skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Also, certain types of strains are more introspective than others.

Hasn't this largely proven to be untrue though ?
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Not everyone understands what is unacceptable behavior?

I mean, if you go to a restaurant, a movie theatre, or a supermarket, do you know how NOT to be an asshole? It's not hard. Most people can manage it on a day-to-day basis.

I don't know where you're veering off to in your last sentence either. Weird.
>In most states you can use deadly force to protect your life, not your property.

Actually in most states you can use deadly force to protect your property, what is generally not permitted is using deadly force to protect others property.
It's official data released by Chinese. Which helps explain why Han Chinese are on top of the list.
There is - I guess it's not super easy to find. But if you go to the main documentation page, it's under the "Prologue" heading.
49 U.S. Code § 24308 says "Amtrak has preference over freight transportation in using a rail line, junction, or crossing unless the Board orders otherwise under this subsection" [0]

In practicality, I agree with you that freight lines abuse this without consequence.

[0]: https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/49/24308
I do not think it is the SEO, but Google adapting to its less-technical userbase (people who search for "facebook" and click the first result).

It makes sense for this target audience to give broad results. They seem to be relying more on neural language models to accomplish this.

Google also surfaces more authoritative results than Bing, Google thus favors bigger commercial sites.

Google is suprisingly good on vague searches (for instance, describing a singer's appearance and song themes will return the name), but getting worse on "conspiracy"-type searches (you will not find many amateur sites discussing the high-class escort past of the First Lady, because these lack authority, all results focus instead on the massive fine for posting allegations).
Constant coughing and throat clearing drive me up the wall. I despise working around most smokers as many of them have this unconscious, horrid smoker's cough that they do a few times a minute on average, it seems (I haven't actually counted). But any constant throat clearing sets me off and I usually have to leave or I can't focus on anything.

The type of throat clearing I'm talking about is when someone really just needs a good, deep cough but for whatever reason they won't, and are constantly doing this "Ah-hmmmm" sound. Once doesn't bother me. Every 30 seconds is maddening.

More generally, I think this can be extrapolated to frequently recurring sounds with unpredictable intervals.
Merely that a coating that retains total choice in colours is more flexible than one that limits the range of colours possible.

And presumably that's part of the contribution here - a nonstick toilet that doesn't look like the ones you get on planes and trains already.

Also, the current fashion in my country is for white toilets - you go to a bathroom showroom, ~95% of what's on display will be white. A design that doesn't require a change in fashions is simpler than one that needs tastes to change.
Exceptional access is an architectural issue, and does not need to depend in any way on weakening of encryption. This presumes a logically implemented plan to offer exceptional access. Earlier this year, one commenter on HN pointed out a few trivial schemes to offer exceptional access in a way that doesn't compromise the encryption.

The concerns about exceptional access are about custody and access controls. If you share a secret with a 3rd person (LEO, IC, tech company), the possibility of that secret being leaked has gone up by some non-zero amount. The design of exceptional access mechanisms is therefore not only technological and procedural, but also political, etc.

For the arguments about "you cannot stop math", the concern is about the deployment of strong encryption, without exceptional access -- at scale. Policy dictates implementation of encryption at scale (by major tech companies), not math. Individuals and businesses will still be free to deploy their own encryption that doesn't offer exceptional access. It's unlikely that encryption itself will ever be attempted to be outlawed. If, for instance, you want to xor every bit of your comms with a OTP that you've shared with your overseas partner, it's unlikely that such a thing will ever be outlawed on Western public networks.

Likely, the concerns for LEO and the Intelligence Community are related to "going dark at scale" - meaning that if the big tech companies were to entirely lock out the possibility of exceptional access, the job of the criminal to hide from LEO would become trivial and accessible to all levels of criminals.
More chemical waste in our water system. There's nothing wrong with the amount of water we currently use to flush our toilets. Now, there's something to be said for a cleaner flush, but another solution to that problem - with many other benefits - is to consume more fiber
Have you actually used Twitter since 2016?
Not exactly...

turning off radios would prevent inadvertent/automatic transmissions

disabling transponders would reduce footprint on more modernized port control radars

not using radar from ownship reduces the chance of being seen

all these together would render the ship's ELINT footprint down to an old school blob on whatever radar plot

that's about as anonymous as you can get without active countermeasures and those are VERY obvious
I saw the title and immediately knew it was Jessa Jones. For anyone looking for great content that's highly technical but more on a practical "everyday problems" side of things I highly recommend her YouTube channel "iPad Rehab". Due to regressive tactics against electronics right to repair a ton of content creators in the industry are forced into more open sharing of their knowledge/techniques through avenues like YouTube which makes for great TV.

Jessa's (and her team's) stuff is of an outstandingly high quality!
Absolutely ridiculous that the Mac app requires Catalina. Especially for a _ticketing_ system. What if you are a company that makes 32bit apps? What a dumb restriction. When they released the beta for Jira for Mac it was before Catalina was even out! So you had to test the beta software _on beta software_!
I didn't meant the Flirc case so much as the machined, high-dollar one. The Flirc one looks great, esp. for $15.
Honestly, I do. I've placed a bucket in the sink to capture waste water from washing hands, which is then reused for flushing the toilet after depositing... liquid contents in it. It saves a bit off the water bill and also made me realize just how much water I use up when washing hands...

Of course I hide the bucket when guests come, it's too weird a thing - but in all honesty, I've wished many times for a system for capturing sink & shower water in a tank, for use in toilet. The standard practice is inefficient.

EDIT: I didn't know the term "greywater" before, and after reading https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greywater I'm having second thoughts about my scheme. If the city is actually treating greywater and water from toilets separately, then I guess it makes sense to let the sink water drain. But then again, that's a huge if. I'll need to take a closer look at my indoor plumbing and read up on the water treatment scheme in my area.
It feels like this was posted quite a bit before it was fully finished, as it stands it is simply a ranked list with a map next to it. It doesn't really help in visualising the dataset.
Yes, because if we're comparing the merits of one system to the other it's important to remember the goal is to move people and things where they want to be, not maximize people-miles.

And we already redesigned every city in the country, so clearly it's an option.
Something I have wondered a couple times when this comes up: When people say "Water bill", do they mean solely water, or water + sewer?

Where I live, the two are bundled, and the total bill is also higher than our internet bill. (~$100 for water vs $75 for internet)

I live in Iowa, which doesn't have Great Lakes levels of water lying around, but we also have no shortage of the stuff.
The Times newsroom doesn't posit premises (and certainly not the one you suggest) or debate tax policy, it reports facts. I find the ignorance on the basics of journalism and its role in American society on hacker news to be shocking and embarrassing.
This isn't very insightful nor is this well executed.
This seems like a really short blog post on the subject. Is there anything that goes into greater detail, esp. with Linux perf tools?
In some locales if someone is in your home while you are there, regardless if you entered after them, they're a danger to your life and it is permissible to use deadly force.

Home invasions and burglaries where someone is home are so rare where I live they make the state news when they happen.

The only time I've heard of someone being successfully sued was after executing a home invader who had already been shot and lying unconscious/dead, all caught on camera. Course they also went to jail.
The Redemption of Scientific Reason
Oh I see that now. Its not very obvious at first glance what is being illustrated.
The whole point of IQ is that it tests common factor (as in factor analysis) underlying different tests. There is known correlation between different testing methods.
I wish the argument against pollution would be the simplest one.

Go to a massively unpopulated area and just breath. Feel the difference? Isn't it intoxicating?

Who gives a crap if umpires make worse calls? Just fight pollution because it's obvious pollution is bad for humans and the planet.

Normally I'm all for extra evidence, but in a situation like this come on. It's basically like immaterial evidence against genocide by saying, I don't know, saying the increased production of bullets to commit genocide reduces national science and health budgets by 12% (fake stat just for context). Who cares! It's just plain bad.

/rant

(ps - rant isn't against the article, but a broader frustration about the topic)
Not a hologram in the sci-fi sense, but still very cool.

From what I gather, this is the same tech used in a 3DS - scaled up to an impressive scale.
I think it would be great if the tax was straightforward and simple and what it was going to be spent on was also clearly defined as part of the "bill". As it stands today, neither side of that equation is in any way simple or transparent.

That being said, it's a non-story that people will use all the laws available to them to lower their taxes. They are after all the actual tax law and not "holes", as tempting as it is to label them that.
Starts with monitoring. Awair or laseregg are good quality monitors. Then you can assess how well filters work.

I think there are masks you can use outside too. You can also check which times of day/days are worst. And which streets. You can carry the laseregg around for local measures.
>Fedex isn’t just challenging the facts.

But they are also challenging the facts, and then refusing to state what facts are incorrect.
> and go full retard with it.

Please don't use language like this.
Wow. That was quite an article. Cheers. (And thank you for wearing your bias on your sleeve! I mean that sincerely. It's very helpful.)

FWIW, when I talk about Cybernetics I pretty much mean what's in Ashby's "Introduction to Cybernetics". I don't find much value personally in the "second-order" cybernetics and all that.

I figure that Beer believed his own shtick, but, man, you make it sound bad.
I'm going to second this for web searches. My results lately for either geopolitical or tech have been oddly broad as well. Even though I try to find specific information on a topic, the website results (I don't do their news searches often, can't speak to that one) always have a "trendy" vibe to them. Even if I'm looking for tutorial or technical info, there's been more search-result attention devoted to puff-piece blog articles roughly related to what I want. Like they are more focused on the political aspect of what I want instead of giving me what I want.

I've been noticing it for the past 3 or 4 weeks. I've been thinking my google-fu has been weakening. Glad to know I'm not the only one.
Yes but they might be people you love and care about
Analog computing is much more efficient than digital one. For example, you can perform a multiplication of two numbers using a single transistor (or memristor/etc), if you only need the equivalent of 8 bits precision. An 8 bit digital multiplier needs about a thousand transistors. The other major advantage is that you don't need to move data from memory to the processor - once you put your data into memory, you can do computation right there on the spot ('in memory computing').
Ironically, the Soviet cyberneticists (Kantorovich and especially Glushkov) were decried as secretly capitalistic for not employing enough central control!

They were still working on a planned economy, but their goal was to create a system where economic components could send signals to dictate their requirements upwards, essentially self-organizing necessary inputs. (The differences between that and capitalism being that a central administrator could set priorities, and the value of final goods wasn't to be determined by "what people are willing to pay" but "what's been allotted".)

Any system that can adjust its behavior to circumstances involves 'control'. Really, anything that responds to stimuli at all has some control component. Confusing that with centralization or a lack of autonomy suggests that Lloyd is missing something pretty fundamental about the history of cybernetics.
http://staruml.io/
Yes they can, but they can not
Communicating technical concepts to non-technical people
What a worthless site! The UI is awkward, the data very shallow, the visualization provides no insight or understanding. It all could have been a static graph. Why did you even post this, moigonz?
Measurements from PurpleAir's network of public sensors are available for free.

It's a useful tool if the locals in the area that you're interested in are using PurpleAir's sensors.

https://www.purpleair.com/map?opt=1/mAQI/a10/cC0#1/25/-30
Nice to know we are exporting something
I replied this in another comment but think it is worth repeating here:

We're experiencing a product made by the underground cannabis community for that community -- habitual consumers. The tolerance level of a habitual consumer is really high. So, for decades, breeders chose to continue growing the strongest strain, every time, for years and years. Then, when commercial players entered the market, they took those high-thc strains and put them through even greater quality controls, making strains even more potent.

So, while people in the US do want everything bigger and "better", this doesn't apply to casual alcohol consumption. Americans aren't hammering down shots of grain alcohol. For casual drug use, though, there's a wider preference. The cannabis product that growers and breeders are making was crafted for the OG cannabis community. As they make their own strains with mass appeal, those strains will be far friendlier to casual consumption.
Stock buybacks serve important purposes that are often overlocked when this topic comes up. One major purpose of stock buybacks is to reduce the company's cost of capital. With debt financing being so cheap right now, we've seen fedex significantly increase it's long term debt.

For fedex, using their cash to buy back stock improves their overall financial picture because even if they need to raise more debt to financing their business, their overall cost of capital actually decreased - because the carrying cost of debt is cheaper then equity!
I'm assuming Delhi?

Not much you can do except get out. I've already started moving out for the first 2-3 weeks of November and working from a city like Panjim
The apartment was illegal, possibly not zoned for residential or not up to code. The act of helping someone move would not be illegal. He had every right to sue.
Great point. I’ll have to dream up another dystopian fate for SSH.
I think there are many factors that should be controlled for in these evaluations. I know for me getting enough sleep and being in good health make a big difference in how sensitive I am to environmental distractions.
Motorcycles are more hassle than both bikes and cars (licensing, attire, helmets) and a WAAAAAAAY more dangerous (about 40 times as likely to die per mile was the figure in the California Motorcycle Safety Course, if memory serves). They're also a pretty big expense since for most people they won't replace a car, and you still need to insure/maintain a motorcycle.

I'm very pro-motorcycle but bicycles have a much lower barrier to entry.
Has this study been replicated? It seems a lot like one of those terrible “priming” studies that won’t.

Statistics aside, the experimental methodology is terrible. You ask a bunch of people to think about being poor, or not, and that’s supposed to be a simulation of being poor or not?
From http://marxfood.com/a-guide-to-fish-terminology/:

> Whole/In The Round: Whole fish or fish “in the round” are being sold completely intact, exactly as they were caught.

>Drawn/Gutted: Drawn fish are whole fish that have been gutted

>Headed & Gutted: Headed & gutted fish have had their viscera (guts) and head removed.

I'm native speaker who has never heard this particular jargon :-)
Installing Apache Kafka with Ansible [audio]
Out of curiosity, how are you defining the two? I ask because a lot of people tend to define them at "enjoys interactions with (larger numbers of) people" vs "does not enjoy interactions with (larger numbers of) people". The definition I like is that an extrovert gains (emotional) energy from interacting with people, while for an introvert those same interactions are draining. Both can enjoy the interactions, it's just a matter of how long they can sustain it.
>> And the nice thing about it, that not using 0 and 1 makes the whole thing add up to reality in an elegant fashion. Adding 0 and 1 breaks that.

I really don't see the "elegance" in having to accept that I may be in a strange mental state were reality is unkonwable, in order to describe reality.

I mean, at the end of the day, if you follow down that path you find yourself having to argue that Hillary Clinton might, actually, be the PotUS, and I may be brain damaged or something, you never know. That's just absurd and there's no practical point in it. It's just a waste of time.
Yes, And Good Riddance
Chick-fil-A is ending donations criticized by LGBTQ activists after backlash
At least in the U.S., the reason we don't have backdoors in private encryption systems today is because of public outcry during the first "crypto wars" in the late 1990s/early 2000s.

In general, there is plenty of hard proof that public advocacy works in the U.S. See the entire environmental and union movements, for example.

Feigning helplessness in the face of corruption is not as insightful or clever as you think, and contrary to what you might think, works to suppress citizen engagement rather than spur it. "You have no power" is what your opponents want you to think. What are you helping them convince people it's true?

The reality is that citizens absolutely have the ability to affect their governments, and should make it clear that mandating encryption backdoors is not acceptable policy.
As I said, I fully agree that people have the right to deny the request.
Anyone want to review this table and suggest a currently commercially available option in the $300 and lower price range? I may have time this afternoon but if anyone does go thorough it I'm interested to know.
The disturbance of sound is the invasiveness it has on your sphere of control. It forces your control of your present attention to be taken away from you against your will by others.

This is why you might like the 'noise' produced by you voluntarily as in e.g. playing a 'busy office noise ambience' from YouTube through your headphones or speakers , while hating the 'real' office noises around you or even the same track played by your coworker.
> 75Ohm gave the lowest loss

The lowest loss of a selection of cable diameters I presume. I'd think lower loss can be achieved with greater diameters (lower specific capacitance), but costs will be prohibitive.
These are "major weapons", things like: aircraft, Anti-submarine warfare weapons, self-propelled and towed guns, Satellites, engines for combat ships, all turrets for armoured vehicles fitted with a gun of at least 12.7 mm calibre.
No, 100 of 100 "may" have this.
People put with noise far more than they have to. Here are a few of my experiences:

- moved into an office where a very noisy dot-matrix printer printed out every opening and closing of a door in the building. Nobody ever looked at the printouts. I unplugged it and put it in a dumpster. Nobody ever complained.

- working for an oil company, my boss was sitting next to a big HP plotter that was horribly noisy - he wore industrial-strength hearing protectors all the time, which didn't help if you wanted to phone him. I suggested that moving the plotter would be a good idea (there were lots of places to put it), but as usual with engineering companies, a sensible solution is not top of the list.

- howling air conditioning - that place I left after a couple of weeks.

Bottom line, there is no way you have to put up with noise - stand up for yourselves and just say "no".
except it is accurate and researched by some of the best investigators in the world, so there's that
I see no mention of genetic predisposition to hating office noise. 23andme looks for a marker that indicates hating the sound of chewing, misophonia. Maybe something similar is at play for other noises.
publishing only one side of the story is a lie, or do you think Russian intelligence asked him to be fully honest?
There are some interesting suggestions here.

Another (free) is https://tosdr.org , which reviews many agreements but I don't know of a diff feature in it.

I have read & then saved agreements to a common directory (with memorable names & dates) when agreeing to them, and wrote a little script (assumes *nix) that basically converts the html to text using w3m or such, shortens lines (or every long line looks different), then runs diff. Maybe I could post it at my simple site if there is interest (or see lukecall.net for an email address in the footer, and ask).

(Of course, that doesn't work for the ones that don't let you save the agreement content, short of doing a screen capture.)

(I posted my thoughts or rants about this problem at http://lukecall.net/e-9223372036854587150.html , and will add a link to this discussion as a resource.... Hm. My page links to a related discussion on slashdot.org where a minority of comments are somewhat interesting, like the one with "IAAL" in its text.)

Is there some movement to standardize ToS and such agreements, so you can just recognize "oh yeah, it's just agreement #7 again" and not have to bother further (similarly to CC or known FLOSS licenses?)
Can the user un-set it aside and spend it on something else?
When the downturn came I took a sabbatical in Berlin
Chinese government reaffirms 'Blockchain, not crypto' stance
it's not disinformation when a handful of countries all agree he's a criminal and a fugitive

i don't know why you feel like expending heatfelt energy protecting a russian intelligence asset
I don't think you'd get the protection from lateral forces on the straight sections. Just a little bit of curve transfers the cross force down the whole curve.

The gist is, if i push on a brick in the middle of a flat part, the force has to be resisted by the width of the single brick. but if i push on any part of the curve, that's got to lift the adjacent next level up bricks as well, which in turn have to lift the next level, and on and on.

It's been a long, long time since i studied static forces though.