skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> There are many alternatives to solar other than burning coal. For example, you can build a nuclear plant or hydro dam, or use more natural gas or biomass. The world is not divided into solar v. coal -- solar is not even a major player in global energy right now.

Really? You're pointing out solar panels have a waste disposal problem and then name nuclear as an alternative? Don't get me wrong, I'm in favor of nuclear too, and just about every other alternative you mentioned. I just think it's absurd to be worrying about solar panel waste in the larger context here. Hydro dams flood a lot of land, natural gas releases a lot of CO2.

> To understand the challenges of solar waste, it’s helpful to understand how the panels are built. There are different types of solar panels, but most of them contain aluminum, glass, silver, and an elastic material called ethylene-vinyl acetate. The problem is that they can also contain more dangerous and sometimes cancer-causing, materials such as lead, chromium, and cadmium. Functional panels are sealed off with glass and are very safe. But when the glass breaks or the panels are damaged, those substances can leak.

Doesn't sound like anything not already found in a coal fly ash pond [1]. You can probably simply dump deprecated solar panels in a pile with a dirt berm next to the solar plant and come out way ahead of a coal power plant.

I'm not saying this isn't a problem that should be dealt with. I just do not believe this is a problem that would be even 1% as bad as the problem we have right now. I think that if your line of reasoning results in even a slight delay of the deprecation of a coal power plant at the expense of solar development, we've come out way behind in terms of environmental impact.

If you are going to claim this is a problem, I think we should see evidence for that compared to alternatives that actually exist or can realistically be built. How much lead, cadmium, chromium end up in the environment from power generation today? And how much would do so if we disposed of solar panels in even the worst possible manner?

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fly_ash#Examples
Really? The entire article is now less effective?

Amazing.
>I too have a chronic condition, and there are doctors who offer magic solutions for large sums of money. There is a doctor who claims he had the condition and treated himself. Then weeks later his website went up and he now offers the treatment for a tiny sum of like $13k. Desperate people will pay that money for having hope. It is sad imo.

If it's an FDA-approved treatment, then it's been vetted by peer-reviewed double-blind trials so it's unlikely to be snake oil.

If it's not an FDA-approved treatment, then I highly advise you to report them to the authorities because you stand to receive whistleblower rewards that are many, many times larger than the tiny sum of $13k.
Well, at least Drive.ai's creditors have a good chance of being paid.
It's not yet clear if the "mass layoffs" planned for Friday will still happen.[1]

Does anybody, anywhere, have a reliable self-driving car in use on public streets without a "safety driver"? Waymo did briefly, but backed off.

[1] https://www.theverge.com/2019/6/25/18758820/drive-ai-self-dr...
Siri was an acquired product that survived, but more often than not you’re right.
The DotA bot is such an impressive accomplishment that the caveats aren't usually worth highlighting.
Honestly the US gov is playing with fire here. This sort of behavior will only lead to global corporations avoiding doing important business in the US. This is clearly a step in that direction.
Because deputizing the government to negotiate down prices is a saner alternative to keeping costs of emergency services down given that the actual cost depends on so many factors that your analysis is extremely faulty.

The only substantially cheaper across the board hospitals are those people go to die in because they are profoundly incompetent and understaffed.

Hi "Mason General Hospital" in Washington State.
I would get this in a heartbeat if it had dual (non-USB) NICs. Would probably make a great border router.
Oh, you're saying that just because USB-C connectors fit physically doesn't mean they work together.

Interesting problem that I hadn't fully realized. Labeling would seem to be a good thing, that will never happen :)
FDR, Eisenhower, and many other high-ranking government officials at the time referred to the Japanese 'internment camps' also as 'concentration camps'.

See http://www.english.illinois.edu/maps/poets/g_l/haiku/camps.h... as an example of how in the 1990s there was already the complaint that it "seems strange that we are still debating the use of terms describing this event" when it was well-established that the Japanese were indeed in concentration camps in all but official name.

It also gives quotes, like Truman in 1961 saying "They were concentration camps. They called it relocation but they put them in concentration camps, and I was against it. We were in a period of emergency, but it was still the wrong thing to do."

The term "concentration camp" was also used in the Spanish-American and Boer Wars, for something other than "murder centers".

All evidence I've seen says that calling these facilities something other than "concentration camp" is a euphemism to hide the atrocities that we are committing YET AGAIN.
Can you show that it is an outlier for a law to not require warnings to be given? I can think of many laws (road rules, all of criminal law) which don't require warnings to be given, but instead warnings are up to the discretion of police officers or courts.

Also, the EU is not the US. There is a very different culture and jurisprudence when it comes to proportionality of laws. If the GDPR was a US law, then I would also be concerned about the penalty guidelines. But it's not a US law, so bringing a US-centric mindset to the discussion causes misunderstandings.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swedish_Navy

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_Navy#Equipment

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_active_Spanish_Navy_sh...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_active_Portuguese_Navy...
My insurance company calls me after I schedule a service like lab/imaging to tell me of cheaper options. My doctors are attached to professional building at big local hospital chain, so I usually just go there because it’s easy, I know my way around, they are on same IT platform so I don’t have to chase down results, or long term they have all my medical history localized. Due to being attached to hospital though, cost of MRI for example is usually 10x versus competition. I still don’t care, because I have insurance and have no incentive to reduce the cost.

So if you want to make people price shop, it has to be coming out of their pockets for it to work. Dentists, PT, etc that you listed have much higher rates of cash/self pay.
Yes, you should if you have a chance, just like I should do the same.

Especially in Japan where people live secluded life and even a short encouraging conversation can change someone's life
Peter Farquhar and Ruqayyah Moynihan, Business Insider Australia
Oct. 10, 2018, 10:35 AM
1. What is the difference between banning and criminalizing? You are going to use the power of the state to punish someone that does not obey your ban, right? Is it about fines versus jail time?

2. Do you support SF treating weed the same as e-cigs?
Sure, I've done that in the past. The problem with using a third-party framework is the longevity of the org. As a developer, I want to leave an org in better shape than when I started.

If I created an angular app here, a react app there, and elm lang app over there, you are dramatically increasing the overhead to maintain the org. IMO, it's better to play it safe by using Salesforce's tech stack so your client has an easier time maintaining their org in the future. Future Salesforce devs will thank you too :D

Plus, there is a very high chance that future interviews for Salesforce dev gigs, they are NOT going to ask if you know React/Angular. Nice to have skills for sure, but they want to know how quickly you can get started working in their org. And chances are their apps are built with apex, Visualforce, or aura components. I'd rather spend a year building with aura components to make my new project transition easy, than spend a year building with react and have to pick up aura components all over again.
I guess the volume of discussion can be attributable to that there are enough Haskellers and enough non-Haskellers.

Haskellers read some texts and got used to the idea of type manipulations. They know, for example, there is a type "Void" which doesn't contain any values - that is, by definition no object has this type - and therefore any function which has this type of argument can't be invoked. Because to invoke the function, it has to be passed a value of the given type, and there aren't any.

Haskellers got used to the idea that if we have function from type a to the same type a, and there are absolutely no restriction on what the type a is, then it should be identity function - they just sat on this idea, pondered it for some time and got to this conclusion. For non-Haskellers it's not clear - and even the idea that types can restrict code so tightly as to make code unique (up to isomorphisms) can be novel to them.

Does it make a bigger cognitive load? Probably not for those who got used to type properties like this. Is it hard for non-Haskellers to see this feature and try to use it? Well, many Haskellers passed through this stage, so it ought to be doable. Most importantly, can they agree on this?..
Kirin biru ippai, tonkatsu ramen hitotsu to ask for a beer or for a ramen for the little that I remember...
Definitely there is nothing similar in English.
My mom would love this app
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There's a huge amount of work to be done, between releasing promising videos and having customer ready self driving product.

For video, you don't need any 9s of reliability. For a product, you need to have a lot of 9s, and each nine is getting exponentially harder.
A "Salesforce voluntary Contribution" to the Transit center.
The AMA most certainly needs to be vilified. It actively lobbied to limit the number of residency slots thus leading to doctor shortage and higher prices. It even indulged in price-fixing and opposed retail clinics that could offer competitive pricing.

https://washingtonmonthly.com/magazine/julyaugust-2013/speci...
https://mises.org/library/how-government-helped-create-comin...
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/thanks-to-doctors-there-a...
> That is not even close to the same thing.

It's a common interpretation: https://arxiv.org/abs/1706.06859
What’s mind blowing is how much negative press Tesla gets, but when it comes to the real things Tesla wins out. Amazing.
Clarification: The hack or hacks must be ethically acceptable...
I don’t understand. For each app I have the above mentioned setting. What’s the network access method that’s outside of WLAN and cellular?
It's a cultural thing. In a lot of places I grew up, that would be unacceptable and unprofessional. When I went through Y Combinator, I heard a good fraction of the partners cuss their way through most of their sentences. It can be jarring at first to some, but it's also a certain aura they cast upon the room of speaking unadulterated and unfiltered truth, which is also good in its own way.
I think the idea of "screening" is that you don't just race off to a mastectomy the minute some AI model goes off. Of course, putting more false positives through a fallible process of review does run the risk you speak of.
Now why can't we find honest reviews like this for most software. Why do customers have to endure this in this age of Gartner magic quadrant/G2 and similarly fawning and often paid for marketing mumbo jumbo.
There are "Criticism of" articles for a lot of tech companies:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Apple_Inc

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Microsoft

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Microsoft_Windows

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Facebook

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Amazon

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_eBay

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Yahoo

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Myspace (surely an important page in this day and age)

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Spotify

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Google

And the whopper is this: there is an entire category devoted to pages criticizing Google:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Criticism_of_Google

And let's not forget the funnest Wikipedia "Criticism of" page:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Wikipedia

Trump has openly stated that he's using Huawei as a bargaining chip in the trade negotiations: https://www.cnn.com/2019/05/24/tech/donald-trump-huawei-ban/....

The "evidence" against Huawei always seems to be two cases that it settled 15+ years ago, plus the "Tappy" robot a few years back. They also may have indirectly done business with Iran, but they're a Chinese company, so doing business with Iran was legal under the laws of their country.
Trains take hundreds of passengers from point a to point b..with limited stops.

Autonomous underground cars can take and drop off individuals whereever they want..even at every street corner if an elevator is installed at every street corner. It’s on demand. There can be 12-16 lanes if necessary..

It’s best if it’s tested for intra city transit first. There will be a lot of data points even in the controlled environment. After that..it’s just an issue of overlaying it and making whatever tweaks if needed on overground roads.
This is a year old, that should be noted in the title.
Workflow --> Shortcuts was another acquisition where they kept the product going and how now integrated it into their software.

But indeed, not the rule.
Allowing cross platform development of complex user interfaces automatically leads to that.
Separate observation but in my experience people who speak English as a second language tend to speak much more properly, and use curse words much less than native speakers.
Sadly, the activists probably enjoy citizenship in the country who's flag they plan to desecrate.
Maybe? But multiple lanes.
Lasik usually costs a few thousand dollars. Mayo Clinic charged me $1400 for someone to look back over an old MRI of mine.

I wouldn't have done said yes to that if I had known the price.
Lol, who cares?
Of interest is Crowbar[0,1], a testing tool for OCaml that combines Quickcheck like property testing with AFL fuzz.

[0] https://github.com/stedolan/crowbar

[1] https://ocaml.org/meetings/ocaml/2017/extended-abstract__201...
Mmm... I don’t think that it’s the same concept as the sheet of paper. Ippai and hitotsu contain the number, in English you don’t say I want isheet or tsheet of paper to indicate that you want one or two sheets of paper and ipbeer or nibeer to ask for one or two beers.
I also think there should be three layers. Underground, roads and maglevs.

One for inter city, one for intra city transit and one hub to hub transit.
>Wolf3D ran fine on a 286, it ran great on a 386

Highly dependent on the VGA card, believe it or not (there's a nice set of benchmarks showing this in Game Engine Black Book).
I always wondered that if everyone broke sanctions then sanctions lose their utility. This includes US financial sanctions, only problematic if most financial entities obey. If most don't then the US would be sanctioning itself.
I used to have a website that did stuff with GPS data that was uploaded by users.

It was purely a hobby affair that was a net loss, but Google ads ($10 per month) reduced the cost somewhat.

Those ads probably made it a for profit business.

I shut the thing down before GDPR, but if I hadn’t it surely would have been an excellent reason to do so.

Those are the kind of websites that you lose.

I consider that a loss.
It's worth it. I recommend reading/watching nothing about the game, if you can help it. Including while playing.

Eventually you'll get the sense of it and likely want to look some stuff up, but I'm very happy I went into it with literally no idea what to expect. I got through 30-50 hours that way.
If only I had Elon Musk on speed dial..

I think boring company should be looking into underground farms too
> Look at stories about nouveau rich not being taken seriously.

Yeah because there are actual differences between new rich and the old rich.
" I was just in Japan, and I saw no shortage of children and young people while I was there. In fact, I saw far more children than I ever do in cities here in the US."

I would prefer to trust actual stats compared to your powers of observation. In this case 1.4 births per female in Japan vs 1.8 in the US. +0.7% annual population for the US vs -0.2% for Japan.

The point is that the Japanese system isn't inherently flawed its dealing with the consequences of there being fewer working age people supporting a greater number of older individuals. This has nothing to do with your opinion on the relative social mores of the 2 countries.
With Leprosy, a major difficulty is the large % of junk DNA and rapid mutation. Immune system relies on creating specialized T-cells to identify protein markers of harmful agents, but M Leprae can change those protein markers in each generation

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29367657
This is wonderful. I posted the zelda link thinking "surely they modelled it after the man in this hacker news story"

But as it happens there are several such examples worldwide to serve as a potential model. A nice glimmer of hope and compassion.
I don't think any of your response is invalid. The debt situation could, but hasn't been a problem in the past, however this is a bit more drastic than what's been suggested in the past. I like that we both see that a solution is indeed possible though.
Violence, more often than not, carries water for hardliners to repress the people and squander legitimate political capital. It's only the last straw when power is monopolized and stubbornly refuses to acknowledge or address legitimate grievances. JFK quote here.
Personally, I will never let a machine take over controlling a automobile I'm in. Never.

They may be good enough some decades from now, but they are not now and we are a long, long way from getting to the point where they are.

This has been proven too many times already to trust my life in a machine doing highway speeds, and I trust them even less on streets and roads.

For the record, I've never caused an accident in my 46 years of driving. The only accident I've been in was with a dumbass who turned left in front of me at an intersection I'd already entered and I was able to minimize the impact by slowing down before they did that and steering into the least damaging hit for me because I was watching the driver's eyes and body and could see they were thinking about it and then decided to do it.

No self driving car can do that now and it will be a very long time before they can.
Foley's wrong about California's tick problems getting worse as the climate gets hotter and drier. California's western fence lizard has a protein in its blood that kills the bacterium responsible for Lyme and shares the exact same climate requirements as the ticks. California doesn't get the tick unless the lizard is there and the combination keeps Lyme disease in check.

https://www.latimes.com/opinion/la-xpm-2013-aug-20-la-ol-lym...
> How are they sold? In Australia they have the gory death warnings

I was just in a vape shop in the American south for the first time a few days ago.

They are presented as technological marvels. No noticable gory death warnings.

There are several different vape models out in the store center plugged in for you to try out. Everything is extremely clean and shiny, it basically looks like an Apple store. The juice is kept behind the counter in bottles that are backlit with a pleasant blue light [1]. The store is also lit from above by those lightbulbs that have the vintage looking exposed thick filaments [2].

Everything about the store screams, "This is healthy, this is the future, this is cool"

The actual vapes available for sale are locked in a display cabinet, making it feel as if they are as valuable and desirable as jewelery. Behind the counter is a counterculture looking person with guages and tattoos and a laid-back but professional attitude.

Completely different from a typical tobacco store.

There are also ads out on the counter about CBD oil and how it's totally not illegal, so you should definitely give it a try.

I'd imagine the presentation is much the same in California.

[1]: https://s3-media2.fl.yelpcdn.com/bphoto/YNiG2iB_3prcuo0araZY...

[2]: https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0903/0788/products/Thomas_...
A Transparent RPC for Allowing DOM Operation in Web Worker
Similarly, many simple mistakes shouldn’t be treated as a crime.
I think trying to work with protobufs by analogy here fails because the scopes of power are so vastly different.
You should read this wiki in its entirety bef you use it as evidence to support the claim. It cites patent infringements, IP thefts, and then allegations by China's political enemies about the possible backdoors in its equipments. Huawei equipments may have vulnerabilities, but that doesn't constitute evidence that it has malicious intention to spy on its customers. Many Western telecom make unsafe products with different degree of vulnerability. How come they don't raise the same degree of concerns
I'm sorry my point wasn't to criticize your point, just bring up why electric cars stopped development in favor of the ICE cars. I was intending to add to your point not take away.
Nuclear generates waste, but it's several orders of magnitude less, so it's much easier to manage.

For coal, absolutely, there is fly ash, but if your plan is to just dump the current global production of aluminum into ponds every year, you are going to have a problem. These materials need to be recycled, not dumped. E.g. for a normal 2 inch thick cell. You have a volume of 600 million cubic meters that needs to be disposed of annually, and it's growing each year by 3%.

The problem here is that people don't realize the scale of the issue -- and I was quite generous in my estimates.
Any advice on POTS treatment avenues? There seems to be poor GP knowledge around the condition, apart from giving fluids via a port to reduce symptoms.
There's a classic (and very funny) scene in Yes Prime Minister with this exact argument:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OB-WCX6ndow&feature=youtu.be...