skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I didn't have an SSN until my early teens (
sometime in the 1980s) because it wasn't required for my parents to claim me on their taxes until then. The IRS fucked us, as usual.

I was a free American for a decent amount of my life.

The constant drumbeat of more and more big government only ever ends in mass death.
My hidden bullshit detector says it's an advertising article playing on fears, and having fake comments below it.
>Still we are talking about ingesting few microscopic particles per day.

Which is going to increase. Plastic plumbing, plastic containers, plastic clothes, plastic cooking surfaces, plastic in the water, plastic in the salt, plastic in the air, plastic toothbrush bristles, plastic microbeads in body scrubs etc.

Most plastics are effectively forever, they break down into smaller and smaller pieces creating the microplastics. A recent (very small) study found every single person out of the group of 8 had microplastics in their stool, on average about 20 particles for every 3.5 ounces of stool. The study had one test subject per country from Finland, the Netherlands, Poland, Austria, Italy, the United Kingdom, Russia and Japan.
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Data Science and the Art of Persuasion
If the cost of maintaining one's business practices requires subsidization by means of deception then really shouldn't matter.

Even if you're one of the ones who are benefitting and not getting screwed.
The difference being that you will likely spend hours of your day thinking in rust, while git should be taking minutes of your day, but often ends up taking hours when you screw up a command and need to restore things to how they were.
Can you please provide sources? I am very interested
yours is the startup founder version of Goethe's quote:

Every day we should hear at least one little song, read one good poem, see one exquisite picture, and, if possible, speak a few sensible words.
Years ago I thought it was the government that was destroying the internet and the open frontier of human communication. Over the last 10 years I've understood it to be the google and facebooks of the world that have a vested interest in command and control of internet consumers all the while training a new generation to think, act and do it their way.
Sorry your site is down. I also use Namecheap but switch to CloudFlare dns immediately. Fair isn't a useful word in my vocabulary. Get whatever compensation is in your agreement or whatever you can.
The thing I don't like about modern screens is that you won't get a chance to spend hours futzing around with AUTOEXEC.BAT and CONFIG.SYS to get your system just right, or play with IRQ jumpers and settings. I'm actively looking for plan Bs in the form of Raspberry Pis or similar kinds of gear.
Integrating Scrapy and Django to fulfil your scraping needs
This is pretty neat, where do you see yourself positioning among other CI tools?
Back in 2011, I had a mental breakdown and ended up streaking down the block where I was living. Police apprehended me and threw me in the local jail cell. I was denied telephone calls which made me even more paranoid. A scuffle broke out where I was punched in the head, eliminating my memory of the incident - footage later showed that it was 10 officers beating me after something happened around a corner - conveniently, the police claimed to not have footage of any other angle.

After this scuffle they charged me with 6 or 7 counts of felony assault on officers and transferred me to Twin Towers correctional facility, left me naked in a solitary confinement cell for 3 days while constantly hitting me with a microwave beam from across the hall through the cell door window. The cell was so small I couldn't hide from it.

This is the device I believe they used on me: https://youtu.be/CwYvhY-g10A

On day 3, my whole body was tingling and all my hairs had become burned and embedded ingrown beneath the skin causing sepsis, blood infection. I knew I was dying.

I was also losing sanity since I had been in this cell for 3 days straight without anyone on the other side letting me out for even a shower. So I clawed myself and spread blood on the cell window and EMTs finally got me out of there.

At the annexed medical facility I was put on antivirals and antibiotics intravenously to save my leg and fix the sepsis.

Had a lawsuit but my lawyer was a flake and bailed on me once Raytheon denied having the equipment at Twin Towers.

Hospital images:
http://imgur.com/a/qzrEICg

Here is an album of the damage months later (EXPLICIT): http://imgur.com/a/uHYr5

Images are a bit disorganized as I didn't plan on sharing my experience.

I am a shell of a person I used to be. I haven't worked in 2 years since resigning after a year at Amazon due to a shit boss. I been keeping most of what happened to myself because I ended up dropping the civil suit, and the PTSD combined with the long winded details of the case make it painful to recall and retell. I feel like every aspect of America let me down - having lawyer tell me that "I wasn't allowed to make a phone call" is not meaningful, despite the placard being nailed to the cell door, just infuriates me. Was told there is no way to prove things like this so it doesn't mean anything.

Tortured and stuck in a cell for 3 days smelling my own shit because the toilet didnt work. Then being told I don't have a case. My family not caring enough about me or the potential $$ to even help me.

I am so cynical in systems now. I sure fell through the cracks :-/

Not to knock on your friend, I read a lot about some technicality based cases that win some nice money.

I just dont understand how I wad almost assasinated and have proof of going into this jail ok, and 3 days later being burned from head to toe, and it doesn't mean anything.

Fml. At least Mathematics and Software/Reversing/Hacking will always behave according to rules that don't destroy one's faith in the laws...
Turn their FUD around on them. If it "needs more study", then ban it immediately until the risks can be better understood. Anything else would be irresponsible.
Currently saving up a retirement nest egg to work on video games full time. Your advice matches with my own research.
I'm not sure why you would think that Trilium, even in Electron form, would be resource intensive. It's not. Upload bandwidth? For syncing data? Unless you keep full video files in it, I can't imagine how that would come into play unless you are using only cell data at below 3G speeds. It seems as if your objections are more based on principle than actual in this case...
This describes the hoarders that I have actually known:

"But researchers have found a possible link between hoarding and PTSD among Holocaust survivors, and late-onset hoarding has often been linked to loss or trauma."

Of those I've known, all of them have had intense anxiety about their own mortality -- all of us have some anxiety about our death, but with hoarders that fear is close to the surface. I've had the impression that they hope to hold onto the past by holding onto physical objects from the past. If you keep a souvenir from a particular day, then it's as if that day has not yet ended, it will last forever.
Looks like this was intended for https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18929709
Exactly. And even that, you could use a VPN. In fact anything an airbnb host can do, your ISP at home can do it to, and is far more likely to be doing analytics on it, or be subpoenaed for it. So if it is a concern, you're probably already using a VPN.
> The problem is in Seattle, but not if you go south.

Tacoma has an average home price of $350k. That means, to afford an average home/condo/apartment, you'd need over a $100k+ salary per year. (Using the 28/36 rule). But the average income per person in Tacoma is ~$37k/yr.

That is absolutely a crisis-level problem of massive proportions.

The only way anyone can pretend those prices are even vaguely reasonable, is by comparing it to somewhere like Seattle where the crisis is so much worse.
That is begging the question (I don't habitually ask them, anyway).

I believe all of the source studies are multi-year at least.
I would argue that an ereader that simply displays ebooks is less of a "screen" than a smartphone.

But I read 90 books a year on an ereader, so perhaps I'm biased.
Don't they add copper and other chemicals to prevent fouling of the pipes? Not strictly required for desalination, but required to keep the desalination plant running with minimum manual cleaning.
You could say the same bout Stack Overflow, but its a lot more intuitive.
> with cleaned sewage water

You're better off treating the 'cleaned' sewage water for reuse as drinking water, which is being done in many locations.
iOS machine learning platform moves into beta
Pictures from Kumbh Mela 2019 Will Make You WONDER ABOUT HINDUISM
Very interesting project.

Also, they have some pretty hard rules around emails, e.g. no HTML (only plaintext).

> HTML emails are rejected by all sr.ht services.

https://man.sr.ht/lists.sr.ht/etiquette.md
So it is with books.

If a kid is deeply engaged with an activity, suddenly terminating it for arbitrary reason is a huge sign of disrespect from parents. Kids get as angry about this as adults, it's just that adults are trained to repress the anger. Consider: if you, as an adult, were immersed in a book or in a team sport, and I came up and ordered you to stop what you're doing right now and go do something else - wouldn't you feel at least a bit angry?
Unless I'm misreading it, the title of the HN link and the article's meaning don't match.

"Mastercard will stop free trials from automatically billing once they're over" is not the same as "merchants will be required to send the cardholder [a message] with explicit instructions on how to cancel a trial."

The former implies you can't do recurring payments where the initial payment was a non-capturing authorization. The latter implies, well, mastercard expects you to get an email from your vendor (e.g. your newspaper or whatever). I suppose said email could be as obtuse as "See website for subscription information".
The disorder line is always fairly clear cut for all mental issues. The question is if it interferes with daily life not of if it’s odd.
> Homeopathy isn't widely available on the NHS. In 2017, NHS England recommended that GPs and other prescribers should stop providing it. [0]

Luckily this is no longer the case (in general)!

[0] https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/Homeopathy/
Followed the link to read about the taxes, but the framing doesn't make sense to me:

The Vanguard Group is a mutual fund company whose adviser is owned by the funds, rather than being an independent profit-seeking corporation, so it can charge its funds lower advisory fees than its competitors do. (Disclosure: I am a Vanguard investor.) But the adviser is a taxable corporation, while the funds themselves are not taxable (they just pass through taxes to investors). There is a theory that the adviser should be charging Vanguard higher management fees, to reflect the "arm's length" prices that an independent adviser would charge, rather than the "at-cost" prices that it does in fact charge. Or rather, there is a theory that Vanguard owes taxes on the fees that the adviser should have charged, which would have been profit to the taxable corporation.

Why is there any fee that "should" be charged? The premise seems flawed that fees need to anything more than cover costs to pay the employees to do their work.

"If this structure were different, they'd charge more and make a profit and pay tax" ... But it's not different, so it doesn't make a profit, so it doesn't pay tax. Pretty simple.
Yea that could happen but I would also expect a pickup truck to have significantly more juice in it than a sedan. This might also be one of the selling points for Ford( "we have the longest range"). Range anxiety is mostly a solved problem at least for Teslas but it still looms in some peoples' heads.
That problem is easily solved by producing enough machine-generated content to drown out all actual human creativity, so people will come to expect and demand that sheen of bland meaninglessness.

(For a less dramatic version of this consider the role of autotune)
After my most recent (second) home purchase I vowed never to pay for an inspector again. They assume no liability for the things they miss making them effectively useless if you have even the most basic knowledge of home issues. In both cases major issues were missed, most recently the complete absence of any air return ducts, and an illegally installed furnace. I had to find these issues myself later when constant HVAC problems finally drove me to take some time and climb into the attic/basement to investigate. Upon confronting the inspector, I was shown the portion of the contract indicating they had no liability and told even experts miss things. Luckily I knew the right people to put some pressure on and got my ~$500 back, but ultimately lost thousands to have appropriate repairs done for the work they missed.
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I think build systems are prone to this in general — I don't think I've seen a non-trivial Gulp, Webpack, etc. setup which wasn't approaching similar levels of complexity. You get to use JavaScript instead of terse symbols but at the cost of having to wrangle thousands of dependencies which will regularly conflict, require replacement, or block upgrades for awhile.

The main less I take from this is that a) it still pays to keep it simple and b) as an industry we should continue focusing on reducing maintenance costs as much as we chase after the cool new project of the week.
I got the same. Anyone here know what is Apollo?
What would a commission pay in USD? Or 1-2% of what price?

I'm guessing it might be very similar in actual dollars, as there are a number of cities in the US where you can buy a house for $150,000. 3% would be $4,500 USD for a real estate commission. Then the broker would keep a good part. The agent might get $3,000 of it.
IntelliJ IDEA: 18th birthday
Potentially important question: is the ML system a "derivative work" of the input music? How about its output?
I wonder how many reviews go unpublished. I had a host try to shake me down for nearly $200 saying that "you spilled something on the bed, I had to have a professional cleaner come out." I had spilled nothing at all! His "evidence" was some unclear photos of a mattress, and that's it. I refused, noting exactly that - it felt like a shakedown, and he had even admitted that another guest had already stayed. I don't know how or if it'll affect my reputation, but I was pretty turned off on Airbnb after that and i'm not too sure i'll use it again.
Sounds like there's an unexplored opportunity for banks/cc companies and service providers to implement an integration API standard where the client could cancel the service through any of the parties.

Not that it's in the interest of too many providers, though.
Heinlein:

> I know of no work of art, essay, story, discovery, or anything else of value created as a result of LSD. When the acid-droppers start outdistancing the squares in any field, I’ll sit up and take notice.

Heinlein wrote some decent novels but I keep coming across pretty closed-minded, strong opinions in quotations of his. Many great musicians were known to have had LSD inspire their creations. The Beatles, Coltrane, the Beach Boys to name a few. Some of Huxley's work was influenced by it, and the biochemist Kary Mullis credits it with helping him develop the PCR method for DNA sequencing.
Chemically scrubbing the CO2 from exhaled air so it can be breathed again is the principle rebreathers work on.
You can be buying both. E.g. used LEGO Death Star II sets seem to go for around $700 on eBay (~$1500 new), and similarly if you buy BRIO train sets for your kids you'll both get better quality and something you can re-sell at a reasonable price, v.s. say buying crappy IKEA train sets.

After having kids I've seen the sheer amount of crap in excessive volumes that gets gifted to kids. Everyone would be better off if kids got 10x fewer toys of 10x more quality.
Twitter also has pretty bad compression. The worst I know of is Fandom. Reddit on the other hand has great image quality
I thought the majority of the pickup uses were pretty short range, such as:

- farmers driving around their property
- construction workers bringing supplies to the work site
- landscapers hitting a few customers in the same city

Since trucks have a large frame, there should be quite a bit of space for the batteries.

I'm thinking that many of the places trucks are used will have electricity available at the destination (construction site, farm, etc), or the total miles per day will be within the range of the vehicle (150 miles is probably more than enough).
Couple of things. All it means being classified in the DSM is "now we can diagnose and bill for treatment."

Another, many commenters here are saying "Hur de hur, I have a lot of stuff, I'm such a hoarder." I have to think they have not experienced hoarding. My wife's mom is a hoarder. Literal trash fills her home and she navigates through unsafe tunnels of newspaper, disguarded food, broken things she has a pulled from dumpsters, and animal feces between her couch and the restroom. She gets distressed at the thought of removing any of it. She might do something with that broken or rotten thing one day, and not in the hack something together way.

Collectors, reusers/repurposers, and keeping things that can be legitimately used again are not hoarders. If the DSM definition includes them, it is only due to overly broad definitions to make billing for treatment easier. Take the definition of ADD; nearly every kid can fall into that definition when doing a homework assignment they don't like.
I mean come on, sure 120-150k starting salary out of university is only a thing in SF, Seattle etc but even in other parts software engineers are paid well. 80-90k in some city in midwest where housing is super cheap is a great middle class salary.
Professional Judgment in an Era of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
Thanks! Here are some things people like about builds.sr.ht:

The Zig programming language uses it because it's the only CI with FreeBSD support. Several other users tell a similar story.

PostmarketOS uses it because it has a great API which they've built a custom integration around - you can use it more like a CI engine than a full-stack CI if you want something which really molds onto your use-case. I hear Arch Linux has similar thoughts...

And last night, I overheard some praise for it in the #sr.ht IRC channel on Freenode:

<jpsamaroo> just want to say, builds.sr.ht being fast and reliable and easy
has made me actually enjoy writing tests and CI build scripts for once
<ireas> +1 and being able to test build scripts before adding them to a
repo is *so* great
<jackdk> hear hear. I even CI'd a dead project because it was so easy.
Tesla Ends Referral Program
I'm curious, would Australian "trucks" (we call them "utes") satisfy your needs if they were sold in the US?

Examples:

- Holden (GM) Colorado: https://www.holden.com.au/cars/colorado/ls-single-cab-chassi...

- Toyota Hilux: https://www.toyota.com.au/main/hilux or Landcruiser 70: https://www.toyota.com.au/main/landcruiser-70

- Ford Ranger: https://www.ford.com.au/commercial/ranger/compare-models/?in...

- Nissan Navara: http://www.nissan.com.au/cars-vehicles/np300-navara/range-an...

All of these have a single cab option and small beds (relative to American trucks).
The creeping IT apocalypse
You should look up the net worth of the Johnson family members who founded Fidelity. The President, Abigail, who is the daughter of the founder is worth 12 Billion.

If you are ever confused about what firm should manage your money, remember this posting.

The current Chairman and CEO, Tim Buckley would be close to being a Billionaire right now if he was running any other firm, he does very well, but he makes a fraction of what SVP’s make at other firms.
Please donate big bucks to the guy who loves to show off his wealth on Twitter. Troy surely doesn't miss an opportunity to brag about having a portfolio of properties, a mansion on the gold coast, expensive cars, a jet ski, a boat, etc. I'm sure poor Troy needs your pocket money to pay for an estimated bill which is actually substantially less than what it actually will be.

After that please also donate your hard earned money to Bill Gates. He voluntarily spends 100% of his time being a philanthropist. He also desperately needs some poor people to pay for his coffee.
Don't you have to lie at some point that a vendor is committing fraud in order to do this?
Its one of my favourite questions. I imagine it would take a lot of detective work to figure out who first started using it.
I am concerned about my own screen time, especially if I also count listening to audio books and reading ebooks and Machine learning papers. Even when I go to the gym now, I usually listen to a podcast while working out. I don’t play computer games (except when my job was doing ‘game AI’ on Nintendo games) but between my personal research and working in an AI lab, I spend a large fraction of my awake time engaged with something digital.
The Fridge Company
There’s also a lot of maintenance that goes on while the ship is out at sea - requiring crew members regardless of who is piloting the ship. Requiring a ship to go into drydock for routine maintenance is pure loss for the shipping company.
Lego is kind of like Apple in the sense that they exercise draconian brand control, they have a best in class product no one can compete with, and thus they can command ludicrous profit margins.

In spite of being expensive, though, Lego is still a good deal, because it lasts forever. My childhood Lego, the oldest sets nearly 40 years old, was passed on to my younger sister, then my cousin, then my nephew, and I've got it back again.

No other toy from my childhood is still around, let alone in use. It's a pretty safe bet that Lego will still be popular in 40 years, and my childhood Lego will still be compatible.
New tech doorbells can record video, and that's an ethics problem
Why? My understanding of AGPL is that you only need to publish changes if you modify the project and open it up to the internet. A company could self host sr.ht internally, and they wouldn't have to open source anything. A company could also take sr.ht, provide it as a service, and charge for maintenance. AGPL would stop a company from taking sr.ht, changing it, hosting it as a service, and refusing to publish the changes. That's my understanding of the license anyway.
Exactly. Not too terribly long ago, estimates for the number of human genes ranged as high (or higher) than 100,000. Instead, we found significantly fewer genes, but with much more complicated regulatory networks and novel mechanisms (such as whole classes of regulatory RNAs.)
The story is well written.

I like the take on the disease beeing some kind of family legacy even with all it encompass.

I couldn't imagine what the author went through, puberty at 4 years old.
Well it depends, you just don't want just any ash, not ash from burning random garbage anyway.

The best ash for soap-making comes from burning hardwood, IIRC.
They did, it’s on the Vangurd Campus, it’s in the Quad between buildings.
Alternatively, just don’t list a year.
The new logo makes them look like a boring, stuffy company that caters to enterprise clients. Of course they chose this branding, but maybe this is also what they deserve?
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