skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No. The US can't do that. And the US is bigger than China.

No one is so big that they can remit their debts and still get low interest loans.

Of course China could raise their taxes to pay for their spending, or they could keep printing money and devalue their currency.

But no one can not pay debt and keep getting low interest rate loans.
Sure, if you judge things depending on how much money you can get in the least amount of time it makes sense.
The question is: when do we stop being ok with subsidising instant profit by selling our future well being ?

Would you trade one of your lung for a 5$ bill ? No, well that's what we're doing right now.
Yeah, it's sad that people refuse to live at Chornobyl, Fucusima, or many other safe places. So much of land is just wasted because of this irrational fear.
Thanks, I was having trouble on my phone accessing the site.
I have sort of an opposite wish for the chapter detection feature. I'm a big fan of podcasts that tell a story per season or whatever you want to call it. Lot's of them have an intro ad for an indeterminate period of time and signal the beginning of the episode with an intro blurb usually voice over of 'welcome to ..' with some background music. I really don't mind listening to the ads the first time through but would love to save whole seasons without the leader ads as an M4b file - I've thought about writing this in the past, just haven't gotten to it. The ability to detect those points in a series of mp3s and bundle them up into an m4b would be super useful in my book.
Wait ... what ... you can "buy" keywords?
> I believe that is what most people would call socialism. When taken at its root idea anyway.

No, it could also be the society's moral system. For instance, take a hypothetical capitalist society where the shame and stigma of violating human rights is very strong. A business owner there would likely refuse to violate them even if it's very profitable, because doing so would make him a pariah, no "socialism" required.
Very similar story with the Obama tire tariff. $926,000 cost to consumers per job saved, plus the loss of 3 retail jobs due to consumers spending more on tires and less on other stuff.

http://www.aei.org/publication/2009-tire-tariffs-cost-us-con...
Show HN: Going Beyond “White Noise” with Soundly
The scope of my argument here is clearly based on past income in the US (that's why I mention W2 income).

I'm fairly confident a medical doctor in the US is paid more than a janitor.

Now, you can make an argument about whether a doctor in a rural area is more valuable than a software engineer in SF but there is an NIW (National Interest Waiver) category that can be utilized to grant residency.

Funnily, in the current system, janitors and meat packers (from other countries) get their green cards earlier than doctors and engineers from India [1,2]

[1] https://www.myvisajobs.com/GreenCard/SearchAll.aspx?ST=Certi...
[2] https://www.myvisajobs.com/GreenCard/SearchAll.aspx?ST=Certi...
Retailer pranks influencer marketers to buying discount shoes at 1800% markup
Taxi drivers in Boston have a commission too, they have to rent or lease a medallion for hundreds of dollars a week (and it's much cheaper now - thanks to Uber & etc).
Oh, come on now, we call that intermittent fasting (or time restricted eating) for a reason! This like saying that you can pronounce the alphabet aloud while being silent. No, but you can pronounce the alphabet while being intermittently silent :) You're not fasting while you're eating breakfast.
Looking at their 8K[1], $215mm (57%) of the expenses in that category are related to stock-based compensation.

In fact, 45% of all of their quarterly expenses are attributed to stock-based compensation. R&D has $506mm in stock-based compensation (80% of all R&D expenses), which both dwarfs the entire size of the G&A expense category and is more than 2x the stock-based compensation component of G&A.

To your question, lawyers do generally go under G&A. But I don't think you can blame the lawyers for the inflated admin costs - all of their cost segments seem to be inflated by the exorbitant amount of stock that's incorporated into the pay structures for tech and SV-based companies.

[1] https://investor.lyft.com/node/6711/html
There's almost certainly no middle ground between "use the DOM for everything" and "deploy any possible app on the web". As soon as we decided the web was more than just documents, this was inevitable. Smearing tech that's advancing this pretty obvious idea as "Flash" isn't super useful, and rings hollow when applied to Google tech but not Emscripten, WebAssembly, Canvas/WebGL, or other tech that is just transpiled to JavaScript and can only possibly use web APIs.

If this bothers you, your argument is with Web 2.0, not Google.
What's the big antenna for?
I also think mail clients should do that, or at least offer it as an option. Most mail readers have an option to disable loading remote content, and this would be another little way to make HTML email less dangerous.

I think (or at least hope) that most people are in the habit of hovering over links in email before clicking them. And I really hope that mail readers never start implementing Javascript. As for web apps, that's the Wild West, and a small fix like this isn't going to tame it.
For skilled immigrants, why does it matter what passport they hold?

I can understand the argument for and benefits of diversity of thought, of culture etc. But why passports? It makes as much sense as trying to insist that there must be equal number of right-handed, left-handed, and ambidextrous skilled immigrants.
I'm talking about telling people what time their flight arrives. This will make that horrible and hard to understand.
I don't use it for confined spaces, so 5000 ppm is plenty for me. If any building I am in is over 5000 ppm I need to leave immediately!

https://www.burntec.com/images/co220b.jpg
That's worth a repost. Jodorowsky, suffering, identity. Just from your summary, that sounds spot on. Added to my reading list. Thanks.
I contacted one of their support guys, eventually I was put through to a senior agent. After I quoted a bunch of consumer laws (at least here in the UK) he was adamant that their terms of services lets them change features as they wish so legal action is definitely going to be the only way forward.

From the follow up email:
"Any product feature can be changed at Nests discretion under the terms terms of service. It is for this reason that I cannot refund the cost of your thermostat."
The Stoner as Gym Rat
The owner of the device is definitely told all the data about the camera, facial recog and all.

You, who paid money and installed a device, aren't the owner. Google is.

You are a used. You aren't even qualified as a user.
> Last month, the country’s State Administration of Press and Publication released a series of demands for new titles, including bans on corpses and blood, references of imperial history and gambling.

I guess Three Kingdoms Total War won't be available in the country it is based on...
What doesn't affect the brain?
As is "Social Justice Warrior". Both terms were created to identify certain behaviors and categorize them in a negative light. You can't praise one while condemning the other.
There must be some shape that can work as both air filter and heat exchange, so one could have ample air circulation while keeping the heat inside, at the cost of having to wash it once every few months.

I wonder how expensive that would be.
> Pro-breakfast proponents say that eating breakfast results in eating less throughout the day, but I can't say this has been true at all for myself.

Another sample size of 1, but I had the same experience. Eating or not eating breakfast has no apparent impact on my hunger at lunchtime. (Not eating dinner the night before, however, does, so I'm hardly immune to hunger. I wish)

> The only negative effect I'm having is that my sex drive has plummeted to near-zero

This symptom I do not share, however.
I'm in awe at how well that advertising slogan permeated culture as pseudoscience. I hope someone at Kellogg's got a nice bonus for that.
A corporate PAC is simply a group of people joining together to create political speech, with the added legal protection of incorporation. The Citizens United case was in direct response to the FEC approving nearly all corporate speech from liberal sources, while stopping conservative versions. Explicitly in the Michael Moore v Citizens United FEC complaints. Nothing changed for liberals voices in Citizens United, only for conservatives. Which is why this is such a polarizing issue as one side lost a hugely unfair advantage.
I'm trying it with caffeine pills; also great!
This is well researched and compellingly shows a distinction of sources and metrics between alt-right and typical conservatism.
Also, that's nuclear as built. Pilotable nuclear reactors can be built, otherwise nuclear-powered ships couldn't accelerate.
You may find BehindTheOverlay extension useful.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/behindtheoverlay/l... / https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/behind_the_ov...
As I read your article and comments I was thinking that it might be interesting to doing the same tut in VS Code (though org-mode was pretty limited in it the last time I tried). It would feel a bit less awkward for the user and you'll do the org community a service by decoupling the org tutorials from Emacs.
They're not really insured: the exchange has claimed they have a self insurance fund (they call it 'SAFU') that they will draw on to make their customers whole. We'll see if that happens.
no offense but it’s hard for people to feel bad for someone making more than half a million
Google fires up its Firebase app development framework
Sort of. Socialists contend that the mechanical logic of the system makes that impossible, so the economic system must be refounded on the material basis of the political power of the majority - worker control of the economy / democratic control of the economy. Those two ideas go hand in hand.
Union of Concerned Scientists are an anti-nuclear lobbyist group. Anything they say should be dismissed out of hand. They have 0 credibility and have spent the last 50 years spreading lies and fear about nuclear energy.

The problem here is actually that the people at 'Union' are deeply convinced that nuclear is bad and no nuclear project no matter how much time was spent on safety has ever been endorsed by them. This is simply how they operate.

The reason there are 'exceptions' is because partly with the help of themselves the nuclear regulatory system was changed in a way to hardcore specific technological solution into the regulatory process that only work for traditional PWR, practically excluding every other form of nuclear energy.

NuScale uses PWR technology in a slightly different form but because that's what they believed to be able to regulated, but even that requires lots of extra cost to get regulated.

The regulatory changes after the nuclear accidents essentially killed all research and all progress. This can be seen both in the rates of new reactor designs and reactor building rates.

Union of Concerned Scientiests and Greenpeace have been at the forefront of this issue for a long time now, and their deliberate strategy since literally 50 years (and this is a fact that has been shown based on their internal documents) is to always focus on nuclear safety because that's how they can make it uneconomical. And to their credit, this strategy has worked perfectly. It might be the single most successful political campaign of the 'environmental movement'.

If they had been this effective against coal we would live in a better world now.
Put plants on every windowsill?
Definitely did not mean to only blame the dev. The company knows that errors were made on both sides, hence why we are working on improving the process.
I find that both statements are correct. 10-year old processors are still fast enough (I'm using one) but we need more RAM in 2019 than we needed in 2010.
They only hire the best of the best.
Common! We're talking about what? 12 or 15 hours? The body is a lot more resilient than we give it credit for.

Think about it, you don't drink while sleeping, so that's 7 or 8 hours right there. If you ever been not drinking for 2 or 3 hours before going to bed, than you're close to 12 hours.

In fact, google "dry fasting", lots of people are experimenting with it. "dry fasting" for 24 hours feels very different than "water fasting" for the same amount of time. There is no published scientific studies about it, I suspect because of liabilities fear when people go to extremes, but I am convinced that short term (~ 24 hours) it is different and beneficial. Every theory you will find online is bro science, but, you can't dismiss hundreds (thousands) of people experimenting and and reporting positive results.
Bird Is Selling New Electric Scooter Retail
That sounds plausible (and interesting) but do you have a source for it?
Red Hat Universal Base Image: RHEL Containers for Everyone
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I use Calibre daily on macOS to manage epub/mobi eBooks. Curious what use case you found difficult?
Two perspectives on the recent grand entry of Microsoft into the Linux space:

1. Linux won in the embedded (ARM devices), mobile (Android) and server spaces, and this is Microsoft bowing to that.

2. This is Microsoft's embrace, extend and extinguish strategy from the 1990s in a new wrapper. They just had to do it to an operating system this time.

Not sure if these perspectives are correct, but I'm just throwing them out there as food for thought.
IBM Cloud isn't working, so that is entirely possible, especially versus IBM having to shut it down.
If it works for you, sure. Interesting, I often eat a big but healthy breakfast and then eat nothing for the rest of the day, and that works really well for me.
You can wipe out the city, but somebody still needs to pay the debts.
> has been legally in the US for 17 years

Should we also mention that he only worked at GM for 3 years and that was his first job? Before that he was on a student visa for college, then grad school in West Virginia where his advisor proposed they apply for a federal grant to test emissions on German cars, and there were several people working on this taxpayer financed project. They collected the data and another member presented the data at a conference. They were not the ones that discovered that VW was cheating or how the cheating was done, but their paper was what called attention to the issue, prompting further investigation by others.

It's interesting that having 3 years work experience in the US after 12 years of education mostly financed by US taxpayers is sufficient to be called a "hero" who "discovered" something he was part of a team that is not mentioned, and presumed to be worthy of permanent citizenship.

Did he have noteworthy accomplishments at GM? Was he one of their top engineers? Little about his brief 3 year stint at GM is mentioned in these articles. I wonder why.
TRON critical security flaw could break the entire blockchain
I have at times followed an election guide verbatim. It's far more rational than voting straight ticket.

If it means it's easier to vote for those overwhelmed by all the various choices out there, then that's a win. If it means you can get your average millennial or Generation-Z friend to vote, someone who cares about social issues but can't be bothered to learn about local judges -- then that's a good thing. It could mean more accurate representation. It's better than letting the richest and most idle determine everything.
Right, my point is that it is probably being marketed alongside Monster and the like more that it is being marketed alongside beer.
I'm referring to seeing things with your eyes, which several of these people did.
I agree. Purely anecdotal from me too, but I feel so much more productive when I fast 16/8. I stopped feeling ravenously hungry after the first couple of days, and frequently fast for longer than the 16 hours in a single cycle.
Why not take them to small claims?
One of those blunders is much more correctable than the other, do not compare them directly in attempt to give crypto exchanges false equivalencies to a real bank.
Indeed. It's abstaining from all food and drink for a goal of 24 hours. I generally manage about 12, but it's something I'm working on improving.
Yeah, even Sun will blow and destroy our Solar system, so solar energy is not safe too.

BTW: Will you move to Chornobyl to demonstrate that radioactivity is safe? Land is cheap here.
Psychiatry's Inevitable Hubris
I grew up downstream of a whole set of International Paper and Boise-Meade paper mills on the Androscoggin River. I think I'd prefer Fukishima - there's less cancer there.
This has nothing to do with the article. This is about openshift, not linux (albiet, openshift runs on linux).

They seem to be embracing openshift as a prominent k8s distro on their cloud, which I think is interesting. Instead of attempting to create their own EKS type service, they're providing an openshift platform.
Thorium only has advantages if you use a breeder. Uranium is actually better for most applications.

And the development of any type of reactor is already expensive, adding the additional challenge of regulatory burden to change fuels is totally pointless.

The real debate is about reactor design, not fuel type.

I also started to get interested in Thorium, but I learn that its not about Thorium but rather your reactor type.
It bans taxes on "articles exported". Banknotes, shares of stocks, bonds, title to real property--these are arguably not "articles".

You couldn't tax a crate of polypropylene combs going from Chicago to Shenzhen. You might be able to tax the sale of 100 shares of stock in Acme Unbreakable Combs, Inc. to Chan Jingwei of Shenzhen on the Nasdaq exchange. Maybe tax the transfer of technical plans and patent rights for a comb-making machine from AUC Inc. to Acme Shenzhen Manufacturing, a Chinese corporation. And you might be able to tax the sale of a Seattle 4000-sqft 5-bedroom house to Mr. Chan.

In all those cases, you're not moving goods, you're moving ownership.
As someone who does Ramadan right now, I partly disagree. You are right that not drinking has adverse effects on cognitive performance, at least in the initial days.

But remember that this fast is done for mental reasons, and not physique. Even though it can be difficult, I really look forward to it throughout the year. It does bring euphoria and increased focus and other positive "mental" effects.

To say it has no benefits is obviously wrong. It can be a great experience!
Court Orders EPA to Address Landfill Emissions
They are making money off of it, that's a pretty strong incentive not to care.
Hey! Thanks for your suggestions! I will definitively keep that in mind.
I disagree, you still have to make a convincing argument that Google is more likely to risk ruining a whole bunch of their business than Larry is likely to screw up.
Yes, but there is no proof that the user actually used that QR to make their vote. This diminishes the incentive to buy votes because there is no verifiable proof of how someone voted.

I'm not saying it's a perfect solution, but it's more secure than mail-in ballots, which are currently in use and popular in many locations.
El Niño Is Now Stronger and Stranger, Coral Records Show
GCC 9 Interprocedural Optimization Improvements
They can't cancel external debt. But they can restructure debt between State-Owned-Enterprises (SOEs) and state banks.
For some reason, and I'm not sure what exactly, but I'll bet I'll put my finger on it if you'll give me just a minute. But for some reason, that argument wasn't particularly convincing.

Run it past me again, and we'll see if we can spot what the problem is on the second go around. Either something's not quite attached right or maybe something could be on back to front. Was hard to tell in all the excitement and distraction.
I don't think so, this looks like the mobile version of PUBG.
My dad's company used the same strategy to get rid of their "undesirables". Quietly flag the naysayers, whistleblowers, or anyone who went against the grain, wait until a wider lay-off occurs, and then prioritize their departure.

Organizations have short memories, except when it comes to grudges.
Will climate change destroy democracy?
Embryo stem cells created from skin cells
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There would be some trace amounts of radioactivity in the materials used. Probably not enough to harm the public.

Similarly, most fission reactor failure modes don't release harmful amounts of contamination to the public.
I'm curious - do any HN readers invest heavily in actively-managed mutual funds or hedge funds where you aren't personally involved? I feel like it has become a widely-held belief among young, somewhat-affluent techies that index funds are the way to go, with some preferring to pick their own stocks and very few willing to pay significant management fees for someone to pick their publicly-traded equities. But maybe I'm wrong here? Anyone care to share your pro-active-management reasoning?
Native ads and subscriptions, the same thing that worked for 150 years.
Have you ever tried living in a cold climate, though? I'm from Houston, and I thought I'd hate living through the winter in Washington State but actually I was totally fine with it.
This is genius. Also, the US military can expand everywhere and force everyone to use only the new climate friendly american fuel (TM) for affordable price.
keep going, you are 90% there to having a Markdown todo list like me! just use a dash and a space before the brackets and use "x" to indicate they are done. If you render the markdown in a browser you can use a mouse to click the checkboxes. Check out a markdown cheat sheet for more details.

Granted, you won't be able to use your special characters in the brackets..
>"how these findings can be reconciled with the research on the importance of breakfast"

Research, sometimes, is not what it should be.

"It was a combination of fear of indigestion, religious moralization and advertising that helped push the idea of breakfast as the most important meal of the day – but it was a campaign to sell more bacon that really solidified the idea. [..] Edward Bernays [..] exploited all the moralization and health fears around breakfast to help the company push its bacon."

From: https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2016/nov/28/breakfa...
"We couldn't agree to the NDA even if we wanted"

Why would that be the case? The NDA would be fore going forward.
I don't think it's just you, I've been getting them too. It's probably Github timing out trying to render the notebook.
That's a default and plenty of countries have done it in the past, but at ruinous cost. For debts in domestic currency they can just print the money, at the cost of severe inflation. For foreign debts they basically have to pay ruinous interest rates on any future borrowing and face the possible freezing and appropriation of foreign assets. Bear in mind they need dollars to do things like buying oil and food.
I agree that the majority of the cycles go to traditional codes, but there is quite a bit of ML/AI happening on Summit.

From your link:

"New Frontiers for Material Modeling via Machine Learning Techniques"

"Large scale deep neural network optimization for neutrino physics"

"High-Fidelity Simulations of Gas Turbine Stages for Model Development using Machine Learning"

"HPC4mfg – Reinforcement Learning-based Traffic Control to Optimize Energy Usage and Throughput"

"Advances in Machine Learning to Improve Scientific Discovery"
How does this not apply to solar and wind? If anything Nuclear designs can at least build in additional cooling, but you have no way to make weather more consistent, especially in the case of runaway climate change.
I try to be in bed for 9 hours every night which actually logs 8 hours of time asleep. Not always but keeping my weekly average around that amount +/- %5. I'm sure the tracker is off by some amount but it seems fairly accurate.