skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It seems that every time a social topic comes up on HN someone will extol the virtues of church attendance and their sense of community. Like, seriously, if some HNers are that nostalgic towards churches why don't you guys join one of the many congregations out there?
Apple and Qualcomm have been exploring in-screen ultrasonic sensors for TouchID.

https://www.tomsguide.com/us/apple-acoustic-pulse-fingerprin...
As far as I know, none of the recent fires were started by events like that. The ones a looked up were single phase faults where a line hit something other than a different phase conductor due to wind or mechanical failure.

A 90% solution would be an excellent start here.
The annual base salaries Americans quote are AFTER medical insurance premiums. They are not deducted from your quoted base pay.
Actually free licenses do not restrict selling the software.
That's not why it's cheaper: money doesn't universally trump wellbeing in Inda like it does in USA.
what am I going to do with your $100 the minute civilization collapses? And that's leaving out all our issues...such as insurance, or keeping them just in case since $100 is nothing.
Yeah, I was quite disappointed. Dietary cholesterol doesn't cause arterial cholesterol. "Fat" is a necessary nutrient, and there are different kinds -- polyunsaturated vegetable fats are different than saturated fat (found in beef); and even though saturated fat is considered "unhealthy", the actual scientific evidence for that designation is pretty shaky.

And then, what about fiber? What about the mix of proteins and amino acids? Vitamins and minerals -- in particular B vitamins, which are difficult to get from non-animal sources?

So much potential just to say, "It's got fat and salt, so it's just as bad."
A generator is not that expensive.
In term of restaurants, at least in London, quite a few are tested by michelin and can be seen on viamichelin website. It's not the same but at least it focuses only on positive reviews and there's no room for fake ones.
not really; you can't compare the two because the cost of living is so different. You don't spend 10k out of your own salary on things like healthcare and insurances because they are already included in the cost.
> iOS has a 22% market share according to the first result on Google.

that's worldwide, in the U.S. they're at 45%. And it's not a traditional duopoly in that there's huge lock-in -- I can buy Coke one day and switch to Pepsi the next (or whatever), but once a customer is on a particular phone they're locked into that platform's app store. So, yeah, I think they're exercising monopolistic pricing when selling access to their app-store.
> hey can be moderately well off with only moderate commitment

Primary care physician is like this, no? I guess your quality of life is still awful during training and residency.
For Kerala, its heavy rains. Flooded roads with open drains and deep potholes, bad electricity poles and transformers, lines touching trees etc. Engineering and business college norms require sturdy buildings and a few AC rooms.
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And yet functionality, performant, et al.
Could you give a few hints on how to find the information though? I'd also love to hear more on the specifics of the incentives.

I've been thinking recently about just building businesses on reducing information asymmetry. Feels like you can't really go wrong there if all you want to do is make a few bucks. (Who wouldn't want to buy that?)
s/men/stereotype-conforming American men in their late 20s and older/g
Researchers discover meat-eating plant in Ontario
Precisely.

And if you have enough veggies and vegans around you, you know that they can eat as much junk food as everyone else.

Sugar is vegan, after all.
>I don't think using an API of a GPL software means your software "has to be" GPL.

We should GPL the software that is calling the Api of the GPL software.

>not all software running on Linux using Linux APIs (syscalls) is GPL

This is because linus Torvold(Other contributors) has given the syscall exception along with GPL-2.0. That's why there exists all kind of proprietary software running on top linux os.

Note: I am an open source officer I deal on this topic very often
Way too many people actually do this.
I know. I have been a fan of Android for years, but with the privacy issues related to Google I can't help but to think that my next device will be an iPhone. My Galaxy S8+ still works perfectly fine though, so I'm not sure I'm ready to buy something I don't need.
Didn't you say some manga re-uploaders used Blogger for free image hosing bandwidth? Did that get shut down?
Thankfully Estonian has the difference as well, without cost being "tasuta", with freedoms being "vaba".
This is the clear winner: it's cheeky, poignant, compatible with current acronyms, and pithy. Communicates very clear intent and doesn't confuse. "Libre" is the opposite of all of those things.

Adopting the term Freedom Software can be done by you, today, at no cost. Everyone will understand what it means.

Messaging matters. Call it Freedom Software :)
It would be interesting to see the cost comparison between an urban distribution line and one that is going through the Sierra Nevada mountains. Each has it's own challenges.
But it's voluntary. When a company (or most individuals) get the product for free, there is little incentive to pay anything.

I think the notion that people (and companies) pay for proprietary software because there is support or some other reasons are complete BS. They pay for software because they have to in order to use it. It's just a cost of doing business.

As free software has become viable (high quality) in some areas, business folks are more willing to allow it. The primary concern is "can it do the job". The second is how much will it cost me?
Sure, I can agree with that. Good point.
Linux has an explicit exception in its license so that user space software doesn’t fall under GPL. https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/LICENSES/excep...

> NOTE! This copyright does not cover user programs that use kernel
services by normal system calls - this is merely considered normal use
of the kernel, and does not fall under the heading of "derived work".
This is completely untrue.

I'm an American citizen and not a single one of the 6+ W2 jobs I've held have quoted the base salary with insurance premiums deducted.
I’ve started ignoring yelp reviews. The quality as a whole is about the same as Amazon reviews, which I find close to useless.

That said, I still use the app. I use it for pictures, especially recent pictures of menus and food. I also use it for basic business info like hours, address, phone number, and (sometimes) map.

If I were to own a business that would be a natural yelp candidate, I would definitely incentivize one-star reviews.

First, I think that good yelp reviews attract some (perhaps many) pathological customers, many of whom are not from your natural customer base. These folks will put an effective service tax on the business, and they will make the place not what your regulars want it to be. Think a minor version of the Michelin Star hug of death.

Second, I think that there are much better / more effective outreach methods than yelp and similar apps to target the audience you want.

What I would do is keep an up-to-date collection of images of the menu and food on the site, and the business information would be accurate. I would be tempted to muck with the business information if yelp tried to go to war, but I imagine taking the high road would be the correct choice even if yelp didn’t.

I would not create accounts to post to about any restaurant, including my own. I also would not advertise on the platform.

I fully believe that a lot of these “social” sites seeking growth with questionable ethics practices will end up biting themselves in the ass. The tech isn’t that complex. I (naively?) believe that companies that make an effort to delight both sides of the marketplace (purveyors and potential customers) without trying to make VC-level returns will eventually marginalize predatory sites and apps. I hope this comes sooner rather than later.
I would be very surprised if every major cell phone manufacturer in the world wasn’t working on this right now.
You are judging an endeavor by how the media reports on it and not how the actual community's estimate of the progress. You are certainly right that a quantum computer big enough to solve a practical computational problem has not been built [1]. The quantum computing community certainly thought a 20 year timeline to QC was viable in the late 90s and early 2000s. However, after the failures of early experimental efforts, the consensus stance at conferences and such is always that QCs will come when they will come. The challenges are big but the path through them is straightforward - keep improving manufacturing capabilities till we can scale [2].

If you follow the literature, you will realize everyone is busy optimizing their manufacturing capabilities instead of going for short term goals of factoring ever larger numbers. We have to go from a regime where grad students spend months/years carefully crafting a handful of small parts to mini-industrial processes which can be used to manufacture thousands or millions of identical parts. It takes time and effort to do build such setups, but progress has been consistent over the last decade or so, and will only get better in the next decade.

[1] You should be aware though that there have been several very solid demonstrations of quantum key distribution, including commercial offerings https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_key_distribution

[2] Its like humans on Mars. Everyone knows, in principle its possible, but the challenges are huge and rushing things is simply not a viable option.
I'm guilty myself - my city has exploded with vegan stuff over the last couple of years and my waistline has expanded in-line with it :P
Would be weird if you dont believe their variant/flavour
Could someone explain what this actually is? (and yes I did read several of the web pages). Is it some sort of Xen-like hypervisor for partitioning machines?
Then they'll trust you, but you won't trust them
I have exactly the opposite experience: I do not want to write a program to compile my program.

Having used both scons and waf, and also having used make, cmake and cargo, I would take any of the last three over scons or waf in a heartbeat. I think cargo is far and away the nicest to use because there is very little to actually do to build your program. Using waf or scons was always an exercise of 'I added a header file, so now I need to figure out the scons/waf API in order to tell it what to do with it'.
$100 today, not in 2059

>just in case

But the science is settled I'm told, do you lack faith?
It would be slightly less since it is just Chromium versus Chromium + Node.js (as in Electron).
Money is not debt its paper or equivalent whose only purpose is exchanging for things. The government can and does print as much as it likes without creating any obligation on anyone else. They could print a billion dollars to put under your couch without any affect on the economy at all until you spend it.
Devil's advocate: Utilities are for profit orgs but rates and (kinda) by extension profits are all heavily regulated. You say that they should bury lines or spend a gazillion improving them, but what if the state balks at letting them increase rates to cover expenses? Where should they get the money for that? I guess that building in th middle of nowhere and expecting power at $0.xx kwh and safe power lines in all terrain and weather might be a dream.
I am confused by what exactly it is that you are trying to do. It kinda sounds like I should upload my internet history to you and then I can tag it? Or do I search through your site?
Just so other readers are aware, this view of cholesterol and lipidology is far outside the mainstream medical understanding of the topic.

LDL-c is bad. LDL-p (the particle number), LDL size, and ApoB (which is the protein part of LDL) are all very well correlated with LDL-c. So, while some people prefer one measurement or another, they're all proxies for one another.

We have lifelong exposure to our genetics-and-diet-induced cholesterol levels, whereas clinical trials run for a few years. The long-term follow up of the statin trials show mortality reduction. PCSK9 inhibitors reduce all-cause mortality, and the long-term follow-up of the PCSK9 trials may or may not show the same for cardiovascular specific mortality. However, everyone in the field thinks they will, because those with loss-of-function PCSK9 variants live longer with less cardiovascular disease. Also, adjudicating the cause of death is hard - autopsy, if done, overturns the diagnosis nearly 60% of the time[1].

Cholesterol isn't the only risk factor for cardiovascular disease, so other things (like autoimmune conditions) will contribute to risk as well, but this isn't an either/or phenomenon.

1 = https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12913844
This is a thinly veiled advert. There are nicer looking ebikes out there if you are into form over function.
Strings really do have some stiffness. In a piano, this causes harmonics to be slightly more than an octave apart, leading to stretched tuning. Cotton strings won’t be as still as metal strings, but the effect still exists.

Another issue is that Gaudí used a bunch of little weights instead of weighted strings. This means that he’s modeling stone columns with all the weight concentrated in a few places, which isn’t quite right.
Whatever side you are on here just remember, Freedom of assembly is such an important right to hold dear. With the censorious nature of the Chinese Communist Party, I fear what the implications of a bill like this could lead to.
This is between mitochondrial genomes, not plant genomes. Unless the roundup genes are part of the mitochondrial, not the nuclear, genome, this doesn’t apply.
The salary for the US also doesn’t count the healthcare and retirement benefits a US nurse is entitled to. US nurses generally receive health insurance coverage. As to pension benefits, NHS pensions for new employees aren’t very good. Each year, you earn 1/54th of that year’s salary as a defined benefit. If you work 40 years, you’re entitled to a pension of 75% of your average salary. Say that your career average salary is 30,000 pounds.[1] That gives you a pension about equal to your starting salary, or $30,000. That’s about what US social security would pay out for someone in that income level.

Also note that the retirement contribution for the NHS is about 9%, versus the 6.2% social security contribution.

[1] Apparently nursing salaries go up about 20% for nurses with more than 20 years of experience: https://blog.jobmedic.co.uk/nursing-salary-list.
Most folks on this thread are focused on the disabled features, but Tesla goes out of its way to prevent salvage of damaged vehicles. It does mean 'potentially poorly restored' cars are mostly nonexistent, but the day to day insurance is much more. (Looked at this for a project car once, and ye gods, what a mess)
If it is a blog that I care about, then I add its rss feed. If it is something else, then I either add it to pocket to read later or store a bookmark in my browser, because I like to pretend it is 1993.
A big problem with retrofitting above ground to below ground, especially in California, is the environmentalists aren't going to let it happen in many places it needs to. Especially when it comes to crossing creeks and dry washes, additional underground cable burying is going to cause a lot of land disturbance. And you're not just burying power in many of these places. Telephone and cable are strung along those same poles. Also many times poles to individual homes can cross sensitive areas because they are low impact, especially in very rocky locations.

Unregulated growth wherever people want to build isn't going to be an affordable problem, no matter how much money people think California has.
Say it is extremely rural and we only have 20 customers in those 30 miles.

So, $4.5 million per customer.

At this point, why be attached to the grid at all?

A renewable setup with storage makes sense at that point.
Semi-off topic: What is the latest and greatest in authorization mechanisms lately?

I like capability-based at on OS level, but sadly I'm not doing anything that interesting. For things like webapps, is there anything better than ACLs or Role-based. Or at least any literature talking about them? Probably overkill for the application I work on, but it'd be nice to take inspiration from best practices.
Sorry, could you give a little more detail on the solution? I'm not sure I understand. Though I'm certainly wary of "cameras everywhere". Honestly, that's part of what I don't like about red light cameras.

Towns are careful when they want to be. When I'm out on an 80-85 mph highway, they're careful about warning well in advance, putting up signs that a light is coming, etc. But then there are also the small towns which abruptly drop the speed limit from 75 to 55 then to 35 just for their 500 feet of road. And they always have policemen sitting right there and ready to ticket. To your point, these are often areas where you might want to watch traffic (pulling out onto one of these roads is no fun), and this keeps you from doing so.

I think the bottom line is this: traffic laws ought to be designed to keep people safe. Unfortunately, many towns have a conflict of interest with the revenue certain laws bring in. I'm glad that Texas is preventing this. I think it incites officials to set stupidly low yellow light length s (three seconds, apparently the federal minimum by another comment, is rarely enough).
> When it becomes immoral is when you use that data, or make it available for use by others.

That's logically consistent but shockingly permissive. And to be frank, I don't believe for a second this is really a principled opinion on your part, it's an excuse.

You'll get behind the hacker linked on HN out of solidarity or for some other personal reason (maybe you hate schools, or java). You'd never forgive someone for walking in and lifting your photo history due to a security lapse by Facebook, even if they never "used" the data nor "made it available for use by others". And that is why this behavior is criminal.

Be real.
Fixed That for You: Generating Contrastive Claims with Semantic Edits [pdf]
This is an interesting idea. Could be handy to have a little tool to estimate and compare costs across providers, maybe with pros and cons, constraints, and even customer reviews. E.g. I only need 99% uptime, I will be serving images, most of them will be the same etc.

I must say though, the graphs in this could be a good bit better. There is no reason to use a line here, it makes it look like a time series plot. Each instance type should have its own bar and they should be ordered in some manner, either grouping by types or sorting by price.
I suspect there is a point you want to make. It is already a bit redundant to say that languages don't have perfect vocabulary coverage. In my post I was alluding to the formation of language corresponding to the formation of culture, and this specific case of English.
Only 15k a month ?

Startup I was at burned 400k/month average sometimes when buying RI we spent 800k.

Had a couple engineers route the database connections over the public load balancers for a month, that cost 20k in network alone.

AWS is not cheap at scale, period.
To maintain relationships as an adult you need regularly scheduled recurring events. Whether its a cookout every other Sunday, a Friday happy hour, Thursday night online gaming, or anything really.

That is obviously true, but I had never thought of it that way. This is one of the most insightful HN comments I've read in a long, long time. Thank you.
Not necessarily the case- contract law is much more complex than this.
There's plenty of review action on Google Maps. My impression is that it's surpassed Yelp already, at least in the markets I'm active in (Denver).

Oddly I see lots of hipster businesses with signs mocking yelp, but none of them seem to register that GM is similar.
I know, right?

What? Will Yelp remove me from Yelp’s listings and search results?

Oh, darn!
Whether or not "using an API" requires your software to be GPL depends on how it's implemented.

Going by GNU's description of what does and does not extend the GPL requirement[1] and how Blender plugins works, to me at least it seems they very clearly have to be GPL. Unless someone took the route that is common in closed source Linux drivers of having a small open source module that communicates with a binary blob where the majority of the actual interesting code is, but I have not seen any Blender plugins like that.

The Linux kernel actually provides a specific license exemption[2] for the headers that makes software using syscalls not bound by the GPL.

[1] https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.en.html#GPLAndPlugins

[2] https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/v4.18/process/license-rules....
> ...than hire a developer who may or may never deliver.

I don't really see the difference between this and "accept its drawbacks", except that if your developer turns out to be productive, you have something a lot more valuable on your hands, and if the developer fails, you can replace them (whereas for a given proprietary product, you typically can not replace the vendor while keeping the licensing agreement and investment in training [this last bit being a big part of why in-house developers make sense for Blender, as they always have for 3D animation studios]).
There exists quantum key distribution https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_key_distribution#Quant... which is provably secure (up to side channel attacks), and allows two parties (say you and your bank) to remotely create a symmetric key. This will certainly require infrastructure to be built, but its possible that this infrastructure consists of beaming signals from bank->satellite->receiver in your home.
Trackit.io does exactly this. It's available on GitHub.
Why is this a problem? Is it everyone’s duty to deny “white supremacists” in all things, to make sure you have absolutely nothing in common? If they tended to shave, would it then be the duty of every right-thinking man to grow a beard?
40+ years of generating clean CO2-free energy.

Designed with slide rules and drafting tables.

An unbelievable accomplishment!
It seems to me that one of the most critical safety components of a nuclear reactor is the successful isolation of its operation from political or financial pressures.

How do atomic energy organizations succeed in doing this?
Absolutely. I generally don’t use Google Maps except as a fallback for when Apple maps isn't giving me what I’m looking for.
YouTube's Bungled PR Announcements Made Carlos Maza's Harassment Worse
I don't get it - what's laughable about the idea of someone who can write both the front-end and back-end of a web application?

I know people who do that in practice.
What bennifit would be gained by having seedless strawberries?
I mean it is called the Free Software Foundation. Not the Libre Software Foundation.
They (more than likely) are python scripts so the install step is copying to the addon folder.

Haven't looked into the blender thing in a while but someone could use the generated C++ API to create an addon and make it difficult to install but who knows if anyone (other than cycles) uses it.
This is a mix of outdated and simply wrong information.
Exactly this. It’s fitting that the term “full stack developer” came from the same guy that made geek merit badges a thing.
From what I can tell of the notice PG&E sent me in the mail, they're not turning off the lines permanently. They're temporarily turning off the lines for a few days so they can fix the problem (trimming trees near power lines, performing maintenance on substations).

By my read, after two consecutive years' of fire lawsuits being judged against PG&E and going bankrupt, someone decided to listen to the engineers and technicians on the ground.