skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting. But I doubt South Korea would attack the North, knowing perfectly well their main cities can be razed to the ground by NK's conventional, not even nuclear weapons. At the same time, I don't think North Korea would start blasting off nukes over major cities, that would be pointless. In the worst case, a single nuke over the ocean, but close enough to a target, would be a sufficient signal of readiness to defend itself. Directing nuclear bombs to major targets as a first move doesn't make much sense, you don't leave the enemy any other option than obliterating you.

Note that the incident is started by North Korea downing a civilian jet, even if by mistake, South Korea reacting, NK going berserk with nukes, US responding with conventional weapons... Hmmm, a bit kind towards the West. The US certainly come out as the level headed guys, which doesn't sound very coherent with recent rhetoric and events.
That leaves a tremendous amount of variables to account for, but you make a great point.
My guess is the main goal is to recoup R&D prior to a proper consumer launch. And you know what, I'm fine with that. Personally, I'm holding out for gen 2-3 of this form factor when the price comes down to Earth. But smart of them to get it into people's hands where they can get real testing as to what works and what doesn't for consumers.
Organizations like Open Collective[1] can help to handle this.

P.S. What do you think about moving the site to GitHub Pages instead[2] (and overall modernization of it).

[1] https://opencollective.com/

[2] https://github.com/daly/axiom/issues/13
This Reminds me of Scalzi's "Locked In" series where a disease causes a portion of the population to be conscious, but totally disconnected from their bodies. The supplemental material describes I how the first attempts to interact with these people was performed on prison inmates.
You don't need to "use" the old root, you want to configure the chain of certificates provided so that it links back from your leaf cert to Identrust's "DST Root CA X3" not "ISRG Root X1". Specifically the chain will be just one cert, an "intermediate" which you want to ensure is the one cross-signed not the new one.

This provides a hint to the client that it should trust this certificate because it can follow the trust back down the chain to DST Root CA X3 (which it trusts) not to ISRG Root X1 which is too new-fangled for it to have heard of.

This page has both flavours of intermediate:

https://letsencrypt.org/certificates/

You want the one labelled: Let’s Encrypt Authority X3 (IdenTrust cross-signed)

In nginx you need to concatenate the leaf certificate from Let's Encrypt (often a file named "cert.pem") with the file you downloaded from that site, to produce a chain, which you could call mychain.pem, and then tell nginx that's your certificate chain with a config line like:

ssl_certificate /some/path/to/mychain.pem

where right now you may see

ssl_certificate /where/letsencrypt/puts/fullchain.pem
I'd pay for ad and analytic and tracking free. Not just making the ads invisible, but the other code along with it disabled.
Yeah, definitely good points. Even with a department looking after voting, they're not nearly as "vested" in the results of their voting as something like an actively managed long value fund is.
I don't know if there's any public statement about this. I base my position on experience at Unicode Conference and work on CLDR and ICU. I understand that it diminishes the value of my claim.

I can also point out to ICU MessageFormat - which has been designed much after Gettext and, I'd dare to say on purpose, bares no resemblance to it.
I have had similar ideas and would love to propose something even more radical. Treat laws like theories and model the expected/desired effects that a law should have at certain time points/intervals. If the observed outcomes diverge too much from the intended outcomes there would need to be an automatic review of that legislation.

There are obviously huge challenges associated with this as we are living in a dynamic world but I would love to see a push towards more evidence based politics and more rational discussions around the often implicit assumptions underlying specific legislation.

INAL and maybe there is something like this going on internally in politics but I think there is more to be done in making this accessible to the public and giving it more room in political discussions.
Should I reply to the title of a posting without reading it?

No, I probably shouldn't.
Consent is not the way to handle data protection issues
If the size in the pocket is the problem, surely the extra thickness makes it more cumbersome? It would be like carrying one of those Anker battery packs around all day (the non-travel/portable ones) would it not?
Maybe.

The folks making $30k in the second population may now be spending a bunch more in childcare and hours more on their commutes, because they've been priced out of the city and now have travel from further away.

As an example: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/17/business/economy/san-fran...
Here's the list of the 1,900 Y Combinator companies through Winter 2019 (W19)
https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/
Amazon plans to close its marketplace for Chinese consumers
Effectively all military missions are planned in PowerPoint, and I don't think Microsoft shaped that product with battlefield efficiency in mind.
Wipro has over 1200 clients worldwide.

From their Q4 FY18 presentation:
https://www.wipro.com/content/dam/nexus/en/investor/quarterl...

Supposedly they are used by 150 of the Fortune 500.
I would likely forget something if I didn't have a travel checklist. Something I keep in my Evernote notebook called, wait for it, checklists :-)

They are especially handy when on multi-stop travel where I'm spending all my time worrying about the logistics of the travel and meetings. It has definitely saved me from losing a number of phone chargers and razors over the years.
The statement you made at the top of this thread is literally and simply false. That's all I came here to say.
I didn't downvote but the closest I know you could do to this is buy an inverse ETF that is heavy in Facebook. I don't think there are any inverse ETFs that would even have more than 10% Facebook.
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/04/bendgate-2-0-samsung...
Years ago, I saw a TV interview of the first recipient of a heart-lung transplant.

When asked some question post surgery, she blurted "I could really use a beer!" She didn't drink, but the young male donor of her organs who died in a motorcycle crash did.

She wrote a book about her experience. Initially, she had bizarre dreams, as if tapping into the psyche of her organ donor. Over time, those stopped.

Mention of this tends to not go over well on HN, though it would be easy enough to google who got the first heart-lung transplant, find her book and read it to confirm if I'm making this up or misremembering it or if it's a true story (at least insofar as me remembering that she claimed such things).
eh, I don't really even use Twitter to talk with randos online... I get enough of that here. But I can see that people do use Twitter and Mastodon that way...
> That "should not" be possible.

That actually seems pretty small compared to Bezos impact on global commerce.

I am all for constraints on wealth being created or compounded by political and market corruption. But see no reason to discourage or cap wealth created by productive means.
I think there's an asymmetry that you're not quite capturing here: when you add an item to the checklist, you have a specific concrete failure at hand (the process just failed, you had everyone on hand to do your root cause analysis, and you know exactly why). Later when you want to remove it, you (a) lose context because time has passed and memories are fallible and/or a different person is dealing with it, and (b) you have to have some reasonable assurance that you've covered other ways the same failure can occur. No amount of process can completely eliminate this asymmetry so at some point you're forced to make a tradeoff based on how risk averse you want to be.
The "micro level" is almost completely irrelevant. Performance comes from doing the right thing globally, and it will be a long time before tools can help there.

I conjecture that apart from a few artificial benchmarks, the choice of the different approaches here is totally irrelevant. Just don't use the 10000ms approach, and you won't notice a difference in 99% of the real world applications.
For sure. I was assuming a hypothetical ultra-futuristic scenario where the vat brains could communicate with each other via some mechanism, and could access the Internet and consume media and such. Basically you could be just as social as any homebody; just without the body. And maybe they could do some kind of VR body projection thing that mimics all the physical senses. Solitude is a separate matter.
Yeah, you should see the composition of the Seattle City Council to understand why Bezos is backing away slowly. Basically all Democrat, with an activist Socialist mixed in and controlling the conversation (she was the one who pushed for "head tax", and continues to do so even after it was repealed). That's great for business, I'm sure.

https://www.theringer.com/tech/2018/7/17/17578524/seattle-am...
One comment in the article pointed out that you could create a 4GB lookup table, and convert 32 bits of input at once. This is actually less silly than might otherwise seem, because only 64KB of it would ever be read for correct input; the table itself would only exist as a reservation somewhere in the process' 64-bit (well, 48-bit actually, but still) virtual address space, so a lookup of invalid input could easily be made to error out and return some error condition.

For that matter, I'd want to run the author's "fancy math-based function" through a superoptimizer and check that there isn't something that can do the job in fewer cycles.
That’s wrong. See Section 1017 of the Dodd-Franken act: https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-111publ203/html/PLA...

The bureau gets its funding from the Federal Reserve System. What the argument may or may not have been is that fines would exceed operating costs. But they don’t go directly to the bureau, which therefore still needs to finance its operations.

Collected fines do not go into the bureau’s general operating budget, but are supposed to be used for compensating victims or, if that’s not possible, specifically into financial literacy programs. Quote:

“There is
established in the Federal Reserve a separate fund, to be known
as the ``Consumer Financial Civil Penalty Fund'' (referred to in
this section as the ``Civil Penalty Fund''). The Civil Penalty
Fund shall be maintained and established at a Federal reserve
bank, in accordance with such requirements as the Board of
Governors may impose. If the Bureau obtains a civil penalty
against any person in any judicial or administrative action
under Federal consumer financial laws, the Bureau shall deposit
into the Civil Penalty Fund, the amount of the penalty
collected.

(2) Payment to victims.--Amounts in the Civil Penalty Fund
shall be available to the Bureau, without fiscal year
limitation, for payments to the victims of activities for which
civil penalties have been imposed under the Federal consumer
financial laws. To the extent that such victims cannot be
located or such payments are otherwise not practicable, the
Bureau may use such funds for the purpose of consumer education
and financial literacy programs.”
"Startup Playbook" by Sam Altman (YC Founder) and Illustrated by Gregory Koberger is also a good read:
https://playbook.samaltman.com/
You are not permitted to use retirement funds for any margin trading, including short-selling.

Ah, of course, borrowing the shares and all. Hadn't given it a lot of thought, frankly; short trading stays away from the IRA.

If your IRA let you sell calls, you likely own the underlying equity.

For sure, trying to get rid of the underlying stock that I didn't want anymore. I'd be shocked if one were allowed to use their IRA to trade, say, naked puts. But without looking to see if I've done it, I'll assume one can buy puts (with a trade for the underlying stock) because I buy calls all the time using the IRA.
They seem to innovate faster then Apple like a recent example being Wireless PowerShare (charge one phone with another).

It's reported Apple will be adding that into the iPhone 11; wirelessly charge your watch or another phone with a charged or charging iPhone.
I think that expats forums are great. However, if you're working somewhere and get a relocation offer somewhere else you would like to ask for advice in private. In addition, unlike forum where everyone join the conversation, someone will follow up with you and you can follow up, and develop a relationship with him or her as if they mentored you along the process. I know I didn't want anyone to know about my offer at the time.
It was a terrible idea. Just because you can do something doesn’t mean you should.
Alternative title: Elizabeth Warren succeeds in creating agency insensitive to political pressure.

I think the current administration is absolutely wrong about the payday loan industry. But at the same time the law that created the CPFB was terrible, and its frankly shocking to me that Elizabeth Warren failed to foresee this. She purposely created a particularly undemocratic institution which quite predictably, but to her horror, went off the rails.

The way to stop payday lending is through congressional action. The way to counteract unfriendly lobbyists is with horse trading. One of the reasons legislation like this has become harder is the disappearance of earmarks.
I would argue that you want an automated check for "verify release has been signed" then if it fails you are alerted. This is better than manually checking it every time or assuming it will always be signed. A trust but verify approach. Then one day you may find that a trusted cert has expired and signing is broken or a key is not available b/c it got accidentally deleted etc... Lots of things can go and will go wrong.
You may not have enemies, but someone may consider you their enemy, for any reason they so choose.
That’s my first instinct too, but things can get really messed up if the “haves” control the political process. What if they don’t like living near the “have-nots”, and ban the construction of multi-family housing near downtown? Now that the supply of housing is constrained, prices start going up. Suddenly, the have-nots can barely afford rent.

I don’t think inequality is inherently evil, but it’s critical that we prioritize increasing the supply of all essential goods and services (housing, medical care, education) to create prosperity for everyone and prevent the have-nots from suffering. Via inequality, we can reward people for creating prosperity, but it’s important that this excess wealth only bids up the price of luxuries like yachts and art, not basic needs.
From the tone of the article and what I would expect to see from some of the comments here eventually, you would think that Seattle united in fighting its corporate fascist oppressors by taxing it fairly to cover the problems the capitalist class creates and in response, Amazon is moving far and away from the scene of the crime; both straw structured arguments are patently false.

There has always been a vocal minority in Seattle that has bemoaned any kind of growth and change in the city, and the recent cause that they latched on was all of disruptions Amazon was claimed to be at fault for, or how the "tech bros" ruined the city. These were probably the same people who hated that the Microsoft of a decade or two prior washed the city over with a tech scene, they probably complained that Boeing made noisy jets for the military industrial complex and those "av bros" were destroying neighborhoods with hundred and hundreds of months of established character. This is a west coast city that I have lived most of my life in and around, it has always been changing and growing, and I along with my wife, friends, and family, love it for the opportunities and ever evolving landscape.

Then there is the argument that Amazon is taking its toys and going to play ball elsewhere, used as proof that somehow Amazon wasn't going to work with the city to begin with. Amazon is probably at the top of the current curve of growth, and some of their recent announcements in jobs and locations show somewhat of a diminished drive to expand. Additionally, to pick up and leave, or to leave the region all together is pretty expensive and disruptive to operations. Bellevue is right across the lake. It offers a city government that wants to grow as fast as possible and as dense as possible, and willing to work with anyone. The recent announcement that the local transit authority was on schedule with the light rail expansion in Bellevue lines up with Amazon and a few other companies looking to expand in the city. Bellevue is looking to be a great place to be "in Seattle" without having to be in Seattle.
That’s precisely what I was thinking!
Well, it's not a signup form. You ask for advice and someone will reply directly to your email address with some advice on the specific question.
Pretty sure that it already accounts for that. As far as I understand it is for the entire female population.

Say you have 100 females.

25 have no kids
15 have 1 kid
25 have 2 kids each
15 have 3 kids
10 have 4 kids
10 have 5 kids

This would be a 2.0 TFR and would lead to no shrinkage or increase.

The 25 without kids would include those who die before reproducing.

Now a potential reason it might need to be higher than 2.0 is if it is not a 50/50 split between male and female children. I vaguely recall that slightly more male children are born than girls but it averages out by adulthood because boys are slightly more likely to die doing something stupid. This may not actually be the case so do some research before quoting me on the more boys part.
"It isn't a problem really" - I think that's my problem with it - of course I appreciate the engineering involved in producing a consumer grade foldable screen but I just can't figure out who the target audience is.
> They absolutely do. Higher income folks can outbid and outpay for all basic essential services, driving the price of those services higher.

By why does bidding have to happen in the first place? Because there isn't enough supply. If increase of supply matches increase of demand, the price doesn't go up. Cities like Seattle have built a lot of housing but there's still more to be done. Seattle only built one unit of housing for every 3 jobs added. At least it's not as bad as San Francisco where only one unit of housing has been added for every 6 jobs.

> Their governments would, true. Most of their residents would not, because they'd have to bear the cost of the higher income residents. (See how most people's reaction to the Amazon HQ2 search was, "please not here")

Er, no, most people really did want Amazon to move there. New York is the exception not the norm, probably because the fallacious belief that well paying jobs causes costs to rise is generally more prevalent among so-called progressives (which disproportionately live in liberal cities).
>Is its pivot to smaller communities a way to avoid messy politics?

I feel very confident there will still be "messy politics", but I think the tactical situation may be more favorable to Amazon in these cases.

>Last year, Seattle’s city council proposed a per-employee head tax on the city’s largest businesses, intended to raise $75 million for homelessness and affordable housing initiatives.

Even an introductory course in economics will equip someone to find a profusion of problems with this tax. Because taxes affect transactions, not entities, employees at large companies suffer relative to those at smaller companies. There is a perverse incentive for companies near the threshold to manipulate headcounts via subcontractors. And so on.

Companies like Amazon absolutely should pay for the welfare of the less fortunate, but the way there is not through such rash populism. From 1993 to 2016, the Democrats have been the party of sound economic policy, and I would expect better from a blog such as CityLab which presents itself as a promoter of realistic reforms. As Krugman said it:

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/19/opinion/varieties-of-vood...

> America’s two big political parties are very different from each other, and one difference involves the willingness to indulge economic fantasies. [...]

> But is all that about to change? [...]

> ...as the economists warn, fuzzy math from the left would make it impossible to effectively criticize conservative voodoo.

This blog post certainly didn't make me feel very optimistic.
India has a history of favoring males, so many females are aborted. You are more likely to see 10 men to each woman.
> Imagine there's a single, private, insurance company, A. ... Wouldn't the natural interest of A be to maximize health costs ... ?

Sure, but as an insurer they don't have any control over health care costs. They could bid prices up, I suppose, but that eats into their profits; such a strategy would cost them more than they could possibly gain.

> And if there were more smaller insurance companies competing with A, wouldn't it make sense for A to just eat them up to eliminate competition ... ?

The smaller companies would have to agree to that. Some of them could be co-ops or other organizations structured to represent their members and not interested in being bought out by a company which doesn't share the same principles.

> ... wouldn't it make sense for them to collude and keep prices and profits high?

Cartels are notoriously unstable. Every member has an incentive to cheat on the cartel to gain market share. And then you have the aforementioned co-ops and others who wouldn't be interested in joining the cartel.

> ... isn't it their natural interest to spend on buying politicians ... ?

And here we come to the real issue. Not that companies are interested in buying politicians—that's only to be expected, under the circumstances—but rather that (a) there exist politicians with the power to forcibly interfere in the market without being branded as criminals, and that (b) these politicians are willing to be bought and to support laws actively harmful to their nominal constituents.

In order to have a private market for either health care or health insurance you must first get the politicians out of the market.
Show HN: Gandul – accessible image lazy loading
ArcaOS – Modern OS/2
It's a fun sight when all of the subcontractor of subcontractor of subcontractor recursion chains form a beanstalk into the heavens /peanutgallery
I agree that CLDR plural forms and ICU MessageFormat are somehow an implicit critic of gettext design :-)
"What is the North Atlantic Oscillation?"
> The phone comes with this protective layer/film. Samsung says you are not supposed to remove it. I removed it, not knowing you’re not supposed to (consumers won’t know either). It appeared removable in the left corner, so I took it off. I believe this contributed to the problem.

How do you even?
How do they even know the current population(India and China)? I doubt everyone is tracked in the census.
Governments testing artificial intelligence to reduce queues at passport control
> In the US it is very easy to get into a university. It is not so easy to get into a good university.

Because the academic job market is so tight, many of the professors at obscure poorly ranked universities are amazing teachers who do solid (but perhaps not famous or well promoted) research.

You should probably replace “good” in your sentence with “prestigious” or the like.
The chaos at HQ Trivia after its young cofounder’s sudden death
you have a plan and some promising technologies and 2 boats and a hope.

that's nothing.

FYI, the self-replicating robots is kinda the hard part.
Mozilla plows all of the money it generates back into the products and services it develops. The goal is sustaining the Mozilla project and its work, not making/taking a profit.