skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And the funny thing is, plague doctor masks were actually fairly effective - it turns out that a beak stuffed full of herbs is actually a pretty serviceable medieval-era substitute for a surgical facemask at preventing you from inhaling aerosols.
Actually I've dug out a recent (2016) analysis that actually reasonably strongly suggests mechanism different from direct lipid lowering effects. See thread above.

More importantly, PCSK9 inhibitors have not shown clear mortality benefits in best analysis we have and they're much more specific to cholesterol...

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29223954

And yes, this is after and including the big trials. There are some benefits shown, but they do not translate to mortality endpoint, despite not translating to obvious other controlled morbidity. It looks like an odd and unexpected result, but partly predicted by studies correlating higher total cholesterol with lifespan.

Everyone would like it to be as simple as turning down LDL-C knob and fixing the world. Unfortunately, reality is apparently not as accomodating. We truly do not know the exact mechanisms.
Today Is International Day Against DRM. Act Against Digital Restrictions
Obviously I'm going to block them by filtering them mechanically, because nobody has a right to demand an argument or a "positive example" from me.

Obviously. However, historically it's a good way to go. Please demonstrate the necessity of your using "demand" in your sentence? You seem to have a pointed bias in how you read my comments.

I do demand, however, that people do not use political violence in the US. I also note who does and does not call out political violence.
ACLU files charges against Facebook for targeting job ads to young males
Five Dweb projects that are decentralizing the web in different ways
Audi e-tron reveal
(Following on Gruber's examination of the camera lenses on the XS)

I have a full-size mirrorless camera with interchangeable lens (Sony alpha-5000), and I love it. I usually import all pictures I take with it to Photos, and you can immediately tell if a picture was taken with it or with my current iPhone 7 (no surprise).

But here's the catch: I understand many principles of photography, but I'm no professional photographer. I try to make adjustments to focal distance, aperture, manual focus, and etc when taking pictures, but the results are usually not good (it's all fun though, especially when you get it just right).

Therefore, even when I take my camera with me, I will still snap pictures with my phone because the balance between how easy it is vs the quality of the product really favours smartphones. And it only gets exponentially harder with difficult light conditions (overcast skies, moving vehicles, etc). I've ordered a XS despite the high price but I'm really looking forward to using its camera and comparing it with my Sony camera.
> continuously moving the unlock image

Good find. Wouldn't anyone be able to bypass by simply not having a "continuously moving image", just the suggestion to slide and a button that disappears while sliding?
HN is really not the appropriate forum for this sort of straw man hyperbole.
+1, grew up in the suburbs (which are regularly the butt of jokes in "the city"), actually explored all around town with my friends without fear of being run over or really any other problem endemic to high-density living. Plus, the older I get the less I appreciate a dense city, and realize just how unnatural and problematic that kind of living is.
https://code.org/learn is a good website that contains games playable through a visual programming language (blockly / scratch).
If you have a Nintendo Switch, Nintendo Labo is a fun way to introduce to programming and a sort of IOT.
Indeed - in fact that is exactly what I do. Walk/train to work, drive to the hills or the coast at weekends. What I am responding to above is the assertion “I don’t need a car myself therefore no one should be allowed to have one”.
People inside our tight social circles are held accountable by social pressure. This is why, for instance, Mormons seldom defraud other Mormons -- it would make Sunday mornings unpleasant for a long time to come.

That your uncle would choose very deliberately to alienate his entire family is the astonishing thing. Would be curious to know what his social life is like, now ...
Its insane to me how large space-wise small towns in the us (Oregon in mind as I write this) are — with a huge percentage of the real estate devoted to parking lots. Even setting aside the traffic, it’s silly to walk across these towns because businesses are separated from each other by massive parking lots.

The traffic is often amazingly inhumane. Many of the small towns in Oregon are formed on either side of the major highway which has speed limits within the town but still sees so much traffic as to be very dangerous for pedestrians.

These towns need the commercial visitors brought by the highway to survive — but the design common in Europe for this scenario is so much better. There will be a sign for an exit off the main road for the “city center” exit — there will be a single parking lot for the city center, and then comfortable walking distance to the businesses ... superior design.

Many small, especially old, towns in Europe have ancient road layouts that are too narrow and steep for cars within the town — which resulted in these car free designs for free. It’s beautiful. Parking is easy because there is only one place to do it on the outskirts — and then walk everywhere. There is no improvement for a small town to be designed otherwise in my opinion.
so something it's very wrong, if a CPU at 20mhz can run softly a GUI at 800x600 and a CPU at 1ghz can't
375 stars given out so far!!
A GUI click is normally press-and-release, so 0.5 click would be just-press. Faster!

(Also it's a joke)
From my short experience with wireless charging, I'm not a fan of the overheating issues and its definitely the reason why I wouldn't choose to use this over connecting a cable directly.
I still believe eating more onions is a great idea because of the fructooligosaccharides (prebiorics that good gut bacteria feed on).
Isn't it possible to set the short order at a max limit to cut your losses? (this shows how little I know about having a trading account)
That probably led to just enough effect from these strategies to give people a reason to keep using them.
Intent matters when determining if someone is lying or not. It doesn't matter when determining if someone committed an act. So in this case he seemingly committed the act of making an untrue statement. But whether he was lying while doing so is not so clear because we don't know if he was being intentionally misleading.
> This is not an early step. The trend has been clear for the past decade, and it has been going in the wrong direction, at increasing speeds.

It's an early step if you count successes. You build on success, not failures, surely that's clear. I agree it has been a trend and has been going the wrong direction at increasing speed, assuming you mean the trend is large, general internet restrictions imposed by governments.

> This is pretty much something the tech industry brought upon itself by trying to always trying to outdo itself in terms of how much tracking and privacy violations it could get away with.

I agree we brought it on ourselves by giving an inch. If it's privacy violations that are the problem, what are they violations of, prosecute under that, move on. If the legislation is working and needs more teeth, add em. Otherwise, its politicians trying to outdo themselves over how much interference they can get away with. And we have said "get away with plenty".

> IOW, from a techie to another: cry me a river.

I say the same as one citizen to another wrt your data.
But to get a local dev cert you have to ask Apple, so it amounts to the same thing.
Some things to check out:

* Dutch American Friendship Treaty (self employ in the Netherlands)

* Working Holiday visa Irealnd (one year and have to be within a year of school or in school, but if you get a job that sponsors you can stay)

* Germany. Germany is just supposed to be a relatively easy place to get a visa, comparatively. Be sure to look up blue cards.

* Ancestry. Got any history in a European country? Start looking at grandparents' birth certs

Also, a lot of people have mentioned pay. It's true, pay is lower in Europe - in tech. OTOH in other fields there's less of a disparity, or it's higher here. My wife does not work in tech and makes more here (or did before she decided to stay home with our kid).

In Ireland, at least, a normal dev would make very roughly 60(ish), someone versed in ML, etc. closer to 90, and to get to six figures you'd need te be fairly senior. Jobs posted on http://irishtechcommunity.slack.com/ recently have been everything from 40k (junior) to 150k (senior at FB). It's more common to include ranges in job postings here.

Europe is big though and salaries are MUCH different in Portugal than in, say, Finland.

In some places (Norway), you can just look them up - https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-40669239

I would have recommended Ireland in the past but now, if you're interested, you'd be wise to steer clear of Dublin. Housing has gotten really scarce, but worse than just being expensive it's just really hard to actually _get_ (no surprise given that rent control is bad policy).

If I were looking myself right now the top of my list would be Utrecht, because I love cities where my kid can cycle to school and not die.
> Tesla's Nov 7 Earning Report must be good

the forward guidance is gonna suuuuuck

"The risk factors have been updated to include that our CEO is going to be arrested, the remaining executive is running for the hills with substantial severance packages and we will expend many resources to maintain confidence and acquire a new executive team"
The big announcement is part of transparency and keeping the US government accountable.

There is simply no other way, the only reason this is a big announcement is because Elon is very active on social media.
I know whenever I'm stressed I go post falsehoods on my public Twitter account to blow off some steam.
Hackers create 1B fake EOS to rob ‘decentralized’ cryptocurrency exchange
This makes no sense. (I do electronics)

"Hand-solderable"? Every QFN package is hand-solderable, too, using hot air, and is much smaller than the TQFP. And what is the benefit of "hand-soldering" if you still need to use DDR3 DRAM? It won't come in TQFP, and for good reasons, and good luck connecting it to that Allwinner CPU.

If you want tiny chips that can be hand-soldered, go with microcontrollers (ESP32 or Kinetis), which have everything on-board. You really do not need the overhead, complexity and incidental bugginess of Linux for most things, trust me. Also, choose QFN, not TQFP, use hot-air and have the entire thing soldered in 30 seconds.
Intent may not necessarily matter.
I Wish There Was an App For
Your account is fine. But others, most prominently Gladwell, are specifically pushing a narrative that innate skill is irrelevant in the face of practice.
ZeroCater is hiring a full-stack engineer (front-end focused)
Well, sometimes I push the mouse button down on the wrong place, realize it, move the mouse away and release the button elsewhere ... usually that half-click does nothing ;-)
> I feel significantly more free today than I ever did owning a car.

That works both ways though. I feel significantly more free today owning an EV hybrid car, then I did without a car.

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I have lost sleep worrying I would miss the only bus, or that it would be late, or that it would be full, or that it would never show, or that they could change the route without telling me, or that if the weather is bad I'll arrive soaked / freezing / dripping in sweat. Or if the other passengers are bad, I could arrived smelling bad or covered in bedbugs.

I have commuted by bus. It was a huge impact on personal freedom -- even if all conditions are ideal every trip still had to be delicately and precisely pre-planned, with exact arrival and departures, (that all stacked up, because even the shortest bus trips require one or more transfers) and they allowed travel only to specific places deemed worthy of it by other people. And of course, every trip required at least 2x to 3x longer trip times than driving.

Buses are like 70% of the stress of flying, with only 10% of the benefit.

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A car isn't limitless freedom, it comes with plenty of responsibilities and costs of it's own. But it certainly can be a form of freedom of mobility. One that currently isn't easily reproducible in any other way.
for the investigation, no it probably doesn't. But that's not what I'm arguing, and I don't see why people think it is.
Well, Google would tell you something more like "business hours are 23:00 to 24:00 and 00:00 to 03:00 Monday to Thursday, 00:00 to 03:00 Friday, closed Saturday and 23:00 to 24:00 Sunday".
Cruel? Cruel is setting your kids up for a life of struggle because they never learned basic skills.
No, obviously there is room between "doing nothing" and Chinese-style "public executions."

How about the stocks? Make being a shithead as unpleasant as possible at least.
The reason you can't do that is because the federal Civil Rights Act of 1964 forbids that explicitly, and includes its own definition of what institutions the law applies to.

And what is the basis of that definition?

as if you might be able to find a first-principles argument to refute my argument

There is something there. It does have to do with whether or not people can move and function in the public sphere.
As a parent fostering the development of a lucrative skill that appears to be interlocked with the future of our labor market, which the parent themselves find enjoyable, doesn't seem that weird. In fact, I'd go so far as to say it's one of the most normal goals a parent could have.

Now, the execution of that goal can be done very well, or very poorly, but the goal itself is reasonable.
A new blockchain enabled freelancer marketplace
Smartphones Can Run on a 5G Network Soon
> sub's sidebars missing

I'm a mod for a few subs and for that reason was forced to start using the new UI. Most of the sidebar can be developed to look and work similar to the old markdown sidebar, but without all the custom css styling.

I see the new UI as the a less dramatic version of myspace as the old, and facebook as new.* This includes but not limited to stripping out custom CSS. (You don't have to be a front end developer to style your sub anymore.) The reddit ecosystem as a whole will now look and function much the same everywhere. Some sub designs were getting out of hand. This gives Reddit execs and admins much more control and the lowly mod a lot less.

Alas the reddit mod is further relegated the jerk the community maligns for setting arbitrary rules and unfairly limiting free speech. Also a lot of the mod tools are streamlined, link/user flair, user access/banning, etc. I really don't like the look and feel of the new UI and after a month of constant use still prefer the old UI.

*(Avoiding any reference to dig 4.0)
Existing copyright law already forbids you from copying and redistributing the creative works of other. More laws won’t stop anyone from violating the law. The problem with content scrapers is that its so easy to hide your identity, so easy to scrape content, and so damned easy to be approved into advertising programs.
Always amusing what the WSJ's sense of proportion and aesthetics are (I know they're attributing the quote to his biographer, but still):

> She called the French-style home “nice but not ostentatious,”

> The property also contains a three-bedroom guesthouse, a grotto-style swimming pool, a lighted tennis court, a putting green, a bocce court, a barn and a vineyard.
Anatomy of a Linux DNS Lookup
There's a clause in Tesla's debt that if the share price is >$360, they can pay their bond notes with stock shares. If it is <$360, they have to pay their debt payments in cash. This obviously has a massive impact on Tesla's already precarious cash position.
Right... are there other people who could have run as fast as Usain Bolt if they'd devoted themselves to it? Certainly. Could anyone have done so if they'd copied his routine? No.
If they’re having a hard time making money I would think lesser of their parents who should have known better.

Abdicating responsibility for your child’s education is not noble.
The Unlikely Endurance of Christian Rock
DOJ estimates that $9 billion in wages were suppressed from 2005-2010.
Introduction to Tezos – how it works, what it’s used for and what you can buy
Ive said really stupid stuff on Twitter and I lost fans as a result.

I cannot explain myself in only a few hundred characters, especially when people dont click links, or only see a small portion of the situation.

I did learn my lesson in my 20s.
unless the device is redesigned to be slightly thicker and larger – decisions which Apple is specifically unwilling to make compromises on for their overall design.

Sounds like Apple.
Review of iPhone Camera Over the Years, by the Verge
Out of curiosity, what was the DeLorean moment? I know DeLorean didn't succeed in the long term. But what was this "moment" you're talking about? Google gave me nothing.
API for Scalable News Feeds
If you were to distribute all people in the US uniformly, everybody would have about four soccer fields of space. If you distributed them over the forest area of the US everybody would have about one soccer field of space. In either case if you account for yards and access roads you wouldn't have what I'd call pristine woods anymore.

https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=1+%2F+population+densi...
They wouldn't have to buy it back immediately. Short sellers would borrow the stock from a long and pay a predetermined interest rate for however long they're borrowing it. They technically don't have to rebuy the stock unless they get margin called (if the collateral posted is no longer deemed sufficient for the counterparty to allow the borrowing position) or need to close out positions because of some risk tolerance threshold being met. Usually when this happens to a bunch of shorts at the same time they must all rebuy, driving prices higher, which is called a short squeeze, but it is usually determined by someone cutting losses on a short position or positive news coming out driving prices up.
I recommend reading "The Man Who Knew Infinity".
It's really devastating the way he died.

It seems that a lot of math geniuses died premature.
Eisenstein, Abel, Galois, Riemann..

I've read some of his work.. there are formulas appearing out of nowhere, like magic. He said that he saw them in his dreams.

He had access to 1 book, basically, a collection of math theorems and that's it. Only 900 pages (IIRC) and the rest of the stuff he discovered (and re-discovered in some cases) on his own.

Unparalleled genius!
If life on Earth were simple enough that "good enough" laws were even possible (not difficult, not tricky, but possible to formulate at all even by a legislature populated by very stable geniuses), then we would not have evolved such large brains.

After all, Gödel showed that any powerful system of rules will contain inconsistencies. Even closed tautological systems like the Catholic religion contain flaws (that was the premise of the movie "Dogma": two banished angels find a loophole in God's Law and attempt to destroy the Universe) and theologians literally get to define God.

Any system of human law must be inconsistent, so we perforce rely on human judges, which means we rely on their [lack of] wickedness, i.e. their culture, and we are back where we started.

> If we had better laws people wouldn't be as wicked.

Meaning no disrespect, that is a proposition to which I assign a low truth value.

I read "Walden II"[1] at an impressionable age, and I thought for a long time that if we could just make the "right" laws, construct the right system, then we could easily achieve Utopia. I was too young to realize that the novel is actually "behaviorist" propaganda.[2]

My own experience of humans, and something Gandhi said, later convinced me that law, no matter how good or wise, cannot of itself make for good people. I've never been able to find the actual quote, but it was something like, "No system [of government] relieves the people under it from the burden [or obligation] of trying to be better human beings."

If prison worked to convince people to take up that burden I don't think recidivism rates would be as high as they are, eh?

So, again, I don't reject that good and just laws are a vital part of a good and just society, but I see them as a result, not a cause.

In any event, well met.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walden_Two

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radical_behaviorism
Tesla and Elon Musk face criminal investigation
> Amen. The way Google and FB are using data just doesn't bother the masses the way it bothers the media [...]

The way elected autocrats rule also doesn't bother the local masses, obviously. The masses are short-sighted, lack understanding of certain abstract or technical concepts, and are easily fooled and misled by strong feelings.
LOGO. I don't know why it fell out of favor, but it's the fastest way for a newbie to see visible, fun, graphical results.
And fawning opinion pieces masquerading as reviews, fully intent on indoctrinating your average HN reader, is? When did HN become Apple's blog?
Apple's own website lists a wireless charger for sale from Belkin:

https://www.apple.com/shop/product/HLZ42/belkin-boost-up-spe...

So, although I've never used one myself, clearly these chargers are feasible and the overheating challenges the article lists are solvable. I know the Belkin one looks more simple (1 device instead of 3), but why doesn't Apple enter the market with a similar product? The article doesn't really answer the question for me of why Belkin is creating one but Apple is not.

Edit: Not sure why I'm getting downvoted. This is a genuine question and it's getting a lot of informative responses.
This is a massive oversimplification. Musk may be in peril but this is not as cut-and-dried a case of fraud like you make it seem. Consider this recent comment from the SEC:

“When you talk about fraud,” [Jina Choi of the SEC] answered, “you’re talking about a state of mind, you’re talking about mens rea. We call it scienter. You have to do something with intentionality. The idea of just making a misstatement doesn’t necessarily rise to the level of fraud."

Misstatements can “be the first step to fraud,” Choi had added. “But generally, when we talk about fraud the F word, I think we are talking about a state of mind that’s a little bit higher than that.”[1]

That telegraphs a pretty lenient stance on misstatements that aren't completely fabricated. And there were actual serious negotiations happening here. That's not in dispute.

Without question, Musk made a misstatement. But what was his state of mind? Was there intent to deceive, or was he merely overzealous in his interpretation of the negotiations? If he can argue the latter then it may not rise to the level of criminal fraud.

[1] https://techcrunch.com/2018/09/13/a-tesla-investor-says-he-w...
Yeah, it's kind of funny how we arrived at some of the right answers for totally the wrong reasons. The whole "bad air" concept? Total hokum, but an abundance of fresh air will help control airborne transmission.
You should ping Kenn White on Twitter. He has a sweet dev setup for Chromebooks https://blog.lessonslearned.org/building-a-more-secure-devel...
Are tariffs just straight up revenue for the US government, like income taxes?
I know a bit about wireless charging (I design&build electronic devices). When I first heard about the idea of a multi-device charging mat, my first thought was: how in the hell are they going to do that? I didn't think it merely difficult, I thought it wasn't possible at all.
Ask HN: How Does Google manages so many businesses well and why Yahoo couldn't?
Google seems to be doing well trying everything thing new, managing its core business. Yahoo had done the same thing but it failed. Why?