skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A lot of people in the retail space don't seem to realize this. I know several locally that maintain only their best sellers in stock (and only hire people willing to put in hours for the lower wages), and aren't even maximally using their shelf space despite having the capital to keep that much product on hand if they thought it was worth it. If I go into a store and they neither have what I'm looking for nor can answer any questions about their products, I just don't see any reason to stay there. They'll offer to order what I'm looking for for me, but if they don't have meaningful advice to offer about exactly what I should get, I don't see why I wouldn't walk out of the store while reading online reviews for a cheaper vendor.

Maybe it really isn't worth it to keep more product in-store or pay for better qualified sales reps, I don't know. But if it's not worth it, then yeah: I don't see why I should buy from a brick & mortar store except just to keep them in business for when I do need them.
I'm having a hard time even getting it to run.

"python vm.py program" results in "SyntaxError: Non-ASCII character '\xf0' in file vm.py on line 19, but no encoding declared;"

adding the relevant encoding (# -- coding: utf-8 --) then results in "RuntimeError: Unknown instruction ''\xf0\x9f\x96\x8b\xf0\x9f\x92\xa0\xf0\x9f\x94\xb6\xf0\x9f\x8e\x8c\xf0\x9f\x9a\xa9\xf0\x9f\x8f\x81'' at 370"

I assume debugging the program is part of the challenge? Or is it just supposed to work?
yep, and a lot of that has to do with starting in the 2008-2009 global economic crisis and (still continuing) stimulating their way (and arguably by secondary effect our way) out of it by consuming huge amounts of steel and concrete

https://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/15/business/worldbusiness/15...

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

http://www.globalcement.com/magazine/articles/1054-global-ce...

https://www.caixinglobal.com/2017-10-17/slowing-china-steel-...

https://www.rfa.org/english/commentaries/energy_watch/chinas...

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You seem to be commenting well beyond the bounds of your knowledge or expertise.

1. None of this is weird. NY has even more kinds of courts than CA does, including "limited" courts just like CA. I consult on lawsuits around the country, including in various courts in CA and NY, and NY is at least as screwy as CA in every meaningful way I can think of.

2. To the contrary, small claims suits are highly likely to make it in front of a judge. In fact, that's just about the only place they're likely to go because small claims courts strongly discourage the use of pretrial motions. A business that is sued is not required to send the CEO just because they're not allowed to send a lawyer. They can either send a regular employee or they can send no one, in which case they're more or less guaranteed to lose by default.

3. A defendant can't remove a properly filed small claims suit to a higher court just because they feel like it. The small claims venue either has to be improper or there have to be some very unusual extenuating circumstances for the courts to even consider removal. There's an abundance of case law on this, and for good reason, including in NY.
The heat has to go somewhere. If your machine is feeling hot, the heat is escaping. Trying to prevent that by using a less conductive material may not end well for your laptop.
In theory it could work on BTC or BCH. Bottle relies on large OP_RETURN which is a miner-adjustable limit, not consensus. But in practice you
(1) would need to find a miner to do this.
(2) could only put in 1MB of data on BTC.
(3) would have to pay a lot of satoshis (as you pointed out).
Snapshots of video are extremely expensive compared to snapshots of plain text.
China Warns World Leaders: Don't Talk About the Hong Kong Protests
I didn't read the links, but I've read a lot here https://lymescience.org/

and I also almost fell for "chronic Lyme" few years ago. There's something seriously unsettling around websites/online communities dedicated to chronic Lyme. From Lyme friendly doctors, to people doing and interpreting their own tests, to people ascribing all kind of ailments to this "condition", etc.
I think there's a pretty big difference between a static page, which can be easily and cheaply cached, and a video streaming service, which very much cannot be.
Highly misleading. This runs on an alternative network called Bitcoin SV. It's most definitely not Bitcoin, but a fork of a fork of a fork.

Amusing really, because the "SV" stands for Satoshi's vision. The founder, Craig Wright has been bamboozling people for a long time with his nonsense.

It's so long ago that most have forgotten, but the real Satoshi weighed in on a pretty heated argument about whether the Bitcoin block chain should be used to store DNS records. Satoshi was against it due to scaling concerns.

The project went on to create its own network and blockchain called Namecoin.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1790.msg28917#msg289...

I would take this project in the same spirit. Someone created a block chain and network for mass data storage. At least that's the goal. The result is what you see, but it's not Bitcoin.
Do they consider their demographic to be just White kids or something? Because the number of children in the US is projected to keep growing until at least 2050.
Personally I have seen a pattern where people who are making more money are less reluctant to ask for money versus people who really don’t have money. They often seem to suffer in silence. I have now seen several occasions where people who are making very good money are hitting others up for money for health care or weddings. It leaves a bad taste with me. From a certain income you should take care of yourself.
I wasn't talking about buying a domian for fun, but about looking at what domains are available for fun with no intention of buying them then and there.

But yes, someone buying a domain and using it for something fun, be it just fun for them (and maybe their friends) or fun for the rest of the world (such as https://bad.solutions), is a lot better than someone buying a domain just to squat on it because they think someone else may want to buy it for a lot of money some day. Playfulness and fun is actually important.

> Lastly in a capitalistic society do you feel justified in being unhappy because there is physical real estate in desirable places (not startup desirable either but just desirable like Miami Beach let's say) where someone bought land or buildings years ago before you were born and now you can't afford to live there and have to pick a less desirable location?

I think would be justified in being unhappy about people buying land and buildings with no intention of doing anything with them, just because they think someone else will eventually buy that real-estate for more money. AFAIK, squatting is one of the important problems inherent to housing markets, and there are laws to prevent people from just sitting on empty houses until they can sell them for enough money (although IANAL).
I'm not sure introducing more points for Google & co to make decisions about what's a "good reason" is a good idea.
I very specifically cited someone like you as being a person who has a valid complaint. I'm calling out people who get upset at the idea of a computer doing "wasteful" work, when that wasteful work has no meaningful impact on latency, responsiveness, power draw, etc. This is common and is a form of "visibility bias". For example, computers do not report their CPU cache miss rates in a highly visible place. I'd imagine if they did, you'd have countless people agonizing over them, despite the fact that in most cases a higher cache miss rate would not result in perceptible difference when using the computer.
Who determines what constitutes a "very good reason"?
The decision to get rid of visual scroll indicators is something that I curse nearly every single day.
I don't think youtube should keep copies of the un-edited video for users to view. Quite obviously there was a reason for the uploader to remove that section of video.

The chaotic side of me says youtube should do this, as it's another reason for alternate platforms to crop up. youtube needs to lose it's market share.
This is how all other major rental stores work. BUT THEN they wouldn't have a business. That's really the issue -- they care about their business, NOT their customers. And they don't have to because they don't own the equipment like any other rental store would.
The comparably serious consequences of committing grand theft auto probably act as a backstop in that case.
> lower foreign exchange fees

Except the weekend. Gotta read fine prints.

> up to 1% cashback on all card payments.

Except in Europe, its market.
They did the same thing for the Pinterest video.

It's kind of disturbing because there's a clear two tier pattern emerging.

People with tech connections can take down videos that name them, even if the videos are legitimately news worthy.

Meanwhile CNN hunts down and doxes people who post memes without tech companies doing anything.
If anyone wants to do this in Boston, contact me.
Happened to me too. Useless things sound just like free airline headphones. I'm done with amazon.
How about "advanced amusements, gadgetry, builder kits, and hobbyist supplies"?

One wouldn't want to inadvertently age-box anything by implying any particular position on the toddler-geezer age axis. Kids of sufficient skill can think of themselves as "advanced", and adults of sufficient budget won't think they're blowing it all on "toys".
OTOH, do even radiologists (or anyone else) can predict cancer at all before it happens? I thought that radiologists diagnose cancer once it is already there.
i got into a nice college, and they even gave us financial aid. the job market was unforgiving.
It's still worth at least quickly evaluating your diet to check. You probably know already, but generally speaking B12 comes from fish, meat, poultry, eggs, and dairy. Nothing else.
Very expensive but YouTube could have immutable revisions. So you can still watch old content even after the creator has modified it. Something like youtube.com/watch?id=123&revision=0
The distinction almost surely exists because of the ease at which a thief could perform a "voluntary parting" versus a theft. Why would insurance choose to cover something that was actually likely to happen?
Headline says "now" but this isn't a new feature. Article is just a huge rant in blog form.
Bootcamper Hoping to Work for FAANG
> I think people need to be cracking more history books and less William Gibson and Neil Stephenson novels.

Any history books you would recommend?
You're missing my point. She's simultaneously saying:

* Get your own coverage

* Insurance companies don't cover it. Full stop. It's not that it's unavailable "at a reasonable price." It's "woe is us, we would if we could, but those damn insurance partners won't let us."

I know her last point isn't accurate, but that's what she's saying and she's phrasing it that way intentionally to shift responsibility. It's abhorrent.
Yes, because the amount the US spends on welfare is a smaller fraction of the whole budget. For example, the US spends around ~$100 billion on food assistance [1]. Wikipedia estimates that all non-medical poverty assistance accounts for around $400 billion of the US budget [2]. Increasing expenditure by 10-20% (or even 5%) will almost certainly have a noticeable effect on poverty.

[1] https://media.nationalpriorities.org/uploads/budget-graphic....
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expenditures_in_the_United_Sta...
Possibly YouTube's report system would work actually. It's only in rare cases like personal information breach or something that it should be used.
> HN runs fine without javascript -- except for voting, which I rarely do anyway.

You can still sign in and vote with JS disabled on HN.
Van Life: The Economics and Trade-0ffs
Why is that disappointing? Worrying about how much RAM your program is using feels similar to worrying about how much paper you're using to take notes - at best it's a distraction from what's actually important.

If you want disappointing, how about the fact that we're still finding buffer overflow vulnerabilities? IMO we shouldn't even begin to talk about software performance while we have such difficulty getting software to behave correctly at all.
...but is that the only downside?
>Nobody with electronics knowledge is going to work for a dinky salary

Unless they're a college student or a retiree.
she started a page to help her father, she isnt responsible for paying all of his bills, she just wanted to help out. At least thats what it seems to me.
But it's not. 45% of the federal government's income comes from individual taxes.

In 2016, the US took in about 1,442,385,000,000 total of which 839,898,000,000 was from the top 5% of individual earners. That's OVER HALF of the total amount[1].

You're wrong. You're point is not valid or based in the actual data. To say that hundreds of millions or billions of dollars in extra revenue couldn't help fund social programs or improve the conditions of the impoverished is factually inaccurate.

[1]https://taxfoundation.org/summary-latest-federal-income-tax-...
I rent out a camper van, and this article has sparked me to contact my company to ensure I at least have this coverage, and to look into GPS monitoring.
Also the biggest pain point isn't even this -- rather it's that once a particular Youtube link has gone viral you can't even fix some stupid small embarrassing detail like a typo in a subtitle.

You can't re-share on Facebook with a new URL either; people generally won't "like" or "share" your video twice, which hurts distribution of your work, and doubly hurts it if you delete the old link that has been already shared a thousand times.
Medicare for All would help individuals, but does too little to stop rising costs - you get the benefit of government negotiation and annihilate insurance overhead, but it’s not enough. You help people in the short term, but ultimately you only delay the day of reckoning.

I already posted a link showing doctor and nurse compensation have been flat in the same time period that medical costs increased 10x faster than inflation. While free university might be a good idea for other reasons, this isn’t it.
Well I'd say it's better than a market where both are pretty opaque
Because she should be responsible for her fathers condition?
Video has never been immutable. Video has been able to be edited long before YouTube. Same happened in traditional media where an inaccurate slide shown on lunchtime news would be corrected on the evening news.

You want a more immutable source, archive the video and link to that. Same reason people archive other websites when wanting to link to something as “proof”. Because we know that the web server is not write once.
I wouldn't trust coffee makers as your source of physics and chemistry data. Instant coffee "blooms" too, it's not espresso foam and it's not caused by "captured CO2". Highly uniform ballbearings do not restrict flow any more than other particles of comparable sizes. And, not mentioned by you yet, but my favorite coffee people "fact" - distilled water does not cause more corrosion than tap water.
Why not? The point is that there are very few coal miners left and the amount of attention they get is all out of proportion.
> The tech is proprietary, and not that fun to work with.

That's a very kind way to say: everything in it appears deliberately engineered to ensure continued employment of consultants. :)
FWIW, lyme disease is exceedingly rare on the west coast..
Astounds me how anti-human organizations such as ALEC are granted such influence by Republican and Democrat alike in the USA. The fraud on the other hand, doesn't surprise me. Despite their power, these regulatory institutions seem more captured by vested interests and partisan politics than the public good they should be providing.
I'm not a cold hearted person

Citation needed
The treatment for Lyme is via antibiotics but I think it’s only effective if it’s relatively early on in the course of the disease (on the order of weeks or months). Caught early it’s curable. One of the issues though is symptoms are not caught early on as they’re so general and by the time treatment starts the disease has spread and already caused the major damage.
> Industry groups are mobilizing to fight back, saying any requirement that hospitals and insurers disclose negotiated rates would go too far.

Can’t wait to hear their arguments how open pricing would only confuse consumers and cause complete destruction of the US healthcare system.
Entity-Component-System and Hierarchies
which is why it is sensible practice to download the youtube video in question, the original author could simply delete it anyways and you'd have the same problem.

Maybe youtube could embed something like a signature in the video metadata so that a video file could be inspected for tampering?
As someone who records programming screencasts, this is a great feature.

So many high-traffic videos on YouTube are tutorials that no longer work due language and framework changes! At least in my corner of the web, a simple "last updated on <date>" would be sufficient for me as a viewer.
As a Salesforce developer, I find myself feeling like I'm on a different planet compared to other developers. I can't:

- develop locally.
- easily backup using source control.
- contribute to or create open source projects easily. There are a lot more barriers to do so compared to JavaScript or Golang communities.

In addition, I'm always working with sugar-coated Salesforce tech. Apex (kinda like Java), Aura Components (crappy js framework that doesn't even come close to react).

I'm happy that Salesforce is going in the right direction with their web components, but it still feels like they are 10-15 years behind.
Even if they don't keep the un-edited copy around, there should at least be some visible indication that the video was edited.
saw this recently, winston moy does very cool videos, make sure to check out his other projects!
That's also why they're collected/sampled by dragging a cloth over the grass/ground.
I regret the four years part at least. I believe undergrad really only needs to be 2-3 years tops.
Let's look at the data.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/268826/health-expenditur...

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

The US is an outlier, because the US system is broken.

IMO the US healthcare market either needs to be properly regulated, or it should be converted to single-payer (a system which many other countries use with great success) - other developed countries are spending significantly less per capita for better outcomes while still allowing private healthcare for those who want it and can afford it.
From the article:

>The reality is that X.org is basically maintained by us and thus once we stop paying attention to it there is unlikely to be any major new releases coming out and there might even be some bitrot setting in over time.

Well, at least it makes it clear how the wind blows these days.
Jack MacReady:
It's obvious the bastard's got lyme disease!

Bill Pardy:
What?

Jack MacReady:
Lyme disease. You touch some deer feces, and then you... eat a sandwich without washin' your hands. You got your lyme disease!

Bill Pardy:
And that makes you look like a squid?
Then in this small window where people are unaware that it's possible to edit videos, they might have to take the time to explain that if they find themselves in such a situation. What's the big deal about that?
"Two-thirds of employees report regrets about their advanced degrees."
> The most effective method of not getting bitten is not to go in to the woods at all.

your profile reads:

He who lives without folly is not as wise as he thinks.
-- Rouchefoucald
Permethrin in retail outdoor stores can be a bit expensive. In the US, stores that sell military surplus often carry the permethrin kits that are issued to soldiers and they are usually much cheaper and contain enough to cover several clothing items.
Surely no one actually cares all that much about the video itself? The novelty is the fact the actual celebrity took some time to do something involving you or someone you know.

You can already happily Photoshop a hugely convincing signed celebrity photo, I don't see people who want such things affected by this or feeling the real thing is worth any less. Giving someone a deep fake as a gift or novelty would feel somewhat strange/hollow.
I've heard of such a tool, but never seen one. Otherwise, twisting a tick using tweezers or your fingers is a great way to break its head off under your skin.
> It's only in rare cases like personal information breach or something that it should be used.

In Germany we have something called "Recht am eigenen Bild" (right to your own picture). I film political demonstrations but until now I've been hesitating with uploading them as a successful "strike" with no editing option would endanger the video itself.
Apple Has Explored Adding Positionable Cameras to Apple Watch Bands
No need for a signature, just compare the hash.
Oh good, a whataboutism. Not enough of those, lately.

I'm not everyone, and it is something that's of deep concern to me, as it should be to you. So feel free to shelve your cynicism and join me in asking our representatives to do better.
Editing my personal website can also be used to the same means. But we are not asking for the whole of the net to be write once.

Just because something can be abused by a few doesn’t mean an action should be applied to the many. Just my opinion on the matter.
I assume after the zombie apocalypse, there would be pirate television stations broadcast out of bunkers, or something like that.
>>"Fixed supply doesn't mean it will always appreciate."

It seems to me that you believe that when the economy stay the same and the supply of money grows, money loss value.

Then, the other side of the coin ;-) is that when the economy grows and the currency don't, it increases value.

>>"[--] And if everyone does this, government no longer controls the money supply."

Governments already don't control the money supply. If a bank gives a credit, it's creating money in the system.

After giving a credit (and creating money in the process), it needs to increase its reserves. If the government don't give it enough reserves it have to go to the inter-bank market, that will create demand for reserves, and that increase the interest rate.

If the government want to control the interest rate it can't control the quantity of money.

>>"Just because I pay taxes in USD/EUR doesn't mean I can't store my cash in a fixed supply currency, "

You can do it already, for instance, buying gold. Note that the price of gold also move up and down. You can lost money buying gold and it will be not different with any other asset.
Um, the fact that his medical license has already been suspended by one state is much more problematic than his domestic violence charge, thanks.

Let's be outraged about the correct problem, please ...
There is a market for wood toys out there. It may not be large, but it exists, and we will pay (some) extra for it.
No, travel insurance is not. They don't even ask health questions. The cost is based on the cost of your trip, and can be as little as $50-$100 for a decent plan on a $5k trip, and about $500 for a year.
Over for radiologists?

Call me back when your machine can produce a comprehensive analysis of an anatomic configuration in relation to every element in the patient's file.

The real problem with those ML systems is that people don't understand what a radiologist is. Let's perhaps solve that problem first?
By the same logic, should we tax having babies too? Especially multiple babies. Large carbon foot print for a bonded set of genes.