skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If it's not a distribution-level amount of drugs I think police just don't give a fuck, especially in larger cities.

As someone who has a record over an ounce, lol.

Cops LOVE weed being illegal. Claiming to smell weed provides an easy path to justifying a search that vanishes when it becomes legal.

There are also a lot of states that have a laughably low threshold for personal use and anything above that is is legally considered to imply intent to distribute. This then opens the door for all kinds of seizures of vehicles, computer equipment, and most importantly cash in a backwards "guilty until proven innocent" scenario where the person doesn't even need to be charged with a crime to lose their property.
Doesn't almost every language have some kind of abstraction layer that allows this?

JDBC/ODBC/DB-API/Sequelize ORM (ignoring the ORM part).

This used to be one of the major use cases for SQLite - running automated tests and being able to throw away the database file (or manage it at different points in the tests).
Maybe not exactly what you’re after but I’ve used Flat File Extractor with great success.

EDITED to correct autocorrect.

https://ff-extractor.sourceforge.net/
Hey! Thanks for the interaction! I'll try to make it simple:

A backhook is basically a function that knows from where it has been called. It means that it holds some state bound to a specific context.

This has many advantages:

- Better typing: Today, most of the context bindings are made by attaching new properties to a request object. That makes typing complicated and not reliable. When using backhooks, your typing is always accurate.

- Easier APIs: If you're a library developer, and want to provide a function that relies on headers for a function, you can write it without taking the headers as parameters and instead use other hooks to retrieve it. It simplifies everyone's life.

- They are many ways to use backhooks, from retrieving the authenticated user in the current context to aggregate logs with a requestId to make it easy to trace them.

I'll be happy to response to any other questions! Thanks for taking the time to comment.
Good.

I don't understand why crypto is as big as it is, it only serves as an enormous grift.

I only hope for more exchanges to fail, (Binance, Bitfinex, Kucoin, Huobi, Crypto.com, Kraken, etc)

The recent take down of an exchange by the DOJ got me excited that this is finally going to take down crypto prices completely and that everyone will start to forget about them and move on.

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/founder-and-majority-owner-cr...
If you like this sort of thing, see QSR magazine, the trade journal of the fast food industry.[1] Similar discussions, but from the seller side.

[1] https://www.qsrmagazine.com/
Insurance for what? You don't get insurance for someone writing a check against your account or making a debit using your pin. Similarly, you don't get insurance for a Zelle transfer from your mobile because you gave it to someone else.
But, in fact, the opposite is true: 3 out of 4 suicide attempts are by women.
Not technically because your link says "...that you know to have been obtained through theft or extortion".

But the records could have been taken from the trash. If nobody reported stolen records then they can't be considered stolen.
At an old job, one manager would put in his employees' annual reports stuff like "Developer X wrote N automated tests, fixed M bugs, and filed P new bugs this quarter..."

The obvious result of Goodhart's Law ensued, leading to test cases like you mention.

Lesson to leaders: Please stop your bad managers from pulling stupid crap like this. It wastes a lot more time in the longer run.
> Although the findings are deeply fascinating the researchers do indicate they need to be interpreted with caution. The cohort of subjects is incredibly small, and while the researchers did try to match the control group as closely as possible to the monks the findings cannot directly conclude the microbiome differences detected are solely caused by meditation.
>so it was re-stolen from the place it was dropped off.

Note for others: if you're in a jurisdiction that has decriminalized car theft, and you find your stolen car, just get in it, drive home, and tell the police you recovered your own vehicle.
I’d like to see this technological scourge wiped out.
We've been using [Gotenberg](https://gotenberg.dev/) since a few years and so far works really nice.
The book "The 5 Second Rule" by Mel Robbins has one single idea in it. Some of the example people she describes sound like they are in almost exactly your spot. The author has a couple of past mentions on YC and she has done a Ted talk and some other videos that are on the net. I am guessing that the book might be the best introduction. It seems like a very low investment idea to try. Please report back letting me know if you thought it seemed to match your situation, if you tried it and if it worked for you. Thanks.
Einstein Came Up with the Second Postulate of Special Relativity
The examples under 1.3 [1] indicate that the standard isn't 'actual knowledge', but also include situations where the recipient 'should have known' that the property was stolen.

1: https://www.shouselaw.com/ca/defense/penal-code/496/#1.3
> Russian national who resides in Shenzhen, People’s Republic of China

> arrested last night in Miami

Arrested while traveling in the US?
Then bam! Out of nowhere, nanobots eat the planet.

Never see it coming.
This is the main reason why I think that they never took this serious and never actually wanted many people to use it.

A switch in your profile which would default you to smile shouldn't have been such a big problem for a company like Amazon.
Well, crap. Often when I had a choice of where to purchase something, I would go with Amazon to support my chosen charity. Amazon is crazy thinking this won’t impact them negatively.
You sound like the woman who got her car stolen.

When the police recovered it, she found it had new shocks, new covers on the seats, a CD added and the engine tuned up.
Is it correct to suspect that there are fixed costs for operating in different markets, and they aren’t breaking even in Japan?
You certainly could be right. I don't know too much about capacitors, but from what I'm seeing it looks like it could also be a "Hybrid polymer capacitor" [1], which would have some liquid in it [2]. This is also an MSI board.

[1] https://www.digikey.ca/en/products/filter/aluminum-polymer-c...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polymer_capacitor
I don't know what exactly "equal-pay-for-equal-work" stands for.

But in this context as an analogy it's seeing a poor starving man eating a rat to survive. You basically want to take the rat away from him and shout "don't eat that! 'Someone' should give him a chicken!"

Unless you immediately offer to be that 'someone' personally you're not fighting for his good.
You want him to die.
Plant-based meat is turning out to be a flop
I think it was mostly a function of two things: regulatory capture by profit-incentivized doctors, and the labs not having (or wanting to have) consumer-oriented sales processes.

The internet has made the latter easier in a number of ways - making research easier for consumers to know what to order and interpret results, and offering COTS systems for commerce, document management, authentication, shopping carts, and inventory tracking.

I would bet that in most states, laws were less of an issue than the labs not wanting street-facing sales - same way some hardware companies only sell to distributors (i.e. street sales (and consumer support) are a pain in the ass vs curated partners).
https://archive.ph/PoYvv
Thought it might help with media containers but I guess not. Can anyone recommend a good jpg png mp4 mkv parser lib in python?
Dissertations go through the library's Electronic Thesis and Dissertation (ETD) service these days. Margins still matter, as do tons and tons of fiddly bullshit.

My personal ETD "hilarity": there is/was a bug in Adobe Acrobat that caused the font I set my dissertation in to glitch/look jagged at exactly 100% zoom. If you shifted to 99.7% or 100.1%? It re-rendered and looked perfect. Only on Acrobat. Not in Chrome or Firefox or Preview or Foxit or anything else. I had to change the font for ETD to accept my document.

Changing the font doesn't sound like a big deal, and in principle it's easy to do, but it means none of the figures match the main text. The line breaks are now totally different, so those typeset line-endings and paragraphs that were rephrased to avoid awkward hyphenations? All gone.

For that and a few other more important reasons, I have two versions of my dissertation. There's the one hosted by ETD, and the one that I actually share and use professionally.
For sure, but I think the confusion here is that that's more or less the opposite of how most people use it.

Like for me, the way I experience parasocial relationships most vividly is in educational YouTubers with a particular niche. I'll binge their videos and then they become emblematic of that domain of knowledge to me. And I'll have little imagined chats with them when I have ideas about that domain, where they generally take the opposite side of a view I might be developing and debate me. But really this is just the voice I've always talked to in my head wearing a mask, I don't know who these people are.

To borrow your analogy, they're sending unicast datagrams, and I'm sending TCP to their same address, but there's a firewall rule remapping it to localhost.

If the words come to you, I'm still listening, but there's 0 Pascals of pressure.
Dunno, in terms of just the Dyson fan, the bit implementing the main feature of the offering needs just high pressure air so it could be just as well connected to a high pressure air feed. The fact it comes integrated with a turbine that has a blade means there IS a blade included with the product, but it's kind of an implementation detail that could be implemented some other way.

The engineer in me wants to read this "omg they have invented an efficient bladeless turbine" but that's not really what this is about.
What’s the reason for you thinking it’s an enormous grift? I ask as someone who has read enough to feel it is useful and have a hard wallet with some bitcoin (well not a full bitcoin) but I am not into it enough to do anything stupid or evangelize it to others. So, you feeling the whole thing is a grift, I would really like to know if I’m missing something.
I've had great success with opinions. I'll solicit opinions and give my own. Opinions are a kind of chaos monkey for checking your assumptions and bringing aspects that you hadn't thought of into the discussion.

And since they're all coming from various sources of experience, they're going to be useful.

The trick is to not treat opinions as correct/false, but rather as components that help push your solution towards the limit of correctness. It's incredibly rare that a single opinion solves all.
Options can be mapped/zipped/“iterated” over (traversed might be a better word?).

So in this case it’s using that fact to form a tuple of non-null values whenever the option is not null, and then acting on that. I think it’s kinda neat, but I wouldn’t personally use zip in this case, I’d have gone with map or and_then depending on whether the output of my operation is T or Option<T>.
I wonder what happens when AI has written most of the types of content used for training it, and has then had that content feed back in.

Will the quality devolve?
WordPress uses a lot of resources for 404 pages. It's dumb but WordPress is everywhere.

One site being hammered is one thing. Thousands of sites being hammered at the same time is another. The issue in the article is a current and live problem. Blocking the requests saves a lot of CPU cycles.
> There are definitely 10X programmers out there

Possibly, I've just never met one yet.
That's saying the guy contributes like 2 teams in his company, pretty insane. But again, I've always worked in companies that produced relatively straightforward software...the problems we are dealign with don't require a tremendous talent or creativity. They require patience, attention to detail, communicating well with product, hard work, etc. I could even see how being extremely talented can work against you sometimes doing this work. So there's not so much value in being 150 IQ (or whatever measure of ability we want to use) imo doing what I do. Sure you will be faster and better but no, you won't produce like 10 people.
That would be like suggesting hackernews works well, just don't check out the front page, you and your friends have a curated list of articles that are actually worthwhile reading.
you'd like to see consensus algorithms wiped out?

https://appinventiv.com/blog/blockchain-consensus-algorithms...
I don't get it.. If the records belong to the car thief, shouldn't they get them ?

If the records didn't belong to the car thief, shouldn't they be confiscated and it be announced somewhere so the rightful owner could come pick them up ?
I try to keep my crashes below once a month ;)
Not by Mozilla, and the "wny" is clear. Unfort.
Do you have any examples?

I see some examples on MDN:

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Learn/CSS/CSS_layou...

I imagine there are a few ways to do it. I'd just have columns break at section headers. It'd also jive well with the wiki pic/quick-info right hand sidebar that's common
Gherkin/Cucumber reintroduce the very problem TDD/BDD was intended to solve: Documentation falling out of sync with the implementation.

The revelation of TDD, which was later rebranded as BDD to deal with the confusion that arose with other types of testing, was that if your documentation was also executable the machine could be used to prove that the documentation is true. The Gherkin/Cucumber themselves are not executable and require you to re-document the function in another language with no facilities to ensure that the two are consistent with each other.

If you are attentive enough to ensure that the documentation and the implementation are aligned, you may as well write it in plain English. It will give you all of the same benefits without the annoying syntax.
It's used because it solves a problem: 'trustless' transfer of value (in that you trust the network and not a centralized authority). It's 'big' because people who don't have this problem speculate on Crypto, even if they don't need trustless transfer of value.

How else would I pay a cybercriminal without Crypto? I ask this in good faith, I genuinely don't know of any other methods. Unfortunately the current method uses lots of resources, which I'm guessing is why you hate it so much. I'm all for better alternatives, but what are they?
https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/coinbase

IPO: $250 and peaked at $429

Today: $50 [1]

That's a pretty hard reality check.. building a business and raising a lot of money selling ponzi schemes, that was a hell of an idea to begin with

To finish with 10x less volume than Binance [2]

[1] - https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/COIN/

[2] - https://coinmarketcap.com/rankings/exchanges/
It was the default font in Word for a very long time.
*default apps for note-taking. Not much else discussed here. I was expecting to read a humorous quixotic effort to go through life with only Numbers and Pages at their disposal.
Controlling mutation by completely abolishing it is one way to go, but often inefficient. Rust gives you a nice third way.
If I had to guess, quite a few. I've reported my fair share of security issues and a number of them started out by accident.
Thank you! I think this is the first time I've logged in for 10 years.

I don't mind the current UI change, but I wish significant changes would come with a toggle button to let me look at the old and new renderings. I don't think it's possible to mentally "place" the improvements without side-by-side comparisons and affordances for finding edge cases where the new UI may be lacking.
That’s like saying:

“Oh, you think multi-level marketing shouldn’t exist? It’s a form of storytelling so apparently you want to destroy all stories, you mean old culture-hater and book-burner.”
Coinbase Japan didn't last 1.5 years. They officially entered Japan around August 2021.

https://www.coinbase.com/blog/coinbase-launches-in-japan
Microsoft axes 10k, already breaking bad news to staff
How big is the 'trustless' part of the ecosystem? 5%? 1%? Most of the speculation happens on centralized exchanges which very much involves (completely unjustified) trust.
Previously announced: https://news.bitcoin.com/coinbase-shutting-down-most-crypto-...
In my experience surfing the web without adblockers or account containers, the whole "ads of stuff you may want" thing is bogus and has been utterly blown up to justify tracking.

Most Ads fall into a few categories:
- in-app ads that target you for known account demographics: those tend to be targeted at simple stereotypes and seldomly actually something i might want
- Ads on news websites or blogs that aren't much more targeted than what could be derived from the general interest group / general target audience
- And finally, the bulk of all the oh-so-perfectly-targeted ads: are actually mostly just retargeting automations that keep infuriatingly showing you the very things or similar things you just bought for the next few days

I'm yet to discover a product that would have been nice to have via ads
Tiny market. I guess is was more trouble than it's worth
Darn. I used to do smile and have the donations sent to haiku.
Tl;dr - Apple Business Connect doesn’t have an app for iPads.. yet. Sad face.
I'm curious, what's your use-case?
14y of experience, good 10x devs do exists, but they are extremely rare.
Everyone opinion is important, I learned there's not enough different point of views, edge cases missed...
Both got "windows" by way of Xerox.
If I want ads, I want ads relevant to what I am doing at the moment. Not for what I bought last week already. Analyse the site the ad is on, not me. Just like the ads on Google search, which created their money printing machine.
As a hobbyist AI-risky person, I would welcome this as an improvement on the status quo, with two worries:

- it would create a false sense of safety that we "have the problem handled"

- it would not, I believe, do much to slow down capability research or shift the ratio of capability research to safety research, as capability research is largely institutional and not dependent on public prompt access.

Ie. analogously, our main problem is not "bioterrorism", it's "gain of function research" even if the outbreak happens in public. Given an unsafe bot, not giving the public access only delays the issue. (Though delays may be valuable!)

Also, at the moment, "people interacting with GPT" is doing a lot (maybe an undue amount!) to spread awareness of AI risk. So I would welcome this as part of a comprehensive strategy, but it'd probably not be my main priority.

Though if GPT-4 has another surprise on the level of chain-of-thought or in-window reinforcement learning waiting for us, a restriction like that may be the difference between "safe" and "iffy". Tradeoffs...
I feel like Netflix has been doing some form of this for years. Probably not generating entire scripts using AI, but almost certainly manually using algorithms for what to include.

While the output is "entertaining", it's not like you can compare it to actually good films. Netflix will never make something like The Godfather. What they make is like food without nutrition. That's fine, everybody likes sweets once in a while, but it won't keep you alive.

Of course I can't prove Netflix is doing this, but the argument would still hold true for AI generated content.
The alternative are systems like:

UPI (India)

Pix (Brazil)

PromptPay (Thailand)

PayNow (Singapore)

Which works infinitely better than crypto.
And Fortran, still.
I've been vegan for 35 years and the thought of eating a burger that tastes like meat turns my stomache. If you're a meat eater that wants to reduce consumption of animals then do that in the other (healthier) meals and have a decent animal burger once a week/fortnight. If you're eating burgers much more regularly then you're probably better off getting more variation into your diet and than eating highly processed vegetable patties that aren't as satisfying.
Turns out it’s hard to attract enough volume when you’re operating by the book in an unregulated market where everyone else is playing against the customers on their money, often outright stealing it.
> Home affordability in NZ is worse than ever

I don't doubt that home affordability got worse over the pandemic as interest rates plunged which allowed people to borrow (and spend!) more money. Over the pandemic home prices went up pretty much world wide.

That being said I've been seeing tweets from housing activists noting that home construction has massively spiked since the zoning reforms were introduced. That will create more housing choice and make renters lives less miserable as these homes complete. It sets the stage for prices to be able to stagnate and rise below inflation in the future.

I'm not a kiwi so watching this from afar, but that trend looks very promising.
I think that’s one of the angles they miss in the article: food in the UK in the early 90s was atrocious, especially outside of London. Pizza express was at least a guarantee of a decent pizza.
To finish with 10x less volume than Binance [2]

This is sorta misleading. Coinbase absolutely dominates the US market as far as crypto goes, especially large retail accounts. Binance is mostly smaller trading worldwide (guys with $1000 speculating on shitcoins and such), not 5-7 figure US crypto accounts like with Coinbase.
I don’t really understand minimalism fetishization. I too like my stuff. A lot of times I think minimalism is some type of performative classist affectation or something. I understand some people are just really organized or whatever, but yeah. I like my stuff. It’s interesting stuff.
Depends on the location.
You may want to print multiple pages per sheet.
Overall nice post. But the point 5, irks me the wrong way. Every time I read something along the lines of that paragraphs, something inside of me dies.

At expense of being downvoted to hell. I'm gonna say it in caps to emphasize, not to shout:

IT IS NOT THE RESPONSIBILITY NOR THE JOB OF THE SOFTWARE ENGINEER TO DELIVER OR PRODUCE VALUE.

This doesn't apply to all Software Engineers (like the one who sells the product is also the Software Engineer, or writing open source libs to other developers, some freelancer,...).

It makes me sad to see how many Software Engineer are brainwashed to put up with the stress of producing value.

When people like PG, DDH or you name another CEO/Cofounder, say: ultimately we should produce value. They are not talking as a Software Engineer, they are talking as people who owns and sell products/service, who happen to be the Software Engineer of the product/service.

I, as employee Software Engineer who produce software that other people use and a sell, must not be concerned about the value of the product/service. My only concern is to design and implement what they ask for. Whether what they ask for as any value, it is not my responsibility. It is their money, they should find value in what they asking from me.

Why? Ask yourself if you are ultimately participating or have any say in the pricing of the product/service? Or do I sell the product/service myself? If you answered to No to both, then it is not your job to produce value.

I hope in the coming years we reduce the stress we put on Software Engineer. In the last years, I keep seeing this trend of making Software Engineer to everything.
Stoicism in a nutshell
Crappy chicklet keyboard, ugh.
Electronic Frontier Foundation and code.org were the 13th and 14th orgs with the most money donated.

It is pretty fascinating to read down the list and see what kind of orgs common people chose to donate to.

I wish there was a searchable text version.