skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are stacks that can give you delicious sharing here. Clojure/clojurescript with Lacinia[0] for example could lead to something pretty terrific, as Clojure DB access is all immutable structs instead of activerecord-style stuff.

[0]: https://github.com/walmartlabs/lacinia
It's great for a big-ticket, low-margin purchase like an MBP, but poor for cheap, high-margin items like cables and accessories. Which is, of course, where they really make money.

They'll price match a laptop to Amazon, but cannot price match a $2 Ethernet patch cable because they're retail space, not a warehouse.
Usually 2 and 3.

Sometimes 1 and 3 (see http://avant.engineering/graphql-and-typescript/)
Actual source: https://www.sanger.ac.uk/news/view/genome-damage-crisprcas9-...

Paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/Nbt.4192
> I briefly searched for inflation-adjusted debt per capita but couldn't find it

You're looking for household debt to GDP [1]. It is a real (versus nominal) statistic because it's a ratio between two nominal terms. It also communicates financial health better than a per-capita term, since it measures against production.

[1] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/HDTGPDUSQ163N
This is an interesting point. Is it more that the younger generation prefers to figure out the problem themselves, possibly due to fear of social embarrassment, whereas the older generation doesn't share those fears, and thus are more willing to engage in public conversation about their technological shortcomings?
I ordered a TV from Amazon. They use a third party service that schedules delivery with you. Two dudes came out with TV, unboxed and set it up (put on stand, plugged in power to verify its working).

A few days after delivery I noticed a red line running along the top of the screen. Contacted Amazon about replacement. There was some issue with doing a direct replacement so they had me purchase another TV and then refunded the cost.

Dude comes out and picks up busted TV, puts it in box. New dudes come out a few days later with new TV.

All of that is to say - it really wasn't a big deal to order it online. Shipping was still free. Also they took packaging material with them, so it was nice not having to deal with disposing of a gigantic box.
I had zero issues with SOAP. I had zero issues with REST, although I couldn't quite understand the proposed benefit. When people started moving to JSON, I thought, okay, this is literally taking everything that already works and just doing it in an even more complicated way.

It's not hard, but I see very few differences between them. SOAP is easier to read/edit, JSON has less overhead/data, and REST...well, nobody could decide what REST was, so they just made it up or ignored it.
I think the 5 steps is too "high school" and overrated for the adult world. Sometimes there is no time nor audience patience for cliches like "how you're going to tell them" and "how you told them". Intro, content, what's next. That's all that matters.
Yesterday, I went into a Best Buy for the first time in ages because I needed a USB A to USB micro b cable and I was on the road in a small city (fewer than 50K).

I was surprised by how clean, well-organized, and well-staffed it was. When I asked where such cables were (not having yet left the front of the store because, not having a lock with me, I needed to stow my bicycle up front), the associate on the floor came over and directed me precisely and accurately to where the cables were.

I hope Best Buy figures out how to stick around because the cable I bought is actually pretty nice (braided cable) and I like having the option to buy quality electronic accessories from a clean storefront when I'm on the road (i.e. urgent electronics need and I don't want a low-quality no-name throw-it-away-after-5-uses knock-off).
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> Everything else is line noise.

It's always weird to see this type of thing on HN. How anyone can call the way the web works "line noise" is baffling to me.
Not really an option. The largest scandanavian country, sweden, is a little larger than Los Angeles and the rest are much smaller. They have little emigration and immigration, and although their gdp per capita is similar, the huge population difference means their economies/gdp are of a totally different scale.

Apples to oranges.
As of todays physics this is an impossible future, as long as there is no ~~game~~ epoch changing innovation on the energy sector.
I missed your comment but I can assure you I am in sitting here in NYC and have never seen a Surface, except in ads years ago when they came out. Just one data point, but valid all the same.

I have also not set foot in a Best Buy, so maybe that's what I'm missing?
What did you find incredibly bad about it? I might agree if you said Aladdin 2 was bad, but I thought 3 was quite good.
I'm saying that under the Federal Reserve system, the total indebtedness of the U.S. economy must always increase. If the government starts to pay off its debt, the private sector must increase its debt levels. If the economy doesn't keep borrowing money, the money supply would rapidly collapse, leading to a deflationary spiral.

The only money that never has to be paid back are coins.

Do you have an alternate understanding of our monetary system?
A sizeable majority of US Treasuries are owned by American citizens.
We'll see what happens when drones start showing up in militarized police department arsenals.
Ask yourself: “Who is my audience?” Everything else comes from that.
Is this a joke on the physical size of aircraft/spacecraft?
The mess that is the current Java type system makes me skeptical when proponents of languages like Go say not to worry, that generics can be added later.

If Java had generics in the beginning, it would look a lot different and the type system would be more powerful and safe.
Proofread the title. Pay attention to articles...
After years of not stepping into one due to them pushing Monster cables with every purchase I went back to look at appliances. I was pleasantly surprised. Sales staff was knowledgeable and they had a good selection. A much better experience than the home improvement stores I went to. Even better - my fridge went on sale the following week for $500 off my price, they gave that all back to me as they price-match post-sale.
Well you're making some assumptions about damages and maybe have opinions what constitutes damages. I think the other side you have to consider is if revenue related to wrong doing is in the billions and your fine is in the thousands, it's toothless. Companies will gladly pay a pittance in fines over and over again against billions in revenue. That's not ideal from and enforcement standpoint. It doesn't get companies to follow the law and play by the rules. There's consequences for that too, voters have opinions about their governments letting companies run amok without any real consequences or deterrents.
This argument is just gross. "How dare those peasants complain about Jeff Bezos having $150 Billion. They just tweeted on their Iphones, look how well they live!"

Just blatant Ayn Rand level horseshit.
Best Buy still exists mainly because you can go and demo the gadgets. For certain things, you want to see them in person and they always price match Amazon for anything Amazon has cheaper.

I bought an 85" 4K tv a few years ago and it was not a cheap item. Do you really think someone would just buy something for $10k on Amazon and hope it is ok? I also paid them to have a team of 3 people come and install it on my wall. This is a case where the local store beat the online store.
> That's not useful for a programmatic API. You can add a discovery layer to a programmatic API

A discovery layer isn't necessary if you're using hypermedia as intended. "Discovery" just means a loosely coupled format associates the "logical" addresses, which your program shouldn't know a priori, with a readable name, which your program uses to find the logical addresses it actually needs.

It's like the difference between programming in assembly language with direct memory addresses (URLs), vs using a programming language that abstracts memory addresses with named variables (hypermedia format that associates readable names to URLs), thus decoupling clients from needing to understand potentially opaque URL formats.

The real problem with REST is that REST frameworks don't provide any guidance or support for any hypermedia format that isn't HTML, and HTML isn't well suited to programmatic interaction. None of the commonly used data interchange formats support distinguishing embedded links from other data, so they aren't hypermedia formats. No wonder doing REST right is so difficult.

> doing so from a programmatic client when you could literally just store the correct endpoint and perform your call directly is nonsense: it's inefficient, it's annoying and it's pointlessly verbose.

Except it's not pointless, it allows painless server-side upgrades. It might cost you some efficiency, but it provides significant flexibility.
> I know that I will get it that day (vs. Amazon's "two day shipping" that regularly turned into three or four days)...

I've been seeing a big uptick in this, as well.

When I asked support, they gave me a response about "we only guarantee two days shipping time". There's no guarantee on order-to-ship time, and I've seen it go from reliably a couple of hours to 2-3 days at times.
Once Amazon started charging sales tax in my state, it was a no brainer to go to Best Buy first.

- Same price (or sometimes less)

- No waiting on delivery

- High confidence that I'm getting a genuine product

For me, it's the last point that's most important...especially with more expensive electronics purchases.
I recently ventured beyond the in-store pickup area of a Best Buy for the first time in a while, I was pleasantly surprised. It seems they're positioning themselves as the smart home destination, pretty extensive inventory in this area, with product samples and descriptions clearly visible. They've also lowered the shelf heights and the store feels less cluttered (without feeling like an apple store clone). They also seem to be distributing inventory across regional stores to offer greater in-store pickup options. There are several Best Buy stores within reasonable distance to where I live, and typically at least one has the desired product. Staff seems generally more friendly as well.
> Whether a nation-state should balance it's budget is more a philosophical question coloured be ideology rather than a pragmatic concern

It's a pragmatic concern inasmuch as the lenders's "faith in [the government's] ability to service the debt" in step 2 is not infinite. If you lose that faith, you have to (a) raise rates, (b) impose capital controls, (c) raise taxes and/or (d) force your central bank to monetize the debt. Each of these do bad things to the economy. The national debt isn't like household debt because the government is immortal, but that doesn't mean it's meaningless.
> I'm not a fan of 'multiparadigm'. As another comment on this branch says, the Zen of Python covers this quite well:

>> There should be one-- and preferably only one --obvious way to do it

Unfortunately this was true ten years ago. Now, python is just following C++ and become this behemoth of features, especially with recent PEPs, which aim at saving one or two lines of code.
More mature or more commercial?

You're talking about making money, but no mention of making music.

A better argument is that art is getting more technical.
or even just that's it's getting physically bigger.

Also, when music is commercial it's still called music.

Art stops being art when it's made for money. It becomes illustration, design, decoration or some such thing.

Historically a lot of EU or American artists are pretty much trust fund kids. because if you need to think about money all the time... you can't make art. Art requires some modicum of genuine freedom and most people need money to find it.

I'm not sure how that works for music.
Same experience with amazon.fr on all counts.
Alcohol: none. Caffeine: 3 English Breakfasts in the morning, and a 'red eye' (20 oz dark roast + an espresso shot) around 2pm. Worth noting: I also do a daily hard cardio workout; love to sweat.
I'm honestly surprised at the reactions here about the MCU. Are they pop movies that mostly adhere to a formula and tend to go for mass appeal over daring auteurship? Absolutely. These are big-budget tentpole films from Disney, they serve a corporate purpose, too.

But where they are not necessarily daring, they are at least challenging the genres they take on. Kevin Feige and co. have found a way in the 2010's to make blockbuster movies that have real heart, story, and messages. They don't hire the Michael Bays of the industry, but the James Gunns, Ryan Cooglers, and Taikas (and whoever is directing Captain Marvel, they're so under the radar that I don't remember their names). Infinity War was truly a spectacle; a roller coaster from beginning to end that gave its fans a new experience and a real punch to the gut. That takes guts. There has never been a movie of that scope & scale, with such a collection of actors, with such an enormous budget -- and it almost entirely focused on the story and character development, and let the big action grow from those two things.

Marvel's made the biggest movie franchise ever, and it's not from tricking audiences. This is what puts people in theater seats. Those of us who like "film" are staying at home to watch, more and more. What they've done sounds really hard to me. It's not apples-to-apples, but would anyone argue that, although strictly pop and mass appeal, the likes of Elvis, MJ, Madonna, and even Lady Gaga don't have their moments of real musicianship?
it was also empty during modern times

Except for all of the people who lived there. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indigenous_peoples_of_Californ...
So something is missing in international laws. A country can only declare war to another country, so one might ask : what if conventions about wars were to be modified to include this: allow a country to formally declare war to an organization ?
I know this won't happen because of many arguments: it is too tempting to limit the level of recognition of the opposite side, especially fighters who are just "terrorists" and not called soldiers ; it is easier also to do what you want when there is no law, even for countries at war as they see more efficiency when there is no formal control.
So the dilemna is : either there is more formalization of wars with countries vs terror groups, to allow for better rules and control for avoiding civilian casualties and not breeding new generations of terrorists ourselves, with the downside of legitimizing those terror groups (which might help them on the long run) and losing efficiency in the fight, or we allow ourselves to act as what many can describe as murderers, because of the blind killings of civilians by drones.
It is a lose-lose situation, so the choice is really about who we want to be.
I actually think it's almost the opposite in my experience as a physicist. Often graduate students are given the first author position, the position which indicates the most credit, even though in many ways the graduate student is closer to a highly skilled technician following the path laid down by their more experienced professor.
It means using the term "REST" for communication is useless - exactly like in that cartoon you linked.
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I read the paper about 20 years ago. I might be wrong in what I remember but I don't think the focus was on academic math. Will have to go find it and quickly scan it.
I've done it. Sometimes you go to a 20 minute talk because the premise was interesting, but it's different from what you thought or too arcane, or the presenter has an accent you cannot understand, and it's too late to look up the program to attend another talk you might have attended instead. So you just pop up the laptop and check email. Why not?
What about consumer electronics like TVs and stereo systems. Are those low-margin?
Last time I went to BB was to buy a Pixel 2 charging cable. A BB employee helped locate it and reminded me that it's called "USB C" cable not a "Pixel 2 charging cable".
In the air, cars can drive on a 3d axis, have no way to see road signs, and are more likely to fall on top of other cars if they're lucky enough not to get into an accident with one already in the air.

Compare this to a tunnel, which has controlled routes, is out of the way of road-way cars, and if made properly will never collapse on itself. That's how.
For 2 reasons inserting is tricky and querying is not super intuitive.

Example: I have 3 tables pages, page_blocks, and blocks.

- Inserting blocks into a page is tough.

- To query it's not very intuitive I would like to do.

pages {

blocks {

id

}

}

& not

pages {

page_blocks {

blocks {

id
}

}

}
Exactly, it's the government subsidizing the labor costs for huge, profitable, companies not paying their workers living wages. [0]

[0] https://www.forbes.com/sites/clareoconnor/2014/04/15/report-...
Apparently, you can update your application before the deadline, Aug 13th.
> My biggest complaint has been "lost" exceptions and caching.

This is quite annoying because the server never throws a 500 error so the normal logging doens't kick in.
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This would simply be a return to the tax code of the 1950s. (Which I think would be a good thing, to be clear.)
From observing comments here, it seems to be regional and dependent on the carrier. In my experience it has been the USPS (though I am sure people in other regions will say UPPS is fine, but UPS is bad, or FedEx is bad). When I saw that Amazon was shipping via USPS, I automatically knew not to bother to check for it until at least the third day of the "two day" shipping. What was even more annoying is half the time it got marked as "delivered". I tried a couple of times to complain to Amazon, but that got me to no where.
The GPU bubble kind of blunted that instant-gratification appeal for me recently. They've apparently begun to accept reality, but some of their GPU prices are still significantly inflated compared to other vendors. For example, their in-store Vega 56 card is $629.99 vs. Newegg selling comparable cards for under $500, and that specific model number seems to be exclusive to Best Buy so they can refuse to price-match.
Here it is divided by CPI and population: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=kyKl
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> So the American Civil War wasn't a war, since the south wasn't another country?

No, it was a Civil War. As you already wrote.

> The Chinese civil war wasn't a war?

No.

> The Iruqois Wars weren't wars?

You are really reaching now.

It seems to me that you are trying very hard to hold on to the idea that there is such a thing as a 'war on terrorism' but the whole thing is nonsense, just as much as the 'war on drugs' or any other mis-use of the term.

> But, hey, I could be wrong.

Yes you are.

> It wouldn't be the first time Congress has passed a resolution that ended up being found unconstitutional and it won't be the last.

It's not the constitution of the United States that matters here but international law.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_war
This type of surgery has likely hit her max out of pocket, so she should be clear of medical expenses for the rest of the year.
This suggests the only safe portable way to represent hex is one of these? [1234567890abcdefABCDEF] or [\dabcdefABCDEF]
That sucks. Fortunately I don't use C, but I'm worried about this finding its way into other languages...
22% surge in number of older homeless people catches L.A. officials off guard
> The real elephant in the room is the long term result of massive inequality.

Is all that violence really the result of inequality? Or is it the result of poverty? If the absolute poorest people lived in middle-class comfort I can't see them plotting a revolution, no matter how large a boat their neighbour owned.
No . But you are getting there. Yes fiscal policy is the lever that determines the amount ( quantity) of money ( or demand ) driving the economy . Monetary policy is interest rates or the price of money. And ,there is mounting evidence that hight interest rates actually have the opposite of the intended effect . That is, that higher interest rates lead to higher net income to the private sector which is a bit inflationary.
I'm the average layman, but I will try my best.

> 1. All money is debt insofar as it only represent goods as services yet to be rendered, an I Owe You as it were

I never thought of money like this, but I not comfortable with that idea. Money is a currency, eventually exchanged for goods or services. I can save it just in case something goes unexpected, never spend it and die with 1 million left in my bank account (my analogy is at the individual level, since it's all I know)

> 3. Whether a nation-state should balance it's budget is more a philosophical question coloured be ideology rather than a pragmatic concern.

Pragmatically, to reach an improved democratical system, the number of people who decide the budget should asymptotically grow to the point where every citizen can equally (to reuse your own words) voice directly his/her opinion about how the budget should be distributed. We could ask by referendum every month : "should we pay the debt or borrow next month?", no one knows what would be the answer, since it has never been done.

> 4. If you believe the good times are going to keep rolling, and any bad times will, on average, pass relatively swiftly (people do have a tendency to persevere), then not borrowing money results in a lost opportunity cost.

Does it matter if we all die at the end, no matter the decision path and opportunities?

Disclaimer : I don't live in the US
I'm attacking the assertion that the business model should be illegal.

The law is currently written that a competitor, who gets twice as much revenue in their app store, and has far stricter controls, is not in trouble.

That's moronic.
The notion this can go on indefinitely with no repercussions just bc the debt is denominated in our own currency doesn’t square with reality. Everything has a cost.
"misallocation of resources"

Resources...

Somebody has it, you don't have it.

But you want it. They don't want to give it to you.

They came up with a way to collect it for themselves. You can't come with a way to get it from them, or collect it yourself.

They use it the way they see fit. You will use it the way you see it fit if you ever get it.

> These are extreme examples but they demonstrate why it should be watched carefully.

Watch as much as you want. Control over it?, you are not going to be given rains just because you happen to be watching it.

Wanters are wanting, havers are having, watchers are watching. World is running as desired by each one.
Well that depends on how you define what is inside versus outside the sun. The sun doesn't have a clear outer edge, it just becomes gradually less dense the further out you go. Earth and Jupiter are inside the heliosphere. These definitions are just arbitrary.
Many insurance plans have a yearly max you pay for covered services. For my plan it's way less than 38k. I believe it's something like 10-12k
We were told all we needed to know back when The Facebook was a Harvard only site, and his reaction towards the trust others were granting him was "those suckers!". He may be rich beyond all our dreams, but he's a dumb smuck for never realizing the opportunity he blew.