skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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I think radio communications have been heavily scrutinized, but there is a lack of peer-reviewed well-funded research regarding more controversial hypotheses, like their effect on Voltage Gated Calcium Channels. There's also been research that suggests DNA strand breaks do occur from non-ionizing radiation that has been suppressed, and other hypotheses as well that have not been studied extensively.

Also, I'm not just talking about cancer.

There is research from both the "it's safe" and "it's dangerous" perspectives. However, the "it's dangerous" perspective gets almost no funding despite being scientifically sound and published by scientists who used to be respected before they dared question EMF safety.

I have no doubts that current levels of EMF do not cause major issues in the majority of people. Our bodies have several evolved mechanisms to handle it. But I think it is very plausible that a minority of the population with other toxic burdens could be sensitive to it. There is an entire population of people migrating to rural areas just to avoid EMF so they feel better. I don't think they are making this up. It's a HUGE life change to do that, and no one would do that unless they had no other options.

I find the VGCC work of Martin Pall very compelling, but I do not have links on hand, as EMF is not something a spend a lot of time focusing on. Googling him will bring up plenty of info, but you will probably have to dig a bit to find his published scientific work rather than just interviews on holistic websites.
Not all ikea is particle-board, and the point was that there isn't glue holding joins together. The weakest part of furniture is the joins but ikea pieces usually use screws or pegs.
The moon offers the advantage of very little gravity. We also know that the moon contains a wealth of valuable raw materials. Add in some earth based soil, water and plant life, and we have a valuable self-sustaining space outpost for cheaper missions elsewhere in the solar system. Furthermore, most of the moon operations would be automated to reduce the resources necessary to sustain human life till an abundant supply is established through some form of MRE factory.
>Unlimited Campaign Contributions

There are clear limits on campaign contributions.

What we don't have are limits on private ad spending, which would obviously violate free speech.
Personally, I think the answer is it depends.

If all we are storing are profile pictures for a small app for a small user base, I think it is better to store things in the database rather than adding complexity of S3. I mean if you are making an image board like https://github.com/DangerOnTheRanger/maniwani you should not listen to me and use something like S3 because the images are the bread and butter of your application but often user generated images only used for profile pictures might be okay to store in a database. Why make things more complicated than they have to be?
> That speed does make a difference. When we switched from Cloudflare to Fastly we had about a 7% increase in completed sales.

Interesting. Is that for the flow that starts at https://www.srnd.org/sponsor => https://www.srnd.org/sponsor/pay or somewhere else?

(Those pages do load very fast.)
Browser.send Pings
These weren't worn. They were primarily gifts and a means to maintain skilled artisans.
Wholeheartedly agree. Just as the US Digital Service cribs off the UK’s equivalent body, I’d love love love to see less duplicated effort and more sharing and collaboration of tools, code, and process between governments for infra.
Well, one possible reason that you might not have thought of is that modern hardware (and software!) has so many hidden layers that you never know what you are running. Like PCs have Minix, and CPUs besides the main CPU, and so on. So you might look at something old like the Atari 800 and say, well, I know basically what it is. By comparison, a modern PC is like the horror movie trope of a thin humanoid skin over writhing innards. Because computers are so cheap and tiny that a device has vastly more than you are aware of.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Management_Engine

Some people are taking classic cars and converting them to electric power, without changing the fact that they are basically un-aerodynamic deathtraps and without even getting rid of the manual transmission. That may not be what you consider optimum, but it is logical given some peoples' values.
The company behind this is Matrix, the same one that was hacked recently due to poor security and had their keys exposed and more. The hacker even went and posted a bunch of their security issues on GitHub for them detailing all the terrible decisions they had made.
Certified for commercial operations is a very ambiguous term. You can do flying lessons on any plane that is registered and allowed to fly with some exceptions.
Example: Pipistrel Alpha Trainer, base price was around 70,000 when they still had the price list on the site. 2 seater, low fuel consumption, high wing, very light and easy to fly, perfect for a trainer.
nice book. thank you
I can confirm that you can indeed destroy an RPI0 by accidentally connecting a power supply to the USB port while another power supply is connected to the power supply port.
What complexity? If you Store your files in an S3 you get redundancy for free, easy cross region replication, you can put them behind CloudFront as a CDN.
Thank you, I gave up arguing it and was getting massively downvoted for my comments.
It's actually Luna, not Sputnik: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luna_1
I gotta say I didn't think I needed a mousepad but it totally helps.
The problem with the plea bargain system is that it helps the guilty and hurts the innocent. Suppose he was innocent but the prosecution had some coincidental but persuasive evidence. "You'll go to jail for ten years if you fight it and lose. Take a plea, do three months and pay a fine."

The guilty get the benefit of reduced sentences. The innocent have to face the bullying behavior where prosecutors stack up charges to make the potential punishment more frightening in order to coerce a plea.
The original Lisp also used DEFINE. See the LISP 1 Programmer's Manual, Mac Carthy et al. 1960, P. 23.
Gaming is a bad example because it isn't the ping to the edge server that matters but ping to another user.
Let me turn that question around: how can a community like Cleveland afford to run a municipal broadband network, if the reason AT&T won’t expand service there is that people don’t have the money to pay?

Our approach to broadband in poor urban neighborhoods is completely screwed up. We blame the telecom provider for not building in areas it’s not profitable to service, or force them to do it to be allowed to service the city at all (and as a result, nobody gets service).

Broadband access in poor neighborhoods is a matter for the general welfare system and should be paid for with federal and state tax subsidies, just as we do for say schools in poor urban neighborhoods. Then, we can make a reasoned cost-benefit analysis about how to best use that tax money. (For example, maybe wireless is a more cost-effective way of providing a safety-net level of service than fiber.)
The Outline must be in really dire straits to be guerilla marketing with this much gusto.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Outline_(website)
I'm the solo founder of Holiday API - https://holidayapi.com - a DaaS platform for holiday information.

The project was originally started in 2013 as an open source side project, while I running a network of niche social networks full-time (also quite profitable for a while), after serving as CTO of a daily deal company, that stemmed from my need for reliable holiday information without the overhead of actually maintaining said data on a regular basis.

A shift to a premium model was made in 2016 and the first month into being a premium service, it was profitable (sans my time ;) and has grown to ~$1500 MRR.

Ironically I started the project as a way to NOT have to maintain said data and now part of my day to day involves maintaining data accuracy... and sales outreach... and DevOps to improve... my own development efforts... and... and...

Recently received my YC rejection email for the upcoming batch (actually interviewed with another project with a partner a while back), but still hustlin'. Flying solo is great, but definitely can't get caught up in the echo chamber. Would highly recommend building a peer group of founders / other hackers & hustlers to meet / chat with regularly.
Sometimes resulting in RSI
A New DDoS Technique Abuses HTML5 Hyperlink Audit Ping in Attacks
The Audeo M's (are? were?) the only ones with native, in-device/streamer-less bluetooth. They work just like bluetooth headphones/mic (used so far with: osx, android, linux desktop) and the sound quality is outstanding. The only minor irritant I've found so far is that you have to effectively power cycle them to re-pair to another device (eg phone to work laptop).
HTTP2 can reduce this significantly.
Right. It's a very polarizing keyboard design. Whereas previous designs pleased everyone.
> You really don't have to do that.

Actually you don't have to do that, which is not the same thing at all.

I find this one of the oddest moves of those who (for reasons mysterious to me) find OS's worthy of advocacy. When you say to them 'with Linux I find X', their response is "no you don't". Where is the conversation supposed to go from there?

I install a couple of distros on every new laptop I buy, and perhaps once again during its lifetime. I have in reality found it a tremendous pain and time-suck, with each attempt taking a few days reading and fiddling, more than in total I've spent 'administering' desktop OS X or Windows over a couple of decades.

I've persevered out of a combination of nostalgia (I did run Slackware full-time for some years), wistfulness about some gnu/linux goodies (i3 etc), and ethical preferences. But on every occasion I just find it to be more time than it's worth. I have many more important things to do with my precious and limited time on this planet than mess with OS's
Does it matter, though? If you have access to something that gives you effective sovereignty, whether it's million-man armies or drone ships, you are a de facto government.
1. I think only ~1/150 companies I talk to are actively hiring part-time engineers, so it's unlikely I'll add this category any time soon... if ever. (Sorry!)

2. A lot of people don't trust employers, but in reality, hiring managers aren't trying to mislead people. Especially at small startups. It's extremely expensive (and heart-breaking!) to interview, hire, and onboard devs only to have them leave soon after. It's a competitive market and software engineers have their pick of the litter, so companies want to attract the right candidates, the ones who are truly aligned w/ their values and will stick around for the long haul.

3. Trust me, I don't want to use OR logic either! Once there are enough companies on Key Values for AND logic to provide a good user experience, I'll switch. For now, the results are sorted by number of matches and how highly companies rank those matches.
Jumped ship from Apple a couple of years ago and haven't looked back. Thinkpad laptop and homemade PC with mechanical keyboard: they're fast, easy to type on, and I'm lucky enough to be sufficiently savvy to fix most issues on my own.

OSX is still the superior OS - by orders of magnitude, in my mind - but Apple has simply stopped trying. Prices up, quality down. The only exception remains the good ol' iMac - possibly their greatest non-phone achievement. But the design hasn't changed in a billion years, you can't really upgrade it, and there's no decent GPU solution.

Windows-land ain't wonderful, but I'm priced out of Appleworld and I've lost my patience with it. Until something better comes along OS-wise, I'm happy where I am. (I use Linux occasionally too and enjoy it.) With respect to typing, though, man oh man: Thinkpad keyboards? Cherry MX switches? I know which rock I'm dying on.
Prosecutors sometimes offer 11(c)(1)(C) plea agreements, where the sentence is defined exactly and the judge can only agree or refuse.

This was definitely not that. It is the very opposite of precise.

The PSR will be generated, and the judge will decide on the sentence, ranging from deportation without incarceration to 5 years.

If your doctor told you you had 0-5 years left to live, inclusive, you wouldn’t call that detailed and precise, would you?
There's gigabit municipal fiber in Cedar Falls, Iowa. Pretty cool. Mediacom exists there, but only like... apartments use them.
Hah, true. It's definitely been a heck of a lot more than I'd have guessed at first.

Still, I approached this whole thing more incrementally; I never tried to say, "HAL, do this for me", but rather I just tried to make a framework that made programming easier.

For example, it's easier to do mathematical programming if you put in an abstract numeric class, more like what Mathematica uses than primitive numerics that the CPU uses. It's yet easier if you shift the focus from value-oriented logic to expression-oriented logic.

But then that's all heavy-weight stuff; you're stuck with doing lots of expensive computations even when all you want to calculate is "1+1". So, the framework's got to be able to reduce itself to something more optimal.

But then there's a question of how to optimize a program. You can't stop too soon, or else your compiled result won't be fully optimal. But if you try to optimize all the way, then whenever you compile something like a numeric simulation, e.g.

var result = doHugeMathProblem();
Print(result);

, it'd always optimize to something like

Print(7); // since result == 7

, as the compiler would've had to do all of the work. So, obviously, we have to ditch "compiling" and move to a generalization.

But then, if you mix primitive-computation with abstract-computation, how do you do that optimally? For example, when do you stop trying to find a more clever symbolic solution to a system of equations and switch to trying to solve it numerically?

And the chain of problems just keeps going on-and-on like that.

Still, it seems like it'd have been a mistake for someone to say, "HAL, do this for me". HAL might be at the end of the road, but acknowledging that and then trying to jump right to it feels like plotting a road trip by figuring out the direction that the destination is in, then attempting to drive straight to it, driving through whatever's in the way rather than on roads out of the silly idea that the path ought to the destination ought to be straight.

Which, _tl;dr_, is to say that I understand why everyone who tried to make HAL may've failed, but what confuses me is why people didn't have more success pushing development efforts like that in the linked PDF. Those would've led to HAL, if pursued hard enough.
You can be yourself

without being a loud annoying FUCKWIT to the entire population

Often Be yourself means

Speak your mind

Never self censor

Speak truth

Never lie

Not an open door to be a total wanker to everyone
Watch out what you ask for. The disruption might be a "low cost" model that listens to everything you say, and works as a mobile cash register for amazon or an "interest tracker" for google.

:)
I couldn't agree more. All of these people teaching python to children is so crazy to me when the language is so BIG!!
The Hacker apparently had never heard of sharing the documents via Torrent or posting a link to them on the dark web.
How to Predict the Next Global Hub [video]
Yes, that's a reasonable explanation. I'm near enough to the middle of my town for that to be the cause.
Did you try to learn python following a good course that people recommend? I always find it leaps and bounds smoother and easier to learn from a structured course.
Try Udacity or Coursera.
That’s the opposite of your first point. When they have no trouble spending the money, they have no trouble spending the money.
This is straight up shameful. People involved in these decisions should be personally shamed in their day to day, dropping their kids off at school, shopping at the grocery store, and picking up their mobile orders at Starbucks.
Thanks for your perspective.

> if we stopped emissions entirely the climate would be expected to return to a pre-civilization equilibrium on the scale of decades.

Do you have any links to research which backs up this quote? Because I would love to believe it.
Seems to be a lot of china-related articles lately from heavy hitters like wsj, nytimes and bloomberg. And in a negative tone tinged with war metaphors as you noted. I'm guessing it has to do with the "trade war" ( another war metaphor ) between Trump and Xi. I wonder what the chinese media's take on it is? Would be great if there was a site with chinese articles translated into english. My guess is they are using the same war metaphors.
You need the TV-B-ON version
Schadenfreude: The Joy of Another’s Misfortune
I made a habit of pointing out every new thing I learn from someone's PR.
That is a really clever, original idea for a business, I mean it. Damn.
Frankly, you have no idea what you're talking about. This is how the airline industry works. Airlines WANT cheap planes and they ARE WILLING to and DO skimp on some safety features to save money. Airlines WANT safety features, at least some of them, to be optional so that they aren't forced to spend money on them if they don't want them.

For example, backup fire extinguishers in the cockpit? Optional. Extra oxygen masks? Optional. Advanced radar? Optional. There are hundreds of items like this on every model, whether it's Boeing or Airbus or someone else, because their customers WANT them to be optional.

And by the way, not all airlines do this. American paid for the upgrades. Southwest paid for the upgrades.

So maybe you should ask yourself why it is that Lion Air and Ethiopian Air were willing to spend huge amounts of money on a new jet, then spend some $1-$2 million on optional upgrades, and yet not include the MCAS upgrade in those options (and they were made well aware of it, as you can see from other airliners purchase of these upgrades). Or for that matter maybe you should ask why Lion Air knew that the plane was having trouble with the AoA sensors for several flights prior to the crash, and yet did not perform the required maintenance on them (a serious violation) and did not pass along information to its next crews (also a serious violation), who were caught completely unaware.

Airlines run at 2, 3% margin, and they do so by trimming costs at every possible area. Sometimes those areas are safety related. Airlines are not some doe-eyed naive little up who just trust whatever Big Boeing/Airbus tells them. They know how the planes work, they have their own pilots, they have their own engineering teams, they have their own specialists and experts, and they make decisions to sacrifice safety for savings, and they do it ALL THE TIME.
So you're saying he continued to commit crimes up until May 2017? That's when WannaCry happened. His fame came on pretty quickly after that and it didn't take long for him to get arrested.

Edit: The source code leaked at some point so its hard to tell when he stopped selling it based on available malware samples. New variants were detected at least as late as 2018. He was accused of selling it in 2014 and 2015 though, so there's a decent chance that he stopped a couple of years before his arrest.
One thing is certain, they will have a USB port.
And a few hours later a french researcher[1] found some embarrassing flaws[2], including one from python's standard lib[3].

[1] https://twitter.com/fs0c131y

[2] https://medium.com/@fs0c131y/tchap-the-super-not-secure-app-...

[3] https://twitter.com/fs0c131y/status/1119143946687434753/vide...
I'm in Centennial Colorado - Several years ago we voted to allow commercial companies to lease the city's fiber. As a result, I now have symmetric gigabit fiber from a company named Ting running into the house for around $89 a month.
The tricky part is that, in order to be yourself, you have to know yourself. (The age-old conundrum.)

To the extent that you've been 'socialized into' adopting the behaviors of those around you (often unwittingly), your authentic self may be buried ... even (for some) forgotten.

Most of us, I suspect, are reminded now and then of times in our teens/early 20s when we acted in ways that we now regret. In ways that might have sickened our pre-teen selves. Where were our 'selves' then? Well, as Blake put it, 'You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough. '

First know, then be.
It’s too late for western companies to stop the leakage. The Chinese regime planted their “spies” everywhere in academia & industry through multi-decade onslaught. The companies and governments just kept looking the other way and the chickens are coming home to roost.
I meant list literal in the Python-like sense, so apologies for the confusion there.

In MDL, parens and angle brackets denote LISTs and FORMs, respectively. These are both objects with the same PRIMTYPE (a linked list) but are tagged differently. The evaluator evaluates these objects differently from each other: a LIST has each of its elements evaluated, with the results put in a new LIST. It truly is distinct from a FORM that has the same effect.

Distinctions like this were designed to make the corresponding parts of Lisp (like what you mentioned) less confusing.

Indeed, in your quote example, that (4 5 6) is a LIST, not a FORM, avoiding the very bad idea. Quasiquotation pretty much doesn't need to exist because of the ! sequence "operator" for splicing lists into lists and forms.
Email (address in profile) me if you want to do some pair programming sessions. I've helped others get unstuck this way.
(I know this is kind of "not allowed" on HN, but... <3)
I've been taking a more domain-theoretic approach to understanding CRDTs(focusing more on the semantics than the syntax) but it appears that domain theory does have some connections to category theory:

https://ncatlab.org/nlab/show/domain+theory
Other places also have piracy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piracy_in_the_21st_century

In general, you see piracy where it's profitable (i.e. on valuable commerce routes), and where the local governments are not particularly good at fighting it, either because they're weak, or because they're corrupt, or both. Sometimes, because they're too busy fighting each other - piracy generally ticks up during major wars.
250 upvotes and 135 comments later, I figure you're the type of person who doesn't like to say "I was wrong."
LCM and GCD are meet and join (union supertype and intersection subtype in PLT), not top and bottom. Top/any would correspond to the product of all numbers (union of all factors), and bottom/never would correspond to 1 (intersection of all factors).
1) I don't want to be confused with someone who won't take their earphones out

2) this is another form of camouflage which is indicative of something that sour be hidden or shameful
Second the Aluffi book. A brilliant treatment of Abstract Algebra from a categorical point of view.
I really like this since everything is changing and who knows what will be profitable or survive next year, but if you look back at what you directed your efforts towards, even if everything fails (which it will, eventually) you have hard times in the future this would be a source of happiness :) I'm looking at this thread for a livelihood myself and I'm not motivated by being a middle-man or selling more consumerist shit that doesn't make people happy, this idea is inspiring, you can do good things ;)

I hope this spreads and more people use it :) Products / activity like this really motivate me to promote them or recommend them when you're doing things this wholesome :)
That's because they've been duped by the propaganda from those corporations into thinking they actually benefit from copyright.