skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This reminds me a bit of the "Harriet Tubman Sarah Connor brigade" (actual name). They were opposed to GPS satellites and knew they couldn't get them after they went up... so they successfully attacked them while they were on the ground (prelaunch) with wood axes. Did quite a bit of damage too.

https://theatlantic.com/article/386656/
Does the "ER" refer to what is called "A&E" in the UK, which has a triage system before you get into any "Room".

This would ensure that you (a) wait at least 10 hours to be seen for this and (b) don't interrupt life saving surgery for it. If this is the case you should be charged less, but if you get an actual emergency doctor looking at it then maybe $756 is justified †, as they are a limit resource and there is a high cost of running an ER I would imagine.

† To the extent that non-free emergency healthcare is justifiable.
How about paying fair taxes? Why we as society tolerate all these offshore tax avoidencies?
If it's a minor sickness it can usually wait 12 hours?
Currently they're unprofitable and their target market is other, unprofitable companies (e.g. turning away Fortune 500s, from the article). If that changes then it looks more sustainable.
> I much prefer reading books in their original language if I’m able to understand it

Absolutely. To the extent that I have trouble focusing on texts I know to be translations, unless there are inescapably good reasons for them to be, i.e. they come from a language I have no chance of understanding.

Currently battling to resurrect my highschool German. Getting there, but cursing myself for not starting out with something a wee bit more accessible than Thomas Mann...
Bitmain selling the mining equipment but also mainly mining Bitcoin.
If you are trying to make free market arguments for doctors salaries come on. The doctors guild restricts supply through the state. No free market here.
Or alternately, there's no such thing as ghosts, and this isn't a problem that anyone based in reality needs to deal with.
Modern books like Harry Potter come with front or back matter that makes it clear that they are works of fiction, not a religious text.
The author's description of the various typefaces and their semicolons is just exquisite. What a fucking writer.
He/she/PhD is irrelevant; the content is fwords regardless of tits or credentials.
I have the same problem.
If you go to http://overthewire.org/information/irc.html and login to the web client it will automatically show you a message:

"Yes, Bandit is down, I repeat, Bandit is down and we don't know when it will be up"
Mass extinction of what? I haven't heard of a tree that's so invasive that it kills everything in its way, animals and plants alike.
Some unrelated (to each other) comments. 1. These trapping effects already exist when people won’t quit an otherwise disadvantageous job because of medical benefits. 2. A leasehold is not entirely one-sided in our system. It is designed to confer the full benefits of property ownership to the lessor, for a given amount of time, in return for the lessor’s paying of rent. All the Alexa-like machinations described seem to be modifications of the way rent is paid. 3. The book Surveillance Capitalism, by Shoshana Zuboff, attempts to quantify various forms of forward value extracted from consumers by social media and intelligence gathering platforms.
In 1870 It was annexed to the rest of Italy, the Pope lost his temporal power and it was made into the capital of the newly unified state. That meant moving all the administration and building a lot of new areas. That is on top of industrialization and a more general population boom.

The point is more how small it was just before that: a population of around 50k and much of the Roman ruins in the center used as a pasture.
Eh - I see diminishing returns around smaller public-ish transit (!) commutes. The difference between a 15 minute commute and a 45 minute commute wasn't significant for me. I can still pay bills, answer personal mail, read a book, and talk to friends on my way to work. I imagine folks at the end of the tube line in London feel the same way.

Driving that commute though? Never.
How to get consistent results when benchmarking on Linux
Tax on tech giants will rule out trade deal, US warns Britain
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I'd be curious to know if this also applies to people to people.

I mean, what effect does population density have on an area. Does more density create better health outcomes or less density?
This Pedro Franceschi is the same kid that created iUsers to allow multi-users in iPad and hacked Siri to understand portuguese years before Apple. I’m really happy that their startup has a big potential and I hope it succeeds, I’m a real fan
> a zillion NASA engineers didn't really think it through when lives were on the line

The in-depth investigation following the Challenger disaster [0] actually reached a slightly different conclusion: engineers tended to estimate ~1/100 launches would end in failure, while management estimates were about 3-6 orders of magnitude lower. The engineers did think it through; it was management that failed utterly and completely in their assigned task.

Anyway, I think your point is correct, but in this case it was management who learned that they could keep ignoring engineering expertise and get away with it until it literally blew up in their faces. Anyone who's had their boss urge them to rush bad code out the door (only to get chewed out when it fails as catastrophically as they knew it would) is familiar with this.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rogers_Commission_Report
It's not everything, it's services that are only used internally (which might or might not be the case for Jira depending on the use case).

There's no two login forms anyway if your IT doesn't want it to be, on one hand VPNs are usually not accessed on demand during the work day and on the other hand all Jira versions I'm aware of can be integrated with some form of SSO anyway if you feel like it. Offices are usually internal and wouldn't have to deal with a VPN anyway.
Actcast Combines IFTTT-Like Service with AI and Raspberry Pi 3 / Zero
I’ve been purchasing drugs entirely by cash, optimizing markets as best I can, for about 7 years now. I began when I discovered my employer’s drug plan, Optum, was charging me significantly higher prices than the the spot prices on the open market.
Because religions that said not to do it took over the world.
Ah, I can figure it out pretty easily for that example too but probably only because I am pretty familiar with variance and you chose really generous names. I personally find the reasoning about variance becomes a lot easier if you stop thinking about the definitions and start thinking about what you should be able to do. A producer of a subtype is technically also producing the supertype. A consumer of a supertype can totally consume the subtype.
According to the webpage

>>>Thanks to a long-standing bug in the Kindle software, side-loaded ebooks don’t display cover images automatically. "
Not if you count potential saboteurs and the fact that most arsenal locations are probably already located and dare I say monitored. Intel penetration of US from various state actors is at a high level already.

Modernization and increasing capabilities are the only thing that will keep the status quo solid.

Force will have to be used in the near future and hopefully it wont be miscalculated and devastating.
My family run a business that partially operates through eBay and this kind of crap happens to them quite regularly. They get variations of:

* Returning (literal) rubbish to make up the weight

* Returning the parts when they break them trying to use them

* Returning the old parts they are replacing with the new parts they purchased

* Returning parts they didn't check before purchasing and getting a full refund (including postage), by claiming the item wasn't as described

* Claiming the parcel wasn't delivered, despite the courier company having a signature showing it was (one trick they use is to make sure the parcel is delivered to a neighbour)

The worst part? There is no method to fight this. Neither eBay, the delivery companies or PayPal will take responsibility for the costs, despite claiming they do. It doesn't matter what evidence you submit (pictures, videos, third part testimony, etc), the result is the same. The "funny" part is that some items they refuse to deliver without insurance (which has to be with them) and then when you go to claim, it's not possible.

The delivery companies are also great to deal with:

* Parcels arrive broken despite adequate packaging (for example, somebody has run over the item with a fork lift)

* Parcels get lost despite purchasing tracking - you phone them up and they have zero idea where the parcel went

As somebody who gets parcels delivered, occasionally the delivery companies will deliver the item with some tape showing that it's broken. Their advice is not to accept the item, which only works when you're actually in - but then if you are, they refuse to send the item back anyway. This is because the delivery drivers only get paid for delivered items, so it's the end-courier that gets screwed.

Anyway, my point is that somebody like Amazon who mostly acts as a trading platform these days and facilitates this crap that sellers have to put up with - I really don't feel sorry for them.
This is a documentary clip from 2013 that shows what the cameras and systems in these blimps can do. Apparently the biggest breakthrough is their high bandwidth laser data communication system.

The government should not have this much information asymmetry relative to the citizenry.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGxNyaXfJsA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGxNyaXfJsA
its narrative
My point was about random people trying to make a living out of open source, while others feel entitled not to support them, while enjoying earning money.

Not about corporations doing open source as advertising stunt.

Which is precisely why anything I produce, is either commercial or under GPL.
Diversity, Inclusion and Anti-Excellence
That's great.

I was making a similar hypothesis. Didn't know about the data though.

Here's my argument:

I agree that capitalism is such a system that allows for expansion of wealth by means of mass production.

But as America gets rich, there were suppressed workers in China who were doing the "hard work" for Americans.

As China gets rich, the Africans are doing it for them.

So calling the American capitalism as a foolproof system that elevates "everyone" out of poverty is just plain wrong because it helps produce more poor people in other poor countries. And then the market says, more the poor people supply, less the wages.

So they're always creating population booms somewhere to sell their products as well as get cheap labour.

But the Americans have given a positive association to population boom by telling a story called population booms = economic prosperity.

So there is going to be a population boom in Africa soon. With more than 2 bn people.

"Get ready for more cheap labour!" Says the US free markets.

But once everyone is used up and educated, what then?
> * Claiming the parcel wasn't delivered, despite the courier company having a signature showing it was (one trick they use is to make sure the parcel is delivered to a neighbour)

Watch out for this one though, some delivery companies are just terrible at locating the real address and will send the parcel anywhere.
The mean doctor salary is significantly higher than that, $294,000.
I was hoping it would dig into how they got all the bones and stuff out of the sinkhole but it glossed over this point.

Anyone know if the source material is better?
Here in Germany we pay highest healthcare insurance costs in the world. If you earn more than 55000 Euro/year, you have to pay 9600 Euro/year for health insurance alone!

And you cannot opt out!

Together with your spouse you have to pay insane 19200 Euro annually!

No wonder it is between 10 and 15 Euro for a finger. In USA if you pay $20000 you will be fully ensured and you will not need to pay anything for your finger check.
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Still not entirely clear to me how this account is still allowed posting on HN.
359 posts so far - all of them links to articles on bbc.com, where the poster just happens to be a travel editor or some such thing. And no engagement: Never once has any of these many postings prompted a comment form their submitter.

It may well be me being unreasonable here, but this pattern of sort-of-automated sort-of-spamming does repeatedly annoy me.
Nothing could improve their image now that their founders left publicly in frustration as Facebook has taken over those apps
Now imagine what happens when they can look at a city, or the whole country, or world, and select one individual and backtrack their entire lives. With audio, recorded from all the devices that surround us.
I don't agree. The plastic spinning discs inside a 3.5 were still floppy and discs. We didn't call Bernoulli boxes or Zip drives floppies. Your clue is the word disc. The 3.5 inch disc was inside a rigid case but still a disc and yes floppy.
And the press. The press is important.
Love it. This is like the hacker news version of Late Night Imgur.
Not sure how I feel about Google entrenching itself in yet another part of the technology stack
A2: It's like WiFi you can sing.
My ex-wife regularly scheduled medical checkups in Korea. For $1500, they did very extensive tests and examinations, all in an 8-hour day.
Or, if you use UUIDs: just do a web search for some real ones and scrape for real ones on places you are aware of that aren't indexed.

(Don't know how common it is for leaks to be scrubbed before uploading.)
Haha this is one of the reasons I stuck with the simple jump table :) I will have to check whether I have enough space left to implement interrupts though, hopefully because I already do so many internal calls I will save bytes by reducing from a 3 byte call to a 2 byte interrupt.

Thanks for sharing by the way!
Sure. Wasn't pointing out an organisational contradiction. I was pointing out that specific fact, since the previous article was much debated here on HN.
> Insurance is not supposed to make routine things more affordable. It's supposed to spread the risk of catastrophic loss from unlikely events around to a large group of people so you don't have to worry about losing your house if you get struck by lightning. Everyone needs routine medical care at some point so an insurance model doesn't work there.

And this is why all of our heated political debates go nowhere in the US. You have Democrats ranting and raving over how they want to provide health insurance for everyone, even if private companies help provide it. (With their supporters full of sob stories.) You have Republicans ranting and raving over how great it is to keep everything private and allow insurers to not cover everyone. (With their supporters pretending its just "insurance" you can live without.)

Meanwhile, its not really "insurance" at all. Its basically a cartel of companies that negotiate a situation where healthcare is effectively unaffordable without them acting as an intermediary.
The US NEC now requires arc fault circuit interrupters which are pretty darn expensive circuit breakers with built-in electronics to detect an arcing situation that wouldn't trigger a normal circuit breaker but can cause a fire.
Unless it is a jet-powered drone, it won't reach the altitude. Rotors stop creating uplift at some height, because the air to create uplift is far too thin. And if you are able to build a jet-engine -- well you could basically call it a guided missile system. You'd need a launch facility, lots and lots of fuel and you'd be detected by ATC once you launch (if you haven't already been detected procuring resources to build the thing).
Industrialization.
Funny, but really, I wonder how much of Yahoo's ad revenue was from start ups? Any data on this?
Inproperly wired outlet? Hot swapped with neutral?
> “Today it's the war on drugs and terror. Tomorrow it's something else.”

> “This train has one destination, and it's not even clear if there will be any stops along the way. To understand where we're headed, try reading the Bill of Rights with the assumption that your government knows everything there is to know about you, and where those who attempt to reveal the extent of these capabilities are imprisoned or executed.”

Devil’s advocate here. Who’s to say they won’t use it strictly to deter drug trafficking and terrorism? Couldn’t they take steps to be transparent about what data is collected, and where it goes?

The point is, discussions on governmental surveillance usually jump to the conclusion that society is becoming like George Orwell’s 1984.

Could someone explain why these surveillance balloons are bad news for ordinary citizens without using the slippery slope fallacy?
Yes but my point is that if they're reporting profits it'd mean they'd have run out of things to spend money on (R&D, employees, product dev, etc). The whole point of VC funding is that so much money will go towards product dev that they'd need external funding.
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Could you tell me how?
It is easier to find the control room and drop the pants of operators.
AMD Ryzen 7 3700X is such a hit it almost outsold Intel’s entire CPU range
Amazon's Alexa will allow you to opt out of human review of recordings
>I could imagine a collapse in the food supply necessitating either sacrifice, or cannibalism.

That's not possible because (as every European famine ever has shown) if you choose "none of the above" then people will starve naturally until the famine is over. Not every hard situation is a trolley problem.
How to set up your Unity project for retro 16-bit games
All Hail the Algorithm
https://stripe.com/partners/fundingcircle

I’ve used it for my bootstrapped company, works great.
Seems like you wouldn't bother building well if you had to redo it every year
Or floating ground?
Btw Google for the word "Bre-X" and you will read about a gold mining scandal from the dotcom era.
Global Labor Flow Network
Also following the end of slavery the British Empire used “Coolies” from India and Asia in various transportation and labour roles which were basically a transitionary role between slavery and free paid workers. So job-wise was somewhat similar to slavery, in practice, but largely voluntary at the source and paid in some form to their families or community rather than ‘stolen’ by slave traders. While also less constrained from leaving back to their home countries, which was still difficult and they were not compensated nearly enough.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coolie
The Fleshly Frontier
While people claim they bath 3 times a day but I've not found this to be true in practise.

I've had girlfriends who bathed 3 times a week or sometimes once a week.

Now that's ofc my personal data and it's not from some third world country but Germany where I lived in Europe and I also found this to be true in China.
I haven't touched base with these lenders in a while but I thought p2p lenders like fundingcircle only offer term loans?...

Do they offer credit lines and revolvers now too? Curious how that works out in the p2p space.
>could purchasers band together and join an organization that negotiates on their behalf, organizes boycotts, etc. for a relatively small fee?

I think you just reinvented unions.
Ask HN: Ideas for CS Degree Seminar
Hey HN,
As part of my CS curriculum, we're encouraged to take lectures on valid computer science topics, related to existing/new research areas.

Shoot in ideas which would make amazing lectures and would help inculcate the beauty of computer science among other students.
The ideas need not be mathematical, but are encouraged to have data structures, algorithms and operating system concepts.
The list of cookie using parties on the economist.com is longer then the article...(?)
Four why cryptography is so hard to get right and four solutions
Untrue, medieval period and dark ages typically refer to the same time period that lasted until the 13th century.

The term 'dark ages' is used by some as reference to the early medieval period specifically, which may also be classified as 'late antiquity' ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Late_antiquity ).

So depending on who you talk to, the dark ages can be synonymous to the middle ages, be just its earlier part, or predate them...
Can anyone really justify why dictators are bad without resorting to "and they do something bad?" I mean, you couldn't even explain to me why you wouldn't want me as a cosigner on your bank account without resorting to something like, "and then whatshisface does something bad." I think it's reasonable to believe in a slippery slope between "gun is pointed" and "gun is fired." I mean, just to play devil's advocate, you could make me a cosigner and I could help you manage your finances.

You can't prove that dictatorial powers won't be used to perfectly simulate democracy, after all absolute power means the power to hold elections. Likewise, I can't prove that after the surveillance system is completed the government won't put black paper over all their computer screens and never look at anything. But, somehow, that doesn't really change my outlook.
If you can, you should use flock(1) for shell script locking
FWIW "Kill Decision" describes one scenario where they do have missiles attached.
Hard to say, my impression is that WhatsApp got a lot of publicity because of the high acquisition price. I think that contributed to its growth significantly.
That seems relevant to today's subject. Perhaps you would like to post your questions here so others can read and write answers as well?
Why is it scary using Brex? In the end they are just providing credit, so the risk is on them.
> So what's up with that?

Usually 50 VAC means the ground is open.

A thing about most ordinary transformers[1] is they wrap the primary and secondary together. Fast, cheap, and more efficient. The result is there is a large amount of capacitive coupling between the primary and secondary. Since one side of the secondary is grounded it's like connecting 1000-5000pf between hot and chassis ground. If chassis isn't grounded then it floats at 60VAC.

[1] For transformers with more isolation they wrap the primary and secondary on top of each other. Less capacitance that way. Medical grade transformers have physically separate windings.
If they’re only rounded up once a night by a petrol car, but in the daytime they did four trips each, then they are still saving most of the energy cost of the short trips even before you account for the collection trip by the car being one trip for many vehicles.

Also, they’re not always collected by cars. I was in Vienna recently, and saw someone collecting electric scooters by piling them onto another electric scooter.
In the US there is tamper proof outlets and GFCI is equivalent to RCD. Its pretty much required for new houses though older houses may vary on what they implement.
I don't think I've ever heard anyone say London density is bad. London _sprawl_ is bad, and one problem is how low density London actually is. More density would mean more housing available near the centre.
It's visually a nice collection. As a documentary it is pretty inaccurate in a number of key areas. The BBS Documentary has a very nice and accurate treatment (interviews with actual people from the scene) if one is interested.
Yeah I have been there. First, kudos if you live within walking distance. Second, it’s busy and still doesn’t feel very wild to me.
And the average scooter survives less than 80 days.

Meanwhile most of the journeys on scooters where I live are replacing walking or cycling...