skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Meanwhile, Mexico (and other Central American countries) continue to have rampant violent gangs and political corruption, causing a constant of drugs, guns, and refugees. And undoubtedly has a greater aggregate impact on U.S. politics than a handful of Russian nationals.

Yet Mexico gets a fraction of the bad press as the Russian threat.
Incoming conspiracy theory: Does HBO have any strategic partnerships with TV manufacturers? This could be a clever strategy to get people to buy new TVs at a time when they're not normally buying new TVs. The article even explicitly mentions "Don’t worry about HDR, dynamic lighting, and all that stuff." This immediately makes everybody who reads that article curious about what all that stuff is, does their TV have it, how can I get it, etc.
Is the increase due to addicted people willingly risking their life an the lives of the people surrounding them or is it simply a bunch of people with bad habits living where the issue is not talked about enough? I look at education and laws around the world for the issue and my jaw often hit the floor. Either it's not talked about or doing won't get you in any trouble.

Where I live (Eastern Canada) they made it so that first offence is $600. Second offence double that. If the person is on a probationary licence then they lose it. Otherwise you lose 5 of your points in the demerits points system[1]. Repeat offenders lose their licence for up to a month.

They are investigating outright making it a criminal offence because the population consider the issue a serious one.

Not only are you not allowed to hold a phone you are also not allowed to have it in a cup holder. You can only use it if attached to the vehicle and for navigation or vehicle performance analytics features. They have cops driving in raised unmarked trucks and bus to spot drivers using phones.

We also saw at the same time an increase on government paid TV and radio ads educating about the issue.

Those measures made it so that according to surveys, "97% of adult Quebecers consider that distracted driving is a very serious or quite serious problem".

[1] Adults with full licenses have 15, young adult 12 and teens only 8. That means tha a teen who loses 5 points for having an active phone in the car will then lose their license for failing to obey a stop sign (-3 pts).
I do cold call on occasion and I have even grown to enjoy the game of it. I’m never quite that open and up front, but cold calling is always about drumming up business and getting paid. Frankly, it doesn’t work for me unless I hunt rejection in search of pay.
>Sounds OK in theory

Sounds terrible in theory!
one of these days i am going to write tmux macro that updates the bottom pane with vocabulary. there will be a cli command that corresponds with it, once i write in the definition, it will cycle to the next word instantly.
I looked at PatLive's FAQ and there's no contract required. You pay by Visa, MC, or AMEX. If you can use a reloadable card then they probably don't know who you are.
Any new company, including a mom&pop restaurant or whatever, will have startup costs that established companies do not (e.g. buying equipment, training people, etc). How do you propose to distinguish those from these "predatory" losses? Or should those losses not be carried over either?
I'm a periodic Timex buyer, and I've been wondering for the last few years if they've noticed what I've noticed: "High end" Timex watches tend to sell. They have legs.

This is just based on watching both pricing and availability at watch retailers. So when earlier this year I saw an attractive new Timex design listed at a bit of a stretch price considering it's a Timex, I decided to buy it. I own other reliable and discontinued Timex watches that never reappeared on the market. Nothing _really_ high end though--and for that reason I think they noticed the room for additional profit.

It's getting a bit worn unfortunately, as a word, but IMO good "design" still moves customers and this moves products.

I'm glad I bought my new Timex (nothing super high-end, just around to $100 but not a design I had seen before) and I bought it from a watch retailer who up until recently refused to carry them. Something's changing.

Looking at the $500 price, a lot of watch collectors look for that thing that the other guy doesn't have, which also gives them brand nostalgia, etc. They know that when it's gone, it's usually gone. And $500 is nothing to a lot of these guys. They will spend $500 on a pocket knife that stays in their pocket all day.
335 squat, 440 deadlift, 215 bench... I feel my deadlift and squat are good. Squat a bit weak but it's progressing. I've been at 215-235 bench for years.
People keep repeating that here on HN as if it's a bad thing.

New information moves markets, and the larger impact it has, the more it will move markets, because markets are built on information. And obviously the function of the free press is to uncover and disseminate new information, the more meaningful the better. So it's not underhanded -- it's noble and completely aligned with good.

(Of course if reporters make up information or lie it's bad, but that's a separate issue, for which lazy or unethical reporters are generally fired.)
The base actuator is an off the shelf maxon, with our custom sensors and custom motor controller.
In terms of motion control, safety was the most important piece when designing our system. There are safety checks in the mechanical, electrical and the software sub system. There is a maximum force that the controller exerts on the child, which can be lowered or increased for each child. In addition to the child resisting, we also had to account for spasticity and sudden tone while walking. The controller detects high resistance and caps off the max force it sends to the motor.
> In Florida, some black slaves notoriously ran away and joined the Seminoles

Never hear of that one, but reminds me of the North Carolina "Great Dismal Swamp maroons[0]"

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Dismal_Swamp_maroons
I’m not sure the consensus is that WikiLeaks targeted the DNC (it’s not a hacking organization afaik). I believe that Russia targeted literally everyone and released DNC data through WikiLeaks.

Edit: I think OP edited their message.
While it's definitely satisfying to interact with the physical world it also means that sometime you're debugging your software issues (which might be hardware ones), using output signals connected to an oscilloscope or a logic analyser (once you have exhausted the blinking LEDS options...) !
Yeah but if they know what's in there they're going to want it regardless. I thought the purpose of these messages is to deter people who might not realize the danger of what's inside and accidentally poison themselves.
Image Optimization: Figuring Out the Exact Impact on Google’s Performance Score
I wanted to figure out the exact impact of image optimizations on Performance Score before implementing them. The question I wanted to answer was "Does Image Optimization provide actual worth? What's the impact on real-world businesses?"

I took the world’s top 500 websites (from Alexa) and ran performance analyses with Lighthouse (performance analyzer made by Google) and PageDetox (a diagnostic framework made by Uploadcare, where I work).

PageDetox fetched website images, optimized them, and calculated the differences in image weights and page-loading times (I used the same throttle settings as Lighthouse, and decreased derived load times by `saved_bytes / speed`).

From there, I tried to model the improvement in Performance Score by proportionally decreasing the weighted params used in the score calculations: FCP, FMP, SI, CPU, and TTI.

I understand that I have the two weak links in this model:

1) Load time improvement might easily fall to zero if JS rendering takes ages while even the largest images have already been loaded;

2) Linearly decreasing the Performance Score parameters may not be an exact fit.

But I think that (on average) the data I got is legit. Here is a raw data:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1K1qUIPCm2ZOxwCW52Zu5oLo5p9r8xydEh5h97HF3eyU/edit?usp=sharing

What are your thoughts about this prediction model? Where do you see the room for improvement?
Enterprise Architecture: Platform Patterns: Libraries
That's more than what most PHD produce in their careers (in terms of go to market).
In Germany we have four pumps available for looping with AndroidAPS:

Roche Accu-Chek Combo and Insight

Sooil Dana R and Dana RS

From these Sooil is the only one who allows looping. Been using one for a month now and there is no going back.

I was using a used Combo last year but it broke suddenly. This time I have four years of warranty and hopefully we have more models available at that point.
There is one more thing that is important that most people miss: a "gifted" student (whatever that means) mixed in with the rest challenges the other students to do better.
None of the “well actually” replies you’re getting has yet mentioned that carrying forward personal capital losses is capped at $3000 per year. How could anyone argue that is remotely the same as Amazon avoiding billions in taxes?

There are also a lot of other ways companies get much more favorable tax treatment than people — for one thing just very fundamentally, they are taxed on profits but people are taxed on revenues, with no ability to deduct most major costs like paying rent or healthcare bills below a very high cutoff.

Kind of a tangent here but I can’t help thinking about this discrepancy when I hear about ISAs, and how people should be able to use the funding methods that companies do like selling shares in themselves. You can be a company but without any of the favorable treatment!
If you were individual 1099, then no there is no advantage really. And you have to pay self-employment tax. If you were B2B 1099, there are ENORMOUS advantages. My average effective federal tax rate on ~$250k/yr is right around 1.8-2.2% because I'm 1099 B2B and have a great tax attorney and accountant. Obviously on paper I make like $30k a year or something stupid like that, I don't know. My attorney adjust things monthly or quarterly as necessary, starts new LLCs or whatever is required.
what brought most people onboard was that the government wanted people to pay for them.

Obviously the NIR was the big deal but nobody cared about that.
You should take this comment and use it as your personal web page. It shows how grounded you are and how much you know yourself and can recognize your own limitations.
It’s a breath of fresh air where there does seem to be a lot of pomp and over selling.
> get a long term disability pension just by saying it

> but when I record it and play it back, I sound quite soft in the head

> Who would have thought that a phrase ... would be such a big problem for me?? :)

If this is how you envision yourself with speaking French, then is it any wonder you might be stuck or have issues with certain phrases? Good lord.

Learning how to talk like a native in another language is exceedingly difficult. It requires thousands of hours of practice, and by practice I mean actually physically speaking. Babies do this over and over and over and over again. We just gloss over it because, well, they're babies.

The only way to learn a language properly (as an adult) is to get over your fear and nervousness. When I hear obvious ESL people speaking English, my first thoughts are not of criticism. It's the exact same with people with other languages.

I have been learning Korean for almost 2 years now and my pronunciation is still not good in a lot of areas because I haven't practiced them enough, or well enough yet. That's just a part of the learning process. I'm understood most of the time, and the rest I just note down as things to work on.

Of course it sucks to hear myself compared to a native or make a mispronunciation so bad I'm not understood. But this is part of the process. If I -didn't- make mistakes I wouldn't be a learner of Korean, no?

> but if I hear people speaking French, I often cannot bring myself to introduce myself or ask how they are.

If you can't overcome this, you will never learn French. As long as you're afraid of making mistakes, you will never learn French. If you don't actually speak the language, you will never learn French... You don't learn a language only in classroom environments or with very patient friends. You learn it by speaking as much as you can, whenever you can, and making as many mistakes as you possibly can.

Even if you don't know how to say one exact thing in particular, circumlocution is your friend. Or rewording it in another way.
You can't just reduce the patent period without reducing the regulatory process that is required to get stuff approved. It would not work otherwise.
With domains registered at Google Domains it's very easy to enable. All domain registers do not support it. Mayor Pete uses GoDaddy and very easy to setup at that register as well.
I don't know about the legal side but if this is legal, it's pretty much a no-brainer for the company.

Assume that candidate A asks $90k and candidate B asks $80k. Let's also assume that each employee brings an equal amount of value to the company, let's say $100k. So, the company makes 100% more profit off of employee B even though they are paying only 11% less.
I want a phone service that automatically charges the caller a small amount ($1-$2). I can waive the charger for known numbers. Each time an unknown caller calls, I get an SMS right after the call to waive the charge for this and all subsequent calls or to proceed with the charge.
At first glance this comment might seem shallow, but I think we can unpack it a bit.

1. It’s probably correct? The US is a very large single market

2. From some quarters the US does come across as being fairly laissez-faire

3. The scale of predatory economic activity in an otherwise highly developed economy is(?) unmatched

4. Penalties seem to be a cost of business rather than genuine attempts at deterrent

5. The general appearance of a lack of accountability

But, I’m just looking on from afar, and I’m sure the media advances the hyperbole.
Where do you find the words to add to your deck? I add words discovered in lessons - which are great for a proper context - but using words from internet sources (the news, etc.) is time consuming and means I keep seeing words from a few narrow niches (politics, economics, slang) without any understanding of how they'll be interpreted.
The Moral Landscape Winning Critique
This is a fascinating web site. I was particularly impressed by the section labeled "Tool Guide".
The best thing for the employer to do would be to accept the resignation with only 2 weeks notice and tell the person not to come in for the 2 weeks (and pay them for the two weeks). This assumes that the employer doesn't trust the employee and doesn't think they will behave during the time between notice and termination. If an employer things the employee will behave there is usually no harm keeping them on for the notice period. Not a lawyer this isn't legal advice, consult your lawyer before doing anything like firing an employee or accepting a termination notice for any period other than the one in the notice.
1) it's really, really hard to effectively drill vocab out of context because the gender of nouns affects everything around them, the indefinite form conceals gender (via contraction) in too many cases to be of much use, while the definite is awkward and still doesn't really drill modifying words around it anyway. To do it right you've really gotta come up with a few short model sentences or phrases involving adjectives, which is a giant pain in the ass.

2) It's bizarrely hard to get ahold of French media online, outside the EU. I just want to stream Le Juste Prix, damnit! Makes one envy Japanese learners. The language may, in some ways, be a lot harder, but there's so much media readily available and there are so many tools for it.
Show HN: I Just Made an AI Based Growth-Hack Suggestion Tool
So go work from a coffee shop or take a walk. I'm not sure if anyone has told you, but it's not been normal for humans to go to an office five days a week for 8 hours a day for most of human history.
I wanted to ask the same thing. In my head ConTeXt is to LaTeX as XML is to HTML, a more general variant of the same language. Is that analogy plausible? In what use cases would ConTeXt make more sense than LaTeX?
I like readlang a lot. They have a very nice browser integration allowing you to read text and get dictionary lookups in-line. It does cost $5/month but it's very well made.
> How about go the other way? Make the patent term much longer, but add a compulsory licensing system that allows anyone to make and sell the drug if they pay a royalty at a rate set by regulation.

Who sets the rate then? Regulation means government, which will be massively lobbied for increasing licensing fees in the favor of the industry. If you want to shake things a little better to massively decrease the patent period instead, since it makes everything way too slow.
Has anyone actually seen personal SSH or Git signing keys get stolen and used in attacks (not counting servers sitting on the internet with ssh open) ? It seems like the only really useful purpose for these tokens is as an MFA token, because passwords just suck. At the same time, it seems like long random bits that can't be remembered by humans just aren't so vulnerable that we need to carry around something to unlock them.

Maybe the issue is just that it's so easy to attack password-protected systems that nobody even needs to attack keys.
Yes, since you can tell the time with a regular, non smart, watch, too -- and some will also do notifications and other stuff.

In fact, even with the apps it's sorta gimmicky. Unless you use it for health purposes (e.g. heart monitoring), a smartwatch is not of the "my life change" category. At best the "I could do the same shit with my mobile phone, now I also have another device for them that I can do them in a worse screen/input method".
Except the lady who sells subway tickets in Moscow. That lady is quite grumpy.

(Everyone else was kind.)

I took immersive classes, speaking 6 hours / day, 90 minutes spent on pronunciation drills. The only downside is my accent got better faster than my vocab, confusing lots of people with whom I interacted.
Indeed, the only time I have seen this is when someone was being investigated for gross misconduct, or a 'surprise' redundancy. I assumed that the company just didn't want anything untoward happening.
See also the 8-year-old Mozilla bug for a more detailed discussion: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=630181
> When I give people a link they can't click on […]

Try giving them a QR code instead.
On android, you can go to settings of the caller app, and enable "filter spam calls". Not exactly the same thing but still... You might have some trouble if you are a fi user.
Alibaba to pay $250m to settle lawsuit over pre-IPO warning on counterfeiting
Can we access the publication for free? Someone changed the link, originally it was:

https://scibib.dbvis.de/uploadedFiles/MotionRugsPreprint.pdf

"For the Z-Order Curve we found that it is prone toproduce “Phantom-Splits”, visual artifacts creating the impression of a physical split of the entities when there is none. The Hilbert Curve insteaddisplays the spatial dynamic better than the Point-QuadTree and shows fewer artifacts than the Z-Order."
Will the expression "spin up" ever fall out of usage?
You just run

tlmgr install <package>
I wonder how many times over tests were done by competing companies, duplication, and how much waste/inefficiency there was because of data not being shared - and how much further duplication may continue to happen.
Disabled people don't need fancy new gadgets
> novelty grade movement

It's from Ronda and it's a good movement.
I think it would be great if you could remove the 3,2,1 countdown in the beginning. Just let me restart ASAP!
> just one presidential hopeful — Democratic candidate Elizabeth Warren — uses domain-based message authentication, reporting, and conformance policy — or DMARC.

Another reason that Warren is my favorite of the democratic candidate right now. It's telling that the candidate with the most tech savvy is also the one proposing to break up the FAANGs for antitrust abuses.
The New Mall Tenant Is Your Office
I was giving my employer a couple months notice. They decided to get mad that I was resigning. So I made it two weeks notice instead
To setup DMARC, you add a text record like _dmarc.example.com with content like "v=DMARC1; p=reject" (or perhaps a more permissive or canaried policy).

I am not sure if Google sets it up automatically. I have no memory of setting it up for my gsuite domain... but the record is there. I probably added it at some point though.

The advantage of DMARC against phishing is that people without access to your email server can't impersonate people in your organization. If you tried sending me an email with a "From: jon@jrock.us" header, it would be rejected by my server and I would never see it. This makes it much more difficult to spearphish someone. If you could send an email "this is your boss, look at the From: field, now click my link!", a lot of people would click that link. If the From: field is "spammer@phishing.invalid", you might think twice.

Every little bit helps.
And how would you expect to collect on any of that?
> At which point does telling convincing lies about yourself become a useful skill to have?

Since… forever?
How science journalism is broken and how can we all fix it
Silicon wafer firms see 12-inch wafer demand plummet
> Do companies normally give you 14-60 days to find a new job before firing you? Nope.

Actually, yes, in europe they do. 90 days, contractually agreed upon. Unless there's a very serious issue like theft, violence or similar, you have 90 days until you're without work. Usually it is also at the end of a month, so sometimes it can be up to almost 4 months if they decide to fire you at the start of a month.
Just checked out your site and wanted to say I really like the visual design. Not sure if you do all your own CSS but it has a great feel/balance on desktop. Well done
There's some substantial evidence.

https://nos.nl/nieuwsuur/artikel/2213767-dutch-intelligence-...

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/03/dnc-lone-hacker-...
> I don't think this is targeted to a normal person, but the type of people who already own tens of thousands of dollars in watches and will buy this as a novelty with out even blinking. It's a weird and very rich (elitist) market.

Yeah, and this "weird and very rich" market pretty much exclusively steers clear of anything that says "Quartz" on it. Hell, even state of the art mechanical movement like Seiko Spring Drive suffered from being associated with Quartz watches, even despite the fact that it had nothing to do with them. So there goes that theory.

More likely this looks like some executive at Timex finding some Shinola garbage at some local mall and going "Do that, just replicate whatever these guys are doing!" without first asking themselves "Is this business model even viable or profitable?"
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The post said they were fired without cause. I don't know about Massachusetts but in right to work states, people can be fired without a reason or a notice period, and it is up to the person to prove there was a reason that is illegal.