skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's HSBC being HSBC, I can't say that I'm surprised. Drug cartels and money laundering are at the core of their brand value.
This is not really news, this is certainly not exclusive to one bank or another

I remember some years ago I saw a comment somewhere that, for real estate purchases "proceeds from a certain country were subject to AML regulations... but not from China"

Really. I can imagine a Canadian banker saying that with a straight face.
Could be that the divorce and reduced income are linked?

I.e. the divorce is related to the man's declined earnings.
During a mental health first aid course, I remember being told those mistakes can (admittedly rarely) happen in the other direction too. ie someone thinking they were having a panic attack actually having a heart attack instead.

The advice was to go call an ambulance anyway for someone having a serious panic attack. But for what it's worth, that advice was given somewhere where calling ambulances won't cost you.
I know you’re just trolling, but - really? For all HN’s problems - and I get why someone might hate HN! - you think it’s more “repulsive” than Stormfront? Kiwifarms? The depths of 8chan? Revenge porn groups? The Telegram groups that share cartel execution videos? Nextdoor?
It's definitely more than just conflating "treating" THC withdrawal with treating anxiety, at least for me personally. I'll quit for months, have an anxiety attack, and I'm able to interrupt it by using cannabis. It doesn't per say treat my anxiety but can be like a "rescue inhaler" to disrupt repetitive anxious thoughts and snap me out of an anxiety attack. Once they're disrupted, I have a fighting chance to confront my anxiety with other strategies (which are the real long term solutions).

But it does make perfect sense to me that the effects of cannabis on someone who has been a longtime user are quite different and that it isn't great generic advice to tell people to try cannabis for their anxiety. I definitely think this current vogue of trying to apply cannabis to every problem is misguided and an artefact of the commercial environment around cannabis being increasingly legal, not our medical understanding of it.
Diagnosing and Debugging PyTorch Data Starvation
Synergy: City-building game in which humanity must survive in a world
I get what you're saying, but "native tribes" were just part of the ecosystem as much as we are. The is nothing magical or pure about them.

The "true" natural state of a region is one without any management or intervention from anyone.

We are not "invasive" species and contrary to what the rocket man says, Earth is our home and we will not be anywhere else, so the only solution is to use our brains and judgment.
> Can't those cases simply be exempted from the requirement?

Congratulations, you've turned a discussion about Apple's anticompetitive actions into a multi-industry free-for-all demanding and drafting exemptions. Hence why I said this is lobbyist-of-the-year material.
This is probably an extension of their hostility to mp3s. They wanted to force people away from downloaded or ripped content and toward their own store.
When Chinese citizens are surveyed anonymously, support for party plummets
> It is assumed that command-line interfaces are the opposite of this—that you have to remember how to do everything. The original Macintosh Human Interface Guidelines, published in 1987, recommend “See-and-point (instead of remember-and-type),” as if you could only choose one or the other.

I find that guis have worse discoverability and cli better. It's pretty hard to search for a gui affordance. Plus they are essentially unscriptable.
IDK what it is about this subject that makes people think they know me. You don't know anything about me, about what kind of life I've lived. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39275721

I think there is a difference between keeping people confined against their will and coercing them to labor for your own economic benefit. Neither thing should be permitted, but I'm not trying to solve all problems overnight. We were talking about the laboring thing, let's stick to that.

I see elsewhere that you have complete confidence in your view about this, with no room for doubt or curiosity. If you can't entertain the possibility of being anything but an adversary, then I can't justify spending more time or effort on this subject with you.
Yeah if anything this would indicate that wives are providing much more lift to their husbands' careers than vice versa.
One other neat thing about AdGuard is that it is available as a Home Assistant addin - and it does integrate with the rest of HA, so you can e.g. have a switch to enable/disable blocking as part of your dashboard.
HN tends to go down extreme rabbit holes that anyone with professional legal expertise would smile at near-immediately due to it coming across as earnest and naive.

Here, we see a flippant comment consume tons and tons of replies, because we tend to think of laws like code. Absolutist, and if the absolutes are wrong, we'll patch.

Which then leaves you open to recursive arguments about patches and unpersuasive railing about regulation being ineffective, lobbyists, etc etc.[^1]

I think this situation might be a bit of a wake up call. Apple decided to implement a maliciously compliant solution, and it's immediately obvious to all concerned they didn't fulfill the spirit of their obligations, and there will be consequences. Not necessarily negative ones. But this isnt going to get delivered with no changes while the EU stays quiet.

[^1] "If you have the facts on your side, pound the facts; if you have the law on your side, pound the law; if you have neither the facts nor the law, pound the table."
It is a factor, even if not taken into account in their analysis. At 64, someone might be compelled by the court to work. This can't happen at 65+

65 is retirement. Everyone's income drops around this time.
Hopefully Canadian citizens are the "lender of last resort", just like we Americans are the "lender of last resort".

The bankers must be made whole -- nothing else matters.
Meta pushes to label all AI images on Facebook in crackdown on deceptive content
So, rather than use the right tool for the job, use one tool for everything.
ChatGPT enterprise? Or over API. They state that those offerings data is not used for training. I'm not a lawyer but afaik illegally retrieved evidence cannot be used - "exclusionary rule".
I understand what it currently does. I’m saying they’re missing the mark and should finish building out the tool. I don’t want a separate tool for each.
I'm not following the math.

Taking the US as an example: depending on who you ask, we could generate enough power for the US with somewhere between 10000 square miles (Elon math) and 21250 square miles (pretty common number given by multiple other sources) of PV.

That is about a fifth of the state of Nevada. A lot of PV, to be sure, but far from beyond hope.

And that assumes nothing but PV, which is unrealistic. We capture a bunch of the sun's energy as wind and rain.
In general, we should not stall technological progress just to protect jobs. They will find other jobs. This is the way throughout human history.
We've largely accepted this with ink.
True, but apart from moderation, the engagement driven algorithm on Twitter also does a ton to proliferate vile content. On the federated platform the algorithms tend to be simply chronological and limit the content to account you explicitly follow. Meaning there is way less exposure to undesired content. One of your follows must be the one to repost it (which may warrant an unfollow or mute, etc.) or you must opt into an algorithm that gives you unwanted content (which you may then simply swap out for a better one).
i recently saw a refreshing perspective on canadian immigration that addressed these issues at their origins: failures in housing policy and complacent governance. it's the perspective i wish more canadians held so we could steer the government towards policy that's better for all. maybe nativist nimbyism isn't inevitable.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQkzE9PsAv4
And they say CSS isn't a programming language CSS-only games are amazing
I found the ingenuity behind these games very fascinating using some clever and hacky tricks. If you've ever doubted the versatility of CSS, Kevin Powell's video is a must-watch.
I found this confusing too

I think the interests section was to try get you to find people and feeds.. but after that, the feeds (or just the Discovery feed?) are influenced by who you follow.. so if you are offered a 'bad' (for you) starting group of people to follow, your feed will probably not be great until you find people you like (that are active) and follow them too.

Also was unsure what "Follow all +" button was.. why not "Follow Selected".. and a 'deselect all'.. I had no idea who all but 2 of the suggestions were. Not going to follow a random "Computer Scientist" the system picked for me sight/posts unseen.
The impact Apple's rules have on e.g. Spotify's business model cannot be understated. As an example: Spotify wants to get into Audiobooks, which we'll assume is a reasonable and interesting expansion of their business. Traditionally, audiobooks are sold piecemeal; but its difficult for Spotify to find success doing this, because the majority of their users are on mobile, and mobile platforms would require a 30% cut, which far exceeds the meager margins Spotify would already be taking on the sale.

One alternative people who aren't close to this topic propose is: Why can't Spotify just charge iOS users 30% more to compensate? Easy: Apple explicitly forbids this. You cannot charge iOS users more than other users.

This leaves Spotify with two courses of action. (1): They can globally raise the price of their audiobooks by 30% (or, put another way, by some amount to compensate for Apple's 30% cut). (2): They can refuse to sell audiobooks in the Spotify app on mobile.

Globally raising the cost of audiobooks is an entirely untenable path. Generally, the cost of audiobooks is set by the publishers; and Apple themselves is a competitor in this space. This means that Apple would get an implicit ~30% discount on every audiobook they sell over competitors; and consumers would obviously flock to that.

Spotify has walked the alternate path: You cannot buy audiobooks in the Spotify mobile app. This is a better solution for their business, but it presents its own challenges because, again, a very significant portion of Spotify users likely have never launched the desktop or web experiences. This has pushed Spotify toward their newest initiative: Premium subscriptions come with a number of bundled audiobook listening hours. They can leverage the pre-existing subscription channel, which already bypasses IAP. They're not really turning more revenue from this, but its a value-add and eventually they'll raise the price of the subscription or add additional subscription tiers to compensate.

An interesting further angle to this is the downstream impact on authors. Subscriptionizing has almost universally had the impact of hurting content creators; its a capitalistic efficiency-maximizer which has wrecked the movie industry, the TV industry, the music industry, and now its coming for audiobooks. What deals has Spotify made with audiobook publishers to make this "free listening hours" model possible, we may never know. But, its important to recognize that, while Spotify should bare some responsibility/blame for this shift, Apple is the one that forced them to change the model.

Capitalism is a closed-loop system. Apple's tax isn't just hurting app developers: their pain gets passed down the supply chain. It hurts content creators, and it ultimately hurts consumers as well.
It seems common for people to be unaware of important things like THC:CBD ratios, and this ignorance often stems from unfortunate market based incentives to prioritize high THC ratios above all else. Modern growing techniques drive this even further with high potency plants.

If you (anyone) aren't fortunate enough to have a wide selection of lab tested ratios in your locale, consider mixing whatever THC is available along with product that is CBD "hemp," which, at least in the US is legal in most places and legal to ship online from out of state. Many users intentionally mix like this because the latter is often cheaper from the market saturation.

This isn't guaranteed to be the reason behind your issues, but seems to be for many people who stumble into this info.
Don’t worry the HN crowd seems to be so far gone from reality and understanding free markets that I’ve encountered numerous discussions where landlords are categorically evil, which is overwhelmingly empirically understood to be extremely beneficial to housing and communities to have landlords invest in them! Of course given the trend has been to remove all education of market fundamentals and inject eduction systems with endless collectivist propaganda we should not be surprised.
> is there anything particularly compelling about it compared to a centralized platform?

As a user? I'd say custom feeds. You can create alternative feeds using whatever algorithm you want that users can subscribe to in a way that is very smooth and user friendly. Third party alternatives have the feel of first party features.

As a developer? The protocol is "locked open," as it were. I feel confident building on it. It feels more like building for the web than within a walled garden. Bluesky could have made things easier for themselves by making certain aspects centralized, but they didn't compromise.

> honestly still just waiting for the android app to not have terrible startup time and for there to be anybody on it

There is a alternative client (https://graysky.app/) that you may have better luck with. Same deal as with custom feeds. They are not territorial about the existence of alternatives. The Graysky dev (@mozzius.dev) and the Bluesky social-app devs are very friendly with each other and share development techniques all the time.

Also, the official app has a Github repo (https://github.com/bluesky-social/social-app) that accepts issues and PRs. I opened an issue recently as some icons were wrong in a particular location. Some non-team affiliated developer created a fix, opened a PR, and the core team merged it in and deployed it a few days later. That was pretty cool.
You have it exactly backwards. Why should anyone on the whole Internet have access to my physical address? I reject someone's pull request on github and now I have to worry they might show up at my door? Fuck everything about that.
This sounds interesting to me, but visiting communick.com I can't figure out how much the service costs, nor see any way to find out. I see a sign up page, but it also has no pricing info.

Can you direct me to that in info?
This is literally the use case for cryptocurrencies -- digital cash, not investments.

In the more... questionably legal parts of the web, Monero is pretty common since you can't use regular banking anyway. The fees are pretty low, at around USD0.001 IIRC.

There's also Nano (feeless) but it doesn't seem to be very popular, unfortunately.
I have porn on my iCloud Drive, photos, even within certain apps (well... adult but not porn. at what point does someone sending you a photo change to porn?), and through the browser.

This is factually untrue.

While the puritanical nature of the App Store is weird, particularly when they have no issue with drug and sex references in their keynotes. You are way off.
you all => y'all

*this is a pet peeve. it could easily be a typo, but there is a large portion of people that believe the proper contraction is ya'll for some strange reason.
Begin with just attending nearby events, and read about networking from entrepreneurs.

You could also attend courses of sales persons, they teach people exactly to begin conversation and to got what you need (sure, most sales target sale, but you could target something other, for example to get contact or to begin conversation).
What terrifying information is she sharing with you?
> I think the price tag makes AVP a non starter for vast majority of families with kids.

I don't have kids and the price is still outlandish for my household of well-earners. I would never pay more than $2k for this.
Yes, it's always a bit of an after thought (unfortunately) but we have improved it already a couple of times.

And like most things with atproto, there will likely be protocol support for pluggable search engines, so users can choose their search provider(s).

It's already entirely possible for others to operate atproto search engines since all the data is public and available.
The world is awful. The world is much better. The world can be much better
I agree about vagueness, and it's great that there's more awareness about rhetorical technique. Still, it's written in active voice.
Does LPO (Legal Process Outsourcing) mean a paralegal?
Better still, take a look at Nile's "tenant virtualization" concept: https://www.thenile.dev/
Question is: when BSKY goes belly-up, will all those users have somewhere they can turn to?

The death of a Mastodon node is inconvenient, but not identity-ending (especially if one uses static indirection to link your abstract Mastodon ID to a concrete instance).
There are some things one has to memorize, as I'm finding out unfortunately. Definitions, etc. need some memorization for me. There are plenty of people who can get by without doing so, more power to them; I somehow can't.
Great title
This proposal is a slippery slope to economic disaster. First, restricting ownership rights—foreign or domestic—distorts the market, disincentivizes investment, and ultimately harms those it claims to help by reducing the supply of housing. Second, treating homes purely as shelter ignores the reality that property is also an investment and a key component of individual wealth and economic freedom. Imposing heavy taxes on those owning more than one home would not only penalize success but also discourage rental market contributions, exacerbating the housing shortage. The real solution lies in encouraging development and reducing bureaucratic barriers to increase housing supply, not in draconian measures that trample on property rights and stifle economic growth. Let’s not replace a market-driven approach with a command economy that history has repeatedly shown to fail.
That was why I used air-quotes. What is "natural" isn't always healthy, and I'd argue leaving ecosystems to nature is impossible these days. I'm advocating for responsible stewardship.
You would be pleased to know that Whiptail exceeded whatever low bar you might have had. I like to see people achieve the things they set out to do, and I am assuming that was their goal.

Rare to see a product completely canceled and removed from the market as soon as customers started reporting minor things like total data loss due to corruption..
I'm not advocating anything of this sort. I only reject the typical framing of "bad guys" on one side.
Well, I guess since it's not "practice" we gonna call it "mal-inference insurance".
Why do toothbrushes need to be able to make web connections in the first place? I get that it's for tracking brushing habits, but can't that be done with local connectivity only, like LAN or something?
have you reported this issue to the VLC devs? VLC is by far the player with the most widely supported video codecs. I'm sure they will fix it if you report the issue to them.
Netbox is amazing. I'm never going back to spreadsheets and Visio.
> it was very interesting when it came out ~6 months ago.

It was also underreported. Hank Green made a great video about it.[1] It lists some sources in the description.

[1]: https://youtu.be/dk8pwE3IByg?si=aiOv-7MGZRa6D9lS

https://www.science.org/content/article/changing-clouds-unfo...
I no longer trust anything Spotify says after they fought so hard to get support for home pod actions, Apple added those and years later they haven't bothered to implement that OR airplay 2.
Presumably the browser would take a fee for facilitating the transaction, which could replace any lost ad revenue.

And imo most websites would double dip: Have paid content and advertising. You already see that for online newspaper/magazine subscriptions. If Google is on both sides of that, that's extra revenue for them.

I agree that it'll never happen, but moreso because a lack imagination and willpower from Google.
You did notice the "CE" in one of them? Community Edition. Evidently a dumbed-down variant so that there is some incentive in buying the better one. I have they give up on that at some point.
Moderators at US social media companies have similar experiences, in terms of the PTSD (and I assume SLA stats)

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-57088382
The article states more cases than that. One of the examples the mortgage payments aren’t being made via Chinese wires, they are being paid locally and the Chinese income doesn’t exist at all.

They could be making round trips with Chinese banks but I don’t see why. You can transfer funds from China into your account before your monthly mortgage was due, the mortgage provider would never know. You can also put dollars into a Chinese bank account and do wires in demand, since it isn’t R!B there are no controls on it.
How about no household surveillance at all? Crazy idea, I know.
Propaganda is a powerful tool. With a loud enough megaphone and a big enough wallet funding it, a lie can easily replace the truth in the minds of laymen.
>There is also no legal liability for GPT for giving the wrong answer. So It works well for someone smart who is doing their own research. Just like if you are smart you could use google before to do your own research.

How is that good for the end user? Malpractice claims are often all that is left for a client after the attorney messes up their case. If you use a GPT, you wouldn't have that option.
I presume you were foreign national with more options. Options for diasphora Chinese, many who illegally hold dual citizenship and relies on PRC nationality to do transactions/capital flight in PRC is different.

I highlighted the original quote where branch is mostly Chinese-Canadian for context. Aurora is 20% Chinese, it's a big diasphora neighbourhood. There isn't some big "fake chinese income" conspiracy, it's the entire (proven) business plan (money laundering) with occasional fraud. I think pretty much everyone knew Chinese are buying million+ propertiers with laundered money, and it fuels the bubble as much as any other foreign buyer.
You just repeated the same thing the parent comment said.
I noticed that shortly after I posted and have included that info now (edited the comment). Classic dark pattern. That info should be more prominently displayed in their pricing information.

So your service will handle (up to) 305+ data brokers automatically? depending on how much you are willing to pay of course
Good example but what adult doesn’t know all the countries of the world?
I think it's reasonable to restrict pornography on a device intended to be used for AR in public.

From Apple's perspective, it's important that using the device in public doesn't have a stigma.

Otherwise, we don't need to wait for deepfake AI / AR apps to undress people.

Creeps could go in public, see a person they like, and put porn next to them without anyone knowing.

Without restricting porn, an AR device just becomes a machine to violate others boundaries. There's a reason cell phones in Japan cannot turn off the shutter sound.
Chats aren’t a formal language. You need a formal language to do anything reliably and reproducibly.
Nice concept but I think the beauty of forums is the post can be found useful a decade later, even if it has no replies, I always find those useful posts from ~2004 in linux forums!