skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> "Amazon famously circles around the profitable/not-profitable line frequently"

I dont agree with this common saying. Amazon was founded in 1994, IPO in 1997, and made a profit by 2003. Amazon's philosophy is to reinvest money, thus they swing between profit/loss. Amazon went from selling books online to everything online + AWS + Echo + Go Store, etc etc. So it took Amazon to make a profit, but they truly were growing, not paying people to buy movie tickets.

Conversely, usually when people say 'look at Amazon' when talking about profitless companies, we are talking about companies that spent a decade + private, IPO with huge valuations, slowing growth, and huge losses with no profit in site.

Dropbox for example, founded in 2007 and IPO'ed 11 years later with an 8 billion valuation. A 100$ investment in Amazon would have yielded 127k$. To give you that kind of growth, dropbox would have to reach a market cap of 10+ trillion. This is a huge problem because people are treating these unicorns like growth companies, when their best years are behind them and with their valuation, its mathematically impossible for them to have the huge growth that companies such as Amazon, Netflix, Google had.

I think rules need to be enforced / changed to prevent companies from staying private so long. This shenanigans is going to cost generations saving for retirement significantly.
LE could do more today true, but if there were no borders at all how would they not be overwhelmed? They don't even have the law successfully enforced at the moment, let alone in a world where nothing stops people moving at all. And what stops illegals just being self employed?

Why (do you think) "gang members and dealers" are coming to America?

Ah sorry. I interpreted "they" as "all people crossing a border".

My point is raids on employers only catch cases where people are working for legitimate employers. If that's all you rely on, you can't try to filter out people who have alternative illegal income streams before they enter the country and become much harder to find and deal with.

I would be interested in a system whereby an internal border is so effective no external border is needed. But it's not clear to me it'd actually be better: there'd have to be constant checking of identity documents all the time, hugely ramped up law enforcement, and without a border it's unclear deportation would mean anything at all. People could just turn around and come right back in. It'd be sort of like trying to solve theft by just spending lots of money on police but not having door locks anywhere. There's a fundamental mismatch of costs.
How about this - a lazy person with empathy, who is viscerally aware that everybody else is lazy too, and enjoys eliminating work for any and everybody.
Weird that it requires a special compound to give you a direct experience of this.

You’d think that if the point of life was selflessness and love, this would be more obvious.

Also, what do you think of the people whose medicine comes from the coca plant, who have direct experience that the point of life is greed and self-satisfaction?
> Not if you actually fine the American importers into the ground.

Sounds like an invitation for the importer to be a nearly judgement proof shell that just gets abandoned at the first sign of trouble.

> And ban the at fault over seas companies.

That part sounds more effective.
It's important to keep an open mind, but not so open your brains fall out.
It's pretty amazing how much attention the Movie Pass story has gotten. This is a tiny micro cap company and stock that has garnered national media coverage because its crappy business plan, which was doomed from the start, predictably failed. And a lot of people used the service. In an era of web 2.0 companies that just burn endless cash but somehow keep chugging along (such as Uber and dozens others), I think we all want to see a good failure story and this one delivers. Maybe if they had integrated cloud storage or cloud video or temporary workplaces or ride services into their business model somehow, it would be worth billions now.
> I think buying swag from startups to sell after they fail would be a better business model than the moviepass model.

I wish somebody would start fuckedcompany.com v2.0. I used to hit that site every day. Good times.
> If we are able to persuade ourselves that there are plenty of lucrative opportunities available for young people like Orry who didn’t much like high school, it absolves us of our shared responsibility to address the reality of his limited economic prospects

Mic drop
>20% of D1 college players don't even graduate.

If you get injured, poof scholarship
No, because I think I presented my observation poorly.

I think 100% of the weight loss is from use of calories, and limiting the intake of calories.

What I meant to state more clearly is that I think the waste or _something_ related to the removal of the fat (after being used) happens during sleep.
The reason for that is stated in the post:

> Gen 1 cables can be 2M long, while Gen 3 cables can be 0.8m. This is just a practical consequence of physics and signal integrity when it comes to passive cables.
Can't remember the source, but using the nasal cycle[1] as a source of randomness has been suggested before. The only drawback is the cycle length is on the order of 30 min to 6h so drawing more then 1bit/day is probably infeasible.

[1] - https://www.rhinologyonline.org/Rhinology_online_issues/2018...
If you are playing for a scholarship the emphasis is on sports, if it's not you lose the scholarship. It doesn't have to be direct emphasis.

I talked to the coaches for a few D1 schools, even ones who weren't known to be good at sports and heavy on academics like Northwestern (at the time) had a little talk with prospective players about the balance between the two. They recommended you do not attempt any difficult majors while playing football as the conflict between the two would be too difficult to manage.

That is directly putting sports above academics. And that was for practice squad kids.

Yes there may be schools that are better at it, but scholarships change the equation.

I've talked to many many people who played college sports at all levels, this may not be statistical but this was well over 100 people.
>I don't understand why this isn't prosecuted.

Simply examine the way the issue was presented by frontrunners in the supposedly liberal party of the United States on the debate stage yesterday.

Two candidates call for true universal coverage, a few call for a public option but brand it as universal coverage to confuse viewers, and several (with moderator and broadcast sponsor support) outright mislead by stating that universal coverage that eliminates private insurance will threaten access to health care.

We have a long way to go.
Dude, the yaml files I'm writing require good knowledge of the system they are configuring.

i deploy all our cloud instances using Ansible (yml files) and I wouldn't have a hope of doing that if I didn't understand the OS I'm configuring with it (Linux).

I might see your point if you're talking about the yml that is used to configure 'value added' products from cloud vendors, but I avoid those like the expensive handcuffs that they are.
> asked at their courthouse about it and the clerk told me

Sounds like they were in on the scam. What would be the appropriate method to legally-resolve this and shut it down?

Contact the state's Attorney General?
There is also evidence due to higher concentrations of CO2.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6104417/

Essentially there's around the same mineral content it's just the vegetables are also on average larger in size and mass - yet yield the same mineral content.
Medical cartel needs to be investigated by FTC. HHS and Medical Boards are infiltrated with physicians with conflict of interest, so their supervision is not enough.
Do you think the clerk was in on the scam, or just couldn't be bothered to look into it? Unbelievably shitty either way.
Someone really needs to create a version of the cloud to butt extension that replaces "blockchain" with "database".

What you're describing is a useful application for a _database_. Mixing "blockchain" into it would only hurt the viability of the database, not bring any obvious benefit.

Your comment makes so much more sense with the word database:

"A federally supported database used as a public notary and other official functions, as you mentioned, seems like it may have a place in the future."

Indeed.
Bitcoin baller to tokenize $32M pro basketball contract
Not quite that simple. For one, oxy HAS been marketed to consumers (still one of only two countries in the world to allow Rx marketing to consumers - the other being New Zealand who is phasing it out and only introduced it as part of a trade agreement with the US).

Purdue also downplayed the addictiveness of new formulations in their advertising -to physicians-.

They also built disingenuous "self regulation" systems because they knew of the issue, and wanted to keep the wolves at bay, but the only thing the program was really designed to do was to shield Purdue. The very vast majority of over prescribing identified by this program was not reported to authorities until after the authorities had already acted (ie. when Purdue realized they would not lose any revenue from the report because the physician had already had his script writing ability pulled).
There are two major reasons why I am really, really not a fan of this stance here.

The first is that we're equating high school performance to life performance. High school in America is a joke for a variety of reasons (lack of funding, gentrification etc) and I don't think highschool performance represents how well a person does at all given how many different circumstances can affect that at a young age.

Second, 'missing too much work' in America can mean things such as 'taking time off because you're sick' or 'having to deal with familial emergencies', all of which many jobs do not at all allow any leeway in.

The person in the article made multiple efforts and worked hard to try and get a better job/life for his family. The fact that you immediately isolate out the things he's had to deal with make me wonder if you've experienced poverty or had to deal with shitty jobs in the past.
I’m pro choice but I can accept the notion someone has a moral objection to abortion. In the same way, even if you disagree with the man, Snowden had a moral objection to surveillance so he did something about it.
In our startup we use marshmallow [1] to validate and make REST API type aware. So marshmallow models validates the data types based on validation rules for request/response.

In place where we need client to be able to define the validation the request/response will consist of data, validation json schema. In this case use jsonschema validator [2] [3].

So for every json request/request data, it's passed through a marshmallow model which validates the json. In some cases we use jsonschema validator when we have dynamic json data with schema definition for validations.

For response the function return value pass through a marshmallow model. We are moving towards making all of internal functions/methods with type annotations to generate documentation using Sphinx [4] plugin.

We are not Instagram but are very happy with it and can replace flask library with bottle or other wsgi compatible framework and it will still work.

[1] https://marshmallow.readthedocs.io/en/stable/

[2] https://python-jsonschema.readthedocs.io/

[3] https://pydantic-docs.helpmanual.io/

[4] https://pypi.org/project/sphinx-autodoc-typehints/#data
> Organic farming includes crop rotation, fertilizer, soil quality

No, that's not what it means. Farmers producing food that meets the "organic" label may follow those practices but it's not a requirement.
This practice of different books has a nice phrase in Karnataka,India - "Ramana lekka, Krishnana lekka". Literally, "Rama's accounting and Krishna's accounting".

Rama is personification of righteousness and Krishna, while a God, is also considered mischievous.
Apple is well documented (for it being a secret project) as throwing tons of resources into compelling AR products.

I'm not saying they're going to succeed, but they're certainly trying - unlike Nokia, who was in the middle of a massive internal war over Symbian when the first iPhone hit.
Hospitals that take a majority Medicare patients go out of business. Medicare patients are subsidized by the rest of a hospital’s patient population.
Please point out where I said we should. I'll wait.

I'm just saying that it won't have a large negative impact on consumers or overall trade volumes. If anything I'm defending.

This is extremely tiresome.
They’re not shell organizations, hospitals just outsource tons of stuff, frequently including physicians. (In fact, in California, hospitals may not legally employ physicians to practice medicine)
Probably vanity?

https://www.notechmagazine.com/2017/08/non-electric-hearing-...
For me it's less the duration of a holiday and much more about the content.

I've had 2 week vacations that consisted of some small important event like a family get together, but otherwise were largely spent on the computer. These usually fly by and suddenly I'm right back at work feeling exactly as I left.

Most long weekends of the year wind up more or less the same. With the extra day off barely even being noticed.

One time though, I saw and bought a cheap day of ticket to Puerto Rico over labor day. Left the laptop behind, found the first cheap place to stay once I landed, met some cool people while hiking and spent the whole weekend with them. It was by far the best vacation I've ever had, and the relaxation stuck with me for months.

I suppose I agree with the article, that length largely doesn't change your perception of the experience. So if taking shorter vacations means more experiences then it may be better. I think the important thing to note though is, at least for me to get anything out of it, it has to be an experience outside the norm and off the computer.
I'd count Paradox's games (Hearts of Iron, Europa Universalis, Stellaris, etc.) as "real time" strategy; they're certainly not turn-based. And as far as strategy games go, they're nowadays the gold standard, IMO.

Looking forward to Homeworld 3. Fingers crossed for a Linux-native version, but if not, then hopefully it's as Wine/Proton-friendly as Homeworld: Remastered (and more so than Deserts of Kharak).
You could probably make a bottle jack press for step 5, this is probably the most obvious limiting step for size without access to industrial equipment though
Where Mathematics Comes From
Capitalism is just a word and has no opinions nor most of the implications people claim.

The problem is more that a lot of people are deeply convinced of something like social Darwinism, that if you are sick you must be inferior, and a leech, and can't believe that there is a benefit to society in assisting.
You can be several thousands in arrears (and even in collections) to the hospital and still visit the ER, see your doctor, get a CT scan etc. I know because I've been doing it since 2017, but I have insurance and the people I see probably just assume the bills are getting paid if I keep coming back. Care providers and admitting people don't generally access your financial/billing information.
The author claimed this was legitimate science, in which case there will be references in the book.

I am avoiding the normal urge to go out and buy the book to verify and share the references to you. But it is something you could easily verify and find for yourself.
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way – in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only
As soon as they saw their names associated with the opioid crisis, they knew this day was coming.
Many of the major donors who were doing things like funding buildings would also toss in a tennis court or jerseys for all of the teams.

The low end donations were also a lot higher for anyone in a club. The school allows targeted donations. So if you wanted you could donate to sports.

They also have smart alumni things. For instance for $2000, I can buy a plaque over the locker for the player with my number (essentially buying the number). It would have been $500 but 2 of them got in a bidding war, and $2k is the price to knock them both out.
Feces is contaminating the American river. Sacramento wants to know its source
This is a good resource you've created. Much like our relationship with food has evolved (read "The Omnivore's Dilemma" if you haven't), the kinds of interaction we engage in everyday have important effects on our mental health, but these kinds of "information consumption patterns" are not (yet) well-known by the general public.
Thank you for making and sharing!

P.S. What's up with Roblox? Are they sending voting brigades to neutralize the "dark pattern" pages that indict their product?
Total Annihilation holds a big part in my history. It was a great game for one thing, but annihilated.com inspired me to get into running a website.

Thanks to TA and annihilated, I ran my own website based on a game (a Star Trek one), which at peak in 1999 was getting 2000 uniques a day. Taking USD cheques (like $40) from doubleclick into my UK bank in my school uniform in 1998ish was a unique experience.

Thanks to that experience it drove me to where I am today.

As far as actual RTS game play, Red Alert was best in my view. One disc for soviet, one for allied. Tanya, Dogs, and Tesla Coils. So many hours, so little to show for it.
This is the sort of "you're either with us or against us" attitude that democracy could do without. The average persons' ability to change anything re: climate change is minimal, especially if the bulk of carbon emissions originate in authoritarian regimes on the other side of the planet.

Would you accuse the Swiss of endorsing the Third Reich on account of their neutrality? Is an impartial judge abdicating his judicial and political responsibilities by refusing to take sides in a case?

As a counterpoint, there are many sides that are worth taking that will never have the kind of popular support they need to make any kind of difference in a democratic society, and the two major political choices (Pub vs Dem, left v right, lib vs conservative) have been so badly confused and crosspolinated that it is difficult to tell them apart. Show me a calm, multiparty democracy with coalition-building as a core tenant and I would gladly join the ranks of political advocates -- but I will NOT be told to pick one shitty side over another.
I currently work for a temp agency, and they allow you to sign up for health insurance after a few months.
They also rarely read TOS, freely give out many pieces of identifying information without reading privacy policies, and, as you said, do virtually no research on a company or their ownership.

At some point consumers have to get some of the blame here, right?
technically no, an agent is a foreign asset.
The worst is strawberries. The huge strawberries you can buy in the store have the same flavor content as the tiny ones you can grow in your yard, but it's completely diluted with water. They're disgusting.
Go to the gym, turn the treadmill up to full speed and jump onto it, and see how it goes. That'll be a good data based test. The mill will drop speed by about 30% and most mills don't go up super high. Take a face plant for science.

If you did then you're probbably faster than normal and better balance than normal. I'm pretty sure I'd pull a hammy immediately. My coworker immediately face planted and broke arm and collar bone.
Sometimes the people who handle selling off the physical assets of a failed company don't do a good job of wiping computers. When the '80s Unix workstation company Callan Data Systems went out of business, my developer workstation was auctioned off with a full copy of AT&T Unix source code on it.

I wonder if people are more careful about this nowadays?

I suppose even if they are sloppy, a modern workstation probably has an encrypted filesystem so the buyer is probably not going to get anything off it.
You are right, I could have phrased that better. We certainly won't all agree on the specific path forward. What I meant was that most people on here can probably agree that our current path is not adequately addressing the problem, that changes need to be made going forward, and those changes require political action.
> Can you please provide data that supports this statement?

What kind of data do you believe would be necessary for a negative claim like this?

Do I have proof there is no teapot between the Earth and the moon? No. Do you believe this means you can dismiss my claim that there isn't a teapot floating between the Earth and the moon?
That's quite the argument to extremes. Surely there are points in between the single rich farmer and the five million poor farmers.

Could the balance be shifted somewhat to slightly more labor intensive farming practices without causing us all to become starving peasants? I suspect so.
Exactly, it could have been one. Claiming that it was is inaccurate.

/pedantry
This mode of writing has its strength, unfortunately it also encourages a lazy and low detail mode of communication when applied to places it doesn't belong.

I have had the experience of working in an environment with ex-military folks installed in leadership positions, the BLUF style of communication was standard issue.

One problem this style of communication has when applied to a non-military work environment is that top-down communication ends up taking the form of commands, as opposed to actually conveying information that would enlighten the reader.
I’ve generally found that a context switch from one programming task to another can be pretty easy (even if totally unrelated), but switching to something non-programming related is often much more painful.
Someone posted a study which specifically compared bioavailability of heme iron from animals to non-heme iron from plants:

https://academic.oup.com/ajcn/article/78/3/633S/4690005#1098...

Why would low bioavailability convince you to care less about the declining minerals? Surely declining mineral content would be exacerbated by low bioavailability? How does that make things better?

An 80% loss still means you have to quintuple consumption to maintain the same level of nutrients, and your agricultural resources have to scale beyond that to account for crop losses to pests and pathogens. Meat production becomes even more expensive and unsustainable. How does low bioavailability reduce the significance of this trend?
I also hope society starts blacklisting: museums, society events, and NYC life. That will hurt them just as much as the money. The wife just tried to pay Courtney Love (yeah talk about drugs) 250k to attend her fashion show it's gross.

Provably false advertising = fraud. Paying DRs to prescribe and push false information = fraud/bribery. I am doubtful, but I hope the recent release of coordination comms on the Marino bill and response to block DEA enforcement of laws helps a RICO case. Imagine if all the big banks got together to figure out how to help each other get out of KYC.

And they are repeating the exact same playbook in India right as we speak. It makes me very angry.
Yes what does any of that have to do with what I said?