skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think my reply went to the wrong parent comment, and I apologize for my error. You can safely disregard.
But now, 22 years on, you bask in the daylight of sane time that we can only dream of.
i clicked back to get back to HN after visiting and the music was still playing. oddly enough i didnt hate that.
In the incident described in the local news story, an officer of the law demanded the money extra-legally, and only resorted to civil asset forfeiture after the victim refused to play along.

I think it's important to note that it began with an extra-legal demand, no matter the legal substance of the procedure that followed.

Civil asset forfeiture proceeds in the USA are already a larger amount than substantially all losses to property crimes combined, and we have no way of knowing how much more was lost to extra-legal demands that didn't pass through C.A.F. proceedings.

-------------

We've made law enforcement into a thousand squabbling gangs of thieves, and it's going to take a lot of time and effort to un-make that monster.
Kinesis has also been teasing a new board that looks to be a split Advantage style board.

https://twitter.com/kinesisergo/status/1397335511694381058
That's not the only reason it's weird; I'm baffled why the ACLU thought this was a good idea.

That said, the smug tone of this piece is insufferable.

> "It is of course ironic that this iconic liberal jurist is now the subject of corrective editing."

... Ugh. Snide partisan wankery.
The slippery slope is the problem. What starts as a list of drunks will quickly become a list of people named Muhammed.
>> The OP asserted that CAF was extralegal, and it absolutely is not.

How does it jive with the constitution? Particularly the 4th amendment, but others as well.
If you're able to shift cheat detection systems to primarily focus on griefers, that's a significant win, since griefing by its nature can't be subtle enough that other people don't notice it. The whole point of griefing is to be noticeably toxic to other players and to get a reaction out of them. Griefers have a harder time hiding than other cheaters do.

If your design allows you to shift your focus towards trying to fight toxic behavior itself rather than just cheats, you can use the same detection methods as you would for any other toxic behavior that doesn't involve cheats. And you should have those detection methods anyway; whether or not a cheat is involved in the abuse shouldn't be the deciding factor between banning or allowing toxic behavior.

The shift here is in realizing that for a significant number of your players, playing against someone who legitimately snipes them from across the map over and over while camping at a spawn point because they're just that good, and playing against someone who uses an aimbot to accomplish the same behavior -- both of those experiences are equally game-ruining for a lot of players. The legitimacy isn't the problem for those players, the resulting experience is. So trying to detect subtle aimbots kind of misses what the real game-ruining problem is for a lot of players.

Where a number of player archetypes are concerned, you can look for overt toxic behavior and ban it regardless of how that behavior is accomplished. Similarly, if you're not prioritizing ladder integrity over everything else, there's a case to be made that you can just ignore any cheating that's too subtle for people to notice or that doesn't result in overt toxic behavior.

A nontrivial number of your players don't actually care about ladder integrity, they want a number to go up and they want rewards released on a variable schedule as they get better at the game. For those players, it's not clear that playing against cheaters is actually a problem unless the cheaters ruin the difficulty curve or ruin the matches, and... again, you should think about banning people who do that stuff even if they're not cheating.
My understanding is that HN down-weights posts with, loosely speaking, a high ratio of comments to votes because that often signals a controversial and/or flamebaity topic.
The only time I have any beginnings of repetitive stress type issues is if I have to use laptop keyboards or somebody else's mouse.

I have full-sized or oversized IBM-style mechanical keyboards and the largest mouse that I could find on the market. It's not like I have the most enormous hands, but I can't deal with being cramped up on a little 14 inch laptop keyboard.
The suggestion that there isn't some powerpoint presentation that the US Navy created (or consultants to them) that says "if we invest $X millions/billions to create smaller fuel jet fuel tanks we won't save money" is total nonsense. That's not how capital intensive government projects work.
Yes nailed it.

Executives of a certain vintage learned a lot watching the carnage from US v Microsoft. Talk about destruction of shareholder value. I would say for Facebook this is money well spent.
I started doing animal crawls every day recently after being tipped off by some YT videos to their benefits, and they seem to work even better than running for the goal of full-body maintenance. Every time I finish I feel like my spine has been gently massaged.
Very interesting article, thank you

We definitely agree about China's handling of the virus compared to western countries and especially the USA. As far as I can tell, the initial CCP reaction was to suppress information about the virus, but when that became impossible, they did (and are still doing as necessary) real proper lockdowns, vaccinations, etc., and they have a much better handle on it.

What you observe in the west related to the virus is true disfunction both at a societal and political level. Politically, you have one party that can no longer win and is attempting to implement autocracy, and so is weaponizing disinformation and populism. And you have the usual herd of people who detest any kind of control, think of public health measures as a personal affront, and are happy to spread any bad information that supports their biases. A truly toxic combination.

I'm not surprised to find that the 2016 election and subsequent events has soured many on the benefits of western democracy. We have yet to see if that becomes a historical fluke, or if this democracy falls.

On censorship, I'm not surprised that it is common knowledge that everyone is being censored - it would probably be hard to go very long without seeing evidence of manipulation, and then wondering about it. So the real question is, how successful is the censorship - do the people commonly know everything that the CCP tries to keep from them, or do they just know that their feed is incomplete, but have no good way of completing it?

E.g., do they know the real story of Tibet being overrun, or do they just accept the fragmentary stories about some historical period when a previous dynasty had some authority over that area? Do they know the whole story about the Uhigur concentration camps, or just that there is some reeducation? Do they know how many people died by bulldozers in Tianmen, or just that something bad happened?

If they know the whole story and still support the CCP, I'd certainly need to reevaluate. If not, then the support is built upon a very weak basis.

And yes, I almost always find it necessary to make a distinction between a people and their government. This is necessary in all but the highest-functioning democracies (and the USA is not one right now - I can tell you very directly that 60% of the USA were extremely distraught at how their govt did not represent them in the 2017-21 administration, and I'm sure that 30% will tell you the same today.)
> It's a proven strategy that when the Fed funds rate rises above the 30 year treasury rate, it de-stabalizes the economy.

No, its proven that when investors are skittish about the private markets, which is both a predictor and contributor to recession, their seeking the shelter of Treasuries causes the usual coupling between general interest rates and Treasury rates to break in the direction of lower Treasury rates.

You have reversed cause and effect. It is not that inverted yield curve causes economic instability. Economic instability, and the market response to it, causes an inverted yield curve, and tends to do so before the point at which a “recession” is labelled.
> Because generally speaking the later arrivals view the earlier people as subhuman and engage in horrific acts of violence against them. So it's not really that "earliest known people = special." It's more that displacing, dominating, or eradicating a people ought generally be frowned upon, and that's what has happened to many (most? all?) indigenous peoples in places like the Americas, Australia, etc.

Many changes in people groups with respect to territory are simply migrations. Is there any evidence that violent conquest is the norm and migrations are the exceptions? My amateur understanding of history and archeology is that migrations are the norm and conquest is the exception (although posing this as a binary is itself misleading because violence is a matter of degrees). Moreover, lots of people who aren't considered indigenous have been brutally conquered, but we don't afford them special status (e.g., virtually any people which has been conquered by virtually any empire).

I certainly agree that many indigenous peoples in history have been brutally conquered, but considering they aren't the only ones and many of them haven't been brutally conquered, it seems like a crumby proxy.

> These aren't straightforward issues, you're right, and they deserve a candid and in-depth treatment. But let's not get too far from the fundamental point, which is that it's pretty awful to show up on the shores of a continent where a bunch of people live and then destroy them and/or their way of life.

Fully agree (who wouldn't? is this even controversial?), but I don't understand the "indigenous is a useful proxy for peoples who have suffered" argument.
I know that it can checksum files, search through drivers, scan memory addresses, etc. I think I can read registry keys as well. That’s just what I know of the 2005-2008 era of Warden implementation. See vanilla implementation: https://github.com/vmangos/core/pull/1295
Congratulations on the launch! It's a nice product, and seems to work (for me). What happens after the run of 250?
Yup, i got it wrong. However it seems like a statistical argument from a sample of 1, very similar to this:

https://xkcd.com/605/

Could method adequately predict extincrion of DoDo or brontasaurus?
> You can easily tell if someone is paying attention if they are talking in person. This seems really selfish to me

Privacy and concentration are selfish interests? Why not have a 9-5 webcam of yourself feeding into my surveillance dashboard? This way I can see my team hard at work as I would in an open office. They'll love that.

The prior in-person work setup is not the ideal nor the standard. I don't need or expect others to pay attention to what I'm saying right when I'm saying it unless there's real urgency. We're all IP-enabled meat functions now; there's no going back.
The transition of Chrome extensions to Manifest V3
BitClout Founder Reveals DeSo, $200M Blockchain to Take on Facebook
Probably. $115k vs no fly list. What's worse?
https://formspree.io/
IJ is one of the charities that you can select for Amazon Smile, so a small percentage of your Amazon purchases will be donated to IJ. I think they're deserving.
> Maybe that's why Google doesn't even list my app even though it's one of the longest running "web apps" alive

Is your hypothesis that Google would have some incentive that you collect user interaction data? Why would that be?

> used to be listed #1 when it first came out

Back in 2002. A lot has happened since then.
Your app [1] is not comparable to what competitors like Zoho offer. There's plenty of potential reasons for not being ranked higher: from the landing page, to the increase in SaaS competition, to not keeping up with UX trends etc.

[1] https://ezinvoice.com/
Im guessing The precedent of being made personally liable for every ill that Facebook could be responsible for in the past, present and future.
Glad to see this posted, I got the exact same email this morning: Russian name from a Gmail account, subject that looks just like that (i.e. "long license plate number") and a .htm file. Was very surprised to see it get through GMail's filters.
The milestone version of Gear browser v4.0 released
If you don't have a bank account and aren't in a rush to move your money you can just overpay on your taxes and make about 4% from the IRS until you claim it back at least 45 days later.
I run games in a VM to isolate things. Some anti-cheat detect a VM and just assume you’re a cheater and exit the game, but I just don’t play those games.
There must be real advantages to being able to buy two-year-old cars that Japanese people are obliged to give up. (In Japan they also drive on the wrong side.)
eventually they are just going to invent an actor framework
Lately, I've been noticing emails getting flagged as spam that are:

a) replies to emails I sent
b) have anything to do with topics I'm actively involved with
c) from senders who I have marked as not spam dozens of times

I never used to check the spam filter, now I do almost daily.
> To me, it's like solution to at least 16% of all the problems I have.

What are some examples of problems you've solved with Fourier series/transforms?
Wikipedia’s next leader on preventing misinformation
>"your right to have your representatives"

Yes. That is at the heart of my belief in representative government. And it wasn't my representative alone who voted for this, it was enough of them to get it passed.

I've already stated many times that I think this is an atrocious bill and I hope it gets overturned. But at the very least, it was passed by duly elected representatives and it appears to have withstood the courts (for now).
> If one is born in the US, it's quite difficult to leave. Even if you leave, it's a long process to become a citizen elsewhere and give up your US citizenship.

If you ever vote for a mainstream candidate, this line of argument falls flat. You are now participating in the process and actively supporting someone who is actually making the bad stuff happen.
Yes, I've been getting a bunch for the past week or so.
Is there anything you could say that would move the needle in the right direction?
Perhaps precedent. The difference between Facebook as a firm being liable for everything that has happened or will happen, vs an individual being liable?
And “Tomorrow Never Knows” by some ancient pop band called the Beatles.
This is trans ideology. Open your eyes to its misogynistic madness
Facebook Overpaid FTC Fine by Billions to Protect Zuckerberg, Lawsuits Say
What's the best ad blocker these days? Should I be trying to block ads at my router level at home instead? I've seen some ad blockers render some sites almost unusable.
Yes I can like 20 of those per day all to my primary inbox
Afghanistan: A Month Later
In what way are your representatives limited in crafting laws by Apple? Should people and companies be forbidden to leave a state just because doing so could have consequences your representatives don't like?
Ok, fine, I looked at Wood's charts.

Current thru 2021/04. Before delta variant.

Per the principle of charity, I'll say this rhetoric contains errors of omission.

Please update this thesis with current data, inclusive of all jurisdictions. Then update again once positivity dips below 1%, which is hopefully sooner than later.

If that doesn't demonstrate to you the benefit of masks, vax, mandates, testing, and whatever else you object to, I ask again:

What measure of proof do you require?
> Bitcoin isn't the extent of Twitter’s crypto plans: the company said it is also planning to support authentication for NFTs, or non-fungible tokens, by letting people connect their crypto wallets. “NFT authentication will come in the form of a badge, shown on profile pictures, marking the owner’s NFT as authentic,” a company spokesperson said.

No talk about the NFTs yet. My gut tells me that ultimately, personally speaking, NFTs are going to be about telling me what I can't do. "You can't post that meme, you can't quote that person, etc." Maybe I just don't get it?
SEC firm defends release of Exchange flaw details without telling Microsoft
The lack of about:config bugs me as well. I believe this lockout coincided with the introduction of Mobile Friendly Add-Ons.

The pages not loading is something that started with-in the last year and it seems to be getting worse. I open a lot of things in new tabs and at least 10% of the time it fails.
I am beginning to think that the simplest explanation is the most likely one. Google is just bad at stuff...

If this was all part of some clever conspiracy then it would be, well, more clever...
I appreciate and have created software that needed to be complex with the associated complex underpinning.

I also have long been looking for a framework that makes easy things easier.
This is like the third or fourth 'mind mapping' tool I've seen shared around in the last week. What gives, are these the new 'to-do list' apps for devs?
Yes. Tons of home loan and home warranty spams.
Not the ones I've applied to. If a company can't even tell you about itself without hyperbole, why bother?
In Conversation with Brandon October
Marketing; not advertising. An avenue for interested parties to find out more information about your product - not a way of informing people who may not know about your product of it’s existence, or to promote the product to people who already know about it.
Deliveries would just get more expensive if fuel got more expensive.

And I consider delivery to be basic infrastructure that’s the backbone of everything from small Etsy shops to Amazon to B2B shipping, so I wouldn’t want delivery prices to go up.
>The rules don't require the person holding the content to scan the content. Normally a DMCA claim is issued before the host has to get involved.

Legally, you are 100% correct. The law doesn't require the host to do anything until a DMCA strike is received. But YouTube has its own rules, which is fully legal as well, as long as they are more restrictive than the law (e.g., establishments prohibiting alcohol inside are allowed, even though alcohol is legal; establishments allowing crack cocaine usage inside are not allowed, because crack cocaine is illegal).

And YouTube decided to take proactive approach here. The reasoning for why doesn't matter to the point at hand. The fact of the matter is, YouTube took a stricter approach to DMCA moderation and tends to not always wait until the video receives and actual DMCA strike.
Indictments Prove Biden Regime Involved in Underage Sex Trafficking
What a bunch of pedophiles. It isn't like we weren't told repeatedly.
No I don’t.

Privacy policy TL;DR

We DO NOT collect your resume data and it NEVER leaves your device. The service DOES NOT contain ads, trackers and other such garbage.

https://resumetopdf.com/privacypolicy.html
This looks like a solid tool. Love that there is no mandatory account creation. A couple tiny constructive criticisms:

+ All instances of "resume" should be "résumé" or at least "resumé".

+ Maybe add some help formatting phone numbers to the one true format of (###) ###-####.

+ Finally maybe consider adding color to the most important buttons, like the Save buttons, so people's eyes are drawn to them
SAME. It's awful.
BOFH: Here in my car I feel safest of all. I can listen to you
That ship has already sailed, unfortunately. And in any event, I have a hard time imagining the airlines doing that. Say what you want about the tenets of capitalism, but at least it's pragmatic.
The big difference to me is that with Netscape, Microsoft distributed a free Internet Explorer with Windows just when Netscape was trying to monetize their software. In the case of Borland, Microsoft wasn't distributing free C compilers to compete with Borland's paid compilers.

I think the government decided to act because in the case of the browser, they bundled it with Windows, for free, to kill a competitor. But I agree, having Windows on nearly every desktop in the world gives them a way to launch new products that no other software company enjoys, even to this day, except maybe Apple, Google, Amazon, and Facebook.
The reason that people typically don't accept tips in anything but crypto is that it would eliminate the pseudonymity that crypto would offer...
> If I were to summarize the precedent, it would be a three-prong test: Do you know about the behavior? Do you contribute to it? Do you have the power to stop it?

Have you ever voted for any US representative or senator that got elected and wasn't Barbara Lee? Congratulations, your tests (1) and (2) say you're a war criminal.
HN has a few non-public mods, so probably one pings him if he doesn't find it himself.

But I personally prefer the explanation that dang is omniscient ;)
Used to be, hills near town changed the start and stop dates. It was an advance to be allowed to ignore hills.
Swagger is handy here. Auto-generate your API model objects, interfaces, and REST clients in any language (e.g. Typescript).
I recently switched to https://mega.io/ and quite like it. There's a lot of tooling around it.
I've got a love hate relationship with the ergo.

I love the tilt, and the improved build quality.

But I wish it had better battery life, was a size bigger, and had Linux drivers.
Ask HN: Have you wanted to add 3D printing to your app?
Background: I'm a web and mobile dev who's entering the 3D printing space. I've researched and experimented for months, have gone to industry conferences, and I know the space pretty well, including its limitations and history of hype.

I'm wondering whether there's any appetite among app developers for integrating 3D printing into their apps and what they would need in order to do that.

At the moment, 3D printing is entirely focused around modeling. Either you're using CAD to create a model and then you print, or you download a model file and print that.

I'm more curious about building an app ecosystem where 3D printing is casually integrated into all kinds of apps that don't involve the traditional modeling workflow. For example, maybe a video game that can print a trophy as a reward for beating a level, or an app that prints jewelry or fasteners or auto parts on demand (or part of upsell during checkout). Or all kinds of things that I can't even imagine (that's the whole point of an app ecosystem, no?)

My questions are:

1) Are you/have you ever been interested in adding 3D printing capabilities to your app(s)?

2) If yes, what's prevented you? E.g., lack of market, unreliable printer technology, no standardized API, no easy to use SDK.

As I wrote, I'm fully aware of the hype that's surrounded the industry and the limitations of the technology, especially hobbyist printers. I'm thinking big picture: if one were to start ironing out all the kinks, where should one start? What are the biggest showstoppers?
Hmm so this is indeed a thing. I operate some email servers and often get spam notifications from, say, Hotmail, and the emails are always legitimate. It's like some people don't bother unsubscribing from lists, they just start reporting it as spam hoping it will go away.
Really? Why should we not organize to fight for causes that we believe in? Would you be happy delegating your moral compass to the U.S. Department of Do-Goodery?
What is “donut-hole skipping” in Jetpack Compose?
Is it a Chrome feature? I'd always assumed it was just an iframe, and would work the same on any browser.
Yes. I suddenly just started getting tons and tons of German spam.

I tried Googling for a way to block mail in a language or from a country, but apparently the technology just isn't there to do so(/s). Getting rid of Russian and German mail would completely fix my spam problem.
Did someone order dehumanizing capitalism with a side of inevitable jadedness?
I love wearing a mask. It helps prove to everyone what a FUCKING FAGGOT I am.