skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't get the scare mongering in this discussion. People are saying to always boil the water, to not cook with hot tap water, etc. Don't these people bathe in hot tap water? Don't they drink cold tap water? Do they all live in areas with super unsafe tap water?

Or is there a specific danger that comes from the water going up your nostrils? (Which can easily happen while bathing)

What am I missing here?
Not to be confused with Backblaze, in case anybody else made that mistake.
Performing cost-benefit analysis is enhanced when you mention the benefits resulting from the cost -- otherwise you just get down voted.
Agree in part, disagree in part -- but nonetheless it's a pretty significant episode of public shaming, and I have a hard time imagining a really high quality article about the subject that doesn't cite it.
I guess sudden economic growth can disrupt a lot of things, including potentially the structure of power.
Great book, but "at length" is right. I think Putnam's message would have a lot more palatable if a lot of the supporting content was moved into a separate section and the first section presented a more streamlined argument.
Lots of people in this thread are explicitly saying jail time for bugs.

What evidence is there that this was gross negligence?
don't agree, because it's harder to get the population to use it.
Reduces incidents of mild sleep apnea in conjunction with nasal strips and sleeping on my side. (I determine occurrence of sleep apnea by checking if waking happens between or during sleep cycles.)

Also helps with voice work (I am a voice coach), makes for clearer mask resonance.
This would be interesting and I’m curious about the extent to which this happens, but this hypothesis doesn’t support the claim that “absent information about getting an ID, it is nearly impossible for blue-collar minorities (but not their white counterparts) to vote”. Also, if you lack access to public transit, I would expect you’re more likely to have an ID, not less so.
I don't understand how this differentiates itself from ARM TrustZone.

You can already create a system with a dedicated HSM and run your own trusted operating system using the features of the processor. With Intel SGX you are somewhat stuck with using the HSM provided by Intel. With the BSD-licensing aren't we left in the same place as ARM processors, with the exception of producing a RISC-V processor being less expensive with regard to licensing?
What a short response, all the while not citing any sources to their claims.
Email is such a failure for sending family pictures. My relatives keep changing their addresses without telling anyone, and many email providers have small message size limits so if you attach several pictures then the message may bounce or just not get delivered. For all its faults, Facebook is a much more reliable and usable delivery channel.
I have a Mid 2014 MBP with a GeForce GT 750M currently running Sierra, and I'm so glad I saw this before I "upgraded" to Mojave! Despite my system claiming that it supports Metal, there are numerous reports of people with systems just like mine whose computers have effectively been ruined (slowed to an inoperable crawl) by Mojave.
You say that as if manufacturing product for someone else was a highly profitable business. There is a reason more and more has gone overseas. The margins are vanishingly small and continuing to drop.
Doesn't make sense. I don't have detailed understanding on finances but Tax writeoff should be beneficial when you have a valuable assets still in use which can be written off in book.

In this case they have spend $5B only to write if off the following year. Something else is going on. I don't think these guys are so stupid.
Does anyone actually still believe that these debts will all someday be repayed?

This kind of rhetoric involves essentially a misunderstanding of our present capitalist system.

Individual, organizations and government in the course of their existence, need to sometimes get access to more resources than they currently have. Borrowing for capital expenditures is the means to do this - issuing bonds, taking out mortgages and etc is the basic way this happens. This applies to houses, to bridges and to many other things.

Since new, large expenditures happen even as other others are paid-off, of course all the debt is never paid. There's no reason for all the debt to be repaid, paying it all would be counter-productive.

We could talk about the particular ways that debt and expenditures are done in this society (and boy there's a lot to talk about there). One big, problematic is imposing more debt on the personal level when it belongs on the state level (see student loans, "health care savings accounts" and other problems). But to begin the conversation, one has to understand how the broad economy works at all, how it's not equivalent personal values of honesty and thrift, etc.
The cold war experience of tit-for-tat has two lessons:

Firstly, somebody has to make a move either at parity which is respected or below, and the "you blinked first" message has to be ignored.

Secondly, there are always collateral damages. You can't afford to expel Russian diplomatic staff so you expel east Germans. You don't want to risk core staff so you send friendly nations into harm's way.

Canada was thrown into harm's way to avoid a bigger problem. The question is: who is willing to de scale the tit-for-tat response first?
As far as I know, Asbestos is only harmful when inhaled, no?
I suppose if your criteria is that you need to have world class ballet where you live, that does indeed restrict your options.
Climate change will bring more strong El Niños. What that means for California
Even if you give zero shits about your employees, the $50 office max is going to fall apart fast with daily use. HM sells somewhat stripped-down cheaper versions of certain models specifically for the bulk office drone employee market and in bulk the pricing is competitive with other makers.
It's mostly just overbreadth of hairdressing laws -- legislators (largely white males) don't think about putting in exceptions for certain types of what they consider hairdressing, so it ends up covering braiding. You then get an entrenched oligopoly of companies that have jumped through the hoops and provide the service and therefore don't want the competition from unlicensed people, so the law (even if it came into being through ignorance) gains supporters with a vested interest in keeping the status quo.
There have been a series of breakthrough in helicity injection techniques and the understanding of spheromak physics in the last decade. Some believe that economical fusion power plants are possible with today's technology[1] and need a ~$30 million to prove out a scale model reactor before building a full scale one on the order of $2-3 billion of a 1-2 Gigawatt power plant.

This is an order of magnitude less cost that the ITER project, which is spending a lot of money on cement and magnets on a probably doomed technology path of commercial fusion.

These same breakthroughs are also likely to be able to produce a fusion engine for spacecraft. This is actually an easier problem to solve than electricity generation as the deuterium can be used as fuel and as a propellant ejected straight out of the plasma core at variable ISP up to around 100,000. No inefficient fusion to electricity to rocket engine cycle is necessary.

I am not a fusion scientist, but my father is. For more info and technical references, drop me an email (see profile).

[1]https://www.washington.edu/news/2014/10/08/uw-fusion-reactor...
Reuters story:

https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/johnsona...
That's not very much of a hack of capitalism, and much more simply a different configuration. A "hack" for capitalism would be "circumventing" the value-form or some such.
Can you give us the more nuanced view, particularly as it applies to America, a place with a lot of existing diversity and a pretty mixed history with regard to how minorities have been treated?

What’s the nuanced case for why Americans shouldn’t care that much about “diversity”?
Just stop having a face. And friends, or family. Become an unperson. The solution is so obvious.

It's always hilarious how people try to pretend that it's easy to just drop out of society and the systems that people use to keep in touch. Sure, you can live like the unabomber in a shed in Montana with no phone service, but having that be the only option to keep your personal data safe from leaks is a bit much of an ask. People should be able to live their lives and take reasonable but not extraordinary precautions to safeguard their privacy and be able to have some expectation of privacy as a result. Unfortunately, there is so much data being collected on everyone, so many intrusions to our private lives, and so little care being taken by the stewards of that private data that it is not, it turns out, a reasonable expectation. And the onus for solving that problem shouldn't be on individuals. We shouldn't be forced to live our lives in fear of digital representations of our appearance being leaked onto the internet as someone might have once feared an ordinary photograph could steal a soul. Rather, those who are going to great efforts to destroy the boundaries of personal privacy should be heavily regulated to prevent them from doing so and heavily incentivized to safeguard private data whenever they are in possession of it.
What is "should have been preventable"? Mandatory continuous fuzzing of all apis? Interprocedural static analysis to detect all of the owasp top ten? Manual audits of all dependencies and transitive dependencies on every update? Hire world class auditors to manually inspect code?

I'm a huge security person. It's my job. But its unbelievably difficult to secure programs even if there are clear steps in hindsight that could have prevented a bug.
I find it difficult to reconcile this POV with environmental concerns. That elusive "debt" is 100% convertible to real resources (land, water). We have more debt because we consume too many things we don't need. How is that good?
We smuggled those silkworms out of China and can make our own silk now!
>>Does anyone actually still believe that these debts will all someday be repayed?

I believe that all debts will be repaid. They will either be repaid by the borrow or by the lender, when the borrow can't pay and the lender has to bail them out.
> Britain used the windfall from this fraudulent system to fuel the engines of imperial violence - funding the invasion of China in the 1840s and the suppression of the Indian Rebellion in 1857.

And to win World War I & II.
Baby powder is in the air pretty often with a baby in the house.
109 cases in a little over 40 years.. yeah, this is more of a freak occurrence. also, the article says they never tested the water, so this idea of the neti pot is just a guess to begin with.
Maybe we should ethnically cleanse the area where you live. Maybe that would be good. There's at least one person there who harbors genocidal tendencies, and I for one wouldn't miss him.
Using debt for homes, cars, education, and investments are generally assumed to be able to out grow the costs of that borrowing. For example, ideally a better education now means you can probably make more money over time, offsetting those costs and overall ending up much better than without borrowing. Its not stealing, to phrase like that is wrong.

If you only see these things as "nice", your should reevaluate what you value.
I think the difference is between a license that requires you to drive down to the statehouse with $50 and a valid state ID vs. a license that requires you to pass the tests at the end of an 8 week course held once every other year that costs $40k.
BSD kernel is maybe a cleaner target?
Ask HN: How are technical decisions made in your company?
By technical decisions I mean anything that affects the day to day life of a developer. Things like what stacks to user, how the CI/CD process looks like, what tools developers have to use, infrastructure etc. If you feel like it please share your ideal on how such decisions should be made.
I don't disagree with this, and I basically refuse to tip at anything other than sit-down restaurants, and I don't give my business to companies that charge automatic gratuities.
A Vinyl a Week (Music Review) Week 1: Frank Sinatra – Ultimate Sinatra
I finally finished the first week of my project, A Vinyl A Week.

WEEK 1: Frank Sinatra - Ultimate Sinatra

Holy shit, what the hell did I get myself into with this one? I just realized Frank Sinatra – “Ultimate Sinatra” has so many fucking songs. But, of course it would, does anyone expect something less – he’s Frank Sinatra. The man sold more than 150 million records worldwide, won 11 Grammy Awards, and never even learned how to read music. You can read more below, and I would love all feedback - thank you!

http://www.avinylaweek.com/week-1-frank-sinatra-ultimate-sinatra/
> The fact that entire region was called Bharat...

I don't think that important fact inherently implies a unity that was never there. The(roughly defined) region called "Europe" has never been under the control of a unitary state or empire, even in the times of the Romans.
why do you need a park if you live on multiple acres of land?
>agree, that makes it 11 GOP senators to 3 DEM senators.

And how many of those two CA senators are GOP? Guess those 7 states are more diverse than CA.
Just because there is a coordinated media campaign does not necessarily invalidate the issue being presented. For example, MSM reporting on Venezuela's economy ramped up significantly from early 2016 to coincide with a diplomatic push for regime change. Fast forward to present day, Maduro is stil president but the economy is definitely in a even worse shape. Not to mention a lot of the structural problems were already present before Chavismo so their current position wa made inevitable decades ago.

P.S. Chinese households have already leveraged themselves to the brim in the last couple of years, thanks to real estate speculation. Opinions differ on exact figures but most estimates place average household debt in the range of 80% to 100% of disposable income which is close to that of the USA. The government's finances are in okay shape but the people's are definitely not.
I wouldn't worry as much about boiled potatoes as I would something like soaking/cooking grains. It's a matter of your level of concern. I rinse dry goods and and vegetables with tap water, and steam with tap water, but I use expensive water for anything else. Mostly because I don't discard the water. Either the food absorbs all the water, or I accept a mushy, stewy, or soupy consistency.

Steaming is better if you're going to use tap water and discard it. With the food out of the water there's less contamination as well as less nutrient loss.

Filters are not perfect. Reverse osmosis or distillation is better (in theory). Anyone using a filter should pay attention to what it filters. Some filters don't even claim to filter lead. I think Brita and Pur still have multiple filter types that filter different things, and one type isn't a strict subset of the other.
Similarly I think the theory developed in the Three Factors paper predicts this scaling law, might be worth citing: https://arxiv.org/abs/1711.04623
Without really needing to know, I'm guessing either Indiana (my home state) or North Carolina (lived there three years). I say that only because we'd never go back to NC because of differences in opinion and politics, and never, ever go back to IN because it appears to have gone even more (ahem) divergent from my opinions since we moved out twenty years ago. The things I heard come out of the mouths of clients when I had a consultancy in IN would send a native West Coaster to the fainting couch.

So, yeah, I used to live there and I'll never go back, let alone attract anyone who tans a little too well.
> Tesla was the only one in position to profit for it timely

They're currently down about $15 billion dollars (and a couple billion more in incentives).
My dad used baby powder as deodorant because he had sensitive skin. Died of lung cancer at age 58, and never smoked. Anecdotal, but this really pisses me off.
Shashi Tharoor an Indian politician has written a book about this as well. There is this narrative within India (among many hindus and advocated by hindu nationalist political parties such as the bjp) that the muslim empire of the Mughals harmed India and robbed it of some kind of growth. But people like Tharoor are trying to create this new narrative that the British were much more harmful for India than the 'muslim' rulers of the Mughal empire. here is a talk by Tharoor who has demanded that the British apologize for many of the events that took place during that period: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7CW7S0zxv4
AD and similar things def help, but it's still hard, especially once your deployment gets big or complicated - at the last place I worked we had tons of linux hosts + google cloud load balancers + aws load balancers + a tiny AD domain + various others. I think once you hit a certain size, it's incredibly hard to keep homogeneity.

Leaf keys on HSMs is interesting. Personally, I view HSM and TPM stored keys about having an immutable identity for the device. Leaf keys are usually a bit more complicated - in the environments I work in, leaf keys are often tied to a service, not the host. The short lived nature also reduces the impact of ex-filtration.

Anyway, yeah, depends on the deployment and the org.
A culture of public investment and use of transit is important. America's car-centric culture, for example, has been a major impediment to public transit projects here.

The Swiss network fairly seamlessly integrates multiple forms of transit into one network - both public and private rail, buses, boats, light rail, trams, etc. Bus stops are timed so the trains they connect to are there at the right time for a seamless switch.
> Being fined for a contribution to an OSS project would be terrible, wouldn’t it?

Not if your contribution causes harm. A fine would be a more than welcome addition to consumer protections.
I know you are just doing your job, but what tezza did is called British humour.
Really? How has "consumer software gone too far in the other direction"?

Does it ... kill people? Does it enforce bad policies like the healthcare industry did for the past couple of decades, causing an epidemic of obesity, diabetes and heart disease, which are the top causes of death?

Yeah, regulation there definitely helped /s
I get that you're in China and that everything's relative, but we are comparing SCMP to other globally respected mainstream news sources, and with that reference point it tends towards Chinese interests. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_China_Morning_Post#Contr...
There’s also an interesting relationship between luck and time. If games are short, you can play more of them and luck will matter less over time. Anyone can win one poker hand, but it takes some skill to win a tournament.
According to the Reuters article some lawyers claim

> that asbestos causes mesothelioma and is associated with ovarian and other cancer
> Stand in his place for a week and tell me that.

Imagine going to the less well-off part of America and start a conversation like that.

"Imagine you're accused of rape twenty years ago and you have to defend it in front of angry people."

"So, if I fail, I go to jail?"

"No, not really."

"...Are they gonna beat me up?"

"No."

"Do I lose my job? My house? Will they take my daughter away for me being a rapist?"

"No, none of this happens. But a lot of people will call you names."

"...A lot of people call me names for just walking around!"
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In fact they link to a whole website that discusses studies:

http://www.factsabouttalc.com/#section-safety

[edit] I think the original reply is pretty to the point:

>J&J attorneys provided Reuters with hundreds of documents and directly responded to dozens of questions in order to correct misinformation and falsehoods. Notwithstanding this, Reuters repeatedly refused to meet with our representatives to review the facts and refused to incorporate much of the material we provided them.

>The Reuters article is wrong in three key areas:

>The article ignores that thousands of tests by J&J, regulators, leading independent labs, and academic institutions have repeatedly shown that our talc does not contain asbestos.

>The article ignores that J&J has cooperated fully and openly with the U.S. FDA and other global regulators, providing them with all the information they requested over decades. We have also made our cosmetic talc mines and processed talc available to regulators for testing. Regulators have tested both, and they have always found our talc to be asbestos-free.

>The article ignores that J&J has always used the most advanced testing methods available to confirm that our cosmetic talc does not contain asbestos. Every method available to test J&J’s talc for asbestos has been used by J&J, regulators, or independent experts, and all of these methods have all found that our cosmetic talc is asbestos-free.
The only way to do it is small, atomic, composable components with fully self contained styles and minimal inheritance.

I think this may be the best way, yes. It's not the only way but it feels like a well formed statement otherwise.

Is this what ghci-hs and the like might be giving us? Hard to learn, hard to apply but composition is a given and typing and inheritance come along to help?
If during a boom the economy picks up significant malinvestment (inefficient or oversubsidized firms, firms that were in a particularly good position to benefit from low-interest loans but weren't necessarily the most competitive firms that should have gotten it, etc. etc.) most of those firms are going to survive until there's a significant bust. China has artificially propped up a lot of industries and firms, and over time the deadweight loss of decisions like that builds on itself like barnacles on a ship, getting worse and worse. While I personally don't think the leadership is smart enough to want a slowdown, it might be a really good thing for their economy in the long term.
> For a lot of America's history, it was not debt based.

For a lot of America's history we used horses and sailing ships to get around. Are you suggesting we should return to that too? Otherwise this argument is empty.
are you trying to suggest a drone is flies significantly faster than a goose?
This reminds me of a story of how Logo was implemented on 8-bit microcomputers.

Leigh Klotz was the man who ported MIT Logo to the Apple ][ and then the Commodore 64. According to him “The Commodore 64 CPU 6510 has a bidirectional parallel port at location 0 and 1, taking up 2 of the 256 "page zero" locations, which are the only ones you can indirect through. When I ported MIT Logo from the Apple II, there were lots of places that dereferenced nil without checking, and those caused crashes. Commodore gave me a chip they fabbed in qty 12 yield that brought out the I/D decide status as a pin, and we used a Nicolet-Paratronica logic analyzer to feed the address and data bus to a Pet running a BASIC disassembler. I could then set a breakpoint in-circuit to see the 256 instructions prior to or after the errant memory access, so I could go put on guard code...”

I got it from Jamie Zawinski's weblog. Be forewarned. Following the link from Hacker News will lead to an unsavory image. Just copy & paste it, instead.

https://www.jwz.org/blog/2018/11/weird-machines/#comment-192...
There is a cottage industry around passing around the material for those courses.

My wife worked in the pharmacy field and had those requirements. The courses were mostly made by the drug companies and were thinly disguised marketing material.