skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I love this site. It's a reminder that everything old is new again. We seem to be in a sweet-spot currently on the web where the same spirit of creativity is still alive and people can add their whimsical 2c worth, however small an effort.

Yes, there are 4-5 big sites we all visit to get our news and likes, but there are small pockets of the web that are totally indie and grassroots and remind me of a more innocent web.
Or get a handle on the wealth inequality that makes the way we compensate our top elected officials seemingly insignificant.
And that's just fine. It's a cool, fun project.
I have no experience in upgrading Java versions or the corresponding code changes required. I have witnessed runtime differences, related to performance and GC behavior, from Oracle 8 to OpenJDK 8 that were unexpected enough to warrant temporarily sticking with Oracle in exactly one case.
I'm honestly curious - how so? In all my adult life I have been comparing prices between EU and US and they are always about the same once you factor in taxes. Yes the VAT can make items slightly more expensive, but VAT has absolutely nothing to do with the retailers responsibility for the product, right?

>>On a risk adjusted basis, the cost is the same.

I'd love to see how you came to that conclusion. In EU the seller is always responsible for 2 years after sale for the product, in the US a 2 year warranty will be few hundred dollars on laptops and other expensive items. The difference is definitely not the same.
This is fantasy, the rules by which the country is run inevitably effects the markets. Raise import taxes, local manufacturers do better, importers worse. Lower import taxes, the opposite. Build roads, construction companies and their supply chains do better. Weaken environmental laws, oil companies do better. Make it easier to sue for health damages, personal injury lawyers do better. Fund the military, defense contractors do better. Etc, etc.
If you like this kind of thing, you should check out SpeakeasyJS, a JavaScript meetup for mad science, hacking, and experiments. You can see all previous talks here to get an idea: https://speakeasyjs.com/talks

Disclaimer: I am one of the meetup organizers.
again, the government's role should be protection of protection of person and property. You're conflating "govern" and "control". There are other means to control. In reality, your goal will never be met because no one is going to openly step into that scenario and be altruistic, certainly not all 536 people.
TFA:

> Asked if the money the Fed was injecting into banks in the wake of the global financial crisis was “taxpayer money,” Bernanke shook his head and grinned sheepishly. “To lend to a bank,” he said, “we simply use the computer to mark up the size of the account that they have with the Fed.”
Usually user manuals have to be translated, but not the content. Translating the UI would be quite cheaper for Apple than making new films for example.
> Love has faded a tiny bit because of influx of Chinese cheap gadgets.

Love faded because Amazon removed the ability to filter search results for items shipped and sold only by Amazon.com, and they commingled inventory, so there is no guarantee of supply chain.

They made the decision to reduce their costs as a retailer, and subject their customers to supply chain risk, in order to increase their margins and sit back and earn commission as a platform.

At this point in time, I don’t see anything remarkable about Amazon’s retail operations. If anything, I would say Home Depot is more impressive, with a nice website showing me where the item is in their store, plus offering me various locations to pick it up or ship it to me. In fact, most retailers do this now (but I like Home Depot’s website the most).

Unlike Amazon, however, I don’t have to worry about resellers garbage on other websites (although Walmart is similar but I can still filter results there and I don’t think they commingle).
"Democratize" has joined "revolutionize" and "disrupt" on the list of buzzwords that make my eyes roll so far they glaze over. The words may be apt, but they need a fallow decade before being meaningful again.

Time to add "democratize" to mourner.github.io/bullshit.js. (I haven't seen it yet, but I'm predicting "catalyze" will join the list before the decade is out.)
> I really don't understand this sentiment

I agree, but I also don’t see this sentiment coming from the industry itself, with the exception of some people who go along with that narrative to get some TV time. It really seems to me more like the financial TV media are the ones who feel threatened by the emergence of WSB etc. and portray it as if it’s the sentiment of the broader investing community. But largely that community is just excited by any novelty as it creates opportunities that boring times don’t.
Once you need a custom client that's programmed to stitch together arbitrary bytes stored across N transactions to reproduce a bad image, it doesn't seem to be much different or any less savory than writing one that can find the same bytes from specific offsets across N articles on nytimes.com or one that plucks them out of a stream from /dev/random.

The inaccessibility of viewing this data seems to make the world of difference versus, say, looking at the images that appear in your web browser when you go to badsite.com.
> But country-specific things aside: * The DMCA already makes it easy enough to...

DMCA is a country-specific thing. Moreover, it is specific to a country the article is not about.
> isn't a simple/safe investment entity to pull out a reliable 10%.

Long run even the stock market only averages about 7%, and that isn't simple or safe - but it beats other asset classes on return. Asking for a risk-free 10% is pretty much a fantasy.

One weird thing about the amount of volatility in recent years is that people are simultaneously used to the idea that their "cash savings" earn approximately nothing, but turn their noses up at a 5%-7% return. Historically speaking this irrational.
> people were abusing it a lot

Why frame it so negatively? You could as well say "people saw that Apple was ripe for disruption".
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I don't think anyone getting such returns/refunds approved is getting accolades by their family members or friends. Usually such people don't tell anyone about it and if they are smart better they keep quite.

So it's not about culture, just that it's worth it here in India because most people aren't making $30 an hour here so lot of pitty scam schemes are profitable for them.
You made the decision to buy a product. You got a defective one and they offered you a replacement. With the replacement you will be exactly where you set out to be. With less money, and with a working product.

Even in Sweden, consumer law paradise, I’m pretty sure you can’t ask for your money back.
I have used pandas and the way it is used in Python is quite similar to how you would interface with the Django ORM.

Btw I've written lots of analytical types of queries using Django ORM (to power the backend for a dashboard API, for example). It is quite powerful. You can even do window functions and such directly with the ORM.
Unsubstantive and/or flamebait comments will get you banned here. If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules when posting to HN, we'd be grateful.
Does this issue also apply to Netflix and Amazon apps on PS3?
actually thats not 100% true. asus has a motherboard for that: https://www.asus.com/Motherboards-Components/Motherboards/Pr... it's possible on the motherboard side (this board supports amd mobile), so it should be possible for laptops, too. in fact there was a laptop for ryzen gen 2 with a motherboard that somehow added it, but I could not find it.
That would be a good start. But it's still problematic for them to sell positions like that on non-public information like news of a new pandemic.
Game studio layoffs mean a hellish race against the clock for immigrant devs
Hasn't the last year very clearly demonstrated that the ability to lower interest rates and print money has had far more of an impact on the market than anything else? Stocks are practically moving up and down in unison, the market is almost entirely macroeconomics driven when 40% of all USD was created in the last 12 months.

If they can invest in total market indices while having the ability to control the money supply, even if they can just go long, it doesn't matter.
look at the trades in the article and how it was impacted by government. Did they outlaw vaccines or did they specifically award money to specific companies?

Further - it will not be reduced to zero. The goal is to move towards zero.
Demand increasing, supply and production still wonky. Transportation costs rising.
I don’t think this is a controversial take. Most everyone buying a Peloton is doing so because of the classes, the bike is just a status symbol.
The Philippines meets all of these criteria that you enumerated, why don't they pump out scammers like India?
How is a 'smart' elevator better than a regular one? What does it need connectivity for?
I assume it also depends on if they are using the laptop speakers or some standalone ones. I'm guessing the cancelation tech is tuned for the onboard speakers
That is why you used to read about Apple's exceptional services. They are and only happens in the state. Such as free repair for certain thing or giving cheaper discount to repair etc. In EU and UK those services are expected.

Now Apple doesn't do it. They push you to buy a new product whenever possible along with AppleCare+. Apple Retail employees dont run on commission in US ( Not sure if that is still the case). I remember someone said Apple Retail Italy runs on commission basis. I also know Apple Retail employees also has KPI based on AppleCare+ they sold in the past few years.

Yes.... the whole Apple Retail experience is going against how Steve Job originally envisioning it. For Tim Cook, it is nothing more than a cost center on balance sheet.
I'd be willing to bet that about 95% of that is environment. Like it or not we're basically the same people, just have more resources (in most countries) than back then. I would venture their better bone density was simply unless you were wealthy you -had- to work and usually that involved physical labor, only a few artisans, the rich, academics, etc got out of it.
Oh, I don't mean like "you get accolades", but more of a, everyone is doing it, so why not me?
It's a shame. Google Earth on VR is probably the most amazing and practical use for VR for normal people at the moment. I like to street-view in to other countries and stand in the middle of crowded places with people around me imagining that it's a thousand years from now and humanity is gone and it's the documentation of life on earth.

I've had good times passing the headset around in a room full of people to share places we've been.

It's also cool to look down, as a giant, at paths you've taken irl and get a sense of scale.

I love google earth in VR
See also:

"Infringed"

"Papers and effects"

"not delegated to the United States by the Constitution"

And many others....

No matter how clear you are they just ignore it like it's not there.
OFC, but it wasn't just an empire made of castles, churches and hamlets.
essentially, some people at Salk Institute for Biological Studies and China’s Kunming University of Science and Technology inserted human pluripotent stem cells into a macaque monkey cell to create an embryo...

further links:

- https://www.statnews.com/2021/04/15/international-team-creat...

- https://www.fiercebiotech.com/research/a-controversial-break...
There is no way it would be illegal to trade based on their disclosures
well, and you'd need to know all the places they put them.
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New implementations are generally regarded as good in the space because they help solidify the underlying protocols and add established libraries and routines in a new programming language.
Almost certainly not. I'm fairly certain Google is licensing the imagery.
Well I guess I beg to differ. Been creating and managing 10ks of hosts across multiple on prems datacenters and clouds for some time now.
tl;dr yes but you would probably get beaten to the punch by high frequency traders, and risk being exploited by the discloser.

If you had sneaky exclusive access to their trading flow in real time then yeah sure you could copy them and get the benefits of insider trading. (And you might be guilty of insider trading yourself? I'm not sure how the law works.)

If everyone knows Alice is doing insider trading and knows her trades, then when Alice buys X at $10.00, there will probably be other copycats piling into X and driving its price up, so you won't be able to get the same price as Alice, unless you're faster than everyone else.

Since you don't know what the actual inside information is, you don't know if it's still worth it to buy at $10.20, $10.30, etc. Maybe the inside info was only slightly better than expected earnings and the price end up being only $10.05.

This is somewhat exploitable by Alice, she doesn't need insider information anymore, she just has to buy random stock Z and disclose it, watch copycats pile into Z and drive its price up, then sell it back at a higher price.
Yes, I understand. But I seriously consider doing this as a preemptive provision.
That may well be the most hacker news / silicon valley comment ever... I don't even want to know if it's /s or not! :)
No average Indian asking for return doesn't have YouTube review channel.
I’m always completed shocked when I come across software still being sold this way, especially if it’s kinda niche or something not really used anymore. How are these business staying afloat?
The Office of the Clerk of the House has a page for downloading Zip files of annual data[0].

If you take the DocID from the XML or TXT files in those sets you can send a request to:

https://disclosures-clerk.house.gov/public_disc/<doctype>-pdfs/<year>/<docid>.pdf

- <doctype> works for the values "ptr" and "financial"

- <year> self-explanatory

- <docid> the DocID from the entries in the XML or TXT files

Example: Nancy Pelosi disclosure/filing on 2021-04-09[1]

[0]: https://disclosures-clerk.house.gov/PublicDisclosure/Financi...

[1]: https://disclosures-clerk.house.gov/public_disc/ptr-pdfs/202...

This would be fun to play around with. I wonder if there's a better endpoint to source this from?
Exactly, even a blind should be able to see that we spmehow have broken the system
I appreciate the honest response though. I always am curious about what the situation is on the ground for decisions like this.
Sounds like overreaching blanket regulation.

What if we just regulated the 0.01% who's wealth is such that it makes the top elected officials in our country have a seemingly insignificant compensation.
This is more or less what everyone in the registered investment adviser & mutual fund world must do. There’s quite a lot of compliance software to facilitate approval and checks before and after a transaction is effected in a personal account and the personal transaction history is compared, broadly, with market performance and internal fund transactions periodically to check for overlapping trades (+/- a week) in the same direction.
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Also see "aaaaa" on F-Droid[1](for android)

From it's description:

> most keyboards have way too many letters, making it way too hard to type. this keyboard only has 1 letter. typing is fun again!

1 https://f-droid.org/packages/io.github.dkter.aaaaa
Many countries, no matter what, you have an unalienable right to vote.

Just because American "democracy" removes the right to vote from individuals because of things they've done doesn't mean its right or even the typical behavior from a "democracy".
if you send maillists/newsletters, that's the main reason why those services cost money. (plus analytics and other stuff)
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It’s worth noting that many riders add 5-minute warm-up, cool-down and stretching sessions to their main rides. Peloton counts all of these as separate rides and frequently recommends them. Frustratingly, they also count toward the user ride milestones that take up so much instructor focus during rides (100 rides, 500 rides etc.).

It all seems intentionally designed to juice their engagement data.
To be fair, the original comment is also of low quality (and can be summed up as "People are stupid. Amazon good."), which is not what I expect to see on this website.
I think opposite is more likely. After the GameStop fiasco there is a push for more transparency, not less.
What headset did you use?
I wonder how far out the expiration dates are? Surely they must all expire within a year or two? Can you get a time-limited game and say you want it for 50 years?

If Sony can't hold up their end of the deal with software license holders, then they need to work out a deal with the software company. It shouldn't involve end users at all.
Ansible has a bunch of declarative modules. Writing imperative Ansible should basically never happen. My team maintains 50-80 galaxy_roles and it's super rare that we have to build any shared galaxy role on top of imperative logic.
I think #1 is a signal of a failure in the online retail space. As a customer other than reading the (often gamed) reviews on amazon and watching youtube reviewers how do you know what to buy? Buying a bunch of options and returning them starts to look like a legitimate strategy. For some products (for me it tends to be laptops) you really do not know if you like it until you have your hands on the physical product.
I'll be honest I've not seen the first two series so I'll avoid speculating. I'm sure you are absolutely right.

In the case of Game of Thrones, a lot of the more 'liberal' sexual encounters were really put in for shock value or an excuse for nudity, for example Oberyn's orgy scenes. I never really got the feeling it was trying to normalise these things, but that was just my interpretation.

Similarly for Friends my interpretation was characters like Joey were to be the punchline of a joke, not to say his behaviour was normal. It felt more to laugh AT him, not to normalise it.

My experiences of mainstream media seems to largely focus on the young bachelor(ette) who has casual sex as a 'phase', or the monogamous faithful couple who've grown up and matured. Despite this narrative, I really don't believe monogamy works for a fair percentage of the population. This leads to either two states:-

1. They never form close romantic relationships, leading to more casual sex and probably larger risk of spreading STDs.

2. They do engage in a monogamous relationship, only for it to turn sour because of the tensions it causes. In some cases this leads to a party cheating on the other. These people almost never go to STI clinics to get tested for fear it will ruin their relationships.

How about instead the mainstream media embraced the idea of wanting to have multiple sexual partners is fine regardless of your stage of your life or your relationship status? That way, we can have make sure that everyone is informed of the risks and getting the medical treatment they need to keep themselves and others safe (particularly regular testing). As soon as you start demonising it and saying you shouldn't feel that way, people will do it anyway and just hide it instead.
I feel like this is one case where Apple will steal share from Peloton. Apple already has the hardware to integrate, and for people who either aren’t using Peloton or are just using the $14 a month service, switching costs are small. Right now Peloton has branding behind it as the gold standard in this space, but Apple is already viewed as a premium brand. I think Peloton invented a category and others, maybe Apple will do it better.
This is what I'm wondering about - I'm not sure what the threshold is for "this is too much of a pain in the ass, not going to bother", but I don't know this space.

In general people who haven't done it seem to really underestimate the work in releasing a product in different countries. Especially with software, it seems like you don't have to do "anything" but there can be a lot of fiddly things even to figure out what the requirements really are.
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If this is on top of equity they've already received: AWESOME!

If this is a replacement for not having given them equity: sucks.
I use tmate[1] to get a shell on the worker when I need to debug things interactively. Also act[2] lets you run a decent approximation of your actions locally. Still agree that it should be easier and not require third-party tools/actions, though.

[1]: https://github.com/mxschmitt/action-tmate
[2]: https://github.com/nektos/act
I am not sure this is an improvement.

What is the added value? What is the cost?
Virtual methods are not free.
Indirections are not free (when you read the code)
Developers have no ability to coerce what software bitcoin users run -- that's the entire point of bitcoin. If a competing developer fails to gain user adoption, it's on them that they haven't convinced users to switch consensus rules. It makes for a convincing inflammatory, but false story, for detractors or grifters though (see the myriad of Bitcoin clones: "Bitcoin" KYC, "Bitcoin" Diamond, "Bitcoin" Cash etc etc)
oops. corrected. thanks.

my main beef with fossil was performance. but i should clarify that this was 5 years ago or so. so maybe it's ok now.
Yeah, in practice.
He's a Forbes 30u30 guy - go figure.

Experience in VC and an investment banker from Wharton.

I suggest buying development tools from a CEO from MIT with a coding background, not someone who only learned how to make money.
Good question. Would be nice if they would. Does anybody really uses Bitcoin?
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And those people are easily parted with their money :)

You have to be making a very high income for DIY to not make sense. Paying someone skilled to do my brakes costs over $80/hr. And paying someone unskilled leads to showing up on /r/justrolledintotheshop later. Meanwhile with $600 or so of tools you can do all the basic maintenance for the rest of the car's lifetime (and re-use those tools for home improvement and other jobs). Something simple like brakes is a couple of hours and you can listen to a podcast or audiobook.
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Could you elaborate on this? I thought Aluminium is relatively easy to manipulate (and that's why it's used a lot)? Why wouldn't one use injection molding?
You aren't going to be able to outsource auto maintenance to the next county, much less another country.

(The comment I originally replied to specifically referenced "lube and tire tech" as a role companies have trouble hiring for)
Appreciated!

Btw, one little-understood aspect of this is how much of the problem is created by upvoters. A comment like the GP reads very differently when it is upvoted to the top of the thread than when it's floating somewhere in the middle. I've occasionally had this happen to my own posts in the past (not so much with the dang account, but an older one) and was shocked to see how my own comment came across in a way that I hadn't intended.

The onus is still on commenters to omit things that can come across that way, but the problems in threads are at least as much caused by upvoters. It's a co-creation, and the worse outcomes are usually not one that any individual intends.
Does it support installing a chrome extension that use content scripts?
This is a western academic interpretation of yoga which is favorable to the idea that all good things, even from the ancient eastern traditions, have western inspirations.

Does it not make you a little bit suspicious? What data would you seek out to falsify it? Did you factor in cultural narratives of western superiority into your thought process?