skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> 3. Regarding the environmental friendliness of our coatings: Our product is based on silicone. It has been shown in the scientific literature that silicone can be decomposed naturally in soil within 4-7 days. It breaks down in silica, water, and carbon dioxide.

"Based on silicone" does not mean "degrades like silicone." It also doesn't mean your coating will behave like the silicone "in the scientific literature." If I toss a silicone spoon in the ocean, it won't be gone in a week. You can make plastic out of wood. That doesn't make it biodegradable. There are different kinds of silicone. Some degrade quickly, some don't. Some is toxic as it degrades. It can accumulate in fish like plastic, etc.

Without knowing how the coating wears off (in chunks when toilet is cleaned, etc), it's hard to compare. Also, if it's not actually silicone, we shouldn't be pretending it acts like it is.

Have any independent environmental assessment been done? What happens when you drink it? What happens when you feed it to fish?
In my experience credit card companies honor charges on the old credit card number with the new card. You’d have to close the credit account and open a new one (or just freeze the card).
Most small particles are bad for health.

Small particle emissions can be anything, diesel cars emissions, stone dust and flour from bakeries. All small particles are bad for the lungs. Long term exposure of air pollution will lead to health problems.
It is important that people are informed about major US corporations.
> Seems like they should have billions in the bank to burn on whatever they need to get back on top.

It's a persistent extreme exaggeration, that's all it is. It's a projection of what some people want to have happen (death to Intel, rise of AMD; if AMD dominates, it'll then be death to AMD), rather than a reflection of what reality actually looks like. Aka wishing it were so.

What does reality actually look like? Intel's profits keep climbing and climbing.

2018 was the best year Intel has ever had in its entire history. $70.8 billion in sales, $23 billion in operating income. Operating income skyrocketed 58% in just two years. The extraordinary level of profitability they're sitting at has only been reached by a select few companies in all of corporate history.

Intel generated more operating income just last quarter than AMD has net in its entire 50 year history combined.

But surely sales must have declined then, given the scaremongering, even if profitability remained high? Nope. 2018 was a great year for sales growth for Intel, fastest growth they've seen in a decade.

They went from $55b in 2015 to $59b to $62b to $70b in sales, after many years of near-stagnation.

Surely Intel is seeing really bad erosion then in its most recent quarterly results? No - $6.5 billion in operating income last quarter. More than AMD's sales for the last four quarters combined. And one of the best quarterly profit figures Intel has ever generated.
I always liked Steve Job's analogy of the computer being a "bicycle for the brain," allowing an unleashing of creativity and efficiency never before seen. While macOS and Windows 10 machines are more expensive, they at least allow the user to install and use more software that capitalizes on the creativity of young minds. Yes, pretty much any system with a keyboard will allow for word processing, but what about drawing, photo and video editing, advanced page layout (yearbooks, school papers), music composition, and more. The Chromebook is great for schools because they can be locked down to the minimum number of apps and configurations to be supported instead of letting creativity fly. I wonder how many kids would might have become early hackers/programmers will be stunted by the limited ability of a ChromeOS device that was more convenient for the school district to manage.
Policing speech when someone is trying to make a point tongue in cheek about protecting the end user is 100x more insulting than him using the word retard.

Hence: Please don´t be anal like this.
Something not mentioned here is that ABCL[1] will run in DoppioJVM[2], but the startup time is on the order of an hour last time I tried, so it's not yet practical.

1: https://common-lisp.net/project/armedbear/

2: https://plasma-umass.org/doppio-demo/

[edit]

With the doppio demo linked, I get a REPL in about 2 minutes on chromium and under 5 on firefox. That's a huge improvement since I last tried.

Performance is not great though; I ran the gabriel "boyer" test and it was 0.288 second on openjdk 1.8 and 63 seconds on Doppio in chromium.
I'm not sure if to think that this is impressive, in that Pokemon GO has done really well and probably beaten every AR game sales record going in the process, or a tad disappointing, in that Pokemon GO could have arguably made even more money had Niantic kept up support and added requested features early on.
Or like my parents, use a well's water (not potable) for their toilets. That required a small dedicated tank, a small pump to a well, and dedicated pipes for the toilets.
Potable water is for all other needs (sink, shower, etc).
It is theft, but it's not amazon stealing it, it's somebody else. Amazon knows there is somebody scamming them, but, here's the kicker, they don't know if it's the caller complaining or the person placing the order.

The best thing to do is exactly what they said, file a chargeback and eventually Amazon can take action.

You'll notice the person running the website never cooperated with answering Amazon's questions, it's no wonder they didn't work with her. If you don't want to work with the merchant, then contact the credit card company. Not hard to figure out.
After the Amazon rep said "Amazon: This account has your information in it.", he never just tries to tell Amazon his number to see if that IS what is on the other account. Seems so odd to me. But regardless, as others have mentioned already, why would you not just cancel everything to get it sorted out like any other fraud that would happen?
It was mostly just a fun thing I decided to do to flex my newly-acquired awk skills.
Physical activity offsets genetic risk for incident depression
Just bc data doesn't leave the platform doesn't mean they are not selling products with it baked in. Maybe it's semantics, but if you buy an audience to target based on data that FB is capturing, you are buying user data.
Ah: "The end game here in many cases is for the seller to be able to pose as a verified purchaser and write a glowing review of their own product". Seems obvious now.
This is very exciting, thanks for creating this! I've been hoping for a way to build native apps via web technologies without the bloat.

Please let this be it.

.NET is such a good runtime.
> The default FreeBSD shell is tcsh. I was prepared to not have bash, but tcsh is quite alien in its syntax compared to regular POSIX sh.

All FreeBSD scripts I encountered use posix shell.

> does have a dependency on perl to get the current time in seconds from the Unix epoch. This is because FreeBSD's date does not have a way to get milliseconds in the time

One could just install the GNU coreutils (probably, not checked though, much less overhead than a full perl install) or kill that problem with very few lines of C.
Non-amp link: https://clark.com/shopping-retail/amazon-scam-brushing-warni...
Sounds like a pesky Rotom to me ;)
It would help this discussion if people made a distinction between software that creates diagrams from version-controlled code (e.g. PlantUML, MermaidJS), and software that just creates diagrams.
It's not so much the person as the account. Some merchants/processors get updated card information.

https://developer.visa.com/capabilities/vau
The Calm Before the Exascale Storm
"Needless to say I canceled my credit card and got a new one."

"In the past 24-hours I did a deep dive into my Amazon account and changed many passwords."
Not arguing with that. The thing with free speech so is to be aware of the consequences for society if the public discurs becomes based on opinions, distrust and partisanship instead of civility and facts.
I'm confused by this as well. It's either theft or the easiest business model...
Negative interest rates threaten to choke Australian bank IT systems
This has to be one of the most random issues of all time.
Does anyone else still torrent?

I rarely watch a tv show or a movie, but when I do I just torrent it. I've been doing this since Limewire (which was a lot of really shitty porn at the time).

Showed my boys Princess Mononoke the other day - will show them the Mandalorian tonight, a buddy told me its pretty good
If everyone did this, would Amazon bother to fix the problem?
countercounterpoint: he was choosing to sit in front of the television.
Hey, thanks for the word.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misophonia
He says he did cancel his card. I guess you're saying he should cancel his Amazon account? That's a bit of a drastic step, so I can understand not jumping to it immediately.
Visa, and other payment processors, offer updater services [1] that update your payment details with partner merchants when you get a new card.

[1] https://usa.visa.com/dam/VCOM/download/merchants/visa-accoun...
OED has given me many "ahhh!" moments.

Vodka being "little water" being a fave.

https://www.etymonline.com/word/vodka
I stand corrected, I wanted to provide some examples but I cannot reproduce this anymore.

From memory I do recall the +/- and "" operator being overriden if there was a "popular" search query that contained broader results than my specific query.

Specifically for the "" operator was that the query would drop "" so instead of showing x results which must include that expression it would show broader results as if the expression was not contained in "".
It works like this. Chase is trying to be helpful so let's say you set up your utility bill to go through their credit card. Now, you get a new card with Chase because you lost it. Chase can see that the old number and new number are both attached to your account history and the charge from the utility company has the same utility account number so they happily approve it for you so you don't have to change your utility billing. It isn't such an awful feature except in this case where you want it stopped. This is one argument for not using credit cards for recurring online bills and ACH instead. Most people love the rewards though.

We need better online payments options that prevent these scams. It would be nice to have the ability to whitelist and blacklist online vendors.
Previous: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21560166
California remains the top U.S. state for foreign students, yet enrollment falls
I would like to agree with you as I also think trying to find a pragmatic solution is easier than thinking in abstract terms like good/bad, but ultimately waste just takes us to questions about what is being wasted, and wasteful to who. It's a no brainer than relocating to somewhere to avoid emissions can be seen as wasteful for some industries. Besides, framing waste in purely monetary terms, just means that we need to balance the equation for profit, not to what is best for people. The question of alignment between profit and human welfare is still am ethical one.

You haven't reduced the complexity, just hidden it behind the facade of taking "pragmatic economic decisions".
I'm just trying to suggest ways to make it easier to read the comment. I suggest you read comments giving the poster the benefit of the doubt, you'll probably be much happier than telling people to bugger off.
I did not see this line in the report. Thanks. Still wondering what else can be done. If a credit card reissue doesn't solve the problem, I'd take that up with the issuer immediately.
Google censors and manipulates their queries, political too. They're heavy censors.

I recommend to get off of their search engine, go to DDG
Google Stadia review: impressive if you have fast Wi-Fi and tons of data
FedEx CapEx in $B '09-'18

$2.6,$3.4,$3.6,$3.6,$3.3,$3.8,$5.0,$5.0,$5.1,$5.6

Do you think the article fairly reflects the trends in the company's capital expenditures?
Yes. I made it flash 100ms-on-900ms-off for a ZERO, and 500ms-on-500ms-off for a ONE. There's a 1000ms-on-1000ms-off flash at the beginning to indicate the start point. And it's IPv4, so there's only 32 bits.

So it's slow enough to read out and type out into a text editor, then convert the typeout to its IP, but not slow enough that it's a bother.
Hey NYTimes is also a corporation. IMHO, NYT cannot hide under journalism, and write fakenews all the time.
They assigned you a case worker without you signing the Employment Agreement ? That sounds a bit strange to me since you clearly don't have full commitment to this offer yet. How did you accept the offer ? Verbally or in writing ?
100% agree. In the future public transportation will look inefficient compared to autonomous personal transportation.
> Were it not for the roads, the people would live in denser development

All other things being equal, without the roads people simply wouldn't have a place to live at all and would have to live and work somewhere else. See e.g. the SF Bay area for an idea of how bad things can get housing-wise.

But really the problem is that local laws artificially constrain the supply of housing. However it's not fair to blame that on road-building. The solution to a lack of housing is to build more houses (it's astonishing that one has to keep repeating this over and over and over again)
I've had this happen three times now, all with products I would be very unlikely to buy. After confirming that I was not charged for any of the three instances, I took the path of least resistance and donated the items (none of which were expensive) to a thrift store.

(The speculation I've read is that some manufacturers will buy their own products and send them to random addresses, in order to create fake reviews.)
English tl;dr: Gas Chromatography and “Positive Ion Electron Impact Low Resolution Mass Spectrometry” allow them to compare the samples with known samples from other oil fields. Since petroleum has organic origins, it’s footprint is pretty much specific to the environment it comes from.
Utah Legalizes Sex Outside Marriage After Governor Rolls Back 'Fornication' Law
You can easily change your login shell with chsh. If you install bash first, you can change your shell to bash. It's an inconvenience to change it, but changing the default is a major effort.
Ones that aren't garbage are valuable! Until the rest of the market adjusts, and then they're garbage.
Google Stadia Review Megathread
I'm not even sure what you're arguing anymore. Communism is bad? I agree.

It does nothing to support your assertion that any and all governments are inherently bad.
I believe Visa/MasterCard/etc will send processors like Stripe certain types of updates to card information.

See this section in the Stripe docs: https://stripe.com/docs/saving-cards#automatic-card-updates
Yes, I would've done that for a regular FreeBSD install. But as I wrote a little before that part, because it was a pfSense install, I decided not to install any additional `pkg` packages myself.
Heavily reminds me of the episode "Autofac" from television series "Electric Dreams," a major plot device of which is megacorp [in the show, obviously a satirical take on Amazon] delivering unwanted packages to the [apparent] last survivors of post-cataclysmic humanity
GNU coreutils are also available (and useful) on MacOS.
Is it even possible for a statistically significant predictor of stock market to be both known to the public and not garbage?
Show HN: Another 400 Lines Binance CryptoCurrency Bot but This One in JavaScript
It's exceedingly unlikely your American home is keeping graywater separate from blackwater. If it were, you would know, it would have been mentioned as it's quite exceptional.

California not long ago changed its laws regarding graywater handling in response to the sustained droughts. Now residents are permitted to divert graywater themselves for other purposes like irrigation and gardening. So it's become a little more common to find diverted graywater systems in response to this change, but they're often ad-hoc diy setups in drought-stricken regions.

You're right though, showers and laundry are huge wastes of water, at least relative to residential water use. Unlike toilets, they're also much harder/impossible problems to solve without the voluminous use of clean water. With toilets there are options like composting and incinerating, and in places with ocean access seawater can be used for flushing. Bathing and laundry don't really have alternatives.
The NYT article has an anecdote about how the CEO of Fedex met with Donald Trump two weeks after his election. Were they just having a good time?
Noise-canceling headsets work for repetitive noises that are easily predictable, such as engine noise. Human speech is very unpredictable, and noise-canceling headsets have very little impact on them. Turning up the volume on headphones quickly leads to hearing loss, and should never be the recommended solution.
Aside: I bet the people who use these avantgarde fonts on their blogs feel so classy, but they make the text so hard to read on mobile, even with text size enlarged. I wish there was an instant "turn all fonts to your favorite font" button on mobile browsers.
This can probably be used to speed up Transfer Learning.
Make is great, and I wish more people would use it in place of whatever monstrosity is en vogue this week.

However, there is one thing which Make absolutely cannot handle, and that is file names with spaces. If you have any risk of encountering these without any possibility of renaming them, you’ll sadly have to give up on using Make; it just won’t work.
Isn't this an attack vector? Why would even a device respond to wireless signals in such way that they reboot? So now you can send annoying packets instead of jamming the network.
SEO self-promoters who go to conferences, sell courses, expensive services, etc. They are an authority on search engines the way that Cokie Roberts was an authority on politics.

Most of them know very little about information retrieval other than having read a patent or two and managed to write several jumbled blog posts about it.

Google has long been disingenuous about how it works, very few "SEO people" will approach how bad it is like this guy does:

http://www.seobook.com/blog

I used to be involved in SEO, I used to roll out sites with an avalanche of content and links, and it was obvious that Bing did manual reviews because I would see the crawler stop, the pages would disappear from the search results, I would see the reviewers come in, then all of a sudden the site would get reindexed faster than it was before.

Bing's anti-spam strategy involved mostly not indexing smaller and independent sites -- Google used more automation and it could handle more abuse and did a much better job of hiding the fact that they did manual reviews. But you'd better believe if your SEO+AdSense site was making enough money you could quit your day job you would get a review even though Google claimed there was "no specific threshold" to trigger a review.
Some of the sounds (in addition to those already mentioned) that do (or have) driven me nuts: fast scraping to get last bit of yogurt from plastic container with plastic spoon, chewing/cracking gum where the chewer makes little air bubbles in the gum and then pops them (x10 if they're chewing with their mouth open), whistling, humming, tapping fingernails against table top, tapping foot against floor/chair/desk, digging in purse, cell phone ringing/dinging/alerts, sighing.

I once worked with a guy whose normal breathing made a whistling sound. I was sitting about 20 feet from him and one day I was about to go insane. I immediately bought a pair of Bose QC-15 headphones and it made all the difference in the world.

Currently, there's a lady who sits on the other side of my cubicle wall who wears a charm bracelet. The sound of her charm bracelet hitting and dragging across the desktop all day drives me batty.

I suppose I must have misophonia (first heard about it in this thread). There are times when I wish I were deaf.
For those who are coming from a music background, it's the sound you get when you play a sawtooth synth.
This looks like a great site. I'd say Seiko's are great movements to learn on in that their quality is high enough to last and price point is very reasonable. Even without working on the movement itself, swapping movements into different watch cases is a great exercise for someone new to watch-making. I was modding Seiko's for a few years and usually could at least make a few dollars on Ebay selling them.

The ETA 6497 is maybe one of the best movements for beginners as it is larger all around and still very inexpensive.
Uh yeah, thanks for pointing out what we were already trying to fix.
No moderator touched this article. It was affected by a couple of standard software filters.
It's a common feature of payment processors to reduce the number of transaction failures due to expired but not updated payment records. Here's Braintree's page on it: https://www.braintreepayments.com/features/account-updater
Is Morse ab efficient way to present dotted-quads, it doesn't seem like it would be?
I get _capital investments are going down_ from that. I don't know how you are reading _near zero_ from it. It doesn't get more "passing reader" than me in this case, I know nothing about what happened here and I have zero interest in finding out.
>opt-in doesn't bother me.

If it stays that way
It's a fair question & I don't have a good answer. The city I enjoyed visiting the most was probably New York, but I'd hate to live there. All the large cities I've lived in (Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, London, Glasgow) have been piss poor. Essentially I think truly 'large' cities (over a million or so) are inconducive to human flourishing.

But Australia (1) crushes its small population into a few huge cities (almost uniquely so I think for a non-city state?), and (2) is horrible at all urban scales. Is there anything as ugly as (say) Coffs Harbour (essentially a strip mall with cardboard suburbs) outside of the US?
They still might be more of a jerk than they think. Someone with self image issues might still treat others miserably, for example...
I can understand this is your deep, gut reaction - "sue them!", but have you ever been to small claims court? Are you aware that most ToS define the resolution mechanism which includes the jurisdiction?
The possibility of growth is at least there if Bolsanaro can mitigate the gross inefficiency of government corruption that has plagued Brazil for so long. See Operation Car Wash for the tip of the iceberg. His politics are almost incidental; the leftists would still be in power if they hadn't habitually robbed the state of its seed money.
Picat: Logic-based multi-paradigm programming language
Second PlantUML and Mermaid. Both work great in boostnote, which I also recommend.
Who actually uses Smalltalk? All I've ever seen is people talking about how great it is. What are some big examples of popular open source or commercial software built with it?
Or, that seeking profit isn't inherently evil? Maybe it's working as designed? Poor journalism will suffer profits (at least we hope). Good journalism will attract more profits.
I find it hard to believe that a company with a market cap in billions can't afford, say, a dozen of developers to maintain its open source drivers.
Yes, I think it does.

FedEx's lobbying efforts argued reduced taxes would allow them to increase capital spending more than they would have otherwise. Instead, they look to have stuck to their trendline - and 2019's estimated is flat.

Draw those numbers on a chart and it doesn't look like the tax cut generated much of a boost: https://marketrealist.imgix.net/uploads/2018/09/Capex-2.png?...

Article from which the chart is drawn: https://articles2.marketrealist.com/2018/09/a-look-at-fedexs...