skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because it's corrupt and police departments use it as a funding mechanism (without having to prove guilt). It costs more money to get your cash/assets back than the cash/assets are actually worth in most cases.

In other words, if you have $500 in cash, the police can say, "I suspect that is being used in a drug deal," with no actual evidence, and they take your $500. It will cost you around $2500 in attorney fees to try to get it back. The federal government also gets a cut. In 2010, this accounted for about 2.5 billion dollars in revenue, no trial required.

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

"Civil forfeiture in the United States, also called civil asset forfeiture or civil judicial forfeiture,[1] is a process in which law enforcement officers take assets from persons suspected of involvement with crime or illegal activity without necessarily charging the owners with wrongdoing."

I'm surprised you haven't heard about this. It's been going on for decades.
Same: they couldn't decide what they'd become, they were largely expected to follow family tradition. Was it "better" to become a ironmonger because your dad was, even if you're completely hopeless at ironmongering, because the alternative is being disavowed or banished...?
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I'm a musician. Good luck with the creator economy. As they say in music, don't quit your day job.
I'm embarrassed to say I hadn't run across django-sql-explorer when I started working on this - that could have saved me a bunch of time, it looks really good!

That said, part of my rationale for building this was as a learning and research exercise since I need to learn more about read-only PostgreSQL for my Datasette project.

Definitely looking forward to cross-pollinating ideas. I agree, having access to this kind of interface is a massive productivity boost.
Maybe use the toddler infinite "why" trick.
Fortnite did have loot boxes until they were sued recently. https://www.theverge.com/2021/2/22/22295676/epic-games-fortn.... The ability to buy skins isn't much different really. Just because you know what you're getting doesn't mean there isn't an addictive aspect to purchasing skins etc. especially when they're advertised in a manner to elicit an aggressive "i need this" response.

Additionally, the actual game-play is made to be addictive and young children don't have the ability to keep this in check.
There is a privacy risk. Apple can’t make the developer accept liability. A contract between Apple and a developer is not going to stop Apple from being sued.

Even if the contract then said the developer would have to reimburse Apple, how would Apple recoup a multi million dollar judgment from an unknown developer?
I suppose the assumption is predicated on a rising population.

Also you'd think last year might have led to more people reading books.
I'd love to trust that my kids are safe with technology, but the landscape for parents is way different now than it used to be, too. The grandparents left my then-toddler alone with youtube for an hour or so and I came back to my child watching some truly nightmarish videos. I can't trust the tech, so someone needs to be watching.
I don't know if people are working that much more or are just being forced to sit at their desk or in meetings just to satisfy the myth of productivity. Like for my current job, I work 8-4 since my lunch is a paid benefit. Even then I don't have that much on my plate mostly because I'm waiting on others to answer my messages on Teams for business edge cases with code or database changes. Aside from that, there will be times where even in new development I'm just puzzling over an edge case before tapping someone on it to ensure I have the problem fully understood to me (no point in nagging people who wouldn't know much better). I think it's a bit of a and b (a being some people are definitely overworked, and b being some of us are just pretending to work to just make the numbers look good to our employers even when we've already got the work done and just could do something else like skill training or take a short day).
For those interested: https://xkcd.com/810/
I didnt know parents would see the conversations also - seems right down FB line.

So spying is okay when parents do it? It's interesting how we normalize this all.

I'd imagine most kids use their own creative stuff anyway to get around snoopy parents.
I assume you are an extroverted person? Talking that much with another human being outside of someone I care dearly about just does not work for me, it just makes me anxious af. I'm glad it works for you and may you always another fellow extrovert to work. I left a job because they demanded pair programming as the new company paradigm. And yeah I gave it a shot for 3 months, and the other person was about as easy as anyone I could imagine anyone to be, but honestly I got tired of staring at his stupid face (although he was actually quite smart and capable, I just didn't want to see/communicate with him 8-10 hours a day)
Do they publish an image thats suitable for a docker base?

I wonder why alpine became he defacto super slim base image over void?
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I've actually seen a boon in interactive fiction.

Maybe authors can pivot to that. But I fear with the very low barrier to entry, most creatives won't be making money.
In most countries there is a time limit measured in years on suing for breach of contract (for instance in England it's 6 years) so this can always be a legitimate reason to keep personal data for years after their use has ended: GDPR say that data must not be kept longer than necessary, but keeping records in case of legal action seems like a very 'necessary' reason.
I used to have this mindset that the only thing that matters are the numbers going up. This was probably due to Mr getting all gung ho about starting strength when i first started lifting. I think this has actually served to prevent me from getting motivated to lift nowadays. I still get this feeling in the back of my kind saying "what's the point if you're lifting only half of what you used to?" . I've slowly tried to transition to the mindset that lifting at all on a particular day is a success.
> We are fucked, there is no known scalable way to fix the damage if we wanted

But there isn't anything to do. We missed our chance.
This works and I think is the natural way of things for human beings to bounce things off one another but for it to be a constant; no way!
From a technical perspective I haven't seen people dislike Bitcoin.

It's mostly around the godawful ecosystem of scammers, idiots, shills, and more likely than not if you see someone promoting it they're probably trying to scam or defraud you into doing something rather than an objective technical interest in it.

More often than not I've just seen it start as either affiliate link spam, undisclosed financial conflict of interest, some kind of editor-flame-war-equivalent of whether BCH/BTC/whatever is the true chawin, all sorts of petty bullshit like that instead of anything approaching discussing the technical merits of it.

Personally I wish I could use it a bit more but it's so heavily regulated these days it's an exercise in frustration. I don't want to give a dozen blood samples to an exchange that gets compromised every other day to buy/exchange $20 of BTC, even less so when "meet someone at starbucks localbitcoins" is also demanding equivalent amounts of KYC for $20. My actual-spend would be well under $50/m and I absolutely do not need or want idiotic levels of KYC for playing around with it, seeing if a small company accepts it, etc.
More than 90% of things that are new to me disappoint me. I don’t know how to find new things, especially fiction, with the expectation that it will hold my interest. Whereas something new from my favorite author has much better odds, and rereading my favorite novel is a sure thing.
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100k is not that unreasonable of an expectation as the necessary base for a freelancer. Keep in mind that you will need to cover additional taxes that your employer would normally cover, and you will need to plan on variability so you need more cushion than a salaried employee. Add in the fact that an author would need to be in the top 10% of a competitive field and you need to start considering the opportunity cost of not getting an office job.
Now do the same with Sigma SD1 and quality lens and you'd be frustrated with the "sharp images from new cameras" the same way you consider old ones "faulty". Some things can't be unseen once you see them the first time.
Look, I'm not going to take a boat to my yacht like some kind of peasant.
I wish it would be more of this "old guy". A lot of developers have the latest and the greatest machine. That's why the programs are slow for us, mere mortals. It is a pity that x86_64 allows more than 4 GB of RAM. We could have had much better SW.
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I have an interchangeable lens camera and multiple lenses. But I usually leave these at home when I travel.
Camera prices have gone down so much, you can do amazing things with minimal gear and budget.

Minimal size and weight that still gets the job done is mostly my take on this. small specific cameras for the task at hand. I have a very similar to this, and it's very compact and gives me multiple cameras and angles. Sound quality is often more important than video quality anyway.
And you can get good video quality by just using a tripod and an external mic like the rode micro.

1. g7x (mark iii) f1.8 lens and canon colors for talking head videos or pictures. Sony equivalent zv1 would be good too.

2. sony fdr3000 for walking around. Wide angle, and natural looking stabilization. or gopro.

3. dji mini drone. The only drone that is legal to fly in many places.

4. phone for everything else

5. Rode video micro (microphone)

6. Small Tripod (Ulanzi MT-16)

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~1kg and around 1.5k to put together

I actually have more cameras but for Travel I think this is ideal. The only thing I would add is possibly a bridge camera like lumix fz82 or fz1000 for zooming.
I'm a happy Django sql explorer user (and small contributor) and I would like to say thank you for this project and totally recommend it to everybody! Django sql explorer makes it really easy to add arbitrary sql querying to your project with various other goodies!
Ah, but Amazon is in the book selling business..
Fair point-- I don't know how the data defined a "sale." However, the numbers are almost identical for print books, just a little lower. But same order of magnitude.
I have ADHD and pairing is liberating. I don’t need medicine, I can stay focused and motivated for years. I’m seriously worried that I’ll have to get back on medicine because the pairing opportunities in the industry are becoming so far and few between. If anyone has recommendations I’m all ears (and eyes)!
I also think it's important to acknowledge individual differences. To give one relevant example, pairing sounds particularly challenging for people on the autism spectrum, which as a group is well-represented among software engineers. Several of the things the author sites as problems (need for sensory breaks, difficulty sustaining social engagement) are real issues for most autistic folks. It's not a coincidence that autistic people talk about "burnout" in much the same way that the author does--a total cognitive shutdown.

I'm not saying the author is autistic, although they might be, I have no idea. But enough people are that designing a work environment that won't work for them is something we want to be very careful about. And even more people aren't autistic but have some overlapping traits--the author might be in this group. That's also where I'd place myself, as someone who's not on the spectrum but has multiple close relatives who are, and sees more than a bit of myself in them, although not enough to be diagnosable. I think I could handle pair programming up to 30 or 40% of the time, but more than that, and I'm pretty sure I'd burn out fast.
>When somebody brags to you about how much they work, answer with “Maybe if you were better at it, you wouldn’t need to work so much”

Sadly here in the US that's seen as bad or unproductive. The whole chasing the productivity numbers has become a fetish in this country where we can't imagine that productivity is better measured in how little we waste our time versus how much more profit we make. If it takes an hour to make the same profit versus last year that should be celebrated and rewarded but it seems the latter part, the reward, is always withheld. Even if it's something silly like pizza for lunch or a gift card. There's just more of the "well work more" attitude which is just nonsense to me. The whole "line must go up" cult needs to be expunged from the human species, I swear.
I would say civil forfeiture is nearly 90+ % false...

If it was a legit use of government power they would go for the better, more ethical criminal forfeiture where by they prove a person committed a crime and then take the assets related to the crime

Civil Asset forfeitures are an end run around the 4th and 5th amendments, and should be viewed as unethical by every reasonable person
The scariest part about the latter model is how the hell are we going to find any more Susanna Clarkes, J. D. Salingers, and any other author that doesn't want to or isn't able to buy into the parasocial nature of patreon and similar platforms? What if the author isn't hot, charismatic, or pleasant to listen to?
That's a bit of an ironic take considering medieval science and philosophy...
Oh sure, but this is when computers were basically independent machines, and rarely, if ever connected to anything beyond a LAN.
Since GP is talking about Elantris it's safe to say the "he" in this case is Brandon Sanderson and not Robin Hobb.
This was the point of the type of film stock used. The film grain is why pretty much everyone will wince when you ask to do a 16mm->4K. Hell, 16mm->HD was rough.

I don't have any examples on hand. But with large amount of time I have found myself with over the past year to watch a lot of content, I too have noticed even some of the last episodics to be shot on film (2005-2010 range) are very noticeable. I have also seen some features from the 90s that looked really clean in comparison. Lots of things go into that, from how much the camera department "cared", what film stock was used, what film processor was used, etc. Towards the end of mass film production, there were fewer and fewer labs left. During they heyday, the soups used in the processing where in constant use. As demand lowered, the soups kind of stagnated especially in the shops financially strapped.

Film is fickle to be sure.
Thank you for the word! I saw this pattern many times while learning German and it is difficult to articulate the the feeling of linguistic connectedness to somebody who doesn’t have an interest in other languages. This term helps :-)
Even if it were the case, what is wrong with that? I mean, we can buy fancy cars without having a background in engineering, right? All the sneering about people being bad photographers and not needing the latest gear is out of touch. Average photographers benefit immensely from fast autofocus with full frame coverage, better sensors and better optics that make taking pictures in difficult conditions easier.

Besides, some people like the technical optical engineering aspect of it and are happy to follow the latest developments in the same way that some people feel the urge to read articles on the latest HPC Xeon. Gatekeeping and condescension is completely unwarranted.
I picked apples and blackberries in the garden in that picture in 1986. The "Trappist" monks I was with were actually pretty chatty. (Many of them feature in the recent film "Outside the City". http://www.outsidethecityfilm.com http://www.mountsaintbernard.org)
The best way I found to onboard was what I called "half day onboarding". Half the day the mentor can help, the other half the new person has to be self sufficient. Otherwise people start using their mentor as a crutch. This is the way I brought on new people as team manager.
It was the dollar figures that didn't make sense to me. Sure, if you can sell your fiction book for $100 on an installment plan, that brings in a lot more money per fan than a $10 book sold in one shot does. But those two scenarios seem rather different not so much because one is episodic but because one is getting 10x the dollars for the same final product.
It's right there towards the end: She wishes she had treated her body as well as she would have treated any other animal.
That's a good point! From what I can find about 750k people are working in the publishing industry overall. It's hard to find statistics just for fiction publishing.

I have to admit I'm a little surprised. I would have thought by now the videogame industry would be bigger than books, but maybe it's not.
It seems the boxes themselves aren't so bad, but when your stuff gets removed by accident and sent off to a warehouse there is a much higher chance of loss. The warehouse seems to be the problem, even though the packages are inventoried before being sent out.
> I do a fair bit of astrophotography

Interesting viewpoint! I do a lot of astrophotography and I found AF-capable lenses to just not work for me at all because a couple of shakes and some play in the gears would slop the lens out of focus, and the short throw and lack of infinity precision make it really hard.

For astrophotography I just love being able to focus on a star and either calibrate the lens stop to be at infinity, or slap some gaffers tape and it's good for at least 2 months until the night temperature outside changes significantly.

Of course, yes, sharpness is an issue for many older lenses, but the better ones of the 70s and 80s have very decent IQ. Honestly I just wish modern lens manufacturers would make more manual focus lenses. Laowa, Samyang, and Zeiss are all awesome for continuing that tradition.
Power law distribution.

You have to assume no one will read the book and you won't necessarily get rich but make it good for your own work ethic and prepare just in case it were to blow-up.

It's sad that fewer and fewer people read books anymore, most people are too glued to screens looking for notifications, swiping, or playing games. (I almost ran-over a guy glued to his phone who nearly avoided being ran over by a bus through dumb luck and walked right in front of my car.)
It's funny because I actually deadlifted the most I've ever had the day of my first date with my now girlfriend. It acted as a good nerve calmer. "If I can lift all this weight and have come this far, surely I can handle a first date" .
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A bit late to reply... But, the magic of it for me has been that several of these repeated superficial contacts have turned into friendships.

Three new friends in two years, six if one counts spouses. That is the same amount that I made in the preceeding ten years!
Excellent point. It’s a problem with operational definitions which plagues a lot of research.

But “scale” in this context implies economic efficiency. You can’t give every kid a full time counselor. You can write a script to send sms messages.

One question for the tech community, to what extent can advances in ai and other technology impact this question of scale/efficiency. If the student doesn’t know his counselor is a bot, maybe the nudges become more impactful.
I guess I'm too stupid to imagine that even the top 0.01% of individuals could think of some of the really out-of-left-field ideas.

The invention of Calculus might be another. That must have really made waves in the press. You know, when two time travelers set out to "invent Calculus" and by some unexplained coincidence they go back to roughly the same time in history. I mean, how does that happen?
Some folks spend their time changing the world and trying to get us off the planet to save humanity, some folks spend their time and money on yachts......
The best pair programming experiences I've had involve each programmer using their own laptops, each with a separate screen attached.

The pairing sessions were shared via ScreenHero (now I use Tuple), where each person has independent control of their own mouse cursor, but can grab control by clicking anywhere and typing.

Because the pairing session is constrained to the external monitors and the laptop screen isn't shared, each dev can still check their private email or look up things off to the side, but can also keep an eye on the pairing session and jump back in whenever they are needed.

This methodology works well in a side-by-side pairing environment, and it also works great for remote pairing.
Remember Q&A positions? What happened to developing software and handing it off to someone that has good testing skills, whether it's manual testing or writing automated tests. If I'm not mistaken, the majority of software eng./dev. positions will now require you to do a lot of testing with the help of other engineers/developers, and this basically shifted the Q&A responsibilities over to the people who used to only solve the problem. Of course this has a huge impact on how many hours a week you need to work.

Now I'm feeling like there are even more responsibilities being tacked unto engineers and developers, where effectively, we are arriving at two main roles in software companies: Technologists, and Managers. Of course everyone is going to have to work more hours because everyone has more roles to take care of.

At least the software industry has been consolidating roles, and from my experience I have gone from developing, to developing, testing, managing people, communicating goals, doing presentations, and much more, when all I want to specialize in is problem solving for code. If we still had specialty roles, there would be a lot less weight on people's shoulders and they could optimize their role to a comfortable spot where they are not overworking so much.
Oh, yes you are correct there. In online sales only (I don't have the brick & mortar numbers). So to your point, people are buying books, it's just that they are all buying the same top selling books. And thank you!!!!! I'm still trying to figure out the industry enough to succeed in it, but it's a hard industry to succeed in as it turns out!
Going a bit further, this could absolutely be used for a denial-of-service attack; but would otherwise be 'sandboxed', similar to how exploits for a Universal Turing machine are still limited to reading/writing the machine's tape. They can't, for example, hijack an SSH session or whatever (unless there are serious vulnerabilities in the prover/turing-machine implementation)
The Man Who Fell To Earth.
Why does every advert look the same? Corporate Memphis
Me, personally, my wealth is in the my wood scrap storage in the loft of my shop. Great returns on investments this year alone!!! Cash under the mattress is now antiquated. It's all about lumber, baby.
As someone with many lifelong creative outlets, I can think of 3 reasons to create. 1. You love doing it for it’s own sake 2. You can’t help it 3. You believe in your heart you have something to say that must be said. You may well be delusional about the last one, but I still consider it a good reason.
The existing alternative is to fast rope off a helicopter. Jetpacks afford you the ability to land in multiple locations but guys in the air are going to be very vulnerable without the helicopter crew to cover them.

Other than being cheaper than a helicopter I don't see how this changes much if the defense is at least semi-competent.
Shooting a target that moves at a constant speed isn’t hard even with a rifle, at least not at these ranges.

A more interesting use for these would be if they can be used as an arrested landing system for arial insertion at that point you essentially get drop troopers.

This is a nice proof of concept but i doubt this would go through a sufficient risk reduction to be useful in an actual combat situation anytime soon.