skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the small supermarket there is one table salt with and one without iodine or flouride
In organic supermarkets you'll have more choice for salt and so on.
In big supermarkets there are like 5-6 different kinds of salt.. seasalt, himalayan, prehistoric seasalt and so on.
German Tap Water is not chlorinated or flourinated.
A really fascinating scenario is this:

Let's say something like Libra gets adopted worldwide. Let's say there's a huge financial crash at some point in the future, with lots of currencies, including some in the Libra basket (the stuff pegging it to the real world), going off the rails.

What would Libra's powers-that-be do then? They can tweak the parameters of their system any way they like. They could throw any currency out of the basket. Or do whatever they like.
I don't understand the thru-line of this Wired story. It effectively concedes the government's case: Backpage built a system that coached users to post trafficking ads without setting off its controls. If you posted an ad containing “lolita,” “rape,” “fresh,” or “little girl” (the article's examples), the system would alert the user so they could use different terms, and then accept their new ad.

There's lots not to like about SESTA, but the Backpage people weren't (AFAIK) charged under SESTA.

Why am I meant to care about the Backpage owner's colorful history? Isn't the important thing I actually need to know to understand what happened here buried towards the bottom of this story, in a couple paragraphs discussing what they were actually charged with? Agree or disagree with the prosecution, but that's the story.

I feel like people on message boards are sold on a narrative about how child sex trafficking never happens, which is easy when it's an abstraction. But it does happen.

A middle aged man I briefly worked with, and that a friend of mine worked for --- Peter Privateeer, the former CEO of a company called Reflex Security --- just finished serving 12 years in prison for buying a 14 year old girl. The pimp who sold her had been holding her at gunpoint and forcing her to "service" his customers. Where did the pimp meet the CEO? On Backpage. The girl cost $600.

The ads for teenaged children Backpage was handling were real. Not all of them, I'm sure. But it was really happening. And Backpage helped it happen.

Should a safe online market for sex workers exist? Perhaps. But we should be able to at least agree that the people who operate it should take their responsibility as a steward of the public safety seriously. That's not Backpage. Backpage did did at least as much to set back the cause of safeguarding sex workers than any misguided lawmaker.
There is always eminent domain, but that requires politicians who actually have their constituents' interests and well-being in mind, and who aren't corrupted by kick-back schemes and the other ills of local government.
It's not a more complicated scenario. IIRC a company loses money if the plane is not at least half full. So there's no chance a company will send two planes if the second one will only haul 1 or two passengers.

If the demand increases and they are always booked to capacity, they will send a bigger plane first.

If the demand decreases, and they are never booked to full capacity, they will send a smaller plane or will cancel the flight.

> there are thresholds which everybody (not) flying influences

There are. But, unfortunately, flying still beats everything else on convenience for anything but the shortest trips. And even on shortest trips the distinction between a train trip and a flight might not be that obvious (if we take into consideration convenience alone).
Stalin's Rope Roads
There isn't massive sub letting going on then?
The hardest part of SAML is the bonehead way in which they do signatures -- It normalizes the data before signing it, and then embeds the signature within the XML document.

So if you want to verify the authenticity of the identity assertion, you need to parse the XML, find the node that's being signed, canonicallize the node, and then finally verify the signature. It's absolutely gross to do and you need to use (lib)xmlsec1 lest you want to lose your sanity.
There is fresh federal legislation on this subject: Mietrechtsanpassungsgesetz (MietAnpG). Here is an overview: https://www.etl-rechtsanwaelte.de/aktuelles/mietrechtsanpass...
Its scarcity. The US Federal Reserve can create dollars at their discretion, but they can't change the chemical composition of the earth's crust. You can think of gold as insurance against fiat currencies being debased by their issuing governments. You can also be pretty sure that it will be valuable anywhere you go.
This all relies on central planning by the city to implement?
I oppose all American interventionism. I think it's horrible. That being said, it's not the reason why the Venezuelan state failed.
So cities should be walled off gardens that don’t let new people fair access the opportunities to be had within?
Blue Eyes – A Logic Puzzle
As a thought experiment, lets say Google owns a significant percentage of the housing market in the areas they operate in. They thereby receive both rent from their own employees, and others in the area. Lets see how this gives them leverage:

* Want to fully choke out competition on salaries, while leveraged against it by taking in the rent money those salaries provide for?

* Why not invest in housing, when you're the company that is vastly increasing the home values? It seems like you'd end up actually make a killing since you then control the market

Maybe someone more clever than I can come up with more things - it feels like a neo company town model, where you don't own everything, but you have all the control and all the levers.
Well there’s the CEO of Bank of America saying “Dodd-Frank is fine, None of us are trying to touch it”. The big banks could push a lot harder against regulation than they do.

https://www.economicclub.org/sites/default/files/MoynihanExc...
I drink tap water and eat meat and milk products.
if I get micro plastic, it's prolly in sardines and wild salmon.
milk products are usually in plastic buckets that would be a good source
Volkswagen going to create own Operating System vw.os
I think it's a stretch to say they directly compete. Amazon's Prime service covers a tiny fraction of their catalogue. And everything else is a per-move/show rental or purchase fee. I technically have both because prime video is just included with the membership, but there's no way I would ever pay Amazon more money for Prime Video vs. something like Netflix.
US air quality is slipping after years of improvement
Denominated in RMB, which they can print. They aren't spending their USD reserves internally only when they need to purchase stuff from abroad.
Digital Hygiene
How can a hug be so embarrassing that it needs to be forgiven? It's a euphemism I'm missing, isn't it.
Primary source. I used to work at LinkedIn.

This would be the application security team's work. They have a pretty extensive anti-scraping initiative and I know for a fact that these are used to determine if the account is scraping or not.

Someone on a different comment mentioned the "email-hunter" extension. That's exactly the kind of extension they are targeting. I remember many requests sent to support, asking why their account is terminated, and the response was usually "oh you used email-hunter" etc.
This is essentially a tax. People still buy and sell things that have taxes levied on them. Yes, too big a tax could spell very real trouble (I've seen it happen in my city), but as long as rents are allowed to rise with inflation, construction should remain profitable.
>Growing up everyone around me saw the city as somewhere you begrudgingly went out of necessity and only lived there if you had no choice

I assume you grew up in the United States?
Extremely lax zoning alone isn't enough. Houston is a large city with no zoning at all, and it's still not population-dense.
Nope! Some stars are in a stable orbit in a region with some NASTY orbiting interlopers who are eating star systems every million years and have just not made their way to them yet.

We have made it at least a billion or so without getting too close to a nasty body so that says something about the region around us.
What would be the modern equivalent? If I want to study the bottom most foundations of mathematics, is logic the right choice?
There might be other differences. On the road, a lot depends on your style of driving, whether you are careful, but in case with a plane, you cannot do anything to make the flight safer.
You can leverage your money much better with a mortgage though. You just need a small down payment, but you get the upside (and downside) on the entire value of the home.

I'd also argue that most other assets are also highly inflated. The P/E on most tech stocks for instance looks a lot scarier than the overall real estate market. I'll add that people have been saying the Bay Area housing bubble will pop for over 30 years. It hasn't yet.
1. It will take away one of the ways they abuse people. Who knows, if they keep it up, maybe they'll be expropriated next :)

2. Investors touching the Berlin real estate market right now are anyways demanding exorbitant rates just because they can. Normally, this would at some point reach an equilibrium, but so far it's going up and up with no end in sight, pricing out most people.

And I bet not all of them will scurry away. Any economic measure will not have a perfect effect, there will always be those that break ranks.
It looks like the Libra Foundation would need to approve with a 2/3 majority of representatives.

From https://libra.org/en-US/white-paper/#the-libra-association:

> All decisions are brought to the council, and major policy or technical decisions require the consent of two-thirds of the votes, the same supermajority of the network required in the BFT consensus protocol.
I see them being built all over Atlanta. The tell tale concrete base with the wood frames on top. I'm not a city planner or anything but over the last 10 years it seems that a lot of cool neighborhoods with character are being transformed into the same feel with these mid-rises.
Getting wildcard SSL certificate in Kubernetes with cert-manager
She is doing great work and having a lot of fun.

Im sure she has a bright future.
Google pledges $1B to ease Bay Area housing crisis
>A successful society is not just a rampant pursuit of economics and profits at the expense of everything else.

Right, but people are incentivized by the profit motive and generally do what they can to meet it.

To just say "think of the people" is swimming upstream; you're more likely to succeed by finding a way to modify the system to drive people towards actions that benefit each other.

Unfortunately it is not very human to forgo money, power, fame in exchange for what they think is the right thing to do. That's why we've had to create economic or political systems that saddle the drive for those things and steer it towards things that benefit society.
The Most Valuable Global Brands in 2019 (infographic)
That's actually where I learned about industrial musicals myself. I wanted to link a more direct explanation, however.
You buy it from a trusted member node
Just....do both? Have a proper, city-size, self-sustaining colony on the bottom of the ocean, and at the same time keep developing rockets and vehicles to bring as much material and and many robots over to Mars as physically possible. Like, I don't think getting to Mars is an issue - we probably could send and even land someone on Mars within a couple years if we absolutely had to. But then the question is - what then? That's the hard problem.
You get one or the other: low density housing, or effective public transit.

https://www.templetons.com/brad/transit-myth.html
We all compensate for the handicaps we have. I'm also was very nearsighted since I was about 11. I did get glasses but didn't use them while skiing, not very confy under the helmet. But I could still see who of my classmates were at the bottom of the mountain, about 300 m away, because of the movement pattern. I have no clue how we know how dogs have bad eye sight, I can't even begin to imagine how we know about T-Rex. I have to look at that link someone posted.
> I feel like I should pad this a little bit, but I’m not going to. f oil companies. Seriously, f them.

Aren't a ton of the parts that make up a Tesla petroleum by-products?
I'd like to see the client code, see how it manages backpressure.

(I'm probably being thick; the benchmark code is probably linked and I'm just not seeing it.)

I recently maintained some nodejs & expressjs stuff. Neither the Redis clients (or the original developers of our stuff) have any concept of backpressure (throttling). In our case, HTTP request received would cause a Redis request. For whatever reason, expressjs (or nodejs) event loop thingie processes Request preempt other stuff. So Redis responses would pile up in Redis itself, causing Redis to ABEND (out of memory).

Trying to explain backpressure, queueing, throttling to a bunch of junior devs who LOVE LOVE LOVE nodejs... Definitely was not my favorite gig.

--

PS- I started using Redis a few gigs ago. I really wanted to hate it. I'm primarily a Java dev and was esthetically offended by the NoSQL fad. But turns out Redis is awesome. And antirez is now a personal hero. I truly wish I was more like him.
We were talking net, after taxes, and after saving half of the net on a $400k salary.

$115000 / 12 months === $9583.33
Surface land (current or former) is the only really relevant source of potential evidence here, though (unless we're specifically looking for subterranean civilizations, or perhaps for remains of old mines or wells).
Fast, secure, but not cheap. Credit card merchant fees are on the order of 2% + 0.15 cents per transaction. The industry would still be profitable with prices orders of magnitude lower. A combination of regulatory capture and high fixed infrastructure costs have protected those profits -- but with cell phones, the infrastructure barrier need no longer apply.
I can see that. But are there more of them than there are Republicans who don't believe in science?
I am not sure if building houses is the solution. Wealthy people from around the globe will still buy them to rent them out for a profit or let them just sit there empty to visit for 2 weeks a year. There is even a name for that effect, it is called "induced demand".

See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Induced_demand
It was probably a combination of bad practices. However it came to the traffic layer to fix it because the problem was with many application origins and it would have been a huge horizontal initiative otherwise to address it.

I don't have any examples from the past because I no longer work there but when this middleware was turned off for a few days by ommission, homepage would become 2/3 whitespace. DOM would render correctly of course and the user wouldn't notice anything is wrong however if they were to "View Source", they'd realize they just downloaded a bunch of whitespace.

Imagine having 5 kilobytes of "\n" after each HTML element kind of thing.

When it comes to the middleware, it is just parsing and minifying the HTML source, in the form of an Apache Traffic Server plugin/middleware.
TCP latency is on the order of dozens of us, not ms.

Valid question I'd say.
The short answer to what happened to Genera is that it's owned by a private holding company that bought up a bunch of Symbolics IP in the 1996 bankruptcy proceedings. They made one further release in 1998, and afaik haven't done any development on it since.

Presumably there's some price at which they'd be willing to either open-source it or sell it to someone who would put dev resources into it, but that hasn't happened.
Hi Pierre,
Kudos for writing such an outstanding intro and overview. The signal:noise ratio, content and tone are all exemplary. If it's indicative of the quality of your solution, I think Sqreen is going to be very, very successful. Congrats and good luck!
Adding a New System Call
No, they're just repeating libertarian propaganda.

Libertarians hate recycling, the Dvorak keyboard and climate change because they are all popular examples of market failures.

So they've attacked them all for decades and now most American nerds will pipe up with "actually, it turns out..." and spew a bunch of lies if you bring up any of these topics and feel all pleased with themselves that they're not getting suckered like all the sheeple who believe in climate science.

It's actually got to the point were libertarian "journalists" are openly admitting that they intentio ally lied about climate change for 20 years because they didn't like the political implications.

Depressingly they're not saying this through any sense of guilt but rather a calculation that they can continue to have more influence by partially admitting but still downplaying climate change rather than blank denial.
I'm fairly anti-crypto, but there are a couple items in favor of #1:

- A currency outside of traditional governments would theoretically be free of currency manipulation by those governments (ex. China and the Yuan)

- An international currency can sidestep the artificial middleman fees and friction caused by traditional monetary exchanges. Ex. my friend who is currently studying in Japan wanted to get some money from her US bank account to Japan to pay for tuition and not only had to wait for banks to be open, but also had to pay exchange and transfer fees.

- This one doesn't necessarily require an independent currency, but crypto also theoretically enables the fabled land of online micro-tipping for content creators, publishers, etc.
Genuine academic curiosity. I wish that I hadn't asked the question because I now realize that I was dumb. I totally misinterpreted what the commentor meant. When they said "the one that was the jet over the turboprop", I somehow thought they meant "the plane with the turboprop engine having the intake on the top, as opposed to bottom, of the propeller". No idea why I thought that.... Now, though, I wonder if those exist...
Life isn't something that's easy to define because literally everything exhibits patterns of life to some degree (in fact, you could definitely argue that the concept of life is an arbitrary, fictional distinction made to make our lives easier). For example, we find that cities, states, and empires look "alive" at a macroscopic level, with cars and roads forming the circulatory system to deliver much needed nutrients to far corners of the respective territories; we often give anthropomorphic characteristics to planets (Mother Earth) and stars.

When we search for life, we're probably looking for something very similar to us, something we can interact with and befriend.
If you already assume the room is a representative sample from a population where birthdays are uniformly distributed, it doesn't tell you anything.

But if you aren't certain about that, it makes it less likely that everyone else with your birthday has been ritually murdered or otherwise systematically excluded from the room, and slightly more likely that you're at a convention dedicated to people with your birthday.
It's an API client.
Alternative headline: Software company expands into the real estate business.
I worked at an major insurance company that was evaluating AWS. As soon as Amazon announced they would be getting into the insurance industry[1] the project was immediately terminated.

[1] https://www.insurancebusinessmag.com/us/news/technology/meas...
"Redis is known as one of the fastest databases out there."

Redis is not a database. Let's begin with that.
A lot of this is just the contrarian dynamic: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20101711. The thread now has a bunch of curious, enthusiastic comments, just like most HN threads on cool projects eventually get.

The trouble with an indignant anti-crap objection is that it amplifies the crap it's objecting to. Usually it gets upvoted to the top, since people love defending the unfairly criticized and everyone loves indignation. But then it sits there, choking interesting discussion with meta fumes. (I've marked this one off topic now.) Crap subthreads usually get moderated by users, but that doesn't happen with their anti-crap counterparts.

Better ways to combat crap are to (a) downvote and flag, or (b) post something interesting and on-topic. Also, when you notice that a thread is still dominated by the negative wave, sending a heads-up to hn@ycombinator.com is helpful. We're likely to see it sooner that way.
This looks very cool. No Swift or Erlang/Elixir? :)
But you can stabilize the current quite nicely if you know how. This is almost never done on cheap LEDs. Except IKEA's leds, they were surpricingly good in some test lately.
They definitely make automated reasoning about code easier. But perhaps they don't always make it easier for humans. See for yourself by comparing functional and non-functional versions of various algorithms on this site: https://rosettacode.org/wiki/Sorting_algorithms/Merge_sort
And just like the US the jobs, education and culture are in the cities.

Housing in a second-tier Polish city is more expensive than Chicago!

https://www.otodom.pl/oferta/klimatyczny-apartament-balkon-w...

https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/5345-S-Ellis-Ave-H2-Chica...
Makes me feel a little better about my libµhttp/Objective-C/Objective-Smalltalk server (serving http://objective.st), which held up just fine to the HN hug of death, running on the smallest digital ocean droplet. :-)
I implemented XML Signatures at our org for Payments Interface (MPI) with Card Networks and there is a part of my brain that will forever curse me for reading the XMLDSig spec.

How anyone ever thought XML Canonicalization was the right answer is beyond me.
So there is no way to mine it? You just buy it at a set price?

Does that mean that it is not really designed to be "invested in" the way people invest in bitcoin and others?
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Same things occurring with Facebook.

244 Requests of the 552 requests (12.2MB of 26.3MB) required to show my feed are in JS and CSS.

https://i.imgur.com/pwKuC6h.png
Fine, add that to my spec sheet above:

Need to ask an authority for permission to do something within the system? Not decentralized.
If you expand the picture there are actually several photos including a shot from approximately the same location in 2004 that provides a useful comparison.
Tech Unicorns Are Evolving into What Exactly?
I thought a cryptocurrency was a currency using cryptography to solve some basic issues related with trust.
The question is, what kind of life do we know how to recognize? What kind of life definitely is possible, and what kind is just speculation? In other words: where should we look first?

The answer is: carbon rich, watery life. Coming up with biosignatures for ourselves is hard enough, coming up with a biosignature for a galactic nebula is unbelievably harder because we have no examples. Extrapolating from one example is much easier than from nothing at all.
Many operators are not leakproof and as such will not push down into the RLS query. We had to manually mark the operators as leakproof even though they were not.

Operators cannot be made leakproof in RDS, so we had to choose between RDS and RLS.

Explain plans for the simplest queries get crazy. So when your perf is bad, it's hard to know why (so RLS gets blamed for more than its share, but it also does cause problems)
I am not advocating anything other than that