skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks! Macroexpanded:

Treasury reconsiders IRS’s use of ID.me face recognition for web - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30126118 - Jan 2022 (121 comments)

IRS Will Require Facial Recognition Scans to Access Your Taxes - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30011145 - Jan 2022 (20 comments)

IRS Will Soon Require Selfies for Online Access - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29996614 - Jan 2022 (428 comments)
people i know irl commented "oh nice are you buying weed?" when they saw i joined,
its really stupid for an app thats about privacy to do that.
Some EMMs are excited to leverage Expressive Bidding to quote more size with less risk. For example, I'll bid 200 shares of XYZ @ $10.00 XOR {1,000 shares ABC @ $9.99, -500 shares (beta hedge) DEF @ 19.98}.

Folks also plan on using Expressive Bidding to enter other business lines that high startup costs or low margin (ex ongoing technology costs) previously kept them out of.
If the locals associate with China’s leadership and you are against China’s leadership, then you are effectively against the locals…
Headline is misleading: this is a group calling itself “Grand Jury: The Court of Public Opinion”, not an actual grand jury.
I'm guessing they're a step up in complexity, but the Football Manager series might be up your alley. Especially starting in the lower leagues, there's going to be a similar dynamic, where your semi-pro team just isn't going to be able to win everything out of the gates.
Yeah but what's the comparative case that respects free speech more than the government?
That's more a quality of the "rogue lite" subgenre, no? Which I do personally prefer to the traditional kind. Though "fail but keep going" can go very wrong, in the case of something like FTL, where you can easily have "lost" by the end of the first or second area due to a bad roll, but still manage to limp all the way to the end (with no hope whatsoever of winning). An early "game over" would be preferable there to keep new players from wasting their time on doomed-in-the-first-15-minutes attempts that won't even be good for learning purposes (the way you have to play when you're already dead but don't know it yet and are just trying to maintain forward movement, is very different from what you do when you're on anything resembling the path to victory, in that game).
I'm a fan of eth / some blockchain projects, FileCoin, Chia and LivePeer to name a few. That said, I'm blown away how posers can really sit behind a project that's literally pictures of pixelated rats that sell to desperate poor people and claim theres a "group of wonderful people behind it"?

This is really getting old. Or maybe I'm just poor?
> the JVM needs to be well tuned

You don't need to tune it to beat the pants out of a PHP-based solution.

Honest question, have you ever owned a large-scale, low-latency service in both Java and PHP, and have you compared latency characteristics between both runtimes?
Did eating meat really make us human?
> Large statistical anomalies are measurable an entire year later.

Doubling of a very small number is not a "large statistical anomaly". Figure 5 shows that the difference is skewed strongly toward the hospitalized, and that the largest difference observed for the non-hospitalized cohort is measured at maybe 10 per 1,000 (1%) and most well-below that (single-digit difference per 1,000).

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-022-01689-3/figures/5
I did see that. That phrasing doesn't really tell us.
China is a country, not a race.
what are you trying to protect the kernel for if it only hosts in the single application? are you assuming that local root has some distinguished privilege outside this box?
More stocks are actually favorable over cash to avoid Medicare and SS taxes which are approximately 15%. To me, this seems like a strategy to counter the volatility in the stock market and it gives Amazon a way to exit equity based employee retention.
You may wish to look up the definition of genocide.

Genocide is about extinguishing an ethnic, racial, or religious group.

One way is to simply murder everyone that belongs to it. It is effective, but hard to do without consequences.

Another, perhaps more insidious way is to prevent that culture from propagating, thus destroying it in the long run. Tools you can use are involuntary birth control, displacement, and indoctrination. Which is what is happening in Xinjiang.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/dec/09/uyghurs-subjec...
I usually just say "I'd be interested, please feel free to make an intro and I'd be happy to take it from there. Thanks!"
Most of us don't even know that's happening, the news would rather report on Biden's new cat.

The idea that public prosecutors won't prosecute misdemeanors and stealing a bunch of stuff is a misdemeanor and so theft is essentially legal would sound mad to most - if we knew. But most people haven't updated on the American left going crazy over the last ten years and mostly just live in an old world where the left-aligned media was less openly partisan and more sane, professional and trustworthy.
The Passage of Polymarket
I meant temporary in the sense that police stopping you and asking for your ID is, for people with an ID, a temporary restriction of freedom. You can't just go saying you'll miss the bus. As such I think it's good that the police have to leave a paper trail.
I think adverse just means "not good" as one could also see neutral or even positive effects; one would say severe or serious (as in the text you quoted) as strength modifiers if applicable, but the word "adverse" shouldn't inherently make something sound strong or ever feel synonymous with "serious".
Show HN: Nerdy Valentine
Python's IDLE editor is much better now
People used to say all kinds of things about Python's native IDLE editor, but lately it has become a viable alternative for me to other editors like Notepad++.

At least on Windows, where you have no autocompletion when you launch Python inside a shell, it's a godsend.

IDLE got line numbers in Python 3.8, and with that change it became good enough for most quick scripts.

The editor itself is highly customisable, it has a debugger and primitive auto-completion of callables and global variables. You can make your own theme or just use IDLE Dark like a normal person :)

So, thank you for improving IDLE! I hope it gets tabs some day, but I know that would be hard to implement.
my wife has same issues with her apple watch and she is pretty active. she charges it constantly now
The bigger workstation class laptops mostly fulfill your needs, something like Thinkpad P15 or Dell Precision 3561 (or 7560) might work.
WWF shuts down its NFT project
Thanks! Macroexpanded:

Keeping the Pirates at Bay (2001) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9477374 - May 2015 (2 comments)

Keeping the Pirates at Bay – Copy and Crack Protection (2001) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8856371 - Jan 2015 (58 comments)

Keeping the Pirates at Bay (2001) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8807135 - Dec 2014 (10 comments)

Keeping the Pirates at Bay - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1156481 - Feb 2010 (48 comments)
If you take money out of the equation, how will you convince the generals to select/help enhance your project when you cannot offer them a half million dollar a year VP job at your software project when they retire? I'm not joking or being cynical, this is how DoD acquisition works: the revolving door from General to VP to civilian DoD manager to Senior VP for a defense contractor to whatever political appointment can be wrangled. I would LOVE to see OSS succeed at the five-sided puzzle palace but unless it's a civilian DoD contractor pushing it (and charging a boatload in the process) I'm just skeptical this will change much.
I was more responding to the claim that China has done nothing but focus internally. That said, I disagree and think that generally kinetic wars are over and that economic warfare can be quite serious too. China was able to lift hundreds of millions out of people out of poverty because of trade, one of the greatest achievements in our lifetimes to improve life. By that logic, the repression of economic achievement should also be of significant consequence if it drives people elsewhere into poverty.
The people that live on the peninsula are a problem. They should have run the high speed rail up the east side of the bay then under the bay to SF.
I'm fairly sure that medium is treated specially, along with github, twitter, substack, and a few others, in that subdomains are displayed for those platforms.

Certainly this list isn't complete, and just as surely the moderators are open to adding to that list as contenders enter the ring.
Every website thinks they are smarter than EU.

In reality fines are already being written, Facebook is seeing the writing on the wall and is already now (this surprised me a bit) pulling the desperate "we'll take our toys and go home" card, hoping EU won't call their bluff.

Let's be clear here: most of these informed consent banners are invalid.

The rules are something like:

- default is opt out

- if a choice must be presented opting out should be the easiest choice

Besides they almost all are trying to hide sneaky stuff behind the "legitimate interest” clause, but in that case you don’t need to ask and an opt out would be meaningless.
I wish meta dissapears from EU
Extremely sound and logical advice. Unfortunately, a person is usually in a state of depression or isn’t ready to accept this type of advice yet. They only get to this level of clarity after learning the hard way, which is then based on experience.
Why would countries bid to help boost the economy of Greece?
What a great question and what an excellent answer. Thank you!
Where did I advocate for advertising or PR campaigns?

There is very little funding of behavioral science research compared to pharmacological.
> Every scientific community has an obligation to ensure that the papers they publish and advocate actually mean what they say they mean. If nothing else, because not doing that ultimately tarnishes the brand and undermines the trustworthiness of that community.

And in the end of science as a whole.
But people do do stuff. At the very least, every day the company is changed in some small way by employees innovating. One share of apple is not the same thing it was ten years ago because apple is not the same thing.

BTC on the other hand is not a productive asset. It’s value cannot change by the underlying thing changing. Instead it’s value can only change in regards to how much people want it.
> Very cool market. This feels a lot like multi-leg option execution.

Thanks! And yep, similar but all the way down to the venue/match level, e.g. as opposed to a broker taking on some legging risk to shield the end investor.

> How do you think market makers are going to react to this?
Expanding on Kelly's take - the big thing it does for market makers is allow them to manage momentary risk. When a market maker gets filled on an exchange, they are immediately looking to hedge/offload what they took on which involves a sequence of transactions.

Here, the hedge is baked in. So for example, they may enter an order that looks like "buy and/or sell any mix of these 200 securities, if and only if the net change in risk (e.g. change in exposure across several factors) is within some tolerable distance from 0". So that would look like a traditional bid-ask spread across a series of symbols, but with a global exposure constraint. The key outcome being they can quote larger sizes across symbols safely.

NB: the MM doesn't need to know anything about the composition of the complex order on the other side. On top of that, they may be filling one leg, and a natural or other LP filling another etc..
The fact that laws prevent people from doing things that would cause them harm is a feature, not a bug.

The accreditation requirements are not absurdly stringent (eg $200k annual income). I think there’s a clear argument that people who do not meet those requirements can neither accurately judge the risk of their prospective investments nor afford to lose their investment (high likelihood). The current crypto markets are perfectly bearing this line of thinking out.

Retail investors are free to invest in public companies where there are significantly more fraud protections in place.
The manner in which you call something out matters. If I make a poster calling out terrorism and depict an arab athlete throwing a bomb at the viewer then I think it would be pretty counterproductive and, yes, racist.
Please don't park any money behind this narrative unless it's literally money you'd burn in a campfire for just as much amusement.

There is zero chance of GME of all places becoming some sort of market for NTF game cosmetics. None of that blather matters if you don't have a user base, and there's no way GME is going to get one.

Why would Epic, Valve, etc go along with GME's scheme? If they want to offer unique to a single player items they can do so essentially trivially with their existing platform. They don't need to partner with anyone, just put a dev team or two on it for a short bit. They certainly don't need to partner with anyone like GME, let alone a bunch of shady cryptocoin operations running out of tax havens.

Basically no one cares about this utopia you're imagining to start with, and even if they did, there's no pathway to create it in the form of GME.
Dan's writing is some of the best I've seen.
James Webb Space Telescope imaged from backyard telescope
Snowden is charged with theft, not treason. He knew that his actions would result in a closed-door trial without the possibility of a public interest defense. He signed a large stack of non-disclosure agreements that spelled out the consequences.

Whatever the perception may have been after 2013, it still is an open question as to Snowden's intent. His first stop in HK, along with his disclosure of US cyber activities against Chinese servers, indicated possible intent to defect to an adversarial state. His next stop was to Moscow, after he may have visited Russian handlers while still in HK. His Moscow voyage did occur a day after his passport was cancelled. He was almost certainly advised, via Assange's camp, that Russia would be a suitable destination. This almost certainly factored into his decision to seek a flight that stopped in Moscow. At best, this was likely a fall-back strategy as it was clear to him and his supporters that hiding in a South American country would not provide the same degree of protection afforded by Russia.

It is difficult to take Snowden's word on his account regarding motivations and (supposed lack of) conspirations. His actions took place during the Magnitsky debacle, including his initial contact to Greenwald.

(redacted)

Look at his agenda now. He speaks as if he's on USA's side. Yet he admits he no longer represents the USA, speaks out against the USA, and chooses to avoid facing justice. Defection is not a difficult working conclusion to reach at this point, possibly pre-meditated. He certainly had the opsec to cover his tracks while still stateside, having been trained by the CIA.

Snowden, you were silent when Putin declared war on Ukraine in 2014 by annexing Crimea, and you are voicing support for the Kremlin. From my point of view, you are, at this point, a defector to the Russian Federation. You will cowardly avoid facing justice. Your actions have had vast and largely immeasurable consequences to the detriment of western national security -- all of which will be revealed behind closed doors if you choose to return and face the charges against you.
The UN defines genocide as:
(a) Killing members of the group;
(b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;
(c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;
(d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;
(e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.

Killing members of a group is not necessary for something to be genocide. I realize the legal meaning of genocide is different than how some people generally use the word, but I don't think your objection holds up to scrutiny.

https://www.un.org/en/genocideprevention/documents/atrocity-...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genocide_Convention#Definition...
There’s something deeply unsettling to me about art like this, as if one of the hidden layers is “colonoscopy”
A hash function aims to replicate the properties of a truly random function.

The probability that a random function does _not_ output 0 given some specific input block is (1 - 1/2^n). Taking each of the possible 2^b input values into account this means that 0 is not an output for any input with probability (1 - 1/2^n)^(2^b) ~ e^(-2^(b-n)).

For SHA-256 with n = 256 and b = 512 (one can treat the compression function as a 768 to 256 bit random function, but we can stick to the worst-case single-block message case here) we have that the probability of 0 _being_ an output for a single-block message is 1-e^(-256) which effectively means it exists, but the probability never quite reaches 1.
> locks people out of some of the best ways to create wealth unless they’re already rich

im sorry what? investing in startups is one of the best way to create wealth? you have a source that talks about average and median returns on investments across all startups?
One of the ones who gets it.
Sure, when it is convenient for their pocket lines.
Coriolis will actually effect a long range projectile, but not by much.. (basically the earth spinning under a bullet with a sufficiently high arc).
https://web.archive.org/web/20101215174952/http://www.ppl-pi...
Easy, the answer is right here: https://developers.login.gov/overview

Login.gov is a fine authentication service, but cannot deliver the identity assurance level (IAL-2) required to identify people. (It may not be able to deliver AAL-2 authentication soon either as standard evolve.) Uploading a picture of your drivers license is not a meaningful validation of your identity.

The reaction of the Senators here is the equivalent of “I’m shocked to hear there is gambling happening here”. Typical pandering. Literally every drivers license and ID in the country is running through a biometric identity provider run by a contractor to identity duplicate licenses. Many DMVs outsource credential production to a third party.

I don’t think ID.me is the best solution, but it is better than providing a trivially stolen number “what was your AGI last year” that facilitates billions of dollars of fraud annually.
Past MAMEage:

Build you own SGI Indy workstation with MAME - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28127607 - Aug 2021 (21 comments)

A guide to running IRIX 6.5.22 in MAME - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25716625 - Jan 2021 (8 comments)

Real VT102 Emulation with MAME - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23662907 - June 2020 (30 comments)

MAME devs are cracking open arcade chips to get around DRM - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14854013 - July 2017 (4 comments)

MAME is now Free and Open Source Software - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11226131 - March 2016 (91 comments)

MAME and the New Emulation Reality - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9608945 - May 2015 (46 comments)

MAME is going completely open-source to be a 'learning tool for developers' - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9553940 - May 2015 (65 comments)

MAME 0.151 ROMs - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6974938 - Dec 2013 (46 comments)

Full MAME emulator for non-jailbroken iOS - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5198002 - Feb 2013 (28 comments)

The Day MAME Saved My Ass - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1996885 - Dec 2010 (44 comments)
I tried to add "self-proclaimed" to it but updating seems to fail.

Update: resumbission with new title seems to be the way to go. Link:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30252507
I have been using a Pax 2 for a few years which has stood me in good stead. Very occasionally I'll have some water-filtered smoke but not often. The interesting thing about the vape to me was that, while it was a distinct improvement from the get-go, at first I really missed the full flavor and 'bite' (into my lungs, yes) so I wound up consuming more. Eventually I brought the consumption back down some but I'm still at more like 60g a month.

I also found another challenge specific to dry-herb vapes: the chamber ('oven') holds a lot, and I didn't enjoy saving half for later since when you started it back up it naturally wasn't anywhere near as fresh-tasting. I tried decreasing the effective size of the oven but with middling results. I almost bought a Tinymight [0] which are supposed to be good for very small amounts but I foresaw just loading its tiny chamber multiple times :D

Thank you!

[0] https://tinymightvape.com/
Didn't think I'd see the crux I use to get through each day on HNews! Can strongly recommend this vape too - Fast to heat up, long battery life, does the job.
Usage intended as per https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/principle
Kinetic wars are over? I guess that event in Afghanistan was a 20 year picnic then?
Ugh I've been trying to call the IRS all year to verify my identity for tax returns, never can get through. Every time I try to through the old IRS login they think I live at an old address and send verification mail there. I tried the biometric thing but it also failed I suspect because of address issues.Yet IRS knows my current address and sends me letters here warning me that me tried to sign up for id.me
Despite being uninterested in Capa, much less what stories he might have told, I was fascinated by the process described by the author to try to figure out what really happened. It was like a write up of diagnosing a tricky bug from logs and core dumps, or of tracking an intruder or other computer security issue.
But a phone number isn't supposed to be secret, it's supposed to be given to people to contact them. I don't see the nefarious use here. Can they determine I'm a Signal user? Sure, but they can get that from IP address, App/Play Store installs, etc.
You can't. Every engineering choice is a compromise. I don't know why everyone assumes that these choices are always malevolent. I guess you can just not use it? Lots of us use it everyday without issues. If you want something that suits all your needs there are PLENTY of libraries out there for you to throw together your own adhoc distributed encrypted messenger. I have done it a couple of times myself just for fun.