skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just make it the company's responsibility to do that on behalf of the people it inconvenienced. Dumping the responsibility for those things on the injured party is fundamentally unethical.
For single PC's its not a big deal. When I worked at a small college, we started powering down all pc's 3 hours after the last class in the day, and then waking them all up with WakeOnLan about 30 min before their first classes. Since each lab had 30 pc's, it added up pretty quickly. Also, less AC needed, since they weren't warming up the room all night.
> The accurate way of stating it is that it's about as possible, although not quite equivalent since, while it's true that the IRS can seize assets, garnish wages, place liens, etc, those all involve at least some cooperation with a non-government actor.

I disagree that's an accurate way of stating it. IRS isn't lawless, and unlike Google it doesn't unilaterally write its own laws. It's got significant internal controls that prevent it from lawlessly "seize[ing] assets, garnish[ing] wages, place[ing] liens, etc" without relying on necessary cooperation from non-government actors to keep it in check. The US Government as a whole is also inhibited from much lawlessness through deliberately designed checks and balances and other mechanisms, mechanisms that are largely absent in private corporations like Google. Then there are elections, which provide some measure of accountability to the general population; rather than a smaller, self-interested set of shareholders as is the case with Google.

All these mechanisms aren't perfect, but their importance needs to be understood and recognized.
If you just raised the price and did not tell him why, he may have thought it was a consequence of you having a stronger negotiating position, like there was another buyer, his negotiating time was limited and he should make the payment while he still had control.
One of my favorite movies is The Guest, mainly because it subverts the idea of explaining to the viewer why the situation is the way it is. All of the main character's life events have led him to the point he is at in the beginning of the movie, and there are already concurrent plot threads running by the beginning, but we're never told or given an explanation as to why the situation is in the state it's in, just that this is what is happening, how is our main character going to get out of it, etc.

Another movie with a noteworthy use of subversion is The Thing -- you'd think something, anything will be explained by the end of the movie. Nope, nothing, more astoundingly, the end of the movie sets itself up as if it's preparing for a twist -- you don't even get to see the twist. You just know there is one, and the movie ends.
Out of curiosity, how often do you use a Kill A Watt meter? $23 seems like a high price just to plug a device into for a couple days to say "oh maybe I should turn this off more often"
The experience in the UK of the TSB porting to some Java system written by Santander is a good lesson of why this is risky
You need a massive bank roll and licensing.
Not only that, the massive hysteria and misinformation is a problem for everyone outside those states that are shotgunning measures.

I took a hiatus on my nicotine vape when the news started exploding and went back to another form of tobacco as I just didn't know what was going on. Its the devil you know vs the one you don't.
From the article:

Although Decety’s paper had reported that they had controlled for country, they had accidentally not controlled for each country, but just treated it as a single continuous variable so that, for example “Canada” (coded as 2) was twice the “United States” (coded as 1).

I mean I don't even understand how this seemed like a normal thing to do?
Reminds me of Gweneth Paltrow's egg thing

https://www.health.com/sexual-health/jade-egg-goop
There's way more in computers than transistors ; you have to weigh that against the other effects on the complete system. I would be surprised if the thermal cycling from shutting down and booting the computer wasn't orders of magnitude more likely to cause problems than actual wear on the transistors. That being said, all of these issues are very unlikely to occur.
No, I imagine this is more like you tell them your target's screename and then they just use regular ad analytics to target that person specifically.
Golden gate bridge is like this as well. Except I got the time wrong. Congrats to Sixt who I think only charged me $8 for a fee.
If you’d like to see how this would go. Reference the FCC. Which is essentially what she is trying to create here.
Shine a very powerful laser on it, and yes, the human eye will be able to tell the difference
You've never had a bug in your code that seemed insane after the fact?
The harvard link touches on how he was using cheap Google Ads for this purpose. It reminds me of a shady "internet background check" company that I had the unfortunate pleasure of working with a few years ago. They were approaching, if not exceeding, this site in total shady tactics. One thing they did that their former-pill-pushing founders came up with which I did think was rather clever is they were able to buy Ad Words for cheap for various permutations of common given names and they used this to bootstrap their business to great effect.
Just need to add lsd
Well, for microplastics.

If you live e.g. in the Bay Area, your tap water instead has a good chance of having a good helping of hexavalent chromium[1], which... not too healthy. (Neither are arsenic, bromium, etc.)

Pick your poison. Literally.

[1] https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Tap-water-Bay-Area-datab...
In discussions like this I feel there's a big bias in favor of what's called "institutionalism". This is a theory that the attributes of the institutions people work in, such as budget, governance, size, etc., most determine outcomes.

While there's a lot of truth to this, I think it's overused as an explanation because blaming the institution is less painful when there's a failed outcome.

Talent, on the other hand, is less used as an explanation because when there's a bad outcome, it hurts more to blame those, even partially, who were executing towards the goal.

However in some endeavors talent matters a lot, and software is one of them. The Mythical Man-Month is a great book that examines software project failure, whose conclusions are that "institutional" solutions to software problems, such as more staff or more budget, aren't as good as "talent" solutions, such as hiring the best person in the world for an absurdly high salary and having them do most of the work.

That's a long-winded answer to why the private sector is better than the public sector at some things: it does a better job at rewarding, and thus attracting, talent. The public sector, by contrast, is more likely to promote based on seniority and base political values, which in a democracy include equality and solidarity.
AI Generated Fiction
How to Smell
https://semiengineering.com/chip-aging-accelerates/
“We are seeing an acceleration of aging where the chip breaks down. “They may be missing clocks or there is extra jitter. Or there is dielectric breakdown. And anytime something breaks down, there is an avalanche of new things you have to worry about. A lot of aging models advanced in an era where electronics were used sporadically. Now chips are running all the time. Inside of a chip, blocks are heating up, so aging is accelerated. From that you get all types of weird phenomena. A lot of companies have not revised their aging models, either. They assumed these devices would last three to four years, but they may fail sooner. And given that design margins from the beginning can be flimsy, aging can throw them off.”
Concerning flower, about 15 years ago in the UK, there was an issue where flower was sprinkled with glass beads[1] to give it the appearance of having a lot of trichomes.

Legalization and regulation would solve this problem.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/society/2007/jan/12/drugsandalco...
Mathematics as a Cultural Force
Strangled by a Safety Net
Older MMOs still have a ton of stuff to do, outside of grinding - EverQuest 2 and Lord of the Rings online are two I can always find something to do in..

I think a large part of the problem can be solved by adding more 'sub-systems' - housing, fishing, cosmetics, titles/deeds, playable instruments, farming, whatever...

Seems like newer games just want to focus on combat and gear progression, which has people burning thru content.
These things have applications for stealth aircraft as they often absorb radar as well as visible light. But even for visible light, if you're looking at something painted vantablack in broad daylight, you only see a silhouette--much like WWI "Dazzle" camouflage, it's very difficult for the brain to process what you're looking at.
I've always had the same concern stopping me from getting one. I wish I could go to Best Buy or someplace and rent the darn thing for a few hours instead.
This seems like 101, 'another pair of experienced eyes would catch this' kind of malpractice.
Locking down accounts you control on your infrastructure is vastly easier to scale than asset forfeiture. Scale and ease does matter here.

>I have never seen an argument against crypto currency that doesn't already apply to the current systems, we just pretend its not the same.

It's not the same: cryptocurrencies are generally more restrictive about reversing transactions (in that you can't), for instance. We can reverse some transactions in the current system.

Some call this a feature, but they're likely okay with every day people getting their shit stolen easily because they don't know anything about computer security.
Make a small api in whatever language for the login in https and return a token or something.
Many libraries have them to check out for a few days.
Drilling. For every gifted individual who integrates knowledge just by
listening, there are dozens if not hundreds of us normal folk who integrate by
repetitive "doing." The factor by which arithmetic proficiency among Chinese
fourth-graders exceeds that of American fourth-graders is roughly the time
required to complete their homework (for my kids in US, homework takes 10
minutes on average).
I think there is no need to be concerned that the retraction won't be widely covered in the long run in this particular case though -- all the religious interest groups will make a big fuss about this...
Which lets you play out your man hunt fantasy. Sounds like a win-win.
Yeah, that goes beyond sloppy and into negligence.
Workers sites seems nice but is still limited to 2MB pages (same as the max. key size for KV) https://developers.cloudflare.com/workers/sites/reference/

Depending on the frameworks used and how big your application's own code base is, webpack and other build systems can easily produce artifacts above 2mb, not even to mention that images can also reach above 2mb in size.

FD: I worked on a Workers-based file hosting project before this first-party solution came out; my system does file splitting and stitching, making it more expensive for files >2mb but possible. https://github.com/judge2020/cloudflare-file-hosting
The issue is that the cost of direct deposits should be lower, so that they can be more widely adopted
Not completely, but there are many examples that do function up to a certain point.

Also, do not confuse functional with efficient. Efficiency is at a third place way bellow fairness and efectivity on a government's priority.
I think what most of the responses are missing is that the power system is designed for peak power consumption.

And any incremental amount of power needed to meet the peak demand is going to come from inefficient or dirty sources.
Didn't Facebook for a while have the ability to target a single individual for ads? I seem to remember seeing some things on HN about people doing this a while back. Makes sense that someone would turn it into a service.
Poverty is at an all-time low worldwide: https://www.cnbc.com/2018/09/19/world-bank-global-poverty-ra...

Crime is at an all-time low: https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2018-02-12/pssst-...

There are fewer hungry people today than before: https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2015/06/01/4112650....

In terms of warfare, the world is the most peaceful it's ever been (full-scale, high death count wars used to be fought every decade or so between major powers): https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2015/06/war-is-killing-fewer-...

While true that, cumulatively speaking, the United States has pumped out the most greenhouse gas of any conutry, it is improving faster than other countries. In the past decade, the United States has cut 11% of it's GHG emissions:

https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2019/4/24/1851280...

https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/data-shows-decrease-us-gree...
It's really very easy to do, roughly the stats equivalent of declaring a variable signed instead of unsigned.

Many algorithms work on both categorical and continuous variables, with different results depending on the variable's type.
I said it SEEMS like a PRETTY direct way of promoting engagement. It really seems like you're trying to misrepresent what I actually said and may main point.
Listen to what you're saying.

You can think of a substance that will make you less worried about the effects of that substance. Do you not see how that creates a feedback loop that becomes increasingly unmonitorable?

Maybe for you engineering is a job. For me it's a way of life. I can't turn off my perception of cause and effect when I go home for the day.
The problem with pesticides isn't acute poisoning, but health effects from chronic exposure.

No one is going to go to end up in the ER after smoking a joint, but if one's sources are consistently tainted, there might be an increase risk for cancer or other diseases later on.
> A functional government? Does this even exist?

Short answer: yes. Don't dismiss the good because it's not perfect.
I was not aware! Thanks for the education!

side note: Somebody should probably clarify this in the wiki article for AATIP:

> Although the official AATIP program has ended, a related group of interested professionals have extended the effort, founding a nonprofit organization called "To The Stars Academy of Arts & Science".
But... but... I swear I was. It wasn't a quip, there's an expanded version already downthread, and it was there before you flagged my comment.

Sometimes, I gotta be honest, I don't think I can get a break with you. I just don't see you taking this tact with anyone else. The forum is filled with single-line responses like this.

And I... well, I gotta be honest, I don't see you making this kind of correction to other posters. There really does seem to be something about me specifically that's setting you off. How can I fix that?
Direct deposit has been a thing for literally decades. Someone over 40 has likely had direct deposit as an option their entire working life.
Car rentals. The dark pattern kings.

Rented an Avis car in france, It came damaged so we got the guy in the shop to sign off on the little car diagram.

Long story short, they charged us for the damage. It wasn't a ton (100$), but Avis "dispute resolution" didn't believe us despite the photos and the damage document.

There comes a point were you ask yourself, how much time I'm going to put into getting this money back.

The credit card company thankfully looked into and the charge was rejected, but the grief it causes.
> Is this sarcasm?

Yes
"A rapid-screening approach to detect and quantify microplastics based on fluorescent tagging with Nile Red"

https://www.nature.com/articles/srep44501
I don’t buy this argument at all. The EU is 500mm people across 24 different countries, speaking many languages, and I had no problem paying and receiving money from anyone in any of those countries.

US banking is a decrepit mess because the treasury allows it to be.
Fancy data structure manipulation perhaps should be part of a library (API) and not "built in" to the base language. The best languages make it easy to use vast API's rather than hard-wire features into syntax.
I believe this is the paper in question: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acsami.9b08290
Great work, congrats IBM!
The bottle may be glass for San Pellegrino, but the cap relies on plastic for a good seal, and you can bet that once the water comes out of the ground it goes through some plastic pipes on its way to the bottle.
Nature paper on ocean warming retracted
And even though it was corrected and the result retracted, it was already cited by many papers, the media didn’t report the retraction etc. How much of scientific reporting gets skewed by media interests (controversy and sensationalism) and funding and political interests?

Furthermore, this whole field was called cargo cult science by Feynman, using correlations, p-hacking, data dredging, and more

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple_comparisons_problem

The best analysis I have seen of the corner we have painted ourselves into

https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/04/28/the-control-group-is-o...
Never dealt with finance/payroll. What is the typical per-user cost associated with direct deposit? I figured being as pervasive as it is that the cost was negligible.
Since you seem highly educated, may I posit a question, and this isn't a challenge but a genuine exploration into your commentary. What happens when we enter with "identity politics"? For example, how does A and B engage in a topic about big vs little government if A is nonbinary and takes 'ze' pronouns, but B continually insists on referring to A as 'he' and believes that A is mistaking mental illness as gender identity?

Or, similarly, how do A and B discuss going green vs economic prosperity, when A is wearing a T-shirt espousing that black people were better off as slaves and B is a black person?
Sounds more like load balancing than sharding.
Early 80's in London and that was a special case of a Lebanese /Arab company - they had had some problems in the past with direct debit and the Majority of staff wanted cheques.

I just used to walk over the road to my Natwast branch and deposit it at lunch time.
PopCorn Time for Audiobooks
I write checks. I like writing checks and I like cash. Online payments feel impersonal and doesn't hurt as much as the physical action of writing a check and cash. I'm more frugal when I spend cash. If I write a check for a large amount it physically hurts and causes me to try to figure out a way to eliminate or reduce the cause of such a large amount.
That's very interesting, I was thinking about stealth bombers. Do you think it would have applications in say, military uniforms? I wonder how it compares to digital camo, mirror based camo, etc in regards to detection.
‘They Don’t Need Us Anymore’: Auto Workers Fear Electric Unrest
https://www.who.int/water_sanitation_health/publications/mic...
Pretty sure it was supposed to be humorous.
Efficient Node.js Buffer Usage
Wasn't it pretty much every large tea manufacturer in the UK though? I definitely got the impression that it's very widespread.
And not to forget a number of bottled waters are simply tap water. One of the earliest I remember was taking Northern UK tap water, in a region that doesn't flouridate, letting it sit in tanks long enough to dechlorinate, then bottling it. Too long ago to remember the brand.

Dasani and Aquafina are both from the tap. Probably lots of others, but we never buy bottled water of any source.
I've been trying that lately. I've found transferring the wax around is tricky because it's so sticky. and i have to clean the thing and the heaters wear out. but the convenience/stealth is virtually the same as THC carts. you just have to hope your wax/shatter was distilled properly.
It's certainly a bit sketchy in terms of site administration etc., but it is a one-man operation so I'd say it's understandable.

The less understandable part is that it's charging $50 for 180 impressions such as https://twitter.com/RichLeighPR/status/1037066048485371905 while Facebook sells those directly for a few dollars per 1000, i.e. 100x markup.
We generally had wars and famines and plagues to deal with them, though.

Also heard a statistic that the average guy is less likely to graduate from HS and University than a women of similar age/class/race/etc. Degrees directly correlate to $$$, and ladies are doing a better job of getting them, though they still tend to choose non-STEM degrees and roles.
I'm at a company with a self-serve B2B API platform.

Our customers mostly build their own PaaS offerings on top of our API, which has some really positive effects I have observed.

1. Stickiness & seriousness of customer. When we land a big customer who is going to swap out competitor APIs from their platform and use ours, this customer is clearly very serious about building & growing with us, as the approval to rewrite huge amounts of core platform functionality to use our APIs is not made lightly, and is almost always made by a technical C-level person. The building phase often results in very close relationships with their developers. Their needs and demands help drive our roadmap, but with the understanding that we're not special-casing anything for them. If they need a feature, we're going to take the time to build it so everyone can use it.

2. Being API-first means satisfying the developer, which lends itself to focusing on building ergonomic software. If updating some configuration takes 2 seconds instead of 200ms, no developer is going to prioritize switching to our API when they need to make a 50k of those update requests regularly.
If something takes two commands on our API instead of one on our competitors API, it better be damn clear what value that extra command is providing... etc etc etc.
You have to remember the majority of people are both not tech savvy and don't pay attention to things like advertising trends.

My mother for example is heavily affected by the ads she sees on Facebook and other places. All it takes is one or two articles and I've had to talk to her a few times about being careful about the sites she visits and what she reads online.

So this service? This would be remarkably effective on people like her. This service isn't for people like us who are a bit more aware of how advertising works. It's for the majority of people.
I wish there was more info such as what specifically the tests for. I know a lot of genomic tests do a crazy high number of reads for specific regions, and that's quite specific to a disease and/or prognosis.
In my job as a Paramedic, i can't even begin to count the number of people I've seen with respiratory distress that is directly related to cigarette smoking. It's absolutely horrible for you. :/
More than an order of magnitude lower reflectance compared to VANTABLACK and NIST VANTA
And you can share your password with the rest of your family with a fecal microbiota transplant.
"But when they included their categorically-coded country (1 = US, 2 = Canada, and so on) in their models, it was entered not as fixed effects, with dummy variables for all of the countries except one, but as a continuous measure. This treats the variable as a measure of ‘country-ness’ (for example, Canada is twice as much a country as the US) instead of providing the fixed effects they explicitly intended"

How did this not get caught immediately? If I did a study and found out that kids in Zambia are 47 more times as generous as American kids that'd make me instantly suspicious.

Or maybe the reviewers were all Canadian /s
OK, this is called "prohibitory pricing". As in, "we really really don't want your debit card, but if it is an emergency, here's an option. Still, please don't". I tried to rent a car with a debit card a few times, and it was simply not accepted everywhere I tried, (Europcar in Barcelona, Hertz in Geneva and Copenhagen, Avis in Geneva).
In a room with the walls coated with vantablack, a vantablack cloak would be an invisibility cloak.
There was quite some discussion on HN when this paper first hit the news, pretty much all of which assumed it was true, much of it very dystopian in tone: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18352506