skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know of science (which would be good to have), but it seem unlikely. Fat is broken down in the digestive system by various enzymes, and potentially dissolved in various solvents in the body. The simplistic analysis of melting temperatures is not useful, you need to figure out what happens in the context of the human body (other animals will have a different digestive system) which is very different from what happens on your kitchen counter.
Why not use Hetzner cloud instead? It's shared but with ECC ram and faster CPU & storage
I wonder how well this works. Word blacklists tend to be very crude tools.

For example, how often must people actively spend effort working around all the blocked past tense forms? How do you express that something used to work differently in a previous version under these restrictions?
The cost of UBI depends entirely on the magnitude of the benefit; your position is indefensible given we haven't established the magnitude.

Obviously increasing welfare implies increased taxes. I don't see anything controversial there? I do agree the USA currently lacks the political will to move much in this direction.
I actually like that JSON has no comments.

With comments in a data transmission format you will end up with things like "conditional comments" in IE.

I agree there are certainly many better configuration languages.
Google Store warranty horror story: what to do next?
I have been an happy owner of a Nexus 6p phone, bought in the UK Google Store, for the past 2.5 years. Yesterday though, when I went to check my email, I found it stuck in the Google boot loop.
This is a quite well known issue with the phone, and the factory reset didn't help bringing it back to life.

I got in touch with Google Store customer support, and here is where the problems start.
The phone is still on warranty, but:

* They no longer have Nexus 6p on stock, so they can't give me a replacement.

* Since I moved to Canada, I have closed the bank account I used to originally pay the phone, which, according to them, means I can't get a refund.

The second customer support person I spoke with mentioned that I might still be able to get a refund on a new UK bank account, but I'd have to find somebody in the UK to go through all the required steps for me, which is not really an option.

All in all, this basically means I am stuck with a 500£ phone that is still under warranty, but apparently Google refuses to do anything about it.
Has anybody had a similar experience? What do you think is the best next step in this situation?

Thanks!

PS: I know there are hacks to fix the issue, but the ones I have found void the warranty and basically require you to throttle the phone, which I would argue is not an ideal solution.
You appear to have a twisted understanding of both economics and human history.
This. As an industrial programmer: F# was awesome 10 years ago, I don't really crave for new language features. I want an industrial strength tooling and ecosystem to support this awesome language, not new language features.

To be painfully blunt: The language is really nice as it is. I would prefer it would expand on the bolted-on batteries included utilities rather than new contrived ways of code golfing.

What is critical from industrial point of view that the fundamentals are now and "forever" rock solid. Not how many new language features it will gain.

See C for reference. Nobody uses C because it gets new ways to write shorter code. People choose C for stability[0], not because it's horrible language or because it's a beautiful language.

F# would be fantastical, if it would ossify like C. Then I could write it for the rest of my programming career.

[0] Yes, C moves forward, but with a geological pace
As a sidebar, from what I can tell the term "bot" for an automated agent accessible through chat originated on IRC.
Isn't that just an argument for doing it at a State by State level?

Also, why describe something as "cute" and "pragmatic" - you prefer "ugly" and "impractical"?
I’m Finnish too. My entirely anecdotal experience of both Finland and USA is that America is about 40 years behind in responding to poverty.

To see men sleeping in trash boxes in freezing weather, you only need to walk a few blocks around midtown Manhattan in the winter.
Lots of ways. Usually externally, through a database. An Asterisk box processes and forwards calls - you can hook into a "master controller" that decides what is to be done.
The mooltipass project actually is looking for contributors for its next gen device!
If you'd like to work on hardware (low power measurements, rf design), firmware (https://mooltipass.github.io/minible/) or software (https://github.com/mooltipass/moolticute) do not hesitate to drop us a message :).
Before I started taxi driving, I had limited exposure to the struggles of the underclass. I grew up at the upper end of "middle class", where my parents both worked for a living and made enough to save for retirement and go on vacations.

One of the things I came to appreciate was the harm done in the name of "justice". I blogged about some of my experiences (most were originally posted at kuro5hin.org [RIP]). America's Make-Work Sheriff: The Anachronism of Joseph Arpaio [1] examines the United States' criminal justice system as a "make-harm program", which is a jobs program where the government puts people to work making work for themselves.

[1] http://www.taxiwars.org/2017/09/americas-make-work-sheriff-a...

This submission mentions Gideon v. Wainwright, which is a rather important Supreme Court case that found the accused have a right to counsel for all criminal prosecutions: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gideon_v._Wainwright After Gideon got the Supreme Court to find that he had the right to an attorney, he was re-prosecuted and acquitted.

IMHO, the next phase in the evolution of the United States' criminal justice system is moving away from "punishments" (revenge) towards helping the convicted with their actual problems. Something like how Germany treats the people they've convicted: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/this-is-prison-60-minutes-goes-...

(edit: shifted order of paragraphs)
> Can anyone here speak to if those positive things are true and or mostly true? I have no idea.

I still don't understand. If you have no idea whether the things they claim are true, why has your opinion of Amazon's treatment of workers improved?

Is it that you don't think Amazon would be having their employees claim things that are misleading? We already have myriad claims of Amazon pressuring workers not to use the bathroom outside of breaks. And the same article mentions that the workers have to sign NDAs[1].

[1] https://www.seattletimes.com/business/amazon/under-pressure-...
Two techniques:

1. Instead of disagreeing outright, try to figure out their motivation and your motivation, and then find a third solution that addresses both. Talk about this here: https://codewithoutrules.com/2018/03/09/win-technical-argume...

2. When asked to do something you don't want to, don't just say "no". Instead, listen in detail, and ask questions - this helps you decide better, and shows respect. Then decide, and explain your disagreement in terms of project and organizational goals - "I can do that, but then I'd have to drop this bug that is impacting our biggest customer - can it wait until next week?" (Long version: https://codewithoutrules.com/2018/08/16/how-to-say-no/)
> You can't run a food stand without a license.

> You can't work in many occupations without meeting minimum skill standards

Both of these are objectively good things that increase consumer confidence, public safety, etc.

> Marginalized groups (e.g. chronic drug users)

Claiming that drug addicts are "marginalized" and placing them in the same group as truly marginalized people (racial/ethnic minorities, LGBT, etc) is disingenuous. Drug use is a choice and in most jurisdictions, and federally in the US, is a crime. It's not surprising that many business owners do not want to employ someone who regularly violates the law.

I think drug testing for employees is an outdated concept and isn't going to increase your workers' productivity or the quality of your employee pool, but that doesn't mean it isn't the business owner's right to do so if they disagree.

> The stepping stone of working below minimum wage is made illegal for them

Which is probably another good thing considering you can barely feed yourself if you work for minimum wage.
My earliest childhood memories are of the varied households we bounced around in because my mom couldn't keep the rent paid reliably after she threw my alcoholic father out. She remarried a Marine and that experience of poverty, along with the constant familial abusiveness, never directed at me but rather my mom, went away overnight, to be relived once a year when we took summer trips back.

Abundance to me is something you need to fight for in order to keep in your life. I'm the first one to notice and complain at my job when the team lunches start to go away under the pressure of meetings, the first one to start playing ping pong again when time pressures keep us from going.

The little abundances we have in life are to be managed, never vilified. There's an amazing soul food restaurant that's a little ways away, the portions are huge and the taste is so decadent. I'd go there every day almost if it was closer. I'd take half the food home or get less carb-heavy sides. But when I suggest going as a team there's just so much pushback.

Every time I find a new form of abundance I need to also find a way to integrate it into daily life, otherwise it goes away.
Sweden ABLAZE: Buildings, Cars and Restaurant TORCHED Overnight by Muslims
There are about half a dozen solid rock band names in this headline:

Hello [City], we are [Choose one below]! Duh nuh nuh nuh nuh, Duh nuh, Duh nuh nayayayayay

- Inflammation Uncovered
- Mitochondrial Connection
- Elusive Mitchondria
- Elusive Inflammation
- Mitochondria Uncovered
...
Sorry to contribute to a diversion, but that’s not how I’ve understood the phrase (and to add argument-from-authority to the mix, I did grad studies in philosophy). I understand a strawman to be an argument presented by the author in a particularly weak way, so as to be easy to attack. The origin is straw figures set up by medieval soldiers to attack while training... they never fight back.

The argument doesn’t need to be put into your counterpart’s mouth to be a strawman, just artificially weak.
Right, worker's compensation benefits are paid by an insurance company, not by the employer.
>>> What were the symptoms?

It varies greatly, both in number and severity, between patients, but in my case main symptoms are ptosis (droopy eyelids), diplopia (double vision), muscle weakness and general fatigue

Other symptoms include exercise intolerance, gut motility problems, cognitive problems, heart problems, etc

>> How did you get diagnosed?

Diagnose took 2 years. At the end, a muscle biopsy revealed my disease (mitochondrial myopathy [1] due to a large-scale single mtDNA deletion). My phenotype is known a CPEO [2]

[1] https://www.mda.org/disease/mitochondrial-myopathies

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronic_progressive_external_o...
Wickr and Psiphon Launch a Global Secure Open Access Capability
I prefer Teva, because of the sturdiness, longevity, and the relatively large "bumper" area protecting the toes.
Yeah, that's always repeated over and over whenever someone points at the nordic countries.

But how, in this specific case, does larger population size impact the implementation of income-tied fines?

Edit, further specification: doesn't the US, at least on a state by state fashion, have some kind of standard declaration /way of determining your income?
My CLI improved
The same here in Denmark. During the hottest days of the summer I wouldn't be exaggerating to say every other person was wearing them.
It's probably best to avoid the word "clearly" on topics where economists with PhDs can disagree widely and come to drastically different conclusions from the same data.
Show HN: Blueprint – A React-based UI toolkit for the web
In particular, does this mean Javascript has access to Numpy? Sounds unbelievable, but would be extremely cool.
the crippled smartphones won the war, there's no real "usable" product for my preferences unfortunately :/.
Digium (makers of Asterisk) announce acquisition by Sangoma
It's electrically neutral, but it still has a magnetic moment.
Having to share Gists instead of inlining code blocks, and (of less importance) reaction gifs, was a huge non-starter.
Thanks for the recommendation.

Could you elaborate a bit, specially about melatonin ?
FreeSwitch is really taking over
This is likely an “advertorial” in case you’ve never heard the term. It’s an open secret that editorials are often paid advertising slots masquerading as news. No one likes to talk about it, because the by lines are real, which... means it’s really a product endorsement by the editor.

Just like every talk show host and interviewer is paying their guests to talk about some aside (which you can go out and buy right now!) involving something besides the guest’s direct project. Which is why nearly every interview out there is rehearsed. Not only is the guest promoting their latest movie, but oh look! They have some whimsical meandering tale about that time they were at the store and bought those amazing chocolate chips for some cookeis they baked! Wow!

But it’s not advertising. No one needs to clearly define that no less than 3 segments of their 90 minute podcast interview were staged anecdotes. Or that 40 minute sirius XM broadcast required three mentions of which bottled water they happened to be sipping. It’s just totally natural stuff.

It’s no coincidence that there seem to be these prevailing solar winds that gust in 30 day intervals. The news isn’t exactly the news. And this is a shining example.
Spaceship Operator
>Maybe try to rework this sentence

The current state of our market system requires massive bailouts and massive funding into research and development, massive subsidies (e.g. arms), and an overworked and underpaid workforce to limp along and pay out a healthy dividend to the richest(few) investors.

>source on this?

Just look at any multi billion dollar company; whats the difference between shareholder payout and worker payout? How else would you define this system where a company can declare hundred million dollar profits while paying minimum wage?

>Do you seriously not think that people work to enrich their own lives right now?

We try. for the last 8 hours i worked to make money that would enrich my life, but my work made someone else a hundred times this amount so 1% of my last 8 hours was for me.
Pet Insurance Premiums Reach $1B for the First Time
The state you tend to store is in the application side, so it still backs onto things like SQL databases in the end. You'd put another service in front of your Asterisk instances like OpenSIPS or Kamailio to distribute load.
Are you aware that there is a musician named John 5? He worked with Marilyn Manson and now works with Rob Zombie.
Netzpolitik.org Podcast 149: Civilian Drones Who should be allowed to fly where?
The more an Apple product is worth, the more you want one
Thanks. Yes, this is something what I think of. Does it show on the screen what operation you confirm with U2F? Or just "U2F authentication"? But cord makes it far less convenient unfortunately.
Twitter Bots and Russian Trolls Amplify the Vaccine Debate
Not necessarily related to code, more or less you just re-wrote a sort of Chesterton's Fence:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Chesterton's_fence
How is the population of the country and its ethnic make-up relevant to the idea of scaling fines by wealth?
I believe they were using FreeSWITCH when they first built it out.
Well, instead of just slapping on the fine amount, you must now have a process to determine the person's income for each and every ticket. The scale of that process would be much bigger in the USA.
First evidence of interbreeding between neanderthal and a denisovan
Should I be moving from my FreePBX/Asterisk setup to FreeSwitch?
>>> this is a really interesting post.

Glad you liked it !

>>> Have you ever tried N-Acetylcysteine?

Yes, before reduced glutathione was available I took NAC from time to time, but I feel that in my case reduced glutathione works way better than NAC. Maybe I have a problem converting NAC to glutathione.
My grandparents always forced us children to eat up. I had to sit hours on the table.
In that case the government needs to tax corporations at a level that allows them provide the necessary services to workers that workers can't afford on their shitty incomes (ie healthcare, education, transport & housing etc). This isn't happening. Governments are handing out cash to companies at the expense of society and then the companies are double dipping again.
UBI currently exists, it's level is just 0,if you don't count existing community welfare programs.
Show HN: Learning just enough Groovy to read a Jenkinsfile [video]
maybe. History shows me that, unregulated, our system makes kings and queens that own not only own land and wealth but people as well.

If i wanted to make a system that insured the absolute minimum advancement and progress, the absolute maximum misery and poverty, while giving a random few almost god like powers..
So does the paper. The paper also says this, right before explaining that it's a component of the ~4e-15 number, though:

>A conservative estimate of
the height difference between clock and experiment contributes
a gravitational red shift uncertainty of 7.7 ×
10−17.

So, it appears the 4e-15 is not an actual measured value, but a synthetic value based on estimation and measurement.
Yeah, sure.

But do you think this is an unbearable problem, and it will make the whole thing impractical, and the benefits are not enough?
>> When I got my first job before I went to university I was very surprised to learn that accountants always pay invoices on the very last day of the terms rather than as soon as they can.

I was told one company I worked at held off payment beyond the terms - waiting until we owed enough to be worth their bother. The problem was that one guy was trying to order parts to build some prototypes for a customer and they refused to do anything until they got paid. Our sales efforts were being hindered by people refusing to do their jobs - i.e. pay suppliers.
I also met my Wife on IRC, ~20 years ago (after chatting for 2 years). Explaining then to people how we met was difficult, so we ended up just saying through a mutual friend - which was also true.

I strongly doubt it we would have met, in this day and age. The mainstream online socialising of today is superficial and desperate.

Today, a remote worker, I communicate with my colleagues over IRC. It's rare that I'd speak to a stranger on it.
If your solution works I wouldn’t
There are many things that fall under that. Let me rattle of a few off the top of my head: (1) diet composition affects how eagerly your body stores energy in fat (related to sugars & insulin) - see eg https://www.physiology.org/doi/abs/10.1152/ajpendo.00283.201..., (2) different foods take varying amounts of energy to digest in the body (eg proteins and high fiber foods vs fast carbs), (3) the body's metabolic rate partly depends on how you eat and starts to conserve energy if you have long periods between meals, (4) your diet and rythm of meals also affects your general feeling of activity which can make you a couch potato or a evening walk person, (5) check out the research on intermittent fasting and ketogenic diets.

But this is not the main problem with the calories-in-calories-out meme; the main problem is that the feeling of hunger and appetite counts, not calories eaten. Satiety feelings are what regulates food intake in most people. Counting calories is not a solution to the obesity epidemic because continuously exerting willpower against your natural feeling of appetite is not sustainable for the vast majority of people.
FYI this is Kerberos 4, most kerberos uses preauthentication now, so the whole, try to decrypt the ticket and see if it works isn't a thing now.
Personally I really like the idea, but it might be a very expensive proposition to implement.

Edit: And could have unintended consequences for the court system, and create unintended incentives to ticket higher income people more vigorously than lower income (potentially creating unenforced laws in lower income areas).
You can relax barriers without lowering minimum wage, though. For example, drug tests. Drug tests are really common for low-wage jobs. So are credit checks. And so on. Many of these jobs have fairly cruel attendance policies as well, so getting to the psychiatrist once a month can be a real issue. Some of them require you to have a vehicle instead simply requiring a means of transportation - and at least outside of cities, many don't even have a safe place to lock up a bicycle.

You can require employers prove they need a credit check or drug test, for example. Most these places already have systems in place to catch theft and should be simply making sure the person does the job safely. Make sure folks can go to doctor's appointments, and have policies that mean folks can ride their bike to work without being stuck due to a stolen bicycle. This might also include making sure to have a changing room in case of incliment weather if you expect your employee to look a certain way when work starts.
So now that I've "made it" I can get screwed back to square one because I rolled a stop sign at 1am and the cop doesn't like my attitude during the following game of 20 questions they always want to play when they're fishing. Screw that.

Edit:

I would be less not ok with fines that scaled by income if they were reasonable for the infraction. Fines in the US are not reasonable (with a few state by state exceptions) unless you're upper middle class. If we scaled fines in the US so everyone got screwed as hard as poor people get screwed that would be very, very bad. If we were to scale fines by income then the middle or upper middle should be the point where there's not much difference (i.e. those people pay the same under the current system and some hypothetical income based system) because that's the point you need to be at for fines to be roughly proportional to the offense. I have zero faith that that could be implemented. What would likely happen is that the poor would still get screwed and everyone else would get just as screwed which is worse than the current situation.
The whole thing read like it was painting a picture of US society being utopia while Chinese society is restrictive where only a few make it.

I believe both to a limited extent, but it's hard not to get the feeling this article doesn't have a spin. I knew I would be outspoken on this but I felt I should mention it anyway.
There's “no safe level of alcohol,” major new study concludes
Already took over, when I built a system 10 years ago I choose freeswitch, might be selection bias but I know more folks using freeswitch
A recent one is Musk going "I'm thinking of making Tesla private at $420 per share" - regardless of whether he's going through with it or not, it bumped the price of Tesla stock up by 10%, and people made a lot of money off of that.
Some time ago I tried to start a federated homeserver, connected to it and joined the main matrix channel (at the matrix server). Thirty seconds later (IIRC) my client (riot) gave up on the attempt. Nothing showed in the channel. I was told the servers (synapse) were syncing the required information. I checked the logs and, true, a lot of stuff was being sent back and forth.

One hour later, a lot of stuff was still being sent back and forth. I still could not join the channel, and there was still no user-friendly feedback on the failure.

These are fundamental flaws in usability and design that really need to be addressed before the system can gain more widespread acceptance. Have they since been corrected, or have improvements been made to mitigate them?