skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The mere fact the money comes from Russia makes it somewhat dirty. The cleanliness of money isn’t determined purely by your ability to produce documentation, otherwise it would be trivial to clean money.

Anti-money laundering experts will look a number of factors to determine how risky that money is. Large sums of money from Russia turning up in personal accounts is incredibly risky, and the knowledge that high levels of corruption exist in Russia means that forged documents are expected, so documentation will be viewed with high levels of scepticism.

Moving that money into property quickly starts to obfuscate the source of the money. Additionally property ownership laws in the UK make it very difficult to differentiate between property bought with dirty money vs clean money, but there’s are strong cultural expectation that property can be bought and sold quickly and easily. As a result it’s much easier to find banks and lawyers that are happy to overlook slightly dodgy aspects of your property trade, because they’re common in property deals and may exist for large number of legitimate reasons.

Additionally you can take advantage of the fact that the UK is seen as high trust country with low levels of corruption. So it’s much easier to sell property to people in rest of the west without much detailed scrutiny.
There was an internet before everything was funded by ads. It was different, but also nice.
>Did that really happen though?

Yes. All the freakin time. :)
It depends, I mean in times of remote work it's good when the routine doesn't degrade to a purely mechanical exchange. Also it can be actually useful if people chit-chat about what they are doing which can lead to discussions and save time by cutting useless work. It's not ideal when people repeatedly ask me about a certain class of problems - terse or not - it's a disruption to my work.

(With dropping a bomb I also mean something like a larger/tedious amount of work)
It's seems you know a lot more history than I do :)

In all seriousness though - is there somewhere you can point to which shows the debate around a central bank that suggests they wanted the central bank to: clear interbank payments, set short term rates between banks (and themselves), act as a lender of last resort, regulate and supervise other banks? I've never seen anything that suggested anyone wanted to do any of those five things. I've only seen the arguments for functions which one would consider a national bank.
> I don't know why anyone would go to Bond Street now.

At least there won't be so many Russian tarts there anymore. ;-)
I have a dream that some day all browsers come with builtin uBlock.

I wish I could install it for everybody. Browsing the Web and watching Youtube is such a different experience with adblock.
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While it would help a little, you’ll always have a minimum of 25% (probably more like 50%+) of folks who lack the degree of emotional self control necessary for any sort of rational learning to override the emotional response.

They might feel worse about it later because they know they shouldn’t have reacted that way, but in my experience that doesn’t help as much as you’d want.

Doesn’t take much to get a mob going unfortunately.
Isn't Waymo doing this already?
I really like the concept but I would be concerned about having my Google account banned the instant it becomes popular
Youtube has a specific setting under the rightmost menu (under the avatar) to change country and language. It used to work great, you could have multiple browsers/containers set for different languages. This is very interesting to get the news or trending pages from another country. But lately it's been buggy and constantly switch back to some IP-based guess.
Set the value of the human life at 125% of the total pay, including stock grants and such, that the CEO of the company selling the car makes.
Thankyou! I am currently reading up on these. I've seen a couple old ones in town. I didn't know that heating was an option in some of these that would be a big plus here.
Did TiVo actually affect ad revenue? My understanding is that the revenue figures were calculated based on Nielson family scores, and TiVo ad skipping wouldn't show up in there.
The problem with ads is that they are intrusive and not respecting the privacy of the users. I don't mind static, well placed and well curated ads on any page. The pages then should fund ourselves using crowdfunding and good ads. It's already a working model.
They can't ban it anyway, once the data reaches my device I do whatever I want with it.
I think it may be the number of at-home tests that are out there now. People aren't going in for testing, just testing at home and not reporting it.
How would that help me when developers will choose to "optimize" the best version to 15KB? Surely 70KB jpeg will be listed as a fallback. There is no option of defining quality/PSNR/PEVQ/SSIM, only pixel density.
It massively promotes development. Simplifies the machinery. Makes it cheaper.
Who denied Libya sovereignty?

Maybe I'm missing some information, but I don't recall any NATO member ever stating that Libya shouldn't exist, or anything like that.
uBlock Origin, with CNAME uncloaking is the most powerful ad/tracker blocking tool. Browsing Internet without it is often time a scary experience.

It does block our [Wide Angle Analytics](https://wideangle.co/documentation/track-with-custom-domain) tracker about which we are open about.

And ... we are not against. Every user should have a right to self determination and control when browsing the Internet. Our tracker is not invasive. It does not spy on users across site. We do not facilitate user profiling and personalized Ads. So maybe we should be against? But we are not.

It is your browser. It is your device.
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The EFF sent me a letter encouraging me to contact my congressman to support a bill that would prevent federal funding of anti-encryption technologies by the FBI. (https://act.eff.org/action/speak-up-for-strong-encryption-ru...)

My representative called me to talk about it. He told me he hadn't seen the bill but he agrees that isn't where the FBI should be spending their energy. It seems like the bill never got off the ground.

My guess is the prewritten letters are probably less considered.
Amonst many people that get screwed
That’s part of the point: Whether or not they are eventually possible is an open question. The standard argument for agnosticism as to the possibility is “The problem reduces to artificial general intelligence, the possibility of which is an open question.”
But Synergy is now commercial, with a stupid surcharge for TLS, so would it make more sense to say "the only reason to use synergy is if you're using an old OS and don't have hi-DPI screens"?
That doesn't make sense since any content loaded from a second site has the ability to compromise the first. If nobody said that, they weren't thinking hard enough. Browsers already have this kind of transitive security enforcement -- you can't load a page with TLS that then pulls JS via plaintext http.
Clean your plate, says the state: China is clamping down on food waste
I too fear AdBlock will eventually fail, not because it will be legally banned (on what basis??) but because Chrome will kill it and other browsers will die.

You seem to welcome it; I think it would be a great catastrophe.
I think YouTube has an okay monetization policy, it's nowhere near as malicious as a random recipe blog with 19 ads and auto playing videos
Did the author really pay for a domain per topic? Seems to be numerous others that are <title>.com
Maybe we need a locale-neutral separator for these things. Then we'll have three conflicting options.

I always get this wrong in calculators. I type , where I should have typed . or vice versa, and get a completely wrong result.
If ads were reasonable, I would not block them. I define reasonable as simple static image ads with no tracking that link to the advertised product/service.

But ads today bloat pages with so much tracking & other nonsense that it has ruined the experience. I cant stand to browse the web without an ad-blocker, it's horrific.
I thought the porous paywall + subscription model is the most popular alternative?
You’re right. Thank you.
Google and other internationalisation efforts are absolutely a mess in India. India has many states based on languages - 22 listed languages - essentially each state has its own language and its own script, except in the Hindi belt.

Its not fun to be a North Indian to work in the South or vice versa- you may often be served a page in a script you cannot decipher fast enough or read at all.
I would guess that I can point with a lot more precision using a mouse than with my eyes. If I'm moderately careful, I can hit a 3×3 pixel area with my mouse, while the saccadic movement of my eyes is covering maybe a 30 px radius around that area.

However, [1] is a nice read that proves me wrong.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24696315
... most of them aren't [offering an ad-free experience.]

This is an English language phenomenon called conversational deletion. Examples of it at the beginning of sentences are here: https://learnenglishwithdemi.wordpress.com/2015/07/07/conver...
They registered an entire domain for that?

It sounds like a fairly typical StackOverflow Meta posting. I read stuff like this constantly. There's a lot of SO folks that won't answer any question, unless it has already been solved, by the asker, in their question, so they can criticize it. The place is a lot less useful, for me, these days, than it used to be. I ask excellent questions, and I don't need to have someone call me "lazy," because I didn't throw the seed into the nest.

It's not wrong, but it's also not gonna change anything. Askers gonna ask.
There are only the rules we choose.

I'm not saying they are different according to the conventions of international relations. I'm saying that ethically speaking, I think they are different.
Would rather see them than pay a subscription fee
2022-March-11 is the master date format. No US injected ambiguity and no chance for misintrepretation.
Do you think they can't tell when a click is automated?
>Doesn't the analogy fail given autonomous vehicles are eventually possible

Only if there is a mathematical proof that eventually it will happen, someone might proof the reverse that current type of tech will never be good enough for general purpose driving and will work only in some specific conditions.
I appreciate what youre saying, but youre eliding so many important details I have to believe you are dishonestly bolstering the truthyness of your implications (That the us/nato/eu/un are just as bad as warmongering russia). I’m down to give you the benefit of the doubt, but for example- Nato did not invade Libya, the UNSC enforced a resolution. These distinctions are incredibly important. Literally what is supposed to happen, did happen in the case of Libya. You are making terribly false equivalences, which even if done in ignorance still rise, imo, to intentional dishonesty.
> given autonomous vehicles are eventually possible

I think of this as an unproven assumption, not a given.
If you are in Windows only environment you can use Mouse wthout Borders [0]

Works fine enough on WiFi, supports clipboard sync and file copy (but reliable only for small files).

(and if I remember it right I learned about it here in some thread about Synergy...)

[0] https://aka.ms/mm
> Could this be used to generate large scale 3d building models automatically?

A lot of places have lidar data available that can be used for that.
Russia moves to ban Instagram as it designates Meta an ‘extremist organisation’
The most popular extension, and the 2nd most popular, just like the 6th, 7th, 9th and 10th most popular, are ad-blockers.

I guess it's only marketers that love targeted ads...
How viable is this reality?
Re inexperienced users : you want to encourage them to learn and build confidence. Ignoring their "polite" ping-pong messaging isn't going to do them any good. Sure, don't be a jerk, but do mention "don't ask to ask - just ask" in a friendly way.
> One might say the same for Ukraine. Nazi Azov Battalion was the main attacker of Donbas, Nazi structures are definitely embedded into Ukrainian state.

One might say the same. Do you? I don't.
This insight is 100!!! And thank you very much _blushes_

I cannot agree more, one our biggest issues right now is it take a person a good amount of time (relative to a "typical" site) so really see the value we offer/what we are aiming to do.

Daniel will be thrilled to hear that and thank you so much for taking a dive on Stock Unlock! We have been having so much fun building this, if you have any thoughts/feature suggestions/things like that, that come to mind, please let me know ^_^
Self driving cars will be as safe as the level of criminal liability faced by the makers.

Regulatory capture means it wont be high and the potential profits to be realized from first mover advantage here means there will be a significant incentive to "move fast and break things".

So to speak.

I'd feel safe if an executive who OKs a software update that kills someone risks significant jail time. If that means no self driving cars for 20 more years then I am totally fine with that. That would simply mean that they werent safer as promised.
The thing you have to remember is that the movie industry HATED consumer VCRs and videotape. Industry insiders considered VCRs and tapes tools for copyright infringement and nothing more -- even after the Supreme Court ruled VCRs legal in Sony v. Universal in 1984. Jack Valenti went to his grave believing that the Supreme Court made the wrong decision. And my girlfriend's parents, who worked as an attorney and paralegal for the entertainment industry, banned VCRs from their home even into the late 80s.

To the movie industry, a movie was something you went to the theater and watched ONCE. If you wanted to see the movie again, you had to pay again. For consumers to buy a copy of a movie they could see again and again was, to studio heads, felony contempt of business model. But once market pressures forced their hands, the studio heads relented only somewhat. They would price the VHS tapes out of typical consumer reach, but allow them to be purchased by rental shops to be rented out to consumers, thus preserving the "pay for limited viewing" business model. Of course, once the first studio buckled to market pressures to release home copies for around $30 a pop, as described in the article, all bets were off.

Also note that VCRs were only ruled legal based on a very narrow exception: the Court felt that if there was a TV show that aired once, never to be aired again (Star Wars Holiday Special?), and you absolutely positively could not be in front of the TV to see it, you should be able to record it and then view the recording at a later time exactly once. This is the "time shifting" exception. Otherwise, VCRs are still mainly tools of copyright infringement in the eyes of the law. We seem to have this idea that if we copy something for personal use only, we're in the clear legally; Justice Blackmun, in his dissent in Sony, pointed out that this is not the case, and personal recordings of movies, music, etc. still infringe copyright and are violations of the law.
how do you find this kind of blogs?
It’s good to remember that many of the people on here are not normal.

I had spent several weeks on an extremely technical problem when I realized Mother’s Day was coming up.
Saw a giant oversized Winnie the Pooh bear that I knew she would like.

So in my extreme logical state I was thinking I would just slice off the arms legs and heads put them in separate boxes and mail them to her for reassembly. Very elegant solution.

A bit later when my mind wasn’t so analytical I realized my mistake. Clearly her house didn’t have room for a giant bear.
So I sent her a Winnie the Pooh lamp instead. She was happy, and I didn’t need to disassemble her beloved childhood icon.
If ad-based business models truly become unviable, they will find a new one. Ad-based businesses suck all the air out of the room, preventing other models from even forming. It'll take effort to find better models, but they'll come. But TBH, I don't see the ad-based model dying any time soon.
This is one of the topics of Cory Doctorow's sci-fi book "Unauthorized Bread."
I find it fascinating that people believe that there was ever an unbiased, objective news media. This literally has never been the case in the total history of the industry. Journalists are paid to contextualize the data they find, not to regurgitate it.
What Yahoo! Finance did right was that if you had a watchlist of 100 stocks, all of the news from those 100 stocks would show up in one feed, instead of 100 separate feeds. It would also be good if I could screen by news source, so that spammers like Motley Fool could be screened out, which Yahoo! did not have. Yahoo also had mass importation of tickers via cut and paste, instead of one-by-one creation of watchlists. It would also be good to have % return of the stock from the day it was inserted in the feed. In terms of charts, it would be nice to have daily / weekly monthly charts in one glance, so I can see trends over different time frames. I don't care about screeners or charting that much because I have other places to screen stocks and do charting, I'm looking for a tool to follow the news and at the same time get a quick glance at the chart over different time frames.
The problem is that GtkAda is called a thick binding which means that a lot of C-like code is refactored to Ada-style one.
So it's just not a simple generation.
Sort of.

The premise "rewards shall pass unto those who solve difficult problems" isn't neutralized by "rewards shall also pass unto the barely competent who can wing an interview in the correct trendy tech stack", or by the fact that solutions to solve everyday things like messaging are sadly so widely pretty mediocre.

Maybe it's wishful thinking but I'd like to think rewards more munificent in nature shall still pass unto those getting stuck right into the super tricky stuff...
Meanwhile I have no idea what he's talking about. Perhaps it's lack of context, or perhaps the writing is so "extraordinary" that it is unapproachable to mere mortals.
I would pay for I the things I currently block. The problem is they usually want >5$/mo for things that would make maybe 10c/mo from ads otherwise which I don't find fair
Google banned it from the Chrome store while leaving other ad blockers up, so maybe they can't?
I think the thing with the painters is the tactile and visual element rather than the more directly cognitive and abstract work of mathematicians and physicists.
Never based out of Moscow, never a Russian company. The founders are Russian but the company has always been based in Prague, although a lot of the employees work from Russia.
You think that ddg not showing as much disinformation is intruding on your right to see the media you want to see? You know that you can still find disinformation by explicitly searching for it right?
There is a free VST version of Reason that includes the RB-338 core
Ad funding would never stop because people wanting to make money off content would never stop - it just becomes more subtle. Think sponsored posts, product placement, added bias.

Imagine a plain text blog run by an individual, good quality technical content, and a company comes and offers $10k to write a blog post about their product after trying it. If the author decides not to disclose the financial motivation, you now have a subtle biased funded advert that no adblocker will save you from.
It’s a very difficult problem. But a mix of using a homeless centres as their home address and also new services like ProxyAddress[1].

It’s an issue that regulators like the FCA are keenly aware of, and are pushing banks hard to find a solution to.

[1] https://www.proxyaddress.co.uk/
I miss the nice relaxing days of March 2020 with the looming threat of covid
Why does FSD seem to be the be-all-end-all of Tesla in many conversations? I ordered a Tesla and opted to not purchase FSD. I'll re-evaluate as time marches on (may even pay the $200 or whatever for a month when I have a long road trip), but even if FSD was never a thing, it's still a very fun and capable EV as-is.
So I hired a new developer for my team earlier this week
She already had the job because she came highly recommended from a trusted friend of mine, but she didn't know that. Here's how the interview went down:

Me: I see on your resume that you've achieved Grand Master level in Microsoft Solitaire Collection.

Her: Yes.

Me: Well, we won't waste any more time then. Welcome to the team.

Does anyone else have similar or interesting developer hiring experiences?
Is whether unicorns are possible an open question? Even if it is, does anyone care about it? Are any companies actively trying to create unicorns?
Said emails are in the link I posted above! It is, hilariously enough, literally someone trying to defend Scott by just reposting his emails in their entirety -- "Sunlight is the best disinfectant" indeed. If it's a hit piece, it's Scott writing a hit piece on himself.
> they've been keeping it in property...

And now heavily in Tether, which is known infamously to have shady and little collateral. Help us all when the cryptocurrency system crumbles.
> custom voice acting!

Be Kind Rewind
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0799934/
> "Money laundering" is essentially the crime of "helping a criminal conceal their crime"

I think what concerns me about defining a crime so generally as something you only do after committing another crime would be the presumption that the state was infallible when defining all other crimes. So it equally improves a states ability to enforce both legitimate and illegitimate laws, but does little to address the crimes that led to ill-gained capital in the first place.

Having known some criminals, their solution to money-laundering laws was simply not to file their taxes. It didn't stop them from committing crimes, so the "deterrence" angle seems as flimsy as ever here.
Makes sense. This is what we have in planes. We can also pull the autopilot circuit breaker.
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Making Coercion Work Against Russia
No.

Unicorns can't, won't ever exist.

The idea of the existence of self-driving cars is definitely on the cards. This is en route.
Nah, they pushed against scary nuclear instead, and some bad actors (Schroeder) capitalized on it.
For those that prefer something with buttons, Roland has issued desktop module versions of some of their iconic machines under the name Roland Boutique. The equivalents of the devices they have in this online tool would be the SH-01a, TB-03 and TR-08.

E.g: https://www.roland.com/us/products/sh-01a/
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> certain number of free riders

This implies that ads means paying/sutaining for the service, and no ads means not paying/sustaining.

This hasn't been the case for a long long time. Even paying customers get ads piled on them. Sure for many sites ads is the whole business. But there are also many business that

1. Never had a business plan to begin with, even the ads won't sustain them. The goal is just to be bought by a bigger company or become a loss leader and then "figure it out later".

2. The goal is to maximize profits by any means necessary even with paying customers upon which a sustainable business could be built. But instead we get dark patterns, abuse of user data and ads.
They used to have a large catalog. But then almost everyone pulled out to start competing services. So now it's 90% Netflix films/series, 7% old movies, 3% recent-ish movies.
What if the autonomous vehicle is on a curve next to a cliff and loses power?

Maybe ejection seats requirement should be an added clause.