skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is interesting because there are some interesting research signals recently that indicate that alcohol may cause cancer. Something like this may be a preemptive PR war strategy.

https://www.cancer.org/cancer/cancer-causes/diet-physical-ac...
Just a nitpick, but I think you meant particle board instead of plywood.
High quality plywood is composed of several thin sheets of hardwood in which the grain of each runs perpendicular to it’s neighbor. This makes is stronger than pure hardwood with far less warping and cupping over time.
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Re: efficiency of recycling, there's an interesting paper focusing on the efficiency of precious metals recovery during e-waste recycling:

Assessment of Precious Metal Flows During Preprocessing of Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment -- Chancerel, Meskers, Hagelüken, Rotter [1].

Here's my summary of the categorisation by mass of 1000 kg of input e-waste (ignoring the uncertainty quantification in the paper):

Category Mass (kg)
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Aluminium 22.0
Copper-rich 122.3
Ferrous metals 331.7
Non-Ferrous metals 4.3
Other * 146.4
PCBs 31.6
Plastics 264.8
Precious-metals-rich 52.8
Rubbish, filter dust 24.0
Total 999.9

(*) "Other" includes wood, hazardous materials, etc.

This paper focuses on the efficiency of the process in recovering precious metals, which would be of interest from an economic perspective to anyone operating the recycling and recover process:

> From the point of view of the process operators, the results of the test can be qualified as “disappointing” because only about a quarter of the gold and palladium and a tenth of the silver are sent to output fractions from which precious metals will be directly recovered. Compared with the recovery rates of major elements such as iron, aluminum, and copper, the recovery rates for precious metals are very low. Most of the precious metals go to the most mass‐relevant fractions (plastics and ferrous metals). These fractions have relatively low concentrations of precious metals (24 g/t of gold and 8 g/t of palladium in the plastics, 24 g/t of gold and 5 g/t of palladium in the ferrous metals; [...] but the considerable mass of the outputs makes the flows of precious metals very relevant.

There are of course other ways to measure the efficiency of a recycling process -- you could focus on energy efficiency, resource efficiency, pollution, etc.

[1] https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/j.1530-9290...
It may not seem unfair to you and I, who have skills and knowledge that keep us highly employable.

I think in its totality trade has globally reduced poverty, and improved lives globally. But that doesn't mean that there are not people who have been harmed by it, and see it as unfair. If your grandfather and father worked in a steel mill, and you worked in that steel mill and got let go because "its cheaper in China" then I can understand why that person may not feel that it is fair, to be sacked from everything they know. Whose family helped build and run that mill, through blood, sweat and tears.

Historically, elites have tried to mask this by saying that these low skill jobs will be replaced by higher skilled and higher paid jobs, and through training those low skilled works can just take these higher paying jobs. The rise in Trump is in large part due to the perceived callousness of elites on those who have been made worse due to trade. I think this is the key failing through-out the Anglosphere. How to get unskilled people into work, how to enable them to maintain their dignity, and do an honest days work for an honest days wage.
What was the last supplement you saw that was patentable?

Supplements in general are vaguely effective and mostly unpatented, meaning that the only incentive for a supplement company to perform "research" is for the purpose of marketing that they have some sort of research, but it's against the law for them to say that their supplements do anything specific outside the vague "bone health" etc. claims.

Don't get me wrong, I take various supplements daily, but I'm also fully aware of how sketchy this industry is, especially where there are herbal supplements that were out there found not to contain any genetic material of the herbs the bottle was advertising.
Yeah sure, if we suppose that we have nearly infinite resources (energy and material and science to propel billions of humans off the Earth and across the galaxy), we have no short-term resource problem. However we're already constrained (average OECD countries energy availability has been falling since 2006), so you can't exactly hand-wave the problem away.
You don't have to tell HN an email address. They should have appropriate privacy protections in place for the PII they do store, but they should have that even without GDPR.
Sometimes people intentionally want the effect of a guitar that's in tune relative to itself (which provides harmonies and aesthetic value) but not necessarily on the normal scale or relative to other instruments.
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That's true, but I intended my comment to apply more generally to products of any kind. I'll reword it.
Donald Trump is cowpox
How is this different to a tarriff? The EU has basically no companies that fit this description.
They are like privacy-invading rent-seekers of the internet and I too will be pleased to see a lot of these trash companies go under.
"doing X in python" titles are a recurring theme in HN. I don't care much about the language, especially because of silly syntax like explicit self on methods (oh yeah, they have the "zen philosophy" of explicit vs implicit where every other thing in the language is implicit except this) and obviously broken tooling that installs an old version of pip when you create a virtual environment.
I live in a very liberal city on the West coast. Definitely a different demographic than the bible belt.
Poor people don't have any money to be inflated away. Half of America doesn't have three months of wages in their savings account.

Small businesses aren't exactly sitting on piles of cash either. They own or lease assets, and are often net debtors.

The reason small businesses arent doing great at the moment is due to economies of scale, and cost of land - not the loose fiscal policy.
Meh. This is certainly something that can happen, but on the other hand a well-curated and indexed set of bookmarks can serve a purpose that even Google with all the personalization it can muster can't touch. As in all things, you need to be honest with yourself about how your habits serve your goals.
Well, "incapable of working in a modern corporation" was the original claim.

> One could certainly exhibit ADHD-like _symptoms_ while still being capable of coping on their own (= low 'impairment'), but an ADHD diagnosis would be incorrect in this case [1].

I don't see how your source backs this statement up. Yes, it's possible to have many symptoms but low impairment, but your premise that "capable of coping on one's own" is the same as "low impairment" is simply false.
Seems like bad news that the programming language it’s written in is one of the main selling points...
Especially since A=440 is arbitrary to begin with.
I put it this way: it's easier to connect dots if your head is full of dots wiggling, bouncing and singing.
A couple other things: Price monitoring, product availability notifications, Comparison shopping, etc.
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Not to me. But granted— they linked a video displaying supine form whereas I assumed, without watching, they'd shown wide pronate. The latter form is notoriously difficult and I felt like detailing further would be helpful.

The quickest example I could find (of pronate form) is this guy, (but he's right): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLXn2OtQmxo

Wanted to add, off topic but for interested parties of the digression, a good resource— Scott.. from Boston? never checked. But he's pretty good: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MogM8PlV1NI
Similar BigTechCorp, everything around me has been GDPR for almost a year. Deadlines are coming up, there are entire teams dedicated to following them up.
Later in the story:

"The Cruise car had tried to change lanes, then abruptly aborted the lane change when the space to make the change disappeared"

This sounds a lot like a Google crash in Mountain View awhile back.
Maybe, but it seems this post is to spread awarness to try and get other people involved in the project, not to actually play it. In that case, the language choice would be a big selling point
This article focuses too much on economics. Surely these economic effects have happened and greatly contributed to Rome's demise. But were they a root cause or just a consequence of something else? I think that politics played some role in Rome's demise and that should've at least been mentioned to give a complete picture.

Some political systems are quite effective, some are not as much. Monarchys are typically less effective since the power transition is not merid-based. Roman empire wasn't quite a monarchy in the medieval sense, but judging by the amount of crises per century, it was pretty close. Wasn't that a factor to be taken into account? Wasn't that the bad emperors who screwed up Roman economy to the extent that even Marcus Aurelius couldn't fix it?

Early Roman republic was on the other hand an outlier in terms of its efficiency. Obviously that was military efficiency, but wasn't it tightly connected with political efficiency? It seems to me that early Roman republic managed to build a system that promoted people based on their merit and that somehow made the entire system an order of magnitude more efficient then their neighbours.

It seems to me that just the fact that we are looking at ancient Roman history is an example of availability bias. Hundreds or thousands of other city-states of that era weren't as militarily or politically effective and therefore lost to Rome and ceased to exist. This is another indicator of high efficiency of early Roman politics, and it kind of implies that as time went by the efficiency slowly or rapidly decreased.

Of course it's hard to argue about how effective is one political system compared to another. It's hard to even define precisely what is efficiency in this case. But I think we shouldn't only focus on economics just because it's easier to talk about. I am waiting for someone smarter than me to write a book about political reasons of why do societies collapse. Or is there such a book already out there?
AR company Avegant has replaced its CEO and laid off more than half its staff
What are natural foods? There isn’t a single “natural” strain of wheat, rice, soy or maze on the planet in mass use today.

Only a few decades ago we gave a geneticist, Normal Borlaug a noble peace prize for helping to reduce world hunger by creating semi-dwarf wheat which was resistant to disease and pesticide and it was the first mass application of genetic engineering driven cultivation in the world.
It’s a little more complicated, but you’re basically right. The hydrogen buildup happened when they tried to prevent a meltdown by continually pumping water through the reactors, because the earthquake could have cracked the secondary concrete containment, allowing molten core materials to “China syndrome” their way into the groundwater.

As far as I know several cores melted down anyway, and there’s no conclusive evidence that the molten cores escaped secondary containment.

It would be a stretch to say that trying to prevent meltdowns was a bad decision in this case. Ironically though, pumping so much seawater through the reactors probably led to a much greater release of radiation into the spent fuel pools, which as I recall have been leaking that heavy (and impure) water into the ground and ocean.
FYI: Kot in German = excrements
In Photoshop, that's Filter -> Other -> Custom
It's in the chapter "How to Justify a Private Library". I found it excerpted here: https://books.google.com/books?id=xzjkYlfHXL4C&lpg=PP1&pg=PA...
I’m sure this won’t be a popular answer but: The government does. It’s called taking care of public health. Something squarely in the domain of the government, hence why the NIH and CDC exist. They shouldn’t have to go to industries that have a conflict of interest to seek funding on studies for public health issues.
Fact is they are still patching away! And yes I have seen no public disclosure on many of the problems. Try asking Intel for help, it is a brick wall. My guess is that they made a huge mistake, that they thought that high precision timers were needed, and they did not put the effort into otherwise fixing the problems. Lack of sharing probably made it much worse. They had still not addressed these at the public disclosure date. They either realized the mistake themselves or various people told them of their mistakes, and they were left with known vulnerable products on the market that they had no hope of fixing in a timely manner. At that point they could have advised their users to move to alternative products, e.g. Google had a head start, but that would likely have ended them, most people would not come back many months later when they claim to have fixed the problems, and that is a big expense for them! Another alternative was to take drastic coding measures, lfence branch paths, but at a high performance loss, they did not do that either, again who wants a slow product if the competition has not also taken the same action. The really kicker is people had been trying to get them to move on this for years and they had been resisting it strongly.
I hope that as time goes on we find the open source approach to crowdsourcing bugs is actually so much more viable than bug bounties and combined with an increased need for security we find that many proprietary softwares are outmatched.
Actually, Vietnam is one of the most pro-American countries in the world. There was a survey a while and over 90% view the US favorably. You can find it with a google search.
I remember when the Obama campaign hired data scientists and used targeted social networking tools to pursuade voters who were on the fence and it was heralded as brilliant and the future of politics.

I worked for a company crawling Facebook data by creating viral apps the year the original API came out. By now I am sure this is done by many companies.

Why is any of this news? My understanding is that companies harvesting social networking data via viral apps and then reselling it to perform targeted voter advertising is literally a 10 year old concept. Were any laws broken here? Were there any techniques used here that were novel or done by one political party and not the other? Why are we talking about this one firm and not the many others that surely exist that are trying to do the same thing for <insert political candidate of choice>
"You don't know what you don't know until you go looking." Every good problem solver starts with the drive to want to solve the problem. People's motivations can vary from person to person, but these motivations are what drive them forward to want to solve the problem. Success is always a natural outcome of any problem solving technique used because even if the problem is not solved per the requirements needed, the experience of failing is still in many ways a success. The lessons learned from struggling and failing are committed to memory and can be used on another future problem. "Instead of looking for the answer, try to find a solution."
I wish they hadn't called it, "fake news," which I'd reserve for misinformation that's initially spread by those who know that it's false. In this case, I think that journalists' lack of knowledge about genetics led to erroneous reporting.
My understanding is that grid has always been networked. Before we had computers talking to each other, we had control-room operators with telephones. That is also subject to eavesdropping, denial-of-service, and social engineering.

I agree we need to fix it, but I'm not surprised that it's slow going or ineffective. Likely we're going to see some very expensive projects to merely install antivirus packages, where what we really needed was to engineer completely different protocols.
I hear this opinion everywhere all the time. I don't blame you for harbouring it, but I'm glad for the responses you've gotten.
I agree. We're going to see more types of attacks especially given two papers are already showing researchers where to look:

https://eprint.iacr.org/2016/479.pdf

https://ts.data61.csiro.au/publications/csiro_full_text//Ge_...

They should broaden it to confidentiality or integrity breaches on CPU components that affect Windows-based products. That will cover more ground. Availability is important, too, but the other two are a nice start that won't break the bank with crashes or stalls. They might still pay for them but with less money.
I'm interested to know what the difference is. Do you have a link that explains it?
I think you're viewing this as a blocker not an opportunity: if.youre a startup now, why wouldn't you be building your tech with GDPR in mind?

Doing so makes it super easy to comply with from the get-go and puts you ahead of incumbent players and their inertia and legacy systems.

You're going to have to do this at some point, may as well do it early and give yourself an advantage?
> when there's people that will pay ten or twenty times more for it.

Ten or twenty times more! But who are these people?! Where do I go to sell them??
Only tangentially related, but I can’t possibly be the only one who read this and thought about a particular codebase...

> The answer to these crisis and challenges is to build up structures - say, bureaucratic or military - in response. Each time a crisis is faced and solved, society finds itself with an extra layer of complexity. Now, Tainter says, as complexity increases, the benefit of this extra complexity starts going down - he calls it "the marginal benefit of complexity". That is because complexity has a cost - it costs energy to maintain complex systems.
I think the term “interface” is used in many related but different ways in software, but I think the most obvious mechanical analogy would be basically anything that uses a common “plug” or “adapter.” Like a vacuum cleaner with different attachments. Or even HDMI for video/audio.
Walls being useless in one situation at a given time and place does not mean they are always useless: for instance the great wall of China have been really useful to keep northern barbarians at bay for centuries.
As of April 2016 wasn't it limited to 50 "close friends"? IIRC it was also possible to abuse iOS webview and the FB library by modifying some private methods and injecting some JS to get the info of more than 50 friends. I don't remember the details, but I saw it in the wild in a high growth top 10 iOS app (reverse engineered to see how they were getting so many users so quickly).
Also the book The Storm Before The Storm, written by the author of that podcast (Mike Duncan), which about the end of the Roman republic (not the empire).

http://thestormbeforethestorm.com/
One thing that would help the comprehension of this document greatly is to mention that it's simply a "weighted average".
The writing quality in these docs is absolutely terrible.
For example, "Weev" got 3 years for downloading ATT user data. I wonder whether Bannon&Co would get anything ... So far it doesn't look like FB makes any push for CFAA case here. I wonder what would FB do if instead of Bannon it were a nobody like the above mentioned "weev".
If you don't want to be accused of being a shill, don't shill.
It's interesting because it highlights that if a thing has so many properties describing what it is, then at a certain point it's not a thing at all, but a collection of characteristics that could be tweaked to describe anything.

At that point, the idea of behaviors is rendered void, as the universe of possible behaviors is just too large.

So, I think that's the guiding principle in your suggestion to consider what value a given design provides to the system: that is, start by modelling the behaviors your system requires, then create an object hiearchy that reflects those behaviors most concisely.

This is probably our intent, but we may be derailed by too little respect for YAGNI.
People are downvoting Dylan but it'd be neat if for once someone could try answering, as specifically as they can, who exactly he would sell to to beat a bounty price.
The point is that you evacuate people Temporarorily maybe, but not for YEARS. After the situation was under control most inhabitants should have been allowed and encouraged to return.
... and as a result anyone who lived in Europe during the 1990s is disqualified from donating blood in the US.
Now you're just being pedantic, Peter!
Where do I go to sell?
I'm ADHD and ODD(oppositional defiance disorder) with maybe tourettes(pretty serious tick though its diagnosed as tick disorder) fortunately I was lucky enough to fall in love with computers. I fond the easiest way to keep rrack is to juggle many things I view as entertaining or important. I definitely wouldnt reccomend this to anyone though. Whenever I try to go with the status quo though I pretty much lose my mind and end up playing video games.
#2 and #3 can be resolved, in the worst case, by existing public ownership and insurance registries and making any collision involving a self-driven vehicle without a human representative of the owner who can provide registration & insurance info require police response and identification of that information based on license and/or VIN. (As this potentially increases public expense for that mode of operation, licensing for it may be more expensive.)
This is 100% wrong. Walmart buys[1] goods for 97 cents and sells them for a dollar. Google produces technology for 50 cents and sells it for a dollar.

A 5% tax on revenue would make Walmart a money losing enterprise while being a minor annoyance for Google.

This is why we tax profit and not revenue. Different industries have radically different cost structures.
Just to save you some trouble, if it comes apart on the seams because of age and not because of shoddy sewing from the maker, it's not worth fixing - it will come apart again at a different place within the next month or so. This is especially true for jeans. At least this is my decade-long experience with fixing everything.
Most air purifiers with HEPA filters also have plasma generators to reduce VOCs. Whether it's a good idea to leave them running when you're in the room probably depends on how much you trust them not to be generate appreciable amounts of ozone.
I read them, and often I make decisions based on this — or can use it to convince e.g. my family to stop using payback (a discount scheme where a company logs all your purchases, even cash ones, and you get ~1% cashback).
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I don't fully grok the math behind convolutions yet, but the symmetry of the numbers in the matrices is beautiful.