skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's its normal for the victims to get their money back without much of a hassle?

No, because people showing the cops they have a legitimate reason to have the money and getting it back isn't news, it's just how the process normally works. (And note, this is my professional experience from when I was a public defender, which included helping clients recover assets seized pursuant to CAF claims.)

It's like how there aren't any news articles about how most Tesla owners don't have problems with their car driving into obstacles every day. Normal isn't news.

I agree that it sucks that someone has to prove they have a legitimate reason to have their own money (in cash), but that's the way the laws are currently written, and they were written that way because their intended use was against organized crime. Most of the abuse of CAF laws can be addressed by eliminating the incentives for LEAs to seize the money (namely, that it currently goes toward their budgets), since prior to that incentive CAF laws were rarely used except in organized crime cases.
I had a good laugh there, thanks.
>Couldn't believe how many legit emails were in there. Missed a handful of important emails and who knows how many more, since they're deleted after 30 days.

The administrator of my email servers has a vested interest in making sure I get all valid emails and in junking the garbage.

Gmail administrators are interested in pleasing their boss and getting paid -- the quality of their spam filters and especially your interests aren't even in their top ten important issues.

The only problem with my set up is that if my email administrator gets bored, I'm screwed. Fortunately, that's unlikely as I am my email administrator.

I expect that many folks will dismiss this email as just some rando who doesn't understand just how important it is to have gmail or some other provider's email service because reasons.

But the truth is that quality service is based on having the right incentives. And Google (and by extension, their employees and contractors) have zero incentive to consider the needs and interests of their product.

And why should they? If you're a car salesman, do you worry about how a particular car will feel if sold to a jerk? If you're a barista, do you care if the lattes you make are consumed or thrown away?

I could go on, but I expect I've made my point.
chat, video conferencing, maybe forums, spotify when it has conflicting play instructions between a browser and a different device
I just disable this filtering. It’s more damage than good nowadays…
You're using a narrative to analyze the economy though. That obscures the underlying dynamics of money creation in booms and busts, namely fractional reserve banking and the money multiplier that causes the money supply to rapidly decrease and increase in the western banking system as a result of loans and defaults.

I'm not even sure if the money multiplier effect even happens in China, or if it's 100% reserved. It's a bit hard to get information about Chinese banking regulations in English.
Pack people in tiny spaces like rats and tell them is good for them because urban density will save the world… and you get declining birth rates because having a child with no space having to work so many hours to keep up a marginally reasonable standard of living seems ridiculous to increasing numbers of people.

It’s natural feedback from overpopulation, which was matched with equally dire predictions which were wrong.

Right now your genes can’t get ahead by having lots of kids, unless you’re quite rich they will have disadvantages compared to kids with fewer siblings.

When the population starts declining you get the opposite pressure.

The thing to worry about is world economies based on expectations of infinite growth and the fallout when that starts being not true.
this is awesome, thanks for the link! There seems to be mutual propagation from NLP to CV and from CV to NLP, i'm wondering if there is a visual counterpart for these "Random Encoders". The SOTA for image/text embeddings currently seems to be CLIP [1].

[1] https://openai.com/blog/clip/
The comment is in part correct and in part incorrect. As is the comment it responds to.

Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> How often do you actually need to read your framework.

This brings us full circle to the question that started this conversation branch:

> it’s great until you hit a bug, and then you realize you have no idea what’s going on under all the automagical stuff

With React and Rails, "hitting a bug" is apparently rare. Maybe we should wait before assuming it will be any different with this Reactive Clojure framework.
Of course, I presume those same personal-choice-oriented people also believe that the government should force people to be vaccinated.
Since we're talking about stupid Slack bots, I feel compelled to mention my stupid bot: REPLbot [1] is a Slack/Discord bot for running interactive REPLs and shells from a chat.

It is fun and marginally useful. It supports sharing your own terminal in Slack too.

[1] https://github.com/binwiederhier/replbot
I have no idea but to me a pair of Converse should last more than 3 months and that's why I shoe goo mine to last 6 months. But I know people whose shoes age much better than mine, it's probably got to do with our walking pattern.
I'm very surprised to hear that I'm not the only one getting spams in my inbox and legitimate emails in the spam folder for more than a month.

I thought that Google had some sort of metrics and would spot this issue if it was widespread, but it seems they don't even bother.

Do they even care about Google search and GMail? They're getting worse and worse.
I've never understood this argument. If I buy a can of soda with 'already taxed' money for $.50 and sell it for $1, is that not $.50 of income that hasn't been taxed? What makes stock special?
Yes! Glad to hear I'm not going crazy.
FB allows commenting on ads. This does not go well for certain types of advertisers. Political and religious ads especially. Even the bland corporate advertisers have to spend some time cleaning up the inevitable mess.

What's especially puzzling is that FB allows image uploads as an ad response unless the advertiser was smart enough to disable it.
I get the slippery slope argument here — but in reality, most people that end up on these lists are utterly atrocious drunks/jerks,right? Or am I missing something?

I’ve witnessed LOT of bad passengers. Really bad. But I’ve never seen someone removed (from what I gather, you get removed then banned — tho I’m opened to correction on this point too)
I think the main risk for this kind of framework is that you spend as much time ironing out these kinds of "edge cases" (debounce, transition states, error states, transactions, authorization, url bar state, scroll bar position, paging, efficient re-renders, etc. etc.), which in practice are crucial to most non-trivial software, as you would have just writing the usual boilerplate and retaining fine-grained control.

It's great that people are innovating and creating new abstractions, and I'm sure there are apps where the tradeoff is worth it (internal CRUD-focused enterprise stuff comes to mind), but my knee-jerk reaction for a large app is that it will make easy things easier and hard things much harder.
You are applying pressure just as much as anyone that argues against the Texas law, insisting that people should follow your preferences for how the government is organized rather than speaking their minds.

It's incoherent.
Probably a really fast way to get yourself added to the no-fly list.
I am one of the world's biggest proponents of automated testing, but I find the obsession with unit testing to be weird.

You usually get much more bang for your buck with integration and e2e tests than unit tests. Tests have the most power when it is significantly harder to write a correct implementation than it is to write a correct test. As a system grows it becomes harder to reason about its correctness, so testing at the smallest level seems backwards.

On top of that, unless you are exporting a public API, most units are free to change, so you really only care that the software as integrated in your program is correct. In my experience, the overwhelming majority (as in well over 99%) of unit tests are changed because the unit's expected behavior is changed before they ever detect a bug.

There are some things that would be units for which it's easier to write a test than a correct implementation. Besides the obvious examples (e.g. it's easier to test if something is sorted than to sort something), if you have code that must be hand-optimized for performance reasons, then you can run a battle-tested suboptimal version and compare the outputs to get a unit test for free.
"Flying with cash is legal".

No, it clearly isn't. The law says that a government employee can take your money as long as they write some words on a bit of paper, and if any of that money ever came in to contact with any drug (which are legal in many states), or for many other reasons, then they can keep it forever.

Claiming it is legal is just a way to get more clients.
But also, cutting the population in half wouldn’t solve things permanently. The population was have its current size in 1950. So it would just take ~50 years to get back to its present size.
That is exactly the problem. Fuchsia's license is more free only for developers in the short term, as lacks provisions to force developers to keep it free, in the end this will significantly reduce users' freedom. If Linux never had copyleft, it would never have had this success.
Anders Tegnell: Sweden won the argument on Covid
Yep. The colonialist thing here is the notion of making sweeping proclamations about all indigenous nations as some uniform thing, as if they didn't have any individual political and cultural history.

The closest indigenous nations to me, that I'm most familar with, those of the NW Coast, certainly had sophisticated property rights, both physical (ie. hunting grounds) and intellectual (particular rights to use songs, stories and figures in art).
They can sue him if they feel that he abused his position as executive or majority shareholder.
> it does apply evolutionary pressure on covid to develop a spike protein that can avoid the immune system

The way you say this, it seems to imply some kind of intelligent mutation, is that true of viruses? I was under the impression that they would simply accidentally evolve around it as they reproduce themselves over and over. Thus if you limit their ability to reproduce, you'd limit their chances of mutating in ways that avoid the immune response.

Where as for bacteria, my understanding was that, while it similarly accidentally evolves around it, by abusing antibiotics, you kill the bacteria that isn't resistant, thus the resistant bacteria will proliferate in its place, and possibly eventually become the dominant strain. While if you'd left the body deal with the bacteria, this would not happen, and so you should only resort to antibiotics in cases where the person's immune system is losing the battle.
Why is it so bad for states to make their own laws about abortion?
In one part because the false positives of picking up top players as bots becomes an issue.
Yes I get these exact emails, also get added to Google docs
Then handle it server side. Anything you ask the user to install into their kernel should not be closed source.
> "Here's a few good points and ideas, surrounded by a fuck-ton of anecdotes and proverbs, because you're not going to pay $20 for a magazine article."

Though to be fair, sometimes those anecdotes are useful. I like examples, especially ones where an idea is applied to a situation that resembles my own. Also repetition is helpful to actually have a concept sink in.

Also, what's filler for you may be the most relevant section for someone else (e.g. an anecdote that matches their situation but not yours, or necessary repetition).

Also, I think software engineers, at least, have a bias to optimize for concision that can sometimes be counterproductive. For instance, I doubt a moderately long article that fully explains the core concept of cognitive behavior therapy would be as successful at actually changing the behavior of a depressed person than a more "redundant" book-length version. Maybe the short version would still work for some people, but that doesn't mean that's the best version for the majority of people.
One of the reasons people buy products/goods is because of social proof - if that social proof erodes (i.e. one of my biggest clients cancels their revenue to me and tells everyone about it) then I have no control over what those clients' competitors say about me.
> This is why I still use the console model with my gaming PC.

I mean this is why I use a console as my first choice gaming platform.
I prefer to communicate asynchronously via text to keep myself and others focused on work. People become surprisiginly resourceful when they no longer expect or rely on realtime (or near to it) replies. To each their own, of course.
Not really, as it is on an entirely different level. According to the Tractatus, any transcendental questions are really about existence. As this is outside of what is graspable inside the world (and only accessible as a concept by the impossible position from looking at the world from outside), it is simply beyond theoretical reach. As any propositions about the real, factual world belong to the natural sciences, this leaves no genuine propositions to philosophy. The subject of these philosophical questions just arises, but can't be argued about – at least, not in a meaningful way in the strict sense. So computation doesn't promise any meaningful answers, nor do these questions lend themselves to computation. Even more so, as nothing genuinely arises from logic (but logic structure).

(While some of this may remind of Kant's thing in itself, it is comes from an entirely different direction, namely, a proposed teleology of philosophy, while Kant addresses this from the fundamentals of perception.)
Or maybe it would be a long overdue cleanup
Effective communication is a negotiation between speaker and listener. You are welcome to refer to the 1918 flu epidemic by any name you wish. In doing so, you will be causing confusion in some number of your listeners who do not recognize that name in the way they would the more traditional "Spanish Flu."

That might be worth it to you, and over a long enough period of time, perhaps your preferred name will be more widely known, but make no mistake: it's not what most people know today.

And to your point, I already can't remember the new name of the Cleveland team. I think it started with a V?
why would they? the viewers are not their customers.
A lot of kids (middle and high schoolers) these days have pet projects like making html based website and writing a discord bot in javascript. The fact that our district hands out chromebooks probably contributes to the trend.
That's what this memo is clarifying, that Apple will support employees who want to transfer because of state politics or who need to seek an abortion out of state.

It's not a given that you can transfer between offices for personal (or political) reasons; normally there are requirements based on team & organizational needs.
Instead of CSV, you could serve an sqlite database directly and query it using sql.js or absurd-sql.
Doesn't change the fact that the US' minimum wage is incredibly low and has been for years.
I've thinking about trying this for a very long time, but never did so. My keyboard "mechanical switch" of choice is Trope. To me there isn't a single other switch that comes even close (and I've got lots of keyboards). And among the Topre keyboards, my favorite is the HHKB Pro JP (japanese layout)... But it's not split (I don't care if it's two parts or one part: to me "split" means both halves are at an angle).

So I've been thinking about using not one but two HHKB Pro JP, as in TFA. I should really just try it.
Skia Shaders in Compose Desktop
You can, actually. Steam can add non-steam games to the library, and also can stream them over Steam link. I've used that to play GoG games on Android TV.
I've been receiving spam for years in Gmail.

Some years ago a not so bright product manager decided that dots are not important.

My address used to be surname.name@gmail.com, and I've been receiving email for surnamename@gmail.com for years.
I walk to a family dollar that’s 30 min round trip from my house. Many problems have been solved by a slim Jim and diet Dr Pepper.
The pain of not being able to do complex queries in an Elastic world means this is a pretty logical conclusion. I'd love to see the ability to also collect metrics and traces in Clickhouse as well, which would let me easily join across dynamic service boundaries to collate information I need.

For example, being able to correlate a customer ID (stored in a log) to a trace ID (stored in the request trace) to Snowflake warehouse usage (stored as metrics) to a subset of the pipeline (mixed between logs and traces) to get a full understanding of how much each customer cost us in terms of Snowflake usage would be immensely valuable.
I don't game but I've found Kinesis split keyboard (https://gaming.kinesis-ergo.com/edge/) + vertical mouse cured my wrist/forearm pain. That plus a desk at 27" instead of a "normal" 32" are one time ergonomic expenses that are absolute no-brainers for programmers.

It took a lot of trial and error to find the setup that worked for me. I think the above is the right 80/20 solution. Worth a shot and hope it ends up helping someone. FWIW, the Kinesis keyboard has a nice tilt that corresponds with the vertical mouse tilt.
Try a short-travel or low profile mech switch. I believe both Cherry and Kailh have a Speed series with a short activation distance. The Kailh Choc line of low-profile switches has something like a 1-2mm travel which might work too.
> So yeah, I really don't consent to participating in this experiment. How do I opt out?

Stay home, don't physically interact with others. If that's not to your liking, move to a state or country with less strict rules and less robust governance.
There’s a scene in the movie “Sully” that occurs right after the bird strikes that I’ve seen a few people in commercial aviation respond very positively to in its depiction of checklists during a crisis moment.
You'd think they'd have a corporate version of a PiHole as well.
Just got that exact email moments ago.
Yes, very obvious bitcoin scams with html attachments that try to execute script to redirect you to another webpage
There is a special name for this tofu-dreg projects

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tofu-dreg_project
The Loyalists were people loyal to the English monarchy. They didn't harbour allegiance to a foreign regime but the current one. They fled because they were on the losing side of the war.
But all that assumes these measures do anything all! Prove these measures actually work (and to a degree that outweighs their cost) and then we can talk!

Hence my rain dance analogy. Until you prove this crap works, what we are doing is no better than rain dances.
Given the way any provider can lock you out at any time using your own domain is absolutely worth it.

I've found if you use something like firstname@lastname.tld people generally get it if they've dealt with any other business email addresses (in some cases it actually makes you appear more professional). They usually have your first and last names before you get onto email addresses so they can piece it together and validate it.

If you're really worried about password resets showing your domain get a second domain and only use that for online transactions, it can then be as obscure as you like. Sure there's an extra cost to that but it's a trade off of cost vs the level of privacy you want.
I guess I see what you're saying, but shouldn't it be evident which function got called based on the next stack frame up? When I look at stack traces I guess I'm usually just trying to figure out the sequence of calls so that I can know where to look for a bug, but if I needed to inspect state I would probably be doing it in a debugger.
That's why it's never gonna happen, they don't have resources to support this population growth.
Linked – unclutter your mind by writing everything down, each and every day
If you didn't realize it, Google has managed to get you to waster your time actually going through advertising (instead of putting that on the side for you).

I'm really surprised most people aren't realizing this.
Micropayments are something we’ve had available to us forever, there’s no reason a custodial wallet like PayPal can’t offer them - or couldn't have offered them at any point in the last two decades. People don’t want them. And they certainly don’t want them at up to $60 a pop haha. Or over LN which still requires an on chain transaction to open a channel.

Nick Szabo has a great write up that outlines my thoughts exactly [1]

[1] https://nakamotoinstitute.org/static/docs/micropayments-and-...
Nowadays? Try day one. I always thought of this as a misfeature and disabled it from the start. I have no idea how this would be useful to me.
I am not living in Texas/US, but believe that babies of any age in mother's womb should have 100% protection – as far as humanly possible. If Apple listens to the author's advice: "move your business out of Texas" – a democratically chosen government that chooses to protect life – I will also move my business out of Apple.

I find it disturbing that so many people only think about mothers right to abortion, and have no qualms whatsoever about taking the life of perfectly formed humans and destroying the life they would/could have been living . . .
I’m so curious – what do they mean by wide scale blocking? Are there any papers on this?

I run PiHole in a GCP container for my wife and I to WireGuard into… am I running “wide scale blocking” in my network?
One of my tasks at my very first job as a 15 year old bag boy was to walk with the manager across the street to the night deposit box to drop off cash.

The real risk in ghat endeavor was the manager convincing me to split the cash and run off with it…
> It turns out twisting my right hand outward in order to accommodate my mouse to the right of my keyboard was the culprit.

I noticed that very early on in my career. Back when keyboards you could reasonably buy always had a keypad at the right of the keyboard.

So what did I do back then? (we're talking early 2000 or so)...

I learned to use my mouse as a leftie.

And to this day I can use my mouse either with the left hand or right hand.

Also I made sure to configure everything so that mouse usage is minimized.
I’ve gotten a ton of spam and marking it as spam doesn’t seem to help. Gmail getting less workable
Coordinating employers, schools, shops, etc. to change their hours is incredibly hard—-unless you just change the clock by law.

And even if you could coordinate all that, it would have the same effect as day light savings. So why not just do it the easy way.
Has pain from using keyboard.
Uses apple non-mechanical keyboard...

Try a mechanical keyboard. Gateron or Cherry brown is my choice, silent and very comfortable.
That's exactly right. That's what 'democracy' means...you vote, and sometimes you lose, but you still have to abide by the will of the voting mass that wins.

There's something very entitled to the idea that "I support democracy as long as it advances my agenda. Otherwise (if I'm economically privileged), I'll move to California >>> Canada >>> Overseas somewhere more aligned with me."
yeah, this is one of our considerations. right now my wife and i are planning on sticking around through the election next year and helping out with some campaigns. if dems in this state can’t pull off some Georgia-style turnout in the next election, we’re almost certainly leaving before the next one.