skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Megamerger would own 1 out of every 6 daily newspapers in America
The radar is usually one of the most expensive components in the system. Yes, they're usually separate trailers from other components of the system, but losing a precious radar is still a big blow.
Yes, but it's hard to follow branching conversations in Twitter unlike Reddit or HN.
There's a lot more to achieving good health than macronutrient ratios.

The plant-alternatives both 1) lack the abundant, bioavailable nutrients found in animal products and 2) include a lot of highly-processed and inflammatory ingredients like seed oils.

And I think you're underselling beef by calling it an "okay" food. The meat we get from cows and other ruminants (and particularly organ meats like liver) are among THE most nutrient-dense and bioavilable foods available to humans.
Certain medical products, various hygiene supplies, or other things that cannot be talked about in 'polite society' would fall into the realm of things that are very hard to spread by word of mouth. Additionally, things that are rarely used by a person but are widely used by society, like stump removal services, plumbers, etc.
1. Let's stop re-explaining how radar works as an argument, everyone gets it. For those who don't - radar works like turning on a flashlight, end of story.

2. Non-SEAD RWR is generally limited to "There is light shining on me." Not where it's coming from, let alone providing targeting information.
Blatant ads get flagged with impunity. There's a standard here - you can promote your stuff as long as it's genuinely useful and relevant in context. If this was the standard for advertising in general, we wouldn't have to have this discussion.

See also: https://xkcd.com/810/.
Love his talks too! I wish him all the best on his future endeavours!

Hope he stays active in the Illumos community. Though I could understand it if he has seen enough Solaris for one lifetime.

Curious to see what he will do next. Wouldn't surprise me if he was going to do something with Rust. Maybe a startup with a Rust OS....a unikernel with userland thread support ;-)
Not certain I like that this is now valid Go:

func Foo (type T) (t T) (t T, err error) { … }

Seems like an awful lot of parentheses in a single line!

It's a bit tricky to read, because 'generic function' here means something subtly different from what 'generic function' means in CLOS …
That's pretty expensive advice, I wouldn't pay more than .02$ for that :-)

https://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/393950.html
The one mentioned in the article.

It's not a hack: it's a runtime equivalent that requires that your type implements some interface.
The internet is not ready to give up on ads/it depends on it. Subscriptions can be scammy - and they need a lot of advertising themselves ironically : paywalls - “support us on patreon” - “please call between 1 and 2pm australia time to cancel your subscription”.

We could try micropayments, probably in the form of crypropayments, probably unaccounted for tax purposes (which is the main obstacle to their acceptance. They can be accounted for via alternative means, eg. by correlating traffic statistics). Until then ads are the most democratic to monetize small websites in the absence of VC money. Unless you can suggest better ways - i d love to try them.
How is this a good thing ? Corporate research is more susceptible to bias and their focus is on what's profitable. What incentive do they have on making drugs that cure vs those thay address symptoms?
> There is absolutely a relationship between intellectual property law and trade law. The restriction in drug import exists to make the patent effective.

No, this is a common misconception. If FooCorp manufactures a drug in the US and exports it to the US, there is no inherent patent issue with a US entity purchasing it from the Canadian middleman.
Completely agree. Sonic is a customer service provider that happens to be an ISP.

I've had their gigabit fiber service in SF for the past two years. The few times I've had to call and inquire about a service issue, I was able to speak to someone within a minute of calling. And if you check their forums, you'll find their CEO responding to questions.
> The US achieves triple the GDP per capita with just 60% higher CO2 emissions.

The paper is based on the environmental Kuznets curve model [1], according to which growth in GDP per capita eventually allows more environmentally friendly policies to be implemented, causing pollution per unit of GDP to shrink again. That's exactly the effect that allows the US to generate a higher GDP with comparatively smaller increases in CO2 emissions. The paper uses the fact that some countries are farther along the curve than others to empirically fit the parameters and uses that to estimate when CO2 emissions per capita will peak given current economic development.

Note that that's just about the per-capita measures; the expected peak in population compounds the effect.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuznets_curve#Environmental_Ku...
Ok, Mailchimp was a bad example (we actually use Sendgrid for our newsletters) but my point was about using a service that solves this for you instead of having such a convoluted process.
I'm sure that's some of it, but it's also a result of lists being pulled ahead of time. Imagine you have 100,000 subs and 10,000 of them are going to get promotion A and then another 15,000 (with some overlap) promotion B. Often, the lists are pulled before the content is ready. Sometimes getting the final approval on marketing emails takes a bit, and so the person who unsubbed when they got email A are already on the list for email B.
You made a couple of invalid claims here:

1) Canola oil is one of the healthier oils.
2) Monounsaturated fats help fight heart disease.
3) Naturally occurring trans fat is the same as industrial trans fat
4) Red meat has health risks

EDIT, included sources, with comments:
[1] Canola oil may have dramatic negative effect on weight gain and brain health: "Effect of canola oil consumption on memory, synapse and neuropathology in the triple transgenic mouse model of Alzheimer’s disease" https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-017-17373-3?error=dat...

[2] No clear benefits of MUFA-rich diets: "Monounsaturated Fatty Acids and Risk of Cardiovascular Disease: Synopsis of the Evidence Available from Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses" https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3546618/

[3] High trans fat intake associated with lower sudden cardiac death: "Natural trans fat, dairy fat, partially hydrogenated oils, and cardiometabolic health: the Ludwigshafen Risk and Cardiovascular Health Study" https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4816962/

[4] Claims on red meat risks that are limited to epidemiological studies (surveys) that are unreliable, do not factor for confounding variables, and do not conclusively prove anything. Keto diet, for example, has shown to lower cardiovascular risk factors:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5452247/
Obviously, but disagreeing with a journalist’s opinions also doesn’t make them any less of a journalist if they are in fact doing journalism in good faith.

I don’t watch Fox so I can’t speak to any of their shows, but from what I’ve seen of Maddow (admittedly not a lot), she is clearly doing at least some amount of journalism in terms of seeking the truth, verifying sources and facts, etc. Sure she also pushes her opinions and has an agenda, but I would argue that this is orthogonal to her journalistic integrity, which I haven’t really seen any reason to question. She is not trying to present opinions as if they were facts—she just mixes the two in a single show. Of course she is biased in what she chooses to cover, but again the point is that everyone does that to some degree. Claiming you have ‘mitigated’ your unavoidable bias is just an attempt to privilege your own perspective above others.

Like science, journalism is falsifiable. If you can point to specific errors or falsehoods, you should do so. Otherwise you’re just dealing in innuendo.
Just wanted to chime in about how happy with their residential service in SF. I have their 1Gbps package. With Comcast, this would most often translate to a real-life asymetric 250mbps download, 50mbps upload speed. With Sonic: I'm consistently getting SYMMETRIC 900mbps+! It's insane and comes in real-handy when you're pushing a few gigs of file from your home server to AWS...

Edit: I have cat6 ethernet wired throughout my place.
Show HN: Passwordless Sign in (Asp.net)
What old days are you talking about, exactly? That's a pretty nebulous term. Before advertising? That's a few thousand years ago, so maybe?
Using the PI Zero over an ESP doesn't negatively impact the experience using it. Whereas a very bloated website is going to be slow to load and use. I think there is a significant difference.
Instagram Influencer Found Dead in Suitcase
Yea, and it’s insulting to even call it “unsubscribe” since I did not subscribe in the first place! The word itself subtly tries to shift blame onto the victim, as if it’s their fault they are getting spammed.
More accurately, an entire bird colony > a single cat.
Similar to the logic of using artillery against a modern conventional army. Counter-battery radars can pinpoint a gun or ballistic launcher by tracking the shells/missiles, so you've got to either shoot and scoot with self-propelled guns or do like Hamas does and remotely fire missiles from an expendable launcher.
> But what exactly is an exponentially superior food?

In this case, perhaps the ability in time to produce 10x the meat ('meat') at 10% the environmental damage of our current output.

We're adding ~85-90m people per year. Most of them are going to want to eat things like beef, fish, chicken, bacon and so on. A billion new people per decade is an enormous increase in demand for meat, to say nothing of the already existing several billion people in the bottom 1/2 with rising consumer demands for meat.

It looks like we're going to be able to solve this problem and relatively soon (it will still take decades to fully scale up globally and perfect complex products, however that will occur). It's an exciting time, getting to watch the innovation and real store-worthy products just starting to take off at a consumer level.
OK, so I live in the US. And I take lots of drugs. Some of which are priced obscenely. So I buy some drugs through online pharmacies, and it's mailed to me. Mostly from Asia.
Oh wow, this looks great. I had started working on my own FP glossary, but this has a ton of information and is clear enough that I'm sure many will find it very very helpful.
No. The movie shows a very real problem that many people experience. It goes on to show a partial solution of getting in touch with your primal emotions (beating the shit out of each other). It then turns into a cult and cults have a tendency to go off the rails.

It's a multi-layered story that resists simplistic interpretations, which is why it is so beloved by so many.
> So you think it's wrong to not hire someone because they're female, but it's fine to not hire them because they're conservative?

If you can show me where I said that or admit that you're putting words in my mouth, I'd be more than happy to continue this conversation. Otherwise, (I'm sorry but) I have a policy not to invest real effort in discussions with people who are either incapable of or not interested in reading what I've actually written, or are simply not arguing in good faith.

I'll say this much: I do think it's wrong to not hire somebody because they're female, and I don't think it's necessarily wrong to not hire somebody because they express some arbitrary opinion that I think is bad. For instance, if somebody told me in an interview that "women should be legally considered property, without any rights of their own," I would not hire that person.

Is that a real conservative opinion held by a substantial number of people? In some parts of the world, to a first approximation, I think the answer is yes! "Conservative" and "liberal" are quite overloaded these days, wouldn't you agree?

Anyway, just food for thought. Refer back to the first paragraph of this comment if you want to continue this.
Really? Entire departments that ate cake and ice cream every day of the year? Where was this and why?
The great hack and the future of privacy?
Most of us probably saw the new Netflix Documentary about the Cambridge Analytica scandal. If you've not seen it, might be worth it to check it out first.

The topic of privacy is especially important to me. The way things stand - facebook seems like an unstoppable force - because inspite of all the horrors, privacy invasion, fines - investors know that people are still going to flock to the app to get their daily hit of dopamine. This is reflected in the stock price.

I'm wondering what are your thoughts on the future of privacy in social media. Do you see users actually leaving Facebook ( which I think is the only way they ll change their business model). Do you see a future where users pay a small subscription fee in exchange for a privacy first service. What will it take for regular people to care about their privacy the way they care about human rights.
You know that this was an actual case with some publicity? Regarding throwing a bunch of information at the user, while a binary "good" vs "bad" would do, this is ultimately an argument to authority and neither enabling nor enlightening. Moreover, who became this authority on what merits and by what process?
When I got my driver's license at age 17 (or possibly the learner's permit? I forget), we learned that the car insurance company would reduce the premium for me if we regularly submitted them some kind of proof that I was getting good grades. It's possible this was some kind of "public-service program to encourage desired behavior", but I suspect that at least part of why they did it was because straight-A students are less likely to get into accidents.

For medical insurance, it seems they could at least do something like "if you send us evidence of healthy exercise/diet/weight, then we'll lower your premiums; otherwise you'll get a premium based on the estimated risk of the set of people who don't do this". (If the government doesn't forbid it. healthcare.gov says "They also can’t take your current health or medical history into account", which sounds like it might rule out some of that.)
Did you delegate managing too?
Yeah, and they could land people on the moon, too. One day. Maybe.
I miss the days of competing ISPs. I remember having Speakeasy for my DSL back in the early 2000s and being impressed at the range of services they offered and relatively high speeds they offered for less than what Verizon wanted to charge for a DSL line. Usenet, a shell server, personal webhosting, a POTS phone bank you could use as a backup when you were on the road.

But the limitations of DSL meant they couldn't compete with FiOS. And since FiOS didn't have to deal with grandfathered common carrier laws Verizon wasn't forced to share and they have not. Amazingly, even though the customer service headaches are incredible, you can get a reasonably fast line for not too much money (100Mbit for $35/month) on FiOS. Probably because we have some competition from cable modems. Of course you can't get IPv6 on there, because Verizon's most advanced network ever doesn't support it.
When I was taking a Construction Engineering Tech degree (fancy name for quantity surveyor) this was a guiding principle of many of my teachers.

Estimating as a General Contractor is quite intricate. You're soliciting quotes from surveyors, excavation crews, concrete crews, forming crews, electricians, plumbers, masonry, flooring, structural, etc. There is a lot of things that go into a building to make it functional.

So, given that you have X amount of time to produce a comprehensive, profitable quote - you really have to manage your time. If you spend all your time counting the nuts and bolts on a project but forget about the 3rd floor framing, you're going to go bust pretty quickly.

The solution is to apply this principle. Focus on the 20% which will give you 80% of the cost. The big ticket items. If you have time, fill in the rest of what you can.
Are you sure you understand your source?

Is a real burger more processed than a Beyond Burger, what I call a 'Pea-Protein Patty'?

Suggested reading: https://ancestral-nutrition.com/beyond-meat-is-beyond-unheal...
Don't know that place but if it has good cliffs April could be the climbing season.
I have Sonic's gigabit fiber service and I absolutely love it. I also appreciate that you can get support via SMS.
It seems that the cancer creates, allows or at least sustain a coordination that society can't achieve by other ways.
My money* is on Bryan and Jesse announcing a joint venture. Power to them if they do.

* money == wine & cheese;
even if thats is true, and let's assume it is, you are adding yet another bunch of ISP, networks, nation states laws into the original mix. That might not work out in your favour.

not to mention people. no matter how reputable the car renter is, it is still hiring a minimum wage clerk who will handle all your documents and credit card.

my little research suggests the opposite
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This looks like a snake oil salesman rebranded CBRAM as a memristor and hoped nobody qualified would notice that they're claiming a revolutionary breakthrough.
Crypto Theses for 2019
Except you don't get “free” $$$ for things you have to spend anyway...

You get points you can use for vacation or travel.

If you NEED to vacation or travel, it IS simply a smart transaction. But if you weren't spending money on travel before than it can still result in increased expenditure even if managed perfectly.
But then you wouldn't have services provided by companies like google.
Found it in the Results section:

> On average, 83% of captures were consumed by the cats (88% of invertebrates, 79% of reptiles and amphibians, 78% of mammals and 50% of birds) and the remaining items were left at the site of predation.
He’s a terrorist and cult leader.
Is nobody seriously going to talk about cellular agriculture/clean meat? Companies like Memphis Meats, JUST, Finless Foods, etc. creating actual beef/meat?
I bet yes, just the top dog clients will have to change. See, semiconductor companies might look like quite formidable, but the Internet companies like Facebook, Amazon, Google actually have more money then even them. They will pay.

For consumer electronics, there is genuinely no benefits now going to smaller nodes, but for something like a "single chip supercomputer" type products, made with the most over the top semi tech, there is no better client than them.

For them, they are basically turning joules into ad clicks, and thus money, much akin to that bitcoin thing, which up until few years ago was one of the biggest semiconductor consumer globally.
BootOS developed by a 10x Rockstar Ninja google dev!
Oh no, wait...it's a mexican who works with his family at "Familia Toledo"...
Guys, i think perhaps we got it all wrong.
I personally would attribute most of our current standard of living to better technology and better healthcare.

Besides, we live in an innovators paradise, where thanks to the cloud you can build whatever you want for peanuts and there are VC's lining up to fund the next big idea. Starting a business is not hard, it's staying in business that's the hard part.
Like those Robocalls that leave you a voicemail featuring someone clearly reading from a script, intimating that they're "returning your call" about something you know for a fact you never called about?

Go away Janice, I don't need an extended vehicle warranty, and no I didn't contact you for information.
Ask HN: Using consumer cellphones for an IoT network?
I have been looking into LoRaWAN for a low cost waterproof asset tracker I am looking at building.
AFAIK, the primary benefits of LoraWAN over say LTE-M or cellular are: no connectivity costs and potentially lower power consumption.

What I'm wondering is: why can't we use our own cellphones as the "base station" that the IOT device talks with? We can do this with bluetooth and WiFi, why not cell? Is it the LTE protocol that prevents it? Physics? What am I missing?
Yes, I agree that it seems like a lot of work with little payoff. When you're just one person in a large audience, I think it's realistic to assume your influence is pretty limited, and the developers are going to do what they think is right.

I think not doing your homework is fine (I am often lazy about this) but it should be combined with open-mindedness and acknowledging uncertainty.
You're right, and my experience was clouding my judgment. It's a hostile decision to me only because I know and care about the difference between a domain and a subdomain.

I thought I'd be able to find a counter-example where the two forms of URL get handled differently - perhaps by redirecting the bare URL to "m" but still serving the desktop version on "www" - but a quick survey of whatever sites happen to be open in my browser right now says nobody does that.

From a tech literacy standpoint I still dislike the obfuscation, but /shrug.
Probably not as much as you'd like but I think the detailed proposal does talk about borrowing from Ada.
Yikes, and pretty broken with arrow keys in Chrome. I filed https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=989738 on that.
I've always been curious about this -- mine is also counter-clockwise, but with January 1 down around the 7 o'clock position. I've always assumed I imported that from a calendar with aligned seasons (like with the peak of summer at July/August being at the top of the circle), but no real idea of where it originated.
I have never seen advertising for Zojirishi rice cookers, and yet I somehow own one. The same is true for my shoes, which I bought at a shoe store. I don’t really see advertising for firearms but I have purchased some, and particular models thereof for that matter. I have seen advertising for the mattress brand I own, but it was sleeping on a friend’s mattress of the same brand that made the difference. Most of my net worth is in a brokerage I have never seen advertised. My primary credit card was one I learned of by way of mouth; it’s seemingly-deliberately advertised nowhere. I have booked airlines I’ve never heard of before. My charitable donations go to a charity that does not seem to advertise. The beer I drink has a funny name, but I saw it in the beer store and tried it and I’ve been drinking it ever since despite no advertising that I’ve seen. And none of these individual decisions are particularly rare or hipsterish; in fact, the main reason I give my business to most of these companies is because other people do so as well and recommended it.

Likewise, all the advertising in the world didn’t seem to save a particular obnoxiously-promoted product that one is meant to “apply DIRECTLY to the FOREHEAD!”
> Seriously speaking: If browsers are simplifying the URI scheme for the alleged benefit of users, how do we expect these users to know anything about addresses? Isn't this rather undermining security than enhancing it?

Users already don't know anything about addresses. Even security professionals botch the "look at some visual indicator of connection security" all the time (see SSLStrip). As a security feature the URL bar is almost entirely useless for the huge majority of users.

URL bars also don't really tell you where your content is coming from. Iframes don't have URL bars. All that javascript downloaded from somewhere when the page loaded doesn't have a URL bar. The web isn't made of uniquely identifiable documents anymore.
It comes up in Scala. The solution is to have notation to specify the variance of types.
that is making the case for targeted advertising
You may be totally unwilling to work at a startup (a very reasonable position), but I haven't seen company phones become a thing until the company becomes fairly well-established.
Would either of you please be so kind as to cite your sources?