skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Small factoid: I visited the Tobacco and Salt Museum in Tokyo and found out that Japan was forced to develop domestic salt technology due to isolation plus climate factors (cool temperatures and heavy rainfall). It's not just a historical topic. With increased use of soda and soda derivatives in modern industry salt now has an important role to play in advanced technologies.

https://www.jti.co.jp/Culture/museum_e/collection/salt/index...
Just saw this on the french wikipedia page for iodised salt, not included on the english language version:

> Toxicologie : en 2012, l'Autorité européenne de sécurité des aliments (AESA)7 fait remarquer que alors que la plupart des aliments ont un taux de plomb qui a régulièrement diminué, parmi 734 catégories d'aliments consommés en Europe et analysés (145 000 analyses au total), 87 présentent encore des taux de plomb préoccupants. Le sel iodé est l'un de ces 87 aliments, il serait source - pour un consommateur moyen - de 2,4 % des apports alimentaires quotidiens en plomb. Le rapport de l'AESA ne pose pas d'hypothèse sur l'origine de ce contaminant toxique et indésirable, source de saturnisme.

So that is saying that there are some concerns, reported by 'AESA', with iodised salt containing lead.

Couldn't find any original source for that, though, so far (looking here: http://www.efsa.europa.eu/).
Turkish John Doe
... and here I am, 10 years later; still without a television.
Recommendations:

1) Einsteins Dreams - This book is a quick read, but shows a bunch of different perceptions of time. Fantastic.

2) Rock warriors way - Even if you aren't a climber, I feel like this book has a lot of great lessons about committing without fear. Much more accessible as a climber though.

3) Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art - Quick read, I learned a lot about storytelling in general.

4) Agnotology: The Making and Unmaking of Ignorance - This is a series of essays and the first few were great views into companies creating ignorance in the 50's around smoking and link to cancer. Gets a little dense after a while.

Full list:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/18975415-samuel-mosley...
There's even a piece of the traditional regional dress called a "goiter band" in Bavaria and Austria.

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kropfband
The who-spoke-to-whom-and-when data is... well certainly not nothing. Quite powerful, I'd think.
The Gods Themselves by Isaac Asimov was definitely my favorite.
They say that they collect the following: "We collect device-specific information when you install, access, or use our Services. This includes information such as hardware model, operating system information, browser information, IP address, mobile network information including phone number, and device identifiers. We collect device location information if you use our location features, such as when you choose to share your location with your contacts, view locations nearby or those others have shared with you, and the like, and for diagnostics and troubleshooting purposes such as if you are having trouble with our app’s location features."

The IP-Adress together with the facebook plugins on many websites allow lots of tracking.
Any source?

I thought that it is years since you can have an UK "business" address and incorporate a company remotely (example):

https://www.rapidformations.co.uk/blog/can-a-non-uk-resident...

Needed papers may be much more than what is needed for Estonia, and most probably taxes/fees will be higher, so that Estonia may be a cheaper solution, but it is not like it is a "brand new concept" unavailable before.
I actually agree with this, more or less. Finding promising molecules is only step 1, and drug development would still be expensive even if molecule discovery were easy.

The other parts of what you're saying are true but don't depend on what happens in quantum computing, they're just part of the for-profit drug industry. There are government and philanthropic drug hunters today who are doing good work, and if they had quantum drug discovery, they would be able to do even more.
I work as a software developer, I don't think I can really get away from having a screen as the central fixture on my desk. That said, for those whose work is not so centrally fixed around computing, elevating a monitor to the most central location on their desk strikes me as far less helpful.

My partner works works with college students, they are a counselor and adviser; meeting with students is the primary focus of their work. I was surprised to see, however, that the computer and display was still a big part of their desk. They have one of those L-shaped workstations with the front portion cleared so they can talk to students and the wall-side dominated by the computer's display.

Does the screen need to dominate their workspace? What sort of constant attention drain does the display represent on them and the students? I also believe it leads to unreasonable work performance related expectations, namely that they are entirely up-to-date on the most recent received email messages and memos, etc. Most of their time is spent working with students, the computerized portion of their work is mostly in the morning, brief snippets in between appointments and the end of the day.

This "screenless" idea seems somewhat extreme, but perhaps having the computing device in a clearly diminutive form-factor would go a long way towards changing their relationship with the machine, as well as expectations for how much time they spend reading email, memos, etc. I definitely think it's worth exploring.

In my opinion, the "open" office plans seem the most extreme version of this idea that the computing device should be central to one's workspace (and by extension, one's work). In some of these plans, there's almost no personal space at all, certainly no room for decoration or personal touches. On the contrary, the entire space is defined by the computer.

http://vanessaauditore.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/privac...
So, viral GPL FTW?

Seriously, there's no shared libraries in compiled monolithic WebAssembly, is there? I think[1] that means included GPL code will require exposure of the source.

Maybe if we're lucky some best practice will emerge that the source is often available as a sourcemap so companies don't have to worry about being sued for infringing the GPL. It sure would be nice to finally see an outcome of companies erring on the side of (legal) caution that's better for consumers.

1: Think because everybody seems to like to argue the specifics of this point.
@mods Can we fix the title? "Netflix vs. cable: Subscribers are neck and neck now, says PwC"
> Also think about when peak demand happens -- late afternoon on hot summer days. Right at the time when people are getting home, with their EVs discharged (or at least, not at full capacity) after a day's use.

Not completely discharged - the little available per car will add up to a lot when there are a lot of EVs. The EV owners who decide to sell to the grid at peak hours (at higher prices) might make a profit doing so.
Well with WhatsApp being so popular in Europe it is almost impossible to uninstall it.
Homeschool Networking Social Interaction for Children
government owned, no responsibility. Shocking. Why can't inspiration be taken from Europe with all its implementations for transit efficiencies and learnings about doing intercity connections well.
Note: this doesn't mean despair and do nothing. I'm not saying this is what you mean't, just feel like we need to point that out because despair is very counterproductive. Also, this doesn't mean that climate mitigation is the only choice either, it is still cheaper to "diet" than it is to "exercise" to use a weight loss analogy. Lowering CO2 emissions is still going to slow climate change and hopefully give us time to come up with other mitigation strategies.
Also, with the ever increasing level of software complexity many websites rely on, reading such text isn't as simple as it may seem, to give clear example, Google's default page in only one reference javascript file from apis.google.com has ~8000 lines of code, which is deliberately difficult to understand by itself: variables have weird names, lots of anonymous functions, and so on.
Chasing a good place to live, die and fulfill personal needs is hedonistic in nature. You would have to buy into the reincarnation thing to defer that to another incarnation and accept your lot in life as it is.

There is value in acceptance but it's for the ones that are better off than others. There's nothing just in death by a preventable disease when a cure is outside if ones ability to obtain it.

Silicon valley stoicism emerged due to people loosing track of their worth, mindlessly running after profit. We should stride for goals (personal and shared), not take solace in a philosophy of existential stagnation.

It's pretty bleak and depressing but IMO it's not ones philosophy that changes, but the interpretation of it and resulting actions that it inspires.

In other words economic prosperity is a variable factor that will influence ones actions no matter what their philosophy is. By changing the variable you will change the product it gives. Dismissing it is ignorant until it's proven that it doesn't influence your sum-of-life-happiness.

Pretty hard to measure given we have 1 playthrough, nevertheless it can still be a factor. Stating otherwise is a matter of opinion about the volatility of influence a given factor has.
I wonder what the legal argument is behind this ruling. If one newspaper acquired another, couldn't the parent then market to the subsidiary's subscribers even if they continued to operate separately? The parent now owns everything anyway.
can't imagine why it's so difficult to learn from our European friends on how to do transit well
Kaspersky Files Lawsuit Against Department of Homeland Security for Software Ban
How? Did you mean to say tax pollution from petroleum powered vehicles?
They can presumably not share the content of the messages, but they could share the metadata around them. Who you are connected to, how often you contact them, what time of day, potentially some location information, how long you spend in the app...
What are the best online bootcamps to learn data science?
true that ..the last line of your comment shaped up in my mind too after reading peoples complaints.
Exactly, charging is greater than 10mph at 16A (typical dryer load). If you drive 40mi (1hr commute?) each way and only charge at home, you can charge in the 8 hours between 11pm and 7am.
Well, it'll de-calcify the bromide/chloride around your pineal gland.
There's also wind when these winter storms roll through :). I've found out personally that people can also adapt to new situations such as less availability of electricity.
Is the implication that people knowing that would be more or less likely to downvote?

I mean, Kaczynski was certainly not writing calm and evidence-based prose, but he's regularly cited as saying something seminal and interesting regardless. I don't think "there's no evidence, that's pure propaganda" is untrue, but it feels like a strange objection to raise for anyone aware of what the work is.

Aren't manifestos usually meant to be a position statement or propaganda, with factual debate conducted elsewhere? It's like criticizing an instruction manual for lacking compelling characters, or a holy book for not being peer-reviewed.
This professor has no idea what they're talking about. Every energy supplier I know of in my area offers an off peak discount specifically tailored to electric vehicles.
It sometimes depends on what progress the bar is tracking. I think some developers (incorrectly) track the % of the actions they are completing EG I have 100 files of different sizes to load and I have loaded 45 of them whereas I think users always expect the progress bar to be a timer and progress smoothly from 0 to "done".
One of the most important features that still makes the human brain superior to a machine is its innate ability to use context to discern meaning.
Good to know, thanks! Always good to keep your charity portfolio diversified to hedge against errors in estimates of program effectiveness, so this cause is worth looking at in more detail.

(Another good one last time I looked was deworming https://www.givewell.org/international/technical/programs/de... which scored quite highly, but again not as well as anti-malarial mosquito nets).
That’s not my problem to fix, no proposal is required of me.
GOWPT – Go Web Application Penetration Test
The article was about loneliness not life expectancy.

The family/social unit in tribal cultures is comparably closer on many levels than families in individualistic/civilized societies.

In the former, survival depends on community cohesiveness, in the latter, survival is a game of everybody against everybody.
A Victorian Christmas Gift Guide
Well sure, non-web platforms won't be affected by the self-destructive trend-chasing of the web.

The harm to disabled users remains.
A couple of books I've read can be found at https://www.theceolibrary.com/nick-janetakis-2771.html.

They are mainly focused on communication and getting better at selling yourself and your code. There's also a couple mixed in that will help improve other non-technical skills which in turn amplify your existing coding skills.
The framers of the US constitution were remarkably prescient about a number of things, but my guess is that they did not anticipate gerrymandering, or at least its effectiveness. I would be very interested to hear otherwise.
Why the International Space Station Is the Single Best Thing Humanity Did
I believe I pointed out that I realize it's a human issue more than a technology one. It was easier for some people to get suckered in to the power dynamics being played because "DBA" was already seen as more of black-magic art sort of thing, and those guys were the "real wizards" and so forth, so whatever they say goes. It's not been everywhere I've ever worked where sprocs were used, but it seems to have been at the places where "stored procedures are law".
Things said by various EU/French/German/British officials at various times about leaving the EU:

Leaving the EU is suicide.

It's self harm.

There must be a threat, there must be a risk, there must be a price for leaving (Hollande)

"Welcome to hell", said to the UK's negotiator on reaching the negotiation table.

"Brexit itself is already punishment enough" (Tusk)

Voting to leave will destroy 500,000-800,000 jobs due to "uncertainty" over how the EU will react (this claimed turned out to be false in the end).

The UK financial industry will be forced by the EU to move tens of thousands of people/jobs to the EU. Also all flights will be grounded. This is the "price" of leaving.

--

It is fair to say that in general everything said and done by the EU is designed to cause maximum damage, always with the caveat that continued automatic obedience to EU law and courts will make the "pain" go away (as they put it).

And is the UK really walking away because it doesn't like EU trading regulations? I thought they're trying their damnedest to continue benefiting from those regulations

The primary "benefit" of complying with those regulations is the EU does not impose bans on your products. The regulations themselves are often badly thought out - that's what this whole thread is about, badly thought out GDPR regulations causing US businesses to give up trying to sell to the EU (effectively the EU has created massive new trade barriers with the rest of the world).
That depends on the country. In Germany the only discounts I know are for people using electric central heaters which heat up over night (Nachtspeicherofen).

Something as modern as time-variable tariffs... not gonna happen soon here.
The argument is that WA always told us that they wouldn't share our data. This was a reason people signed up, you can't just "Oops we did it anyway" on so many people. At least not on People who have a government with their best interest in mind.
I have my own views on this but I basically agree with everything you said.

I think ORM is a great way to translate tables into real objects that have their own methods and properties that may or may not interact with the DB. I think that's where the real power is.

But for performance-necessary actions, yeah, SQL all the way (or rather a query builder).
I've been watching the used Tesla market, and it would appear that the reduced TCO is already priced into cars in that market. They're very close to the new car price.
For the kind of applications I work on (compilers and interpreters) we have large, mutable data structures. The best way we know as an industry to parallelise operations on these data structures is via shared memory, which either means threads, or processes with shared memory mapped into them, which is effectively the same thing (you need the same synchronisation).

For me personally, that's what's so good about multi-threading. It's the best tool for my job.
Sorry, this got a little longer than I meant it to be

- Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years at Lockheed - It's over 20 years old now but still really good, especially if you're into planes like the U-2, F-117, and SR-71

If you're wanting a deeper understanding of the other side of the war on terror, I'd recommend the following:

- I Was Told to Come Alone: My Journey Behind the Lines of Jihad

- Salafi-Jihadism: The History of an Idea

- The Way of the Strangers: Encounters with the Islamic State

- After the Prophet: The Epic Story of the Shia-Sunni Split in Islam

- The Black Banners: The Inside Story of 9/11 and the War Against al-Qaeda

If you're wanting a dive into Russia:

- The Invention of Russia: From Gorbachev's Freedom to Putin's War

- The Red Web: The Struggle Between Russia's Digital Dictators and the New Online Revolutionaries

- Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible: The Surreal Heart of the New Russia

If you're wanting true Spy stuff:

- The Billion Dollar Spy: A True Story of Cold War Espionage and Betrayal

- The Spy's Son: The True Story of the Highest-Ranking CIA Officer Ever Convicted of Espionage and the Son He Trained to Spy for Russia

- Left of Boom: How a Young CIA Case Officer Penetrated the Taliban and Al-Qaeda (the author is a little full of himself, but still, it's interesting)
> Removing microplastics

How do you propose to remove grains of plastic the size of salt crystals from the salt? And once done is it affordable or commercially viable?
What Ruby Needs
Well, assuming we can somehow prevent someone from cheating and writing code to solve the problems, the confirmation wait shouldn't be any worse if people are working in pools to solve the problems and submitting found answers in an online form. If 4000 people are working for their UBI in pools the confirmations should be roughly as fast as they are today.

Again the problem would be to create challenges that "can't be computed" but can be verified with a software.
Pros:

* virtual money with monetary policy. This could shield it against manias, panics, bubbles and crashes

* Estonia is not big enough to dream of imperialism and hegemony (hopefully).

Cons:

* scale is everything. If the Financial authorities of the U.S., China, England, Japan, Facebook, Google, WeChat or Tencent implement something like that in a global scale, it will be hard to compete.

* Mario Draghi, the "cappo-di-tutti-cappi" in the European Union says no: https://qz.com/1072740/mario-draghi-of-the-ecb-dashes-estoni...
No, if you owned all the currency from my country, my country would just issue a new currency, which would effectively nullify any value behind the old one. Countries making new currencies is a fairly common event in the past century and that's not even counting the move to the Euro.
Honestly this argument is no different than the “why is this non tech related article on hacker news when all that should be posted is tech stories” that pops up constantly on Hacker News.

It stems from you wanting everyone to use the website the way you want them to instead of the way they want to. In the example instance the powers that Be have explicitly stated it’s okay but as far as i know have not commented on the behavior in question.

You can check my comment history to see i never post links but I also have no issue with the behavior. The person has put a lot of effort (compared to a forum post) discussing their take on a topic and decided it’d relevant and of interest to the discussion at hand.

If you don’t want to digest information that way it’s easy to ignore it and engage only on site commenters. For those of us who like in depth analysis that can’t be conveyed in a short forum discussion will click through and continue the discussion after.
Your $365.80?

$354.38 is a lot of money to stake your opinion on. Are you sure $389.20 is the amount you're willing to invest in this?
I'm taking baby steps towards Signal. I think 10% now of my regular "apping" is on Signal. There is still some on Telegram as well.
Only 2 words sprang to mind: one was "Hipsters" the other rhymes with "tucking".
> the GDPR has a special section explaining that it also applies to foreign companies that process data of EU citizen

Is such a clause enforceable and/or valid? How could the EU punish a non-EU business for violating this? I guess they could block/get an injunction against them within the EU, but that seems like the sort of thing that would get challenged legally.
Yeah but the load peak when everyone arrives home/at work is what's dangerous for the grid. Even 10k cars at only 10 kW of charging power are a peak load of 100 MW. 100k cars are 1GW - which means the city of Munich with 700k cars has a load potential of 7GW at the minimum.

Either we get a grid that's intelligent enough to balance stuff out or the grid has to be built out with massive reserves, and that's everything but not cheap.
* The Unconsoled (Kazuo Ishiguro)

* Never Let Me Go (Kazuo Ishiguro)

* Influx (Daniel Suarex)

* Sputnik Sweetheart (Haruki Murakami)

* Apex (Ramez Naam)

* One Second After (William R. Forstchen)

* Anna Karanina (Leo Tolstoy)

* Neuromancer (William Gibson)

* A Farewell to Arms (Ernest Hemingway)

* Crux (Ramez Naam)

* A Moveable Feast (Ernest Hemingway)

* Hardboiled Wonderland and The End of the World (Haruki Murakami)
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Plenty of those books are good places to start learning about a topic. Get a basic understanding of something and then, if you find it interesting, go deeper.
Ha, that's a great way to put it. There's also "It is easy to shoot your foot off with git, but also easy to revert to a previous foot and merge it with your current leg" tho it's not quite as easy as the quote makes it out to be. Wish I knew who said that.
I haven't walked into a Barnes & Noble in a while, for the one that used to be in walking distance is closed. But I would be very surprised if I couldn't walk into the nearest B&N and find forty pounds of books that a) are worth reading and b) that I haven't read.
Is there legal precedent for "sharing" when the only entity you're providing the data to is your owner? Presumably if I bought WhatsApp, I would legally be allowed to query some database for someone's phone number if I so chose because I now own the database.
The lottery doesn't care about your class. Still doesn't mean many people get mobility out of it.
How “Controllable” React components maximize reusability – Medium
Have You Ever Felt Sorry for the I.R.S.? Now Might Be the Time
The heroes the web needs. Really.

An example of the kinds of things the IndieWeb folks think about: POSSE, "Publish (on your) Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere", where twitter and co are used as secondary platforms referring back to the non-silo-controlled site.

https://indieweb.org/POSSE