skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Aren’t lots of street narcotics “cut” with talcum powder?

I wonder if any studies show any correlation of mesothelioma and drug use...
Why does it matter that an organization dedicated to political research and philosophy is funded by X, Y, and Z individuals of repute? That's the essence of ad hominem. I'm glad you take on the content of the study in your second point.

Imagine if liberal-leaning research papers shared on HN were immediately accosted with comments claiming the publication to be a "front" for George Soros. Not helpful.
Which definitely won’t have asbestos?
I am so glad this exists. Turtle Graphics remains the best way to teach so many fundamental concepts. From recursion to path finding.

One feature that I wish existed was library import. Or community accepted set of extension modules. An easy way to call polar coordinates, Spirographs, matrix transforms, etc.
Well this is fast fix :)
Small nitpick. Functions in C that take no arguments are written name(void){...} not name(){...}. This latter form is an old-style definition which doesn't introduce a prototype into the scope.

For functions that have prototypes, it is okay, but when they do not, you're losing type checking (yes, even on the number of arguments).

The following program compiles with no diagnostics for me with -W -Wall -ansi -pedantic, with GCC 7.3 on Ubuntu 18:

int func()
{
return 0;
}

int main()
{
func(3);
return 0;
}

-std=c11 (as you're using) makes no difference.

The same is not true of C++: func() in C++ is a prototype definition. C++ supports (void) for compatibility with C, but even in nonsensical contexts: class::class(void);
Note the difference in language breadth. Bill sponsor: "via email" - text of statute: "by electronic communication".

If the law was written to specify e-mail, then the HN crowd would be all over the lawmaker anyway for specifying an antiquated communication method that not everyone uses.

Since laws last generations, and technologies fall in and out of favor at the drop of a hat, the lawmaker was right in making this non-specific.

It's the ISP that decided to be a jerk about it.
The former I would imagine.
My memories of AOL have faded, but I believe the early web access was only through their built-in browser and was very limited. ("Enter keyword: DEALS" etc.) At some point they started providing SLIP/PPP or whatever it was that normal ISPs used to enable IP over dialup.
All a man needs is a horse and a gun and he can rule the world, right?

I know many rural Americans like to imagine they're still living on the lawless frontier uncorrupted by civilization and Federalism, but.... it's not actually true that they're less dependent on the state than "city folk." Hell, in many cases rural areas are more dependent on the state.

And ironically, it's that pastoral, romantic delusion of the statelessness of rural America that leads to the very same populist ideology that makes them easier to control. Like believing a billionaire globalist with a history of exploiting low wage employees and a loose relationship with the truth is an honest, God-fearing hard working friend of the common man.
Unfortunately this announcement is light on details; does anybody know what the actual vulnerability was?
It's suspected/shown to cause cancer in women's reproductive tracts as well.
I think GP meant that free-market solutions to corporate malfeasance are very slow and leave many dead people in their wake. Sometimes they never happen at all, at least not without government intervention.
Then why are those organizations saying they won't be insured?
Maybe it’s not that Poland is not racist, but more that you haven’t had the opportunity to prove it until recently: https://m.dw.com/en/poland-racism-on-the-rise/a-36812032

I think any kind of tribalism-oriented bias or skepticism about “the other” is probably something we’re all oriented towards from an evolutionary standpoint. And so getting over that takes “brainwashing”, just like many, many other positive things in society. The concept of equal rights didn’t fall from the sky: we invented it because we thought it’d work better for everyone in the long run. And we have to constantly be reinforcing it or it falls apart.
All you describe can be said about the Shinkansen when it was introduced in the 60s - and look at it now.
almost every bank has that. mine even reimburse the ATM fee.

(ok, unless you count the US crap list such as BoA, etc)
I don't know why I didn't think about the clearance; that's a very good point. Does the low clearance affect maximum roughness and slope of the track as well?

[edit]

Did any of the hyperloop competitors try the addition of a skirt, similar to the UK's old hovertrain?

[edit2]

Googling for "hyperloop skirt" found this article: https://waset.org/publications/10004923/conceptional-design-... which suggests a 2cm clearance, but no clue if that's a reliable source.
My late 2013 with the same GPU is still going strong but it's going to need replacing at some point. I'll have to move off Apple at that point as Nvidia (CUDA) is a must for me.
Also file complaints with your city. Comcast relies on licenses from the city to use the poles for their cables. Complaints about bad service tend to get fixed quickly when their franchise agreements are in peril.
Yeah, I was hoping to find a CVE number but couldn't
Thanks for sharing. A lot of concepts for me to parse and Google. I'm having a fun evening of it.
Why the Marshall Islands Is Trying to Launch a Cryptocurrency
In which case China does the same thing back to us, as we've been seeing lately. Most economists think this sort of thing does more harm than good.
Apparently talc is also used in surgical procedures such as: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pleurodesis
and make authorship in them after a cut-off date a negative

It's a good start, but hand-me-down science in open-access journals is no better than putting it into Elsevier. Hindawi instead of Elsevier probably isn't even cheaper! Money is too tight to hand it to a sketchy publisher.
This is just a single article head style. The Log (main) page use regular characters.
Yes, point being that's not really the bank account Robinhood is trying to offer.
That cnn article sure is interesting. Poland is supposedly one of more Christian countries in the world, but nothing even close to the stories from that article (losing job or customers after coming out as an atheist) ever happens here. I wonder how common such incidents are in the US.
From my discussions, as well as from surveys conducted (remember, poorer less educated people were more likely to support his appointment), it actually resonated more with less well off demographics. True, for Kavanaugh the stigma of being seen as a rapist doesn't have much effect - his employment is guaranteed for life after all. But for a poor person it may greatly impede their ability to get employment, potentially even putting them on the streets. For the less well off, being seen as a rapist, is a lot more impactful than getting called names.
Pretty sparse on details. I presume local SQLite files for backend systems are unaffected, can anyone confirm?
Being able to manage what seems to be multiple "conflicting" ideas at once and without stress should be prized in every culture.

The world is not black or white. Enlarging your perspectives always help.
Yeah I dunno. It’s like Apple has beef with Nvidia or they are just riding out a contract with AMD until Apple gets their own GPU’s in the macs. Seriously annoying.
The important distinction is "Respirable" not "particles". Respirable particles are those that are small enough to get into the alveoli of the lungs. Most talc particles are much larger, >25μm, which are easily caught in the nasal passages or cilia in the throat but there's a huge range of sizes depending on the talc source. Small particles (<10μm) can move to the lungs, hence the air quality warnings at PM2.5, PM7.5, and PM10. Particles of that size are particularly dangerous, but moreso when they contain fibrous silicates like asbestos, which are known to cause cancer when respired.

In the Reuters documents, you see repeated references from scientists / consultants to just swapping the talc for corn starch since it has a larger average particle size and a smaller distribution of sizes -- and importantly, doesn't have any fibrous silicates which can't be guaranteed with mined talc.
What odds would you give that that word has been used more than five times in the history of English literature?
If logging in as one of the adminstrators, you will be in an elevated session - so yes, you can do things like disk resizing.

The difference between password auth and key auth is that using password auth you can access network shares that need authentication from within the remote session. With key auth, you wont be able to.
I'm always curious about this as well. On Ubuntu 16 at least installation is just selecting an option in the software manager. After that it just works.
its in the making....
How long until all Christmas lights are programmable?
Or in the 90s https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-KK_BOlHCaeI/V1G9-ezN_5I/AAAAAAAAA... [HR Giger]
Oh, but that's the thing, there's no regulation that can stop the consumption of personal data. Let's be clear, we are talking about bugs. The consumption of personal data will continue, because:

1. consumers want it

2. governments want it

The only thing regulation will accomplish is that only companies like Facebook will be able to do it. Yeah, big win.
I think it’s better than continuing to exploit the underprivileged. The persons who were either in one of the categories: uneducated, unfortunate, desperate, deluded/ill, or whatever it may be to how they didn’t have the variables & events needed to succeed compared to the ones that did. Add a forgiveness plan with some financial health classes and the community health will improve or the system is inherently socially poor and needs to adapt for persons who are destined to fail with the system that favors others unfairly.
Difference between traditional data breach and API leak
That was nicely done and I agree - I'd rather be unemployed than work for a company that would think through something like that! Great job. :)
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Has there been a CVE number assigned yet?
I'm a little late to reply. I use Discord and Slack a lot which uses RN but I've noticed that there are frame stutters when scrolling or when viewing gifs, and other chat applications like Telegram (native) do not have this problem. The stuttering is how I notice if they're using RN or not here.
I wonder if this is a reference to the band 10cc - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/10cc
Fusion reactor economics get worse as you make them bigger (assuming the smaller one works at all). That's because their power output is limited by what the first wall can withstand. By the square/cube law, their power/volume must decline as they are made larger.
but at least the shareholders got to make tons of money tho, right?
you might want to create an issue for their devs to look into.

https://github.com/PowerShell/Win32-OpenSSH/issues
I'm not going to defend CenturyLink, but in the interest of attributing this mistake to incompetence rather than malice, I'd like to suggest how this might have happened. CenturyLink is a multi-state ISP and their generic system has limited ability to support state-specific policies. They have a well-developed system for creating state-specific packet processing rules, but they don't have a well-developed way to notify all customers in a state.

Therefore, when Utah surprised CenturyLink with a new law, they didn't have a way to comply with the law quickly except by changing their packet processing rules. This was the ugly result.

CenturyLink should obviously have some way to add state-specific notifications to customers' bills. I hope they learn that lesson from this ridiculous event.
I didn't notice this, thanks. In that case, the AMP situation is worse than I thought.
FCC comments not mattering is not a problem either, IMO.

Even if they did matter - the spam comments are largely the same as reddit or HN spam i.e. as long as they can be filtered out it doesn't really matter.
Bottleneck to PV is battery capacity. For Solar to meet peak demands and replace fossil fuels there has to be storage capacity and likely a fair bit of investment into grid infrastructure to meet volatile productions. Getting utility companies (a highly regulated monopoly in most cases) to do anything is a slow and painful endeavor.

The more time/location dependent energy sources we add to the grid, the more valuable and necessary on-demand energy to buffer with will be. Same goes for a steady producer like fusion/fission: an increasing value proposition as these renewables are added.

We should definitely be doubling down on PV, but stay aware of other options as it comes with trade offs.
I wonder if "We should get this taken care of before IBM takes over" was part of the thought process here.
Did anyone consider comparing the cost of this vs. Cloud Spanner?

Because CockroachDB has the explicit inspiration of being Google's Spanner without the special hardware, so... why not just use Spanner with the special hardware instead?
If only there were some way to refer back to the article we're commenting on about that very topic. Perhaps you missed it in your hurry to post a barrage of unresponsive replies.
Regarding your Makefile; you should still pass CFLAGS through to the compiler when linking, not only LDFLAGS. Suppose CFLAGS contains -m32 (supported by an x86-64-targetted GCC to do 32 bit). You compile the .o files with that, but then link without it, which fails trying to make a 64 bit executable out of 32 bit .o's. Some crazy distros pass a --sysroot in CFLAGS; if you don't have that, your build finds the wrong library and header files.

Even when linking, don't call "cc", but "$(CC)". You're relying on the implicit rule to compile your .c to .o which will use $(CC). $(CC) could be some ARM cross-compiler supplied by a distro. When you link using "cc", you end up using the build-machine's native compiler.

Write the build system like this is an awesome program that major distros will be eager to pick up, and make it easy for the package maintainer. :)

Speaking of CFLAGS, only set that conditionally; don't clobber it:

CFLAGS ?= -O2 # Only if CFLAGS is not specified externally, use this default

for things that your program needs in order to build right, put that in other variables of your own:

DIALECT_CFLAGS := -std=c11

CFLAGS += $(DIALECT_CFLAGS) # integrate external CFLAGS with our own.

Same deal with LDFLAGS. Both CFLAGS and LDFLAGS can include important things that cause a bad build if you mess with them.
"If you use a device or software that uses SQLite or Chromium, it will be affected."

If I write a hello world C program that does some sort of IO with SQLite, it will be vulnerable to remote code execution? (if this turns out to be true, that will be quite impressive!)

Guessing something was lost in translation there. Sounds more like someone found a way to get code execution if you can inject certain data into SQLite, then found various applications that expose this functionality remotely?
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Surprising amount of support for IP theft here today.

The US got away with it because countries like the UK couldn't police it during the industrial revolution. Whoops.

The Chinese got away with it because the US couldn't police it on the global stage. Whoops.

---

But the US might've found a way to police it effectively now... soooo why would we not? Why would we permit it because others historically got away with it? Without civility, you only own what you can defend.
If the report is accurate, then how can consumers know in time to avoid dangerous health effects?

A sample timeline:

1: J&J discovers asbestos in talc products
2: J&J covers it up
3: Consumers, none the wiser, continue using talc products
4: X consumers contract cancer and die too early, fracturing families and causing unknowable amounts of economic damage in the form of lost productivity
5: Decades later, Reuters publishes report
6: Consumers avoid J&J talc products, shareholders lose some money, possible lawsuits

I call your attention to step 4. If the consumers don't know that a product they're using is damaging them irreversibly, how can they make an informed choice?

Is dying a fair cost to inform others about the danger of a product you're using?

Is loss of market value, lawsuit settlements, and regulatory fines a fair consequence for the person who is no longer living?

If a company can cover up health effects, let a bunch of people die, deny everything, and eventually pay some money, is that the market working as intended? What about the people who are dead now, is that money helpful for them?

I don't think we can ever fully trust "the market" to prevent this kind of thing from happening, because companies have no reason to ever admit to wrongdoing that will affect their bottom line, even if lives have been lost. The only time a company will admit wrongdoing, is when the cost of dealing with it publicly is less than the cost of covering it up and possible future liability.

Case-in-point: https://highline.huffingtonpost.com/articles/en/welcome-to-b...

We could have laws that require compounds created to be used by non-expert end-users, whether for food, topical application, or otherwise, to be tested extensively for long-term health effects before they can be sold. This would be a cost to the manufacturers, but what is the value of a life? How much profit would you allow a company to save in order to kill you with a tainted product?
Well, in part the ideas was not get into big debts. People could self-sustain much more easily in the past. No need to buy iPhone each year help on that.

Is important to note that the jubilee was a measure against the worst case scenarios: Persons that sell themselves as slaves (or sons of slaves), people that lost the hereditary land and things like that.

This also means the society was based around this expectations.
Oh, it is a bad thing, very much so. The more efficiently we can maintain the U.S. Navy, the bigger we can keep it, and the less likely it is that some smaller nation will threaten the balance-of-power by pulling a competitively-sized navy out of their butts.
I don't see any: https://www.cvedetails.com/vulnerability-list/vendor_id-9237...

Edit: it's "To be allocated": "[$TBD][900910] High To be allocated: Multiple issues in SQLite via WebSQL. Reported by Wenxiang Qian of Tencent Blade Team on 2018-11-01" (from https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2018/12/stable-channel...)
The nose cone of passenger jets would have to be fairly thing / weak I guess? Because that's where the forward-looking radar is right?

If a bird hit anywhere else on the plane the cross sectional area of the impact zone would be fairly small in comparison to the nose cone, and probably a fair bit stronger, so we could probably expect to see less damage on a wing or tail fin as at 700 odd kilometers per hour the bird would probably be cut in two by the leading edge of a wing or tail fin?

I'm not aircraft engineer, though.
That's an overload of the term luxury. Is air conditioning a luxury? Depends on what you mean by it.

What I mean by it in this case is, we are able to support economically many more people having mansions than we used to. The trade-off is they rightfully earn the prefix of Mc.
We currently cite ArxiV, we cite books out of print, we cite websites, heck we cite 'Mein Kampf' when discussing facism. We cite anything that was used as a source.

Banning citations means either changing the above practice, or banning certain sources from being used by academics. That is sacrificing science for the sake of ideology. We ought to consider sources for their inherent quality, not whether we like their publisher.
Correct and 17 tesla magnets are already hugely powerful. Its a tremendous amount of structural stress. If it quenches it can explode!
Right. They don't have the same level of commitment from the US government.

SIPC is like Fannie Mae, where the US implies a backing without making a promise. When push comes to shove the US Government gets to choose whether to do a bailout on a case-by-case basis.

FDIC is not like that at all. The US explicitly and unconditionally backs them.

Look at it in political terms. FDIC is guaranteeing everyone's savings, rich or poor. You just can't let that fail. SIPC is guaranteeing a bunch of investments. If the class in power takes a dim view of bailing out a bunch of "wealthy speculators", the ball can definitely be dropped.
>> Facebook asked users to upload nude photos

I missed that one. By now even lay people should know that's a recipe for disaster.
Would it be too difficult to select all service addresses where state is equal to "UT" and then send a bulk rate piece of paper to each of them with these same words?

On my CenturyLink bill in Washington State, I get state- and city-specific notices every month, but even if that's not easily changed, a piece of paper in the mail would have sufficed quite nicely with no packet blocking required at all.
Was your father's home and workplace ever tested for radon? It's the second leading cause of lung cancer and a far bigger problem than asbestos.

https://www.cancer.gov/about-cancer/causes-prevention/risk/s...
They say to update to this SQLite version: https://www.sqlite.org/releaselog/3_26_0.html

Skimming that log doesn't give me any ideas.. maybe the diff would help elucidate?
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Looks like the latest version is a lot simple to use... Just install the optional server feature and start sshd service.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/administrati...
There certainly is an objective reality. It may be very hard to determine what it is, but it nevertheless exists. In this case, as long as you define developmental goals (ex. the child develops into kind, responsible, emotionally stable adult etc.), the policies/circumstances, such as being raised in a diverse environment, being allowed to watch TV, studying a lot, always wearing black socks etc. will or will not have impact (positive or negative) on those goals.
Others sufficiently cover the actual killing. I would only add that wasting peoples' time and/or money at scale is just as bad. Waste 30 seconds for each of 100 million people and that's an above average human lifetime.

BTW, how do you think anti-vaccination, healthy at any size, and minor attracted people ideas became popular? I specify those only because they are particularly heinous, but if you want official policy, just look at literally any election, though the 2016 US presidential election and the brexit referendum are the standouts in terms of memes.
Be KinD to yourself
Come on. The Reddit user interface used to be quite similar to HN (it is obviously less so now), and Reddit has certainly seen its own share of detrimental "human flesh search engine" dynamics, if not outright shaming behavior - remember the whole "We Did It Reddit!" fiasco in connection with the Boston bombing?
It's a big question that I don't have the answer to. I'd prefer we trade off on some innovation on features in exchange for innovating the way we segment and communicate our data. But the market is speaking and it has a different opinion...
I was reading an article some time back some Chinese businesses in order to get loans had to give a stake in their company to the government. It is not something heard about often but gives the government even more sway over private businesses.
There are many things previous generations did in the name of economic progress that we would find wrong today (slavery, child labor, etc). Times change and I should not be required to defend the morality of my ancestors. That is not hypocritical.