skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here in California, insanely high levels of mercury have been found in cougars and mountain lions in the mountains between Santa Cruz and the Bay Area. Current research shows the fog has been picking up mercury from the ocean and delivery to our doorstep. I liked the infographic in this article:

https://www.sfchronicle.com/environment/article/Fog-brings-p...

I think one of the problems is even with tough regulation that we have here in California, it's hard to control the actions of all individuals.

We have "spare the air days" and half my neighbors houses still have smoke coming out of their chimneys on those days because they use wood to heat their homes. You can narc them out and report them however the current workaround is for them to claim it's backyard pizza ovens as there is a loophole for cooking food.

When I leave for work in the morning or come home at night and see all the smoke rising laugh to myself that everyone we live nearby is having a massive backyard pizza party and we are not invited! :(

There's also this ridiculously persistent anti electric vehicle roll coal trend happening right now on Tik Tok and platforms where the current fox tag objective a lot of people play on CB radios is to bag a Tesla - benchmark used to be to bag a Prius. I only know about this mainly because my old coworker commuted from Placerville to San Mateo and was obsessed with playing fox tag on his commutes (which would make sense if you're a mega commuter trying to stay awake so making up dumb nicknames with your friends and all keeping each other awake on your CB radios and talking as you drive sounds fun to you).

Anyways... I've just sort of internalized the fact that more and more nonsmokers here are all going to die of lung cancer and hopefully the research and cell therapy trials will get there first before I and my family go out. :(
Designing an Ethical Algorithm, with Michael Kearns
How to Define a Minimum Viable Product
> Does that mean she's somehow aware of capitalism, mass production, or American culture?

Yes.

You seem to disconnect in your thought the very fact that these production models are American culture. The indigenous operation of markets before imperialism would basically use different production models and produce different goods.

The very thing you're describing is a consequence of American cultural hegemony.

Edit: Of course culture never occurs in a vacuum and transculturation goes both ways. Also I'm not denying advantages or affirming disadvantages of the current state of transculturation between cultures. I'm simply pointing out that we (US-influenced western etc etc) are so deeply into it that we don't even perceive it as "ours" and simply perceive it as "the way things are"
While retrotink's likely about the better option for composite and s-video, it's unfortunately not OSHW.

There's hope they'll add support for composite/s-video/rgbi to OSSC at some point, be it a new revision or a daughterboard. I'll survive until then... so far I haven't needed those inputs fortunately. If I can mod the source to output rgb I'll always do that.
> Do you agree with Aquinas’ corollary, that absent an actual infinity, there must be some First Cause, which we call God?

Note that even if you agree with Aristotle’s position, which is essentially an arbitrary assumption, and the corollary that there must then be a first cause, there's nothing except the boat of being stepped in a particular religious tradition to suggest that the first cause should have any of the other traits of any particular concept of God. It works just as well to take the earliest known thing on the sequence of causes and say “this cause is uncaused”.
NYC tried removing their trash cans in a few stations but people just threw their trash on the tracks, increasing the number of track fires.

My understanding is that after the sarin gas attack in Tokyo, people there are much less likely to eat or drink in the train system as almost everyone who died in that attack was consuming something. So there’s less trash in general over there.
True, but these requests cannot be made simultaneously. The code is loaded only when the UI needs it.
I think `micro` will do.. not sure about cursor based cut-paste though..
Northern Ireland? Or Northeast England?
The banality of saying "all software has bugs" to begin an argument can only serve to distract. It's software whataboutism.
Actually other inmates would be a great resource for an attorney referral. You could joke, or think common sense, would say you don't want the same lawyer as anyone who has been convicted...but the reality is even the best criminal defense lawyers will lose. You will be able to find people who have been charged with similar crimes or find convicts who have previously been charged with similar crimes and got off, but are in for something else now.
How is this better than TeXmacs?
There was a great podcast interview with Dr. Karen Clay about this finding and area of research back on November 7th.[0]

She discusses how they evaluate the effect from wildfires. Also, how they trace sources by analyzing PM2.5 composition--but how that's becoming much harder as the mix of these particles is becoming much more ambiguous than it used to be. Good wonky discussion of the science.

Not in the interview, but another of the surprising things I read about local pollution from transportation over the last year is that tailpipe emissions are now a minority of PM2.5 contributions from most cars.

Tailpipes have become cleaner over the last few decades, so braking and tire wear now contribute as much. The biggest contributor is something called "resuspension." Vehicles slowly grind up debris or roadway surfaces into finer and finer dust, then kick it into the air where it just hangs.

The implication is that average vehicle weight, prevalence of regenerative braking, and frequency of street cleaning can all have much more significant impacts on local pollution than other measurers you might expect, like fuel efficiency, emissions check programs, or even electrification.[1][2]

[0] https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/neolibpodcast/Karen_Clay_f...

Don't be thrown by the podcast name, the discussion of the underlying science is very apolitical.

[1] Local pollution is obviously not the same as CO2, which requires a different analysis and is more from tailpipes. But the scientific consensus is that PM2.5 leads to 200,000 early US deaths a year, and as the above podcast mentions, we're not just talking about the elderly or infirm. These are independently important issues.

[2] EVs have many advantages, but, counterintuitively, removing the tailpipe only marginally reduces PM2.5 from roadways:
https://www.ridef2.com/blog-del-direttore-ridef/will-electri...

I don't take from that that EVs are bad-- just that we need to combine it with other efforts and technologies to reduce local pollution.
> But I completely reject the idea that only 5 people in world are smart enough to set up their own build configs.

There's a rather irritating tendency to frankly insult the intelligence of anyone that's not working on $BIG_NAME_PACKAGE, as though the people working on these libraries are from outer space and not (most often) rather regular humans who've ended up on particular career paths due to planning and/or being strategically positioned at the right time.

For some reason it's particularly prevalent in the JS community, where it especially does not make any sense considering that it's a very active open-source scene with plenty of people pointing out bugs and submitting fixes to popular packages every day. I wonder if it's a frontend web dev thing in general - it's common to see people make similarly hyperbolic statements about CSS (no, it's not that hard to centre a div, and even if it was it says more about you if you agonise over it every time you encounter it and not just, I don't know, save the working snippet somewhere and refer to it when you need it).
Nancy Pelosi Pushes to Remove Legal Protections for Online Content in Trade Pact
That's why you don't go to isolated places like Maldives (unless you are utterly addicted to diving and surfing) but rather Indonesia... you can spend years travelling around discovering places, culture, people, food etc.

Met plenty of people stuck in travelling mode for years, but yeah they don't just lie around the beach (most of the time).
Exactly why I used the MIT license, even if it is on my ultimately non important stuff. I'd rather it was out there (potentially) being used by anyone that wants to for whatever purpose.
If we have any need to do tomorrow, had better start now.
Yeah it is transparently a fucked up assymetrical system in that behavior that looks like it should be grounds for disbarring a judge for not being impartial is instead expected behavior and /not/ doing so would itself be judicial misconduct for allowing blatant hearsay.
To add to your comment:

Definition of isolationism

: a policy of national isolation by abstention from alliances and other international political and economic relations

Further reading. American Isolationism in the 1930s[1].

[1] https://history.state.gov/milestones/1937-1945/american-isol...
Hair dye and chemical straightener use and breast Ca risk in large US population
> If that is true, why do countries spend money on development aid?

1) so people from benefiting countries don't want to immigrate to the paying country (or to put it differently - aren't as motivated to leave because the differences are smaller)

2) so the paying country has somebody to sell their stuff to
Historically, it has always been understood that companies only pay income tax in their country of residence. BMW isn't taxed on its US income by the US, just like Google isn't taxed on its German income by Germany. I think it's more accurate to say that the so-called "Google tax" is actually a tariff on Internet services. Traditionally, tariffs were only levied on imported goods but the concept works for services as well. That said, if a country unilaterally imposes tariffs, it shouldn't be surprised to see retaliatory tariffs in return.
If they don't, the people who forced Chef to drop their contract owe them a BIG apology. It's completely unfair to harass the little guys while the Microsoft's and Oracle's of the world continue, unaffected.
to operate in spain they would have to have registered spanish or eu companies

edit: spain is merely taxing legal entities within their jurisdiction not in US
I could not agree more.
For years I was just doing things for the sake of being busy.. crossing tasks off my todo list on a daily basis.
I felt so accomplished, however, I was not really getting a lot of useful work done!

--------------------------

What did I do?

- I started thinking about the tasks I needed to do, assessing if they were actually important to begin with.

- I often found that they were not adding value to my product (DarwinMail[1]) and so I discarded them.

- I also quickly completed any task that would take 5 minutes or less to complete.

--------------------------

What was the result?

- About a year on and I have a successful product (well, success in my head is a product which has thousands of users of which at least hundreds love the product and could not live without it).

- I feel more successful, more fulfilled and a greater sense of accomplishment.

[1] https://www.darwinmail.app
I am not a lawyer. I have not studied law, and do not know what comments are innocuous to make, and what comments would be used against me. I do not know what constitutes an alibi in the eyes of the law. I do not know what questions police are legally allowed to ask.

It is unreasonable to expect a person to know the detailed workings of the legal system. It is therefore unreasonable for there to be any negative consequences whatsoever for waiting until there is a legal expert present.
> High speed rail could share track with commuter lines in some cases

Having ridden those very commuter lines, I can say that is not an option here. They are limited to 40mph along those routes because they follow a very windy path along the shoreline. There have been derailments from trains going too fast.
> English Law (which is where the American system came from) is ingenious. It is the crown jewel of liberalism.

Lol, wut?
The Arctic is warming much faster than the rest of the Earth
It's also worth noting that Danger was Ansy Rubin's company. He sold it and then started Android, which was originally envisioned to have a physical keyboard as well.
Well, we are indeed quite busy ignoring all those issues very hard!
The point I was flagging up was the dissonance of corporate hiring policies relative to their use of third party code.

For hiring, no chance you'd get that policy past corporate HR in any large company. Try hiring a developer sight unseen to work remotely with no contract in any large organization and see how well that goes.

Yet companies effectively do just that with 3rd party library use. the reason the CEO doesn't do anything isn't likely to be because they've made an informed risk decision on the topic, it's because no-one is telling them the risks :)
BDD-like asserts “X should Y”, “A equals to B” for Go
> This leads to a new problems (why this set of laws vs. some other), unless you posit that the laws are somehow perfect or necessary

Those problems are only problems with the aesthetic preference that the universe be perfect or necessary. Once you accept that the universe can be without adhering to any such aesthetic preference, they cease to be problems.
Stratechery https://stratechery.com/

Rachel by the Bay https://rachelbythebay.com/

Jessie Frazelle https://blog.jessfraz.com/

The Grugq https://gru.gq/

Matt Green https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/

Rob Graham https://blog.erratasec.com/

Cindy Otis: http://www.cindyotis.com/articles.html

Maciej Cegłowski (pinboard, idlewords) https://idlewords.com/
My thoughts exactly. It's too complex for anything I'v ever needed.
No. They can do business with whoever they want as long as doing so doesn't break any law.

The world will never fully conform to anyone's vision, get over it.
Some of the English samples by non-natives were completely incomprehensible. I hope the system learns to be accent free.
Definitely incorporating this into my software engineering course. Thanks for this!
Extreme Ownership is an excellent book on the topic (or so peoole tell me, I started reading it today actually).
"some idiotic mess CRA has made that a 3-line patch to a config file would fix, but I can't fix that without ejecting, which all the advice tells them not to do. Often it's proxy problems, sometimes it's something else"

Would you mind providing some examples?

It would be handy to know exactly what they are running into... so I do not.
Long lines at Tesla Supercharger stations in the US reveal a big hurdle
Try "The Manager's Path" by Camille Fournier.

http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920056843.do
She Sold Her First Business for $50M and Is Now Reinventing Personal Shopping
The word "exchange" has become a swearword and fraudulent concept after all the millions of scams in the crypto currencies world.
These taxes stuff are just reaction on Trump's bullshits.
Not really. The way I explained it wasn't clear.

Usually a loophole is more complicated like the Double Irish with the Dutch Sandwich which requires some complex maneouvering on the part of the company to pay minimal tax.

I run a small business and that kind of thing is beyond my capabilities and would also cost too much but not for Google.

That's what I assumed you meant by loopholes... my explanation of the process was a bit too simplistic.

To me, a loophole is looking through all the laws and saying, "ooh, if we put our money here, then declare this thing, we can show a loss that allows us a rebate on a particular tax" or something... it's a symptom of excessive complexity in our tax systems.

I don't blame organisations for doing it.
> the amount of times you miss-click because something pops in suddenly and moves the button you wanted down the page

Browsers should have an option to let you send click events to what was under the mouse 200ms before it was registered. But it would be a colossal PITA to implement.
It depends what you mean by "understood".

For me it is obvious that BMW should pay taxes in US for cars sold in US. Are they taxfree there?

And Google should pay tax in country where they sell given good - assuming a tax can be goods based.
Europeans like me like America because they are very vocal about freedom and liberty but we are waking up to the reality that it's all talk.

The USA behaves like Russia and China, they spy on foreigners, influence their elections, start unjustified wars for oil and generally have a very low regard for freedom and liberty outside of their soil.

USA are not the good guys and Russia and China are not the bad guys they are just powerful, and USA are clearly loosing that power to Russia and China.

> If so, is it that they're less fearful of reprisals (tariffs?)

These sorts of threats only work on small poorly established countries and Europeans know it. We wrote the game Americans are playing and I hope they learn from our mistakes, or they will end up like us.
...Or maybe refusing to work with an inhumane administration is the ethical thing to do because it raises awareness of the public which is the only way to modify an administration's bad behavior ?

Enforcement is supposed to serve the public and the public has the right to tell the enforcement when the job is badly done. It is very different than to be against enforcement.

Lastly, I hope that sone shareholders may want to associate themselves with humanistics valors because they are human being too.
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Hey guys,

I was thinking of hosting a weekly Show HN inspired meetup in Bangalore where fellow hackers would come and showcase what they've built.

If you are from Bangalore and interested in this, reach out to me on [ hi at sid dot wtf ]
Its outright fraud, as if you’re a big enough customer, carriers will show you under NDA their real coverage estimates over a broad geography, give you quality projections at any geographic point, or even do a drive and get real time metrics in specific conditions.

So they know what’s real.
Apple is inserting itself as law enforcement. That's what the OP is about. So they should do it right.

Also, please refrain from snide remarks, per HN commenting guidelines. Let your arguments stand on their merits.
Pay attention to the record and intentions of your legislative candidates, and go vote if you don't like what the government buys, or what kinds of institutions your politicians have asked the Federal government to take over.

ICE will have Git hosting, this is not where your perceived injustice is occurring.
There are many real tax loopholes even by your definition.

For example, there is an interaction between US and Dutch laws that essentially means that US companies that transfer copyright to Dutch subsidiaries don't owe any tax to anyone on the profits from that copyright (it's something like this: Dutch laws say that the tax is payed in the country of origin, US laws say that the tax is payed in the country where the copyright owner resides).
Nearly twice the emissions with over four times the population. Nearly 20% of the world's population is in China. Of course they're going to emit more.

But if China were rapidly increasing its emissions per capita, that could still be a problem, but that doesn't seem to be the case.
China seem to have held their emissions more or less still for the last few years where data is available:

consumption adjusted: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/prod-cons-co2-per-capita

per capita with comparison countries: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/co-emissions-per-capita?t...

In the same period, the US, and indeed most states have achieved only quite small changes to their per capita emissions. So the US has reduced emissions a bit, but from a much higher starting point.

My gripe is that westerners often leap to talking about China and India or, worse, overpopulation.

The implicit belief seems to be that foreigners are an inconvenient drain on global resources, that they deserve less than us.

This is not true.
Yeah didn't mean literary code generation, Python's dynamic nature makes such steps unnecessary.

In a way it feels kinda lispy (in a good way) to me, data is code, small DSL for working more efficiently with specific domain.
It comes down to incentives. I maintain that the problems for a system occur in proportion to how far the user is from the customer.

In the sandwich case, the user is the customer. You wouldn't eat the sandwich, because it might make you sick.

In the software library case, the developer sees the benefits of using a library, but rarely sees any penalty if it goes bad. They'll earn the same paycheck, and probably even work the same hours. They might not even be the same team that has to deal with security issues in production. They get the benefit of saving time, and accept none of the responsibility.
Uh really? Check any list of the world's tax havens, and you will see the British Virgin Islands, the Cayman Islands, the Isle of Man, and Bermuda. The City of London has been a conduit through which wealth has been pilfered to these territories for a long time. They may shout from the rooftops about others' improprieties, but I seriously doubt their commitment to meaningfully overhaul their own house.
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If you have high bandwidth and low latency, bigger packages can lead to better user experience.
I mostly donate to http://bildbosnia.org/ since they have helped me out so much at the start of my career as a developer.
I would not describe not imprisoning children a "vision" but a defense of basic human rights.

Making money at all costs, this is a vision.
For leading through tough times - Only the paranoid survive by Andy Grove is great! It was our book of the month in April!

https://www.techbookofthemonth.com/books/april19
It depends on what your definition of "leadership" is - personally I found "Managing Humans" by Michael Lopp to be really insightful. It's really more a collection of anecdotes than a seminal work on the topic, but I think there's a bunch of good components in understanding team dynamics around technical / software engineering teams.
It is. It is also filled with gratuitous disregard for human life and cruelty towards animals. But that's what war is about, and having a book about military leadership without actual examples of conflict would be kind of vacuous.
Why is ice so slippery?
> Much of the difficulty in AI safety is due to specify what humans really want.

Much of the difficulty of programming (for someone else) is due to the same thing.
Not strictly management, but related:”The Trusted Advisor” is a book about consulting. Which is really the same soft skills you would need in leadership positions where you have a lot of domain experience and leadership is more about helping the team make their own tech decisions
This is the new -froot!!!

[1]http://seclab.cs.ucdavis.edu/projects/testing/vulner/18.html

[2]https://www.symantec.com/security_response/attacksignatures/...
They have a validation process, and the data is mainly meant to train speech-to-text.

For that, it's important to include accents and even non-native speakers, especially in English.

I think that those wavenet models for TTS were able to be conditioned by gender and maybe accent, if they had the data.
Heh, I just modified my keyboard layout to add the long s as the alt gr output for s. Microsoft Keyboard Layout Creator was pretty handy (There were other keys I customised to justify creating my own layout variant)

[0] https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/823010/the-microsof...

[1] https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=223...
If a big client hurts your reputation, goodwill and mindshare and makes hiring more difficult there comes a point where you would have to argue that executives have the obligation to shareholders to turn those harmful clients away.