skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've used and greatly appreciate their security related standards. For privacy, there needs to be a lot more legislation upon which standards can be built. Security is in the interest of companies but customer privacy most of the time is not, they need legal mandates with real repurcussions.
That sounds right. Anecdotally, some things I have memorised:

- Several phone numbers

- My National Insurance number (UK version of Social Security)

- 16 digit card number for 2 cards, as well as all the other numbers on the cards.

- 10 or so passwords (less important ones are randomly generated and handled by password managers.

So as you say, we may not be able to recite a 50-page poem, but one could argue that it's a lot easier to live in the modern world with many abstract strings memorised, in addition to all the knowledge that's considered crystallised intelligence.
Is it possible to select gender of a child with IVF?
This comment is starting to wrestle with the complexities of the topic, which is great!

Dang's job is to prevent flamewars on this site, and to cultivate intellectual curiosity.

All he was objecting to in the original comment was that it was of the style that can spark flamewars.

Ultimately, I think we want the same things.
Yes, but venting frustration does not mean that you are actually requesting a societal change, so you can't create arguments assuming everyone complaining really think things should be different. People have every right to voice frustrations.

But, people do not have every right to be and do as they please in public. We have norms and laws and they can change and do vary. There are a lot of limitations specifically on being loud.
I would like to make the argument that reading/writing HN have made my English a bit better in recent years.
Is it fair to say the temperatures in tropical areas change slowly?
HGH being Human Growth Hormone? I've taken that during puberty, as a medium to get to "normal size"

In hindsight doctors say that might have been what triggered my chronic auto immune hepatitis (immune system attacks my own liver). They say basically they don't know and will probably never know, but it has been put forth as a possible trigger.

Be careful.
Humble Australia Fire Relief Bundle
Mother tongue matters: local language as a key to effective learning (2007)
It's an excellent suggestion if the code you're trying to communicate with is not actually the kernel, but rather other code on the machine that the kernel is attempting to prevent you from communicating with. Except for the ASN.1 part. That's never a good idea.
It'd be much more efficient for DoorDash to work out when a job isn't viable for the driver and either increase the price or refuse to take it.
that's great and all but it's the sand part that's making concrete expensive. The type of sand to use is becoming harder and harder to source
Ask HN: How to discover/read quality content?
Nowadays I come across an attractive titled blog mostly from medium starts with a high pitch but usually, there will be generally available content presented in a bit polished way. Only to realize there is not much substance in the article. Does anyone share similar experience?
Same with the interior minister of Germany who seems to strive for total surveillance.
Yes but flaws in he spec bleed into all implementation that
..you now...uses it as a reference.
Any references on that Clinton-era report?
Canada, Africa and the Middle East.
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In many cases they may find the price cannot be raised enough to generate profitability, and the service can really only exist in a speculative VC-funded bubble.
There are a number of other brands for it too: CurveBall, NSACrypt, ChainOfFools, and more. None of them have dedicated sites though, so Whose Curve Is It Anyway is obviously the best.
I think it’s hard for HN peeps, who I would guess are mostly comfortably off, to empathise with those involuntarily stuck in the gig economy. It’s not likely to be a rational calculation but rather “I desperately need cash today, what can I do?”, that is an entirely short term decision. And if you’re stuck there, then companies can continually exploit you unless the government steps in to protect them. See also: payday loans.
This is technically true, but once you plan for a 60 year retirement, going out 90 or 100 years is not as difficult as lasting the first 30 years.

I think withdrawing 3% a year would have lasted you the entire time since the 1880s (last 140 years of the stock market)
It may not be a particularly large battery, as it’s got to take off vertically. It’s not a very long range either, just short hops.
Programming the GPU in Java
Not to hard-sell but I would recommend discovering content via sites like HN or Reddit where quality content gets upvoted. I built a tool[0] for curating quality content so you can share to friends.

[0]http://stackkup.com
I agree. It's an odd site. Initially I though I liked it and had an idealistic view of it as a perfect democracy.

You quickly realize that no such forum exists, especially as it gains popularity... which you would think would make it more democratic. It kind of leaves me with a sense of disappointment. Humans, by nature, won't ever realize a perfect democracy. We are too much of sheep, and care too much about feeling validated and included. Stupid evolutionary heard behavior gets in the way.
So why would refunding these transactions render the credit card thief unable to use these cards?

In any case, I’d guess this was traffic from a checker used by multiple people or some market site. Odds are the valid cards were immediately used elsewhere.
Social media data needed for 'harm' research, say doctors
Surely China will pony-up for more coal?
Indeed. Thank you!
> we need to keep up with the US and China

In all of human history, as soon as people get fed, they turn into a group dick measuring contest. Well meaning people who are totally nice starts waving the banners at the sidelines. Politicians dress up impeccably and speak beautiful language at the center stage - to conduct this dick measuring contest.

One of the big reason I like computers and software is that it seemed to be borne out of genuine interest than out of dick waving necessity.
> The fact that the server has been running uninterrupted for 55 months is a strong clue that the power to this system is robust, not subject to "random" power loss scenarios like one would expect at a typical residence.

I don't remember random power losses in typical first world residences after perhaps the 1990s?
Website with white body text on black background wants to lecture me on design. Pass.
Response as a Brit: “yes! That’s great news. Idiot/sinister police forces have already been trialling this, fantastic. Thank god for the EU.”

(Pause)

“Oh shit, I forgot.”
I’ve been thinking about this position today and I don’t see how it makes any sense. Look: would a 10 million dollar salary really induce you to work 10 times harder than a 1 million dollar salary? What about 100 million- would you be working 4000 hours a week instead of 40? You’re going to spend all that money on one person and expect to get your moneys worth? No. Upper executives get that kind of money because they can, not because it makes sense.

Imagine you’re a janitor. Every day the boss drives away in a Maserati and every day you wait for the bus. You’ve been working really hard hoping for a 2 dollars an hour raise, but one day the boss brings you into his office and tells you the money is not there. The following day, you find out that executive bonuses have increased by 20 percent and the company has issued 50 billion dollars in stock buybacks. How does this make you feel about the value of hard work?
Those lists aren't picked at random. They're designed to expose learners to words with letter groups, structures, silent letters, etc they might not encounter otherwise. You learned about spelling by seeing them.
There's something wrong with this statement because prostitution can be substituted as your suggested service.
Unless you care about not fucking over your fellow citizens to get free food deliveries?
I have seen these discussions before. I have seen people who will cherish the times gone by and the skills of the good ol' days becoming extinct - calligraphy, letter writing, book handling... I have seen people with the progressive mind saying that: what's not needed anymore, or what's not going to be needed soon, why even bother!? If it's dying, let it! It's evolution! It's Science! It's Progress!

The problems is both things. There are people who have gone too far with the science and tech craze, "the silicon valley bigwigs" and feel that in the end it wasn't really the tech that made the cut for them or they did see people lose out because they didn't have the other bits figured, despite being wonderful at their niche. The other people are the ones who feel that the world is surrendering to the tech and there is no place where tech won't go. It's better to keep catching up with the times than being left out in dilly-dallying over notions, ideas, philosophies, arts and the like.

My concern is both are narrow ways of thinking by themselves. Yes, tech will be everywhere. Yes it is getting important and you won't find a job if you don't know tech etiquette, soon enough at least. But it won't make the cut without understanding people, tendencies, perspectives, arts, histories. New skills are nice and important, but then old values and ways of doing things have inspirations. You can't "disrupt" everything by "the new way of thinking". You will end up destroying a lot of places. Forget that there's a panacea, "the one unified theory", "one ring to rule them all". That's good for a fantasy movie conveying a few ideas, but incomplete when it comes to real life.
The power connectors to Mac mini’s in 2007 and 2008 look just like oversized USB-C connectors. I always wondered if there was any relation between the two.
Sophisticated companies preying on unsophisticated small businesses (workers). This is the same garbage that convinced many businesses that selling Groupons was good for them when clearly it wasn’t. The same thing that gets drivers to exchange the equity in their vehicle for money while giving away their time for free. They optimize their business models and pricing to take the most advantage of an endless pool of desperate individuals just seeking to get by. Meanwhile well regarded VCs and celebs get rich before the entire model inevitably proves to be bogus. It’s a total scheme.

But stealing tips is as low and unethical as it gets. By definition a tip is a direct payment to the service provider. Even pooling tips is not ethical. But literally stealing tips is false advertising. They are selling tips and delivering something else. Call it something else, but if you call it a tip and don’t pass 100% to the delivery person you are an unethical person. And this is coming from a free market capitalist.
This might explain a bug that's been bugging me for years: text selection in preview tends to fail when working with PDFs printed from Firefox (and others). The selection jumps from the cursor and includes too much text from below. If I select from below it jumps and selects from above. Not just words, but sometimes entire extra sentences or paragraphs.

This is quite similar to iOS text selection in practice: mostly works, but when it doesn't you're screwed.
Here's a collection of your submitted HN links: http://ec2-18-139-223-173.ap-southeast-1.compute.amazonaws.c...
> but from a designer's perspective, you want to be careful with just inverting colours

he doesn't invert colours.
Mormons and Startups in Utah
What would be interesting next would be to see what the track geometry is like in the area of & around the worst events.

Something like what you’d get from this: https://youtu.be/Ite0l4uJ_fM?t=3m55s
I recently discovered that doordash also jacks up the prices of items. $7 sandwich = 7 + 2 in markup + 2 in delivery/service fees + 2 in tip if you tip = 13. So you pay roughly twice the amount and everyone is unhappy at the end other than doordash. How is this business model still working in the US ?
Some processors allow for caches to be configures as scratchpad memory which is what you're describing.
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^Z time: http://removeddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/ep27pk/probably...

And just in case: http://archive.is/bU2RM

(An aside: wow, archive.is handles JS perfectly. It's necessary nowadays, but I'm still extremely impressed)
That has a lot more to do with the tech and distribution model they unlocked than financial viability. In Europe Uber drivers are private (company) drivers, not contractors, and it still works. There is a ton of money in transport, Uber is not even cheap if you’re not in tech / top earners.
Tipping after service only is a simple, effective standard rule. Can't reward something you haven't received.

All those hipster restaurants where you need to go up, order, and pick up your own food?
Yes, it's extremely simple. Some people will grasp at anything to criticize Musk's enterprises. They really hate him.
Very cool.

Also, see this: https://i.redd.it/h6annrws3qa41.png
- spellcheck is always on, why learn real spelling when the computer fixes it for you?

I wonder if over time you absorb the information anyways. Also, spell-check telling you there's an error isn't the same as automatically fixing the errors and hiding that there was ever an issue... so I think the right click/see list of likely words / pick one is still a learning process.

- The de-emphasis on handwriting is mentioned in the article. In-class assignments are still handwritten, but take-home projects can be typed.

I'm 30 and my handwriting is getting much worse unless I deliberately try to write perfectly. It's wild. Sometimes I don't write anything by hand for months at a time.
This isn't simply a divestment campaign. This is one of the largest shareholder telling the companies to change their practices. There was a business group that played a major role in negotiating the end of apartheid in South Africa (see https://law.yale.edu/sites/default/files/area/center/private...).
How do satellites make the planet unlivable?
> potential to build even more roads by being able to continually go deeper (but is this that much easier than vertical overpasses and such?)

Isn't it easier to persuade local residents to support a tunnel under their area than an above-ground structure in their area?
Digital devices are harmful to younger kids.

Indeed. Results of a study published in November 2019 [1] actually show a structural difference between preschool age children who experience a lot of screen time and those who don't. Myelination is reduced in the former. Myelination of brain white matter supports language and literacy skills.

[1] https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapediatrics/article-abst...
Docs of Rafter for Kubernetes are now available
Docs for https://github.com/kyma-project/rafter/ are now rendered here https://kyma-project.io/docs/components/rafter. For now they are part of Kyma docs but for now it is ok as whatever we put in Rafter we make it immediately available in Kyma.
That's insane! How fast is it going?

I don't think I kept it, but I now understand why it was requested by my friend: I took a video of a thick coin (£1 perhaps, 2.8mm thick) balanced in the train from Malmø to Copenhagen.

I can't remember how long it stayed balanced, at least a couple of minutes, but something like a full wine glass would be fine for the whole journey.

Edit: here's a video of a coin balanced for over 20 minutes on a Chinese HSR train: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fumYdO9XknE
They don't like to be blinded by their white-background screens while using them in the dark.
This becomes a bit of a recursive problem for me.

I don't have the time to read through every source for everything I read. In practice, I only dig into things I care about, or things that sound fishy based on my own knowledge / experience. This leaves 95+% of information I ingest unverified by me.

This may not be an issue at the time (since these are things I care less about), but the problem is I've now formed an opinion about these things based on what I read but not fact checked. Later on that "truth" becomes part of my knowledge base with which I make judgements with. This then end up influencing other decisions downstream which may be important to me. The nasty thing is I don't even know to what extend I'm influenced in this way.
Does the strategy even go that far? I thought it was more like

1) VCs invest money in companies hoping that some of them grow very fast

2) some of them do grow fast, so more VCs invest more money

3) the really really big companies IPO and the VCs make a lot of money

All of this can happen way before your step 3.
Genetically engineered mosquitoes resist spreading any form of dengue – Science
Puzzle 10, 5 elevens :)
Heavy readers with terrible spelling seems odd... spelling isn't something that is hard, it's kind of automatic once you use a language past a certain age, at least for me.
Minority individuals who would normally feel outcast from society have access to a culture of their peers.
Integration testing in Kubernetes, and why we stopped using Helm tests
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Is it practical to have giant nuclear powered facilities that either pump cooled air or artificially cool surface ocean water? Or just use the electricity to break down water for O2 production and use the hydrogen to power other things?
Sorry, I don't have the faintest clue what argument you're making.
> I'd imagine the new trains post-electrification will also be much better on the suspension front.

So right now this is still Diesel?
What can be remembered (GDPR).

What can be said (Article 13).

Mandatory DRM is on the EU todo.
“To work out how to prevent abuses”. I read this as: “to ensure only the EU and top government can have access to such data.”

I believe their end goal is centralization of power. In this case, by ensuring control on who can access such information. And it won’t necessarily be by people appointed by those we voted for. Maybe it’s the same with GDPR. I’m not so sure any big government has the pure intention to simply “protect its citizens”.
It’s not clear how that would ever happen with last-mile delivery, unless we’re talking about something like drones or self-driving cars, and of course, those problems seem like they would be better solved by drone companies and self-driving car companies.
I've read it and mostly agree. The article even talks about the "solution" I mentioned (they call it cold plate). Stealth in space is impossible if you use constraints they used (solar system coverage with sensors and need to hide a ship with life support).

What I've talked more is about a missile. Missile can fly "cold", it could even be multistage so that after it's acceleration burn it can drop of a hot lower stage and continue to the target completely cold. If you add a cold plate and "terrain masking" you could effectively use a missile stealthily. Ofcourse if there is a full system sensor coverage this is not possible, but I've said that in my initial comment as well. You may be able to hide the heat from your target, but not from everyone.
Literally nothing you said makes sense.
> Force people who disagree with each other to interact with each other

A central argument why home schooling is mostly illegal in Germany today, by the way.

(Historically this wasn't a reason for the introduction of compulsive schooling, though)
Or how many "visitor" statistics will it flaw ?
How Svalbard is connected to the Internet (2004) [pdf]
I posted this before, but this app aligns very well with your second point:

https://www.talkingeurope.eu/

> Talking Europe connects citizens having an opposing political view - and living in a different country!

> Our mission is to create a European public sphere. We want to foster democracy and cohesion in Europe.
I read it as using biometrics as your Captcha to prove you're human and hopefully pass without friction.

Granted the idea would only really work on mobile due to the ubiquity of biometrics, but in context, I generally do git from OCs without any biometrics.
I recently spent some time in Argentina where Coffee and Mate are very heavily consumed.

I didn't not see many fat people let me tell you.

I suspect that People who "need" coffee a lot, dont sleep properly which has a much stronger relationship to weight gain than caffeine.

certainly if I get back into bad habits like late nights and using coffee as a crutch i put weight back on.
> Plus the last thing my kid needs is more screentime. I don't want to have to sit next to them all night making sure that they are only doing 'productive' work.

I don't think that is necessarily the best approach - it get's the job done with regard to YouTube, but there is some derrived effect they're missing. I don't think problem is that children watch funny, but ultimately meaningless videos. That give them basis for a social life with their peers. The way I see it, the problem is when they do it too much. What I've done is limit the the available screen time for them. They can do what they want with that time they're allotted, but beyond that it's for homework or hobbies (drawing, guitar, programming, ect.). They learn to prioritize with they available screen time.
Plenty of metro lines use tires, not rails already.
Xiaomi announces independent brand POCO
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I have set up Stripe to collect payments for my web app using my personal account. Taxes aside, when should I go set up my company and a corporate bank account?
Yes. It’ll be a couple years before Caltrain has electric trains.
To create that cooled air you have to heat something else right? I'm not sure that's the right direction...
Sex work should not be criminalized and those workers should have protections too. Nothing’s wrong with these statements.
When I used Doordash I always saw they sent the delivery driver to the restaurant immediately. The driver would arrive 2 min after the order was placed. Didn't matter if it was at a nice restaurant that takes a long time to cook orders, they'd send the driver immediately and make them wait. Other services don't seem to have that problem.

I'm not saying that's why wages and prices suck - because it's pretty much the same for all the apps.

Every time I order from one of these apps I'm paying $40 for something I could have paid $20 at the restaurant. For the 10 min car ride that seems like everyone involved should be making a killing so I don't know how people aren't getting paid. If it wasn't 10 degrees outside or I had a car I'd just bike/drive the 3 miles myself. Unfortunately having a car where I live would mean I'd be paying $400 for parking, so might as well order $40 food delivery 10 times a month instead.
It is important to prioritize interpersonal interactions from a young age. Screen time is indirect interaction. It is essential for them to learn how to resolve conflict, play together, and make friends. activities with other people are invaluable to Social, emotional, and intellectual development.
He's seeing mostly the suspension problems of the older cars, not the track quality. Caltrain replaced all their track about 15 years ago, going to concrete ties and welded rail.

Caltrain uses a track geometry car twice a year to measure the rail geometry.[1] Those also measure vibration. The Shinkansen system in Japan does that once a week.[2] That's a very good system but extremely high maintenance. The Shinkansen lines have track maintenance every night.

There's a whole cult thing in Japan around "Dr Yellow", the track inspection trains. They're special-purpose 7-car Shinkansen trainsets with automated track inspection gear, and operate at full line speed, so they don't delay traffic.

[1] http://www.caltrain.com/projectsplans/Projects/Caltrain_Capi...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor_Yellow