skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a semi-valid concern. It would take a relatively small amount of an organism to contaminate something, and unless you're regularly cleaning everything made of those types of plastics you could have some real issues.

We fight mold and termites now in our living spaces, imagine if you had a plastic-eating organism and a little bit took up residence in a hotel, an office, your car, a bus or train, your house.

Even if it was relatively slow at breaking down it could cause considerable cosmetic damage. A little gets on your laptop display. You leave it at home and go on vacation for a week, you come back and some light etching has occurred over streaks of your monitor and the screen is now fogged and needs replaced, you wipe the exterior down as best as you can before replacing the screen and are pretty sure you got it all. Your screen gets replaced, your laptop works great again until a month later you pick it up and your spacebar falls off, the plastic switch entirely degraded, you open up the laptop only to find most of the internal plastic is structurally compromised, you unknowingly transferred some of the organism inside when you replaced your screen.

Here in Indiana, sometimes in the spring and summer, there's this fungus called 'lawn rust' that has orange spores that resemble rust and get on your lawn and will even get on vehicles (which will just wash off) but imagine something getting in the wild and landing on your car with a largely plastic body... go a week or a month without washing your car and you might get home from the car wash one day and notice your bumpers are pitted, oh darn the future plastic eating bacteria/fungi strikes again.

Even if only kept this stuff in industrial facilities, unless you go NASA level clean-room when leaving the facility it'd be damn easy for some to hitch a ride on someone headed home from work and, well, "life will find a way".
I'm a professor at CMU. I have a lovely office.

I don't use it except for holding office hours and 1:1 meetings that require confidentiality. I spend most of my time near the entry of an open plan area where I bump into people at a much higher rate. I love it.

I do sometimes hide in my office or home for some things, but much less than you'd probably guess. I also spend a lot of time walking around - I find that things like reviewing papers is best done away from all distraction, including electronic , so I'll walk over to a nearby park while reading. I often do the same for editing my student's papers.
I wouldn't call LLVM "mostly Apple owned" at this point. It has a huge range of contributions from Apple, Google, and many others. Even Microsoft! =]
The answer, in a word: "Sugar".

Obviously you can't take the word of one random commenter on HN. There's a lot of reporting around this in good news sources: https://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/13/well/eat/how-the-sugar-in...

When I say "the answer" I should, instead, state that that's a large part of the reason. It's not the SOLE reason. Of course it's more nuanced than that.
I wanna do improv since past 2 years, but there's nothing in Pune city.
Lifestyle change is possible: littering, disposable bags. One could go on.
Besides "all attention is good", simply compare the amount of media attention for the original news vs this "negative" one. It still looks like one of the most successful announcements from branding ROI perspective.
So, like the Chase Sapphire Card model:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16056408
Ask HN: Does esop's allotted to employee's undergo dilution?
I have a naive yet important question(just because these things are talked so less about, or subjective) around employee stock options.

Does it ever happen(even exceptions) that allotted employee stock options to an employee doesn't get diluted(somehow) over next round of fundings(given secondary sale, i.e dilution takes place for founders/investors/rest) ? If yes, how's that(any reference would be helpful) ?
This is so cool to have the raw data type becoming accessible in Presto. Testing it out, it is interesting to see the HEX of the data type as one increases the count of elements!
> Moreover, you won't find any reputable study on the web where the average person lost 10%+ of their body weight and kept it off for five years. Not even one.

What about studies where someone moves from a high-obesity country to a low-obesity country? Is there such a study?
EULA has no specific meaning in industry. It's been used for so many different kinds of terms, in so many different contexts, that it's lost nearly all meaning. Like "OEM".

> The most defining characteristic of a EULA is usually the "licensed but not sold" part.

Public licenses for software, say MIT or BSD, also arguably license, rather than sell. But they still include disclaimers of warranties, like merchantability and fitness for particular purpose, implied by the Uniform Commercial Code, which governs contracts. Huh?

At least under the US law I've seen, from Jacobsen to Hancom, there's no hard, meaningful legal distinction between contract and license, as some activists theorized early on. Even when those activists drafted licenses, like the GPLs, that explicitly claimed to be licenses and not contracts, they still included contract-like disclaimers and limits on liability.

Realistically, license and contract rules coexist and overlap. How do we interpret license terms? By rules of contract construction. What claims do plaintiffs make for violations? Copyright infringement and breach of contract. What makes a license irrevocable without consideration? Promissory estoppel, a contract doctrine.
Thats an interesting way to think about things

I had always thought of the solar system ending with the planets with some ambiguity about the ort cloud

But thinking about it as a system influenced by the biggest gravity well makes a lot more sense
According to the NY Times, he actually received $413 Million

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/10/02/us/politics/d...

Where's the $3 billion number coming from?
No MySQL clustering means no adoption from me for now.
>Many of these investments are illiquid and have long holding periods, so aren't available to normal investors but can provide much better returns than index funds.

They can also provide worse returns. You don't know which. You can guess that they'll provide average returns, because the average investment gets average returns. After all, not everyone can be above average.

Passive indexing guarantees average returns. Before costs, that is. So not only is the indexing approach cheaper, but it's also safer.

>In addition, when you have >$100m in wealth, consistent, predictable returns become very important and index funds don't give you that.

Quite the opposite, IMO. If you do something straightforward like dump 100% of that into the S&P 500 and spend the dividends, you're looking at something like $1.8 million this year. Less in a downturn, of course, but that's still pretty difficult to spend.

And if you have known large expenses, fixed income is really efficient at guaranteeing you the money needed to meet those expenses.
Potrzebie
Sorry, I'm very interested in how this all works. What does an application mean in this context?
Who is the author Sam Hawkins?
It's more Grains than any type of sugar
Biodegradability and sterility seem like something that frustratingly are in opposition - how do you keep the pathogens out while allowing microbes to consume them?

I could see ideally a chemical self destruct timer like "it becomes biodegradable in 30 years" but that is clearly easier said than done given issues like reaction rates varying by temperature.
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/12/378
FWIW, Apache2 has other really useful aspects such as being self executing. We looked at options very similar to BSD w/ a patents clause and they ended up being less good on several fronts. Of course, YMMV, this was specifically in the context of LLVM.
You could consider investigating why your comments are so consistently flagged on this website. We're here to read informative things, not snark about what so-and-so knows or does not know. So please just teach us about Backus' FP instead of going on an information-free tirade.
When I was in high school, that superset of debate and Interp events was called forensics, and joining my high school's team was one of the best decisions I ever made.

Memories for life and public speaking skills to go with it.
Same here. And Salvatore's blog post about hll is pretty nice:

http://antirez.com/news/75
>I don’t understand the focus specifically on water bottles when this comes up, seems like any drink bottle would be just as problematic.

I suspect people drink far more bottles of water than soda, simply based on the price of an entire flat of water compared to a 6-pack of 20 ounce sodas.
Yeah - I got a 10lb CO2 cylinder, a regulator, a few hoses and Ball Lock connectors, and this:

https://www.homebrewing.org/Carbonation-Cap-Stainless-Steel_...

add water to 2L bottle, pressurize to 20-60PSI, shake bottle for 20 seconds.
Open shift no longer free
Open shift removed thier free ongoing tier today! May as move on.
Even if that is true. Gaining control of the “Windows desktop browsing market” is at best a Pyrrhic victory.

63% of all browsing is done on mobile.

https://www.stonetemple.com/mobile-vs-desktop-usage-study/
are there any docs what you can set for the crd values? I only see some examples but I do not see any full crd api doc.

something like: https://kubernetes.io/docs/reference/generated/kubernetes-ap...
+1 for The Martian. Excellent!
Yeah, don’t feel bad. It took me a while as well.
Notably, major fintech startups in Europe got their banking licenses relatively quickly: N26 (Germany), Monzo (UK), Bunq (Netherlands), Revolut (Lithuania). Also, Freetrade, a British answer to Robinhood, became a member of the London Stock Exchange before even launching publicly.
Court of Chancery
a relevant aside, the Reply All podcast episode on drop-shipping is a great listen
Anyone else notice that one of the places you can order the book is... Amazon?
Oo, that's really interesting. I havn't seen one if there is, but I would love to.
New Treatment for Cerebral Palsy: M2 Macrophage Transplantation Improves Motor and Cognitive Function

https://www.abclawcenters.com/blog/2018/03/27/new-treatment-...
Eating garbage and sitting aroind all day.
It is still part of the orthographic rules for Frakturschrift, i.e. not using a long s in fraktur would have been an orthographic mistake. Since Fraktur was used into the 1940s, people were very much used to it.
I'd add "cars" to the answer, but sugar definitely comes first.
I invested in a startup, what to do next?
Here's context. I've never invested in anything much more than small donations to causes I support and a few hundreds in crytocurrency. I'm an engineer working in a startup myself. I've been living a very frugal life and I felt I needed to invest in people who are working on something I believe in. That's why I've just spent half my savings as a seed fund on an early-stage, hard-tech startup. I want to stay committed to the company and help out with whatever I can, but I don't know how. As an inexperienced (and most would say reckless) investor, I'd like to know what to do next. Hoping to get some advices from experienced people.
I wonder if there’s still value in etiquette classes that used to be common but seem to have disappeared. I can imagine there being benefits to practicing politely greeting people and holding a conversation with eye contact and complements and all of that.
Because we can spend 1$ and get 400-1200 kcals out of a vending machine (that takes 10-30 seconds to consume), while we sit at a desk all day and evening, instead of having to plant/weed/harvest/process our food in a field.

he says as he eats candy

We have ridiculously kcal dense food immediately available while we also have, on average, extremely sedentary lives.

I mean, looking at:

- Starbucks menu you can get a beverage that comes in at 500 kcals without even getting fancy.

- Symphony milk chocolate bar: 149 kcals/ounce.

- White Castle chicken sandwich (about half the size of a deck of cards) 350 kcals

- Wendy's Baconator 950 kcals

- McDonald's double bacon smokehouse burger on artisan roll 1130 kcals (most of McDonald's value meals can actually easily get into the 1000+ kcal range without any special modifications)

- Burger King Whopper 660 kcals

- 32 ounce Coke 370 kcals

- Papa Johns sausage pizza 260-410 kcals a slice (depending on the pizza size)

We can get insane amounts of kcals, with relative ease, in dense little packages while being largely inactive.

Edit: since this was downvoted to -2, HN is throttling my ability to reply to the individual that replied to me, in regards to 'first world countries':

https://obesity.procon.org/view.resource.php?resourceID=0060...

Obesity percentages: US 36.2%, NZ 30.8%, CA 29.4%, AU 29%, UK 27.8% all 'first world countries' out of the top 10 and if you look at the complete list the bulk of the 'first world' countries, where convenience foods/fast foods are readily available, are above 20% obesity.
I acknowledge your point, but to be fair you should also acknowledge that the status quo was conscious decision by voters (via representatives) to minimize the cost of power for citizens. That may not have been a good choice, but we are a long way from a non-free society.

On the plus side, you can now easily get solar + batteries + inverters as an alternative :). Costs more, though.
> Donald Trump, if his public finances are to be believed, would have roughly the same net worth had he just invested the money his dad gave him in mutual funds.

There was a factoid going around years ago that said Donald Trump's net worth was equal to the value of his inheritance if it had been invested in an index fund.

But note that under that hypothetical, he never would have spent any of it. Do you think the historical Donald Trump ever made any splashy purchases? Where did that money come from?

Having a high net worth while living the high life involves a lot more money than having a high net worth while living an ascetic life, and implies that his returns were a lot more than the index fund experienced.
I appreciate you taking the time to explain this.
If they never collect the data, or store it in a way that they don’t have the private keys, they can’t give it to the government.
No other ongoing free options...was, azure look better now. Pass is poor subst without free tier!!!!
Alternatively use the compiled binary
It looks like a standard single r/w master + multiple r/o slave topology with the addition of their own leader election. I'd want to understand how the latter works and how it is tested very well before I'd trust it.

https://kubedb.com/docs/0.9.0/guides/postgres/clustering/ha_...

https://github.com/kubedb/postgres/blob/master/pkg/leader_el...
Having more wealth gives you access to more efficient financial vehicles that generate (or maintain) wealth.

When you're poor, you are taxed:

- High interest loans

- Remittances with high fees e.g. with Western Union

- Using Cash (on average, you pay a tax on items which have the credit card fee priced in)

- Access to banking (low interest savings/checking accounts)

- Credit cards with high fees, low kickbacks

As you get wealthier:

- Credit cards with kickbacks (e.g. travel, cash back)

- Access to bank accounts with higher interest

- Access to international banking

- Access to international stock markets

As you get wealthier:

- Ownership of businesses which allow you to store your wealth without getting taxed

- Ownership of international businesses which allow you to find the best tax situation internationally

As you get wealthier:

- Access to private markets

- Ownership of businesses where you can directly partner with other businesses

- Running a financial institution

- Running a business so large that you can influence governments

- ...
Counter-acting the factors that made a person fat in the first place seems very difficult. Especially when compounded by an always-aging body.

Off the top of my head:

- genetic pre-dispositions
- Eating habits during childhood
- Eating habits during early adulthood
- the effects on metabolism and body chemistry of the above
- Many more, I'm sure
Show HN: Creepyface – Makes your face follow the mouse
I am profoundly unable to take seriously anyone who calls themself a “lord”. What time period are these people from?
It's more regulation than research. The idea of a Kessler cascade (where debris collides with a satellite, causing more debris, causing more collisions) is well known, and there is a lot of work to avoid it.

This means everything from eliminating things that might be jettisoned from rockets (like the despin weights on the upper stage of the Delta II), to deorbiting rocket boosters, to designing stages and satellites to fail safely without causing debris.

One of the more interesting things is the design for SpaceX's new Starlink satellites, which will be in a low enough orbit that they will deorbit within a few years if one fails. (If not, they can boost themselves into higher orbits.)

The other thing that helps is that there are only 43,864 objects large enough to track ever launched, and Only about 18,000 of them are still up there. While that seems like alot, that's the number of people at a baseball game, spread out over an area larger than the surface of the earth. (And even larger in volume.)

https://celestrak.com/NORAD/elements/master.php
Come to SF then you will think nyc transit is quite strong in fact
Hi everyone, author here.

Creepyface is a Javascript library that you can use to make your picture follow the pointer (mouse or fingers).

It's been my side project for more than I expected. This is Creepyface's story:

1. A few years ago I added this feature to my online resume. Employers would see my eyes following their mouse, and they liked it!

2. At some point I thought I could turn it into an open source library. I did so (https://www.npmjs.com/package/creepyface).

3. I decided to create a site for it. I did so (https://creepyface.io).

4. I decided to improve the site so that people could create their own Creepyfaces from it. I did so (https://creepyface.io/create).

5. Time passed and I got fed up, thought this was a useless silly project and was about to trash it forever.

6. I met a guy at work (https://github.com/boton) who thought it was cool and has been pushing me to release it to the wild. Thanks for the motivation!

7. I kept delaying the "release" because it wasn't perfect. I fixed too many bugs and my friend kept telling me I was worrying too much.

8. Now here I am, still not convinced, but I think it is time to move on and throw it out there.

What could have taken a few days ended up taking more than a year. So much work for such a small thing :)

I hope someone finds it cool. Feedback is very welcome.
This article is disturbingly enthusiastic about bariatric surgery, an extreme procedure with limited success and serious side-effects.

The long and short of it is that we understand far too little about the human body and what drives weight gain and difficulty losing.

For instance, there are complex health and immune issues (e.g., mast cell disorders) that can drive weight gain and difficulty losing in spite of healthy diets and high levels of activity (and researchers think mast cell disorders alone may affect 10% or more of the population, but was named only 5 years ago and is still poorly understood. What else could be similar that we just don't understand yet?)

Beyond this, what we put in our bodies (various medicines, antibiotics, ingredients in processed foods, various pesticides etc, even artificial light) may have effects on our physiology that we don't yet have a strong understanding of.

Our microbiomes are still a complete mystery to us, deeply impacting how and what we absorb from our food. The same food does not impact every body in the same way, period.

Bariatric surgery is a band-aid over a gaping wound. Until we understand the complexities of human physiology at a more sophisticated level than a high-schooler in physics class (calories in, calories out just doesn't cut it) -- we are going to continue seeing public health impacts in the form of fat and disease -- which may often have underlying causes that the fat is simply the most visible symptom of.

Edit: Seriously guys, is there any other area of science where people are so convinced that anecdotal and small-sample (both in terms of n and longitudinality) observations are valid? There's a huge market for delusion about fat, we're fighting that as much as we're fighting to learn more about the human body.
Show HN: Anonymize web server access logs using a Bloom filter
> Trust is completely gone.

Not long ago, I returned an item to my local OSH retailer. I didn't even have a receipt. The product was basically a piece of junk. But they just handed me a new, better product in exchange.

Of course, OSH closed down.
In the distant past, Safari was officially available for Windows.
You're ignoring Alpha Centauri A and B, which are much larger. Also, even without the Alpha Centauri system, very distant orbits (more than 2-3 ly or so) would be destabilized by the galactic tide, i.e. the gravitational gradient of the Milky Way galaxy.
I mean, yeah, it is absurd.

But there are many types of lawyers in this world. Besides the obvious professional divisions -- real estate vs patent law, trial law vs contract law, etc etc -- you have lawyers who advise their clients versus lawyers who assist their clients. The former are the kind you want, who will tell you what to do to keep everything above board; the latter view it as their job to help you do whatever it is you wanted to do, with the thinnest veneer of "obeying" the "law".

It "works" insomuch as you don't come under scrutiny and your lawyer's legal theories are never tested at trial; a lot of the people making use of this sort of lawyer will rarely if ever actually go to trial -- they'll drag things out until their opponents eventually settle.
Reinforcement Learning and Optimal Control
Reading HN. Sigh.
And for each CI compile, how many times have devs done an incremental compile? Probably a lot.
so if calories in < calories out does not work, what about increasing exercise?
Another article hiding the main information in a wall of text.

Here is the relevant information for those interested:

""Enter a young inventor named Samuel Owen, who has developed a prototype device called the OtoTech, from Otolith Labs. Worn on a headband behind the ear, it uses subtle vibrations to change the way the brain computes the fact that the body that it’s attached to is in motion. Early tests show it relieves motion sickness without the side effects of drugs, Owen said, though he admits the science is so young that it’s not clear just how.

The vibrations emanating from the OtoTech gently target two of the four fibers that carry data about body motion to the brain via a system of inner ear sensors called the vestibulocochlear nerve. “Two [of the four vestibulocochlear nerve fibers] go to the brain, two go to your reflexes,” Owen said. The trick is to affect the former and not the latter.

“The working hypothesis is that [the vibration] causes a chaotic and noninformative stimulus to go to the brain. Somewhere, probably the cerebellum, there’s a filtering mechanism that filters out noninformative sensed information. It’s the reason you don’t notice the shirt on your back right now,” he said.

In other words, while you remain consciously aware that you’re moving, the balance portion of your brain stops noticing the fact; the data has been drowned out in white noise from the device.""
reposted a few minutes later https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18700985
Apparently even animals such as monkeys and rats kept in labs and fed the same calories under controlled conditions are fatter than the same animals fed the same decades ago. Xenoestrogens?
Stupid ads and notifications prevent me to read this article.