skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wim Hof's breathing exercise is not designed for underwater dives, and he always urges people to do it somewhere safe, like in bed or lying on the ground. Maximizing breath hold time isn't really the point of the exercise.
No offense, but to me personally that sounds like wishful thinking. I'd love to see Google broken up but I don't think it will come out of this particular lawsuit.

Microsoft wasn't broken up. Google, when they recently faced a similar (although not identical) lawsuit in EU about search defaults, ended up implementing a search engine choice screen on Android where the position and presence of other search engines were determined by an auction. So something that was previously free, even though inconvenient, was now bringing Google extra money. How's that for antitrust. And as a bonus, DDG was outbid and not present on that choice screen at all, even though before that lawsuit they were the most popular non-Google option that people chose.

I think we need much better, tech-giant-aware antitrust laws before we can take on the likes of Google. Too bad the various levels of government right now are... well, you know.

Well, I guess we'll see how this works out eventually. Speculation can only go so far.
One of the most interesting points here is that people are looking at the United States, comparing it to Western Europe, and saying "we need to defund police" or "we need to disarm police."

The metric we should look at is not GDP per capita (which is how the U.S. bears similarity to Europe), it is crime.

If you look at intentional homicide rates among large countries (>1m population), the U.S. is comparable to countries like Ecuador, Argentina, Kenya, and Pakistan [1].

The U.S. intentional homicide rate is bigger than Western European countries by a factor of 4 or 5.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intention...
FDA approves Gilead's remdesivir as coronavirus treatment
The average number of people per household is 2.6.

The two adult two child family is not a median american family. It's a much-larger than normal family. Of course if you apply their deductions to an average income, you get a very low tax rate.

It's not typical.
Right, but at 10 minutes it's comparable to refueling ICE vehicles, which similarly require specialized refueling facilities called gas stations.
> If we do this project right, developers could use open-source crates that provide the graphical effects needed to create beautiful experiences. Instead of sharing snippets of code on forum posts, they could simply add the right crates.

That’s not a very compelling value proposition. You don’t need to switch languages to use a package manager.

Plus, not all engines have the same data layout, so an “effect crate” would either require your engine to work a very specific way, or would require integration work that would probably defeat the purpose of using a package manager in the first place.

And what does Rust itself add that GLSL/HLSL don’t offer? It can’t be worth the headaches, especially when you consider how a TON of devices still only support OpenGL, which not only requires runtime compilation of shaders (so only GLSL unless your app ships a cross compiler), but different drivers behave differently, requiring ugly hacks for the sack of performance in some cases.
Same could be said for police.
1. It's still fairly convenient; I find it easier than verbally ordering.

2. I believe it's the only way to get curbside pickup instead of going through the drive through.

3. It functions as a loyalty card; there's always $1 large fries, you get a free coffee drink after every 5, etc.
I have an Ikea Skarsta: https://www.ikea.com/gb/en/p/skarsta-desk-sit-stand-white-s5....

Pretty affordable and well made standing desk (~$250). The only problem is having to crank the desk up and down can get tedious after a while, but I'd rather do that than shell out $2k for a motorized standing desk.
I knew iOS had a strong accessibility story, but I had no idea it could compensate for color blindness.
In an N dimensional vector space, yes, you can always choose a basis and write vectors down that way, but it turns out to often be a bad way to work. For example, picture a surface. At any point on the surface, there is a plane of vectors tangent to that surface. It's unnatural to describe the vectors there in terms of a 2x1 matrix, since that requires the choice of a basis of the tangent space. And if you try to choose a basis of the tangent space, you'd probably want it to vary continuously from one point on the surface to the next, but that's not possible to do on many surfaces, such as a sphere, thanks to the Hairy Ball Theorem. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hairy_ball_theorem
How would you have activists hold law enforcement accountable? Publishing the information is literally the only tool in their toolbox.
Politics being as divisive as it is I'd prefer it stay in the political arena. In America that stuff is pretty toxic right now. I'd rather not git pull that mess into other parts of my life.
From that link, the STOCK Act changed that in 2012.
I don't know how it works in Germany, but here in Canada, one of the big issues with that is that income taxes are only collected at the provincial and federal level. Now, a chunk of that money gets sent down to lower levels of government— Waterloo region where I live recently received $600M from upper levels of government for a light rail system that is now built and operating, and the current budget shows 27% of revenue coming from "provincial and federal grants".

The thing is, that money which comes from the upper levels is extremely subject to the whims of those governments; it can fluctuate wildly depending who comes into power and what their priorities are. So without some guarantees around it, I can understand the municipalities wanting a stable source of income over which they have some agency, and out of which they can reap immediate benefit from growing the local economy.

Anyway, I'd love to hear from someone in Germany how this is resolved there; but I'd assume there'd need to be some pretty structured, long-term agreements around minimum amounts, percentages of new growth, and so on.
DNG are capable of embedding processing settings. I believe Halide is using DNG. I'm sure Ben will have more to say
What to Ask as a Candidate – How to Go Deeper Than “What’s the Culture Like?”
The Nickel interpreter is intended to offer a mechanism to make it possible to extend it to add "effects", which is really just a pompous name for an external call. The idea is that, if you want to integrate it with Terraform for example, you would want to have a "getIp" effect to retrieve the IP of a machine once it has been evaluated. So you implement your external handler (say in Rust or whatever), and then you can call "getIp" from a Nickel program. Currently, we see no reason Nickel would ship with any effect by default. These are really just for extension purpose. Such additional effects would be required to be commutative in order not to hurt parallelizability, but you can't enforce that mechanically, so you'll have to trust the implementer.
As other commenters have noted, this is old information. The machines now sanitize themselves, which is apparently why so many are down at any given time.
Show HN: History of Cryptocurrency Logos
They're permitted to be overridden so that we can make web applications. It makes sense for sites like Google Docs or Sheets to override many of the defaults as, once loaded, it's replacing a desktop application and the common access patterns of it. It's less applicable (and very annoying) on sites meant for presentation or consumption of information.
Hey, this is cool! Is there a tl;dr on how it works?
Nice writeup. Although I can guess that configuring everything through the command line is not a cakewalk for everyone. How does this compare to using DD-WRT on an off-the-shelf router?
I've taken to using random passwords for signup and password reset for each login, since that's what password guidelines eventually force me to do anyway.
> > Are you able to prove that there are no deleterious effects?

> That's not how it works - the side making a claim has to provide evidence.

Lol! Who is making the claim? Is it me who's saying that we should be able to breath as nature intended (without masks)? Or you who's saying that we should wear masks? Who has to prove their case do you think?!?

And a breaking story - "Covid-19 study on mask-wearing efficacy rejected by journals"

https://www.rt.com/news/504219-danish-mask-study-rejected-co...

No one will publish the study...
Who shouldn't have been given a platform: Terrorists, cartels, corrupt elites and government officials. These types of people only got stronger. Not every argument on the internet needs be responded to with snarky quips.
All drugs are enhancers IMO, some less like weed, and some more like Shrooms and LSD.
What in the world is Teller? Are they an actual company with an actual product? The authentication demo on their website is the exact same as Plaid Link, down to the wording. There isn't even a sign up link or pricing page, but they've somehow raised 4 million dollars [1].

https://techcrunch.com/2020/01/27/teller/
Interesting point about the 2nd amendment. With that in mind I’d have to agree then that civilians should be able to employ facial recognition tech against the government.

The real question though is if that is a tenable strategy in the long term. Like that hatebreed song goes, “fight fire with fire and you’ll see everyone is burning”
NTP is fine but so is pulling time off a server header if it's phoning home to report status.
Huh. I read higher up that they were more likely to remain off if there was not an employee with the time/skills available to sanitize it.
Maybe... but after we had a baby, I bought life insurance to protect the family from the unforeseen loss of income in the event anything happens to me.

I was talking to the person doing my physical and he mentioned that most men he sees are being ‘nagged’ in to buying insurance by their wives after a baby.

I found that to be interesting. It’s ultra irresponsible to not have some coverage, and if I were on the other side, I would nag too.
McD is conservative when it comes to kitchen technology. With certain exceptions, franchisees determine when they buy new equipment and not the corporation. Most of it is designed for a 7-year capex cycle.

But to answer the question: no, the machines aren't net enabled and do not NNTP their clocks. But that's changing.

But I still wouldn't design my architecture to let a central server decide when a machine should go out of service. Think about what else you can fuck up that way.

Why are they off? Good question. Sometimes it's as simple as a store owner setting the heat cycle for 2pm instead of 2am.

Why are they not redundant? They're expensive, take up a lot of valuable space and a lot more valuable energy, they need to be filled with 2x the product, and the customer demand isn't that high at any given moment to warrant the expense in most stores.
> I looked for a while and in the process learned that a tricked out used/refurb Aeron was rarer and more expensive than I thought.

Interesting. I managed to buy a barely used Aeron for less than $600. It was pretty easy, although I already knew about the sizing issue.

Have you been able to compare the Leap V2 side by side with the Aeron? I don't think I'm quite ready to trade in my Aeron yet, but, if there's a chair out there that's actually better than the Aeron, then I want to know about it. :-)
I have lived in many apartment buildings; mostly why I hold this opinion. If my only aspiration for a future home for my family and myself is one where I have to deal with upstairs neighbors stopping and nextdoor neighbors with no respect for quiet hours, I would have very little to look forward to.
Those lights make it almost look like a SIGGRAPH presentation video.

Big gotcha is probably that the LIDAR does not respect the object tracking but instead focuses on what's in the center of the FOV. The object tracking only moves the tracked object to the center, bringing the tracked object out of focus when you walk around while getting closer to the camera.
Honeycomb team has done a large test for their infra: https://www.honeycomb.io/blog/observations-on-arm64-awss-ama...
I wholehearted endorse 3B1B, The linear algebra series is excellent, the rest of his work is too!
I agree there's tons of threads above us that have cobbled together assumptions to make it feel totally cool and no problem at all for the stores and backend.

I don't agree they know the impact, and it's just plain dumb to announce you're abusing a private API for fun under your real name and employer, it's equivalent to yelling "I abused my unauthorized access to a billionaire's computers!" in front of the billionaire and DoJ lawyers.

Everything will probably be fine but this was _not_ very smart.
The facts are that personal attacks are not tolerated here. My comment was simply a reminder that you should already know this.
This doesn't make sense to me. Twitter has the IP addresses of all logins, so they absolutely know whether this happened or not. "we've seen no evidence..." is a senseless thing to say and implies they are being evasive about something.
> Next up, what about redundancy, do stores only have one machine?

From my (old) experience working at one, yes. The annoyance of having to maintain a second machine (especially when cleaning and maintenance involved a physical person cleaning things) was not worth keeping extra 9's of uptime.
Firefox: The Jewel^WEmbarassment of Open Source
You bought it while its price was temporarily inflated before the launch of Mk II. This was a move to push users to wait. You should probably ask for a refund then get it again
If they do nothing wrong, they will have nothing to fear!
In case they are asymptomatic and spreading a somewhat dangerous respiratory disease for which we have no vaccine, treatment or pre-existing immunity.
A regulator is first and foremost a public authority. In a modern democracy, it is assumed that any public entity or authority can and should be held publicly accountable for their policies such as they are.

In the case of the FCC, these are the rules:

> The FCC is directed by five commissioners appointed by the president of the United States and confirmed by the United States Senate for five-year terms, except when filling an unexpired term. The U.S. president designates one of the commissioners to serve as chairman. Only three commissioners may be members of the same political party. None of them may have a financial interest in any FCC-related business.

It means that while they don't have any financial interest in FCC-related business, their political color will push their policy making in one direction or the other. The posterchild here is Net Neutrality and how that the FCC ruled in favor of Title II and Section 706 of the Communications Act in 2015 (when Democratic party members held the majority vote), and how that decision was repealed in 2018 under Ajit Pai (when Republic party members held - and still hold - the majority vote). Regardless of your point of view, how the FCC functions is, by and large, a reflection of the dominant party doctrine at the time.

Regulatory bodies, such as the FCC, are directly held accountable by Congress - which are your elected representatives - and so the commisioners are called to regular hearings on various topics. For instance, a recent hearing about rural broadband funding limitations. [1] Or how the FCC failed to manage funding for COVID-19 Telehealth programs in rural areas. [2] Public interests group also urge representatives to take action. For instance, when it comes to the brittleness of the U.S. communication network which became clear after the wildfire blackouts. [3]

[1] https://www.theverge.com/2020/3/10/21173534/fcc-broadband-ru...
[2] https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/telehealth/senators-cl...
[3] https://www.publicknowledge.org/press-release/public-interes...

The worrying thing isn't that there isn't oversight, it's that a regulatory body escapes actionable oversight by Congress. Either because political incumbents allow that regulatory body to push policies which are harming the general public's interests, or because there's little framework that gives political incumbents a more direct levers to exert oversight, which is typically some type of control over funding and budget.

I guess, at the end of the day, public regulation done with integrity only happens against the backdrop of a healthy and stable democracy in which policy makers and political incumbents defend public interests at large. Whereas regulatory bodies allowed to cater to the business interests of a few private juggernauts should be seen as canaries in the coalmine: they indicate that there's more at risk then mere regulating of a free market place.

Hence why I feel taking the effort to stay informed about what such bodies actually do, who is in them, how they are goverend and then go vote accordingly at every opportunity is absolutely important.
That's a good idea and planned for the next release.
I appreciate the correction, but I think it's noteworthy that they expect would-be defendants to waiver away the ACLU's disdain for them as a condition of representation.

Perhaps this is normal in the legal realm?
Why is it acceptable when police walk around with a handgun, but "disturbing the peace" when normal people do the same thing?

Why is it acceptable when police stop people for breaking traffic laws, but "false imprisonment" when other drivers do it?
I suppose that if a wealth tax is enacted, one of the consequences will be mass-splitting the stock into voting and non-voting. Wealthy people who have a majority stake in their companies will transform shares to e.g. 5% voting + 95% not, and the big shareholders will only sell the non-voting stock to keep control of their companies.
Roast Vision: coffee roast sensor
The engine with one moving part also has an enormous number of electronics that will degrade with time and be on the order of impossible to replace.

The fiddly engine's moving bits and bobs will degrade with use, so it should be possible to pull replacements from disused alternatives.
I'd be willing to wager that half the clocks might be wrong. It's something manager-on-duty can control, so Murphy's Law kicks in.
America is a unique country. No other country has the (lack of) density that the US does. Let's let Citroen and its ilk figure out the solutions for the rest of the world, while the US gets its act together in terms of, say, allowing mixed-use complexes and building walkable cities. Anyway half of the US has a vendetta against the environment.
> Nope, you bring your dossiers to a higher court and ask for Justice (EU, ICJ, UN.)

The EU isn't a court, and European institutions (including European courts like the ECHR) are particularly not "higher courts" over police in the US. The ICJ hears only cases between state parties, not between states and their subjects, and the UN isn't a court at all, and, again, is only a forum for state parties, not for disputes between individuals and states, though sometimes you can get a state party to stand up for subjects of another state; but, that's not really much of a practical option if the offending state is the US, both because of its Security Council role (which Uniting for Peace, in theory, provides a route around through the General Assembly), and because of its hyperpower status (which means that there is, in practice, no way to enforce a decision against it, even if one was reached through UfP.)
It used cut instead of copy... :P
You're right. I edited the comment to make it less inoffensive to Apple fans. We should really protect these people. Apple fans truly are one of the most oppressed peoples nowadays.
> I ride buses and trains and almost never cycle, and I don’t have a car.

Do you have kids?
It's good for a soft introduction to the space, in that it informs you of many things you might not have ever heard about... after which you would need to go track down the references and expand on any particular sub-topic which seems more relevant to you.

I recommend it to many people as a way of demonstrating that "hey, a few simple breathing tweaks might be really helpful".
Sugar itself is food. It's the fact that sugar draws water out of the medium that it retards some kinds of bacterial growth (not botulinum for example).
Reminds me of the popularity of implants for insects around 2010.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Rp4V3Sj5jE
The French existentialist Jean-Paul Sartre was sitting in a cafe when a waitress approached him: "Can I get you something to drink, Monsieur Sartre?" Sartre replied, "Yes, I'd like a cup of coffee with sugar, but no cream". Nodding agreement, the waitress walked off to fill the order and Sartre returned to working. A few minutes later, however, the waitress returned and said, "I'm sorry, Monsieur Sartre, we are all out of cream -- how about with no milk?"
None of the ones I've known would have been capable of walking from the other end of the parking lot without getting winded.
The machines also perform better in areas with: low English proficiency, limited household internet access, low-income residents, uninsured residents, cost-burdened renters, residents with less than a high-school diploma, and unemployed residents, according to this tool.

I wonder why you chose just that one specific stat to highlight.
What if somebody logged in from a public computer while disguised and with no phone on themselves to trace etc and messed with Trump's account? Could he be identified by any means?
Can you expand on the light smoking? Haven't heard that one before!
Warning: if you disable this system application your phone may not function correctly. Continue?

Dark pattern to scare users away from switching browsers.
Original author here: the phrasing placing an order was probably wrong - mcdonald's lists the products they're currently out in their api. I'm just querying for those.

No ice cream was harmed in doing this.
> Advanced "infrastructure features" you're describing just aren't important for most companies that aren't Google-scale.

I've seen several C++ code bases with a few hundred developers working on them taking several hours to compile. I'd turn your statement around and say that any non-trivial commercial C++ and Rust code base will need compiler caches and other advanced infrastructure or productivity will go down the drain.
Depends on your work. If you chose to do boring, menial code monkey work, that's on you. Fix your situation or stop complaining
> The higher the tax rate, the more businesses invest in actual business activities, because they get more expenses they can use to offset income they may earn

The purchase price of real estate is ultimately deductible as depreciation, as is mortgage interest, and any profits from rents get reinvested into buying more real estate which becomes deductible as depreciation again. Also, real estate speculation is commonly done using LLCs (passthrough, no corporate income tax anyway).
This has been possible on NetBSD for quite a while, glad to see FreeBSD joining the party! Now we just need OpenBSD to support cross-builds… it takes a while to build even a kernel on my mvme88k system.
That effect kicks in at higher sugar concentrations, e.g. a 2:1 sugar:water simple syrup, which can have some shelf stability. I don’t think soft-serve mix would be even close.

You need for there to be little enough water in the solution that cells with permeable membranes will be desiccated through osmosis. This can be seen in a common household science experiment, where you remove the outer shell of an egg by leaving it in vinegar for a while, then submerge it in corn syrup to watch its further transformation.
Product Hunt's New CEO
> the US, for example, has gone from proposing the establishment of something like the ICJ, to refusing to take part in it, to threatening sanctions against it

You seem to be confusing the International Court of Justice (ICJ) with the International Criminal Court (ICC).