skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a perfect example of why "sin taxes" like the proposed tax on meat[1][2] to fight climate change are a bad idea.

You need to tax the externality (greenhouse gas emissions), not an activity which currently causes such emissions, because then you don't have any incentives left (such as in this case) for industries to reduce those emissions.

1. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/dec/11/meat-tax...

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meat_tax
Why did nobody mention that Beto O’Rourke’s wife is a billionaire heiress?
How do bookies decide if they need to payout or not in this case?
Spies too.
"Change my resume from full-stack to just backend." Been there, done that. CSS, I hate you.
Fort Worth is the largest non-Democratic city in all of the US, yes, but if you also look at every election you can see it too is turning bluer and bluer.

Also, the government race is not a good indicator. Lupe Valdez has made mistake after mistake in her campaign — I’m liberal, and even I wasn’t enthusiastic about voting for her. She’s doing so bad that she’s polling less than the percentage of registered Democrats there are in the state.

For change, look at the Beto polls — he’s not favored to win, but he’ll come within 5 points. That’s huge considering Cruz previously won by +21. Furthermore, in the 2016 election Texas was only +9 Trump — that’s less than conventional swing states such as Ohio.

Hillary did better in Texas than any Democrat since Reagan. Also, Texas last had a Blue governor in 1994. Texas hasn’t always been red — only for the past two decades — and it won’t stay red forever.
The Seattle housing market is already cooling faster than anywhere in the country, and has been for a while (newspapers tend to be a few months behind in this type of news):

https://www.seattletimes.com/business/real-estate/seattle-ho...
Illustrator has been doing this for a long time. You can choose to “preserve editing capabilities” at save time. I assume it is similar for other vector drawing programs.
In the era of "Fake News", does omission count?

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His wife is not only the daughter of William D. Sanders, aka the Warren Buffet of real estate, Cockburn can reveal she is the only daughter. Sanders’s portfolio is valued at about $20 billion.

...

A Yahoo profile of O’Rourke described how he ‘married Amy Sanders, a charter school administrator,’ and served on the City Council ‘championing downtown redevelopment.’ But the reporter didn’t bother to look into who Sanders’s father was.

Neither did this Guardian piece.

Or this Washington Post one.

Nor this one in Vanity Fair.

TIME magazine were agog as the congressman cooed, ‘I just want to be as raw and direct and real as I can — and it seems to be working.’

And GQ were content to focus on other members of his family.
Probably not.

As an LLC you might also be entering a whole new world devoid of worker rights by being considered a contractor rather than an employee — which of course means you don't qualify for benefits. Ask a freelancer about how wonderful their healthcare options are.

The American variety of capitalism has successfully vilified unions and coined nonsense like "hustle" and "gig economy" to make it seem like this shift in work came from the bottom-up, but it's all just a guise to cut benefits and wages.

It's essentially a system that rewards executives for doing anything possible to exploit labor as much as the law allows for.

If you don't believe me, just look at the ever-increasing gap between employee and executive pay. Or check out the salary plateau despite the enormous increases in worker productivity. We've been suckered into doing more for less.
The .NET Standard 2.0 push moved a vast amount of code to being compatible on .NET Core alone. The "desktop app packs" for .NET Core 3.0 to run WinForms and WPF closes the gap a lot further.

(.NET Core on Azure seems pretty easy to me. Even from early beta days of .NET Core, but there are certainly even more Azure tools for it today than then, including some really good .NET Core on Docker support from what I hear.)

Yes, enterprises will always be slogging along with ancient solutions so long as "if it isn't broke, don't fix it" aligns with the bottom line. Arguably that seems exactly why .NET Framework might not support .NET Standard 2.1+, because Microsoft doesn't want to accidentally break ancient enterprises if they can avoid it.
> Its more or less a ghost town since BRAC moved out a bunch of agencies and contractors a few years ago. This had the effect of hollowing out what little independent retail / dining there was there as most of it catered to the office lunch crowd.

That seems to match south lake union in Seattle, which used to be warehouses and car dealerships.
Would it be better to fast 3 days in a row once every months instead of doing intermittent fasting?
Also, we'd get seaweed flavoured beef! Wins all around.
You're taking that bit out of context. In that sentence he's talking about a very specific thought experiment in which we constuct a theory that certain digits in the root of 17 and the 27th power of pi match. I think his arbitrary example is supposed to be an analogy of Godel's work.

Example: let’s say that the decimal expressions of the square root of 17 and pi to the 27th power “match” just in case either they have the same digit in the tenths place, or the same two digits in the next two places, or the same three digits in the next three places, etc.

The point of his example here is that the 'match' is defined in never-ending terms. If the 10th digit doesn't match, you check the next two. If they don't match, you check the next three. And so on. You can go on comparing digits forever, even though finding a 'match' becomes less and less likely.
Even if they are called HQ, it is hard for me to imagine they can function as one.

This is true of any large corporate campus -- 25,000 people at one site are not one cohesive unit, there are plenty of competing projects.

And you still end up using video conferencing even with people in the same campus because no one wants to take a 15 minute walk to the building on the other side of campus for a 30 minute meeting.
After WW2 it was established that soldiers following orders were still guilty of crimes if they knew that their actions were unlawful. Following orders does not excuse guilt.
Why stop there? Just scatter HQ2 into every city and municipality dumb enough to give Amazon millions-billions in tax breaks and incentives.
To add to what others have said: No state income tax. Relaxed zoning laws (compared to CA).
>There is nothing intrinsically valuable in 'difference'

There is nothing intrinsically valuable in equality.

FTFY
reddit.com - let the down votes begin :)
Stalin's five year plans, Pol Pot and Moa's Cultural revolution immediately spring to mind. The ancient Roman practice of having Soldiers work on construction projects (eg Hadrian's Wall) between battles is a similar idea (though to keep them from looting, not plotting revolution).
This is something that simply isn't talked about enough. We seem to live in a culture that really glorifies remote work. However, the truth is that it's actually really hard.

I made the switch more than a year and a half ago. When I did, I made a rule. See a stranger every day. This addressed the crippling loneliness that comes with the change. I lived in a really friendly neighborhood at the time, so meeting people and having real conversations was pretty easy.

Your other points made me realize how much I have taken my network of engineer friends who work in the industry. I'm going to do better at contributing to those Slack channels.
> The average programming career is relatively short-lived: you either have to move into management, analysis, project planning, etc. or be subject to agism.

I won't dispute the problems in the industry, but I'm not sure you can really say the career is relatively short-lived. I've been at it for 20 years, and while there are far fewer of my age-peers than there are of younger coders, the number is also far from zero. The "requirement" that you move to a related field doesn't seem nearly as certain as when I was younger (I've avoided all efforts at moving away from coding itself with only minimal effort on my part), and just landed a new job pretty effortlessly.

In terms of the topic, I agree that newer coders should tackle a bunch of problems in a few different approaches rather than trying to master them all from the start (I certainly haven't, even as an old fogey), but in terms of troubles I've found lack of free time/energy to do so to be the bigger obstacle rather than no longer being a programmer. Then again, the problem I see most among younger coders is not trying to master everything and failing, it's treating everything as a nail for their single hammer.

My anecdotal experience is not data, but it is all I have right now: Do you have a stronger source of information that the "average programming career is relatively short-lived"? I've been at this for 20ish years and currently expect another 20 more, but if that's foolish I'd like to know for (reasonably) certain.
CGIFurniture
I used to work for a company that made EHR software. Doctors have very little patience for computer issues; most don't enjoy using them. My job at the time would involve me talking to most IT folks at hospitals, and they would have some crazy stories.

My favorite was how this one doctor would call IT almost daily. He would complain that his computer was slow, so this IT guy would walk up to his office and do something random. Like unplug his Ethernet cord or mouse and plug it back in, or turn his screen off and back on. The doctor would evaluate if it was better, and always said "thanks, that fixed it".
I think we should have room for people with many different preferences and intellectual interests.

I would never ask someone to do a thing or live a way that they don't agree with. I'd only ask them to fully understand what their way is...how it affects the fabric of the world. If they pursue their interest with full depth, they'll eventually understand. And then they'll do the right thing.
> Even when there is some subsidising towards educating children that are unfortunate enough to have poor parents, you still end up with very unequal outcomes.

I think the idea with funding education more equitably is to remove existing barriers that are created by policy, not about creating totally equal outcomes.
Mining Bitcoin Can Be More of an Energy Drain Than Actual Mining
no, at compile time (though there are plenty of ways to implement run-time lazy evaluation, with e.g. expression templates)
Atoms of polonium can indeed be manufactured in a cyclotron, but unless your cyclotron is the size of a building it would take years to gather enough to conduct such a poisoning. Usable quantities are only ever made inside nuclear reactors.
> Vote to pass legislation that taxes synthetics

Just regulate the items you don't want with rules. If you want it gradual, make the rules gradual. No need to build more money-collecting bureaucracy and keep asking people to pretend the gatekeepers/spenders are trustworthy.
For sure it does. People in Europe pay a premium for "high mountains cow milk" ("Alpenmilch").

I had the impression that US milk has no taste but always thought it's just in my mind. But when I was in Colombia I met a guy from Switzerland who studied in Canada and said:"Oh wow, the milk here really tastes good like in Europe. Not like in Canada." So the milk in Europe and North America must indeed taste different. It is not just in my head.
Thanks for the info. It looks like I only get Otezla if Methotrexate fails to work, or I pay a lot.
Too bad, maybe you should try again. We've made this step slightly easier now, with a hint or two added in the mix.
It won't be Atlanta. They didn't even hook up public transit to the new Braves stadium because it would, to quote the county commissioner, "attract a certain type of person". The MARTA there is known as Moving Africans Rapidly Through Atlanta by that crowd.
> I currently work in an environment where I don't have access to a password manager

How is that reasonable? If you make a case that restricting password managers lowers security, could you possibly change it?
"So while the usage of TrueCrypt has faded, especially when its open source developers gave up maintaining the code, it has been up to Microsoft BitLocker to take over and become the tool of choice for encrypting disk drives."

That made me bit worried there'd be no mention of Veracrypt later in the post.
That's the joy of Qt for you.

It shouldn't be so bad though, the whole set of packages is probably a couple hundred of MB, IIRC.
I think that I shall never see / A billboard lovely as a tree. / Perhaps unless the billboards fall / I'll never see a tree at all. -- Ogden Nash
I've still got Newark on the brain. Assuming one half of HQ2 is in NoVa, Newark is a very easy train or flight away.
I can’t speak to gradle, since we don’t use it, but none of the other tools I’ve touched look at ABI compatibility. It’s pretty easy to tell who brought in whatever version after it’s crashed, but catching that in advance is much much harder.
Also, this article on .NET Standard 2.1 mentions that for new features to be considered for future .NET Standard APIs they expect them to be MIT-compatibly licensed in at least one .NET Standard implementation with option for the other implementations to just use it outright, which indicates convergence as a policy goal.
Sure, some business have multiple "HQs"...in that they split where some of their major divisions are "headquartered". For example, maybe the original HQ in Seattle is where Jeff B. sits, but maybe the crystal city HQ (if that's one of them) is where AWS - as a business/major division - is "headquartered", etc. Oh, and i would venture a guess that they likely will name them something like HQ1, HQ-East-1, HQ-West-1, HQ-South-1, etc. ;-)
The app that turns your phone into a cosmic ray detector
Of course the remaining sin being treating animals like a commodity, making them suffer, driving them around in crowded conditions for hundreds of miles...

It‘s not just the environment that suffers from our industrialized way to produce meat
plus if they're all eating seaweed then they're probably caged (as opposed to out in pasture) which comes with other issues. Maybe they can be at pasture and eat seaweed from a trough but they're certainly not eating all their food from that trough then.
So Amazon HQ2A and HQ2B?
Digital circuits also add the joys of clocks.
> Science journalism is generally just awful.

Not just science journalism. I've yet to see a journalist get a story 100% right where I knew the facts personally ahead of time. If you're lucky, they've just garbled people's names...
Anecdotal too, but everywhere in Dallas I see Beto signs — even in the affluent white neighborhoods. Hillary even won the conservative neighborhoods in 2016, and Sessions, a staunch conservative incumbent in the House of Representatives, could very well lose his seat — Hillary won his district by two points.
Unlikely. [0]

> > Are there plans to support .NET Standard 2.1 in a future version of .NET Framework, or will 2.1 and beyond be .NET Core only?

> Never say never, but given that .NET Standard is accumulative, I don't think it's very likely as the risk argument that applies to .NET Standard 2.1 will always apply to future versions too. And a side-by-side release of .NET Framework is extremely unlikley.

[0]: https://twitter.com/terrajobst/status/1059517534049726464
> Microsoft is really bad with: Telling the world that something is deprecated. There is a set of technologies in the .NET Framework which have no future: AppDomains, WCF, Code Access Security, Workflow Foundation, Cardspace, ... (just to name a few).

There's no reason to deprecate a mature product if there's need for it, it has sufficient test coverage, and there's low/no maintenance. There is however a risk involved with deprecating them that users will migrate to another technology stack entirely.

WCF is one of those technologies that was deployed heavily in Enterprise and is deeply ingrained in applications and systems going on a decade old. WFC has better support for SOAP than anything I've seen in the open source world and with a minor configuration tweak it can simultaneously support JSON from the same endpoint.

Workflow Foundation is in a similar state to WCF, though I wouldn't shed a tear if it vanished off the face of the planet.
VRChat active user estimate based on Discord use and concurrency: 50,000-75,000
True, but the location was always central rather than peripheral.
I wish all cities competed for residents in this way.

I think it would drastically improve our government if there was an actually significant risk of people leaving when the government messed up.
I want to see more things like Zork and Inform7.
But it then it is diverted to other pathways. It could become meat, milk, or manure.

I don't think there's a lot of aerobic activity going on in the rumen, so at least we know that it isn't immediately turned into CO2 (even if that would have been a win, methane is 10 times worse a greenhouse gas).
China Telecom's Internet Traffic Misdirection
Creating a Simple Browser with Mozilla Android Components
Reverse osmosis only for peace of mind. Nothing else is worth it in my opinion.
Yeah. Would love to see if a Toshiba PX04/PX05 with SED/SED FIPS is vulnerable. That's a very expensive add-on.
It's very clear that the interviewer bias is very important on the process. It shouldn't be. On my case, I got a relapsed interviewer that was working on his laptop while I was designing the service he wanted and another that wanted a very specific and canned solution for the very specific and canned problem he threw at me, instead of trying to understand my different approach for the problem.

2 of 5 bad interviewers. I left with a bad taste on my mouth, with the feeling that I didn't failed because I was not skilled / prepared enough for the company, but just unlucky for getting a bad set of interviewers. If was just me with that feeling, I would agree that I was biased for not receiving an offer, but I see this happening a lot with good engineers and throwing all the responsibility on the interviewees shoulders with "You are bitter for not receiving an offer" or "gitgud" arguments is just avoiding the discussion.

Anyway, it's their process and if it's working for them, they have no reason to change. Just stop advocating as it is a nearly perfect hiring process: it's very clear that is far from it.
Granular activated carbon filters that meet NSF P473 test standards will work.

http://www.nsf.org/newsroom/frequently-asked-questions-about...
Not really news to anyone who has sustained 80+ hour work weeks long term. It borders on abuse even at 80.
Show HN: Empirical Eye – Bring ML+AI to the Physical World
Hey HN!

Our company has just released a sensor+computer module called the Empirical Eye. It's basically a stereo vision system + on-board embedded CPU+GPU + WiFi (plus some mounting straps). Internally there is also an IMU sensor, and the ability to attach others via GPIO pins.

The Eye is meant to be easily attached to physical machines, to collect and stream data, and enable novel machine learning applications (and one day: control those machines!).

The goal with this device is to bring ML/AI to the physical world. We've made our own "visual quality control" software with the device.

We're doing a device giveaway to developers for feedback and troubleshooting, which will help us refine it. We'd love to send some out to the HN crowd (quantities limited to about 75), and get your feedback and see what you build!

We want to make life easier for running ML experiments and developing new applications. The primary motivation has been the field of robotics, but we see it as a flexible module that can be attached to any number of devices or machines, so feel free to be creative :)

We're looking to do another production run in a month or so, with a cleaner industrial design that'll look a bit more professional. Upon delivery you'll get the device's software API. It's a Linux OS not that different from a Raspberry Pi OS, and we have basic data collection + streaming scripts written in Python for your convenience.

If you're interested, definitely check out the site and sign up for a free device. Let us know what you want to develop, and ideally a quick one-liner describing your background experience.

www.empiricalautomation.com

Happy to answer any questions, cheers!
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> Enteric CH4 is a consequence of anaerobic fermentation of feed organic matter (OM) by a microbial consortium that produces substrate CO2 and hydrogen in a reduction pathway used by methanogens (Morgavi et al. 2010). Feed additives have been used to interfere with this pathway or otherwise reduce the numbers of functional methanogens.

(https://doi.org/10.1071/AN15576)

i guess that means they stay as co2 and hydrogen, but the paper also says that fermentation efficiency is decreased which ends up making the cows eat fewer molecules.
That gets a bit more complicated though, greenhouse gas emissions through burping is just one of the many impacts cattle have on the planet: land usage, water usage, manure (harms water supplies, runoff, release gasses, etc), and then you have the knock-on impacts of all the feed that needs to be produced to feed them.
I work for a company that sells software which is often deployed in the cloud. I'd say the ratio is about 30 to 1, with AWS far ahead. I'm always surprised when somebody starts talking about Azure - they usually work for a company where some executive was talked into Azure by Microsoft.
Yes, good point. The enlightenment experience can't be explained in tidy bullet points. It doesn't even seem interesting to most people. You can't help but use paradox in your words, and then folks even get offended.

I admit that we may just be at a dead end with our current consciousnesses in the mass. Some individuals find a way "through," but on the whole most of us will be happy denying most of reality and we'll burn out because of that (resource depletion).

I guess it just chaps my hide to see somebody who is a "professional knower" about this stuff being smug and on top of the world when he obfuscates far more than he explains. I'll hit the hay :).
It's not always a choice. And even where there is a choice, it's not an easy one.
Could Apple's next "innovation" not be a consumer product but to own the chip world? The iPhone "just" being the beta test for the chips?
I lived in Berlin for a little while and when I moved back to London I was shocked by all the advertising on the tube. I had sort of filtered a lot of it out when I lived in London and then got hit with it afresh when I returned.

Berlin just has... clean empty walls on the metro. I mean yeah there's advertising and particularly crappy screens on the actual trains but it's so much better.
"names and figures I do trust have the chance to examine whatever I intend to use and comment on it, observe it, and make assessments, including shaming poor implementations claiming traits they have no right to" does not necessarily require openness - third party audits, if done by people who you do trust, can do the same thing for closed systems, for example as described in the tptacek's comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18385507 above.