skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It denies the ability to afford a defense against anything else you may be accused of. These people got their money back yet were left immensely damaged by the process.
I don't entirely hate "new reddit" but I prefer the old version and greatly appreciate them keep the old style around. The new version is so badly coded and slow. I think if they would stop "updating" and optimize efficiency of their interface it would be useable again.
Even the single language captions are mostly left to software and get it wrong often enough to be useless; youtube used to have a "community captioning" program, dont know what happened to that. At least on tiktok there's an etiquette of captioning the video yourself so it can be enjoyed on mute.

When I pirate a movie I can lookup corresponding .srt files to add captions in any language.

Maybe a browser extension that allows people to share caption tracks or alternate audio streams tagged to a video hash or url.
Is there even one?
Yeah, GNU/NT would have changed everything.

Instead we got cygwin :-/
Cristina Calderón, Chile's last known Yaghan speaker, dies at 93
There are still a few of us who remember; I've tried posting responses here when the Nadella Kool-Aid gets too thick. But on the whole, kids nowadays -- even on here -- are far too easily impressed by superficial "Internet and Open Source-friendly" bling-bling BS.

(Geroffmylawn, punks.)
oh dear god don't put Machine learning (a big unpredictable blackbox) in control of a safety critical process.
I'm cool with it, so long as there are horrible penalties for abuse and solid checks and balances in the courts, reasonable time limits, etc.

The US civil forfeiture system seems rife with abuse. It's not nearly as bad in Canada.
Internet shutdown have little to do with security but suppress freedom of speech
The question highlights rather well that there is no consistent logical reason for this attitude. Unfortunately it prevails very strongly at the moment.

I agree that the company should be sued into oblivion. And I think should this be say on other antigen or histamitic testing they would. My point is that because it has simply touched covid many people are having reactionary not cognative responses...
Tesla Helps China's Firms Compete with the U.S.
The company found itself in a commercial environment where it could exploit and monetize misbehavior. If we had legal protections of private data, including DNA, stealing people's DNA wouldn't be profitable. The "typical" behavior of harvesting every bit of customer information has resulted in a culture in which such exploitation is almost expected.

Unelected technocrats are in charge, and it turns out that might not be the best way of running the world.
there is a setting in user settings to use the old interface "always", if you didn't already know. Then you don't have to type "old.reddit.com"
Not OP, but my parents tried that back in 1997 when I was nine.

My solution? I'd fake being asleep, wait for them to go to bed, and then sneak over to the computer room and turn it on.

I did this nearly every night for a long, long time.
When I saw the headline, I was really hoping that the accompanying article was actually not an argument for keeping pay stagnant, but it effectively was. So disappointing.

Does the author not know that pay is not even keeping with inflation right now?
> Probably 75-80% of USB devices in my house that I might want to plug into my laptop are still USB-A.

That seems...improbable.

I would bet that most of the devices are USB Micro-B. They probably came with USB-A to Micro-B cables, but you can get USB-C to Micro-B cables, too, and since USB-C supports a superset of the modes supported over Micro-B, there is no reduction in function (as there might be connecting a USB-C device with a USB-A to USB-C cable.)

Of course, if you did need to connect a USB-A device to your laptop, a USB-A to USB-C cable will do that, and are much easier to find than USB-A to USB-A cables you'd need if it was a USB-A-only laptop.
I had the same uneasy reation when the trailer showed how you can "rally local villages or force them into submission." Hopefully roleplaying colonialism will eventually feel as gross as roleplaying something like racism.
If your M1 Mac ends up in a boot loop
I did some sneaky crap to mine, routed all PS4 traffic through a linux box that added random 200ms-500ms delay on packets. He could play but kept dying because its so fun to play with high ping.
Counterfeit parts found in U.S. nuclear plants
SpeeChin: A Smart Necklace Camera for Silent Speech Recognition
If instead of coming here for 15years and leaving a comment every other day you invested the dollar amount equivalent to the time you took to write that comment instead you would have $100k.

10 mins(time to read/write comment) x $120/hr
= $20 x 30 days/mo x 0.5 (every other day)
= $300/mo x 15 years x 8% (compounded annually)
= $100k
I agree, you should never assist a pizza delivery driver. After all, Dominos makes billions of dollars, they can afford their own pizza-delivery assistance staff.

Maybe we can even make the case you should slow down delivery drivers! Pull in front of them and go quite slow, or block their bike path.
Yea, a lot of private equity in DC...
In which country is it a punishable offense?
So you don't recommend even for just travelling? It is a safe country for tourists?
Also that article links to two GeekWire articles:

https://www.geekwire.com/2021/former-aws-real-estate-manager...

https://www.geekwire.com/2021/riveter-ceo-husband-dispute-fb...
Any domain that contains a letter in a language-specific alphabet other than English, such as Chinese, Arabic, Japanese, Russian, Tamil, Chinese or a Latin alphabet using a character with an accents, such as Spanish, Danish or French. These are stored in the Domain Name System as ascii strings using an endcoding mechanism called Punycode.

So the domain fênêtre.com translates to xn--fentre-kva.com in punnycode.

All encoded domains form an ascii string starting xn-- but when displayed in a browser, display in their native language alphabet.
I recently saw a retro (PICO-8) demake of the 1992 game: https://liquidream.itch.io/undune2
More info: https://player.fm/series/recode-daily/nice-raise-too-bad-abo...
> "It was not, ‘Here’s what you have to do, and every quarter tell us what you’ve done.’ It was more like, ‘Oh gee, you’re doing that? That sounds really interesting! Why don’t you keep doing it as long as it looks good.'"

It also wasn't "So where are we on that piping story? Is that something that can be wrapped up this sprint, or do we have to carry it over into the next sprint?"

I think the idea of building an OS to foster a community is Unix's enduring legacy. Its API has unfixable warts, and C needs to be deprecated and phased out completely in favor of something like Rust. So if Unix qua Unix, with all its baggage and legacy cruft, couldn't happen today, maybe that's a good thing, but it'd be a shame if we couldn't make the same kind of "communitarian OS" happen again.

The kicker is, in today's environment, where every developer is being measured by the (dollar) value they contribute to their employer, I don't think we could.
Delaware is a doable commute.
Too bad all transactions on the blockchain are public. Would be trivial to monitor the "lost" wallet for any future transactions.
It still makes the premise that you can't defeat a bad diet bullshit.
Sometimes it is making other software easier to use. I have a buddy that works with traffic lights for a city. Some of the software they use has an awful UI. The city would gladly pay a few thousand for an add-in/plugin/whatever to make it easier to use (the company producing the software won’t do it).

These kinds of problems are found by talking to people, and really digging in. They probably are everywhere.
> we think

They need evidence
I don't know why I was thinking In-Q-Tel was Israeli...
Apple is the first company in the world to hit 3t and under Steve's care. Saying they haven't replaced him because they haven't bothered looking is absurd. Why bother fucking with the most valuable company in the world. That's like saying LeBron James is only on the team because no ones bothered to find anyone better.
What's not covered here is the price of false accusations. If you choose to pursue charges that dole increasingly high extra-legal or legal penalties before a trials conclusion (smearing the careers of both of those individuals, seizure of capital, ruining financial history) then the accuser should be liable for damages when they pull out or lose. Doing these things is a conscious effort, as she notes. The Amazon Lawyers knew they were penniless and seized on that. That behavior should not come without consequences.
Yeah it wasn't pretty but it was efficient and fast. I think those trump pretty any day of the week. With Reddit Enhancement Suite it's fantastic. However looks like RES has entered the "parked" status and they will only fix bugs now. I think the devs lost interest but in their defense it has been around for years. Unfortunately "new reddit" is still awful, but at least they tried to keep it alive long enough for reddit to get their shit together.
Arabs are mixed-race my friend, some of them are white.

Your comment reflects your lack of knowledge about us.

I don't hate western people for being western or white. I respect a lot of them and would love to learn from them.

Some places are more welcoming because people have more knowledge about dealing with foreigners and know more about their culture. So it comes back to education and being open to other cultures as I said, which dictators will never care about. They take money and weapons from you, then tell the people a lot of nonsense about you. People don't really know you. Then when someone tries to tell you this, you say your comment is full of assumptions and hatred.

Also, your media plays a big role in making people see us like animals, watch "bad reel arabs" and it should tell you more about that.
Hey I ain't got kids so only a thought but whilst fun, that sounds toxic. Let the kid play to their fullest enjoyment then tell them to stop, this seems the worst of both options.
Do you have a public link for the case?
If I wanted to take down the internet for my kids, I could just block all their IP addresses in my router. Much easier and not illegal. (I have not actually done this.)
“Would you like no money until we change our minds or you find a way to hire a lawyer (with no money to do so) and maybe win against us in court in a few years and after having used up most of the potential proceeds in attorney’s fees, OR just sign here and we’ll skim 20% and call it even”.

Protection racket.
My thoughts exactly. It's as helpful as telling people to not be poor. I've known parents doing all kinds of things to prevent their drug-addicted kids from getting drugs. Yes, there are fundamental issues, and yes, it would be nice to resolve them, but in the meantime you do what it takes to stop your kids from getting their hands on drugs.
Just to break it down a bit more (and with this particular article we are speculating some since there aren't a lot of details, but the situation in the article sure looks similar to what parents deal with a lot):

1) With anything, it's good to take a step back and ask yourself if you're addressing a symptom or a problem. Again, don't have a lot of details, but this sure looks like the dad was addressing a symptom. This doesn't solve anything (and the problem will manifest again 10 different ways later), it almost certainly does more harm to the relationship, and it leads to everyone feeling terrible.

2) It's easy to /think/ you'd tackle the problem if you knew what it was, but that's often not true at all. This probably applies to all relationships, but as a parent at least it's often much easier to fixate on a symptom. If I suspect my kid is lying to me often, it's realllly easy to go down the rabbit hole of trying to come up with ways to catch them and then to punish them, and it's far harder to focus on healing/strengthening the relationship, getting to the bottom of why the kid feels the need to lie, confronting the flaws in my parenting style etc. :)
Pricing and other buying behaviour is set at the margins
I find it pretty hilarious that point #7 is even a thing. Coming from (assuming UAE) an area that experiences +100 °F weather for half of the year lol…
In the UK, parties to a lawsuit can apply to the court for a group litigation order, which groups the lawsuits together and allows parties to join. They are somewhat analogous to American class actions.
Kodable (IK12) is hiring a senior game developer to help us teach kids to code
Not necessarily a smart switch thing, but dimmers don’t break the circuit when off. If you remove a bulb, it will hurt if you put your finger in the socket.

There’s usually a secondary way to break the circuit - pull out a bit of plastic, snap the switch plate away from the wall… something. All mine of different brands have some way to do it.
We need a politics MOOS (and no, I don't mean teenage years).

Human limits (communication, understanding, trust) cause politics everywhere.
My buddy on the rowing team would regularly eat 12 eggs + bacon + sausage & toast for breakfast after rowing. They were eating to excess to try to keep on weight and couldn't actually do it.
The bloomberg article says their assets were frozen rather than than forfeited (although I don't know whether there's a difference), and it was over kickbacks/fraudulent real estate contracts or something like that.
Reddit Enhancement Suite fixed all that. Sure it's a plugin but that's not that big of an inconvenience. Reddit devs really should have took inspiration from that instead of building the monstrosity they have now.
>It doesn't allow you to lie or refuse to answer questions

"right to remain silent" is literally for that purpose. There are ways around it, if the government grants you immunity, but it's still far more onerous than freezing a bank account or invoking civil forefiture. Not to mention, disclosure of the key and/or wallet addresses may plausibly result in you incriminating yourself (eg. by proving that you bought drugs on silk road or whatever).
"former FBI and Dept. of Justice employees who now work for Amazon leveraged cozy relationships with their former federal offices to lobby the government to pursue criminal charges and a civil forfeiture case. After they knew we had no money to pay for legal representation, Amazon’s lawyers sued my husband in federal court."

"For nearly two years, we waited as the Justice Department has held onto our money while one of the planet’s most powerful corporations paid its lawyers millions of dollars to kick us in the ribs."

We live in a dystopia
Mailfence – Encrypted Email Service
IEx in a Box
We Need a Standard Unit of Measure for Risk
It is not forfeiture. It is actually worse. It is using the system in ways that AML/BSA people in US warned the Patriot Act would inevitably evolve into. The only surprise is it happened in Canada first.

The system is in place to muzzle anyone and everyone that would dream of thinking of getting out of line.
"I can get back to school and wage slavery at any point in my life later"

I wouldn't be so sure. You ever wonder why older people are always talking about 'the good ole days'? It isn't because the world was better, it's because they were better equipped to live in it.
> don't write your own crypto

I'm no greybeard, but this one IS important.
NFT and Intellectual Property (Smart Contract)
I would like the purchase of a token to transfer the entire or partial copyrights from the seller to the buyer, automatically. Is that possible? Which jurisdictions to research?
Civil Forfeiture money can be returned. It usually goes into some kind of escrow system. It is very much like freezing a bank account in outcome because it denies the accused the financial ability to defend themselves or to defend themselves at their own detriment.

Source: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_forfeiture_in_the_Unit...

While I focused on the outcome above, I think both violate the "presumption of innocence" attitude that our legal system is supposed to be built around.

Edit

I don't watch the news, so I didn't know what's happening in Canada. Here's some links:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/ottawa-protests-frozen-bank...

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-60383385

This is fairly wild on every level.
Horizon Forbidden West has released
Not exponentially, that would be 2^X
>FBI agent: What cryptocurrency assets do you own?

>You: 2 BTC, 1 ETH.

bzzzt

You're supposed to remain silent, not expose yourself by lying.
I've stopped eating octopus-containing foods, including takoyaki, after learning how smart those little creatures are. They've only got one or two short, brilliant years on Earth... I don't need to be making things worse for them.
Doesn't matter. If the FBI has records of you transferring money to an exchange and then you claim it just "disappeared" after reaching the exchange, they're going to roll their eyes.

The crimes in question involved real estate deals with paper trails. They also have transcripts of conversations where the partners acknowledge what they're doing is wrong and could potentially trigger an FBI investigation.

Monero won't save anyone from that.
Consistent use of language-specific tags makes it easier for tools to switch to a dedicated foreign-language parser when they encounter a tagged raw literal. The host language just provides the capability through arbitrary matchup, but its still up to users and tool authors to use them consistently. SQL is just one example. Embedded shader programs, XML (fragments), and Protobuf literals are other possibilities.
If I had to guess, likely they needed to release and test a feature where they could arbitrarily freeze bank accounts upon receipt of a bulk government request.
https://archive.is/uh9K4 is a Seattle area account of this.

Most of the money is being returned, no criminal charges are being filed against either a Nelson or Kirschner. ("The investigation hasn't led to criminal charges, according to court documents.") So it doesn't sound like there is anyone to testify against.

The civil suits between Amazon and the Nelsons and the Kirschner's continue, but the fact that Amazon is currently paying all of the leases in question (for DCs used by AWS) and there will be no criminal charges does sound like Amazon didn't get ripped off too badly, if at all, which means there will probably be a settlement with undisclosed terms and lawyers on both sides claiming to be very happy and moving on.
Considering the state of the world, and having talked to many of its inhabitants, I, personally, am unconvinced that is the case.
It gives you some recourse in this scenario from the fine article:

> After they knew we had no money to pay for legal representation [due to the asset seizure], Amazon’s lawyers sued my husband in federal court. If we can’t afford to defend ourselves, Amazon automatically wins.
I don't think we should be calling it internet addiction though. The internet can be used for so many things, many of them beneficial overall.

People may suffer from social media addiction, or gaming addiction or porn addiction, or TV/video addiction, but internet addiction seems overly broad.

Am I addicted to the internet because I check the weather every day or look at google maps every time I go anywhere?
A man keeping 8chan, the most vile website, alive
>And over a year later, no criminal case has been filed

Just so people know, this is a blip of time in the legal world; financial fraud takes time to document. People need to go in, recover all of the relevant ESI, categorize it, then process it. Interviews with relevant stakeholders need to be undertaken - some of them who will have tight schedules, or be abroad, etc. I've been involved in fraud cases that take half a decade to hit the courts, then another decade to get through them.

As long as there's no statute of limitations style deadlines about to lapse and there's no risk that the assets being recovered are being wasted, there's little harm in spending pre-claim time on due diligence work prior to triggering court filing timelines.
Yes - formal tenure was abolished under Thatcher's government in the 80s. The academic job market here is also brutal, but it's brutal on admission to lectureships (tenure-track assistant professorships in the US). Once appointed on a 'permanent' contract there's no race for tenure: it's like an ordinary public-sector job where you can have a reasonable expectation of continuing employment but aren't immune from redundancy (==layoff) or dismissal for poor performance (which is quite rare).

It's a better system for early-mid career academics than the US, IMO, and I'm glad I'm here. Other systems are better for other career stages: some European countries give PhD students actual employment protections and a salary, while life as a tenured full prof in Germany or the US is sweeter than the British equivalent.

Doesn't stop the other grim employment aspects of modern academia, either: exploitation of hourly-paid PhD students for most of the teaching, far fewer posts than qualified applicants, eternal postdocry etc.
> So suddenly writing 3 million objects that begin with a t would cause an uneven load or hotspot on the backing shards.

makes sense

> The system realizes your new access pattern and determines new prefixes and moves data around to accommodate what it thinks your needs are.

What does "determines new prefixes" mean? Obviously AWS isn't going to come up with new prefixes and change object names.

So does AWS maintain prefix-surrogates (prefix sub-string(0,?) references) and those are what actually gets shuffled around to handle the new unbalanced workload? Sort of like resharding?

Moreover, since it's really prefix-surrogates being used, the recommendation of randomizing prefixes can be replace with randomizing prefix-surrogates and delegated to AWS, removing the prior responsibility from the customer. Hence the 2018 announcement https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/07/amazon-s3...
Another reminder to not work for Amazon
Have a Personal Web Site
What a hit piece.

By developing a casting machine and buying parts from local Chinese companies (for their factory in China) is considered helping Chinese firms compete with the US?

Elon Musk evil, cheap, doesn't pay taxes...bad Elon Musk, bad...

-NYT aka fake news.....
Paul Kulchenko is a wonderful human being - zerobrane is a joy to use.

This looks like it could mesh very well with Node Red, or really any Lua scripted environment. Thanks!
The limiting factor was Operator attention and issues with an environment.

In a closed, mapped environment like a campus with minimal street crossings. The robot can make its way to the restaurant, get the delivery and make the delivery, with out operator input or attention… even if people block the robot, it can navigate around and interact. After a couple failed attempts, it alerts an operator and then manual action may occur.

Some situations were a bit more complicated. I’ve had to navigate 4 robots, all at street crossings with different types of traffic. The safe thing to do is, take care of them one at a time, even if a couple robots miss the light.

Once a crossing light changes and things look safe, we would just initiate the crossing. The robot can navigate on its own.
I care a lot about your redesign. I've been at a university that undertook a rebrand to the tune of millions of dollars during a hiring freeze and seen literally tons of expensive stationary scrapped for what amounts to an exec's vanity project. I've been at startups who have done the same while cash-strapped, once showering employees with new swag between layoffs (I don't understand why people fall for swag. I don't want to be your billboard). I couldn't really care about Facebook's rebrand. But most of the ones I've experienced have been extremely counterproductive.