skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Many cheap Lipton teas have this type of sachet. Using this plastic is a horrible trend and I'm not sure how it started. My worry was always more about leeching, but the microplastic results might even be more disturbing. Such a shame that a natural simple solution is compromised. I'm sticking to my looseleaf.

https://www.amazon.com/Lipton-Tea-Fruits-Rouges-Red/dp/B00JN...
It is their prerogative, either way. I always assumed it was them paying the subsidies all along.
So explain to me why the RPi doesn't have SATA on board directly then, rather than forcing one to use some kludegy USB to SATA interface. Surely there are purpose built parts for it.
It's not lunacy as society has forgone due process to the point that Harvard Law adjudicators, who are women no less, are sounding the alarm. If you can't imagine it happening to you, say it happens to your father, or your brother, or your son. The asymmetrical damage of a false sexual assault allegation is so far skewed to the accuser it's telling that you haven't suggested a more ethical and practical way of protecting yourself.

I'm all ears, with an open heart and mind but I just cannot think of any other means of defending against this problem.
Staples microwave OK. A microwave's wavelength is about 12 cm. A staple is a small fraction of that and won't couple much energy.
This has been so frustrating. Last week I shipped a tightly packed t-shirt from Ontario to Oregon. $11.50.

Months ago I bought replacement shelves for my fridge. Together about the size of two phone books stacked. Shelves were $40 and shipping was $40 from Illinois to Ontario.

Life itself feels so frustrating when it's wildly cheaper just to buy more crap from China than to recycle stuff from within North America.
Could be! It's all open-source but actually not all AGPL: the core desktop app is, but the internal libraries like https://github.com/httptoolkit/mockttp are generally MIT or Apache 2, so if you're looking to dig into and use those internals, it's pretty thoroughly unencumbered.

It's really just the runnable desktop app part that's AGPL. That encumbers you if you're making a directly derivative work (no running off with the whole app but closing the source, thank you), but otherwise it shouldn't limit you at all. This isn't like using a (A)GPL library in your codebase; it's a full application and you're an end user.
My local constituency was going to achieve this honour but unfortunately the local MP Robert Syms (known to be somewhat corrupt) killed the project on utterly bullshit grounds (it would barely have affected the view): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Navitus_Bay_wind_farm

As a contrast, it was also reported today that Hinkley point will be £2.9 billion over budget: https://www.bbc.com/news/business-49823305 luckily for them, they get to charge £92.50 per megawatt hour upon completion - locked in for 10 years. While wind power is costing us £40 per megawatt hour, not guaranteed, and likely to decrease.
It's only libel if it isn't true.
>The difference is Amazon saw what the marginal costs could be, and had a specific roadmap to drive investment into bringing them down. WeWork fundamentally has no way to drive down the margin on real estate in any meaningful way. Especially as a lessee.

That's what the article says:

>At first, with companies like Walmart and Amazon, predatory pricing can seem smart. The entire retail sector might be decimated and communities across America might be harmed, but two day shipping is convenient and Walmart and Amazon do have positive cash flow. But increasingly with cheap capital and a narrow slice of financiers who want to copy the winners, there is a second or third generation of companies asking Wall Street to just ‘trust me.’

It's not that WeWork is the same as Amazon, it's that WeWork is symptomatic of a bubble caused by investors looking to copy Amazon's success without understanding why it succeeded.
The comment was about SEC and S-1. This is very relevant for 401k investors who were supposed to be the suckers to buy this crap.
Six or so people, many with pre-existing ailments, died in connection with some kind of contaminated batch of black market THC cartridges.
They only claim #4 in the filing.
Well, they are tightly coupled. If you only have one tape to consider then fine - whatever works and the discussion would be pointless.

Also, why on earth would you need 25 spare computers for 25 drives??? 25 drives fit into a single 4U chassi. A single operation and everything is done.

Seeking a file on a harddrive is about 7ms. Seeking 25 drives is also about 7ms. But will be quite the operation for a tape system.

You don't just "buy three more readers", you are likely making use of tape robots and fitting them into your infrastructure probably isn't an afternoon of work. And the whole cost benefit of tapes greatly rely on the fact that you don't have to. Which is also why the latency skyrocket. You still want to perform your backups of course, maybe doubly so because of any unforeseen secondary effects that whatever caused the restore process might lead to - which will compete with precious time.

I'd love to use tape, but the cost is prohibitive and you really want to verify your backups so for home use it is quite the hassle. In my opinion. But if I stumble on a great deal, sure! It'll be fun.
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If my iPhone honored my passphrase, but also a second secret passphrase held by Apple in iCloud that I had no control over, what would you call that scheme? I would say that Apple had an escrowed passphrase. Well, that's precisely how DNSSEC works. I control my own key, sure, and never have to reveal it, but that doesn't matter, because the roots can simply override that key with their own.

You keep making these emotional appeals, but if I'm wrong, I don't see you actually rebutting me. "Your argument is so bad I will not deign to engage with it" is not a rebuttal.
http://archive.is/XsDrq
We're not under any time pressure in this discussion; there's no need to prioritize. Pointing out "low blows" which and writer should strive to be above is pressing, in my opinion.
Maybe - but why do you think the USPS won’t just pocket the difference? Are they in a competitive market for the class of packages they ship in the US? I don’t think I understand the competitive landscape for shipping well enough to understand your assumption.
Employer health plans are getting pricier and skimpier
What's the difference between Elephant Chateau and something like this? https://www.amazon.com/Ahmad-Ceylon-OPA-Tea-Carton/dp/B00110...
"Rumors" from e.g. the Minnesota department of public health
Your question prompted me to realize that I’ve been on HN for over a decade...
Just get rid of factory farming. Meat should generally speaking be much more expensive than it is right now. Prices are artificially low due to subsidies and industrial scale farming practices.
"comedic"
I read your comment and still thought I'd RTFA to verify. You were correct to save everyone time here is the final line of the article:

The $50m Art Swindle is on BBC Two on 23 September 2019 at 9pm.
Because fraud can be dressed up any number of ways, with no transparency it's impossible to know one way or another.
The review in the same paper was mixed:

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2019/sep/23/the-50m...
You brought up Brett Kavanaugh. That's a silly example. Anybody in politics knows it's a hostile environment. It's like walking into a gunfight and expecting to not get hit. You might not get hit. But just being there makes you a target.

In the OP's situation, basic sexual hygiene would have prevented the whole thing. It will for everyone that doesn't put themselves first and foremost in a shooting gallery.

You can use the concept of herd defense to contemplate how to remain safe in these sorts of situations.
This is just one thread... look at the rest of the discussion.
Wow, nice collection of themes!
I could have really used something like that a few months ago. I developed a Gatsby site and literally spent an hour searching for a good-looking theme.
> When you return prices to market value wouldn't competitors just appear again.

No, because they won't be able to raise enough capital to cover startup costs when investors know that the dominant player can just price dump long enough to starve any new company out.

Relatively unregulated capitalism works OK when the product area naturally approaches a perfect market:

- Simple easily compared products
- Consumers have easy access to accurate product information
- Low startup cost for producers to enter the market
- No costs for consumers to switch to a different producer

Very few markets actually resemble that. In order to keep non-perfect markets functioning efficiently, it takes a lot of strong, enforced regulation.

This is increasingly true as we transition to the Information Age where products are increasingly data and services. For those, network effects are powerful, which further entrench the dominant player.

> I'd assume the market would just corrects itself later?

How? "Market" isn't magic fairy dust that spontaneously causes efficiency to appear from nowhere.
yeh regular key lock in the door, electronic cam release of the for latch in the frame seems like a much more robust set-up. seal the gadgets in the wall on the inside of the room, no batteries or moving cables.
Doesn't that prove my point? They use overestimation to hide the unpredictable nature of the project itself.
Well, you are "anti-conflating" the latter and former. They are describing the same mechanism, not two separate ones.
A return that lets you retire in this lifetime seems to be the minimally acceptable return.
> As a Canadian that sometimes talks Americans into selling to me on Ebay, they find it a painful and costly experience compared to US sales.

Indeed, buying from small U.S. suppliers into Canada is awful. The customs clearance fees are immense, and between those and CBSA, it seems that packages often arrive hastily repacked after a deep inspection, with permanent damage to the goods.
YT is the only problem for me, likely something to do with YouTube trying to use gQUIC (but I'm not sure).
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On the contrary, given the author's myopic and rosy perspective on surveillance capitalism as espoused in the article "Privacy Fundamentalism"[1] (and apparently amended in a follow-up which is paywalled), I find it hard to take anything on that blog seriously.

[1]https://stratechery.com/2019/privacy-fundamentalism/
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I translated that the United States imports more mail then it exports.

Backbone internet companies trade traffic with each other, but the trades aren't always equal so it makes sense for there to be money flowing more in one direction.

The US is saying that the current relationship has costs that exceed the benefits, so the US is going to be declaring their own interpretation of a "fair market rate" to import mail from other countries that aren't receiving the same volume of US mail in return.
Make sure you actually buy loose leaf tea. Even "respectable" brands like Twinings in the UK sell what looks like dregs. Its definitely not leaves.

I've not seen an appreciable difference in brew time using loose leaf. A mug of Earl Gray should be done in a few minutes either way.
Adidas bought Runtastic
All the rank cowards downvoting it. Go ahead. You KNOW deep down that you've either been gullible and taken in by the alarmism, or you're complicit in the agenda which is utilising existential fear - like all tyranny-supporting agendas do.
pg tips used to sell a tea that came in a brown/oragne box. It was rich and tasty but somehow they discontinued it. Lipton and many teas in the US taste of cardboard. It baffles me how people find anything in it to keep buying it.
Go read the study. The data from this study doesn't support your statement. They matched the carb content (and sugar, fat, etc) of the "highly processed" and "less processed" groups' food offerings. The highly processed ate significantly more, even though both had plenty of carbs available.
When I was in Singapore I used the "grab" app, which is super popular and has both regular taxis and uber-like drivers (and food and other stuff).

What's different about Singapore and grab? Seems like a good model to me but it must involve heavy regulation to work.
This article doesn't even cover, how we will replace all the nutrients that meat and animal products bring to our health. This article looks like more those vegan hypothesis articles that never fits into reality.
How does it estimate the number of users?
Better evidence is that the lightning has already traveled through hundreds of feet of air which is a much better insulator than one foot of rubber.
Patent trolls don't care what you think of them. They don't have customers to worry about offending. They're just corporate highwaymen.
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Ditto. Patent trolls need to be destroyed.

Put me down for $20 if it comes up.
Yep. You went ahead and used the "denier" slur. That says a lot more about you than it does about me.
If anyone else is interested in some of the history of how we got here, Wikipedia has a pretty decent summary:

"The 1874 treaty provided for the originating country to keep all of the postage revenue, without compensating the destination country for delivery. The idea was that each letter would generate a reply, so the postal flows would be in balance. However, other classes of mail had imbalanced flows. In 1906, the Italian postal service was delivering 325,000 periodicals mailed from other countries to Italy, while Italian publishers were mailing no periodicals to other countries. [...]

In 1969, the UPU introduced a system of terminal dues. When two countries had imbalanced mail flows, the country that sent more mail would have to pay a fee to the country that received more mail. The amount was based on the difference in the weight of mail sent and received."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Postal_Union#Termina...
Was the book ever published?
Thank you. Letting rhetoric slip into the mud hasn't served other platforms for discourse well recently (exhibit a: politics).
With regard to the internet? I wouldn't say "no" as a blanket statement, but what's the point of a law if it's super trivial to legally sidestep?
i have done my PMP 10 years back and maintained my credentials for almost 8 years.its boring curriculum, exams are boring too for techies.

I did PMP in hopes of moving from developer to PM, found later its not interesting enough just stuck to technology.

My take, if you wanted to grow in career develop domain expertise, if possible get into product management which gives exposure to all parts of the company.
Even then the question remains whether that agreement has any teeth.
The issue is fixed vs variable costs. The scale argument requires very high fixed costs and very low variable costs. Then, once the initial hurdle is cleared, marginal costs per incremental unit of revenue are very low while barriers to entry against competition are very high. WeWork is the exact opposite of this as their leasing costs (variable) are like 90% of rental revenue.
The "World Nuclear Industry Status Report 2019" says that:

> even the extended operation of existing reactors is not climate effective as operating costs exceed the costs of competing energy efficiency and new renewable energy options and therefore durably block their implementation. Mycle Schneider concludes: “You can spend a dollar, a euro, a forint or a ruble only once: the climate emergency requires that investment decisions must favor the cheapest and fastest response strategies. The nuclear power option has consistently turned out the most expensive and the slowest.”

https://www.worldnuclearreport.org/WNISR2019-Assesses-Climat...
The ingenuiTEA is the best tea brewer I've used, it works great for all loose teas.

https://www.amazon.com/Adagio-Teas-ingenuiTEA-Bottom-Dispens...

When I drink tea I usually drink something spicy like Chai and use either my ingenuiTEA or a Cafetière.
Glad to see this important piece here (disclosure: I am one of the editors of The Gradient).

https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/5089308, from RCIS 2009 (Beel and Gipp) noted that "Google Scholar seems to be more suitable for searching standard literature than for gems or articles by authors advancing a view different from the mainstream."

Unrelated, but interesting: scraping Google Scholar is remarkably annoying if you want to actually use the data. The easiest way (in my experience) seems to be regex hacking on the BibTeX files, but this seems truly broken.
> It cost Newegg $60,000 to fight their patent troll. Gnome team is going to need a lot more then $20.

Wow, that's all? That's actually really encouraging, if true. I would have assumed it was millions.
Army research advances autonomous systems
It's plenty easy to find vegan junk food. Pretty much any potato chip that doesn't have the name of a dairy product featured prominently on the label is going to be vegan. Go to most natural food stores, including Whole Foods, and you'll find far more shelf space being devoted to processed and junk foods than food that's actually healthy. Most of it with labels that work very hard to imply that sugar only has calories if it's made from something other than sugar cane.

That said, you're not likely to find the vegan equivalent of Twinkies at your local bodega, and that is worth something. But I'm guessing that a bigger factor is that choosing to go vegan or low-carb or whatever is tantamount to deciding to join a food culture that places a much higher value on making better food choices, and there's nothing quite like peer pressure for changing one's behavior.
One thing they provide as well is price transparency. You know how much you will pay when ordering a ride. You get a nice receipt with a map and the route afterwards. No cash changes hands. All this makes it much safer than traditional scummy taxi industry where getting a ride for 2-3x the price because of some technicality was common occurrence. Being drove around by longer route was standard as well.

It's likely not true for all areas or countries but here Uber provided so much better experience that I would use it even if it was more expensive. It's the best thing that ever happened to taxi customers here as now many other players implemented apps with similar features to Uber. Even if they go bust I will remember them for making my life much better.
Since I already use Maps for so many things I would definitely use it for taxis if the rates were comparable. As long as Uber is somewhat cheaper it's not that hard to open their app.
Please keep racial flamebait off this site.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Fixing this is good but it isn't going to change much. Most imports of Chinese-manufactured goods are not shipped directly to Americans via the mail.
>If I post a photo to facebook with "public" settings, then later want to delete it, facebook should do so. If an indexer like google has indexed it, then they should delete it too. Profile photos are an instance.

I'm not sure I agree with that. It's certainly valid for them to retain a snapshot of that time with the profile photo available. Or are you suggesting they are expected to alter/modify snapshots (or log data) to cater to after-the-fact decisions?
The reason rates are so cheap from China is because the system was intentionally designed to make it profitable to produce goods in China where labor is cheap. These kinds of attacks on the system are pretty interesting as they undermine the system the business community has loved since the 1990s. It's kind of amazing that Trump is actually attacking the system in order to feed his xenophobic platform. On the other hand, it's possible the business elite are suspicious of China's rising economic power and want to reduce dependence. In no scenario will ordinary people benefit so long as the elites are allowed to execute their plans as all roads lead to their own enrichment at our expense.
I share the sentiment but I also realize that the only time I hear about software patents is when one of these outrageous stories make it to HN's frontpage. Maybe the system works well overall but we only hear about that tiny minority of patent trolls acting in bad faith?

I guess what I'm asking is: do some people around here have stories of software patents actually working as intended and protecting small innovators from software giants?
:-) we would love to get a call to solve problems.

But quantum computers are still in their infancy, the most powerful ones have ~50 qubits, 50 unstable and noisy qubits.

Meaning that we can only perform 10 to 20 operations per qubit before the noise starts blurring everything.

With the method described here, on an actual 50-qubit computer we can process a feature vector of at most maybe 500 dimensions. This is a small problem for classical machine learning...

However, the industry strongly believes that in fews years we will have quantum computers with thousands of qubits. And things have been improving steadily.

Neven's Law, from Hartmut Neven, the director of Google’s "Quantum AI" lab is a lot more optimistic than I am, but it gives an idea of what could happen in the next years https://www.quantamagazine.org/does-nevens-law-describe-quan...
The CLOUD Act would do nothing in this case because Cloudflare doesn't store data related to your requests and claims they are regularly audited to prove that.

CF has a lot more privacy minded people to whistle blow on that if they were lying than your local ISP would.
The reason is trust. That’s nonzero but really hard to establish.

I’ve seen projects with untrustworthy devs and untrustworthy managers. Oddly sometimes that worked. But I’m too old to work in hellish environments for pay.
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Starbucks uses them I believe.
At the higher-end grocery stores near me (Whole Foods, Nugget, etc), you can bring your own container and tare it before filling. Maybe you can see if your local grocery store can do this at the deli/olive bar?
Currently in process of moving away from yahoo mail (after 25+ years of using it) to proton. Highly recommend it.
I did look at it! It's still an option in my back pocket if I find things that don't work nicely, but right now this is much easier. I'd need to use LD_PRELOAD to hook lots of different libraries and tools (OpenSSL is just the start, and I also need to hook proxy settings), plus handle different versions of the hooked libs, and make it work reliably on Windows & Linux & Mac.

AFAICT, it's hard to do everywhere reliably for the general case, though as I say I might use it for specific niche cases later. At the moment there's zero native code required in this terminal hooking, which is very nice, and it's very nearly identical logic for all platforms too. It's not so bad, right now it's less than 1000 lines of code in total, and it works out of the box for Python/Node/Ruby/PHP/curl/npm/apt-get, etc etc etc.
Thanks. Sorry, I was wrong. I got gmail and gdrive mixed up.
Hear, hear: neurosurgical anesthesiologist (retired) here
eBay President, CEO Devin Wenig Resigns
The engineer in me wishes there were more hard numbers, like "what is the operational cost of the wind farm?"

One of the fun exercises to run would be a win farm that was powering a submerged data center (so that it could dissipate heat into the ocean).
It is indeed laughable to claim that absolutely all languages should be supported at all times and that a localisation is costly ("screenshot have to be updated", come on...) By the way, in the EU a population equal to the US's is reached by going for the 5 most populous countries (granted, as it happens that does mean 5 languages, including English, but that also means that these 5 languages cover a population larger the US's).

The rest of the points, if needed, grow with the size of the customer base and do not impede tech companies' growth in the EU v the US.

Rudeness and bluster are not arguments.