skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> That's strange, I haven't seen any calls for bans for wine, wine coolers, candy flavored liquors, beers made with fruit such as lambics, etc.

I'm young enough to remember caffeinated Four Loko being popular in high school. And yes, they were banned/reformulated on exactly the same premise: that they targeted underage consumption[1].

[1]: https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-2009-08-24-090823...
> I'm calling out people who get upset at the idea of a computer doing "wasteful" work, when that wasteful work has no meaningful impact on latency, responsiveness, power draw, etc.

But who gets to make that call?

For every person out there who complaints that using voice chat in Discord on a MacBook Pro on battery causes the chassis to heat up, fans to kick into turbo boost, and the battery to dwindle — but only when using the .app, not when using the website through Firefox, there's another person who says "oh, but my computer doesn't do that".

So then everybody who has a similar complaint as the first person is branded a liar and whiner.
> To some extent, Salesforce is like a new way of programming. Instead of writing code, you let non-technical people change models and UIs (and to some extent, controllers).

That's the theory, in practice companies end up paying through the nose for an army of salesforce consultants, same as with every other "zero code" platform.
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These were the ones I got: https://www.amazon.com/Alpine-PartyPlug-Plugs-Music-Environm...

Iirc I selected them based on:

1. Reviews were decent

2. At least one person on hn had mentioned them

3. The carrying case is ultra compact

One plastic thing on the case broke, but it still functions. I like that they're clear, a bit harder to see.

For planes though I use the generic orange ones. I keep some in my travel bag at all times. The keychain ones are for unplanned situations I can't avoid.

Though your 70 db link has got me wondering even about subways and trains. Is a two hour journey at ~85 db worth worrying about? I had assumed it wasn't based on osha.

I'd use over ear headphones but it isn't clear to me how much they dampen, apart from the nrr rated industrial ones.
Never work as a software engineer in a Startup
Which coincidentally is the same kind of information you have to provide for public perusal if you register a company.
He must have recognised the seachange of populism and created a persona to suit. Reminds me of the BDG video on Polygon on how to create the perfect E3 presentation. Particularly the part about Gaffes.

I suppose this was a long time coming, in marketing circles, it is agreed that "Generation X" was the first "Jaded" generation, and I feel like there's some link there. Marketing to that generation often involves taking the piss out of their own product, and it is now the generation which is right in the age group to start wielding significant power and still has a number of good working years.
And the speeches that are to come!
Splunk is kind of a magical beast, where you can throw lots of junk in and get meaningful results out.

ELK wants you to massage the data more first.
Yeah, so I just completed an Australian Government security clearance application.

After filling out the details online, they are downloaded on forms for you to print out, sign and have witnessed.

You then scan and email those forms, with all your personal details on them, to a generic inbox. As PDF attachments. Unencrypted. I couldn't believe it.
Wouldn’t this cause issues like drug dealers?
Yes, only alcohol is good for the proles
Also, just as an FYI, it's pronounced SIM.
Moscow Mule premixed bottles were one of the first alcopops in the UK
It's been said that George W. Bush already did that decades ago, shedding his New Englander blue-blood upbringing for Texan rustic.
Some deal must have been made:-/ In the end, human make workarounds
This greatly ignores the reality that in a community, when prices are known, there's a collective understanding of which places (regardless of industry) are more expensive than others. And whether the cost difference are justified based on, again, collective experience.

So, no, of course no one is going to fire up the equivalent of GasBuddy when they're in an ambulance. You no doubt already know this, so why make such a ludicrous argument?
Because we value superficiality over depth. Always have, always will.
Great article, thank you for sharing the link. I forgot what else prompted me to consider playing Zelda on the Switch. The last Zelda game I played was the free one that came with the black Gameboy Advance which was a Black Friday special about 15 years ago.

I don't even have a Switch (the Gameboy Advance was my last console), but I think I'll buy one just to play this game.
We have nothing to fall back on - no heroic national myths, no exceptionalism, no religion, no idealism, no common ground.

That's all true, and yet Australians are very protective of what they consider "theirs". Maybe it's because of this historic void meaning all they've got is their material things and social status etc.

I'll have to have a read of The Lucky Country, thanks for the reference.
The problem isn't the guns (I'm all for banning them), it's that they're becoming the morality police and moral crusaders are always looking at what's next. This is unelected, unrepresentative corporations taking over the role of governments and effectively deciding what's legal and what isn't.
We Need Web Share
> How is paying a woman to lie about being sexually assaulted as a teenager (and getting paid to abort the following pregnancy) actually investigative journalism?

You do understand that on the other side of the political spectrum there are people (in large quantities) who don't believe that the teenager who is sexually assaulted should be directed towards abortion?

You're rhetorical statement is as ridiculous as someone saying "How is going to baker after baker and trying to find a hard working god fearing Christian baker and forcing him to bake a cake he doesn't wanna bake, investigative journalism?"
While I agree the cancer risk is probably lower... I don't think we really know what the true cancer risk is for vaping yet, let alone the risk for other cardiovascular diseases like COPD and popcorn lung.

This product hasn't existed for very long, so long term studies just don't exist yet.

That said, there is some research that suggest caution is at least still warranted: https://www.lung.org/stop-smoking/smoking-facts/impact-of-e-...
Informed Attributes
Check out RGIII's examples. He seems to really enjoy doing it - he could absolutely make something funny.

https://www.cameo.com/rg3
We finally get a way to add share buttons without forgetting a service or use. And respecting the privacy of our public. Go into all the world wide web and preach the method to all creation ! Well… who can use it, because, alas, that function is not everywhere.

This is a quick'n'dirty translation, from a series of posts about my webcomponent audio player.

We can build a polyfill WebExtention, minus some limitations as explained in my post. May be Hacker News should be loaded in ?
Canadian crypto exchange owner allegedly funneled money into secret accounts
Check these folks out - I know someone who works there and they’re super popular (and well made):

https://www.greentoys.com/
Tell that to anyone needing trailing edge tech medicine that's seen exponential price increases in recent years, for no reason other than greed.
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Feel bad for the employees, not sure how much their options would be worthy of right now...
People interpret charisma as depth (or at the very least, as being capable). Nobody looks at a charismatic person and says, now there's a real idiot. Even in this story you see it. The author thought he was a genius, even after watching the insanity of a supposedly unprepared speaker trying to wing it.
You have brokers that move dollars for bitcoin. So you turn it to actual cash. The key part is that there is no bank involved at any step.
I’m not sure what that has to do with this discussion. We are discussing whether or not GDPR requires warnings before fines are allowed to be issued. The answer is no, it does not require them, and the text you linked to does not disprove this simple, undeniable fact.
1) The US has hundreds of billions of dollars of roads. SDCs are valuable only if they can use that door-to-door infrastructure.

2) As you said, we already have trains. If you're building new infra, it might as well have tracks so that the vehicles on it can't veer off course.
Strategies for Assigning Ids to Microservices
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Show HN: Beam Is the Future of Playgrounds
Worth it for the domain name.
Dunno how well this will work if you need to claim that the pedestrian or cyclist just darted in front of you. But then again, maybe you don't want that kind of thing recorded.
The compression technique to achieve the 11x compression ratio is pretty clever and is detailed in the Gorilla TSDB paper. Timestamps are encoded with a delta of delta encoding scheme which allows 96% of all timestamps to compress to a single bit within a compressed block.

Gorilla paper: https://cs.brown.edu/courses/csci2270/papers/gorilla.pdf
Steve Moore’s New Crypto Startup Is Dumb Even by Crypto Startup Standards
Data Retrieval over DNS in SQL Injection Attacks (2013)
how about learning to respect the dangers of the sharing economy? cheap-for-me-not-for-thee
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A Bird’s-Eye View of How Protesters Have Flooded Hong Kong Streets
Unfortunately the Australian electricity grid is so hopelessly mismanaged I can't make a case that renewable over cheaper options are the major cost driver. There is some evidence from SA that it is likely to be a mistake, but there is a lot going on [0]. If renewables are cheaper we will use them, the government isn't really doing anything overt to support the coal industry. Nothing that really moves the needle on coal vs. alternatives as a power source.

As for "over-dependence on a single mineral" - it isn't quite that bad. We have 2 major minerals, coal and iron ore in roughly equal quantities [1]. It is a pretty scary state of affairs, we have really screwed ourselves over by focusing the nation's investments into property speculation rather than into growing businesses and useful infrastructure.

[0] https://theconversation.com/factcheck-qanda-are-south-austra...
[1] https://atlas.media.mit.edu/en/profile/country/aus/
The article and title start with a false premise. The insulin made free 100 years ago is very different than the insulin you get today. It’s faster acting, etc. nothing is stopping someone from manufacturing the circa 1992 version (or even the very good versions developed in the 1990s). But so long as doctors prescribe, and insurance companies are willing to pay for, the newer stuff, there is little market for the older versions.

Ironically, the heavy subsidization of health insurance is what’s actually causing the problem. When there is no reason to control costs (especially under the ACA, where insurance companies cannot increase profits by doing so), there is a huge incentive to keep pumping out marginally better versions of a drug, because you’re not competing on price with the old, out of patent versions.
The Problem of the Aging Surgeon (2009)
Imagining Worst Case Scenarios: The legacy of nuclear weapons lost at sea
The conflict of interest is not related to putting musl in Fuschia. The conflict of interest is created by Chandler's employment by Google.

Someone paid by a company should not be making moderation decisions about comments related to that company.
I picked up a refillable cart with two flavors, tobacco and blueberry. Maybe it wasn't the highest quality kit, but I still prefer the occasional pipe tobacco over vaping.

I took a long time deciding to try vaping. I've never liked cigarettes, cigars are a rare thing for me, and I usually let my pipe tobacco go stale. I was still quite worried about trying vaping regardless. I had the same worries you elude too. Vaping nicotine put the nail in the coffin for the idea that I'll start consuming tobacco addictively.

I have a completely different experience with cannabis BTW.
I think there is truth to that. Author mentions the break from what became spin and polish from the Blair years —where people became jaded and distrusting of that kind of politics.

In the US in prior years it became such a farce (this edifice of careful behavior) that candidates would do handwringing over what color tie to wear and how tall their shoes would make them look and how preened their hair should be. In doing that they all but forgot to speak directly to voters. That’s what Johnson, Sanders and Trump, (among others), like them or not have brought.

People believed too much in the five o’clock shadow myth of Nixon’s initial defeat. That drove politicians away from the realm of realism to polish and spin.
I dunno, I don't think it's very healthy that when presented with a bumbling idiot in a position of power you start to think it's a big ruse and they are actually a genius.

It's best to just assume they are in fact, a bumbling idiot.
Did they change the quote? Largest makes much more sense.

>making PepsiCo temporarily the sixth-largest Navy in the world.
Tried this and ended up back at Gmail in 6 months. Proton's billing system was painful.
Vaping isn’t smoking.
The Six-Year Struggle to Regain Ownership of the ‘This Is Fine’ Dog
Bitcoin is absolutely political. Its genesis block is a link to news denouncing banking corruption on iceland.
No one is saying warnings are required. I said I expected one was given, because 1) it appears to be the common practice, and 2) it is the reasonable thing to do. So I doubt that this person would have been fined without a warning, but indeed, I have no way of knowing. That said, I'm open to the idea that perhaps the law should stipulate a warning, but perhaps the language around proportionality/reasonableness is sufficient.
Ask HN: Are GIF Tutorials Anti-Patterns?
If you look on Quora for any questions related to the current trade war, the "experts" are all in unison blaming it completely on US being somehow afraid of China and Chinese tech, while China being completely innocent and nice.
There's also a similar story at cliff 'The Gap' in Sydney. The person known as 'Angel of the Gap' who lived near by often patrol around the area and talk people out of potential suicide [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gap_(Sydney)
So much of what these populist right wing politicians say is outright, easily verifiable lies/half truths though. It's more like we value anyone signalling that they agree with our already held beliefs far more than the actual truth.
Everyone, do you know which server provider allows opening port 25?
The crypto articles are coming in fast.
https://youtu.be/b5wfPlgKFh8
'President Reagan (Phil Hartman) acts hopeless and clueless in public, but in private he's an evil mastermind who knows every detail about everything happening in his administration. [Season 12, 1986]'
Indeed, most of the writing about D-K directly contradicts their findings.

If there is a particular effect, different from a sort of reversion to the mean, it would be that the least skilled in any topic tend to also be unskilled at others, including estimating what is average.

I.e., they don't overrate their skills because of overinflated egos; rather, they don't understand the question well enough for their answer to mean anything.
Vaping isn’t smoking.

And my point was, teenagers are always going to use mind altering substances. Vaping is a mind altering substance.

People don’t like kids vaping because sobriety is the goal. And I’m saying that’s unrealistic.
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Robinhood and the Limits of Innovation
The problem is that enterprises have one mechanism to purchase software, and a totally separate mechanism for charitable donations. The two budgets are run by separate groups, and never interact.

The solution? Offer your code under an open source license, but also have a purchase option to buy a commercial license. In many cases, the commercial version is a compiled and validated official executable, available with a support contract. But there is no reason that the came code can't be made available under both licenses, or that the commercial license can't actually be the same GPL (or whatever) license the open source one is offered under.

This way, the technical team that chooses the software has an invoice that they can send to purchasing, to get corporate support dollars to the open source project.
The most amusing thing about companies' technology budgets is their fear of price tags.

Pay for Enterprise support for that open source product? Way too expensive, no way.

Pay for 5 engineers in completely separate teams to badly implement, partially support, and later replace part of the Enterprise features as proprietary extensions over 2-3 years, while company's actual product languishes without the functionality it could have used? Take my money.

Meanwhile, keep paying for SaaS and proprietary software, because there's no alternative, supposedly.
Just an FYI in case people don't know, tea often has plenty of caffeine in it, and many tisanes/blends/etc will have sugar in them as well.

So if you're trying to avoid caffeine or sugar you need to be careful when choosing your teas.
Yeah, I have had two of these and two laser lithotripsies.
I'm not a data scientist, but that downwards slope started twenty years before the 2010 tobacco excise and continuing to fall is a culmination of years upon years of education.
Do you run programs only once? If you have a fabulous spicy pickle recipe and it rescues people from depression and cures alzheimer's, do you chance experimenting with the preparation? ;- )
AJ, letting people keep the money they earn can cause the economy to expand. It happened in the 80s, 90s, 00s, and it's happening now. Any engineer worth their salt should know that every choice comes with trade-offs. And finding the optimal mix of taxation, regulation, and free market capitalism is a difficult balancing act. If the economy stops growing, our huge debt becomes a huge problem. The only reason money is cheap is because the U.S. has a track record of growth. If that growth stops due to excessive regulation or taxation...money gets more expensive and long-term tax rolls go down...meanwhile debt stays static and the cost of servicing that debt consumes a higher portion of Federal tax revenues. Millions of people care about this stuff. Your arm chair observation proves nothing, says nothing.

There's no such thing as free money. It's beyond ignorant to say so.
The price is interesting. An awful lot of the self-driving companies are hoping for a big acquisition. It reminds me of the SDN market just before VMware bought Nicira. And there wasn’t a second Nicira, not really.
I wonder how happy GeoHotz is about this development?
FLOSS existed before Github and it will exist long after it is gone. Financial sustainability has always been a problem for the movement but it's independent of a single repository host.
In this brilliant speech there may be an answer: https://youtu.be/wSRN8PUhHX0
I am reminded of a post I once read[0] on how coyotes are 'too clever by half'; smart enough to realise how to win each skirmish, but without realising they're losing the metagame.

Johnson strikes me as someone who has learned to 'hack' the skirmishes (e.g. by playing the fool when giving speeches as discussed) in order to win in the short term, but who seems oblivious to (or to be willfully disregarding) the long term detrimental effect his skirmishing has on the UK.

[0]: https://www.epsilontheory.com/too-clever-by-half/
You got me curious, so started digging up sone actual data.

Here's some interesting public polls (Gallup):
https://news.gallup.com/poll/237818/young-people-adopt-vapin...

According to their data, in the 18-29 demographic, 20% vape compared to 16% using traditional cigarettes.

And some analysis from the academic side:
https://tobaccocontrol.bmj.com/content/early/2018/10/31/toba...

"There was a substantial increase in youth vaping prevalence beginning in about 2014. Time trend analyses showed that the decline in past 30-day smoking prevalence accelerated by two to four times after 2014. Indicators of more established smoking rates, including the proportion of daily smokers among past 30-day smokers, also decreased more rapidly as vaping became more prevalent...

The inverse relationship between vaping and smoking was robust across different data sets for both youth and young adults and for current and more established smoking. While trying electronic cigarettes may causally increase smoking among some youth, the aggregate effect at the population level appears to be negligible given the reduction in smoking initiation during the period of vaping’s ascendance."

So, it seems to be mixed. Certainly more younger folks vaping than using cigarettes, though it's roughly 55%/45%... and this might not have a strong impact on overall smoking rates.

(I'm actually surprised. I expected to see more vape use based on my own anecdotal observations!)
Thanks for sharing. What is the advantage of using socket based IPC to communicate between client and server, instead of enabling nodeIntegration on the client process and using the remote library?

As long as you don't block in the main process and take advantage of Promises and even WebWorkers, why is another dedicated process needed?
Critically, he was doing it at random awards shows where his expertise wasn't relevant. You could probably pull this off with no risk to your reputation if you pulled together (I.e. put the "pulled together" tape in your mental Walkman) when it was expected of you.
In general sure, but when that person happens to be leading a nation, I would not be so quick to jump to that conclusion.