skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What about the contrarian view that the Pax Americana has brought the greatest era of peace, wealth and standard of living to the world?

Our forefathers paid a higher price.

Security and liberty are not without costs.
Most of those types of restaurants are just feeding you cheap, deep fried, slop. If I got to a special occasion restaurant invariably the meals will be small. I'm usually paying for the location, the reputation of the chef and their team, and the presentation of the food. If I wanted deep fried filler I have a skillet and freezer full of that at home.

As an expat dining in the US is stupidly expensive. I've had 3-course lunches at french restaurants that didn't cost more than $20. I consider myself lucky if I can eke $30/pp at the local wingery after food, drinks, taxes, and gratuity.
Whats the canonical way to deduce the types in Rust from JSON? JSON Schemas?
I think that's a little harsh - at least here in the UK the word restaurant conjures up an idea of a more expensive establishment, likely with tablecloths and wine involved, and possibly French. It's not difficult to see the humour in the juxtaposition of that image with the reality of McDonald's. I've nothing against McDonald's btw, and eat there from time to time.
What was the vehicle by which US gov't 'required raising affordability of homes'?
You did a great job nailing the fiscal loss associated with going to Walmart - but with those aside, I would gladly pay $5 to not have to show face at Walmart.
I mostly meant upper management, where strategic and policy decisions are made; where the direction a company is going is determined.

Not that non-management is irrelevant. It's just less relevant. Because what is OK or not OK is ultimately decided at the very top.

For example, in the not-so-recent-past, Uber was rocked with scandals on a weekly basis. The first step to fix this was to find a new CEO.
My local pancake house will sometimes have 'all you can eat' which means a modest serving with the option to order additional food at the same cost. Of course I never need any more, and that way no waste! And the same perceived value or better. Probably a much better solution.
Website to write last will (with monthly reset link)
The branding is "right sizing". It doesn't seem to have gained a lot of traction however.
The majority -- perhaps the vast majority -- of headge funds are long/short funds.

In the canonical example, if they think that Pepsi will perform well because of some new health products, then they will go long Pepsi and short Coke. The idea is that all the other events they haven't looked at: a crash, currency shifts, people decide sugar is bad for you, NYC soda ban etc will hit both companies equally hard. The only thing they want to bet on is their single hypothesis.

They can't always do this cleanly, but to the extent they can, they diminish some of the risk around the correlation of asset classes.
Requiring a timing attack and having throttling on any such endpoints raises the bar quite a bit by itself.

As to preventing timing attacks you can add a delay to give a uniform response time.
I also use camelcamelcamel to sanity check my recurring purchases.

For example, the range for my preferred elderberry syrup is from $20 to $45.

https://camelcamelcamel.com/Dr-Dünner-Sambu-Elderberry-Elder...

I waited the price to drop back down and then restocked.

YMMV
Same in the Netherlands, we have Amazon, sorta-kinda, but there's barely anything on it without expensive multi-week international shipping... literally never heard of anyone using it. And there's absolutely nobody who talks about wanting it, either.

That's not because we don't find it useful, we just have local alternatives.
But does this get you any savings? To lure people back to restaurants (which McD's is, barely) there has to be some novel marketing
Typically the poor don’t cook at home, they subsist on very cheap junk food available at gas stations and similar. Cooking takes time, some skill, and access to raw ingredients. This is very hard if you’re overworked and live in a food desert.
There's data that disputes the couple of hundred million to break even story.

Source: https://www.hedgeweek.com/2017/07/11/253832/emerging-hedge-f...

“The key finding of the survey is that these managers can be profitable at a small size. One third of managers surveyed said they were profitable with less than USD50 million. We therefore dispute the claim that you need USD200 million or more to break even. We think there is tight evidence that you can do it at a lower AUM number,” asserts Capstick.

Breaking it down by strategy, the survey found that global macro funds need the most assets to break even: USD132 million, followed by event-driven (USD108 million) and multi-strategy funds (USD98 million).
> I'd be more worried that the company could go completely closed source at any point.

Which company? I'm talking about developers who default to some license and then continue dev'ing.

Those devs can just as easily go closed source at any point with a 3-clause BSD license. In fact that is more likely as anybody can take 3-clause BSD licensed software and make it proprietary.
True (and one can't add it, as the license procludes doing so), but in my experience working for a company that distributed most of its software under the A/LGPL licenses to paying customers only, they aren't really interested in doing that. We never had one of our modules being publicly distributed by a third-party.
Maybe some sort of one use creditcard numbers should be used so that if hackers steal them they're worthless, and have a centralized service for providing those one use generated numbers...
I've been using prime since 2010. At first, it was incredible. 2 days, every time, no matter what.

Now it's almost always 3 days because they do the "USPS last mile" bullshit. It never makes it early enough on day 2 to make it on the mail truck for that day. I've complained about this and still the same thing. Before I'd get a free month with a quick chat. Not anymore. Now I get a half-assed apology and have to pull teeth for any sort of compensation.

I don't care about next day. Some people get lucky and say "sometimes it's 1 day!" I don't care. I want 2 day shipping. I want to know when it will arrive and that it will arrive at that time. And it's too inconsistent now for me to rely on.

I've since cancelled my membership - only a few more months now to go.
> Has there been any allegation against Rice University professor? So you are willing to undermine every professor out there due to one encounter of yours, but you are willing to trust the government all too quickly

All I am stating is that I trust technical details not the person. It can be the CTO, CEO, Professor or any Tom, Dick or Harry including the Government of India. I don't care about anyone's "words" but the fine print. As far as Professors are concerned, it is my experience and hence also adds to my reasoning. You can't stop me from deducing based on my reasoning can you?

As far as Government goes, I don't say I "trust" the Government. I support the policy decisions of the Government because it aligns with my wishes too. If it wavers or does something contrary to my wishes I'll stop supporting it. It's as simple as that. There is no need to conflate this any further than what it actually is. If tomorrow, the Government is indeed found to be complicit in handling of Aadhaar biometrics you can safely assume that i'll actively stop supporting it.

> On top, you dole out 'fake news' moniker generously too

Okay let's forget the contents of the letter. Can you at least show me one piece of article or something that confirms that the Supreme Court judges are in receipt of this letter? It's not just written to the CJI but also to 10 other Judges of the Supreme Court including one who recently came out stating he is not in favour of the Government: Justice J Chelameswar. At least one of them can confirm receipt of this letter. Right?

As far as official documents are concerned, they always have a seal accompanying them with an official signature. Which document in that letter has this basic requirement? The only document that looks official is a screenshot of email communication between the UIDAI team. That email communication also has nothing incriminating.

> Also, the plagiarism example: Guy had already obtained his Ph.D from a UK university, and the said Ph.D. was not obtained on basis of that plagiarised paper. Pretty big allegations you have been levelling on basis of something that you are not even comprehending correctly.

No his Ph.D thesis was also found to be plagiarised. In fact, that was what resulted in his transfer (and I came to know just now that he was also removed from holding any Governmental positions. That is why he is now appointed as a Vice Chancellor of a private university). I just took a look at the article again and the links that lead to the newspaper article which mentioned that are unfortunately dead. If I find a copy of that i'll surely put up the link to it. It still doesn't take away from my fact that a professor, a Director of a premier institute no less, plagiarised papers. This coupled with many other instances I have experienced force me to not trust their words. A lot of prominent professors in Academia always publish their papers. No one says "take me for my word". If the "words" of professors were all that was necessary you wouldn't need publishing and peer reviews.
Low vol and rate environment is the primary cause which kinda drives your first two points. Investors aren't allocating as much to alts and what they are is shifting more to PE. PE did well over the last crisis because of long lockups and mark to model vs mark to market. Any hedge fund that invests in public securities doesn't have that luxury to tread water.

As far as your first point goes, I don't think investors are getting more savvy but they are under pressure due to bad performance and high fees associated with some of the funds they invested in. Generic long/short equity funds are more or less able to replicate in-house and some are trying out ETFs to sub for other strategies but none of these have the same return profile as the actual strategies.
BlackIoT: IoT Botnet of High Wattage Devices Can Disrupt the Power Grid
Performance, Java, Kotlin, C++
The most frustrating experience I've had is attempting to buy anything that has add-ons or ancillary parts sold separately?

Want a phone? Here's 300 phone cases, which have the word 'phone' and are much cheaper! Want a left-angle USB to straight microUSB cord? Here's straight USB to left-turn micro, because those words are the same. And here are some right-angle options because most of the words are the same!

I understand that Amazon isn't indexing 100% of their items by hand, but the combination of no support for sophisticated search features and the failure to index even very popular product classes makes certain products essentially hopeless to buy.
Check out [1] and [2].

[1] https://github.com/xerial/sqlite-jdbc
[2] http://www.h2database.com/
It seems they're not replacing the quicklime, but the gravel. The left column is confusing, the right column is better.

> A rock particle is coated with our synthetic limestone, forming a carbon-sequestering coating that is 44% by mass CO2.

That's where the CO2 goes, not in curing the CaO
What would people do if they would earn a basic income?
I see a lot of talk here about what we could have done with the money instead, which is fine. It's good to be able to reason about your mistakes and missteps.

My question is, now that we're here, what do we do now? Pulling out of Iraq and Afghanistan seems, irresponsible to say the least. Certainly surrending the whole country of Afghanistan back to the Taliban would be an incredible blemish, and no citizen of another nation would ever risk their lives to help a nation who so callously discarded those who did the same.

And certainly abandoning the Kurds in Iraq would be another tragedy, as well as opening up that nation to another horrific power vacuum situation.

And that's the lower bound of what we could do. We could unilaterally pull out our forces from all over the world, abandoning our commitments to the incredibly succesful NATO and to other allies including Israel, Japan, and S. Korea.

I'm not a big fan of prolonged war. I think Afghanistan was more justified than the incredible shit show that was Iraq. I think the Taliban and Isis and Assad (where the US gets criticized both for not doing enough and doing too much) and Hussein are horrific people and entities.

But these articles, while important for highlighting the incredible drain on national treasure we've subjected ourselves to seem to me to avoid very important questions about where to go from here and instead just assign a number to matters of geopolitics which affect billions of lives the world over.

Of course, as geopolitics is such an incredibly vast and complicated topic perhaps that is beyond the scope of these stories.

Still... where do we go from here?
You’re forgetting that the fact that many ignored the law and their own banks policies, driven internally to give out more loans (to anyone, not just the poor), and then mislabeled the risk when repackaging and selling these to others.

https://www.housingwire.com/articles/46335-wells-fargo-to-pa...

I’d recommend watching this bbc documentary that gives a wider perspective on “risk”: https://topdocumentaryfilms.com/all-watched-over-by-machines...
How I Tricked Myself into Shipping Too Late
Yes and ebays search actually at least trys to help you find what you're after.

Amazons just seems like an intentional labyrinth to keep you wandering. These days it seems like even the most specific queries just dump a ton of unrelated randomness and nothing of any use.
This implementation has no value to potential attackers. Anything it could -if it could- help you with, you can already do without it.
Thank you for posting this - the link is very interesting.
It's also a matter of degree vs kind. It's easy to say that Google is collecting too much data, but the basic premise of personalizing searches and selling ads is relatively unobjectionable to most people.

Once you've accepted that selling counterfeit goods and other broadly anti-competitive practices are A-OK and part of your core business model, you've crossed a line where it's no longer really a matter of simply doing "less" of it.
You do realize we spend $1,500M ($1.5 billion) on Medicare a day, yes?
I created an account for a 401k vendor that our company recently switched to. During the registration process I used a password manager to generate a 14 digit random password.

Imagine my surprise when I went to login to the newly created account only to find out that the login screen enforced a character limit of 8 characters (both with a textfield attribute and js). This limitation was not enforced during registration!

I had to edit the page in developer tools so I could actually paste my full password to login. The limitation was purely client side.
I think we’re past that point. We can and should raise taxes, but reductions in expenditures is going to have to be on the table too.

Our expensive wars come to mind.
As far as I know, the Swedish just order from Amazon.co.uk, if they can't get something from their Webhallen thingie.
25 lessons learnt from 2.5 years of scaling a FB Community to 9000 members
You can use them after a couple of seconds as they stream into the phone in the background.
Drug laws can be selectively enforced to give criminal records to people of color. Then the state can refuse to give people with criminal records the right to vote. There's no immediate gain for a politician to reform these laws (the people affected can't or don't vote), the other legal drugs already have huge lobbies to pay the politician, and the law and order crowd has a sizeable popularity that is hard to budge with any sort of non punitive solution until it affects them directly and personally.
I for one, would love a little chart that shows the power spectrum as well as a black line representing ideal black body output next to the CRI rating. I'm sure a graphic designer can make this prettier (and I think we only care to show the part in the visible spectrum for lights no?). This would show whatever weird spikes or valleys the output might have.

* https://www.newport.com/medias/sys_master/images/images/h5e/...
Something I have been experimenting with what I call "persistent snippets", over frustration with boilerplate. Basically when inserting a snippet into an editor it leaves behind a magic comment, that lists the parameters of the snippet, and wraps the snippet code in a //#region to enable folding in editors and languages that support that.

e.g.:

import {insertSnippet} from "polish-and-release-this-someday"
import {mstBoilerplate} from "./some-local-snippet-store"

insertSnippet(mstBoilerplate, {name : "XCardModel"})
//#region mstBoilerplate 20180911
export interface XCardModelInstance extends Instance<typeof XCardModelImpl> {}
export interface XCardModelCreation extends TypeHelp.Id<typeof XCardModelImpl["CreationType"]> {}
export interface XCardModelSnapshot extends TypeHelp.Id<typeof XCardModelImpl["SnapshotType"]> {}
export interface XCardModel extends TypeHelp.Id<typeof XCardModelImpl> {
Type: XCardModelInstance
CreationType: XCardModelCreation
SnapshotType: XCardModelSnapshot
}
export const XCardModel: XCardModel = XCardModelImpl
//#endregion mstBoilerplate 20180911

This means a simple editor extension and very simple command-line tools can be written to expand / refresh the "insertSnippet" lines as needed. mstBoilerplate, basically is a template literal string in typescript / javascript land but you can use whatever makes sense for your language. So this is useful for language that don't want to / can't support macros natively. You end up getting a lot of the boilerplate reduction power, and everything just works.

I feel for a lot of cases this works better than macros, the expanded code is checked into version control so there is nothing hidden going on, debugging works, if the code ends up needing to be specialized a bit, it's pretty easy to erase the insertSnippet line / comment lines and start modifying.
Wouldn't amazon just use the Swedish post office like they use the USPS in the US?
British Airways site had credit card skimming code injected
UN chief: World must prevent runaway climate change by 2020
How many employees in the restaurant industry get health insurance? There are many millions of waiters, cooks, busboys, greeters, etc... that get paid minimum wage with no benefits.
The descriptions are nice but unfortunately the sRGB gamut won't do a book like this justice.

Hopefully monitors will improve - I'm sure if you got used to a full gamut screen, it would be as hard to go back as it is to go back to a 640x480 resolution screen today. Maybe people will make retro sRGB games! ;)

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cie_Chart_with_sRGB_...
Author here. Happy to answer any questions about the post.
Is the scanning of boarding passes really the thing that slows down boarding? They rarely pause between groups because of a line of people getting scanned. It's more often that the line of people waiting to get onto the plane has stretched too far down the jetbridge.
Edge on cooling from nanostructure beats physical limit
Ah yeah. It's tricky, but it also doesn't require unsafe: https://play.rust-lang.org/?gist=e261ed324a022ac82bb88adcee1...

I'm sure there's a package that makes this easy, but this took me about ten minutes to toss together from scratch.
not only that but the latest iPhone event has been delayed by one day. Thanks a lot terrorists...
I noticed the price disparity this week as well. Suddenly Walmart is meaningfully less expensive. The math no longer makes sense for Amazon Prime in my case.
> Troy's stance makes me uneasy. I'm sure publicly shaming these companies is effective, but where does the line get drawn?

Troy's use of the word "shaming" makes me uneasy, because that's not what he is doing. To shame is to dishonor or make ashamed. He isn't dishonoring anyone by having a conversation with them in a public forum. The companies and their employees are dishonoring themselves when they fail to address complaints and continue to speak out of ignorance.

There is a marked difference between Troy and 45: Troy is speaking directly to these companies. That the conversation occurs in a public forum is of no consequence; the companies willingly entered the forum for that very reason, and there is nothing private about the conversation to be had.

On the other hand, 45 does not shame companies by engaging them directly; he shames them by denouncing them to the public. He has no interest in having a conversation, and so never speaks to them, only about them. This allows him to conveniently sidestep any attempts to refute him, since there was never a debate in the first place.
I should clarify I'm not locked into Amazon. I'm just happy to have it as an option for shopping. I have used Wal Mart and Target when the prices made sense.
The loans of a bank are its product.
The forced loans to poor are just a lost leader product.
These loans will have negative profits and must be compensated by having loans that are profitable.
This is just a government wealth transfer program and at worst would cut into the profits of the banks.

If the banks were profitable leading up to the crash then its still the banks responsibility.
The government is allowed to force these rules because the banks are allowed to create money out of thin air.
Ajit Pai helped Charter kill consumer-protection rules in Minnesota
Just because it's an ID doesn't mean anything
If you're including treating veterans wouldn't you have ti average over the expected lifespans of those who served instead of the 17 years that have occurred so far?
Not everyone has the privilege of choosing where to live, or even the possibility of remote work. People go where they can find work, and this often forces someone away from their support network. The cost of having a national labor market is that you can't rely on locally available jobs to match the locally available labor force.

Some lucky person might get the local job that matches their skills, but the 10 other people looking for the same job will be forced to move.
Right, but we're still on the wrong side of the hill for now.
Out of curiosity, what use do you make of elderberry syrup?
640x480, 16 colours, Ring 0.
Show HN: ChainRelay – Smart Contract APIs for Hackers
Hey HN,

I'm Evan, one of the engineers working on ChainRelay. At a high level, ChainRelay is building out infrastructure for Ethereum apps, or any app that wants to get data from or send information to Ethereum smart contracts. There are lots of services that are being recreated at every company working on apps that leverage Ethereum. We are building ChainRelay to offer those same web services cheaply, at scale.

Our first product is a smart contract events API over HTTPS. There's a lot of rich data captured by smart contract events. For example, all ERC20 tokens emit a Transfer event that can be used to notify users of a change or, in aggregate, reveal interesting information about the flow of value across the Ethereum network.

Let me know what you think! We want to build services that are useful, so any feedback is appreciated.

Here's the blog post announcing the events API: https://medium.com/chainrelay/chainrelay-events-api-a306ba07...

A link to the docs: https://docs.chainrelay.com/
With this headline, I immediately thought of Zero's termite speech in Virtue's Last Reward (spoiler if you want to play this visual novel/game):

> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yk3PpRVshtY

(EDIT: Video with better audio quality, but unluckily annoying comments:

> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0R_U3S1JUE&t=503
But the end price often ends up higher than the fancy restaurant across the street.
Because Capitalism historically always evolves into monopolies and crony deviations? Along the way it also typically subverts and destroys democracy.