skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> it's almost impossible to fairly convict a savvy criminal in the US without physical evidence or multiple witnesses.

That is not true. I don't even think police or prosecutors think that.

> The US system is such a mess that the police and suspects basically conspire to avoid it (plea bargaining)

Also not true. The plea bargaining system is not something that suspects "conspire" to use, it is foisted upon them and sometimes causes innocent people to plead guilty.

> In most of the world, police interrogations aren't optional...

Nor are they in the US. It's true that the police often stop questioning someone once they ask for a lawyer, but that's not because the questioning is "optional", it's because they know the lawyer will tell the suspect to shut up.

Your whole post is wildly miscalibrated. Calling legal representation a "get out of jail free" card is absurd. I don't know where you learned about the American legal system, but boy, I hope you never get arrested in the US for a crime you didn't commit, because it would not go well for you.
The pinephone is totally useless.
Pussy and boner both have innocent uses. A pussy is a cat, a boner is a silly mistake.
The US seems ok but your mileage may vary by domicile:

As of early 2021, 157 governments required some form of proof of identity before a person could purchase a SIM card, but what form of ID and what other information may be required varies.

https://www.privacyinternational.org/long-read/3018/timeline...
He's not going to share it with you
Can’t imagine a use case. I’m sure they exist. But I’ll bet I could count them on fingers and toes. And anything truly practical would require active stabilization of the aiming.
EMC2
The registrars are obligated to prevent fraud and abuse. If they fail to do that job you can appeal directly to the registry. If the registry doesn't do anything you can appeal to ICANN.

All of them are within the scope of the legal system, so if you send a police report demonstrating fraud to a registrar or registry and they fail to act you have some recourse. If their inaction results in increased damages they've opened themselves to liability and you could sue them. The possibility alone is enough that everyone has published polices detailing how they deal with those situations. As long as you follow the rules you can get a domain taken away from a bad actor. It's not easy, but it's possible if someone is doing enough harm.

So yeah, you can host a scam on a normal ICANN domain. It's what happens afterwards that matters. In ICANN land you get one chance to run your scam because the victim can make an appeal to authority to have you shut down. In blockchain land it's tough luck for you.

As an example, this [1] looks like PayPal's wallet. What do they do about this [2] wallet which owns paypals.eth (alongside sqaree.eth, chasebanks.eth, etc.)? They have two choices AFAIK. The first is to pay whatever the owner demands for those domains. The second is to take the risk of the owner selling those domains to someone that wants to use them for phishing.

There are exactly two winners in the blockchain version; the domain squatter and a would be scammer. In the existing system a high value domain owner like PayPal will have an established procedure for dealing with bad actors that infringe on their trademark and dealing with typo squatting like that is probably as simple as sending a template they have to the corresponding registry.

1. https://app.ens.domains/address/0x527FC48f1CA8b41DF3E870F5DE...

2. https://app.ens.domains/address/0x7731652a9F7F48F77E94a8675F...
> What's the point of using a blockchain if you're going to abstract everything away to a centralized ledger?

I guess I'll echo GP and ask what is the problem that requires features specific to blockchain to solve some of these problems? I've followed eth since 2012 or so and I've only seen increased centralization in it and similar projects.
Punch up, generate outrage, capitalize on the attention.

TLDR: Another trash piece of provocation driven content-marketing.
That and FileMaker were my first thoughts, too, but reading https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/access-2010-web-d... Access isn’t an option anymore if web access is required.

FileMaker Pro (https://www.claris.com/filemaker/pro/) probably still is an option. It isn’t free in any sense, though.

dBase also still exists (http://www.dbase.com/ (web page looks like a print of an ugly presentation)), but I wouldn’t know whether that ticks all the boxes.
Heh, not far off the original romads then. Thanks for sharing your experience.
12ft.io does a great job of bypassing paywalls, which is needed because people want to avoid paying for the content they want to see. What's more, 12ft is basically an open CGI proxy server. The chances that it will be used to death without any efficient way to monetize it seems high.
FWIW I do think it's a great service and is very helpful when you only need to access one article from a site you'll never need/want a subscription for. But I can definitely see there being people taking advantage of it when they want to avoid subscribing to whatever service.
This discussion seamlessly slided from "severely limited marketing" to "We cannot ban anything" in a 2 comment span.

I kinda feel this is the kind of escalation that also paralyses discourse when dealing with corporate behavior that affects society as a whole. We would really benefit a from "nudge"/"don't promote" approach to first limit impacts, without bringing all the ban and censorship drama in it as long as the option is not on the table.
https://www.fda.gov/consumers/consumer-updates/5-tips-travel... The government's attitude appears to be against muling medicines over (I realize that people still do it all the time).

Self-prescribing antibiotics is not great for antibiotic resistance - Al Jazeera has done some great reporting on how Indian pharmacies loose prescription checks or doctors overambitious antibiotic prescriptions have caused a rise in antibiotic resistant superbugs (https://www.aljazeera.com/program/101-east/2016/8/9/the-rise...) - sure they're easy to get, but there's been a tremendous health cost in India because of that

But not only "suckers and rich people" pay American rates - the people who were born here without foreign ties do it all the time!

And finally, India just recently opened for tourism, plus they're not doing visa on arrivals yet, how can people get a payday loan, passport, visa via embassy, and a whole trip in so casually?

Edit: can't you just do everything you mentioned above in Mexico anyways?
Didn't Google's Borg precede Heroku by years? Surely its unfair to claim that they "brought little more to the table than money and influence"
> attempt to balance the scales

That is actually imbalance you are seeking.

For example if 90% of people in a domain are of race X, then unbiased selection *should* select 90% of race X. Assuming the perceived investment opportunity is evenly distributed between all people.
Why is there such hostility towards crypto?

I can understand the anger at Proof-of-Work cryptos, or perhaps the current somewhat "wild west" state of them, where fly-by-night operations work to separate people from their money, but ultimately I see them as the wave of the future.

Ultimately I think the cryptos that see the most success will likely be those that can be better regulated, which is somewhat at odds with why crypto came about, but without some protection it would be like an unregulated stock market.
I guess it depends on which end we are talking about.

Generally, “end to end encryption” refers to client to client encryption, where the sever routes data but can’t read it.
I can see just fine right now that we need to oppose tyranny and the erosion of personal liberty. I just wish the people most vocal about it didn't also believe that vaccines are a conspiracy to sterilize their women.

I probably would have been on board with most of the 1960s hippies' basic premises too, and equally disgusted with the conspiracy-minded side of their beliefs.
It looks the way it does because:

1) First and foremost, the board or box the components are soldered to forms a very good ground plane

2) The parts are organized so that the circuits fit the enclosure

3) The part leads are used to provide relatively rigid support for the parts

4) Where they can't, it looks like the builder used epoxy

You could argue that the builder should have cleaned off the solder flux and you'd probably be wrong, because you probably don't know what a pain it is to really clean off solder flux to the standards of high reliability circuits.

Folks that are used to breadboards and perfboard construction have a hard time appreciating the care that goes into good dead-bug assembly. That is probably a fairly high performance circuit and is probably much more rugged than the typical perfboard sewing card.
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I second Rails. It's incredibly polished and has really good gems to speed up dev. ActiveAdmin is a great gem if you need to quickly make an admin dashboard. It was useful when I had a small consultancy.

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Anyone played http://www.medievia.com/ ? It started in 1991 and is still going strong.
Personally I would still consider that lucky in the grand scheme of things. I'd never compare myself or the work I do to that of a doctor.

Is there some logical reason I'm missing why it should be any different than it is?
I’m not saying freer markets in some aspects of medicine would be better - but the libertarian dream in medicine is probably very naive and fails to learn from history to boot (medicine, especially pharm was much freer 120 years ago - it didn’t work out too well).

And of the big problems in medicine - a prescription for glasses (which isn’t really a medical service in the US - optometry is not a medical profession) just doesn’t register for me - you can order glasses online without a prescription if you are so inclined.

Meanwhile there isn’t any realistic libertarian solution to allocation or access to complex medical care - and just hand waving “free markets” doesn’t make it so.
> when faced with an unclear Hebrew word

I thought the King James Version was translated into English from Greek (which was translated from Hebrew).

I mention it because, if true, the opportunity for “lost in translation” is greater.
I'm not sure if this is necessarily contrarian to HNers, but most appliances and gadgets with 'smart' features are garbage and should be avoided. 'The market' seems to think these features are desirable or even essential.

The UIs are terrible and limiting, the smarts become obsolete or will fail faster than the rest of the hardware, and will be costly if not impossible to repair/replace. And then there's the ads, surveillance, locked features, and so on.
Math seems like the discipline best suited to such a process. Experimental sciences are less so -- the quintissential example perhaps being medicine / biochem.
I can't remember the last time I saw a truck have at least one full length of space in front of them, except when there's basically no traffic at all. They're usually one to one and a half car lengths apart.
Well this is ironic. Well intentioned developer creates site to bypass paywalls. Site is a popular success, and begins to cost too much money for the developer to maintain. Developer comes up with a solution which is to introduce an optional paywall.

I'm not just poking fun... I actually sympathize because I'm in a similar situation with one of my projects. I've had to reconsider being a 100% ideals-based person and actually set up methods for people to give me money.

I've always appreciated sites offering free content, but now I'm in the unique situation where I'm the one publishing content. It takes a lot of time and energy to put together and my other sources of income can only cover the bills for so long. The harsh reality is that free services require money to operate.
So basically he makes it so people can steal articles... and then he's realizing that yeah, running a website is expensive and that's why companies have paywalls in the first place.
>In 2020, 8.6 percent of people, or 28.0 million, did not have health insurance at any point during the year

OK. Is your point Mark should be trying to build a single insurance offering or marketplace that could serve them all? Not being confrontational, just genuinely curious if think his efforts are better spent there?
> This is what end-to-end encryption should look like!

> Published on: April 12, 2020 by Emil

> Work in Progress!
Will your spending decline in retirement?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connectix specialized in products made thru reverse engineering. They had a couple of home runs over the years.

32bit memory manager sold to Apple

first webcam (not really a result of RE) sold to Logitech

PlayStation emulator sold to Sony

Virtual PC sold to Microsoft
It’s a jobs creation program to improve re-election chances, and a transfer of tax $ to private companies in return for “lobbyism” (bribes) and lucrative jobs in those companies if re-election fails.
There's a quadriplegic motivational speaker who ties that knot especially well.
Hospital profit margins are razor thin in the US. Their pricing is so convoluted because they have to come up with inane contracts with insurance companies to squeeze out every dollar they can.

In some instances, doctors in private practices have told me that taking Medicare or Medicaid means making less than minimum wage for certain procedures because the rates are fixed at such low values. In other cases, ER and intensive care units make nothing because they cannot legally turn anyone away for not being able to pay.

All of that has to be made up somewhere, and bilking insurance companies when they can are how they stay afloat.

Big companies can take the hit on high insurance rates. Drug makers live in boom and bust cycles (drugs are either fabulous money makers or bottomless pits that suck money from research, to testing, to the famously expensive FDA approval process).

The people hurt the worst are the small business employees and owners, the self employed, and the part time workers who can't afford to have the hospital come after them.
Very interesting about JCL being an older precedent for the 12 Factors, I've never used it, so I'll have to take a look.

I totally know what you mean about OpenStack! So much potential, but just way too complicated. But I'm not sure it's fair to say that Kubernetes was the first project to Just Work™. I never tried Mesos, but it's always seemed more accessible to me. But I did use Deis and Flynn though, and they were a delight in comparison. Deis of course being the home of Helm, Kubernetes' now de facto packager manager.

Also don't you think that Kubernetes explicitly embraced Docker right from the start as a first-class citizen? OpenStack only ever bolted it on as an after thought. Kubernetes knew what the buzz was and made sure to let everyone know that Docker was front and centre. This is why I think it's better to think of Kubernetes as a spiritual child of Docker (and therefore everything that came before Docker) rather than a technical descendant of Borg.

Although Deis and Flynn were certainly already creaking under the weight of what it truly meant to support the full gamut of cloud features, they were heading in the right direction. Google really did knock it out of the park, which I'm grateful for, but I think they did it more with the sheer weight of money and reputation than any innovative technology. Nobody really knew the devs behind Deis and Flynn, but everyone knows Google's reputation. And so we all just came to warm our hands around Kubernetes' fire, and the rest is history.
> On one occasion the FBI didn't pay their bill, and New York Telephone billed the party being wiretapped

If the New York telephone didn't like what the FBI was doing, that's the most passive aggressive thing I've ever heard of.
Another aspect of this is the problem of aspiring to some goal other than actually doing work... for example, having a large and impressive note graph, or making content (youtube videos, blog posts etc) about note taking.

I'm always interested to see the broader phenomenon where people leave a job to create content/educational courses about the job full time instead. I have seen cases in finance, programming, wood working and in university students thus far. What is particularly interesting is when they make more as a content creator than they ever would have doing the actual job.
I find the site useful and want to pay, but don’t want a browser extension.
Career Change from Software Development
I have been a software developer for 5 years and I’m not a great programmer. I’ve only been with one company since graduating and I feel like I’m not advancing. Last month I talked to my manager about a senior developer position and the manager explained to me we’re not looking for one at this time. After a week he called me and offered me market adjustment raise which I not that great.

A couple minutes ago I opened LinkedIn and found out my team mate got promoted to a senior dev. I actually helped couching him when he was hired two years ago and I have been involved in more projects than him. He actually deserves it and he’s a great developer, but I feel really depressed right now I feel like I’m not interested in software development anymore and would like to leave my company.

I speak both English and Arabic and I wonder what my options are? Any suggestions? I’m really lost
They got mainlanders in to crack heads. I’ve seen video of the cops just going nuts in the subway and start beating civilians. There were thousands and thousands of innocent people beaten and arrested, day after day. This happened!!!!

You will not downplay this here!
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Yup, right now "free-to-play game currency" is a good way to think about Manifold dollars. We'd love to support a real-money equivalent at some point though; stay tuned for updates on this front (https://manifoldmarkets.substack.com/)
The “Why?” section of the home page is rather disingenuous, since the Economist is not “SEO optimized garbage”, nor does it want you to “sign up for some newsletter”. It’s just an excellent newspaper that needs to pay the staff that writes all those articles. Just like 12ft.io needs to pay its hosting provider.
No, you did not. You have made such false claims as 'If you can't get there without a stop at Mars, then you really, really can't get there with a stop at Mars.' This is a claim that is easily shown to be false by calculating the differences in delta v from Mars to belt/outer planet destinations vs from Earth. You then claimed what you meant was that it takes more energy - but so what? It takes more energy to refuel in LEO than it does to launch a ship from the Earth surface to escape. Basically this entire time you have simply just claimed 'no, you're wrong' without any calculation to back it up, and the few claims that you have made have been ludicrously wrong.
It’s not about being cute. It’s about the biodiversity that reintroducing a lot of these predators creates. This is well-documented by the reintroduction of wolves in Yellowstone National Park in the USA which occurred in the 1990s.
You don't get a ground plane with perfboard, unless you submit yourself to the pain of working with vectorboard, and perfboard construction is inherently more fragile than dead bug.

If you get good at dead bug construction, you can make changes and do experiments as easily as with a solderless breadboard.
And those who can't afford to pay for their ambulances and fire departments and roads and schools, fuck 'em, right? It's their fault for being poor, they should try harder.

Libertarians are funny people. It boggles my mind how anyone can be clueless or compassionless enough to be one.
I think it would need to go beyond culture and regional boundaries to be declared an addiction. A lot of countries don't have sugar/fat/msg issues, that should at least hint at a more compounding set of issues.

Also arguably what some people see as a sugar crisis has more to do with the food industry landscape than the food components themselves. TBF finding a scapegoat is easier than dealing with complex root problems.
I am just not engaged enough in day-to-day politics to know about the Issue of Day. So when people make angry quips about it, and can't fit a multi-paragraph explainer into it, I can't make any sense of their tweets.

I find politics is best learnt from history books. There isn't that much about today's politics you can't learn from 19th-21st Century history books.
UMRP has no legal effect. It's just a declaration by the manufacturer that "if we catch you pricing below this point, we will stop selling to you". Once you have the item, you can price it however you want.
In graduate school (economics) I was part of a small* group that took and shared extensive notes. It really felt like a Voltron-esque superpower. We were way smarter and more capable together than we were on our own.

That experience is part of the flame that keeps me passionate about shared knowledge graphs.

* We were 3 to 7 people (depending on the night), meeting one to three hours a night, maybe three or four nights a week.
My maths supervisor always had a bunch of papers on his desk. I never figured out how someone with such a logical mind could have so much stuff everywhere. One feature was a huge vertical pile of papers. I always joked that he knew where everything was, it was just a case of measuring from the ground upwards.
None of that really contradicts the parent comment.

> Courts look at the firm's market share, but typically do not find monopoly power if the firm (or a group of firms acting in concert) has less than 50 percent of the sales of a particular product or service within a certain geographic area. Some courts have required much higher percentages. In addition, that leading position must be sustainable over time: if competitive forces or the entry of new firms could discipline the conduct of the leading firm, courts are unlikely to find that the firm has lasting market power.
Under the skin: How lasers let you do origami with stainless steel
If that's what you meant, all those people who assumed medicine was like any other product were correct.
Agreed I usually read a few books that circle around core new concepts that I internalize, no notes required. In fact the brain’s built in lossy memory is an advantage here. Related article a few clicks deep points to where I also think writing can be useful:

> Many of the most effective people I know—alive and dead—seem unable to do serious thinking without a writing surface in front of them. It seems to extend cognition somehow: perhaps it effectively extends one’s Span of working memory, or perhaps moving the fingers somehow contributes to the thinking.
I think the 'port' concept inherits so much abstraction, it changes the meaning and how it really works.

When I started out, a port was (and still is) just a designated memory location, and address, where some process (like a NIC driver) can write byte(s) into it. 'Listening' on a 'port' just meant the memory location is checked by a piece of code either through polling or interrupt driven. The interrupt is triggered by the same process that placed the data into the mem location.

Abstraction married to time is a is the enemy of knowledge.