skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Are you a lawyer? My parents were married.

Now...if we can get back to your points.

Cite sources for your assertions. You say there is plenty of NY case law then cite a couple of examples. You say that small claims cases are more likely to end up in front of a judge. How do you know this? Are you taking into account the number of cases that are dismissed because the two parties reached an agreement before trial that resolved the issue?

If you're an expert on the law and you think I'm not then PUHLEEZE demonstrate something besides an ability to google counterexamples.

When you've been sued and had to sue people you quickly develop an appreciation for how the legal system REALLY works and how lawsuits are a tool for negotiation. I will tell you that I've sued a handful of people and none of those times did we actually go to trial. We settled because the cost of a trial would have far exceeded the disputed amount.

The one time I was sued in small claims, I settled. I actually settled IN THE COURTROOM and informed the judge that he could dismiss the case.

Get some time on the pond, kid. Otherwise, go kick rocks.
> These systems are very expensive

Seems like a business opportunity for a cloud AI screening provider.
They might not ask health questions, but if you're not careful and don't disclose anything material, they're probably going to find a way to get out of paying when it comes to it.

Travel insurance for older people with prior conditions can be expensive. My parents visited the US for a few weeks and their insurance cost something like $800 with a $500 deductible. Wasn't even that good either, with a stack of pages with terms and conditions. Fortunately they didn't have to use it.
At the time of the GDPRpocalypse last year, there were a lot of discussions here, and a lot of FUD being slung around about how if your US website wasn't 100% GDPR-compliant you'd be handcuffed if you set foot in an EU airport bla bla bla, or that minor infractions would incur the maximum penalty of millions of euro, bankrupting your awesome adtech startup bla bla bla. Most of it was fueled by the clash between US and EU jurisprudence, the legal systems are actually pretty different.

Some of us argued that no, this is not the apocalypse, the law says that fines will be proportionate, and the various national agencies will work with you to ensure you are compliant. And unless you willfully do the kind of shady shit the law is meant to protect against, you're fine.

Seems we were right. This list looks pretty sane to me, with one exception.

250k€ for using the microphones of all users of an app to spy and determine if they were in a pub that showed football matches without a license. Fuck yeah.

400k€ for a hospital that had effectively unrestricted access to all patient files for all staff. Yes. What would the HIPAA-equivalent fine be?

1400€ for a police officer abusing systems doing lookups for personal gain. Yes.

170k€ for a school district allowing public access to personal data of all minor-aged students. Yes, yes, yes.

The one exception is the fine on Google in France. This is purely a political bullshit game over control and loss of control.
Is that something you usually do when picking a new Dr.?
Frankly I'm glad that GDPR has the teeth to get people to stop abusing reply-all chains and mailing lists.
The problem is that Lyme isn't the only tick borne disease. There are a bunch and some speculate there are more undetected ones. When someone has "chronic lyme" maybe they have some other prion that no one has diagnosed yet.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tick-borne_disease
For sure, if you want to get into Harvard, you may have to forge your own path.

But I think for the average job and lifestyle people actually want to live, I think they will discover on their own how unimportant the school they went to will be.
Some countries don't consider public space free-for-all for recordings, and have different balances between privacy and the interest in recordings. E.g. in Germany, legal dashcams require a trigger to keep a recording long-term, so no long-term recordings exist in the normal case, but in the case of e.g. a crash the interest of the car owner in evidence is fulfilled.
It's been a while since I've used IB, but they are one of the few retail front ends that offer algorithmic execution.

i.e., instead of showing 1000 shares to the market, it might parcel it out in small chunks to hide your footprint.

Although this typically isn't relevant for most orders, if you are trading something thin, it could be helpful.
You could even license the UI library from Borland for use in your own programs. And Turbo Pascal had the exact same look.

Later, there was a near clone of the Borland IDE called RHIDE which wrapped DJGPP, a GCC port for DOS/DPMS. I had some fun times with that.
Downvotes indicate that Modern Monetary Theory is unpopular on HN. Interesting - i would have thought that this is an audience that would have been receptive to it.
Does the Streisand effect work with politicians?

China already would censor anything related to it, so isn't this simply China trying to see who will fall in line?

Re: Tiananmen Square Massacre

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo issued a statement commemorating the 30th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre - https://www.newsweek.com/tiananmen-square-massacre-china-say...

China's response - http://www.china-embassy.org/eng/zmgxss/t1669295.htm -

"On June 3, 2019, the US side issued a statement on China in the name of Secretary of State Mike Pompeo out of prejudice and arrogance. Under the pretext of human rights, the statement grossly intervenes in China's internal affairs, attacks its system, and smears its domestic and foreign policies. This is an affront to the Chinese people and a serious violation of international law and basic norms governing international relations. The Chinese side expresses its strong dissatisfaction and firm opposition to it.

The Chinese government and people reached the verdict on the political incident of the late 1980s long ago. Over the past four decades of reform and opening-up, China has enjoyed rapid economic and social development, continuous progress in democracy and the rule of law, flourishing culture and significantly improved standards of living. China's human rights are in the best period ever. Socialism with Chinese characteristics, a choice of history and the people, has been proved a right path in line with China's national conditions and supported by the whole population. China is firmly committed to the path of peaceful development and to the development of human rights in China and the whole world, and has made significant contribution to the international human rights governance. This is a fact that is recognized by all unbiased people.

The Chinese people have the best say on China. Their pursuit of a better life cannot be stopped by any force. Whoever attempt to patronize and bully the Chinese people in any name, or preach a "clash of civilizations" to resist the trend of times will never succeed. They will only end up in the ash heap of history."

Talk about our past and we'll leave you in an ash heap? Sounds like they didn't learn anything in whatever "verdict" the government and people supposedly came to.
Facebook seems to have posted a creepy holocaust meme in my name
I am really shook because it appears that my facebook account was compromised in a really sophisticated way. This is a real-life creepypasta

Screenshots to follow, showing all the details, but here is the story
This morning I woke up, and I checked my facebook notifications on the mobile app. There were some comments on my falcon heavy post last night, but there was an alert that "one of my photos has been hidden from view because it might have explicit or violent content"
So I clicked on it, and it showed me to a post that had a hidden image, and the comment "as your time is running out"
That line is important, will get to it later
interestingly enough, the profile picture that shows who posted the image? It's not me. It's just the default blank profile picture, with Facebook as the username
I click the "show image" button, and it is a picture of a mass grave from the holocaust
I click the edit button, and it switches the default profile/name to my face and name
so I cancel the edit, and it is back to the default profile/name
I check my wall. No image or post has been posted
I check my photos. No images or post has been posted
It was only visible in my notifications, it had not "stuck" to my wall, or into my gallery
so I delete the post after screen shoting everything
I think I recognize the line, and low and behold, it is a lyric from In This Twilight, from Year Zero by NIN, which is an album about the apocalypse.
So I turn on 2FA. I check my activity log. I check my devices log,only my phone, my work computer and my home computer in the past few months. Nothing untoward.

What the hell is going on?
Here is an image gallery:
https://imgur.com/a/0rDAILa
I appreciate your concern. I certainly had something. It certainly sucked. I certainly shared a lot of symptoms and remission factors with other people who identified as having chronic lyme. I certainly had Lyme at some point in my past.

I agree that "alternative medicine" can be a hotbed of pseudo-science and sketchy treatment, but I also think that in terms of a lot of these chronic auto-immune related conditions, our evidence base is still pretty small and there's a lot we don't know. And the dominant Western medical system tends to do much better with acute conditions with a clear etiology of cause/effect than nebulous clusters of symptoms (see also, all of mental health).

My hunch is that chronic lyme, just like for example chronic fatigue that lasts for years after Epstein-Barr, is some sort of auto-immune condition triggered by the initial infection, even if the initial infection is gone. With Lyme it is a little more complicated because there are spirochetes involved.

I assure you I've probably read everything that the NIH has put out about Lyme all the way to some of the wackiest all caps blinking sketchy sell-me-vitamin treatment websites out there, as well as chronic fatigue (I spent the first 7 of those years considering it CFIDS). It nearly destroyed all of my 20s.

Treat prophylatically or not, but try not to get Lyme, that's all I'm saying.
Theories: 1. I was looking through a bunch of old facebook photos of myself last night. Maybe I triggered a job that scans all old photos through the modern facebook image analyzer.
Problem with that theory: I don't think I was enough of an edge lord to post that ever. I don't remember ever posting anything like that. I am Jewish. Also, there were no likes, no comments, and there was not date to the post, just said 2 hours ago

2. Someone figured a way to hack a facebook API such that it looks like pictures are posted by me. Possible. Maybe he found the API keys for Pixelpipe or some other defunct system. Thing is, the picture never actually showed up on my wall, and was not hooked into the dbase as being posted by me as there was no profile photo, name or timestamp. It never made it to the public, it just appears to be sent to me, directly, through an obscure conduit of a notification of censorship.
Also: Why just me, and why a nine inch nails song as the comment?
I've had 100+ ticks always removed them using wet cloth with a tiny bit of (solid) soap turning counter-clockwise. Somehow clockwise never worked for me, counter-clockwise it was out after the 2nd rotation. We had both lyme and tick-borne encephalitis in the family, not too bad if caught early.
There is no formal certification process for "Lyme Literate Medical Doctors". Many are quacks who don't follow evidence based medicine guidelines.

https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/florida-revokes-medical-lic...
Want a high level of support? That's 30% of your annual contract.
Weird there's no fines in UK.
If you count niche markets, then yes.

I just found out that a friend of mine is one of the best players in the world of a certain card game similar to Magic The Gathering(but nowhere near as popular). I knew he played the game and was good at it, but only found out he was 'famous' in the scene when someone came up to our table when were getting lunch to take a selfie with him.
The one I saw said that the CCTV system in the home was also set up to record other peoples' properties too.
Probably. My auto insurance means nothing if I rent my car to someone, or so it was explained to me. Loan to a friend, covered. Loan to friend for cash, no.
You're right, healthcare as I am describing it is a perfectly inelastic service. I cannot think of any other example where someone would show me an absurd price and I'd still take like. Like $1M absurd. I'd rather push my car than buy gas at some point. The same cannot be said about my health. There is no point at which I'd rather just die.

The government needs to regulate markets like this.
In big cities in Poland it's a common thing.
Good job tho
This is amazing.

Have you followed up with any of the doctors since? What did they say in response to your recovery?
Different take: This is exactly what GDPR was designed for. It just hasn't been "weaponized" enough yet to have the bandwidth to deal with every situation, so situations like these seem like targeted attacks when in reality they're precisely what GDPR is supposed to deal with.

I personally think ~$15 per leaked email is a reasonable fine. I bet this guy and everyone else who reads this article won't accidentally leak emails again, and that's great.
This is the new gig economy. I wish I was being sarcastic.
An existential threat scorecard for the Democratic presidential debates
Thanks I've seen but its only US stocks, I like IB for futures and options data, which is harder to find. The API is fine, just I have to run on my workstation.
D templates plus string mixins cover a lot of the same ground as macros. This is probably what the poster was alluding to.
Yeah that's what I figured. Once the people behind kitsplit, or even just a staff member realises how easy this is to casually walk away with thousands upon thousands of dollars of camera equipment, per day...

(Ps it's 'cahoots')
Well, what eats ticks?

"Bird populations in steep decline in North America, study finds"

> North America has more than a billion fewer birds than it did 40 years ago

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/technology/science/report-fi...
1) decompile
2) remove the line that does the pinning (Easy to find)
3) recompile and sign

5 minutes
> If your goal is to graduate from a top school

But why is that always the goal that counselors push? The data shows that future income is most closely correlated to major, not school choice.
Check out Lorentz if you have an iOS device.

It’s a virtual analog synth, similar to something like the Roland Juno 106.
I agree, this is a very good article.

One consequence of increasing order internalization (because it's a good business, read the article) has been the remaining order flow on the public market is getting more toxic over time, which is part of the reason some (generally higher frequency) hedge fund strategies have done less and less well over the years.
It's not the GDPR that made this illegal. It was most probably illegal before the GDPR, and it was probably enforced by the same agency that now enforces GDPR. The GDPR is an umbrella that covers all the new things it introduced, but also a lot of old things the various national data privacy agencies covered.
You appear to not know microcenter very well.... so why this company instead of another? The name?
Not true. You can have a dash cam, but it has to be the kind that continuously overwrites its own data and only records when it detects an accident. You can also record based on your intent - if your intent is to, say, capture a scenic drive ,then you can do that. If your intent is to just capture the license plates of 1000s of other cars that pass you, you can't do that.

These laws were changed in ~2018 in Austria.
What's ridiculous about that?
Japanese doesn't just have different measure words, but also different number words depending on the thing being counted. That said, the difference can be hidden in writing, so unless you need text-to-speech it is not much of a problem. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_numerals
Where does it say that? The linked article says "recordings of their house", which very well could e.g. be a camera on the outside, capturing surrounding public space.

(also probably existing law, not GDPR specifically: video surveillance has been fairly strictly regulated for a while)
According to this 2013 news article it is "up to €10,000": https://helpv2.orf.at/stories/1717004/index.html
Dude was in his late 40s from the looks of it. Definitely too old for a student loan to be an issue. Probably just got used to charging people arbitrary amounts without their consent.
Why do you doubt mandates could solve price transparency? If you make the mandate correctly (e.g. “default price is $0, any other price must be disclosed upfront”) it would IMO cause complete price transparency pretty quickly...
It's actually the very first text on the page:

> Did you know that you can upload files directly to the Bitcoin network, as permanent, immutable, and monetizable Bitcoin transactions?
I went to Australia to test out Tesla’s vision of the future
More than 0, hopefully less than will be offset.

But I think part of why you were accused of short term thinking here is that if we don't spend the carbon to build things like solar panels now, we'll never move off a carbon economy. We have to accept that manufacturing of anything isn't entirely green right now, but the solar panels we make now will enable the next solar panels to be built with less carbon, which will enable the next batch to be built with less carbon, etc.

Carbon will power the innovations that get us off carbon - no way around that. But we still have to do it so we can get to that end state where entire supply chains are electrified with renewable energy.
Interestingly that's the exact PC my dad bought us when we were kids. I loved how computers back then had a turbo button, but I could never figure out why anyone would turn off turbo! :P
If they were still using the Keen Tile Editor that'd be amazing.
Now I'm no medical expert but antibiotics resolve an infection after a certain amount of time. Even for Lyme and leprosy. There may be health after-effects but those would not be resolved by antibiotics since the infection is gone. What could possibly outlast 20 years of continuous antibiotics that isn't either completely killed or mutates and renders the antibiotics ineffective? And then be resolved with a fast?
> Unless I can convince someone to give me 3 USD for my BTC.

This is exactly what would happen, no convincing required. Overnight 50% hyperinflation of the dollar would mean 2 USD worth of BTC/EUR/GBP/milk/anything bought yesterday could be sold for 3 USD today.

> Why do you think this is a good thing?

I’m not claiming it’s a good or bad idea. I’m claiming it’s an inevitable consequence of usable fixed supply currencies continuing to exist.
I feel that this statement sets the perfect as the enemy of the good. If your alternative is to take this or die due to not being able to afford the proper medicine you need, what is your choice? What solutions do you put forward for fixing the pricing problems?
Yes, in the past I've been both a contractor myself and a contracting customer. And while I have seen newly built code bases thrown out for various reasons, from what I've seen that's not very common. AFAIK most of the code that I've ever written is still out there and working, unless maybe it died a natural death - company closed, got bought out, changed technologies, or what have you.

At my last gig as an independent contractor I did a lot of work on a project that mostly revolved around one of their largest customers. But then the employee who I was working with the most on this took early retirement due to medical reasons, which caused a change of direction somewhat because the employee who took over that job wanted to do things a bit differently. Then their big customer went out of business, which had a rather dramatic effect on the overall project. But as far as I know the code and such that I worked on is still in active use, it's just not nearly as critical to the business now as it used to be.

Before that I worked at a local mega-corporation, and there was one project there which I worked with on and off for ten years. But then one day, due to an act of legislative fiat, its reason for being just up and disappeared, so almost overnight all of the software and hardware that was used to make it work just went away.

But that same place suffered a bit from what you describe, in that it wasn't too unusual for them to spend money on software that didn't actually work, so it was ultimately abandoned. In fact, I had a running joke with them: "Gee folks, if I'd known that you were willing to settle for software that didn't actually work and that you were going to just throw out anyway, I would have only charged you half of what you paid those other folks to develop it!"
Let me put them on my blacklist...
The thing is if this was a civil case you have to prove some damages had be done by the leak. A random person leaking my email in CC - that happens a lot - is not even necessarily annoying but for sure don't cause any damages.
Meaning what, exactly?
Best Bu, Target & Walmart all do lower prices online, and higher in-store prices. The former two have repeatedly refused to match their own website's prices for me.
AP isn’t the worst thing in the world. I technically entered college as a junior. I still took four years, but I got preference in picking my courses, dabbled with extra math classes (was going for a minor but it would have taken me past 4yrs which is all I had funding for), and I changed my major slightly.
cosmodisk's reply is correct.

To add to it a bit: Your experience is not uncommon. I think Salesforce GREATLY oversells the "clicks not code" stuff. They're good at selling to a certain segment within organizations that thinks of themselves as savvy but don't really know anything about what it takes to launch a CRM for an organization (not saying this is you, just in general from what I've seen).

I've seen projects blow $1M+ in grant money on adopting Salesforce that have virtually nothing to show for it because the projects were badly managed and poorly resourced. It's unfortunately more common in the non-profit space, too.
Think of all the thousands of tiny snippets of text and single Unicode characters that make up a UI. You definitely don't want to be able to select snippets within most controls, because selection interferes with using the control.

Examples: the text in a menu item, the text in a button, the Unicode x in a close icon, the bar between menus.

This is really noticeable in a few web applications where you can select the wrong thing and it interferes severely with using the UI (I have experienced this with Windows and Android).

Yes, you usually want to be able to select the main text. However many mobile UI frameworks just disable all selection, because that is the easiest way to also disable selection within UI controls (managing this issue is actually quite difficult from my experience writing a HTML UI framework).
I get that it's a problem that farmers breed pretty and durable produce at the expense of flavor, but my understanding is that "imperfect produce" is generally sorted and used for juicing and other processed ingredients. They wouldn't care about aesthetics of raw food.
> The company, they argued, is not in the business of food waste so much food surplus: It buys excess products that farmers can’t sell to supermarkets, but could sell to restaurants, canned and processed food companies, or, as a last resort, donate to food banks. “The stuff in these boxes is not ending up in a landfill,” co-author Max Cadji, the founder of Phat Beets Produce, told me. “They’re just tapping into the same marketplace as the guys who make shredded carrots.”

https://newrepublic.com/article/152596/hungry-harvest-box-ug...