skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> We are careful to use Tor or private browsing with DuckDuckGo when doing medical related web searches.

I shutter to think what conclusions the AI overlords draw from my tracking data showing me going to a methadone clinic multiple times a day as part of my work -- probably think I'm the most strung-out human in history.

I try to turn off tracking but we all know how that goes...
Cell signal strength would be an interesting addition as a layer to Open Street Maps.
Today we’re (the general “we”, not you and I specifically) looking at the milk we put in our coffee with disdain, tomorrow we’ll be looking at the coffee in a similar manner.

Probably someone somewhere out there already is and we’ll start seeing the headlines, blogs and podcasts about it in the near future. By building our societies around globalization, we have in some ways made our societies necessarily globalized. Everything we import/export has a fuel cost including ourselves when we’re the passengers, and that cost doesn’t stop at National borders, but incurs every time we move anything anywhere any distance.

So when you have a popular crop, coffee, almonds, tea, coconuts, whatever that can only be grown in certain parts of the world, it is going to have an outsized impact on the global fuel economy relative to crops that are grown and consumed locally. The more fuel we consume, the greater the amount of carbon emissions we output, and carbon dioxide only has a global warming potential of 1 (as the base unit). Methane has a GWP of 86 across a score of years and 34 across a century.

Now so far as I know, the GWP metric is only used for individual gases, but if you were to try to isolate it on a commodity by commodity basis, I’m betting Cow’s milk as transported to and sold in the supermarket today wouldn’t look great. I’ve worked in a cafe and I know approximately how much milk we went through in a week, often because I was the one buying it. Even a small mom and pop café can easily go through 40+ gallons a week, and that was hardly the only dairy product sold (cheeses of all sorts, whipped cream, ice cream, cheese cakes, chocolate cakes, pastries). I don’t even want to think about the amount of milk a single corporate chain like Starbucks or Peet’s goes through on a weekly basis.

Fortunately cow’s milk is still available. That is really an understatement on your client’s part. I think humanity will sooner die out or go back to a technological dark age from which it never fully recovers before we give up cow’s milk in its entirety in just the US, never mind the rest of the world.
It was good enough to stop bob on floor 5 from hogging all the CPU and preventing Jim's buggy script from deleting everyone's emails.
> Guess what language that browser add-on you are using is written in.

While certainly curious, it is in no way hypocritical to use a hammer to smash a hammer factory.
his writing/speech style is lovely, so down to earth, it's a pleasure
AT&T will put a fake 5G logo on its 4G LTE phones

https://www.theverge.com/2018/12/21/18151764/att-5g-evolutio...
The analogy of JavaScript to addictive drugs should be comical but instead I'm starting to find this "JavaScript derangement syndrome" stuff just goddamn tiresome.

If you're not visiting websites that rely on JS, you're not using the same internet as the vast majority of people who use the internet. Good for you, I guess. Good luck looking at a map in a web browser without JS, although I'm sure you'd never sully your computer by visiting a Google website.
What is a “3D” car? Seems needlessly redundant.
It’s probably better to say that all major consulting companies are complicit with all aspects of major markets. Almost every large company employs McKinsey or one of its competitors. Most people involved will not be working on “horrible” content. Some people will, largely driven by the area they work in.

Projects could range from making insurance more profitable (broadly speaking bad for society) to improving diversity and inclusion (a good thing).

Consulting firms are rental shops for talented workers.
I prefer this alternative naming by The Onion: https://www.theonion.com/fda-defends-decision-to-reclassify-...

Astute as ever, America's finest news source turns this marketing-driven terminology on its head.

This has happened before, industries creating imitation products deceptively similar to the real thing. For example in the early 1900s, states fought back against fake butter, but were ultimately overruled by the Supreme Court: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/people-and-culture/food/t...

> Margarine manufacturers, to better appeal to the public, wanted to tint their product yellow; butter producers objected, claiming that yellow margarine, fraudulently masquerading as butter, was a deliberate ploy to deceive the public. (Butter from corn-fed cows is also anemically pale, and is routinely dyed to turn it an attractive butter-yellow; this practice, however, butter makers argued, was simply a cosmetic tweak.)

> By 1902, 32 states had imposed color constraints on margarine. Vermont, New Hampshire, and South Dakota all passed laws demanding that margarine be dyed an off-putting pink; other states proposed it be colored red, brown, or black. The “pink laws” were overturned by the Supreme Court (on the grounds that it’s illegal to enforce the adulteration of food) but the ban on yellow margarine remained. (The last hold-out, Wisconsin, only repealed its margarine-color law in 1967.)
Yes, it's incredibly faster. You do a lot of tensor algebra in a relativity class.
4 to 1 is nowhere close to the right ratio for water to milk produced. The numbers vary a lot depending on the region and how you calculate them but the correct range is between 100:1 and 1000:1.

https://sciblogs.co.nz/waiology/2012/05/24/how-much-water-do...
He accepted, thought about it, then went directly to the airline staff for help. They basically told him to phone/web/email and ignored him.

The kiosk was one of those touchscreen things so nobody to ask when he was making the mistake.

It is ultimately his mistake, but at the same time, they're keeping >$40 he accidentally spent so he could board an aircraft 3 minutes early. It's kind of silly.
Set up a Transferwise US$ borderless account, and then add it as a bank account to paypal using the ACH routing number. Then you can withdraw from us$ paypal to us$ transferwise (zero fees), then transfer from transferwise to your local bank account (roughly 0.5% forex fee).
Overnight oats are quite a popular product...
Again, SAT scores are an extremely poor measurement of intelligence, because at best they only apply to people who (1) speak American English with complete fluency, (2) have literacy in English, and (3) have been taught the syntax, symbols, and particular fields of math tested in math section. Beyond that, since the modern SAT includes a writing section, there is a large subjective component of the score that further reduces its usefulness as a measure of intelligence. The SAT I took had no essay, but even the old test would have done a poor job of measuring the intelligence of someone who did not receive a high school education.

The actual purpose of the SAT is to screen students for a minimum educational background needed to complete a four-year degree at an American college. It only applies to a typical American education, and only to certain specific aspects of that education (there is no section on music, art, history, etc.).
His method works

Okay, can you list real, permanent, verifiable changes as a result of his "method" (whatever that is)?

Anyone can get empty promises, empty laws that have no teeth etc for PR purposes...
This is absolutely true. Due mainly to wishful thinking as well as some bizarrely bad statistical assumptions, the risk of something like 2008 was simply not forseen. There's absolutely no reason to think that other unforeseen crises couldn't arise in the future.
Before I write out a long response on how I, as somebody who played sports and received coaching, believe that non-technical managers of software engineers and sports coaches contrast more than they compare I have to ask.. I'm guessing your being sarcastic? :D
This is a really stupid idea, because basically it will open up loopholes of moral relativism, and you’ll see them exploited through arbitrage.

How might this prove worse than what already happens? Simply put, amoral transactions are weakened by risky barter trades.

A codified exchange means that a more exacting moral relativism is hardened, and the capacity for pettiness goes up. Sort of like how vacation days work, but now, we’re talking about prostitution in exchange for starvation, based on whether web browsing habits indicate a propensity for racism, which carries a cost to one’s reputation index.

Then we get into political re-education, to boost credit score, and so on. Defensive driver credits improve insurance prices, but what if your IQ qualifies your decision making to a degree that authorizes participation in targeted political assasination for the greater good. The smartest among us are the best people to entrust in killing those who are of potentially devastating cost to society, no?

So, what if we needed to kill people now, to prevent the next potentially horrible election? Would we entertain the thought of murder to cleanse the ballot of absurd votes?
I was in Costa Rica and I used Google Maps to navigate my way around some beaches and stuff. And to look at the satellite imagery. Nothing to do with directions or even roads.

No way Uber is competing with that.
It limits Google's abilities to force bundling of their revenue-generating and platform-psitioning components.

Giving Android away to OEMs is in large part a vector to get the Play store, Chrome, Maps, and their monetizable services and data scarfing on the device.

But some OEMs don't bundle everything. Think of the de-Googled Android variant ran by the Kindle Fire series, or the Chinese phones that include local stores and service providers that work there instead. Google can try to bludgeon them into playing ball with the trademark and various over-the-top agreements, but they can't stop them from saying "We'll take AOSP and make our own version and call it FireOS."

With full licensing control up and down the stack, they can close that door much tighter.
I dont understand, that is one of Bangkoks airports?
I was there when it was just Hahn AB. When Ryanair & Air France took over after the base was closed [0] and renamed it, I knew something shady was going on. Cheap flight, but then a 2 hour bus ride to Frankfurt am Main. I bet people got angry after being fooled.

[0] Which was sad. All the pilots left with their F-16s to go to war, and the base was closed while they were gone, leaving their wives & families to pack up and return to the US.
Maybe Verizon does something similar to Sprint? https://forums.androidcentral.com/sprint/210510-bars-lie-lte...

> Did you know that with Sprint LTE Android devices, the signal strength indicator at the top does not show your LTE signal strength? Even if 4G is displayed next to it?

> This signal displayed here is always your 1x (voice signal), and it is not your 3G EVDO signal strength, nor your LTE signal strength. Regardless of whether it says 3G or 4G next to it. This is the cause of a lot of confusion.

edit: looks like they might https://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1142503
Ham is not capitalized. It’s not an initialism or an acronym.
That's ironic given all that autotools stuff came about to get everything working on every conceivable proprietary Unix, and probably probes for a lot of things nobody will likely face.
"result of future" is by far the wackiest phrase I've come across this year.
Nervosnetwork/faster-hex
24x2=48. Plus the bezels and your setup is at least as wide as this one monitor. I'm like you and like the bezels that are good for separating contexts.
TylerE was only talking about the 10k/day boundary. Why did you reply to TylerE if you wanted to talk about something else? You should have replied to someone else. As-is, the thread just became really confusing.
Unflavored soy milk has a pretty distinct flavor that is different from regular milk. It's an acquired taste, and trying to use it explicitly as a milk substitute mostly doesn't work.

I grew up drinking soy milk, it's much more palatable when you don't treat it as its own drink instead of a milk substitute. I never put soy milk into my coffee/tea/cereal.
Prepaid legal is apparently an industry.
Serious aside: Has John Dvorak (author of that PC mag piece) ever had an accurate prognostication in the last 20 years?

His schtick seems to be "angry man shouting about how new things suck."

He is the bizarro world version of Steven Levy: his default is why something is bad, instead of seeing the possibilities.
It's easy to find: https://www.transportation.gov/airconsumer/notice-24hour-res...

Edit: I should add that I don't know if this specifically applies to Kayak, etc. I'm not sure if that's what you were specifically looking for.
You could just as easily argue that iOS is by nature insecure since absolutely exterior audits are impossible.
DMK (Don Mueang Airport) IS in Bangkok, so yes, the website should say "Bangkok." I will guarantee with 100% certainty that your reservation confirmation and your boarding passes (whether printed or electronic) included the code DMK and not BKK.

There are a lot of things to complain about when it comes to airlines in general, and AirAsia specifically. But not knowing what airport you booked, that's on you.
Not just security, but a brand. PayPal equals "American Express" or "Mastercard" with some people and they trust it for online transactions, which are still considered at least a little bit sketchy somewhere.

My parents for one.
I like how you think ;-)

More seriously, that would be a Y2K bug that took close to 20 years to discover, which I think is basically impossible.
I would rather like to see limits self imposed by websites similar to CSP.
> Lots of features that are essential in people's everyday use case need Javascript in the web.

I also disable javascript by default. And yet none of the websites that I enable javascipt on have essential javascritpy features, but they merely don't present the content in plain html.

> empowers developers to put features that are useful to the user is the primary focus

No, there is and always was a tension between usability and developers putting up new features. If you truly focus on user experience you definitely can't empower developers to invent features, you have to constrain them and force them to follow UX guidelines.
3-5% fat is actually considered high-fat, for comparison, cow's whole milk is typically 3.25%, low-fat is 1% and skim/non-fat is 0-0.5%.

Interestingly, the fat content of milk can vary drastically between species, from Holstein cows 3.6% (popular for high volume milk production, but less fatty), Brown Swiss cows 4.0%, Jersey cows 5.2% (prized for their rich creamy milks), Zebu cows 4.7%, goat 4.0%, up to buffalo 6.9%, yak 6.5%, sheep 7.5%, reindeer 17%, and even fin whale a whopping 42% fat and a similarly staggering 12% protein. (Source: _On Food and Cooking_ by Harold McGee, page 13).
I can see the connection. Microsft was even more vulnerable there than Intel.

If we switch from the "Every year the clock rate goes up 30%" model to "50% more cores every year", you're going to trigger the "recompile the universe" event. This is an esistential-level threat for the Microsoft of 15 years ago.

Microsoft's biggest selling point for years was the backwards compatibility. Keep running that old software forever, and the magic of Intel running the clock up means it still gets faster every year.

If that train stops, you may well think "if I have to rebuild anyway to support many-cores, why not do so on Linux?"
Well then reputation comes into play. It's a judgement call. Sometimes it won't come out right, but buyer always wins is bullshit.

Hopefully someone puts together a service sellers can just start blacklisting buyers.
I have mixed feelings about this. On the one hand, economies of scale mean that the efficiency of mass production should be far, far higher than a bunch of people individually making their own at home, especially when the alt-milk you’re making has a short shelf life. On the other, the logistical challenges of packaging, preserving, and distributing mass-produced groceries produces a lot of waste.

Here in Taiwan, most mom-and-pop (i.e., non-chain) breakfast shops will make their own soy milk by the vat every morning. You can swing by with an empty jug and fill it up at less than a dollar (US) a liter. Most of that money goes to labor, as the beans and sugar required to make a liter of soy milk cost less than 10¢. This is, to me, the ideally sustainable solution: micro-mass production, so to speak.

(Of course, very few people actually do it this way anymore, as most people here prefer the convenience of disposable cups and straws. But that’s another question for another time.)
Article runs a weird line. Foremost, was it obvious at the time that opioids would grow to be highly damaging? Maybe. Was it obvious to the consultants? Maybe again. Some points here are rough.

“It was that year that Craig Landau, then Purdue’s chief medical officer and now its chief executive, had an email exchange that included a McKinsey consultant about how to counter mothers whose teenagers had overdosed on OxyContin. The solution: bring in patients to emphasize how the drug helps to relieve pain.“

This really does not feel malicious. It’s not discrediting the losses at all.
This is a great paper on the subject. ALCs don't: http://waterken.sourceforge.net/aclsdont/current.pdf
Reasonable is between $20-30/month.
Those arent import fees. It is local distributors taking a big cut. The PI should be sold openly, without local franchise deals. If i could order one from europe i would. The import fees would be minimal. I bring prototype electronics into canada all the time. Zero import fees for small orders.
Did Apple Suffer a Secret Data Breach in 2018?
I'm currently typing this on a machine that's used for gaming by more than one person.
Weird digression! I happen to agree Sarah Jeong's work is worthwhile, but like you said it's not her field, and none of the editorial board list anything about medical focus. Re: consulting experts, sure and agreed - but then why not do it as a reported piece and like, quote the experts?

> this particular NYT article is pretty on point for their analysis as read by a bioinformatics PhD student

Really? With stuff like "23andMe’s breast cancer screen looks at just a handful of places in the gene where mutations are known to appear. That’s like proofreading a document by looking at only a handful of letters"? Bioinformatics research background here, too, and as far as I know all of those screens scan particular sites and not a full sequencing -- because the sites are the only thing we have clinical evidence for anyway.

I don't doubt that there are more comprehensive screens on the market, but arguments like "only 2% of the population has these mutations" are rhetorically misleading without comparative details, like how much of the population has detectable mutations of any kind.

I think using an opinion page level of rigor to make arguments of this kind misleads some people, and leaves everybody else in a place of choosing whether to "trust the NYT brand" as opposed to providing them evidence.
they didn't start with actual journalism though. they started with complete trash, and then used that clickbait revenue to fund actual investigative journalism
Movies get everything wrong. And that's OK. There's a word for movies that focus on factual accuracy. They're called documentaries, and most movies are (for good or ill) not documnentaries. Most movies are trying to tell a story. They need to provide just enough realism and familiarity to engage the audience's attention, but no more. It's called "suspension of disbelief" and it's everywhere. Hobbits aren't real. Superpowers aren't real. Incredible combat or hacking skills as shown in movies aren't real. The movie White House bears little resemblance to the real version. Romance doesn't work the same way in real life as it does in movies. And all of that is OK because the story's the thing.

What an article like this illustrates is not that movie-makers are stupid, but that some people are so unbelievably egocentric that they believe what matters to them should matter to everyone else. That what seems obvious to them should be obvious to everyone, and if it's not then that's sufficient justification to look down one's nose at them. Never mind that they themselves are ignorant of many things others might consider important. It's a narcissistic behavior, not among movie makers but among movie critics.
> Same with meat alternatives.

I politely disagree.

1. If you don't want people to expect it to taste identical,
don't call it a "meat alternative". Just call it what it is (“soy patty”?), and then people will expect it to taste like that.
2. Have you tried the Impossible Burger? It’s pretty damn close.
I hope the split dwarf problem was fixed (haven't checked it out), which would make linking way more faster.
RMS, not famous for using Emacs?
We should tweak the law then to require carriers to report this data to the FCC for public consumption as a condition of radio spectrum licensing and usage.
YouTube has always had the monopoly - not on video distribution, as many mistakenly assume, but on monetization.

Twitch has recently encroached on that front, and therefore YouTube Livestream was made.

The real reason YouTube doesn't care about content creators is that they are trying to woo more mainstream media onto their platform. With the decline of ad revenue since the ad-pocalypse of 2015-ish, they are trying to change their platform to look like traditional media where big advertisers would pay for spots (the likes of Coke and Nike).
Sign up for their borderless account: https://transferwise.com/gb/borderless/

It enables you to receive money from over 30 countries without any fees. You get bank details for:

* Australia
* UK
* Eurozone
* US
* New Zealand

So you can take payouts from any of those countries (e.g. USD goes to your US bank account attached to the borderless account, GBP to your UK bank account, and so on.)
Fair enough, I definitely see where you’re coming from, just trying to bring in the honest consumers perspective. I can see how the PayPal system would be threatening.
Took the words out of my mouth. I'd love a contingency, but to set up stripe I'd need some server (or "server less" function), write my own shopping cart, write my own order fulfilment system, write a shipping integration, and even then it wouldn't be as trusted as PayPal. Or, I could pay some company $20 a month to do it for me. Just doesn't make sense. I cannot understand why stripe does not have a competing solution for this.
I use a 40" 4k curved HDTV as a monitor. It actually has about a million more pixels than this thing and doesn't require any aspect ratio finickiness when playing games or watching video. The only weird things about it are that I have to manually turn it on (DPMS power on doesn't work after it powers off) and the refresh rate is 18ms.

The thing is, I bought mine years ago for $600 because HDTVs have a vastly superior economy of scale. It kind of bothers me that we don't see more HDTVs with a slightly different firmware being sold as monitors. They're usually a lot cheaper.
As a vegan/firefighter I made the leap from not drinking milk to drinking milk about a year ago and I'm never looking back. Milk is the future.