skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nope, I have no idea what the blood is from. I can't afford to see a doctor. :) TMI below, so stop reading.

Before I switched diets a month ago, I had blood about 80% of the time. It's ... Mixed in, and dark, as opposed to bright red and on the surface. Meaning whatever it is, it's deep inside my intestinal tract.

Since a month ago I've seen it only once. I'm holding out hope it's just a stomach ulcer or some weird thing involving sugar. Cutting that crap completely seemed to help.

But that's homeopathy, not medicine. I need to get scoped out to figure out what's up.

Those needles though...

https://scottgriddle.com/blog/dealing-with-my-needle-make-th...

https://medium.com/@sgriddle/im-35-and-i-may-suddenly-have-l...

I read that and think "I'd rather die of cancer," but then I read about what it's like and realize it's just a mental hangup. Pretty powerful one though. I think the author probably delayed getting checked for similar reasons.
Banana and cotton plantations are capitalism. The US is wealthy because it extracted it's wealth from the suffering of others worldwide.
I highly recommend the documentary Plastic China. It is heartbreaking to watch the stories and struggles of the families that are filmed.

It’s available to stream on Prime video. It is a real eye opener for what happens next to some of the waste we throw into the recycle bin, long after we have forgotten about it.
Even so... the broken fragments would lie next to each other, and with some future technology it's not unthinkable that they could be reconstructed.

Or is there something fundamental I'm not aware of?
> Don't immediately react and reply that this isn't scalable.

I agree that positivity is important. Certainly, let us take a moment to genuinely appreciate what they’ve done here to help 100 people!

Now, since this is such a good thing they’ve done on a small scale, let’s scale this kind of help to EVERYONE who is in need! That would be truly awesome.

Oh wait, sorry — it looks like we can’t actually have that problem-solving discussion here, because you shut down the dialog by banning the topic. What you did there — see, that is “objectively a bad thing”.

Seriously though, you cannot really expect people to shut down productive problem-solving discussion, on a forum meant for exactly that. In fact, I believe inspiring discussion and problem solving towards scaling this concept is exactly what Cards Against Humanity wants to happen as a result of this!
Look at Native Americans history and Hawaiians history and Bhopal's history.
Be careful accepting JS numerical proofs, since they're all doubles. e.g.

> 12345678910111210 + 1 == 12345678910111211
true
> 12345678910111210 + 1 == 12345678910111212
true
Yeah honestly I think it’s good that some people spent it on gifts, travel, etc. rather than spending it all on bills/debt.
"Inverted commas" is a Britishism that refers to quote marks.
$1000 for a colonoscopy to tell you that you need $500K of treatment?
I have to note that getting degrees has nothing (edit: very little) to do with IQ.

That's just not true, even with the edit. Certainly high intelligence by itself isn't sufficient, but you're not going to find many physics PhDs with a 90 IQ.
I like the content but:

I can't link to the slide because of the way these pages are defined:

slide 11:
The presented argument order in the ASCII-art of Red, Blue, Green I think should be Red, Green, Blue to match the usual initialism.

I could not find a way to submit a pull-request for this presentation, and my search-fu on github failed to find the associated repo, and there were no links I could find in the presentation to submit comments.
This has a couple of advantages over the made-up Tolstoy thing:

- Jack Woodford might have actually said it

- It works (sort of) for Anna Karenina
Seems like Germany had this one figured out. One non-recyclable thing found in your building’s garbage and you’re all in trouble. The US is way too lax on enforcing good practices. We waste too much, and when we do feel good recycling drives we do it lazily.
Where did you find which property they bought? I probably missed it. I also imagine that if they built north of the property, walling off a part of property from the rest of the country in that fashion would fall into some legal issues.
Excellent read, thanks. Worth reading through the comments on that article too.

Previous discussion on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10367855
I wasn't a fan on the first gen MR2. Nor the Spyder. The '94 MR2 was the best 2nd gen version, much better rear lights etc.
True, but also, recent disasters were "freak" ones. Flooding on this level has never really happened in these areas before. A lot of the homes destroyed didn't require flood insurance (homes in the standard flood planes / hurricane areas do require that the owner have flood insurance)

When your town looks like this, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ZSXGin-zNA , and the fire department is fully underwater, the locals with boats win on quick response time. (Followed by disaster-specific response teams like the coast guard, etc.)
And you're suggesting that purchasing a funny card game that has value over time should be a disqualifying factor?
Is this the "it's not my job to educate you" reply? What Native American tribe are you talking about? Are you saying the tribes that didn't have private property were rich?
> ... Recycling itself is a good idea ... milk and soda came in reusable bottles, other products like instant coffee, creamer, ovaltine, and others also came in glass instead of plastic - yes, reuse does cost the manufacturer more ...

As you say at the end of my quote, that's reuse, not recycling. Plus you're really only talking about using glass bottles instead of plastic bottles. None of that means that "Recycling itself is a good idea".
booking.com apparently still uses a lot of Perl.
"The king's stamp does not make the gold good."

An organization declaring you to be one of the smart people may feel good, but it doesn't make it true. And it is generally more useful if the people stamping off on the idea that you are smart are issuing a degree in the process.
CureCoin.

From https://curecoin.net/knowledge-base/about-curecoin/what-is-c... :

> Curecoin allows owners of both ASIC and GPU/CPU hardware to earn. Curecoin puts ASICs to work at what they are good at–securing a blockchain, while it puts GPUs and CPUs to work with work items that can only be done on them–protein folding. While still having a secure blockchain, it supports, and thus is supported by, scientific research.

...

From "CureCoin Reaches #1 Ranking on Folding@home"
https://www.newswire.com/news/bio-research-loves-curecoin-ga... :

> As of the afternoon of August 29, 2017 (Eastern Time), the Curecoin Team 224497 earned the world's #1 rank on Stanford's Folding@home - a protein folding simulation Distributed Computing Network (DCN). In a little over 3 years, the team (including our merge-folding partners at Foldingcoin) collectively produced 160 billion points worth of molecular computations to support research in the areas of cancer, Alzheimer's, Huntington's, Parkinson's, Infectious Disease as well as helping scientists uncover new molecular dynamics through groundbreaking computational techniques.
If Cards Against Humanity is going to demand wealth redistribution to support these people, you're goddamn right I can judge the financial choices of their champions.
Holy crap! 9 compiler passes? How can anyone reason about such a process? Was this tool, like, actually popular?
tbh, the smaller amount transacted, the less decentralization is necessary IMO. This is why people will tell you to use other, more centralized, less secure cryptos.
> As a general rule, it's safe to assume every word in the abstract of a paper is significant.

...what? The sentence quote above was from the introduction, not the abstract. Nothing in the abstract answered my question of why a stable structure like that of DNA should undergo disintegration. (Did you read the abstract yourself?)
Take a look at the individual segments zoomed in: https://i.imgur.com/H4y4XTH.png

I think what's happening is the brain is processing the separate color segments individually, instead of a continuous line. And at an individual segment level, it's much harder to detect a curve on the bottom pieces than the top. Notice the red line I drew. The bottom pieces fit much closer to a true line than the top pieces.
I actually expected it to be more expensive, at least up-front.

There are $2m condos near where I live, so consider something like a $45m lifetime cost (if you buy in at 60, stay until you're 90, and somehow never recover that sale price), and that's only a single order of magnitude difference. That's way less than I had expected for something in such short supply.
The Jackbox game series' equivalent to CAH solves this nicely by having you type in your own answers, instead of picking from a pool of premade ones - you can still be "edgy", but you have to make it work in context instead of going for cheap shock.
> A return to the eating habits of the 1960s is perhaps the greatest possible welfare achievement right now (in the US), with impact far larger than universal healthcare.

You are comparing a concrete policy with a policy outcome for which there is no even remote concept of a policy mechanism that would achieve it.

> And it doesn't need to cost anything.

Massive changes to behavior are not free; the changes in eating habits that happened since the 1969s were driven by a number of economic and other factors, and counteracting all those factors to drive people back to 1960s eating habits would not be cheap.
Yes. My Nissan Leaf has great room. At 6’5”, I have several inches of head room, and can put the seat all the way back with adults behind me.
> The US exports CRT televisions and chipsets for electronics with such minimal production quality as to be considered destined-for-disposal.

and is far from unique in doing so..
Those sites are all part of the decentralized web. Port 80 on my laser printer, router and flower pot are too.

Using old well-defined terms to describe new concepts just leads to confusion.

It would be like writing a story called “the history of the industrial revolution” that’s really about 3d printers.
I think one of the main things is that he instilled an "elite" mentality in the team. My best experiences have been where I was working in a tight knit team where everybody respected it each other and had high standards for new people. The worst experience is when management treats you like a cheap, replaceable commodity.
Complete vaporware? Uhm, no... https://www.coindesk.com/lightning-last-test-shows-bitcoin-s...

There have even been successful atomic Bitcoin<->Litecoin cross-chain transactions with Lightning last month.
Building C Programs
Agreed but like maybe companies shouldn't produce waste packaging, etc.

This sounds an awful lot like "blame the litter bugs".

Adam Ruins Everything - The Corporate Conspiracy to Blame You for Their Trash:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=koqNm_TgOZk
That was a fantastic read, thank you for sharing.

It's incredible how humans do this.

Doing something for some people and is better than the status quo but instead we lambast them for not doing even more.
Looks dope!
12/1: ABC: ".@realDonaldTrump colluded-Russia"
12/2: ABC: "RETRACTED"

12/4: Reuters: "Mueller subpeona Trumps banking"
12/5: Reuters: "RETRACTED"

12/8: CNN: Wikileaks sent .@DonaldJTrumpJr secret email 12/8: RETRACTED
Man, that's awful to hear, I'm sorry you're in that position.

If you haven't gone to see any doctor at all (and presuming one visit won't bankrupt you), you really should. They don't have to perform any procedure or examination you don't want them to and they're very understanding of people's phobias.

If you have gone and you know for sure you need a colonoscopy then yeah, I'm not sure what to say. It's an awful situation to be in choosing between debt and healthcare. I hope things work out for you and you can get some help.
The poorest countries all have something in common, which is overpopulation. It seems as if the poorest have enough offspring so that they are always on the edge of starvation. I wonder if by giving them additional money, so they can have more kids, and even cause a greater strain on the local environment, have we actually done a good thing?

If there is an overpopulation of deer, we don't put big buckets of feed in the forest to support them. But for the human animal, that is exactly what we do.

I know this is a taboo subject, but I think that we may be creating more misery by giving charity, then by doing nothing.
There is no historical evidence that everyone always thinks the young appear selfish and without morals. Very often the youth have lead moral revivals (or panics, according to tastes.)

I don't mean to be unpleasant, but the idea that there has always been an oppositional libertine youth culture of selfishness is a modern canard.
> Banana and cotton plantations are capitalism

and? I never said capitalism didn't require any guardrails. Stop straw-manning other people.

> The US is wealthy because it extracted it's wealth from the suffering of others worldwide.

Why is Japan wealthy? South Korea? European countries? Is this the social justice theory of economics? There's not much evidence for that theory. It's pretty clear that capitalism (with appropriate guardrails and the rule of law) is wildly more successful than its alternatives. I think you're trying to argue that capitalism is beside the point and it's war and oppression that creates wealth. That's obviously nonsense.
Would you mind telling me which of the Steve jobs films is the one you’re talking about?
Or to tell you that you are "mostly fine" and just have a diet issue.

Not knowing what is happening to your own body is an extremely scary scenario
It was in the letter they sent to individuals: https://imgur.com/emSk75t
Supreme tax avoidance. Great for newly minted bitcoin heirs.
well, that’s assuming that you travel via velocity...

obviously we have no idea (afaik) how to travel in any other way, but it’s possible that we might discover some new means of transport
Texas is an expanded stand your ground state. You can use deadly force to defend yourself. You don't have to retreat or run away. You can also defend others when you believe that their lives are threatened.
> Because socialism has been proven to fail, over and over and over.

Except for Leninism and it's descendents, where has socialism of any kind been tried and failed?
Arguably, Glass, and Metal are easier to recycle - but more energy intensive to do so - its much easier to sort glass and metal than the 9000 kinda of plastic.

I'd argue that reuse and recycling are in many cases, functionally semantics.
This is an unusual view I have not heard before. Could you link to a good article or study so I can learn more about the argument and data behind it?
Waste cardboard composts down in a short season. I wish we didn't waste precious high energy fossil fuels on moving paper back and forth.
You seem unwaveringly convinced that your opinion of a card game is strongly relevant to a) the article, b) other people.
>objectively a Good Thing

Could you please defend this assertion? They themselves admit that their redistribution method is flawed (see the FAQ).

I see this as an empty publicity stunt and something that doesn't help in the least.
It's a quasi-cryptocurrency!
"The US government actually knows how much money you have and has trillions of dollars to redistribute. Why don’t you get mad at the US government?"

A lot of hardworking people don't want handouts from the government. Though some do, but I believe they are a minority. I generally hate the mindset of wanting money from the government. I want off of the government if I can help it.

The fact is that most Americans pay virtually no federal income tax, and get money back during their returns. When I was starting out and made the median income level for the state I was living in at the time, I still paid no tax (outside of SALT) and got a return larger than what I paid in. People don't realize the government already heavily subsidizes the poor and as well as people well above the poverty line.
Also Related:

https://plasticbank.org/

http://www.earthbench.org/how-to-bottle-brick.html
One way this could be partially solved is with better technology. Like a digital trashcan that analyzes your trash and alerts you/rejects your trash it if it's not sorted correctly, maybe tell you what item wasn't recyclable. Just brainstorming here. It would help me, because apparently I keep making mistakes in what I think is recyclable and what isn't. Even though I read the guidelines for years now.
Education is a business and colleges are brands that instill the fear of missing out in young people to increase sales (i.e. missing out on jobs, the "social experience", the meaningless accolades). Let's face it, most people go to uni/college and a year later are in a job that has almost no relevance to their degree. Certainly seems strange to me!
I’d think it would support grafting in chunks of the merkle dag via usb drives, etc. Otherwise, I don’t understand the claims about disconnected operation and breaking the dependency on the internet backbone.
Why would non-proprietary software and hardware not be insecure?
Electrons are better referred to as fermions, since when you're comparing it at odds to bosons, you're drawing attention to the particular type of statistics they obey.
It is exactly the length of a civil day in TAI (International Atomic Time). It also happens to match almost all civil days in UTC-derived timezones (with the exception of leap seconds, daylight savings, and timezones switching to a different UTC offset)

It doesn't match solar days, but most people don't actually use solar days.
Text::Template [0] was a favorite of mine, no new language to learn, just embedded Perl. Config::General [1] was another classic, super-flexible markup language for data.

[0] http://search.cpan.org/~mschout/Text-Template-1.47/lib/Text/...

[1] http://search.cpan.org/dist/Config-General/General.pm
impact on my neighborhood economy is severe. i don't know how much is the chinese decision and how much other factors. but we used to have people who regularly stopped by to pick up bulk cardboard and scrap metal. apparently cardboard isn't worth anything at all anymore and we have to manage the impact on our waste stream. and because the price of steel has fallen to $0.03/lb, and id requirements have been toughened up to discourage theft, we can't even get the homeless meth addicts to haul away steel anymore.
This was a big deal in 2002. It got on the front page of Slashdot. I was a student at VUW at the time; someone got a cake with the Slashdot front page printed on icing and Robert Biddle did a magnificent job cutting it up.
Debby was the controller for the Mac project, like a CFO, which meant pricing and planning production and the factory. She ended up becoming CFO of Apple and a CEO of a Tektronix spinoff later in her career.

Of Jobs she said, “He would shout at a meeting, 'You asshole, you never do anything right.' It was like an hourly occurrence. Yet I consider myself the absolute luckiest person in the world to have worked with him."
Volunteer organizations are also often there much longer than the government agencies. After Katrina, the Army Corp was done in about a year, but volunteer organizations continued to work in the affected areas for much longer.
Can you give an example? I've seen this comment before but never have an issue with DDG.
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/57886-all-great-literature-...

Who's making stuff up?
pokes head out of curtain

What if $15 means something different to people with fungible assets* vs. those where money is tight.

*: HN population
Absolutely wow. Over evacuating disabled people knee deep in poop.
This would probably fall into the off-topic area considering the content of the site, but I am quite impressed about the fact that they bought this long-ass domain and went along with it.

Does this give insight into the fact that under certain circumstances, we are post-dotcom (as a critical tool for branding)?

Their regular domain is quite long too: https://www.cardsagainsthumanity.com/

(and is definitely not as friendly to the eyes as something like: cah.[trendy-extension])
The one I use all the time is !m for Google Maps.
Global spread of billion-dollar software companies
This is a genius’s reply to a genius’s idea. Nice to read.
I didn't see them mention which version they were using, presumably GATK3. I'm curious to see what it'd look like against GATK4 which is being released in a month.
Education and better healthcare are correlated with lower birthrates.

Charity is very much better than doing nothing.
I remember watching an episode of Penn & Teller's Bullshit ages ago that railed against recycling. This seems to be it: https://vimeo.com/216389085
Sure here's the comparison data:
http://www.globalissues.org/article/26/poverty-facts-and-sta...

And my favorite part:

"For economic growth and almost all of the other indicators, the last 20 years [of the current form of globalization, from 1980 - 2000] have shown a very clear decline in progress as compared with the previous two decades [1960 - 1980]. For each indicator, countries were divided into five roughly equal groups, according to what level the countries had achieved by the start of the period (1960 or 1980). Among the findings:

Growth: The fall in economic growth rates was most pronounced and across the board for all groups or countries.
Life Expectancy: Progress in life expectancy was also reduced for 4 out of the 5 groups of countries, with the exception of the highest group (life expectancy 69-76 years).
Infant and Child Mortality: Progress in reducing infant mortality was also considerably slower during the period of globalization (1980-1998) than over the previous two decades.
Education and literacy: Progress in education also slowed during the period of globalization.Source 29"

TL;DR: Capitalism is unsustainable. We need a new system.
Much better than digging a hole in the ground or buying up property along the border.
Why not just buy a large boat, if you have $15MM to spend on a place to live? I liveaboard an (obviously) much smaller boat, and I love the life. Obviously life on my boat is very different vs a $15MM boat, but I think that life on this cruise ship would be quite similar to a $15MM ship of your choosing.

I guess the main thing is the networking aspect and having neighbors, but that doesn't seem like it'd be worth the premium.

Anyone else on HN a liveaboard, or interested in it? My email's in my profile.
If you honestly believe this, then you are living a very privileged life. Be happy about that, because it is very lucky.

Those salaries _can_ be found in other areas of the country, but they are almost completely concentrated to tech hubs of the country. Lots of cities throughout the country don't have these jobs.
It's funny you bring that line up, because a large number of people I know don't actually own TVs, most of them are laptop dwellers and use Netflix, Hulu, or other streaming services to satisfy their media needs. Don't forget that we live in the era of the 'cord-cutter'.

To expand on the original sentiment: experiences are what you make of them.

I think an adversarial game of CAH with you would be interesting.
You can buy milk in reusable glass milk bottles. Usually it's a buck deposit on the glass bottle. Return it to the store and you get the deposit back. When the milk company drops off a new shipment, they pick up crates of the empty glass bottles.

It works well if you always remember to bring the bottles back.