skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It could be the case that such "bad actors" represent a disproportionately large share of all rentals.

If it's not representative of the actual risk KitSplit will face, then it's also not representative of the actual risk users will face. And if it's not representative of user risk, then it's deceptive for KitSplit to bring it up as a way to defuse the situation or suggest that consumers shouldn't be worried.
He fabricated evidence in a lawsuit over the ownership of a multi-billion dollar company. I am not surprised the feds took interest.
> The most effective method of not getting bitten is not to go in to the woods at all.

Better to just not go outside, right?

Avoidance is not particularly useful advice, but effective long lasting protection that you don’t need to think about putting on is.
Anti-inflammatory approach suppresses cancer metastasis in animal models
MongoDB’s CEO on Open Source, Taking on Oracle, and Scaling Up
This post is running around BSV-associated social media outlets. [1] [2]

BSV is a project almost entirely propped up by a billionaire gambling tycoon named Calvin Ayre who is promoting a known con-artist named Craig Wright [3] as the inventor of Bitcoin. They promote BitcoinSV, which came into existence last November as the "One True Bitcoin". They are invested in massive astro-turfing for publicity and to lend themselves perceived legitimacy.

[1] https://twitter.com/_unwriter/status/1143599992667590656

[2] https://www.reddit.com/r/bitcoincashSV/comments/c5eg27/its_t...

[3] https://craigwright.online/
Good lord, look at the response from one of the founders. Even with the absolutely sane and calm response from the author (I would be burning their fucking offices down), the company still comes back with bullshit lines and offers no recompense.

Whoever's funding this, I'm holding them to account. Boycotts for all.
Do you mean IPFS & DAT? There is also Webtorrent, GUN, SSB, etc.
what do you do now if you dont mind me asking?

how can one as a developer get into that field? I dream of front office positions at those places but the reality seems grim
It's fascinating to see the mainstream media pick it up now while this is old news in tech circles.
Just because it's not literally applicable doesn't mean it's meaningless, it emphasizes an important point that people overlook. The amount of wealth held by the top 80K is a drop in the bucket when compared to the total revenue of the federal government.

The greatest effect of this policy is that it will harm individual liberty. It will have nearly no effect on improving poverty or increasing social programs.
$70(rental fee) / 30%(Kitsplit cut) = $21 revenue

99.99 means one stolen item out of 10,000. So they'll make $210,000(using articles info) but can't pay $3,500 to cover a stolen item out of that revenue. I bet the CEO is lying about the theft rate.
One issue that's talked about less frequently is how high US doctor incomes are compared to other countries. The average doctor in Japan made ~$105,000 USD [1] in 2014, whereas in the US the average primary care doctor made $195,000 and the average specialist made $284,000 [2]. Anecdotally, I had an eye infection in Mexico and was seen by an ophthalmologist the same day for an $8 consult fee and treated with antibiotics that cost $20, using the exact same techniques and equipment that would have cost me hundreds of dollars in the US.

We're paying our doctors sometimes double what they make in other countries and receiving inferior health outcomes. It's easy to vilify the AMA but our doctors also have an unusually high amount of risk and obligation when it comes to malpractice, which wouldn't go away if everyone magically was on Medicare For All tomorrow.

To reduce health care costs, someone needs to get squeezed... but who? Reducing doctor salaries will lead to a shortage of doctors unless there's some additional action on easing the education burden they presently have to take on.

[1] http://nbakki.hatenablog.com/entry/Annual_Salary_by_Occupati... (2014)
[2] https://www.businessinsider.com/how-much-salary-does-a-docto... (2014)
Well the opposite of that is "do-somethingism". Just because it is an alternative doesn't mean it is better than doing nothing.

To give a snide description - just because you have an infected toenail doesn't mean shooting yourself in the foot would help.

This isn't a "do nothing ever" but "be reasonably sure it would help and be worth the costs".

It is also easier to tell when something would make things far worse than to tell when it could help things.
Ticks do not drop from trees. They almost always climb up your legs. They are generally below waist height.
Apple explored building a camera into the Apple Watch’s band
Thought this would be about the machining setup to make them, not the math of the CAD setup. To actually machine this, you would basically use a ball end mill (which has a roughly half-sphere end) and drill a bunch of offset holes according to the pattern outlined in this writeup.
I'd actually love to see politicians who voted for overseas wars visit the war zone (though I know it's impractical).

The point is that nobody will take you seriously until you show some concrete action. It's easy to claim that you'll give your money willingly, if you know that it's extremely unlikely to happen.
That bulb is there because of politics, and because speak sounds sexy. There are many animals capable of navigating the world even better than us (most fly, for obvious reasons) that don't have anything near the size of our brains.
Most folks are moving to cities, the portion you mention is small and getting smaller.

Don't let perfect be the enemy of the good. People can make their own decisions. There is no ethical position for keeping pricing information secret. Just because one can imagine a rare scenario where it wouldn't be useful is hardly a reason to continue hiding it.
I think "Nosedive" goes into similar territory and might even be the better fit, since success in this kind of show and GoFundMe campaigns could be considered a proxy for popularity and/or "good" presentation.
Any good suggestion for a handwriting to digital transcription workflow? I'm peripherally aware of specialized notepads that do this, but don't know how well they work. I guess scanning paper notes for conversion would be another option. Having a searchable, org-mode integrated record that can include diagrams would be awesome. Is OCR for cursive writing pretty reliable?
I’ve only been to San Francisco a few times, but every time I fly over, I have the background music from Sim City 4’s region view stuck in my head. Because I always played the game with the Bay Area map.
Helping customers secure their accounts
I’m confused. What rules will the government no longer be able to enforce?

There is such extremism in all cryptocurrency related discussions. Why in the world would there be anarchy if central bank monetary policy was no longer effective when private currencies are used or during a Free Banking period? Why does that follow at all, by what mechanism?
If that is the goal, it's certainly not what the current batch of machine-learning and hype-train riders are chasing. They (or at least, the ones doing it via huge training sets) seem to be working on the very opposite of novel environment situations. I wonder if anyone is seriously pursuing that.
It's a funny and forgotten relic. Many countries had similar schemes from around the same era.

There was a fashion to bequeath part of your estate to the government "to pay down the national debt". It was thought the patriotic thing to do. Obviously little impact was made on national debts. :)
I had a friend who was in the Marines and he told me once that they wore panty hose when training in areas with ticks. He said the only downside was that they can be hot in the summer time.
iirc toys aimed at young children (under 3) have to be made from food-safe plastic in Europe (because they put them in their mouths). There is a logo of some sort for it.
It could be implemented, yes. BUT it wont work at scale because non of them scale except BSV. DYOR
Based on what? Im asking because with bad thinking, this could be one of the greatest marketing moves.
The Supreme Court opinion on Mr. Johnson's case: https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/491/397#writin...
Bringing a Knife to a Gun Fight
> For ec2 that should be easy since the cost ticks at a constant rate and can be extrapolated in advance,

Only if you don't use auto-scaling of any kind and you can already set up budgets which will alert you if your usage is expected to go above some thresholds.
So you just rub olive oil on it?
You are correct but it actually could not be run on BTC or BCH because of changes that were made to them that make them incompatible with the design laid out in the protocol whitepaper. It also would be prohibitively expensive to do so due to the block size limitations they have in place.
Meh. The military pre-treats jackets with Permethrin so in general you can assume that small quantities of well diluted product on the skin are okay. Probably 2%, but do your reading and consult a doctor. That being said, there is much to be said for simply eating healthy in order to prevent certain bug bites.

If you want really safe external repellant, you could probably go back to sulfur powder. It stinks like eggs, but it seems to work okay. Maybe that's why all the bigger campgrounds seem to have sulfur-water.
Any interest in buying toys from a home operation? I've been playing with making non-toxic housewares from fast growing alder trees. I would love to pivot into making toy cars and baby rattles for a living. :)
Mobile phones to be banned in Victorian state primary and secondary schools
Agreed.

I always look to things like Lasik surgery or plastic surgery where there is a ton of competition and real price transparency. Sure, those are elective surgeries, but so are most medical procedures people get done. We might not be able to solve it for every medical procedure, but it seems like there is a lot of low hanging fruit.

Hell, in Canada, there are private MRI facilities for people who don't want to wait for the public system. Here is one in Vancouver and look, all the prices are listed.[1] Why the hell can't we have that here?

Speaking of which, I had an MRI done that a bay area hospital charged $18K for. Insurance discounted it down to $8K, but apparently I could get done in Canada for $1400 out the door.

[1]https://www.canmagnetic.com/contact-us/
I can confirm. I had a tick on my shoulder, which tore off. We didn't realize and the skin healed over, the mandibles eventually dissolved, and I was left with an 'air' pocket under my skin I could play with for the next 20 years.
> If the goal is to reduce poverty, it won't do that.

[citation needed]
It's also better than a lot of the other commercial offerings. At a previous place we had to move from Salesforce to Sage CRM when we were acquired because that's what everyone in the bigger company used ... and it was absolutely awful in comparison.
Of course BitcoinSV is Bitcoin. It's just not how you see Bitcoin.

Some see Bitcoin exactly as shown here. A new way of thinking about our internet. One where money is embedded in the protocol.

Don't get misguided thinking that the more people validate your transactions, the more secure the network is. Decentralisation is not a matter of how many validator nodes the network has. Decentralisation truly exists where/when no single entity can control the protocol, including developers! Attacking Bitcoin is an economically unwise move, as long as miners are getting more rewards in mining than they would in attacking.

This is where projects like Bottle really showcase the true destiny of Bitcoin. It's almost like the internet that ARPANET would like to have built :D

This might take years (10-20 ? who knows) to fully catch on, and other Bitcoins will exist in the meantime of course. But if you think about it, eventually they will just be rendered useless, as any good first prototype of a new technology is. Very important, uncharted grounds, but once matured, the prototypes are just that. Museum pieces.
Even though this comment is being downvoted funny enough Causality1 was correct. It was California.
I would greatly appreciate it if you could find the name of that medication. My sister has Lyme Disease and is still suffering health effects from it despite various treatments.
Very interesting, thanks!

I'm listening to "Fusion" right now. The drum sounds are fantastic. Nice and tight and punchy. The swing on the hi hat adds a lot too. What are those coming out of?
I remember playing Wolfenstein 3D for many hours back in grad school.

Then Doom came out, and I found out the hard way that I get motion sickness from playing immersive games with good graphics. :-(

I've not been able to play first person shooters since. But I sure loved Wolfenstein 3D.
Oh I remember this app:

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ellievhall/celebrities-...
Google isn’t really an authority. The Google rate could be bad and MasterCard 0.1% worse. They could be from different times. Also, the MasterCard site says indicative only - if I convert the amount back again, MasterCard claims they are giving me free money.

GBPUSD spot is 0.002% wide (so you’d expect to pay ~0.001% for a single, instant transaction up to several million). It’s not actually too difficult to access this through a brokerage.

That said, if you could really get 0.1% from them it’d probably be considered good at retail.
Why is it unsustainable? Japan can run a deficit indefinitely. It's the magic of owning your own currency. There is hardly any inflation in Japan despite this, and they are trying hard.
Ah sorry to hear that.

Often in America a "911 outage" is really just an outage with the forwarding, but you could call a specific department.

The problem is in some places there is no city/county system.

Ex: in the suburbs of some cities you'll hit 3 townships in 3 miles, and knowing who to call is not easy even for long time residents.
Are you sure it's not a reference to: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Times
Have fun investigating backup solutions so that if the worst happens you still have your data ... mind bogglingly expensive.
The argument is that the 85% tax bracket was never really 85%, so it doesn't set a valid precedent.
Good summary.

> Bitcoin developers later introduced opcode "OP_RETURN", which is seen as a standard and less-evil way to post data.

This is not true and an error in the Mastering Bitcoin book. OP_RETURN was introduced by Satoshi in the very first version of bitcoin.

> Typically, nobody can afford to store more than a few hundred bytes.

This depends on the artificial constraints put on the network. Bottle operates on top of BSV which comes without a cap on supply and offers cheaper fees when compared to BTC.
Show HN: Interesting cross platform language and SDK (maybe a little immature)
GDPR Enforcement Tracker: List of GDPR fines
Any link for actual product that one can buy?
the twitter you link is the developer
We don't vaccinate dogs for lyme disease. We give them a topical or oral systemic insecticide that permeates their skin and bloodstream so as to kill ticks on contact.

Dogs have short, and I guess less valuable, lives. So this is considered an acceptable practice for prevention. And there are many many dogs with severe reactions to these medications, including some fatalities.

Would you really want to do that to yourself?
> There's literally no situation where the socialized system loses on this

Actually, there is- it's when the socialized system decides they're good enough, and stops trying.
What’s wrong with creating an ETF that you can use as a global currency?
I mean, you have to do something besides just sell products if you're gonna compete with Amazon. That doesn't mean it's "just a ploy."
The original publisher, Softdisk sold many of its assets to Flat Rock Software in the 2000s. Flat Rock sold off bits and pieces over the years, and the Catacomb games were one of the last things it held [1]. In 2017, I wrote a toy implementation of Catacomb 3D in WebGL [2]. Since the project used art that was under copyright, I contacted Richard at Flat Rock to ask permission to use it. That conversation eventually led to me deciding to buy the overall game ownership from him [3].

[1]: https://web.archive.org/web/20150101022225/http://www.flatro...

[2]: https://github.com/jayschwa/CatacombWebGL

[3]: https://web.archive.org/web/20170623155041/http://www.flatro...
There is a worthwhile discussion to be had about the cost of college tuition and actuarial tables of different degrees and their earning power and how that relates to pay structure for graduates and for professors and how college programs are run.

Trying to have that discussion on hacker news starting from a primary source consisting of a CBS News poll is like trying to get to the moon on a North Korean rocket with sadness and starvation as your rocket fuel.
Medical care is not uniformly good. Your parent is alluding to a theoretical race to the bottom on quality.
A 13 year-old kid from Zambia builds an energy and security system
You are missing the entire point of the article if you continue to call these algorithms "AI". Inflating simple things like this to mean "AI" has led to the term being meaningless.

You are the example it is making.
I was thinking in part about the bit where you claim bitcoin is manipulated by Tether/Bitfinex
I was bitten by little nymph/larval (not sure which) ticks on Bay Trail in Mountain View, CA. Had to stop riding my bicycle there (which I absolutely loved) because I just can't afford to be debilitated by Lyme's disease.

I've become violently genocidal towards these little bloodsuckers. If it was up to me, I'd wipe them out with almost any means, and at whatever cost ;-)

After looking into the anti-tick options I actually started fantasizing about some kind of super lightweight "earth suit" (like an astronaut's space suit).

Something that you could put on, fully seal yourself in, and then just enjoy the outdoors with reckless abandon. I know it sounds a bit crazy but I think it could potentially be a transformative way of exploring the outdoors.

I love the idea of being rattlesnake/tick/spider/thorn-proof. I could sleep outdoors in the middle of fields, under trees, in puddles, etc.
Japan has a serious issue with it's declining birth rate.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/dec/27/japan-shrinkin...
I, for one, welcome our new Machine Learning Overlords.
Awesome. It was really sad to see this go having remembered all the joy and fun it brought as a kid.
My understanding was that the main thing that killed Toys'R'Us was mismanagement, not online competition.
Probably not wrong, but maybe over thinking it. I say that mainly to convince myself, as I feel the exact same way. I want something I can write in that's easy to access, digital, allows some free-form writing/scribbling (if possible), and is encrypted and stored in a cloud but can also be taken with me.

I've been thinking of using Apple's notes exclusively for this, but it'd be nice to have something more self contained.
Those look way cool!
> I'm convinced that cell phones are the only thing that's kept most Radio Shack stores afloat since there's decent margin in cell phone accessories and plans.

They were. Source: A friend of mine worked for Radioshack between 2008 and 2012. He had no idea why his store was still in business.

The only thing he ever sold at any volume was cellphones.

Besides phones, there'd also be the occasional lunatic who would wander in, convinced that the end of the world was nigh, who wanted to buy a battery-powered off-the-grid television, while talking about his stockpile of guns, and how the country was heading towards civil war.

It was never entirely clear what kind of television broadcasts he was planning on watching after the fall of civilization.
Wait, are you saying that if I eat healthy a deer tick is less likely to give me lyme disease?

Can you explain how that works?
Is there not law on the books that cover... gosh what's it called. When something causes something else to happen in a direct way? I know in some places, there's laws that say, "If Person A slams on their brakes for no reason, and Person B has to slam on their brakes causing Person C to go off road and hit a pole, person A could be at fault"?
Runtime Verification Formally Verifies the Algorand Blockchain Will Never Fork
Thank you! I'm a firm believer that I agree with all advice sometimes, including my own. In that spirit, my advice that is sometimes useful is to ignore B2B and B2C labels and to look instead at what you think you can build that people would be willing to pay for. Then to test that hypothesis as early and as many times as possible. The biggest difference between bootstrapping and VC-strapping is that every step on the path of bootstrapping has to be able to sustain itself long enough to get to the next step. SaaS models are great for this because they can scale with the revenue. I'm happy to go into more detail about any of this but it's a huge topic so we'd need to narrow it down a bit more to prevent this from turning into a novel.
Machines Alive (The Whimsical Art of Boris Artzybasheff)
Does that mean I can pay with Facebook currency on any website, that accepts PayPal?
And in just such a way as to prevent your insurance company from paying a claim!
Project much? "short-sighted to the point of self-parody, like a small child" is how you inserted yourself into the conversation, and "finance-obsessed man-children and brogrammers" is hardly elevated rhetoric either. The common element in all of your bad interactions of which I can see there are many, is X. Solve for X.
Anonymous hacker exposed after dropping USB while throwing Molotov cocktail
I may have misunderstood your assertion then. Did you mean the following?

Did you mean something like, here exists some delta and t as for every x>y, with y an element of R, f(x+t) > f(x)+delta
Great read https://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?page_id=1022
My comment still applies. Most wealth is invested. Investing is a good thing; it allows long-term thinking. Taxing investment, like taxing income, has a negative effect.
Uberspace: pay-what-you-want hosting
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Explosion of deer and rodent populations is definitely not helping. We were walking with our dog at a local natural area we frequent. A deer crossed the path and we all stopped to take photos, and then moved on. That day we found ticks all over our dog. The deer are literally swimming in them.

Both rodents and deer are part of the lifecycle of the tick. Suppressing deer populations and encouraging red foxes and other rodent predators would have to help.
Yes. We used some chemical powders for the dogs. I thought the same was going to be used for me too but, to my surprise the oil was very effective. The bug seemed to dislike it as much as I disliked the bug. It loosened the grip very quickly.
Hermitian Matrices and the Fallacy of Simpler Solutions
Notepad++ may be "native" in some sense but it certainly does not "behave according to the UX language of the rest of the system". It uses tabs rather than multiple windows, its icons are not the standard windows ones for new/open/..., and its menu bar, file selection dialogue and so on all look slightly "off".
Personally I suspect one thing that would help for certain dark patterns would be definitions of affirmative consent - that the interface must default to its most barebones option and any adddd fees must be specifically checked by the user.

There would undoubtedly be loopholes like separate bundles and display order priorities - but those likely impose their own "expenses" through website interfaces being more encumbered.

It would add some compliance costs but such a limitation would be fair and not overreaching.
"Single source of truth" = loaded statement. Maybe single source of truth for a certain subset of things, but in my experience, Salesforce is absolutely not the single source of truth for an organization. I do not like that marketing pitch.