skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There seems to be ample evidence against this idea, namely that I cannot think of a single commercial product that is not in some way promoted. Surely, there would be a few products that are good enough to get the best return on investment from allocating all resources to improving the product? But even cocaine cartels run CRM operations.

Yeah, I'm sure there are a few companies that don't spend money on advertisement. But those are probably allocating quite a lot of resources to making sure you know they're not advertising.
I miss ATL malls
> Is it possible that the lack of long term financial planning, aka saving money, is the crux of many of these tragic situations?

What if it is? Even if that were the case 100% of the time, which you and I both know it isn't, the results are still something we have to deal with.
If the cost of health care isn't fixed soon, no amount of savings will be enough.

At todays prices, as soon as the normal ailments of aging set in, nearly everyone will be drained of savings sooner rather than later.
Everyone thinks he pays his fair share of taxes. It’s that guy down the road …
I don’t mean to sound flippant here but going Serverless would obviate the need for much of this guide.
Doesn't work on mobile. The unfollow method works everywhere.
That's not even slightly what the article is about...
It's sort of a policy choice. But, I think money creation and fiat currency is poorly understood.

Even in a metal backed currency world, you still have money creation through lending. Money creation is a feature of lending, not just fiat currency printing. But in that world, currency value is fixed via metal redemption. So, the amount of money in an economy will still expand to 5-20 times the amount of metal, with the specific amount varying as lending expand and contracts. IMO, this makes "hard" currency more unstable than fiat currency in developed countries. Bank runs are less of a problem.

In terms of me and Milton… he’s the nobel prize winning economist and I’m a forum commenter. I just defined my own “inflation,” I’m calling it microeconomic inflation until someone who knows a different name for it says otherwise.

I'm basically saying is that money is not just money, it's not as fungible as it seems. Money supply is basically determined by lending. More loans, more money. In practice, lending is earmarked. So, we have multiple money types. Mortgage supply = housing money, student loans = college money. So, we end up with multiple types of money. Money supply can go up in certain markets, so inflation is uneven.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegations_of_United_States_s...
I disagree. Amazon is an utter failure when I don’t know the exact product I want to buy: reviews are faked and many of the products are of low quality, with no way to test them except for a terribly inconvenient return process. I’d rather just try on clothes in a store and not buy ones that I don’t like instead of having to sigh and package them up and wait for a refund.

You may see retail employees as unnecessary middlemen, but they provide a value a machine cannot.

I can talk to GameStop employees about which new games they played to see if they’ll be fun; I can talk to petsmart employees about proper pet care; I can go over installation prodcedures with the Geek Squad folks at BestBuy; I can get recommendations on outfits at the upscale men’s clothing store I frequent...and so on.

There is no superior specialization in this regard. Many of these examples are because of the relationships I have cultivated with long-term retail employees, who know me and my preferences far better than any machine learning algorithm has attempted to match.
The 2nd comment in the article reveals some interesting things.

Basically tuition is usually not charged for Phd students but is used for accounting purposes to get money from Federal agencies.

The "tax increase" would stop incentivizing universities to do these accounting tricks and declare tuiton as 0.

This is a good step in that tax code is simplified and accounting tricks / loopholes are closed for corporations and universities (and other public/private entities).

This is what I read, can anyone clarify this?

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But from an outside perspective, the current rules look like a money laundering scheme. Universities use an accounting gimmick of setting an arbitrary dollar amount for PhD student tuition, and then waive it. At least in STEM fields, essentially no PhD student actually pays tuition. Why not just set tuition to 0? The reason is because “tuition” can be charged to funding agencies, and so this accounting trick of setting and then waiving tuition allows universities to extract more overhead from the NSF, NIH, etc.

Of course, this accounting trick represents a non-trivial fraction of government support for academic research. It seems natural to simplify the tax code by disallowing this trick, but unless the goal is to de-fund academia (maybe it is), it should be countered with an increase in direct funding to universities from funding bodies.
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The failure of a major company that's over leveraged does not mean each location also closes.

What's being described is a company who's operations are profitable, that simply has excessive debt. In that case the operations can be sold in bankruptcy to recover whatever money is possible with the buyer assuming operations.

What kills malls is when an Anchor store is unprofitable.
The problem with the Link is more or less "devices" that rely on the network for core functionality. So I'm not sure that a smart TV is the best parallel, as most of them from what I know will work without the Internet.

To go with the music world, the best parallel would be the increasingly annoying tendency for music software to move to "cloud" based offerings or other Internet authorization techniques. For instance Roland, with their "cloud plugins", apparently thinks all music venues have super spiffy wifi, as they require network authorization every time the plugin loads in the DAW. (https://www.rolandcloud.com/faq#FAQLink17) If Roland ever pulled this authorization scheme, poof, your plugins no longer work.

I have a 16 year old keyboard (Alesis Andromeda) and a synth that is a bit over a quarter of a century old (Roland D-50), and they both work fine more or less (a few issues here and there but nothing that stops me from using it). They don't need an Internet connection just to work. The companies can discontinue support (or even go bankrupt, in Alesis's case), and the synths still work.

Personally, I certainly do not have great confidence that the Roland Cloud authorization service will last a quarter century.

Hardware that requires the Internet to work is no different than software that requires the Internet to work, it honestly is a risky prospect for longevity. The Harmony Link from what I see was released in 2011. Maybe 7 years is a long time in this current disposable electronics world, but it doesn't feel like that to me.
PeerStreet handles the workout situation. Foreclosure fees are applied against gain on sale, which is why PeerStreet has kept LTV (loan to value) under 75%.
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That's a new bottom mark for me.
Amazing tool! Thanks for the effort!

Curious enough, did u guys train your model on your own dataset or public dataset? Didn't find too much information about the specifics in the documentation
Are you sure that the problem doesn't actually exist in Europe and Canada? Are you sure it isn't offset by a culture where the young are expected to care more for their elders?
What’s your opposition to SegWit?
People who work with Law know that acts are not written into stone, because what matters is the stance of the greater society. An example are unlawful acts of rogue states. People have been sentenced to death because they followed acts by rote.

The idea that the code is the contract is therefore doomed to failure.
Everybody is supposed to have children despite what our hedonistic view of life might say.
There is no circumstance in which elderly living with their children is more expensive than living on their own. Having one rent in stead of two is a huge cost savings.
What are the principal differences between this tool and Jepsen?

I am not personally familiar with either tool, just curious.
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Yes! You assume she ever had two pennies to push together to put toward saving and that saving would have been enough. All the evidence is to the contrary. Frankly, government spending is completely independent of government income. The government could create whole economies based upon shoveling mountains from one place to another ad naseum without fear of run away inflation or other issues. Some could say that’s what the DOD already does.
> When opening a new window, the address bar isn't the first thing to receive focus, unlike on Chrome.

Do you have a non-default home page? I can reproduce the problem with Firefox 58 on Windows 10 in my regular user profile but not a brand new profile. My regular user profile had a non-default home page URL.

I'm not sure what the focus behavior should be in that case. If you set your home page to a website, would you still want the address bar to have focus?
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This is a massive oversimplification.
Here comes the alt flood.
"Images of child pornography are not protected under First Amendment rights, and are illegal contraband under federal law. Section 2256 of Title 18, United States Code, defines child pornography as any visual depiction of sexually explicit conduct involving a minor (someone under 18 years of age)."
Students who pay their own tuition (i.e. are not on financial aid) are almost by definition wealthy. That's why they don't have the "luxury" of lower taxes.
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A user who “sends nudes” is actually sending them to Snapchat, the company, who then sends them to the user’s friends. Snapchat also stores the nudes on its servers, and likely even has code that processes (reads!) those images for analytics purposes.

It’s not like Snapchat servers are some blackbox, either. Any engineer at the company with proper access rights could theoretically view any user’s uploads.

So I’m not sure “they’re sending them to each other” can really be a defense here, unless the media is truly e2e encrypted (it’s not).
Probably like $2400-$2800 if it's a pension and social security.
It may not be what the article is specifically about, but I'm willing to bet that a large majority of the "child porn" on services like SC are teen to teen, and in fact teens are being convicted as sex offenders for taking pictures of themselves.
Everyone is for higher taxes until it affects them personally of course. Berkeley is essentially an ivy league school and a guaranteed ticket to a upper/middle class life. Asking their students to pay more and help the government stay funded is too much to ask though.
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I don't think there are enough skilled jobs for everyone
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You are arguing semantics not substance.

The complaint is that (1) there is an effective tax hike (2) that is used to cover tax cuts for already well-off demographic.

Plenty of people would be fine with point 1 as long as the money is used to help to country / lower the deficit / pay national debt / invest in infrastructure. But people are unhappy with point 2 - the money is used to fund tax-cuts for the super rich.
"...and faced yet another nasty choice between need and want. Should she go to the dentist, or take a guided tour of buildings designed by her favorite architect, Frank Lloyd Wright? Each cost $100. She picked Frank Lloyd Wright. Her teeth could wait."

Wow, with decisions like that it's no wonder that woman is in a bad position. Honestly, though - am I supposed to feel bad for someone like this? You can bet that if I was barely scraping by I would not be spending $100 on a guided tour of a building, or at a restaurant getting prime rib (something the article mentions she also did). I wouldn't be eating out at all or doing anything that involved any sort of discretionary income because I didn't have any. She doesn't have any but she act like she does. It's not rocket science that the numbers don't add up in the end.

Gee, I wonder...should I go to Peter Luger's for dinner this Friday or pay my gas and electric? Tough call.
If this change goes into effect, I'm not sure a real problem will occur. The reason is that many students will not be able to afford this change. Thus, universities will have to drop the tuition for such students altogether (instead of charging NSF or other funding agencies for it). Schools will then (eventually) respond by raising "overhead" on grants to make up for the shortfall. The net effect, thus, may be zero.
https://www.udacity.com/course/web-development--cs253
> but when you're in a situation with no support things feel a lot different.

The fact that things feel different in hard times does not change whether objectively they are right or wrong.
You can buy a 5BR house in Sibley IA (downtown, walkable to the grocery store and general store) for $330/month in mortgage. Add $350 in health care and you’ve still got $700 per month. Tight, yes, but definitely decent.
Same way it's going right now? (up)
You'd think it would send it down assuming people were buying in anticipating the free coins after the fork. Since there aren't any free coins to get now and assuming that was propping up the recent price rise, why not sell? At least in theory.

edit: First three responses to the question all within one minute of each other with all completely different opinions. That's why it's so difficult to predict these things!
It also mentions she won't eat free meals because she considers them unhealthy and eats non-bulk organic groceries...which is typically quite expensive. I guess people consider stuff like that part of their identity?
Thanks for the comment. Admittedly I bypassed WARC completely as I felt overwhelmed by its technicalities in favor of how I knew the web worked. If I have a better understanding of WARC maybe that can be done, but I make no promises.
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We completely disregard "evolutionary development" of civilization and replacing it with artificial reductionist constructs without understanding their consequences. Like allowing "unlimited" QA, and expecting money to trickle down, somehow pretending that passing through super-efficient money extractors won't get in the way. Increasing costs/financial burden on regular population while keeping real wages on the level 30 years ago, and then being surprised B2C businesses can't grow anymore or go bust. Pretending that simple performance metrics tell us all we need about economy, while having supercomputers in our pockets we use to take selfies and present our vapid lives. Developing tech that could solve many problems of mankind and turning it instead into enforcers of disgusting ways that didn't work before and in some countries already into tools of ultimate oppression. We are in the initial phase of world-wide civilization collapse, yet we pretend everything is rosy and could go on like this forever (while competent are buying bunkers in New Zealand).
It's a good question, one I've wondered quite a bit about. I know IndieHackers has some info on this.

Personally, when I'm building side projects I spend 100% on dev for the first month. then when it's released I spend 90% of the time on marketing.

Anyone can code up a project or learn how to do it. The hardest part is getting word out to others. Even, just getting people to try it takes huge amounts of time and effort and money. Often times it seems like it takes more marketing work than development work.

For instance, I've been helping people prevent bugs in their code with my Regression testing platform: https://swif.club/?s=h2

But, doing so without seeming spammy takes a lot of time and patience.
Some people were waiting for the "free money" to come so they could buy "alt coins". Some will be happy to see BTC unchallenged. Price will be a balance of both.
The arcades seem to suck compared to what I remembered seeing as a kid, too. And there's no $3.50 matinee movies. :)
>For restaurant food.
It's quite possible to compare them. Google has never done anything like this.[1] This is a Tesla vehicle on "autopilot" crashing into a street sweeper without even slowing down. It's on an expressway, where Tesla's "autopilot" is supposed to work. The street sweeper is big, partly blocking the lane. The driver trusted Tesla's "autopilot" to do something reasonable. It didn't.

The driver was killed. That blood is on Elon Musk's hands.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1cfcumft5n8
> Her monthly income consists of $1,200 in Social Security and a $190 pension, plus pay from her seasonal jobs. She owes $50,000 on her credit cards. There’s also a $268 monthly loan payment for her aging rig.

The situation for her does suck, but seeing profiles like this makes me want to tear my hair out.

If you're trying to service $50,000 in unsecured debt (likely at a 24.99999% interest rate) with less than $2000 in gross income, just declare bankruptcy. You've lost the game of financial planning; continuing to play it just makes sure you remain a loser for the final few years you spend on this mortal coil.

Clear the slate and start over while you still have time. She has nothing to lose (she won't be able to finance a new car, RV or house in her current circumstances either) and a few hundred dollars a month in disposable income to gain. That's around a 25% increase overnight, just by waking up and doing what every corporate citizen in this country does when its own debts get too onerous.
Social security is a pretty strange program in no small part because it doesn't know what it wants to be. It tries to be everything to everyone -- a mandatory savings program for the middle class, an anti-poverty program for the elderly, a safety net for widows and orphans, and long term disability insurance. It could use a good healthy dose of the UNIX philosophy of do one thing and do it well.

The woman profiled in this article is 79 years old. She gets $1200/month from social security and a $190/month pension. If we as a society think that $1390/month isn't enough to live on and that 79 years ought not to have to work to survive then we should have some program that gives her more than $1200/month.

Maybe that should be a means tested program, though that comes with side effects, or maybe an elderly UBI. Or perhaps you disagree with one or both of the premises -- like that you think that $1390/month is plenty. That's okay too.

My point is that social security with its strange formulas and conceptual inconsistencies isn't some fact of the universe like that the sun will burn out. It is something that we Americans picked and we Americans can change if we decide to.
These companies will follow the law. When Ireland changed theirs, Apple moved.

This problem can be fixed with laws. What's difficult is changing those laws, because the rich pay off those that write them.

Think sales tax. Apple can't avoid sales tax. But they don't care, because it's not them being taxed.

But then again, Amazon did avoid sales tax, and used the internet loophole to compete with local smaller businesses using their "no sales tax" discount. And they kept pushing for special treatment in ways no small businesses could. Now the laws have been adjusted, and they collect sales tax.

If profit had to be taxed within the country or even district of sale, it's over.

There is no "if laws are changed we will be screwed" mechanism. The laws are designed to screw and unscrew. Attention should be directed to those writing them, because they know exactly what they're doing, because they are succeeding.
$1200 a month is a little? Seems pretty generous to me.
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>Not giving teens/kids smartphones is a sensible start, but that's not realistic

I don't know, I got by just fine with a dumbphone through high school (beginning of the iPhone era). I don't think most teens need smartphones, honestly.

But we've crossed the point where that matters.
The World Bank also has this site on worldwide trade and competitiveness data: https://tcdata360.worldbank.org/
Bitcoin fundamentally attracts people who assume existing markets are run in bad faith. It's why there's so much propaganda attacking "fiat currency," and presenting Bitcoin as some kind of ethical imperative.
Well, even good financial planning focuses on taking you to 80 in most cases. It also assumes a lot about the future value of your investments - a crash will knock you out for good. It also assumes that the rate of inflation doesn't change, or that your costs of living don't change drastically, or that you don't get a disease which destroys your (and frequently your partner's) savings, whether you survive it or not.
This guy is saying he has confirmed it with Mike, one of the signers of the email. https://twitter.com/lopp/status/928310251719405568
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There was a fairly large discussion on this topic yesterday:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15646571
Living together takes care of a major expense. There are 125 Million homes in america. There are 0.5 Million homeless.

Maybe we should start a foster-care system for homeless like we do orphans.

I'd bet that < 10% of homeless would be willing to participate even if there were enough households willing to host. But, that doesn't mean we should ignore those 10%.

Elder-care is a whole different story. Especially in later stages of life.
How do you propose this to be done? I've been able to track down active forks by looking at the network graph before, but it's a bit hidden. The problem is, if there are any forks, it's difficult (or impossible) to objectively determine which fork is the "official" one.
> A mall would never be preferable to what was mentioned above, a downtown with brick paths and quality scenery/stores, etc.

Sounds great, until it snows.
The title of the article is a bit vague. "Nearly all" means 77%, which would potentially be a more accurate title for this submission. To use a common Wikipedia standard, "nearly all" seems like an example of a weasel word (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weasel_word) or otherwise vague detensifier.

Not sure what the guidelines regarding deviation from linked article headlines are, though.
That's still income inequality, though, when you boil it down to the numbers as we are here. I completely agree that it is what is desirable, and would like people to talk more about wealth inequality rather than income inequality, but that doesn't seem to be happening.
https://coin.dance/blocks

Looks like it is still on to me.
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>It's not fair or logical, but it's the right to do

It's not fair, but it's right?

At this stage, what do those words even mean? It very much seems you have your desired outcome firmly in your mind, and are merely playing verbal gymnastics.

Why are we advocating for something that we are agreeing is unfair?

Just imagine the phrase being used for all manner of unfair acts that society at the time deemed to be "right".
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My old Asus eeepc is an Atom N270, fiercily 32 bits only :)
Bloomberg has a revenue problem.
Thanks for the comment! Maybe I will make that possible in the future, but for now the advantage of this is that you can save logged-in content, i.e. content that you see when you're logged in. Passing the URL to backend prevents that as the backend is not authenticated, or even worse blocked.
Or not. Have you tried turning it off and on again?