skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fedex doesn't get a choice.

We'll assume for a second this was purely state to state (ie no customs involved) since that seems to be the case.

Even then, they generally don't get involved unless a package smells funny, is leaking, or making noise.

But if it does, it may get opened or dog sniffed or inspected (fedex itself generally does not open packages, they would set them aside. Chain of custody and all that. While they probably reserve the right to open whatever, the in-practice exceptions mostly about trying to find a receiver when the label/other identifying info is destroyed somehow.).

There are also some amount of random checks.

But to put this in perspective (and again, i think civil forfeiture is nutso), thi is is a fedex site that processes about 100k packages an hour.

The state seized 134 packages in the past year.

If they were inspecting any meaningful percent of packages, this would probably be 100x greater.
How do you compete with free? Unless you're running a charity, you have to make money somehow eventually. That's there are no mainstream paid competitors to Facebook says (investors believe) theres not a large intersection of users who care about privacy and customers willing to pay a sustainable fee to run such a service. So we're left with Facebook/similar, or hosting open source clones.
Dogs absolutely can be and are trained to detect cash. A better question might be, what can't dogs be trained to sniff out?

https://www.akc.org/expert-advice/news/meet-currency-detecto...
I hadn't heard of this before, but here are some sources. Note this quote from [2], U.S. Customs and Border Protection:

"Canines are taught to detect concealed U.S. currency and firearms. Both the Officer/Agent and canine are taught the proper search sequences when searching vehicles, aircraft, freight, luggage, mail, passengers and premises."

I have no idea what the ratio of scientific backing vs. security theater is, though.

[0] https://www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/news/golden-valleys-new-k-...

[1] https://www.akc.org/expert-advice/news/meet-currency-detecto...

[2] https://www.cbp.gov/border-security/along-us-borders/canine-...
for sure, and if you are not religious, for instance I belong to a rationalist group (https://rationalists.nz/) which has regular meetups also, martial arts groups - I made many friends through this especially doing BJJ, hiking groups especially after going on multiday hikes you develop a bit of a bond with the others.
> They’re a right wing organization, so just bear in mind they are most concerned about property rights and the right to participate in the free market without burdensome regulation.

That description sounds more libertarian than right or left.
A high compliment!
Maybe.

"U.S. Govt pushes Nvidia and Apple to use Intel's foundries — Department of Commerce Secretary Raimondo makes appeal for US-based chip production"

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/us-govt-pushes-nv...
This is addressed in TFA - the author’s posts are characteristically full of hypertext.
I don’t get it, they named every major smartphone maker (“Samsung, Xiaomi, Motorola, Vivo, Lenovo and Realme”) excluding Apple—if everyone gets to do exclusive launches, isn’t that the opposite of anti-trust?
Banks can crash faster than you can adapt. It can be extremely hard to physically get to your savings money in a crisis.
The project seems to have been made for their portfolio rather than any practical purpose (nothing wrong with that). Just a few hundred lines of hard coded server/client wrapping around raptorQ
And wasn't Google fun for 15 or so years? They dazzled us with all this cool, free software and early machine learning, making us think they were sending us to technological utopia. 1GB of free email storage! Then 5GB, then Maps and Earth...
from wiki -> Victims often have "long legal struggles to get their money back".[35] One estimate was that only one percent of federally taken property is ever returned to their former owners.[43]
The "best YouTube" video is not whatever you think it is, but rather what it is.

You can go see what are the most watched videos. How many are softcore porn?

(Let's exclude music videos because they have always included that at times, and popularity tends to run with the audio first)
I had a family member in a truly messed up financial condition that resulted in me sending them $1000 in prepaid Visa cards.

Those were sent USPS priority, and I can surely tell you there was mild panic when they didn’t show up on time. I was concerned someone saw the contents on X-ray and decided they had nothing to lose by letting that envelope, um, slip through the cracks.

They eventually arrived, but it was a worrisome couple days.
I wonder if this could be solved with standardized embeddings. There are reasons to hide exact content but giving a peak at the content with an embedding could allow meaningful search while still hiding the exact content.
Some people having it worse doesn't invalidate my problems. This is the cornerstone of all social issues.
The main reason not to write a book is that the topic doesn't need a book-length treatment, and would be better as an article. Fiction of course is one thing, but even then, some fictional ideas and personality combinations are better as short stories. Personally, as a reader, I find a lot of book ideas interesting (especially in the realm of popular science), but I can stomach very few of them because they are excessively wordy and often full of overly long (IMO) personal experiences.
Well they did actually get to invalidate their model.
Not disclosing that the beneficiaries are friends and family under the guise of charity to get more views seems pretty scummy to me. In general I'm sick of the fake charity we see with influencers, including the classic "show up to a volunteer event, take pictures, and promptly leave" bit that influencers occasionally get caught doing.
Some russians are still there. But tours still happen.

Lazerpigs recent video, around 32min.
https://youtu.be/cDyq95F49BQ?si=xnmja9ehVVnOhZ0r
acqui-hire is not really the reason. They need people who can sell on fund-raising and these are usually people who will get hired by FAANG. If you understand that, you'll understand the product that YC is creating (and most of VCs) and how it deviated from what they were supposed to do (actually investing).
Although Duga was an impressive infrastructure project, I don't really think there is anything beyond theory suggesting it could have detected ICBMs (or done much of anything else for that matter); and although the computational technology is interesting and exotic, it was almost certainly lightyears behind computers in the west. Cray-1 was already in production at Los Alamos in the 1970s.

This was a culture that said Chernobyl's reactor design was safe. Far less avarice would be required to suggest that a giant lattice of metal with exotic computers inside of it could actually do something useful.
However, we can't guess whether the judgment is good or not, we need to collect power consumption and loading speed values to prove that the new version is indeed good or not
The biggest reason why there is ostensibly more "junk" now is availability heuristics. We're seeing more junk because there's more music now than there ever was in the past. Both globally and in the local music scene - you can get to nearly any music at any time thanks to streaming services.
That might be part of the trouble. I have a similar drive to always be productive. I'm not sure how to describe it other than I get depressed when I have nothing to accomplish. Maybe making generative art in itself is good enough but if you need a goal, maybe turn it into some kind of charity exercise.

Maybe go back to your appalachian roots and chop some wood or whittle some sticks. I've found it therapeutic.
From what I understand what generally happens is that if you start fighting it (especially with help from some non-profit that would like to get some case law settled) they will quickly drop the suit and return the cash. At that point they say you no longer have standing. https://youtu.be/WmVFud7v2r4?t=1020
"but not against big corporations"

Because that's literally not their mission:
https://ij.org/about-us/

"Our mission is to end widespread abuses of government power ..."

"IJ is the national civil liberties law firm that represents everyday people—free of charge—when the government violates their most important constitutional rights. ..."

The fact that they choose to deal with government abuse of power and not corporate abuse of power seems totally reasonable and unrelated to left or right or whatever. I would not call them right wing simply because they have chosen to focus - all successful non-profit civil liberties law firms do this. Anything else is insane/impossible.

I'm not sure why you are choosing to paint them with a left or right brush here, when it seems mainly complaining that their mission doesn't match what you seem to want.

Most of the civil rights orgs that spend time dealing with corporate abuse of power either ignore or don't take government abuse of power cases.
I don't think that classifies them as "left wing" or "right wing" either. It's just pragmatic for what they can accomplish.
Homebrew defaults to downloading binaries.
Dude's problem is confidence, not a lack of spin class.

I'm glad he was finally able to invite himself to a social gathering.
I used to work for a company that had a lot of rules about working from home/working in office and I hate being controlled.

I just came here to say that quitting back in 2023 was the best decision I ever made.
You cannot compete with free, unless their experience is so bad that people are willing to throw money at the problem to have it be better. Most of the time, that isn't the case. 'Facebook that values your privacy' is not a value proposition that most people care to pay money for.

'Photoshop but [cheaper, free-with-ads, without an Adobe subscription]' is an area where people have successfully built businesses, however.
If you want to write a book, go for it! I wrote a book "Amazing CTO", I earned quite some money and I got great feedback from people whom the book helped. I'm very happy I did it, even if I didn't become famous :-)
JavaScript failed to take us to a good place because it was not designed to resist corruption. You might make similar arguments about money.

If we went back and replaced those media with less naive designs, I think it's reasonable to believe that they'd take us somewhere different. We are hackers after all, reshaping technology is what we do.

Of course let's also address the lack of scruples that got us here... In fact, let's each do that primarily in our own ways, I'm just saying that this might not be the forum for that.
Correlation Does Not Imply Causation
Exactly. I want a wife and kids and a family, and for them not to hate me. Work has always got to be secondary to that.

I think the time spent being a workaholic (I did it a little myself early on) is sometimes helpful to really increase your skills quickly. But eventually you hit a sort of skill ceiling and it's increasingly not worth it, especially considering the things you are giving up.

Nobody at your funeral is going to be giving a heartfelt and tearful speech about how great a developer you were. Ordinary people honestly don't give a shit and neither should we besides just being generally competent and able to perform our roles.
Great story. Talk about motivations!
How have they deflected cases?

And how is this ongoing? Have they just not yet encountered someone with the means (and strong enough case) to fight it tooth and nail up the courts?
> But if you’re in the chip game AI is the big thing of the last 10 years.

IMHO, AMD having done well despite being woefully unprepared for the recent AI wave suggests that AI is not the only big thing

(edit: grammar)
My first sentence means that UBI doesn't change anything to somehow make the offered definition of what kind of carbon pollution is destroying the world valid.

"Essential" doesn't mean anything to the physics of climate change, it just means something like "what people choose to do".
Resend founder here.

Congrats on the launch!!
As a startup founder, all growth startup founders need to be a bit delusional — I don't mean that in a bad way. The few hardware startup founders I've met have either been very dialed into their trajectory with a clear deriskable exit plan, or extra delusional. It's fun talking to folks like that, but from an investor perspective I can see why your risk evaluation skills need to be dialed.
You're right of course, and the post has been edited accordingly.
Instead of announcing mass layoffs, tech companies use RTO orders.

They are very effective at trimming the fat and creating peons. Also effective in stopping the corperate real estate crash that alot of important trust funds depend on.

Productivity < Compliant Workers < Stock value
try a community sport like basketball or kickball and find a team that likes to get food/drinks after. So fun
Sad. I did $403k last month as an independent writer. All analog publishing. None of it from KDP. Be careful what advice you listen to.
Presumably if the members prioritized it, that’s what the union would go for… don’t se any particular reason it wouldn’t be a priority. Seems to come up a lot.
Weird, that's been how I was doing it ~4 years ago before I switched to Windows for a while.
I like Rectangle too, but both Magnet and Swish have feature that seems they would appeal to a lot more Mac users.
It’s not clear to me that the PS5 supports Vulkan at all (excluding third party translation layers). I would be happy to see any evidence. In any case I’m confident the large majority of PS5 games use its native api GNM.

GNM could certainly be implemented for Intel GPUs, but it’s an additional cost to account for.
It's tempting but not really compatible with my personal sense of integrity. I don't judge others though since Amazon has zero integrity.
A nonsensical and sexist statement.

You can have good friendships with other men. Friendships with women is not a necessary contingent precedent for that.

Also reversing your statement to use women sounds immediately sexist: "...And be better able to discern which women to bother to pursue friendships with." The corollary being that not all women are good women, or worth your friendship, just because they're women.
Safer for occupants.
> how is this ongoing?

The language is from Culley, which was decided last year [1]. I haven't seen any evidence that anyone is deflecting cases. Just that our judicial system is slow.

[1] https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/23pdf/22-585_k5fm.pdf
At the very least, I think one would push against nopen office floorplans.
You need to show the cash came from a legitimate source if you’re transporting it. (Not okay, but it is what it is)

Coming directly out of a bank (and hence tracked by the gov’t already) is a legitimate source.

If you have a receipt showing you just withdrew it from a bank account, even if they’re stupid enough to seize it, the court is going to give it right back to you - along with a civil settlement.
I’ve heard if you are on focus when you quit you may have a lifetime ban on ever coming back anywhere in Amazon. Is this correct?
They are specifically civil-libertarians and not in fact “right wing.” The in fact do a ton of work on behalf of poor people to help ensure that justice is available regardless of your financial means.
yeah, and ‘Not going bankrupt right now’ is the economic equivalent.

It doesn’t have to be a nice juicy carrot to be sufficient motivation for things to happen.
Stunning lack of awareness for Amazon and business sense. Holy...
They can't, and they won't. Just look at the upcoming changes being forced on iOS in the EU with sideloading.
Doubtful - for the simple reason that fedex has cameras everywhere, and unlike the police and bodycam footage, they have no dog in this fight, so they aren't going to mysteriously lose the footage.

So my guess - they set aside the very small percent of very funny smelling or leaking or ... packages (since lots of packages never see human hands, it would be a very small percent anyway) and then the police dogs sniff them.

If i remember, i'll see if i can find some earlier docketed cases and see if they describe whether they have police there all the time or not.
I honestly would not be shocked.

I live near a mcmaster carr warehouse that is about a million square feet (one of their larger ones), and they have local k-9 police out front 24/7 just sitting in their car near the entrance to the facility (AFAICT - they have been there every time i have ever done will-call, and when i asked the guy, he said they were there 24/7)

It would not surprise me that fedex's indy hub (which is 2.4 million square feet, and more important than this mcmaster carr warehouse) had local police k-9 units around 24/7.

Last but definitely not least, the indy hub is, IIRC, at the indianapolis airport. In that case, there would definitely be k-9 units and local police just hanging around.
Meanwhile, Wall Street and normies call Satya Nadella a genius and will be shocked in 5 to 10 years when their tabloid news operation/tech company starts looking more like IBM.
team sports are generally not fun for introverts, but more individual sports/working out where you can interact with people more one-on-one might be good, even if they often organize as a group.
None at all for most software engineers.

For me in particular, it was a remote opportunity (still is as far as I know since it is considered part of the sales organization) and they paid top of band for my specialty - enterprise app dev + AWS.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38474212

Working at AWS was the best thing that happened to my finances and my career.

Leaving AWS was the best thing that happened to my mental health
Hubs are part of the USB spec I'm pretty sure. The hub's controller should also handle bandwidth bottlenecks.

As for the hubs in point 2, I am actually using a chain of three USB hubs between my Mac Mini and some of my peripherals (4 hubs if you count an internal one), which so far has worked without issues; I think all three of them caused instability on the USB-A ports. Again, the ports work fine when only one peripheral is connected directly, I plugged in two disk enclosures that saturate 5 Gbit/s and didn't see any issues when reading from both simultaneously.
That is because Google realized that there is an optimal compromise between "good search" and "more ad revenue", and that "optimal" is quite far away from "good search". Better than no search, but not by much. In fact, in between searching Wikipeda and simply memorizing/bookmarking the best websites for niche topics, I have stopped using search because the results on the first page are absolutely useless.
So, there is no objective way to measure performance of a manager ? It sounds similar to measuring the productivity of developer.

Measuring scope to evaluate performance is like saying developer who works on most number of tickets/bugs is the highest performer.

We know that's not true and we also know how it can and will be fudged(w.r.t managers its increasing un-necessary headcount).

If we are able to come up with a solution for developers it shouldn't be too difficult for managers too.
They'll probably switch to gait detection and identification. So 'sand walk' incoming.
"Really, it’s hard not to wonder whether some current civil forfeiture practices represent much less than a revival of
the archaic common-law deodand. The deodand required the forfeiture of any object responsible for a death—say, a
knife, cart, or horse—to the Crown. Today, the idea seems much the same even if the practice now sweeps more broadly, requiring almost any object involved in almost any serious offense to be surrendered to the government in amends.

The hardships deodands often imposed seem more than faintly familiar, too. Deodands required forfeiture regardless of the fault of the owner, himself sometimes the deceased. Not infrequently, the practice left impoverished families without the means to support themselves, faced not only with the loss of a loved one but also with the loss of a horse or perhaps a cart essential to their livelihoods. Sometimes grieving families could persuade authorities or
juries to forgo a deodand, but often not, and generally the burden to avoid a deodand was on them.

As time went on, too, curiously familiar financial incentives wormed their way into the system. Originally, the Crown was supposed to pass the deodand (literally, a thing given to God) onto the church 'as an expiation for the sou[l]'
of the deceased. Over time, though, the Crown increasingly chose instead to sell off its rights to deodands to local lords and others. These recipients inevitably wound up with a strong interest in the perpetuation of the enterprise. Ultimately, the deodand’s appeal faded in England, and this Court has held that it 'did not become part of the common-law tradition of this country.' But has something not wholly unlike it gradually reemerged in our own lifetimes? [1]"

[1] https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/23pdf/22-585_k5fm.pdf Gorsuch's concurrence, beginning on page 18
If I think it is a good company, I'll hold on the loss and wait. Intel has done well for me, I've held it for decades, but last summer my patience ran out and I sold it.

But in all my years investing, I never get used to the downturns and have a hard time being sanguine about it.
This blog post is so spot on it actually hurts. Big Tech is out of ideas and the MBA asshats running those orgs are looking to sell us on the product of their gullibility. The bubble is going to burst and a lot of people will eat shit when that happens.

I couldn't agree more.
As a man I find it far easier to have a friendship with another man because the whole sexual element is entirely absent and it seems much easier to find stuff we have in common to talk about.

Also, if you are in a relationship, having friendships with other females will likely be a problem.
imo the issue is that doing academic training in robotics means doing whatever your advisor tells you to do and playing the academic rat-race game OR working in industry churning out features as fast as possible to keep your company alive, which essentially means that you are not going to be able to spend any meaningful time learning how to do FFI in Rust or Python or whatever. I think that's the real reason robotics software is in the dark ages. But then again, I'm not in the field and this is an armchair take. So yeah.
It takes confidence to follow through on an assumption and put yourself out there. And intelligence (vs waiting around for some “confidence” to make everything better).
Trustworthiness in Retrieval-Augmented Generation Systems: A Survey
Then time to install Linux or windows with boot camp
By the way, there is an excellent film called Rebel Ridge now on Netflix where the basic premise is about small town police abusing the practice of civil asset forfeiture.
In related news, police robbing armored cars:

https://youtu.be/9GKg1UucxNc?si=2eWCX7hjfYPNt9Lk
Police Can Use a Legal Gray Area to Rob Anyone of Their Belongings
Thank you teitoklien. I found your list seriously inspiring, thanks for writing it up.
Selling to businesses is an easier way to make large profits in general, definitely. A single sale can be worth millions, and you have fewer stakeholders that you have to convince - especially if you already have contacts in those businesses or can get introductions easily.

Selling to consumers means each one will judge and pay only for the value they see from your product; which means everything hinges on your product's value to many individual users, rather than a small group of stakeholders looking for a very specific set of benefits (ones you can often build for as they ask for it!)

One major reason B2C companies charge a subscription fee is because they need to show to investors that the product provides customer lifetime value: not a one-off value-add, and that there is a grow-able user base locked in to the product.