skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can always add moderation on top of something, but once it's on you can't take it off.

What I mean by that is that Apple isn't the only company that could vet apps. Anyone could put together a list of "trusted" apps into a software repository/store and you could pick whichever one you trusted and use only it. This is already how Linux works.

In the long run, this is probably even better for people who want to only run vetted apps. Apple's app store policies have to cover everyone who runs iOS, which means that even with the best intentions, they can't be as permissive or as strict as some people want. If Apple wasn't in that boat, you could have an app store that had much harsher rules about data collection, performance, and permissions.

My experience has been that specialized platforms usually produce better results for their target audiences than generalized alternatives. As the sole gatekeeper to iOS, the best Apple is ever going to be able to provide is a generalized storefront.
Go Time 95: The importance of representation
Linux built up over time with zero upfront investment, starting with Torvalds in his bedroom. Silicon fabrication requires gigantic amounts of cash upfront.

I'm talking about the barrier to entry.
lol. it's all "data protection layer" until sony ships an actual rootkit.
Even with quantum technology, there is such a thing as a “good enough” copy — my phone can record 4k/60fps, and while it would be a bit fiddly to set it up right to copy a video by filming a display, it can be done.
I agree. Even "would you" is instructive. Even then I often ask for more context so that I can understand priority a little better. Eg, "Sure—what's going on?"
An open source phone based on RPi with Lora
This currency should be completely boycotted as China tortures its own people and has a horrific human rights record.
You'd probably need some programming experience, or at least a general idea of how web development works. This dashboard template is front-end fluff that makes it simple for a developer to focus on the backend processes and allows them to pass resulting structured data to the client that's presented in pretty tables and charts.

There are multiple ways to accomplish your CSV challenge, depending on your backend structure, but one possible could be to use a tool such as the jQuery CSV plugin[1] to read your CSV files and convert them to Javascript objects. You could then render your HTML by iterating over the rows of that CSV in a <table> element. The Airframe source would provide all the the CSS needed to display your table in one of its pretty formats - would just be a matter of setting the table and its children's class attributes[2].

[1] https://github.com/typeiii/jquery-csv
[2] http://dashboards.webkom.co/react/airframe/tables/tables#
You're trying to tell me a database or passing config options to your program are better than configuration files? What you're describing is the entire reason and purpose of why configuration files exist. YAML is also not limited to configuration files. If we look at the example you provided it's pretty clear:

"From the point of view of a component, the configuration can be thought of as a Dictionary-like collection"

This is exactly what YAML and JSON provide too. Using a configuration file is a choice, so are parameters, and so are databases. I'm not really understanding what you're trying to get at?
I can see them citing themselves once or twice but not 10's of times or more.
I think that a lack of regulation can make markets less free. Natural monopolies exist, and Peter Thiel talks about how startups need to create a monopoly. Consumer choice in broadband providers is a great example of this.
The reference the author uses to support his claim in this case referred to a review he co-authored that looked at high concentrations of fluoride. Her is one funded by the National Toxicology Program both relevant to community water fluoridation concentration levels of fluoride (low): https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12640-018-9870-x#... - which found, for male Long-Evans Hooded Rats at least, " Drinking water exposure at these low levels was not found to alter motor performance or learning and memory in the test paradigms assessed. Low-level F− did not alter thyroid hormone levels and produce neuronal damage or glia reactivity in the hippocampus, or histological damage in the heart, kidney, or liver. The low-level F− diet did not show a significant effect on the behavioral endpoints examined."
> vast majority of those with autism can pass and silently struggle with the negatives of their condition

This is not true. The article says only 16% can hold a fulltime job. Most of those are jobs requiring the absolute minimal skillsets.

> As the article points out, nearly 2% of people have some form of ASD. For that to be the case, the vast majority of them have to appear mostly normal from the outside.

It may sadden you to know the staggering amount of adults with ASD that have essentially been removed from society. They do not appear normal, and as a consequence they do not appear in society at all.
> A lot of criminals, from murderers to real estate billionaires that cheated others for millions are walking free in Hong Kong while wanted in China or Taiwan.

Here the thing though. If tons are criminals are hiding freely in Hong Kong, it isn’t Hong Kong’s legal system that is the problem. It is the fact there are lot of corruption happening in China. The extradition will not change anything. There will still be criminals in China that escape justice by running to Taiwan or Singapore. The source of the problem is China itself. Hong Kong has no reason to weaken its legal system just because some people in China thinks it’s justified to catch a few criminals.

And the whole bill was so stupid to begin with. You never screw with people’s livelihood. People, no matter your political position, will emotionally react to things that threaten their existence. Any bill that would extradict a citizen to China without proper due process (In China, due process is what the party says. The legal system is below the party. They made that clear) is one of them. The fact that the CE couldn’t foresee this boggles my mind. What did you think was going to happen?

It makes me think she was hired to be obedient rather than hired for talent. Her handling of this situation further enforces that view. The whole thing is a shit show. Now, she is stuck between a wall and a rock of her own doing. I also agree that Beijing didn’t allow her to quit. She made this mess, she should stay for the outcome. Either clean up the mess or go down as the CE that ruined Hong Kong.

Also, it’s already been pointed by Taiwan that there are other legal ways to hand over criminals, it’s just that the current government wanted this bill. Similar to how the FBI tried to peer pressure Apple to decrypt a criminals phone even though they already paid an Israeli company to do so.
How do I get my first few customers? (2011)
For me those two changes weren’t directly related but I believe meditation can be very helpful in strengthening willpower and regaining focus on long term goals which is very helpful in the pursuit modifying patterns of behavior. For me it certainly works that way.

I was “lucky” in the sense that cannabis began having very negative effects on my mind so quitting was fairly easy. I know from other friends it’s not always like that so I wish you all the luck in your attempts to quit or cut down on your consumption.
I can see that; there are literally thousands of people "farming karma" on Reddit every day. It's definitely engagement but I don't necessarily think it's healthy engagement. Unhealthy engagement is what this article is all about.

Measuring engagement seems a bit like Goodhart's law.
If the text field sent everything you type but didn't autocomplete, it would be spyware.

Autocompleting doesn't change that.

The Amazon text field would have to send your credit card number for a credit check without telling you to compare.
I'm a deer hunter. I'm out in the woods scouting a few times in the late summer, then I'm out there every day in the fall for about two months.

I treat everything with permethrine: clothes, socks, boots, hats, orange vest, backpack, ground blind, even the tripod chair I sit on in the blind. Permethrine, derived from the chrysanthemum flower, kills ticks (as well as ants and bees). If one lands on your pants or shirt, it will quickly die. But permethrine is considered harmless to mammals once it's dry. It also doesn't hurt to spray some deet on your exposed skin (face, hands etc.). Permethrine survives several washings.

As soon as I come back from a hunt, I strip and take a hot scrub shower. This is probably the best way to rid them from your body before they latch on, which usually takes a few hours up to 24 or so before they settle in a desirable spot.

Reducing the deer population is an excellent way to reduce the adult tick vector; deer can travel quite far and spread tick populations quickly.

The nymph phase of the tick life cycle is slightly different; they are on mice and other rodents until they reach a certain size. You can actually reduce this population by putting out tick tubes everywhere in your yard, under brush, under wood piles, wherever rodents might tend to go. The tubes contain cotton or dryer lint sprayed with permethrine; the rodents take bits of the material back to line their nests, and it kills the baby ticks. I do this every spring, in the hopes it will rid the vicinity of many ticks.

Lyme is serious business and once you get it, it can take years if not forever to get rid of. Lymerix was a vaccine developed in the 1990s that was about 80% effective, but unfortunately an anti-vaccine group sued the company successfully and they pulled it off the market. The CDC subsequently determined there was no validity to the plaintiff's claims, but by then the deed was done. Probably hundreds of thousands of people suffer from Lyme today because of this lawsuit.

There are new vaccines in the pipeline that sound very promising; they target common proteins among the family of Lyme bacteria (there are about a dozen known species of borrelia bacteria) so that one shot should protect you. Of course, promising doesn't mean guaranteed, so we'll just have to wait and hope this thing can be beaten.

In the meantime, we can focus on attacking the vectors: reduce the overpopulation of deer and rodents that carry the ticks, encourage more use of permethrine and other insecticides. Monhegan Island, off the Maine coast, had 25% prevalence of the disease until they eradicated the deer population (originally brought there in the 1950s-60s as a tourist attraction) and new cases of Lyme went down to almost nil.

We can encourage more predators like hawks and owls and snakes, all of which work to keep the rodent population in check. Flocks of birds eat ticks, but bird populations have greatly decreased in recent decades, so we might think about ways to bring them back, perhaps through reforestation and limiting exurban development that removes habitat.
Why?????? I've just recently rewatched the entire trilogy and it ends in a perfect way. Trinity and Neo both die for the cause, the ending feels meaningful and powerful. And now...they are back?

Like....I'm sure there could be more stories worth telling in that universe. Maybe about how the new peace with the machines is going. But bringing Trinity and Neo back seems like....a huge mistake. Of course it's impossible to judge a movie until we see it, but I don't have a good feeling about this.
Tell the ceo of Novartis that winning the gamble of hiding that data was falsified for their recently approved drug makes him a hero. The drug is successful and scientifically the falsification fo the data didn't matter. But that doesn't mean that his reputation isn't getting dragged through the mud right now for condoning lying to the FDA
At least some of the microcontrollers in cars are the kind of thing that need to be extra tamper proof. There are some niche applications where safety trumps freedom. If a device has a computer in it solely for the purpose of controlling the functionality of the device's primary function, then the priorities really become different.
Can someone explain to me the use of a question mark in this title?
The natural gas genny portion exists, the water one does not. The water one doesn't exist for two reasons:

1. There is only energy in the water system because your city has pumps/water towers to give it pressure. So in a disaster, you running your hydro setup is just placing more strain on the water infra who are likely running on generators.

2. Hydro plants need huge amounts of water to provide power. To even power a single outlet, you are talking in the range of tens of thousands of gallons of water per hour. Your water bill would quickly eclipse the cost of just buying a generator.

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Going back to natural gas, you are looking for an automatic transfer switch. When the power cuts, it disconnects you from the grid, turns on the generator automatically, and you then have power again. When the power is back, it switches you back to grid and turns generator off. Only downside is that there will be a several second power cut while generator turns on. You generally can only get this feature on midrange cost and up generators. For cost savings measures, you can also buy a manual transfer switch, with the obvious downside of you having to flip the switch and go start the genny.
Not sure about AWS specifically, but on Azure you have several methods available to define your infrastructure as code (IaC), including JSON-based ARM templates[0]. AWS and GCP must have similar IaC capabilities.

[0] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-resource-manage...
I don't see that it's the Cobra effect. Did it actively make them less productive?
I don't use computers to communicate as much as others. Mostly to pay movies and anime I have stored away. Basically, after people work all day to live I will be the entertainment center.
I have had multiple parrots over my life and the way i reason things out is very simple.

Parrots in the wild rarely live until they are 80 years old... More often than not in the wild they succumb early to disease, predators, weather, human threats (e.g. cars, and pollution), or starvation. If you could ask a parrot which life it would prefer, the answer is pretty much a no brainer... Otherwise, NO animal should lead a domesticated life pretty much IMO.

Birds in the wild do not have a clean living environment with plenty of toys to stimulate and placate their learning and need to destroy/chew things.
They also don't live in climate controlled houses, and are not fed food on regular schedules.
Pet parrots can regularly get acquainted with and get attention from other birds when owners board them in safe "bird friendly" boarding places, or when owners know other owners with birds and arrange for meet-ups.
Parrots can also be taken outside on occasion to fly in safe locations where hawks won't swoop down and bite their heads off.

I do all the above, and provide my bird lots of attention, and it will be for as long as I physically can. By training my bird to be friendly with everyone I also am preparing him for an easy and desirable transition to someone else when I can no longer take care of him.

I want to destroy the myth that some present about lonely birds in "cages". Terrible owners are responsible for being terrible owners, not all bird owners.

With all that being said, it's up to each individual that takes in any pet to ensure that they can be cared for properly for life. I lost a dog prior to having my parrot after 16 years and it was like losing a child for me... There are no rules to having pets in my world, as long as a good plan and action for care, self education, and best intentions are involved, anyone can give their pet the best life possible. Parrots also make great pets if you have to soul to bear the noise, and their poop is much more manageable than most other domesticated animals. That being said, all of them are inherently wild animals, so don't expect them to always behave themselves and it will all be fine.
An Effective Python Environment: Making Yourself at Home – Real Python
I do it by working during the day and spending time with my family and friends at night. I typically "work from home" for a week around Thanksgiving and Christmas where "home" is my home town instead of my personal residence. The day is spent working, the evenings are spent with family and friends I wouldn't otherwise get to see. I can even use my lunch hour to take my nephew to the park. I'm no less available than I would be in the office or at my apartment.
Do you get irritation from the Permethrin?
I wouldn't be so sure.

Millionaires have access to lawyers and tax accountants and are more difficult to pin down.

A poor person can easily be bullied to handing everything over to the IRS -- probably with just a few mean letters.
Tell that to the ceo of uber, who built a multi billion dollar company (even after the recent underperformance) but also did some bad things, and then got kicked out of his own company for doing those bad things.

Success isn't a guarantee of your sins being forgiven at all
So I guess only people with easy to diagnose diseases will be treated. People with diseases like cancer, etc. will simply be rejected outright.
Sure, I didn't mean to imply the imagery wasn't useful, only that the high taxes are probably more useful :)
How do you prove to the neo-Puritan left that you're not a racist, sexist, bigot, homophobe? After all, you (hypothetically) said a thing that out of context sounds terrible in bad faith.

This is also why I'm against the death penalty, and why I believe freedom of speech is paramount, and why I don't believe in the existence of hate speech, and I certainly can't conscience giving the gov't the power to determine what speech is and is not offensive.
You need a source of trust in these systems. Journals used to have that role. They had high standards that were upheld by editors selecting only worthy publications. Today it seems that many journals aren't as trustworthy as they seemed to be in the past. It's also easier to spam the journals with your publication and to bullshit your way into publication. The incentives to publish a lot are also way higher now that your grant money is highly dependent on your citation count. Journals can publish more and easier and lower the standards for submission to earn more money. The system is basically eating itself and we haven't found a cure yet.

Filtering for self-citations is useful to identify the bubbles. But it is not sufficient to determine if those bubbles only contain hot air or if these scientists are actually working on something with substance in a narrow field where few others publish.
"Many countries could be come debt free"

Why is "debt-free" a desirable condition for a nation?
> Today, the notion of Microsoft as a threat to the world seems quaint and laughable,

Interesting considering they are the most valuable company in the world by market cap.

Addendum: Currently, MSFT's market cap is higher than Facebook, Google, Apple, and AMZN.
I don't trust Twitter and Facebook when they justify these proposals by claiming they improve social welfare.

Hiding the number of likes makes their algorithm less transparent. Removing transparency makes it harder to distinguish between paid content. At the end of the day it's all about dollars.
Unclear, but what's known is that China is trying desperately to change the narrative and spread disinformation on HK, making it seem like the protestors don't have legitimate concerns. I can attest from both friends in HK as well as more than plenty of qualified media that the protestors are being peaceful and have real concerns, but the feeling of people in HK seems to be split generationally (older people mostly want peace and not for Chinese forces to be coming over the border).
I am speaking of my experience in the US.

When I was a senior manager in a Fortune 100 company in the South, I was taken aside by one of my peers, who advised me that I should "speak more deferentially" to my male peers and staff BECAUSE I was a woman. It just would not be acceptable for me to act like any man's equal.

When I was a software engineer in SF, my Indian manager took me into a conference room with his American manager, and told me that I should always, always frame any request to any team member as a plea for them to do a favor for me. No matter what I was asking, no matter who they were, whether in person or email or on Slack.

You ask do these people actually matter? Yes, they were my peers and bosses.
Yubico releases the first Lightning security key for iPhones
Sorry, not GCC / Clang. You're right.

But IBM's XL Compiler: https://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21110831

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I think I confused it with ARM: ARM has a CLang-based compiler with official ARM support IIRC. https://developer.arm.com/tools-and-software/server-and-hpc

I think the hobbyist (who won't get much support even if they're a paying customer) benefits from free tools / free support / communities.

But it seems like a number of professionals prefer having a degree of professional support in the products they use.
I've not used the others, but org-mode is capable of everything described in the linked site, and a lot more. It's a text format (so from a future-proofing perspective, similar). The task tracking system is fairly straightforward, if you just wanted tasks you'd have something like:

* TODO Call mom :phone:
DEADLINE: <2019-08-24 Sat>
* DONE Ignore dad

You can create custom workflows, (details in the manual):

* TODO Do something
* WORKING Doing something
* DONE Did something

Or perhaps you're a kanban fan?

* BACKLOG CR 1
* ANALYSIS CR 2
* CODE CR 3
* QA CR 4
* DEPLOY CR 5
* DONE CR 6

(Extra whitespace added for formatting here.)

You could create somethnig akin to a workbreakdown structure, and have org prevent marking parent activities done until children activities are done:

* IN-WORK CR 1
** DONE Analysis
** DONE Develop acceptance tests
** IN-WORK Code
** TODO Peer Review
** TODO Release

And all those are headings, you can put text underneath them.

* IN-WORK CR 1
The customer wants us to stop storing passwords
in a plaintext file.

If you use it for meetings, as I have, you can do something like this:

* TODO Some Meeting
DEADLINE: <2019-08-23 Fri>
** Agenda
- [X] Introductions
- [X] Presentation
- [X] Discussion
** TODO Actions
*** TODO Fix typos
Accidentally typed /x/ everywhere I meant to type /k/
*** TODO Email minutes

All the todos are integrated in with the notes, references, and other documentation. The full context is available. When I'm reading a book, I break it down into a todo per chapter, and record notes in the appropriate chapter as a way to monitor progress. When I'm writing a program, I try to develop the spec and other things inside of org files as well (conveniently works with literate programming, but I can't use that at work, couldn't sell it, but I use that for personal projects).

Downside: Some mobile viewers that can also edit the files, but full org capability is really only available in emacs (as best I can tell, is there a fairly feature complete implementation besides that one?).
I find the morning to work best for me but my girlfriend does it before she goes to bed. If I would add another session each day that would be it to help me sleep better.

I sit on a chair and try to keep good posture so falling asleep has never been anything I’ve worries about.
Not defending people who self-cite but here is an alternative explanation. There are many areas of science that have very few researchers working on the same or related problems. In addition papers tend to build on prior works of the same or related researchers. Over time we may see clusters of what look like "self-cited" papers. This is not abnormal.
Hijacked my back button :(