skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I understand that people don't like smoking, but that doesn't excuse the loose way that organizations throw around numbers about this topic.

And they never give a source so a person can fact check the numbers.

Luckily, in this case we know we're reading dishonest propaganda, since they make no mention of the revenue side of it.

> It's instructive to watch the way people reason when they're convinced they've got the moral high ground. There's almost nothing they won't say.

Preach brother.
I think we as a nation should consider this an issue of national security. This type of financial instability in such a large percentage of the population could lead to making short-sighted or bad decisions in tough times, increased violence, increased rates of incarceration (both of those increasing the cost of government for all), among many other things. The reasons for it are multi-faceted I'm sure. I hope voters and politicians recognize statistics like this as an opportunity for reflection and change.
It's code. If there's a bug it does what the bug says.

What happens when there's a disagreement with your program that prints "Hello W0rld"? It prints "Hello W0rld".
It's paradoxical that Perl still runs so much of the Internet, but rarely gets any credit.
This makes it clear why our current capitalism doesn't work. The ruling class / rich and wealth people and businesses could extract more wealth out of the middle and lower classes than they do now, if the lower classes were more stable and secure.

In the US especially, but nearly everywhere, there are hoards of people trying to lower or eliminate social services, basic science research, etc, with the dog-whistle claim that those things are not necessary and should not be provided by the state or using state funds. This line of thinking is extremely common in conservative circles, where they claim that societal prosperity would come from hurting the poor as much as possible in order to extract the greatest amount of wealth from them.

But when you look at statistics like these, it is clear that there is no more wealth to be extracted from the lower classes - they are all just merely trying to survive. Provide UBI or something like it, along with all other things necessary for a strong social net, and watch the rich get even richer while the poor grow into a stronger middle class.

It is especially confusing that this outcome seems to be hated by the rich, despite it certainly lifting their wealth. It makes me wonder if much of conservative policy is just as much about hating the poor as it is helping the rich - because conservative policies that hurt the poor are increasingly obviously hurting the rich. I just don't understand why it isn't taken for granted that we need a stable society to make more money over time. That seems clear to me.

Many of those in poverty today are there because of the systematic oppression of the poor across America for the last many hundreds of years. Blaming them for it isn't going to help - they aren't even being provided basic education, as that is also being cut in many places in the USA (so how do you expect them to become financially aware, anyway, if they are not taught that growing up in school? Parents raising children in poverty are in no place to teach their own kids financial management skills).

To lift people out of poverty we must change our attitudes towards class and capitalism and be more compassionate to create a more stable society.
Exactly. Why does quitting smoking have anything to do with employment? Is this solely because of how health insurance usually works in the US? I'm so tired of apps wanting to give my data to other people.
Not to put words in someone else's mouth, but isn't the advised wariness targeted at the recommenders rather than the genres?
https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/1631...

gives some of the genealogy of the idea.

http://www.faqs.org/docs/artu/

"Rule of Representation: Fold knowledge into data so program logic can be stupid and robust."

https://users.ece.utexas.edu/~adnan/pike.html

"Rule 5. Data dominates. If you've chosen the right data structures and organized things well, the algorithms will almost always be self-evident. Data structures, not algorithms, are central to programming."
>> Does it mean that you want to marginalise people that are not too wealthy? Because if you increase prices those better off would still be able to come.

Obviously the answer to that is yes. Maybe not the ‘want to’ part, but surely the effect of taxing certain forms of tourism heavily will shut out less fortunate people. The follow-up question would be whether this is the kind of ‘unfairness’ that needs to be fixed. Maybe it’s just a fact of life we all should accept, that there will always be places that you will never visit, or activities you will never be able to experience, because they are out of reach? It has always been like this, and in some sense it will always be: even as someone fortunate enough to be able to travel all around the world, I will most likely still never be able to visit many places because it would be too expensive. What entitles me to say this is unfair and I should also be able to e.g. travel to Antarctica?

Discussions like this always feel awkward because I realize I’m part of the problem. Nonetheless I sincerely think mass tourism and making every place of the world accessible to as many people as possible ruins them and spoils them for everyone, and in particular for locals who don’t benefit directly from the tourist industry. If prohibitive cost is the tool to preserve these places, so be it. There’s enough other interesting things to discover for me than some hill that featured in LoTR or some cathedral I can see on a million pictures on the internet.
It’s not about us versus them. It’s about the carrying capacity of a particular location. For these remote destinations in particular, more people means more damage and trash.
The problem is of course that you may then be changing code which has been field-tested for a long time.
A privately owned centralized debt exchange company can go out of business.
Yeah, great passive aggressive way of dismissing a absolutely valid point.
No, I'm fine with the credit I got. I'm not going to try to reach the level of understanding of differential geometry to confirm my theory with a simulation. I just hope someone who can might get an idea and do the work. A side note of me bringing the idea to this person would be all I'd hope for.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSxAbEQgcZI
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Also, each violin also has particular "sweet-spots", where when you play them it really does feel "whole" and voice-like for a particular note. A good violin may have one such sweet spot (hopefully in a commonly used key/register), while a great violin may have many such sweet spots for many different notes and keys.
Wealthy investors are happy to tell founders that a smaller percentage of a bigger pie is a better deal, but then seem not so happy to make their percentage smaller in order to increase the size of the pie for society at large.
(I work at Stripe, on Atlas.)

We're building Stripe to be useful to anyone building internet businesses. This occasionally is a balancing act; we are a regulated financial institution and we do have commitments to partners, and sometimes this means that we can't support entrepreneurs who we'd otherwise like to support. We attempt to build products to allow entrepreneurs to innovate inside the system, like Stripe Atlas (which, among other things, lets users get on good financial rails even if good financial rails are not abundant in the area they happen to live) or Stripe Connect (which allows entrepreneurs to build complicated use cases for moving money around in commerce without having to themselves become e.g. a regulated money services business).

We also attempt to advocate zealously for good entrepreneurs within the constraints of regulations and partner requirements. One example: it's surprisingly difficult to accept money for selling alcohol. That's a perfectly legitimate business, and so we've worked with several companies (like e.g. 750 Commerce, which makes wine order management software, for wineries) to get them access. We have some representative examples of the types of exceptions we fight for here: https://stripe.com/blog/why-some-businesses-arent-allowed We're working constantly to get good companies supported and to help regulators and the financial industry understand that they can have their concerns met while saying yes to more entrepreneurs more quickly.

I'm happy to discuss your specific use cases privately if you'd like; my email is patio11@stripe.com. (Offer open to anyone; I'm always happy to talk to HNers.)
> The shitshow would be glorious.

At which point does the shit show turn around and reflect bad on the EU though? I m no fan or user of facebook but it would be too serious a restriction that only dictators have taken so far. EU's problems with facebook so far are taxation and privacy. The second is presumably solved by GDPR. Even if the first one is solved somehow, i feel these MEPs were more concerned about political implications.
Delaware entities are extraordinarily popular for startups doing business in California, including e.g. many YC companies. Both the IRS and California them happily process tax returns from many Delaware LLCs.

(Stripe Atlas can introduce you to accountants to help you prepare your returns and give you peace of mind with regards to whether you're filing in all the right places given your personal situation.)
Nope, I don’t sound anything like the Catholic Church. If both people agree, of course there’s no problem at all.
If there is a limit to FPS and resolution where we say “ok that’s enough” then we could ray trace more with the yearly advances in computing power. And I really thought at one point that was 1080p.
But later I thought it was 2k, then 4K, then 2x8K (per eye in VR).

Now I honestly have no idea what the “endgame” is, but if it’s say 8K@120 for single screens and twice that for VR then thats two to there orders orders of magnitude away from what a regular gaming card does today. The problem with numbers that big is that it’s hard to say what the tech landscape is.

The killer feature of rasterization is that it gives an illusion of correctness at a millionth of the computational effort. Apart from efficiency I can’t see many attractive properties.
I wish them, and everyone they're trying to help, all the best.

I quit years ago and it was one of the best things I've done. There were only three mantras in my head when I quit "get through the first 48 hours" then "get through two weeks" then "don't fuck it up".

It's hard to quit smoking, but only in the short term. It's much harder to live as a smoker over a lifespan. Remember that.

I have more advice and micro tactics, but I feel like listing them all would only pollute the message above.

Just get through the first 48 hours.

You can do it.
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I'm very curious about the price increase.

The only thing that comes to mind how something like that would be possible is if the news trends generated by this were somehow driving algorithmic trading .. either that or people investing in something they're just hearing of for the first time.. But even these possibilities don't seem rational.

It just doesn't seem to make much sense... unless the whole thing was being driven and pushed by some larger unknown actor with a lot of resources .. (state government, goldman sachs, etc.)
My personal bet is that carbon-based life built on amino acids, proteins, fats and sugars is the low-hanging fruit in the universe, more-or-less for the reasons said above. Fats and sugars are pretty basic carbon compounds; amino acids arise spontaneously in the right inorganic conditions, and it's a hop and a skip from amino acids to the incredibly useful proteins.

From there it probably gets a lot more divergent. I'd also bet that cells and something like DNA is pretty common wherever carbon-based life is found, but my understanding is that the exact way DNA codes for proteins is pretty arbitrary, and the fact that all life on Earth more-or-less uses the same coding scheme is an artifact of the common origin of life rather than because it matters.

Body plans and the details of multi-cellular life are probably going to be wildly divergent, with some caveats. For instance, eyeballs evolved multiple times on Earth, so it would be surprising if eyeballs didn't evolve pretty often elsewhere.

(Incidentally, if aliens are made of proteins, sugars/starches and fats, that means that whatever they look like, we can probably eat 'em, barring the usual toxins and allergens.)
> I believe they use the information I share to enrich my user experience.

Manifestly false. They use your information to target ads. The pages that you've browsed will affect the ads you see on youtube and the paid search results you get. That's right, the paid search results you get are modified not to enrich your experience, but because some advertisers pay more for people with your browsing profile. Does that improve your experience, or does that improve google's advertiser's experience?
> “There’s a bug over there because you re-used lastCachedTime. Otherwise, looks good. Ship it!”

The fixed code still has a bug. It assumes successive calls to lastMidnight() within the method will always return the same date. But presumably, if partway through the method it ticks over to midnight, that would not be the case. So some stats would be updated during one call, and the rest would be updated during the next call.

That would violate this requirement:

> They had previously decided all stats should refresh simultaneously;
Ofcourse when you are a movie production company this will be no problem.

Oh, you'd be surprised.
As a side note, coffee chaff makes excellent mulch. It gets wet and then forms a thick mat that keeps the water i.
Me too. But I'm a bit out of touch. I'm aware roadside camping waste has been a mainstream issue for a while, but are many in NZ talking about pressure on environmentally sensitive areas? Is that a very big part of the conversation? (This article might cause one to believe as much).
Yeah, 3 downvotes in 60 seconds. Totally not brigading here.
Hehe, to be completely fair with you the first time I came across your name I thought you were pulling a very long prank. But you don't get to choose your name.

An architect in the Netherlands had 'Rothuizen' as his last name, which translates to 'Rotten houses', not the best name for an architect so he changed it to 'Rotshuizen', which translates as 'Houses built like rocks'. Much better :)

In your case I wouldn't change a thing.
Perhaps an algorithm could track his daily movement solely within the White House by analyzing a combination of inaudible sound wave reflection/refractions [0] and still images for context.

[0] https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/53d3da/guoguo-is-...
I do understand the underlying problem, it's more or less looking for the one that treats the service as that... a service rather than myself as their product.

I could start my own mail server, but I'm not at that point yet.
Ireland is not leaving the EU. Maybe you 're referring to northern ireland, but facebook is not there.
The Mac archive doesn't have any resource forks, which is likely going to prevent building a working copy. Trying to figure out who to email at the CHM about it.
Well on our way to to he oft depicted dystopia of sci-fi movies.

I figured Trump would go down in history as a modern money baron president, the likes of Coolidge, Harding and Hoover.
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I’m not entirely sure why you’ve been downvoted, because this also seems intuitively obvious to me.

A long-term stable society, with a controlled income and wealth gap, seems to be in the general long-term best interests of everybody, rich and poor alike.
"It's weird been British in 2018, we are now a small damp mostly irrelevant island in the North Atlantic."

It's always been a bit weird being British - get used to it! As to irrelevance, you might like to reflect on the fact that around two billion people across the world watched a recent marriage in this parish.

Yes it is a bit damp here but on the bright side the weather rarely tries to kill you, nor does the land and nor does the flora and fauna. The nearest thing to a volcano is Castle Rock in Edinburgh OK - Dartmoor int al was formed from a pluton but that was some time ago as well. Our earthquakes are on the sad end of the log base seismic scale. The last tsunami (controversial but there was a major flood) might have been near Bristol and S Wales 100s of years ago. We have precisely one poisonous snake - the adder and they are very rare and keep well away and probably wont even kill you anyway (but it will smart a lot). We have a few poisonous plants but again you would have to be pretty stupid. Funnily enough I had to warn a Floridian about our stinging nettles - they laughed. They stopped laughing after brushing past a patch on a run.

Weird: yep. Irrelevent: no more than anyone else. Damp: I prefer "moist".
I am and know many conservatives. I don't see any "poor hate," though I don't argue it doesn't exist. Rather, it seems conservatives get upset at the idea of an unlevel playing field, i.e. creating policies that favor one group over another. Well-intentioned as any given policy may be, we are opposed to crafting government rules or benefits that apply to one set of people and not another.
America is over. The class divide has surpassed any reasonable threshold and in time it will only further crystalize. This country needs an Elon Musk to replace every part of the government, which is itself a jobs program at this point. We do not live in "America" anymore.
What types of issues did you encounter?
What I am saying is meant in the context of the non-steady-state collapsing sphere, not the steady-state Schwarzschild black hole.
I never doubted the validity of these equations, I just doubted them to accurately describe reality, as they neglect an explanation why the collapsing star should ever reach a steady state. If you have such an explanation, please tell me, I'm interested.
What workloads are people going to run on this?
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I think this is unlikely because of the nature of the problem. It's kind of like when Paul Graham said consulting is fundamentally not scalable. Throwing more people at a problem like this one only works if you have dedicated consultants for every bespoke business case, because there's no one-size-fits-all model, and the way that performance limitations interacts with which kind of face detection models you can use is very complicated.

Companies would end up paying huge premia to Amazon essentially to have Amazon build in-house teams that would be equivalent, only much more expensive, than the companies own in-house team just building an in-house solution.

With some forms of consulting this can make sense, because the consulting services are temporary and should set the company in a position such that for the long run, the company can maintain the solution cost-effectively.

But for something like face detection, assuming it's a pivotal service you'll need on an on-going basis, this would become the worst sort of vendor lock-in imaginable, combined with the fact that if you don't appear to be creating growth for Amazon, you're liable to be deprioritized at any point, and at the mercy of Amazon's choices regarding when and how to address your bespoke need.

For these specialized machine learning services it doesn't fit the same kind of commodity model that AWS infrastructure uses, though that's currently how Amazon is pursuing it.

Don't get me wrong, Amazon is very good at making money and convincing nervous management to buy their brand. I suspect they will find ways to sell these services despite the services not being cost-effective or customizeable for bespoke customer situations.

But when I point out that Amazon's machine learning services don't offer cost-effective performance, it's very different from a "just throw more devs at it" kind of problem, fundamentally.
Had not realized that in many circles Rodgers is considered a near-genius and Hammerstein a bit too preachy and sentimental. The article argues otherwise.
> What is your justification for asserting that US citizens are not as concerned as EU citizens?

If a significant amount of them cared it would be reflected in the user numbers.
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Because they'll be around long after GitHub.
This is pretty offtopic, but the amount of time it takes to download the block isn't the only factor, amount of time to process & verify the block is pretty important as well as the storage costs etc.

That's all pretty moot at the moment as BCH is averaging ~50kb blocks.
Taming Big Tech: The Case for Monitoring
Vanguard Charitable charges a 0.6% management fee* on top of the mutual fund fees: https://www.vanguardcharitable.org/individuals/fees_and_expe...

*assuming you have <$500K
I can tell by my experience of building https://telescope.surf, a lot of the sites are killing RSS or simply not linking it from any of their pages. I had to build crawlers for a lot of the sites.
Very much this. I find how-to guides to be a very good type of topic to blog about: 1) It serves as documentation for yourself to get back to later on (it has come in useful for myself many times to look back at my blog on how I set up something), 2) It serves as a good guide for others and is how you build your audience. Almost any how-to guide out there misses some information. Not everyone ran into the same issues. Your guide will have some info others who have written similar ones have missed. Similarly, you won't be covering some issues that the next person will write about. Someone googling around setting up their raspberry pi or CentOS server about the exact same issue you had, will find your article (and not any other because other guides didn't mention it), and save hours of time because of your guide. (I have comments on my blog telling me this, despite writing about topics that have hundreds of guides out there about)
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upvoted. HN seems to have a silent conservative majority in posts like this =/
But the playing field is already incredibly uneven; surely one of the goals of state-backed systems is to help make it more even?

It’s reasonable to debate the precise methods through which that is achieved, but I’m not as sure that many people would object to the underlying goal.
"the moon is a harsh mistress" and other things by Heinlein
The reason seatbelt laws exist is not because they are intrinsically good, or to prevent ignorance. They exist because it is expensive to pay for someone that has slammed through a windshield and requires intensive care. They passed in large part through the argument that putting them in place would lower insurance rates. That's where a lot of the money lobbying for their use came from.

They also passed so that the automakers wouldn't be forced to put airbags into cars.
Your comment broke the HN guidelines, so it was properly downvoted. This one too. Could you please (re-)read https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and post civilly and substantively, or not at all? We're hoping for something a bit better here.
thanks for the detailed explanation. That would at least provide a workaround.
Lay on my back for about 3 months and became reliant on tramadol and neuropathic pain medication (gabapentin).

I'm still taking the later and I have a sneaking suspicion that it's still keeping some discomfort at bay, it doesn't work for everyone.

Once I felt well, I very slowly returned to the gym, took up swimming on a doctors advice and am even at a point where I do quite light deadlifts and low back exercise (with great care and attention to form). I believe swimming was paramount in my recovering along with a lot of care over my posture and using a McKenzie roll in my car whilst driving.
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