skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I got halfway through, but I'm stopping. There's some valid points in here, but I don't find the author credible.

> If you know Dimon’s actual reputation, him getting suckered isn’t surprising.

Jamaie "doesn't give a shit about Bitcoin" Dimon. So he won't just hop on any bandwagon.

> [Masayoshi Son is] an owner of Sprint, and he’s currently trying to force an illegal merger of Sprint with T-Mobile

Not sure how it's "illegal," it's a healthier merger than the previous T-Mobile-AT&T attempt, and a lot of people don't think Sprint is a sustainable business than can last as the number four player, so giving AT&T and Verizon a run for their money is the best outcome for consumers.
The claim was that someone (and, actually, this includes low volume mailers) could mail something from China for a total cost less than his cost to mail it across the street.

The claim seems to be true. Yes, he seems to have overstated his shipping cost and could have done better. Yes, with the combination of all 3 of A) volume pricing, B) presorting, and C) taking it to the specific delivery unit, you can get pretty close to the cost to mail a parcel from China. To somehow take these facts and get to "lolol it's a false claim" is absurd.
Nobody becomes famous, or rarely respected, by saying they don't understand.

There are a lot of mysteries, even ones which arise in deceptively ordinary experiences, for example when we try to confront exactly how a gyroscope works(1).

My personal opinion is, to make an analogy, that we don't really know the source code of the universe. Every natural law is not really a law, but just a theory, or a mental model, articulated in maths, describing what we see, nothing more than that. This becomes obvious when you consider something famous like Newtonian gravity's obsolecense by GR. GR is also not the source code, just another really good mental model to describe behavioral patterns of the universe.

AFAIK time is something we really struggle with wrapping our minds around. There are questions which are so difficult I wonder if they're even worth asking -- such as about places where time would not exist, such as in places outside our universe.

1-https://www.americanscientist.org/article/the-forgotten-myst...
Specialists that operate outside of most insurance networks, such as plastic surgeons do pretty well. As do specialties like dentists, orthodontics, and optometrists where insurance coverage is limited and a significant number of people pay out-of-pocket.

And I'd argue that the US is moving towards a similar system for healthcare. Lots of small clinics are popping up around the nation to provide limited care to individuals for price-conscious individuals.

What we need is something to cut the tether that insurance companies have. Insurance is nearly as important for determine the rates you pay for care as it is for covering costs.
> Do you think that companies would give you a raise equivalent to what they were paying on your behalf for healthcare? I suspect not.

Its anecdotal, but my company and the company my mom works for, both already do this if you choose to opt out of the employer plan. Total compensation is not a foreign concept to most businesses.
There is a thing in psychology called "observational bias" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Observer-expectancy_effect) which is why when you buy a car of a certain model you tend to see more of that model on the road. Our brains filter out so much noise that when we expect to see something, our perceptions don't filter it out, and we see more of it.

This can make you believe someone else is "listening in to you" when it is really just your subconscious changing some of the filtering it does ...
> having to deal with it early on will make you better prepared to go global

Do we have evidence of this?

(European start-ups do tend to have a competitive advantage with administration, given the complexity and diversity of regulatory regimes on the continent. This explains e.g. Spotify (negotiating music rights) and Klarna (negotiating with banks).)
Sound useful. Is this available as an open source lib?
8chan's primary crime is not being sufficiently popular.

The Christchurch killer livestreamed the event on Facebook, and the enormous well-funded content moderation apparatus within failed to shut it down until well after the innocents were dead.

But Grandma uses Facebook, so we can't go after them.

The Wal-Mart shooter had a Twitter account, and posted plenty of content questionable enough even for the FBI to take notice.

But cousin Jake uses Twitter, so we can't go after them.

It doesn't matter what 8chan was used for, because far more popular platforms were used for far worse content. The only thing that mattered here was popularity.

And 8chan didn't have it.
Conveniently ignored "a girl who is a virgin". How frustrating must that be for a girl in the audience.
AFAIK that was what Facebook tried with their modified BSD that granted patents unless you sued Facebook.

Though that doesn't help against NPE.
W.H. Auden's Poem 'September 1, 1939' Still Resonates in Times of Crisis
And yet Sagan was one of the biggest promoters of the “Drake Equation” which takes advantage of the fact that humans are really bad at very large and very small numbers to make it seem like alien civilizations, of which we have never had any evidence of, are widespread throughout the universe.

This was just baloney wrapped in numbers.
Well, far from proven, if your religion is consistently "UFOs don't exist". If you're equally split on whether they exist, then you know maybe 99% are hoaxes but the ones that have been well documented most certainly are not.

Additionally, there is a cigar pattern UFO, so start at that point. Assume that not everyone who sees something weird like that is simply from swamp gas, or something. The old excuses do get pretty lame, after all.
OWASP API Security Project
Not every case of bad customer service is a conspiracy to extract more money from you.
> But, more importantly, DNSSEC is a server-server protocol; it doesn't protect end-systems at all.

RFC 4033 defines a validating stub resolver. Some mention of putting it in glibc:

* https://lwn.net/Articles/664776/

I'm sure the systemD folks will get around to it.

Still, as someone who works in IT, I'm happy to implement DoT/DoH internally--just don't go around overriding the settings I want my desktops to use. We're already noticing breakage in our testing due to split-horizon DNS and hairpin NAT.
You can order custom pcb from China for a couple of dollars. How likely is that this technology will be affordable at small quantities?
Our healthcare system is so wildly (and increasingly) inefficient, I don't doubt there will be a breaking point when politicians will finally be forced to nationalize it. Let it keep getting worse. Let them see the bed they're making.
Well, one way of looking at it is that the general population is the biggest group possible :-)
Even at famously generous employers they will try very hard to push you towards high deductible plans by giving you 1-2 thousand extra dollars per year in your HSA. Of course the high deductible plans discourage you from seeking care so it saves your employer peanuts it can add to its war chest in Ireland

Some of this probably has its roots in the ACA adding extra taxes onto “Cadillac insurance plans” though which I didn’t even learn about until recently. Yes, apparently you may need to pay extra taxes for extra good insurance
The economist had an article about this too: https://www.economist.com/britain/2019/09/21/lessons-from-br...
> This is not new at all. Ultraprocessed foods are usually supplemented with oils that increase inflammation and cause a variety of health issues.

Your thesis statement tells me that you're focused on oils. The article identifies and discusses multiple spectrums of why the ultraprocessed food would be bad, but it seems you've excluded the larger possibilities and have decided to focus on your own personal oil-based bugbear.
Same here. Documenting and open-sourcing the legal effort around this could be good experience for people that help in other similar situations.
Interesting, thanks.

Whether it was divide-and-conquer or bringing "them into modernity," it still boggles my mind how questions about citizenship were framed in the late 19th century.
The American health insurance system is not insurance--it's a long-term payment plan. Why does insurance need to get billed when I go for a yearly checkup with my doc, or when I pick up some prescription-strength ibuprofen? My auto insurance company doesn't get billed when I get the oil changed in my truck. My homeowners insurance company doesn't get billed when I have to recharge the refrigerant in my heat pump. The insurance companies have taken all the monetary interactions between clinics and patients away, except for the (oftentimes criminal) balance billing that occurs when your claim was denied for some ass-hat reason like "You didn't tell your insurance company whether or not you had other insurance."
Most merchandise I've seen in stores (e.g. LEGO) is from the old trilogy, though.
It's an open source project. If Oracle does something disliked by the community, the community can fork and do whatever they like. This is something that has happened repeatedly with open source projects when the community has disliked the government of it, e.g. think Jenkins/Hudson situation. Or going way back Mambo/Joomla.

Disclaimer: I work for Oracle, but nothing to do with Graal etc.
And another 9% of their revenues is for useless administration (relative to a single payer system). They estimate that if administration and premiums get cut (and thus no profits) as a result of a single payer system, then we would save $615B per year.

https://www.peri.umass.edu/publication/item/1127-economic-an...
I'm too lazy to back with some links my following statement, but usually in industry diversity is good. There are many frameworks and libraries, that have overlapping use cases. But with more choice it's easier to get the right tool for the job. Also maybe this framework is solving the same problem in a more clever way. So: yes, it's good to have smart developers contributing instead of starting new projects, but it's also good to have more diverse frameworks to choose from.
There are a ton of hidden taxes tacked onto ACA but everyone I know with a marketplace plan hates theirs. I'm really not sure where that money is going.
> "$10/hr is reasonable for a normal full time developer job" — Symbiote

No.

That is false.

That is false and also a bald faced lie by a bald faced liar.

No full time developer jobs anywhere in the world pay that. Not even China.

In the West, McDonalds pays more, as does WalMart ($142,107 per year average for a Software Engineer).

Most people acknowledge WalMart is a shitty company with shitty pay and sensible people can do better than the miserable $71/hr they offer for software engineers.
Airbags are good as... protection from other cars, or from driving your own car too fast, and hitting a large object. You shouldn't live a great distance from places you frequent. And there's no reason a disabled individual requires a multi-ton machine capable of going 100+mph to get around.
I guess I'll chime in on being closer to strikes. In case you don't know how a strike occurs, as the charges build up and the field starts having enough potential to exceed the breakdown voltage of the air, little "feelers" develop, extending both from the cloud and objects on the ground. When two connect, if you are close enough, you can here what sounds like a very loud click, immediately followed by the "explosion" of thunder. More like a blast/explosion that what you would hear from farther away.

Also, look in to "ground potential rise", which I learned all about after a lightning strike in my yard (while I was standing on the second floor of my house). Basically, the charge dissipates in the ground around a strike. This means that radially from the strike outward there is a voltage potential. And of course if you connect two points across the potential with less resistance than the ground, you get current flow. Incidentally, this is why you keep your feet as close together as possible if caught outside in a storm. And of course crouch so you aren't the tallest thing around.
Perhaps the primary cause is a profit motive.

In competitive markets, competition will keep costs and profits from ballooning.

What kind of market conditions are required for spending to increase in all sorts of directions? I can immediately point to education as an example where both lenders and colleges both have a vested interest in growing eachother's businesses, paid for by the customer.
This math checks out but the way you present the units is deeply confusing. It's not your fault though, I blame watt-hours.

You use 8kwh==28.8MJ of energy per day. 28.8MJ/7MW turbine is about 4 seconds, as a watt is a joule per second.
The ultra-rich are illegally buying cheetahs as pets leading to their extinction
The only difference between wework and amazon is the way they finance their money-losing ventures.

Wework does that via the private market, hence the game is up when it needs access to the public markets.

Amazon does that via AWS. AWS is the money that fuels the eCommerce side. The game will be up when:

1) Kubernetes will move AWS customers back to on-prem, or at least turn clouds into a commodity. Amazon knows that and this is the reason for the push toward lockin (aka lambda / serverless).

2) Amazon will be divided into two companies.
I don't agree with everything but I can resonate with you a lot. There are a ton of go to approaches and utilities, all the hipster shit, that people easily reach for and integrate it badly. Not talking about technical integration, but cultural / social integration. If one rubs X into your face he should at least reasonably be able to transfer the passion for it and care how it is applied. Commiting to a new X is an giant effort for small teams, if done right, but usually its just quickly added and then sticks there somehow.
This is just one point of nonsense. Scrum and devops are good examples how things with good initial intent get corrupted. Hey I am already doing devops so why call it out if there won't be serious support from the company? Scrum is just pure cancer at this state. It literally didn't change since it inception. But back then scrum cut down infinite cycles to like quarterly. Now we are doing 2 week sprints with the same method and same overhead? Smart. Of course scrum is just for the tech people, so there are still 3 other layers of planning and a couple of meetings that you have to attend to.

Eventually there is no reflection on the things we do not great with.
I love Mariage Frères, Eros. Also their Marco Polo and Earl Grey.

I'm curious to try some others mentioned in the comments.
Health Insurance Costs Surpass $20k Per Year, Hitting a Record
Programming these old constrained 8-bitters is great fun.
WARP+ apparently takes advantage of CloudFlare's Argo Smart Routing https://www.cloudflare.com/products/argo-smart-routing/

Statistics from one of my websites running Argo show a 16.73% percent improvement for 32.3% of web traffic routed through Argo.

For my Google Cloud Washington based server, I see 5-15% improvement for some traffic from the EU and US East Coast and 15-30% improvement some traffic from Asia, Africa, and South America. (all according to CF statistics)
The network of providers available to you is a separate issue from whether your company manages the risk or an insurance company does. Didn’t mention anything about provider networks.
Yeah, this article goes a bit overboard.

There is a balance with small businesses of helping let people know you're in and available, and giving them prime parking.

You park within distance of the building and visible, but not directly outside if possible.

I've actually recieved calls about whether I'm open today, because my car is in the shop and thus the parking lot is vacant.
"Merit" doesn't exist and can't be defined.

Anyways I doubt anybody from India with "no money" can get into Harvard. ("No money" in India means begging on the streets or subsistence farming..)
> Why can't they be held responsible for the foolishness of their actions?

Because it's politically difficult. Sometimes, infeasible. The public often pays for defrauded grandmas' mistakes.

There are also positive externalities to stable business environments. Diligence costs money. Putting some of that cost on the issuer, once, is more efficient than each investor incurring it. Consistent rules around fraud and disclosure thus prompt new capital formation.

The best examples of the need for this protection are the cesspools that are ICOs.
I like your idea.
At first, I did not see there was an editor on the bottom of the page. It would be clearer with a scroll indicator.
Show HN: Select Sections from Images of Newspaper Clippings Using OpenCV, Python
That is a big fat lie right here.
The video is a compelling demonstration of a design flaw, but I am always skeptical of lock opening displays that do not occur in a real-world application of the lock.

Yeah, you ramsetted a lock. In a vise. Can you do that if it is dangling from a chain between two gate halves? Or would you bring out a bench and vise to your target?

Ok, you picked a lock. In a vise. Is it easily pickable while hanging from a hasp, with a door behind it?

Ok, you drilled open a smart lock. Is the drill able to be positioned in such a manner when the lock is installed on a door?

It doesn't look like it.

After drilling, you need to insert a screwdriver and manipulate a latch.

Is drilling/manipulating faster/slower/easier/more difficult than picking, raking, ramsetting, grinding, kicking, or prying?

I like clever, but clever isn't always practical.
Hundreds of Army PSYOP Specialists to be promoted this month
I don't see why the UPS should need to run in the black. It's a public service to have very accessible postal service around the country. Admittedly this was much more crucial when much communication took place this way, so it is less so today. But I think the public service aspect still stands. Many small businesses do lots of small, lightweight shipping of packages around the country that would be prohibitively expensive with UPS/FedEx. (I'm one of them: I run a small Etsy business that sells low-cost lightweight items that would be a lot harder if I couldn't ship for ~$3.50. UPS @ $11.00 would nearly double the cost of many items, and I don't sell enough for any sort of volume discount with FedEx or UPS)
Good Grief T2 are pricey!

Try these guys: https://www.johnwatt.co.uk Great selection, coffees too. Online ordering seems to cover the main European nations.

We have a shop nearby, so can't comment on delivery etc.
> > This is of course Amazon’s model, which underpriced competitors in retail and eventually came to control the whole market.

> This is wrong, wrong, wrong.

I agree with your analysis, that Stoller is wrong in this case (and I say this as a non-fan of Amazon)

> > Endless money-losing is a variant of counterfeiting, and counterfeiting has dangerous economic consequences. The subprime fiasco was one example.

> The subprime crisis is completely unrelated!

Here I don't really agree with you. That whole subprime market collapse was not due to monopoly (the ostensible focus of Stoller's blog) but it was an excellent example of the phenomenon he was talking about:

1 - some people saw opportunity in subprime.

2 - they made very good returns on their relatively small and carefully chosen working set

3 - they therefore got gobs of cash to try to duplicate those returns.

4 - the gobs of cash and the early outsize returns caused many others to rush in as well, not just the many charlatans but also honest fools.

5 - All that money turned into a smoking hole in the ground that swallowed up people who had nothing to do with it.

While the example is interesting, it is indeed irrelevant to the thrust of the article, serving more for the author to show off his cleverness.

I look forward to his book but I hope his editor is able to apply some focus.
You side with those against you meaning your main problems are internal and psychological.

Your situation where your contract gives you 40% ownership of the business without a vesting schedule is massively preferable from your standpoint legally and vastly superior than one where you have restrictions on equity. You are in as they say, in the cat-bird seat.

Why do you continue to side against yourself and with those who seek to harm you? I don't need an answer nor can I answer that for you. It's something you need to resolve for yourself.
I ended up doing something very similar for Django's ORM years ago, before GraphQL really came into popularity.
Time can be thought of as a direction in the 4th dimension, like up and down in 3D (which does not exist on a 2D plane).

In this way it corresponds to the "change" in the universe. Whenever anything changes, it is moving time forward (and not the other way around). Therefore if we measure some rate of change, and give that rate of change a unit, we have ourselves a way of measuring time. For example, measuring the change in angle for shadows during the day, or measuring the changes in vibration in the Cesium atom. This count then becomes our "time".
> Its not like Corporate America is going to make up the difference and start paying cash to compensate for the lost benefit, at least thats what happened as pensions got stripped away from the workplace.

They may not have compensated in cash (although surely some did), but they compensated elsewhere in the total compensation package. Benefits got better or salaries grew or vacation improved or 401K matches were introduced or etc etc.

As for insurance pools, what is stopping people from forming groups that can negotiate their own rates? If there is a law, why can it not be changed?
Two bags of Twinings per cup, and off you go.
I kinda like this idea, but I think it only makes sense where the end product sold to the intended consumer is wholly integrated. So, this might make sense for a smartphone. Or perhaps custom systems in Google- or Amazon- scale datacenters, with a number of different custom types tuned to exactly the work each is intended to do, and packed as densely as the intersection between thermodynamics and economics will allow.

But, I don't think we can escape the need for packages and PCBs entirely. At some point, you're going to need to interface with something that either A) you don't or can't control, or B) something at appropriate scale for interfacing with the humans whom the fancy system is ultimately supposed to serve. In either case, here come standard connections that are much bigger than the chiplet dies or the interconnect fabric between them, and thus, the need for PCBs to connect the Systems-on-a-wafer to the outside world.

As such, I think it will be a while before I can pick components out on Mouser's website, and have all those component chiplets fused to an interconnect wafer and delivered to my home or employer's shipping dock (though that would be damned awesome).
Interesting question. I would say that honestly I don’t, in the sense that I have any degree of certainty that it happens.

But I also have no degree of certainty that it doesn’t happen.

One of the core concepts of Zen is abandoning western concepts of duality. I’m increasingly willing to be confortable with the idea that I have no ability to conceptualize and verbalize the concept of myself existing before life or after death, and likely never will.

So it’s not that I will or won’t, it’s not really a yes or no answer. More like a NaN answer.
https://pe.usps.com/text/dmm300/Notice123.htm#_c139

This shows the rate for 12 oz under Parcel Select—Lightweight. Depending how closely you're injecting the product (how many miles the "last mile" is), rates range from $1.83 to $4.34. Not seeing $4.76 anywhere.