skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> However, in general, people who become ill from inhaling asbestos have been regularly exposed in a job where they worked directly with the material.

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

> Asbestos can be found naturally in the air outdoors and in some drinkable water, including water from natural sources. Even nonoccupationally exposed members of the human population have tens to hundreds of thousands of asbestos fibers per gram of dry lung tissue, equivalent to millions of fibers in each lung.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_impact_of_asbestos#Envi...

OMG we're all gonna get mesothelioma from the asbestos that is normally found outdoors, unrelated to man-made activity!

Again, I stand by what I said. The risks of asbestos to ordinary people are way overblown. It has to be loose and you have to be exposed to a lot of it for a long period of time. Regular people are fine.

Edit: ya know people, you could respond to the specific claims instead of pressing the "I disagree" button. Is asbestos a dangerous substance? Yes, in certain circumstances. Are those circumstances something normal people need to be concerned about? No, not unless you work with the substance every day and without proper precautions.
Unless your environmental "protection" agency is not in the business of protecting you. In which case, you don't have to pay the costs to dispose of things properly, because businesses shouldn't ever be fettered by any kind of environmental regulations, at least according to the current philosophy of the "protection" agency.
I am still waiting for flying bicycles.

Also, why do you mention only vehicles? 87 % of ALL the energy we use comes from fossil fuels (coal + gas + oil).
Not that it detracts from everything else you said, but graduating a year earlier likely wouldn't have made much of a difference.
What lies do you think we're being told exactly? The talks of solutions have been going on for decades it's just very hard to get different governments to agree to anything even if it's non binding. Have a look at the Paris agreement and the history of failed agreements that preceded it for more information.
The manufacturing process pretty much always involves humans.
The smartest people I know are not making any money.

It is the mediocrities with delusions of grandeur that do.
I have only briefly looked at it to see how their capabilities system works. I'll see if I can add it to the comparison page (https://inko-lang.org/manual/inko-compared-to-other-language...).
Cool idea. Starring it to see where it goes.

Maybe I'll even contribute! ;)

Are you planning on adding support for other versions as well (for those features where it matters), or will it just be 5e?
I've been living in Japan for 7 years. Some of my friends even longer (12+ years), fluent in Japanese, including keigo (formal/honorific speaking) and local dialects. Even if you develop some life-long friendships, you're still a gaijin. You'll always be a gaijin. ESPECIALLY when interacting with anyone outside your immediate social circle.

One friend has a half-Japanese wife and has been here about 15 years. He's finally gotten so fed up with what he feels is disrespect and alienation from a VERY large population of objectively dumber/less ambitious/less successful human beings that he's actually considering moving back to America.

One incident that set him off on a day-long tirade (he was under a LOT of stress at the time) was when he pulled up to a drive-thru to order, he made some jokes with the staff, and I'm sure the staff thought they were talking to a Japanese guy. Then he pulls up to the window....and the Japanese staff are staring at a big black Jamaican man......and they just stared, speechless...then began chatting amongst themselves about how surprised they were. They had totally forgotten their formal customs and courtesies that any service staff would say if they were interacting with a Japanese customer. He blew up, cursed them out in Japanese, demanded to see their manager, scolded the manager in Japanese, etc....
You could say the same to any country with forced conscription.
If you're going to express an opinion, particularly one contrary to widely held beliefs/truths, you need to provide evidence/reasons. That's called "discourse."
That depends entirely on your definition of slavery. I don't believe that the average person considers a murderer making postbags for 25 cents a day is a "slave". Nor do I think it helps the argument for a focus on rehabilitation to suggest it is so.

Obviously as you change the crime and the task and the wages, peoples perceptions change. Which is fun, non?
Pocket is owned by Mozilla. Instapaper is (was?) owned by Pinterest.

(I think the choice is obvious :D)

Ideally though, you can host your own FOSS solution on a raspberry pi or something. (Wallabag)
Whatsapp Automation – A Collection of Tools for Sending and Recieving Whats
Or if it is pulverized into dust and becomes airborne, like when you open/close an old painted window, or door.
"We" didn't vote for this. A bit less than 25% of us voted for it, a bit more than 25% voted against it, and nearly 50% of us didn't bother to vote at all. (3rd parties got a small number of votes in the middle there too.)

Neither of the major parties has a majority, or anything like a "mandate" about what the American people want. The majority wants "none of the above". If anyone figures out how to get that majority motivated to vote for them, they'll sweep the election.
This was the point of halfway houses. They were intended to be an alternative, or supplement, to incarceration to help genuinely rehabilitate convicts and help prepare them for release back into general society. They include therapy, drug treatment, job training, and so on. The NYT ran a report [1] on these institutions some time back. Recidivism rates were actually higher than those who just were sent to prison with a 67% recidivism rate for halfway house residents compared to 60% for prison-only convicts.

And of course those rates are just within 3 years. They get much higher over time. The US is relatively unique in that we have a relatively large population of individuals that seem to resist all efforts at stopping them from engaging in crime. This is not really a problem in places like Scandinavia. The absolute and utter failure of rehabilitation driven systems further emphasizes the difference. For further statistics and information on various sorts of data related to prison, prisoners, recidivism, and so on you check out the Bureau of Justice Statistics [2]. Their page is loaded with all the information you could ever want.

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In my opinion the major problem is once a culture develops around criminality it becomes practically impossible to detach the criminality from the culture, as resisting reform becomes part of the culture. I grew up in this very culture and it's quite clear that people talking about reformation just have not been around this very much at all. Prison is not seen as game over. It's just another part of the game, and prison time is worn as a badge of honor once people are out, as it shows how 'hard' they are, and gains instant respect.

For instance have you ever thought about how completely idiotic resisting arrest is? You're not going to do anything except add years to your sentence, and get either beat down or killed in the process of it. But the reason people do this is again because it shows how 'hard' they are. You or I might be thinking 'Well how can I minimize my prison time and get back to real life?' so we would never behave this way, and then engage in all sorts of mental gymnastics to try to explain why somebody else would. But the issue is that we're not part of this culture, and to understand why things the way they are you really have to live through it. In that culture prison is just a regular part of what we'd call 'real life' so this sort of loss minimization calculus simply does not exist.

The more important question then is where did this culture come from, how did it emerge and spread, and how could that be stopped in the future? But that's an entirely different topic.

[1] - https://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/25/nyregion/pennsylvania-stu...

[2] - https://bjs.gov/
Is this because Harvard and MIT produces more scientists than Columbia and NYU? (Or more scientists who don’t go into financial services)
Wallabag: https://www.wallabag.it/en (Link to the hosted version, change .it to .org if you prefer to self-host.)

It contains highlighting, send-to-Kindle, decent mobile apps, and all the other features you would usually rely on!

Feature-wise, no alternative compares to it.

The only problem: UI. It's not the UX (things are where you expect them to be), but UI just looks... wrong. The same thing applies to their website(s) as well.
> I want to say "Alexa, X" instead of "Alexa, ask SomeCommercialBrand to do X", ad nauseam.

Isn't that exactly what the Alexa skills are for? If you want a skill that's not available you can make your own, which is exactly what you want to be able to do.
Pros:

* Flutter is faster. You really notice that for example the animations in flutter are much smoother than in RN

* Flutter has really fast development cycle with hot reload (< 1s)

* Writing UI only once for both iOS and Android

* Better documentation

* Better tooling support in editors (VSCode and Intellij)

Cons:

* The Flutter ecosystem is quite small, there are many lacking plugins

* The Dart ecosystem is way smaller than JS

* RN uses the native widgets, in Flutter they are mimicked and sometimes wrongly, for example the iOS datepicker
Details on this can be found at https://inko-lang.org/faq/#header-why-does-inko-use-the-mpl-....

The summary is: it protects the project better than the MIT license does. As far as I know the only difference with Apache 2 is that MPL 2.0 requires that modifications are licensed under the same license.
As noted later in the thread, this is specifically for people who are overseas at the time of the election and not broadly.

That said, this system seems like a bizarre choice given the apparent security issues discussed in the thread.
While I'm not into conspiracy theories, I find it strange that for years people were raising alarm bells about vulnerable voting machines and demonstrating how they could change vote totals.

In the last presidential election, Trump was a huge underdog and won key counties and states by small numbers (but just enough to avoid a recount). If you were going to rig an election it might look like that. Also it's more than likely that everything was legit and there votes were accurate.

But I'm surprised that voting security advocates weren't raising alarm bells or trying to investigate more. We're there no concerns about the machines used in swing states in '16?
Of course. Even a few game devs use Emacs on Windows.

Jonathan Blow and Casey Muratori (he recently switched to something else I think, not sure if he's back to Emacs) being two prominent ones.

I use Emacs whether I'm on Linux, FreeBSD, macOS or Windows.
gentrification of the East Side with yuppie condos replacing traditional black and hispanic neighborhoods

It's these kinds of bogus characterizations that NIMBYs subsist on.

In truth the well-off professionals are gentrifying the single-family neighborhoods by renovating houses, buying tear-downs, and buying new houses on lots where the existing properties have been demolished. This kind of gentrification would have (and still could) gentrify the entire neighborhood without any change in density, and the NIMBYs don't have any problem with it.

The high-rise residential units are displacing some single-family homes but just as often former commercial spaces. There are a lot of luxury units, but there are also a lot of units occupied by young people who are cutting hair, tending bar, and working in low-level jobs at tech companies, people who are light-years from being able to afford the kind of single-family housing the NIMBYs want to preserve. East Austin is affordable for them because they can get by without a car and without car insurance. In a pinch (doctor's appointment across town) they can use Uber and Lyft. This new lifestyle and new look to the city is the change that the NIMBYs are opposing, but because they identify as progressive, they have to flip the economics and pretend the single-family homes are for middle-class people and the high-rises are for those obnoxious rich folks.

Hence the NUMTOT meme of "new housing is unaffordable housing." It's a way to square the circle and sound progressive and claim you want affordable housing and green cities while keeping the supply of housing low and forcing sprawl. Every time somebody tries to build high-density housing, you paint it as a luxury amenity for the rich and say we can't have this, we need affordable housing instead.

As for architecture, it's true that most developers don't give a shit about how their buildings look, but if you look around in the older single-family neighborhoods, and even more so the newer single-family neighborhoods sprawling at the edges, you see exactly the same thing, a load of ugly houses built by developers and a few charming or beautiful ones where by some miracle something nice fell through the cracks. As the high rises go up, we'll get a lot of bad and some good here and there, just like we already have.
Airplane Maintenance is Offshored
So how does the asbestos get into your floor or ceiling?

People have to work with it and those people are not hazmat wearing highly paid specialists but your normal workers who get the burden of making sure that they take all precautions during their whole working career no matter the environmental conditions. And the only support they get from their employer are probably just the mask and a note to always use it.

Disclaimer: I have an asbestos linked death in my immediate family so my opinion may be biased.
I came from a family that didnt really care about school I guess, and I don't think I was even presented a problem like "x - 4 = 17" until maybe 12 years old, and I didn't understand why it was useful until 14
There's a difference between being inaccurate and being wrong. Here are some example of lump sums:

- Other companies, specially smaller ones (worth 15 Trader Joes or soemthing);

- The Apollo program;

- The cost of wars;

- Etc.

Except for the first one, these comparisons are inaccurate. What, Apple could pay for 10 Apollo programs how, by liquidating immediately? It can't -- not at market prices and at any rate most of its value is intangibles (and future expectations on the value of those intangibles). It's also inaccurate to compare the speeds of 100m sprinters and middle-distance runners, but at the very least it gives you insight (using olympic records or something) on how middle distance runs differ from sprinters.
When Philip Morris told everyone that cigarettes don't cause cancer, did you believe that too? Tell me the truth now.
The chart is for carbon dioxide, not temperature. What's your point?
I'm sorry but this is an absurd comment.

How do you define Europeans? North/western only? The continent's name is ancient Greek and, while the eastern borders may have changed, there is no point in time where the greek mainland was not considered part of it even in ancient times.

And what the hell do genetics have to do with a geographic designation?
Near the end of the video didn't he supply the password (Ankle123)? If so, what was actually cracked?

I have a reasonably strong password on my wifi (it looks something like "OwEs3PMY7yk6qwR4ic"). Is this crackable with this guy's setup in a couple of days?
Snopes is not a source. It's a guy, his ex wife, and his hooker girlfriend. Not making this shit up.
In another situation, I had a subscription for one product that was $32 when I started subscribing and I just cancelled it after noticing that the price has risen to over $50
Vulnerable... which suits one party perfectly.
When will we classify said political party a national security threat?
Status.im partners with the team behind the programming language Nim
I felt robbed that I paid for a product and then the product I received was different than what I paid for. A lot of the 25 movies I wouldnt actually have seen if I had to pay full price.

If I went to a restaurant and ordered a BLT, paid, and then a two slices of bread with bacon came out. I'd be disappointed even though I like bacon... I didnt receive what I paid upfront for. Even if I got something I will still feel like I was taken advantage of. Adding on the fast that when I would ask the waiter/waitress why I didnt receive what I paid for and a refund I'd be ignored...
Stupid question, but are you the actual Kim Dotcom?
Ask HN: Where else do you get your news?
I think HN does a pretty good job at aggregating news that is interesting to me, but I'm looking to broaden where I get my news from.
I believe the parent comment is referring to the lip service that politicians and business-people pay to decarbonizing, while they do very little in actuality to achieve those goals. For instance, the USA talked of the clean power plan and used it as leverage for the Paris Accords. And yet, that policy never went into effect: it was blocked by the courts and then abandoned by the current administration.
> * By a huge margin the nosiest device is my Android Phone. >40% traffic is coming from just my phone (which is crazy!)

I work for a small ISP-for-schools. We had an issue which eventually turned out to be related to a specific version of Snapchat on Android, when its connection back to Snapchat was blocked, it'd try and send a mixture of GET/POST at a rate of 1000s a minute. When you've got thousands of devices doing that, it's like an internal DDoS.

We've had a few problems like this and it always appears to be Android apps...
I'm still working on getting her to sit still long enough to eat dinner in a timely fashion. :)
AP was developed in conjuction with Mastodon developers and as part of one of the reference implementations.
Football Manager 2019 cheap
LA Metro to Develop MAAS System Using Tap Card and Salesforce
Who uses your open-source code anyway?
Google needs to be investigated as well. It violates people's privacy to the same degree as FB.
I have a letsencrypt cert for my domain but I still use the cloudflare’s certificate and terminate (I keep my cert code commented). I do think so that I reduce the load/content between Cloudflare and my web server.

Is this a good approach? FYI, I have a blog and not too paranoid about security between CF and my web server.
So even if a panic happens in a subprocess the parent is killed? Why not allow the parent to handle restarting of the child? Maybe I misunderstand.
That's unfortunate but again, I was talking about the danger of asbestos to people who don't work with it for a living.
This sounds like that someone/group needs to make very obvious invalidating changes to this. Of course, you'd be tampering with federal systems... But take your pick: secret plausible tampering vs 'Votey McVoteface' and 'Iluv Dems' combined with 100m votes in a state with 8m people
It seems like it might be time to configure my mobile devices (e.g. phones and laptops) to use my newly configured Wireguard VPN even when using my own WPA2-PSK (AES) wifi at home.
>EPA is now allowing asbestos back into manufacturing

Wow, misleading headline of the decade. Asbestos was never completely banned from manufacturing in the United States, only for certain items.

https://www.epa.gov/asbestos/us-federal-bans-asbestos

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asbestos_and_the_law_(United_S...
Just a couple of points, here.

First, gerrymandering's effectiveness is a symptom of the problematic way we elect politicians in this country (first-past-the-post). Implement multimember districts and proportional representation and things might change (then again they might not).

Second, so what if the Democrats controlled everything: Richard fucking Nixon gave us the EPA and relations with China. Meanwhile Carter gave us Regan, Clinton gave us welfare reform/destruction and finance deregulation, Obama gave us a giveaway for private health insurers and put social security on the table ("chained CPI"). Obama and Clinton both accelerated the militarization of our police. This notion that everything would be better (from a progressive/liberal perspective) if only Democrats had power is just out of sync with reality. Better than republicans? Maybe, on some issues. Generally not though.
She was not going to willingly give up the kid, even to family. I worded that poorly, but what i meant is that the child was no longer being neglected
Or, much more likely, if you create a fine dust by sanding it.
This is an interesting example of a long-standing problem which is that in general we make use of huge amounts of software and trust our security with it, whilst knowing very little about the security practices of the people developing it.

The article makes a good point that it's very hard for small projects, like the team running Homebrew, to fund their security, yet they are likely to be a target for quite high end attackers, given the access that can be gained by getting unauthorised access to package repositories.

As a side note it also shows that Jenkins tends to be a tempting target for attackers as it often has access to a wide range of systems to carry out it's functions.
Similar thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17705958
But it's not.

Technical people are telling laypeople that X is useful. X isn't useful on its own because (1) it's wrong, not just inaccurate and (2) even if conceivable as an oversimplification of a complex issue, it misleads people. It leads them to think Apple is like a country or worse that countries are like companies.

This is how we get to "Brawndo, it's what plants crave".
Still, these are true facts which need some explanation, and no simple explanation will do, so we do have a need of deep analysis:

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The mood in America is arguably as dark as it has ever been in the modern era. The birthrate is at a record low, and the suicide rate is at a 30-year high; mass shootings and opioid overdoses are ubiquitous.
> Normal every day people don't really believe in climate change

Polling data for the US shows that 64% believe that climate change is caused by humans and 60% believe we're already experiencing its effects. https://news.gallup.com/poll/231530/global-warming-concern-s...

That's not the number many would like to see, but it's a clear majority, and we ought to be able to get stuff done with it.

I think the problem is the "faceless" part. Voters need to hold their specific elected officials responsible, and avoid the products of the worst offending companies. We should create trustworthy independent organisations that can name and shame, until we get a comprehensive emissions tax.
Yeah, I noticed that most of the songs were coming from the more common genres. Maybe the game is sampling the song first, and then three other genres to go in the buttons, which would cause this. Sampling four genres and then picking a song from one of them would lead to a more diverse offering.
Graph Data Structure, Adjacency List Implementation and Traversals (DFS, BFS)
Thank you for this site the collection of data here is amazing!
Welcome to the US lobbying system, where science, ethics, and morals take a backseat to agendas of those with the deepest pockets.
The second point is 96, human body temperature.
Also if you make hardware absolutely optomised for Lisp then all the C, FORTRAN, and Cobol (this was the 1970's!) programmers aren't particularly interested because it does nothing for their code.

So the Lisp machines were targeting a fairly small segment of the market that might have exploded into the mainstream but didn't, so they had less income to reinvest and therefore struggled to maintain their lead over the general purpose/mass market hardware vendors.