skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> supercentenarianism seems heavily overrated.

Definitely true.

The oldest of the old don't have a quality of life that makes me (and many others) enthused about advanced age: cognitive-impairment, blindness, deafness, immobility, frailty, chronic disease-- all of these are "on the table" as normal expectations except for a few very rare exceptions.

Not to mention that at such advanced age, whether it's 95 or 105, people often need constant 24/7 care, usually from dedicated family members who sacrifice their time to extend the time of another.
This uses the cloud...

In all seriousness, isn't the use case here more temporary? You're running a script that you want some else to see the output of without the faff of copy & paste to a gist.
I will never forgive Dropbox for limiting free users to 3 linked devices, which promptly resulted in half the people I preached the gospel of Dropbox to ringing my phone and being pissed at ME.
I'm sympathetic to your annoyance at reflexive anti-Americanism. We sure have had a bad string of making the same mistakes though over the past twenty years.

The pattern is: There is a dictator that is oppressing his people, we feel bad about it and want them to be able to have democracy. We overthrow the dictator, and then things get complicated and we walk away, leaving the place in civil war and ruin.

Often the problem is that the only reason it's a country at all is that some guy in London drew a line on a map a couple of hundred years ago, and the borders do not reflect ethnic or religious loyalties. In this post colonial situation, often the only thing holding the country together was the violence of the dictator. We then swoop in with fighter jets and maybe even ground troops, maybe stick around a while to run a few elections, but generally without the understanding of what's left of the power structure in the country.

This is precisely what happened in Libya, and after Iraq and Afghanistan it's shameful that we just continue to do the same thing. Bomb Gaddafi and let the chips fall where they may, which turns out to be years long civil war.

If you want to look for a relatively successful model of U.S. intervention, it's what we did in Yugoslavia. Just recognize that the country doesn't have enough holding it together to be a functioning democracy, break it up along ethnic lines, institute democracy in the statelets, and then let them all join the EU when they're ready.
Curious on what experienced domain buyers would suggest in my case.

After many years of procrastination I decided to see how much would it cost to purchase myfirstname.com (about 5k people in the world have this name).

Turns out it is impossible to even enquire on purchasing this domain.

The domain is not being used.

Archive.org shows 3 hits in the last 15 years, all minimal parked pages, last hit being 2013.

Domain registration is private. My whois-fu is rather weak.

So what can I do to contact the owner?

Some big name reseller is just sitting on this name for 10+ years and waiting for who knows what.
Are you saying that because you don't want it I can't have it?
Freenet FUNK is mine and the cheapest. Besides that Telekom, Vodafone and o2 all offer uncapped LTE at prices ranging from 59,99 to 90,00/month.
You can see Gallup's historical polling results on this question here: https://news.gallup.com/poll/4708/healthcare-system.aspx

Since 2000, the percentage of respondents who have said that providing healthcare coverage "is not the responsibility of the federal government" has fluctuated from a low in 2006 of 28% to a high in 2013 of 56%. (In their most recent survey, it's 42%.)
Not just you, it was really good 10 years ago, Today, it's pure garbage, I never depend on it anymore. I listen to the voicemail 100% of the time now. A part of me thinks it's probably perfect now and they just feed us garbage data not to freak us out.
Facebook did the same thing with Messenger
I advise not making overly aggressive insinuations if you want your comments to be taken seriously: "But maybe you really hate your in-laws." Was that really a necessary addition? Even if it is possibly damaging I don't see any reason to assume malicious intent rather than ignorance.
I have been using grooveip ( https://snrblabs.com/Grooveip/FAQ ) for 2 out of 4 of those things and been mostly happy with it. I have not been using all the functions that snrb makes available. Just peeked at the commercial api thing and such.

Think I had an android app at one time that would auto forward sms to email, but that's been a while / a few phones ago.
Did you read the article? There is a clear statistical anomaly centered about 10 years before reliable birth records were introduced. You are ex post facto rationalizing the longevity of a region for where there is evidence of age-related fraud.
based on the sprague-dewaley "cancer rats" experiments? Those aren't sufficient evidence.

Why they are called "cancer rats":

https://cancerres.aacrjournals.org/content/canres/33/11/2768...
Why do I need JS to link to a social site? Why would you ever need anything apart from and <img...> and a <a href...>?

Dependencies
jQuery
jQuery cookies plugin (optional)
uglifyjs (for build.sh)
uglifycss (for build.sh)
extend (for build.sh)

I appreciate what the author is trying to do but shit like this is why the web is so bad now. Linking to another site isn't hard.
Online Arbitrage Deals on Amazon.com and UK
I wonder if you get the opposite in regions with relatively better child benefits?

Child benefits lead to shorter lifespans...
Denying your child access to an internet connected computer in 2019 would put your child in a very disadvantaged position in life. It has become necessary to be fluent in computer operating system GUIs and the ways of the internet. For school, work and now for socializing. There was never a centralized decision to make things this way. Nobody was ever asked if they were ok with this. It just happened.

Imagine that neuralink tech starts to become normal. Inevitably, some parents will opt to have their child linked. Many children will be linked regardless because it is medically necessary. The linked children perform five times better than the linkless. They socialize by electronic telepathy, even though they only have threads in their motor cortex in the early days. Being linked also enables them to engage in wildly addictive and inappropriate behavior that had never been widely anticipated before. You become a parent in the midst of this. Do you imagine that you would opt out? Do you imagine the parents of yesterday thought they would opt out of allowing their children to do what children do now?
What value does Yelp provide to end users? I've tried it in the past, but it never feels like I get any value. A simple Google search (not Maps, just search the usual way) works just as well, if not better.
Not only that, but there's also the problem of how you ask people the questions. When you ask, "Do you think we should have socialized medicine" a large percentage will freak out and say "NO! We don't want socialism here!" But if you ask them, "Should we defund Medicare?" they'll also loudly scream "NO! We need our Medicare to stay alive!"
In a lot of places around the world, assisted suicide isn't an option.

Not the op, but after watching nearly all of my relatives loose their minds to dementia, altimeters (edit: mood swings can be a...) or something else in later life, the idea of being trapped in that state for any amount of time is terrifying. I know it sounds trite, but having a fast motorbike squirrelled away (even if it's entirely unrealistic in actuality, for a number of reasons) is surprisingly soporific.
For marketplace sellers, yes that's the rough gist. There are however many more factors: seller rating, shipping speed, whether the fulfillment is done by Amazon, and a few hidden ones.

Source: Have built price optimization software for Amazon Marketplace sellers in the past
Yup, this is what I always do.

All the major platforms allow you to pass through titles and other data to pre-populate the share box.
> Just pass a law making it illegal for teens to smoke

Did anywhere do that? I see laws making it illegal to _sell_ cigarettes to teenagers, and I see laws making it illegal to _advertise_ cigarettes in a way that will attract teenagers but I don't see any laws that jail teenagers for smoking.
The software is a "one time cost" in quotes due to maintenance etc but talking in broad strokes which wouldn't impact the claim of $1 touch

Or to put it another way you wouldnt invent a new way to desalinate seawater and then say the cost is $10/litre instead of 2 cent because of r&d on the device you made..
>You don’t get to keep your wasteful jet-setting, SUV-driving, car-culture-oriented consumer lifestyle

I don't have that lifestyle, but the people telling me the world is going to end because of CO2 so I am evil for eating meat do though. Funny how that works.

>it is the obligation of wealthy countries to radically curtail their own use of fossil fuels

No it isn't. Why would we be responsible for the failures of others?

>This technology must then be exported to poorer countries on a free or subsidized basis.

We did not create their low standard of living, we are under no obligation to try to create a high standard of living for them, while being attacked for it. Africa could have a perfectly reasonable standard of living if they did not reproduce out of control, consuming all gains via increased population. There's a good book that discusses why "charity" and "aid" can not and will not ever fix the problems of the "developing" world:

https://www.amazon.com/Farewell-Alms-Economic-History-Prince...
If you're looking for "slightly", there are libraries to use that expose macros and function calls, instead of directly accessing pointers, along with the "n" version of libc functions.
I recently started looking for deals on Amazon UK as well. I also added some filtering options to rule out unverified suppliers for instance.
Check it out if you are into selling on Amazon.
Cheers,
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Memory Tagging Extension: Enhancing memory safety through architecture
Google Voice is an officially-supported GSuite feature now, so it's unlikely to shut down (although so is Google+, and that … had to change, sorta).

But it's weird how they have this overlap between Google Fi and Google Voice. And it's impossible to forward a Fi/Voice number to/from another Voice/Fi number.
Good Post. He has sort of confused 'sales' with 'marketing' though, since most of what he talks about is marketing, but the main takeaways are sound!
My first intro to Morrison was thru 'The Bluest Eye'. Afterwards I read many of her books incl 'Beloved'. I loved all of them.

One thing I could however never understand was how a person with such deep insights into the African American experience could call Bill Clinton, 'the first Black President'. I thought at first maybe there was something I didn't understand. But as years passed, I've been increasingly feeling that perhaps that wasn't the case.
EU and each european country are responsible for the deaths of thousands refugees and migrants in Mediterranean sea and many more rot in concentration camps.

The EU has financed walls (yes the same EU that makes fun of Trump) like the one at Evros river at greek-turkish borders, a place that could be used as a safe passage, away from risky sea smuggling.

While supposedly it's illegal to return migrants back to countries that could risk their life, still the EU made a deal with Turkey to do exactly that.

Same wise they paying the Libya to keep refugees and migrants in awful concentration camps away from the EU, yes the same Libya that is under civil war is considered by EU a safe country. In fact a few days ago such a concentration camp was bombed and many lost their lives.

EU's Frontex and local forces keep pushing back the boats with refugees, something that's totally and universally illegal.

It is high time to stop this immunity that EU enjoys to the public talk, childhood's end has arrived long ago for that particular organization.
Firedrop was doing that, but it seems they've pivoted to something else.

As I recall, it was literally upload your text and photo/video content, and their AI will design a static site for you, optimizing for SEO and engagement.
A Clear Future as Claris
The Secret Scripts Amazon Give to Cops to Promote Ring Surveillance Cameras
Yes, there's an interesting philosophical question here about burdens of proof and Humean 'extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence'. Calment's claim is to be the oldest person out of billions of people, and she is the oldest by a truly extraordinary margin - no one has even come close to reaching her record before or since. So, which is more likely: that her claim however improbable (someone has to win the lottery) is completely correct (and she simply had some unique luck or mutation enabling her excess longevity), or that some highly unusual (but still more likely than '1 in tens of billions') circumstance (such as a complicated tax & insurance fraud) has led to a mistake? Indeed, how would one ever be sure of such a claim, short of the isotopic testing advocated in OP - which will, incidentally, stop working in the future?

(This is a general problem of priors and evidence and model uncertainty I think about occasionally: https://www.gwern.net/Modus https://www.gwern.net/Littlewood https://www.gwern.net/Mail-delivery#on-model-uncertainty https://www.gwern.net/Research-criticism https://www.gwern.net/Everything https://www.gwern.net/Turing-complete#on-seeing-through-and-... )
No support for encryption? It would be interesting to support HTTPS, even if the initial setup would be harder than "nc".
I disagree, ICE are going absolutely crazy locking up people they even suspect of immigration discrepancies.
the paper ballots via mail handle infrastructure and are counted by machine with spot checking. Also, you can go to the vote counting floor at any time and be part of the process.

However you don't have to setup/store machines, and people can vote over a few days which means better access to everyone.
Altimeters: Not even once.
I am working on something similar which I will probably open source in the future. It watches a directory for OCR'd PDF files. It has a set of rules files (yaml config) which look for keywords to determine where to put the document, and which dates to use in the name(IE documents from my car dealership have the original date of purchase, I want those documents to use the latest/newest service date, however say documents containing future dates that investments come up, I want to use the oldest or middle date). Has a bunch of regular expressions to capture and parse a vast amount of date formats used in documents. Combined with scanbot for iOS, and a Scansnap document scanner, it works amazingly well and lets my paper shredder get lots of use. I also found that tesseract based OCR gave significantly poorer OCR quality than ABBYY FineReader.
Your level of trust in the US government is unfortunately vastly unwarranted. Hundreds if not thousands of children will never see their parents again as a result of the US government policies; this has been widely publicized. Do you think an elderly Vietnamese couple will move the needle?
Is it common for knowledge workers to fantasize about more labor intensive work from time to time? Because I definitely found myself relating to that sentiment. Usually my mind goes to construction or carpentry in those moments.

My favorite part of this is the acknowledgement of the enjoyment to be found embracing the 'degenerate' as the author calls it. I can strongly relate to needing a good, stupid, socially-unacceptable laugh sometimes.
> unlike the coffee shop, there are not hundreds of Amazon competitors that you can sell your product through

There are though. Not only major ones like Walmart, eBay, Esty, Target, Craigslist, etc., but the fact that anyone can create their own website and then get customers through price comparison sites by having the most competitive prices. On top of which, brick and mortar retailers can reach the same customers for most products, and there are a zillion of those you can sell through, or a slew of wholesaling companies that will do the retail distribution work for you.

That's assuming you're manufacturing the products; if you are the wholesaler then what did you think your job was? It's to negotiate with lots of retailers to buy through you. "I want Amazon to provide 100% of the value but I still make money and never get cut out" is not a sound business model.

> the loss in exposure means there a significant costs associated with suppliers moving to another platform/store - the very definition of market power

You can set up with eBay in like an hour, probably the same for most others. It would be more if you have a lot of different SKUs, but that implies you're doing more volume and it's still a small fraction of your total costs.
A Submarine Goes Under a Failing Glacier to Gauge Rising Seas
Yes, there is this post on HN.

That's not snark--a relative willingly divulged that information in a public forum. That's sufficient evidence.
I also have a hard time seeing how a "high end car" is a fair comparison to not having a car at all.

Anyway, could you also elaborate on your parking situation? Is this mostly destination parking? I'm just a bit surprised, since a resident parking permit is like €20 for two years here in berlin [0].

[0] https://service.berlin.de/dienstleistung/121721/ (german)
Yes, what he said is hearsay because it's a bunch of work rumors from an unreliable source. I have no idea why I should trust Cernekee (let alone why any US President should trust him enough to make this type of public accusation), it seems like he has some "unfortunate baggage" (https://www.cnbc.com/2019/08/06/google-whistleblower-cerneke...)
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I didn't really understand what the point was there - are they saying it's because of fraud? Or a real thing?
You are totally right. I've failed at reading quite a bit on this one.
Someone should build a product for restaurants that receives the call, terminates it, and immediately calls the customer back directly. If you can quietly get a critical mass of restaurants onto it, then Yelp wouldn't be able to punish those restaurants.
No teenager has been to jail for smoking a cigarette. Underage possession laws have penalties like (usually small) fines. People might go to jail for selling tobacco to minors, but that is different!
> old Vietnamese couple

They are not old, they are only 55 according to the documents. /s
Either I'm greatly misinterpreting your comment, or you mean something different than the innovators dilemma (maybe crossing the chasm?).

The innovators dilemma (and CC) refers to incumbents (established and huge) having issues handling disruptive /revolutionary innovation (in particular low value ones) due to issues with creating new markets due to not seeing enough size initially, path dependency, etc. This article seems to be targeted at startups.
You really think INS are monitoring and investigating comments from throwaways in an anonymous forum like HN? Easy with the tin foil.
That problem started earlier, when we started burning significant quantities of coal. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiocarbon_dating:

”Research has been ongoing since the 1960s to determine what the proportion of 14C in the atmosphere has been over the past fifty thousand years. The resulting data, in the form of a calibration curve, is now used to convert a given measurement of radiocarbon in a sample into an estimate of the sample's calendar age

[…]

Because the time it takes to convert biological materials to fossil fuels is substantially longer than the time it takes for its 14C to decay below detectable levels, fossil fuels contain almost no 14C, and as a result there was a noticeable drop in the proportion of 14C in the atmosphere beginning in the late 19th century. Conversely, nuclear testing increased the amount of 14C in the atmosphere, which attained a maximum in about 1965 of almost twice what it had been before the testing began.”
There is no proof of that. Even if you experience speaking and thinking as separate sensations, it may still be that they are actually "implemented" by the same structures in the brain.

There is in fact a theory that language is a tool for thought first, and for communication only secondarily.
I either need to stop using spellcheck when distracted or start wondering how early onset this might actually be o.0
https://tobaccocontrol.bmj.com/content/12/suppl_1/i6

This goes into more detail - yes, in some states it is illegal for teens to possess tobacco, but the penalty is usually something like a small fine, or you have to attend a class.
Well, I think even more important than the amount and coverage of documentation is its quality.

I have been in projects, where it would have been favorable if there would have been no documentation at all because the existing one was simply wrong and it took the organization weeks until someone noticed it and got a developer to actually look into the code.
cough antitrust violations are not a good thing to attempt when you're already under investigation for antitrust abuses in multiple jurisdictions.
Hyundai releases car with solar panel roof
You have to turn it on in accessibility settings, but ctrl + scroll to zoom in.
Isn't this like saying we shouldn't shut down coal plants because the coal plant workers would be out of a job?
And (minor detail) she won the Nobel Prize in Literature.
In comparison, NFS' policy on offensive content: https://www.nearlyfreespeech.net/about/faq#TheLongGame

>Of course, the simplest reason is that it's not up to us to decide what the rest of the world should or shouldn't see. Bad news, it's not up to you either. Worse news, it's still true even when we agree. Which is probably most of the time.

>Finally, censorship is always bad, for a variety of well understood reasons that we don't need to repeat here. But in the case of some types of content, it has special dangers. When you censor a web site based on the extreme or dangerous views of its creator(s), you haven't stopped those people from thinking that way. You haven't made them go away. You certainly haven't stopped the people who hold those views from doing whatever else they do when they're not posting on the Internet. What you've actually done is given yourself a false sense of accomplishment by closing your eyes, clapping your hands over your ears, and yelling "Lalala! I can't hear you!" at the top of your voice. Pretending a problem doesn't exist is not only not a solution, it makes real solutions harder to reach.
And anyway we'd prefer to have broken windows, because otherwise what work will employ our glaziers?
Good points.

Do you think the current interviewing system could be improved in any way?
I don't know why you get so down-voted. It's a known fact that a big part of migrants from the mediterranean area are economic migrants. I remember when they refused to seek asylum in less wealthy countries from Europe and traveled on foot. Some chose to take dangerous and illegal journeys even from France (via Calais) to UK. Now tell me these people deserve asylum.