skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well regarding mercury, it has been phased out of most vaccines in the US and European Union.

> "FDA is continuing its efforts toward reducing or removing thimerosal from all existing vaccines." [1]

Note to self: don't touch dimethylmercury even with nitrile gloves, it goes right through within seconds. The last person to do so, KW, slowly turned into a vegetable and was ultimately euthanized [2, 3]

[1] https://www.fda.gov/BiologicsBloodVaccines/Vaccines/Question...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karen_Wetterhahn

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJ7M01jV058
This is fantastic and I am all for it.
Even if this gets passed on to the customer, it ends up in infrastructure and the kind of things the EU does well.
I'd love to see more of this.
If the international conglomerates had wanted to avoid this, maybe they wouldn't have dodged taxes like they did in the first place.
Brilliant and long overdue.
My main worry is that countries which capitalise on enabling the tax dodgers (cough, Ireland, cough) will vote against this.
It would have have avoided most of the worst damages of climate change if we'd migrated to it in the 50s and 60s. Of course, even nuclear advocates say those old reactors are unsafe.
"Economies of agglomeration" [0] have explained the phenomenon of urbanization for quite a while. It's not a stretch to think that there's an intellectual corollary. Why do university researchers work in centralized walkable enclaves?

Greater connectivity amplifies the productivity of headquarters cities by enabling them to more readily project their power and distribute their output globally. With easy access to the output of Silicon Valley/Seattle/New York, there's less reason for each Nowheresville to have its own knowledge-work economy. The once-powerful bank manager of your local Chase is replaced by an algorithm in New York. The once-lucrative IT systems engineering work at your local manufacturer is replaced by AWS in Seattle. And so on.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economies_of_agglomeration
Maybe Mr. Mueller should open the investigation on Facebook role in the 2016 elections instead of looking into Russian trolls actions.
Google et al: (smugly) we comply strictly with the letter of the law, if you want us to pay more change the law

Government: hold my beer

Google: it’s not fair!!! (fx: bitter tears)

Let’s charge them the back taxes for all their evading years too
I do get your point. But would not prefer to have less of those?

The information overload then becomes huge. And I would like some more filtrering.

My approach today is to try to give quality answers when I can anyway. Even if the quality of the question is low. Sometimes I get surprised and the asker engages in a positive way. But mostly not.

I spend most of my time on Unix SO and it has a very low voting activoty bit a very high rate of "fix my problem".

So I try to be a good netizen but I feel more regulation is needed to fix the current status quo.
The case for free trade does not care about borders. It cares about consumption, which there will be more of if things can be produced most efficiently. Things can be produced most efficiently with maximum specialisation, which is likeliest with free trade. Domestic production can be consumed more easily than foreign production so it is more valued because transport costs are lower.

The border between San Francisco is as relevant as that between California and Nevada, or the US and Mexico.

There are certainly things where it’s good to have domestic production, vaccines for one. But the argument is grossly overused. The wool of angora goats is protected in the US as of military value.

Trading for what you need has worked out well for plenty of countries. Switzerland, Luxembourg, Costa Rica, Bahrain, Singapore, Hong Kong, my native Ireland.

Domestic production is overrated.
Thiel: Japan Has Stopped Copying the West
> Given this goal, you might be surprised to learn that Finda is built with Electron, a framework that’s often decried for being the opposite of fast.

I thought the criticism was more about its memory usage, not that it wasn’t fast.
You are right and in that case you should also have a process in place to delete the PII from the additional sheets of paper. I'm inclined to keep PII out of logs in the first place but am unsure how to proceed. Either just don't log any data / parameters or implement some kind of whitelist like you would with passwords and other secrets.
Read up on BPA, drinking from plastic bottles and other endocrine disruptors we still allow in our food supply. As a side note, a lot of people think more quantity = more poisonous. This is not always the case as a small amount can mimic a hormone wrecking our hormone levels over time.
> Well regarding mercury, it has been phased out of most vaccines in the US and European Union.

http://medcraveonline.com/IJVV/IJVV-04-00072.php
If that third party wasn't sanctioned or authorized by the contract binding it with facebook then it's a breach.

(not sure if you meant /s)
They wouldn't have prevented the bug, but they might have prevented the size of the fiasco, if they were found earlier, before everyone switched to vulnerable CPUs.
I wonder how this approach will combine/contrast with compiling rust to wasm directly -- I'm under the impression that the benefits would be similar.

I absolutely believe building electron apps is the future -- why would you struggle with the M*N effort of building different UIs when you can get comfortable with a paradigm that you already know that works relatively predictably across OSes and is constantly being improved (HTML+CSS).

Unfortunately, one of the big problems left to get tackled (I think?) is the lack of native system accessiblity features that are more advanced than what the web can/does offer.

So excited to see this idea getting attention -- I really want to work on a cross-platform app with neon + rust in the future, and see if we can finally get past the gripe of memory usage for electron apps so that people can stop bashing them.
From the introduction to Shelah's Classification Theory and the number of nonisomorphic models (an extremely technical book with 700+ pages):

So we shall now explain how to read the book.
The right way is to put it on your desk in the day, below your pillow in the night,
devoting yourself to the reading,
and solving the exercises till you know it by heart.
Like I said, your argument boils down to "we're American: we'll enforce our laws on everyone in the world, but if you think you can tell us to obey your laws when we sell to your country, you can F off." Which is fine: you're welcome to say that because a law is hard to enforce you won't obey it. Just don't pretend you're not breaking the same principle that your government relies upon: that if you're serving a country's residents, you must obey that country's laws.
And after you've read that, give yourself The Quiz!

http://www.asktog.com/columns/022DesignedToGiveFitts.html
Don’t believe the hype about AI in business
YouTube Kids app is serving up conspiracy videos from the likes of David Icke
I am ok with free trade, as long as it also apply to freedom of movement of capital, goods, and people, and we have a common set of rules, and a common court that applies them.
Usually only one of the parties is a human being and the other is an international megacorp.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/jun/24/amazons-u...

If I'm in the UK and choose to buy something from Amazon, it will be shipped from a warehouse in the UK owned by Amazon.co.uk Limited.

However, I pay my money to Amazon EU Sarl which is based in Luxemburg. This company is a tax shell, it contracts back to amazon.co.uk for the fulfilment. The Sarl keeps all the profit.

According to this https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/FC032354/filing-h... (see full accounts, which ironically are served from AWS), the SARL made profits of €481m in 2016. Futher down the PDF we see they are involved in a number of tax disputes about this.

Fundamentally if I buy goods from a .co.uk website that are shipped from a UK warehouse, it is very hard to argue that the profit should be counted in Luxemburg.
There’s no digital interface yet that beats flicking through a book and annotating the margins. Just as there’s no videoconferencing solution that beats a bunch of guys in a room around a whiteboard.
HNWI City ranking by climate
Sounds quite quantum... negative time?
Alcohol has been part of human culture forever, I doubt it's going to go away.

Binge drinking needs to stop, though. Besides the obvious health hazards, it's also putting the rest of us — who just enjoy a nice glass of whisky once in a while, or some beer at a concert — in a needlessly bad light.

Drink for the taste, not for the buzz.
Crafting a coding interview from a Harvard assignment
"The emerging knowledge economy, Mr. Moretti argues, depends on constant innovation, which turns out to be a social process."

Why can't this happen online?
What about a scientific study instead of an ignorant facebook comment?

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/4091651
The weird rule about opinionated answers!

I get why your question is on hold. But I find it unfair. Some of the best questions and answers have been highly opinionated. And I have often been led to on hold questions by google.

An opinionated SO site might be nice. In the old days we had newsgroups for this. But that audience has disappeared when everything moved to the web.
Thanks for sharing this.

I’ve been dabbling with Electron to build a data analysis tool app but have been slightly concerned about speed. I am glad to hear how quick it’s running for you and getting ideas on how I can make my app faster.

Thanks!
A full electron app i am making handles about 10,000+ records in memory along with react. Never seen it go above 150 mb on any system. You must have misread the numbers.
North Carolina police got warrants for all Google users near 4 crime scenes
Why not both.
Active discussion on different Guardian article about same topic:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16606924
> Is it really so hard to write a native GUI for three OSes if you must?

Yes. What makes you think otherwise?
If other people do stupid things you don’t have to do stupid things too. Market distortions, different tax rates and regulations do not change how returns to specialisation and gains from trade work.

Anti-dumping tariffs are stupid because it not notnto your benefit to punish people for giving you cheap stuff that should be expensive. Being able to have different tax rates is part of the power to tax, which is part of being sovereign. Equalising the market is a fool’s game. The market is what it is. If you want to help some people or groups by all means do it, but tariffs are a very inefficient way to do it. Transfer payments ftw!
What's Xi? Not the most websearch-able name, care to drop a url?
I know it is not a realistic alternative for many needs, but Intel's Atom cores are not affected by Meltdown or Spectre.
It seems worthwhile to keep the investigation into Russian activity open, since it has turned up a lot of interesting things already. There are many other capable prosecutors besides mr Mueller who could look into the role of Facebook during the elections. The justice system is concurrent; it can investigate more than one thing at a time :)
For some of you. For a majority of Americans, however, living in poverty - not so. Its very much an imperialist scenario. Sure, you have your bread and circuses. But don't look behind the curtain in any of your major metropolitan cities. The sight of 80,000 people, families, living on the streets in LA won't make you proud.
The problem is with gradient propagation which requires approximately associative mathematics. You will be training your network something else than you wanted to.

Toy evaluate the network in two orders - forward (use) and backward (training).
The downside of custom rendering engines is that they’re rarely as efficient as the standard platform affair. While that’s less impactful on desktop, it can be a killer for batteries on mobile devices and laptops.
Clicks edge of screen above NetworkManager icon ... Confirms it's still broken in XFCE 4.
General Aviation (private planes) are STILL spewing lead into the atmosphere. It's not like they don't have the money to fix it, they just don't care about the externalities.
In other news, 100% of known engineers is human.

A much more interesting piece of information would be how many people have those characteristics, but do _not_ turn out to be great engineers.
Well then, if it's a naturally occurring mineral, we might as well just spread it around all over the place!
Well even monkeys get drunk.
That looks like a good tool, which can make some nice visual notes.

There is a typo in your sign up line though (should be weeks)

"Try out for free for 2 week!"
Show HN: Sismics Docs – An open-source lightweight document management system
This is true. While dealing with building architects on many occasions during my internship, they would say silly things like, 'Can you not just avoid this girder/beam/pillar?'

My boss would coldly say 'Do you mind removing brake pedals from your car to make it prettier'?
You basically asked how to architecture a security aspect of your software. And you asked for other people's experiences to boot, instead of a canonical solution. Additionally the preface about the GDPR is a distracting, non-technical detail, instead you should have described which security properties you want, your threat model is etc. with the GDPR as a footnote in case someone wants to know your underlying use-case, not the other way around.

That's very much considered offtopic on SO. Maybe other sites on the SE network such as Information Security or Software Engineering might have taken it. But I don't use either of those, so I don't know if that would actually fit into their policies.
One way to reduce this is to try and enforce that structure is to be dependent on whatever is currently being done, so that any bureaucracies that are created are explicitly shut down at the end of a given task, with a meta-bureaucracy that just has the job of spinning off structures and winding them up, like job management in an OS.
Laws of UX has a nice overview of the different laws that exist in user experience! Fitt's law: https://lawsofux.com/fittss-law
This kind of work combining propaganda and disinformation with AI models and feedback into them to get a progressive change of belief is fascinating. I think of this as the first of many wars democracy will fight against AI and we are currently loosing.

This comment is from the “Duped” article that has a different headline and more detail.
Swype virtual keyboard ends it services on Android
The biggest buyer of slaves going down would decimate the market, no? I would imagine it would have played exactly like abolition of slavery in Britain or US. There was still slavery across the world, but the number of people that suffered from it went down.
I think your question being closed is legitimate, it _is_ too broad. SO is at its core a Q&A site, and it's trying to be a _reliable_ and _responsible_ Q&A site.

Broad questions like that don't have a single good answer that fits every scenario, they have lots of different answers, each of which is the best fit for a different scenario.

The problem with a site like SO allowing questions like that is that you _would_ get an answer, that answer would be accepted, and that question would appear really high in search results. When the next person comes along needing an answer to the same question, but in a different scenario... they're gonna take the one that was given there, even though it isn't the best fit.

Scale this up to SO's scale across a few years and all of a sudden SO isn't a trusted resource any more; it's more like experts exchange used to be, where it was full of answers which _can_ be valid, but are basically useless to everyone, and taking that advice can actually be actively damaging.
Much the same here. I have six windows open, while only a few of the tabs are Hacker News, one of them has more than 100 tabs in it and the others have about 40 tabs. That's just on this computer. My laptop has another dozen tabs open. Eventually, Firefox will crash and I will lose all my open tabs when "Restore Last Session" fails on me. Hundreds of PDF documents, about 25 on my reader, dozens of songs in sheet music some as much as half-learned.

I have a Commodore 64C, monitor, floppy drive, and a pile of disks, I've used that once. I've two ZX Spectrum machines (one in a dk'tronics keyboard, nonfunctional) and a Spectrum 128, with 50 or so tapes and one of those Microdrives plus some cartridges.

My father is the same with DVDs, he has a couple of thousand. The dad of one of my friends has double that. His lounge has a wooden shelf hacked together, that thing stands floor-to-ceiling along one side of the room, wraps around a corner, and is packed solid with DVDs. Babylon 5, Red Dwarf, Monkey, the Goodies, Paint Your Wagon ("Gonna paint that wagon, gonna paint it good, we ain't braggin', we're gonna coat that wood"), the list goes on.

To me, my collecting and never doing anything with the items seems almost like a sickness. I still have all my University texts - I justify it to myself by quoting a friend of mine who said "I don't believe in selling textbooks, they might come in handy some day." They won't, most of them are more than a decade old, but I still can't bring myself to get rid of these books that cost me hundreds. It was hard enough dumping those ISA cards that were no use to anybody - and I still have a stack of 500 megabyte IDE drives somewhere.
Alibaba to stream Disney’s animated shows in China
That's awesome! Did you use any type of framework other than D3 to build the website?
Meh. Stack Overflow is suffering from the same "problem" as Wikipedia: the quality & quantity of existing content is now so high that it's becoming really hard to contribute new content. However, while this is indeed a real problem for "askers" trying to get heard in all the noise, and there's diminishing returns for the "answerer" who has less fun questions to tackle, it's also completely irrelevant to the 99% of us whose questions have already been asked & answered, and those answers can be pulled up in seconds by your favorite search engine.

Also, in case the blog author's name (Jon Skeet) didn't ring a bell, he's Stack Overflow's #1 contributor. If you've ever searched for anything related to C#, you've probably seen his answers, which have racked up over a million reputation points: https://stackoverflow.com/users/22656/jon-skeet
So if you're using the legal or perceptional advantages of trading "out" of Australia (or the UK, or wherever)... why shouldn't you be subject to laws, including tax laws, there?
I made this project in my free time a few years ago, to organize my own documents, and then decided to use my newly created company (2 guys) to make a real product out of it.

There is a self-hostable version on Github also (Docker image working out of the box).

The server part is made in Java with an embedded H2 database and a Lucene index, and the frontend is mostly AngularJS.

Feel free to try out the demo and give me some feedbacks!
You can't compare the biological effects of table salt (sodium chloride) to molecules containing heavy metals. Sodium is an extremely reactive alkali metal and chlorine is an extremely reactive halogen. Because it is strongly ionically bonded, NaCl won't suddenly bond with the organic material of your body. As the body is mostly water, it will be in Na+ and Cl- form, dissolved in water, and thus won't be able to form the dangerous diatomic forms like chlorine gas, Cl2.

Mercury on the other hand, is a heavy metal and isn't super reactive. It's not water soluble, it's fat soluble. Chellation therapy will not save a person if their mercury levels are too high from an accident with it. It will sit in the fat of their brain and they'll slowly die while becoming more and more brain damaged. No treatment.

But lets talk about mercury-based compounds like Thimerosal. The danger isn't Thimerosal as a substance, it is an effective and safe chemical. But we don't know all the intracacies of the human bodys' chemical pathways. All we know is that most large molecules/substances break down eventually - either via the bodys' enzymes or something else consumed and interacting - or just time. So though we can do tests on the stability of Thimerosal through en vivo studies, with fluorescent tagged molecules, or piss tests on rats, ultimately we don't know what reactants are in everyones' body entirely. And it is unwise to give people something of questionable stability that is composed of toxic parts, dangerous upon decay.
Web Experiment: SID 6581 Visualizer
Beyerdynamic does that too for their studio equipment. Premium products for the professional market are always being treated differently by manufacturers. Except by Apple, but that's another story.
AFAIK they did it because when they started there weren't any viable alternatives.

Today they would probably invest their time in React-Native or something.
One does not necessarily exclude the other. Heck, you have Lukoil mentioned in this article, with Wylie claiming that they were briefed on what Cambridge Analytica was doing.

My opinion about the elections: Each piece had to fit perfectly for Trump become president, and unfortunately (for the entire world), each piece did fit perfectly.

Knowing that he won while losing the popular vote, taking away a single piece would result in him not being a president today. Cambridge Analytica definitely seems like a piece that could have made all the difference, but Russia could have also been such a crucial piece.

And, if we do go under the assumption that both CA and Russia could have made all the difference, one is a private company operated in a country that's one of the closest allies to the US, while the other piece is a country that's basically the enemy of the US for the past 50 years.

Taking all of that into consideration, I would still prioritize investigating Russia over CA if I were Mueller.
It's hard to find niche forums where you have small communities these days. Or maybe I lost touch with what the young crowd is doing. From my school times, I remember hanging out on forums where we worked on things like reverse engineering Siemens feature phones. Or my town's IRC channel. Or weird international places like cdc discussions (or was it nsf?).

I don't even know we're I could find people with commitment to such ideas anymore. Maybe some private slack instances, or diving into one of the distributed Twitter replacements?

I'm not saying these were placed where invocation actually happened, but I know they were a jump start place for many people. It's hard to have meaningful, small, dedicated communities online these days. Anything good gets popular and anything too popular gets bad in the end.
"The web that many connected to years ago is not what new users will find today. What was once a rich selection of blogs and websites has been compressed under the powerful weight of a few dominant platforms. This concentration of power creates a new set of gatekeepers, allowing a handful of platforms to control which ideas and opinions are seen and shared."

I think that now this isn't an internet only phenomena. It seems its bleeding over into other markets as well. Amazon has already taken over much of retail, and even traditionally non tech companies (see Unilever or Pearson) have, through mergers, acquisitions, and other traditional business processes taken over massive portions of their respective markets.

This is just something, as a sideline observer I think could be happening, still chance observations, general stock market watching, and news articles are horrible guides for understanding what's really going on. Does anyone know what the research says? Do we have, in general, a convergence of markets into oligopolies dominated by a few big players like what's happened in much of the tech world?