skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Id imagine I wouldn't be welcome in a church or mosque because of my views on abortion.
In our area (NY, north of the city) if you can't get natural gas, you heat with oil not electric. Plenty of people also get propane just for the gas stove. The yearly propane tank rental is about $100, since you'll never meet the minimums for a free tank with just a stove.
In the modern era, diamonds are not all that rare or hard to retrieve to begin with, and now we have mass-produced synthetic diamonds that are actually higher-quality (fewer flaws) than mined ones. The idea that a tiny pebble, however artfully cut, is rare and precious and worth thousands of dollars is 100% marketing.
Speed isn't everything, and not everything is a race.

Sex being a good example.

It's important to remember that just because you don't understand something doesn't mean it doesn't have merits, or other people won't understand it either.

That being said I prefer books too, and I'm a slow reader by design (I've discovered the slower I go the more I enjoy the journey)
Even if the stove is powered by single phase [1], it may not be used with a 240V plug, as these are rated for 16 A. And 3.7 kW limit is enough ony for small portable 2-plate stoves.

[1] which is possible even for full 11 kW stove, if you have 40A single phase power.
Tell HN: Facebook just deleted 1000s of business's posts
I can't find any articles about this online, but Facebook just deleted every single post that was posted via Social Report. Social Report is a legitimate social media scheduling platform. They were approved by Facebook and listed as a verified Facebook Partner. On Thursday night Facebook suddenly pulled Social Report's API Keys, and deleted every single post that was ever posted via their platform.

Social Report claims that they were given no warning, and no reason why their keys were pulled. Social Report also claims that they have been trying to get in touch with Facebook over the issue, and Facebook is not responding. Social Report also claims that they have an SLA with Facebook guaranteeing them a response within 1 business day. Being that Facebook has not responded to their requests, Facebook is in breach of the SLA.

There are rumors flying around social media, that claim Social Report was scraping data from Instagram and that's why this happened. Social Report denies all of these claims and states that they have abided by all of the TOS listed in their agreement with Facebook.

The impact of this issue is pretty large. We have a pretty good guess that they service well over 200 customers. Being that most of their customers are agencies that serve anywhere from 10-100s of businesses, we believe that over 10,000 businesses have had their posts deleted. Many users affected by this issue have been complaining that they have spent $1,000s of dollars boosting the posts that have been deleted. The impact of this issue could easily be over $1,000,000.

My girlfriend and I run a social media marketing agency, and every single post that we have posted for the past two years are completely gone. I am not sure if Social Report violated the TOS with Facebook or not. Regardless if Social Report was a bad actor, I find it incredibly unfair that Facebook would punish thousands of innocent businesses for using a legitimate "Facebook Verified" marketing tool.
Perhaps we all should have gone the route of Iceland in 2009 — let all the banks fail, endure ferocious poverty for 5 or so years, but in that time cultivate a rich humanity that results in:

- peacefully firing the entire government

- crowdsourcing a new constitution with the help of the Internet

- putting the white collar criminals in corrections where they belong (instead of giving them $25M bonuses)

- getting women on equal footing in government and business leadership

— transitioning to 100% green energy

Seems the global economy tried to vomit up all the banksters and corporate corruption but the governments all took a pill to suppress the purge and stay ill.
> And having only one phase was a problem considering we wanted an induction stove.

Why's it an issue? 230V 1 phase works fine for induction stoves unless you have a lot of burners (like 6~8) and / or very large diameters.
"...et in pulverem reverteri", a short story by Janusz Zajdel (up there with Lem of Solaris fame) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janusz_Zajdel

Google translate of archive.org snapshot https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=pl&tl=en&u=h...

TLDR:
Deep space mission is send to a distant solar system where signals of intelligent civilization have been discovered. As they approach the planet all the signs, radio waves, artificial lights, etc progressively disappear. Meanwhile on the planet we are introduced to the society which solved all of the world problems by providing everyone with a job, all thanks to invention of a timed catalyst able to disintegrate any matter after coded period. Every item on the planet is programmed to turn into dust on expiry date, "durability of single-family houses - up to 15 years; passenger cars and their parts and accessories - up to 1 year; TV sets and radios - up to 1 year; clothing and footwear - up to 6 months; underwear - up to 3 months.", perfect planned obsolescence on a global scale. Unfortunately there is an accident at one of the catalyst producing plants at the time of deep space mission approach. Giant spill creates chain reaction eating everything on its way. Narrator goes back to the space mission, now landing on a barren planet, with astronauts embarking and looking around confused at the sight of an empty world.
How can an individual investor profit from the coming sovereign debt crisis?
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Agreed, 7 days doesn't seem like enough time. Maybe they should make it so your first 3 leads/deals are free to see if it works start to finish.
Didn't Malcolm Gladwell talk about how the Chinese names for numbers were were closer to their place values and therefore less confusing for calculations?

e.g. "50" is "five-tens" instead of "fifty"
Is imperial thou = 1024?
For Ubuntu users there is AppArmor support in libvirt too:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LibvirtApparmor

QEMU runs on other operating systems like *BSD, macOS, and Windows. It is less mature on those platforms and it's safer to avoid running untrusted VMs on those platforms.
That was the angle I was going for, yes. And I agree, it’s not great to name the finding after something negative, but I don’t know how better to keep that kind of evil in the minds of the general population. I want to illuminate this like I want to illuminate other historical evils such as Fascism and Communism.
If someone (e.g. that secretary) listens to an audiobook and transcribes it on a typewriter or in shorthand, then that's quite clearly creating a copy of the protected work on a durable medium, which is exactly the thing for which copyright law states that this is the exlusive right of the copyright owner. It's not even an edge case, it's the core of that law - the result of a person transcribing the (audio)book is either a copy or a derivative work, both of which require the copyright owner's permission.

In certain cases fair use or other exceptions (depending on jurisdiction) might permit the transcribing itself for personal use, but distributing that transcript to others is definitely a violation.
that's 50 bucks per month vs 80 bucks per year
Few other benefits of induction are easier cleanup (you can wipe it down) and no long term "soot" accumulation around the stove.
I've worked as a "nonacademic" professional as well after my degree but before my faculty position. There there was less time for research but any research was highly encouraged. I also ironically felt more freedom as a grad student and postdoc for similar reasons.
See also Structured programming with go to statements[0] by Donald E. Knuth.

[0]: https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.103...
I have a small flock and can confirm a similar "hypnotic" behavior. Sometimes when my rooster is being a punk I'll pick him up while I feed the rest. If he keeps trying to attack me I hold him on his back and he almost instantly falls "asleep".

Curiously enough, one of my hens managed to do this to herself on accident. She flew up on a fence and somehow got her spur caught in it (yes, some hens have spurs too). That resulted in her falling and basically hanging upside down by her foot. But instead of struggling she just went limp. I ran over to get her down and after being upright she slowly came back to (she was fine).
I really love Markdown New Tab. Its very helpful having a little Markdown page to quickly take notes, have links to frequently visited pages, or whatever else I want to see what I open a new tab. I think its probably the best extension I have in Chrome. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/markdown-new-tab/d...
Yes, on my 4th gen, I get a solid 6-10 hours, depending on usage. I think running powertop is important to identify background power hogs and ensure kernel params are tweaked. I love how ever since the 4th gen, the X1C's also rapidly charge to 80%+ power, and get to 100% not long thereafter. Pretty much the only thing that'll chew through my battery quickly is a Google Meet call, and that's just because Google/Chromium hasn't figured out how to reduce CPU usage on the video encode/decode steps on Linux.
> Can i run the audio performance through a speech to text engine?

I strongly suspect that would hold up in court in the US. For the same reason that I can alter the book and story in my own personal context of ownership. I can take the story, the book, and rewrite it for personal consumption, while keeping all of the original content in my new version. What I can't do typically of course is sell that version, distribute it commercially.

I could use a note taking system that pulls pieces from a physical book as I read it, or snap photos of pages I find interesting. Or I could do that manually with the audio version and take notes of the audio book as it progresses. Both approaches - and numerous others like them - would be protected so long as you're not trying to make money from what you're doing.
you imagine incorrectly. it’s trivially easy to find faith communities with many views on that issue.
so you should assume by default that spending more means using more stuff means damaging the environment more.

Sure, but I think it's ok to think about ways in which spending more can help. The OP did ask that question after all..
Japan, Italy, and Greece are in the same category of heavily indebted countries as a percentage of their GDP. But, you’re absolutely correct that a key difference between these countries is that Japan controls its own currency (unlike Italy and Greece).

Having a central bank by bonds directly from the treasury is the very definition of monetization. It would add a substantial amount of currency to the economy and is very different from what is happening with QE.

As for how Japan has been able to build up debt to their levels without seeing bond yields rise and sparking a crisis - it’s because the Bank Of Japan has used just about every outstanding government bond for QE. But they Japanese in particular are reaching the limit of QE. I go more into this argument here: https://www.cassandracapital.net/post/quantitative-easing-ha...
Stay F0 out there...
Same question arises in binary - you could read "1000" as one thousand, but people are going to think you meant "whatever the base 10 quantity of 1000 is in binary" when what you actually meant was eight. It's easier to just always spell out anything that's not base 10.
Investigative reporting started #MeToo. We’re now asking it to do too much
Direct electric heating typically runs on 240 V, but at least in Northern Europe (Finland, Sweden) electric heating is often a central heating via hot water circulation.

Here it used to be common that there's a rather large water tank (1 cubic meter or even more) that is heated up during night time when electricity was cheaper, and then gives out the warmth during day. This is no longer a feasible use case because night time usage of electricity has gone up and night electricity is not cheaper.

Heat pumps (operating with drilled wells going 100 m deep) have become more common. The pumps take 400V 3-phase.
NetGuard looks nice. I do think their reason for not having an F-Droid release is unsatisfactory, though.

https://github.com/M66B/NetGuard/blob/master/FAQ.md#user-con...

That same logic applies to the Play Store, as it's up to the whims of Google if they roll out your update.
> You obviously have never thought about the use of PoE. You just cannot compare PoE and USB-C Power delivery as these are made for entirely different applications.

They're replying to a very specific comment:

> If we were to embed anything new in the walls I think it ought to be Ethernet, then make people use PoE.

and they're noting that providing ubiquitous USB-PD seems more useful and practical than providing ubiquitous PoE. "Wired-network" devices keep getting rarer, and new devices are significantly more likely to be powered over USB than ethernet if they're using any sort of standard power supply.
Here's a great article covering why some dictionaries are great and why some are just boring. It also goes into a more detailed discussion of John McPhee (mentioned in OP) and what dictionary he uses.

"You're probably using the wrong dictionary" - http://jsomers.net/blog/dictionary
So you would object to the 1969 headline "today Neil Armstrong could walk on the moon"

Or how about "residents advised to evacuate, as hurricane could strike town"

Very few things are guaranteed, and I for one would like to be forewarned about things.
Knowledge graphs are enjoying a renaissance in AI research. Perhaps due to their success in Game AI and Goal Oriented Action Planning. And this academic paper graph looked like one of the more "pure" datasets.

The quality of the agent depends on the input clearly. And machine understanding of academic research is certainly a problem rich in potential rewards. Linked below are the results of a challenge to "solve" a Sherlock Holmes mystery based only on the text! One of the entries involved constructing a knowledge graph of all potential suspects in the entire Conan Doyle corpus ;)

Report on the First Knowledge Graph Reasoning Challenge 2018 -- Toward the eXplainable AI System

https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.08184

Microsoft Research: Explainable AI for Science and Medicine

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-c8tIgchu0

SHAP (SHapley Additive exPlanations) is a unified approach to explain the output of any machine learning model

https://github.com/slundberg/shap
I feel entitled to movie subtitles and will auto generate them using ml if there are none provided by the creator. Do you think that should be forbidden? That is basically what the book publishers argues for in this case and I believe it sets a horrible precedent.
As far as I understand, he doesn’t. The point being that the aforementioned gene might be confirmed as the cause of autism, and this would remind the general population that the link claimed by Wakefield between MMR vaccines and autism was completely fraudulent, and that people died as a result.
I can only speak for the west coast of the US, but in my experience, having lived in probably 35 or 40 different places, nearly every house has dedicated 240 volt outlets for things like ovens and clothes dryers. Where natural gas is available, it's primarily used for central heating and running the water heater. That isn't to say there aren't gas stoves here, but they're not especially common compared to electric ones.
Analogy doesn't work, clinging to old ways doesn't help.

Paper is a way to make information into something you can sell as potatoes. But information is different, it's more like that 'single fish he feed dozen people with'.

For decades already we're thinking about what to do with that low price to copy.
The dual-die 56-core CPU isn't socketed; it's a massive BGA-soldered package.
I'll admit I don't use a dictionary much when I am writing. Spellcheck has spoiled me and I probably limit my vocabulary as a result.

When I am reading I pull out the dictionary all the time (most often on my phone) to look things up. I prefer the digital dictionary while reading because it's virtually instantaneous and doesn't impact my train-of-thought as much as a paper dictionary would. I also write down at least 1 word a day that is new to me or is notable and fun. Most recently I've written down "autodidact," "epithet," "pithy," and, after reading this blog post, "proprioception."

I can see the value in using a paper dictionary when writing. I think I'll give it a try.
Ha! I had not looked at it that way before.

Insofar as addition is an abstract representation of merging two collections, we are abstracting away the information that links each element of the resulting collection to the one it came from.
A lot of species are getting extinct right now. When it comes the time for butterflies to get extinct too, the tropical cyclone problem will be solved.
This seems like a commonly referenced article: https://www.atlassian.com/git/tutorials/dotfiles

Another thing I do is use as many default apps as possible, with as few tweaks as possible. I do customize things as needed, but I’m always hesitant to customize beyond bare necessities.
You evaluate CRMs for a living?

If I may, an off-topic question. I am completely unsatisfied with any addressbook software and have been looking at a ton of CRMs for personal use. I would prefer something open source, but anything self-hosted would do.

The one feature that most CRMs are missing is CardDav and CalDav syncing. I need my contacts on my phone. Do you know of any opens source or otherwise self-hosted CRM that supports CardDav and CalDav for contacts and appointments?

Thank you!
Nice. I'd love to hear more about that.
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Seriously? You read while you drive?
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It's absurd that such a crucial function of society -- control of the money supply and management of debt -- falls on the hands of an unelected, unaccountable, largely hereditary elite. Yet nobody talks about this, when the solution is obvious and in plain view of all: democratise banking.
Lovely to finally see Microsoft adopting RDF and taking on projects like this. There is hope yet for those of us who believe in the promise of semantic data.
If by rabbit hole you mean taking the time to know how the system their responsible for maintaining, updating and troubleshooting in production works, I'd say give them as much time as they need. If you think that's taking too long it could be an indicator the system is either too big or too complicated.
From what we've seen in first preliminary benchmarks, the 10nm isn't impressive in either Performance or Power Consumption and AMD trumps it in both. The consumer is only trapped if they choose Intel.
What about delay between my backend to your API?
I wasn't evil. Were you? Human history is littered with blood and conquest. Trying to settle the score seems pointless; we should instead (I propose) recognize that we are all individuals without historical guilt and work together to build a better future.
actually I have found the whole Robert Langdon Series fascinating and fun to read (with the exception of the last book- Origin, for some reason it's less flowing)
He seems to be saying that if we had known what was going to happen before it happened, we would have been able to prevent it from happening. Well, maybe. But isn't that like saying "if the French had defended the Ardennes, they would have stayed in the war much longer"? That seems like a reasonable guess (as does "rescuing Lehman could have taken the bite out of the Great Recession") but I would say that, actually, no one knows what would have happened in these imaginary scenarios.

The broader point here is that events like Lehman's collapse and its aftermath (or the invasion of France) are essentially defined by their unpredictability. If we could predict them, they wouldn't even be events.

And even if, somehow, these events were predictable, does anyone really think that economists have some theory that lets them make decisions like "who to bail out" or answer questions like "what will the consequences will be if they don't bail X out?" I believe that economists make better calls than a man on the street (me), but I have my doubts.
The difference is a matter of getting used to it.
It's quite common to compare against "true" using "===" in JavaScript.
You tell us!
Thank you for your insight!

I'm still figuring out the pricing so I'll keep this in mind!
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Not even taking into account that you can listen while doing laundry or other chores, a good voice actor can really bring a story to life in a different (sometimes better) way.

Nuances in the dialog can really change how you perceive a character.
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Thanks. I've been meaning for years to learn more about him.
The Poorest 20% of Americans Are Richer on Average Than Most Nations
Didn't this happen before with some group called "Klout" or some such? I don't remember what happened to them.
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If I’m out running, I can’t be reading a book, but I can listen to one.
Its a lot more informative to scroll and comprehend the size of the number
If you have a reading disability, the last thing you want is an imperfectly transcribed, imperfectly punctuated text representation that would not be like what you would read normally.

Text to speech translation is a well known and well solved problem that computers have been able to do well since the mid 80s. Speech to text - not so much.
I was about to post the same link! In case you didn't click the link it is from the show Silicon Valley and has the following number words:

0xA_ : Atta
0xB_ : Bibbity
0xC_ : City
0xD_ : Dickety
0xE_ : Ebbity
0xE_ : Fleventy
In France, old houses have 3 phases. There are 3 phases going into the house from the street poles, and you can catch them at some plugs in the house depending if and where they were wired to (the only home appliance that can use 3 phases is electric stoves).

This used to be the "standard" setup until somewhere in the 20th century when it changed to single phase. Now there is only one phase going to homes.
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just curious -- in what situation would your average user not have javascript turned on?
In practice the large AMD L3s result in very good performance. The new Ryzen cpus for instance absolutely crush intel cpus at GCC compile times because of them ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CVAt4fz--bQ )

Are there workloads where the AMD suffers due to its l3 design? Maybe, but I've not seen one yet. I would imagine something special like that you could try to arrange thread affinity to avoid non local l3 accesses.

On my 3900x L3 latency is 10.4ns when local.
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From the UK, "the continent" refers very specifically to continental Europe, which means Europe without the British islands.

While Japan is an island, I would not consider it part of continental Asia, although that might be less of a common concept than continental Europe.