skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This concern

> opposed to turning private companies into arms of federal law enforcement agencies.

does not explain this policy

> “If you suspect fraud, complete the transaction.”

If there is suspicion of fraud and yet still direct your employees complete the transaction, sure, maybe you're not literally in favor of fraud. But it does mean that you don't care if there's fraud. There's little daylight between not caring about fraud and being in favor of it at Walmart's scale.
The ease at which you gloss over the fact that your site is simply accepting money for the time and effort of volunter Wikipedia editors is truly innovative, good job.
Show me where someone who made the accusation about the lab was banned from a site for making that accusation and nothing else.
Ask HN: Which global cities offer the best quality of life per dollar?
I have a hard time believing that Walmart actually knew or intended for fraud to occur. I dont think they should be charged unless there is evidence they sought to facilitate fraud or violated some other law. These FTC regs are so vague they could charge any company for anything and I dont trust govt not to abuse that power
Unless you regulate the sale of guns better in general, like most other countries.
> “You are making a terrible mistake,” I said, and I repeated the statement three times.

> “Yes, we may make mistakes,” he replied, “but”—and he firmly closed his lips and shook his head—“we never regret.”

And they never did. They don’t even acknowledge it. Interesting to contrast the response of the German state to its genocide and that of Turkey’s.

> We base our objections to the Armenians on three distinct grounds. In the first place, they have enriched themselves at the expense of the Turks.

Similar reasoning and calls for genocide are routine by the ideologues in power in Tamil Nadu, India: https://www.deccanherald.com/amp/national/south/dmk-spokespe...
Thankfully no large scale violence so far though, they have just stuck to the rhetoric.
And why don't have the full client list yet?
Honestly? This sounds like a constructive dismissal - designed to avoid claims of retaliation and victim blaming in a sympathetic case - to me.
> waiting for their dashboard to be on GitHub

It's on! https://github.com/supabase/supabase/tree/master/studio

See announcement last year: https://supabase.com/blog/2021/11/30/supabase-studio

Thanks for the shoutout, and I agree that Raycast is amazing
Doesn't happen often enough to make a bulk efficiency
If you download a .deb file on Ubuntu, click on it, it will install it and do all the right things.

There is Windows files also distributed as zip files, just as unusable.
I know that and I have done that many times in the past (it probably is really obvious, like you say). However, triggers cannot return result rows, and a SELECT query that a view is defined as cannot take parameters (although there is a work-around by using a virtual table which contains a single row whose value is whichever value it is constrained to be). There is also WITH RECURSIVE, which also has many uses.
Fascinating. Thanks. It's not surprising to see some of these types of things getting thrown out in the end when challenged by someone on the other side of the agreement.
Yeah, same when I was working for Nature. Website was super fast, but then we had to load the (many) ad scripts that the sales team wanted and you’d add 2+ seconds to your page load time.

No way to win. At least I could wrap all the ad locations so they didn’t shift the page when they finally popped in.
Flatpak seems a little less finicky but slightly less user friendly (you manage your own repos/sources)
How is OWA not working for you on FF? (Genuinely curious)
Intel assembly is complex due backwards compatibility and extensions.

I've found working with a simpler, smaller processor can be an absolute joy.
I don't have objective stats, but I'd bet a substantial part of my income that none of these things even come close to 1% of the resource usage.
This happened to my mother-in-law. She was and remains extremely poor. Her mother died and left her the family home, the most valuable piece of which was a large black walnut tree. Her brother cut down the tree and sold it without permission or compensation.

I've seen this in Maine as well: land under nature conservancy where someone has gone in and clear cut all but a scrim of wood next to the road where the alders and brush grow thicker. This particular wood was later bought out of conservancy and completely cleared to make a mansion surrounded by surveillance cameras, so I guess it wasn't that much of a loss in the end. It had been the only land left on the point, after forest fires and logging, with any trees over a hundred years old.
Watch the hospital and icu load…. If these spike, that’s bad, but the last time they didn’t and at this instant I doubt anybody is sure what to expect. The thing’s quite contagious so the case count isn’t necessarily indicative and yeah, vaxxed or not you can get it.
Advanced type systems are fun to play with. But unfortunately some people get carried away and build a mountain of unnecessary complexity that other developers then have to deal with. A bit like Lisp macros. It is fun to implement your own type system and DSLs in Lisp. But the result is likely to be completely unmaintainable by anybody else and yourself a year later when you have forgotten how it works. I have seen the same happen with templates in C++. Developers that spend weeks having fun building a mountain of template hell to solve a problem that could have been solved in a few hours without template magic. As with everything else, keeping an eye on the benefit/cost ratio is key.
You wouldn't work at Starbucks and Denny's on the same hours, would you? 40 hour per week contracts expect the same
He and Stephen Wolfram. Both same sort of style. Their math is more on the applied side than purely abstract.
I can't see how this wouldn't get caught in the US without significantly more criminal activity on the person's part. If you're salaried then they're going to need an I9, meaning you need a tax ID number. So then are you going to open a bank account in this stolen identity's name or are you going to try and setup direct deposit without a name or just a routing number/account ID and hope tye name mismatch isnt caught?

What about the IRS and employment tax your employer pays going to the wrong tax ID that should be reported to you?

I'm sure in some situations it'd work (1099, physical paycheck, lax process), but it seems like you're just setting yourself up to have to break more laws.

You'd be better off just using your own name and keeping a low profile online.

At least then you'd probably only be in violation of your employment contract.

It's stuff like this that's going to make providing recent bank statements and tax records a more common requirement for hire. :-(
Exact same results!
They should, that's why Flatpak is excellent for wide-spread, cross-distro software support.

Snap is a slightly worse, proprietary sandboxing mechanism pushed by Canonical, the people making money off it. It has some fundamental problems (boot being slowed down by all the snaps being mounted, for example, Firefox acting weird and sometimes not even launching until I reboot since 22.04) and some ideological problems (the fact you can't host your own snap store without paying Canonical, the fact Snap blatantly refuses to follow standards like XDG or even just folder naming in the home directories, forcing a lowercase "snap" folder on everyone).

Some people are against the appification that's taking a toll on user freedom. Some people are in favour of the excellent permission monitoring and dependency conflict resolution it allows. Both sides seem to conclude that snap isn't the right answer.
What's scary to me is how similar these patterns are in such different industries and vocations. The glimmer of hope I have is that if there's patterns like that maybe they can also be collectively changed at some point.
> "Let us consider the following C++ code:"

But, C code is shown. I do not get why people tend to avoid using C name.
A few things are lacking.

1. Decent desktop apps to sync the data, not everyone is comfortable hacking a Cron script. I've started with that - https://GitHub.com/GitJournal/git-auto-sync - but it's in the early stages.

2. For mobile apps, a way to drastically reduce the overhead. Cross compiling libgit2 + deps + NDK is a major pain, and jGit uses more modern java features so you need to target a higher version of Android. (This was in early 2019, when I first started GitJournal)

3. There is no competing with a simple http call vs the complexity of git. Plus the entire onboarding process.

4. Many many apps do write to Dropbox or Google Drive, but for me that's not a win as you aren't in control of your data.

5. While hosting your own git server is arguably easier than self hosting anything else, the majority of users in GitJournal (more than 80% use GitHub, this was about a year ago.) There is also a bias as people who self host are more likely to switch off the analytics. I don't send any message when analytics are switched off, so I don't know.

6. We need end-to-end encryption in Git, like keybase was providing, but open source and hostable in any git repo. I started a proof of concept of a custom remote where I just write all the git objects to another git repo, but haven't gotten very far.

Disclaimer: I'm the author of GitJournal.
If you are one then you know what it means, but for the sake of other argument and for the others to understand, being a "Russian agent" means foremost being a member of criminal enterprise and by this I mean real a state level criminal enterprise because Russia is built up as criminal organization and not as normal democratic governance.

In the context of HN, it means mainly comments and submissions with the aim to influence overall attitude in this community toward direction favorable to Russia, or more precisely, favorable to its current criminal leadership.

It is important to notice such possible actors as such actors most likely do not act in good faith. They do not provide correct information, instead of actual discussion, they attempt to create more confusion in readers. It is always not necessary (or even possible) to make somebody to believe completely fabricated reflection of reality. It may be simply sufficient to create enough confusion such that the reader could not differentiate anymore between the real and unreal or important and unimportant.

It is important to notice such possible actors not only here but all around, because like it was first explained, they are part of criminal enterprise, their goal is not to participate is mutually beneficial cooperation but to undermine the very core of the value system our societies stand on, replacing transparency with corruption and consensus with division.

In practice it means that possible "Russian agent" in HN community works for Russian propaganda "department", or "works", as being itself an useful idiot, being fooled by it to the level being indistinguishable from the actual "agent".

One of such clear examples is the claim that Patrick Lancaster is an independent and a journalist while neither of these claims is true. In reality Patrick Lancaster is a tool of Russian propaganda who produces scripted falsifications.

An open democratic society is in very unfavorable position against such manipulations while the attacker has strong media and social media control that is provably capable to create completely fabricated representations of very wide scale reality within the society it holds control over.

Therefore the responsibility is on the shoulders of the individuals of the open democratic society to first acknowledge existence of such agents and second notice their presence.

In practice it means that when such individuals are observed, caution should be applied, meaning that the factual claims should be not trusted but verified, their deceptive manipulative techniques should be observed and ignored.

I hope this comment provided enough content about "Russian agents" and also some tools to handle them.

PS. dang I think it is also something for your consideration.
> A bunch of powerful people

More than likely it's a handful of well-placed (by design or by luck) moralists acting at the willing behest of legal
The problems with snaps are in the execution.

The startup times are ridiculously slow (multiple seconds or even worse) at least on some machines (I've only ever experienced them to be sluggish, but some people say the opposite, so...) and this is particularly egregious for e.g. firefox or a password manager (bitwarden).

Because I just couldn't bear it anymore I uninstalled the firefox snap and installed the flatpak instead. Flatpak solves similar problems, but doesn't seem to be as sluggish, at least for the applications I've used.
Recurring payments should be initiated on the client side (or at your bank) anyways... Not initiated by the business you are buying from... That's a good way to get screwed.
Outlook might be bad, but I also don't think Thunderbird is worth the $200 in yearly Owl subscription fees (with their per account and per device licensing) it'd cost me to make the switch :)
Congratulations! Week 3 is tough - I believe babies tend to mostly sleep for the first 14 days, and I do remember when ours began engaging with the world it got a little bit harder.

(This is one of the few apps we've ever paid for, and it was really helpful in the first year - https://www.thewonderweeks.com/about-the-wonder-week-app/)

Our daughter visited 19 countries before her first birthday, so anything is possible - and any day you both get a shower is a success.
San Mateo to Buffalo to offshore. Hundreds of thousands of workers from Venezuela signed up to work for annotation companies in 2018/2019, in some cases making up as much as 75% of a firm’s workforce.
Where it becomes really stressful is when you lose respect for those who expect you to be chasing. It's easier when you at least have some respect for them.
It's amazing how much work you can get done between multiple jobs when you never actually have to do any of that meeting nonsense in what you do. All of my work with all of the people I work with is conducted over text chats and emails on a basis where we reply when we can, and everyone is happy with seeing a link or screenshot to click on to see the work I've been doing is going well. Everyone I work with is always travelling and often in radically different time zones, so coordinating a meeting MIGHT happen a couple of times a month. Why should I stress waking up early just to get right into the most eye-crossing soporific experience imaginable, or expecting the guy in Africa to stay up late? And also, what the hell is employee surveillance software? You couldn't pay me a million to install some creepy boss spyware on my computer.
No. You should give advice that causes good outcomes. You don't need to do anything else.

We know that low carb diets have higher all-cause mortality. Because of this, telling people to eat low carb will (probably) cause a bad outcome. If we want a good outcome, we need to work out more specific advice.

To be clear, advice doesn't always have to be very specific. This particular advice needs to be improved, because it looks like it would kill more of them than current dietary advice. We can tell it would kill them because the meta-analysis several comments above shows an increase in all cause mortality.

This is not the same as telling people where the pharmacy is, because A) we have no studies at all about going to the pharmacy, B) people need to get important medicine from the pharmacy and going to it could plausibly lower mortality, and C) telling someone where to find a building is not lifelong public health advice and the risk for one person crossing one road is miniscule anyway.
why hasn't the FTC done this with YouTube and crypto livestream scams. Most of the victims are Coinbase users (addresses that start with bc1) and thus Americans. YouTube profits from these scam videos while people lose millions.
US Congress is explicitly elected. OP mentions UNelected bureaucrats. I have many years of experience as an unelected bureaucrat at the federal level.
A nuke warhead can certainly be made to survive reentry, but that isn't the same as safely bringing one back for maintenance.
nothing.. they are not the same thing
Private information, such as home addresses and good cause justifications (as they can contain highly sensitive info - ie details about an abusive partner, etc) are specifically excluded from public release by law.
I have a right to be free of guns. If someone had a CHP I, as a citizen, have a rihmght to avoid them.
It’s always available on remote
Robbing the home of a gun owner is a double edged sword. You know there’s a gun in there that you might want. You don’t know if it’s pointed at your head.
This mindset is why Linux will always have basic usability problems.

> I recommend learning a bit about how your filesystem works and why it can't find linked files from within an archive. This is essential computing knowledge.

Really? Is that _really_ essential computing knowledge?

On macOS, you download a disk image, then drag the icon into the application directory. Many publishers include a shortcut to the application directory and a background image with an arrow and instructions. It's primitive, but it works, and hasn't needed to change in like, 20 years. It requires no knowledge of linked files, or even what a disk image is. Drag and drop. Done.

If you can't install an app like that on most Linux distros (I don't think I've ever seen that), then Thunderbird probably shouldn't suggest that as an option. I've moved away from using Linux as an everyday OS because all these little usability things add up and suck too much of my time.
I'll link it later then when I'm home. It's called 9082-2018-TPS-Annual-Report.pdf and it's the first result when I use these results: https://www.google.com/search?q=tps+force+report+2018+-2020+...

I've explained why I can't link directly. It's somewhere on page 52 or maybe 54. It might be in the 60s but it's in that range. There is a table you can ctrl-f for and it has stats broken down by race and the weapon the person has when police respond to calls.

The third side here is that police disproportionately use force against people who have weapons.

I hope you can find the table on your own because I gave you everything you need to find out. If not, I'll reply in an a few hours or so with a direct link.
Hello people of HN. I'm the author, and didn't expect this to get posted here as I introduced a bug in the iOS version where cloning a repo might fail if it doesn't have a single note.

Sorry about that. A bugfix version will hopefully be soon available.

I'm happy to answer any questions.
> We wrote special logic in the code that specifically required all Green Dot transactions to get a manual review

(fwiw, this is exactly why Walmart gave up on the manual review. Volume and time.)
> and the court even signed off on it

Not really, the court refused to hear it on purely procedural grounds (it is constructed to be a civil lawsuit in TX and not criminal).
I don't like getting used to stuff that I won't have on machines at work. There are a number of boxes where I have to work and don't have permission to install packages, so there's just vim.

It's the same reason my vimrc is <10 lines long. I don't want it to be so long I couldn't just type out the critical parts from memory.
It’s not the regulators themselves, it’s the politicians stopping the professionals from doing their jobs.
> Every database I listed is not the "Butlerian Jihad,"

I didn't say what you listed amounted to the "Butlerian Jihad," but you were clearly and deliberately implying that I said we should get rid of every database.

That's a strawman argument. You need to stop. Ok?

> Claiming this is a reason to dislike all databases coupled with your wistful statement "it's not like the old days..." sure looks like your advocating for the old days.

Nope. It's possible to dislike things and still compromise with them.

> Yes, which is why I mocked your dislike of all such databases

Right. You approached the conversation in bad faith. Quite a lot of that going on in this thread.

> a weird reference to ancient systems as if they were a better option.

A pointed reference to the fact that paper records couldn't be completely compromised remotely. A strength that's very, very pertinent to the discussion of a leak that includes ALL of California gun owners.

> But you chose the extremes.

This is precisely the strawman to which I was referring. YOU chose the extremes, not me. You've been told by the source (me) that this is not what was being said. Now you need to stop pretending it was.

I generally expect a higher level of conversation here than on certain other social media websites. I see that when it comes to political discussion, my expectations are unfounded.
Frontend developers go with MacOS because it's the only platform that allows them to test their sites in Safari.
And Thunderbird could just as well give you a .deb file if you're browsing from Ubuntu or a link to whatever software library your distro uses.

It's not really a Linux thing, it's a Thunderbird thing.

The equivalent would be for Thunderbird to link a .xapp file for Windows users. Good luck installing those by yourself, same with random tar.bz2s.

Of course, downloading random executables is not The Linux Way. I understand the pattern as a holdover from Windows, but it really shouldn't be the way people get taught to install software. Your distro either has a graphical package manager built in that's in control of this type of software (through their native packages or through Flatpak/AppImage/Snap/whatever) that will also keep your software updated.

IMO, distros should come with a "quick start" to explain the concepts of the software store and Thunderbird.net should default to .deb files so most people can just install it the normal way.
I think you're off a bit here. Not everyone is a fraud detection specialist. If Wal-mart had implemented the "trust your gut" policy you're advocating for, you're just going to get Ethiopian grandmas trying to cash out money from their grandkids and some random-ass Walmart employee deciding it's fraud because "she looks suspicious" or some nonsense and then she can't pay her rent.

People should be trained to detect fraud if that's necessary. But saying "don't try to detect fraud" to random-ass employees whose job is not fraud detection seems eminently reasonable to me.
And neither does regulation preventing purchasing porn either. But be explicit about what’s ok and what’s not if you’re going to regulate it. Otherwise companies decide for themselves and we end up here.
> you are going to want the stand-alone client though

I don't want stand-alone client for app which customer downloaded from my site.
You all would probably be interested in this article too

https://www.hcn.org/issues/49.5/busting-the-tree-ring
I'm guessing it's a bit of a pendulum, this is seen in so many areas of human society. We move in a direction and someone says "we ought to move in the complete opposite way" and so we do, then after some time it is clear this new approach isn't working out and we come back to the other side of the pendulum.

With time, of course, it is likely that we end up in an equilibrium at the middle. In reality, we don't know what we like and what we don't like until we experience it.
Because they make a lot of money through some big partners:

Apple - https://applecash.greendot.com/termsconditions/

Uber - https://m.gobank.com/uber/noworries

Walmart - https://www.walmartmoneycard.com/legal-info

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Okay, then we're back to Thunderbird not distributing .deb files, which work just like that (ex. Chrome does this).