skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And "saves" is a bit of a misnomer, since it implies the "cost" (of all the static type machinery) is less. Well, dynamic fans (or those with dynamic preferences if "fan" is too strong) will disagree. ;) In practice many systems get streams of bits from somewhere (like the network) that commonly get interpreted into strings and from there other types. The validation and conversion is necessary in any language, after that though it's just FUD to bring up that a function expecting a person with a :name key and string value potentially could be given something else. In the cases where through changes we make it something else, static types are a nice extra assurance on consistency, but that isn't the only way or the most impactful way to gain assurances.
Americans: Basically invent the modern internet including just about every major service and store.

Non-Americans: AMERICANS ARE ONLY GOOD AT COLLECTING RENT, AMIRITE?

Oof owie I forgot Silicon Valley was in Europe.
Do you need ID to vote in Alberta's election?
I like to have control over my data and I don't have a lot of trust to most cloud storage services (especially not google).

That said in the end it's personal preference, it's not for everyone. I'm also a hobby admin who enjoys it.
Just add physical knobs and buttons. Older people are much more familiar with those. It might also improve accessibility
“Three Things I Wish I Knew When I Started Designing Languages”
> This is a contract between two businesses, which carries legal weight.

It’s like the Snowden revelations didn’t happen. I am pretty sure US intelligence agencies have access to your Firefox GA analytics.
Discriminating against race, age, gender is bad. You need to treat people fairly. However, when it comes to rich people you think it's OK?
To be honest I feel like most people who knock on Dart have never actually written it.
The filelists are a good thing since they let you do:

dnf install /usr/share/mypackage/file

However they are not downloaded if you're just installing a package by name (even for dependencies) which is what this test is all about.
Oxalic acid is not very toxic. I've read it slows down the bees for a few days, but I've not seen any impact on population. You get oxalic acid in a rhubarb pie and it is harmless. Bees get a very weak solution dribbled on the top of the frames for tens of thousands of bees. They don't get much at all.

As far as pesticides, I am sure they harm bees, but CCD has pretty much gone since the aggressive treatment of varroa started. Russian bees are thought to have brought varroa with them. Before that there were pesticides and most were much more toxic including DDT but the bees were just fine.
I'm not an expert, but I believe that after a certain point, the magnetic field created by the wire destroys the superconducting state.
Here is the 64 dollar question. What GPU driver?
> Blizzard learned its lesson

> you had to connect to Battle.net to authorize your copy, even if you only wanted to play offline

Didn't work for me. This is one of the major contributors to me giving up on gaming. That and pay to win. IMO I should be able to buy a single player game that's all inclusive and not have to be connected to the internet to play it.
It's not a podcost per se, but I've really been enjoying the Essential Craftsman channel on YouTube. They've got a video series going right now detailing the entire process of building a spec house (starting with bare dirt). It's definitely not everyone's cup of tea, but I vastly underestimated the amount of engineering that went into it. They just finished up with the foundation, so now is a good time to get in if that kind of thing is of interest to you.
> sub-zero temps and… colds and other sickness

Look into a vitamin D3 supplement, approx ~5000 IU daily in the wintertime. Haven't been sick more than a day in the last 5-10 years.
To be picky, it is standard single phase 240V.

Two conductors, phase and neutral (+ ground where needed).
The fact it went on this long is the confusing part to me. Why didn't anybody come and say "Hey! This is weird. Let's stop this" before 2016?
and zero privacy
The term "critical current" is often used for the current that generates the maximum magnetic field a superconductor of a given size/geometry can sustain. In practice the actual maximum current before quench is much lower (orders of magnitudes in some cases, I've heard) due to imperfections in metallic lattices.

This [1] is worth a few listens.

1. https://omegataupodcast.net/285-superconductivity/
The article even specifies that several towns earmark fine revenue specifically and exclusively for use by the police department:

> Georgia, for example, levies about a dozen fees, and they’re used to pay for a state police motorcycle unit, a brain and spinal injury trust fund, and a police supplemental retirement fund.

And the other cases where the money for fines paid in cash just disappeared:

> A Louisiana state audit last year found that some cash payments for citations in Fenton were never deposited in the village’s bank account and alleged improper compensation to city officials.

These are just the direct ways in which revenue from fines are funneled into the pocketbooks of those writing the citations. It doesn't even look into the more tradition mechanics of kleptocrats, where government funds are directly funneled to businesses owned by politicians.
Presumably for whatever services the town might want to offer. Police, fire, water, sewer, etc. I think we can all imagine what those things might be from city to city.

Believe it or not small towns do offer some services, it might not be much compared to others, but little is still something that needs to be funded.

I can understand a bit of the rural vs urban issues in the US when I see a lot of arguments here that because they offer very little (perhaps just compared to an outsider's point of view) ... that means they shouldn't have any?

Meanwhile as the article notes state legislatures cut off funding from the state / limit their ability to gather funds by other means.
That's why I support the Remain in Mexico policy.
And none of that needs a change in regulations. That could all happen now save for those exact market forces. Haven't you just described Uber pool which already exists? Assuming our prayers will be answered by just deregulating things is silly.
It's a good idea in theory but what about out of town trips? Where do people park their cars until they need them? You can commute for 42 weeks but then, if you want to drive out to the country, how do you do it? I presume Zurich has some suburbs and houses with garages but I'm wondering if the current parking is enough to account for the need in cars that aren't used strictly for commuting.
I was considering writing a blog post
Did the study include looking at side effects or other causes of death besides strokes and heart attacks? Low-dose aspirin alone is dangerous enough that it's probably not worth taking unless you have some other risk factors for heart problems. https://www.health.harvard.edu/heart-health/is-low-dose-aspi...
Bail hearings you get the money back when you show up. Bail is about not being stored in jail while you await your trial -- you are innocent at that point. They want to make sure you don't run away, and in fact many are beginning to push for lower bail requirements.
Because in the absence of regulation, companies will be driven by the market to do the "right" thing? This is not a problem in which the solution is likely to be highly profitable (or even profitable at all) so I'm not sure why you suggest that a free and unregulated market would lead to an improvement in this scenario.

You mention zoning laws in particular. Those were designed for specific reasons so what about them would you change? Surely you aren't suggesting just to get rid of them all?
This is a super interesting project. What are the 5 schools currently using cloud systems?
Rent is surely one of many factors but there are other factors and consequences of a population group concentrating in one area, it's not in a vacuum. If those immigrants by and large do not assimilate into French/Western culture, then in that case they are indeed forming an enclave.

Since the individuals in this story are eagerly assimilating, they are independent of the questions of whether these immigrant enclaves are real or whether they're compatible with French culture. They're only a counterexample if you conflate mainstream right-wing expectations of immigrants with hardcore Stormfront narratives, e.g. that foreigners are mentally inferior and incapable of adapting to a different culture.
The limiting factor is the critical field of the superconductor. Superconductors tend to expel magnetic fields, but if the field is strong enough it will bring the material back to normal conduction. Since a current will generate a magnetic field, this is what sets the maximum current.

e: looks like you got your answer haha
So I read the frontpage, download/try page and installation and still have absolutely no idea what this project is about.
That's a straw man. Copyright doesn't prohibit someone from learning from your work. It prohibits (in the US) five specific acts: reproduction, preparation of derivative works, distribution of copies, public performance, and display. You don't need to be able to define a work of purely unique expression. All you need to be able to do is define when a work is sufficiently original that it's not a derivative work or reproduction.
This seems like a huge problem. At the same time, it's easier to point out that it's a huge problem than to suggest a solution that doesn't have bad side effects. If the courts don't enforce the laws somehow, the worst repeat offenders end up seriously abusing their neighbors with no consequences. Replacing fines with time-consuming punishments like mandatory community service would be problematic, because low income folks often have little flexibility in their working hours, and getting fired from a job is even worse at a low level of income than it is for everyone else. It might be that just lowering the size of fines would help some, but it seems like a fine that couldn't hurt anyone also effectively punishes no one.

Maybe there's a middle ground where fines are punishing for repeat offenders, but ordinary folks who show up in court get a few slaps on the wrist before fines kick in? Are some of the laws already structured like this?
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They could elect people who can choose to do as you describe.

Perhaps the locals don't want to?
Just to back you up, this post quotes both standards: https://stackoverflow.com/a/51228315/331041
> Subreddits getting banned is not so rare

If you moderate a subreddit it's extremely unlikely a ban would happen since you have control over the content.

But hey, I get it, you like Wordpress.
> More empty home taxes and secondary home taxes.

Then "professional renters" will appear, one person renting and living in a 20 room apartment, and the actual rent money will come in a convoluted way from the billionaire.
Almost certainly that's completely unrelated to zoning and prop 13. I'm not saying all regulation is good but you can't just deregulate randomly and hope for a good outcome.

I mean...there already are private shuttles and buses throughout LA. Tour buses are a tourist staple and I can't imagine there's much regulation there. I can only assume the particular bus you're talking about broke some law that I most likely don't mind is in place.
The article you link perhaps hint at why the developers felt like this: The NIST report apparently suggested Serpent was actually a bit more secure, but Rijndael was chosen for AES because it allowed for a more efficient software implementation. The developers may feel that that trade-off wasn't worth it, although obviously, going with a less-common strategy for encryption is generally discouraged.
Oh I don't think she hides it, it's readily apparent. I don't really think there's anything wrong with it.
> given how extremely poor our ancestors where and how hard they worked to make ends meet there must have been some advantage to keeping animals

Our ancestors generally ate far less meat.

They could also feed smaller animals like poultry on scraps of food, which doesn't really scale to feeding the billions of animals we currently raise for food.
If your end product isn't salable, your job isn't done yet :-)

For some components of "garbage", simple mechanical separation may be sufficient, and there may already be buyers happy to buy your product if you can reach a sufficient level of purity and offer it at a sufficiently low cost.

Simply separating out those components of garbage efficiently enough is one huge unsolved problem, and once you have solved that, you can get to work on the fun part, which is how to further refine every unwanted component until you have broken it down or built it up into something someone wants.
The financialization of modern life puts extra pressure on areas without much economic activity. Self-government enables local needs to be discussed and addressed while serving as a job program for more than just the few elected positions; it raises its own revenues but also generates new costs. Locally-generated revenue has to supplement scant subsidies from the state.

Within this template, a fortunate jurisdiction can collect fines and fees from out-of-towners without significantly making locals' lives miserable. An unfortunate jurisdiction harasses locals too. This is not unlike how corporations take advantage of laws, but with the added abuse potential of being able to make up laws too.

The state stepping in and forcing a disincorporation of the local jurisdiction isn't necessarily a good answer. It stops the immediate symptom of near-abuse or actual abuse of power but doesn't provide a framework to substitute economic activity. Far better is limiting the level to which local governments have control over decisions of policing, but such measures are unpopular. The status quo largely continues, with investigations opened into a few high-profile cases of abuse of power, and the rest can keep doing what they do for now.
I mean, what you're looking for is... an external hard drive, which is what this essentially appears to be (but maybe with some nice versioning built in).

I don't know if it's possible to distinguish this product from a USB stick with git.
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> and then arresting people when they don't pay [the fine].

So what should the government do if someone doesn't pay their fine?
A read through of the methodology makes it sounds like they took solid precautions to prevent biases that could taint the results- As an MD, I'm impressed by the design of this study, and the promising results.

This may be what more studies in the future will look like: Bundle multiple interventions together to help create statistically stronger results, at the cost of less clarity around each individual treatment.

EDIT: Someone else on HN noticed there possibly was no placebo for the control group- This worries me. Also, there's no indication in the methodology that the "field team" was blinded as to treatment groups :(
Storage requires retrieval, as well as well as an encoding and preserving mechanism.

Much as users don't want backups, they want restores, authors don't want books, they want readers.

There's an interesting parallel between transmissions and recordings I'd noticed some time ago, that doesn't seem to be much commented on in discussions of information theory, though I'm not sure if it's because it's obscure or obvious:

A transmission utilises variations in time in a low-noise channel to deliver information over space to a receiver which does not have to move or sweep relative to the signal.

A recording utilises variations in space in a low-variance medium to deliver information through time, to a reader which must move or sweep relative to the encoding.

Each further relies on encoding, decoding, is subject to noise or deterioration, and may be subject to context or inference. Probably other factors as well.

Recordings can, of course, be moved through space (though a single recording can be in only a given location at a given time). Transmissions also travel through time at some rate, not exceeding the speed of light.

There are systems which combine transmission and recording (notably computers). Transmission and recording each play a role in virtually all message chains. And there may be some forms of encoding (possibly holographic?) which either combine both methods or utilise others (though I'm inclined to see holograms as forms of recordings).

"Spacetime" as an all-time storage system, by itself, either doesn't make sense or is so vague as to be meaningless. Perhaps you could clarify.

Also: there's no inherent conservation law of information. Quite the opposite.
For one I think the example doesn't really fit, as Linux binaries are much closer to modules than they are to plain functions, as each of those binaries has numerous command line flags to change it's behavior quite radically. Functions as you encounter in a programming language are much simpler and more focused.

The other issue is that the approach is extremely inflexible, if you want to replace /usr/bin/program with a new version, everybody on the system is forced to use the new version, even if the new version might break stuff. Traditional `/usr/bin` doesn't provide a solution for this. You can of course work around that by using `/opt` or installing things in your home directory, but at that point you are just using the file system as namespace.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20807236
In no particular order:

Overpopulation

Climate change

War

U.S. congress transferring its powers to the executive branch.

Global dependence on cheap oil

Global food unsecurity

Dwindling access to drinkable water and breathable air, or more broadly: pollution
How exactly were you planning on using C++ for web? I have looked into this before, and concluded it's basically impossible. No matter what you do, you have to end up implementing a lot of the HTTP protocol because there aren't any off the shelf frameworks like Spring and Rails.
immediately looks for Linndale, OH as a former Cleveland resident

Yup, there it is. 96.2% of general funds from fines. $24,126 per adult resident. That's what happens when you have a tiny town with a small segment of an Interstate.
Concerns raised over ‘regrettable’ BPA substitutions
While Google does collect a lot of data, the culture is to guard it rather zealously. Google has a lot of lawyers and all projects have to get a privacy review. The privacy folks take their jobs seriously. There is mandatory training about when you need a privacy review. There are a lot of internal rules and technologies built to guard security and privacy. There are researchers looking into ways to learn from data on mobile devices without actually collecting it. The security people are probably the best in the business. And so on.

Some of the procedures were put in place after the wifi scanning incident.

And that's not to say bad things can't still happen. One thing that sounded particularly bad about the now-cancelled Dragonfly project was that they were allegedly avoiding privacy review. This project was being kept secret from the rest of the company because it's not how things are usually done.

So, my guess as an ex-Googler is that they can guard it and probably will, at least under normal conditions.
I don't think given examples of questionable behavior means it's all "kleptocracy".

The article does a good job describing the tax policies that influence heavy reliance on fines and etc, that's not kleptocracy, that's just bad policy with bad results.
I like RockAuto. But since I had a bad run-in with a supposedly-quality oil pan for an Aisin transmission, I've increasingly been using OEM. Like, from the local dealers. But, there's always things like brake calipers from TRW which are identical to the VW-branded ones (but far cheaper). Anyway, I avoid Dorman and a whole host of other parts manufacturers. If I need to get it done in one day, OEM helps...
What limits it is that superconductors can only handle a certain density of magnetic flux; more than that will make it stop superconducting. (This property was used in the "cryotron", an electrical switch used in some early computers before transistors became common for the same function.) Any current-carrying wire produces a magnetic field; so, with a strong enough current, the magnetic flux will cause the superconductor to switch itself off. This can be limited by using a larger superconductor, so the flux density is lower.
I'm awfully confused why anyone would downvote this response. It seems like completely sane advice. Is it the smoking thing?
I have the feeling it will be more economical to just use a low-temperature superconductor and cool it down with a closed-cycle cryocooler, rather than try to get a large enough pressure vessel that can maintain such high pressures.
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> Half the people were given the polypill and advice on how to improve their lifestyle, with the other half just getting the advice.

Why didn't the other half get a placebo? Or is this sloppy editing?

Not only do they miss the placebo effect but also the daily reminder to improve their lifestyle (pill as anchor)
By those metrics, Bangladesh is more developed than Luxembourg.

That's not what I'd call "reasonable." You have to normalize by population.
The operator itself would throw an error.

Dart is planning to have a sound non-nullability which means that if something has static type `SomeType` then it is guaranteed to be a value that is actually `SomeType` and not something else.

Thus you can't take `SomeType?` and just cast it to `SomeType` because `SomeType?` can be null and `SomeType` can't be null.

This means this cast has to perform a check and throw if your value is null.

This also means that if you have `e1` and `e1` has non-nullable static type then `e1` would never be null in the NNBD world - which is a very good property (e.g. for optimizations).