skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree, the news article shows that when they accidentally stumbled on this property they did the extra effort to further investigate (for example size of droplets). I have not yet read the actual paper, but I would at the very least expect the hydrogen to be traced to rule out other hypothetical explanations.

For example suppose the sprayer was a metal through which hydrogen can diffuse, perhaps sucked in osmotically, with the OH somehow stuck at that point on the metal surface, then over time all the surface "pores" would be clogged, but the bulk metal still osmotically sucks hydrogen, so perhaps the OH's on the surface are forced to recombine into H2O2 to make space. (I think their explanation is much more likely than mine, but it illustrates the importance of tracing all the chemical end products, to make sure the reaction is happening where one thinks it is happening. essentially: perform the experiment again in a continuous mode, in a closed recipient while monitoring hydrogen concentration. Continuous mode to prevent hydrogen gas diffused in metal components to be outgassed by say temperature effects of thermal cycling)

I think their explanation is very likely though. That the concentrations were higher in smaller droplets is a strong indicator that this is a surface effect (since volume of a droplet scales down with the third power in radius, while surface area scales down only with a second power in radius). Then remember that water is a polar molecule, and if they are anything like magnets, they don't like being parallel, so I would expect the electric dipole of a water molecule to try to lay in the plane of the surface on average, but as we all know, you cant comb a hairy ball!
Alternatively "Countries that aren't the US choose not to work with US companies or subsidiaries because the US gov. has stated that foreign subsidiaries are still beholden to US law over the local law, and the US constitution does not apply to foreigners".

It's not just "independence" it's literally: you cannot trust a US [owned] company because the US government has said it that US law governs any foreign subsidiaries. Because they're now magically subject to US law they have to comply with the patriot act, which is already unconstitutional. But that doesn't matter as the US Supreme Court has repeatedly held that the constitution does not apply to foreigners. Therefore they don't even need the patriot act: foreigners don't get the 4th amendment.

If you were the leader of some country, and there was another country acting that way, would you ever want to store any of your information, or rely on services provided by, a company subject to such rules?
I had no idea that Olivia Newton-John's grandfather was Max Born of the Born interpretation...
> I use an adblocker and support the developer of ThreadReader

That sounds like a contradiction. If he uses ads it's so that his development gets supported this way.
There are not many stories of integrating Elm to existing projects, but there are some. We at Conta AS integrated Elm in our big AngularJS application. So Elm work side by side with AngularJS. It’s possible to embed Elm program to AngularJS code, and it’s possible to embed AngularJS component to Elm program. Which makes the communication part easy. It’s true for any other technology such as React, Vue, etc..
The interesting part is not the story itself, but that they chose to demo it to the BBC. Marketing at its best, they want everyone to be fully aware of their capabilities. Wouldn't be surprised if they were overstated, so as to keep citizens in check. The BBC willingly plays along and does not even question the capabilities either way.
WTF – A personal information dashboard for your terminal
halt use by whom? Government agencies? Security companies? Ring doorbell companies?
Apple testing smarter Siri web answers for Spotlight search queries
Looking at the blogroll he's talking aboit, I counted :
9 blogs with RSS Autodiscovery + link pointing to the RSS feed
20 blogs with RSS Autodiscovery only
3 blogs with link to the RSS feed
4 blogs with nothing (including it's own blog)

RSS link+autodiscovery would be so cool on every blog!
If you didn’t buy the bike on financing you’d still have to pay the subscription if you wanted to use it as intended. Not sure why you’d consider the subscription an interest-like fee. The only criticism is if you stopped using the bike before you paid it off then yes you would be paying subscription fees for all the remaining months you never used.

For what it’s worth, according to the S-1 they stopped bundling the subscription as part of the bike financing in 2018, so people are just financing the bike alone now.
Google Hire is being replaced by ByteBoard — https://byteboard.dev/ — which started at Area 120, Google’s incubator.
Send me a note, <first name>@lever.co, and we'll take it from there!
Environment protection tips from Forbes and WSJ. Great. Same goes for their “tech” coverage that’s pushed here on a regular basis for some reason.
Kevin Eldon looks so young here! Loved Fist of Fun :-)
For functional versus imperative programming, don't worry about it. Learn structured, imperative programming in Python. It's a core skill and one of the deep mathematical structures of the field. Learn Haskell or Scheme as you have time and interest. (I say that as someone who was at one point somewhat known for my Haskell work.)

More important than worrying about learning resources is to 1) produce working code and 2) read other code to learn how to improve. It's more like learning to play music. If you don't have the basics of your instrument and ear under control, deep theory and sophisticated analysis do you little good.

So try to produce programs that solve day to day problems for you, even if they're awkward. Read the code for the libraries you use or the Unix command line utilities.
Insurance companies are fueling a rise in ransomware attacks
Nonsense. Since when is Harvard the epitome of achievement?

Obama went to Harvard. Trump went to Wharton. 98% of the country believes that at least 1 of these 2 was/is cancer for the US.

I would argue that, for the increased 0.5% chance that your Harvard student may cure for cancer, there is a +50% chance he would turn out an Iraqui dictator or genocidal maniac.

The vast majority of students to those types of schools believe that they are superior than everyone else and ought to tell you how to live.

Compare that to the misfits without the elitist education, like the Farnsworths, Rockefellers, Faradays, who achieved greatness and made the world a better place not by telling others what to do, but instead giving others something of value
Thank you! I appreciate the support. Means a lot.
America supported both the KMT and communists, not to mention the soviets, during WW2. They didn’t really fall out with each other until the Korean War (at the start of which they decided to fully support the KMT after giving up on them after the war).
How can methane be created on Mars? It is a gas right, and it isn't that cold there?
Most ironic part - content is hosted and curated by US company...
Bingo - every argument about a company's right to money falls through when companies simply don't care about consumers being able to consume their content in a reasonable manner.

For eg - instead of making a website available directly to people overseas they instead license to a local monopoly that puts it on inferior systems that are mega overpriced simply because the content is not "local"
I completely agree with all your points.

However, to me Brave is the least-worse browser because at least it has a step inside the territory of blockchain-based browsing. It's the first browser that will add an integrated wallet by default (mainstream will never accept using the weird developer-centric MetaMask extension).
Or if that's grounds for denial.
They search your private discussions. A CBP agent read my skype discussions then called my girlfriend at work to ask where she sees our relationship going. Those people have absolutely no ethics, moral limit nor legal limits, they just hate foreigners and want them out.
Wait until you hit 50. That's when you really hear the clock ticking (I'm 51).
Isn't cavitation a pretty well understood phenomenon? If something else was going on, wouldn't the models be incorrect?
I'd be more concerned what more exposure to space radiation does to the unborn child. We really have it good here on earth.
you can send your hackernews account maybe?
What about to Go? Or Flutter?
They are the best in their niche.
In all honesty, I’m not sure.
Yeah that would do it. Can you imagine fossil fuel power plants paying a cut of their electricity revenues into a "Climate Change Fund" that accumulated over decades to help solve the problem? I'd love that.

In 1982 the Nuclear Waste Policy Act established the Nuclear Waste Fund which does exactly this, but for nuclear waste. Rate payers have been paying for nuclear waste disposal ever since, and it's up to around $40B! [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_Waste_Fund#Nuclear_Was...
An RSS link on homepage AND a RSS Autodiscovery link in the source code is for me the best solution. RSS Autodiscovery make it discoverable by any RSS reader
Sure, but do the Chinese people actually care about Hong Kong governance beyond what the Communist Party promotes? Would there be mass protests if the government just declared one country two systems is great and they’re going back to a strict interpretation of it?
This is just one example.

Insurance companies, banks etc. can use social media connections. Friends with risky hobbies and insurance premiums go up. Unemployed friends and it's harder to get mortgage loan.
Too bad you’re only choosing one.

Haskellbook is my favorite for Haskell. I’ve read 3 different Haskell books, it’s the clearest and has the fewest “and now a miracle occurs” sections.

SICP drops you into more involved engineering domain tooics fairly quickly. It really helps to be able to keep pace with them. I tried working through SICP in Clojure and it wasn’t awful.

For my money, I’d work on Haskell first. It’s great training for understanding types as well as FP, and the concepts mostly translate to other languages like F# and OCaml. It’ll help you reason better in a variety of other languages.
Gasp! Thoughtcrime alert! Call the police!
Rust Iterator Cheatsheet (Baked) (2017)
Even in China, public opinion has a huge influence on the CPC, which is why they try to shape it at all.
Turn off your encrypted phone before border control works out like this:

Detained the maximum time waiting for you to give up. If you don't give up, deported.

Just don't bring your normal phone on trips. Get a burner phone with just Mum/Dad contacts and leave the real one home.
So apparently freedom of speech in the U.S. means "freedom to say whatever the U.S. thinks is right".
Oh nos not the race to the bottom
Only in the US. In Europe Aliexpress still rules. No shipping costs from China at all, and much cheaper product costs.
> Well, it is not like there is a law of physics prohibiting a carbon tax (and dividend) scheme...

After trying twice and failing twice in WA state, it sure feels like there is! Doing this on the national or international level seems even harder. I guess we may have to wait and see some more serious climate effects to get people onboard. I've heard a few anecdotal stories of climate change deniers quickly changing their minds after hurricanes/floods that haven't happened in 50 years take out their homes.
Show HN: Shaai – An open source, highly customisable blogging framework
> Isn't C-section for some people like a luxury to keep the body nice or something like that?

No, C-sections are (in normal conditions) more damaging to the body.

> Genuine question because I heard (yes, hearsay) that C-sections are for people in the USA like fashion?

I think the main non-medical reason for C-section preference is control of birth timing, but while it's definitely a thing, I don't know how common it is. Elective C-sections are more common in the US than most other countries, but usually that is based on medical indications prior to labor. I think I've heard that US practice tends to be more likely, all things considered, to view C-section as medically appropriate.

> The again, I can't imagine any doctor, in my country at least, doing a C-section unless it is absolutely necessary.

If it is only probably necessary, it may make sense to do an elective C-section rather than wait for the crisis where the mother and child are both in distress to switch to an emergency C-section.
Yeah I can see where my wording would be unclear, sorry about that.
So This Is the Fleet of Fog
Want My RSS is also a pretty good Firefox extension to detect, display and subscribe to RSS feeds
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/want-my-rss/
Are Programmer Brains Different
Yoga Practice gone wrong after Influencer falls 80ft during an extreme yoga pose
Hilarious. You are all basically pro-abortion and wonder how you can virtue signal about saving kids... Incurable.
Why would I want to turn off the telemetry?
Last week I was scanning through the Bay Area FM stations and came across an ad on the Bollywood station. It was a immigration consultant pointing out that that due restrictions to the H-4 visa, it was advisable to immigrate to Canada, and this company could help.

If I wasn’t an American and looking to immigrate, I’d go to Canada. It’s just as good and nicer.
If you want exposure to similar businesses look at Afterpay or Sezzle...both publicly traded already.
The social networks weren't the ones who made RSS die off. The base of publishers and users just wasn't there. That said, RSS is not dead, just not as visible as it used to be.
Don't trust Google with anything!
"he said, she said" is only useful when both he and she have relatively equal power. When one entity can hold a metaphorical gun to the other person's head, it no longer works.
I developed mobile app on Elm with Cordova. Works great. Will be published to store soon.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabatier_reaction
> They apparently got a curious deal

That seems unlikely. If you are denied entry the airline is responsible for returning you, which is why they are so stringent about checking for visas before you even check in.

My wife was working for a Middle Eastern airline a few years ago, and had a flight to Brazil (~16 hours). They only fly twice a week, so she had a layover of a few days there. On the way back she saw a few men who were on the flight there with her too. Apparently they were denied entry, so had to wait in the airport (airside) for three days until the next flight back. Even worse was after this flight they had to get another flight to go back home. So thousands of dollars and a week of travelling for nothing...
Tweets show how a stroll in the park can bring happiness
This is so true.

I have a junior developer who is hellbent on extracting little chunks of things to be “reused” on future projects but we work at a marketing agency that does a lot of bespoke design.

Sure, sites might have a collapsible FAQ section, but when the design is so wildly different from project to project, it takes more time to overwrite things than to start from scratch and write the 3 lines of jquery to get the section to toggle open and close.

I totally understand component driven UIs but marketing outside of generic landing pages is not a productive area to spend your time creating abstractions.
This article is not a hot news story. It is meant to get the word out to politically connected folks, possibly with emphasis on those on the West Coast, and possibly low-key focused on the relatively large contingent of Democratic policy folks sitting in non-governmental jobs right now (it is the New York Times after all).

I suspect the government sources in the article would appreciate it if the politicos above keep themselves relatively clean of unnecessary foreign contacts for the next year as the remaining few folks still in government are probably giving at least 50% odds that the Democrats win again in 2020, and are thus anticipating the possibility of large backlog of background investigations checking in about 1 nano-second after the election.
While I suppose this may be litigated, the issue isn't with what freedom of speech includes, but that that freedom of speech just isn't applied to immigration process.
You can bet they only demo things if they are 100% sure it will work (in a very controlled environment not unlike North Korean "tours"), and even then often it will fail because of Soviet-style bureaucratic incompetence.
I can clarify. The "failed economy" narrative was mostly about the rising income inequality among Hong Kongers. The mainland news media is trying to portray Hong Kong as having a mismanaged economy so that these young people engaged in protests have seen very little increase in real income but face tremendous increase in cost of living. And they compare it unfavorably to the situation in mainland China where they claim that the communist party has increased the well-being and wealth of everyone. There's some element of truth in it, but of course I find it exaggerated.
Slightly an aside, but reading news about the crowds in Shanghai made me think of this Chinese buffet clip from a Thai resort: https://gfycat.com/ultimategenerousichneumonfly
It’s definitely self-promotion, but I don’t see why this is a bad thing. He’s clearly spent a large portion of his life developing a programming and computing environment to handle mathematics (and other things). What is he supposed to do? Write a blog post about something he's interested in, without using the programming language he has intentionally developed to deal with the things he’s interested in?
The old school equivalent would be to rent a U-Haul on your last day at work and fill it with a dozen file drawers full of confidential docs (that you’ve been photocopying for weeks in plain sight) from your boss’ office...

Is this how they rolled back in the old days?
> There's quite good consensus on the low-carbon nature of nuclear. There's quite good consensus on the low-carbon nature of nuclear.

I'm aware that it's low-carbon.

Your original claim - made twice in your earlier post - is that it's 'carbon-free'.

This is what I was suggesting was not entirely accurate.
You go from "difficult to know if this is a reasonable call or not" to an imaginary scenario where you dream up the perfect scenario for some CBP agent to make it reasonable according to a pretty clear cut politicial narrative, not a factual one. Terrorists usually do not engage with the NYT to make headlines after being rejected entry to a country. These are people, please treat them like that. This mentality always reminds me of the mathematician that was delayed for working on their equations [0]. Stuff like this is grounded in weird and unrealistic terror fears and affects people.

> I wouldn't let my phone, and definitely not my accounts, get searched on visiting a foreign country.

So, you either don't travel or look caucasian enough for that to not be an issue for you personally so far? That's great but it's not like this is even a US-only thing, this is a quite common occurrence these days.

> Finally, it strikes me as a bit elitist of the NYT to add "Harvard Student" to the title.

With current administration actively villainizing citizens of other countries, reporting on the academic background of those affected seems perfectly reasonable.

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/may/07/professor-fl...
Look for companies like Basecamp, companies that arent looking to be aquired or get unicorn status but to stay soundly profitable year-after-year.

This was one of the reasons I loved WhatsApp so much early on when that seemed to be the way it was going: a healthy >1B USD company with no dependency except on users.

As the WhatsApp story and many other tells us this isn't always safe, but it should be a safer bet than anyone clearly going the "unicorn or nothing" way from the start.
I personally don't use Facebook, Twitter or Instagram. If i applied and left all these fields blank i do wonder if they would believe me or maybe think i was withholding information and reject me on that ground....
Something I want is a periodical (weekly or monthly) digest of my bookmarks (read it later) links, preferably as a browser extension. I'm currently doing that manually to help me decide if the bookmark it worth keeping.
That’s were the word “curious” come from. This event was out of the ordinary in various ways.
This tech works, and the only reason we don't have this in the US is because of our cultural and political aversion to mass surveillance.

I'm genuinely curious of what this leads to in China, because this tech is easy enough to deploy if you're willing and politically able. What I'm cynical about is that I don't think China is competent enough to safeguard the data it collects, or forever keep it out of the "wrong hands" like the last guy in the video claims.

It's hard enough for US government agencies to protect data that should be privileged (police often run illegitimate checks on license plates), I can't imagine China can prevent its various factions from abusing this power.

It'd be ironic, but the incompetencies of their bureaucracy could actually lead to their own downfall by way of this technology (their mass surveillance apparatus) somehow getting coopted by dissidents. There's a misconception that China somehow has an iron grip over its people because it's authoritarian, but if that were true they'd have weeded out corruption.
JEP 359: Records (Preview)
I can't imagine it, but that's exactly the sort of thing we need for coal, oil, gas and nuclear. Well everything really, to solve the incessant tendency to fail the business and let the state sort (or not) the cleanup adequately.

Whatever way it's done needs to provide a level playing field to permit real comparisons of cost, environmental impact, and real consequences for not bothering to fix the pipeline leak etc. If you want to subsidise green energy (or fossil), it should be a visible layer on top, not baked in so you can't easily compare.

Maybe then, markets could start giving the correct answers...
For that price, I would have expected a better CPU than a Snapdragon 632 (~2 years old now)
No, being aware of something is the prerequisite of being fine with something. And for people who just walk into to a store and buy a computer with preinstalled OS, telemetry is pretty much the default, as you said previously.

I guess you could say companies are obviously afraid of offering the choice, of offering the same product with and without telemetry, clearly labeled.

> The whole “Windows telemetry bad” meme is mostly just an excuse for a flame war.

Why are you putting such mocking words into my mouth? I'm not saying "Windows telemetry bad", I'm saying what I'm saying.
You're as stressed as you allow yourself to be. You can work for a startup or a video game company and not be stressed while everyone is losing their mind. It comes down to your mindset. I ask myself, what's the worse that can happen? After many funerals, job loss ain't so scary. ... and if we die, most of the time the company carries on as if we never existed.
Sure, I can tell them about my github account too, and hopefully I haven't starred anyone who writes subversive code :P
> Here we had a chance to impress on a foreigner that US society is great and filled with good values

That ship has sailed long ago.
Despite not using the full features of the standard, Handmade Hero is written in C++ not C. And you know what those people think when you conflate the two.
Not a U.S. citizen but why would the constitution apply to non-American citizens?
In contrast I really think the root is an anti-Japanese sentiment instead of an anti-American one. For many centuries Japan had been considered a poorer and less powerful empire than the Chinese empire. But the Japanese had a successful Meiji restoration and surpassed China in industrial production and weaponry in the late 19th century. The Chinese lost a war to Japan. They still feel resented. The anti-Japanese sentiment goes further than the WWII.