skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is one of the areas where I've hyperfocused for years.

A straw purchase is when a gun is purchased on behalf of someone else. The person buying the gun isn't using their own money, or the person they're giving it to has traded them something of value.

A gift doesn't involve an exchange of reciprocal value. In other words, I can legally take you into a gun store, let you shop, buy the gun for you, then hand it to you. In practice, a gift purchase is almost always when the recipient isn't there, because it looks like a straw purchase.

Ironically, if you take someone shopping to buy them a gun as a gift, by law you're the one that's supposed to have the background check run - not the recipient. Almost all FFLs will deny the sale if you tell them that you're buying it as a gift for someone who is present at the time, and there is no easy and legal way to run a background check on the intended recipient.

If memory serves, a cop was convicted a few years ago of a straw purchase after buying a "blue label" (police discount price) Glock for someone else. That person gave the cop the money, the cop bought it, then gave it to the person. The actual buyer in that case was not a prohibited person, and the straw purchase itself was the only crime committed.
What message are we sending if you merely have to pay a fine for cheating on ethics exams but you still get to keep doing business?
Lots and lots of "average" jobs have FAR less than 40 hours of actual work, but are still 100% positions. This obviously also depends on the individual doing the work - some work very efficiently, while others can be very slow.

People then get the idea that they can juggle two jobs like that - but the trouble is usually not the work itself, but conflicting meetings and such.
Macroeconomics and financial economics textbooks. There's a lot of terrible information out there and tons of conspiracy theories.

As far as websites, honestly I'd say Bloomberg. Or follow some bank economists on Twitter (I find they're the most honest as banks are motivated primarily by being correct as opposed to motivated by politics).
Congrats on GA! I'd add to the pros that these edge runtime are a lot more standards-compliant than Node too.

Users do get conufused about the CPU quota thing. They compare the 10ms or so that you get with edge functions, vs 10 seconds on lambda and think it's loads worse, without realising they're comparing apples and oranges. Both Cloudflare and Deno Deploy are limiting CPU time, whereas Lambdas are limited on wall clock time. I've had no trouble keeping long-running Deno Deploy functions running for far longer than a Lambda could run, e.g. when using Server-Sent Events or passing-through a large file download. As long as they're blocking on IO rather than CPU then you're fine. As long as you're not doing something like trying to process images, you're much more likely to hit a 10s lambda timeout than a 10ms CLoudflare or Deno limit.
Even young America has this issue: Appalachian, the dialects in Newfoundland, island pidgins, Cajun are all diminishing.
> As a gun owner, sure there is. If your gun shows up in a crime, you get indicted as well. That would put a big dent in people being willing to buy guns for others.

Buying a gun "for" someone else is a very gray area. For example, if I bought a gun and ten years later sold it to some guy who committed a crime, should I be indicted? Was this a straw purchase with a looooong time window? Or if I truly did buy a gun for someone else (as in, purchased and delivered the same day) and he waits ten years to commit a crime, was this also a true straw purchase? How can you tell?
A bit on the pricey side but Will Wright's MasterClass is a great source. No fine math in it, but it's surprising how much complexity you can get from abstractions.

There's talk among game devs about cellular automata in SimCity, which I never understood for years until I saw the masterclass. But what that really meant was that a tile would affect only the neighboring tiles, for example traffic and jobs.

Paul Krugman also has an economics MasterClass, which covers trade and geographical economics. Also in simplified terms that someone who did high school math should be able to grasp intuitively.
I barely studied for tests and still remembered the questions, the grades I got from them are still there. It is very hard to fake that sort of thing for yourself, everyone knows roughly how well their memory serves them during tests in school. If you had to study a lot then you know your memory is shit, so rationally you shouldn't believe anything you recall.

Edit:

> Do you ever sometimes have mistaken beliefs?

I remember the sources of my beliefs. Sometimes I have mistaken beliefs since the sources were wrong or fuzzy, like my parents told me something that I then believed, but then I learned that my parents were wrong. This makes it very easy to correct mistaken beliefs, since you just go back to the sources and verify and re evaluate the information against the new disagreeing information.

Remembering the sources of what you know isn't that much extra information, so it isn't particularly hard to do, but it helps a lot keeping yourself more rational.
> if California would stay in California, that would be great

Then you wouldn't have most of the IT industry and especially FOSS.
Unfortunately based on their numbers, it’s a lot of men
Very well put! Although I didn't know it when banging my teenage head against assembler, throughout my long career in tech I found the combination of tenacity, humility and "down to the metal" sense of how computers work served me very well.
Cerebral leaked documents show hundreds of patients were harmed
I wonder if the card companies themselves would be happy with those rules. I don't think it's a grand conspiracy. I think they are just looking at the business and realizing that the amount of money to be made from it (especially with chargebacks) is very small compared to the potential lawsuits/headlines of facilitating child pornography and as a result have been conservative.

If they were forced to allow it then it would give them cover and also their competitors would be as well - so there'd be no competitive disadvantage.
That money's not gone, it's simply moved from suckers and rubes upwards.
I really disagree. Walmart is fine and healthy food is cheaper than unhealthy. Walmart sell carrots and potatos too. Way better than my supermarkets at home.

The main problem is people on a poor diet buying expensive premade stuff with alot of fat and sugar in it.

A policy problem I have noticed however is pizza and hamburgers with soda as every day meals in the school cafeteria, as a choice for the pupils. That is just insane from a health perspective.
Not sure why he omits this, but the author's name is Ariel Sabar and his father is Yona Sabar who is the one of the most influential scholars in the preservation of Aramaic.

I would highly recommend Ariel's book, My Father's Paradise. It documents the life of his father being born into the poor and uneducated, but happy, Jewish community of Kurdish Iraq, being stripped of his property and exiled by the Iraqi government as part of the Jewish exodus in the 50s, and going from a refugee to a PHD in Linguistics from Yale.
FTC Sues Walmart for Facilitating Money Transfer Fraud
>they would make the behavior in my questions a felony.

They would also stop of lot of existing homicides, which are also felonies already being committed. Your cases are honestly quite contrived and rare, especially against the number of homicides and other crimes using straw purchases.

I think most people would trade common case homicides for rarer cases you pick. The stats are pretty clear on which cases are most common. That is why the support for such laws is so widespread and bipartisan.
.. a traditional LAMP stack is not in any way comparable to what Vercel (and other similar services) offer.

We don't use Vercel either for it is slower and offers less functionality than competitors but comparing the general concept to a LAMP stack is definitely not valid.
I like cel animation style of the Curse of Monkey Island the most

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfAo3O2qZR0
> A straw purchase is when a gun is bought for someone who is not allowed to own one

Nope - it doesn't matter whether or not the actual buyer can legally purchase or possess it. A straw purchase is a crime regardless.

> You should take a few steps to make sure the buyer is legit.

Morally, yes. Practically, no.

You're only committing a crime if you know or should reasonably know the person you're selling to is prohibited. You have no legal duty to ask, and asking only proves that you considered the possibility, and could be construed as evidence that you were suspicious.
Do we need to store energy seasonally to make big strides in increasing the share of solar and wind on the grid? Or only daily/weekly?
These days, you could replicate it to something like S3 via something like Lifestream.
I think that's a more realistic possibility. That you have an actual software engineer with tech knowledge doing old fashioned social engineering and doesn't care how many times they get fired. But the AI in this case is just providing a fake profile pic. It's not that deep, as the commenters in this thread are suggesting.
How about PostgreSQLite? Joke aside, is anyone building something that takes a stab at fixing the issues with both?
Thimbleweed Park kind of already is that. Well, more a spin-off than a direct sequel, but it's filled with lots and lots of references to Maniac Mansion.
What are you doing to keep the government in check currently or is this pretty much how you like it rn?
I just quit Reddit and deleted all my accounts despite gilding > 10 comments over the past year because I got blacklisted from every community subreddit I wanted to participate in. I brought up the bias to the admins and was told mods can run their subreddit however they want despite Rule 1 of the mod guidelines saying to assume people are arguing in good faith.

I got banned because I say controversial things like Black people are not disproportionately targeted by police due to their race, but rather due to them disproportionately having guns and knives when the police show up.

The general public have a serious problem understanding nuance and statistics and I think it's disgusting that the media cry racism at every corner because it enrages people and gets clicks.

It's even more disgusting that people fall for it without realizing what the media is doing to them because they can't read past headlines.

I'll link to the actual TPS report that shows this but I'm on a slow connection right now and can't do it.

edit: nvm I'm dumb; it's not that but the report is named 9082-2018-TPS-Annual-Report.pdf if you can find it on its own. You can google "tps force report 2018 -2020 pdf". I'd find it myself but I'm downloading a 12mb pdf that's taking forever and I'm pretty sure this is the one.
I agree. The guy posted that tweet even admits that he's jumping to conclusions.

First tweet:

> No bullshit I think I just interviewed a North Korean hacker.

21st tweet:

> In reality, I have no idea if these even were North Korean hackers. Bobby could've been, well, just a really incompetent dude.
That sounds like a libertarian perspective that may apply to a radically different system of economy and government (one that does not exist in practice), but the system we actually have is not even remotely close to libertarian. In the mixed economic system adopted by nearly every nation on the planet, business face all manner of regulation and the more fundamental they are to everyday life, the more they tend to be regulated.
Businesses should be free to pick and choose only when there is also a public funded alternative or the product is targeted at a minority. Otherwise society starts falling apart.

Imagine there’s only 3 car dealers in your region and they all blacklist customers who have at least once followed Elon Musk on twitter.
Turkey Lifts Objection to Sweden, Finland Joining NATO
Whoa that was a creepy one! You got me! I would run if I saw this
The leak of gun owners isn’t likely to contribute to the number of straw purchases. It could directly lead to gun thefts.

The existence of a problem does not dismiss the validity of another.
No it’s not, this is pretty well known and discussed. Don’t try and make a straw man because you want to paint “liberals” and Muslims in a bad light.

You could have just replied with your second sentence… but you have an agenda.
Normally I would disagree with you, but there's only two major credit card companies. People aren't given a choice.
NASA aims to launch the SLS rocket in just 2 months
This is less "hard tech news" than news that's really going to affect all of us -- in tech or not -- if the Bear to the east gets more belligerent about this development.
Tbh I don’t know what your comments have to do with mine either?

I was responding to the phrase “have to”, and pointing out that they don’t “have to” do this. Then you brought up things like people investing a lot of their money? It still doesn’t change that it’s a choice. They could be investing the gdp of Canada and making rational decisions around the money, but it is still ultimately a choice
I wouldn't bet on any of our rights being safe with the current occupation of the Supreme Court. The lack of the right to privacy of our own bodies is only the beginning.
funny, I was very surprised that USA Today was so high in the list. So I typed it into my browser and was greeted *very quickly* by a full page ad modal.
Because it’s not automatically the same thing just because both are private (e.g., non-governmental) organizations. A newspaper can exercise editorial control over what it publishes, but AT&T can’t exercise editorial control over your phone calls. Hacker News can moderate user content, but an ISP can’t moderate what you send over its network.

The question of whether Twitter and Facebook should be treated like a phone company than they are like Hacker News isn’t a stupid one, and I don’t think it’s as clearcut as people on both sides of this debate would like it to be. But the question of whether a payment processor should be able to exercise this kind of editorial control over transactions using them as an intermediary is not really the same question.

Also, keep your paws off my furry porn.
> for someone who is not allowed to own one (a "prohibited person").

The way it works with firearms, purchasing a gun on behalf of somebody else (not as a gift) is illegal regardless of that other person's legal status as a gun owner. If you and I are both allowed to buy and own guns but for whatever reason agree that you will give me money and I'll buy a gun for you, that's illegal.
This might be of interest…

https://archive.org/details/dr_dobbs_journal_vol_01/page/n20...

Wozniak floating point code.
These example audio at the bottom. Seems the answer is no. But you could potentially use it as a means to isolate the sound from the recorded audio. You would have to synchronize the phases though because the optical speed of sound is c.
It would be an awful thing and it's creepy that you seem to think otherwise.
If OP had 7 million people, they wouldn't be losing money, even if it were serving ads.
I'm not a chemist, but it's pretty weird to be measuring energy in eV is it not?

An electron-volt is a very small unit of energy. Since atoms and molecules are also very small, the eV is a common unit of measurement for chemical phenomena described at this scale.

See for example this table of molecular bond dissociation energies, where eV is one of the units offered:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bond-dissociation_energy#Repre...
Neat, will definitely give this a try. Definitely one of my minor peeves about SQLite is having to set a bunch of pragmas on every new connection. Like, especially stuff such as foreign_keys=1... really, enforcement of foreign key constraints is something each connection has to opt into rather than being set one on the whole DB file and never thought about again? Blah.
It's a thoughtcrime and a terrible law because of it. There's a ton of these w.r.t. gun laws in the US. Say the wrong thing and you get ten, say something slightly different and you get zero.
>COBOL devs are a specialized niche these days and they get paid accordingly.

Tell that to all the people in outsourcing Firms (e.g. Infosys) who end up coming to the US from India to work on COBOL Mainframes as contractors. The large companies hiring those outsourcing companies are doing that because they don't want to pay top dollar for a COBOL devs. I don't think they even want to deal with evaluating and hiring COBOL Devs.

I know somebody who was in that situation. Was paid decently, but nothing special you couldn't get from any other Dev job.
“Despite the lack of conclusive evidence” — this sounds like there is some evidence. But there isn’t. Trump’s own attorney general said so. He quit his job when pushed by the president to ignore the lack of evidence and instead issue a statement that there might have been fraud.

If you’re inclined to doubt every election, did Trump win in 2016 by fraud too? Bush in 2000? Their margins were very tight and they lost the popular vote. Doesn’t that seem like a more likely situation where fraud would carry the day?
> It's not facetious. It's quite the stretch to say that if you assume literally any injection could cure any disease, it's OK to describe any found correlation as a "link".

I don't see it that way. Nick Cage has nothing to do with Alzheimers. We're not finding correlations with Nick Cage movies and then saying "Nick Cage linked to reduction in Alzheimers".

They are suggesting that flu vaccination may have some 2nd order effect beyond protecting you from the flu. Which could be reasonable, science reporting and poor research notwithstanding.

Either way, the refrain "Correlation does not imply causation" is over used in my view. And I'd rather learn the specific ways the research is flawed.
Yes I first played the first two games on Amiga with just text. I didn't mean to talk about voiced dialogue specifically, but the script in general.
>For example, if I bought a gun and ten years later sold it to some guy who committed a crime, should I be indicted?

No, because for you to sell it to him, you'd have done the background check, and transferred it to him. That is the point.

Same as car titles, or mortgage deeds, or others items in society that transfer ownership.
If you're wondering how that ended, they passed a bill to keep the names private.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/illinois-house-approves-bil...

One thing I dislike about the news is that every article drops you into a situation, but you don't know how it ended up like that or what happened afterwards. It would be nice if some modern news site placed stories on a timeline.
The jury isn't just there to protect you. It's also there to send you away when you are obviously trying to hack the system.

"Oh, gee, I just bought the gun on Tuesday and sold it on Thursday for no particular reason. It just happens that the gun appreciated by 20% during that time and my friend really didn't want to spend so much gas getting all the way to the gun store anyway. Who would have guessed such a fine person would be a felon? Same for the other 14 counts."
What's it called when you think you're uniquely incapable of spotting misinformation? Joking aside, I wonder how much this would be talking about obvious misinformation vs. opinion vs. unprovable misinformation.
> If you purely look at it from the "most value for most users" perspective, Fenix extensions are a great success.

Except for the part where so many extensions that already have the needed APIs implemented still can't be installed.

Changing that setting would move the needle with minimal developer effort.

> But it's not clear that "mobile-browser-as-a-developer-platform" is a sustainable long-term pitch for an organization as small and as resource constrained as Mozilla.

They were trying to make an entire OS, and now they can't keep the browser shell updated?

There's correction and then there's overcorrection.

Also I want my desktop and phone browser to work together well, so failure to make the phone work pushes me away from everything.
It's a bad idea to check ID. If you check and get it wrong it may conceivably be used against you. The law does not require you to check and you should never check. Simply refuse to sell if they plainly state they are a felon or not a state resident and sell with no questions in every other case.
> but the providers can simply have a policy to deny chargebacks for this category.

Which then allows the porn providers to do very shady things.

The problem with porn is that the players on both consumer and provider side tend to be really shitty. The consumers are causing a bunch of chargebacks whenever they get called out for porn or trying to get porn for free.

However, the providers aren't innocent either. LOTS of OnlyFans girls get called out for not delivering what they promised which certainly should be able to be charged back. The big aggregators are generally run by people that will absolutely push the boundaries of dark patterns fully knowing that in person interaction will be embarassing while a chargeback isn't.
Nobody mentioned Europe, except you. If you are referring to GDPR this still applies if you host outside of Europe.

We disagree webserver logs contain 'hardly any PII'. You may find it insignificant PII, but it does not constitute 'hardly'. IMO its a circumstantial goldmine.
> At some point when 50% of the world uses your service the rules must change.

It's worse than that. They've effectively levied a tax on everything (without representation). Even if you pay cash, you pay (e.g.) Visa if the vendor accepts Visa. Businesses are contractually obligated hide the transaction cost from the consumer. This means all products and services have their prices jacked up to cover the cost of accepting Visa, MasterCard, etc. Even if you're paying cash, you're paying into it.

"Cash back rewards" are essentially a discount on the tax they've imposed.

So they tax you, they decide what you can buy, and you don't get a say. Kinda fucked up.
In case anyone is curious, https://www.diabetes.org/about-us/statistics/about-diabetes suggests that ~5% of diabetics in the United States have type 1 diabetes, but estimates vary within roughly a factor of two.
Terraform S3 module input `putin_khuylo` specifies whether you agree with Putin
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31908874
At times that bad with the lightning network?