skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Vasodilators aren't directly connected to hair growth. It's just a side effect of minoxidil.

I don't see what's wrong with wanting hair or looking attractive either. And countless generations of people before me felt the same way and I hope the killjoys don't ruin it in the future, but I'm not worried they've been pushing these narratives forever and not getting anywhere. Nice clothes and keeping bodies in good shape are great for self-expression and for health. They make the world a far more aesthetically pleasing place which we all benefit from.

Just like how plants and lighting effect our moods for the better. It also gives people self-confidence by presenting the best version of themselves.

You see body manipulation and makeup in plenty of "untouched" tribal and an appreciation for the external human aesthetic throughout historical cultures too. It's just a basic human trait. Like most things it's not something manufactured in secret by men in dark-suits who run the world. Although I'm sure this idea would have been very popular in academia in the 1970s when they tried to pigeonhole everything they didn't like about the world as victims of the male ego.

Fortunately we've largely moved on from that and the 'female revolution' they predicted was for naught. Because their targets were hardly the only driver, the vindictive nature of the ideology turned people off, and the alternatives were no fun.
I'm seeing a lot of people saying gmail and youtube are slow in Firefox. This may not sound like a good answer, but consider using a dedicated video player such as mpv for youtube, and an email client instead of webmail.

Web browsers are some of the worst-performing software we have today. Asking them to do more than display documents and web pages never seems to go well.
An increase in transaction costs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transaction_cost
Or rather, "Redditor works out which generation of US spy satellite took pics..."

This twitter thread explains evidence for exactly which satellite took the picture.

https://twitter.com/cgbassa/status/1167578706379988992
Collected data can be used later - for example, the school or teachers can sell face models to advertisers, shopping mall owners, data brokers, Facebook, Google etc. So it is a right decision to shut down such a dubious project.

The school could simply use RFiD cards for tracking attendance.
LIHKG is asking users to access it via the mobile website and not the app, which still works. I think since they are using cloudflare their core services will be difficult to DDoS but the app might be easier to attack.

More info: https://twitter.com/fight4hongkong/status/116760817349197414...
Ok but what “riot” in human history has killed MILLIONS of people? The Rwandan genocide was pretty close, except the groundwork for inciting it was laid over the course of months via state radio and they imported machetes into the country before the message was sent to “cut down the tall trees”. A compromised Twitter account isn’t going to do it.
The headline is a very ambiguous statement. It seems to be consistent with the proposition that the top 51% of Canadians are better off than the bottom 51% of Americans, which would be an exceedingly small difference.

On the other hand, if the top 80% of Canadians were better off than the bottom 80% of Americans, that's a huge difference, but kind of implausible.
Yeah, people have always been scared of new technologies. When people are scared of a computer being able to do a task that is mundane for people (recognize someone) you can know it is just hysteria.
Does every single place and person in NZ have super fast internet? NZ and Australia both have a huge portion of their populations in their major cities or around them. It is not at all the same as comparing to the US’s population density.
That would mean those of us who play games in multiple languages as a means of language study would need to buy each game multiple times.
For those curious, .99999 ^ 20 is around 0.9998.
In Japan ID is required for voice service, but I think not for data only.
Yes, actually they do allow 2FA without a phone number attached to the account and I have set this up multiple times.
Will not have any lidar returns, though if it’s not in front of a vantablack backdrop then it will cast a pretty sharp silhouette. What would a deep net do?
Fry’s to close its Palo Alto doors for good in January
I don’t trust that site.

While I appreciate the response and attempt to address my question, all three of those links are from cyclehelmets.org, and the site is helmet skeptic. That’s not my opinion, it says right on the site that most of their material is anti-helmets. I find it incredibly biased, it tends to use emotional arguments and tries to magnify every scrap of anti-helmet evidence. I dislike how cyclehelmets.org attempts to draw causal lines from correlations at practically every opportunity. Just read your link and see how often they use words like “seem” and “suggest”, then try to imagine some of the many other possible explanations.

BTW, did you notice what the 10-year Canada study concluded? “In general the rate of head injuries is declining, but this is not consistent across the country, nor is it attributable to legislation as some provinces with legislation experienced a decline while others did not.” So there is evidence that helmet laws did not cause the supposed changes in ridership.

Do you believe that having to use seat belts prevents people from driving cars? If not, why not? Do you think seat belts make drivers more aggressive? Do you believe that helmets prevent people from participating in other sports? I live near a lot of ski resorts, and nearly 100% of skiers here are voluntarily wearing helmets, and the number of skiers is rising every year. Same goes for bikes, there are no helmet laws where I live and yet most people wear them, and more people are riding than ever. I don’t buy for a second that helmets are so offputting it drives away half of all people, there are a million possible explanations for whatever data points they found in Alberta. For example, the injury rates presented are absolute numbers, not per-capita like they should be. More injuries is expected when there are more people, and between 2000 and 2006, Alberta got more people.

Do your children use helmets?
That's the problem, though. Everything is coming from vice.com and all the search results are flooded with those same links and blogs linking to those links. It's nearly impossible to find any relevant information now outside of something published by vice.com and they, unfortunately, are not unbiased in the slightest. Motherboard, who is cited in all those articles, is the parent company of vice.com.
Replacing Hchk.io with Prometheus and Pushgateway
As are all comments on incorrectly-spelled submissions.
wouldn't fit in the title :)
It's such a cliche to say that real estate is always local, but it is.

Where I live, my rent was essentially 2/3rds of my gross income, but I found a place to buy for about 5 times my yearly wages and either way, I'm under 10 minutes from work.
I mean, for all we know it might oscillate like that.

I doubt the geological record is fine grained enough to tell fast oscillations apart from a slow drift.
Examining ExFAT
Hand signals are commonly used in baseball to surreptitiously communicate intent to teammates without giving away your strategy to opponents. I think what GP was getting at is that this technology could be used to automate the reading of hand signals. I'm not sure it would be effective, as the pro baseball players are already quite sophisticated at both reading and obfuscating hand signals, at least at the highest levels of the game.
Use backup sensors?
You just move everything from iCloud over to something else. I don’t see where any lock-in is for what you’re describing.
Are you totally sure we've abandoned killing people over trade? The US operations in the middle east look suspiciously like killing people for economic reasons.
Not “buried” but “drowned”. The oceans have risen almost 50 meters since the peak of the last Ice Age. Assuming the biggest human settlements, then as now, were near large bodies of water, then they are drowned.
This article reminds me of the mini-trade war between Uruguay and Brazil in the 1990s (I was very young so I don't remember exactly when it was). Brazil decided to close the land border for 2 weeks. In the meantime, Uruguay's dairy exports sat on the border waiting... The products expired, and the government had to bail out the milk cooperative.

They still had a free-trade agreement.

Agreements don't mean anything except in the US, Canada, parts of the European Union, Japan, Singapore, Australia, and a couple of other countries.

Non-tariff barriers are way pretty effective in slowing trade:

US could easily block any food imports until pests are no longer an issue in Chinese food supply chain.
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/05/08/voracious-pest-threatens-chi...

US could easily block any products from factories that haven't passed US safety inspections.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-pharmaceuticals-ch...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Fry purchased a London cab so that he could use bus and taxi lanes to efficiently drive around London
Maximum mass of lightest neutrino revealed using astronomical big data
love the "Fee and Open" Source. Gave me a chuckle...

these concerns are totally valid... I appreciate the follow up and will think through it.
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I would like to disagree with your point on basic income. It’s usually called _universal_ basic income. Precisely to clarify that it is not a “charity for the destitute”, it is absolutely meant to be for everyone.

In the credible UBI plans I've seen, the income is Universal in the sense that "everyone gets a check", but in practice that income is paid for by those with middle or higher incomes, such that for many earners that "income" is a net tax (or neutral). "Charity for the destitute" is a bit hyperbolic, but its absolutely income supplementation for the less well off at the expense of those better off.
Well, once there's a concept that a society should have laws restricting behaviors which don't actively hurt other people or their property (drug laws, morality laws like anti-gay, hate speech laws, anti-discrimination laws, etc) in the "interests of the society" (as defined by the politically more powerful groups), then it's very hard to argue against this kind of laws being applied against some minority groups (after all, democracy is the rule of majority).

The only logically consistent way to deal with these issues is to drop the whole concept of victimless crimes, and accept that (negative) individual rights are more important than whatever (positive) vision of social good is prevalent.

But, of course, both sides of mainstream political spectrum in US are hell-bent on using the legal bludgeon to force the other side to conform to their idea of utopia. I'm wondering what happened to "live and let live".
I just went through the first bunch, though, and in person after person you left off a bunch of earlier successful companies that really should give the founders an earlier "start age".

For example, Ev Williams founded Pyra, which was acquired by Google and became Blogger, in 1999, so he would have been 26 or 27 then.

It's odd that you list the age of Jack Dorsey when he started Square, when he was a founder of Twitter years earlier.

Similarly, Elon Musk founded Zip2 in 1995, 4 years before he founded X.com (PayPal). Musk made $22 million when Zip2 was acquired for $307 million by Compaq.

Reed Hastings founded Pure Software in 1991, which went public in 1995, 6 years before NetFlix.

There are many more like this. Lots of these folks had huge successes in their 20s.
Fantastic observations. I appreciate you mentioning them. You are totally right I'm colloquially using "Open Source" to basically mean code that is under a permissive license... and not really covering all the basis with the comment. important to consider.
If one is interested at all in the Twitter CEO's account being hacked, you want to know what they did with it, i.e. what did they tweet? Notice that none of these news sources actually told us what was tweeted (e.g. FUCK NIGGERS). JFC, we're adults—just tell us what was tweeted.
How does that work? I've only been on discords with maybe ten people and it seems earlier comments basically get lost in the flood of later comment. You may communicate to another person or other people and those people might learn stuff but a given comment effectively isn't public, post isn't equivalent to publishing. Even adding channels for official documents, things simply get lost in the stream.
"I care about the price of a house within a commuting distance of where I can find gainful employment."

I really didn't like it for several reasons, but not too long ago I briefly lived inside the DC beltway and had a 10 minute commute to work, and paid $1000/month for half a 2 bedroom apartment in a mid-rise that was pretty decent.
Oh, the "weakest link" syndrome!
This is what we are aiming for in building TruStory (https://beta.trustory.io).

The protocol is built as a distributed proof-of-stake network, where people can earn a crypto token by contributing good content, or by running nodes of the blockchain. Users and node operators can take ownership in, and govern the network based on how much of the crypto token they own (or have earned).

I recently wrote about the architecture at https://blog.cosmos.network/building-a-decentralized-app-wit....
My favorite one of these is metastability[1]. Any time you have a crossing clock domain the fact that your ASIC works is based on statistics and not hard guarantee.

[1] http://www.asic-world.com/tidbits/metastablity.html
What is depressing is that 4/5th of the HSTs are used for surveillance instead of science.
Do you care about how your other cards look? No. This advice is intended for a niche of people who are obsessive about how a credit card of all things look.

Regardless, I've had mine in jeans with no issue at all.
Was it established? I think it was just Kylo Ren who said that, wasn't it? He might be mistaken, or lying. It wouldn't be the first time in the series that somebody lies about someone else's parentage or identity.
I don't know how you made that happen but my cost of living expenses while in college never exceeded $10kCAD a year
I for one am glad at this though I am sure the fine could have been exponentially larger. The fact that YouTube can go here and say their platform is only intended for 13 year olds and up is a joke. Their are thousands of shows targeted directly at my kids. I can even clearly hear one video my kid likes to watch starts out with saying “look kids” so tell me how that is not directed at kids. I use an adblocker but when I go to my moms she doesn’t have it set up on her iPad. The kids shows are bombarded with ads for adult products like cars or you name it. They are marketing towards kids and I can’t stand it.
As I understand it, YouTube remains unprofitable to this date. What game is Google playing at here? Creators are unhappy with the strong arming, users are displeased with the ads and the comments and, well, everything. Parents are unhappy with the creepy videos targeting children. YouTube music is a travesty and is likely to fail like all the other half-baked Google products. YouTube gaming... is dead. Now they're getting fined for something they could have easily avoided.

What in the hell is Google doing, and why do they suck at this so bad? I can imagine so many better product experiences. Why can't they get their act together?
I test in prod (2019)
A better zip bomb [pdf]
Some recent, informed speculation about such possibilities:

https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.03748
Yeah right. The competition is doing so well. Try running a video hosting service within the frameworks of the law. It's still the most popular service by a longshot. Classic HN being delusional again.
The vast majority of NY is more like the cliches people spout here and elsewhere about Kansas than NYC. The capital district of NY has about a million people, and IT jobs paying $50-70K. Just as you say, "normal college graduates own houses". You can get a place here for the same inflation-adjusted price as 25 years ago.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64Q7iyZfNa4
Most people read left-to-right and expect text to start in the top left. It would look absurd if the name was on the right.
Attendance is one bit of information (present/absent). Perhaps you can add exact time of entering and leaving which would make it a couple of dozen bits.

There is no need to record more information than this. The expectation of privacy is exactly this: that any information that is not needed is not recorded.

Human teachers are unable to capture or keep recorded all the extra information they see with their eyes. Cameras do.
Git Magic: A Guide to Using Git
From pecan pralines to ‘dots’ as currency: how the prison economy works
There are no rules on this either.

I’m pretty sure the Neuralink president is like 29.
I think the PagerDuty trio (Alex Solomon, Baskar Puvanathasan, Andrew Miklas) were 26-27 when they started it.
People Hate Being Managed by Algorithms, According to a Study of Uber Drivers
That would be the point. I want to read some day "Hi, I'm (insert popular name here). How come that I get immediate answers plus support while other users with the same problem either have to wait or are being banned?".
That would hardly happen, but hope is free.
Imagine triggering a global depression.

Imagine what effect that would have on already-pressured populations across the globe.
Any means of price discrimination is likely to have some user-hostile effects along the edges. It is, in essence, DRM and if an authorized user interacts with it at all, it won't be pleasant.

Or, in other words, any strategy of region-locking (even an unsophisticated one like unbundling languages) is going to stymie some legitimate use cases.
Also in archive.is:

https://archive.is/iZusW

https://archive.is/OpOBn
Meh it's perfectly designed. They want you to stop using a wallet. The ultimate goal of the physical card is to kill the wallet, other cards and eventually itself to be replaced by just the phone.
Britain’s wartime generation are almost as pro-EU as millennials
Seems unlikely in the absence of metal mastery and we are reasonably sure we've found no evidence of iron usage in tool making before the iron age. Humans traded even in prehistoric times, so such tools would have been discovered in sites even remote from this mythical advanced civilization. It seems unlikely that such is the case.
Jack Dorsey’s Twitter account briefly taken over by hackers
How does this prevent a Sybil attack or astroturfing?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/50_Cent_Party
What about database migrations? My app which uses a SQLite database needs to store an additional column for a table. Now I have to write a bunch of custom code to migrate it.
Why wouldn't they have just moved their cities inland? This doesn't seem too plausible. Maybe I could see some village suffering from rapid advance and the village gets abandoned but sea level rise isn't instantaneous, so it's doubtful to have caused deaths.

Edit: https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Post-Glacial_Sea_L...

This image shows the fastest sea level rose was around 15K years ago, which is pretty close to the Neolithic era. At it's fastest rate sea level was rising at 30 meters per 1000 years, or about 3 centimeters a year. Ok, that's a very slow moving train. It's pretty easy to get off the tracks before it hits you. Doubtful to have cause civilization decline especially when it lines up closer to the onset of agriculture.
> What I am saying is that democracy is better than no democracy, and no amount of doublespeak or whatabbautism is going to change that reality.

It's not reality, it's just your opinion (and those of most people living in democratic countries). Meanwhile the vast majority of Chinese people disagree with you.
> Gmail was still dog-slow the last time I tried

I use the HTML version instead to deal with this issue
> As I understand it, YouTube remains unprofitable to this date.

Source?
I don't think the parent is arguing malpractice fear explains it all. But clearly, that fear is a significant element in many decisions.
Reddit, Netflix, HBO, Disney+, Twitch

Edit: Facebook, Twitter
With all the complaints against Youtube, I don't know how they can still be so out of touch with everyone.

It's almost as if they're doing it deliberately. They're begging for competition to take over their unprofitable business. Nobody wants to step up.
The dialog box example has JS to actually open the dialog box. Is this intended to be just HTML and CSS?
Just like you can't blame Microsoft for making ActiveX work best on Windows.
Interesting fact: one of the powers of the President is to declassify basically anything at any time, without any process, merely by revealing it [0]

0. https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2017/may...
If North Korea did have a means of delivering nukes with ICBMs, and this previous type of thing:
https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/94835555702242099...

had escalated more, I don't think it's too far-fetched to imagine an unstable dictator sending off a nuke after being goaded on twitter.

I think it's within the realms of possibility at the very least, although very unlikely (mostly because NK hasn't got a decent delivery system, their nukes aren't very advanced/portable yet and Kim Jong Un's probably not too keen for NK to be destroyed in retaliation).

Given Trump's recent tweet of the spy satellite image, and the apparent taunting of Iran, it's also possible that type of thing could be responsible for triggering future terrorist attacks (although obviously that's not millions of people).
It's also the only real number that does not have an inverse element for multiplication (there is no number b such that (a * 0) * b = a)
Ah, I -- a lame USian -- assumed that essentially default apache logging was "OK." I've been wondering what's the maximum you can log without data privacy rearing its head, so I guess it's a little tighter than I thought!
> Just don't use the _credit_ part.

How do you not use the credit part?
Nothing recent, but Google does not disclose figures from YouTube.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/viewers-dont-add-up-to-profit-f...

https://www.google.com/amp/s/fortune.com/2016/10/18/youtube-... (not sure how to un-ampify this)
Show HN: Conway's Game of Life in 10 Programming Languages
So they built cities on the coast, but not along river valleys? How did they feed the cities without agriculture? If they had agriculture, we’d see the selection process in the genetic history of the plants, and the geographic spread of plants, and again they’d definitely have colonised river valleys that are better suited to agriculture than the coast.

Then of course their tools and other artefacts would have been traded all over the place. Stone tools from 100k years ago and more got traded or carried thousands of miles and all we see are implements for the hunter gatherer lifestyle.

It doesn’t make any sense.
Ask HN: Can you only do this with FLEXBOX and not GRID in CSS?
Two boxes side-by-side (horizontally), one of them twice the width of the other, that then become laid out vertically at 100% width when the browser width is reduced: https://jsfiddle.net/dgn2cvaf/

Is this also possible with grid?
What would you consider a huge userbase?

Firefox has 230 million monthly users, using FF for an average of over 5 hours per day.

https://data.firefox.com/dashboard/user-activity