skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In case someone reads your comment and takes it to heart: isopropyl alcohol is not as magic as you're making it sound. It is a disinfectant but isopropyl alcohol does not sterilize. Some bacteria and spores are not killed by isopropyl alcohol, and depending on the surface you are cleaning, it can be ineffective at even disinfecting.

>Alcohols are not recommended for sterilizing medical and surgical materials principally because they lack sporicidal action and they cannot penetrate protein-rich materials. Fatal postoperative wound infections with Clostridium have occurred when alcohols were used to sterilize surgical instruments contaminated with bacterial spores. [1]

It's probably fine for most household uses, but it does not sterilize like you said it does, and if you're trying to clean something that you know is contaminated by disease-causing bacteria (eg cleaning the bathroom after someone has had the stomach flu) or someone immuno-suppressed lives in your house, you probably should reach for something stronger.

Isopropyl alcohol also, like you mentioned, evaporates quickly. You mention this as a benefit, but fast evaporation also means that you are likely inhaling a lot of alcohol particles as you clean, which is not good for your lung health either.

1: https://www.cdc.gov/infectioncontrol/guidelines/disinfection...
I assume "comparable" means "similar" in this sense.

But there's nothing about lung cancer, which makes the impact on lung health not remotely similar to a pack a day cigarette habit.
Related story in People magazine, January 1976:

http://people.com/archive/for-star-trek-freaks-chuck-and-san...

Note that this is not related to the Star Trek "store" (actually an added section to an existing comic-book shop) in downtown San Jose in the 1970s, near or on 2nd Street, IIRC.
Good. You know what? I want that entire industry to be hugely burdened.
considering some people ingest vinegar for blood sugar regulation, seems like a safe way to go
Isopropyl alcohol is a godsend when it comes to smelly athletic gear. If you want to clean hockey gear, some of the worst smelling athletic gear in existence, put it in a spray bottle in a 50/50 mix with water and spray profusely. It does a remarkable job at getting rid of the smell.
I'm sure I would, and I'm not blaming the land owners for being angry or litigious. But it's the government's job to decide where the line is drawn and when your options run out.
For the duration of your stay I'd actually recommend throwing away your netflix subscription! Each country's culture, accent and slang will vary so if you're in Costa Rica watching content from perhaps Spain, Mexico or Argentina each night it might be a tad confusing. e.g. From my experience, a Mexican gangster movie where they call each other "Pendejo" is little help on the streets of Bilbao or Jujuy!

I'd recommend conversational classes. Depending on how much free time you have, a small group of learners, 8 weeks, 90 mins, 3 times a week. I don't know what your financial situation is like but it may be the best several hundred dollars you ever spent - think of it as an investment. It's a commitment to seriously learn a language (because you're paying for it!) in a supporting environment that reinforces what you'll hear in real life.

Develop a daily routine in your local community. Visit the same coffee shop for breakfast and read half a chapter each day of your 'fluency in 25 lessons'. After a few tongue-tied attempts at conversation they'll naturally revert to practicing their English. Explain to a sympathetic ear that you're really keen to speak the language - perhaps only 1 of 4 employees in a café may persevere but that's okay - you then have 3 English speaking friends and one person you only talk in Spanish with. And it's a cliché but be kind to the monolingual elderly lady in your building - she may have a granddaughter she'll fix you up with!

As nerds we may think technology will solve everything but learning apps will only supplement human interaction, so get out there! :) You're in a Spanish speaking country, which is a great start.
You are given an unfreeze PIN when you freeze your credit. I believe that's the "password" being referred to here.
I was about to post the same link because of this passage in the article:

"When I asked Pam Freeman, editor of a poultry magazine, to introduce me to a chicken sexer, she said, "I honestly don't know anyone who has met a chicken sexer."
This page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satellite_collision) lists four "unintentional high-speed" collisions. I remember the furor over the Iridium 33 and the Fungyun FY-1C incidents.
Or not. Many of those calls use spoofed caller IDs. Not only are you not punishing the spammer, you're adding the number of a random person who have no idea this happened.
Why All Nodes Won’t Work
Presumably better to twist nozzle to jet spray rather than mist spray?
So much great work being done in Stanford. Can't wait to see what the next generation of students are doing.
Is it too much to ask the article's author to assume the bloody obvious?

> I just want to know why.

I'd wager more than a few people at Github are scratching their heads, wondering if the article's author's IQ is higher than a shoe size.
Never had this issue. And again, at least in Central Europe they do the change from Saturday to Sunday when it’s understood that most people have less constraints with tight times and alarms.
Introducing GCP’s new interactive CLI
SF Planning Commission rejects controversial Western Addition condo conversion
They are registering the fact that you knew it and used it to ship to a specific address in a previous transaction in order to reduce fraud risk. They aren't submitting it with every transaction. (Assuming they are following the rules...)
"For tenant advocates who led the fight to keep Canada in her home (opposing the condo conversion), the decision was a clear victory.

Tommi Avicolli Mecca of the Housing Rights Committee said his organization was formed by “seniors back in 1979 to fight the evictions that were happening of seniors for condo conversions.”

“It feels like we’ve come full circle,” he said. “Here, we’ve protected a senior. Unfortunately, it was after she died, but we tried our best to stop her from being evicted. At least we are not going to allow them to profit off of her death.”

Avicolli Mecca added the HRC, as well as other tenant advocacy groups, were prepared to continue the fight for Canada’s home, should Owens move to appeal the decision."
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> Amazon starts at $0.15/GB and drops with more volume.

Which has ALWAYS baffled me about Amazon's pricing. I would have thought they price it the REVERSE where it is low price at first, and rises. For example, start with a "low introductory rate for the first Petabyte" to get small businesses addicted to Amazon services while Amazon still makes a (solid) profit, then when the small business grows into a large business that requires more than a Petabyte of data Amazon would increase the price because: 1) scaling is hard and does cost money, and 2) a company looks into the future and says "heck, if we reach a Petabyte we're making so much money we can AFFORD the higher Amazon rates", and 3) as a company grows quickly they have so many other problems they won't prioritize getting off Amazon, especially if Amazon is scaling well for them.

Related side note: scaling really does cost extra money. For our online backup business, almost no customers have more than 10 million files in any one "backup" (each backup is "per laptop") so as programmers we can use any data structure we like to browse those files, a flat list IS FINE. But for B2, a large customer might have 1 billion files in one "bucket", and so we have to be a HECK of a lot smarter about how we organize that data so that the customer can still sign in with a web browser and view them all. For Backblaze, that meant moving up to a clustered hash database called Cassandra, and deploying (so far) about 50 1U computers, each with two CPUs, each with fast SSDs and a layer of complicated code to manage all of it. So the scaling requirements of the Personal Backup client required 0 extra servers, but at B2 scale it requires an additional $175,000 worth of equipment. Scale costs extra money.
I must ask: I do not have children. Do young fellas go crazy over a change in 1 hour or what?
I like how that's a .org. They really do just want to get the information out there.
Me too.

I put a white vinegar and water mixture into one of those inexpensive reusable spray bottles found in the cleaning aisle. If you need something a little stronger scrub with baking soda then squirt on vinegar, the two react together (base + acid) creating CO2 and further loosening grime as it bubbles.

I'd like rubbing alcohol, but the local supermarkets only sell it in the pharmacy and the bottles are a little small/expensive to use for cleaning ($2/ea for ish 500ml size).

Only chemical product I still use is toilet cleaner, since I've not found a safer alternative that actually works. Any suggestions there would be welcome.

Random pro-tip: They sell these spray bottles which release an ultra-fine mist. They're designed for hair/beauty but are absolutely fantastic for cleaning too. Just only put water in them as they're quite expensive relative to normal sprayers look up "Flairosol Mist Sprayer." You hand pump it a couple of times to compress, and then it mists like a deodorant. They're fantastic. Also great for hair.
https://github.com/null is a user.

I'm not sure I understand your comment. I could not find github's username blacklist, so I don't think it's "transparently obvious", but if there is a blacklist feel free to share it.
Yes, some small-time traders were put away. The odd CEO or CFO of a bank that's decidedly not TBTF. The poor shmuck who gambled outside his capital allowances with house money.

But if you are Jon Corzine - well, you can abscond with $1.2B of your customers' money, tell Congress you just don't know where it went, and then pay $5MM to avoid an embarrassing and inconvenient trial, all the while throwing that sucker Edie O'Brien under the bus for being dumb enough to miss that "getaway" at the Hamptons last year. (yes, this was a bit later than the 2008 blowup, but the cause and effect were the same)

Or you can be Lloyd Blankfein, who testified to knowing full well that their MBS desk was shorting the very products they were selling to their clients with sales pitches containing materially false claims. But Lloyd is a great guy, and he's had a rough go if it what with losing his hair and all. So we're not even going to prosecute, er, actually, we won't even bother to investigate the captain of who was privvy to the fraud on his ship, but didn't technically commit the fraud himself. So we'll go after that dumb trader Fabrice Tourre instead. $800k is a pretty stiff fine for someone who earns double that in a year. I'm sure he'll learn his lesson.

Or you could be Dick Fuld....

Perhaps you see a pattern here?

In the 1980s, when regulators and prosecutors didn't regularly get together for drinks with each other at Valentino, over ONE THOUSAND bankers were convicted, with roughly a third going to prison, with an average sentence of 3.2 years for the crimes. Not only including, but ESPECIALLY the captains of the ships.

And they went after EVERYTHING - even violations of campaign contributions laws unrelated to the S&L crisis itself.

Fast-forward to today. For a crisis arguably MORE fraught with fraud, with substantially worse fallout for the country: 59 convictions. Most were traders, in security sales, or ran tiny local banks. ZERO of them were Wall Street C-suite, directors, vice presidents, or anyone else who signed off on the fraud at a higher-than-upper-management level.

In most cases, regulators and prosecutors are hesitant to even INVESTIGATE.

This is to say nothing of the fact that nearly all large Wall Street banks are regarded by Federal regulators as recidivist banks, meaning that they keep breaking the law, getting fined less than the profits made from the crime, and doing it again. And again. And again.

Nobody at HSBC went to prison for facilitating the murder of thousands of Mexicans by cartels. And nobody ever will. There are plenty of statutes on the books to criminally prosecute the bankers responsible. But we won't. Because some people are more equal than others.

These constant apologetics for the parasites are, frankly, sickening.

Same with the constant apologetics for arbitrary enforcement of law. What exactly is the point of having laws if the existential importance of the criminal to a bank is a critical deciding factor in whether or not to investigate, charge, prosecute, or convict?
Isn't there a ton of space debris, ranging in size from mm to meters? A 1U cubesat is 10x10x11cm, and these satellites are listed as 10x10x2.8cm. What are the size bounds of the "danger zone" of items that are too small to spot reliably but still large enough to damage satellites? Would a 1cm³ / ~10 gram steel bolt be a problem? What about all of the chunks of debris created by previous space collisions and anti-satellite weapons?

Also, it seems like either (A) the satellites are big enough to track using the space surveillance network, negating the FCC's complaint, or (B) the satellites are too small to see reliably, meaning that it would be hard to pin any collision on these satellites. Perhaps there is a gray area where we can observe it, but not reliably.

I wonder how the FCC makes these decisions. The article mentioned that Swarm included passive radar reflectors, but that those will only help boost the radar cross-section for a small band of frequencies that are only used by a small fraction of the SSN. Ideally, our detection capability will improve over time and this will cease to be an issue. It would be a shame if no US company could ever launch a sub-1U satellite.
Haskell Researchers Announce Discovery of Industry Programmer Who Gives a Shit
Is sperm sex selection not possible? (it is in humans)
Is this detectable via ultrasound of egg?
Why not breed chickens with visible sex difference?
Clooney – an actor library for the web
I am curious as well what steamer and products you are using?
"That so many businesses offer health insurance benefits - such that half of all Americans get their health insurance from their employer"

I find it a rather sad state of affairs that you need private health insurance in the first place.

While I agree with you that competition for some skills that are in high demand tends to push wages up significantly for those who are lucky enough to possess such skills, for majority of jobs where there is ample supply of workers, companies certainly favour distributing profits to management, dividends and financial engineering like share buybacks rather than spending it on the workers.

In an employee owned organisation you would assume the worker/owners would get higher compensation, but it seems like their governance is also often corrupted and in reality they can be worse places to work at.

It is interesting to see if governance models using technology (like blockchain based equity and voting, like http://aragon.one) for organisations prove to be more resistant to corruption and can usher new ways of organising ownership and work.
Hindsight is always 20-20. This is the way at least two major websites (Twitter, Facebook) work, and it appears to have more customer benefit than not.
It's pretty common for defendants who show remorse to get lighter sentences, no?
No where is a perfect fit. I think FCC gets it because damn near everything going up is going to want to transmit back down as a critical part of the mission so giving the full authority over safety to a single agency to issue one license makes sense. The FAA does have authority over launches but seems like it's just when it's moving through the atmosphere.
Where is anybody saying the FCC is the universal arbiter of space? As I said, the FCC is only involved because it's a US company. If it was a Russian company, it would involve the Russian government, etc.
I Can’t Get No (Supplier) Satisfaction?
Agreed. I can see that my comment was a off-point. I tend to think of price gouging as the act of raising the prices, as opposed to selling at a price others may feel is unfair, and the latter rather than the former is what's being discussed here. Cheers.
Aside from this being a morally unhinged argument that you're trying to make here - Reiserfs had some pretty glaring issues involving locks and disk corruption that were never really addressed. I think it's probably best he focus on his issues rather than half baked file systems for the remainder of his sentence.
Its not estimates that are high, its actualy costs that are high.
It's not about making a perfect product. This is basic url design.
I'm not sure they always have the same color/clarity. I was looking around for diamonds at one point recently (friend's looking to propose) and the synthetic selection didn't seem to go all the way up to the highest end of the scale.

Also I was surprised that the price difference wasn't bigger, in the 1-2 carat range it seemed the difference was maybe 10-20% or so, which is not nothing but not massive.

Could be an artifact of where I was looking however.
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Subresource integrity means you could trust Eve in some cases. Also if Eve provides a script tag from a trusted CDN it could work. You would have to check it every time though.

What might help is a browser extension that tracks changes and allows you to “lock” into a version of a website.
Damon Albarn
> “Based on the data available, our team did not identify any information that would change SpaceX’s Falcon 9 certification status” after “a preliminary review of telemetry that was available to us from” the Jan. 7 launch, Lieutenant General John Thompson, commander of the Space and Missile Systems Center, said in a statement to Bloomberg News.
And whose taxes are being seized?
I fought Equifax's lawyers in court and won: Part 2
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16554686
While this is good, it's another instance of Congress slapping a bandaid on a gunshot wound and calling the problem solved. We wouldn't need freezes if we had an identity system which wasn't immutable (ssn). For once can we fix the root cause of a problem rather than treating symptoms.
Yet, people are still using them. Otherwise we wouldn't still hear stories about people being executed for smoking pot.
All the various rules under the EPA cost money, yet people passed it as there was a clear need to do so. The unwarranted doubt placed on global warming research is being used to mask the clear need.

The economic implications aren't as clear as you make them. Companies may make less profit right away, but assuming the amount of work needed is the same, that gap would need to be filled by innovation or manual labor.
This is a good question and I guess there are pros and cons. This would certainly simplify schedules and meetings between different time zones. On the other hand, it would totally screw up our understanding of when things are supposed to happen, specially when traveling. Like as in: it is 3am, is it time for lunch now ?

My biggest question anyway is how we will manage time once we become a multi planet species.
Haha— tread carefully.

Anyway, this is pretty slick and snappy. Neat idea.
There's a difference between what is legal and what is right and the two don't always overlap.

In the case of Uber, their initial ignoring of the laws protecting Taxis I think was a good thing. Though this doesn't hold true for the things they were later accused of.
or you know, they could tell him why...
Considering the limits of battery storage (in terms of Wh per kg, and Wh per cubic cm) and triple-junction GaAs PV cells. I question how useful a 1/4U cubesat can really be, if it needs to have both TT&C/bus management computer, some sort of Rx/TX radio to serve a purpose, possibly a single orientation gyro, some form of cold gas thruster for maneuvering, etc.

Even with a 6U size cubesat you are very limited in terms of data rate throughput (in Mbps) you can achieve in bands above VHF/UHF. Simply due to the size limits of antenna you can fold down and the Shannon-Hartley limit.
The amount of ad network traffic rolling off of this page is staggering.

Made more amazing by the fact that only one ad shows on the entire page.
> Most people in prison are too stupid for college.

Agreed, this is probably true for our current definition of "college"

> A much better solution is to limit college education to a fixed single digit percentage of the population so it can't be used as an expensive arms race of a signaling mechanism by everybody else.

Holy shit, that's a galaxy brain take. I agree that college status signaling is out of control, but doing this would just move the signaling elsewhere. Also it would be a bit fascist IMO.

Anyway, upvoted for interestingness.
I would say that the FCC's track record indicates that they genuinely believe the satellites to be a potential collision threat, given the large number of licenses they've provided to other space-based startups, and especially considering that they licensed Swarm's later 1U cubesat design.
Obviously, what if tomorrow they need github.com/foobarbaz as well? github.com/foobarqux ? github.com/foobarbiz ?
Indeed, that's another meaning. The noun "competenza" (competence) comes from this meaning.

Laungages are fun, aren't they?

But notice that in the example you linked, there is the pronoun "mi" (to me). A pronoun that indicates the recipient is required for that meaning (it would be a dative case in Latin or other langage with cases).

"To compete with someone" instead requires the preposition "con" (with)
Why not add Codecademy and Wikipedia to the whitelist?

Has anyone published a whitelist of educational web sites? Wouldn't be a bad idea. Could make it a collaborative effort, too, by versioning it with GitHub and accepting online pull requests with public discussion.
I’ve been trying to freeze my infant son’s credit and they’ve made it absurdly and maliciously complicated.

In addition to mailing a physical letter requesting the freeze to each organization, they require copies of his birth certificate AND social security card AND my social security card AND my drivers license AND proof of address (I.e. utility bill) AND a form from the Social Security Administration AND a court order/power of attorney or notarized statement of an authority to act on his behalf. And money of course.

That court order requirement is a doozy. I don’t even know how to get one of those. So I haven’t pursued it further, which I’m sure was their intent.

And of course there’s the question about how wise it is to send these sloppy, negligent organizations all this sensitive info. Hopefully they fix this racket by the time he turns 18.
Ooof. Please don't do this.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Some insurance companies put the expensive drugs into a "specialty" tier, which can be significantly more expensive for the patient.

It's the difference between a $10 co-pay for a generic drug, a $25 or $50 co-pay for a non-generic drug, and a 30-percent co-pay for a specialty drug.
Uncanny

http://take.ms/ch1TN
Why can't you publish multiple salary ranges per job post (level 1: $X1 - $Y1, level 2: $X2 - $Y2, etc) or multiple job posts (one for each level)?

Neglecting to publish a salary range seems more like a negotiation tactic on behalf of companies of not wanting to be the first to name a number. Either that or you know your company can't compete on salary, which is my typical assumption when it's a company I've never heard of and I don't see a range provided.
It reminds me of the list of names that all SaaS companies should reserve project I did a while ago. Maybe I should add "malware" on it :)

https://zimbatm.github.io/hostnames-and-usernames-to-reserve...