skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Proportional-Integral-Derivative Controller" never knew what that was called. Guessing that would just be a Raspberry Pi these days.
> Nicotine on direct application in humans causes irritation and burning sensation in the mouth and throat, increased salivation, nausea, abdominal pain, vomiting and diarrhea.[17] Gastrointestinal effects are less severe but can occur even after cutaneous and respiratory exposure.[18] Predominant immediate effects as seen in animal studies and in humans consist of increase in pulse rate and blood pressure. Nicotine also causes an increase in plasma free fatty acids, hyperglycemia, and an increase in the level of catecholamines in the blood.[19,20] There is reduced coronary blood flow but an increased skeletal muscle blood flow.[20,22] The increased rate of respiration causes hypothermia, a hypercoagulable state, decreases skin temperature, and increases the blood viscosity.

Nicotine is one of the most toxic of all poisons and has a rapid onset of action. Apart from local actions, the target organs are the peripheral and central nervous systems. In severe poisoning, there are tremors, prostration, cyanosis, dypnoea, convulsion, progression to collapse and coma. Even death may occur from paralysis of respiratory muscles and/or central respiratory failure with a LD50 in adults of around 30-60 mg of nicotine. In children the LD50 is around 10 mg.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4363846/
Tree Editors by Justin Pombrio
Fixed batteries are nothing new, anti-tampering screws are nothing new, and trying to prevent more support cases by limiting the things customers can break is also nothing new.

What is new is the polarization over technology brands and people using arguments on things they pretty much know nothing about and have no experience with.
Only 10 states prevent felons from voting. Many do restrict that right until after sentence/parole is completed.

https://felonvoting.procon.org/view.resource.php?resourceID=...
Fashion driven development and not understanding how to actually make use of SQL.
It's a superset of csv, what's the problem?
I think part of it is the underlying costs of putting so many people in prison then having to eat the "for profit" costs of supplying them with tampons and napkins - i.e. necessities. Even then, you can't even do something like hand out diva cups and reusable clothes?
Cool, how about the 100 years after that?

How about its effect on our water table?
> Could there be a subsidy for companies that take the time to manage their products/design/supply-chain to combat wastefulness/negative externalities of using the product/service?

Isn't that functionally what a "carbon tax" is? Seems like the obvious solution we (speaking from the U.S.) should have implemented decades ago. There are other types of waste, but plastic seems like the most problematic.
That works, but slows down the mirror? I guess it is okay since it should only happen once.
> Using nicotine in adolescence can harm the parts of the brain that control attention, learning, mood, and impulse control.

There is evidence that individuals with ADHD are more likely to become tobacco users. I would be careful about inferring causality on this point.
I think what they are failing to address here, and what is incredibly misleading of them in this message, is that they fail to define what "public information" or "public activity" means to them. They define this in their TOS & Privacy Policy as pretty much anything you do on facebook, or a separate property that integrates with them, that you don't EXPLICITLY set as private. This statement tries to make it sound like they use very little data, when in all actuality most of what you do on FB is considered "public" to them even if they don't show this stuff publicly. That's not okay.
Most rick and morty episodes are deconstructions of popular tropes, so yeah
A nine year high: ie. they still haven't fully recovered since the last recession. And your source doesn't doesnt appear to take into account CPI increases over the same period.
We don't need to build one this big because we already have no shortage of landfill space. The big hole is just to help visualize that.
I used to make coffee with Aeropress every time, but finally got a cheap espresso machine (Breville Cafe Roma) and a coffee bean grinder (De'Longhi Dedica). Got a deal on both.

OK, so it's a bit more work than just slapping in a [pod] and pressing a button, but it's totally worth it and the only "waste" is the bit of coffee grinds. No plastic, no metal. Probably the total cost of ownership over the ~6mo since I bought the espresso machine is likely actually less than if I had bought a Keurig or Nespresso machine and been paying for the pods this whole time. Plus you can't really beat legit espresso and steamed milk. :)

That said, the Aeropress is always on hand for visiting elsewhere, road trips etc. Definitely the best alternative to a full-on espresso machine IMO.
I think you mis-linked there. The email message with the denigrating comment about people who like syntax highlighting is here...

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/golang-nuts/hJHCAaiL0s...

That was the day I dropped the mailing list.
SICP Goodness – A Simulator for Digital Circuits (I)
As a general practice for disaster recovery, I think it would be good to automate a regular backup of your MailChimp account
https://mailchimp.com/help/export-and-back-up-account-data/
Writing is their Core business after all :)
I agree though, I read it like a fascinating breaking news story
I have a Gaggia Brera Super Automatic which has a bean hopper and grinds the beans fresh for each shot. All you have to do is turn it on and press a button. Every few days you just add more beans, refill the water reservoir and dump out the grounds collection unit. I paid $400 for it 3 years ago and the only maintenance it requires is running decalcifier through it every few months. If you're a regular coffee drinker, I'd say it's a worthwhile investment.
GDPR makes a pretty good attempt at that.
That's if anything an argument for a Saturn V carrying some platform that would look like the flight deck / cargo bay / Canadarm part of the Space Shuttle to orbit to help with in-orbit assembly.

Sure, you might need some such platform to construct something in orbit. That's basically a space forklift with thrusters.

It isn't an argument for Space Shuttle system as a whole, i.e. propulsion system, heat shield, solid rocket boosters & external tank, being needed.

For what it cost to launch the shuttle such a platform could have been entirely expendable with astronauts returning in capsules, and they'd still have saved money, and been able to take up 3-4x the amount of cargo up on each trip.
You put it much more eloquently than I ever could. Thanks and couldn't agree more...
For a nontrivial number of people, that's probably about five minutes too many. Are you also factoring in the cleanup of your coffee-making accoutrements? That's a few minutes, too. Some people just want their cuppa, with absolutely minimal fuss.

Your metric for what is or isn't convenient isn't necessarily anybody else's, and other people aren't "wrong" for having different metrics than yours. Optimizing for time spent in the process of making the thing is a perfectly cromulent priority.
Critical Theory and Authoritarian Populism
There are numerous factors that go into why or why not a page gets traffic. The ~2000 words is a rule of thumb, and not at all a decisive factor.

- Have any other websites linked back to your content? 'Backlink' volume is a quality signal for search engines.

- Is your blog about a specific topic, or does it cover multiple different topics? A niche-specific website will get better ranking than a website that covers multiple topics.

- Is you website mobile-friendly? I have seen dev blogs that area clearly not responsive. Search engines can detect that and will ding you accordingly.

- Have you tried to promote your content? On Twitter, on message boards, on HN, anything?

- Is your content structured to be search engine friendly? Some devs build blogs in React, or some other framework, where the HTML is dynamically generated, leaving your page source looking like a framework template, with no content shown. A search crawler won't know there's any content there.
Yeah. I feel like the modules work for the most part, but as soon as I want to develop cross project I have issues. Do I use the replace directive in my go.mod file? That's just gonna lead to merge issues whenever someone bumps a version number. Do I build using the vendor method that sounds like it's going to be ripped out at some point? How does my dev repo even get linked into that?

This whole gopath-less thing is a bit confusing to me. I wish the 'how to use packages' stuff was clearer.
i'm not sure why it's difficult for you. perhaps you are doing a good job demonstrating how privilege impacts thought.

big scary retaliation can only really gain purchase against those who really perceive other options for themselves. if you don't perceive options, you're likely to just be resigned to what you see as your fate. it's not crazy to see prison as shelter and food, and far better than starving in a ditch.

we also cannot assume that people are in an emotionally and psychologically healthy position when deciding what risks are worth taking, or even that people are considering risks at all, or when they do that the risks are even perceived as optional.
Thanks. I'm pretty sure it would not have happened without the HN community putting this on the front page. Many thanks to everyone who upvoted this story, you may well have saved my business.
Read the DPA newsticker if you really just want "Merkel said X", "Train accident in Y", etc.

Spiegel, ZEIT, sueddeutsche, Tagesschau, and FAZ are the large, reputable, online publishers. If you want to watch, tagesthemen is I believe among the best-produced daily news in both German and English language.

Spiegel (the magazine) is distinct from Spiegel Online, and is only available for paying customers. Do read through one–I'm sure there's a free trial or a pdf you can find somewhere. It's mostly medium-length and some long-form, deeply reported stories, current events none-withstanding.

All of these are essentially mainstream, politically, with FAZ tending centre-right, tagesschau going to great length to appear neutral, and the rest being centre-left, somewhere right of The Guardian, left of The Economist.
The laws around business (and noise) on Sunday’s seem very traditional. A lot of US conservatives would love to bring that back.
When you need to inherit something that big (a corporation, programming language, a missle, etc.), you need to make sure that it won't be cannibalized or just killed outright. So you delegate your powers to a group of optimal number of people.

Yes it's boring, yes it's slow, yes it's bureaucratic, but it's realistic and pragmatic. Python will continue to grow if they can run this governance model well. They can become debian of the programming languages.
So CuteApp allows you to read FB messages and email from their app. They cut deal with FB but you still need to want to do it and then enter your FB credentials while in CuteApp. Unless messages are saved in the app, unsecured, I see no problem. FB users read his messages somewhere else but using their FB credentials. (If I understood it correctly)
> By what metrics can we say the product is one worthy of passing a HN smell test?

Common sense and formal education? I'm sorry, I'm aware of how incredibly snarky and arrogant that sounds, but in this case I always struggled to comprehend how MongoDB, or most of "NoSQL" in general, was considered viable to begin with.

"Schemaless" just immediately means that instead of the database keeping consistency, you now essentially have to do all your type and constraint checking in the application; I never understood how that's favorable, and how that remains maintainable in any way. On top of that, NoSQL (and maybe Mongo in particular?) also decided to throw away all guarantees that classical SQL databases have been offering for multiple decades for very good reason.

I think everyone who's had a somewhat theoretical class on databases and learned about, for example, what ACID really means, will have smelled that something doesn't quite add up here.
I’d recommend faz.net (from Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung). It’s not completely free of political agenda but IMHO it’s a lot better than Spiegel.de.
Such a shame that the "healthy at any size" BS is so popular these days. Literally killing people.
Are these really simpler than an electric kettle and a Hario v60?
Ask HN: Which countries have salaries $150k+ for software engineers
I am currently a senior dev in the UK and I would like to move to a different country for a few years but I am not sure which countries have good enough markets for software engineers. I am looking for a country where a job would provide me with a salary around 150k or something comparable to a UK salary. EU countries except Switzerland don't seem to have comparable salaries and US is out of the picture since I do not have a visa.
My primary concern with autonomous vehicles is crime and abuse. People are going to vandalize, damage, destroy, and salvage these vehicles. There's already little being done about this in manned vehicles, so what's going to be done for unmanned vehicles?
That's what I understood they were doing and they didn't want to do that anymore.
Compared to electricity generation, a lot of progress is possible in the US ... but too slowly implemented.

OTOH, prying people loose from dependencies on their gasoline vehicles (and the transportation of consumer goods over long distances, and the transportation of human bodies by jets) is going to be a long, slow job.

From what I'm seeing, they're concerned about climate change ... until they see where that leads... and then the resistance to the inevitable gets at least as fierce as it is over gun-control. The possibility of a democratic solution here -may- have vanished.
Here's one from a quick google: https://mises.org/library/three-myths-about-trash
You could do what they are doing here
Why is it not true for elections?
Self-driving car drove me from California to New York, claims ex-Uber engineer
UK: I don't actually know anyone with one of these. I do know one chap who has a nespresso machine but he also has an aeropress. I just use my mokapot.

Having said all that, the nespresso sales stand in a local city centre shopping arcade seems to always have people there...
What, I had no clue it was so easy... OK, I might have to try this! I thought it involved some french press type of process. Seems perfect for summer months especially! Thanks haha :)
It's amazing how many insurmountable SQL performance problems can be surmounted by putting things in 3rd normal form.
Argentina no doubt has its problems, but don't let this inform your entire impression of the country. I lived in Buenos Aires in 2013 and routinely felt safer walking around the streets at night than I have in large US metros like Chicago and Philadelphia. (Granted, part of this was due to the fact that I speak Spanish and could pass as a local until people heard my accent.)

In my opinion, Argentina is one of the most underrated travel destinations in the world. Diverse landscapes, from Patagonia and glaciers in the south to the desert near Salta in the north. Buenos Aires is a world-class city with great culture, art, restaurants, cafes, bars, etc.

Plus side for visitors from the States or Europe - the weak currency & inflation there, while terrible for locals, makes the cost of living very cheap. You can enjoy an amazing steakhouse meal with bottles of wine for ~$20-25 per person, get a great Airbnb in the best part of town for $40/night, etc.

If I ever were to transition to fully remote work I'd live in BA ~2-3 months out of the year in a heartbeat.
How would deleting work? They can't really anonymize any commit data without breaking git clones, so I guess deleting data would just delete anything non-git like PR text, issues, etc?
Human population is going to stablize in the next 100 years. Just build another. And modern built landfills don't affect the local environment or water table.
Those companies did not create PG, the company behind Mongo did and does not want Google / AWS / MS to make a service using Mongo for free.
I think if they do this a lot of people will go back to smoking.

Ex-smokers still want to smoke, vaping is just barely decent enough to switch if you want to.
I outwalked a traffic jam this morning as I often do (admittedly in a narrow time frame)
Washington, DC, Is Suing Facebook Over Cambridge Analytica
Since the title obviously doesn't make sense

The article's summary of the study said that being unfit is as bad for you as not smoking. Thats very different than just replacing every word with the negation.

Its almost like a machine learning algorithm made this title as the most attention getting group of words
Those things may be true...but how does that relate to the issue Taleb is highlighting? That the forecast is overly volatile with respect to arbitrage pricing theory.
But the being rich beats both in terms of life expectancy.
If a magazine disclosing it was fooled by one of its journalists makes anyone believe they live in the year 1935 and the illuminati are coming for their strategic tin-foil reserves then it's still not the media's fault.
Stephen Glass seems like the better comparison. Jayson Blair was definitely a massive and traumatic blow to the NYT, which called it a "low point in the 152-year history of the newspaper" [0]. But his fabrications, numerous as they were, were relatively picayune, and he was still a cub reporter career-wise. Der Spiegel's reporter, in contrast, seems to have had international accolades and was promoted to editor-status, and was trusted to write important/dramatic features concerning international affairs. Similar to Stephen Glass, which is why "Shattered Glass" was so entertaining.

Not that Blair's misdeeds didn't deserve the same punishment and gnashing of teeth by the NYT -- any fabrication deserves the career death penalty IMHO. But he was caught on his way to becoming someone of Glass's stature. What I remember most about the NYT's investigation/reflection into Blair was how he made up quotes/details regarding real-life people -- and how none of those people apparently complained (loudly enough) to the NYT. Apparently, they thought it was just par for course, which is a hugely damning and depressing indictment of journalism at large:

> In an article on March 27 that carried a dateline from Palestine, W.Va., Mr. Blair wrote that Private Lynch's father, Gregory Lynch Sr., ''choked up as he stood on his porch here overlooking the tobacco fields and cattle pastures.'' The porch overlooks no such thing.

> He also wrote that Private Lynch's family had a long history of military service; it does not, family members said. He wrote that their home was on a hilltop; it is in a valley. And he wrote that Ms. Lynch's brother was in the West Virginia National Guard; he is in the Army.

> The article astonished the Lynch family and friends, said Brandi Lynch, Jessica's sister. ''We were joking about the tobacco fields and the cattle.'' Asked why no one in the family called to complain about the many errors, she said, ''We just figured it was going to be a one-time thing.''

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/11/us/correcting-the-record-...
"For example, Apple appears to be taking the environmental impact of their business seriously:

"

I think Apple is doing "greenwashing". If they were serious they would make their devices repairable and upgradeable.
Yes but Keurig isn't really espresso, it is similar to traditional brewed coffee just with some alternative flavor choices.
This is really cool, and I wish we had more traffic-segregated bus services in the US.

I found this paper from the university of Washington which has a bit more information (DOC warning) https://faculty.washington.edu/jbs/itrans/adelaide-o-bahn-pa...

The 12 km busway cost $97 million in 1999 AUD, which is ~$119 million USD 2018. I have a feeling that a similar project would end up costing something like $75-80 million per mile, just based on transit projects in the US.

Chicago spent $41 million building 8 bus stations and painting a mile of street red. [2] It was billed as BRT, but plans for multi-door boarding, and off-bus fare collection were scrapped.

Projects like this aren't happening in the US because there is no political will. If you are going to have bus lanes you need to have enforcement. Buses should have cameras ticketing other vehicles in the bus lanes. Turn lanes should not merge into bus lanes, drivers should be forced to wait for a green arrow to make a turn across the bus lane.

There is definitely a need for service like this in the US, but we seem to think that the best option is to have people like Elon Musk build private tunnels that wealthy individuals can bring their private cars in. No matter how you design that system there is no way it can provide the same capacity as BRT. It's just another road with low-occupancy vehicles.

[2] https://chi.streetsblog.org/2018/10/17/foia-ed-documents-sho...
If Jack Ma would have had any criticism on the way China does business or government he would have been disappeared.
Toyota Explains Why the New Supra Is Powered by BMW
> “But postgres isn’t a document store!” I hear you cry. Well, no, it isn’t, but it does have a JSONB column type, with support for indexes on fields within the JSON blob.

Interesting. I didn't know you could make indexes for things /within/ the JSON.
I like that their delivery vehicle isn't any bigger than it needs to be.

An interesting idea out of this: if self-driving vehicles reduce the collision rate, road vehicles can (for some applications) get much lighter. Part of why cars are so big and heavy is safety (along with optionality for cargo and high speeds over mediocre roads). Shedding the steel safety cage could lead to improved fuel economy, which would result in a tremendous reduction in carbon output if scaled.
It turns out that not defining a structure to your model makes it easy to prototype but difficult to query the data afterwards.

Which is why MongoDB is awesome for teaching and building new stuff but horrible for reports, metrics, and scaling.
Are the third party refillable pods pretty much the same thing?
Oh I didn't mean that as a jab to the work being done.

More so to start a discussion on what can be done in the home today instead of a completely proprietary router.

I will be keeping my eye on this project for WWAN or site to site applications.

Thank you for the good work.
For an office kitchen, pod systems have better coffee than instant coffee; a lower upfront cost than a bean-to-cup machine; lower upfront and ongoing costs than a full-time barista; and less mess than an employee-operated ground coffee espresso machine.
I think you're listing wrong reasons to prefer Google's images, while there are some right reasons.

* Faster fetch - not a big deal IMO (edit: you could just mirror, you don't have to do the patching)

* Content trust - but trust to e.g. Canonical's Ubuntu is required anyway, right? And then, you have to trust Google.

Examples of reasons I would take as good:

* Does Google routinely do audit of original distro images, so that it's less of a risk to use community distro like Debian? It could.

* Is Google "manning" the work on the actual distributed software, accepting users' bugreports and then working with upstream to fix it? It could.

Even-more-downstream-distro is actually not a bad idea.