skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ah, but most other countries don't share a border with Iran. Wouldn't it be a funny old coincidence if Turkmenistan's economy just happened to completely collapse, and the US saved the day with some generous aid packages coughandsomemilitarybasescough? A funny old coincidence.
> One could presume youtube has an extreme ideological agenda and has developed its algorithms in service to that agenda

Their agenda is "more time spent watching" = "more revenue" but theyve happened to induce a health crisis in the process.
In this translation of engagement to dollars, Youtube has an ethical obligation to not actively promote content that is provably, unequivocally false and actively harmful to the public health, even if they continue to provide a platform for it.

> You cannot call on these companies to be stewards of the world's information

Youtube and Google already do these things.
Not recommending videos is not censorship.
It always amazes me the way people can't live without a water bottle in their hands.

You're not crossing Death Valley on a mule. You're riding to the mall in an air conditioned SUV.

Drink before you go. Find a water fountain. Heck, slurp out of the neighbor's garden hose. Why are people so fragile these days?
Acceptance is a function of how deep you're reading from the Big Book Of Things Too Radical To Say In Public.

The problem is that too far outside the average conception of normality it becomes difficult to judge if your Radical Thing is net-positive or net-negative for society. Gay rights? Yes. Legal incest? No.

Some people can tell the difference. Most can't. And that's why "you can't shock anyone anymore" is exactly as true as it's always been. It's just that radical art 40 years ago and radical art in 2019 look different. Too different for John Waters to tell.
Money doesn't have high velocity in the upper echelons of society compared to in the bottom half. One dollar will pass through many hands if paid to a person in the lower half of our economy, while in the top 10% this same dollar barely makes it into one other person's hands, let alone multiple.

The economically disadvantaged chunk of society has grown as middle wage jobs have disappeared, while their wages have effectively dropped. This is terrible for economic growth IMO.
Standard Notes
If you expect interest rates to decline, bonds still make sense as their value increases. US fiscal policy is unlikely to have negative rates in the foreseeable future.
We recently started using another scaffold generator from http://scaffoldhub.io. It’s similar to this but geared more for apps than for marketing sites. It allows you to build out a complete data model and backend. It’s got a lot more features but they add complexity to the code that might not be needed for everyone.
Hong Kong’s Fight for Life
If it turns out to be a successful motor, they will either license it or be flooded with competitors with similar designs. The big secret of this new motor is pretty much whether it can be successfully done... kind of like the secret of making an atomic bomb wasn't much of a secret... only a question of who would spend the time to make it work first.

The question remains whether it's practical or not. Did they have to do anything engineering wise that will mean the motor is prone to problems? Does it use normal bearings of some sort, and how hard are they to replace? How much does it cost to manufacture compared to other motor types?

I'm all for improved electric motors, but it takes more than a good idea and a press release.
Tech Book Face Off: Programming Elixir ≥ 1.6 vs. Metaprogramming Elixir
> While you could reasonably ask if the US or UK are on the brink of collapse

No, in fact you can't reasonably ask that. It's a very unreasonable premise in both cases. It's hyperbolic.

There is zero risk of collapse right now in either the US or UK. Financially, politically, socially, militarily: zero risk of collapse in either case. Nations having problems doesn't constitute a risk of collapse.

To seriously discuss collapse in eg the US, a person has to take a problem that isn't remotely collapse-threatening (eg student debt or partisan anger), and amplify it artificially 10x-100x to mean the end of the world. The sort of headlines & stories that a site like ZeroHedge specializes in 24/7 in the financial sphere (the world is ending every day of the week there, the next great recession has been about to start for a decade now). In general it requires a very high level of avoiding using reason and logic to assess risk, and falling back to emotional-based statements derived from what are actually modest, controllable problems. The same is true in the context of the UK, brexit or no brexit.
I think a lot of people are Ok using more energy to recycle glass (if true), instead of having trillions of pieces of plastic filling up the planet.
Embodied energy of digital technology
Check out gold ETF's. They hold the physical gold so you don't have to, you just buy a stake in the physical assets. The ETF prices will vary depending on the specific ETF, but you can find ones that track very closely.
I say this as a guy who drinks from his garden hose: plenty of public water fountains are disgusting and I don't want to touch them.
Edge Computing for User-Centric Secure Search on Cloud-Based Encrypted Big Data
Would this be true of a water can? I understand the necessity for something acidic, but water?

And if still true for water, hydrolysis will be slowed at a neutral pH.
Oh hah, that's a bit unexpected. Ahh the crazy days of 386SX desktops without math coprocessors :)
Of course it is!

Just like the water in the “milk” cartons.

They might as well just sell water like Canadians sell milk —in simple plastic bags and then you put the bag in your favorite mug or whatever.
Denmark has introduced a negative interest rate mortgage. That's an interesting one because if you borrow $200k today and only owe $195k in 10 years, what happens?

First, since you don't have to make payments, you can't default.

If you can't default, why bother with qualification?

If you don't have to qualify, is there an upper limit to how much you can/should borrow?

If there's no upper limit and you never have to pay, it doesn't matter whether the seller charges $100k or $1M or $10M.. it demonstrates that the entire system is entirely made up.
Telecom Giant Pushes into Dangerous Areas
It'd be pretty easy to strip the UI framework out if that's what you want - probably easier than starting with CRA :facepalm: I agree, though, this would be a great option.
> Gay rights? Yes. Legal incest? No.

Honest question: Why not yes to both? I’m fine with it.
This paper also adds information on absolute energy usage and per kilogram produced.

http://web.mit.edu/ebm/www/Publications/energy_required.pdf
Thread Sanitizer for Swift on Linux
I can't recall a recent (within my lifetime, actually) case when protesting (here or anywhere else) has accomplished much.
Selling water in plastic bags is actually a common practice in India. This happens in bars and when you order to-go (or parcel as it's called there)
Not sure. I've seen complaints by some advertising sites, but no especial problems. Can you elaborate? I'd genuinely like to know more.
What can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence.
I usually get a drink in a sturdy glass bottle and use that a couple of weeks —inevitably the cleaning staff think I forgot to toss it... so I buy another Hubert’s.
Lessons I wish I had learned before I started teaching differential equations [pdf]
The impact of the “open” workspace on human collaboration
> In what legal jurisdiction can you use a 10 MHz bandwidth channel under <30 MHz (where you actually get ionospheric bounce (sometimes))?

I never implied you could? Its certainly possible in VHF/UHF, though (for licencees).

> And even worse than the answer to that (nowhere) is that in the USA the data rate limit is actually in terms of symbol rate, not bandwidth used

Sure, but those limits only apply for HF and longer-wavelength frequencies. You're welcome to do 256QAM in the microwave range, for example.
You put a resource on an open network and don't use any of the standard, recognized methods to indicate don't index, don't share, (nor lock it away with auth).

It's like if you put a sculpture in front yard and get upset when someone points it out in their neighborhood tour company, even worse cause yard ornaments don't have standard accepted methods of saying "don't use".

Two choices

1) use robots.txt

2) don't put it on the internet
What an elitest pile of stinky!

Woe is me, the expert, because all the non-experts don't trust me. Rather than address why that is, the elitest expert condemns the non-elitest commoners and worries that it portends the end of, or at least a "giant problem" for, (elitest-controlled) society.

Trust us you must, he argues, because you know too little to make decisions for yourselves.

Has he ever stopped to consider how juries operate without "experts"? Or basic infantry platoons, or thousands of small businesses, or small towns - none of which operate on the basis of experts/expertise?
Now I can't tell if you're pro or con hydro. Or if you're game for quid pro quo in the name of expediency, or will insist on everything making sense (to you).
I agree that there are other factors to be considered, including the ability of the originator to make money from their creative expression. However, from the page you linked, "[b]ecause the dissemination of facts or information benefits the public, you have more leeway to copy from factual works such as biographies than you do from fictional works such as plays or novels." In many cases, Google's knowledge box comes from sources such as this. In the US at least, given the short length of most snippets in the knowledge box, you'd have to argue that the particular expression of the fact in the search box is both sufficiently creative and sufficiently central to the work. Even in the case of a snippet reflecting human judgement, such as the box displayed for "best nail for cedar wood", the short snippet appears to be considered fair use, at least in the US. Google Books has been considered fair use, for example: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/04/fair-use-prevail...

In the case of artistic works, the criteria for fair use outside of parody are more limited (although see the Google Books case). For example, the display of a stanza of a poem, or a section of song lyrics, might not be seen as fair use (I'll leave my personal opinions out of this). However, in the case of song lyrics, Google has permission from the rights owners to reproduce them in their search results.
Wrike team - web & backend
The Puzzle of Economic Progress
A lot of people think public water fountains are gross because they don't understand them or how they work.

I once read a pretty good magazine article explaining that public water fountains are generally cleaner than most office water coolers. I don't remember all of the details, but in essence, it's because they are regularly inspected by professionals, and the water moving though the pipes to get to the fountain and then through the spigot reduces the chances of contamination. Unlike your office water cooler where the water sits around forever. We have to have a guy come out to de-funk our office water cooler every three months.

Amazingly, people have drunk from public water fountains for thousands of years and been just fine. Spend some time in Rome and watch hundreds of thousands of people drink from tens of thousands of public water fountains all day long, and amazingly the city hasn't been wiped out by the cooties.
iirc, the backlash against plastic bottles isn’t due to the environment as much as it is due to the water containing micro plastics from the water bottle, which has various health consequences when consumed frequently enough.
It's super thin layer of plastic Likely dramatically less plastic compared to a plastic bottle
Nice that they are doing this, but this really should be standard for the majority of electrical devices you buy similar to high end receivers, speakers, microphones, amps, etc. with the powered on/off switch in the back. Once you flip it, there is zero power going through it until you flip it again. This was a huge savings with many high powered equipment that you needed to leave plugged in, but did not want it to drain unnecessary power while idling.
I do the same. I buy Powerade in Flo cap bottles and reuse them to keep water in the gym. It is ideal to quickly open without another hand and can be closed by a quick pat (as opposed to screwing the cap back on). And if I lose it - no big deal. I usually use them for many months and even eats before they break (usually at the seams) or get lost
I agree with this idea too, most people I know who are into fishing and hunting are definitely the most keen on preserving natural environments and cleaning up the ocean.
Yes I've seen them and it's driven by the misguided quest for the thinnest, form over function devices while refusing to accept that battery technology is not yet up to the task. Particularly when you consider the volatile Lithium based tech which is sensitive to heat, let's put them in enclosed cases where lots of heat is generated, make them non removable, what could go wrong.

Here I just put something rough together to demonstrate that it can be done even with the thin devices if the motivations were in the right place: https://www.ypson.com/hn/battery-thin-device.png

Took me a few minutes, surely this can be done given the budgets and great engineers available in the employ of the major companies.
I built an inline-reply extension for Gmail
If someone is murdered now (evening of August 13th) and their body is discovered tomorrow at 7am, does that mean they were murdered at 7am?

If I call my friend at 7:30am and tell him, does that mean the person was murdered at 7:30am?
And if you only have a sketchy water-source available, you can disinfect it by putting it in a plastic bottle in full sunlight for 4 hours.

Oh shit.
Why does a rule have to rely on enforcement? Why can't we trust people and have an honor-based system?
Don't Copy That Floppy
Same. I used to use and sometimes still miss a fancy thermos bottle, but I found it's just easier to use a new bottle every day and refill it two or three times than to worry about cleaning a thermos. I had the rather unpleasant experience of falsely believing a bottle that only contained water could go a few weeks without washing and then noticed black mold in it.
I don't advise re-using a single-use plastic water bottle. They typically have a ton of plasticizers that will come out as you flex the bottle.

I don't necessarily feel the same about other single-use plastics -- it's the thin crumple ablebottles that are dangerous.
Yes but build it with 128GB of ram and try and get a lights-out kvm on it.

Much better value can be had than OPs buy - just picked up a Dell R820 (quad 8core,3.2ghz v2 Xeons, hyperthreading is overrated yo) with 768GB of ram and dual 10G nics for $1500. Idles around 170W (about $5/mo where I live). The real magic: 8 full (16x 3.0) pcie slots.

The 3900x is a beast for the workstation though, and I have it running there with nothing but praise.
If you expect interest rates to go down in the future, the 10 year bonds would be a better investment
Texas Power Prices Briefly Surpass $9k Amid Scorching Heat
So the plastic lining inside the can (1) uses as much plastic as a plastic bottle and (2) is as damaging to the environment?

Since the answer to both of those questions is no, it's more than a PR move.
Definitely read the book Bringing Up Bébé: One American Mother Discovers the Wisdom of French Parenting.

Getting the baby to sleep through the night is something you want to do as soon as possible.

Your also going to want to get really good at time management. With one kid, you are allowed one hobby. Once you have two kids you can have a hobby once in a blue moon.

If you can get a stable gig, I would recommend it. Diaper prices recently went up.
You can refill the aluminium bottles in the picture.
Just tried this for the first time and my mild tinnitus (usually only notice it when people bring up tinnitus or after a long flight) just got a bit quiter! Very interesting!

Note: by the time I finished writing this the ringing was back at "full" volume.
Careful having extreme stances on things. Packaged water keeps many people alive during times of natural disasters or crises. Volunteers flock in and one of the first items brought in is bottled water. It was a lifeline for many people during the Flint water crisis. Finally it serves an overall utility of giving people another choice at the vending machine. It sounds silly to you and me as well, but it has a real impact on public health.
Breaks down better when it escapes into the environment than plastic does.
true, it was more in reference to constitution-free zones.
If you enjoyed Amiga, check out https://www.dragonflybsd.org/

DragonflyBSD founder is Matt Dillon of Amiga fame. He took many concepts from his Amiga developer days and built a modern BSD using those concepts. Like it’s innovative approach to message handling and SMP.
Cite the science. Do you think '90% of scientists' believe in the gravitational constant? I would say it's 100. You repeat all these platitudes like they are fact. You don't see the irony in your statements. You probably also believe 4 out of 5 dentists recommend your toothpaste
This was my mom when I was growing up.

Ah, the smell of melting plastic bottle caps in the dishwasher.
It's less plastic but it still emits BPAs into your drink.
sorry, which treaty?

The Sino-British Joint Declaration resulted in the enactment of the Basic Law, of which entitles China to provide for military support, intervention, and assumption of administrative functions in Hong Kong.

Its not breaking a treaty when you use the provisions of it.

The only stipulation of the treaty, an ideological line in spirit, is that the socialist policies are not enacted. All that means is that markets stay open and there are no strings attached when the state provides for you. That has nothing to do with the military entering.

And finally, articles 158 and 159 of the Basic Law put the "Standing Committee of the National People's Congress" as the final arbiter and interpreter of the whole thing. It has always been this way, and the rationale for not using it is thinner than ever.
Notably more...

Epyc2 is what I'm fantasizing over lately.
You could probably run something on D-Wave Leap and get actual quantum noise or something if you like
I bet they even have theft insurance.
TIL commodore's HQ was in West Chester PA
The claim that black holes are perfectly black is subject to those same constraints.
Can you explain to a layman what's odd about it?
Pandemic Bonds: Designed by the World Bank to Fail in Ebola
No, I'm pretty sure there's going to be an upper limit, and it's going to be somewhat less than 100% of the purchase price. It's not carte blanche to borrow unlimited amounts of money.

In fact, I would be surprised if you could get away with no payments (a balloon payment loan, as it were). I would be rather shocked if they were offering such loans.

Absent data that they are actually offering such loans (balloon and/or untethered to the price of the property), I find your conclusions unwarranted.
21 Startups Bring in over $100M Each
> ... but they would still say it happened in year 24,000 BC.

I can't imagine that they would say that!

I'm sure that you mean the equivalent of 24,000 BC in our reference frame, after Lorentz transformation. Not that they would likely even know about us, or manage the transformation.

This is bloody confusing.
I have a device that mimics data pins while cutting them off internally. My phone charges quickly, but data lines are not connected. It's a Triplett Usb Bug, a mainstream brand product.
Headline from 2050: "Coke proposes new, environmentally friendly system to pipe bottled water directly to consumers' homes"
I can buy liter Nalgene bottles for about $4 and get a few thousand refills before losing or breaking them.

I agree that fancy water bottles can be frustrating when lost, but there’s still really cheap bottles that last a long time.
yeah, electrical power propagates way faster than electrons drift (and the power flux is primarily outside the wire, but that's a fun story for a different day).

One way to think about it is as a newton's cradle sorta deal. It's not perfect, but fairly close. Also maybe flicking a jump rope - energy propagates, but the bits of rope don't move from beginning to end.
Interesting idea! Will certainly add that to the list of revenue models to explore and learn more about. Thanks!
Antd support pls
> A lot of the comments here are about how this event occurred 26,000 years ago.

Which does miss the point -- whether it happened a billion years ago somewhere else or 2 seconds ago somewhere else, the effects of that event are being measured by us right now, meaning if it was gonna kill us, it would have happened now, not 26,000 years ago.
It depends on hand size, but you can open water bottles while holding them with one-hand, hold the cap between your thumb and index, and then re-screw without using a second hand.

Those steps take longer, but you get a lot more flow when it's open. And you can do something else during the uncapping/capping process.
That's a great story, thanks for taking the time!
I am kind of happy and sad in the same time to know that it is not just me.

This is SO annoying.
I'm pro hydro to a point that is less than a 10x expansion. To reach the rest of the low carbon needs I expect a combo of 24/7 low-footprint nukes plus massive electrification plus massive increases of wind and solar to the point that all of the above are pressured by NIMBY hard.
He understood the transactions were traceable: everything he did is okay when operating under a consumer product framework and not a securities framework.

So when moved to securities framework unilaterally by the SEC, then all prior actions and current actions are put under scrutiny too to rationalize putting the prior asset sale as a security

There is another perspective and that hearing is reportedly in a few weeks. Its not to disagree with the SEC over securities status, just to come to more agreeable terms over the emergency order and understand why people acted the way they did, instead of a broad paintbrush of malice as described by this docket.
I don't wash them between uses... They're usually sitting in the fridge/freezer in an internal bath of municipally chlorinated water.
/bin/dc or bc,
or M-x calc in Emacs or galculator on the off chance that some HN visitor hasn't experienced RPN.
does this mean google has even more influence over the coloring of reality. Are users taking there cursory summaries over source information?
Sure, knowing that there's something out there to look for might be helpful. (Might not, too. Googling "how do I remove items from a list by priority" might get you info on priority queues.)

But if I know that "priority queue" is what I'm looking for, I can then totally forget how to implement a priority queue. I can look it up as many times as I'm going to need it in the rest of my career faster than I can memorize it. (And if I need it very many times, I'll memorize it just by using it.)
Artificial intelligence could detect and diagnose breast cancer more accurately
As far as I know, Freescale/NXP still makes "real" 68K chips in the form of MC68SEC000 (3.3v-capable static CMOS version). Those will probably be discontinued within the next few years since they've been "not recommended for new designs" for a while. The full-fat 68HC000 (with vectored interrupts and 6800 bus compatibility, needed for compatibility with a few older systems) was discontinued in 2012 because Freescale shut down the only fab that still made it.