skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What Bouldin described is extortion, plain and simple:

> There, on the side of the road, 1,300 miles from his Virginia home, in a state where Bouldin knew no one, a sheriff’s deputy handed him a form.

> You can sign this piece of paper, abandon the $18,000, avoid arrest and continue on to Colorado, he says he was told.

> Don’t sign, and you will go to jail. You could face felony charges. Your van will be towed. Your dog will be taken to the pound.

I don't care how many laws he'd broken in the past, law enforcement officers should never be allowed to act that way. If they sincerely believed he was breaking the law, their duty was to arrest him and let him be tried by a jury. Offering to let him go in exchange for $18k in cash is pure corruption no matter how you slice it: either he was an innocent victim of extortion, or they were asking for a bribe to let him off the hook.
Some people prefer cash, some have no bank accounts (mostly immigrants, homeless, those released from prison).

My landlord just got hit head-on by a drunk driver and had to refuse an ambulance because he had a stack of rent cash in his truck and was too worried about it.

Almost all civil in rem forfeiture cases never go to court because they start with a civil process that requires the claimant to file a bunch of complicated paperwork just to initiate the court process to dispute the forfeiture. Then they have to go to court, usually for months or years, to fight the forfeiture, where the prosecutors are going to try to drown you in discovery procedures and interrogatories and requests to admit that any normal person is not going to comprehend without paying tens of thousands to a lawyer to deal with. Checkmate.

I beat one of these on my own, and I spent probably 100 hours in court watching thousands of cases and got to learn a whole lot about how these work. The prosecutors would regularly lie to me and tell me the judge wasn't coming when I would turn up to court and I would sign a waiver for a continuance until I figured out their tricks. In the end I would sit in the court and help people negotiate settlements, which really made the prosecutors mad. I had figured out that the prosecution would settle most cases by giving 80% of the money back to avoid trial. In my own case they filed the forfeiture in the wrong county and so they lacked jurisdiction "ab initio" as they say in Rome.
I’m not trying to put a value / ethical question. I’m just justifying why data for this purpose is so much more expensive.
You clearly missed the point. Cato's definition is every bit as "anecdotal" as any other. It's not like they ascribe to some perfect, platonic ideal of "freedom". They just picked one set of lines and tradeoffs and definitions of "freedom" while ignoring others.
"Land bank" is a key phrase to look for and search on. They're not ubiquitous, but numerous metro (and some non-metro) regions have one.
And there are a lot of conventions so you know, eg, w is an http.ResponseWriter, r is an http.Request pointer, etc.
This reads like reasonably normal high growth growing pains. Miserable but common as everything is constantly breaking (not just the product but organizational systems and processes) as the company piles on new hires and new customer demands.

Communication breaks down completely as you leave the “everybody knows what everybody else is doing” stage and need to figure out coordination across siloed teams and work streams. Many people who were there at the smaller team stage get stuck in that mode of operating and it’s a painful push to formalize communications and build reliable/trustworthy systems.

Someone else mentioned this too but you should be past the 18hr/day phase now. It’s time to start building systems and spreading the work in a more sustainable manner.

Not sure what the situation is over there but it’s common to need to bring in a strong VP Eng who can help firewall the department, push back on unrealistic C-suite demands, counter strong personalities from other teams, and provide more stable prioritization. This is the most effective solution that I’ve seen when an eng team feels under the gun constantly, management is punching through to pressure individuals, people are feeling jerked around, etc.
It’s also usually cheaper because iFood takes a 30% cut
Correct. A lot but not all of these are likely legit drug seizures, but there should be absolutely no way LE has free reign like this. Physical cash/gold/asset possession should be protected by all countries IMO
I misunderstood. I thought you were saying HN is interested in the mind.
If HN is interested, what other field that is doing Psychology, but not called Psychology, is acceptable that they are following?

For this field, HN doesn't seem able to work through scientific issues. In other fields if a study is shoddy, it gets called out or modified. Hypothesis are re-formed, re-tested. But in HN, there is no second chance. The entire field is BS because of a few bad studies.

It seems like this field is ridiculed more because HN does NOT understand what they are talking about on the subject. Why do you think this subject is not important to others too, that are improving the field, and are making corrections. If people on HN finds this subject important, it's a pretty odd way to discuss it.

I can only assume this default reaction is very much a 'group-think' response. Kind of like how people stormed the capital to fight the 'woke-left', on HN it is a angry group fighting the 'shoddy Psychologist', both are similarly in the dark. Meaning, consumed by anger against a miss-understood other group. Seemingly just angry and very much not wanting to understand themselves.
>> Chinese will joke about how they get chips and other secret tech from shell companies in us. They will also joke about how they secretly sell drugs to America to make them useless and make society unstable.

> If they’re useless, how are they making chips and secret tech?

My reading is they are trying to make us useless but we are not there yet?
I assume it takes time, right?

In any case, not like the west can complain after what we did in the opium wars?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opium_Wars
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… Yes?

Considering some people’s use cases, the same could be said of a MacBook Pro or an iMac.

I mean, have you seen their introduction video? [1] It’s basically watching movies on a huge screen and chatting with heads embedded in floating windows.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TX9qSaGXFyg
> why can’t I easily just get a list of all the videos

Most likely that’s less a technical decision than a business decision, so that you never realize the true extent of Netflix’s catalog.
That is a perfectly reasonable argument, albeit not one the article makes forthrightly.
1. Pretty much that's the answer I was looking for.

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5. I thought about something like [["key1", "value1"], ["... like in Lisp-y languages.
Also, generally, if you're having issues with HN, whether other members or the site itself, email the mods: hn@ycombinator.com

They can fix things, or explain rationales. They've been overwhelmingly gracious, clear, and when necessary, firm in my own discussions.

(Most of my communications are brief items readily fixed or not. Occasionally a longer bit, and even those at least generate a response.)
Just wondering if there are any Thunderbolt 4 network switches? A quick search yielded nothing.
I've been using Keycloak for my free Oracle DB. I have the option to use OCI but I don't want my customer (or players, actually) data to be directly stored on Oracle side because they are not that flexible. Other than that I find Keycloak super easy to use with Kubernetes nowadays though it was such a pain in the ass in the past, because the use of EJB and WildFly. Now they switched to Quarkus and you have a much better environment
is that really true? a modern high end GPU has more computing power than the top 20 supercomputers of the year 2000 added together
I sort of feel the same way about Microsoft and MSN/Edge Home.

You’re this giant enterprise conglomerate, and the page you first open on people’s computers is ad ridden credit card offers, and weird clickbait where thumbnails don’t match headlines.

The sheer power of being the default home page on millions of business computers, and using that eyeball attention for such shitty purposes and a cheep buck is disappointing.
The purest silicon for semiconductor wafers comes from Spruce Pine, North Carolina.

https://www.bbc.com/future/bespoke/made-on-earth/how-the-chi...
Ideal HDR goes up to 10000 nits or higher. It would be ridiculous to put SDR white anywhere near that level.

And there is no need to cripple anything. Brightness adjustment can/should let you put SDR white all the way up to the max full-screen brightness. If a manufacturer cripples that it's not HDR's fault.

But it's also important to note that "max full-screen brightness" is often a lot less than maximum spot brightness.
What professions start with experienced people out of the bat?

People just take what opportunities they can get or they choose to study some field hoping that they like it.

And often, a few years in, they learn that they hate their job.
agree with you 100%..

some philosophy (plato's dialogues) establish the underpinnings of reasoning and meaning - in that everything can be critiqued and debated.

and some other philosophy (spinoza's emmendations of the intellect / ethics) attempt an axiomatic approach..

however, much of philosophy/psychology is just a narrative with lot of words but little coherence.
That stood out to me too.
The iPod really wasn't a technically complex product though - no more so then anything else at the time. The original iPod was "just" a hard drive with an LCD on it.

The big innovation was the wheel interface, and the quality of the plastic packaging/housing. Apple's big value proposition was realizing they could put premium-looking styling on a product and that would then justify the price point to add capability - at the time the whole point of the iPod was "it's got enormous storage". It literally was just a laptop HDD in a housing though.

Which is to say: Apple's timeline for that is a pretty standard consumer product timeline. If they'd taken much longer then that you'd have to wonder what they were wasting their time on.

EDIT: Like it's worth considering that Apple probably owes a lot of it's success to the specific finish and chemical formulation of the plastic they use, more then any specific technical merits of a lot of their products - building a plastic gadget that felt as good as an iPod did was a heck of an achievement, just not in the area people think.
The only reason I wouldn’t drive around with that much cash is because I don’t want the police to rob me. Seriously.
> You can't give credit all the credit to capitalism. Communism destroyed what was the fourth-largest lake in the world, which was so big that it was called a "sea"[0].

The age-old adage that if it is not capitalism, it must be communism.

> The age-old adage that anyone opposed to your viewpoint is either stupid or evil.

Which one are you? Sure my take was reductionist, but you are using my critique to distract is disingenuous. You are trying to defend capitalism by saying that you are not stupid or evil. If I have missed an adjective to describe people who have not discovered this ruthless system of destruction what would it be? Ignorant? Willfully Ignorant?
I see it differently and I have gained a different understanding of "My right to swing my fist ends where your nose begins."

I used to think like that but in reality, the way the world really works is that anyone can punch you in the nose if they really want to... Whether or not the assailant will be punished for that depends on who got punched and who did the punching.

Access to the justice system is asymmetrical. Big corporations or organizations are often not held liable for many of their 'crimes' on a per-infraction basis because their victims have a much weaker voice; they can basically do all the crimes they want and then, if they harm enough people and they get caught and there is a class action (a lot of IFs), they MAY pay a lump sum fine at the end.

I prefer the ancient Roman system where some crimes were forgiven based on context (e.g. retaliation was allowed). I think it would bring back the human element to the justice system. People should be allowed to take the law into their own hands provided that their cause can be morally justified in front of a random sample of citizens.
afaik no that's impossible without modifications of the customers OpenVPN software itself (they would need firewall/iptable rules for NAT, impossible to set via OpenVPN config). That's exactly why it's a bad sign if a VPN provider doesn't just give you VPN configuration files.
Twilio has to go for high margin business than their usual SMS business. Old HN discussion on why Twilio acquired Segment.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24781493

(Disclaimer: I was the author of the blog)
> Or maybe building an entire business solely on someone else's API (especially Reddit, Twitter, etc) is extremely risky

This is for sure!
Yes. They also can flag you using Benford's law

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benford%27s_law
Well played and accurate
Thanks. Great read.

When work or personal issues overwhelm me I go with this kind of meta analysis and stop usually at Keynes quote : In the long run we are all dead. This helps me get though the day.
There's ample evidence that Bouldin was actually driving to Colorado to purchase marijuana products, hence cash.

Still though, Colorado has ATMs. Maybe he didn't want to leave paper trail by withdrawing large amounts on cash outside of his home-state, I dunno.

Also, marijuana still being federally illegal in 2023 is a joke.
What “we” did? Speak for yourself sir.
That happens to me all the time the solution is I need a push or some deadline. For high school it was a strict (we thought) teacher who brought me from an average of 70% to 95%. For computer programming it was going back to school as an adult and timed in class tests. For music is was paying for lessons at a certain time.

If I don't get motivated from some external push I never get past a certain level. Every single thing I do in my life is like that even laundry. I must be chronic or maybe permanent procrastinator.
Digg was already losing a lot of marketshare before the v4 rollout. The v4 rollout was the nail in the coffin. Also, it still took about a year before Reddit finally surpassed Digg in terms of total users after that. But engagement and depth of user activity plunged immediately, something that is happening to Twitter now. Also Reddit right now too, which is having its own Digg v4 type of event.

Both Twitter and Reddit are on the short path to irrelevancy, and their numbers are only held up by "late quitters." Probably more so in the case of Twitter, which is likely in a later stage of that decline. Reddit is likely just a year behind, although its decline is accelerating faster. We'll see which one fails first soon.
I recently had a similar experience. There was no bad blood in the departure, but what I thought would be more of two people with supplementary experiences coming together ended up feeling more like an employer/employee type of relationship. Like many co-partnerships that end up splitting, one person felt like they were doing all the heavy lifting for too long and that engenders a bit of resentment.
Reddit may be more SEO friendly for now, but if it's content suffers and search results are degraded, search engines will probably to look to change how they rank results.
So he was driving, with money, to a place where cannabis is legal, while smelling like cannabis? Sounds like Nebraska just needs to legalize it too so they can find a less shady way to get their slice of the pie.
This is a problem with siloing front end development, not graphql.
My understanding is that water rights law in the Western (or at least southwestern) US is also largely influenced by Napoleonic / Spanish law, as distinguished from that generally east of the Rockies.

(Don't take this as gospel, I'm ... not on firm ground here.)
A more useful approach would probably be to use a special OCaml program to emit code for the Atari 2600, instead of using the general purpose OCaml compiler to translate OCaml code directly.
Adverse possession can be thought of as the other half of a statute of limitations. Either sue when you have a claim, or lose the right to sue.
Public thought leaders should not get to pick and choose every question they answer. That's how we end up with two morons on a debate stage with no one genuine to choose. Great thought comes with great responsibility?
> but e.g. beef is "ternera" in Spanish

Beef is "res" or sometimes "carne" as the article mentions, "ternera" is specifically the young calf's meat.
But that is fine, because someone can still merge patches to a fork of the software. Telling someone to fork is the real middle finger.
But you can literally walk into a branch of your bank with a debit card and withdraw that amount in like 5 minutes.

The only reason to carry this much cash across multiple state lines I can imagine is him not wanting to leave a paper trail and withdrawing large amounts outside of his home state.
The price a product sells for is driven purely by the market that you are selling it into. If the market will bear a higher price to maximize profit then it is in the company's best interest (and is indeed their responsibility to their shareholders) to sell it for that price. That actual cost to make the product has practically zero bearing on the pricing, other than setting a floor for which the product will make a profit.

If this pricing model is enough to get you to not buy a product then you probably will have a hard time finding anything to buy if you have a clue how much things actually cost to manufacture. I often look at products and get pissed off when I see the price because I have a good idea what the actual manufacturing cost is.
Sure, fine, I'll do the googling for you:

https://www.houstonchronicle.com/politics/texas/article/Even...

> That kind of heat exhaustion is common for construction workers in Texas, nearly 40 percent of whom say they are not given regular breaks on job sites, even in the heat of the summer, according to surveys by the Workers Defense Project.

...

> According to a Workers Defense Project report from 2017, more than a third of workers in Houston reported that they did not receive any rest breaks during the past work week

Seriously, did you think these laws--which are on the books right now--simply come out of nowhere?
Because we love it when cops beat up people we don't like.
This is so wild to me. Coming from a place in New Zealand where property is incredibly valuable, nothing in my city is ever vacant for more than a few weeks. The idea that land and buildings could remain empty is economically unthinkable.
Fixed price is bad for customers who cant make up their minds and or want to continuously fiddle with requirements.
encyclopedia Britannia existed. I came to USA in late 90s and my school had the CD set.
If they had a better app than reddit’s official app, I would try to serve ads on their app; or try to try to convince the creators of those apps to charge a monthly fee, and get a cut; or charge something for the use of the APIs, but something that makes sense.

Betting the house on the fact that nobody will leave seems reckless to me.
From the captures in the article, it doesn't look like it's sending the data back anywhere. It's mostly just that the endpoint they're hitting is computationally expensive (searches usually are) in an effort to bring the service down without have the raw traffic to actually jam the pipe on bandwidth alone.
I had a completely different view of RFCs before coming into contact with some peers that followed this approach to the letter. RFCs for such small issues would take 10 pages and barely mean anything. Of course they would be praised by upper management (it didn't matter the RFCs would be ignored most of the time).
This is so on-point. Nearly every single article I have read on HN that covers my own area of expertise has been bullshit. I come here mostly to call BS before people blindly believe it.
Both REST and GraphQL API's can be well designed, or badly designed. While I'm a GraphQL fanboy, I would much prefer integrating with a well design REST API over a badly designed GraphQL API.

Having spent over 15 years integrating with, and writing API's, GraphQL was a breath of fresh air! If you think of GraphQL as a query language, you will find it frustrating. If you think of it like you do a REST API with all the ugly pain points straightened out and standardised, then it is a dream to work with.

GraphQL is as much of a query language as REST is. For example, most REST API's end up getting super long lists of parameters in their urls. How many eCommerce API's end up having REST URL's like:

/api/products?category=guitars&include_variants=true&page=20&per_page=100&exclude_fields=description,specs

Whereas, GraphQL transforms that into a simple, readable query, which does not require reading pages and pages of documentation to understand.

But, if you are creating well designed REST API's, I would prefer to use them over somebodies poorly written Graph.

Just like a REST API, a well written Graph should be crafted to be fast and performant to execute. Just like with REST, a Graph designer needs to sit down and think about the ways people will want to use the API. A good graph does not allow endless relationships that will cause performance to blow out.
As a Brit, the only reason I _don't_ use cash for virtually everything is that ants like you find it "suspicious" and so it causes me a ton of social friction.
> Sponsorship is definitely a good way to save a lot of money, but it also makes you somewhat beholden to those sponsors.

I've organised a couple of conferences here in Singapore.

I find the asks by the sponsors in the article to be a bit over-the-top. Organisers need to establish firm boundaries on what they're willing to give in to (booths, shoutouts), and what is non-negotiable (anything to do with programming and content), and put that in their sponsorship prospectus.

It's the job of most marketing people to push for more, and it's the conference organiser's job to push back.
In the EU with have a working banking system that does transfers very well and very fast. (Actually, for 35k, I’ll need to lift some thresholds with my banker)
LDAP Authentication Server for Developers
My ISP went down. Nothing I could do about it.
maybe he gets to go to Mars and set up a research facility there.
Richard Socher’s You.com looks to innovation to chip away at Google’s search
We used keycloak at the Accelerator I worked for. I used it to provide auth and SAML SSO to enterprises while giving our devs an easy to integrate module. It worked great. Theming the login/signup/forgot password pages was simple and easy but would have been easier for the teams if it was React. Nevertheless we built some amazing B2B SaaS software using Keycloak as our identity provider.

I would use it again for sure.
The economic potential of generative AI
Cherry picking. Sure, a few of these jobs exist, but nowhere near the claimed scale. Do you know anyone in a job where they do literally nothing?

Anyone, feel free to comment if you do literally nothing at work :)
Interesting, how does he pass performance review? Usually ppl get some help to pass the bar. The bar doesn't need to be high. But if he is not up to the task he will be put through pip then fired
Flint has had clean water for years now.
The baseball one was too. Even down to balls and strikes counts within seconds of them happening.

The downside back then was that usually the API consisted of just rendered JSON blobs at certain endpoints and they weren't documented at all.

But hey, better than undocumented XML or needing to actually scrape the webpages, Heh.
The state takes 63% of our income here in France, and there are still homeless people.

I’d say the capitalists do a better job.