skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're right about water influencing the rotation, in a way: increasing drought in the Indian subcontinent and Caspian Sea caused the rotational axis to stop moving towards Hudson Bay and start moving toward the British Isles around 2000[1]. But the Axial tilt of the Earth (and thus the "change in latitude of the Equator") always stays within 2° of 23°.[2] So no, that line was never on the Equator.

Those seas were formed by tectonic movement and are not (directly) related to each other. The Caspian and Black Sea are remnants of the Parathetys Ocean[3] while the Mediterrean is a remnant of the Tethys Ocean. The driving forces of plate tectonics aren't completely understood yet, but the Earth's rotational axis (probably) doesn't play a large part.

[1] https://www.nasa.gov/feature/nasa-study-solves-two-mysteries...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axial_tilt#Long_term

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paratethys
You might be surprised at how much family changes things. You have to factor in:

- Assuming two working parents initially, either lose one salary or pay >$1000/month on child care per child until school (unless you're lucky and grandparents live nearby)

- Larger house, larger mortgage. In the UK at least, you probably end up looking for one in the catchment area of a good school which means even more expensive, or go private which is a lot more expensive.

- Kids are just expensive. Clothes, book, activities, clubs, holidays, books.

- College/University fund
I've just noticed that one of the jslinux configurations now boots to X Windows(!) for either RISC-V(!) 32 or 64 bit.

GET OUT OF TOWN.
> As a community of mostly engineering-minded folks, I hope we can take this as a warning to not make our mission-critical systems depend on inputs that are merely convenient side-effects of third-party systems provided free of charge and without obligation.

That is not entirely true. The TSO is committed to keeping the average frequency of the power grid at 50Hz and has always communicated that. It tries to keep grid time within 20 seconds of UTC, and has historically achieved this. So it is reasonable to use the grid as a time source where high accuracy is not required. The current situation is highly irregular. Using the grid frequency for time keeping is a secondary function of the electricity grid, but it is not merely an unintended side-effect.

I agree with the rest of your points about using a different time source where high accuracy is required.
Energy conservation. You're pushing (literally) against the electrical workload of the connected circuits (places where people have plugged a device into a socket and made a loop). When there's more to push against, your steam goes less far and your turbine starts to slow. You can then apply more energy and push the system back up to speed.
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Which is not really an ironclad guarantee it won't happen (I'm thinking in terms of the law being modified or repealed, not in terms of companies ignoring it).

But the solution to the insurance problem is pretty obviously at the societal level. Once the testing is cheap enough, if they are allowed to, companies will just refuse carriage to people that won't submit the DNA (well, assuming that DNA profiling provides meaningful pricing information).
That's because there isn't anything that a US administration can do to slow the build up there. It's the same reason the Obama Administration didn't do anything of consequence to stop China when they began building the artificial islands.

It would require war, a near-war, or very large scale sanctions. A group of dozens of major economies would have to impose trade consequences. And even that might not deter China, given how badly they appear to want to annex that territory.
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sure, IOC monitoring can be done via osquery (free), or tanium ($$$). You just have to build your own ruleset to pickup IOCs.
Linux has AV, and nextgen stuff like Cylance (works but super buggy, runs as a kernel module).
You also have other HIDS, like bro, snort, and so on, but those mostly look for suspicious network traffic.
Microsoft OMS has been making some plays here, it frequently flags unusually process execution for me (eg: Python running from an uncommon path or some such)
>depend on inputs that are merely convenient side-effects of third-party systems provided free of charge and without obligation.

I would disagree. You don't get it for free, you pay for that. The Grid frequency is regulated and the powergrid providers have, IIRC, even legal obligations on how far they are allowed to deviate the time.

Using AC as clock signal is good enough if being wrong by a few minutes is not mission critical. If you absolutely do need accurate time use DCF77 or GPS.
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DCF77 also tells you what time it is, AC can only keep whatever time's been set in sync. The equivalent would be to include a 50-cent crystal oscillator instead.

On a only barely related note, I've been playing with the idea of implementing a NTP synced clock on an ESP8266. It'd wake up, join wifi and sync NTP every few hours, then keep time on its internal crystal in between. It should be a good deal cheaper, work anywhere in the world, and have better indoor coverage (I have a DCF77 clock in an interior bathroom in London, and it never syncs. Kind-of defeats the purpose that I have to move it to a south-facing room for the day to get it to sync).
For what it's worth, I have an alarm clock connected to the French grid, and until last month it's been perfectly on time, so assuming it is tuned to 50Hz there is probably something wrong with the source data.
So, at the end they found out it's bad?
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Way back in the dim distant past I had a lovely Sony cube radio alarm clock. It had a switch on the back to determine the clock speed, either 50 or 60Hz.
One day, unbeknowst to me, I, or someone else, moved the switch from 50 to 60Hz.

When the alarm went off the following morning, I proceeded to get ready for lectures (This clock was my only means of telling the time, there were no phones or computers in my room) and after having showered I switched on the TV (which could only receive 3 channels at the time!) where I was met with unfamiliar programmes. This confused me for a long while until I realised the time was about 40 minutes later than the clock told me. I missed my first lecture.
I totally agree with this and wish it was easier to make environmental impact a part of my purchasing decision.
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Older traffic lights were controlled by mechanical sequencers: a synchronous motor turns a drum with pins on it (like in a music box) and the pins open or close contacts which drive contactors powering the individual lights.

Modern ones are networked SPSes or small industrial PCs.
To fool humans you need some sass
What do you propose to do about it that wouldn’t end in even worse outcomes?
Twitter has probably too many users now to be able to create a single UI that would please everyone. It is sad that they have crippled the API for newcomers and forced the look and feel on the old indie clients.
It might interest you that you can use the power plug to connect the device to the internet.
But allows for life insurance, disability insurance, long term care, Amazon Prime, pretty much anything other than health insurance and employment.
I do the same using the "digital inheritance" feature in SecureSafe.
https://www.securesafe.com/
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I could only open it with Gimp (which rasters it to a bitmap) on Ubuntu with the installed default software.
In Germany, we have the same system (Tan Generator, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transaction_authentication_num...). Actually, some banks provide Mobile TANs but we all know that this is eyewash with smartphones, whereas a Tan generator is an independent offline device.

However, there are also a number of loopholes. I can make a batch transfer of an arbitrary amount of money to a number of recipients with only a single TAN and this is not well integrated into the TAN generator device.
This is true.

In addition, it's also ironic how when the Chinese government intervenes you see the American media decry exactly the type of behavior that the administration now wants to embrace.

It has never been about ideologies (free market), it's always been about what's beneficial for the US government. Not just in trade, but in everything. And anyone who knows anything about the past 40 years should be able to see it clearly. Instead, so many people are happy to parrot whatever the latest talking point on the media is.
What is the cost?
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What does the application do? Why legacy devices? Why do you need to use a JS framework?
In that case, moving the office to East Bay would save everyone about 2 hours each work day? Seems like an amazing benefit for everyone involved—-less commuting time & stress, better productivity, greater employee satisfaction. Why haven’t more companies move there? Really curious.
I work on the basis that nearly nothing I have is of much value when I die. I aggressively prune my data on an ongoing basis as I'm doing it. Any bill over store years old, I delete; any unflagged email over three years old, I delete. I'm keen to proactively reduce the overhead of dealing with this stuff myself and for those I leave behind. I keep very little in the way of ephemera, and generally scan important letters and shred/recycle the originals.

I store all of my logins in pass[1], and have the store synced in Dropbox. My will has the password for my GPG key and my Dropbox in it. I realise that's a potential security hole, but the copies are sealed and held at home and with a trusted friend, so I consider it relatively minimal.

I also print out all of the important photos I've taken. It's a pretty low-tech solution, but it's a proven one: I have albums and photos from both sets of grandparents and great-grandparents precisely because a hardcopy photo doesn't need software to use.

[1]: https://www.passwordstore.org/
And subject to gaming. Morning Star might be a nice cooperative environment - but when corporates try "360 review" it can get nasty. I've seen investment banks where people treat their colleagues as competitors for the bonus pool. If the review forms part of the bonus assessment why would people play nicely?
No....

I did not say don't plan at all, just think about the lifestyle you may have in the future, not the one you have now.
Wasn't preachy, made sense to me :). Thanks for it, I've had lots of vague thoughts swirling around about this.

Perhaps we become who we are through what we pursue. So if we never wade beyond the tide of 'low' goals pushed upon us by that glowing box, we end up the simplistic people you mention above (good teeth etc.).

But do we have an innate identity that's being supplanted by consumerism, or are these just the easiest, most available goals, and so we create our identity from these shallow things?

So perhaps it's less that this shallow self-knowledge is externally imposed over our innate deep self-knowledge, and more that we're simply shallow people because we've set shallow goals.

Maybe we realize our potential and develop that 'real' identity by looking up, aiming higher...
Show me these killers. My requirements:
1. Multiplatform.
2. Easy to write in.
3. Fast.
4. Looks good.
Tiny Renderer or how OpenGL works: software rendering in 500 lines of code

https://github.com/ssloy/tinyrenderer
This design will allow Coinbase for adding some tokens they like and profit immensely from large retail base of investors investing passively in anything that Coinbase will list - becoming de-facto token curation network
For equipment automation i am using end-state player which accelerate our development at least in 3 times. Why? There are three levels of hierarchy: conception level, detail, gui. All of these levels are independant to earch others, for example, arhitector can invented new conception with some fake elements which will be substituted in some future stages. Software developers who are making new elements (with parsers, new libraries and so on), regarding to conception above, are not intersected with conception and gui levels. In its turn gui developers use only state schema with all defined properties or data which are belong to every state.
The physical effect is known as the Lorentz force: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorentz_force

If this was not the case, we could basically generate arbitrary amounts of power from nowhere, as there was no resistance and we could thus just spin a generator forever with zero power necessary (except for the little bit required to overcome friction) once it is set in motion. The Lorentz force makes sure that's not the case by slowing down the movement, and it slows it down more if more electric power is pulled from the generator.
If Spotify were to pull a Netflix and begin signing artists, this would put it in conflict with its current supplier gateways, other labels. Unlike Netflix however, Spotify does not have enough of a market share to prevent the labels from pulling out.
I never understood this.. My family was like here look at this recipe learn - my wifes grandmother was a recipe hoarder and has a huge shlef of books with I mean no less than ten notebooks going back to the 50s.. of hand copied then xeroxed recipes.. ugh..
Has anyone heard of the HODL cryptocurrency index fund hodlfund.io? Looks promising, although apparently the ICO is not open yet.
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> made with humans

Sounds scary... I don't think this is an example of a good field to get in... :grin:
Flexibility and "being your own boss" (deciding when you're going to drive by yourself, not with some kind of manager) is important to a lot of people.
Not if limit orders are placed on Coinbase's GDAX exchange
Note to self: If lost at sea, do at least 10 message-in-a-bottles.
It’s not 2-3% at Amazon’s volume. Amazon also allows you to load up a gift card balance with a checking account.
would it be possible for you to share your fvwm hacks? i too run fvwm (on arch) and was wondering what i might be missing out on ?

thank you :)
Of course it starts with a gratuitous swipe at Donald Trump.

Trump Derangement Syndrome is real.
Ah now I understand why the clock on our microwave oven is running behind.

I am sure I set it correctly after the end of the latest daylight savings period (which they also should forbit, different subject).

It seems getting worse over time. It now runs behind for guess what.. 6 minutes ;)
Is this the one with the cup of boiling water that you pour into the batter right before it goes into the oven? I don't know why more people don't make that, it is my mom's (and of course mine now) go-to chocolate cake, and it is truly excellent.
The Great Belt Power Link (DC) in Denmark wasn't built until 2009/2010 to simply reduce price variability between east and west. Sjælland is close to Sweden and the rest of Denmark is easily connected to Germany, so early interlinks made the split naturally.
In an agile company, working software is the primary measure of progress
I'm skeptical of the idea that if we just looked deep enough we'd find our "genuine" selves. As if we were the representation of some platonic ideal of ourselves.

Also, assuming such a thing does exist, why assume it would be a good thing to find it. Reminds me of Rousseau vs Hobbes.
Also, I suspect that this whole thing is for marketing executives or something, not the actual people making tomato paste. A job description of "I pull a lever on the assembly line to pour paste into the cans" isn't really a job description requiring a lot of explanation.
Why would Spotify lock in the artist? It's enough for them to attain a license to play the songs.

Why would that need management folks? Wouldn't a simple signup form be enough?
Very tall buildings can actually be safer than shorter buildings, because they are all made of steel, and can have a lot of anti earthquake support built in.

Also as a short proof, Japan and Taiwan are also directly on top of a fault line. Taipei and Tokyo have some of the tallest buildings in the world. The tech is there.
The Patagonia website used to have a really goo presentation about the pollution caused by washing synthetic clothing but they seem to have redesigned their website very recently and it's not easy to get around.

Another major source of ocean plastic pollution is from car tyres. That 6mm of tread which disappears from your tyres is generally washed off the roads, through the drains and into the ocean.

> http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-39042655

> The report found between 15% and 31% of plastic pollution came from primary microplastics, of which the biggest contributors (almost two-thirds) were abrasion of synthetic textiles, while washing, and abrasion of tyres, while driving.
I can imagine "look at me, my genes are superb!" having a slightly different effect on potential dating partners' level of interest to the one intended...
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You could actually say that from the attacker points of view, you should change your methods permanently to avoid tracking / fingerprinting.
so... is that good or bad?
It flowed just fine for me because I pronounce it S-Q-L in my head as well. I don't know why saying SEQUAL has always felt unnatural to me. Probably because I came across it independently and learned about it by myself instead of having someone else introduce it to me as SEQUAL before seeing the acronym.
Perhaps a side digression to this conversation, but... in spite of all the cool languages we talk about that have many on-paper advantages of either safety, convenience, or support of paradigms, is there really any option besides C for this kind of thing?

It still seems that, if you want to write Core Infrastructual Code that can be run anywhere, on anything, that links with any other software without any caveats, disclaimers, or compromise, C is still king.

Could this have practically been written in rust? haskell? ...and still have the same degree of embeddability and reach?
Amiga died thanks to Commodore mismanagement, Microsoft was still not that strong back then.

PCs were still a mix of MS-DOS, Windows 3.x or Novell Netware when the downfall begun around 1994, Windows 95 was still around the corner.
not sure this is entirely fair. While there's certainly some cronyism (see my earlier comment), study sections are mostly about funding the safest science - i.e., the project with the least chance of failure and the fewest flaws. But they don't have to be.
Many of the 'big idea'-focused mechanisms at NIH are 4 or 5 years - plenty of time to make real headway. These would work if we supported enough of them.
Parenthetically, high-risk science does not mean shooting the moon - a well-designed project, even if it's high risk, will still yield /something/ valuable both for the field, and for the investigator's career development. That's why reviewers tend to look closely at the alternatives/pitfalls section of grants - what will you do if the experiment blows up?
Make your own build system
Why does it have to be Amazon? Look, Amazon's strategy isn't complicated.

Find a market where margins are large ("your margin is my opportunity"). Bring a simple, easy competitor to the market and aim for zero profit. Grow wildly. Build related products that either your customers want (and go elsewhere for) or else you are currently spending money on. Repeat until billionaire.

Anyone with some capital, industry-specific knowledge and a bit of courage can try this strategy. It won't always succeed. But the point is that waiting for Bezos or Musk or some other behemoth to solve all the world's problems rather than doing it ourselves is a very poor way to live.
I don't believe I'm confounding the two; I'm not saying that media bias isn't a problem. I'm pointing out that there's no reason to assume it is the reason for (possible) misinformation in this particular case.
Qt/QML fills all those bullets.

Curious that you mention fast, because it is something Electron definitely fails on.

Web apps are for my already installed browser.
My response was commenting on your comment about minerals and seemingly confusing CO2 (or acidity in general) with minerals. Distilled water is acidic, but it doesn't contain a significant amount of minerals (especially compared to tap water) which most people need.

> 1.) Do you believe ingesting anything slightly acidic is inherently bad? (is distilled water worse than fruit juice?)

Fruit juice has its own problems, but no. Our bodies have several buffers[1] that mean your blood pH (and other fluids) remain the same even if you add acidic or alkaline chemicals to it. This is required for enzymes in your body to function normally because they stop working outside very strict pH regions. (Of course this is a massive over-generalisation of the human body, and acidity can cause problem with people who have acid reflux or other stomach issues.)

In short, I agree that drinking something slightly acidic is generally as safe as something slightly alkaline (and a lot of the recent "take in more alkaline stuff" health trends are really stupid). My point was that (by the data given in the source you linked) that distilled water isn't "closer to neutral water" than tap water -- it's more acidic than tap water is alkaline.

> 2.) Is there more carbonic acid in distilled water vs soda water or coke/pepsi?

No, because soft drinks are carbonated (more dissolved CO2, more carbonic acid). If you made them flat it might be about the same (though there's plenty of other acidic crap in soft drinks).

> My father is a chemist [...] he didn't seem to think it was an issue.

Well, maybe he didn't know of or consider the importance of minerals. The point isn't that distilled water will kill your or anything, it's just that drinking nothing but distilled water (when you have access to clean tap water) is not a great idea because you're missing out on a several minerals that you now have to get from elsewhere.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffer_solution
I used an online conversion tool [0], and got these numbers.

Starting BMI: 28.6
Ending BMI: 25.9

It says I am still overweight, even at my lowest weight. lol

I am curious what these numbers mean to you? (I know I need to lose more weight, cause I can see it in the mirror...)

[0] https://bmicalculator.mes.fm/
"Guarantees"

Just like the "guarantees" Bernie Mandoff made to his "investors."

The money has to come from somewhere and the underlying assets producing returns are speculative.

If the underlying assets don't produce enough return for the company to offset losses, then that guarantee is worth the paper it's written on.
golergka’s point is that if there are environmental problems in the production of clothes they should be fixed as part of the problem of side effects of production rather than specifically as production of clothes.

If there are negative externalities of production those externalities should be taxed, whether in the production of books, clothes or automobiles.
You'd think most countries would have good drainage by now, which includes filtering and reusing as much rain water as possible before dumping it back into the rivers / oceans / etc. I know in most towns over here, rain water goes through a different sewage system than sewage and isn't just discarded in the nearest river.