skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Beware, don't trust anyone in this digital age. Troy was pushing third-party APIs, Cloudflare and 1Password into Firefox code.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17395342
Some people who don't fit in are labeled for sure, but other people are definitely ill.

A middle class teenager expected to focus on math and prepare for a desk job is inappropriately diagnosed with something, when they might have been a tallented athlete.

A clever, responsible man with a comfortable life suddenly hears voices that tell him his lifelong friends are poisoning him, and is incapable of seeing that this is a delusion, so he kills them.

The first doesn't preclude the other, and I don't think the second one is merely 'behaviors that don't fit the current societal norms'.

Sometimes brains go wrong. If you don't believe me, take a bunch of acid.
This reminds me of Jewish Problems[0], designed to "prevent Jews and other undesirables from getting a passing grade" at the entrance exams to the math department of Moscow State University.

[0] https://arxiv.org/abs/1110.1556
Walmart has peddled low price leader for a long time

They have always had lower prices than Target and the rest

Walmart being Walmart doesn’t really sell the idea Amazon is overpriced

Walmart has done plenty of damage to small business with their position and is hardly worthy of props or preferential treatment

But I guess if one can save $13-15 a year
Just to be clear, you're serious right? Because yes, the Wii U has a browser, it hasn't been updated (because the Wii U is basically abandoned at this point) and it never did trust DST Root CA X3, which is the root via which trust to Let's Encrypt was bootstrapped in older browsers. Don't happen to have links for any of those tweets do you? I'd be happy to have an actual example of a user who ran into this for real (nobody can fix it, but it's good to be reminded they exist)
interesting that “teasers” are viewed as callous and abusive and yet analytical problem solving is viewed as predictive. fine line.
So, there's a hidden value to these sorts of questions, but it is useful to the interviewee, not the interviewer. If they use lots of these questions, you probably don't want to work there, or at least not for the person who's asking those questions.
I find it really hard to believe $30 billion is all it would take to solve poverty world-wide.

I don't even see how $30 billion could solve poverty in the U.S. Think about it, if that was true, what the hell are we wasting all the this money on social services? Apparently all it would take is $30 billion. We spend almost a trillion a year in social services, and yet you think another $30 billion is all it would take to solve poverty?
Yeah, all these people acting like Amazon is just some giant company that didn't earn its size due to customer service and convenience are just ridiculous.

Amazon entering a market is a huge deal and a net good for the consumer. I live in a city and between Amazon Prime, Amazon Fresh (I never have to go grocery shopping anymore), and Amazon Restaurants, Amazon is quickly becoming the only place I need to do all my shopping. All of this for a low price. They even have Wal-Mart looking at offering same to 2-day shipping.

It's ridiculous to say Amazon isn't some net good for a market.
Video game developer Riot takes stand about sexism
I thought that was for airplane tickets?
I don't think money is a nessesary ingredient of captialism (though it is immensely helpful). Money also exists in most forms of communism. Capitalism is more about private ownership of the means of productions, with different companies competing against each other on the market.

Monopolies run against the spirit of capitalism. Regulated markets on the other hand are fine as long as competition is ensured.
The confusion ends when randomized studies are done. If the effects are hard to measure, very small, or present over decades, the confusion will then end when a randomized study with a sufficiently large sample is done over decades.

Until then, it's just trying to approximate that using techniques highly sensitive to noise.
e.g. Cottage industries that 'monetize' everything.
Trump tells Apple to build more US plants in response to tariffs
Perjury then?

https://www.businessinsider.com/goldman-sachs-lied-2011-5
Yes. But whatever, they're still cooling towers. No CO2 comes from there, just water vapor. But many, I suspect, think that they're squat smokestacks.
> Those Icelandic villages are small-scale governments.

No, they aren't. They are arrangements of mutual cooperation that are voluntary on the part of all parties. Nobody has the authority to force anyone else to participate. Nobody has the authority to make laws that everyone must obey on pain of punishment. Nobody has the authority to "not allow" someone else to do something.
When I was a front-end supervisor at a market in high school, about 10% of the cashiers hit that. IIRC, they got a $0.15/hr bonus.

If you scanned less than 20/minute you had about a month to get to 30 before you were either canned or lost hours.
No. It's an incentive to change the corporate structure.

Sorry, but it's simply not that simple.
The problem, as you might guess, is that it's not as simple as building new plants in the US. It's not just the cost of the workers, it's the flexibility of that worker pool and access to resources.
Lincoln Labs is an R&D facility dedicated to military technology. It doesn't really make sense to compare their funding composition to facilities without similar purpose.
Do you know off hand if the toy copter cos are looking to take advantage of the affordability of this kind of tech, or are thry just too old fashioned to care?
Has anyone tried out jet.com? It seemed like they had a very big marketing campaign a few years back, but never gained steam. Never ordered anything, but their ui is pretty nice. Also not sure if they sell everything directly or it is coming from different sellers.
Americans (even some center-left ones) hate the idea of directly supporting anything, so cheap loans were used as a substitute for directly operating and funding public colleges. Same with housing.

Directly supporting people is "socialism," a handout, and is seen as supporting laziness and vice. A loan must be paid back, which allows many Americans to view it as something encouraging responsibility and virtue. It all comes down to the puritan work ethic.

The problem is that government backed loans are just an indirect way of giving welfare, and a monstrously perverse and inefficient way to boot. It drives price inflation which gets captured by the vendors of the products/services in question (existing home owners, builders, universities, etc.) instead of those you're trying to help and it creates debt bubbles that represent a danger to the overall health of the economy.

Overall it's probably worse than doing nothing due to the price inflation it generates. Housing was reasonable across much of the USA prior to the 'oughts. The housing bubble destroyed home affordability, an effect which as I said persists to this day.
There's also a parallel universe where Tech Entrepreneur#2 sits in darkness for a few months while building a competing product with Rails or another comparable stack and gets everything up and running 10x faster on a single server and it ends up costing less per month.
discussed in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17927972
No, I just list them and I do not send any follow-up message. Many do find out immediately though, because others tell them about it. I seem to get a lot of referral traffic from LinkedIn after doing updates, so I guess someone is posting about it over there.

I had someone well known in the local tech community call it "The most unprofessional thing I have ever seen" but later he was using it as a sales tool to persuade one of the companies listed to hire him to upgrade their site. I don't condone this but once the info is public I can't control what people do with it.
Undergrad students are limited to $31k or $57.5k in federal loans (including only $23k of subsidized loans) depending on whether they are a dependent or not. [1] That is still not enough for many students to attend their college of choice.

I will admit I chose the wrong word in my prior comment when I said guaranteed since that has a very specific meaning in this context. I was using that phrase more colloquially because there are other ways that the government protects the lender beyond a literal guarantee. For example, student loan debt cannot be discharged in a bankruptcy like mortgages, medical debt, or credit card debt. This was done because a private lender is normally heavily disincentivized from loaning money to someone with no credit history, no collateral, no income, and no expectation to start making payments on the loan for years.

[1] - https://studentaid.ed.gov/sa/types/loans/subsidized-unsubsid...
If you compare their quarter from this year to last year their COGS as % of revenue it is about the same. Its close to WMT, TGT, etc.

Their retail business is like most other retail businesses.
It is a crazy contradiction. And as long as there's someone to blame for the lack of results it's an excuse to keep persisting.

The low number of U.S. causalities keep outrage to a minimum. Lots of people probably don't even know someone who's been wounded in combat, let alone killed.

The monetary cost is just invisible, it's not like a lot of citizens are really tracking the budget. Those who don't, but claim to care about the national debt will usually go after social programs first because the idea of welfare queens and people they just don't like using social programs is magnified into a serious huge problem that if we could just solve that we could afford everything else easily...

It's the equivalent of screaming about someone dropping a penny but lighting a %100 bill on fire to get everyone's attention for the tirade.

And while many U.S. citizens know the U.S. has a large and powerful military I don't think they really have the idea of the scale it really is compared to the rest of the world. At which point I like to point out that there's 20 active aircraft carriers in the world, the U.S. operates 10. We also operate 10 escort carriers that are smaller, but still larger than half the other aircraft carriers operated by other countries. Just as a single example. And it's not like we've just run amok only with aircraft carriers.
The way I understood it (by way of the paper's gold panning illustration) is that with a progressive tax system based on total aggregate income (i.e. you don't distinguish rent income from non-rent income), high marginal tax rates result in a multitude of rent-seekers each collecting a fraction of the total available rents. This is so because as their income for the year accumulates and their marginal tax rate increases, the tax rate overcomes the collection effort required. Once they've maximized their income they rest for the remainder of the year. If they're not collecting rents that means someone else can. The market in rent-seeking supports a larger number of rent-seekers, which diminishes the base of people doing productive work.

By contrast, imagine if all the rents went to a single rent-seeker. In that situation only one individual is doing unproductive work instead of many. Assuming that the rents were going to be collected regardless, then we're better off if there's only one individual pursing that unproductive activity than many.

How do you ensure there's only one rent-seeker? By creating conditions that favor someone monopolizing the rent-seeking market. You can do so by taxing high income earners less than you might otherwise, preserving the incentive for a single rent-seeker to collect all the rents. The lone rent-seeker is taxed less, but that's okay because he's keeping everybody else out of the rent-seeking market. Taxes on other high-income earners is less but that's okay, too, because they're doing productive activity--generating wealth and thus more taxable surplus--and now there's more of them.

Like the Laffer Curve the devil is in the details.[1] But it's an interesting point.

[1] I don't mean to impugn the paper by comparing it with the Laffer Curve and the toxic political economics surrounding it. I just mean to say that the quantitative values matter.
Should You Get an AI Nanny for Your Child?
Yup. Here's a few Go lines to serve a dir over http via an onion service: https://github.com/cretz/bine#example. Takes a few seconds to setup the service or even less if you set the option to use v3 onion services. Client auth can be configured and it's part of the protocol. Fire it up and serve your at-home photo catalog and view it via something like Orfox on your mobile device.
Combat adware by stuffing your pages with crypto note miners duh https://git.habd.as/comfusion/webminerpool
Maybe you aren't crazy and the world is crazy. There's lots of other good advice in the thread, but sometimes I feel like we box ourselves into roles and ways of thinking that are just incompatible with what we really might need.

Ultimately, though, I hope you find peace and stability.
Taxes and tax incentives.
> ops will never be automated away; it can only be transmuted to a different form

Precisely, and the promise of FaaS is that it can become a black box you don't care anything about, and bundled into the markup you're paying on CPU, memory and network.

So far in real life it looks more like Ops is very much involved whenever you update a function or -- gods help you -- actually have to debug something in production. As long as this is the case it's a broken model, because as soon as you pull your Ops Ninja away from some other task you're right back in the bad old world of unpredictable costs.

My sense (as a relative newbie) is that the providers know this and are slowly trying to make stuff easier and more flexible -- and more predictable -- to deploy. Amazon Elastic Container Service being one example.

The catch is that the more standard it is, the less lock-in there is, and so far my experience with AWS suggests that lock-in is a major part of their strategy.
This is fact, so I'm curious why it's being downvoted.

>Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.

Did I maybe miss a supreme Court case where that bit of it was neutered?
use the comment section in hacker news to add all the stupid things back ... seems to be the perfect place
Theoretically yes. However history has proven that's no trivial feat. It can take decades and often requires a huge shift in the way people use technology too.
Separating the sound from the noise in hot plasma fusion
In the future, before asking for sources, please tell people your whitelist of valid sources.

Otherwise, you're just rudely wasting people's time.
And open source knowledge!
USA spends more combined on welfare than on war per year, so then why isn't poverty solved yet?
I think we probably could have figured out a way to give MIT $1 billion/year without going to war for $1.5 trillion. Like maybe not going to war and instead spending that money on research.
That's a pretty narrow viewpoint, and the military spending could be spun equally disingeniously:

"The $900M goes to vocational training, employment, and cutting-edge equipment for a large slice of physically-fit working age Americans. The $1500M predominantly goes to squeezing an additional 6 months of life expectancy out of retirees and the disabled."

So which of those is really adding more value to the nation?
How so? What evidence do you have that the US is better off than it would have been by continuing along the lines of e.g. Canada?
From one perspective types and methods aren't universal, but data is, because once information arrives over the wire you aren't even initially sure if it is what you think it is.

However, when backend and frontend code exists in the same context for analysis, aren't there enough certainties to know the space of possibilities for what you're going to receive? How much uncertainty precludes the useful sharing of types and methods?
Wooooooo! Congratulations OpenSSL Team and all contributors! Now that this is released, I hope it will be able to appear in RHEL 9 and Debian 10.
In order for non-biological CO2 capture to be workable, we'll need to ramp up energy production maybe 5-10 fold. Without releasing substantially more CO2. Covering the Sahara and US Southwest with PV (and wind farms, where appropriate) might make the nut. But if we manage to dig too huge a climate change hole, we'll likely need more like 20-100 fold more energy. Maybe fusion, or massive orbital solar arrays.
How is that possible? Surely the volume of fossil fuels being burnt isn't remotely comprable to the volume of that forest.
Y'all just figuring this out now. Pfft
The UK was doing a full take of every packet in 2013, the US are definitely able to.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tempora

>The Guardian claims that no distinction is made in the gathering of data between public citizens and targeted suspects.
ITU IMT-2020, though I can't seem to find the actual text. Secondary sources:

https://news.itu.int/5g-update-new-itu-standards-network-sof...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5G
The one place where Walmart has Amazon crushed is a physical presence which drastically affects shipping.

Instead of having to buy Prime to get 2 day free shipping, I can just shop at Walmart and anything I buy gets delivered to a local Walmart 5 minutes away for free so I can pick it up. Most of the time it's 2-3 days (sometimes same day if they have it locally).

This bypasses the $25-35 minimum price rule for free shipping on Amazon which almost always takes 7-10 days and a huge chunk of items aren't eligible for this.

Before Amazon started screwing around with shipping times and prices I used to shop there a lot for common items but nowadays I use them as a last resort.

Even if you don't have a local Walmart they also offer free shipping on totals above $35 and often times their non-free shipping is reasonable.

For example $5 to have it shipped to your doorstep in 2 days instead of a local free pickup. Walmart can pull this off because they don't have a hidden agenda to push something like Prime on you.

On Amazon that same item will likely be $7-8 in shipping and takes 4-7 days to get there without Prime.
>In the nineteen-nineties, computer scientists began programming virtual termites that built “walls” via the principles of stigmergy. These virtual termites could build two-dimensional shapes, but they could not produce anything like the complex three-dimensional architecture of real termites.

Someday soon, I hope we'll achieve termite AI.
Tencent Open-Sources Its Massive Multi-Labeled Image Dataset
Here’s the blueprint for Erik Prince’s $5 billion plan to privatize the Afghanistan war
https://www.militarytimes.com/news/your-military/2018/09/05/...

That is a decently likely outcome. For-profit privatized outsourced permanent war, paid for presumably by exploiting the mineral wealth of Afghanistan.
Tokens are Eating the World
Well, usually if a lender encourages its underwriters to commit fraud and lend money to people who are not as likely to pay it back, the lender would go out of business.

Unless that lender happens to be a home mortgage issuer in the US, where you don't have to worry about that and the government bails you out.

So the structural problem is the continuous system of bailing out lenders, which means lenders don't need to spend money to do due diligence, and hence you end up with a "broken" system. But that doesn't absolve the individual people who are committing fraud and enabling it.
a modern RDBMS is largely in the systems layer since it's the glue used by other application.

Having a user interface doesn't really matter IMO, otherwise none of the usermode systems programming applications would be systems programming at all.

Perhaps it would help to add that user software applications generally aren't intended to be used by other applications. Your browser is such an application since it's primary interface is being directly used by the user. The output and state of a browser is not intended to be consumed by other applications running on the system, though it is capable of running code to supplement the output and state of a single website for the purpose of further user interfacing.

An RDBMS doesn't have such a thing, the user interface is largely what you use in the application, it's primary use case is gluing together applications like browsers or websites.
> they will go long Pepsi and short Coke.

Have correlations stayed same in pairs trading?
Polyscripting WordPress to eliminate Code Injection Attacks
They have a pretty aggressive policy of repricing in some markets. For instance in e-books, the most extreme cases, Amazon can straight give away a series' first volume to recoup on the sales on the following purchases. If I remember well in some cases the author or editor has no say on it and Amazon pays for the price difference.

I wouldn't be surprised if they can do the same on other retail goods as long as they pay for it.
OP's estimates are prices per year, which makes more sense. But $82 billion is only $11 per person per year; I find it hard to believe that this will be able to make a meaningful difference.
It wasn't just that Amazon was the cheapest in the market. It was that they built up a reputation over the years of being cheap and reliable. There was a long period where I would buy things from Amazon without considering other sources. That's gone now and they can't quickly get it back.

Forget about price. I can't even trust that I'll be getting a legitimate product anymore. When possible, I prefer to buy from a more trusted retailer now. For many products I'm willing to pay a premium to know I'm not buying something potentially fake and dangerous.

The only advantage Amazon has for me now is shipping and they've been fucking that up too. Their AMZL shipping service is garbage in my neighborhood. I've gotten lots of several packages reported as handed to resident, then when I contact customer service they reply that the delivery people decided not to deliver it and just marked it delivered anyway.

These issues haven't stopped me from using Amazon yet, but they add up over time and it'll be extremely difficult to build that trust back once it reaches a point where I stop using Amazon entirely.
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While I am not as vehement about it as you, I agree heartily with the underlying sentiment.
Discussion of the Y Combinator on news.ycombinator.com should not be derided.
The database is known by the general public to be compromised.

https://thewire.in/government/data-breach-aadhaar-details-gr...

The reason this article didn't mention it is because one of the authors is still in hot water with the police for trying to report on it.
https://nccih.nih.gov/health/euroelder

>Although some preliminary research indicates that elderberry may relieve flu symptoms, the evidence is not strong enough to support its use for this purpose.

You may want to find a new doctor.
My observation is that many geeks try to abstract away the complexity that they don't understand. Those proprietary tools start as a way to understand, but then become monsters onto themselves.

I flip back and forth between "working the big, working in the small" (paraphrasing Bill Joy). Sometimes closer to the metal is best. Other times I prefer the IDE with all its conveniences.

But I am the first to admit that sometimes I do get trapped by the IDE, distracted by fighting the tool instead of solving the real problem, and have to take a step back.

Said another way:

I only really object to IDEs and other tools of convenience when they hide the metal.

Like when you have the wrong mental model for a problem, and you're fighting the model, instead of finding a better model.
I use the German Amazon for pretty much all my online shopping. Everything's on there, free shipping included.