skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Cats' purrs cause them to heal faster. They're probably assisting their lymphatic channels in pumping to clear toxins, or somesuch.

Maybe there's a frequency of sound that does the same—on a much smaller organelle level—for the bacteria in the cheese. Maybe increases their metabolism or something, makes the cheese age faster.
I'll give them points for mentioning of Sundar Pichai. As usual, no mention of Susan Wojcicki. Great article, though.

What Youtube has done to the world is a problem that is only going to get worse as more of Youtube's viewership reaches adulthood.
Show HN: Civilization 6 Timeline Visualizer
I'm always running out of coffee and I like to try all different kinds. I'm in for the beta test.
Pepper spray increases the demand for milk:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2_xMdgOPTE

"I need more milk!"
http://investorfieldguide.com/bottomless/
Already mentioned up thread — Distributed Smalltalk.

"Open a debugger where you can trace the full stack on all involved machines."

"Inspect objects in the debugger or open inspectors on any of the objects, regardless of the system they are running on."

April 1995 Hewlett Packard Journal, Figure 7 page 90

https://www.hpl.hp.com/hpjournal/95apr/apr95a11.pdf
Three New Species of Peacock Spiders May Be an Arachnophobe’s Best Friend
I don't know if you mean fixing every bug, or not creating bugs in the first place, but either way it is just the case where the teams bug fixing velocity is greater or equal to the rate of incoming bugs.
Why are the Philips smart bulbs impractical? I was thinking of buying a bunch of them for use with google home.
This is not true in my experience. I led the monitoring team at my past job and we spent a non significant effort monitoring PagerDuty due to often delays in ingestion and notification. If you page through their status page[1] they have a problem with delayed ingestion or notification almost monthly. If people actually monitored they'd be surprised how often they miss SLA.

[1] https://status.pagerduty.com/history?page=1
I come from the same scene Beto O'Rourke comes from (though, not having grown up in Texas or Boston, I only had cDc friends, not "membership" myself).

I'm saying: there's the Steven Levy notion of "hackers", about exploration and getting extra slots on time-sharing computers and ordering sweet-and-sour bitter melon, and there's the Markoff and Hafner notion, about breaking into DEC for source code and owning up a sizable portion of the NSFnet Internet.

cDc is from the Markoff/Hafner side of "hackerdom".

(That's not a moral argument; there were good people among the Markoff/Hafner-type hackers, and holy shit were some of the white hats in the mid-1990s complete pricks).
The ball sticks to the magnet across the instrument wall. The forces are balanced: the magnet is pushing on the wall from one side and the ball from the other.

Now when the stop bar is struck by the mass, the magnet is violently moved away in a short amount of time. For a brief moment, the force is unbalanced, because the magnet has lost contact with the wall; only the ball is pushing on it.

The magnetic attraction may not in and of itself be strong, but the impulse is.

In physics, FΔt is called impulse. The impulse applied to an object changes its momentum: FΔt = Δmv.

If we keep the Δmv the same, but decrease Δt, we can raise the F.
I think meds might be a useful application of this tech, problem is the restocking. You could maybe partner with CVS or Walgreens to do the integration and help pay for hardware.
> Presumably, at any time, any delegate from a member-nation can stand before the court and say "What the heck are you guys on? This guy isn't a war criminal at all."

No, while the Assembly of State Parties oversees the operation of the Court institutions, I can't find any indication that individual members of the Assembly have the privilege to appear before the Court in particular cases that way.

Representing that a defendant is not guilty is a function for defense counsel; the Assembly of State Parties acts essentially as a legislative body.
Bullshit. Yeah, calorie counts on packaging is imprecise. Yes it's difficult to know for sure. Yes there are a lot of small factors that go into it.

You know what you do with fuzzy measurements and personal bias? You over-count calories and round up deliberately to off-set it. You know what you say when someone tells you that your micronutrient balance isn't just right? "Probably. But obesity will kill me before that will."

Source: one drunk guy who has lost >100 pounds and kept it off for 3 years.
If people can't or won't take their medicine, is it the medicine's fault?

When people lack the intelligence, willpower, or consistency needed to make prescriptions (of pills, exercise, or diet) work, there's not much you can do for them except lock them up and force them to do the things.

If you need to be on a diet and you can't stick to it, there's not much we can do for you except maybe come up with a pill that makes your brain hurt less when you're on the diet, like we do with curing drug addiction.
It’ll be interesting to see how people use it. So many use cases where you could benefit from low overhead real-time updates. I also wonder if anyone can/would figure out a way to run React or Vue style components in Phoenix with this. Theoretically it should be possible. :-)
Do you have any links for this stuff or what they are called? I wouldn't mind checking that out. Thanks.
Is this a satire, or is there something about low frequency audio that physically changes the cheese?
In the event that Germany indeed imprisoned all its Chinese people and a survey found that average life satisfaction was still pretty high, whether the opinion of those people was included in the survey wouldn't change the result. That doesn't mean that minorities don't matter, just that averages don't tell you anything about their situation. Sometimes you need to know the context of a statement to understand it.
This is a great article and I'm going to use this to demonstrate to non-rural Americans (i.e., city peeps or just non-americans) what rural America is actually like. Sure, stretches of farmland, cows, corn. But what it really is is a place where you absolutely MUST have a car (or ATV or horse or something) or the only food you're eating is the food you're growing, and the best restaurant in town may very well be the Waffle House.

I grew up in rural America and then by I guess trick of genetics grew a personality that needed to get out, and so now I've lived in both that world and the Big City America world, and the Big City Asia world and the Big City Europe world. Things you may take for granted (and if you've lived/know rural America, don't take this as me teaching something you know, this is for those that literally don't know) are things like access to public transportation or the ability to walk to the grocery store or some restaurant, or hospital. Like, you might gash yourself on a rusty bit of farm equipment and the nearest hospital is literally an hour drive away - and they might not be equipped to handle some of the weirder shit you can do to your body, so now you gotta head to the state's Big City to get treatment. Things like that create a different mindset, around government, around healthcare, around self-sufficiency.

You might have your kids bus an hour each way to school. There's little choice then. If your kid gets bullied, if the teachers there are racists, whatever, there's not much you can do about it, and what are you gonna do, attend a PTA meeting when it's an hours' drive away?

A lot of the differences out there boil down to those two things - limited choice, high self-sufficiency. Don't be surprised at the non-ironic bootstrap language coming from red state americans - it's the reality for many of them. The benefits that we enjoy in a city might not even exist for them out there - the library, the busses, whatever. Or if they exist they're very very far away. Not many restaurants to choose from, not many doctors. Not many different kinds of jobs - if you're within driving distance of Nashville there's like twenty different cafes or grocery stores you can work at as a 16 year old trying to save for college. If you're not near any Big Cities, well, maybe you can score a job at the gas station? If there's any left?

I'm wandering and meandering here, apologies for making this post a struggle - I'm open to any thoughts people might have on this, particularly from others that get where I'm coming from, that have lived the rural America life. I never experienced it as an employed adult (other than as a visitor to home) so there is a gap in my knowledge there.
I don’t really have much to comment on the card itself. I’m from the UK and use a credit card for most spending due to the consumer protection it gives you.

One thing that I feel is extremely important, but not well executed in general is the budgeting. This does budgeting, but looking at it, I suspect it reports the categories of spending. The marketing site is somewhat vague at how that works. If that is correct, that’s reporting not budgeting. Budgeting is allocating your spending to predict and plan for the future.

A couple of years ago I switch to YNAB and it’s been a remarkable mindset change in how I manage money. I feel a lot of young people are missing out because they don’t have the education or tools at the bank level to do it right. Most people I know of all ages do bank balance budgeting.
What about when comparing by volume rather than weight, though? Most cereal is pretty low-density.
Philadelphia has nothing like Waffle House. Corner steak shops that are open 24/7 are a little closer. You'll see gangs and DEA agents line up around the corner at Max's Steaks in North Philly. But you won't see them sit down and take a load off.
I mean forget the bombs, people actually know about them. More Germans died from starvation than victims of Nagasaki AFTER the 1918 armistice when UK insisted on keeping the blockade for almost another year after the Germans surrendered [1]. It's not like anyone involved are going to end up in court.

Hell, we're even celebrating Madeleine Albright today as a strong feminist or something despite her saying it was worth starving more Iraqi children than Hiroshima+Nagasaki combined [2] during the first gulf war blockades. But ya, let's get all warm and tingly inside instead because W gave Michelle a candy or something.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blockade_of_Germany#After_armi...
[2] https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2000/mar/04/weekend7...
Rice is dirt cheap and low margin. The sort of people who eat rice everyday are also the sort of people who buy a 40lbs bag that lasts for months because rice doesn't go bad. Also, my (stereotypical) impression of people who cook rice everyday is that they are not rich and willing to spend money of this type of luxury.

My guess is that rice is one of the last products that automatic restocking makes economic sense for.
> No matter how much everyone dislikes ads, they aren’t going away until there’s a way to fund your site/org/business.

The problem isn't that there aren't other ways of generating revenue. There are lots of them. The problem is that carrying ads is the easiest way -- it requires almost no development effort.
Who sets the price and what stops the very wealthy from buying it all and selling it for a giant profit. The further we go down this train of thought the less market-like it becomes very quickly.
Can you give one example of a case where code is compiled AOT and not trusted during compile time? (Your example of Dart was challenged, and I agree that it is not an example, so a more detailed explanation of why it is an example would count.)
After trying to get better at Civ6 (Civilization 6, a turn-based strategy game), I found no good way to really analyze my games. Since I couldn't find anything, I built it myself. I present to you (tadadada) a Civ6 timeline visualizer.

https://boompig.github.io/civ6-timeline/

You can read more about how it works here: https://boompig.github.io/civ6-timeline/about.html

Here are some example games from my own playthroughs:

- https://boompig.github.io/civ6-timeline/?hash=1kVvkd7_w8Y_vU...

- https://boompig.github.io/civ6-timeline/?hash=cIxA-pgYSCbafu...

If you play GatheringStorm, let me know how it handles those files. I haven't played the new extension yet so I'm not sure.
The problem is America as a whole. Democracy is governing through collective intelligence, reliant on strong public discourse. Our public discourse is utterly ineffective, and as a result we execute as well as a brain with a severed corpus callosum.

We don't need more people spouting the same shit. Central valley farmers know the situation is bad too - it's just that their dialogue and that of suburban/urban voters are completely decoupled. There is no conversation. Any proposals from one group are wholly ignorant of and rejected by the other.

Jerry Brown's accomplishment is holding us steady, because even that is a challenge in the face of California's collective incompetence at being a society.

It's a big problem, but we can't blame our representatives for it. Like a marriage, everyone has to put in a little work. I try to do my part by supporting smaller grass-roots organizations, and canvassing for what I see as pragmatic bridge-builders...
At least the eggs were real
Tallinn's climate pales in comparison - and I wouldn't exactly call SV's climate ideal.

It practically never snows in SV.
Counting calories is how people who depend professionally on their weight, like dancers and athletes, hit their target weight at their target time. It works.

However, most people do not want to live the lives of professional dancers and athletes; such lives are often physically unpleasant. So they need diet plans that take psychology into account, not just physics.
Narrative: Startups are moving out of Bay Area
Reality: 2018 VC funding: Bay Area = $45bn, Austin = $1.5bn
What's the trigger?
Just got a subscription! Hope I receive the beans before I run out of my existing stock, or I'd have to make do with umm chai.

The 3 months free trial is great, but would you be adding a per-month option? I don't like to lock myself into one service for a year.
There was an article voted up in HN on how we are in Peak California and Bay Area. And someone pointed out that this narrative has been going on for decades.
Cheese is funky.
Hip-hop is funky.

Science.
Physicists Reverse Time for Tiny Particles Inside a Quantum Computer
It is an undeniable fact that mosques have radicalized more people than imageboards have.
> A lot of people were in it because they were curious about this new thing and the opportunities to explore something and express themselves. The same way you would in other emerging cultures. Those aren't bad qualities.

Can confirm. For me in the 80s it was about the writing and the friends, some of which I'm lucky to say I still have. Indulging in some phreaking when needed was about the extent of our "misuse" of technology.
You can set the location in the simulator.
Is “hold the apple butter” necessary? Around here it comes in a tiny jelly tub, stacked on the table with the other jelly tubs.
Yes, that's supremely annoying. But, at least that sort of advertising doesn't track you, and given that YouTube has seriously restricted the ability for content creators to monetize using YouTube mechanisms themselves, I cut them a little slack on this.
Sussman isn't "getting edits approved". He is literally bribing other editors in open.

Ever wrote anything on Wikipedia talk pages? Unless you are commenting on article with hundred thousands of daily views, your comments will remain ignored for years. Nobody is going to "implement your suggestions" or "accept corrections", —at best you will be ignored, and at worst you will be told to f##k off in Wikipedia's politically correct newspeak.

Who are the people, implementing his changes to pages? A certain number are of course bots and sock puppets. But relying on those exclusively is risky, and he would eventually get discovered and singled out by mods and check-users. So some of his editors got to be real people. Does he have an actual team of editors working on keeping articles updated full time through series of proxies? Probably not, — would be too expensive and also prone to ban.

Let's perform a mental experiment: you are a poor sod in Cambodia/North Korea/Thailand etc. who have recently discovering a beauty of Wikipedia. You look at the talk page of "Facebook" article and stumble upon comments of some guy, who says, that he is a representative of dedicated PR company. You make some quick calculations: your daily wage is several orders of magnitude smaller than average US wage, and the guy is probably getting paid A LOT of money by Facebook and the likes; going to darknet to regularly buy a new bunch of "proxies" (hacked computers in US residential areas) will costs you $XX per month; if you get him to pay you $YY, the rest of money will be your net profit...

You can guess the rest.
My intuition is that it's a satire of p-hacking culture
"Basically, I think NIMBYism keeps us from having Desal."

That's exactly the problem.

There might be ways around it, though:

* Build 'em adjacent to (or as part of) existing "ugly" structures, like coastal power plants (which already use seawater for cooling/steam; I'd assume it should be possible to clean/desalinate the used water instead of letting it flow back into the ocean)

* Pipe the water further inland; the pipes should be easier to conceal and should require a smaller land purchase (at least in terms of meters of coastline), and could run to a desalination plant in cheaper, more-inland real estate

* Extend a well-deserved middle finger to those NIMBYs in the form of eminent domain. Of course, given that those same NIMBYs are the ones who have the means to bribe California's government every which way, that'll probably never happen... unless we the people make it a Proposition, of course, and force their hands by literally rewriting California's constitution to prioritize water for millions of people over ocean views for dozens.
PewDiePie Put in Spotlight After New Zealand Shooting
Resonant frequency of the holes? /S
What do you think is going to happen when significant portions of the poor and middle class leave?

Fewer people to pay for California's absurd public sector pensions and expensive government services -> higher taxes on the people remaining.
Don't take gambling advice from the casino.
So all veterinarians are criminals, and all pets must be left to die without treatment?
I want it all, not just debugging. Distributed Smalltalk didn't do it all in one IDE.
It's genius marketing-- they were guaranteed a "surprising" conclusion that people widely share.

edit: The point I'm making, perhaps too tersely based on the below response, is a flawed study can be designed where every outcome would be "surprising" but obviously the rationale supporting that outcome would be poor. That people tend to share surprising outcomes (ie-- post it on Hacker News)-- makes it genius marketing.
> Does DNS not have spacial locality to its access patterns? I.e., if an intermediate resolver retrieves the A records for a domain, does that not imply that it'll soon also want the MX records for that domain, and the TXT SPF records, and—essentially—all the records with some probability? Is there no justification for pre-fetching these?

Probably not. If I want to visit your website, I might just need A and AAAA. That doesn't mean I will soon want to send you emails (MX) or look at your google site verification token (TXT).

> Is there some big use-case for the DNS records within a zone to have different TTLs? Would it really be so inefficient if the zone as a whole just had one TTL, which was set as the minimum of the TTLs required by any of its records?

Definitely no. I tend to set low TTLs for A and AAAA records because in practice they do change very often. Depending on your setup, it possibly changes every deployment. But on the other hand MX is long-lived and I set it to many days. This is important security implications: if say, Gmail, has cached my MX records for many days, it will be very difficult for a DNS takeover attack to maliciously redirect my mail or other sort of DNS poisoning to do the same.
I think to better understand why this is great you'll have to listen to the latest "invest like the best" episode.
In short using iot you can make subscription based services work at an optimal level.
I go out to eat at least twice a week, and I’ve never run into this. It sounds like the Daily Mail fed Grandpa Simpson LSD and wrote down whatever he mumbled.
> Did Serbia issue any visas to any ICC members?

The ICC didn't exist then; you might be confusing it with the ICTY [0], which was one of the two concurrent ad hoc special purpose tribunals that motivated the creation of the ICC as a permanent body intended to global focus.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Criminal_Tribu...
Will Zenhub ever go the route of Waffle?
If consumers love "big tech", they love it the same way that meth addicts love meth.
Super interesting, congratulations on launching! I think the HN perspective here ("Why can't they just add a packet of coffee powder?) is bog standard + a lot of people aren't your market.

The consumer side is interesting and has been addressed, but I think the more interesting component is you've essentially become an integrated sales partner for a really big industry. I've worked a lot in leadgen, and it turns out that most companies are pretty bad at optimizing for conversions. They pay a lot to keep the inbound requests going, but often they're not very good at handling the needs of a particular channel (especially when that channel has different expectations than their normal customer).

By actually making the sale, you turn coffee companies into a branded drop shipper. That's really really smart, IMO -- you've got the consumer at the purchase point, which is really the chokepoint for a lot of business.

Congrats again!
Yes.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11916168
> You still have to fight with borrow checking in Rust as in C++, it’s just not automated.

This is so misleading. Sure you still have to think about borrowing in C++ but in C++ you only have to convince yourself that you got it right. You don't have to convince a dumb child that barely understands variable scopes.

The benefit is of course that the dumb child is 100% reliable so if you can convince him then you are 100% sure you got it right...

But please can we stop pretending that it isn't a massive pain in the arse to convince the borrow checker that your code is ok.

Also as someone else pointed out, if you are only writing single threaded code the mutable borrowing rules are needlessly restrictive.

I like Rust but it really irks me when people pretend it is as easy as C++. It isn't. It is much harder - it's just that when you're done you have (probably) a better result.
Yeah, but it kind of saves them a second from having to grab it.
Solved, but not implemented on a wide scale. I don’t know if it’s the added cost, availability or what else, but solved problems aren’t really solved if the solution is never implemented.
H1B is not location specific. You are free to work from anywhere in the US you find employment