morally dubious", let's say. To play in many of those sectors you mention you must be ready to live in very grey areas of the law, or even right outside of it.
But there are roads headed out of California
I note that section 1.6 is "Comply with all industry security standards relevant to your business such as PCI DSS, HITRUST, ISO27001, and SSAE 18".

That looks larger than all the other requirements.
The more apt comparison is probably gambling or the financial sector making money from speculation on obscure financial instruments and my guess would be people on HN are negative about it for the same reason most people in general are negative about these things. It doesn't have anything to do with innovation, it's just meta-gaming obscure markets so the nouveau riche can buy themselves sportscars.

I mean you said it yourself, not particularly bright people get filthy rich, why would actually bright people think that's cool
Does USA has laws about candidates publishing their spending?

It looks like USA does not has laws to force candidates about his political party. I couldn't identify it from the candidate propaganda.
I have family in Maine and have spent alot of time there recently. The voters up there are schizophrenic. Very little makes any sense. A high tax state, high cost of living that is 1/2 retirees from southern new england, 1/2 dirt poor people. They vote against anything that would improve their economic conditions. It's like Alaska and Florida combined without oil or sun.
Thanks for the explanation. I've been programming for many years, and your examples make total sense to me, but reading sentences like "Control flow analysis for destructured discriminated unions" make me feel like a total impostor
As a developer: Transloadit. Profitable. No investors looking to twist arms to make short term gains. Founders are in it for the long haul and developers so there’s appreciation and time made available to refactor and write tests. Small team, large footprint. Remote. Open. 80% of resources are spent on open source. Disclosure: founder.
No.

There has been massive interest in modernizing these systems.

It’s the beliefs and attitudes of leadership that cause well intentioned engineers who are willing to take a lower salary to leave
That's at least epsilon better than constantly letting the next big customer decide.
Are you serious? Japan has THE HIGHEST life expectancy in the world! And America is ranked 34. Maybe your source isn't very honest, if they failed to point this out?

https://www.worldlifeexpectancy.com/japan-life-expectancy
> That "maths refresher" was the entire Further Maths 'A' level syllabus. In two weeks. Those of us who had done Further Maths at school were fine. Those that hadn't were shell-shocked.

Heh, that reminds me of my first physics course in an under-graduate computing degree (in Romania). The curriculum was so well designed overall that this Physics course needed linear algebra concepts that would be taught halfway-through the semester in Algebra, integration along a surface and similar that would be taught at a similar in the Calculus course, and some Statistics I don't remember that would be only be taught in the second semester.

The prof's solution? He taught a 3-hour course covering all of the above, and considered that good enough for all future courses. This particular Physics course later went on to cover analytical mechanics (generalized coordinates, Lagrangians, Hamiltonians), electricity, general relativity, statistical thermodynamics, and quantum mechanics, all in a single semester.

Needless to say, 99% were happy they passed and couldn't tell you a single thing about any of these subjects a few minutes after the final exam.
I'm having trouble finding the data density. How many lbs of film/GB?
Microwaves were in classrooms.
yes of course that is true, but Andy is pretty vocal about encouraging people to iterate quickly now because there is a desire to keep semver, at least it's not an afterthought.
Decades later, we’re still hearing “crypto is a bubble.” I’m still waiting for that to be true.
I’m sorry there’s demand for popular hardware. That’s how markets work.
Green dot / prepaid gift cards used to be (and still are) accepted as payment for many of these scams. This isn’t a crypto problem.
The environmental claims are all FUD. None of them hold up to the slightest scrutiny.
Getting scammed sucks, but that’s a social problem, not a crypto problem.
I mean, is there really any risk of that anymore? Equifax had already seen to it that basically every adult in America's personal information is out there.
An Introduction to Render Farms for CGI
Google is amazing.
is this website real? (nytimes.blog) it is registered on namecheap, hosted behind cloudflare, whois doesn't match nytimes.com, is running wordpress with an off-the-shelf theme, etc
Didn't know, thanks!
> gun deaths

That's a meaningless stat. The point of my Chicago stat is that vast majority of the shootings are coming from gang members. A gang member shooting another gang member isn't a relevant stat. And shootings in self defence is one of the purposes of owning a gun (though not what the 2A is only for).

That's like saying my daughter would be safer to live in my home country India where she may not get shot but she may get raped late at night. Or like saying Afghanistan is safer somehow?

Estimated 800,000 to 2.45 million defensive uses of firearms per year in 1993 national survey.

https://www.cga.ct.gov/PS94/rpt/olr/htm/94-R-0798.htm

Another 2008 study by National Academy of Sciences showed 500,000 to more than 3 million "Defensive Use of Guns". Simply having the gun on your or brandishing it prevented crimes from happening. This was in 2008. That numbers is even higher now.

Source:

https://www.nap.edu/read/18319/chapter/3

Page 15 of the study talks about the defensive use part. You can download the PDF by using the "guest" option and entering any random email (doesn't have to be real). Another related source:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/paulhsieh/2018/04/30/that-time-...

> "Almost all national survey estimates indicate that defensive gun uses by victims are at least as common as offensive uses by criminals, with estimates of annual uses ranging from about 500,000 to more than 3 million, in the context of about 300,000 violent crimes involving firearms in 2008."

> "In 1996, 1997, and 1998, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) conducted large-scale surveys asking about defensive gun use (DGU) in four to six states. Analysis of the raw data allows the estimation of the prevalence of DGU for those areas. Estimates based on CDC’s surveys confirm estimates for the same sets of states based on data from the 1993 National Self-Defense Survey (Kleck and Gertz 1995). Extrapolated to the U.S. as a whole CDC’s survey data imply that defensive uses of guns by crime victims are far more common than offensive uses by criminals. CDC has never reported these results."

> "One CDC official in the 1990s openly told the Washington Post that his goal was to create a public perception of gun ownership as something “dirty, deadly — and banned.” Given that history, I can’t dismiss Kleck’s critique."

How do you propose these people - wives/daughters/elderly/handicapped/living close to cartels/over 800K-3 million defensive uses should defend themselves?

Also, U.S. has world’s highest rate of children living in single-parent households, something which is well known for kids to grow up into criminals:

https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2019/12/12/u-s-childre...
I disagree. Theft like this doesn’t benefit anyone other than thieves. They should be doing everything in their power to recover the cards and ensure the thieves are caught.

I don’t want to buy stolen goods from a thief.
I do remember Obama talking about losing jobs in health care. With that kind of logic, we'd never have allowed cars because the horse and carriage industries would lose jobs.

I'm not unsympathetic to those who would lose jobs from changes in the industry. Here's my thought: if government action that disrupts an industry then that action should be done piecemeal over several years to allow a softer transition.
OTOH to do otherwise would send a message that it's open season to steal their inventory.
What changes are you expecting?
You and me both buddy, you and me.
should specify: BOM support is through a 3rd party package, of course, but it's quite good
> at no time will it produce "dividends" in fiat currency, or physical objects like cell phones

Why it has to be physical? One could use cryptocurrencies to pay for virtual things on virtual internet, which are nevertheless thought to be meaningful.

Like, fiat currencies exist as a way of paying taxes to your government and also you can exchange them for goods and services.
Surgical masks are cloth masks.
I'm not sure how you think a distributed data processing technology would "fake-out" other companies when building/choosing database technology. They are totally different problem sets.

MapReduce does not have a set in stone data source/sink and can use multiple things like bigtable and spanner so they are complementary technologies.
I guess Quebec hasn't heard, they are now allowed to advertise a position on US ballot initiatives.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/11/02/foreign-m...
The thieves who stole the trailer truck stand to make quite a bit of money.

The internal storage space of a large trailer truck is ~50ft long × ~8ft wide × ~9ft high, give or take.

The box containing each RTX 30xx card is at most ~1ft × ~0.5ft × ~0.5ft, give or take.

Assuming the stolen trailer truck could be packed end-to-end and floor-to-ceiling with cards, there could have been up to (50÷1.0)×(8÷0.5)×(9÷0.5) = 14,400 cards inside the trailer. That's the upper limit on how many cards were stolen.

EVGA RTX 30xx cards retail between $1000 and $3000 each, depending on the model.

Even if I'm off by a factor of 10× on the number of cards, we're talking about a fortune.
It’s not even related. No one was running OLTP workloads as MapReduce jobs at any point.
Coming from many years in common lisp, I often wonder this. With things like coffeescript I felt the syntax didn't add much, but you've got the chance to do something great...add macros!! Rust is a good example of grafting macros onto an existing language, and the JS syntax is even simpler than rust, so why has nobody done it in any of the compile-to-JS languages?

Seems like a waste of an opportunity.
China's economy is showing signs of stagflation, economists warn
It doesn't matter if they have insurance. Someone has to pay for it which ends up being a tax on everyone.
The Republican party, much like the Democratic party, is a wide tent with many people. Local races involve a lot more complicated characters. You'd run as Republican because they're the default alternative choice in a lot of places. Or you could lose and say its on principle I guess.
Curious, I Googled a bit, but can't find a definitive source. It is true that most politicians are local. Here is an infographic that shows 96% are local:

https://poliengine.com/blog/how-many-politicians-are-there-i...
Are you trying to tell me here? That was no stagflation in the 70s and the only problems were in '73 and '79 and we can pretend the rest of the decade never happened?
Heating season has begun in the north. The cost per kwh needs to be reduced by the equivalent cost to heat.
I register all my EVGA purchases specifically because they have very good warranty + customer service, and they have a great trade-in program for registered hardware.
Yes, there's really a ton of submissions [1]. It looks like the author's prose and topics really resonated with the HN crowd.

[1]: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
I’ve been following the “you’re wrong about” podcast, the whole premise is to look back at past well known events mostly based on what was published at the time.

It’s fascinating how much the mainstream narrative deviates from “the facts” even with them available to anyone who cares to check.

[0] https://yourewrongabout.buzzsprout.com/
If anything, localities voting out incumbents is an example that the US is anything but totalitarian.

I wish people would actually do some reading before spouting BS on anonymous online forums.
What obviously comes to mind is Jonesforth because it's a very well thought out and famous example of literate programming:

https://github.com/nornagon/jonesforth/blob/master/jonesfort...

That said, I dont see the parallel with the Pulitzer... it's for investigative journalism no? Maybe there is a jupyter notebook somewhere that really combines data analysis with journalistic analysis, although I've never seen, and don't really believe in, journalism that relies on any deep data analysis.
Seems fine to me. I already have nuclear irradiated genes, I'm sterile, and I prefer nature for company over human beings.

(If you were sarcastically implying that no one would volunteer, you are mistaken. I encourage making your point more clearly and with less sarcasm, since a worthwhile discussion is possible if you do so.)
The favorite game of North Koreans. Doesn't work well though.
Pro-Taiwan ROBLOXer breaks through Great Firewall to connect with China players
EVGA has reportedly great warranty support so it's worth it, especially considering it's a purchase that's usually $500+.
Just to express the parent more bluntly, this CNC project is junk. I've seen stronger window frames than this.

I wouldn't even expect to cut several pieces of wood with this toy CNC machine.

It's like something you'd cobble together in a WW2 prison camp behind enemy lines.
Note that, in case of a representative democracy, it's actually "more than half of the voters can pick a person who is right more than half the time".

And I'm not so sure that it's the case when information required to make the choice is lacking, and agitprop is substituted instead.
You got that from a campaign ad? Wow, you’re easily swayed.
There are very few companies (and sometimes few teams in large companies) who are driven to actually produce something better.

Typically, these companies are startups/midsize pre-ipo companies that are determined to reach somewhere. Until the product(s) are well established, the engineering there is highly regarded - but often loaded with tech debt.

Once the product is well established, it becomes a game of meetings where everyone just looks after their own self.
I believe HydroQuebec put in more money than anyone for this referendum.
The thing is, how much are they really cutting for transmission line poles? Their footprint is probably really small, inconsequential, really. It's not like they're building a highway :-)
How would it be a thing? You don't even need a network card, much less a network connection, to use a GPU. I guess they could manufacture these in a way that requires online activation of the firmware, but that would be a big step in the wrong direction of consumer rights.
Reaganland by Rick Perlstein covers this in exquisite detail.
Shhhh.... (By the way that's also the first thought that popped to me, i reckon some hardware do have this 'feature', especially in the enterprise space)
I'm sorry / cheers :)
> It isn't particularly sophisticated or uncommon.

No, but it requires an established closeness to such networks, which is typical of organised or semi-organised crime rather than random bozos.
Disable mining on them!

Note: I'm just kidding.
They can demand all they want. They would need the police to charge you with felony receiving of stolen property, which means the card needs to be valued at over $950 and they have to be able to prove you knew it was stolen.

I've dealt with this plenty of times with stolen employee laptops that get resold on craigslist. If the buyer purchased it in good faith, and the asset is replaceable, you aren't getting it back.
yeah, i definitely think your point stands

the only place i know of where you can (easily) report an issue with a specific package is https://github.com/joyent/pkgsrc/issues
This isn't a complaint, it's a suggestion. Would be cool if I could just run it in my browser like https://www.2600online.com/
Decades later and I’m still waiting for a use case for crypto. I’ve yet to see a legal use case other than “number go up”. If something has no actual use case and still continues to rise in price, then that seems like a bubble to me.

> The environmental claims are all FUD.

This is hilariously unpersuasive. Not even a hint of an argument, just “please ignore the TWh behind the curtain”.
I got an Avaya Huddle Cam, like the kind in many large enterprise conference rooms for $200 off amazon, its plug and play and has all sorts of zoom and pan features, HDMI output, stereo microphones and is 4K and because its Avaya, and regular folks dont seem to know about them, they're not really more overpriced then normal because of the pandemic or shipping. Also got a $35 Monoprice branded usb microphone does quite admirably. My co-workers have complimented me that it sounds very clear. The best part is that they are all plug and play and work on Linux/Windows/Mac with no additional downloads or drivers.
Funny that you would mention that in a thread on a statically-typed language based on Lua. Don't you need some insane mechanism to be flexible at runtime anyways? Either it will be reflection, or something like prototypes (in OO languages).
This isn't Tesla we're talking about, Waymo has a large testing facility where they do exactly that sort of thing. Here's an indepth report on it from 4 years ago https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/08/insid...
Most of the time the voters are given no choice or a couple bad choices. For example, I liked Bernie for his ambition to reform healthcare, but of course that was bundled with anti 2A rhetoric.

It would be interesting if candidates had to declare their intents in a formal way, just like a phone app has to formally request access to mic and cam, and if they are elected, they'd have to stay within the bounds they'd requested. So a guy who wanted to reform healthcare wouldn't be able to change his mind later and start reforming education.