skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Microsoft was a lot faster to accept and accompany our privacy terms. The EU data protection laws that you've seen all the fuzz about may be new for the private sector, but in much of the public sector we've actually been under much stricter requirements for years. If you have a big enough agreement with Microsoft, you can even have your data stored on servers you have physical access to and share with no-one else.

AWS was a little slower, but now meet the same requirements, pretty much. Other parts of the public sector is big in AWS instead of Azure.

Google only recently got into any type of real agreements with the EU on data protection, and they're still far from having national agreements. They also don't meet EU requirements on all their products, making it easier to blacklist all Google products than risk your GIS department using Google Maps or your PR department using Google analytics, both illegal for public usage.

For us personally we have more than 25 years of partnership with Microsoft, who have an excellent record on support. By contrast we've never really worked with Google, and we're not typically the ones to try new things. :) Especially not when we're happy with what we have, and since we already have a presence in Azure, I doubt we'll be expanding to another Cloud when pricing is pretty competitive between them. I mean, to run two clouds would also mean our operations crew would need to obtain security certifications for both, which is fairly expensive.

Technically and legally we could sign an agreement for Firebase in particular, and host our mobile apps with a Firebase backend, but as that's not likely to happen, Dart would need to become popular enough to integrate seamlessly and easily with Azure for us to use it.
"They don't want you to hear this" gives a lot of credibility to ideas that don't deserve it.
You made me giggle :-D

worried about resolving ad/tracking urls, yet ordering things via Expedia

If you don’t understand the irony here I’ll giggle even more
Trump derangement syndrome
Having just lost a father-in-law to mesothelioma (June 2018), this makes me incredibly sad.

I understand this is not an actual rule change and blah blah blah. 3,000 people are diagnosed with mesothelioma each year.

What a slow and horrific way to go. Slowly losing your breath. Lungs filling with fluid and being rushed off to ER to drain. Endless breathing treatments. Never sleeping more than an hour without waking up coughing. I am sure many of you are aware the treatments can be just as painful as the illness itself.

The man I knew when through all of this and more spread over a decade. 2 lung lobectomy surgeries. Chemo. Radiation. Misc corrective surgeries. Not to mention the hassles of the American healthcare system, doctors, lawyers, bills, and enough paperwork to fill a small office building.

3000 people a year.

I can only understand new deployments of asbestos if they are...
"perfectly safe"
Saving thousands of lives
There is no alternative.
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How can you treat someone who doesn’t accept they are ill?
Critical Care https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_Care_(Star_Trek:_Vo...
You make a really good point. I keep seeing once in a hundred year weather events happening every other year now.
I have dealt with (alcohol) addicts myself. I still prefer them going to rehab repeatedly instead of going to jail. Rehab is probably cheaper and there is at least some chance that things will improve. Sending addicts to jail just makes things worse.

Improving the quality of rehab is certainly worth a discussion. But there the US mindset gets in the way that doesn't want to spend money on welfare but instead prefers to spend more money on prisons. The only problem is that prisons don't know that their role now is not only to hold criminals but also people with mental health issues or addiction.
It's more that it doesn't take depreciation and destruction into account - the broken windows fallacy.

Annual change in National Wealth (an obscure metric, because it's so difficult to quantify) is a closer match to profit - after performing all your activities, how ahead do you get in terms of infrastructure, education, durable goods, etc.? Whereas GDP measures the amount of activity, in the same way as revenue or expenditure is a good way of estimating how much work is getting done at a company.
Was in Amsterdam this past weekend. Nobody wears helmets, even the kids. taxi driver explained that every grows up biking from a very young age. infrastructure is quite good. And driving sucks with the speed traps, tourists, canals, trams, etc.

I don't know why they let mopeds/gas scooters cruise in bike lanes right next to the sidewalk. I imagine the vast majority of accidents are some combo of bike/moped/tourist, and with the speed some mopeds are going it could be very ugly
If it becomes loose in the water it would get in their gills and bottom feeders would suck it up off the sea floor and harm them the same way it harms lungs. That said, im not sure there would be loose pieces of it leaving the cement. Plus if someone REALLY wanted the properties of asbestos, there are plenty of ceramic wools that are pretty much identical products (with the same risks of asbestos) that are comparable in price and not subject to the same kind of rules. However nobody that makes ceramic wool would be dumb enough to pretend that shit isn't harmful to be exposed to.
Because the material itself may not have the insulating properties of asbestos itself. Additionally the material enclosing might be more expensive than asbestos too.
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The 13th amendment only ended slavery in name.

> Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted[...]

The current system is absolutely a political gimme to appease the south, or at the very least the south of the past.
Interesting. So there was a +4C change in average temperature even before the industrial age began? Didn't know that.
Yup. Sadly, we have very weak world government, so it is hard to coordinate the entire planet.
Awesome, contributors would be greatly appreciated :) I'm still working on writing up the main roadmap (it's a very ambitious project) to make it easier for new contributors. Currently, it'll be mostly focused around 5e although I'd love to add support for other editions as well. Especially for things that are highly useful to have support for like character sheets. But I see other things like supporting older versions of the generators described in the DMG will be a bit more difficult to do as it would require more fundamental changes to the code.
Manufacturing of iPhones may come back to the US, but the jobs won't.
Sure, but there is a solution that is orders of magnitude more effective: don't buy meat, thereby allowing cow farming to end.

Not eating meat is however seen as too 'inconvenient' a solution, so instead someone is trying to sell seaweed fed cows as a "partial solution" where it is really more of a gimmick.
Mental note - create a new cgroup for docker and kubelet.
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Hi.

There was a time years ago, when I felt I was going crazy, yelling into the void, while everyone around me was saying nothing is happening. The Spice Girls breaking up made all the headlines the day the Union of Concerned Scientists report that the world was burning was regulated to a clip on page 20. It was like living in a Twilight Zone episode.

Later, I realized I was in a stage of grief, and I've gone through all the stages over the course of a decade. Since, I've had discussions with psychologist friends who have gone through a similar process, and they also strongly believe that everyone is in a stage of grief about climate change.

Most people are in denial. It's just too big to deal with so they avoid it. When they are finally pulled out of denial, they get angry, start raging and protesting at the people still in denial to change their ways. Then they start bargaining, coming up with ideas like moving inland and going off grid, or reducing emissions. Depression comes when they realize nothing will make a difference, so may as well kill ourselves now. Then acceptance that the world as we know it is probably going to end, perhaps slowly over the next few generations or tomorrow if a tipping point is reached that creates the perfect storm. They make peace with it and live the best life they can, which often looks like being in denial again.

It's a painful process to go through. I was lucky and came out the side the most balanced and happy I've ever been, I came to the conclusion that I wasn't going crazy. Society is crazy, learning about climate change makes you crazier. I was going un-crazy, letting go of my delusions about society and the world and my delusions that I could change people.

As to your question, I've actually considered training to become a therapist to help people going through a similar journey. I think it's going to become an important field in the future.
Right, I know there are still other uses of the language but it seems like the language design is focused solely on Flutter experience rather than just overall language experience. I don't recall ever seeing such a design decision in any other languages and I just find it a bit odd.
Happy ending for one person. If anything this has scared me away from G Suite. Every once in a while we see an article on how to get away from Google and it sounds like a bunch of kooks, then things like this happen.
Dart is a nice statically typed and compiled C-style language. If you have experience with another such language, it will feel like you already know Dart. The language compliments Flutter well, and the Flutter SDK makes it simple and easy to rapidly build a functional mobile app.

Lack of certain features, like reflection, in mobile Dart creates a rift in packages you can utilize in a Flutter app. There are a few warts in the type system, mainly around generics, and little things like the lack of union types and type aliasing.

There are also a few outstanding bugs that you might run into, which have had relatively long life since they were identified. The Dart team seems to be reluctant to add new features.

Also, managing state in Flutter is a little unclear: documents and videos from Google recommend four different ways to do so: explicitly calling setState(), Streams with StreamBuilder, scoped_model and the various third-party Dart/Flutter Flux implementations.

It definitely beats native development.
That's the one (lo and behold it was Voyager, after all)! Curious if that's where your mind was when you threw the idea of writing that story of yours?
Pai will work for one of the big media (cable) companies like Comcast when he leaves office.
It really seems like the only reason I need this device is that most of my devices are not truly under my control.

The fact that my phone does not have these features baked in and comes with apps that violate my privacy and serve me ads without regard for malware those ads may contain is because my phone doesn't truly obdy me first.
> I think I've got two main issues with these comments.

> The first is: Why do you think you can speak for her? Why do you think you get it?

> The second is: Why do you think she can speak for you? Why do you assume she knows how she is affecting people by her dress?

To criticize an interpretation, you would point out a specific statement that someone has said about the meaning of something, and why you think that isn't true. You're literally just repeating that no one knows anything and shouldn't assert things because things may or may not be true, just verbosely.
Wow, this really shows the power of lobbying and possibly Trump's EPA. I would not have thought this was possible. In my mind "asbestos" has as bad of a media image as "Zika", "AIDs", "Al Qaeda", "ISIS". Obviously, it doesn't mean everyone home built in 2019 will have asbestos in the drywall (it sounds like the change is with reservations), but the fact that they could open up anything on the topic without intense resistance is impressive.

I hope everyone who was a part of this lives in a home that was manufactured with asbestos as part of the process.
This is an appealing algorithm; its only flaw is irrelevance to the case at hand. Our original poster is proudly following Appendix A of the venerable 1st Edition Dungeon Master's Guide, which essentially is a breadth-first search with corridors generated 'as we go'. This is not to say that your proposal is worse; just that it fails to capture the early-80s grognard magnificence that the designer appeals to be looking for.
Check out Pete Holmes' You Made It Weird podcast for more comedians talking about comedy academically
The relationship with theories of information is explained in Strong Types for Direct Logic here: https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01566393
The early architectures were micro-programmable. For example the Xerox Lisp Machines were using the exact same hardware as the Smalltalk or the Xerox office systems running Mesa-software. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xerox_Star

Symbolics had C, Pascal and Fortran compilers written in Lisp running on their machines. Others developed an Ada system for these machines. Drawback for all those: expensive and running not that fast. The interesting part: they allowed interactive development in these languages and one could run some C software a bit more safely due to runtime type checking. Examples for non-Lisp programs running on them: TeX and the usual X11 server.

The explosion did not happen during their lifetime, because the whole package was expensive (RAM&Disk was very expensive), it was tied to higher-end hardware with lots of memory, it has never been ported to other architectures on the metal (an Alpha machine - expensive already - would have been fast enough to run a full Lisp OS - but all one had was an emulator for it ... there was not enough manpower to make it run natively) and because the OS was mostly limited to one person, one GUI and one Lisp per machine - it was no real server OS with securely (somehow) separated programs.
Not every vendor is including RSN data. "A whole lot easier " is an overstatement imo.
I catch myself saying thank you when I get a response. I thought it would be nice if it responded...
This is nonsense. Stock vs flow comparisons occur all the time and no one is confused. How often have you heard things like "Don't buy a house costing more than 3x your salary" ? No one objects and says it's illogical to compare a fixed cost to a rate of accumulation.

The comparison is straightforward: If a country with a trillion-dollar GDP could put all its useful effort into constructing a company, they'd produce a company like Apple once a year.

Is that some kind of insane conflation? No one thinks it's actually possible for a country to produce a company as an output. It's just a way to describe the approximate order of magnitude of two things - the valuation of a company, and the yearly output of a nation.
In my experience DeepSpeech with the default Mozilla model + 5-gram is extremely sensitive to background noise. Fiddling with the hyperparameters, e.g. upweighting the language model, helps a little.
Doesn't matter whether it's overstated, there are laws on the books that businesses and lawyers have successfully lobbied for that require inspections when there is even the possibility of exposure - and all of that costs money.

For example, high rise condo with asbestos used as insulation. Electrician comes in, doesn't know this, does some scraping, people find out, and now the state mandates detector traps be set. Those found asbestos exposure, and that triggered a full abatement and removal for that entire condo unit. Then the neighbors sued claiming exposure. And since that abatement, the upstairs neighbors have flooded the abated unit five times, and every single time the law requires asbestos testing even in the exact same ceiling tested 2 months earlier, just because it was a different flood event. Testing and retesting even though that ceiling has long since been abated. One teeny tiny example, thousands of dollars, multiplied by millions of people and incidents.

And that's when no one gets sick.
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This is actually not at all what the paper is saying.

It's saying that a natural carbon-sequestration process we already knew about is more effective than we thought. It says nothing about the way seaweed growth changes with increased carbon levels.
I would wager that most marine animals would be unaffected. Mammals would hold their breath, and any other animal with gills already deals with fine-grained sediment.
A standup comedy routine is not made in the edit. Shooting multiple nights and editing them together allows them to get the best camera angles and shots (not always easy when the comedian moves around freely) as well as takes some of the pressure off the comedian. If they flub the timing on an important part of the act it doesn't live on forever, they can just use an alternate take.
How is a DNS server MiTM?
I am tired of the new Skype apps because beyond being terribly unreliable for calling, they are not nearly accessible enough for people with poor vision. I have loved ones with poor vision and Microsoft's insistence on changing to a less accessible version of their product has caused them to lose a previously paying customer.
> 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.

If you're using this as an argument that increased asbestos exposure has no correlation to negative health outcomes, then you are contradicting the scientific literature for the sake of making a naturalistic fallacy. Why are you doing that? It's just a strange attempt at an argument.

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

Again, because something appears in nature does not mean that it isn't positively correlated to negative health outcomes and that we shouldn't minimize it. That just point blank is not an actual argument.

If you want to make an argument for your position you will need to cite research that increased asbestos exposure does not significantly increase negative health outcomes, which will be hard because it's well studied and the research is pretty conclusively against you.

To illucidate why your argument isn't valid at a basic level, you can apply it to other things. Cyanide is present in almond plants and a byproduct of metabolizing apple seeds. Does that mean we should lax regulations around how much we systematically increase people's exposure to cyanide? What about radiation? People are exposed to ionizing background radiation every day. Do you think that somehow means that increasing that radiation exposure won't increase rates of cancer?
This article is 100% political. The EPA did this due to political shifts.

What makes it eligible for the top spot on HN? Any detailed discussion of the politics underlying why this happened will be censored within minutes.

What are we supposed to do, discuss the science of asbestos being toxic? This is a perfect example of why the "no politics" zealots on HN need to be stopped.
Why is it not practical? We're taught in schools that water freezes below 0C and boils above 100C thus more than 0 = hotter, less than 0 = colder, more than 100 = you're melting. If you wake up and see less than 0 on thermometer you know it's freezing time.
Ah, thanks, I didn’t know that WebAssembly was a W3C drive. Good to know they still have relevance.
If only Google published a post or a support article about this so that anyone searching for this issue could have a way to get it sorted out — if not for all users, at least for the ones who happened to have this recently where Google has data backups.

Having to resort to social media and shame companies into doing what they ought to be doing in the normal course of business and having proper escalation channels (more so for paid products) is ridiculous.
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Brazil banned asbestos in the end of 2017.

https://www.asbestos.com/news/2017/12/04/brazil-asbestos-ban...
Whimso is a free prototype for a larger unrealised travel tech project which we've released as a fast and simple place search engine engine based on user preferences.

We've had feedback that it's handy for finding vegan/vegetarian food nearby - should we re-release it as a plant-based restaurant finder?
If something's really important you could use your phone with wifi off to get an unblocked version via cellular. It's one more step, but some people may find it to be worth the effort.
A local group does oral storytelling, and it is promoted as such.

https://kingsplayhouse.com/event/the-four-tellers-the-last-l...
And it has less usable space for an office building. And is it comparing an office with AC turned to 78 degrees, or a standard office set to 68...
http://www.argo.ucsd.edu/FAQ.html

We have a whole fleet of submersible thermometers that dive down to 2000 meters. And it's not that hard to tie a thermometer to a lead sinker and take a deep ocean temperature.
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Unfortunately, it's becoming the norm.
>A handful of exposures to friable asbestos will not give you lung cancer

Simply not a claim you can make. The incidence may be very low, but it has been proven that asbestos fibers are directly responsible for the creation of cancerous mesothelioma cells. Any number of fibers in your lungs 'may' cause cancer, even one.
I mean limiting per-user bandwidth. So if you try to watch youtube on your personal 1Mb slice, good luck, but you won't drag down anyone else, and for the stated goals of buying tickets and such it's fine.
Those are awesome news! I'm glad to see "improvement of nimsuggest and LSP development" in the suggestions :D
They do have an official docker image, that's a pretty good alternative in my opinion.
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All forms of it are potentially harmful, but some forms of it are more easily broken down and go airborne making it easier to breath it in. It is nearly identical to breathing in ceramic dust, the finer it is easier it is to ingest it and the less likely your nose and throat will catch the particles before it enters your lungs and can no longer be expelled.
In almost all current frameworks. every Actor has a mailbox. It makes very good sense for an Actor programming language not to have mailboxes built into every Actor because it can make programs less robust, more difficult to understand, and more difficult to optimize. Instead, when desired an Actor can do its own internal queuing as necessary.