skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For any other Utah residents in areas that aren't served by cable, check out Utah Broadband. They've been fantastic for us, serving up 60Mbps over line-of-sight fixed wireless. Also their customer service rocks.
Too big to avoid.

Data leaks happen to every tech company. As users/customers, won't have knowledge of the leaks unless they are publicly reported.

How can you "socialize" these days without using at least one of these internet social/media platforms?

Ways to avoid givin them your data are either to be totally reclusive or to be a tech geek who relies only on niche tech products that aren't mainstream.

What if they are used as highly valuable networking platforms for your job?
Some people live off some kind of business model taking advantage of the sites. Also they work hard at maintaining their audience captivated and engaged.
needs ECJ jurisdiction, and ECHR. literally unplayable.

but for real, country names would be helpful too
not to mention all the metro transit buses and trains?

oh you mean all those non-existent metro transit buses and trains that run out to Plymouth? and the ones that run to Apple Valley? and the ones that go out to Wisconsin? and Roseville? and South St. Paul? and Rodgers? and Orono? and Wayzata? and Edina? and Golden Valley? and the literally dozens of other cities that are in the Metro Area?

the cities that everyone actually lives in all have very limited bus routes (sometimes only 2 trips per day: one in the morning and one in the evening) and the 2 existing train lines and the 1 proposed train line simply do not go there.

Buses and trains are worthless for the majority of people who work in Minneapolis because they don't run any where near where the people are living!
It's actually quite practical: boil water then stick a thermometer in it. Go do other stuff and check the temp; as it comes down and matches your body temp, it's perfect.
The pullback of outflows capital to foreign locations is the most telling to me.

Chinese companies are starting to be net sellers instead of net acquirers of foreign assets.

That would be fine if it was just because they were getting better return on their capital inside China, but in reality it is to pay back runaway debt and inability to complete asset purchases due to government capital controls. Those controls would be unnecessary if the Chinese economy was in a healthy state.

The question isn't whether a contraction is in the offing, but how deep and large it is and what kind of knock on effects it has globally.
So, speaking in terms of net value, you don’t have debt.
> Consumer savings accounts had absolutely nothing to do with the crisis.

That's just not true. A significant contributor to the mortgage crisis is that banks loan out savings that are backed by the government. Savers deposit their money with banks even if those banks are underwriting risky mortgages
And what are assets per person?
>No sane people would believe indefinite high growth is maintainable

It might not be but that doesn't mean you don't want it to occur for as long as feasibly possible. Maybe until you even reach parity with the US on a per capita income basis?

> and slowdown is of course welcome if that helps avoid bigger problems down the road

A slowdown is the problem itself, this is like saying you want to die of heart disease now because you might die of cancer later in age.
> Does anyone actually still believe that these debts will all someday be repayed?

I don't understand why you would ask this question. On the individual level its obvious that some debts won't be. It happens all the time for a lot of reasons. So I assume you aren't talking about the individual level.

But on the macro level zero debt is a very bad idea and unless civilization collapses there will always be debt. Debt itself is a very good thing. Too much, and too little, of a good thing is bad.

So in either case all debts being paid off will almost certainly never happen.

> Does anyone even believe that the amount of debt will go down

In absolute terms due to inflation it always goes up.

> (that allows people to have negative amounts of currency)

You say this like its a bad thing. Debt isn't a bad thing. Debt allows people to own homes and cars and pay for education and invest in business. Debt means you are optimistic about the future.
I meant the dissemination and review is the information, which is usually something left to journalist. It really should be a bipartisan issue.
I guess creating more money as you wrote. I believe the government has boosted the economy by giving money to workers to fix things that are not necessarily at the end of life. So to boost the economy by adding more money into the system. I believe it would be a similar strategy.
Patents don’t prevent anyone from infringing on them. They only give the patent assignee the right to litigate. If you have no revenue, there is little monetary incentive to go after you.

IANAL but in my opinion you need to first prove to yourself that you have a product that customers want. After that you can figure out if your current approach is how you should continue to proceed. If so, you’ll then have some revenues to hire a petent attorney for some legal advice.

With all due respect, I’d be really surprised if whatever problem you’re trying to solve can only be solved one way. So if you did in fact infringe and if some patent assigned did in fact care, you could likely chose between: negotiating a license, changing your solution, giving them the finger and forcing them to litigate.
If you read past the public/gov't support for Nuclear in the article (the "Declining Options" section, link repeated for convenience), it implies that even China, whose multi-plant build plan should have ensured declining costs and on schedule builds has been experiencing unplanned cost growth and schedule delays.

https://www.technologyreview.com/s/612564/chinas-losing-its-...

The economic comparisons are ending up that Renewables and even Renewables+Storage is much lower to even costs, at a much lower risk profile. And if you watch energy company investments in renewable and divestment in nuclear projects - the companies studying the matter in detail seem to be choosing the same direction.
Probably because he understand humanity so well.
Microsoft Build Accelerator
That's from a front for the Koch brothers.[1]

I'm trying to find the source for the 20% or even 30% figure for jobs requiring licenses. The trail leads back to a book published by the Upjohn Institute. The New York Times cites that. That book makes the percentage claim. But when they list the occupations requiring licensing, their toplist is "Accountants, doctors, dentists, elementary school teachers, secondary school teachers, lawyers, hairdressers and cosmetologists".[2] Those aren't 20% or 30% of the workforce.

The book is paywalled, but there is a free intro. Table 1.1 seems to be where the lobbyists and the press are getting their numbers. The source for that data is "The data for the 1980s are from Kleiner (1990) tabulations, and new estimates were developed for 2000." Kleiner is the author of the book. He's citing himself.

I wonder if he's including driving licenses. Looks like you have to pay to find out.

[1] https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Institute_for_Justice

[2] https://research.upjohn.org/up_press/18/
I see that listed as causing a decreased sense of smell - can it also cause a hypersensitivity to odors? My sense of smell is very precise, to the point that I can do things like smell which friends my girlfriend visiting on the way home from work. It could be in part because I maintain such a pristine, scent free environment where as other people have environments flooded with fragrances. This started it about the same time as my autoimmune disease and has steadily gotten worse at the same rate.

Upon exposure to an odor like Pantene or Gain, my upper lip feels numb and I start salivating. It makes me feel slightly dizzy and gives me a headache. The odor lingers in my nose and mouth until I rinse it out or 10-30 minutes. I was diagnosed with an esophageal hypersensitivity and dozens of allergies, but nasal polyps didn’t come up. I’ll ask.
Not a whole lot of broadband competition in the areas where CentruryLink operate, such as Utah. In some states, it's a sanctioned monopoly in exchange for rolling out subsidized rural broadband (which somehow never gets built...).
So, while I agree that too many developers don't write sql these days, my experience, is that usually the database is the bottleneck for any application I write on the web. There's a reason that there's been a trend away from doing things in the database for years, and a lot of it has to do with moore's law slowing down in the last decade. I can trivially scale out webheads to do many of the calculations that the database could be doing for me, so if I'm doing work on the database, I take a bigger and bigger risk that I'm going to need to add a read replica, and now my code is at least an order of magnitude more complex. I've supported systems where the latency of updating the read slave caused enough problems due to assumptions baked into the code, that we ended up just turning off the read replicas, and had to live with the degraded performance of the app.

So I would say, that in the spirit of the article, we probably aren't writing enough SQL, there are definitely things that SQL can do that are essentially free in terms of computation/memory/network. I will warn that we should do it with eyes open, and treat the database as a scarce the resource it will likely become. And often it's important to ask, "will this query that returns the exact data I want have less load on the db than a simpler query that returns more data along with it's network load?". I've certainly had battle scars even with trivial SQL queries.

Once we were sorting 10 small results in the SQL, which led to huge load on the database, since the sort was on a TEXT blob, and even though the sort could be done in memory, MySQL required a file_sort, which meant that it had to create a temp table, which meant it had to touch the disk, which meant I/O latency, and huge application degradation. The solution ended up changing the TEXT field to a varchar(65000), but it was still a wakeup for me with just how alien and non intuitive the SQL ecosystem can be. (As a side note it led me to realize just how foreign modern computer architectures are in general compared to the CS I learned as an undergrad. I also highly recommend Martin Thompson's talk on mechanical sympathy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MC1EKLQ2Wmg).
Yeah I think in certain circles this is known as a "dick move."
The temperature doesn’t make any difference to me.
Okay... now add in the ability to have a Default color... add in the option for that color to be overriden for a given deployment. Now add in options to have a style setting configurable application wide in the application. Now add in the option to have a configuration option per-user.

You can either create some rube-goldberg configuration/generation for the entire application with complexity at multiple layers... OR ...deepMerge some JSON to deliver and have the theme/components use that.
China's economy will slow, no doubt about it. CCP worries about it way more than Trump.
But car sales and anecdotes are not really good ways to measure the economy. If you have doubt about those GDP numbers published by China. Take look at metrics such as freight traffic and trade stats.
New genetic test can predict IVF embryos’ risk of having a low IQ
After losing court battle, DeVos to cancel $150M in student loan debt
First, you need to substantiate your claim about early termination fees.

Second, most of them do have other options for broadband and in fact use an alternative provider every day.

Third, well organized boycotts commonly work well. Even a 10% drop in revenue really gets the attention.
Having done business in China, and having friends still in China, as one of them put it, "China has more problems than you can count."

China is really a complex house of cards, it looks more foreboding than it actually is in reality.

The second the economy slows the consumers hide, and go back to stuffing cash into their mattresses.

I think Trump is a fool, but in the case of China I think we need a fool. Trump believes he's invincible, so he doesn't get caught up with the "apparent facts" about China and it's economy.
There's a reason ancient Judaism included a "Year of Jubilee", where all debts were forgiven every 50 years.
> Does anyone actually still believe that these debts will all someday be repayed?

Approximately no one, in all of history, has ever believed that all debt on the globe would be repaid, so “still” is inappropriate. This is why we have interest, debt jubilees, bankruptcy laws, legal provisions for discharge of certain debt separate from bankruptcy, negotiated debt modifications (and laws which facilitate them), security for debt (and in some cases limitations on collections beyond the security) and numerous other current and historical features of society.

> Does anyone even believe that the amount of debt will go down, rather than up, over the course of any length of time?

Why should it? The number of people is increasing, as is their average economic output, as is (globally, and in long-term trend) lifespan. So real (much less nominal) aggregate debt can increase over time with no meaningful change to what the average person owes (and is owed) as a proportion of their expected future output.
First, it hasn't.

Second, the SIPC boss probably is not in the best position to understand how RH is setting it up. Harbeck seemed unaware that the "cash" in RH accounts was actually going to reside in investments like Treasuries and thus be covered.
Yep. This is also a weakness of the original article, with its "If India had been able to invest its own tax revenues and foreign exchange earnings in development" which seems to rather ignore the fundamental reason the East India Company was able to take over the subcontinent in the first place is that the various Indian empires and fiefdoms had ploughed rather more into conflict and ceremony than exploiting India's headstart in areas like steel working.

Indian economist Amartya Sen is fond of pointing out that although India has no shortage of hungry people, it hasn't had a famine since the departure of the British. But he's also keen to point out that the significant difference is that the average Indian person now gets to vote governments in and out of power. This wasn't the case under the British, but it also wasn't the case when Shah Jahan dedicated more tax revenue to monumental architecture and unsuccessfully attempting to conquer Qandahar than resolving the Deccan Famine.
Hoarding data is different from OSS. We’re talking about infra providers. IMO, they should be regulated like public utility companies.
Mostly because that land is so inhospitable that nobody wants it.
Documenting a thought process with RFCs
The Pentagon Is Declassifying Lots of Info About What's in Orbit
Didn't work out so well in Mr. Robot.
Of course. The money supply increases monotonically out of thin air.

Think of it. A few centuries ago, there simply wasn't $80000 dollar in the whole world. You'd be quite wealthy for having a single dollar.
Sketch is the ultimate optimized UI for power users - designers. Sketch can do what both Photoshop and Illustrator can do without looking bloated and 'laggy'. It's minimalist and spartan UI hides a depth of power and functionality it's like having a la Ferrari engine underneath a Minicooper
For those interested, average house sizes look like this over time [1].

Here is inflation adjusted housing price per square foot over time [2]. It is not much different for anytime in the past 100ish years as far as I can find from various datasets.

[1] http://www.newser.com/story/225645/average-size-of-us-homes-...

[2] http://www.aei.org/publication/new-us-homes-today-are-1000-s...
If a small town in the US could become a tech hub, then every capital in the world would already be one. Significant amounts of money are spent around the globe, yet it seems tech hubs are the one thing you cannot disrupt. :)
If nothing else, it could be useful for portability. You can't make a solar powered aircraft carrier. You might be able to make a fusion-powered one.
Assets = Liabilities + Equity.

In other words, $350k home = $300k mortgage + $50k in equity. You still have debt. Its just that the debt was exchanged for something. Its the same equation for credit card debt.

No one takes on debt without receiving something in return.
It sounds like they're committed to the values that are important to them, regardless of the huge disadvantages. What's the way to change this?
If an article is about a "Brain-eating" danger, it captivates a host of emotional responses, mainly as a result of works of fiction. It's even more powerful if it's from something we can't see with the naked eye.

From a health perspective, it's also a way to remind ourselves that there are simple precautions to prevent that. We learn from others' mistakes.
To a huge number of people Robinhood is taking all the GOOD ideas and putting them into an app.
Which has more mass, a pigeon or a 5.56? Which would you rather have bump into you at it's typical flight velocity?
Site deactivated because it causing performance problems (BlueHost)
Speaking in terms of net value, neither does the world have "worldwide (...) record $86,000 [debt] per person".
I think his response was more disproportionate than the "aggression" they directed at him. Killing yourself over 6 months in federal prison? Not wanting people to get subpoenaed?
If you set aside the public sentiment, the economic non-performance of Nuclear, despite investment, compared to other options is a bigger driver.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-12-10/french-po...

This conclusion from the same French agency has been the result since 2015, with prices of Renewable alternatives making that predicted result more and more solid.
I remember being at a hackathon of theirs (the Lady Gaga backplane) years back and seeing dozens of what looked like Herman-Miller Aeron chairs all over the office. Maybe they got them for cheap, maybe they weren't actually Aerons, but also maybe this pretty small (I don't actually know how many employees they had..) startup had a couple tens of thousands of dollars worth of office chairs
Going by this article, it seems like you should.
I didn't watch it, what happened in the story?
Amazon explored medical diagnostics, was in talks to buy Confer Health
It's worth reading the Ray Dalio debt crisis book to see how this might end - the most likely scenario is the US, Japan, and EU all encountering cash flow problems in the next recession that they resolve by devaluing their currency. In that sense people have less money today than they believe. If all the major currencies and stock markets crash at the same time, there's no safe place for everyone to keep their money.
You can buy Vanguard and other ETFs in Robinhood. For free.
I'm glad someone did these experiments. I find that Scrabble begins to seem unfair after a certain level: there is certainly a great deal of strategy involved, but just as much of the game involves memorizing a fairly arbitrary collection of words: "za" is allowed, but "ok" is not, and there are far too many obscure transliterations of Arabic terms. The Scrabble Dictionary is more-or-less synonymous with the game itself, and the if the idea of memorizing a particular dictionary is already of dubious entertainment value, this is not improved by using a bad dictionary.

Scrabble is a classic game. The basic idea seems great. I just wish you could have a Scrabble game without having to say, "Seriously, that is considered a word? This game is ridiculous!" and feeling like the other person has an unfair advantage.
If it says so in the Terms of Service, yes. Actually it does say so for G Suite: https://gsuite.google.com/terms/dpa_terms.html

With a good ToS in place, Google is actually more trustworthy than smaller companies.
Because people looking for work or in states with bad employment numbers can use it as a crutch.

It's easy to blame the president for the reason your coal job is no longer around, yet as soon as people find employment, those on unemployment are moochers.
And call it "black"!
Google Plus would probably be a better name... but, well...
Yes, and people get from it from swimming [0] [1] [2]. That's typically how people get infected. It doesn't affect that many people because people typically don't intend to fill their nose while swimming.

The issue is that a neti pot is that you're intentionally putting water deep into the sinus cavities. This amoeba is exactly why they tell you to only use sterilized water in a neti pot and to clean and sterilize your neti pot regularly.

[0]: https://www.theepochtimes.com/surfer-dies-from-brain-eating-...

[1]: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2392917/Hope-Kali-H...

[2]: https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/brain-eating-amoe...
I'm stunned at how many people are commenting that they will continue using untreated water. You can end up having your brain eaten and die, I can't think of a PSA any more convincing.
Put yourself in his shoes for a moment, and pretend you're genuinely innocent of the accusations. Isn't a group of partisan operatives conspiring against you the most likely reason for very conveniently-timed and uncorroborated sexual assault allegations?

But put that aside. Maybe he's actually guilty of at least one of them. Even then, though, some of the allegations ended up being false:

Most recently here [1], but also here [2], and here [3], and here [4]. Four clear examples of accusations made that turned out to be completely false. So at best, one must acknowledge that this man endured a national media spotlight under four false accusations of sexual assault/rape, but came across as "too partisan" when speculating as to one of the few possible explanations for why these false accusers may have come forward.

I sure hope I'm never in the situation he's in, but if I'm on national TV being essentially questioned if maybe I don't remember all the gang raping I did because of how drunk I was, I can assure you my answers will be far less dignified.

[1] https://www.nationalreview.com/news/kavanaugh-accuser-admits...

[2] https://www.nationalreview.com/news/fifth-brett-kavanaugh-ac...

[3] https://www.apnews.com/c5ecf76c62ec4c398e35020b5df01061

[4] https://www.npr.org/2018/09/20/649787076/kavanaugh-accuser-c...
Well, this happened both today and yesterday, 'cause my roommates and I don't really sync up our online purchases...;)
The feed is cool, I would appreciate if it was subdivided with tags like Mandelbrot, fractal, etc.

10/10 would add to my daily RSS feeds!
So you're thinking Musk is using the Boring company to build huge underground living spaces?
Money, keeping China out

Here's a snippet about Africa, I'm sure South America is much more important for the US.

“We will make certain that ALL aid to the region - whether for security, humanitarian, or development needs - advances U.S. interests,” he said, adding that Washington will also re-evaluate its support for U.N. peacekeeping missions.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-africa/u-s-to-c...
If you process personal data, you must make sure to protect the data. If you fail to protect the data, you can get a fine. How high it is depends on various factors. Reporting the breach timely to the authorities can help to have a lower fine.

But reporting it doesn’t make the fine go away. After all, you started to process personal data and are responsible for it. Alternatively, you could’ve opted for not processing personal data if you think you can’t protect the data adequately.

You can read all this here: https://gdpr-info.eu/issues/fines-penalties/
I think zalmoxes' point was that they may have found out through direct contact from the founders, or a customer-only email 2 weeks ago - rather than just by loading up the homepage today.
I like it as well. It seems like it would provide significant improvements in latency and failing-faster.