skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The --color-moved feature sounds really nice!

Something I've seen in Github but not in Git is how in a red/green line, the individual changed characters are a brighter red/green than the rest. Is it possible to get that in CLUI git?

Here is a workflow I use often that I'm amazed isn't supported on Github: First I run `git log path/to/file` to see the commits for just that file. Then in a separate window I start copy/pasting SHAs to see the whole file at each commit: `git show abc123:path/to/file` ... `git show def456:path/tofile` ... etc. It's a little tedious, but it can really help to see what's going on.

It would be so much easier to do this in a browser with links and a back/forward button! In Github I can see the history of a single file, e.g. at https://github.com/pjungwir/topiary/commits/master/lib/topia... But from there I can't see that file at each commit. (Instead there are two links that both show me the commit's full diff, and another link back to the root of the repo.) I wish there were an easy way I could just browse forward and back, keeping the current file! Am I missing something?
Article opens with, "There are lots of reasons to avoid processed foods. They’re often packed with sugar, fat and salt, and they tend to lack certain nutrients critical to health, like fiber."

Diet coke has no sugar, no fat, and less than 100 mg sodium. The specific results from Nature are about trehalose, a sugar not found in diet coke. I'm not aware of any diet soda that contains it, either. I realize it's an opinion piece, but pseudoscience and speculative articles should not be the domain of NYT.

Of note, the zero-calorie definition of artificial sweeteners is based on the amount excreted in urine/stool: It should be very close to the ingested amount. I find it hard to believe the conclusion drawn by the authors that other sweeteners (sucralose and saccharin), are consumed by bacteria since the amount ingested matches the amount excreted.
Well at least the surface area of the audit is a LOT smaller than on macOS, Windows, etc.
Saltwater fish extinction seen by 2048
In one of the earlier discussions about this(like, last year) I remember an engeneer's comment about how one of the major manufacturer's (Toyota maybe?) code base for the monitoring system of the car was something to behold. On the lines of hundreds of global variables and basically unexisting standards. Now, I don't say that their or Tesla's autopilot are the same, but it wouldn't really surprise me either.
Isn't that the entire point of the Right to be Forgotten? To say that there is such a right is to say that it's incorrect to expect that you could know a person's "true nature" just by seeing what they happened to think at any given time in their lives.
This isn't a nutritional study?
You know what I find amazing in this entire debate?

We provide protections for literal objects in the form of DMCA and other various copyright systems. We provide legal enforcement for the right for these copyrighted systems to be forgotten on search engines. We threaten the rulebreakers with massive fines and prison time.

But when it comes to REAL people. People who can have their lives completely changed with wrong/very negative information about them being accessible everywhere we do nothing.

It's just fascinating.
Yes, my driving instructor (aka my father, employing the paternal prerogative of never citing anything ever) used to say the same thing.
These are good, I've forgotten about some of them as well. As to:

EXCLUDE USING gist (
id WITH =,
period WITH &&
);"

What the heck?
They don't launch from barges. They land on them.
T-Mobile storing passwords in cleartext
You don't need unstyled HTML to look accessible. But you need to keep accessibility in mind from the very beginning with your project.

Of course, I've worked in web design, so I know the workflow doesn't really allow you to do anything right from the beginning. Things get hacked up, and accessibility is sacrificed.
Okay, I never knew I wanted to know the answer to this question untill it was asked.

I know a lot about development and architecture. Yet, I suck at electronics. Tried it a few ( short) times but not enough to grasp it.

Will follow up, the humble bundle deals about electrics is wasted money for now :p
NDAs.
Also means people can be harassed and the offender can delete the message after they know the person has seen the message (via the read receipt).
I don't disagree. I'm just trying to imagine what investors are thinking pouring all this money into Instacart. And none of this rules out Instacart being gobbled up by Amazon after some down rounds.
I wouldn't trust 50% of the population to calculate a tip on a restaurant tab with a calculator for me, let alone seek any kind of financial advice from them. Shit crazy son.
I switched to IPv6, and then back to v4. IPv6 just isn't ready for prime time yet. The random timeouts waiting for it to fall back to v4 when the v6 endpoint was down was annoying enough to get me to switch back.

I'll try it again in another year.
Yep, the sex trafficking angle has already been debunked.*

I've lost almost all respect for most modern feminists simply because they refuse to acknowledge actual logic and statistics - wage gap BS, sex trafficking hysteria, apex fallacy (e.g. the top 0.001% are over represented by cis white males, but we'll ignore the bottom 20% of laborers, homeless, disposables who are all male), etc.

My litmus test for any feminist is whether they support the legalization of prostitution. Logically, it's her body, her decision. Right?

Nevermind the issue with a male's ability to legally obtain sex / intimacy, even if paid - you'd think this would be considered a human right, deserving of more talk time than, say, the tax-free status of tampons, but I digress...

Feminists who use the sex trafficking BS as a defense against legalization of prostitution deserve 0 respect. They are simply opportunists, trying to establish a monopoly on access to sex, economically no different than Standard Oil, Microsoft, etc.

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-watch/wp/2014/03/27/...
But they do, commercial satellite imagery is a big business (anyone who has used Google Earth knows this). It's just not the business SpaceX is in so it's not worth going through the hassle.
> These SpaceX / Starlink satellites are considerably smaller - about the size of an oven or washing machine.

The dimensions that appear in the FCC application[1] are 4.0 x 1.8 x 1.2 meters. About size of a small passenger van actually. Doubtless that will not be the launch size, but they will have these dimensions while in operation.

[1] http://licensing.fcc.gov/myibfs/download.do?attachment_key=1...
Could a lot of this be mitigated by having better file systems?
This article mostly doesn't claim that diet sodas inhibit weight loss. In fact the biggest focus of the article is research suggesting that some food additives (not necessarily those in diet sodas) have helped the pathogen clostridium difficile to evolve in a way that's more dangerous to people.

Even where the article discusses diet sodas, it doesn't specifically say that they inhibit weight loss but that they might cause other kinds of harmful metabolic effects through their effect on the microbiome—and that this mechanism is suggested by research but not yet well-established. It also admits that some of those effects, if they exist, could vary widely between people.

That might be one reason that evidence nutrition has seemed so hard to pin down: if many of the effects depend on people's microbiomes, then some studies might be almost impossible to replicate in a different population, or maybe even in a different generation of research subjects. It might be true that some large group of people did very well eating one way, and that a different group did very well eating very differently, even if it seems like the advice that you'd draw from these observations is directly contradictory.
Grindr, Craigslist, and the virtual erosion of LGBTQ turf
Thanks for mentioning this book, it sounds amazing. If I hadn't just bought Lisp in Small Pieces I'd probably be looking at picking this up, but I need to work through that book first. However this is going on my future buy list.
Researchers Develop Device That Can 'Hear' Your Internal Voice
EPA's move to weaken fuel-efficiency rule is the gift automakers asked for
Do these things really matter unless you are going to verify the software yourself? (and if you are, kudos to you!)

While, in principle, users could organize their own communal verification programs for open software, that does not happen in practice, even when the software is widely used and needs to be safe (or at least secure - OpenSSL...)
I don't have anything to add other than I hear a lot of people from Austin/that live in Austin refer to it as the "best city in the world" - or something similar.

It's a great city, but far from the best
> ATM it really feels like they're being put on trial here.

Yeah, god forbid anything ever changes. Let's discuss serious issues, but only briefly, to normalize them by exposure.
(1) This is being measured in aggregate. It's no more privacy violating than, say, measuring the amount of non-recyclable trash that ends up at the recycling sorting facility.

(2) Consult the methodology section.

(3) Methylhexaneamine (DMAA, spelled "methylhexanamine" in the article) is the 3rd highest thing in the table. There are several other anabolic steroids in the table (see list below). Chemicals tend to sell under several different brand names and your list may intersect the article's list. It's also possible the article's list just contains a different set of chemicals.

To categorize briefly (the list is heavily steroid-focused):

Aromatase inhibitor (prevent aromatization of androgens into Estrogen): Anastrozole, Clomiphene, Tamoxifen

Masking steroid use: Finasteride (new tests obsolete this, at least for pros)

PED/Weight loss: Clenbuterol

Stimulants: Norephedrine, Ephedrine, Methylhexanamine (DMAA)

Steroids: Trenbolone, Nandrolone, Metenolone, Mibolerone, Metandienone

Weight loss: Sibutramine, 2,4-Dinitrophenol

Also note Table 1, which shows (basically) how quickly various PEDs degrade at different temperatures. Several of them degrade in 0-1 days at 20° or 4°C. So unless a large population is taking them (ephedrine), they tend to drop off of test results.

The other consideration is LOD / LOQ (limit of detection, limit of quantitation) — lower levels here ease detection and measurement.

(4) This study is targeted more broadly at the recreational athlete population, rather than pro athletes.
This, and the "but the government has nukes" argument, assumes the only scenarios are "no resistance" or "all-out war". In reality there's likely a step function where even the possibility of some armed resistance would go a long way in dissuading a would-be tyrannical government, especially in this age where anyone can instantly broadcast video across the globe.

That assumes a large enough portion of the population that wants to resist owns guns. I wish more liberals (especially groups likely to be persecuted) owned guns for this reason.
Grab Library of America's collection of Hainish novels, volume one. In that body of work -- Rocannon's World (mindspeech, ansible, empathy), Planet of Exile (forgetting one's history), City of Illusions (divided mind), Left Hand of Darkness (ambisexuality), The Dispossessed (collectivist anarchy, invention of the ansible) -- you can see Le Guin grow as a writer, in her ambition to explore themes from anthropology and her casual brilliance in building out a coherent scifi universe.
If you just speak about the positive aspects, you obviously never compared what you surely know to be truth, related to some "controversial" topic, with what some other people get when they search for the same topic, especially those who have different opinion of what "the truth" is.

Not counting that even that "magnification of the confirmation" is additionally modified for some topics by the "editorial" policies of Google.
There's good discrimination and bad discrimination from hiring perspective. Every company should discriminate their employees they want to hire, just not based on gender, race, religion, sexual orientation, etc. There's no laws about discriminating against people with less experience or worse public images, and shouldn't be.
Have you've ever been at the receiving end of a DMCA notice? If you have, you wouldn't use this analogy. DMCA is so utterly broken. There is no verification in the process and no real penalties for false claims. So people use it as a weapon to remove stuff they don't like, even if it has nothing to do with copyright.
> Anyone here legally and does that sort of sex work has mostly moved away from the pimps.

Nice rose-colored world you’ve got there. It may be that the ones you interact with are all 21st century liberated online safe sex workers, but spend some time in the real world. Volunteer at a women’s shelter or a neo-abolitionist organization like A21, talk to cops who work in vice - pimping (the ugly side with the beatings and the forced drug use) is still very much a thing, even online.
> The word "folk" also denotes recognizeable format in the context of commercial broadcasting and streaming of canned music.

That's a very american-centric view you have there.
Cat’s eye (road safety device)
Yes. Not sure where Baker came from other than both being fairly common names. He could be pretty funny and I remember watching him fairly regularly. As far as I can tell, he doesn't seem to have ever gotten around to publishing a "best of" collection (which I would buy) although there are mentions of plans here and there.
Facebook had an ARPU of $6.18 in Q4'2017, so ~$2/mo.
Give me an example, what kind of communication?
While I disagree with your language I agree with the sentiment. :)
It's so you can't define two billings for the same period (say, the same month). To prevent you from double-billing someone.

&& is the range operator that checks for overlap.[1]

You have to use gist indexes to do this. And in fact this page doesn't mention it but you have to enable the btree_gist extension with:

CREATE EXTENSION btree_gist;

before the snippet above will work.

[1]: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/functions-ran...
Hakko and Weller are a solid choice, but I purchased a programmable TS100 last year and haven't looked back since. I solder a lot on drones and it's just delightful to work with: so light, quick to heat, it has an OLED screen built in, changeable tips and it's programmable. All that for under $50 there's nothing that I would recommend more.

If you're soldering for a living there are probably better suited soldering stations, but if you're just starting out: get this one.

Also: don't skimp on tin. Good quality soldering tin makes a huge difference!
The original comment was referring to coders. It's not a lot to ask people who are working on code to know how to use basic git commands.
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I used to contemplate similar situations. For example, a stationary person on a bike at the top of a steep driveway that's perpendicular to the vehicle's driving direction. But after seeing the video of the Arizona incident I stopped. It's too soon to consider these corner cases when some systems on the public road can't even slow down for a person in front of the fucking vehicle.
TFS - new file system that stores data on Twitter?
It gets better. The speed of light in a fiber optic cable is about 2/3rds of C. The proposed system (from what I understand) essentially uses free space optics between the constellation of satellites as the backbone. Instead of regular satellite internet service which routes up to a satellite then down to a ground station then over a fiber optic backbone. SpaceX’s system will route traffic across the constellation of satellites then down directly to the remote end (or the closest egress point to whatever the remote end is if they aren’t on the network). This means although total distance travelled is longer, the speed it’s travelling at is 1/3rd faster. So overall this will become very interesting for latency sensitive long distance communications.
It's a weight loss drug. I've done a rough categorization of the full list here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16777656

As far as why it counts as "doping" — it is probably used by body builders to drop body fat to competition levels. Anecdotally, without chemical help you are hungry all the time at 4-8 %bf.

Also, the common wisdom among runners is that body fat is dead weight and losing it makes you faster and reduces load on your joints. So it may help there too. Cyclists probably see less benefit, but less fat may help acceleration and hill climb ability.
> All this besides the fact that Clinton stood a much better chance against Trump than Bernie Sanders ever did. She even won the popular vote.

I mean, every poll at the time suggested otherwise: https://imgur.com/a/K9Rzr Additionally, Sanders is a guy who did very well with exactly the demographic that HRC lost. But I digress--

I agree that Breitbart and Fox are far worse than the rest of corporate media, and I still watch CNN/MSNBC every weekday. But I go into it with a much higher level of skepticism and the knowledge that I need to seek other sources of information if I want to know what's going on beside the corporate-friendly narrative.
Didn’t space x blow up facebooks Internet sattilite?..
Accident.. hmm..
https://www.theverge.com/2016/9/1/12750872/spacex-explosion-...
Alton Brown Talks at Google (2011)
What's he doing with whales?
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16711996
Like a Skype call. If user A calls user B (of the same regional ISP), the communications don't go directly from A to B (rather they go from A to Skype and Skype to B, and vice versa), but the timing and volume of the traffic flows are extremely well correlated.
As I see it, the simple answer is just social status and, by proxy, social opportunity. People who are into cycling often place a ton of importance on how good of an athlete someone is. When I worked in the industry, I routinely saw people get hired or promoted simply because of how fast they were. We called the effect "speed goggles" meaning that you viewed the world through speed-colored glasses. So doping could mean the difference between getting hired or not or gaining stature among a group of peers. Of course no one I met in industry ever openly condoned the practice of doping -- quite the opposite. But their admonitions often seemed to ring hollow. You knew that everyone wanted to be faster. And you knew how much importance people tacitly placed on it.
This may be of interest given the discussions of self-driving cars and road safety in general.

It’s also interesting in purely engineering terms as a fantastically elegant design. Not only does it withstand being driven over, being driven over actually triggers the self-cleaning mechanism!
I cited a paper here that says this is of limited value on modern Intel CPUs: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16777564

Although I think they are overgeneralizing the results... you probably still want it for other architectures.
It's not that you shouldn't trust it, it's that you could from security perspective easily shoot yourself in the foot.

Does anyone know of a distro that focuses on usability and privacy"? Subgraph is still in alpha...
I somehow did so for a few monthes.

Note that: 1) I never understood electricity or even electronics, no matter the level (<HS, HS, College).

2) as a computer guy I had the fetish to actually know what the hell was going on. And since my first laptop, I have an itch to mod boards.

yet nothing happened for a decade, until .. maybe the rpi came out. You can find boards for 10$... so now I have a bunch. Then I bought other stuff (wires, multimeter). Then a soldering iron. Then I started to scrap old electronics and parts from stuff that people threw away.

But that doesn't teach you anything. I guess a blend of youtube videos (greatscott, electroboom, AvE) helped getting a tiny bit of theory. Then actually powering dc motors and esp8266 boards. Then trying to read proper text books. (just google 'best electronics books'). Oh also /r/electronics and #electronics on freenode <= an amazing bunch of people here, very knowledgeable, 99% helpful, even for idiots like me.

Also it depends on your brain. Some people will crave rigorous mathematics, some will want to solder stuff and light things up. I needed a blend so I went my own way.

One thing, for low voltage circuits, you can maybe assemble anything you want. Just get a pair of gloves and plastic goggles and you'll never injure yourself and plug things together without fearing capacitors blowing. Stay away from power electronics at first, actual safety is required unless you plan to either cry or visit nurses in the ER.

I find the topic quite fascinating.. that sophisticated green planar with lines everywhere and components.. is just an abstraction layer above waves of f/a and mathematical relationships between them. Even the clock of your circuit is most probably a crystal which material order waves.

Also, it's so damn tangible... it's not pure ideal like code. It's matter that you touch, that heats up. It connects to chemistry (you can make a resistor with a graphite rod, a pencil, and variate the resistance based on the length before the other terminal).
> There are already laws against sex trafficking, associating it with porn is a fallacious analogy

It may be a fallacious analogy, but your argument is definitely a straw man. Nowhere in this case is porn even mentioned.
This is horrible. I don't get invited to parties at the Playboy mansion (like our Dear Leader). How am I supposed to meet sex workers now?
I'd second the TS100. It's ~$40 (given you can find a power supply for free, laptop bricks work fine. I'm using mini photo printer power supply which I found on the street + $1 plug + $3 worth of heat resistant silicone cable).

Warms up in seconds, open source and customizable firmware, takes very little space (kind of important to me since I don't have a dedicated shed/garage for the hobby). What's not to love about it for a beginner?
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50 is not old (it's not even "old").
Thanks for the shout-out. You can also read the docs[0] about the rope data structure (the release is a bit old, if you're really curious git master is better).

I admit this is a fairly specialized use case, for most things xi uses mutability in a controlled way.

[0] https://docs.rs/xi-rope/0.2.0/xi_rope/tree/index.html
Isn't the Pi3+ the same processor as the Pi3, just overclocked?
Sex work != objectification; although the correlation ("in today's society") is really substantial. In other words, this is not inherently a trade where a human being has to sell themselves like a piece of meat; even if today, many/most people in this trade are being sold like a piece of meat.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacred_prostitution
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2kJM9yQs9k

Arguably, this is an attitude problem on the demand side - people who want to buy other people like they're pieces of meat - rather than something about the supply, or the trade itself.

Here's a related interesting phenomenon:
https://www.google.com/search?q=professional+cuddling

To end with a question: Would you consider professional dominatrixes to be in the trade [of selling themselves like meat]?
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I know.

That's exactly my point. If you have enough money you will be able to take down any information of yourself you don't want under the guise of DMCA or related copyright laws.