skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Ive told this story before, but in about 1992? Or so - i got grounded for a month because i had been calling in long distance to a bbs in san jose to play the pit - and racked up a long distance bill of $926 - my dad was livid.

I had this problem until I discovered a bug in a Major BBS door game (TradeWars 2002) that let me have unlimited BBS credits. No more charges on my moms phone bill and even was able to trade those for other things in real life. Early bitcoin in a way.
Looking back on it, my need to get online overrode my ethics regarding either my moms bank account or the sysops running the BBS. Oh well.
A somewhat similar effect is alive and well on Android: background processes run measurably faster while user holds/moves their finger across the screen, and couple of seconds thereafter.

Mechanism is a bit different though: SufraceFlinger process that is responsible for acquiring touchscreen input, temporarily boosts CPU and GPU frequencies to make sure screen animations are nice and fluid.
lol.. I don't think people realize how the legacy banking systems already facilitate this activity

HSBC was recently fined for laundering billions for the cartels. This activity happens on an industrial scale and a Facebook cryptocurrency isn't needed for these groups to move money.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20341933.
Well, now please re-read your statement

Do you understand that
internal data structures entirely from the NT kernel, including (why?) their names != verbatim code from NT in your source

The program code is logic first of all.

For the similarities of names and structures itself - the answer is in this already mentioned video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2D9ExVc0G10&t=9m53s from the 9:53 moment of time. TL:DW there are a lot of legal ways of obtaining names of variables, exported functions and structures
I ran into "The payment was remitted" at work, and I wasn't sure initially if they said they were denying to reimburse me, or if it the payment had been sent out.
Maybe. They're more ubiquitous, and almost certainly available to more parties. Can I really exercise my own judgement when my boss can watch the tape too?
I wonder how much of it is history. Steve Jobs initially rejected the idea of gaming on the iPhone. They opened their arms only when mobile game revenue became impossible to ignore.
> because they have designed their website with the idea that your cookies will not be shared

Or they were designed by people with little knowledge of relevant security matters.

Or little care for security matters: all too often people throw together a proof-of-concept (naively leaving out thought of concerns like that, as they can be addressed in proper development later if the PoC is successful) then find it being rushed into production without the required review/refactor...
"An unnamed US firm which manufactured semiconductor chips and Monolithic Microwave Integrated Circuits (MMICs)". Does anyone have a concrete idea of what of tech we are talking about here? That you some how can get a sample of and also 219 years in prison for if you resell it to a Chinese company?
In theory maybe, but I don’t think you’d find a politician willing to risk their reputation to pull the plug on Visa. Not only would it be a major blow to the economy but it would be a giant pain in the ass for their constituents. When’s the last time you went into a bank to take out cash? When’s the last time you had cash in your wallet at all?

Visa wouldn’t be the biggest loser in that scenario, the politicians/regulators would.
I agree with you (my wife is also a teacher) but good luck with this crowd.

Some of the HN commenters are counting down the days until someone founds a libertarian utopian moon colony.
> No one actually watches the video, unless something happens

You're right. Now, nobody watches unless something happens.

And then some shifty SV startup starts selling ML studentcams that determine what "bad" is. Of course, questioning the ML is verboten. It made the decision and you cannot ask why.
My advice? Cultivate crabgrass. It's green, grows without any care, drought resistant and lays low so no mowing.

Bonafides: 20 year homeowner with neighbors who have come to accept I'm not going to waste every weekend on yard care
Comparing a hospital stay with a pricy hotel stay is deceptive. The 2 types of services are by no means related. It's an utterly meaningless comparison.

Having seen a seizure I would definitely call an ambulance if my kid had one for the first time.

Since you picked SF let's talk about that. You may take home 80% but then you pay state income tax, sales tax, real estate taxes etc.

In SF you are more apt to be paying 40% than 20 in total.

Then your premiums for health insurance for a family. The average family pays 5,714 in premiums not including actual health care costs.

Then you have to consider the situation of those who are less fortunate. In Europe it's a slide down a slope. Here it's a drop off a cliff.
Or, since GP said "mark all text", use Ctrl/Command+A.

Of course neither of these would demonstrate the effect they were talking about.
Possibly the introduction wherein the author says:

"The story is slightly altered in order to protect the guilty, elide over irrelevant and boring details, and generally make the whole thing more entertaining."

If memory serves he goes into further detail about the alterations and some common objections to the story in his FAQ:

https://www.ibiblio.org/harris/500milemail-faq.html
Well said. I think a lot of people aren't aware of this.
I think I'm agreeing with you, but I think that 99% of people who end up using AWS SES will find they'll need to write a bunch of handling code on top of it to deal with bounces (i.e. if your bounce rate is high, SES will kill your ability to send emails).

I found it incredibly frustrating that there was functionality that should have been easy for SES to implement, and that pretty much everyone will need at some point, but they don't really make it easy to add on after the fact.
i presume it's offered because more tax revenue is more tax revenue. it's also worth paying to avoid irs-instigated legal issues.
I've told the exact same story. Weird.
I agree with you -- I just think it's funny how these two completely different sources dunked on McNamara. Bobby Baker seems like he wanted to redeem his image (and Lyndon Johnson's image, too, I think), so you can see this as an attempt to shift blame.
I consider the version of WordPerfect for Dos that I was using in 1993 to be far superior to any other word processing system that I have ever used, bar none - and I have tried a lot of word processors over the years. WordPerfect was not my first text editing / word processing program - I had used others that I had liked for several years before I came across WordPerfect. I have been stuck using Microsoft Word at work for decades.

If I recall correctly: Corel had agreed to rewrite WordPerfect in VBA as a condition for Microsoft to invest in it when it was on the ropes in the late 1990s. Once they did that, the quality went down quite a bit in my opinion.

As I recall, WordPerfect once owned ~85% of the word processing market. WordPerfect was reasonably priced for students; I don't remember how much non-student licensing cost, but it did have a cost while Microsoft Word was free initially if I remember correctly.
This is the real issue. If you have 10k email newsletter subscribers and are completely unable to monetize them such that they pay for your email sending, that's the real problem. What's the point of having the list at this point?
But they get much better healthcare for that though.

In Germany you make your monthly payments and if you ever need anything, it is very cheap or free. In the US you make the same payments and still pay thousands whenever you need care.

So what is being paid for in the US? In the German system you pay your money, you get your healthcare, in the US system you pay your money so you get the pleasure of being less over-charged when you need your healthcare?
"MATLAB is the BMW sedan of the scientific computing world. It’s expensive, and that’s before you start talking about accessories (toolboxes). You’re paying for a rock-solid, smooth performance and service..."

mmmmhmmmm...
> Medical emergencies are the number 1 cause of bankrupcy in the US.

Nit:

Medical expenses are the top cause, not medical emergencies. Not that this is much better.
Healthcare in the US used to be a lot simpler and cheaper. But costs continue to rise faster than the rate of inflation for decade after decade and the price started becoming an issue so people had to start complicating and reducing the quality their plans to save money, but those were short term fixes because the costs continue to rise faster than inflation and now we're stuck with plans that are complex and have limited offering and are still unaffordable.

Worse, all of the complexity has its own costs which are now just compounding the problem.

At this point any sane person should be saying that our private market approach to healthcare is an experiment that unfortunately failed, but the gravy train is too big and too fast to stop quickly. Nobody in Washington or even the state legislatures can get traction on a replacement without drawing the ire of extremely well funded political interests.
Having the other 28 kids see how to resolve petty squabbles is likely more valuable than their regularly scheduled elementary school lessons.
We continue paying more for demonstrably worse care and outcomes than our global peers.

Single payer needs to happen, now. Medicare for All.
Facebook is just as much protected by people with guns as any government.
That's pretty much why we use vm.panic_on_oom = 1 as you have no idea about what's going to be killed...
The personal salaries is really messed up because of they are barely graduating more doctors now than the 90’s that’s an intentional inflation of salaries.
The Optimal Placement for Mobile Call to Action Buttons
My parents came from Europe to USA. They are not natives here, and maybe they don't fit in. I was native born here, I grew up in the local culture, I fit in.

Saying that only "original" species count as native, how many centuries or millennia back do you draw the line?
I find the Progress bar is usually about as accurate as the Time Remaining calculation. Both are better than nothing but more of a fiction than reality.
Last time I checked the Swizz, Germans and Brits were major players in drug and medical R and D.

Most of the important deep tech happens in university done by post grads, not by for-profit companies.

Drug development in the US is expensive due to the dysfunctionality that exists within the FDA.
None of this addresses the point- even if you have price transparency and one price for the same service, you are not educated enough to select services you need. Doubly so if an emergency happens.
I believe one version of this story explains that the math (and the situation) has been simplified for the sake of this story in order to make it readable.

Makes sense, I can share this story to people without any computer knowledge, but something explaining how connections are established would be wholly incomprehensible to them.
US government spending is 38% (2018) resulting in a net tax rate of you guessed it 38%.

UK government with it’s well known free public healthcare and similar culture spends an excessive 38.5% (2018).

PS: Government debt has the net effect of increasing the cost of government spending over time, which somewhat underestimates these figures.
$30 a month should not be a hardship for most; I think I spend more for fast food every week (I certainly spend way more than that for random ebay and amazon purchases each month - and let's not get into what I spend on my Jeep).

I can understand it being a concern if you are trying to run multiple machines like this (beowulf cluster?) - or if you just don't want to be wasting the power by leaving the machines running an idle...

...but really, at idle without anything happening, I doubt a system even pulls half that. The best way to find out would be to plug the machine into some kind of "kill-o-watt" monitor and check what it uses at idle vs under load.

I would guess that a relatively modern machine, with a basic-level CPU, running headless and using SSDs or laptop hard drives - or just one or two standard desktop drives - likely wouldn't pull more than 150 watts (or could be made to do so).
A single person making $200k/year in San Francisco will pay an effective rate of 34% in federal, state, and payroll taxes. Only your marginal rate is above 40%, but income taxes are of course graduated.

You don’t hit 40% until about $400k (in SF at least). So ya, if you are paying 40%, you are definitely in the 1%.
One interesting thing I noticed is the ALT text that is displayed in place of the missing images. It shows how their image recognition is classifying everything. I guess a lot of my friends drink as a lot of the alt text was like "Image may contain: drink"
Hmm, maybe then use 3 axes? 1 for the number of countries you can enter, one for the area of the country you can enter, and 1 for length of visa (maybe not just length though). Take the line of best fit, see which passport is furthest above that line?
These can be costly if you're using Mailchimp et al. Mailchimp's compliance features only handle compliance within the Mailchimp lifecycle, not at the entrypoints. The primary part being subscription management. Using Mailchimp doesn't guarantee compliance.
Show HN: Fractal.parts – View and design fractals
Reminds me that recently Bitwarden has placed the logout button under the password field so if you don’t pay attention you’ll type in your long password and the click log out.

No idea why they’d do that (although now that I think of it I guess one possible reason is someone inside Bitwarden tries to send a subtle message that they cannot be trusted any longer, kind of like raising a flag upside down to signal distress.)
You're conflating the nitty gritty of schema design (which I agree with you is not that declarative) with the usual case of "I know what I mean why doesn't the machine know what I mean" which is different.

You're still expected ask for what you want specifically.
Indie Game Dev Raises $100k to Create 2D Vintage Dream Game
How will it become a main money laundering or terrorist tool? Can you elaborate?

A launderer or terrorist (actually ANYBODY - good or bad) would have to be the biggest fucking idiot to use Libra and expect the transaction to be anonymous or private.

I sincerely hope you were just whipping out the typical ML/T FUD and don't believe that yourself.
If the patient is a destitute homeless person they literally cannot pay. The bill can get sent to collections, but it's not like they have an address to collect from, or a good credit score to ruin, so it's uncollectable.
This seems about as good as can be expected for shuttering a digital store. There have been plenty of others that have not closed with such generous terms (any Plays For Sure™ store, Nintendo Virtual Console, etc.).

For years I've thought that there needs to be precedent for the right of first sale extending to digital purchases, which would help in these situations. As a licensee of a digital work, format shifting should be supported whenever a DRM'd marketplace like this needs to close. Consumers should be provided decryption keys as necessary when a company terminates required DRM servers. Perhaps they can be held in escrow and publicly released for some pre-determined period that overlaps with the final days of the service.

I'm glad these customers have been "made whole" (minus inflation), but it's really not Microsoft's place to be able to claw back an item a person has in their possession. It doesn't apply to physical books, why should it apply just because the medium has changed?
Facebook, Instagram and Whatsapp experiencing major issues
Did the ER send you on your way with a recommendation to see your PCP or a cardiologist?
Also says something about the general cross section of HN users that $600/mo is "steep but worth it". There a lot of people for whom $600/mo is wildly unaffordable for anything, even essential medical care.

(FWIW, I'm with you, if I could wake up well rested every morning, I'd drop $1K/mo or more without a second thought)
Your second source is giving an error.

> ~70% of employees receive health insurance benefits.

From your third source:

> For part-time workers, access to medical care benefits was 21 percent and the take- up rate was 56 percent.

Post-2008 recession saw a restructuring of employment. I know plenty of college graduates who are saddled with debt and are scheduled to work slightly less than full-time hours in order to sidestep having to be offered benefits.

Nearly 80% of Americans are living paycheck to paycheck[1]. 40% of Americans can't cover a $400 emergency expense[2]. Wages have stagnated for most Americans since the 1970s[3].

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/zackfriedman/2019/01/11/live-pa...

[2] https://money.cnn.com/2018/05/22/pf/emergency-expenses-house...

[3] https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2018/08/07/for-most-us...
This reminds me of games like "Papers Please"
Bank Secrecy Act (BSA) and Know Your Customer (KYC). I'm going out on a limb to say that most tech companies have no idea what BSA or KYC means and the paperwork involved.
It worked out better than the Russian military occupation of Germany.
The article is not recommending people don't mow the lawn. It's not even saying to get rid of grass. Just to plant native plants, minimize herbicides/fertilizers and watering.
No one here is advocating untamed wilderness over a green sheet of lawn. You don't have to replicate impenetrable underbrush in your backyard. You could however focus on natural species and a broader variety
Or a school has fewer resources than the NSA.

And don't think I don't see the potential for abuse, but I see the potential for abuse in basically everything. You have to give organizations the benefit of the doubt the same way you do individuals.
What makes you think Canadians don't need to battle for coverage?

"Then I found out that this other country — which I thought had a healthcare system that was so superior to the U.S. — doesn't test for the tumour marker that saved my life, and doesn't cover this drug that is responsible for pushing my cancer into remission after traditional chemotherapy failed to do that."[1]

[1]https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/a-tale-of-2-...
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https://casinoodense.dk/sites/default/files/support/sverige-v-nederland-dam-vm-live-nl-tv04.pdf

https://casinoodense.dk/sites/default/files/support/sverige-v-nederland-dam-vm-live-se01.pdf

https://casinoodense.dk/sites/default/files/support/sverige-v-nederland-dam-vm-live-se-tv01.pdf

https://www.spreaker.com/show/sverige-nederlaenderna-direktsaendning

https://www.spreaker.com/show/netherlands-vs-sweden-live-stream

https://www.spreaker.com/show/netherlands-vs-sweden-live-streaming

https://www.spreaker.com/show/semifinal-netherlands-sweden-livestream

https://www.spreaker.com/show/live-nederlaenderna-sverige-direkt-live-

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Silicon vendors are the absolute worst. Everything requires an especially arduous signup complete with employer, product usage grid, and favorite color and the websites are impossible to navigate because they were designed entirely by the marketing people.
I'd love to see the upvote:favorite:clickthrough ratio on this one.
Using eBPF to Log Keystrokes
Yes, 400-500k is about the right range of compensation in SF for a senior software engineer working at FAANG, and that's about my number. Also, I'm single and renter so I get no tax benefits at all. But I'm not complaining about having to pay those taxes, it's a very reasonable price to pay for the massive opportunity being given to me, which I appreciate even more coming from EU, as I was saying before.
What kind of society will we live in when the generation raised in this environment is in charge?
aside from the volatility, one of the major reasons it hasn't attained wide adoption is simply friction. the average consumer or small business doesn't want to think too hard about how to pay or receive payment for things. if Facebook released a simple libra api and many merchants adopted it, we might see it get used a lot more than btc.
Wages have not increased and inflation has made employment not measurable compared to 20-30 years ago where it represented economic growth. Friends out of university are being hired for jobs paying what the going rate was without a degree 10 years ago. Suicide rates are increasing for the youth and it's obvious because their parents had it better with homes, no student loans and more spending money.
How to Disprove Quantum Immortality (Without Risking Your Life)
> This would be one difference. In Thailand, we eat out to fill our stomach. We usually don't consider it a luxury. We also don't care much about services.

Wages are higher in America, so the getting service is going to be more expensive. However, food is very very very cheap compared to most countries. So yeah, it may not be a luxury in Thailand, but eating out is a luxury in the US because you're not paying for the food, you're paying for the service. Fast food is an option though if you really don't want to cook, but some people don't like that.

I actually prefer home cooked meals, I think they taste better, but I'm lucky that my wife loves to cook. When I was single I was content heating up food. Food was the last thing I was worried about at the lowest point in my life. I ate corn dogs nearly every day because it took a minute to cook and a minute to eat and I could buy a 50 pack for next to nothing.
Origin of the Moon hypothesis section is awesome.
> In the US you make the same payments and still pay thousands whenever you need care.

That's an exaggeration. You make it sound like a definite whenever you go to the doctor here. That's far from accurate. It can happen, and way too often does, though.
The IRS doesn’t handle state taxes, but state tax agencies can bring on tax evasion charges as well.
Sure, healthcare can be super cheap as long as you stay healthy. What are you going to do if you get cancer? What if you break your leg in 5 places and need months of rehab? Just because you aren't sick now doesn't mean that healthcare is irrelevant.
Advisory panel for FCC accused of corruption
Genetic Engineering in the Cloud
People who make defense policy have been assuming the answer to that question was "yes" for about 20 years now. It's sometimes described as "cyber precedes kinetic."

https://www.rand.org/pubs/monographs/MG1215.html
I have to admit I'm a little surprised the entire form wasn't cleared on a failure.
I think it's that the state would rather receive the tax money than enforce federal law. As for the users, it protects them from state prosecution for tax evasion.
One interesting thing I've noticed from this (not sure if this is just my experience or if others noticed as well) but none of the ads seem to be impacted by this. Certainly makes me wonder if those are on a more prioritized and entirely separate infra and SLA that is designed to be more resilient and highly available.
1984.
There are lots of stats in the report, not just app takedowns. The German govt. requested a lot of device information, about as much as the US.
I know it doesn't compare to Thailand/Asia, but in general eating out in the US is much cheaper than in Europe.