skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Volkswagen cannot deactivate your car if you stop paying

Yes they can, they will come boot it or tow it or remotely deactivate it, if you finance from them instead of the bank and stop paying. And they won't give it back, and you can't decide to pay later.

There absolutely are multiple car brands on the market that can be remotely deactivated: "A Quebec teenager's car was remotely deactivated by a dealership after he refused to pay to remove a GPS tracking device" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8Enmspjbjo

"How auto lenders can disable your car if you miss payment" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6LU20sAn9c

This vest thing was spun as a subscription model dystopia, but that's not really what it is. This is really an actually very consumer friendly financing plan, it was just marketed badly and then framed as FUD by Vice.

Think about it- this is a financing plan where you get to pause for the winter because you're not using it. Neither Volkswagen nor the bank offers that kind of flexibility.
It taught me to never get involved in the drugs business in Mexico or Brazil or never drive in Russia.
No, the USDA prohibited testing. The reason they offered for prohibiting the testing was purportedly their concern for false safety claims. They didn't merely prohibit what they consider to be misleading claims, they used their regulatory power to block the testing.

>It asked the USDA for permission to buy test kits from a California company that made the equipment in France. However, under the Virus-Serum-Toxin Act, the government can regulate the manufacturing and sale of “any virus, serum, toxin, or analogous product for use in the treatment of domestic animals.”
The USDA deemed the “rapid BSE test” a “treatment” under the Act and banned Creekstone from buying test kits from Bio-Rad.

https://www.courthousenews.com/usda-can-block-testing-for-ma...
You consider Reddit usable? I stopped using Reddit a few years ago, recently came back and tried both the website and (dark-pattern driven) mobile app. It's distinctly worse. Everything seems to have been re-engineered to drive "engagement" and/or mindless consumption.
Just move and don’t tell them. Correct your taxes yourself afterwards.
Hollywood: we're running out of oxygen, we're going to die.

Spacex: the electron app allowing us to control our life support systems via touch screen crashed, we're going to die.
These two websites are not related.
Dust off those COBOL books, Even in 2021 there's demand. In that regard, her age wouldn't even be a factor; in fact it may even be an advantage.
lol 20 years
https://fallout.fandom.com/wiki/Pulowski_Preservation_shelte...
Liveleak doesn't portray the reality of war because it shows you some beheading. Voyeurism and gore are not the same as genuine insight into what scary and violent places are actually like. It's worth reading Baudrillard's 'The Gulf War Did Not Take Place' on how media representation, and stylized, selective footage is used to distort. You didn't get to know the 'reality' of war, but the hyper-reality of it.

If you were to actually go see the reality of war what you'd see most of the time is actually soldiers doing nothing, not interating with any enemy. People trying to scrape by, someone fixing a pipe, that kind of thing. LiveLeak was even worse and a better source for propaganda than sensational news.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gulf_War_Did_Not_Take_Plac...
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I watched liveleak to see people get beheaded, not for conspiracies.
Didn't it explode a few moments after the other "successful" landing though? That doesn't really count. My understand is this is the first fully successful landing of Starship with the flop maneuver. Might have missed one though.
Is there any study or papers on people who actively go through such content? What changes about them after?
The API seems much more intuitive than that of D3.js!

I used D3.js originally to draw line charts to visualise USGS mineral statistics, but currently only use it for svgLine (from d3-shape) and scaleLinear and scaleLog (form d3-scale) functions.

Is drawing on canvas much faster than on SVG?

Could matrix or other transforms be used to map screen coordinates to chart coordinates as the d3 scales do?

Generic projections in complex plane (viewed as cartesian or polar coordinates) might be fun for generative art or visualisations of various signals.
I am sure there would be a torrent up soon enough.
Think you guys would really enjoy tailwind css. Easy to get it to work with JS frameworks like react, vie and or nuxt, svelte etc.
I saw a couple/few videos on LL and it shocked me to the core. I never wanted to see that kind of thing again. But I also wish that everyone could witness it without becoming psychotic about it, to have a visual imprint of 'as bad as it gets', and hopefully do something about it or at least avoid perpetuating those actions.

But that would never happen. A whole lot of people will go to very desperate measures to avoid hard truth, to avoid even thinking about this kind of situation.
I learned about webp and meter element. thank you for putting this together
Old.reddit.com does not work for you?
This means the actual IP range should be something in 70.252.0.0/14, which is assigned to AT&T according to whois.arin.net.

Chopping off 234 from head of this IP address, the parts left are the network address and group id.

See: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6034
Because they hand over the money?
While true, the net is a big gain when you consider the things that do work and the ease with which they do / or even the complex things that were done correctly. And, you consider if people had to hire a team of software engineers to accomplish those things then they simply would not have existed.
I had a similar experience. I've lived a relatively privileged life, I've never been in a warzone. Being exposed to the brutality that exists outside of my comfort zone really opened my eyes to the fact that other people live very very differently. You can "know" that, but it's much harder to feel it without some experience - and while a picture is nothing like experiencing that sort of life, it's a hell of a lot more than just reading that it happens.

There's a visceral reaction when you see something so brutal and horrific, and an empathy as well with the victim, that I think is extremely hard to obtain via text, especially short text.

I'm not saying LiveLeak was perfect or good, I think that it likely also fetishized tragedy - but I will say that there is absolutely something missing in existing news organizations with regards to showing the brutal, hard to watch truth.
A while ago I was bored and asked myself if I can actually solve leetcode problems with excel as a joke, and hence leetcode-excel was born. XLSX and everything.

https://github.com/htruong/leetcode-excel

I got bored after a while and didn't try to solve more problems.

Here is a fun thought: Excel has potentials in teaching non-programmers to think about algorithms. Translating a problem or a function from Excel to a programming language has the potential to break the ice for people who just "can't write a program."
So if you wake up ready to commute to work in the morning, and you see that your vest won't turn on because AWS had an outage, what are you supposed to do? Just not go to work, or drive without it?
Counterpoint: Other investors have as much incentive to maximize the value of the company as I do. Besides ego, why should I care if someone is brought in who can do a better job. I still get to keep all my shares, and don’t even have to show up to work anymore.
Found an audience but only with the content...they really didn't want to be about.

Understandable that they might choose not to go that far.
I always give this advice to grads. Create experience. It doesn't matter if it's some insignificant side project where you get 10 user visits a month, the fact you got stuck in and have something to talk about puts you miles ahead of many grads. You can discuss why you did something. It doesn't need to be a huge success, only show you have initiative, good logic and a work suitable brain vs 'Im enthusuastic'.
I think that's fine to decide against purchase for that reason. All I'm saying is 1: you always have to check your safety equipment before using it, that's true with your motorcycle, and in this instance it's not some kind of crazy burden, it happens automatically as part of the device's functioning power-on, and it doesn't require you to do anything special that you wouldn't already have done. If you re-read your sentence about not wanting to check your safety before you ride, you might regret saying it that way, it doesn't sound very good. And 2: perhaps not your motorcycle, but your cars and phones and computers already have remote disable functionality.
Check out https://themomproject.com/ no affiliation juts heard good things and I respect their mission.
Who would want to serve ads on Liveleak beyond the sketchy penis enlargement people?
Whenever something big happened in the news and I wanted to see the video or images directly, uncensored, real as they are, LiveLeak was The Place To Go.

Outside the Big Tech bubble.

Not sure what alternatives there are, if any.
I use DuckDuckGo by default due to privacy concerns and Google returning tons of irrelevant answers in recent years.

I only fallback to Startpage (which use google result) when DDG doesn't spit good enough results (happens mostly on rare topics / Chinese search)
> what is likely one of the easiest professions to develop wealth with in a period of time when a software engineer makes an abnormally high income in relationship to peers in other professions, sure, you'll do well.

Abnormal even when the value created is considered?
Despite Hayden being a contemptible goon, liveleak is an institution which now leaves a void. Interesting to see what will take it's place in the interZeitgeist.
It is unreasonable but it's just not worth engaging with them even to exchange a few emails, financially speaking :)
Ain't this the truth. Most of the OG Blizzard team members have left; it is nowhere near the company that made Warcraft, Diablo, Blackthorne, Starcraft et al.

The writing was on the wall with Diablo 3's item market. D3 itself is just... Forgettable?
They aren't optional power spikes, so the strategy/engagements are predictable from the moment the team composition is revealed.
> this is rent-seeking at it's worst

It's a bit sad that their marketing and Vice and this thread of misinformation has convinced you of this. Because their financing terms are in fact more consumer friendly than the vast majority of financing plans out there, likely including all the monthly payments you're currently making. It's a missed opportunity that the marketing message got so lost here.
> Financial assets going up is precisely a sign of inflation.

No, it is not. Inflation is the costs of goods and services that roughly correspond to cost of living.

When you start talking about asset prices rising there is another term that we already have to cover that:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_bubble
TIL: start on lists, is awesome. I wonder if people think form attribute for controls, target attributes for forms (to show result in iframe), and accesskey are worthy inclusions.
Free speech has the entire internet, just don't expect giant public corporations to broadcast and amplify conspiracy theories. No one expects youtube to host porn or gore, but when they take down covid deniers and mass shooting conspiracies people think they are entitled to youtube hosting them.
Also retweets. And quote tweets.

And they made nearly every one of those things worse somehow. It's almost impressive.
I prefer Grim Dawn, myself.
But shouldn't carbon tax equally apply to imported steel? It wouldn't make any sense to only apply it to domestic.
If it is super easy then can you list what advertiser networks or affiliate networks they should use? Also it's not like somebody going to watch a Liveleak video has any commercial intent so the ad RPMs will be really low
Four LiveLeak videos will always stay in my head. WARNING: even in text this stuff is horrifying. Stop reading if you don’t want to have nightmares.

1) an ISIS video where a 7 year old kid or so goes through a building where a bunch of hostages are tied up. He shoots them dead in succession. He looks like he’s about to cry throughout the whole video — but he doesn’t.

2) a completely covered up woman(?) in Iran is executed in public. They tie the rope around her neck and then lift her up . Her legs flail and kick a little, then a lot, then stop. The crowd is shouting.

3) a teenage girl in Guatemala is beaten by a crowd. When she’s lying on the floor someone pours a liquid over her and lights her on fire. She struggles a bit and it seems like the fire has gone out. The guy comes and pours more on her and sets her on fire again. She struggles a bit more slowly and it seems like the fire is out. Then she yells the most chilling thing I have ever heard. She screams “Echenme mas gasolina, culeros!” (Throw more gasoline on me, assholes!) I will never unhear a 16 year old girl begging for a mercy killing. The crowd obliged and pours a very large amount of the accelerant on her and she flails around while burning to death.

4) a woman is walking with her two kids near a maybe 6 foot high single brick thick wall in construction. One of her kids touches the wall and it collapses on his or her head. The mother digs out the bricks to get to her child but when she sees him she has a meltdown and is grabbing her hair and screaming.

Absolutely horrifying, yes. But I don’t think there’s any other way to learn about this facet of the world. I think the world has lost a valuable resource.
Probably decided it was more profitable to use the storage to mine chia...
I'm not interested in recovering that account anyway, I'd spend more money (in terms of time spent dealing with them) on trying to get it back than what I'd owe in a few decades.
I found the facebook killed forums more than Reddit, although its probably both depending on the audience.
It's interesting that the paper version doesn't include "Growing as a Mobile Engineer" - too much paper and/or logistical issue? Trying to decide which way to support you, congrats!
I didn't attack you. The SEC was underfunded in 2008, and was still underfunded in 2018. A good source showing that their budget has increased by 82% over those 10 years doesn't change, or even challenge that. My original points were:

- These fines are dimes on the dollar compared to profits gained

- Regulators are comparatively underpaid, with the comparison point being workers in the regulated sector.

Goldman Sachs is a single firm that made $9.5B in profit in 2020 who has to pay a $2.9B fine over $1.6B in bribes paid with $2.7B of "misappropriated funds". A single firm paid nearly the entire SEC's budget ($1.75B 2020) just in bribes to foreign officials.

But sure, since the SEC's budget has increased by 82% since the housing market failed, they have all of the funds they need. Clearly we have a value difference here. The issue is not the facts at hand, it is our opinions on what they mean.

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/goldman-sachs-charged-foreign...
Another place where actual free exchange of information could happen, gone forever. I don't really blame the site runners; must take balls the size of a planet to host that kind of content, especially now. Sad to see it go though.
Even in lower ELOs each team should have, on average, the same amount of trolls, leavers, etc. Actually, if you can guarantee that you aren't one of those people, then there are X slots on the enemy team that might be a joker and X-1 slots on your team, so the odds should favor you.
I really don't get these studies of the obvious. Rich children tend to succeed more often because parents can afford better education and they grow up in environments that provide better opportunities, networking, etc. Money provides a head start. period. Why write a paper about what we know since the dawn of humanity?
Seconding this. There's been a resurgence in demand for Cold Fusion programmers too. Not quite the same era, but there's a market for out-of-favor flavors.
Oh, so what do you do?

I run a Beef Jerky as a Service thing but really it's just a lever against inefficient ads networks' partner's policies.
> The world is a scary and violent place. Without Liveleak, you might never feel it.

Counter-point; the world is mostly a neutral, even OK, place, with also violence in it. Our cognition is heavily biased towards saliencing and preserving the scary bits, and being exposed to a planet scale showcase of those bits does not necessarily make us wiser (e.g. better decision makers). At least for me personally it took a decade before I regretted having watered those flowers of morbid curiosity.

The redeeming quality of LiveLeak might be, however shocking the content was, it also had an inherent grounding in bare reality, compared to the narratively embellished one of mainstream media. The former is ultimately bound by rules of reality but the latter is only bound by what people are willing to believe in.
The userbase is also becoming worse, because they're attracting the kind of idiots that respond to design like that.
Itemfix is such a bad name. It sounds like it was generated by AI or a domain generator
Pycharm handles django projects pretty well "find usages" is a somewhat reverse way of doing it though
The problem is that the use case for tracking stolen items and the use case for tracking a person without their consent are identical, except for which side of the transaction the bad actor is on.

I cannot think of a resolution to this, but think the 3 day compromise is a fair start.

There are many, many more thieves than stalkers, but stalkers can do arguably much more harm per incident.
Holding gold is less useful that you may think:

> Gold objects have existed for thousands of years but for many investors gold has only recently become a tradable investment opportunity. Gold has been described as an inflation hedge, a “golden constant”, with a long run real return of zero. Yet over 1, 5, 10, 15 and 20 year investment horizons the variation in the nominal and real returns of gold has not been driven by realized inflation. The real price of gold is currently high compared to history. In the past, when the real price of gold was above average, subsequent real gold returns have been below average. Given this situation is it time to explore “this time is different” rationalizations? We show that new mined supply is surprisingly unresponsive to prices. In addition, authoritative estimates suggest that about three quarters of the achievable world supply of gold has already been mined. On the demand side, we focus on the official gold holdings of many countries. If prominent emerging markets increase their gold holdings to average per capita or per GDP holdings of developed countries, the real price of gold may rise even further from today’s elevated levels. As a result investors in gold face a daunting dilemma: 1) embrace a view that “those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it”, there is a “golden constant” and the purchasing power of gold is likely to fall or 2) embrace a view that “this time is different” and the “golden constant” is dead.

* https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2078535
There’s no scarcity. Bitcoin supply also increases when forked and that’s happened a few times
> What useful information does it provide?

The potential for surprise & early detection.

As your quote noted, most cows are slaughtered earlier, so generations could be infected without any detection. If you only test 5yo symptomatic cows, you can never find an outbreak until it's too late, or anything that contradicts the breezy reassurances of the industry-captured USDA.

Again, it's like when the CDC & Fauci were assuring people that there was no significant community COVID spread, when they were also blocking any testing that could detect such spread, by limiting tests only to those that fit their preconceived notion ("only recent returnees from Wuhan").

How much, if any, random surveillance of older asymptomatic cows happens that gives you such confidence in the current testing?

How many meat cows live long enough to get a good read on the symptomatic rate?

Are you sure early mild symptoms of ill health might not just get a cow culled before enough symptoms-to-test arrive, by ranchers who, like the USDA, "would rather not know"?

Your last paragraph seems to reduce to, "we'll know if there's a lot of it, if and when there are a lot of young people with suspicious BSE".

We should aspire to use something other than our young people for early detection. Or at least not block those who want to try it.
Hmm. For at least the G in FAANG, experience with "frameworks" is utterly irrelevant. Apply.
The dark AI aspect seems a bit clickbait like as it seems humans were prompting the content.

The moderation aspect is interesting.

It's hard enough to moderate people at scale accurately....can't be easier when the people are utilizing some text generation / ai system.
My claim is that it's ridiculous to send $0.01 monthly invoices for an inactive account, not sure what you mean by "validate", maybe it isn't that funny of a story? :) But it doesn't make sense for me to spend even $1 on anything regarding this matter. I'm ok with not having access to that account anyway. If anything they should pay me to go through the hassle.
You'd be surprised at the cache that old IPs have with young people who've never played them before. Young people have still heard about the legendary games from places like YouTube but may not have the capability to play them.
Precisely; when consumers think of Diablo, what images conjure up? I expect segments:

1. What's Diablo?

2. Diablo 2 was great!

3. I played Diablo 3 but tired of it...
It has nothing to do with language skills (the parts I can decipher are perfectly decent english); his handwriting is just terrible.
That might be, but extrapolating a few anecdotes about demand pressure (e.g., increased purchases of beds) all of which seem to be related to short term disruption caused by the pandemic, into a story about inflation seems a little sensational.
Yes, because we knew how to deal with 80k. Suddenly we had to deal with 400k, which is a much larger number.
HAving kids changed my "ambivalence" about it... After infertility treatments for years I was just done focusing on it...wife wasn't....then we got our two boys...

So glad I didn't give up or say "enough is enough"... my life wouldn't be worth nearly as much as it is now...
I start by just getting something to “work” and it usually is completely unoptimized and looks like shit.

Once I’ve proven, technically it works, its a slow iterative process of turning coal into a diamond.

Sometimes that process takes days, sometimes weeks and for me specifically, years. But it’s the drive to finish that actually gets you to a completed project. Drive and conviction that your thing is going to fulfill your goals (whether that’s money, scale, technical accomplishment, experimentation, etc).
It isn't interesting why rich parents have rich children, i think there have been many studies on this which basically come to the same conclusions and i think most people find the conclusions obvious (emphasis on education, parents can give a safety cushion for risky ventures, professional/social network from the parents and from going to good schools etc...) I think the harder question and more interesting question is how we can improve the lives of children born into inter generational poverty, with uneducated parents, maybe a broken household, and corresponding "bad" surroundings.
Migrating from Python to Kotlin for Our Back End Services
My experiences in the business world is Word has been on a sharp decline for a long time. Excel is more likely to be used as Word. It’s very common to see a spreadsheet with no math and no tabular data but it’s print formatted.