skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A. She's a child. She cannot possibly be engineering this without the aid and approval of many adults, starting with the cooperation and permission of her parents.

Pretending that a legal minor has this much agency is a lie on the face of it.

If she were having sex with all these adults, everyone would call that statutory rape (and worse). Everyone would decry "How can you blatantly use a child like that?!!!"

But her being used politically seems fine to most people.

B. The Pope should be tending his own flock and cleaning up his own mess. Him using a child like her to further his own political ends makes me go "Gee, I wonder why Arch Bishops and the like seem to think using children to meet their sexual needs is A-okay!".

The Pope owes her an apology in my mind.

I don't harp on this stuff in part because I'm not Catholic and I have a grudging respect for the work he has done to clean up the mess with the Catholic church, but I was a stay-at-home mom for a lot of years and I was very protective of my own special-needs sons. I have seen her described as autistic. Why are her parents allowing this? I don't get that.

C. The internet exists. Video exists. If she is so much more holier than thou, she could create a website (as her primary means to share her message) and she could do her testimony at these events she is invited to via video conferencing/prerecorded video.

When you want to be the face of a moral argument, it isn't enough to not be guilty of X. There needs to be no appearance of impropriety.

If you have to explain to people that gallivanting all over the world is somehow totes different here because it was by train and other vehicles that "were going there anyway," instead of saying "I refuse to complain about traffic while being traffic," then you are diluting your message.

Gandhi did a lot of things for which I think he deserves criticism, such as sleeping with naked girls to supposedly prove to himself he could resist temptation. But he succeeded in his goal because he walked the walk on things pertinent to his message concerning how to get economically free of England.

He wore very little and wove what little he wore. He didn't argue that other people should burn their British clothes, but he needed to dress appropriately for a world leader so he needed to be an exception.

I could probably find other things to say here, but I'm very much regretting saying anything at all. I've paid very little attention to the whole thing because the whole thing strikes me as bullshit theater using a child as its political puppet, so none of it sits well with me, not as a mother and not as an environmental studies major who has endeavored to live by my beliefs instead of lecturing the world to shrink its carbon footprint while I do otherwise.

I may never get much press. I get that. But I'm comfortable with the choices I am making for myself without trying to hold other people to a standard I can't be arsed to try to meet because, well, you know, my message is so important or something.
I have ordered things from aliexpress. I've ordered orders of magnitude more stuff from Amazon. That's my point. A number doesn't have to be zero to be practically insignificant.
> So they are using financial records to claim that they are hiding assets...their evidence for this is...the financial records...that they have...already. How does that work?

Because they didn't get the financial records from the Sacklers. A Court would want a full financial disclosure as part of the settlement. Let's say the IRS audited a small business owner and settled with the owner for back taxes and fines. Well, the owner could have used some creative accounting to hide money, maybe contract out some work to an overseas company he controlled. This might not be illegal alone. But hiding his ownership of the overseas company could decrease the back taxes and fines he owned. So it's going to look bad for him if the IRS discovers his stake in the overseas company from his bank reporting a suspicious transaction.
It's a cliche that IT as an industry is hostile to women, and it's also a cliche that women are good at multitasking.

How do we know that people's opinions on the difficulty of multitasking are representative and not biased?

I'm not even speculating on whether gender differences might be innate or trained.
> On top of that, most developed countries have an established welfare state. Any sort of communal system needs a way to ensure that the contributions to the pooled resources is greater than the demand on those resources. If you don't have immigration control then you get a "tragedy of the commons".

This one of the practical reasons I alluded to and is part of my reasons for opposing certain types of welfare systems (and thus something I wish more attention was paid to in the creation of policy proposals.)

Many services (e.g. education, infrastructure, policing and more) pay off so well in the long term that paying these costs for immigrants is in our own interest as they increase the long term value of those immigrants. (I think the US would be greatly served by doing something like what Germany does, offering free higher education to foreigners who qualify to attend their public universities.)

If other public services are actually being abused they can be limited to citizens of the US (and of countries with which the US has reciprocity agreements with.)

Immigration fears make a strong argument in favor of a citizenship dividend. I think subsidizing your workers and making them more competive vs. immigrants is far better for our country than the dehumanizing policing (not just at the borders) required to effectively enforce immigration laws.

Personally, I view this as a negative since I think immigration has been unabashedly good in the long term for our country throughout it's history. Immigration controls may offer some sort term benefits, but it seems hypocritical to ask for those benefits for ourselves (at the cost of future generations) while reaping the advantages of historical immigration.
Disney CEO Bob Iger Has Resigned from Apple’s Board
What I can think of : I remember playing vs my friend a single game of c&c 3 tiberium wars for a 3 hours but seeing starcraft 2 the game end in 15 min in the esports.
Shots fired. Its not unbelievable tbh.
This is the most concise way to explain to pedestrians (who are now largely aware of tracking) the crux of the issue. Who in their right mind wouldn't poke the icon?

Hope this becomes a thing, I'll certainly be spreading it.
Oh, I actually agree that the system isn't doing what it supposed to and that we should exit it here. I just don't think it will have that much effect on most consumers, because the volume is comparatively tiny. That's all I'm saying.
I wish I was in those circles. It would be really fun and informative to buy up a bunch of the carouses of dead startups and do a code/architecture review. What ideas did this team have that was interesting? What's confusing in the code base? Would I repeat any of these things in the future.
The point of this is misdirection sometimes known as cooking the books, where you may have financial documents that say money exist, but they documents are separate from another set of books that says money doesn't exist.

You provide the cooked books to anyone who is suing you, Uncle Sam for taxes, and so on. Of course you have another set of documents that tells you where your money is, the point of having two set of books is to use one set to lie, misdirect, be non truthful in a court of law.

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And Limited Liability Corporations have good faith as part of their contract as a requirement. You commit purposeful fraud and the LLC will not shield you. The term for this is known as "Piercing the Veil" / "Piercing the Corporate Veil" and when the veil is pierced your assest away from the corporation can be seized for behavior you did as an agent of the corporation.

Now what are the rules of Piercing the Veil depends on your state for each state has different rules for Limited Liability Corporations, that said all 50 states have ways to pierce the veil for it is just a settled part of common law in the US.
Yes, that's exactly my point. It's a niche, and that niche is much much much smaller than the overall category of "things that were imported from China".

And further to the point of impact on trade volumes: a good number of those purchases will instead just happen on amazon or wherever, and will still be of products originating in China: they'll just take a different path into the country and potentially be more expensive.
Apparently even Caltech has been sanctioned for violating NCAA rules.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.si.com/college-basketball/2...
> most people on HN can agree on is climate change.

There are many aspects of the climate change issue where disagreement is reasonable. Does industrial progress need to be sacrificed to prevent climate change? How much governmental intervention is helpful? How accurate are predictions of what is coming? What is the most efficient way to prevent climate change and how effective will those actions be? There is no correct path forward. To say you think we can all agree on climate change implies that anyone who disagrees with you is wrong.
>if you try to buy potassium supplements, the max dosage you can get over the counter is 99mg

I had no problem buying potassium (gluconate) powder by the pound off of Amazon for cheap. (I am in the US.) Be careful with it because if the ratio of potassium to sodium in your blood gets too high, it interferes with the mechanism that sequences the contractions of the chambers of the heart or such.
It's been done: https://www.skotos.net/
I'm not sure this is a great example of memorization or multithreading but playing chess blindfolded against three opponents, is out there: https://youtu.be/xmXwdoRG43U
> He acted selfishly

Risking imprisonment isn’t exactly what I’d call a selfish act. How do you see his action as selfish. He’s lost so much.

And what corroboration do you feel is necessary. Snowden simply leaked documents. The government hasn’t contradicted that.
Very ambiguous.

Generally how it works is you submit a proposed purity level to the FDA, with rationale and backup by your own validated analyses.

The FDA dives into it and says “this is reasonable” or “this won’t work” or “based on the chemistry, you need to test for X also”.

Then they require you to “release” any product you make, showing that it conforms to the agreed upon purity. If it fails, they expect you to follow up and figure out why.

Note, most of this is done in good faith - the FDA isn’t repeating the science in a lab, but they pay enough attention that if you’re making things up, it’ll be apparent in the data. The CMC (chemistry manufacturing controls) section of the NDA can be hundreds of pages long.

When it comes to inspections, they are typically random (but if you have a bad track record they happen more often). They can happen any time and they’ll look at all your processes, not just for a specific drug. Don’t have a record that you cleaned your equipment between runs? That’s a paddlin’.

Repeatedly run tests until you get a “pass” result? Yeah, your product will get banned from importation.

But yes, much of the regulation is based on good faith simply because the manpower required to verify everything made would be massive.
Do you know of a way to generate pseudo random numbers in your head? (Honest question)
FYI Site Blocked by our corp network admin for some reason..
Doesn't everyone have an old phone at this point? Is the app going to check if activity implies it is their current phone?

It seems easy and less intrusive for the majority(?) who wont get anything in return for installing a sketchy app to just give tickets out randomly toward the end of a game and anyone who is there at the end more often has a better chance of getting one.
Researchers Find Unexpected White Blood Cells in Patients with Vaping Illness
Have you had successful dealings with them?
This seems to be the end goal of https://writtenrealms.com/. A lot of time was spent making the UI responsive and work well on mobile resolutions!
Ask HN: Why don't windows and mac apps default directories the way emacs does?
I've been using Mac OS's and Windows OS's since the '80's like everyone else. I still do not like and do not even get what standard, modern apps use to determine what directory to start out in when you do File -> Open.... And I still don't get what directory they choose to use when you do File -> Save As.... In Emacs, it's always been simple and right: when you do "open" (c-x c-f), it defaults to the same directory as the document you're looking at (the current buffer), and when you do Save As..., it also defaults to saving in the same directory as the document you're looking at (the current buffer). I waste so much time in "modern" apps navigating to the directory I want when it's almost always just the directory of the current file. I wonder if I'm just missing something about the way it works, but I would like to know what is the rationale, if anyone knows. The only other time I asked someone seriously about this, a Windows app developer, was when I suggested defaulting the way I'm used to, and he said that was a great idea, he'd never thought of that. I thought that he might have been pulling my leg though. I kind of don't get it. :)
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Matt Levine today:

"people were like “this is a revolution in capitalism,” and I was like “nah this is just CEOs saying that they don’t want to have to listen to shareholders"
> people who just seem to collect mansions and yachts

You skipped a couple of steps. The full process goes like this:

1. Hire someone to produce something. Pay then $X.

2. Sell the the thing they produced back to them for $Y where Y>X.

3. Pocket $(Y-X)

4. Use some of the proceeds to pay lobbyists to pressure legislators to pass laws that make it illegal for anyone else to enter your market

5. Buy yacht
That's an interesting view of the situation. I don't think I've ever seen someone say that APM requirements are higher in SC2. Notable enormous APM sinks in SC1 are the unit selection cap, the inability to give orders to multiple factories at a time, and the inability to make workers rally to the mineral line.

Whether the counters are harder, I don't have enough knowledge to say.
Gripping Gears [video]
Your point is that because Amazon is sells more stuff than AliExpress we should stay in a bad deal? Not sure I get that point.
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I tried to make payments to the hospital on a few thousand in bills, fell behind, and eventually got sued. I would not offer this as advice to anybody.

If somebody from the hospital had told me _before_ I got served that I could get 85% of my bill written off just by submitting some paystubs, I would have appreciated it. If you're in a similar spot, call and ask about patient financial assistance or similar programs.
Huh? "No no he is good stop."
There are still a lot of unknowns, It is good to leave some room for doubt. Always.
Another thing that bugs me in the whole "medical cost" disaster that is the USA. Whenever you talk to Doctors or other medical practitioners about the situation they blame the hospitals, or the insurance companies or <fill in the blank here> but ultimately they are complicit in the mess, but they don't want to rock the boat, its just shameful.
> and don't want that messing with my clipboard

Then I guess it's a good thing that CLIPBOARD and PRIMARY selection are separate and not synchronized by default. If you only use Ctrl-C/Ctrl-V, there's no need to realize PRIMARY selection even exists. Selecting does not mess with the Ctrl-C clipboard.

> And I don't want an errant click, or a click intending to menu/scroll, to cause me to paste whatever happens to be on my clipboard.

Yes, I guess that's a valid concern. Personally, I prefer the feature than having the system do nothing when I middleclick a text field.
"Nobody believes an average welder makes $150k a year."

The main point of the article is that politicians from a particular party say that they do. It then goes into a lot of examination as to why that's not true.
Do you go to a different dentist and eye doctor each time?

Also, if you had to go to an emergency room, would you give them fake personal info so they can't send you bills?
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I think it's even worse than you say. By avoiding politics you tacitly endorse the status quo. You can't opt out - everyone's speech and actions affect the political landscapes no matter how much you would rather pretend that you are above it.
You mean Loctite’s blue-package cyanoacrylate right, not their thread locker. Right?
I'd imagine this has something to do with it:

> Overstock’s heavily shorted stock plummeted from $87 in the beginning of 2018 to about $17 today as some $1.6 billion in market capitalization has evaporated. Once reliably profitable, Overstock lost $206 million last year and $110 million in 2017. In recent months, Byrne fired some 400 people.

That's the context in which the ceo dumped 15% of his holdings.
Q: How do you know when an Internet bubble is about to burst?

A: When profits start to matter.
> Please consider alternative narratives.

Why not just consider facts and accept what we know while also accepting that all the facts are not known or possibly can not be known rather than relying on opinionated narratives because it makes for a better story and doesn't require critical thinking?
Our first born came with a $42k bill. Hospital and doctor said we were covered by our insurance pre-auth, but come bill time apparently pre-auth was null and void b/c it was requisite on a negotiation that fell through. Each side had a different story and their representatives acted absolutely helpless.

We were broke at the time we found out about the pregnancy and memories of the first two years of my boy's life are largely dominated by this kafka-esque nightmare that took time and security away from our family life. I refused to pay a cent until what we were told was honored, my thinking being any sort of payment may legitimize it.

Eventually I didn't hear back from the hospital about our latest contestation for two months after confirming their receipt of the documentation (about a four hour process each submission, always new fax numbers, life-wasting hold times to confirm receipt of said documentation, transfers to other agents and departments, then a promise of giving a decision in a few weeks, often just reprinting the last non-descript document they used in the previous round without any real detail). Decided to just do nothing and ignore it as long as I didn't get contacted again and got everything ready to go to court if someone ever decided to pursue it against us again. The documentation I've been holding from the ordeal is 60 pounds of paper.

I still have no idea what the true status is, but it hasn't shown up on credit checks and our boy is now 5 years old.

I could not find anyone in various governmental institutions to even look into the matter and the lawyers I talked to said the outlook of winning was grim and would have cost a lot of money on top of that to even pursue it.
Our insurance company [Anthem] posted a $17 billion profit that year. The hospital had the highest gross profit of any hospital in our city and the surrounding area at $80.4 million declared. Both entities make so much money they give away individual debts amounting in the tens of thousands of dollars for pennies (maybe ours included?).

It's an absolutely depraved system and my point is maybe be careful showing good faith to an entity trying to screw you lest it be taken as consent.
"What are the chances that Dropbox will ever find a high margin profitable pivot?"

I always thought that was selling ("aggregated") access to user's files.
Apple has ARKit on iPhones, and it's usable right now.

Apple has the built-in "measure" app, though that can only measure things on a tabletop, and the Mac Pro table-top demo (https://www.apple.com/mac-pro/ in Safari on iOS). The iOS game Egg, Inc. has a mode where you can see your farm projected on top of a nearby surface. It's kind of neat to see the little chickens run around on my kitchen table.

What's holding AR back (on the iPhone) then, is a killer app.

Vuforia Chalk is one for remote support. See what the supportee sees, and point out things, visually, to them. Circle which lever to pull, and using Apple's ARKit[] means the circle stays on the right lever, even when the phone is jostled. It's a cool use case, though their UX is horrible.

IMO the problem is a hand-held smartphone is an awkward AR platform.

[0] Note that there's some vendor lock-in by Apple. The Vuforia Chalk feature I mentioned above is image stabilization and an overlay. Image stabilization (and face detection) is an old problem in computer vision, it's commonly used to add silly hats to faces in video calls.
> you can't sneak around a distracted army to take out a strategic point

Sure you can. In civ for example, sail your fleet one way under fog of war, move your army another to suck in units.

I would argue that sneaking based on "the human playing the video game was focused on something else" is a less compelling dynamic than sneaking based on "real" dynamics.
Yeah you have to build a three story pile of barbell weights.
A sizeable fraction of that would be doable just to see what happens though.

(45 lb / (225mm)^2 * pi * g) in psi = 1.8 psi

5 MPa / 1.8 psi = 403 plates * 1.25" in m = 12.8 meters
Look at CRT draw in slow motion. You have an ultra bright flash, then an alarmingly quick phosphor glow falloff.

You'd need, basically, a high hz HDR monitor with an actual sub-ms response time... so you can superbright blink the character, essentially black framing it.

The rest of the actual softness of the glow can be emulated conventionally with shaders (there are some super swanky terminals and emulators that have that part already done).
Yes, thank you, this is a better way of describing the process that I observed.

But I would add to this, that it seems that you can lose some net lost weight from not having enough time sleeping for the process to finish.

Maybe like how a sceptic tank gets filled and drained repeatedly, but only gets drained at night (for an equal analogy). And if there's not enough night (sleep), it can't drain completely, therefore retaining waste.

It would explain also why you get sick if you don't get enough sleep... something else to ponder.
What Are Mutual Funds, Index Funds, and ETF?
Those states didn't just say "oh hi, BTW, we are suing you today". Suits were filled as the result of years upon years of failed attempts to minimize the harm of over enthusiastic opiate prescription, etc. And it is fairly well documented that Purdue's "self policing" system was an absolute sham intended only to keep the lawyers away as long as possible. In fact most of their "efforts" consisted of identifying problem physicians, documenting them, and then -sitting on the files- until the doctor was arrested/subjected to licensing hearings and -then- turning them over so it looked like they were trying to do the right thing all along when in reality they were just doing this for show. And documentation exists going back a decade or more of the Sacklers direct involvement in designing and overseeing the implementation of all this in a very hands on manner.