skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Another day, another disgusting display of what should be unconstitutional government overreach. Let's review:

1. Civil forfeiture is an action against the property, not the owner. And property has no rights. How convenient. This justification gets even more ridiculous when you consider the property is alleged to be the proceeds of crime but this isn't a criminal action;

2. The action to recover such money is a civil action not a criminal one so no right for the government to provide you with legal representation (as noted in this article); and

3. Police departments have a direct profit motive to seize asets without due process as they get to keep most or all of the proceeds.

The direct profit motive leads to "forfeiture corridors". This is where typically drugs will go in one direction and the resulting cash will go in the other. The police will set up to seize only the cash going in one direction and not care one iota about the drugs going the other way.

This is disgusting and has no place in the rule of law.
Young infant blood
The slashdot classic: https://craphound.com/spamsolutions.txt
A passenger aircraft can still fly with a failed engine, but it must land at the nearest suitable airport. Because at that point, another failure could not be accomodated. This sort of redundancy is about preventing disaster, not about avoiding service disruptions or keeping to a schedule.
No.
Whitewashed as as in give an aura of we did no shady things, we never faked anything, we did not have to give an extreme discounts to anyone, all our discussions with customers were straight forward. We just walked into people's offices, gave presentation and they were a contract, there are no externalities to our product, we are very profitable and stress free at each step of the journey.
This seems far too broad, mainly because of the religious restriction. A blog on comparative religion could be removed for using the word "heterodox". Faith is a choice, unlike all the other protected characteristics in this list.
Sounds like someone needs to be awesome and release midi files of classic compositions.

You have the rare hip hop song which samples classical music directly, but I really want to learn music theory, like understanding how the notes work.
I think it's really well done and it's evident that you also care a lot of about how your product looks like, I thing the design/UI is top-notch.

I hope it catches on, remember that you can't ever escape marketing, so keep an eye on that and good luck!
This might as well read that you've been shipping software for over two decades and have never cared about someone introducing a regression
This bullshit, again? Far too much was wasted on studies to mollify the HC@ crowd. For vitamin d, there’s no definite answer, but it helps either not at all or too little to be worth it: https://inews.co.uk/news/vitamin-d-supplements-do-not-stop-y...
> To reduce the amount it happens is worthy

The point is that there is little, if any, evidence that a given interview process does this.
Can someone explain to me how civil forfeiture doesn't create a perverse incentive by making police departments dependent on the existence and availability of (potentially illicit) funds?
Business doesn’t want us to stop the bus to change the tires - or spend so much time changing tires that the bus never reaches the destination.
6.0.2 is an unofficial community release.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_IIGS#System_Software
Oh, you know. Stuff like probing for sensitive files, using bizarre useragents, repeatedly trying to access a denied portion of the site...

Stuff like that.

I'm pretty used to that stuff from the expected foes, but I thought it was strange to see this coming from a Microsoft resource.
Lots of people study really hard. Few go on to become Feynman.
I've only been a full time developer for a little while now, but I've absolutely gotten some good lessons out of these mistakes.

I'll tell you what, I always make sure to keep the updated_at column unchanged when I'm doing a manual update query. I also always double check and make sure I run DB changes before merging code, and I do a double check on all my code changes in a PR before I merge it in case I left in something behind.

All of these are rooted in screw ups on my end that my company was very understanding of and made me grow as an engineer. Would it have been better to never have made these mistakes at all? Yes, but that's probably unrealistic. I've seen the hires after me make mistakes and I made sure to let them know of my first prod bug too, the way my boss did for me.
Mcl – a portable and fast pairing-based cryptography library
Alternate access: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30899560
This sort of stuff is why cryptocurrency was created. Despite its flaws, it does impede the governments ability to take your assets without criminal charges.
scheduling hasn't been used for preventing conflicting movements since the 1830s

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Railway_signalling#History_of_...
If ever there was a live experience that indicated what "gobsmacked" meant, it was that. She basically couldn't answer. The only thing she could blurt out was "<the person who she reported to that we all knew and was fairly high up> said I should be here".
I feel like I might be alone in this, but I find Github + some markdown docs organised into folders to be perfectly fine. Redirect a personal domain to your github repo if you really want, I personally don't bother.

People can clone/fork it, open PR's, see revision history, and its very portable. Probably a terrible choice for natural search discovery though, I assume so maybe not ideal if you want people to be able to just stumble across it while searching.
or just use Nim which is style-insensitive: case except for the first letter is ignored, as are underscores.
No one can, because it does.
> The direct profit motive leads to "forfeiture corridors". This is where typically drugs will go in one direction and the resulting cash will go in the other. The police will set up to seize only the cash going in one direction and not care one iota about the drugs going the other way.

That just sounds like drug dealing with extra steps.
We don't need to hedge here. These aren't allegedly dead people, they were killed, and the people with guns in the area were Russian.
A fairly recent example is a couple of tables for users who are “tagged” for marketing purposes (such as we sent them an email and want to display the same messaging in the app). These tags have an expiration date at the tag level but we wanted the expiration date per-user too. This enables marketing to create static tags. This requires a migration to the data so this can be supported.

Schemas don’t change that often, in my experience.
If you want to claim public transit operators are happy to take on liability for potential deaths by continuing to operate when they know about reduced (or no) safety margin, that’s an interesting idea.

Calling me a ”clipboard warrior” isn’t furthering your argument, though.

This comment provides an excellent example along the lines I was talking about: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30902016
So that anyone can steal your money on hole-ridden exchanges and not just the police?
> This is just a reaction and a note for myself to never fail my people this way.

Yeah, no. It is not a failure to anyone, to point out the very real and valid criticisms of the centralized web.

Instead, I would argue that people like you would be failing yourself, your people, and everyone else, by ignoring very real and valid problems with the centralized web, to avoid people's feelings from being hurt.

> weighs more heavily than words of other people.

And if the criticisms are valid, then that is a good thing, and you are the one failing your people by being silent.
Part of the problem is that it happens to people who have stuff to lose (because people with little to lose don't wind up sitting on 10k in cash or similiar). If this happened to people with nothing to lose there's be a big enough body count that we'd have solved it by now.
Ask HN: Where do your kids play in your house?
We're looking to convert our triplex to a duplex so we have more room for our family of four (4 and 7 year olds). I am worried though that after we do the reno, we'll just have the same problems, with a bunch of unused rooms. (One caveat is that we're trying to limit screen time with our kids, so we can't just put a TV in one of the rooms and let them do their own thing.) Where do your kids play?
I too think the poor should be driving clapped out beaters and wearing secondhand clothes. It builds character!
The entire pandemic felt like screaming in an empty room sometimes.

My wife is a teacher in a low-SES area, and my sister-in-law is a psychologist dealing specifically with at-risk youth.

From the start they could see first-hand the detrimental impact lockdown had on the poorest and most vulnerable.

For many of these kids, school is a sanctuary from a dysfunctional and/or abusive home life. They don't have quiet places to study, let alone the means (laptop, internet).

Just a little example here, based on a close friend's upbringing. A young teen can't sleep because her degenerate father is blasting music from 11PM to 3AM. Fortunately, her grandparents live up the road, and their house has become a bit of a safe-haven. So she runs down there, and gets a good night sleep. When things are tough at home, she knows she can always stay there a few nights.

In lockdown world, that option is totally removed. The father, now out of work, is verbally abusive and blasts music all night. How do you think she's going to fare with "remote learning"?

2 years cut off from their peers, stuck in toxic environments, these kids have come back terribly damaged. My wife says she has never seen so many fights at school. My sister-in-law says they are so short-staffed right now they're having to turf kids because they're not "at-risk" enough.

Of course, politicians kept assuring us this was not the case, that there was no data showing any negative impact. Of course there was no data yet - it was still being collated! But talk to any person on the frontline and they could tell you.

But I suppose politicians' kids go to pretty nice schools, with supportive family environments and the means to support remote learning (laptops, fast internet, a quiet place to study).

A more disconnected, clueless lot, I have never seen.
Ukraine accuses Russia of massacre, city strewn with bodies
Multiple interviews is annoying as a candidate, but how they are used (or appear to be used) is the bigger problem. Instead of being used to strengthen a consensus they tend to be a series of filters where any "fail" invalidates everyone else's input. After all, why hire someone who everyone doesn't love? But that is the same logic as combining bad mortgages into tranches reduces their risk - sounds good on paper but doesn't work in reality.

Since you have a chance of getting cut at each round as an interviewee you are left hoping not to run into: some esoteric corner of programming you could learn in 10 minutes but haven't seen before; an interviewer who always asks a pet question (even if told not to do this); a personal dislike that is illegal but not challenged (age, gender, race, etc., waved away as "a bad fit").

If multiple interviews were used only to strengthen assumptions about a candidate and each interview had a narrow intent, they COULD help companies avoid more bad hires. But after interview #3 you are probably just filtering reasonable or even exceptional candidates based on random chance.

On the other hand, this may be a fantastic method to strengthen a "hive mind" culture, but that doesn't sound like a worthy goal.
update: after I submitted the report, Quad9 have unblocked the domain, in under one hour! They are very responsive!
I’ve read your comment at least 5 times and don’t understand what you’re saying.

1) Everything relies on the market, so I’m not sure what alternative you’re suggesting that wouldn’t rely on the market. For example, cash or fixed income pensions are reliant on inflation remaining low.

2) “The market is stable over a long term, but that term has exceeded the average retiree’s age.”. I’m not sure what you’re saying here. Are you suggesting that depressions last more than 65 years (or whatever the average retirees age is)? Obviously they don’t, so not sure what you’re saying.
I spent half a decade in finance and know my way around a Bloomberg terminal, and I don't think I've ever heard “BB” used as shorthand for Bloomberg. When I see it, I think BlackBerry.
I wrote "Hi" on the wall
A “Week in the life” in 2020 (1999)
Maybe it's the editors that need updating. It would be pretty neat to have the chunks of functions / namespaces model as lots of tiny separate files on the disk, but a sort of view-layer so that you can view all the related ones in one virtual file. You could even then have multiple virtual files that include the same raw files.

For example in a video game your player, monsters, health potions, and attacks could all have the code for HealthComponent as a part of their virtual file. And updating the HealthComponent would affect the raw file so the virtual files would have the updates automatically. Yeah you can open dozens of editor tabs or always use jump-to-definition, but just being able to scroll around or ctrl+f within a restricted set of limited files would be nice.
You don't actually know this. I acknowledge it might be true but it also might not. How do you know what you're calling brilliance isn't a different kind of study, for example? Feynman suggests he got a buzz out of puzzles his whole life from a very early age and sought them out. With his local reputation among family, friends, school others brought them to him as well. He did inter-school stand-up math competitions, if I remember that story correctly, and described how he learned to "relax into the solution" not try to force it but look at it in a different way until it just all falls out and so on.

Then he also studied math and then won the Putnum. How would he have gone without doing all that "non-study" about problem solving and looking at problems from different ways and just doing math quite well? Maybe he was so brilliant he still would have won? I suspect not. How many others sitting for the Putnum had done similar amounts of the same quality work by way of preparation?

Genius? Or learned and honed? Both? In what proportions? Whatever I think about it is "Just like my opinion, man." Right?
...I've implemented the fictitious play algorithm before. I should have caught that!
Maybe because it causes regular recessions, zombie companies, no hope for addressing climate change, and morally bankrupt megacorps...
This is amazing. Is there a syntax highlighting and linter kind of things for the "Arc" language? If it's possible, I would like to try that. I love how Lisp looks like.
The Magneto–Turboencabulator
It is clear from the many stories of civil asset forfeiture that this is exactly what it does.
Ok, what if we tell the grandparent that we'll take half of their expected costs for care and give that to their grandchildren's college funds if they go through with the suicide? Is that an acceptable compromise or horrible dystopian bargain? Basically it's the trolley problem in that there are endless hypotheticals you can construct to determine your values, but as I said it can get pretty distasteful.
A 30-Year-Old Crypto Billionaire Wants to Give His Fortune Away
Citation needed. I don't recall any land line phone I've used behaving in this way.
This comes to mind: https://web3isgoinggreat.com/
I always start a new project with all code in a single file then only split it out when I feel I gain more than I lose. Judgment call, and a tad subjective.

One factor in favor of mono-file is its often easier to navigate around fast and do search/replace in a single file then across many. Believe me, I understand all the benefits of mutiple files too -- not my first rodeo -- but under right conditions not always a sin to have a "fat" file.

generally after a project has left its prototype stage and become more of a stable thing, primarily under maintenance, it should certainly be split out into smaller files with sensible module boundaries. Best in long term, and plays with version control better, and large teams doing concurrent mutations on the source tree.
> There is no forgiveness without sufficient contrition.

Why? Says who? If I may assume you’re Catholic based on this, can you show me where in Catholic teaching we (non inclusive “we” as I’m not Catholic) are to hold outsiders to the same standard as fellow Catholics?

If you’re not Catholic, then by what right do you, or does anyone, withhold forgiveness? Forgiveness, in the sense from your quote, can only be given or withheld by a higher authority. Who is the higher authority withholding or giving forgiveness to Jack Dorsey here? And what do you know about this higher authority’s intent to give or withhold forgiveness?

Forgiveness, in the interpersonal sense, is not for the offender but for the offended, and withholding forgiveness in this interpersonal sense is like drinking poison and hoping the other person dies. In other words, withholding forgiveness is utterly absurd. (I do not say it’s easy to forgive, just that refusing is absurd.)
Right, but he's actually advocating Putin's thinking. He's the next best thing to hearing from Putin himself to my ears.

But you're right, there's a lot available. My favorite:

https://twitter.com/kamilkazani
As some of you suspected, getting an official blog post drafted and reviewed by those working on this project and by our legal department ended up being challenging on a Sunday. As a result, we didn't get a blog post shared today.

We did however publish an update on our support forums, which you can find here: https://wordpress.com/forums/topic/pricing-feedback/

I will circle back to this thread with additional updates as they are shared publicly.
Again - did you use some method to confirm there was zero bitrot on these discs? Or are you concluding they were still good simply because you were able to get data off them?
I have been using the same distro/tiling wm setup since 2015. A bare bones debian netinstall with dwm and xorg.
> I've disabled most of the telemetry

How can you be sure about this? They patch and update the telemetry code frequently, for example, when they updated it to get around hostfile blocking, or moved their servers to new addresses for the same reason. The Windows 10 upgrade assistant that was installed without warning on Windows 7 included telemetry that regularly scanned all the executables on your drives and sent the list to Microsoft (ostensibly to check for compatibility, but I'm sure they kept the data around). If you can't trust the OS and they can update it at will, you have no hope of privacy.
Firefox has supported this since v64.
I think you'll find that if the government wants your money, they'll get it. Doesn't matter how it's stored.
Hasura for the data layer, and any static site generator for the front end. If it’s moderately interactive, a next.js static site is a great pick. For styles for basic internal/simple apps, I use classless CSS sheets so I can just write html/jsx and get something presentable. I don’t have the patience for messing around with styles.

https://github.com/dbohdan/classless-css
So your grandfather lived for years after the age of 93 with the help of basic, modern medicine. Yet you feel that his medical care was a significant share of society's resources. Dialysis costs between $30K and $90K per year (in the US) depending on type of treatment.

In 2019, the Federal budget outlays were $4.4 Trillion dollars. State expenditures were another $2.3T. Total US wealth was roughly $96T.

I think we can afford to give dialysis to anyone who needs it.
SW* corner of Washington Sqr Park :P
i think the clickbaitiness of that title just broke my brain
That's how it's ended up, which is a shame. The idea behind cryptocurrency had the potential to be used for good, but the execution has been so poorly pulled off that it ended up being scams, speculation, and air pollution.
https://holtz.com/blog/media/the_continuing_need_for_profess...

Reports like this were incredibly common back in 2009. Few heeded these warnings. Now, outlets like The Washington Post depend on the whims of billionaires in order to survive, some huge chunk of the U.S. population incorrectly believe the last election was stolen, and our data is legally harvested to further manipulate the population.

In any case, it certainly seemed like a bad idea to me personally - and the point is more that there were indeed many people yelling "stop!"

As for whether employees could have done anything - I just really don't think they have as much influence as you suggest. Most jobs you have a boss, they say what your tasks are and very little is actually up for negotiation. Obviously there are exceptions, and I assume some rather lofty idealistic founders in the valley may offer individual start-up employees more influence. In general though, that isn't what happens at the average job.

edit:
also - Hacker News probably isn't the best place to sample from if you're trying to get a read on the pulse of society. Comments tend towards reactionary, dismissive, and shallow. Further, you're basically just sampling from (mostly) wealthy male programmers and aspiring founders. This spectrum ranges from "I just do my job and go home" to "how could our platform be causing issues? it connects so many people!" Zuckerberg-esque naivety.
Baby boomers are here to ruin the party again
So you are saying it's a plot to change the election's outcome?

edit: It was a joke. :/
>> WebGPU... hopefully... will make 3d easier.

That is explicitly not a goal of the WebGPU working group. They have acknowledged that WebGPU will make 3D graphics programming in the browser significantly harder. But it will make supporting the 3D graphics API in the browser easier for the browser developers.

So basically, because Apple took over a decade to finally unsqueeze their tight fingers enough to dedicate any developers to WebGL2 in Safari, instead of improving the site developer experience, the W3C has opted to take huge swaths of responsibility away from browser developers and foist it on site devs.

The "hope" is that middle-tier libraries like Three.js and Babylon.js will hide the complexity away. I'm sure they will, and by all my experiences with them, will do a fine job of it. But it's certainly not the direction I hoped things would go.
I wish they'd follow the rest of the nostalgia industry and give us what we really want: Windows 2000 Remastered Edition
Parking lot hospital: https://www.reuters.com/world/us/mississippi-hospital-puts-b...

I haven't seen anything considered "essential" being delayed, but anything that was not "immediately, medically" necessary in Texas was delayed on order of the Governor: https://www.texastribune.org/2020/07/09/texas-coronavirus-ho... My mother is a cancer patient and frequently had to delay (what I would consider essential) treatments by request of her provider.

Anecdotally, as someone married to an RN, supplies were absolutely running low throughout the pandemic. For the first year they were limited to 1 N95 mask per week, they frequently ran out of specific types/gauges of needles and had to make do with what was available, certain medications were hard to come by, etc. She doesn't work a COVID floor but still more often than not had a double patient load compared to pre-pandemic levels, both due to more patients and less staff. It was also incredibly common seeing people in neighborhood groups trying to find available beds for their family members during our surges, as most people were told there was a wait list expected to last at least 24 hours before something would be available.
While this is technically true, it's possible for a language to be so mismatched to the underlying architecture, and so difficult to reason about, that the "compiled" version is not much better than an interpreter bundled with the source code.