skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The vast majority of rules are implicit and to make them explicit you have to put in place the machinery of the law or something like it. This CoC nonsense is a childish and incompetent attempt at solving a complex problem which arguably is leaving us worse off than we started. This is very representative of the extraordinary mixture of hubris, self-loathing and ignorance that characterizes our age.
> In other words, they're willing to take a loss on an asset, as that's their fee for getting clean cash.

But like everyone else, even if there's a loss, they want to minimize it. They're not seeking a loss, so it doesn't matter. Nobody gives up money they don't have to -- that's the entire point I'm making. I'm not missing the mark, it's the article that's missing the mark.

> Suddenly you can get an increase in supply, higher market values...

That's the demand I referred to originally. Demand is demand. You're just describing demand. That's the full story.

> A launderer prefers transactions that are least likely to generate attention from the authorities.

Once the provenance has been hidden through layers of LLC's, they still have plenty of options. They don't need to give up half their money, which is my point, so they won't. So it's very easy to say what they'd prefer -- they prefer to keep as much of their money as possible.

The article, and you, seem to be arguing that money launderers have no problem throwing away money for no reason, as if money doesn't matter and prices can be driven up arbitrarily without limit. My point is that this is false: money launderers seek to keep as much of their money as they can while still laundering it effectively. By the time they've made it to the stage of negotiating over a price of purchase, they function economically as a buyer like any other.
I want to add one thing here: Owning is sometimes also a burden. There is a whole sub culture focusing on downsizing (there are fans which are owning less than 100 items .. and that includes battery cable).

But I agree also with your statement.
> to see all advertisements

I suggest to also click on all possible advertisements then not purchase anything (just ignore whatever tab was opened by your click).

If millions of people did this daily, it would break the web advertising model very fast since advertisers pay per click.

I don’t know what would replace it, but maybe something better than what we have now. Maybe not.
This is why it's easy to wake up early every morning! Thanks!
You're not, however, allowed to list your phone number as the number for the Apple Store and start taking orders on their behalf.
No, without Wayland there would be stagnation. Less users, less corporate sponsorship, less developers.

You and me (I use XOrg too, no xmonad on Wayland) enjoy status quo for free. We consume work that maintainers do not enjoy.

> and I am completely burnt out on that on its own merits [1]

[1] https://ajaxnwnk.blogspot.com/2020/10/on-abandoning-x-server...

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> attention-deficit teenagers

JWZ cliches are worn out, marking group you don't agree with disorder regresses discussion. Someone would call you old whiner and he would be right. I would recommend you join BSD camp.

> You miss the corrupting influence of money.

I missed nothing. Same money brought what we have today. A lot of people work on Open Source for free.

> mandate systemWaylanD.

Straight from ajaxnwnk:

> X11 clients are eternal, there's just way too many of them out there that are line-of-business and will never be ported to anything else [2].

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24925459

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I feel sick seeing such attitude. I would reply anymore.
A Mad Scientists Fight Against Stupidity
QUOTES

[58:32] "You need to understand that your success is entirely wrapped up in how successful you can make your team. It's not about you. It's about the people you put around you and what you can do to make them truly successful. And that's what you got your success from, because the company isn't going to grow based on finding your own ego. It just it doesn't - it would be great if it did. It would be marvelous. But life life doesn't work like that."

[01:00:17] "And without the ego and the drive of the lunatic at the helm, things don't happen. However, you do need somebody with their eye on the brakes and an eye on the cliff that you're hurtling towards, as well as."

[01:03:56] "I'd say just keep canceling the bullshit out there. Let's get the good studies out there and make sure that people understand what they mean and what they don't. And in terms of science communication, what you need to suss out really quickly is the level you need to pitch something at"

[01:05:11] "Either we can do this, which we think is quite a good idea, or we can hold our hands in a bucket of shit and give ourselves a huge round of applause. Which would you prefer to do? Well, I think I'll do the first one."

[01:06:36] "One of the greatest advertising copywriters ever once said when you're writing it out, that's only 10 percent of people read beyond the first line. So you've blown 90 percent of your budget on the first sentence. Make it a fucking good one. And in that, I think sums it up, it's you need to make sure you grab their attention"

[01:11:35] "I'm basically unemployable, and I haven't done too badly."

[01:18:13] "There's just so much stuff out there that I don't know. I'm totally disappearing in a bubble of my own confirmation bias."

[01:21:46] "If you're uncomfortable with gay marriage or opposite marriage, it's fine, you can be as uncomfortable with that as you want, just don't marry a gay person and it will never, ever, ever, ever affect you"
They will likely be treated like pets soon enough, so not too worried about this.

And eventually, is it OK to leave them all on?
Regardless of slot and placement?
Teams have different level of engagement on different services.

In my case:

* I have a good in-depth knowledge of one product I'm oncall for. My team may implement some design changes required (ex: for scaling) and I contribute code to this project.

* I have shallow knowledge of 2 other products, I'm trained at identifying a trigger that causes an outage and mitigate it (common mitigations are: move traffic, increase quota temporarily, rollback a release). If I can't solve an incident without in-depth knowledge of these products, I escalate to the devteam, and they will be responsible for root-causing.

A mitigation that requires a patch, cherry pick and rollout would be a terrible (and risky) thing to do, so I'd rather find any alternative first.
The investments we make into space exploration technology improve technology we use on earth too. It also employs a lot of people in good-paying jobs with benefits. And there is no version of a post-capitalist future that does not involve space travel - we will need more resources and more space as the species grows.

It's also a fraction of a percentage of total spending to invest into space. Even if it was 1% of our total spending, it wouldn't meaningfully move the needle on improving and protecting Earth. Earth will always need to be our home base, but there are virtually no negatives to moving onto the moon and then to Mars and beyond.
FWIW, the pre-sale buy side of the real estate is not transparent.

These kinds of people usually do not normally get past the KYC stage required by NYC for large real estate sales, and therefore do not end up recorded in the public record.

By definition, the only data that you can reasonably expect to exist about this phenomenon is "anecdata".

I make no statements about the frequency of this phenomenon. I have no reason to believe that such tales are common. However, given the preponderance of stories on the topic, it's hard for me to believe that it never happens.

This all being said, there are worse money laundering and real estate crimes out there. This is just a particularly amusing one.
And some people are genuinely happy to shake your hand and greet you. Why only focus on the negative.

With that being said.. don't shake hands if you don't want to.
I've defiantly seen a side by side comparison of a very good fake box and a verified real one. On their own, the fakes look VERY good.

It's likely the scam came further upstream. But, at those dollars, I'd personally be reaching out to the community to help verify the validity.
Hint: if on Android, Firefox will allow you to do that anyway, even allowing you to do other things on your phone with YT playing in the background. And with uBlock, you won't even get ads.
https://docs.nhost.io/graphql/subscription

Nhost seems to be based on the Hasura GraphQL server so you would implement live synchronization of data using GraphQL subscriptions. Hasura runs each subscription in a per second poll to get live data for each subscription. If the data changes it passes down the result to the graphql client.

https://github.com/hasura/graphql-engine/blob/master/archite...
Mind elaborating on where the dark kitchen comes into play?
Yes. Long ago on my university campus, a deranged man had cornered a woman on the street while screaming incoherent profanities. She was standing there with her mouth over her hand laughing, nearly hysterically. It's a classic fear response.
Give a man matching CSV columns, get him paid for a day.
Teach a man to VLOOKUP, get him paid for a lifetime.

..or something like that..
Same reason I'm a Lua fan, multiple return values is a super function. With Lua it's baked into the language.
Just ask a random question only a real hotel employee would know - like "What time is breakfast served?"
Oh, I think you underestimate my cynicism. I think some people adopted a piece of legalese without caring about the exact bounds and effects of implementing the terms of that legalese. It was vaguely in the direction of "stopping the bad stuff from happening" and was written with serious-sounding words so they just sort of assumed everything would work out fine. This blog post and HN thread are proof it has not.

>The code of conduct should be cheerfully received by everyone

I never cheerfully receive process. Process is valuable, process is important to have, but god-oh-god is it ever a massive pain in the ass.

Designing, drafting, implementing and refining process is HARD. I professionally maintain what I'll brazenly call "actually important" process so I don't get why everyone is so squeamish around the idea of maintaining the CoC process. (Well, I suspect that they're worried it will be corrupted by those nogoodnicks that they inartfully adopted this process to get rid of instead of growing some spine and just tossing them out on their ass in the first place.)

>legalese with which you can bludgeon people to get your way (I mean it can be, but that is not and should not be the point)

Understanding that this _will_ happen is just another part of designing process.
It's more dangerous to think we don't.
Great write up. The look and feel of this website gave me nostalgia.
> Where did all the money come from?

Elsewhere. It can be surprising only when you look at it through an industrial, 20-century world view. Now, even middle class people are free to move and work wherever they like, so it's only natural that people who made a fortune would seek the most comfortable cities in first world countries and bring their wealth with them. Is there any specific reason to suspect that this wealth is laundered and not simply imported?
The problem with this line of thinking (besides it being an obvious tactic of rehashing without rigor a well trod argument to boost your views on substack... I wish you luck!) is it’s wrong. Governments and populations can and should walk and chew gum at the same time. Trump appointing a competent NASA administrator who just put a competent woman in charge of crewed space flight and who is also deftly bringing on international partners and trying to show progress with the Artemis program so the next administration does not change course and waste resources does not mean we can’t and shouldn’t address climate change or any other problems on earth. Hell the tech we put up in space is critical to the science of climate change.

In any case the ship is going with or without the US government given the resources being poured into commercial space flight and the progress made the last ten years.
The pandemic started in 1889. There is strong circumstantial evidence that it was caused by the emergence of OC43 but we can't really prove it. Killed about a million people.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7252012/
President Pence and VP Harris? It Could Happen
Judge in Germany decided games are Art and not Software, thus dont fall under the ECJ UsedSoft/Oracle decision.
There is no evidence that long term complications are worse than those from particularly nasty flu seasons. Nothing you posted says otherwise.
Fun video about this one on Numberphile https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMY2_yzDm9I
Three trends defining the future of healthcare
This is a one-at-a-time identity theft racket that can be combined with assorted stolen SSN etc, via address matching as well as the genuine credit card number for the order. I expect this resource is already being mined by various crime gangs. It is well distributed so it acts like broadband system 'noise' = harder to find and footprint analyze. Of course, the gangs know all about data footprints and how to obfuscate them.
I think your connections are probably stronger than they appear. I'd be more than happy if a former colleague reached out to me about a job with my company. Even if is was somebody that I never really socialized with.

I don't think professional connections are something that need to be maintained in the same way that personal ones are. If someone remembers you and thought you did a good job, I doubt they care that you only reached out because they happen to want a job where you're currently working.
Heh, last time I spouted about 1⁄7 here someone asked about the overline too: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24302104. I love my Compose key.
But what you're describing is normal supply and demand in any housing market, laundering or not. If a family moves in from out of town, they take the house off the market for the foreseeable future as well.

My point is that laundering demand is no different from regular demand, economically -- demand is demand, period. Laundering doesn't push prices up more than they'd get pushed up if it were actual families coming to down. It merely pushes them up the exact same amount.
Yes that is what it’s like in companies whose infrastructure is not part of their value add but a cost center (e.g medical/ai startups, finance, etc) If you’re an sre either don’t go there or ask for fy money
It's not the same thing. A CMOS sensor, especially a cooled, astro-class CMOS sensor is much more sensitive than eye.

The random noise in photography is emitted from the sensor itself and has a distinct profile. This profile can be extracted with certain procedures and can be used as a single pass NR process with very high quality results (Darktable's Profiled NR does this if the camera's profile is generated/bundled). Also Subtractive NR does something similar. After the exposure, a closed curtain exposure is taken with same shutter value and that image is subtracted from the first image. Since it's a per-sensor process, its quality is very high too.

Light pollution is also somewhat similar. It's a specific wavelength, emitted from ground to sky (so its gradient can be known) and can be filtered out relatively easily with stacking and other RAW processing (assuming your image has enough bit-depth and headroom in both highlights and shadows). There are also new filters which directly filter this kind of pollution IIRC.

Stacking does something similar. Pixels with high consistency is kept, low consistency is discarded so you get a clean image. Sorry, I don't know its exact math since I don't have a tracker and don't take many astro photos.

However, in an analog recording you have incomplete information and you want to put it back via ML, which is basically a very educated guess in this case. A well tuned and trained ML model would probably put back sensible or semi-sensible details back but, it cannot guess and re-generate the missing parts with 100% accuracy.

So at the end of the day, in photography, you have the ability to get the complete information (via stacking or subtractive NR or by cooling the sensor a great deal) however, in an analog recording, you don't have the complete information. Especially if you record it via a speaker to microphone path (since they're not ideal reproducers).

We may go to the sounding characteristics of analog audio pipelines and vinyls from there but, that's another rabbit hole I'd rather not dive now.
I went in to relatively technical product management.

I miss some programming, but do it privately on the side or sometimes for some odd-jobs at work when it's easier than asking someone to do it.

I will probably keep on switching industries when changing jobs (which I don't do too often though).
10 Years of Openstack at CERN – Part 1
Well, because it's now at the top of hacker news?
> Pretend-legal agreements that are overly broad, capriciously enforced and written by out-of-touch culture “warriors” are a bad joke that should be regarded with contempt

> Let the attorneys do their job

The foundation of labor law in this country was built thanks to out-of-touch culture “warriors” and their lawyers going back to the early 1900s.
"He’d captured strange and distant worlds in greater detail than ever before. They were beautiful, magnificent, full of awe and wonder. But beneath their sublime surfaces, there was nothing. No love or hate. No light or dark. He could only see what was not there, and miss what was right in front of him."
> I'm on firebase/cloud functions. I pay ~$10/month for their smallest cloud sql postgres instance

I don't know much about firebase. How does firebase relate to postgresql?
> The word “unsafe” doesn’t mean anything any more

An alternate possibility is that you don't understand what people mean when they say they feel unsafe. Do you feel you have invested effort into empathizing with these concerns, or would you say your are more dismissive?
Thanks for the reply, I appreciate it!
> You wouldn't advocate scrapping the entire criminal justice system, just because one innocent person was convicted. A little more nuance is useful here as well.

The entire western criminal justice system is FOUNDED on the idea that it should let guilty go free if that avoids convicting the innocent. Criminal justice system which convicts innocent people is by its own foundational definition something that needs to be scrapped and reworked.
>How many mom and pop restaurants do you know of who have the extra financial capital to find a lawyer to sue over an issue like this against a company as well-funded as grubhub or doordash?

It's much, much worse than that. many of those restaurants thrived for years on 5-10% profit margins. Grubhub comes along and charges them 12-30% "commissions" just for forwarding orders and processing credit cards.

Forget about paying a lawyer -- many of these restaurants are out of business because of this.
I also write for a living. The maximum word count often has more to do with how much the client is willing to pay than space or SEO concerns.
It was, but thanks for clarifying. :)
Because they aren’t violating Canadian laws. They are evading onerous Chinese capital controls instituted by an oppressive regime.
I certainly did, but that's not surprising given that I live in Dresden.
> When I ask clients what went wrong with their last developer it’s usually poor communication or not understanding the business priorities

This is the secret of being "good" at consulting.

If I am a business, and I have a problem, and I bring in a consultant to solve that problem, and I have to assign one of my people to handhold the consultant through solving the problem, then I've now (1) paid for a consultant & (2) lost substantial amounts of one of my peoples time.

So I had 1 actual problem, and now I probably have 2.5 problems: paying a consultant, less productivity out of one of my people, and a half-working solution to the original problem.

As a good consultant, your job is to change that equation. Have a light footprint on other people's time & communicate clearly and concisely. Make sure you understand the actual problem, and weigh in if you're being asked to build a solution that doesn't solve it well (there may also be good reasons you aren't informed of about why it's built that way).

It's not hard. But it is specific. And trainable in yourself!

Most companies are variations on the same theme. And their dysfunctions are variations on the same problems.

"Building the solution" is table stakes. The real skillset for consulting is shadow-technical-PMing.

Remember: by definition, you're parachuting into a company that wasn't able to efficiently and effectively solve this problem themselves. So is it reasonable to expect them to tell you how to solve it? ;)
You are not alone in this, I'm an introvert as well and have a thin network but some of those contacts from the network are genuine friendships I made with former coworkers. I've made friends with gregarious extroverted coworkers too but it seems that those connections don't last once we're not working together. Oh well, it is what it is, there are clear disadvantages to being introverted.
What Canadian laws are being violated?
In the UK I think having to many politicians who only have a PPE is a problem
From what I understand this was Casey Winters who spearheaded this?
Intel to Acquire AI SW Startup SigOpt, More Info on What They Do
Or that Earth itself is alive or just a giant egg for a monster.
> The problem with this line of thinking — and the Trump administration’s ideological and monetary support for NASA exploring the solar system — is that it perpetuates the myth that, through technological developments, humans are destined to leave Earth and find a utopia elsewhere.

I haven't heard anyone make this argument in earnest. What I have heard are arguments to the effect that we _must_ expand past the Earth because it will inevitably become uninhabitable, probably due to human intervention.

Even if we reversed climate change, that still would leave: bio/nuclear terrorism, rogue states, threats from asteroids (let's not forget the Dinosaurs), etc...

Most species on this planet last only a geological blink-of-an-eye before something wipes them out. Why should we think we are so special in that regard?

Space exploration is about survival and advancement, not utopia.
The problem is I dont have a "skeptical resting state" where i'm constantly trying to sniff out scams.

I google "Fairmont Hotel Berkeley" because that is what my co-workers are staying at. I get an 800 number, which I call. The person is friendly and asks "Can I help you book a room at Fairmont Berkeley?" Business customers, especially, are somewhat price insensitive since they are not paying for trips.

Sad world.
Whoop whoop! Borkdude delivers again.

Happy to see this shipped. In 2018 I Tweeted about searching Clojure code with Spec: https://twitter.com/PetrusTheron/status/963372454172418048
As Covid-19 Closes American Classrooms, Families Turn to India for Homework Help
I've never really understood the "architect" role, maybe because I've always stumbled across poor architects, but I generally don't agree it is a good practice for someone to make decisions (architecture) and not deal with consequences (actually code within this architecture). Those decisions should be left for team to make and, yes, opinion of more experienced devs should be weighted more, but everyone should have a right to speak.

Something that connects with above statement: most architects are involved only at the beginning, which is so unimaginably stupid considering the fundamental truth about software development which is: "requirements will change".

Personally, if I hear from recruiter that they havea an architect in team I always say "thank you, but no thank you".