skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Cool idea, could be useful.... I did see some real estate sites using something similar to show/estimate the commute.

When I looked in my area, it looked semi-accuraete, but far from reliable when I compared to google maps: https://s22.postimg.cc/lxfvu3ag1/How_far_can_I_go_-_Oalley_f...
And why not? Being a 'financial company' is not really a convincing argument against them possibly up-selling here.
We don’t have to make money on every investment. In fact we only make money on very few. Which is fine by us.
From what I can tell, the price for new customers is $80 a month for the first year and $90 a month thereafter.
Where I got downvoted to oblivion and then flagged.

This worries me as much as this article, because it make people associate China and Chinese companies with unfriendly behaviours.

If you say "not all", you are called a government shill. The same goes with articles trying to point out discrimination in US university admissions.

This is not posted to create dissent, but to reduce exclusion or invalidation that other reader may feel.

Maybe I should say differently: if you replace "asian" by "jewish" or "black" and the phrase sounds horribly racist, maybe that is because it is racist in the first place. Please do not do that.
Facebook is launching new tools to help you manage the time you spend on social media.[1] Looks like the "Disable Facebook" feature is working very well.

[1] https://twitter.com/TODAYshow/status/1024630695577169920
Google Chrome, Google's Browser Project (2008)
Nice try, Google, but the Earth is still flat. #believer

</sarcasm>
> the GDPR requires opt-in and forbids "click I accept or leave our service"

That's an asinine law if I ever saw one. Telling me how I should run my business? Really? From what vantage point, if I may ask?

If I had a company, I would ignore the whole thing and invite them to cross the pond and try their crap in my jurisdiction, under my laws. Or just block them altogether. If they want to go back to the middle ages, let them.
LISP languages do this better than python.

edit: plural
I wonder if these might wind up in other sorts of markets besides just for Chinese consoles or if there is some sort licensing restrictions that will prevent that.
What is quantum computing? --Joe Rogan
> Regulations are generally bad because they can be gamed.

That's a downside, but not at all a reason to write all regulations off.

I'd hate to live in a self regulating society where disputes are resolved by legal action. I'm guessing you're pro legal regulation in this dystopia?
If the CEO wants to buy a new Ferrari, they need to take money out of the company - either as income or dividends (both of which are taxed). If the company buys him his car then it's a taxable benefit too. If the company increases the value of the CEOs shares by doing share buybacks, then the CEO just pays more capital gains taxes. Avoiding corporation tax means the tax paid directly by the company goes down, but it's not at all obvious that the net amount the government receives goes down. Only direct taxes are reflected on their balance sheet, though, which is a good enough incentive.
Spotify GDPR data export: user receives 250MB containing every interaction
I spent a bit of time in Adelaide and found it to be quite easy to get around without using a car. The trains, light rail, and busses all did an excellent job, in my opinion.

A bit pricey perhaps, but I did manage to cover an awful lot of ground without a car while I was there.
I seriously question that satiety index.

I can, quite literally, eat 2000+ calories of potatoes and not be full. I make a damned good loaded baked potato, and good mashed potatoes for that matter. Are they talking about a plain boiled potato with nothing on it or something? (even then, boiled red potatoes are good... :) )

Or oranges for that matter. Give me a 2lb bag of satsuma oranges and I'll give you back an empty bag a short time later.

Listing beef as lower than oranges is incredibly weird to me. Apparently the average satsuma is 4oz, realistically compare two of those tiny mandarin oranges to an 8oz steak, the steak will satiate more and for a longer period of time. No study is needed to prove that.

Unless they were comparing by "equivalent calorie consumption" in which case the chart is useless, but sure, 1 mandarin orange is probably better than 1oz of steak. (~64 calories in 1 mandarin orange, ~77 calories in 1oz of steak).

Trying to make an actual meal out of the oranges would be, naturally, quite pointless, where as the steak scales up to a meal quite well.

And this is why a huge % of nutritional studies are useless for day to day living.

Naturally YMMV and I know people who are satiated off of small portion of high carb foods, but people who can eat a small bowl of ice cream and be full are the minority, with my evidence of that assertion being America's waistline (and the average serving size of ice cream).
For some of my friends that sounds like perfectly normal thing to do, so... where does that leave us? :P
> It just stays there seeping out heinous juices into the surrounding area.

A proper landfill has multiple layers of protection to the ground below it and a web of drain pipes to ensure that the fluids don't collect up or, worse, leak out into the ground.
If you can select students who come from more better environments (magnet/charter schools), you don't need to spend a considerable amount of resources to manage/treat the social issues that accompany students from worse environments. The latter is what public schools that serve poorer communities have to deal with.
> Ideally, you want maximally impersonal bulk markets for buying and selling assets. Finance industry should have smaller and smaller profit margins.

Some people would consider a personal, friendly market more valuable than a maximally efficient one. Finance is a tool to help humans fulfill their values, not the other way around.
For whatever reason my printer (8610) provides an automatic update via the webinterface, but it can't find any update. Also the HP firmware updater for macOS isn't signed. Oh well.
Have fun never eating out, or going over to someone else's house to eat?
Norway's Hidden Scandal
The crazy thing about diets is how differently everyone responds to different plans.

For me, if I eat anything significant for breakfast (lets say > 400 calories), I am STARVING by the time lunch rolls around at noon. Like, stomach in pain, I need food now, I'll have 2 pounds of wings and a side of macaroni, thanks. But that overindulging doesn't carry over to dinner, which is pretty typical.

So, the synthesis of all of that is eating breakfast significantly increases my caloric intake for the day, despite having no measurable difference on energy, mood, etc.

If there are any rules that have worked for me, it's: Eat less, Eat less often, and Avoid carbs.
you want to eat your clean hands, or eat with you clean hands... I like the latter actually. Gives more connection to what you are eating
I think a lot of the HN community seems themselves too much like grand inventors. Prometheus bringing fire down from the mountain ignorant of the future of war, gun powder, and bombs.

My career in technology has taught me its a lot more obvious. When your marketing team start buying massive collected data, or your sales team starts selling ad data to 3rd parties. We know things happen, and the grey morality of it. Yet we turn our backs to it.

The reason I think HN is so quick to jump on these topics is because if we search ourselves we see that our morals rarely stand up to our self-proclaimed ideals. Jobs are sometimes hard to find, stability is nice, and dying on that hill doesn't always seem important.

Those are negative societal consequences we are most dishonest about it. Not Promethean illusions of grandeur.
I wonder what the mechanism is? Biofilm?
> Australian planologists should talk to Dutch planologists, and it'll be fine

By the way, in English planologie is called "city planning" or "urban planning" and a planoloog is an "urban planner" or "city planner". We don't really have the terms planology and planologist (although they sound pretty awesome!).
401(k)s usually have limited investment options, you'll have to check if these funds will be available under your company's plan.

To answer your question, why on Earth would it be a terrible idea? They are two index funds - total market index and international index. Investing in low cost index funds is generally considered the best way to invest for the average person.

Furthermore, with 401(k)s you can freely trade without having to worry about triggering capital gains taxes, so there's no reason not to move the entirety of your investments in these asset classes fully over to the new funds in a 401(k).
> But Vanguard is not-for-profit company because it's owned by its shareholders.

Isn't every company owned by its shareholders, for-profit or not?
Don't worry -- there's Instagram for that, too.
was this comment supposed to contribute anything? We've already went over those. Most reasonable people would probably not prefer to sit here and reiterate the same points multiple times.

edit: And as was explained - they hardly have an effect on most R workflows. I write R. I know people who write R (and Python) for production models. We could care less about 64 bit, and I for one think RStudio is rock-solid and one of the best IDEs I've ever used. And the tens of comments in this very thread about the package system show that no, it is not a foregone conclusion that packages are poorly handled.
Strong Types for Direct Logic
"Because OKEx has a “socialized clawback” policy for such instances, it will force futures traders with unrealized gains this week to give up about 18 percent of their profits."

"Clawbacks are unique to crypto markets"

"Socialized clawback"??? So they take your money to make up for someone else's losses? Wow. Why would anybody put a cent into such an exchange? Do all bitcoin exchanges have this policy?

I think the main benefit of bitcoin in history might be to teach an entire generation about the importance of proper financial regulation. This is a generation of men that have been fed from young age a bunch of bullshit about deregulation and libertarianism. They are being taught a very expensive but important lesson right now.
I agree that it's unlikely that anyone can predict broad, long-term consequences of any particular technology. On the other hand, the people who design Facebook or mobile games to be maximally addicting definitely understand something about how their software is affecting society. It's not a huge leap to go from "I'm pretty sure that certain people will become obsessed with this," to "It's probably harmful for lots of people to become obsessed with this."

If a person can predict the consequences of design decisions well enough to get paid for it, they'll probably have some idea of potential negative consequences as well.
What people fail to see with this is that Fidelity (and other large money managers) effectively control supply. You think "oh great zero ratio!" but in reality the cost of having these market concentrations far exceeds a few basis points to individual investors. I would argue that the next financial crisis will be very much linked to ETFs and related beta products.
I recently spec'd out an ETF based on the number of employees working in a given MSA with the management proceeds going to support entrepreneurship in that area. Fixed costs for operating a single ETF is about $250K, which means a minimum AUM of $50M with a 0.5% fee. Most platforms won't even list an ETF with < $40M because they know its not sustainable below that level.

That said, for a manager of many ETFs, the fixed costs are much lower because they can be spread across multiple funds.
There are actually existing terms, coming from English common law, for exactly these sorts of situations. They are not in common usage outside the legal profession, but perhaps they should be.

"Conversion" is a tort (so, not a criminal offense) in which one party deprives another party of control over the second party's lawful property. It can involve physically taking the property, but could also involve otherwise depriving the rightful owner of control over it.

Taking someone's proprietary data and passing it to a competitor strikes me as a fair example of conversion, since it deprives the rightful owner of control -- they cannot, once the information has been taken and passed on, exercise control over it by keeping it exclusively to themselves. The value of the information has been destroyed.

It also covers situations in which the property has not actually been removed, but access to it by its rightful owner has been denied. E.g., encrypting files on your employer's computer such that your employer can't access them, but not actually removing them. (This is sort of equivalent to going to a warehouse and putting a lock, that only you have the key to, on a container holding someone else's stuff.)

The intriguing thing about Conversion, which I've always thought was interesting, is that it's independent of intent. Unlike the criminal acts of theft, where there's an issue of mens rea, conversion can occur without any intent -- the deprivation can happen as a consequence of some other action, but you can still be liable for some remedies, under some conditions.

There's centuries of caselaw about conversion and the traditional remedies for it ("trover" and "replevin"), much of it designed expressly to discourage vigilantism in the premodern and early industrial world. I think we could learn something from this, particularly as cyber crime becomes more common.
Complexity test offers new perspective on small quantum computers
I run Kali Linux on a Thinkpad T480s, works great.
I get what you're saying, but I'm not sure if planning trips to the other side of the globe qualifies as "daily use" either :-)

I think it's neat to see that the route is along a great circle -- that wasn't clear at all before this change.
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u wot m8
Years ago there was a "Penn & Teller: Bullshit!" episode on recycling that did a decent job of looking into the psychology and economics of recycling.

What I remember is that most people feel bad about throwing stuff away, so a big part of the recycling movement is based around guilt rather than facts. The slogan "Reduce, Reuse, Recycle" is in that order for a reason. Reducing the amount of what you use and reusing what you have is much more important and effective in helping the environment than recycling. Also putting things in a landfill really isn't really a problem. Landfills don't take up a significant amount of space, and when regulated and managed properly they aren't bad for the environment.

As for the economics of recycling:

* Recycling paper is a terrible idea. It takes a lot more chemicals, fuel and labor to recycle paper than produce new paper from trees (and it's a much lower quality product). Also, landfills are able to capture and sell the methane produced from paper as it decomposes, so it makes a lot more economical and environmental sense to just throw it away.

* Recycling glass can be economical depending on the cost of natural gas because the melting point of glass is slightly lower than raw silica. Unfortunately recycling adds cost because of the sorting and cleaning.

* Some plastics can't be made from recycled materials, and even when they can be, the economics of it depends on the cost of crude oil and natural gas. Prices for gas and oil fluctuate a lot, so it's risky for companies to be in the business of processing plastic back into feedstock because they don't know whether they will be able to sell it at or above cost at the time they're buying materials.

* Aluminum is really the only commonly recycled material that makes 100% economic sense. It's really expensive to produce from ore, and cheap produce from recycled materials.

EDIT: Found the episode here - https://www.bitchute.com/video/j0Hd6UfA4MKo/
Here is ancient wisdom on this: https://youtu.be/tkuF1VmLoRs
If you are looking for scientific data, you will not got any but WISDOM, a plenty :-). This is from an Enlightened Living Master.
Bought a copy, into chapter 2,good read so far, font is readable too as far as I can tell
> is to pay some other country to take it

They tried that though. There's currently no "other country" willing to take it. That was Plan A, and it failed, it seems that Plan B is to just let it build up, but that won't last forever either.
> Grocery stores sell products. They used to sell food.

Walk only around the outside of the store and you'll be fine. Don't go down any aisle except for spices.
What‽‽‽‽

Changing your fund allocations within your 401(k), in general, doesn't trigger any penalties and is not a withdraw.
This was my reaction as well, however I do appreciate the reasons for the expense. I'm curious if a "lite" version of this could be made for home hobbyist tinkering.
why would this be necessary in airports where, yes, maybe the Lounge has a password, but the airport in general as public wifi. I'm sure the public wifi is accessible inside the lounge.....

example Toronto Pearson
Yes. For instance one way they make money is by lending shares for short selling.
Do we really think very much is really affected by map projections?

Korea looms large in people's imaginations for a lot of reasons that have nothing to do with its occupied land mass size, and a lot to do with their history and cultural and economic power.
Socialism 2.0

I think companies should become public after a certain size.

And have more distributed ownership requirements the bigger they become.

And theirs no reason the big companies shouldn't be putting out large dividends.
Coyotes, crows, and raccoons are cited as three species that have done better as urban animals than their country brethren.

I’m not thrilled about the quasi-domestication of coyotes, however I’m thoroughly intrigued by raccoons and crows.

Raccoons: I'd like to start an urban trapping program where the least human-fearing specimens are collected, dewormed, vaccinated, and assessed for sociability. The most sociable are bred, and the least sociable are neutered. I want this for purely selfish reasons as raccoons (trash pandas) are objectively adorable. I reckon this will take fewer generations than the Soviet artic silver fox experiment.

For crows, I’d like to see them become urban cleanup crews... crow crews. Train them to deposit cigarette butts, heroin needles, or whatever other undesirable detritus into safe disposal stations in trade for peanuts. Yes, crows will totally work for peanuts.

It’s time to stop thinking that dogs, horses, and other domesticated service animals should be the only species pressed into service for mankind.
We both agree on the problem that they should be paying more. I suggest that fixing "loopholes" isn't the solution, and instead may consider a "hard-minimum" for multi-billion dollar companies. No deductions beyond x%.
Very cool! It's always seemed a shame to me that we stick with highly-inaccurate projections when we have the tech to do much better, simply out of inertia. Double-cheers as well for ignoring the weird convention that you shouldn't care about accurate sizing when looking a political rather than satalite map.
PFOA/S are bad, but ALL organofluorines are bad. That is pretty much a settled fact even though industry press will only point to peer-reviewed studies on specific molecules like PFOA/S.

Including chipping Teflon, and that winter boot waterproofing spray you have in your closet...

edit: Not sure why I'm being downvoted. The body does not have a way of breaking down the carbon-fluorine bond, therefore these chemicals tend to bioaccumulate.
Privacy Festival in Costa Rica
and you are not wrong

https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Awikipedia.org+%22heal...
Many animals with a surplus of food available do not live healthy lives. If you have to expend calories to get food, as most animals do, then you are at equilibrium.
A tad basic, but mine at https://www.jeremycantu.com tries to do the whole "multi-discipline" angle with that toggle in the center, which I thought might be a neat element for folks with varying creative pursuits.
You can read Breitbart and still very much appreciate the difference between legal immigrants, illegal immigrants, and refugees.

Legal immigrants are the most law abiding and some of the most productive people in a community, having worked their asses off to go through a typically arduous process to get where they are.

There’s a great deal of controversy over whether illegal immigrants commit crimes or consume social services and welfare at higher or lower rates than citizens, but there’s zero debate that legal immigrants commit crime and utilize welfare at significantly lower rates than either other group.
To the victor goes the spoils regardless of morality.
This wasn't a short. It was a long position that got burned. The article doesn't even mention if the exchange allows shorts. But good try.
Kelowna, BC
It is a marketing gimmick, but your description of the marketing gimmick is wrong. They say PFOA-free because they use PFOS or another analogue in their manufacturing. They are no more safe.
I like using WalkScore for this. It's designed for finding apartments, but it can give travel times by walking, transit, driving, and biking, accounting for things like where transit stops are, highway exits, rush hour traffic, etc.

https://www.walkscore.com/apartments/search/Washington-DC
I wanted to statically compile a single HTML template file recently, and I liked using vfsgen [1] and vfstemplate [2].

I also found this comparison of libraries pretty good: https://tech.townsourced.com/post/embedding-static-files-in-...

[1] https://github.com/shurcooL/vfsgen

[2] https://github.com/shurcooL/httpfs/blob/master/html/vfstempl...
We both agree on the problem that they should be paying more. I suggest that fixing "loopholes" isn't the solution, and instead may consider a "hard-minimum" for multi-billion dollar companies. No deductions beyond x%.

Deductions do have a use, they may encourage them to "go green" or whatever. But yeah there needs to be an actual minimum.
"If you owe the bank $100 that's your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that's the bank's problem."
Have a look at some of the sample pictures here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outback

and particularly, about a third of the way down, the aerial photography and the arid interior, and consider that that arid desert extends from the equivalent of Oregon to Tennessee, South Dakota to Oklahoma.
What is this trash?
If there's a job where I just get to explore the wonder of Google Maps all day, I want it.
I like that idea, but I suspect the big stuff is actually pretty easy to recycle. It's the little bits of plastic and paper that are a problem to sort.
The admin login for the panel where you can turn off SMS auth for delhi airport wifi is “admin:admin” or something very similar IIRC.
No quantum equivalent of minesweeper for nukes? (probabilistic, with tunneling)
The Science of Meditation and Superhuman Brain Performance
Agreed. I actually googled a few other sites with this type info before submitting, and this site had the fewest ads / most straight forward text based info. I’m sure if I spend another ten mins I could find a better site. If anyone else has some links that’d be awesome.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17679926
Well, it is a somewhat loaded question when a tree is not part of the economy until it is cut down, a fish until it is caught etc.
"Militarizing Your Backyard with Python: Computer Vision and the Squirrel Hordes"

https://pyvideo.org/pycon-us-2012/militarizing-your-backyard...
Honestly, I doubt there will be any long-term geopolitical consequences. It's comforting to imagine that we can change the world just by more correctly representing a map, but I suspect the reality is that we can't.
What’s That Sound? In Ashley Fure’s Compositions, It Could Be Almost Anything
I think the problem is that doing what you said is insanely difficult. Look at the Essential phone for a recent example.