skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People like to lambaste the McDonald's dollar menu cheeseburger, but it's a remarkably cost-effective and more-healthy-than-you'd-think method of sustenance. Skip the empty calories in the french fries and soda, and you're really not doing that badly.
Had a client just last month that were doing SOAP wrong somehow...

Required a SOAP message, that contained no XML after the message tag, but instead the entire message body was to be a JSON, and responded with a JSON if something was wrong, and a fully formed SOAP message if things were Ok.

That and the guys that handle your money use the Http status code as their personal error messages. Except when the error is on their end, in which case they return 200 and a JSON with an error message.

There are plenty of ways to do REST wrong, so let's not lump that into the people that make blog posts complaining about X because X is broken, and working just fine...
Not quite true. There is a decent amount of literature describing off-target cleavage events as well.
Regular dota players learn to play without the courier anyway, because someone always feeds it away or uses it to ferry themselves a magic stick.

So maybe playing without a courier at all would be more representative of the pub experience ;)
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In Munich politicians asked to plan in airtaxi spots to be build/considered for the rebuild of our main train station, while I have to throw away liquids above 100ml in the airport!
With the exception of Apple, Costco, IKEA, and New York-scale independents (e.g. BH and the Strand) brick-and-mortar seems to be on a consistent trend of dying. Departmwnt stores like Sears, Macys, and JC Penney’s. Even Nordstrom is running into hurdles as it attempts to go private. Entertainment chains in particular have been dying — Virgin, Tower Records, Borders, Barnes and Nobles. Among BB‘s direct competitors, who else is around except for Fry’s? Circuit City and CompUSA have long since died. To blame it all on “bad money practices” seems simplistic, as if there weren’t intractable costs that caused them to turn to bad practices.
People drive through long tunnels or ride on subways every day. Being underground is not a problem.
Building Container Networks with Vxlan, BGP and Wireguard
Wow! That's an intense particle. I'm thumbing through the code now. Nice work so far!
right. The story told is that the money in the market (stocks, shares of companies, holdings, real estate, etc) is playing a part in creating wealth for everyone, and therefor better served by being left where it is.

there's 0 reason you can't say "this person is reporting holding, assets and liquid wealth of 2 billion dollars, so he owes X% back to the state." The issue is that typically the wealthy have the most influence over tax code, and they use net worth as a way to keep their money out of play.

But, like, you know, Amazon being worth so much money is really helpful to everyone because...reasons.
I see it on Amazon, but it is interesting to look it at a macro level. If you are a third party selling on amazon without offering prime shipping, you have to cut your price to equal or lower to the amazon price or else no one would ever buy from you. So it is more that prime is forcing third party prices down to compete than Amazon double charging prime users.
The thing I find Best Buy really useful for is things that actually need to fit you or do not have a standardized size or really varying quality like headphones or mice. I get attached to models of both of those items and eventually they get deprecated and I have to find new ones and the Amazon experience just doesn't work for those things unless you want to buy 3 and return 2 that don't work for you.

I also feel like it's the same with phones- you can can go and see if it feels right in your hand or if you want the XL model or something and since it's not a mobile phone store primarily it's less apparent pressure then the dedicated stores for those sorts of things.

I think they do have a place going forward if they keep the experience up, the other big box places you can buy electronics such as Wal-Mart, Target, and Staples end up just being depressing supermarket-esque experiences with half the products on the shelves being out of date by 3 or more years or just being the absolute bottom of the barrel in quality. It really feels like a struggle for other stores to carry decent quality middle of the road products, but Best Buy does well in that aspect.
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I don't think this is a controversial statement at all. Any CRISPR-Cas9 paper published will at least discuss the prospect of undesired mutations; this is a well-known concern.

You may be interested in my comment from the last time this journal article was posted to HN.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17544250
> I had zero issues with SOAP.

Just curious, what programming language(s) did you use to provide and/or consume SOAP APIs?
Agree, with one caveat. When viewing via the website, a large fraction of items are "Online Only" through their 3rd party resellers. I'd like to touch but can't. Note: Canadian experience, may be different down south.
Or, stated similarly:
“Inequality is only a problem for the wealthy in so much that it leads to higher crime rates and (eventually) civil instability in places where its most inconvenient for the wealthy.
Best Buy often has sales on Macs. Educational discount or just $150-$300 off. Plus you can save a little more on an open-box.

I'd also much rather go to Best Buy to upgrade my phone. I absolutely detest going to the Verizon store.
This graph is telling:

http://gs.statcounter.com/browser-market-share/mobile/worldw...

Subtract the iOS market share from the overall base, and is at 75% market share of remainder. The only strong competitor is UC Browser at 13.3%. This is an AliBaba product localized to mainland China. Remove that from the global market, and we end up with ~90% share for chrome in the rest of the world. That's antitrust territory.
Why are the words 'mongol', 'mongoloid' and 'mongy' bandied about as insults?
Hate to be that guy, but I have Amazon Prime in my household because my wife uses it just enough to be worthwhile. She makes only a small percentage of her purchases there, and the others in our household make none.

The 43% figure is more relevant, and that's 43% of a relatively small share of all consumer spending, with much of it being done by a small group of large Amazon customers.

So I don't think it's accurate to say most people buy a shitload of stuff from Amazon.
> … Dart… have optional type systems…

fyi "Dart’s type system is now sound" and "…types are mandatory".

https://www.dartlang.org/guides/language/sound-dart
As someone living in one of those top places, I think the usual consensus is that cities like New York and San Francisco and Washington DC are the most expensive cities to live in yet I live in a relatively conservative state tax-wise and people out here are still getting killed by the house prices. Rent has doubled in almost 3 years as well as many low-income families being pushed out of areas that used to formally inhabit.
"POTM of the moon" is where it's at
I'm not talking about anything crazy here, just don't make map(), filter(), reduce() etc second class citizens and maybe even support tail call optimization. Honestly I don't know why comprehensions are so popular either, it's a slightly more convenient but less powerful construct than pure functions.
Trump just noticed Europe’s $5BN antitrust fine for Google
The big cost of the national debt is that we have stuff now instead of later.
As I understand it, the USD's strength is a function of the petrodollar. The petrodollar is supposedly a function of the U.S. military power.
IIRC a old PBS doc about Saudi Arabia explained that the Saudi's were made and offer that [they] couldn't refuse to 1) price in and accept USD; and 2) supply @ at price levels deemed reasonable by the U.S. Obviously, they've lost some ability to control price w/the advent of the technology and the futures exchanges, but still...
You know that's possible everywhere? It's not like socialized healthcare imprisons doctors and forbids capitalism.

You can still go to 10 doctors, and pay for 9 of these visits.

US companies operating in the UK even tend to provide private healthcare insurance. Such "perk" makes UK employees chuckle, but hey, if you want private healthcare, the same US/multinational corporations operate in the UK too.
I think it's just a knee jerk reaction to some academic/PL theory types that chime in with a "Huzza! Long live (Haskell/Scala/Ocaml/etc.)!" As if a lack of soundness is dawning on anyone and was anyone's issue to begin with.

It's pretty dramatic so it gets met with preemptive defensiveness.

From the end of article: Everything is broken. Everything is fine.
We will go up not down. The only limitation is legal, not technical nor economic. Working through the regulations will take a bit of time but is already underway with the FAA’s pilot programs. The problem people are missing in the industry is that it took years for the FAA to lay out the infrastructure and rules for the national airspace. It will take time to work this out for autonomous drones, which will operate on a much larger scale. Cities and states will play a key role. It’s not going to be a VFR free-for-all with collision avoidance, but very much mimic class-A airspace but between 200-400’ and will be fully autonomous. As an F-18 pilot, I use to hate drones, but I’ve been converted. We are at the palm pilot point for UAS. Musk’s comment about noise is correct, but that is solvable and no reason to go back in time and try to dig our way out of our transportation and infrastructure problems. Imagine a world with bridges on demand. Drones enable that future not tunneling machines.
My point is that with alcohol is easy to circumvent the ban.
And, just guessing, even easier than growing weed.
How luxury housing becomes affordable
Don't throw out a number like that. We're talking about a Turing complete language, which means we're talking about protections that have to range over all possible programs and abstractions. It may be that your problem domain is extremely biased toward some small region of that space, in which case a type system that doesn't work there is actually useless.

Either way, it is hard to reason about factors like that numerically when we've not qualified which kinds of programs we're expecting the type system to actually work for.
Slaughter started with Lenin (not even counting the Civil War), so from the revolution to 1953 give you a bit over 30 years, give or take.
Or built with an optimizing compiler. Point being, just like with typical binaries, you can't easily read what the program will be doing; it's not apparent in the structure of data.
I used to take the DC Metrorail to work. Being above ground is absolutely nicer than being below ground if you've got the choice. I looked forward to the parts of that train commute that were above ground. There was even a part where we would come out of the tunnel and I'd look behind me to view the Washington Monument. It was great, especially at night.
If the patient is a dependent of someone, or a minor, or dies, does someone else pay? Is the consumer the person paying, or the patient?
Yeah I was somewhat surprised when I bought a new washer and dryer. Took my truck to the store so I would have space, get there, and they are like yeah its going to be two weeks for delivery. They keep none of those items on hand, as they are too large. Its all out in a warehouse somewhere else, and they just aren't prepared for someone who wants something now. It makes sense, but is not something I thought about before experiencing it.
> you can't tax net worth

Sure you can, although not all at once. Both property and capital gains taxes are examples of this.

Basically, the only way off the top of my head to hold capital and not have it taxed is to leave it at rest - either in something like precious metals (which is a very poor choice as a vehicle for growth) or long-term investment (which makes it available for use by others).

Also, there's inflation. Inflation obviously devalues liquid capital, but it also impacts debts. If someone loans money at 1% APR, but inflation is 2.5%, then 1.5% of the value of the outstanding debt is being transferred from lender to the debtor each year.
Scientists and academic researchers don't benefit from examples? :)
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Huh, interesting. I bought a dishwasher a few months ago from Home Depot and it was smooth sailing. Picked the floor model, they pulled the item from the back, we payed, and then they helped us load it into the car.
Nice anecdote. I also have a few (also in the USA, with allegedly premium 1percenter insurance):

> I can go straight to a specialist.

Me too. But if I schedule an appointment with any specialist it's going to be at least a month. And after that appointment, the followup will be in another two months. The appointment costs at least $400 and gets me about 10 minutes of face-time with the doctor but about one hour with the administrative/support staff.

> When I need non urgent surgery it's scheduled with a few weeks instead of months.

That is true, because that's the bread-and-butter of the McMedicine world. If however you need to do something which is not an emergency and slightly off the beaten path in terms of symptoms or which crosses medical specializations, good luck coordinating medical care. You will be scheduled in a couple of months to minimize liability, so that perhaps it goes away or you go away.
Plus there's the issue of how many terrorist attacks there would be if there was indeed no response.

We all know the answer to that one: we'd all be living under "amateur" Taliban, Mafias and worse anywhere near any large city, with constant public executions for "sacrilege" and for "competing" with the Mafia, and for ... There would be no international (or generally non-private) flights, and so on.
Those already exist and are available in kit form. You can buy one if you want it, but they aren't very popular because they're expensive, slow, noisy, and relatively dangerous.
I personally don't really like Best Buy, I feel like they are still kind of overpriced and don't have what I need a lot of the times.

However, I am not really who they want in their store. They want older people who only want basic stuff and don't know how to use it.

It's a smart play to cater to people who don't know how to do much. There is a massive market for older people who hate learning how to use their devices on their own.
"So take it or leave it eh?" Yes.

"And what about Google choosing anti-competitive (i.e. Illegal) business model?" I think the law should be re-written so its not illegal, or what Google's competitors are doing should also be considered illegal.

I made both of those points abundantly clear. Yes, I did answer their question.
The bots presumably "learned" that the other heroes act the way that the bot would have acted were they in that position (i.e. all my allies run the same algorithm, so I can predict what they would do)
There is a wide range of literature that supports the claim. Some of it is garbage but there's enough evidence that any scientist should be suspicious of claims there isn't.
Seems like the project acknowledged issues and is working towards fixing them. There is no flame in it and discussion in bugs that were opened is factual.
If we had a UBI maybe it’d be a better idea!
The bundled crapware has nothing to do with where you buy your PC. Best Buy doesn’t install anything on the PCs they sell. Dell does, HP does, Lenovo does. You get the same crap if you buy direct or from a retailer.

If you buy a “Microsoft Signature” device, you pay a small premium essentially for the manufacturer to agree not to install crap. You might (or might not) get the same from the manufacturer if you buy a “business” laptop. But it all cases, it’s the manufacturer installing whatever crap comes on your PC.
I mean, convenience has a cost/value. Moseying to your local retailer and walking out with a thing has value. Now, whether that's ~$194 of value, IDK.

But like the original commenter, the thing I love about Best Buy (and other mortar and brick retailers) is the "I dont have to wait on shipping and lost orders" thing.
Interesting. We ordered one from Amazon, I think a 50inch, and it was put on our front doorstep in the tv box. It was undamaged thankfully, but it looked like a normal Fedex(or w/e) driver, not a special delivery at all.
Oddly, I've had the opposite experience (in Canada): the online price would be the same as on Amazon. I wanted it now, so I went to the store (even though I hate driving to the suburbs/shopping mall), only to see that the item was 10% cheaper in the store.

(we always pay taxes for online purchases, so taxes are a non-issue)
Let them go, we don't need them. Even though I don't really believe in the parent comment, I do not believe that we should ever be afraid of anyone leaving if we make decisions that they don't like.

This way of thinking is the premise of many abusive relationships. If someone wants to leave, let them. Appeasement never helps.
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being that this is hn, the expression "class of errors" verges on being a thought terminating cliche.
By and large, you are correct. I think it's just a human condition that if you make 10x what the poverty line is you are also 10x unable to sympathize or empathize with those making less.

It's very easy to feel like a rational human when you have everything you need and more. It's too easy to blame the poor for making bad decisions. They are operating under an entirely different logic system and reality is bent in ways the upper 20% cannot fathom unless they've been there.

It's especially galling when success in this country is increasingly tied to a birth lottery that the winners justify the system with such disregard to the unfortunate.
Same thing here. It doesn't seem to be Amazon as much as USPS thing. It is a game of pretend. I had once UPS guy do this few times, but I called Amazon and then UPS to complain.

In reality, most of the time I don't care when exactly it will arrive, but for that one thing I do, it always is day late :).
After getting multiple counterfeits from Amazon (including Ships/Sold from Amazon.com) due to the inventory commingling, if Best Buy stocks it, I'll go there instead.
Not necessarily. If the owners of the tech and the robber barons are the same people, that is a concern.
The Cultural Revolution and the rise of Soviet Russia resulted in widespread famine leading to the deaths of tens of millions of people in each country.

It turns out that just handing the reins of power to an untrained and inexpert proletariat is not a good strategy.
Everything is wrong with reading your slides. Really...don't do it. In fact, your slides shouldn't have much text at all, because it's a distraction from where your audience should be placing their attention: You.

Ideally, you should never need to look at your slides while giving a talk. Every time you turn away from your audience, you lose a little of their attention.
For certain and specific definitions of "broken code".
That's technically correct (the best kind of correct!), but I think it's a misleading thing to state. The reason all objects eventually become spherical is because they eventually disintegrate into the nearest significant source of gravity, which will itself be a sphere. It's not as if, hypothetically speaking, an immortal human being floating through space without orbit would eventually morph into a sphere under the pressure of its own gravity. Rather any object is naturally going to decompose into parts which will be spherical or adjoined with an already spherical object.

Even if the conjecture that sufficiently high entropy causes quantum physical effects to dominate macro-physical spacetime is correct, long before that happens there won't be any objects left which aren't already spherical.
The value that convenience has in our society can scarcely be overstated. (I agree with you)
Similar to a lot of people in this topic, I recently visited a Best Buy for the first time in years, and was impressed with the new interior and layout.

I ended up leaving and buying what I needed on Amazon though. I had limited time in the store and didn't feel knowledgeable enough to choose between a handful of products, so I went home to do some research before ordering.

I wonder if Best Buy would benefit from a lounge, where you can sit down in peace, read product reviews, and browse online to make an informed purchase. Or maybe they could have tablets on stands next to groups of products with reviews. For example, you go to the printer section, and there's a tablet that shows all the printers and their user reviews. Then you can quickly compare options, sort by price, and see what printers are best reviewed.

Sometimes I try to check reviews in a store with my phone, but I usually feel out of place standing in an aisle for 15 minutes looking at my phone. So, it would be cool if they had a place where you could actually sit down for a while to educate yourself and make a decision.
I live in BC and work for an organization that regularly responds to maydays. These things happen all the time. It is rare for so many deaths to be involved, but I hear the story of a small boat suddenly overturning on a weekly basis. The BC coast is littered with islands that make waves do strange things. We aren't Alaska, but the water is still cold and help is always far away. There are airforce helicopters in Comox and Victoria, but they are at least an hour away from most of the BC coast.

Don't go out in a small boat unless you are ready to fall off that boat. Either put on an immersion suit (the big yellow drysuits used by the fast whale watching boats) or make sure you have and know how to use a 6/10-man inflatable raft. Even then, take a plunge. Go to a polar bear swim (new years day in canada) and get a feel for real ocean water. And learn to swim. Not splashing around in your neighbour's pool. Imho if you cannot do a hundred meters in a lap pool you shouldn't be in any small boat. In rough seas that 10-15 feet to the raft, and then hauling yourself into the raft, isn't easy. If you are in your 80s and want to see sea lions up close, get a big TV and download an Attenbourough documentary.
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/03/geek-squads-relationsh...

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/18/us/politics/charges-cia-b...

All you need into let one of these guys into your house and some child porn magically ends up on your hard drive.

I'd pay a local IT a bit more knowing that I am supporting a local business while at the same time not supporting corporate Orwellian culture(TM).
What part is more complicated? Ie, is it the editing process is imprecise? Perhaps the editing process is like using sed (as mentioned by other people)?

In simple terms, at least.
Total or innocents?
Right, they are talking about roughly the same discoveries but some include 2 more: https://astronomy.stackexchange.com/questions/26999/did-we-d...
Speaking as a biologist. Among my colleagues, it is still very controversial.

It should be noted that "controversial" scientifically means something different than in the general public. What I mean is that we see and believe the current observations but are still waiting to fully understand the extent and reproducibility.
Here in the UK amazon offers next day delivery (and in same cases, same day delivery), and often delivers next day even when they don't claim they will.

The U.S. has next day and same-day delivery from Amazon, as well. It also has two-hour delivery in most cities.

But not every item is available in every delivery window. And not all delivery windows are available in all locations.

One of the advantages of living in a small country like the U.K. is that it's much easier to cover the whole territory. (U.S. is 40x larger than U.K., with 1/8th the density.)

Even though it's habitual for euro-HNers to compare themselves to the U.S., it's more often than not meaningless.