skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a scene in "True Detective" season 1, where one of sheriff's in the show is driving a Maserati to the country club he golfs at, and says he, "Seized it off some good old boy last year." I'd been aware of civil forfeiture for years before seeing that show, but just the way it was presented really stuck with me for some reason; just how much the system can be abused by "bad actors."
> Delphi ain't the most elegant language out there

Citation, as they say, needed. :-)
Nix is the package manager. NixOS is the OS.

It's very common to strip debug symbols from packages. For Ubuntu, it's even a different repository! I fail to see why that's astonishing.
Students protest the ‘perpetual state of stress’ caused by lax Covid rules
Luckily, this is something you're free to say and free to do.
I don't think Chromium is that kind of open source project. It doesn't seem that having the FOSS community leading the direction of dev is something they do. If you read some of the docs it seems that Googlers have special privileges and it's quite intertwined.
I think standard practice is to strip the binary before release.
They have slowly been forced to offer longer support, but are still currently at half as many years as Apple.

>One aspect in which Android has always fallen behind iOS is updates, with iPhones receiving as many as six years worth of updates, while some Android phones are lucky to get two years. In this area, Google’s Pixel series have held the crown, offering their phones three full years of updates, including monthly patches and three major Android versions. The original Google Pixel was gradually updated from Android 7.1 Nougat to Android 10 — an extension from the original promise to only offer two major updates.

https://9to5google.com/2021/02/22/comment-four-years-android...
I don't mean across delivery companies.

When I order something and it is being shipped via FedEx I can login to my FedEx account and see the package tracking info. From there I can redirect the package to one of the multiple FedEx / Kinko's retail stores in my area. Then I walk in show my driver's license and can get my package. This is great if the package requires a signature and I won't be home during the day.

UPS has a similar web site and redirection options.
apparently RICO provides for civil cause of action. Would love to see an adventurous civil rights lawyer sue law enforcement under the civil provisions of RICO.
Bridge physical+digital identity with Entry (FaceID style auth)
Apple's runs on the device, Google's runs on cloud with the results downloaded.
>>Almost every commercial transaction at the retail level allows you to use a method of payment that does not guarantee that the seller will actually receive that money (credit cards).

>That's not how credit cards work. At all.

Not the OP, but that's exactly how cards work. When a card is swiped the seller doesn't receive the funds until possibly days later. There is absolutely no guarantee that the seller will actually receive that money, since it can be disputed or charged-back.
Motorcycling is deceptively safe. It's just that the cost of finding out when you fuck around is very high.

Safe riding is still more dangerous than being in a car, of course. But, the vast majority of motorcycle injuries are due to known dangerous factors such as alcohol, or going too fast through turns.
Making the graph start at 5000 instead of 0 looks dishonest.
Fiasco remains Lem's work that has had the most profound affect for me. The creativity and style of Lem, as it has been brought it English speaking audiences, is unparalleled in bridging science fiction and literature.
For ebikes, removing the battery might be an option. Without it it's a (in my case) 60 lb beast that isn't good for much of anything. And it's very obvious that it's missing, so you wouldn't accidentally try to take it and then have to search for what's missing. It pops out in 5 seconds with a car-style key.
Some years ago I got a librarian (MLIS) degree, and one of the things I remember from the training was that when a patron comes to you with a "reference" question (you know, the kind of thing that doesn't happen anymore, before there was google when they'd ask a librarian what they now ask google)... what they initially tell you they are looking for (or at least what you initially hear/think they are telling you), is usually not actually what they want.

The process is a give-and-take "reference interview" where you collaboratively get to the bottom of what they are actually looking for, not just a simple process where they explain what they need and you find it.

This has been very useful and applicable to any kind of tech support, and this account reminded me of it.

(Also, btw, applicable to any kind of stakeholder expressing requirements/specs too...)
I was on the beta profile, received the RC last week, removed the profile straight after, and now received iOS 15 (19A346). It's possible it's only available on the stable release profile.

E: Ah, you're talking about from 14.8
Of course you can filter any way you can:

https://en.wikipedia.or/wiki/Sieve_(mail_filtering_language)
Sure nuclear is all good until something goes wrong and you need 30k years to inhabit the area again, but that can't ever happen...oh wait. You need to weigh cons as much as pros.
I have used the google sheets API to implement something similar when working with a nonprofit. They needed a fairly complex listing on their website that needed search/sort/filter/mapping and needed to update this list regularly. So I just took their existing google sheets document, and accessed it as a read-only database in the browser using Google's REST api and it was fairly painless! If they ever broke anything I could easily go into the spreadsheet and fix it. This approach really reduced the effort needed. If I had to write a "proper" interface for them to enter and update their data I wouldn't have had time to work on their project.
I love potatoes on pizza and order it at multiple pizza places. They add flavor and creaminess. The secret is to cook the potatoes properly and not just throw some french fries on the pizza.
Yeah, from the EIA, US electricity production increased by a factor of 5.56x from 1950 to 1973. https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/electricity/electricity-...

That’s 2.5 doublings in 23 years, or a bit better than one doubling per decade. Growth was still high after that, but doubling slowed a bit (we were running into limitations of gas and especially oil availability… we kind of stopped using oil for electricity after the 70s). Point being we absolutely can scale, particularly if we’re scaling something that is not as inherently limited as oil is. Solar in particular can scale out massively (as could nuclear if we got our act together).
Sure, that would also work and was likely popular with people who were confident they would not lose the cipher-text.

See the "Brain Wallet" tab on bitaddress.org to see how a password-based secret key can work (please don't actually use this).

https://www.bitaddress.org/
There's a pretty good thread here from one of the advisors to the Danish government: https://twitter.com/M_B_Petersen/status/1436193837744107523?...
Their tags are just strictly inferior.

In Apple Photos I can search for a car.

In Google Photos I can search for a specific manufacturer and it recognizes not just the logos but attempt to classify the actual cars they make. For example, it recognizes a Toyota from a BMW just based on the body shape.

The text search is insane too, it can find text in photos you would struggle to realize was there in many cases, which is huge when trying to find old information.
Thinking loud here - what is the difference between Google Search Algorithm & AI Based deep learning? They both are trying to do same I guess - that is structuring unstructured data?
I see a lot of sudo in there, for debugging a program presumably not running as root. Is it possible with this tooling to debug core dumps as a normal user?
100%. Though, interest rate based appreciation is likely at its apex, presuming zero is the floor. If we find ourselves with negative rates (after taxes and fees; there was one case of negative rates in Europe, but net inclusive of fees, it was still positive) -- then we're in truly uncharted territory.

At this juncture, it seems most appreciation will arise from supply issues, which aren't new to the post-2008 world. And while we do have lots of unoccupied housing nationally, we don't have it stock in areas where it's most needed: e.g, job centers. You can easily find a $10k home in Detroit if you wish.

The graph would be helpful it broke out metro versus rural areas, in addition to factoring interest rates.
The best way you can do that is by offering as level a playing field as possible, not giving crap away.
Some people find joy and satisfaction in developing systems. I don't have total insight on their plans, so I am not going to ask "What is the point?" I prefer never to ask "What is the point" to anyone unless somehow their efforts are providing a net negative to the human condition.

Sometimes the "point" is because it can be done. Sometimes the point is someone wants to learn about building an API and would prefer to do it with the Quran rather than with movie quotes.
They're not "overanalyzing" it. Turning off automatic updates means you miss security updates. Point upgrades are automatic, full versions aren't. Apple is clearly going to backdoor this in a 15.1 or 15.2 release, which means you then can't get any security updates and your only option is to go back to a backup of your device from iOS 14.
> You're conflating (intentionally?) Bitcoin the system vs Bitcoin Script

What is "Bitcoin the system"? What are the parts of this system? You are saying this in a way that implies the existence of widespread and commonly accepted definition of the "Bitcoin the system". What is the name that definition gives to the part of the system that houses assorted external pieces of code that are required to stitch together different transactions in this article? Is it "Bitcoin application server", or "Bitcoin workflow engine", or "Bitcoin process management engine" or something of the sort? Are there guides on programming it? There must be some articles, possibly on wikipedia, that clearly show this component and give it a name. Would it be installed if I were to download the node software (for the Bitcoin or Bitcoin SV - does not matter).

I do not believe that "Bitcoin" implies that "arbitrary code that sends Bitcoin transactions to the network/mempool" is always part of Bitcoin.

> including the article which clearly says "Each step in running the Turing machine is triggered by a Bitcoin transaction."

Let's examine this.

The article opens with:
"We have empirically demonstrated that any Turing machine can be simulated on Bitcoin and thus definitively proven it is Turing-complete¹. We have implemented a Turing machine that recognizes balanced parentheses and deployed it on the Bitcoin blockchain."

And ends with: "Thus, any Turing machine can be simulated on Bitcoin, conclusively proving Bitcoin is Turing-Complete by definition. QED."

The part that you have cited is followed by the statement that you chose to omit. Let me pull a longer citation: "Each step in running the Turing machine is triggered by a Bitcoin transaction. The Turing machines can keep running, unless it enters an accepted state.<end of section>"

I am missing the place where the author has _clearly_ indicated that "The Turing machines can keep running, unless it enters an accepted state" is only possible with the aid of some external mechanism.

Abstract and conclusion are also entierly fail to mention the need for the Turing-complete external component that you have to have to keep the whole thing running.

I'd say that article "clearly says" something that is different entirely from what you claim it says.

> forgive me if your account age combined with Greg's precense, your arguments style, and the very peculiar coincidence that your handle matches a known BSV proponent on Reddit who Greg just happened to tag in connection with this post suggest you are being disingenuous.

FFS, you seem to be very fixated on attacking my personality instead of addressing my arguments, you know? No, I will not forgive you. If you won't stop, I will not respond to you anymore.
Comments on the Origin and Application of Markov Decision Processes (2002)
40% raise with same job title or 40% raise with a (kind of) promotion
Hello, I work as a senior engineer at company, where I'm objectively doing good.

I've recently got a new offer from another company for the same role but with a 40% increase in salary.
When discussing with my current employer, they said they would really like to keep me but to kind of match that offer they need to give me a promotion too (as tech lead) but I don't really feel like it's natural for me at my current level to take that kind of job for the moment (I have 4 years experience total) especially since my team will only consist of one person (more to be recruited in the next 2 years), and it's the person that I get along with the least in the team.

what's the possible career path in this case ? get the best title whenever possible ? get the job with the best salary for less responsibility ? My goal is to make tye best decision that will help move further in my career.
Launch: Web Inspector for iOS
> Unix was the (unhappy) inspiration for the famous “worse is better” memo.

It could be rephrased as “done is better than perfect”. I would love to have a high-end workstation based on exotic hardware with ridiculously fast storage, but an average home PC is probably enough for my development work and, when it’s not, I can acknowledge it is so because the software is much more bloated than it should be.
Loving focus mode and the Safari url bar at the bottom.
I wasn't accusing them of a logical fallacy, I said they used a "No True Scotsman qualifier". Inventing a vague No True Scotsman qualifier is pretty rich if you're accusing the article of being naive and lecturing about what religion is apparently truly about.
I'm guessing that's the entire purpose here. Build Snowflake with Clickhouse branding.
We also need to be using up to date data about reactor designs that are safer rather than the older and more dangerous ones (eg FAST, slow wave).
Great execution, and very neat app!

But, what's wrong with using Amazon affiiliate links? If anything, monetizing would be great since it would give you more incentive to maintain this wonderful application? And it doesn't cost us users anything.
Pufferfish Toxin Holds Clues to Treating 'Lazy Eye' in Adults
The sad part about this is that for the most part it has been solved but it is expensive and a lot of people do not take the solutions seriously.

Good gear, I mean expensive gear, has built in spine protection. Good helmets limit your neck movement. We even have airbag-equipped suits! Outcomes are WAY better than they used to be. If you are in full leathers and with good neck protection, your odds for major spinal injury are incredibly reduced. Similar results also come from riding a motorcycle with ABS.

Problem is: people do not take safety seriously.

The thing is the people you didn't see at the hospital: People who don't wear helmets, let alone the rest of the gear. They died before then.

Motorcycles are a calculated risk, few correctly do the math, but when the math is done it is a far lesser risk.
There's a strange error in there. The Art of War by Sun Tzu is listed twice, why is that? Since it finds the right book and author?
I like the interface of Apple Maps, but where I live (Turkey) the map data itself is very limited and buggy. It shows a literally 15-min walk as 2 days 16 hours by taking me through Greece and the islands instead of a simple crosswalk, for example.
> It does. The AMA decides how many residency spots there is.

Nope. This is a common misconception.

The AAMC (which is different from the AMA) determines the number of people who can graduate from medical school each year, but as pointed out in the original article, the bottleneck is in the number of residency slots. There are already more medical school graduates than there are slots to receive them; increasing the number of medical school graduates wouldn't result in more practicing physicians.
I think that's just the nature of pulling books from HN comments - a lot of those comments are trying to convince people of a viewpoint, so it seems unsurprising that this is the kind of list you'd end up with.

Not good or bad, just a function of where they're coming from.

And as for book recommendations, Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky.
I disagree. Correct identification of root cause guides effective solutions. If you solve "indirect racism" just for one race, the rest of poor people are still screwed. If you solve the original cause (poverty), everyone is better off.
Do you work for comcast or some other isp? it seems like you're biased in favor of the pipe companies here mate...
Agreed. I don't know if Apple is handicapping Google maps on iOS (ie locking system APIs) but Apple maps is smoother, cleaner, and exactly what I want out of a helpful navigation assistant. Apple Maps give instructions in the way I as a navigator would. Things like "take a right turn after the next light" are way better than Google/Waze. Apple Maps just struggles in discovering an area and planning a journey - both of which Google excels in.
The site UI is superb but the content is lacking. React Hooks are pretty basic (and the article even targets "beginners"), so the example content should not be ~40 lines.

A simple fully functional component with some state change can be represented in like 5-10 lines, no need to over complicate it by including the ReactDOM or parent components like in the example
I used to ride a bunch, did many cross-country trips on two wheels, and honestly feel lucky to have escaped that phase alive and uninjured.

It's a fun hobby and a uniquely direct interaction with some interesting physics, but I can't recommend anyone do it on public roads shared with vehicles driven by careless/incompetent/inattentive/distracted/tired/drunk/stoned drivers.

If you're going to play on two wheels do it off-road or on otherwise closed courses, unless you're looking forward to being crippled, paralyzed, or dead, through no fault of your own.
Maybe worth noting that, internally, the first-gen iPhone SE is an iPhone 6s; same CPU, GPU, and RAM. It's missing some hardware features, like 2nd gen TouchID, 3D Touch, hardware image stabilization, and some other minor things, but from a performance/capability perspective it's the same phone.
This will vary by person...

But for me at least, it's worse when someone changes what they were going to say to try and avoid a topic they know might be sensitive to you, especially if it was in otherwise "innocent", organic conversation.

For instance, changing a joke with a cancer punchline to something else, on the fly, because halfway into it you realize it's going to offend one of the people present. Who certainly has already heard it, and knows what's coming.

Now, not only have you reminded the person of what you were trying to avoid, but you've also created this awkward tension where you-know that they-know, but have to pretend you don't know, because of the social "gesture" of changing their joke for you. Even if the fact that they're coddling you negates that gesture and then some.

The more extreme example of this is the scenario where kids in school are sharing stories about, eg, their mom or dad, and when you get to the orphan, you either skip over them, or ask them a completely different question than everyone else, without acknowledging and explaining why.
Safari 15.0
Personally, it's because I know other people. Having gone through artificial panics and unreasonable demand-based shortages based entirely on fear I know that my fellow human being is often irrational, selfish and short-sighted when left to their own devices. The _only_ solution to resolving those periods of irrationality I experienced were limits placed on their behavior like rationing of gasoline or toilet-paper or water or etc.
Comparing the amount of money seized by civil forfeiture to the amount of money stolen by criminals is like comparing the number of people in jail to the number of people enslaved by human traffickers. The institutional systems tend to be much larger, and they will always be abused and will hurt innocents (e.g. the war on drugs), but this doesn't say anything about whether they are good or bad as a whole (few people would suggest closing all jails).
Finding Time for Security When Scaling
Often it's the reaction to external threats which proves decisive. A rotten civilisation doubles down on its rotten values, fearing to try something effective.

But in the case of supervolcanoes our recently improved ability to grow food in vertical farms under LED light might be of great help. Ideally backed by nuclear fusion since solar would be less effective under the attenuated sunlight. Obviously, we don't have that power source yet, but, hey, there are a dozen high quality fusion projects out there, what are the chances they'll all fail?

There may be trouble ahead But while there's starlight and music and truth and romance Embrace the future and dance!
It saddens me the beautiful stationery metaphor of the Lisa got ditched in favour of files and applications…

The Lisa deserved better.
What is "bitcoin system"?
> I'm not criticising the authors at all

Maybe I'm being oversensitive about my field, but it comes across as dismissive of the field itself. Especially with "how do these people stay motivated?"

> there's a limited number of operations that go into a neural network and the justification for the best architectures is that they have the best performance.

There are a limited number of ways to put ink on a page, but the 'rest of the owl' meme is all about how there's a lot more to it than that.

And the justification of best performance is because it's an unsolved problem that is being incrementally solved. Over the last decade you can see tons of tasks go from 20% accuracy being an achievement to 24% to 30% to 31% to 32% to 38%... eventually to 90%. The motivation is that these little changes on a 'does it do the job' metric add up. It's very motivating to see things slowly move from impossible for computers to pip installable.
Wall St Tumbles over 2%
> Run an on-device scan against a hash database. Using a technology shown to have very frequent collisions.

Google and Microsoft have been scanning everything in your account against a hash database for the past decade.

Also, unlike Apple's system which doesn't even notify Apple of the first 30 positive results (to protect you from the inevitable false positives) Google and Microsoft offer users no such protection.

>then they notify law enforcement if they get a hit. Which means even if you're innocent - all your devices get confiscated for months, you probably rack up tens of thousands of dollars in legal fees, maybe lose your job, probably lose your friends and get the boot from any social organizations or groups.

Again, Google and Microsoft have already been doing this for the past decade.

>a man [was] arrested on child pornography charges, after Google tipped off authorities about illegal images found in the Houston suspect's Gmail account

https://techcrunch.com/2014/08/06/why-the-gmail-scan-that-le...