skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> He didn't handle 18650s. He bought a battery pack for his laptop that was supposedly an HP replacement, except it was either counterfeit or refurbished by a third party.

If you reread the article, you'll see that the article mentioned a series of related issues, one was about the defective laptop (and other off-the-shelf) battery packs. I think everyone knows something about it already, even the great kernel hacker Alan Cox was a victim! His 3rd-party laptop battery pack exploded in 2006.

* https://slashdot.org/story/06/09/24/062217/alan-coxs-explodi...

But the article mentioned another issue as well, which is the purchasing and handling 18650 cells by individuals (mainly for e-cigarettes), which I found was something new and different. Thus I posted the discussion above.
There are two parts to this, and the article seems to conflate them. First is there are a lot of poorly designed devices that lack current protection. In the eCig world one can point to the mechanical mods which are basically a battery directly attached to a coil, with nothing but a switch in between. Dangerous and stupid. There are some very good eCig devices that have excellent current and reverse-bias protection, but they cost more.

The other problem, and one that is more distinctly Amazon, is the proliferation of poorly-made budget 18650s as well as counterfeit re-wraps of junk 18650s sold as quality brands such as LG. Often these are low-drain devices that should only be used for things like flashlights, but are sold as if they are high-current-drain batteries. This is also driven by the demand for eCig batteries. The side effect of this is that these junk batteries end up being purchased for non-eCig devices.

The best advice is: Don't buy lithium batteries on Amazon. It is not worth the risk.
Yeah. I always see the De Morgan's Law being used to make the code look prettier or look less complicated.

I'd say it's objectively prettier most of the time, but unfortunately that's exactly what introduces double negatives or other ambiguous stuff and makes the code more confusing.

It's a nice refactoring step, though: apply it, extract the condition into a well-named variable and test that condition.
Nice in Firefox, but my Chrome (Version 73.0.3683.103 (Official Build) (64-bit)) on MacOS does not show the game "frame".
By saying that “both parties” are embracing authoritarianism, all you are doing is being useful to the clearly, unabashedly authoritarian party currently busy consolidating its power.

It’s just empirically untrue propaganda.
Is there a link to the actual paper for categorizing the number of species going extinct?
I can see advanced civilization taking a (possibly long) pause. But there will be so much space to expand into for the survivors, and caches of technology to discover. Someone will eventually discover and re-tool.
State prisons also house six times as many people as the federal prison system does, so the argument that the "vast majority are in for drug offenses" is essentially the opposite of the truth.
Google terminated my developer account and started a competing business
Did you see that it was me quoting that exact quote as something to argue against?

I don't know what shorthand nomenclature of insurance underwriting is, but if it's a standard part of insurance underwriting then I would expect a new hire to be familiar with it, or need time to become familiar with it.

If it's something separate like actual Gregg or Pitman shorthand English which the one underwriter used personally, unrelated to underwriting skills, then I wouldn't compare that to a programming language's built-in ternary operators.
If you've ever been to Maine, where the paper industry is important, you'll know there are further effects from "sustainable" planting. The trees are all young; there is no possibility of a high forest developing. The stench of chlorine is everywhere.
More subsidies today flowing toward the oil industry than in 1989; each year the amount of CO2 we add to the atmosphere is more than the year before. The subsidies for solar panels, etc., although well-publicized and well-criticized in the conservative press, tend to be about 3 to 5 orders of magnitude lower than subsidies for the oil industry, which get no press.

2019 isn't 1989. We'll do vastly more environmental damage this year than we did in 1989.
So Best in the sense that we all have learned a lot from their failure?

Jokes aside, my uninformed opinion on how it could have been a better breaking change would have been to have the python3 able to understand properly python2. So that everyone could start using the same updated interpreter by setting appropriate flags or with thin wrappers. This way people could have moved to py3 and still run isolated bubbles of python 2.
It's too bad that web annotations never caught on. It would be so useful for things like eBay auctions and interesting essays to be able to comment on them and read others' comments.
I use an iPad with my mother who has severe dementia. I screwed the iPad down to the table and set FaceTime to automatically answer. This helps a bit so that I can call out to her. I also have a Nest cam in her room so I can see her that way as well.

It's a terrible existence that my mother is living.
Steps to Design and Launch an IoT Product
I'm fairly ambivilent about ubi, sf I don't know enough to make an informed decision so I'm not making a comment either way.

But that article is shit. The author (from my opinion) has an agenda against ubi and is mixing their history to give some rather strange responses about why ubi wont work.

I use to assume anything published in the guardian was, well not shit, but now? Well that seems to be me, to be a bit piece, no a neutral and unbiased look at things.
I think in many ways, you have just describe most jobs.
Can you explain how they would hurt themselves or give examples of this happening currently?
I keep looking at the shadow rather than the block.
I actually got my 80yr old mother a Google Home mini for $25 off ebay. She can easily ask it to play her favorite music, weather info, call the local pharmacy and more. She loves it.
Using "well the world sucks" is a very poor excuse to justify sucky behaviour.
>> What’s to stop someone else from backporting security fixes as needed ad infinitum?

>Who? I haven’t heard anyone express a willingness to take up that mantle.

Tauthon [0] kind of fits the bill here. It's a fork of 2.7 with some backported features from the 3 branch, so they're in a position to backport security fixes as well. How well that arrangement holds up once the PSF officially drops 2 remains to be seen, but if anybody is in a position to keep providing support it's probably them.

[0] https://github.com/naftaliharris/tauthon
> The speed of change and extinction is vastly different this time.

What about the Chicxulub asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs? That would have been much faster.
All the hospitals that I know disable caller ID. Which seems pretty stupid to me, they could set it to the number of the main switchboard.
It depends on the permissions: uBlock has permissions to read the entire page on any domain. Some extensions only limit themselves to specific domains, or don't touch that at all.

uBlock still reads your bank website, etc.
The biological sex vs cultural gender debate is rather fascinating because it comes down to categories and definitions. Each side can't agree on the "correct version" of reality because culture creates simulacrum (representations) that feel real and authentic.[0][1]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simulacrum

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simulacra_and_Simulation
If I might plug my own work:

I did a 5-part lesson on my blog. It starts from zero knowledge and ends up with two Fibonnaci calculators (one recursive, one iterative):

http://blog.suspended-chord.info/tag/lambda%20calculus/

(There's also a theorycrafting post I did a bit later to build a rudimentary object-oriented programming paradigm in the Lambda calculus.)
Big Dairy Is in Bed with Almond Milk
One million of eight million species threatened with extinction by humans
Surely, though the same can be said for drinking, which the fiasco of Prohibition demonstrated isn't going anywhere. The litmus test for our time regarding whether or not a substance ought to be societally tolerated seems to be "is this substance more destructive to society than alcohol?" Heroin surely is, marijuana probably isn't, etc.
You assumed wrong, or at least half-wrong.

It's a managerial "marvel" because they managed to certify and deliver that mutant flying turd adding billions to their bottom-line, earning their bonus while spending Boeing's good name and capitalize their decades-long "investment" on FAA.

That's top-notch management right there...
The third line on the page is

• Anna Coote is co-author of Universal Basic Income: A Union Perspective
FWIW I think the font choice is perfectly fine.
As long as population growth is recognized as a problem in addition (and perhaps a bit less than) overconsumption - rather than a rhetorical guise used by people in the West to continue to justify overconsumption, I absolutely agree! Unfortunately, it far too often appears to be the latter
Browser fingerprinting has been overhyped and is not a reliable method of tracking.

If it was useful, it would be much more prevalent but too many people have the same fingerprint.

IP address is a better method of tracking for comparison.
Why did you feel the need to create another UI framework?
Apart from the difficulty of obscuring this information from JavaScript, it's politically impossible.

Chrome could change its header to the header of a competitor or a neural one, but has no reason to (Google's main business is delivering ads). For other big browsers like Firefox and Safari it would be a huge loss to change the header: they would vanish from browser market share statistics, and with that the business case to make websites work well with their browser dwindles. That in turn would reduce their actual market share. That only leaves the browser with a market share so tiny they are ignored by developers, and those browsers do often spoof the user agent header (or at least make it very convenient to do so).
Note: I agree with the fact it shouldn't be illegal.

Main point, fucking hard to od on mushrooms when you can barely walk ;-)
10 Actors Were in “Harry Potter” and “Game of Thrones”
eBooks displays appear to be getting faster.
The main problem is that large eInk displays are still very expensive.
An eBook reader with a DIN A4 (14.32 inch diagonal) screen costs around $800 or so. There aren't many to choose from. They would be extremely useful to read (and annotate) scientific papers.

Perhaps the next version of the reMarkable ebook reader will feature a backlight.
Not directly hurt from the drug (it's probably not possible except for maybe some massive dose)

But people could fall from a lethal height or walk into traffic while they are tripping.
Wow, that's great!

I'm following you on Github then.
Once in the distant future our offsprings will huddle, starved, in refugee camps in northern Canada when our planet undergoes systemic collapse from a runaway carbon cycle. Smoke and alcohol related deaths will be the least of their concerns.
There are people who jumped out of the windows because they thought they could fly or that apartment was burning. There are people who ended up in lifelong psychosis due to one single (or many) trip(s). It is extremely powerful substance, much more powerful than anything usual life can bring upon you including softer drugs.

I had only the most positive and enlightening experiences with it, but can imagine many folks with deep unresolved issues (ie messed up childhood) could have a very very bad experience. Quality supervision and proper preparation should be mandatory.
Hmm to "ultimately we're all the same".

A quote I like says, paraphrasing, "as soon as you realise you and I are different people, then we will start to get along much better".
It gets worse. They used to call themselves Earth's most customer centric company. Well, recently they shipped me a pack of women's briefs rather than the fountain pens I ordered. Customer service was abhorrent and they would not take them back - the cherry on that cake was that the pens I wanted had now gone out of stock as well.

I cancelled my prime subscription immediately. I don't think I'll be giving them any of my business anymore. I used to work there so I still own a lot of shares, though.
Hopefully this will make us ditch the planet and finally look towards the stars.

But I fear it will actually lead us towards an "Interstellar" future: where our inter-planetary progress is hampered by this single planet that we want to save.
Even Firefox, Firefox Privacy on Android gives away android version in the User Agent. New Tor browser (android) fakes it, I remember even old Orfox used to give away device name as well & there used to exist an open issue to address it in their issue tracker.
"There’s at least one piece of data on every call that the network operator has—-the identity of the prior network hop."

I'm curious - is this available in a call passed through twilio ?

I would like to log, or pass, the prior network hop using twiml ... or a twilio function, I guess ...
What are the risks?
I've never had an 18650 Li-ion cell go off on me, but I have had LiPo cells decompose while still strapped to my drone and those produce copious amounts of thick smoke (which I'm told is not great for you in confined spaces)
The verbiage of the opening paragraph does not make the relationship between the report and the author clear. It seems pretty sketchy to be honest.
I disagree. Reading the verbose example takes less time to understand, not just because the concept is clearer, but it is also visually easier to separate lines, even if that is 10 times as long as yours. If you see that somewhere, it will take a blink of an eye to understand, but your one line solution has to be read from left to right carefully considering colons and separating parts in your head.
> Not sure why this is beneficial to those species or climate or anything

"...A number of studies (e.g. Knight et al. 2012, Rosnick and Weisbrot 2006) have found that shorter work hours are associated with lower greenhouse gas emissions and therefore less global climate change. The relationship between these two variables is complex and not clearly understood, but it is understandable that lowering levels of consumption, holding everything else constant, would reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

This paper estimates the impact on climate change of reducing work hours over the rest of the century by an annual average of 0.5 percent. It finds that such a change in work hours would eliminate about one-quarter to one-half of the global warming that is not already locked in"

-- Reduced Work Hours as a Means of Slowing Climate Change. http://cepr.net/documents/publications/climate-change-worksh...
Did the community managed to organize/assemble a supply chain ? just curious
I steer into the skid. I've acquired several clients by giving talks on implementing time intelligence on several analytics platforms.

More often I deal with fiscal calendars, rather than DST issues. The thing it takes them some time to realize is that their attempts to use date functions built around the standard calendar lead to huge pain when dealing with their weird fiscal calendar.
heard a review of this app a few days ago that reminded me of Lenny https://www.robokiller.com/ - apparently the conversations it spews out are pretty hilarious also. Annoyingly I can't figure out what the subscription rate is, but can try it for a week for free
> They're 3rd party sellers.

3rd party seller merchandise commingles with Amazon products, leading to counterfeits... EVEN on "Sold by Amazon" and "Fulfilled by Amazon" products.

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/02/amazo...

Amazon's supply chain is compromised. There are fakes and counterfeits all over the site. Its been this way for years and Amazon hasn't done anything to fix it.

--------

I've been buying books directly from publishers and buying other stuff from more specialty shops (Adafruit, Digikey for Electronics, Newegg / Microcenter for computer parts, Target / Walmart for general merchandise)
As you keep expanding the list of things people "abuse" your definition of "abuse" gets closer and closer to "use in a way I don't like".
Molecular Constellation
Buy a used copy. Give it away when you're done reading it.
How much of that is as a result of them manufacturing the vast majority of our stuff? Essentially we outsourced a proportion of our emissions.

USA is doing terribly thanks to having by far the largest emissions per head, dramatically in excess of anywhere else.

Asia is doing poorly thanks to having larger populations, developing apace and being home to much of the world's manufacturing.

UK is just about world's worst for historic cumulative emissions thanks to being home of the industrial revolution.

Shall I go on? It's everyone's problem, and needs addressing everywhere, at every election. Anything else is just finger-pointing excuses not to act.
18650 are widely used in flashlights too. I bought one from Amazon that came with a battery that has a built-in USB powered charging circuit:

https://www.amazon.com/Headlamp-Headlight-Rechargeable-Water...

Still for sale on Amazon. So it’s just bare 18650’s they won’t sell anymore?
Gulp to build templates and SASS, copy pasted into an S3 bucket.
Cynical mode: The law suit would be very expensive, but imho. possible to get to the next round. This elevates for several instances, until you're out of money and the lawyers can burry it.
A substantial fraction of people become addicted to opiates when they are not freely available, too. Which begs the question... is addiction the problem? Or are the problems consequences of restricted availability?

To put it another way... if heroin were legalized tomorrow, would you start shooting up? Is illegality the best (or only) way to prevent addiction? Look at tobacco. It's legal. Most people don't use it, because it's addictive and dangerous, and usage rates have dropped considerably due to social pressures and awareness campaigns.

When proposing (or defending) a solution, make sure you ask yourself if it actually solves the problem.
Safe Artificial General Intelligence via Distributed Ledger Technology
So, Smalltalk didn't really exist until 1971/72...

http://worrydream.com/EarlyHistoryOfSmalltalk/

Right after New Years 1971,
Bob Taylor scored an enormous
coup by attracting most of
the struggling Berkeley
Computer Corp to PARC.

In the summer of '71 I refined
the KiddiKomp idea into a
tighter design called miniCOM.
It used a bit-slice approach
like the NOVA 1200, had a
bit-map display, a pointing
device, a choice of "secondary" (
really tertiary) storages,
and a language I now called
"Smalltalk" - as in "programming
should be a matter of ..."
and "children should program in ...".

This Smalltalk language (
today labeled -71) was very
influenced by FLEX, PLANNER,
LOGO, META II, and my own
derivatives from them. It
was a kind of parser with
object-attachment that
executed tokens directly.

But, rounding errors and such, so maybe 1970 is kinda okay...
"Men are chronically lonely and unable to express their pain. Women hardest hit." - @olivertraldi
Only very recently did we stop eating organ meats for the most part.

Inuit is probably used as a living reference to what other cultures did in the past.
Is your blog that dynamic that you have to use JS framework?
> Boeing performed an internal review and determined that the lack of a working warning light “did not adversely impact airplane safety or operation,”

Why is this review not done by a third party auditor? The cynical view is that corporations have a conflict of interest. They are only incentivized to act ethically up to the point that the cost of ethical behavior exceeds the damage done by unethical behavior... These costs do include future fines/penalties, but these are often woefully disproportionate to the damage done as evidenced by the fraudulent NASA metal supplier incident.
Both the wealthy and society as a whole spend way more on medical science than space. It's fairly common in the US for every wing of a hospital or every building in a medical school to be named after some rich businessman who is doing just that.
At first I rolled my eyes at your point, but then I thought about it more.

And I realized that the fact is probably for most of HN the question of "Do souls exist?" is just more interesting to them than "Emotional bonds with 1 out of the X million species." And I realized there was a time in my life when those philosophical topics didn't seem exhausted.

That big gap between in ways of looking at the world ("Wow what a beautiful emotional article about connection" vs "Human connection is just some evolutionary detail, let's look at Objective Big Picture (TM)") is something worth minding; it can help us understand each other.
If only we had a federated communication mechanism and the frictionless ability to run any server we wished from any IP.
No matter what we do as a collective society, the planet will change. Yes, our actions now are speeding it up. But they might also be speeding up the solutions. Borrowing against the future might be our best bet for preserving the future, if it means we develop the technology needed to properly address climate change.
Long term thinking is not a strength of American corporations.
This is an incredibly sexist article. flagged. We are better than this, HN!
i find it really odd that of all the knocking back and forth on this thread, you are the only person to suggest that using symbolic values for 'greater than', etc, improves readability.
>progressive societies are building high speed train networks and clean energy farms

When you say "high speed trains and clean energy" the nation that comes to mind is China. China is not exactly an example of a progressive and/or liberal (in the traditional sense) society.
How is it that women are bearing the burden when it is the men who have no friends?
well there are no real world test of ubi, and only a few with randomized participants, while i'm not a fan of the idea it sound premature just to write it off as non working
I remember timing it to 30 seconds on our Mac Performa 5200. And in System 7.5 it froze up the whole OS when it was doing it's thing.
I have that setting enabled, though I think it may be Android-only.

Do we know if people actually try twice in rapid succession often enough during emergencies, without special training to develop that habit?

I don't know the data on this, but I'd like to.
I think the point is just because there's an EOL doesn't mean everyone will be ready or even willing to jump the ship. Companies run all sorts of old software. In 2017 7% of PCs were running Windows XP[1], which had EOL in 2014[2]. Why do you think an EOL will magically stop people using python 2.7? I'm sure even new code will be written after its EOL.

[1] https://www.businessinsider.com/how-many-people-use-windows-...
[2] https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/WindowsForBusiness/end-of-xp...
Mercedes-Benz Starts Production of EQC Electric SUV
What I don't get is if you're tired of certain forms of social media, then why don't you quit using those?
A Video Sharing Web App with React/Node – Feedback Appreciated
It would be far better for the planet for vegetarians to eat chicken than to continue to support the fishing industry.
Humans will survive. There is far too much money to be made for the game to end. We will survive for centuries. It will get gorier and nastier, but we will stay alive at all costs.

Animals ... not so lucky.

The vast majority of living non-human mammals are livestock. They have never had it worse than they do today.

Wild mammals are now a minority and they have certainly never had it worse. They are in the midst of the Sixth Extinction.
Magic Leap, Microsoft Conflict on AR Headset Strategy
Stupid Git commit-tree tricks: Building a commit manually out of a tree
Hugo - makes a lot of difference