skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The researchers used different strengths of alcohol concentrations to combat the bacteria, starting with 23 percent. Eventually, at a 70-percent alcohol mixture, the bacteria were conquered. Typically, hand sanitizers are 60 percent alcohol.

Is it simply a matter of using higher concentrations of alcohol? Or is it possible that bacteria could evolve resistance right up to 100%?
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I picked up my son to let him see a moose over a fence, and the startled animal bolted towards a busy street a short distance away. Fortunately, it didn't run out in the road.

I felt like such an idiot. I could've killed someone due to one thoughtless moment. Moose are notoriously stupid when it comes to cars. They become agitated and alert when approached on foot, but they will stand next to cars going freeway speeds with no apparent concern or understanding of the danger.
Never turn down money if the cost is right.

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I could purchase my car out right with cash, but since the interest rate was super low, there was no harm in financing it.
Similarly, if you can use someone else's money to grow your business, and the terms are quite favorable to you, why wouldn't you?

More likely in Peleton's case, they make profit, but it takes a lot of money to expand.

Or possibly R&D costs.
AI, quantum, space commercialization among White House R&D priorities – GCN
The fact that the article says that “oil and tobacco” are the Bad Industries (that CS shouldn’t become like) says everything you need to know. There is no CS without oil.
I can't speak to Moxie's socio-economic background, but how is this relevant?
Buy now, pay later: Tech startups are reviving point-of-sale lending
It looks like all the pages with personal info or settings are behind a login screen. Rest easy, Pam.
143 MPH Fire Tornado Ripped Through Redding During Carr Fire
JEP draft: Type operator expressions in the JVM
It allows you to logout of Pam. That seems to be it from a quick glance
I know what half I am in.
His disclosures were before the war. If the public had a chance to chip in, along with a public debate that would inevitably lead to our current MAD theory, then it’s reasonable to imagine that the current “let’s not go to war with each other anymore because MAD” might, even before WW2, have been “let’s not go to war with each other anymore, or develop these expensive yet terrifying weapons, because MAD”.

The key point is that without the public’s input, politicians acting rationally, decided to direct their engineers & scientists (also acting rationally) to develop these weapons in secret, with everyone involved knowing that nukes were “extremely powerful” and “terrifying” and “war-ending” but not fully appreciating the whole MAD aspect that happens when your enemies play development catch up.

Tons of technologies today, while not as much of an instant threat to our civilization as nukes, are loaded with ethical concerns that current politicians and the public at large are just not aware of. Just reference the deep fakes saga for one recent example. There’s currently no laws outlawing the use of deep fake techniques to produce revenge porn but there’s every reason to believe that these techniques will be outlawed for such use in forthcoming legislation now that the public and politicians are aware of the risk. Extrapolate that to any number of innovations. With informed debate we can keep laws ahead of the game and prevent new techniques and technologies from being legally used for unethical purposes.
Haha, I see it also: xxxxxxx@xxxxxx.com

Luckily it asked for a login when I went to the profile.
For a long time I've been wanting a "Tinder For Platonic Adults" app. I'm not looking for romance or sex, but I want to find nearby matches with similar interests; do you drink, play board games, are you married, how many kids and what age?

There are likely tens of matches for me within a 5 minute drive, I just don't know how to find them.

I'm a friendly guy and would love to have that friend that feels comfortable stopping by unannounced or that I can share my latest batch of cheesecake with. I'd love to have regular friendly gatherings nearly every weekend. Literally the only thing stopping me is the first step of connecting. Once I'm there I can easily deal with step 2: "dating" the field to find a decent practical match with mutual interest in the relationship.
"Microwave Susceptor". Its a super thin layer of aluminum or graphite that absorbs microwaves and gets really hot. Its in the bottom layer of the bag and the reason for "this side up".
Teflon is mostly inert and does not have much of an effect on the body. There is no reason to believe it is bad for you. It also does not generally bio-accumulate.

PFOA however has a head group that is not inert (the acid part).

More generally though the reason we don't like bio-accumulation is because it can have effects that are hard to detect and could take 20 years to show up (think asbestos). With something that is only in you body for a week, whatever it does to you would be detectable in that time.
Most git servers have an option to only allow commits to go through if the ssh key that is pushing the commit matches the SSH key associated with the account of the "Author" field. Easier to implement than enforcing PGP signing.
New class of materials could be used to make batteries that charge faster
I'm not referring to the up-sell. They can upsell a cheaper service. Having a free service means that every customer is extra cost. When you sell something, however little you charge, you still charge just above recurring cost (unless you're a startup). If you don't charge, then every customer is an expense. Trusting that your sales team can up-sell hard enough to compensate for the recurring cost of a customer is wishful thinking.
This, right here is our Pets.com moment. The TAM for a $2k bike + $40/month is hilariously small. Think about it, you would need a decent sized home to fit one of these bikes. That rules out 90% of the world who live on 1-3 bedroom apartments. Next, there isn't any new disruptive technology being introduced. It is a bike and can easily be replicated. The value of "community" is overrated. Lastly, their competition is FREE. You can go running and biking outside. It is nice out there. Even a gym subscription provides more value.
What is the opposite of lonely though? Popular? Not to get all high school angsty, but I bet popular people, of the Instagram famous people variety, are much more popular than they would have been in previous eras given their expanded reach. Perhaps this is the dark side of Internet fame: Increasing real world obscurity for everyone else.

In previous eras, simple proximity counted for something. Now, it doesn't matter and is even a negative with all the drama around workplace dating for example.
If you think about it, now it makes sense why big names in smartphone industry like Apple and Samsung are removing P2 plugs from smartphones in favor of more powerful interfaces like Lighting/USB-C: so you can track more information about the user.

Just imagine: you can track which kind of phone a user that likes to listen to Heavy Metal, for example, likes to use, or which phone is more popular at the moment. Based on this you can develop phones that is more likely to sell or use specific marketing campaigns depending of the kind of music a person listen.
That's the real question. From a 2010 paper (admittedly dated):

Data on the human health effects of PFOA are sparse. There is relatively consistent evidence of modest positive associations with cholesterol and uric acid, although the magnitude of the cholesterol effect is inconsistent across different exposure levels. There is some but much less consistent evidence of a modest positive correlation with liver enzymes. Most findings come from cross-sectional studies, limiting conclusions. Two occupational cohort studies do not provide consistent evidence for chronic disease; both are limited by sample size and reliance on mortality data. Reproductive data have increased recently but are inconsistent, and any observed adverse effects are modest.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2920088/
I suspect national park attendance: https://irma.nps.gov/Stats/SSRSReports/Park%20Specific%20Rep...

has grown much faster than population, due to heavy advertising by national parks and a general increased awareness of visiting national parks as a "thing to do" on vacation rather than e.g. going to Disney Land.
This is relevant, I think, because of this other piece of news: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17681920
Sorry, not PMI...if you go zero down, you have to pay a funding fee, and it's pretty substantial. If you put a down, you don't pay the funding fee and the money goes toward your balance instead.

I was getting my wires crossed on PMI because I tried several loan options.
Yes, I mean ICBMs with atomic warheads.

That said, ICBMs with (conventional) thermobaric warhead could do a lot of damage- you could effectively take out a medium sized country's industrial sector in an hour.
Agreed. I couldn't understand why every single interaction would generate 250MB of data!
Part of that is social interaction being less necessary. My dad made many friends asking random people on the street for directions to a gas station or for a restaurant recommendation. Now we get that all from our phones.
Oh boy, that's gonna be a lot of people enabling the installation of APKs from untrusted sources. I can't see this working well from a security perspective.
URL should probably be changed to: https://www.advisory.com/research/care-transformation-center...

Looks like the original URL came from a daily briefing email.
MFA Strategies: Not All Are Created Equal
>But just because our bodies bioaccumulate things doesn't mean they cause cancer

And just because we can't pinpoint a mechanism of action doesn't mean it doesn't cause cancer :) There have been a number of MoA's proposed for PFOA specifically. Here are a couple:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22120428

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2516576/

Not everything has been studied. And may things are difficult to study. The "little black dots" or fake dirt on fancy astroturf fields are made from recycled road tires, which are a cocktail of all kinds of bad chemicals. And when they get lodged in goalkeepers' skin over time, they enter the body and cause some pretty rare and bad blood cancers. Do I have a study I can point to that says how? No. But do you want your daughter diving on one of those turf fields? https://www.cnn.com/2017/01/27/health/artificial-turf-cancer...
I gave up on the redesign and am now using a browser extension[1][2] that always redirects to the old design.

[1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/old-reddit-re...

[2] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/old-reddit-redirec...
Greg Egan wrote a story ("Border Guards")in which post-human players play a game of Quantum Soccer. Being Greg Egan, he actually created the game in Java.

http://www.gregegan.net/BORDER/Soccer/Soccer.html

I wouldn't call it accessible, though.
I think of this theory like how lead poisoning works, where the lead can pass through the blood–brain barrier and substitute in (poorly) for calcium, causing all sorts of toxicity effects. Or how drinking sea water can fool your throat for a second into thinking you've taken care of your thirst.

Online social interactions are plentiful and easy and often don't as quickly or sharply trigger social anxiety. But they are a toxic replacement if you don't get any real interaction with your fellow humans.
The difference between being broke and being poor
Try Bumble's BFF feature
I agree. Also, options for material usage ought to be limited. And one could require that every manufacturer accept return of all packaging. I'm old enough to remember when milk, beer and soda bottles were typically returned, washed and reused. The last time I lived in Mexico, that was still common, at least in some markets.

But the other side of it is that modern packaging arguably reduces waste. Or at least, I've read that. Maybe it's BS.
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It also seems to be missing (or hugely over-estimating the travel time over) some bridges in the San Francisco Bay Area. oalley.net/map/b8h, for instance, has a ton of weird sectors.
YouTube Stars Turning Viewers Into Readers
Snacking before bed is my problem. I miss breakfast, and sometimes lunch; but I sleep better if I'm digesting ... and I sleep badly.
Russians have been meddling with our elections for a long, long time.
It's known that some bacteria can survive just fine in moderate concentrations (the paper points out lactic acid bacteria in sake, surviving at more than 18%) by means of membrane transporters.

The authors suggest that insufficient concentrations could allow tolerant bacteria to survive.

> As alcohol tolerance increases, we hypothesize that there will be skin surfaces in contact with alcohol-based hand rubs or inanimate surfaces in contact with other alcohol-based cleaning agents that do not receive the maximum biocide concentration or contact time required for effective bacterial killing.
Eggs are easily cooked on, e.g., cast iron. I do it all the time - been cooking for decades without teflon.

I've used mostly cast iron and wood since I started cooking, with some steel pans for acidic things and special cases. As a bonus, you never have to throw it away - if you somehow get it rusty enough that steel wool won't do the job (say, leave it in a moldy basement for a few years), just take it to your local auto body shop for sandblasting and re-season.
Progressive Neural Architecture Search
Sorry, i'm not sure if i'm understanding correctly. I have two equiprobable interpretations of your question:

1. The internet is not completely decentralized due to the politics of its engineers.

2. The internet being designed to be open and free was, as much as any other architecture, reflective of the politics of its framers.

I suppose they are essentially the same question, though. You're right, the architecture of the internet does reflect the politics of its engineers, to a degree. But I think it mostly represents an attempt at the most flexible, simple architecture to provide infrastructure for other applications without being opinionated about those applications. Which, on the one hand, is sort of a political choice, though I feel it's only political in the sense that it avoids any and all political considerations. Its politics are neutrality and agnosticism.
This is a remarkable landing page. Fantastic.

1. Clear problem every developer has (most don't even know !!)

2. Inform on how to solve the problem

3. Offer the convenient solution.

Wow.
Ask HN: Solo Hackers, how much hours do work every week?
This is nothing github specific. It will work with any git repository. Author is just a text attached to commit. Anybody can set it to anything.

You don't even need to edit ~/.gitconfig file. Just set GIT_AUTHOR_NAME / GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL / GIT_AUTHOR_DATE env variables to anything you want. See https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-Internals-Environment-Var... for more variables.
Having only one app store allowed on a device is anti-competitive and is an area where I would approve regulators forcing changes. The fact that Apple has exclusive right to approve what I can install, and then extracts monopoly rent on top of depriving me of software, should be banned.
Fortnite Skips Google Play on Android
Usually I just throw some meat on the grill and put it in a quesadilla or sandwich with various toppings. I occasionally make a salad, but very very occasionally.

I feel pretty full and rarely take in more than 2k calories a day - I'm not limiting intake in any way.

I've never struggled with weight though, just a few pounds after college prompted me to start cooking.
Ambiguous title. I read it as "Github, the company, commits forgery."
Git is cryptographically secure, but it's not foolproof.

However signing a single commit verifies the parent commits (similar to the blockchain) so it isn't necessary for every commit.

Signing tags and commits is great, but if you decide to use this in your normal workflow, you’ll have to make sure that everyone on your team understands how to do so. If you don’t, you’ll end up spending a lot of time helping people figure out how to rewrite their commits with signed versions. Make sure you understand GPG and the benefits of signing things before adopting this as part of your standard workflow.
Motivating the Rules of the Game for Adversarial Example Research
Points 1 and 2 are certainly controversial for endurance athletes doing intense workouts or races. Those are a small fraction of the population, but the point is there are hardly any universal guidelines.
Is anyone doing “Tinder, but with video”? Why not?
Certainly it will require some deep thought and lots of coding, but the concept is easy to understand - like Tinder, but with video which users upload right from their devices.

Has anyone built this, and if not, why? It seems like something that should already exist and be in common use, like Tinder, Bumble, etc.
A Tutorial on Using Google Cloud TPUs
> Reading the comments here are just so funny. Why is it whenever a Chinese person does something, or rather an "Asian person," it must be attributed to their culture?

I am not seeing this as a common attitude in the comments. Save for a few, I see those blaming a government and its operatives. I think the oh-woe-is-us-stop-with-the-stereotypes is just a convenient way to detract from the story or recognize actions of a nation's government as a whole. There's not really any stereotyping going on of any real size, please don't try so to make victims.

As an exercise while you're reading these funny comments, do this: count the comments that are saying this isn't cultural and it's not about the Chinese as a culture, and compare it to the count of people that are saying this is cultural as opposed to related to the nation's government.
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Being an MBA doesn't change whether or not you can sell something though. Anyone can equally be good at selling things, its more of a personality type if anything

I don't see the purpose of MBAs unless you are doing high level management at a mid-large company, and you are supplementing it with other (core) skills such as software development. The other reason you would take an MBA is if you want an equivalent knowledge set of a bachelors business degree without having formal training.

I think the MBA hate is warranted to some degree, because you see far too many people taking an MBA as a "backup" option. I've dealt with way too many people with MBA degrees that have no idea what they are talking about.

I'm a strong believer that business skills need to be won by hard-earned experience.
Applications of Reinforcement Learning in Real World
Flexible Loudspeaker Made of Nanowires Will Stick to Your Skin and Play Music
If I may intrude, I think they mean that revealing to you data that involves you and other people could invade the privacy of those other people.
I think it will be a robotic company, which could make practical, useful consumer robots.
Blame-Free Quality Control
Sounds impractical in the case of GitHub though. If I create a repo, you fork my repo, I push some commits to mine, then you pull from mine and author some more commits and then I delete my repo then you can’t push.
They should be outlawed for camping too... the importance of keeping bacteria from growing immune outweighs the small risk of getting a stomach bug while camping

Sanitizer should ONLY be legal for use in hospitals
I also wonder how big the market is for $2000 exercise bikes/treadmills + subscription service... especially when consumer debt is already at a high. Maybe they are thinking gyms/apartment fitness centers will buy them?
Not the GP, so my guess:

> What is the benefit of using it within your closure app?

The benefit is probably it not being Clojure. While objectively not any better, more people are familiar with the non-prefix syntax and imperative semantics. If you intend the scripts to be written by some 3rd party, trying to convince them that Lisps are great is a waste of time. I mean, they are great - but there are many programmers (a majority, even) who don't care or can't appreciate it, and it gets even worse if you consider other professionals in the field.

If not for this, and if you don't need any particular feature the other language provides (in Lua it would be either sandboxing or coroutines, I think), then Clojure is perfectly capable of being used for scripting. Even more so than most languages; for example, simple syntax and macros (and the resulting ease of making DSLs) are desirable properties in a scripting language.
And likely to other simple organisms which feed exclusively on gamma radiation - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiotrophic_fungus

Or those bacteria that feed on bi-products of Nylon manufacture - because their environment is rife with wastewater from it:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nylon-eating_bacteria
A channel can behave like an actor but they are not the same thing. An actor is a living entity. A channel is a transit mechanism.

What is the purpose of this post? To argue the academic definition of channels and actors? To spark a discussion on their uses and benefits?
> The two make us feel more connected, more global, but I think it makes us more isolated.

My wife and I had this discussion the other day. Messaging or posting on FB or whatever is very flat. There's no depth to it at all. It doesn't replace hearing a loved one's voice or looking into their eyes or hugging them or even having a meal with them. When you go and you visit them and you see them, you realize how much you're missing and, yeah, it feels very isolating to realize that. Social media is a facade.
Google to let you pop its AI chips into your own computer as of October
Git code signing is as easy as adding -S option when making a commit. Why do we need a thrid-party stuff?
Yes I do think this is a tremendous PR campaign.
How do you define an ‘improved’ economy? I don’t know any long-term Sydney residents who think life has gotten better for them.

It’s full of homeless camps, traffic is a gridlock. Rents are insane. Salaries are low.
All things considered Jack Bogle did not become rich from Vanguard. For the size of their fund they have almost no employees and are not exactly flush with cash.

Vanguard is doing a sort of public service: http://freakonomics.com/podcast/stupidest-thing-can-money-re...
indeed, Steve Jobs should have called it the iFriend, the only friend you need...
There's a very good reason Git (and GitHub) permit this: maintaining credit when rebasing or making other minor edits. If you submit some code to me, and I pull --rebase your branch into the project, the resulting commit won't be byte-for-byte identical to the one you sent me. At the very least, the parent commit pointer needs to be different, and Git will also update the committer (to myself) and commit timestamp. Since git stores trees, not diffs, the resulting tree will probably be different, and if there are merge conflicts, then the diff itself will also be different from the diff you sent me. If I fix a typo in a comment or something and then incorporate the commit, that will also be different.

If Git implemented something with commit signing as a matter of course, this functionality would be broken. I couldn't directly attribute the commit to you; it would be signed with my key instead, because your original signature won't be valid. I could of course put your name in the commit message, but then the "forgery" problem arises again: I can just put anyone's name right there, of course.

The current system ensures that you get credit for your work (and it's machine-parseable credit, so it shows up in your GitHub profile's contribution history) when someone rebases a commit you wrote, instead of the project maintainer getting credit.
I have heard Renogy, or the Goal Zero Yeti
Meetup can be good for this.
The French Language and Why We Learn It