skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wow. So basically KitSplit tricks people into thinking they will cover your equipment if something happens to it but then doesn't at all.

That's super scummy. I think the author of this is way too nice to them. Take them to small claims court as others suggested. Having a loophole buried in the terms of service does not allow you to lie about your service.
That's MISTER Thaddeus Tribbleshits to you.
Well, there are a couple of different questions here. One is about resilience to physical shocks such as falling and mechanical stress, which could destroy the disc but won't do anything to the nanogratings. The other is about gradual, continuous decay processes — over a sufficiently long period of time, random thermal fluctuations will destroy any solid object, and analogous but larger-scale relaxation processes will destroy galaxies as well. Such processes could cause the nanogratings to decay long before the fused quartz itself evaporates.

The nanogratings do have a certain amount of built-in redundancy; they're holographic phenomena.
Only if gateway is up. I can't really control a mobile phone loaded with a corpotate OS (I guess this is the point the replies are trying to make), but I can significantly control a router loaded with an OS I edited, compiled and installed myself. I have found that I can reliably keep a mobile phone from getting access to the internet when it is relying on me provding the internet access.
Sorry but this sounds a little bit backward to me. Helping a friend in need or being altruistic is never a punishment. It's like refusing to donate money to some cause because what did I do to deserve that? Really an odd statement.
Not at all. A good insurance that gets you actually covered for more than tipping over in your shoelace is much more.

1 month:

https://ibb.co/fnq4d1v

Details:

https://ibb.co/PTrSFHx

https://ibb.co/cvyPvjW
Even assuming that the 10% number is the right one, it still seems good enough in my book if, in the beginning, only 90% of the expenses get addressed successfully.
> Are we? Wolfe has stated in interviews that

Doesn't matter what he said in interviews. The third book is full to the brim with with thin hints or outright "we knew you were special, so we were searching for you high and low".

> Severian only starts to draw a following once he becomes autarch

Re-read the entire attack on Baldanders' castle. "The people naturally follow me" and all that.

> Did you go on to read The Urth of the New Sun?

I didn't and after the Book of the New Sun I frankly don't want to touch anything by Wolfe :)

> a well-established literary genre that goes back many centuries (the picaresque).

"picaresque: relating to an episodic style of fiction dealing with the adventures of a rough and dishonest but appealing hero."

The main problem is that Severian is anything but appealing.
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Literally the last words in that endorsement: "[KitSplit is] taking this as an opportunity to reflect and improve their system."

That worked out well - I suspect they just covered their asses further, to the extent that they could do so without actually being clear about the risk renters are exposed to.
If you write KitSplit on Google and scroll a few lines, you see:
"How I Lent My $4,500 Camera Kit for $95 and Had It Stolen - PetaPixel"
That's a huge red flag. If I were you I would go full TrustPilot on these folks!
> I honestly don't know why people waste time building Electron apps.

Yes you do. Because some people understand UI design and know how to program in javascript/html/css and have a need to make a desktop app.

For example, a small budget indie startup has enough to make ONE version of their app to get funding. They can use JS with the same budget and launch on Web, PC, Mac, Linux, iOS and Android instead of just making a single Windows native app.

There is 100% a place for electron. You can argue that after funding they should convert to native, sure. But if you're reading HN you are definitely smart enough to know why a lot of us use electron :)

tldr; Smart use of electron is NOT for the end user. It's for the developer.
Yes, but we're already paying that and we're spending more than everyone else. [1] Universal healthcare isn't just morally justified, it's also financially justified. The only justifications for our insane system are regulatory capture or sadism.

1. https://www.healthsystemtracker.org/chart-collection/health-...
There is no such a thing as free healthcare. Somebody is going to pay in some form for every service provided in a professional setup.

If you disagree please explain how healthcare could be free.
So... you’ve just discovered what every CRM on the planet does and have done for the last 3 decades.

As someone working with CRM software (although not Salesforce), I’ll just say you’re welcome.
Salesforce is fine if you use it for its intended purpose like e-commerce. Just don't try to use it as an AWS replacement for an application platform just because "all your data will be in the same place". Everything is a tool, just pick the right one for the job.
This is not an excuse. A company making any effort to be legitimate should use one of the several identity verification services available in combination with any sort of nontrivial fraud detection, which should easily dissuade 99.9% of thieves. At 22% rental fees, the service can easily afford to cover theft that slips the net.

Given that KitSplit doesn't even disable the account of known thieves, it seems pretty clearly a case of malice (or, more accurately, greed, which in this case has the same net effect), not incompetence.
The pharma company is a standalone subsidiary, the insurance company is the only customer. The profits they keep go to the shareholders, bypassing the 85% rule.
I'm sorry is holding a differing opinion and discussing that in a civil manner such an issue for you that you feel compelled to step in and offer prescriptive advice? Long live the filter bubble I guess huh?
> Mere assertion that their perspectives are relevant

Is it your reading comprehension that's lacking, or just your integrity? I said perspective is relevant. I didn't say their perspective.
Nothing, but GoFundMe isn't an obligation, it's an ask.
I think property with a title is handled differently, which makes sense. Also, in this case, the car was simply reported as stolen and got pulled over in a public space - it's not like they hunted down an allegedly delinquent renter. Fortunately the rental company had to pay damages for their incompetence.

I'm actually curious as to what happens in the cases of delinquent renters - but I assume it involves things like court orders, or perhaps they just try to find the car and tow it away under existing repo laws, then send the account to collections.
A donation isnt an obligation. If you're willing give then by all means do so, if not then it's not a big deal and if your friend gives you trouble for it then tell her off.

I see your discomfort with her making a GoFundMe the same as you view her not trying to negotiate the price down. When you're comfortable setting boundaries a lot of the discomfort in life goes away and things like trying to negotiate with someone or being uncomfortable with friends looking for (perhaps unnecessary) help on a bill become things you can handle
She wouldn’t take the bill as far it is concerned legally (as far as I know and dealt with medical bills myself).

She might get mails and phone calls but the collection agency will not go after her assets, well unless her dad has assets in the USA.

The story lacks some details but if she contact the hospital and negotiate based on that, they would likely reduce the bill. Is this moral or not that’s another question, but I agree that she had few options before asking people for money early on. Specially when making 200k.
"The ER bill was about $50k and she decided that the best way to pay it was by creating a GoFundMe campaign before she even tried to negotiate with the hospital or fight it with the insurance.

"

at a minimum she should have tried to deal with the insurance and the hospital first. She makes 200k. There are other people who are much more deserving of help.
Thanks for the reply—that's fascinating. Is it possible to get a link to that article?
Trash collection is a public safety issue. We can't have trash building up, attracting pests and spreading disease. If they don't pay the trash bill then the trash man should still stop at their house. But then the local government should place a lien on the property, and if necessary sell it at auction to settle the bill.
[Student in school] Implemented MinMax algorithm in checkers ---> [student looking for work] Implemented state of the art AI algorithm, which successfully will beat the human opponent EVERY time. ---> [HR/Marketing dept at some corp] Wow you are HIRED!!!!!!!! ---> [Lead dev] Oof this guy can't program for shit.
In this case, they should make a fortnite clone that is played in real cities.
Yeah. However, when the dialog is focused you can press ctrl+c to copy it's contents to the clipboard.
Thank you! Is it possible to get a link to the Zhihu thread that mentioned Hacker News?
So you rented out your gear on what amounts to craigs list and now your shocked that someone split with your kit (hence the aptly named site.) Did you stop to think about how the service is supposed to protect you from theft?

> One specific area that KitSplit talks about in-depth is their proprietary vetting system ...

That should have been where you stopped reading and walked away. From my experience, let me tell you what "proprietary" means: A. we have no process OR B. we use what everyone else is but want to stand out from the rest so we lied to you.

How do you vet trust on the internet? Think about how hard it is to steal a rental car. Do they have a magical proprietary process? No. They take all of your personal info and use that as collateral against you should you decide not to return the car.

Bottom line, and I'll happily take the karma hit: you're a sucker. And I'm not being mean, but driving the point home. You believed some rent seekers bland promises of magic fairies and pixie dust in order to secure a quick buck. You know the old saying: If it sound too good to be true...
Reasons I've opened my Monzo app in the last week:

How much did my London Underground yesterday actually cost.

Send a Monzo request to a friend who said he'd pay for a taxi ride (he also has monzo, so I can just select his name and the amount, and all he has to do is press 'yes' when it pops up).

Check how much of my discretionary budget I had left to decide whether or not to buy a game.

Pay the window cleaner (bank transfer).
It depends on the state you live in, but by and large, it is not the same.

For example, in my home state, reneging on a rental agreement on a piece of property worth more than $100 is "Misapplication of Property," a misdemeanor.

Actually stealing the exact same camera, as opposed to deceiving the owner, is "Larceny," a felony.

Holding up the owner at gunpoint to steal the same camera is "Robbery," a much more serious felony.

The law slices and dices these things finely. Sweet talking someone into handing over his property is often a crime, but it is usually not the same crime as simply taking it.
They didn't go into these details in the story, but could it be that the payload is encrypted and then hijacked blog sites are used to host the javascript to decrypt the payload? Asking because I have seen that a few times, but never saw it on onedrive.
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I disagree. VSCode is really a hybrid product. With plugins, it does intellisense and debugging, which are really the two major value-add features of an IDE for me. It's still light years faster than IntelliJ (and light years slower than Sublime). I switched from IntelliJ to VSCode and it minimally affected my workflow, so they're objectively not different targets in that regard.
has salesforce figured out how to do an arbitrary number of objects yet? For example a customer with as many addresses they want? I was told by very expensive salesforce "experts" that wasn't possible a few years ago. You actually needed to hardcode address_1_zip, address_2_zip, address_3_zip and so on.
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" I would hate it if my daughter tried to do that for me."

But you are OK if other well-meaning people pay? If you make 200k you can take the hit and you should have known better.
==The parent was suggesting to regulate first==

The assumption is that introducing a bill to regulate dark patterns is the same as "moving fast". This bill hasn't even made it to committee [1] and darkpatterns.org was started in 2010 [2]. I think an argument could be made that the US government is actually moving pretty slowly on this topic. GDPR has been in place for over a year, so there is significant data to understand the implications of this type of regulation.

==and fix broken regulations later.==

How is this different from a software product releasing an updated version? Microsoft Excel is on v16 and I don't think anyone is accusing that product of moving fast and breaking things. I wish we spent more time adding features and fixing bugs from past legislation.

[1] https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/116/s1084

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_pattern
"Troy existed" is just one of the low level hypothesis History proposes.

Hypothesis: What happened in Armenia was a genocide.

How do you disprove this? There are arguments for and against, but ultimately this would require reading the minds of the leaders at the time. You can also present logical arguments (which I totally buy, this is just an example), but there is no way to test this.

There is only one historic timeline, so History is not a science.
It sounds like there's about 1 FTE to run the site. Along with other costs I can see why there isn't a lot of money for development. And it sounds like the site could use some work too, so maybe any money left for development is going back into the site.
If anything, I implied that DDG was worse in general, but only better when it came to certain political subjects. I take your meaning as rhetorical, but I'll answer anyway.

Several months ago, I read an article on Reddit about how the USPS was raising prices. In the comments, the discussion was of why it was cheaper to ship some goods from China than it was to ship from state to state. I had recalled something about Trump taking some measure against this, but apparently at that time nothing had changed. I tried finding more info on Google, but I couldn't find what I was looking for. On DDG, I located an article from Newegg describing the UPU, and how these deals were established many decades ago and gave 3rd world countries at the time, such as China, a break. I then found another article from thehill.com that explained that Trump had begun the one-year notice of withdrawing from the UPU, but until then the rates would be the same.

On another occasion, I was in a thread that was talking about middle class wages, and I noticed that on Google, I could find many articles about how the middle class was shrinking. On DDG, I found some of those articles, but also found information on how if you control for inflation and hours worked, middle class wages actually increased since the 90s.
The only reason I was with Dyn is because they acquired EveryDNS. The cycle of big fish eating the little fish continues.
Yes, her response seems to assure people the company is legit, not actually trying to help the person in need. Shows a lot about the company.
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The article is saying that typing the speaker's words verbatim is exactly what most people do when taking notes on a laptop, even when they are explicitly warned that it's a bad idea, whereas it's generally not possible to do so when writing notes, without some kind of shorthand.

In any case, that's not the point: regardless of what text you decide to record in your notes, it's faster to do so by typing it than writing it for most people. That means that if you switch from writing to typing your notes but continue taking notes in the same style, you should in theory have more time to figure out what to write without falling behind the speaker or needing to rush your typing.
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Interesting... It does not get very cold here in Florida, but we still typically have heat pumps installed with our ACs. Which are much more efficient than burning gas or electricity for 1:1 BTUs.
I used to use https://dns-api.com .You do stuff with git and it's basically Route53 plus it's cheap (1£ per domain)
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Depends how you look at it. Distinguish dark UI pattern from the traditional confidence trick please. The same abuse of trust and guided decision making whilst carefully trying to stay just outside the line marked fraud.

My wife is tech literate, and has put up with my complaining of countless patterns and tech developments over the years, but still managed to get signed up for a subscription when she thought she'd just bought a pair of shoes. A little search showed it a very common issue a few years ago. Maybe it is still.

It's all very well not wanting to make life difficult for startups, but what of the flipping public? I don't think it reasonable to expect people examine every pixel of every page just to avoid getting scammed. The startups, even large ones, are often as bad as the worst snake oil selling SEO and internet marketers.

It's those startups who made regulation increasingly inevitable. We've had 40 years since Thatcher and Reagan started working to make regulation unacceptable and unfashionable. The first 10 years probably did improve things, the next 30 has been too much and caused countless scandals, banking crises and what not.
KitSplit is a marketplace for connecting owners of expensive items with people who want to steal those expensive items.

It's very technical in nature, you see.
Looks like a good time for an amendment.
Yes. The amount of times I've seen Google return results with one or more terms removed alone is proof of that. In the old days, they at least tried to find relevant results when your query had no quotation marks around it. Now any remotely specialised query leaving them off will find half the page filled with irrelevant results labelled 'missing [term you actually cared about]'.

Large sites certainly seem to be overrepresented in their results now too.
I would be very interested to know which online brokerages cater to US expats — @patio11 seems to have experience with this.

In general, any advice and pointers about brokerages/banks/insurance for US expats from an actual expat would be immensely valuable. The googlable stuff is mostly fluff and SEO crap.
I recently read about people with US student loan debt escaping from it by going abroad where their credit history wouldn't follow them and the loan companies would't be able to get wage garnishments. It's at least possible that this woman's father had no real incentive to pay the bill, making the GoFundMe triply redundant.
Very seldom does going to ER 1 vs ER 2 15 minutes apart for a broken arm matter. It needs treated in hours or days, but not minutes.
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This exactly. The average joe doesn't need to be an expert in this stuff. Similar to Consumer Reports.
Donations aren't a zero sum game. If she's soliciting her social network, odds are most of these donations aren't being diverted from other GoFundMes. Most of the money donated would probably be spent in other ways if the campaign didn't exist.
Pro services are NOT shutting down though, right? My e-mail says this:

Dear Customer,

Since Oracle acquired Dyn in 2016 and subsequently acquired Zenedge. The engineering teams have been working diligently to integrate Dyn’s products and network into the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure platform. A majority of Dyn products have now been integrated and upgraded on the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.

Accordingly, DynDNS Pro/Remote Access is decoupling from the Dyn brand and business unit this summer, and will remain a business unit within Oracle.

Your organization has the right to access and use DynDNS Pro/Remote Access. This product will continue to be available from Oracle without any disruption of service and no action is required on your part at this time.
This is not the first time something like this happens - https://petapixel.com/2018/10/29/how-i-lent-my-4500-camera-k...
>They seem to provide no actual service

They help connect thieves with their victims. They also get a small cut from the thieves for this service.
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As a fellow photographer (even the same gear), I understand the author's pain in losing it. I really hope they can get it back and the thief is held liable. What I truly admire is how professional the blog entry is written after being badly ripped off like that.
For the same reason they call getting robbed "voluntary parting"

What a laugh, hopefully I don't get "involuntarily punctured" during a "voluntary parting" gone wrong.
I guess this falls into a category that the ML algo learns a particular type very well and cannot recognise obvious cases if they look different than the training data. Human intelligence is a mix of pattern matching and attention focus that is hard to provide with a single pattern matching ML project. Isn't there projects try to use multiple pattern matching models combined to decrease the amount of false negatives?
I think the issue there will be heat dissipation in general. IIRC, this was the plan for some of Intel's upcoming chips and is limiting the throughput frequencies as a result. This could mean more horizontal scaling, but limiting the frequencies to laptop/server levels. Though a lot of current games are more parallel, there's still a lot of gameplay on games that are optimized for single core frequency.

I do agree, the longer term will lead to stacking, I'm just not sure how far off that is in realistic terms, and if the complexities may outweigh the benefits in a lot of use cases.

The node shrinks are definitely slowing and have for a several years.
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So basically we should avoid all Verizon Enterprise Product.

EdgeCast used to be my favourite CDN. Not sure how they are doing now.
Personal responsibility is a pretty simple concept: if you cannot afford necessities like food, shelter, and medical care (which are not "human rights" in the sense that you do not have the right to compel other people to perform the labor required to supply you with these things) then you should not be buying alcohol, especially not at marked-up prices for having someone serve it to you, and neither should you be blowing your tax returns on other discretionary items. Everything else is just excuses. Nobody should be prioritizing "having fun" over food and shelter, and those that do are not entitled to have their impulsive behavior subsidized by others.
It's first and foremost a sales company, and that shows in the way they nickel and dime you for EVERYTHING. And by nickels and dimes, I mean thousands of dollars per month.
Ah yes, I forgot it was a Euro American joint venture, thus measurements are equally split between metric and imperial.

Fun fact, the spring rate for the slidy thing (technical term) is measured in lb m/in cm!
> it was the same when i played guitar.

I really noticed the difference when I started a band and played bass. With each of us having a single dedicated instrument and feedback from each other, it was a lot easier to make progress and get things done.
I believe they are in EAI - Enterprise Application Integration space. Broadly speaking this is a "swiss army knife", if you want to take a CSV file from an FTP site and load it into a relational database, then do queries off a table and POST JSON to a webhook, It can do any of those things.