skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Mac Pros have been coming out of Austin since 2013; the article details as much. Furthermore, Austin's been a major center for the US semi-conductor industry for quite some time.

Here are just a few orgs that have an Austin presence:
- Dell (HQ in Round Rock)
- Apple
- Nvidia
- Qualcomm
- Intel
- Samsung
- AMD
- Silicon Labs
- Cirrus Logic
I do agree with you that, until we've had it around for decades, the real long-term effects of vaping are hard to pin down.

However, as a person who has smoked a pack a day and has vaped, it's my unscientific opinion that the latter is much less harmful than the former. And I think most people who have the experience of using both will agree.
Actually I did have to contact support since the shipping took a few weeks. Understandable given the exotic hardware and, well, they're small and they support freedom in computing, so I have no qualms waiting.

I got a reply relatively quickly, but this was before they started shipping the Blackbirds so it's possible they are just swamped with orders.
research of scientific calibre avoids reporting salient facts such as pure water at STP is clear and colourless liquid.

The authors state their contribution as, "specific longitudinal unstacking in a hydrophobic environment,
has to our best knowledge never been reported before."

reporting such is akin to reporting oil is immiscible with water.

have a look here:

"Water and counterions are crucial to screen the electrostatic repulsion among charged phosphates and also favor the apolar stacking of bases. Accordingly, the large impact of solvent modification on the properties of DNA is not surprising. For example, a subtle change in the neutralizing cation can lead to a dramatic conformational change(8, 9) or even to a complete alteration in the sequence-stability rules of the duplex.(10) "

https://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/jp503816r

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1904262/

these articles predate the submission and stand firmly on exploitation of solvent effects upon DNA helix stability.

50+years of Biochemistry have produced many DNA manipulation techniques wholly dependent, on solvent selection.
> Technology amplifies our nature. It is a neutral force.

No, that is not correct. The "gain" of the amplification is VERY unevenly distributed. For example, nuclear weapons only amplify the force of the biggest and most powerful countries. Outside of thermonuclear warfare, technologies like social media greatly advantage hucksters and propagandist over the calm and rational.
Be careful when perusing various names. Not all might be SFW.
The Weather Record: Weather Collectors and Prognosticators
>That takes huge amounts of money and politicians don’t gaf because liberal cities are going to vote for Democrats anyway.

Politicians gaf about primaries. California did away with theirs, so politicians are forced to gaf about the general. "My opponent is doing nothing about homelessness" is a great message for a primary challenger.

There are other reasons, like gerrymandering, that give incumbents an advantage, but party doesn't guarantee safety. And there are plenty of issues where an alternative isn't possible because of partisan politics, but homelessness certainly isn't one. No one is in favor of it.
>Technology amplifies our nature. It is a neutral force.

I don't think the second assertion follows from the first. This is a tech forum, right? What do we talk about all the time? "Scalability." Can this business scale up & can this tech scale up are eternal questions here and it's commonly understood that some techs don't scale and you'll have to change if growth continues. The same applies for many of the business models discussed here, no one bats an eye at a discussion involving a company where it jumpstarts growth with one strategy and then transitions to another strategy as it grows.

But, but but! We come to humans and there seems to be a faith in our infinite scalability. And not just that we can scale infinitely but that we can do it without changing. That seems incorrect. Seen this way it's not just a question of how far we can push the 'mindfulness' and 'empathy' of humans but whether they will have to give way to other traits as we push them. How far they go, what they morph into, all of this plays into the value of the 'force' and maybe it is neutral, but it's far from a given.
Does Vodka enter your lungs?
This is a contributing factor as to why I'm still shit at math to this day. I'd just spend all class writing programs in the calculator that did the work for me.
Why is "safety" the most important consideration? A world that values safety above everything else is a pretty dismal world --- and it's a world without cars at all.
Yes. Many lakes around here (Alberta, Canada) have stocked lakes where fish didn't even naturally live. Many lakes are also home to commercial fish stocks. Then there's also actual closed system fish farms.

The main issue with fish farming is that in some parts of the world more desirable fish are fed fish meal from ocean-caught fish (SMH)...
There should also be a factor for land mass when considering "fairness", but reality is that the tar sands are the cause of our growing ghg emmissions. Even the industry's propaganda site claims it is single handedly responsible for 10% of Canada's emmisions:
https://www.canadasoilsands.ca/en/explore-topics/ghg-emissio...

I can only imagine how much money they spend trying to rebrand tarsands as oilsands...
LOL yeah let's ban menthols too. You have a great point.
Wall Street rewards ratios not cash.
By the way, Ahmia publishes a blacklist with the hashed addresses for every onion URL that they have discovered to host abusive content. You could use that blacklist to filter out those sites so you don't even crawl them and also to periodically purge any matching URL that may have already made it into your index.
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/compute/announcing-improved-vpc...

Likely not much of what you know is nda! The article is very in depth.
> Could you provide some evidence of harm here?

I define lost value as harm, in the same way that if a person steals $1 from your pocket as you sleep, your body is unharmed, but you have lost $1 of value, and your trust has been violated, both harmful to you. I'm not privy to the specifics of how this loss has directly impacted the US, but it should go without saying that the loss of value is harmful to the secret holder.

> GPG has been around for a long time

GPG wouldn't have saved anyone from PRISM, though.

> The answer to your question is in the part of my post which you didn't quote, so I'm just going to quote myself: "There were a number of people who tried... the results of this were that they were silenced..."

This does not answer my question, "Did Snowden try any of these official channels?"

Please note: I am not a Snowden detractor. I recognize the multi-faceted nature of his story. My comment states the view against Snowden because I am able to express it, having engaged in good faith with some of his detractors. And I think there are some valid points there.

This, though, I think is not a good faith discussion. You seem to want a whipping boy to argue Snowden's heroism against.

I admit, strictly speaking, Snowden didn't flee directly to Assange, but to his trusted advisors & lawyers. Seems pedantic to me to require that kind of specificity, but perhaps that's what you needed to hear.

I am no liar. A lie requires intent to deceive. Late in my first comment begins an admission of ignorance and a question: "My knowledge is limited here, but..." Your response calls me a liar multiple times, dodges the question twice, literally calls shame onto my post, then shrinks from the charge that you're behaving disrespectfully. Your insults have been received and recognized as such. Have a nice day.
Transformer-Based Language Model Writes Abstracts for Scientific Papers
Skype for Business is entirely unrelated to Skype. It's mostly a renamed version of Lync.
You're right, it was poorly worded. I didn't intend to say that consuming any meat at all means you don't care for animals.
I'm not advocating for anything. I'm merely stating that the premise(if a dev can rip out a repository b/c a company that uses it has ICE relations, how come we're not outraged over coca-cola relations?) is ridiculous on its face due to a severe misunderstanding of the scope of the action.

Similarly here, your post is mistaking the scope of the action and drawing a line between one dev deleting their reposity and being responsible for killing people (of note, ICE has lost children to human trafficking already so the boat has already sailed).
> The funny thing is to an extent, the performance of the student seems to be inversely proportional to the density of the cheat-sheet.

This brings back the memory of the circuit theory exam. You could bring a cheatsheet but it was mostly useless. The test had very simple numbers (1, -1, 2, 1/2, -i or things like that) because the professor didn't want to be bothered checking complex formulas and the difficulty was mostly in keeping all of the subject in your head and applying all of the procedures without messing up the signs.

Needless to say, that exam by that professor had a reasonable passing rate and there was prettu much no way around it: you had to study.
Arduino at Free Code Camp
It enters your body and is absorbed by your bloodstream. Is the delivery mechanism the issue?
You will love https://fastbmk.com/
Not only that, but even for those checking while driving, how many people now put the phone down below the dash, where they really can't see traffic when looking at it, vs. holding it up in the air where they can glance back an forth (not that this is really safe either, but looking down at your lap is much worse).
the 'global resurfacing event' they refer to probably rules that out as wikipedia describes this as '[covering] most or all of the planet with lava'
When I was in University people loathed .NET and idolized Java. Back then I choose C# instead of Java for my main language/toolset; People thought I was crazy. That was 10 years ago. So happy to see how much C# ecosystem has improved and keeps improving; Only thing missing for me is an official full featured C# to C++ transpiler; Only way, right now, of reaching game console platforms is by converting from C# to C++ unfortunately;
You're focusing on numbers of detainees when the larger issue is the treatment of those detainees. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21052376

This is why people are crying whataboutism. "Attempts to discredit an opponent's position by charging them with hypocrisy without directly refuting or disproving their argument," per Wikipedia.

Downvoters: I'm curious if you believe my facts are incorrect, or if you're just downvoting because you don't like my politics.
> Under a day ?? Make an app with pyqt5 or kivy and it's under an hour...

Last CRUD app I did in WinForms:

1. Auth

2. Real time push updates from my database

3. Platform native looking UI

4. Automatic 2 way data binding between my backing JSON and my UI controls.

I hadn't used C# for ~2 years, I had never used that particular DB library or done any work with JSON in C#.

I got it done in under 4 hours.

If I did it now, yeah, even faster.

The amount of code I wrote is insanely tiny. I wanted some custom date/time formatting stuff so I had to implement that myself.

I just checked the source out, I wrote under 120 LOC total, and that is including the repetitive ~70 LOC I did for handling days of the week and auto-formatting user entered times. (Time sucks, working with time sucks.)

Without that my code would've been limited to:

1. Wiring login button up to sending username/password to the DB
2. Attaching a listener to the DB (C# has had native event handling as a primitive type since forever!)
3. The save button to push stuff to the DB.

Did I have to drag and drop some UI elements onto a page? I sure did. It was rather nice.

WinForms was the go to solution for CRUD apps for a reason. Sure VB6 was probably better at popping CRUD apps out in no time, but after that died out, WinForms was a really good replacement.
Wasabi: A Cheap, AWS S3 Compatible Cloud Storage
People are dying right now as a result of climate change.
"If we are requesting action from Chef because we believe ICE, a customer of Chef, is behaving unethically"

Yes, is this actually being done? That's my question.
motor vehicle accidents/deaths are a public health crisis in the US: 30K deaths/yr, $300mil direct medical costs/yr (more indirect obv.)

if you are between 18-34 in the US your highest probability of death was/is motor vehicle accident

i'm guessing most people here are anti bodily harm/death/opportunity loss due to stupidity/impatience more than anything else
The Android/Apple device has internet access and ability to store notes. Neither ability can be easily taken away.

Yeah, it's true if you emphasize "easily".
If your best choice was Rails or Django 10 years ago you probably don't have a viable startup today. Why? Because it's 10 years later. Technology moves on and market niches get filled. There are orders of magnitudes more people with the skill to setup a basic CRUD webapp, and about 15 years for the markets that these can serve to have been filled.

As a side note, I've learned that the existence of a large number of viable ways to accomplish a task is a pretty big anti-signal for the desirability of accomplishing that task in the first place. When I started my career in 2000, there was a huge debate over whether the "right" way to develop a desktop application was MFC or .NET or Java or Visual Basic or Qt or WxWindows. The real answer was "don't develop desktop apps, because the web's about to take over". When the big web 2.0 businesses were founded from 2005-2011, there were basically two viable options for building a webapp: Rails or Django. Now that everyone's arguing about microservices vs. Docker vs. Kubernetes vs. serverless vs. Beanstalk vs. Heroku, it's likely that the real answer is "develop a blockchain app instead".
> why should your right to exists

I'm not claiming I have a right to exist. In fact, that was the thesis of my comment, so you may want to work on your reading comprehension. You're the only one claiming anyone has a right to exist (or a right to be born). In my opinion your rights only exist after you are born, meaning no person should have the right to procreate.
> They aren’t paying attention and when the light turns green they may either hit a pedestrian as they hurry to move...

This sounds like a different issue that can arise without phones being involved. Just because you look at your phone does not mean you need to be sheepish when you look back up. The problem is people are more worried about getting going than being safe.

> ...or not notice the green and be rear ended by a driver who expects them to begin moving.

If someone rear ends you when the light turns green that is 100% their fault. You can't start moving if the car in front of you is stopped. This has been the case long before the existence of phones.
It's important to reiterate that this isn't an issue with companies, nor with people per se. The issue is that the bottom line is the only incentive in capitalist economies.

One can dream up other forms of economies where the incentive would not be there. Some have already been discussed in great detail over the past couple centuries.
Both of them achieved their inflated valuation through a cult of personality of the leader. That's the same thing we see with Trump and BoJo in the UK
There was a brief window where mono was in the default Ubuntu distribution along with several mono-powered open source Linux productivity and media applications such as Banshee (media player), F-Spot (photo manager), at least one note taking app, and probably at least one more application I'm forgetting.

There's a parallel world out there where the Gnome project and Linux distributions rallied around C# as a strong way to write applications, instead of the weird backlash/demonization they all soon received that ended such a brief "golden age".
Indeed Obama was "deporter in chief" - all presidents are.

However, the rule of law was still enforced. Obama concentrated on immigrants with a criminal record and those "picked up" at the border. Family separation was rare, and there was an advocacy and appeal process. USCIS judges were not silenced and neutered. It was far from a perfect system, but there was an attempt to make it compassionate.

This is why the numbers don't tell the whole story. G.W returned more than Obama, Clinton more than G.W., H.W. more than Clinton.

This is not a Obama vs Trump issue - this is a "Every US President in modern history" vs Trump issue. It is possible to enforce immigration laws compassionately. It is not hypocrisy to call this out.
Odd how no one says that about produce that has had bacteria genes spliced in to it and is now fed to hundreds of millions of people. We won't even label it.
Same, I’ve been using Rider whenever I can, VS only when I have to. Much better IDE overall.
The delivery mechanism is certainly an issue here. Food additives are tested for how safe they are to ingest, and they are not tested for how safe they are to inhale. In general we know that there are a lot of compounds safe to ingest which are not safe to inhale.

Just to pick an obviously stupid example, I could chug a can of soda (or seltzer, if you prefer) in one go. It would contain around 2.2g of CO2. If you put that 2.2g of CO2 in my lungs, I would be dead. (Well, you would have to keep it there. It would at least be very painful.)

Or to pick another obviously stupid example, I could drink enough alcohol to kill myself. In most situations, I would vomit or pass out before I got to the fatal dose. But instead, I could give myself an alcohol enema and just die (which does happen, from time to time). So, delivery matters absolutely.

For the non-obvious examples we (at least) need data. If you are putting “high” concentrations of a chemical (for some appropriate definition of “high”) in your lungs you will want some good safety data. For ingestion we already have an FDA approval process. You may disagree with the methodology, but at least it’s there.
Wow, what an enlightening link.

At first, reading that there's an exemption process, I thought that the bill was better-thought-out than I initially had thought. But then seeing the existing exemptions, I'm realizing that this stinks of lobbying. It's clear that these exemptions are targeted at specific products, and are almost certainly there because some company lobbied to bypass going through the normal exemption process.
Google Employees Explain How They Were Retaliated Against for Reporting Abuse
This is unfortunate. I have loved the POWER architecture since Apple’s G5. (Though I am aware that was a variant.)
This seems unsolvable without new compostable or otherwise easily processed plastics.

At our university a bioplastic "nonoilen" was developed that can be made from waste biomass (PLA + polyhdroxybutyrate formula) and compostable without any toxic residues. So far, like most "compostable" plastic, it requires industrial composter with temperatures over 50°C, but further improvements are being developed.

https://www.plasticsinsight.com/stu-team-develops-second-gen...

Toothbrush manufacture is planned (Slovak language, sorry). Hope it works out:
https://aprilmagazin.curaprox.com/prve-curaprox-kefky-z-biop...
Or you consume more than you produce, and output other forms such as debt or a lower dollar, so foreign companies will day be able to purchase things you’ll produce in the future. So everything balances out it the end, doesn’t it?
This is a horrific story I wish I didn't read about. The husband only got a 30 to 70 year sentence for this??? He died in prison but this is a case for the death penalty all the way. This guy ended up dying of natural causes in prison. This woman is living a tortured existence and this guy gets 3 hots and a cot & cable TV until he dies. Disgusting.
Agreed. I think the fact that it comes up so frequently is a symptom of no one fixing the problem.

(I don't mind these articles, because I think this topic should be constantly on the mind of anyone building consumer tech services - but maybe thinking that anything will happen as a result is wishful, I hope not)
which electronics will you buy?
The Death of Google Reader and the Rise of Silos
Conditions weren't like this when Obama was in office. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21052376
The Raspberry Pi project seems to have learned a ton of hard lessons from both OLPC

I tend to associate the Raspberry Pi much more with the Arduino movement. I know they marketed it as a cheap PC for the masses, but IMHO that was more to just get press coverage. In practice you pretty much already need to have a PC on hand to download and burn the OS image to an SD card. The alternative is to buy a grossly overpriced SD card with the OS already on it, which completely defeats the purpose of buying a cheap PC. I really haven't heard of any movement of the RPi making PCs available to people who didn't already have one.
> absolutely worth it

Can you demonstrate, using numbers, that the tradeoff is positive?

> I cannot believe people are arguing for "efficiency" over traffic safety.

People prioritize efficiency over safety all the time. It's a good thing. So do you, if you support non-zero speed limits. The current animus against cell phone use while driving is the result of a moral panic, not a rational cost-benefit tradeoff.

> If I pull over to a safe place to use my phone, nobody is harmed.

Untrue. The act of pulling is itself is a complex maneuver that practically invites accidents. Most accidents occur at low speed, and often, when you pull over, you pull over into an area where pedestrians are active. It might be the case that pulling over instead of using a phone at a red light results in more people being injured or killed.

https://www.recyclingtoday.com/article/lytx-fleet-accidents-...

> My wife was rear-ended while waiting

Anecdotal personal misfortune is not an argument for society-wide policy.
> After all, human procreation is a naturally occuring event and it is the failure of science to produce a solution for the consequences and politicians - to adopt it.

Yes, the solution is to stop thinking of procreation as a naturally occurring event and to instead limit each person to 1 living offspring (so each couple can produce 2 children). By the way, science doesn't provide solutions (that's engineering). Science only provides explanations.
No. With alcohol we want to encourage responsible use, so a kid having a wine cooler seems okay. With cigarettes we basically want elimination so a kid taking a puff off a 'unicorn cake' vape seems bad.
I had to install it for him and show him what to do. (I was just kind of guessing what to do.)

His shop sold all kind of random things - everything from hamburgers to nuclear weapons...

Some of the screens, e.g. the stock table maintenance, the controls are a bit hairy (e.g. you have to press control-arrow keys to move to another set of fields), he got a bit frustrated at that when I wasn’t there to help him. (I had to go help his little sister.)
I am totally fine with people drinking flavored water on a sidewalk. I am not okay with people intentionally emitting clouds of flavored, aerosolized, pyrolized clouds of random chemicals on the sidewalk. I don’t want to breathe secondary smoke or vaping byproducts.
>But that makes operational expenses go up

On the other hand, you're probably all set up to do that already. It's no big deal. Introducing a new tech requires training, new deployment procedures, new documentation, etc., and now you probably have a one off component out there. There's a line somewhere, but if I were just adding a webhook for log events I'd throw it on a server I already have.