skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://min-eng.blogspot.com/2013/02/the-real-cost-of-using-...

"Neodymium is found most often in monazite and bastnasite. Due to the fact that these minerals also contain lanthanides and other rare earth elements, it is difficult to isolate neodymium. The first isolation process involves extracting the lanthanides and metals out of the ores in their salt form. This step is carried out using sulphuric acid, hydrochloric acid, and sodium hydroxide. To further isolate the neodymium from other lanthanides and metals, procedures such as solvent extraction and ion exchange are used. Once neodymium has been reduced to its fluoride form using these processes, it can be reacted with pure calcium metal in a heated chamber to form pure neodymium and calcium fluoride. Some calcium contaminants remain in the neodymium, and vacuum processes are used to remove any of these contaminants. It is an expensive and potentially environmentally harmful process.

In a recent posting (February 1st), it was noted that China produces over 90% of the world’s rare earths, and that Beijing’s export reductions in recent years have forced high-tech firms to relocate to China. An article in a UK newspaper claims to have uncovered the distinctly dirty truth about the process used to extract neodymium: it has an appalling environmental impact that raises serious questions over the credibility of so-called green technology.

According to the report, hidden out of sight behind smoke-shrouded factory complexes lie vast, hissing cauldrons of chemicals in tailing lakes that are often very poorly constructed and maintained; throughout the extraction process large amounts of highly toxic acids, heavy metals and other chemicals are emitted into the air that people breathe, and leak into surface and ground water.

The report concludes that whenever we purchase products that contain rare earth metals, we are unknowingly taking part in massive environmental degradation and the destruction of communities. It is a real dilemma for environmentalists who want to see the growth of the renewables industry but we should recognise the environmental destruction that is being caused while making these wind turbines."
Facebook did it once. First by marketing to college students for the original product (Facebook), then by buying the next big thing (Instagram).

I don't think they're doing it again though, many recent acquisitions (starting from Oculus in 2014) are VR/AR based, and AFAIK they're growing the core Facebook product instead of launching new ones.
I would not have guess that "full stack adaptive delivery" means cloud storage.

Maybe pay that $50k to a consultant to fix your copy.
> We are a bootstrapped 2 person company and the product is in beta.

Ahh, you were posting about the development of your own product, I didn't get it.

> FWIW, the two of us devs are doing QA as well.

Yep, but if Person A got 6 bugs in 90 minutes, and Person C found 11 bugs in two hours it must have been at the time in an early-early beta stage.

Anyway, good luck with your endeavour, I see that your thingy got some traction on the other thread:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22134329
TikTok is the fastest growing social media platform according to App Annie. Its monthly active user base is now estimated to be 625m, up from 500m. The stats show an 85% year-on-year increase, compared to Facebook's 8% YoY growth.

Regarding app usage and downloads:

- 2X Better User Retention

- No. 3 most downloaded app in Google Play ahead of Facebook and Instagram

- Most download app in Apple store for 5 quarters

- Growing 1000% YOY
Wuhan scientists: What it’s like to be on lockdown
"but if you consider all right wing people to be bizarre"

Let's again define the terminology here. I'm a conservative. Many of my friends and peers are conservatives. We traditionally would be "right wing". Only what has been co-opted as the right wing are an absolutely bizarre collection of group-thinkers who have circled the wagons around the abomination that is Donald Trump and tied their ego and identity to defending the same. It is absolutely bizarre, and hopefully will be studied for decades, in the same way that we study other maladies.

Never before has conservatism been so absolutely...deplorable. To be something to rightly be ashamed of.

"Here's an article that covers a series of severe factual errors in the New York Times"

A small selection of articles about Britain. See, I don't expect the NYT to have perfect coverage about Britain, nor do I expect Wired to have technically correct coverage of neural networks. Nor, for that matter, do I expect the NYT to be faultless -- thousands of articles a day, every day. Some of them are going to be wrong.
Some of my friends started a startup together post our company's IPO. They're fairly wealthy. They make no money yet.

Unless you're counting unrealized capital gains.
Sorry for my late response. Not sure if you will ever see this.

Not sure if it’s intellectual conflict [1]. I think it’s more of motivation. Do you care to keep exploring horizontal causes if you see causation vertically to the fullest (all causes, effects, and relationships between causes and effects are being upheld by God).

Also, we can’t evaluate occasionalism as a philosophy on its own. Occasionalism is a point of creed only after certainty of God’s existence. It’s irrelevant if you don’t believe in God.

One can still do science. Assume life is simply Conway’s Game of Life. This is an extreme example of secondary causation where “god” wrote the code - then evolution/causation is determined from an initial state without any further input. In addition to doing the science of discovering the patterns of scientific laws (in this example, patterns like oscillators, spaceships), a person that believes in traditional sunni creed may also raise the following questions:
(1) Who is sustaining this cellar automation in every moment? In other words, there is constant “power” running the computer.
(2) We can’t take stop at the simplest of observations as givens with their own creative agency. In this example, everything we observe was initially defined. Extending this example, things as simple as death can be perceived as a variable that was defined. Death exists because of God created it. It’s not a truth that exists independent of a Creator.
(3) There is still creative precision in chaos. In this example, no matter how chaotic the patterns in the game become, the code that is constantly being executed is precise without a single character error.

Al-Ghazali’s Deliverance from Error [2], an easy read, may also be of interest.

[1] https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/arabic-islamic-causation/...
[2] https://www.aub.edu.lb/fas/CVSP/Documents/Al-ghazaliMcCarthy...
Who knows, maybe work at 5/3nm will give people new ideas.
Pneumonia is just an infection of the lungs, and that can be caused by many things, including aspiration. So by your logic, all things that cause headaches are actually the same virus because they all cause headaches.
Nice to see some numbers. Lot's of articles leave out numbers, which really matter in thing like radiation where the detectable level is sometimes many orders of magnitude below the hazardous level.

Ra-226 is mostly an alpha emitter and can't reach you through a piece of paper. Don't drink it though. Ra-228 is primarily a beta emitter which can't go through a metal tank. Also don't drink it.
We don't really know how bad it is and without proper data it's difficult to know basic numbers such as R0, mortality rate, etc.

I don't want to spread FUD, my point is simply that we should be skeptical about official numbers. I seriously doubt the Chinese would quarantine 35 million people if the numbers were as low as they claim.

Official numbers claim about 1k infected people in Wuhan but there have been numerous reports of Chinese doctors claiming there were more infected in their cities than the official numbers portray. A video that went viral yesterday from a nurse or doctor in Wuhan claimed 90k infected. Another video from a nurse in a Wuhan hospital claimed they had confirmed more than 1k cases in that hospital alone.

A paper I read yesterday estimated about 11k infected a couple of days ago.

> We estimate that only 5.1% (95%CI, 4.8-5.5) of infections in Wuhan are identified, and by 21 January a total of 11,341 people (prediction interval, 9,217-14,245) had been infected in Wuhan since the start of the year. Should the epidemic continue unabated in Wuhan, we predict the epidemic in Wuhan will be substantially larger by 4 February (191,529 infections; prediction interval, 132,751-273,649), infection will be established in other Chinese cities, and importations to other countries will be more frequent.

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.01.23.20018549v...

That same paper initially claimed an R0 of 3.8 but yesterday the author claimed 2.5:

> With lots of uncertainty in both case data and model uncertainty, R0 estimates will be changing rapidly. Important to update and monitor. We've updated our estimates with case data through 22 Jan. New estimated R0 of 2.5 95% CI 2.4, 2.6. Paper to be updated asap.

https://twitter.com/JonRead15/status/1220749021117140992?s=2...

An epidemiologist from Hardvard claimed that 3.8 was 8 times higher than SARS so I guess 2.5 is still very high:

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1220919589623803905.html
It seems like they are reacting too late, and under-reporting.
> 5 at 500 karma

Wow, someone would use 5 downvotes in 24 hours? I think I may have downvoted all of 5 to 15 times in all my time here.

My "downvotes" are merely not upvoting, due to indifference or some flavor of distaste.
For what it's worth this brine is potentially a monster source of lithium.
A household income of $60k budgets just fine in the majority of the US. Heck, it budgeted just fine in SoCal just 10 years ago. Of course half the households in the US make less than that.

It is true that inflation doesn't tell the full story. One example:

A typical family would have 1 car previously. This worked because they also had only 1 person in the workforce. I remember my mom dropping my dad off at work on days that she had errands that needed the car. However, the second car is often necessary because you have 2 people working and commuting to different places. Public transit is often nonexistent or poor enough that it adds over an hour a day to the commute time.

> Exercise without diet does almost absolutely nothing. Diet without exercise however can work just fine.

This is only true because people who aren't paying attention to their diet will naturally eat more when they exercise more (even ignoring the whole "I earned this pizza" effect TFA mentions).

If you are currently maintaining your weight, log what you eat and eat the exact same foods and exact same amounts of food with and without exercise (say running 5k per day), you would lose weight. For this specific example it's about 1 pound every 10 days that you would lose. Of course if you define "diet" as paying attention to what you eat, then this would technically be a diet, but I don't think that's what you meant by diet.

That's of course not to say you shouldn't diet. Cutting out a single 20oz bottle of soda per day is almost as big a calorie shift as running a 5k every day! Which is kind of the point the article is making; big gains to savings can be made by small cuts to spending.

Of course this really only applies to households near the median. Once you get down under $40k per year for a family you get to the point where all your savings will be wiped out by an emergency expense (with healthcare being one probable source; households under $40k per year are likely to be under-insured)
I think they understand this. This is demonstrated by there being little real understanding of ~300 neuron worm connectomes.

The point of the article is discussing how mapping the full human connectome is only going to be a small next step towards understanding what's actually going on. That doesn't mean it's not worth doing.
The monoculture around Linux is actually a problem. Linux' design is suboptimal in many ways, particularly how drivers run with full privilege. (For a sobering look at how this impacts security, watch [1].) It's unfortunate that the monoculture of Linux is going to make this very difficult to change.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qrBVXxZDVQY
Do you have any suggestions for what the average layperson could read to get a better understanding of contemporary neuroscience? Any articles or books you'd recommend?
What stack do you use for the end product?
It's that the author is undergoing a 'crisis', not that the field is. The title is clever, not descriptive.

More broadly, there is a crisis. Our statistical methods/understandings are not working out in these large N-dimensional data sets, at least for the researchers that were raised on excel and not numpy.

Aside: I'm surprised that the FAANGs haven't revolutionized statistics yet. When you have 'phase changes' where a LOT more data becomes available, you get to see very low probability events. It's happened in psych, in bio, in physics most famously, in politics, in economics, etc. We have a LOT more data now in for statistical use, but it's still just Poisson distributions and t-tests. What gives?
I was disappointed the article is so thin on real substance. It could have listed out the reasons to always use HTTPS. Easily done:

1. Privacy matters. A medical website, or indeed Wikipedia, should prevent a snooping ISP from finding out you have been reading about an embarrassing condition. This is similar to the way librarians are extremely protective of their loan records [0]. Netflix use HTTPS for their streams, for the same reason (it does nothing to aid their DRM, it's purely about privacy) [1].

2. HTTPS prevents ads/trackers/malware being injected into the page by unscrupulous ISPs (this really has happened [2])

3. Modern browsers will (rightly) warn users not to trust the site. This makes the site look bad.

4. Some fancy browser features are disabled if you use unencrypted HTTP. Likely irrelevant for a static site though.

5. Let's turn the tables and ask why you wouldn't use HTTPS for a public-facing web server. There are just 3 reasons:

* Reduced admin overhead not having to bother with certs

* It enables caching web proxies, which is only relevant if you're running a serious distribution platform like Steam, or a Linux package-management repo [3]

* Better support for very old devices, such as old smartphones in the developing world

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/jan/13/us-library-r....

[1] https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/04/it-wa....

[2] https://doesmysiteneedhttps.com/

[3] https://whydoesaptnotusehttps.com/

(Taken from an old comment of mine at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21912817 )

Edit: Added the third reason not to use HTTPS
If one were to draw a Venn diagram of people who are sure that everything in mainstream media is fake news, it'd have a close to 1:1 relationship with Trump supporters (reality, it seems, has an anti-Trump bias). For that matter, they'd all be climate change deniers as well, unsurprisingly. They probably get their kicks blocking or vandalizing superchargers because...reasons.
I think the illegal-per-FAA 'Uber with pilots' part got shut down and now they just link their scheduling system with regular part 135/charter operations.
I love how you phrased that! I’m also tired of what’s going on. These corporations allow groups of people to compete for our attention just like individuals. Some giants we created are now getting in our way so much that people are starting to notice, and we are far from passive creatures.

It’s still possible to disconnect. It’s still possible to choose what you see or say, and it’s still possible to focus your energy on something you believe in. As long as you’re not tired of that, I‘m optimistic.
i'd argue that without strict regulation and unannounced government audits we will get sick of most market output.
Remember this nm number has nothing at all to do with physics and is now purely a marketing term.
> home that listed for $49.9 million. It featured eight bedrooms—and 20 bathrooms. By any rational assessment, this is a ludicrous use of money, space, and plumbing.

Assuming eight of those bathrooms are essentially unavailable to guests (because they are accessible only through the associated bedroom), and that a resident wants to throw a raucous party for Dunbar's number of people, the other 12 seem... adequate, I guess. Maybe. :)
Except you do actually pay that $10k, just in the form of money taken out of your pay check to pay for insurance.
Insurance which you are likely not wanting to take advantage of because even with insurance you pay out of pocket (albeit subsidized by insurance).
If the web's reliance on the Chromium code proves to be a hindrance, it will take a monumental effort to correct. Brendan Eich, speaking of Brave, said something to the effect that it would take hundreds of engineers years to build a new browser equivalent to Chromium in capability. For a free piece of software.

I think it's more likely that a new communication paradigm will supplant the web than that a Chromium competitor will replace Chromium, just as the new smartphone/cloud computing platforms finally broke the Windows stranglehold. PCs are still dominated by Windows.
Technically speaking they released concentrated naturally-occurring radioactive materials (NORMs). I only emphasize this because most people don't know how much radioactive stuff is natural.

Doesn't mean it's not a hazard in concentration, of course.
I'm not sure I understand you. What do you think I'm not following through on? What does Google being a publicly traded company or their offering services to government entities have to do with their right to decide who to give away services to?

> People who truly believe in the principles you’re invoking here - the idea that private property rights allow people to do “whatever”

That seems more generic than what I said.

I'm also not sure I'd call it a principle. If a man is giving away sandwiches to everyone, would it be invoking principles to say that he has no obligation to give a sandwich to each and every person? I think it's just a statement of fact.

> would disagree with your fundamental premise

Sorry, I'm not familiar with this type of language. What is this premise that you refer to?

EDIT:

> people will arbitrarily become a right-libertarian to come to the defense of some company but wont follow that defense through to its conclusion.

I'm not sure if the idea I expressed is right-libertarian. If it is, then ok. However, saying that I become right-libertarian seems to imply that I believe in everything that is right-libertarian, which might not be the case. Is your idea of following through to stick with one of these labels and everything they imply and the exclusion of everything implied with every other label? I'm not sure people and their ideals can be categorized so neatly like that.
I think the person you are replying to considers investment gains to be income (as do I). It's unrealized income, but income nevertheless.
Facts and beliefs are elements of truth.

That doesn't make fact equivalent to truth, any more than it makes belief equivalent to truth. (Or, indeed, anymore than it makes belief equivalent to fact.)

Juries often issue “a speaking of the truth” inconsistent with fact. (Even inconsistent with facts as presented.) That's what the Innocence Project is all about, they exist precisely because of the difference between these adjudicated "truths" and real world facts.
Mickey Mouse Protection act is a reason Copyright has been extended to 70 years.

"This law, also known as the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act, Sonny Bono Act, or (derisively) the Mickey Mouse Protection Act"

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

There currently not public support for more extension so the extensions will most likely end.
I'd have preferred to see follow up experiments conducted on the microcircuit. If the test bed was made into a platform to ease set-up and experimentation by other researchers, maybe the paper would be built upon. Specifically, I'd like to see a series of behavioral neuroscience papers that looked at specific responses to user behavior, differences in task demand, etc, then coupled with inferences from knowledge about "neurons" i.e. transistor, registers, etc, that one would gather from the "harder" neurosciences.
The anecdote was told by a speaker of GeoFlex during this meetup: https://www.meetup.com/fr-FR/MeetupVoitureConnecteeAutonome/... though I cannot see it on the published slides.

The slides of the meetup are on https://fr.slideshare.net/LaurentDunys/meetup-voiture-connec... . Geoflex slides are in English, pages 22-53.
exercise should increase metabolism, but yes the problem is you still have to eat less or at least the same as you did when you didn't exercise, and when you don't exercise you should eat even less then when you normally do
My school had something called Securus, which would scan the memory of all the programs, scan for combinations of pixels indicating pornography (on the screen and on your personal media devices) and of course key log everything. Luckily they include Python on some of the computers for a quick task kill.
I use it for help with programming.
R0 is a measure of how infectious a disease is, like average of how many one contagious person would infect. Larger number == more contagious.

https://www.healthline.com/health/r-nought-reproduction-numb...
It's hard to see what you're actually saying. The tweet is clearly a joke, and makes no reference to PTSD, triggering, or anything else. The Slack notification sound also makes me freeze up.
No, it’s a complete no-go. HDMI 1.4 is 10GT/s but only in one direction (your PC streams content to the display, there is no need for the other way around). Newer versions have limited bandwidth in the reverse direction to support things like CEC and ARC, but nothing substantial.
Can you clarify? I thought the number was still the length of the transistor.
How is that relevant to the story about workers being exposed to brine, not being told it's radioactive and everyone is acting casually around waste management around brine?
There are definitely people pushing back against TCP. QUIC is one example. IP is a bit too low level for most people to care about. Also, pretty much every other thing we've tried at that layer has been worse for general internet traffic. I still remember the days of ATM networks and what a constant headache they were to keep working.
Everything comes down to two points, I think, the first, that the new generations have a hard time entering and succeeding in mature social networks, there they feel alienated, therefore, any new place is more attractive. Second, because new places offer the feeling of belonging that those places where the effect of popularity is impossible to achieve.

TikTok and Musical.ly achieved their base of very young people who now all at 17-23 years old already feel that it is their default social network. Snapchat, Twitter, Facebook and Instagram are in a downward spiral because the new generations will only join TikTok as the big celebrities will go where their potential audience is.
What are the differences between this product and Auth0? Why would a dev choose one over the other? Do they target different developers / stacks. Or are they both vying for the same thing?
Totally unrelated to the topic, but I really like this style of writing/speaking, where you open with a story that serves as an extended analogy on a familiar topic, and then dive into the (usually more complex) actual topic.

Does anyone have any tips on how to do this effectively? Any time I try the story portion ends up feeling overly drawn-out or irrelevant.
But the raw computing power of a GPU would be suitable for packet processing. I do not think you would run into any 100-1000 rule limit then. But yes agree it would use a lot of PCI express bandwidth to DMA the packets back and forth to the GPU.
Athlete’s Heart (2003)