skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Isn't that anyways now different, I mean asbestos is dangerous when its in the air but:

> The report states that the agency will no longer consider the effect or presence of substances in the air, ground, or water in its risk assessments.

Therefore if they don't consider effects from having it in the air asbestos is not dangerous anymore? This article must seriously misrepresent the facts, I can't believe that even post-Trump / GOP are this insane.
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Yes, this effect has prevented me from even being able to use the product subscription services Amazon has tried to launch. I might get one or two periodic shipments but then I'd hear "Oops, that product is discontinued." Turns out it's still around, just in slightly different packaging, or with a new brand tweak. In the end the uncertainty and reliability and hassle are all far worse than just remembering to buy myself more shave gel and toothpaste at the store when I start to run low.

But given how hard it is to even find just standardized products on Amazon at a reasonable price and with Prime shipping from a reliable seller, etc, etc, when I can _see_ what's going on, I personally would never trust Alexa to do the selection for me.
IBM Watson with https://freeswitch.org/confluence/plugins/servlet/mobile#con...

Or stream to Google Cloud.

Both are used in production successfully already. Latency is on par with what you would experience calling FedEx and talking to their ASR bot.
a "stated stance"? Show me where?

I call BS.
Here's one I find tricky: https://bioconductor.org/packages/release/bioc/html/viper.ht...

That's the tool, and that page cites the paper.
Now that Dart 2 is final, I'm guessing we're a couple weeks out from Flutter going 1.0 -- which will mean a ramping up of the Fuchsia rumors.
How would this be a scandal? The post you responded to sounds more plausible to me than it becoming a monumental scandal or PR disaster.
Even the Romans knew that you shouldn't buy a slave who had worked in an asbestos mine.
At least for my country, you can scream as loud as you want, people just complain about you being louder than the Television. Nothing will happen, because governments have kept the majority of the people at a low enough education that they either don't understand or don't care about these things at all. I can always see people zoning out when I talk to them about this topic. Nobody cares, because they know they won't make a difference if they do anyway.
If we banned all uses of harmful substances, many things (e.g. spaceflight) wouldn't be possible (or at least much more expensive) (e.g. most hypergolic propellant used for fine maneuvring e.g. during docking are extremely poisonous - alternatives are being tested but aren't there yet).
It's the same for personal debt, right? I would never take out a loan unless I expected the present value of the thing I'm buying with that money to be greater than the discounted cost of the loan. It might be awfully hard to quantify (what's the return on paying my hospital bill compared to not paying it, or in fixing my car compared to not fixing it?), but there is a return and you only took out the loan because you figured it was higher than the interest you're paying on the loan. Same exact argument as for government debt.
They jammed the the C&C and encrypted military GPS and spoofed the civilian fallback GPS to run it into the ground.
Password requirements don't really protect the business, they protect the user, and if the user isn't interested in protecting their data, why should the company force them to care?
And then there is Jevons' Paradox: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox
To shed some light on the “thinking from the top”, here’s a quote from a related Snopes article (https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/russian-asbestos-trump_fac...):

> Trump once opined, in his 1997 book The Art of the Comeback, that efforts to reduce and regulate asbestos (a material he claimed was “100% safe” once applied) in building construction were part of a mob-lead conspiracy:

>> I believe that the movement against asbestos was led by the mob, because it was often mob-related companies that would do the asbestos removal. Great pressure was put on politicians, and as usual, the politicians relented.
you just killed any hope for azure running k8s. seriously. killed it with that statement.
> Pi-Hole is essentially useless for real world scenarios.

This is a surprising statement because I've used mine at home with 6+ devices and zero issues for almost two years now. It seems fair to say it's not ideal for your needs, but why say something like this that will only deter people from seeing if it works for them?
What about asbestos and marine wild life?
'McRefugees' on the Rise Amid Summer Heat
Thanks Jorde – appreciate it!
Have you considered using a real computer when you come onto a discussion forum instead?
Facebook Wanted Gizmodo to Kill Investigative Tool
As positive as we should paint this, when somebody does this, it doesn't at all solve the problem. Corporations and Governments need to be kept at a level that stops climate change, to make a difference.

Citizens need a reeducation regarding meat, regarding travel, regarding transportation of goods and what the globalization does to the environment. The biggest change can only be triggered by either overthrowing the government or forcing them in some other way to start worrying about this.
So, it looks like GDP would be comparable to total market value of products and services provided the company in a year. That would be equal to revenue ignoring any free products/services the company provides (or do we also need to take into account sale of pre-owned products by third parties? ) I guess. Out of curiosity, is there a number then that is equivalent to market value of a company but applicable to a country?
It looks like it was made with graphviz, so it doesn't strictly have to do with Luna.

I made one here:

https://google.github.io/rappor/doc/data-flow.html

Source:

https://github.com/google/rappor/blob/master/doc/data-flow.d...
Oh it's the exact same mechanism.

The only difference is that here in Wisconsin we know that our government is corrupt, and because of the corruption here there is little we can do to combat that corruption. I mean we have everything from Walker, to little boys being used for sex at Lincoln Hills, to out and out DA's who are crime lords. (Literally, a few years back there was a DA who would take "donations" to "charity" from drug runners. They would actually divert shipments to go through his jurisdiction because if you get caught all you had to do was pay the "donation". It was really bad.)

I'm pretty sure if you were to ask the average Wisconsinite, they would openly admit much of the corruption up here. Not only with crime, or blacks, but with money, with land, with everything basically. Why do you think we have protests with hundreds of thousands of people showing up? It's not just Walker, at least in my opinion it's not. It's the system that people feel he represents and defends.

By contrast, in Florida, I get the sense that people think that's the way things are supposed to work. They believe they have a good system and that the system works the way God intended.
The political parties did largely switch sides on many issues. As Republicans love to remind people, Lincoln was a Republican and he freed the slaves. Additionally the politicians who opposed civil rights legislation were largely Democrats. http://factmyth.com/factoids/democrats-and-republicans-switc...
Show HN: Manage Gmail attachments like a pro with Dittach 2.0
While I'm sympathetic to this point of view, it's really hard to take seriously a conclusion like "no impact".

California's murder rate peaked around 1994. Three-strikes sentencing was enacted that same year in CA and about a dozen other states. Are we to believe that the 50% decline in murders since then is not, at least in part, a result of the incarceration of repeat criminals?

I guess we'll find out soon enough now that 3-strikes is being considerably softened.
"Peak Oil" is a theoretical model for analyzing oil supply and production cost. It was first conceptualized in the 1950ies, in a time where hardly anyone was claiming that we're almost out of oil. Indeed "Peak Oil" does not claim that the absolute oil reserves are nearly empty but that the reserves that can be exploited cheaply are at their maximum production capacity. What this model does not take into account are price fluctuations, based on a decrease in growth and economic activity (what we have seen in the past 10 years) and new technologies (Fracking, LNG). So this model is imprecise and incomplete, but useful when analyzing trends over a very long period of time.

You claim, that the "Automation crisis" isn't a real problem either, because apparently employment is almost back to pre-2007 levels. This may well be true, but a significant factor that has to be analyzed is: what jobs are being taken. I have no numbers only anecdotes [from UK/Europe, not US], and there is a pattern where low paying service jobs are replacing jobs in the manufacturing industry. This is a direct consequence of automation in the manufacturing industries, and these jobs are not very secure / automation-safe either. Also, this problem is way older than you or me, the first Luddites were smashing machines in the 1810s. The history of the 1800s show that automation (with lots of other factos in conjunction) can lead to societal upheaval and severe economic problems.

As for productivity growth, I concur that by the numbers in your first link show a stagnation in the past decade. That does not mean that this trend will continue in the future. When AI/ML Technologies become mainstream (this is already the case) and receive widespread adoption in several industries (this is not the case by now) productivity growth will increase once again.
I think basically because (1) they can and (2) no one has stepped in to prevent them from doing it.

But it's absurd.
> The other is an interesting quality-of-life change for Flutter developers, which allows creating an instance of a class without the “new” keyword. The goal of this change is to make Flutter code more readable, less clunky, and easier to type, but the principle applies to all Dart code. There have been plenty of other improvements happening under the hood, as can be seen in the official changelog.

To me it seems kind of odd to design the language towards a framework. Then again, that framework is probably the only thing increasing the number of people using Dart so it does make sense to make using the framework as clean and easy as possible.
Option appears to already exist [0], though you could be forgiven for not spotting it.

[0] - https://i.imgur.com/3k9VN5M.png
The One Law That’s the Cause of Everything Good and Terrible About the Internet
W3C is the coordination point for WebAssembly: https://www.w3.org/wasm/

Personally, I think WebAssembly is going to massively revolutionize app delivery. In ten years we will have all but forgotten about JavaScript, switching instead to client-side apps that run at near binary-native speeds, written in real languages with complete type systems.
Install a second Pi as PiHole as well. It also runs fine next to Kodi or so if you have one already. DNS requests are incredibly small.
You realize what the current development looks like on a chart right?

https://climate.nasa.gov/evidence/
Whatever the reason, the solution is pretty straight forward: make extensive use of asbestos in every single room of the White House. :)
That depends on your use case.

Personally, I like the UX of Instapaper better - it's cleaner, more minimalist, and easier to read.
An Introduction to Ontology Engineering [pdf]
You're welcome. My email address is in my profile if you have any questions in the future.
Well, I was just trying to put changes to trucking regulations into an easy to understand form. I wasn't passing judgement on whether or not we need lower doctor/patient ratios. I don't really know enough to give a meaningful yea or nay on questions like that.
Qualcomm's Bid to Buy NXP Semiconductors Falls Through
The Democrats’ problem is that their supporters are better at sorting themselves into geographically distinct clusters, i.e. cities. You don’t get more Democratic representation for a 90% win than a 52% one. And gerrymandering is a bipartisan endeavour, whichever party is in power during redistricting gerrymanders, that’s just American politics. As far as the electoral college goes no one is making any effort at reform because no one cares unless it’s their ox that’s been gored. US presidential elections go by electoral college vote so that’s how candidates campaign. If it was by popular vote a lot more Republicans would bother voting in California and a lot more Democrats in Utah. There’s no actual constituency for reform, just the whining of losers. When the Democrats next take the White House there will be no talk of reforming the Electoral College.
Asbestos stands out in that list as causing a significant mesothelioma risk. It's because some of the fibers are so small. There's some speculation that carbon fiber will be similarly dangerous, but rock wool and fiberglass aren't quite there. They're nasty but not that nasty.
I really don't understand what the EU is
complaining about. I'm not aware of a single
smartphone that doesn't charge over USB.

You know why that is? Because in 2009, the EU told them to [1].

The fact you're not aware of a single smartphone that doesn't charge over USB is, in fact, a major success for the EU bossing phone manufacturers around!

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_external_power_supply
It has a more dramatic effect on state governments:
"In 2000, 21 state governments had governorships and state legislatures controlled by one party; 15 of those were Republican. But by 2010, 33 state governments were under one-party control, 22 of them Republican."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2018/04/2...
>Defenestrations, torches and pitchforks have been traditional solutions to rulers not acting in the interest of the populace.

I'd guess the people involved in those rebellions felt the effects of bad governance much more acutely and directly than people do (currently ...) vis-à-vis climate change.
If there is a toy or app that has programming related activity in it, and they enjoy that app, then they will learn. Not only that, they'll learn faster and more independently than you can imagine. But in my experience it has to be something they really enjoy, it's hard to steer them.

As others have said, I think 5 is probably a bit early. It varies of course, but programming is so much easier when mathematics, words etc is a bit more natural. 6 or 7 is probably easier for most kids.

What I did was (this was an idea from a previous HN discussion I can't find) was sneak programming concepts into the little "riddles" kids want all the time when they are learning. "Dad ask me how to spell a word" or "Dad ask me to add some numbers" etc.

What I did was tell stories about "machines" that could take in something and output something. I say "ok, I'm thinking of a machine. It takes in a word, and outputs a number. Guess what it does.". The child can give example inputs, and I say what the machine outputs. They say "Cow" I answer "3". Very quickly they manage do deduce what the machines can do. A machine that doubles. A machine that adds 3. A machine that always returns 9. A machine that reverses strings. A machine that returns 1 if a word is longer than 4 letters otherwise 0.
The "machines" are obviously "functions". And it's absolutely astonishing how quickly this concept sinks in.
Even more fantastic is that more complex functional complex can be introduced just as easily. The idea of chaining two machines together (feeding the output of one to the input of another) gives composition. The idea of a machine that reverses what another machine did (inverse) etc.
You'd have to be connected to the VPN at all times to use it. The minute you're not using it, all the Red features disappear, regardless if you have an active subscription or not[0].

So your option is to have an always-on VPN. If you're doing that from your phone, you might as well install NetGuard, which is a no-root open source adblocking solution that MitMs your connections by pretending to be a VPN, and is available on Google Play. Works with YouTube, and doesn't require monthly subscription.

[0] Source: Activated the YouTube Red trial when I was on a travel to the US, and lost all the benefits the moment I landed home.
Pentagon Bans Fitness and GPS Trackers for Deployed Personnel
In short Moore's Law.

Between 1970 and 2010 if you could design special purpose hardware that ran 10 times faster than the state of the art you would need to get it to market in volume in under 3 years.

If you took any longer the general purpose CPUs from Intel would by that point be within spitting distance of your superior architecture, at a fraction of the cost.

That's what happened to Symbolics, general purpose PC's could run their software faster than the dedicated machines they designed.
Yep, it literally means "growing". Very similar to the Spanish "creciendo".
It's assuring to know their conceptualization of F is equal to my conceptualization of C (Read: some tricky math is required, none-the-less).
why don't you spend 25 seconds googling?
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Thanks. I feared this.

Without global reach, which companies would come into your mind?

E.g. if only Canadian and European data centers I can think of OVH but their cloud offering feels a bit dusty :)
I say it's a feature, not a bug. Reducing everything to a popular vote is just a feel good way of describing mob rule.

The electoral college and equal Senate representation acts as a tempering force on said mob.
This is the pudding [0] house style. Luckily for us, if its not our Jam, we can preach. I kid you not.

[0] https://pudding.cool/
There should also be a law requiring the CEO of the companies that produce it to receive a sample of each production batch, and they're required to install it at their house(s).

If it's only used as part of manufacturing process, the CEO must have an open office next to the machine and be there at least once a week.

"It's safe boss, you told me!"
The truth is that many people don’t have either, and the more we reposition ourselves around the country, the bigger the problem gets. If you don’t get along with someone in the office who is willing to bring you into their circle, you’re kinda S.O.L.

I’ve been trying to crack the nut of a mechanism for friend finding that would actually be socially acceptable and cool, but any real solution would never be considered a great business idea, because the goal is for people to not need it anymore.

Having real friends who are with you through thick and thin is so critical. Most people just have a bunch of acquaintances that they drink with.
Hashgraphs currently require a permissioned environment (eg. a node needs to know how many others there are and trust them to reach consensus) - so why not just use SQL Databases? They are even faster.
You’re missing the fact that introducing bureaucracy is the GOP’s best tool in dismantling big bad government.

In Nixon’s time, introducing an agency that directly answered to/was controlled by Congress was the name of the game.
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17702119
As waterways were the only efficient means of transportation before the age of trains, you will find most larger cities in Europe near a river or lake or at least small waterway. And beyond that, there is a plenty of lakes and small ponds. So I would guess rather 90% of the population lives and lived close to a place where they could swim.
You can't feel or see it much when you're just floating in the water. It's like the phenomenon of a complete lack of wind while riding in a hot air balloon: You're immersed in the fluid which is moving, so you feel no relative motion.

You can feel it easily if you can touch or swim down to the bottom. Also, it's often possible to see where the sand bars and reefs that are next to the rip are located either by seeing the color of the ocean floor or by seeing the waves breaking; get behind those and you'll be out of the rip.
That suggests precheck is a rubber stamp. Does nobody get rejected?
Everyone who said during the 1970s that we should be afraid of global cooling are the same people who now demand that we believe them on global warming.

Oceanic thermocline: explain the data we have and the mathematical model we have to cover this phenomenon.

You can't, because you don't actually know. You just blindly believe it, don't you?
I joined a startup where if you added all their experience together I'd still have 20 years more experience than anyone in the company at the time I joined. And this isn't the only time I have put myself in this situation intentionally.

Short answer is no, never have I felt bad about it and I absolutely love being around smart people so it doesn't matter if I have more years doing the work.

My answer to you is you are playing a role, that role is a team member with certain responsibilities, do your part. The team lead has their responsibilities, if you have more experience doing his/her job and feel he/she is lacking in an area offer your guidance privately but be humble. The key to mentoring anyone at anytime, is be willing to offer your experience and advice but don't be offended if they don't take it.

Many times advances are made because someone is naive and does not fully understand the problem they are solving. Personally, I also love hearing new ideas on how to solve things that have been done in various ways before as it fuels new thought for me too. That doesn't mean I won't challenge ideas I know have failed in the past to get them to think through it. I also look at it as inspiration from someone who doesn't have some of the preconceived notions I might, which helps me stay fresh, inspired and thinking out of the box to solve problems.

In the end it is up to you. You have your role on the team, play your role, if you don't like your role, change it (e.g. find another job etc). It really is that simple.
No, this is very wrong. It’s not about having land to live on and being able to continue to breathe on it. Of course we would be able to do that.

The issue is all the parts of the ecosystem we have come to rely on. Animals, plants, insects... the entire global economy and our ways of live are tightly intertwined with everything else and even small disruptions can have enormous repercussions, especially on more vulnerable populations in the world.
The danger of asbestos to regular people is way overstated. Yes, if you work around it every day for years without wearing a mask you'll regret it. If it's in your floor tiles and one breaks, you'll be fine.