skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
According to Ben Thompson, "There really is no plausible argument that Amazon has a monopoly."

https://stratechery.com/2019/tech-and-antitrust/
Meh... Canadians love to define themselves as "not Americans".
I too believe a recession is on it's way, but I have zero idea whether it is tomorrow or a decade from now. Everything feels overhyped and full of scammy cash, nothing feels sustainable, and we didn't learn much from 2008. But my feeling can't help anyone or anything.
Does google maps have a search by rating, open time, and so on?

I usually eat dinner around the time most restaurants have closed in the area. I find when I search google maps it gives me places closed, and often the hours in their listings are off. To be fair, hours have improved quite a bit in the last year.

I need a way to filter what I'm looking for.
Water rights are going to be increasingly important as time goes on, and those rights might prevent certain areas from collecting rainwater and runoff.
Thank you for the kind words! Two main reasons for our approach:

1) JavaScript-based apps these days have complex rendering logic that makes the HTML-parser method to find + translate strings unfeasible. Every company we've worked at has needed to extract each string and wrap them with a special `translate` function in their codebase.

2) We make heavy use of the Babel and TypeScript compilers to work with JavaScript ASTs, and there's been huge progress on those recently.

We've thought about NLP, but quality is a huge concern of ours, and we're not quite ready yet to roll that out to companies. If that's something you're interested in, would love to chat, send me an email at HN username + gmail!
Barneys Crisis Adds to Upheaval in New York Shopping Landscape
An ironic trend among some of the Bay Area upper-middle class is taking balance itself and fetishizing it. So instead of meditating for 20 minutes at home, we have 10-day silent Vipassana meditation retreats where you can't talk or touch anything. Instead of walking to the store once in a while to get some exercise, people bike 50 miles in and 50 miles back to work. Instead of having a pet, people raise a menagerie.

Sometimes I think Californians should just own it and admit that this is an extreme place. Even when we do balance, we do it by switching up the obsession weekly.
Couldn't a bad actor abuse liveTr() and call it with a ton of random strings to make me pay to translate a ton of garbage data?
> Sure for some things, like elective surgeries (lasik for example) or routine dental care, people can shop around, and prices will reach a sane level. But the majority of healthcare does not work like that.

This is precisely because there is no health "insurance" middlemen for purchasing those services. The market drives those costs down.

If - like in pre-ww2 America - instead people saved up for the inevitable doctors visits and paid out of pocket directly to the doctors and hospitals, costs would be FAR lower both due to competition and price sensitivity.
This is the fundamental problem with using health "insurance" for expected costs, rather than just unpredictable emergencies.
> Finally, the designated ‘blue zones’ of Sardinia, Okinawa, and Ikaria corresponded to regions with low incomes, low literacy, high crime rate and short life expectancy relative to their national average. As such, relative poverty and short lifespan constitute unexpected predictors of centenarian and supercentenarian status, and support a primary role of fraud and error in generating remarkable human age records.

Or, bureaucracy kills.
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absolutely!

> I don't even know what "based on mathematics" means.

Sure - it's too broad to be a useful definition. Perhaps it would be better to say "based on mathematical functions". Function outputs depend only on their inputs. So you can take f(x) == f(x) as true.

> Nothing that's nondeterministic can be expressed

Sweet! This way my production code can do the same thing as my test code. My job is to know what my code will do. I'll take all the determinism I can get.
Yeah I read some article years ago saying they were embroiled in lawsuits. I am surprised they are still claiming the M400 is "in development" after this long. Sadly seems more of a long term money siphon than any real project.
No. 122 is not reasonable.
Fwiw, I made a simple model[0] when trying tf.js a year ago which could consistently beat me and friends if you play enough against it.

Wish I had kept it training with the data from people who used it but it's on a static github pages site.

0. https://svilentodorov.xyz/rps
Choosing how much you're willing to pay for something isn't what "control prices" means. What it means is that if you offer to sell for more or buy for less by a significant amount, that won't cause your customers or suppliers to switch to a competitor. But that is what it would do with Amazon. People would go buy and sell using Walmart or a hundred other competitors instead.
Considerably lower but probably it matches to GDP-PPP margins.

Perhaps illegal immigrants who are just seeking economic benefits should be returned after checking their cases even if their skills are needed simply because they have entered illegally. But, Mediterranean sea is not the right place to filter them.
> Why would anyone pay $9.99 a month for Dropbox when you can pay $9.99 for Office 365, get the full office suite for six users with 1TB of storage each?

Well, what is Dropbox doing wrong that they have to charge so much more? (Given that offering more products for the same price basically equivalent to charging less per product)
As a student of scholar and literature and a former professor of the same, this is a sad day for me. I've taught many of Morrison's novels and learned more with every reading.

Morrison is a giant among writers, and the world is poorer for her passing.

The NYTimes obituary titled "Toni Morrison, Towering Novelist of the Black Experience, Dies at 88" is unavoidably narrow. Toni Morrison's novels contain universes. [0]

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/06/books/toni-morrison-dead....
How is that different from a regular single-payer system found in many countries?
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For a codified citation, this is 26 USC § 5000A(g)(2)(a), an is accompanied by a provision also ruling out tax liens and levies at § 5000A(g)(2)(b), so neither criminal penalty nor the usual compulsory fallback civil collection methods are permitted by the ACA.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/26/5000A
> The shadier they get, the bigger of a sign it is that they're in trouble financially, I would think.

Has Yelp's position on the perceived shadiness scale changed in the last several years? There've been allegations of extortion, defamation, and rigging, that entire time. I don't know that allegations of faking phone numbers is any worse, only less familiar.
The statement was tangential, and matched (so far as I can tell) most peoples' perception. As such, I didn't feel the need to document it.

You seem to be saying that "the right may be more likely to resort to guns" has "no base in reality". That would surprise me, for two reasons. First, gun culture seems to be much more prevalent in parts of the country that lean right. Second, the topic was mass shootings, and there have been several prominent mass shootings lately that have been done at least in the name of the right, whereas the Dayton shooter is the only one that I know of that was claiming positions of the left.

Neither of those are hard data. On the other hand, you seem to be the one claiming that what "most people know" is wrong; do you have data?
Companies offering services(including websites) in the EU have to follow laws in the EU. Just like you can't open a shop in New York based on Norwegian law. It makes perfect sense to me. And if a website can't work without spying on me then I'm glad they're avoiding it by themselves.
Greta Thunberg: World leaders must prove they've listened to climate activists
> I think that is dumb.

It would be dumb if that was what the law says, but it doesn't say that at all.

It says a company needs to be compliant if they operate from the EU or they market to the EU.
If you take venture funding - by definition you’re not trying to run a lifestyle business - your only goal is an exit strategy.
I'm not sure what you are getting at, in my country the main areas of operation for the military are helping flood victims and providing drinking water after natural disasters ... so no, those are good things.

If you are asking me, if I think there is such a thing as a "just war": I don't know. I have read Saint Augustine[0] on this topic and am not convinced. I have not personally reached a conclusion on this matter.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augustine_of_Hippo#Just_war
On the plus side, the recent Democratic debates have delved into the subject in impressive detail, with candidates grilling each other over differences, as well as the moderators. It's a remarkably nuanced discussion within the party. Not that most voters care about nuance, but for those who do, the information is there.
Maybe not a bad idea, though. Buddy of mine plans to take up skydiving when he retires so he can pack his parachute wrong when the time comes.
and Yelp from Grubhub.
As a Canadian, it just baffles me reading these kinds of posts. Like, I could break my leg on the way home from work today and any surgery I needed would be completely covered other than a $45 ambulance charge and maybe $50 for painkillers or whatever was needed afterward. (And prescription drug coverage is on the radar going into this fall's federal election, see: https://www.ndp.ca/pharmacare, https://www.greenparty.ca/en/our-vision/health-care)

No drama, no discussion, no appeals or scary forms to fill out. Is this really what Americans mean when they talk about "freedom of choice"?
I bought one of these for fun, with the whole kit, NVMe drive and a nice aluminum case... not sure what I am going to do with it but it's a really nice little PC and amazing what it can do.
With Yelp around, I'm genuinely glad to not be in a retail or restaurant business.

They are the digital equivalent of "nice shop you got there, it's be a real shame if anyone broke the window, for just a small payment, we can protect you..."

As a potential user, considering how they actively "manage" the reviews, I simply do not trust them. I find far better information elsewhere.
There are no "people who run these services" in the case of blockchain name resolution, though. There is (usually) a single person who possesses the private key necessary to update the records for a domain - if they find out who that is, they're welcome to use legal compulsion to force them to act.

* I say "usually" because more complex permissions schemes are possible with Bitcoin Script. m-of-n in particular I could see being very useful; it could allow individuals to update some parts of the record but not all - for instance, make it mathematically impossible to abandon the domain or move where it's pointed, but still possible to update contact information.
Yeah but malice is a thing too.
There are second order effects: if billionaires start buying stocks, thereby increasing the value of RSUs that tech employees hold, this can cause inflation in housing prices.
>All these "the ACA raised my premiums crap" is just that. You didn't have heath insurance before, you had a program that you thought was health insurance but would have absolutely bankrupted the average person if you ever needed to draw on it.

Why do you say that with certainty? I had a low premium / high deductible plan that was a good fit for me at the time that was both simple and lived up to it's promises, something I have not encountered since.
From Dropbox’s perspective, it worked as planned. They got rid of people who weren’t going to pay.
I really enjoy documentation. Modern wikis make the process so simple that it is almost effortless. Even if nobody else reads the documentation, it acts as a great reference point for me when I need to quickly refresh my memory on something I did a while ago.
It's not a new use case, it's still used to connect a card to a board. Just like the hinged connector used for microSD before this [0]. It's more USB 3.0 type A connector vs. the USB 2.0 type A.

Neither the connector itself nor the application are innovative. Which is why nobody is pointing out the particular innovation in the connector.

[0] https://www.yamaichi.de/products/connector-solutions/card-co...
He is a regular guy. I don’t think he is that atypical.
8chan: Where are users going now?
I have a good friend who is a physics graduate student at Princeton working on fusion and he has said the same.
>This is talking about recursion in the grammar of the language.

I know, it talks about early humans development. I just wanted to extend it (semi-jockingly) to programming.

>I can't think of a common programming language that doesn't have at least some recursive elements

Sure, but recursion is more idiomatic/powerful in some languages than others. In nested arithmetic operations it is barely apparent.
That's very easy to suggest. The challenge is to come up with a scheme where individual actors' interests cause their behaviour to be aligned with our goals for the system as a whole.

This is extremely hard to do. It isn't at all clear that it's even possible. Merely suggesting it isn't enough; to add something valuable to the discourse, you really need to describe the scheme itself, and that scheme needs to have a credible chance of success.
I don't want to live in a world where groups openly advocating for their followers to commit hate crimes and mass murder are viewed as something less than "evil".
I know we frown upon the kind of comment I’m about to make but I really feel the need to point this out right here; relevant username!
Great question, and thanks so much for sharing your experience at reddit! For static strings, we create resource files and download them directly into your codebase, so your uptime is totally independent of ours once you deploy your app.

For dynamic strings in the database/generated by users, our servers need to be up to receive + handle the translation request, but that will be cached the next time you try to look the translation up.
First time I suspected that problem, I wrote a tiny program that scanned the disk for slow blocks then marked as bad each block and extra megabyte to prevent disk's readahead from hitting bad blocks too. You are probably using a kernel filesystem, some of them let you provide a list of bad blocks to mark and avoid, I haven't tried that though.
what fresh hell is this
Doesn't it seem odd that this one example is used every single time people want to make this argument? This is the sort of "the exception proves the rule" situation. Extremely long down periods in established economies are so uncommon that we really only have this one example to use over and over.
This was one of the biggest takeaways from the "Startup podcast". If you haven't heard it, it details Alex Blumberg (of this American Life fame) attempts to create a company producing high quality long form podcasts.

At one point he and his partner are getting excited that they are on the road to profitability in 6 months. One of their VCs gets upset by this saying that targeting profitability is a sure way to end up with a lifestyle business.
That's only true with low-mid tier devices. Try handling a ThinkPad X1 Carbon, it's way better professional hardware than a MacBook Pro imo. Super light, mate screen, great keyboard.

My theory on Apple's design process with the MBP is they put all their efforts on the first 60 seconds with the product. The touchpad is the first thing you touch in a store, the bright colorful screen, and the very cool look the flat keyboard gives to the whole machine contribute a lot to the first impression.

The finger pains, the electric conductivity and heavy weight of the aluminium, the reflective screen, those are things you suffer from only once you've already bought the product.
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Are there similar efforts to follow in other cities? e.g Boston, SF
Has Magento Become Obese?
Plenty of borders in Europe, Asia, and even Africa have mixed nationality and religions too and there isn’t constant violence and repression by the biggest tribe. There’s far more positive examples than not around the globe.

I’m actually in favour in smaller nation states and redrawing lines as a solution to the failures of centralized mega states and old world borders, such as lack of representation and cultural differences which cause policy conflicts (the smaller stuff, not just violence which is atypical in most places). Plus smaller states = way more experimentation, which the US states were supposed to be with Federalism but has had that slowly taken away.

But that’s another story which doesn’t help explain the contradictions of this common explanation used selectively in Africa.
This misrepresents Popper.

https://twitter.com/HMMvandenElzen/status/899506513177391104...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance
Humor: Sand Hill Road (Silicon Valley Old Town Road Remix)
These forums attracts unsuspecting vulnerable people and turns them into their cesspool member. Once you are cesspool member your beliefs cannot be altered. That’s the issue.
Don't look at doctor salaries. Look at per capita costs. And by that measure, the US is far more expensive than Switzerland, the Netherlands, or any other country.

It's not that there's something uniquely good about those countries' models. It's that there's something uniquely bad about ours.
You're arguing rationale, blihp is arguing effect.

You're both correct, FWIW.

The bright line has been researched by economists, based on present-value theory, and at time of publication there's little reason for duration to exceed the 14-28 years under original US copyright law.

The problem is for popular works in the catalogue, a minuscule fraction of the total, for which copyright perpetuities are highly lucrative. As well as the general publishing industry incentive for creating a vast and potentially legally catastrophic level of FUD around virtually all stale works, regardless of actual copyright status.
My puns are almost always intended.

I would go so far as to say that punning is my superpower.
Especially since Germany's "mixed" mode is multi-mixed: the largest private insurer is a non-profit coop. With all the complaints about for-profit insurance companies, I don't understand why that isn't a thing in the United States. By the people, for the people and all that.
Actually it's worse, I've done much more involved backbending and hoop jumping to make sure I was covered between jobs than just quitting around the beginning of the month.
I suspect it is a downside of the financialization - silicon valley has become more generic business than any technical sophistication or engineering drive.

It has become way more finance and marketing over time - if Google was "tech" (indexing algorithms) that evolved into more marketing (their advertising role) then social networks started fundamentally "half-marketing" by being social oriented as opposed to sophistication of number crunching. This isn't meant as a slight - some business domains are just fundamentally are more one than the other. But that still shapes the culture.

Symbolically Juicero and Raw Water merchants show the shift to the lack of vision and smarts in a drive for cash. This isn't new of course - pets.com wasn't that bright either technically nor in the business sense but they were at least trying to move retail onto the internet.

As for society - the term is rent seeking and ridding us of it entirely would be a major commitment and ironically unpopular.

Unfortunately Yelp does have some value if not concretely - their name and reputation. If you were to try to launch a "zelp" tommorow nobody would stop you but chances are nearly nobody would go there because nobody heard of it and there is no good user content.

It isn't quite classical rent-seeking as they are not enacting barriers and anyone could enter technically. The issue is size and how people use it. If the market share was split or anyone could enter the delivery market with no overhead their share would shrink.

It is a side effect of consumer useage - there is a strong winner takes most tendency with the resulting network effect in spite of the fact the barrier to entry being so low and people going with the path of least resistance.
An article about the site, from New York Magazine:

http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2016/07/kiwi-farms-the-webs-b...
HPA was also a good way to overprovision SSDs for better write performance before TRIM existed (although today's SSDs are so fast I would no longer worry about overprovisioning).
I like what they do in the Japanese train system. You have to point at whatever you're doing and day aloud what it is before you check it off. That heavily reduces the amount of mindless checking via scanning the sheet that leads to items being checked off without being fully validated.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pointing_and_calling
Having some swap with low swappiness allows the system to page out pages that are unlikely to be used or haven't been used in a long time but aren't backed by a file.

In normal conditions this frees up memory for more useful data and helps you avoid getting to perverse conditions.
Many states ban the collection of rainwater. In California for example it was illegal until 2012. I don't about the rest of the world, but I suspect water rights can be complicated everywhere.

It will be up to the states and national governments' to fix this with legislation.
I’m a huge proponent of the whole “free range kid” thing, and am always looking for ways to encourage my kid’s independence, but there’s no way on earth I’m putting her on BART by herself. This is not a general paranoia about trains or public transportation—it’s a specific observation about BART in particular.

Hell, I won’t take BART through certain stops at certain times of the day and I’m a grown-ass man.
Has one of the fundamental components (water) for farming changed at all in recent years? Perhaps there hasn't been enough of a market force for innovation after the advent of irrigation.
Already in some places. Roofcrime is a thing.

http://www.ncsl.org/research/environment-and-natural-resourc...
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Oh nice, this is great! Thanks
Cool I’d like to use this for my startup. Could I give you a call
A bad actor could only abuse liveTr() to spend your money if they had access to your API keys, which hopefully should be a secret. In these cases, you'll also be able to report bad strings coming in through your dashboard, and we'll take care of the bad actor and re-fund you immediately!
https://www.pacificprime.sg/blog/public-and-private-hospital...

Read up on Singapore's model. While it works well for them, I'd be interested to see if it could work here (like hospital quality/comfort, wait times, etc. based on tiers).
No, I never said anything about trust. They are in my experience less effective than those that are highly engaged by the work itself.
I bet that forgettable greek place is in fact excellent.
A Discussion of 'Adversarial Examples Are Not Bugs, They Are Features'
Oh I know that.

To be clear what I don’t buy is voter ID having a suppressive effect iff we had an actual national ID
> simply hold refresh, click "request desktop site"

Apple are changing that feature in iOS13 to be a lot more obvious (menu where reader button is). And iPadOS13 (beta 4) defaults to Desktop Mode (might break lots of websites) although there is a setting to change it to default to Mobile Mode.

Android Chrome users have Desktop Mode checkbox under the hamburger menu.