skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If they pay by transfer they can charge back, the bank might cancel for some credit reasons, might flag it as they want to verify first why it was made, and so on. Cash is problem free if you live in a low crime area.

I do myself all higher priced purchases in cash, even go to the bank and withdraw the money to go to the shop next door. For the same reason I use a VPN. My provider and my bank have no right know what I do or not do.
It's undecidable whether there even is an import of stuff. It's every non-trivial property that's undecidable.

So the question whether a certain line is reached is as undecidable as the question what values can arguments have at that line.

So it's undecidable whether a dynamic import statement is reached and what its import argument will be. And even if the value is static, then it's undecidable whether the content of the imported module has been just changed.
this is like, literally the plot of Her. I didn't expect to get here so fast.
Really? Using $10,000 in cash is like doing a very specific math problem?

A lot more people have used large quantities of cash for non-criminal activity. The few times I have used huge quantities of cash, it has been for stupid reasons: someone doesn't take credit cards or bank transfers, and won't trust a check until it clears, so it's easier to just use a pile of cash. By the way, I keep plenty of cash around so I can still pay for stuff even if the internet goes out regionally.

Also note that this does not really stop criminals or rich people from moving money around: there are plenty of ways around these laws.
This made me wonder what Stephen Fry was up to these days. A documentary detective show following him around as he solves these antiquerian mysteries could go forever.
Check out Tooll[1] or vvvv[2] (not os itself but many of its libraries are, like for example fuse[3]).

[1] https://github.com/still-scene/t3

[2] https://visualprogramming.net

[3] https://www.thefuselab.io
Extract rent? Seriously? They sell transportation. They face competition from the highway system, which is provided at public expense. Nothing about this looks like rent (even in the economic sense).
Tax evasion
Leather is not a fabric.
Unfortunately we wouldn't move forward as a society if we didn't do things that affected people that didn't want to progress with modern ways of living.
Already discussed:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33923685 (185 comments)
Flight law and procedure is painstakingly written in blood, and the thorough analysis of every plane crash is why aviation is so incredibly safe, there is no possible way this would ever be allowed.

I highly recommend checking youtube for crash analysis videos and series btw, the incredible detail these investigations go into is eye opening, and really gave me an appreciation for the field.
If the developer doesn't know / doesn't document the project has code embedded in the database, that's on the developer, not the tools. Because the use of any developer tools requires a certain level of competence in order to use them successfully.
You don't need to trust the person when they have cash
They could code something useful to other people, instead.
Figuring out the technology so we'll be ready when we get there sounds like a good plan.
Social welfare programs distort in the sense that it turns people who could be contributing to the economy into drags on the economy by becoming unemployed welfare recipients.

This matters because it leads to a generally lower quality of life.

Importation of cheap foreign labor distorts in the sense of reducing the wages of low-skilled native residents.
Maybe this will be fine when the technology is there, but it's very obvious that doing this change today -- especially when it's being lobbied to be applied to cargo planes first (historically much older former passenger planes w/o modern creature comforts) -- is going only going to increase deaths by pilot error.
Years ago, I ran out of ink in a HP All-in-One printer at my business at an inopportune time. To make sure it didn’t happen again, I bought a bunch of extras on Amazon. The extras arrived, everything looked normal, and I set them aside for a rainy day.

Some time later when I finally used the ink I bought, imagine my surprise when the printer wouldn’t accept the ink because it was from the “wrong region”. HP printer ink is region locked!

I called HP support and they fed me an unbelievable story that this was for my own good. You see, ink in different regions is turned for the climate in that region, the support rep explained! I was dumbfounded at such a stupid explanation.

With no other option and wanting to prevent others from making a similar mistake, I tweeted about my experience. Magically, HP support promptly contacted me and sent me replacements. So now I’ve learned that not only is HP unscrupulous and manipulative, you are wasting your time bothering with normal support channels. You’ll only get results if you embarrass them publicly.

I’ve purchased my last HP printer, but I fear each of their competitors is just as bad.
Arrow and pandas are massive dependencies.
$10,000 in US $20 bills weighs about 1 pound. In $100 bills, it fits nicely in your pocket or in a small purse. I assume 100 euro notes are about the same.
> uniformity of your UX and speed of development stick with electron

This is what keeps me from adopting Tauri. I'm following the project with great interest, but I have zero desire to step back in time to wrestle per-platform rendering issues. Big fan of the progression, but it's not quite there yet.
Hey, this is exactly how https://flet.dev works! :) There's a UI server written in Go, you write your program in Python which manipulates a virtual DOM with commands via WebSockets, and there's a Flutter client that renders UI from that DOM: https://flet.dev/blog#current-flet-architecture

I'd love to add other languages, but currently so busy with a top-notch Python support!
If I'm a dissident running from the government I probably don't want the attention generated by bringing 10k Euros in cash into a business to buy something.
The cabin crew knows the code to open the door. The flight crew can block the request, but if no one in the cockpit is responding it will open.
...giving up all your identity is my "sick mindset".

So drop it already. The article isn't about "the extreme end" anyway. There's a middle ground between being a soulless robot and a sheep, isn't there?
That makes a lot of sense.

Automation is more interesting in how it can enhance human capabilities. Humans don't need a whole lot of help keeping the wings straight and level on a clear day. But they do need help landing the airplane in dense fog, and two humans and three computers working together can actually do that. The computers can't do it by themselves, the humans can't do it by themselves, but together, they can!
If you live in the east part the Bronx, wouldn't you just take the 4/5/6? I don't see the value of paying Metro North rides, then subway rides. And even if you decide to take the Metro North, it's going thru Queens, I think it'll add more time then 4/5/6.
Disclosure steganography. Avoid (e)vil?
This is all important context, and I thank you for including it.

I agree it's not as clear cut as "public versus private." But there's a recurring theme here: public money enabling private growth, followed by public money softening private decline. Railroads are just one instantiation of this pattern: it shows up in agriculture, industrial manufacturing, medical and materials research, &c.

At some point, it should make us stop and think about why we're transferring public money to private institutions and also paying for their mistakes, rather than just having the public institutions do the work themselves. One wonders what the US's rail infrastructure would look like had the US Government bought (and continued to operate) it outright, rather than merely socializing the losses in passenger sales.
>These days, it's not rare to see lead developers manage kanban-like boards very effectively, releasing on time, with grace, without the need of a scrum master to coordinate efforts.

Sadly, it's also common to see such kanban teams endlessly winging it and slowly losing sight of what they were trying to accomplish, at the same time burning out their teams on an endless stream of tickets and testing without ever taking time to reflect and course correct on their goals.
Apples and oranges. DynamoDB is wicked fast for what it does. If you know your use cases ahead of time, you can figure out a data storage strategy where queries and secondary indexes can work wonderfully. $deity help you when the use cases change though. Rearchitect->dump->transform->reload.

I really like DynamoDB. Its functional overlap with a fully-featured relational database is very narrow though. No graph queries or joins or advanced data validation or...basically anything on this list: https://www.sql-workbench.eu/dbms_comparison.html

Postgres can be made to work like DynamoDB: simple queries with no joins, table partitioning and tablespaces for I/O parallelization, etc.

DynamoDB barely scratches the surface the other way around. PartiQL is the limit and it's a very basic limit.
> "AVX-512 is a huge fraction of modern cores", and "give us more cores instead". Let's instead use the hardware we have

If what you do can use a wide SIMD pipeline, then, by all means, get AVX-512.

If what you want is to have lots of branchy processes running serving different things, then more cores is a better idea.

I'd suggest the best of both worlds - asymmetric cores. Put a couple that have wide SIMD pipelines, alongside a couple others that don't, but may be smaller and more numerous.

AVX-512 tasks that are scheduled to non-AVX-512 trap and are scheduled to AVX-512 cores. Tasks that don't trap continue running wherever the kernel thinks is best.
My father was a real estate appraiser for the New York State Department of Transportation whose job was to appraise land taken under eminent domain.

There are plenty of parcels of land whose title is literally a pre-Revolution Crown Grant. That matters not a whit with respect to eminent domain. (OK - maybe not plenty but at least two.)
Modern ways of living is more akin to using toilets. Cash isn’t an unnecessary artifact of ancient civilization that impedes progress.
Well, that's one way to make Amtrak more popular...
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1601720455005511680.html

The banning of Donald Trump was very arbitrary and involved a lot of 'mind reading' and 'fortune telling'. This is clear from the justification:

> After close review of recent Tweets from the @realDonaldTrump account and the context around them we have permanently suspended the account due to the risk of further incitement of violence.

In a way this justification is always trivially true. Trump could always have a seizure or someone could hack his account and if your redline is zero risk of incitement then this redline is always being breached. But of course twitter is not going to try and quantify the risk because if you applied this crazy level (or some level that is less crazy) to any other politician then people will wonder why Trump is being singled out.

Was the risk of violence from Trump continuing to tweet higher than other Democratic politicians from continuing to tweet during the BLM riots? More people were killed during the BLM violence than the 'election denying' violence. Seems a bit suspect that one resulted in politicians being banned while another didn't.

If I was running twitter my standard would be the US incitement to violence standard which would mean Trump wouldn't be banned nor would any Democratic politician.
The European crowd on HN in general is very much in favor of big government. I assume GDPR is very popular here despite making software development a huge pain, for example. Americans on HN (and ironically a lot of Germans on here) seem to be much more libertarian in their sensibility.
> They suppressed Trump’s account before the election…

That fact was public knowledge.

Did the twitter files reveal anything more specific about why they suppressed Trump's account?

It seems to me that merely calling them "Twitter files" is very effective at evoking and implying possibly more than what they actually contain.
Money laundering, like drugs, starts in larger amounts and is broken down further down the chain it goes.

Those $5 and $10 bills getting laundered started from a $50K transaction getting laundered.
I always thought CSV was just fine, until I had to ingest and export a bunch of CSV in my last project.
The big problem is that CSV is not well defined and it's so deceptively simple that many don't bother to adhere to the spec that does exist.
Just a few idiosyncrasies I found:
Inconsistent character encoding. If you open or save a csv with Excel it will assume a Windows-1252 encoding. Since browsers deal exclusively with UTF-8, this get's really messy.
The CSV I got didn't actually use a comma as a delimiter but a semicolon.
Everyone seems to have conflicting options about whether strings should have quotes and if so, which ones.
The CSV I had to deal with also came with a decimal comma, which screwed up even more stuff.
My advice stay away from CSV as an exchange format. Use something that is well defined.
Don’t let a story get in the way
For the sake of the discussion this isn't an entirely ridiculous notion.

Here in W.Australia Rio Tinto manage and remote co-pilot otherwise fully automated 100 tonne Haulpak dump trucks (that can easily run over and crush a car or pickup truck) from 1,000 km away.

I'm fully in favour of a human pilot and a co-pilot (an advanced trainee even) for short haul flights that don't require shift work for the pilot (eg: long haul Australia -> Europe you'd want a pair of experienced pilots to tag team at least, + copilots and flight engineer) .. but there is an argument to made for emergency remote pilot capability.

The argument against that, of course, is terrorists remote flying a hostage filled bomb.
afaik it's almost always h.264. but it's just rtp/rtsp...

> Miracast is based on the peer-to-peer Wi-Fi Direct standard. It allows sending up to 1080p HD video (H.264 codec) and 5.1 surround sound (AAC and AC3 are optional codecs, mandated codec is pcm)
How about “European parliament vice-president suspected of corruption”

I too keep my cash in bags :) but seriously it’s headlines like these that make it easier for governments (ex. Nigeria) to ban/limit cash thus further restricting various legitimate personal freedoms.

You can’t have a legitimately free press without cash.
In the US, you have to fill out a form that gets sent to the FBI and IRS if you use over $10,000 cash in one transaction. It's still legal. I think this is a much better solution than banning cash transfers over $10,000.
Oh, I love the Friends of the Library store. I've bought hundreds of books from them, and very low prices.
It’s wonderful to build this for yourself. However, when working on our larger projects or with larger teams, they’d have to learn all the random things you came up with, in your own way of thinking and so on. That doesn’t go well sometimes but sometimes it does work out. But if you leave the project, your favorite creation could become a newcommer’s nightmare that being a reason why we need to standardize quite a bit. If someone had to maintain your code, would they feel the same way you do about the code you hate maintaining now? If the answer is a resounding no then you most likely are on the right path.
-- https://www.faa.gov/data_research/research/med_humanfacs/oam... - page 6 tru 16 are interesting --
I don't know about speeding up the folks in the Bronx. 4/5/6 are doing much better since Q went into service. Those folks also now have to pay for two types of transportations, MNR ticket and Subway ticket.

Commuters from CT I kinda of get, but they have to transfer. That might be the hardest part of their commute. Transfer on MNR is a lot harder than subway in my experience.
Isn't marketing amazing? Diet Coke was perceived as a women's beverage, so then they came out with Coke Zero in a "masculine" black can specifically in order to appeal to men without any "feminine" connotations. And it worked!
Further to this.. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33938619
What you said doesn't make sense. The seller requested the buyer to pull the money out of the bank into cash and then immediately deposited that cash into their bank account. What would be the reason for doing that?

Doesn't make sense unless you've worded what happened incorrectly by accident.
Professionals screw up their jobs more than academics for the same reason that professional baseball players strike out more than couch surfers: they’re actually playing the game
It's a mistake to buy printers from any company who engage in such practices - switch from HP to Brother or Kyocera if you can.

It's not just ink: they want to force you to use particular paper also, not sure if there are any micro-signs on printer paper to identify vendors or firmware code to check for it, but I wouldn't be surprised.
bank transfers are usually free in europe
It seems weird to write "I ... request that you consider disputing ...". Isn't it the writer of the letter who is disputing it?
You say "nationalize" awfully glibly. Private enterprise, on private land, not bankrupt. Nationalizing that isn't an easy thing to do in the US.
> The uname() call itself can be done via direct syscall if you’re confident that its ABI won’t change; or, if you want to be extra sure, you can use the libc wrapper for uname() and then munmap() the C runtime to replace it with whatever.

I would ask why you would want to do this.
I thought Firefox had no MV3 plans. Why does that extension require a transition?
You fundamentally misunderstand the scientific method which includes falsifiability but is not limited to it, moved the goalpost away from peer review for journals into general bar stool philosophy all while continuously insulting the GP.

What is ironic is you hiding behind throwaway accounts and asserting superior knowledge while fundamentally misunderstanding the issue of positive claims in science.
Replace all human interaction with personalized AI chatbots. At the end of the day you get a summary of all the conversations you had.
If you can see stars, satellites and planets you can figure out the time. It makes the problem a little harder (you've got to locate a point in 2+1 dimensional space rather than on the 2 dimensional surface of the Earth), but it's not a fundamental difference.
Wondering whether it's EVE Online
Not sure what you’re talking about wrt. access control, but PostgreSQL replication works just fine for most people, and the lack of in-place upgrades isn’t really a problem unless you’re working on a massive scale with no downtime tolerance.

You run things at an unusual scale, you have unusual problems.
> What makes you think you can’t issue per-Client, client secrets at install time?

I have in fact used systems like this—this is how OAuth works for Mastodon client apps. These are in fact pretty secure, and one of the reasons we don't implement PKCE for Mastodon (also because iirc it's annoying to enable in Doorkeeper or there are some gem version conflicts or something). This is required because Mastodon clients have to work with any random Mastodon server, without the client developer being aware of the server or having anything to do with it ahead of time.

But again, the way most people think about client secrets is as authentication that a piece of software is what it says it is. This is how e.g. Github, Google, and every other major provider use OAuth. And this concept is what I'm saying is entirely incoherent with public apps like desktop or mobile apps. Registration like you propose opens up completely unauthenticated Sybil attacks on things that almost every other Oauth implementation prefers to keep locked down.
It can also go the other way. I was once asked to wire money to a person I had never met in a country I had never been to. They said I needed to pre-pay my holiday rental. It totally felt like a scam, but it turned out to be legit and the apartment was lovely.
European here and I can assure you that more and more people of all walks of life are becoming acutely aware and critical of what's happening right now. CBDCs, the WEF, ongoing attempts at financial repression, etc.

Personally I am looking into immigrating into non-EU countries in South East Asia right now, but that has a lot to do with a desire to explore other cultures and a deeper ongoing dissatisfaction and is definitely not on many peoples' minds. I do believe however that there could be civil unrest soon if it gets worse.
The thing with eating and sleeping right etc is that we know the limits of it: it can keep you alive into your 90's at best, and more realistically into your 80's. Technology on the other hand is completely uncapped. A pill that keeps a degenerate bum alive into the 80's might be really hard to achieve, but the kicker is that once you do, it's just another step or two to keeping him alive until 200.
To be fair, for a lot of human history we didn't long enough to see it, so we can't blame them for it.
I’ve got a Brother HL5040 that I bought in 2004 for $200 that’s still going strong.

That said, I find business grade HP laser printers superior to the Brother printers at that price point, and they don’t have any of the shenanigans you find in consumer-grade printers from most brands.
How, exactly, is the existence of the UP costing society tens of billions of dollars?
I would not. I don't want to be concerned with whether any of this is fake money or how to detect it and hugely prefer an electronic transfer.
> Not everyone who wants to deposit large amounts of currency is a criminal.

A deposit is not a "cash payment". You are not paying your bank.
Yep. I've been accused of using ChatGPT to compose some of my posts here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33930584#33930756
NY[1] (and I think many states) often exempt services from sales tax. A "rush service" fee would be something I would think falls under a professional service exempt from sales tax. Apple's retail ProCare service used to give you "front of the line" on repairs, and to the best of my knowledge was not a taxed transaction. This would to me be the same sort of thing.

[1]: https://www.tax.ny.gov/bus/st/transactions_not_subject_to_sa...
I think I've asked this in many prior threads, but maybe I'll repeat it here.

Europeans often explain that they see the need for strong privacy laws because of their experience with totalitarianism (Nazi and Communist regimes). But most of those laws regulate private-sector databases and private-sector data collection, not law enforcement or intelligence; and many of them actually contain explicit exemptions for governments.

Clearly, governments have made lots of use of private-sector databases, so it's not as though they're not a risk if you're concerned about totalitarianism. But wouldn't it make sense to focus more on the state than on the private sector?

I know Europeans (especially in the 2000s) have been quicker than people elsewhere to endorse the idea that all state activities (including those of security agencies) need a legal basis and should comply with necessity and proportionality. So that's cool. But I still don't see how the intuition works like "the SD / Stasi / KGB were spying on everyone and that was awful, so we obviously see it's important to restrict ... private-sector databases! but not (as much¹) state access to financial, travel, location, and communications data".

¹ clearly there are some regulations, and they get fought over in constitutional and European courts, but there's also a ton of "we have to make sure the state can monitor people" initiatives all over Europe!