skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If the bans are supported by reproducible, peer-reviewed science, then I obviously support them. But if the ban is a result of “possibility” as opposed to “proven,” then I feel that food bans have a way of becoming less about public health and more about politics. Grilled meat has carcinogens, but to actually get cancer from grilled meat, one would have to eat a hundred pounds a day (or some absurd equivalent.) I realize that grilled meat isn’t banned, but my point is, any substance can be harmful in large enough quantities and concentrations, but Europe bans some things that would have to be consumed in unlikely quantities before they’d be “harmful.”

There is a lot of “people have more allergies/obsessing/whatever than the old days,” and the assumption is that it’s because of the food, without actual science proving that’s the case; it’s just a hypothesis that doesn’t necessarily account for thousands of other variables.

People have more allergies now than they used to. Could that not be caused by more electromagnetic radiation? More TV watching? Typing more?
Finally someone got that pun lol
So in the US they ban things based on the expected stupidity of people swallowing the entire egg, and in the EU they ban based on carcinogenic additives that increase short term profit whose negative effects won't be seen for years? Seems appropriate.
$1k is not "organic" mostly, but it does buy you a good diet. Lots of veggies (expensive!), not a lot of carbs, that kind of thing. Organic would be $2k or so. If you think you're spending less on food, you probably don't watch how much you're actually spending. I thought I was spending less than $1k until I started actually tracking how much I spend. Turned out it was $1700-1800/mo before we cut down. This included eating out several times a week. Now we eat out once or twice a month. We were able to get our "food" bill to almost exactly $1k/mo, which is only like $33/day. It is mind blowing to me that some people have to live on like $2k/mo around here.

Do an exercise for a couple of months, or better yet a whole year: record all your expenditures and classify them. I can guarantee the results will be eye opening.
Yes, there are laws that protect against discrimination based on certain categories (religion, gender, race, veteran status, etc). Business owners still have the right to refuse service for other reasons of their choosing, like the customer being a loudmouth ass, or not following the dress code, without having to refer to a legal statute.
Recent CF blog (by a guest author) about increasing LuaJIT performance https://blog.cloudflare.com/more-consistent-luajit-performan...
I’m going to presume you’re not conducting illegal activity such that you’re worried about getting caught. Given that presumption, what risks are you trying to mitigate by treating your cell phone as you describe?
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See Jeremy Evans' talk on github. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2Rm7wLNmsco
Interesting, never knew there was a difference. Just looked it up: in EU chickens are vaccinated against salmonella and the US not. But cleaning them does make the eggs vulnerable due to removing the outer protective layer. Hence they need to be refrigerated. Still strange though every fridge I know comes with a egg basket though nobody I know in the Netherlands puts their eggs in the fridge.
The cause of starvation is lack of food available at a given price point.

Producers make production efficient to capture more of the market at the lower price points on the demand curve. There aren’t enough rich people to pay for thick margins at a large scale in the food industry. The only ones with large margins are the organic farmers selling to rich people.

Growth hormones exist to make chicken much faster, which means much cheaper chicken for consumers and to make the chicken raisers more money. If it weren’t cheaper, people wouldn’t buy more of it and it likely wouldn’t be worth the investment.

Here’s a thought exercise, why do you think sellers of factory chickens outsell free range chickens by orders of magnitude? If the only difference was margin and not price, nobody would buy the factory stuff.
I think if anybody is interested in using this as a webfont, you should take a look at the file sizes of the typeface. They're about 100-200kb each, which adds up if you're using multiple font weights. It could be significant depending on the context of your app.

Apparently this is because the font has a lot of glyphs that may not exist in other optimized web fonts (relevant GitHub issue: https://github.com/rsms/inter/issues/53).
Do you always read all ingredients for prepared food you buy?
I can toot my own horn here: https://stateb.us.

Statebus can easily synchronize N clients to N servers, and has a very nice wrapper on top for reactive UI widgets to respond to changes in state. Here's a hello world example:

dom.BODY = -> # Let's define the body tag as a function
DIV
backgroundColor: '#eef'
'The time is '
fetch('state://server.com/time').now
' and the weather is '
fetch('state://another.org/weather/oakland,ca').brief

This defines the <body> tag as a function that will reactively re-run whenever the state of the time (fetched from server.com) or the weather (fetched from another.org) changes.
Sodium cyclamate - used as an artificial sweeter in the EU but banned in the US (and other countries).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodium_cyclamate
Thank you. That answers a question I once had but could not get a satisfying answer to other than 'can't be done'.
We’re dumping corn into fuel precisely because we incentivize it over meat and dairy...
Getting into specific policy prescriptions is tempting the fate of Godwin's Law, but I don't believe it's wise or even possible to regulate every single molecule that gets sold for consumption.

Constant evaluation, testing, and liability for people/companies that knowingly use dangerous or harmful ingredients can go a long way here. In fact often times it's the only way broader datasets can be gathered. The market provides a strong incentive here as well not to poison your customers.

I also think that education, including warnings on packages, and then letting adults make their own decisions, is a good way to go. One state that I know of recently banned a pest control chemical because some idiot sprayed his dog's food bowl with it. The dog later died. The state's knee jerk response of banning it is counter-productive IMHO. I've been using it for DIY pest control for many years and it is one of the most effective I know of, and when used as directed is perfectly safe (don't spray anything that will be ingested with it, such as dog food bowls, gardens, etc).
Your definition of safe does not correspond to most peoples’ definition when it comes to food. Safe, in this context for most people, means safe for general consumption. Unsafe means that the product causes harm in just about everyone who consumes it.
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They're beautiful. Good luck oxidizing any of that in normal environments, those scopes will outlast the people that built them. Old computer hardware used to be just like that, I would buy the boards by the pound in the 70's for parts. Gorgeous stuff.
Any evidence that Ferrero is planning to drop Kinder Surprise?
Alright. Then (1) write that rule down and (2) call those writings "the tax code".

Then everyone knows the rules and the outcomes.

This onsies twosies business of choosing who pays one on a case-by-case basis is ripe for bribery and inequity.
How long did it take you figure out taxes/permits/liability for the Estonian entity in countries where you and your customers live?
> younger folks may not be able to read it

You're joking, right? Those letter forms aren't really all that cursive. If kids can pick up that a tall loop is a lowercase L, then they can read that. It's probably only a problem with readers for whom Roman is not their native character set -- reading handwritten Japanese is probably an order of magnitude harder for me than printed text.

That said, does Coca-Cola's swirl come off as pretentious? I think there's a lot to be said for continuity in branding, and Coca-Cola is certainly a master of branding and marketing.
The market provides a strong incentive here as well not to poison your customers.

The history of corporate malfeasance and the desire of people to optimize for short term gain versus long term gain indicates that your view is not supported by reality.

For example see the cigarette industry and how it deliberately made its products addictive and more dangerous.
Hey thanks! Unfortunately only the first block appears to be text :(
Evvacuating 99.9999% of the air is technologically much harder than merely 95% of it, but the difference in the force exherted on the spheres is small (only 5%).
They do, but it's $500 USD per month for the most basic plan. I'm looking for something that can start small and scale as needed.
I love the way this font looks to an irrational extent. Will use in my work.
Starch is just polymerized sugar.

There's probably some room for slower digestion and absorption to matter, but calorie availability and density is likely the bigger problem then the exact nature of the calories.
> ... the darwin kernel has a keen awareness of what threads directly affect the user interface and which do not (even including the handling of XPC calls across process boundaries... if your work drives the UI, you get scheduling/RAM priority). I don't think the linux kernel has nearly this level of awareness.

You're talking about priority inheritance in the kernel. In Linux, this is in development as part of the PREEMPT_RT ("real-time") patches, already available experimentally in a number of distributions.
If everyone being able to run a full node is necessary for bitcoin then it's simply going to fade away into irrelevance.
Ideally. When I started as a programmer companies had business analysts who had domain expertise and made sure software mapped to the domain and actual users. Now we have PMs, usually glorified project managers, too often with little or no domain expertise or technical understanding. I freelance so I don’t have PMs or analysts, I have to learn the domain and deal with the management/client/users directly.
Thank-you. I've just updated the sound file that is played to black-listed phone numbers.
With an Estonian (electronic) ID card, you can incorporate and run the business online. An Estonian corporation is permitted to do business anywhere in the EU.
Because there's substantially more 'perceived' pressure when you don't know for a fact that thousands of developers rely on your work or trust your authority via your follower count. Power absolutely changes one's mental context for taking action, and Dan Abramov is one of the most empowered people in the front-end world.
Knowing what companies are on the market. My cell phone location would pretty much tell you who is being invested in or about to be sold. That could really cause trouble.
The history of corporate responsibility and the desire of many other people to optimize for long term viability and survival does indicate that my view is supported by reality.

Your implication that because one or several persons (or companies) did something wrong, therefore all of mankind is bad/evil is fallacious. Because a neighbor of mine is a thief or a murderer, does not make all neighbors thiefs and murderers. We hold him accountable for his actions.
Having lived in both places for extended periods and observing that it's mostly America that has an alarming obesity problem, I think there is something to be said for simple foods that come out of the ground and aren't highly processed with chemicals. It's only a suspicion and I don't have proof. But even most of the packaged foods in Europe have a much simpler list of ingredients, all stuff you would recognize as basic ingredients you use at home.
can you give an example of a qualitative corollary? do you mean a characterization of a space or something like that?
Plenty of literature, including schematics, can be found here:

http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/dec/

http://bitsavers.org/pdf/xerox/alto/
This looks fantastic.

I love that it was a no BS signup and start using. Super clean and easy. It would be great to be able to show data on GIS as well - effectively showing the outcomes geographic representations. Ill see if the data I was looking to work with today will work with this tool meaningfully.
> [...] The user could write data to file right before the deletion recurses to the same directory and the handle-based deletion happens. Similarly the newly written data would be wiped out unintentionally. [...] No filesystem or VFS is going to protect you from accidentally deleting stuff you're still using in another context.

...what? No file system is going to protect you from accidentally deleting in-use files? But that's exactly what Windows does: it prevent you from deleting in-use files. That's what everyone here has been complaining about. File sharing modes let you lock files to make sure they're not written to (and/or read from) before being deleted, it very much need not be the case that the user could write to a file before it's deleted.
I understand the utility but am completely mystified by these redesigns. The results look like those generic, standardized tobacco packaging labels or even Squarespace website titles. In each case- Burberry, Rimowa, YSL & DVF- I really love the original logos. They seem to capture so much about the brand and reflect high-end quality. I can't imagine why these companies would want to homogenize their branding in this way? The article doesn't really explain it well..
a shout-box with tags?

the beauty of twitter is subscriptions, the "beauty" of reddit democracy
Great tool! (I’m a regular user :D)
Banning ingredients for food is a very specific kind of ban. I'm against the war on drugs, but I'm totally for banning strongly psychoactive ingredients from food - cannabis should be a controlled substance.
Anyone who wants to can accept the card (technically, the certificate stored on the smart card). For example, I use a domain registrar who registers .ee domains--thus requiring a digital signature from an Estonian ID--and can also use the card as a login mechanism. To be clear, the card isn't an ID in the sense of "here's my ID in person" (the card doesn't have a picture); it is a smart card with two digital certificates stored on it.

More to the point, though, is that Estonia provides a digital identity and signing system that, among other purposes, allows you to access Estonian government services like forming a company. Since you can form a business under Estonian law, you operate as part of the European Union single market.
Then wouldn't gravel or paving around the house make even more sense?

Lawns are stupid.
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Dropping Clojurescript in favor of JavaScript doesn't really solve the problem. Modern JavaScript has compilers, bundlers, minifiers etc that all slow down the build process as well. Almost no one actually just open up a JavaScript file an runs it as-is in the browser these days.

In addition, unlike say GTK vs a native windows app, the only perceptible difference to a user of a Clojurescript app versus some other flavor of JavaScript will be bundle size. Clojurescript embraces the JavaScript VM, unlike languages that attempt to bring their own runtime to JavaScript.
When is SSH access to production instances necessary?
Is this something like an implementation of Googles beyondcorp model?
https://beyondcorp.com/
I expected a lot more depth from this article considering the heavy implication that email providers are suppressing republican-sent emails in some purposeful way. This mostly just reads like a marketer trying to find a new customer cohort based on superficial analysis.
Alternative headline: Did Republicans send more spam emails in the 2018 Election?
Thanks for the answers!
The team behind the iA Writer app recently released three variable fonts with an open source licence on Github. Details here:

https://ia.net/writer/blog/a-typographic-christmas
I saw this a couple of years ago, when it was just a project. Now that there's a price, how did you guys decide on a price? How did you find your first customers? For a broadly applicable tool, how did you know where to start looking?
There are alternatives that can be deployed without reducing carbon emissions:
https://edition-m.cnn.com/2018/11/23/health/sun-dimming-aero...

We'd already be over 2*C if not the aerosols that humans released: https://nca2018.globalchange.gov/img/figure/figure2_1.png

These took out much of the heat from greenhouse gasses. And in my opinion you either buy the climate change models (which are very aware of aerosols), or you don't. It doesn't make sense to believe that the planet will heat up more, that it is due to humans, but aerosols are not a part of the story.

We're not as screwed as many people think.
I suppose, but only in the same sense as governments around the world tend to have mechanisms for non-residents and non-citizens to transact business or own property. An Estonian identity certificate doesn't, on its own, allow someone to enter Estonia or live or work there. That still requires citizenship of Estonia, the European Union, or meeting other requirements.
> There's a middle ground ...

You mean the good old "Okay, I won't say anything when you feed it to your kids, but I didn't say it's OK, so if they die it's your fault!" ground?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allen_Dulles
Right, a cubic micrometer is 1E-18 cubic meter. So there are ~2.5 molecules per cubic micrometer at ~0.1 microbar.
> That's not completely true. While it is banned for consumption, Indian cooking and more recently, American cooking, has begun using mustard oil

How is it untrue? The chefs in that article are (technically illegally) using massage oil with a required "for external use only" warning label, because that is "the only use for which it is legally approved in the United States."
Nobody is starving who is able to buy food on the world market. People starve in Yemen because there are guys with AK47s between them and the nearest functional port.
I'll agree with that wrt to Celiacs, but not the broader point. Many of the people that follow the Paleo diet (which is no small contingency) believe that wheat in general is indeed not safe.
It worked out rather the other way around, though, did it not? Namely, the consequences of the risks taken by the big banks in pursuing aggressive lending policies were effectively socialized, while profits remained private. Even in the case of the large sovereign bailouts (most prominently Greece) most of the money went directly towards debt servicing and associated expenses, further socializing risks taken by private banks.

I'm not expressing any value judgment on these decisions in this post, but it seems to me the basic terminology is hard to dispute.
I mean how nitpicky do we need to be here because spy isn't a real title.

Just HUMINTers? Or are SIGINTers and GEOINTers also spies? Pick from the list:

Paramilitary Operator, Non-Official Cover Agent, Clandestine Case Officer, Technical Operations Officer, Case Agent, Operations Officer, Desk Officer, Analyst, Imagery Analyst, Counterintelligence Officer, Field Officer, Military Intelligence Analyst, Linguist, Airborne Linguist, Reconnaissance Pilot etc...
Updating story progress on JIRA
I think this is a new name/site for the existing Mozilla group that went by the name "Emerging Technologies".
It has the 80s modern vibe with today's technology. It definitely tickles something deep down in my mind too.
The 3rd parties that convert your USD to BTC aren't censoring people, whereas PayPal is.

So that is a significant difference. Apparently PayPal is censoring way more people than the average crypto exchange.
O yeah, good old K155LA3 (the Soviet clone of 7400). Was very popular among the electronics enthusiasts.
Someone you know may be without your knowing and you can be snapped up in the "drag net"...
Call me when multiple longitudinal studies independently verify that opinion.
I'd love to see some word counts and sentiment analysis as part of this.
Depending on your platform - Apple's Photos is pretty good with facial recognition, and it's all done on device.
I think that there is a good solution: supervised learning/segmentation with direct user verification.

You have the user enter a free form address, and then translate it into a structured address. If they correct any fields, you look at those and try to figure out if the final result is correct or not, and integrate that.

Maybe this could be done as a service with iframes (like ReCaptcha); and since the information in a full address is basically entirely public knowledge (at least in the U.S.), you can keep all of it around in full detail.
Ask HN: Recovering an audio disk ripped in an unknown format
Hello HN,

Wondering if some experts can help me.

Years ago, I went to a car audiophile meetup somewhere in North London and while there, I've heard a very interesting set of songs on a CD while listening to one of the guys setup. I took down his details, later got in touch and asked him clone the CD and post it to me for a few, so I could have it for myself. When it arrived, I thought I should rip the CD in case I loose it, was it was great selection of songs to benchmark audio system quality in general. I have a recollection saying it was one of the European Mobile Music Association (EMMA) test disks, but I don't think it's likely because those usually have a lot of chatter explaining judges which test chapter they are currently on.

Anyways, six-seven years later, I got a new stereo at home, and I thought it would be great to see what that set of songs sounds like on the new system.

I dug up the image file in my Google Drive, which claims to be in MDF format, tried to mount it, and to my disappointment it did not work.
Tried renaming it to .iso, .bin, .cue, .nrg, yet none of these seem to work.

I don't recall exactly what I used to rip it, but I suspect it was Nero Burning ROM or something alike.

The only recollection I have is that one of the songs on the CD (number 2 or 3) was Club For Five - Brothers in Arms (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g55JlxWYo8Q)

This is where I am looking for experts help, perhaps someone who knows about audio encoding enough can recover the songs on the disk image.

Disk image available at:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B8u8uTexrWiSSjJYX1gxTllEamM/view?usp=sharing
Sometimes the meaning of "subsidy" can be stretched.

For example, people will sometimes use "subsidy" to describe the government purchasing defense research and products.[1]

But it's apparent you weren't considering all forms of government paying private companies to be "subsidies".

https://www.thenation.com/article/heres-where-your-tax-dolla...
Can you give some examples on what you have built with it?
LSP concept was not invented at Microsoft but they used their market power and VS Code momentum to force the various ecosystems into it. I want to claim that this is Erich Gamma's doing (who also worked on other plugin systems notable Eclipse before) but do not know for sure.