skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I think if I was to make a theory it would be something like "fat used up during the day produces waste that is partly stored in the body after being used, but during sleep is when this waste is collected and expelled in the urine."

And how did you detect the fat waste in your urine?

> This is a rough guess, but since I haven't seen anything like this reported anywhere I figured it's worth sharing the experience.

The reason you didn't see anything like this reported anywhere is that it's not true.

Experience is something I can't argue with. I can't argue, for example, that you lost weight. However, you've stepped well beyond just "reporting your experience" here. In what way did you "experience" expelling fat waste products through your urine? The answer is, you didn't--you experienced expelling water.

You're not adding to our collective knowledge by reporting your subjective interpretations here. You're propagating misinformation.
Define "willingly".
There's a bottoms-up path that some enterprise saas companies have taken (Slack, Airtable come to mind) where employees/departments just start using it to get stuff done and eventually IT finds out about it but by that point it's ingrained enough where IT signs a contract just to try to rein in all of the one-off spending and data leakage. But for that to work I think the apps would have to have above-and-beyond appeal to individual employees whereas I think a lot of sandstorm's appeal is to the organization itself.
My cynical side tells me that if Germany weren't one of the world's largest car exporters, the EU would already be legislating to harmonise these systems globally.
That only makes sense when you ignore the bigger picture. Before browser-based password managers people weren't using password managers at all.

The two most common (and successful) attack vectors have been via password reuse and low password quality. Convenience, context aware, device agnostic, browser based, password managers have been successful in convincing the general public to use a password manager at all.

The use of a password manager allows people to have per-site and higher quality (e.g. long/difficult to remember) passwords. This has had a positive impact on people's security.

KeePass and similar "offline" solutions avoids some specific attack vectors. However, both "offline" solutions and browser-based extensions also share a great deal of vectors. For example if bad-ware has local execution inside the user's context, all bets are off (assuming you're running KeePass and the database is decrypted in memory, which you need to in order to retrieve a password).

It is fine to suggest options people feel are superior, but ultimately the conveniences are a security benefit within themselves because people are actually using and sticking to password managers (thus avoiding password re-use/low quality passwords).
I don't know why you're getting down votes. Not so much bonuses, but a certain amount of unpaid time off is common in the contracts of European car workers.

I still don't think you could/should get rid of the unions though.
Milton’s notes on Shakespeare appear to have been found
Monolithic kernel means the changelist includes everything from file systems to GPU drivers.
I was kind of looking forward to the new C8 Corvette because it's only one of two interesting cars GM has produced recently (the other being the Bolt). But of course those people are on strike too.

https://www.bgdailynews.com/news/local-uaw-strike-puts-corve...
Temperature variation? What was their advertised lifetime?
The competition is not zero. Walmart and alibaba to name two, not aws scale but aspiring.

Also some alliances like Target + Shipt are nipping at their heels with same day delivery. https://www.target.com/c/shipt/-/N-t4bob
I did this in high school (albeit in a much simpler way) by writing every letter on the keyboard on a sheet of paper, scanning it, and using a free program to make a font out of each character.

I calibrated my MS Word settings so that I could print directly onto a sheet of notebook paper, saving me from having to hand-write a bunch of drafts in English class.
The new cars have electronic steering, electronic gearboxes, electronic everything. That much tech essentially eliminates "road feel". Some older cars are actually much more interesting to drive, despite their flaws.
When I co-owned a company, we gave employees a share of the profits when we had a good year. Besides seeming like a decent thing to do, the employees were more aligned an incentivize to increase profits to increase potential profit-sharing checks. Also, it's easier to adjust bonuses downward as needed. On the other hand, employees would prefer not have their base-pay cut in down year.

We had good employee retention.
Common cold stopped by experimental approach
Using a programming language to exploit something doesn't mean the programming language is flawed.
"willingly" is a bit of a stretch considering the difficulty of doing so, and gives off a different connontation.
I think his point is slightly different. GIMP is neither basic, nor obvious for simple editing.
Note that you're basically saying that we should all pay more for cars just so that those workers can keep their jobs.

Fair enough, but why stop there? What about all the other productive jobs lost due to cheaper foreign labor? It would be unfair to give special treatment just to auto workers. Either everyone should have a right to forever keep the profession of their choice, or no one should.

Soon enough you find yourself in the situation where everything is more expensive and everyone's standard of living is lower, because all comparative advantage has been lost.

This has been known for well over a hundred years, but people still have trouble accepting it.
> it seems like the corporation has very little leverage

Create a less crooked union...?
Jorge Luis Borges Chats with William F. Buckley on Firing Line (1977)
I've been lurking Elm for a while, and with Elm 18 came to the conclusion that I should avoid it, because there was a single creator who simply could not keep up, and was uninterested in fostering a healthy community of contributors.

With Elm 19, I changed my mind. A closer following of the community shows that Evan is (a) nice, and (b) interested in contributions, but mostly in a researchy way. More importantly, Elm 19 seemed (to me) to tip the balance in usefulness and cleanliness.

And with the idea of taking Elm straight to WASM (and with WASI around), things are looking interesting in the (eventual… gosh but it moves slowly) future.

tl;dr: It's absolutely worth taking a new look at Elm 19.
Never attempted to make the move (friction, sizeable vimrc). I've mostly been using the distro builds, which for neovim often meant an outdated version.

I can also admit that I've benefited from the project, even if I've never used it. Like everyone using Firefox is currently benefiting from WebRender, despite never moving to Servo.

We often find criticisms of forks in OSS (waste of resource, we should work together through a common goal), but the truth is that this flawed mechanism allows for innovation and experimentation. Which is also why the BigCos that ship different competing products (say, messaging apps), are often the most innovative because it prevents (some kind of) in-fighting and cookie licking.
Git Aliases I Use
Navi support has finally arrived.
I heard this sentiment from many people though when my friend (experienced traveller) visited few months ago, he was very disappointed, saying they are even bigger cheaters than infamous Vietnamese and Indians, yeah they are smiling at you pretending to be your friend (unlike sour faces in Vietnam), but they still try to cheat you and God forbid if you disagree with their praise for the country, so now I just think of it as about another Vietnam
I strongly advise you not to do this. As an internet stranger take that with a grain of salt, but here is my reasoning:

Without vote counts, this experiment will die because there will no longer be any sense of a tribe. There won't be any reason to check back during the day. The chance that you pick the winning word will be very low. So what point is there for the user? To log on every day, pick a word, and then find out tomorrow that their word lost again?

Worse, if word distributions are identical across tribes, then over time the tribes will become indistinguishable from each other because you don't know how your fellow tribe-mates are voting. If you get rid of vote counts you must reduce the number of choices otherwise it's very unlikely for any word to win by a clear margin.
He wants the jury in his trail to be made aware of jury-nullification.
The difference between the needs of Mailinator ("Email can reside in RAM because it is temporary (3-4 hours)") and most corporate e-mail services are... large. If you treat e-mail as ephemeral, sure, you can run on a single box somewhere, and in the case of a failure, a stateless recovery will have the service up and running again.

Meanwhile, if you're a business, you have actual compliance requirements on how long you have to keep an e-mail around.[1] SarbOx says you have to keep documents related to insider dealings _indefinitely_. Do you, the sysadmin, know which e-mails those are?

So you need backups. If you aren't testing your backups, you might as well not have backups. So you need a second server sometimes to test backup restores on. Do you deal with HIPAA protected information? If so, now you have a bunch of compliance requirements about the security of those e-mails and those backups you just made.[2]

It turns out that "you can save hundreds of dollars a month on e-mail by introducing an existential risk to your business in the event of a lawsuit" is not a great value proposition for most businesses, and most businesses are better off just going with Office 365 or Google Apps for Business, which have dedicated compliance officers and certifications for all of these issues and a lot that I haven't named.[3][4]

Yes, it is possible to overarchitecture things. Yes, there are CIOs and CTOs who want to cargo cult their way to success by imitating successful cloud migrations done by others. But there are a lot of real business problems out there that can be solved by doing things differently than they were done 10 or 20 years ago.

1) https://www.intradyn.com/email-retention-laws/
2) https://www.hipaaguide.net/hipaa-email-compliance-requiremen...
3) https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/office365/servicedescriptio...
4) https://support.google.com/googlecloud/answer/6056694?hl=en
I bought the book for my wife, who has a phd in Roman history. Its an absolutely gorgeous book containing a wealth of information. Its also incredibly dense material. Its really made for specialists, but for them its completely worth the price. Im glad people are creating works like this.
shafting other vendors

They own the store. Shopify is a thing.
Thanks! Stupid question: if I don't want to spend fifty cents an hour to play with it, and have a machine with lots of RAM, is it possible to hold the model in RAM instead (rather than VRAM)? I'm sure this would be a serious slow-down, but it seems possible?
Which law would that be?
I don't use vimr that heavily, but a few times now I've seen it chewing on the CPU when I've left it open in the background. I do use neovim heavily and haven't seen that.
Show HN: Speek – Embeddable, shareable voice notes for Twitter and websites
What's the difference between 'monopolization of workforce' by a union, vs by a corporation? A union should be democratic, but if the workforce is split into many smaller unions it loses negotiating power.
I'm guessing easyDNS doesn't have "attorneys". The article does, however, mention "lawyers": "both easyDNS and our lawyers take a dim view".

(Random terminological observation deleted.)
Yeah, but I'm putting off "taking down the global elite and reworking our entire system" for next Tuesday because I've got some other things on my to-do list.
Life as an Indie Game Developer from Twitch
It also means that everything either works or doesn't work.

A dependency tracking system with mix & match of versions of subcomponents of the kernel that either work together or not looks like a nightmare to me.
You can use plt.style.use("seaborn") [0] to just use the style. Style sheets reference [1]

[0] https://matplotlib.org/tutorials/introductory/customizing.ht...

[1] https://matplotlib.org/gallery/style_sheets/style_sheets_ref...
> Is there any indication that they solicited business in Germany?

My understanding is making the website available to a country can be soliciting business.

> And how, in practice, could they enforce that if this canadian entity has not broken any canadian law and canada as such has no impetus to enforce german law?

Don't they have deals for such thing? I remember reading that a British court judgement for damages could be enforced in the US.
You take picture of your handwriting and upload it, for this site: https://www.calligraphr.com/

They used to be myscriptfont.com and didn't have those premium features though. Don't know if it is better or worse.
It is utterly baffling that anyone is surprised by this. Water is wet, fire is hot, Amazon changes their website in ways that make them more money.
I always thought one of the big barriers was porting existing apps: you need to disable/rip out their auth and user management, and you need to pare them down to operate on only a single unit of whatever thing they manage (a grain). These changes are often hard to upstream, so you’ll be applying upstream updates over and over. I was hoping we’d see a bunch of small purpose-built apps that were perhaps companions to a standalone app that just needed a small internet-accessible component, such as IoT devices or even mobile apps that need a way to host shareable links.
For just over a year I've been using Syncthing with a folder specifically for KeePass, and it's worked really well - I just have a raspberry pi running 24/7 so my phone and PC pick up the changes whenever I reopen my database. I imagine it's similarly hassle-free with a self-hosted cloud like Owncloud, too.
Good try, comrade major, but nyet.
Hi, I am the author of Photopea :)

Photopea is used by 120,000 people every. We rarely get reports about the site not loading correctly. We received one in June from a user from Malaysia. After some communication, we noticed that it worked well when he used his mobile data, and did not work only on WiFi, so probably the problem was with ISP.

If it happens again, just let us know!
IOW, management made less profit. They did not share in the loss. From parent:

when they lost $38 billion the union workers didn't get bills in the mail instead of checks.

If management got bills in the mail, they shared in the loss. AFAIK, they did not.
Horrible situation, all these religions dont just preach Karma, but also Dharma, there are 4 parts, Karma, Dharma, Moksha and Artha.

Karma is the basis of your actions, what that child might have done in a past life, but that doesn't stop your Dharma, the guy walking by from helping him. Its our Dharma (duty) to help those and not blame their past lives.
I will point out that a dislike of "Identity Politics" can easily be defined as "divisions within some set that a person wishes to be uniform". For example, a Christian may be perfectly happy with Christianity's differences with other religions but very unhappy with divisions within Christianity itself. I don't think it is necessarily hypocritical to hold that view.

To put it in terms more familiar, intersectionality is intended to unify a diverse body against a larger uniform society. In a sense, the most conservative Americans and the most radical are one in the same. Radicals seek unity against enemies within and conservatives seeks unity against enemies without. The only thing separating some radical ideas from some conservative ideas is the scoping.

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As a sidebar, I'm really digging this train of thought. Its kind of interesting to think that the only difference between Martin Luther and Pope Urban II was their scope of the world's problems. Which makes sense. After all we're only human. We don't think that differently from one another.
What kind of things go into a refinery that form that price?
Ask HN: How does your company assess bootcamp graduates?
I am keen to hear how others have fared in assessing the abilities and potential of graduates from bootcamps such as Flatiron school etc
There is actually an entire field of general game playing that can be extended to receiving partial rulesets at the start of the game.
JyNI* was created to bridge Jython to Numpy. I don’t have any personal experience with it, but one need not wait for a GraalVM solution.

* https://www.jyni.org/
They could arrest their officers if they're ever in Germany (or maybe the EU).
> And how, in practice, could they enforce that if this canadian entity has not broken any canadian law and canada as such has no impetus to enforce german law?

Many countries have signed treaties that provide for enforcement process for judgments rendered in another signatory. It's in the spirit of reciprocity. If Canada wants to be able to reach a German national, Germany will insist on a reciprocal arrangement to reach a Canadian national. (I don't know whether they have such an agreement, but such agreements are common.)

Contrary to what a lot of HNers may believe, judicial and procedural boundaries aren't necessarily coextensive with national borders.
So the solution to counterfeits on Amazon is to only buy Amazon brands? I'd prefer they address their counterfeit problem directly.
I thought most of the host questions / utterances were reasonably generic and basic enough for Snowden to give a relatively detailed response with some respect to their need to keep viewers glued to the screen. This is network TV, not Charlie Rose.

I was surprised they did not probe on his concerns about Russia’s meddling in the Presidential election—-particularly w regard to its use of social media to influence the votes of the American public.

I’d have liked to hear how Snowden compares what he considers to be unethical or even criminal widespread privacy violations with the presumed intent of a foreign power to influence an election.

He says he’s concerned with the human rights abuses of the Russian gov but says nothing of what some describe as an attack on the democratic process.
That's interesting. How does Elm statically know if the logic of your app is correct? Since I don't know Elm I'll use some pseudocode:

if condition
pourCoffee()
else
pourTea()

Is Elm able to determine that this condition is flipped the wrong way?
Vehicle manufacturers are just giving customers what they want.

My family recently bought a new car (a Volvo FWIW) and for the first time we really didn't care about horsepower or fuel efficiency or anything really related to vehicle performance. It was all about the electronics and safety features.
easyDNS here.

I don't think that this is the same Niemela. The material covered in this issue is just a plain vanilla image, not of a person.
I'm not saying that the values don't bias decisions, I'm saying that they _must_ bias decisions for this to be an interesting experiment. Without vote values there is no sense of a tribe, no reason to check in during the day, it's just a daily random voting exercise with no purpose.

Once you add vote counts there is an actual narrative that plays out over the course of a day (as words rise and fall relative to each other), and each tribe will actually develop a personality independent from the others.

If you're concerned about early votes being disproportionately influential, then you can use Reddit's approach and hide vote counts until enough people vote.
Mazda's new engine (skyactiv x) looks pretty damn innovative.
Thank you for your reply! I don’t mean to point fingers, just trying to look at the structure. The built-in incentives and pace of technological advance pushed digital communication toward consolidation and estrangement of revenues from creators. It looks from this side like, had Google and Facebook not developed an overwhelming advantage in the acquisition of user data, advertising would still be generating value for newsrooms and that would be going to writers. Had Amazon not used predatory pricing to undermine competition (bookstores) and merchants (publishers), Bezos might be less rich but we might have a competitive online retail market that returned more value to the source. It seems possible that an idealistic vision of the benefit of open communications might have clouded from view the dangers posed by hinging revenue to the collection of user data (the ease of spreading disinformation, the decoupling of revenue from content creation). Funding businesses and technologies that collected revenue (easily, unobtrusively) from users might have led to a more healthy, democratic, transparent digital environment. Not trying to look back and place blame, just understand causes and imagine a constructive future. Welcome a more informed understanding!
Off by a couple orders of magnitude. Capital cost of a blast furnace, rule of thumb, is ~$200 per ton of pig iron per year: https://www.quora.com/How-much-would-it-cost-to-set-up-a-bla...

The largest blast furnace in the world is about 5 million tons of iron per year (and was upgraded to that capacity in 2013):
http://www.donga.com/en/List/article/all/20130610/406398/1/P...

...so that means the biggest blast furnace in the world has a capital cost of approximately $1 billion.

More than likely the cost (in today's dollars) of that blast furnace you're referring to is $100 million, not $100 billion.

Side note: direct reduction furnaces furnaces are usually cheaper from a capital cost perspective and can use natural gas or even hydrogen for producing steel... We may use more of this tech in the future as we move away from coal for sustainability reasons....
The US now produces about 10% of its raw iron/steel using DRI and 90% by blast furnaces and the rate of DRI growth is fantastic (going from 2 million tons in 2017 to 3.4 million in 2018, pdf page 10): https://www.worldsteel.org/en/dam/jcr:96d7a585-e6b2-4d63-b94...
A few years ago, virtually no steel was made via DRI in the US. The fracking boom has changed a lot.
If the labor board members don't act in the best interest of labor or are generally ineffective they can be removed by labor. Also, it's unlikely you'll have a labor dispute when half the boards is made up of labor elected officials.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codetermination_in_Germany
On the other hand, it's somewhat unlike a regular marketplace since Amazon requires vendors to match or exceed their own return policy.
What I'm saying more closer to the point is to base assumption of no creator due to cruelty is a very odd correlation, almost short vision based on the sub-conscious set by Abrahamic religions that all things in this universe are good.
Completely agree, especially on the second paragraph - just like how 'smart' TVs ship a long-lasting high quality panel with an obsolete/user-hostile operating system.

On the first paragraph, I thought I'd read this battle is mostly lost already, not with respect to Android, but car software in general is far more intertwined and less robust than you'd think prudent.
Anything that isn't context aware (i.e. knows which website you're on so can provide the relevant information) is doomed to failure right out the gate.

I'd prefer people are using any password manager than go for perfection and then quit completely because it was a terrible UX. KeePass may be more secure against certain specific attacks, but it is largely irrelevant if people are going to contrast it against using no password manager at all because it was too cumbersome.