skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Have you been through the Redding burn scar? What happened there isn't a "cleansing fire" that's going to leave the forest healthier. The forest is gone. It's not going to come back without a lot of human effort, and even then not before we're all much older.

What's going to grow back in those areas is mostly scrub, and that in turn is going to further affect the microclimate around the Redding area, making one of the hottest microclimates in the state even hotter and drier.

Yes, there are biomes that benefit from a regular low-intensity fire. Those are the biomes that scientists are talking about when they say "let it burn". Scrub and grasslands can burn and be back to scrub within a year. Old growth forest can survive a low-intensity fire and be a lot healthier afterward.

But the young forests that have grown in all of the clear-cut areas from the state's mining days, those don't bounce right back from a high-intensity fire.
Glyphosate has been in use since the mid 70s, or just under 50 years, and it has been studied by nearly every health organization in the world. There is ample evidence that it is safe.
Yes, some solution like that would help i believe. Even though that I'd say that what would be the most practical solution would be to use off the shelf solutions.

To fully give the wrists freedom of movement why not look at the knuckle controllers that Valve are using for VR at the moment.

Or why not gloves that can measure finger positions.

Bandwidth wise it should be possible. As a glove ought to have a 1:1 mapping with the data output of the hand..
tech companies are going the way of banks
>and possibly a tad inappropriate to assume that the commenter shares your cynicism and is coming from the same place.

Your ascribed motivations to my outlook on this matter are not appreciated.

It is plenty sufficient to look at his actions and statement together. He plainly told you in no uncertain terms that he's not going to do anything about it, when asked about what he is doing, because he is Mark's friend. This is pretty standard human behavior, and it's why we have a whole host of laws and ethics regulations attempting to correct for it in both private and public organizations. That's not cynical, that's looking at known human behaviors and being practical about it.

Try to avoid shaming platitudes in what otherwise was a pretty vanilla rehash on what the guy directly said.
The authors of the posts probably own the rights. FreeCodeCamp doesn't (as far as I can tell).
Researchers crack an enduring physics enigma
Are there opensource impl for LTE baseband for smartphones? Which ones? I've heard of OsmocomBB and it is 2G only, IIRC. https://osmocom.org/projects
Or the willpower to get up and go to work.
It amazes me how there can be a small digit number of people that always will be complaining for something that is truly remarcable well done.
Curious - are you able to share more details?
Ask HN: Will there ever be a Spotify for articles?
Almost every other link I click on HN now has some sort of proprietary paywall. Assuming that even in an optimistic case where a user can and is willing to maintain a monthly subscription to only 1 out of the 30 blogs that ask for payment, isn’t there a lot of left over inventory that publications can sell cheaper to non-primary readers? And if so, can we expect to see a MoviePass/Spotify type system where 1 subscription will gain you access to many leading publications, like the NYT and WSJ?
No, the machines I got ice cream from were dispensing real, solid ice cream. They were shaped as cones and on sticks for easy handling, but they were real ice cream, not that soft-serve crap.

Yes, I imagine these machines would have to be pretty robust to maintain those temperatures in Japan's hot climate.
Ok, that's fair.

My original question was legitimately not a rhetorical question (although that appears to be how it's been taken). I assume Monsonto has some of the best legal representation out there, so I assumed if they couldn't defend it, the case must be fairly compelling.

I'll put my skeptical hat back on. Appreciate the feedback.
I have Kaiser through my employer and I like it a lot. Maybe they don’t have the shiniest and best but it’s solid, simple and predictable.
If it triggers heated debate among experienced people, it probably qualifies as an "intellectual curiosity". If most come to a consensus about the solution(s), then it's more of a technical how-to question. The problem is that it can be hard to know ahead of time; newbies often stumble into age-old conundrums. So far, I find this question in the first camp: it's not something the current RDBMS are well-equipped to handle for reasons described in a nearby reply.
Thanks for the clarification. Good chance that this is what's going on in Shanghai as well. I don't speak Chinese at all so I was pretty clueless.
The original Roundup case among those lawsuits was careful to avoid going after glyphosate, but rather made the case that other additives found in the Roundup brand were the cause. Which cases are now targeting glyphosate rather than Roundup?
If you pay yourself little enough you can get free or subsidised healthcare through Obamacare. There are no asset tests.
Peter Thiel was never CEO of eBay. He was CEO of PayPal until eBay pruchased it, at which point he left the company to found Clarium Capital and Palantir.

EDIT: While the above statement is correct, I'm an idiot and totally forgot that a former eBay CEO ran for governor of California and remains active in politics.
All diet rct studies everywhere. There are no long term studies for diet that show weight loss in the same range as surgery.

Most weight loss diets are fine. They involving eating less food, particularly unhealthy food, and more healthier food. Keto, Paleo, Mediterranean, DASH. It doesn't matter because the differences between these diets aren't anywhere close to the differences between surgery and diets.

If you can find just one 5 year study that shows diet works anywhere nearly as well as surgery I'll change my opinion. But they don't exist. I've looked.
They aren't lying. To Google's credit, at least they don't let applications that don't work linger.
I'm definitely biased more in favor of convenience and shipping speed. But to take a recent example, I just bought something last week on eBay, and regular shipping was free, or I could upgrade to USPS Priority Mail for $9.99. For a $32 boxed set of DVDs, this triggers my rip-off sensor, even if it's not enough to really matter. And it wouldn't be two-day shipping, just priority mail. Good but not the same.

I like eBay well enough and I have my quibbles with Amazon (especially the marketplace) but they definitely have the one-click-and-you-have-it-tomorrow game nailed.
> Tesla, beset by concerns over demand and its ability to make a profit, last month accused its battery supplier, Panasonic Corp., of being the culprit for tepid production rates of the affordable Model 3.

I'm confused. I thought the Gigafactory was supposed to be building batteries, as in building cells, not just building battery packs from third party cells.
Should version control and build systems merge?
I don't disagree with your assessment at all. There is never a reason to act like that and i didn't take it as "the normal course of business".

FWIW: the detailed repro recipe was hermetic and single-binary (and guaranteed to work on his machine for various reasons), it just had more code than strictly necessary (It was still <500 lines, it was a very simple webapp).

The actual recipe was closer to "run this binary, click on new record button, click save, observe results in datastore".

I actually reduced it not because the recipe was too detailed, but to remove the argument that it was my code.
> Hmm, I wonder if it's confirmation bias on my end, or just a difference in what pages we each view.

Yes.

Joking aside, I will add that I've been a NoScript/FlashBlock user for quite some time (more than a decade? I honestly can't remember), and while I run into some things that are frustrating (just had to disable NoScript for a tab to order plane tickets), it is refreshingly uncommon.

Yes, you can browse with default deny to JS and Flash.
Queues (follow up on Bray/Branson posts)
Can you give us a link to your elegant table-less IE5 supporting website? I would like to see how you achieved it.

I lost a lot of hair trying to make a simple 3 column layout where the middle column would scale to the width of the window and could consist of multiple DIVs in a vertical row, all of the same width. AKA "baby's first blog" layout. Something that should have been one of the design cases for CSS.
> Custom DNS server with DNS rebind protection. E.g. if you’re running OpenWRT you’re fine[1].

One (very) easy way to achieve this is to use dnsmasq as a local caching server and pass it the option --stop-dns-rebind
It might be better if it is clear that they are not an open marketplace anymore, ever since amazon basics
In the US, if you are under age 26, you can still be covered by your parents insurance thanks to the ACA ("Obamacare").
Perhaps the Communications Act of 1934?

Perhaps Congress could vote to stop Facebook if they choose, especially since it involves national security, terrorism, acts of war, international threats, etc.

I don't think this counts as a new power. Remember Lavabit[1]? The executive branch forced Lavabit to provide a backdoor to read their customers' email, or pay a $5,000/day fine. They threatened to imprison Levison if he told anyone it was happening, even his lawyer.

Keep in mind, we're talking about the same government that declares concentration camps legal [2], assassinates American citizens without due process [3], wiretaps nearly the entire free world [4], can shut down the entire Internet [5], and recklessly declares a state of national emergency as part of a temper tantrum [6].

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lavabit#Suspension_and_gag_ord...
2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korematsu_v._United_States
3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anwar_al-Awlaki
4. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_surveillance_disclosure...
5. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_kill_switch
6. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Emergency_Concerning_...
The pay-per-use wouldn't solve the problem alone, but it'd keep some of the riff-raff out of there. But you'd need camera monitoring, and probably have it require the use of a credit card (so you know who used it, instead of just having a grainy picture of some person you can't identify), to make sure the bathroom stays clean.
While the advertising industry is not exactly a paragon of virtue, we are talking about nearly 9 digits of money being stolen, if we speak bluntly. That's a lot of money; a lot of lives and families affected in a negative way.

Advertising may indeed be evil, but this is one advertising firm stealing from another, to nobody's benefit.
Me too.

eBay has consistently handled disputes quickly and without hassles. Amazon has never managed that, even when they're the ones fulfilling the order.
Point 3 goes against normal behavior of hot metals, which emit infrared or visible light as they get hotter. It's called black-body radiation, and it's why iron and steel glow in a blacksmith forge.

The "moving parts" may be due to heat waves moving through the air (see also: mirage at a distance)
It might help to explain the Medium third party publication system, as it wouldn’t exactly be clear to people who haven’t experienced it before.
Thanks for the link, I'm definitely interested in how it's done without a runtime. I know in theory a coroutine can compile down to a gory switch statement and some state, but doing anything useful with it gets hairy, I'm sure.
In American English, blocks are deliminated by roads and mostly used in dense urban environments, often where the blocks are rectangular.
So, yeah, uncertainty about the prices creates a risk that has to be bet on
This looks pretty useful to me. It would be cool if it were possible to sign up for an account which would let you created "projects" which consist of a list of the tools that you are using for a given project. Extra cool if you could input the version you are currently using, and get it to alert you if you are getting close to EOL.
Whoever is responsible for this should face criminal charges, this totally unacceptable and make us Canadian looks bad for their incompetence and greed, even though they ultimately went bankrupt.
Also on Kaiser... they make you jump through hoops to get consistent mental health (regular weekly therapy). If you're persistent enough (call and be very direct about the kind of care you want) they'll hook you up with Magellan Health, the company they outsource to for mental health. Through Magellan, I was given a huge array of therapists to choose from in the Bay Area. If you shop around you can find someone you click with.
That grocers' apostrophe isn't in the group's real name.
Actually, yes.

1) Don't use crappy Soviet reactors like Chernobyl; this should be a no-brainer.

2) Don't locate a nuclear power plant in a place where it can be flooded easily.

Other than the crappy Chernobyl reactor, I don't know of any inherently dangerous reactor designs, especially in Western nations.
The publications have no right of export of content they display that you posted yourself, unless you declared otherwise to the publication.

If you, the same legal entity, are both poster and republisher, then Medium’s statement is both true and irrelevant to you, as you retain the right of export that they guarantee is the poster’s to exercise.
To save people some time, since your asking about law, is it safe to assume you are located in the US and subject to the SEC?
Does anyone know what the break in the Minimum Airspeed Restriction at Mach 1 is about?
Advertising as a source of dissatisfaction: cross-national evidence
Right.

What I'm saying is that any composer who would have struggled with Mozart's reputation would have very quickly hit up against a bigger problem: that nearly no other human beings have the capacity to remember, synthesize, and internalize the amount of music necessary to compose the way he did.

That's why while Mozart was "grandfathered" into the Romantic period by early Romantic composers and writers, everyone emulated Beethoven in practice. At least obsessive motivic transformation is a tractable problem. (One which, btw, is a subset of Mozart's output.)

Bach is in that same ballpark, though I'd argue that Mozart's output also includes examples of clear mastery of Bach's contrapuntal techniques.
> They do this with a few trains in a row until there are enough people waiting in the station to fill up a train to some acceptable level

The "acceptable level" probably doesn't account for everyone getting a seat on the continuation train. This used to happen with buses in Wuhan 10 years ago. If two buses on the same route met up and each had only seated passengers, one would send its passengers to the other bus to stand for the rest of the journey. This was annoying because I would travel places at off-peak times just so I could get a seat.

And of course, because this happens occasionally, it affects everyone using the Shanghai Metro because they all need to build in contingency time when planning a trip to get somewhere by a certain time for an appointment.
Well, then I don't understand what the article says at all. Can you summarize it for me? What is the change being discussed? What does it affect?

To explain my confusion, here's a quote from the article:

> Amazon secures inventory two ways. The company buys products directly from wholesale vendors, reselling them like a traditional retail store, and it lets independent merchants post their own products on the site in a marketplace model similar to EBay Inc. or a consignment shop. About half of the goods sold on Amazon come from independent merchants, and the change will push the marketplace share of revenue even higher.
Folks who are living paycheck-to-paycheck probably aren't going to shell out an additional $200 fee.
Great, thanks for the transparency.

When you say that the flat file is backed up, what do you mean by that?
What about the comments? None of the screenshots on either the website or the Play Store show how a comments thread would look like in your app.
I plan to add support for calendars that you can subscribe to. So you'll get notified 1, 3, 6 months in advance of approaching doom.
Using a few fee calculators & testing with a $100 item, it looks like they're comparable if the seller isn't using FBA. But, assuming FBA, then yes you spend a few dollars more than Ebay for the same item. However, selling via FBA can also give you a boost in sales with customers more inclined to buy when it will fit in their Prime subscription, and that increase in sales may outpace the increased cost.

Also, at least based on my own buying habits, (I know hardly representative) I'm much more likely to feel "safe" buying something on Amazon. But either way,to hit the most audience and maximize global profit, you can simply sell in both venues. Given some of the sales management tools that let sellers manage inventory & pricing across platforms, it doesn't have to dramatically increase the overhead of a sales & fulfillment operation.

As for switching from selling wholesale to Amazon to Marketplace, it may actually result in a net increase in profits because it is probably likely that selling retail via FBA will get more money in the sellers' pockets than the wholesale cost.

It really would be nice if Amazon gave sellers more certainty in this process though. It sounds like details & timing have yet to be fully nailed down, and it's the type of change that a business should be given something like 6 months of advance notice.
Holy cow. So it has to have been done recently then, I guess, and probably globally? Which might lend some credence to the "pronoun" theory.

I searched for "bos" and turned up quite a few:

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=%22bos%22+site%3Awww.gq.com

Edit: found a new one - remixes/remis:

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=remis+site%3Awww.gq.com
Poland is also a neighbor of Belarus and a former Eastern Bloc country. But I will cop to not researching this carefully; if I had the comment to write over again, I would have stopped at "last dictatorship in Europe".

I have never been to Belarus or Ukraine and have no real desire to, though Poland is pretty high on my list.
2,300 year old bark shield found in Leicestershire
https://i.imgur.com/wbqIOFI.jpg
Just took that screenshot, it's sending about ten analytics requests EVERY MINUTE. I pay $30 a year for it. But hey, they may as well get a few cents more.
If we're gonna have await share syntax with some other language feature, method syntax is IMO better than field syntax- it semantically blocks the function until the callee is complete, it evaluates to a temporary instead of an lvalue, it can unwind the caller (via cancelation, like a panic).

You could implement that syntax and still make `await` a keyword, without doing the usual method lookup and without letting no_std libraries change the term, just like `.await`- that's an orthogonal concern.
To be fair though, most of those gas stations would be very happy to no longer deal with selling gas and would be more profitable as just convenience stores. There's nearly no profit from selling fuel, it's almost entirely used to increase traffic to the convenience store.
> most of the thrust is generated by the inlets when supersonic

I've often heard this (also about the bypass in Concorde's engines), but I've never heard a clear explanation about how some element of an engine which doesn't involve burning fuel can generate thrust. Can anyone explain it?
Thanks a lot, I will definitely listen to the podcast!
Just nationalize them. When was the last time Facebook introduced a great new feature that users liked, as opposed to some garbage adtech "innovation"?
Yeah, this is huge. rr also has "chaos mode" to randomize things to make test failures easier to reproduce. (I understand Undo has something similar.)

I think that's one message that is completely lost in the article and in the rest of the comments here: it is possible to improve technology so that flaky tests are more debuggable.

With enough investment (hardware and OS support for low-impact always-on recording) we could make every flaky test debuggable.
This is an unsatisfactory discussion, because you are attacking straw men.

Samuelson was a genius and a once-in-a-generation thinker. I specifically avoided excluding the existence of such people who can take on the incumbents of the theoretical pantheon.

You at least concede that great thinkers are all more or less held in a certain level of esteem. It's precisely this pious, respectful attitude that makes unsympathetic critiques rare. I'm not saying that an academic world in which such critiques were commonplace would be better, or even possible. The conservatism and conventionality of the framework in which academic work takes place may well be intrinsic to the social function of the activity. The fact is that a vast amount of work is done which rehearses, builds on, applies, or seeks to recover value from the work of the 'masters'. Skepticism is not the word I would use to describe the way the literature is typically approached. Criticality is circumscribed by a sense of decorum — one must not be too critical of a thinker whose work so many others have engaged with. To be too critical would be arrogant, or at the very least it would indicate that one was in the wrong intellectual milieu.

I really am not aware of highly respected "unsympathetic" engagements in today's academia. Yes, there were high-profile disputes in the past between contemporaries — Einstein and Bergson, for example. But today refutations and dismissals don't seem to be considered appropriate. The overwhelming mood is one of appreciation of classic texts within small specialized interest groups. Rigorous refutations (as in Samuelson's work on Marx) really don't seem to happen very often at all. They almost seem like something rude.
A Low Share Price Would Be Fatal for Tesla, and Why Musk Has to Pump It Up
One thing you can do is detect whenever stderr is a tty and enable timestamping if not
I don't think you understand my comment. If you are cynical about McNamee, I am in full agreement. But that's not what you appeared to be critiquing in your original comment.

> You would love it because you know it in practice doesn't do anything.

Seems fair to assume that this is in response to the parent comment "I would love if my harshest critic was my friend."
I wear contact lenses. If I could instead wear lenses that continuously monitored my glucose level and it didn't cost me anything extra, and they still gave me the visual acuity of my normal lenses, why wouldn't I use that? I already wear them every day so for me, it requires zero effort.

Having to get urine samples regularly, or worse, blood samples, is a LOT more work on my part (not to mention painful for the blood samples), so it's not something I'm as likely to want to bother with.
A block (which, as you've pointed out is an ephemeral phrase), in NYC at least, is the space along a road from intersection to intersection. It thus usually doesn't count gaps between buildings or alleys or the like. Many of the long (east/west) blocks in Manhattan, for example, have pedestrian pass-throughs in the middle, but that doesn't count as a split in the block.