skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Latent heat of vaporization means huge quantities of LNG stay liquid for plenty long enough to get a flaming tsunami. Your not going to end up with petroleum contamination, but in terms of loss of life their about equally dangerous.

Anyway rail transport of oil through populated areas is also a major risk. Which is why it’s also banned in some places.
Child labor in palm oil industry tied to Girl Scout cookies
more like the way we look at the smoking.

also, in line with your observation I think sugar should be a schedule I drug
I really don’t care if np is not part of python dist. Install is trivial and It does what it does really well and is very usable.
Her entire career has been politics. Releasing any information on her at any time can be suggestive of political motivation.
My son now regularly crushes me in all video games and has for more than 10 years. :)
What sources are you getting the organ transplants information from?
How ZeroTier Eliminated Kernel Extensions on macOS (2019)
I guess the most popular one is either the JVM or the .Net CLR ?
When a pay-walled story is posted, the number of people who read the story drops significantly.
That seems to be their approach to a lot of things.

Often though this “curation” is never rolled out to a wider audience.

Take for example on site servicing. Apple have never offered that and instead you’re encouraged to visit your local Apple Store.

Except that Apple Stores are still not present out side of certain blessed locations.

If you don’t live somewhere Apple thinks is trendy enough for an Apple Store you’re out of luck.

I’m not expecting a wider roll out of routing for cyclists anytime soon.
I agree with all these points, but I think one point not being made is alot of pay in the trades is alot higher than some people think(in higher paying metro areas). Alot of people in my Wife's family are either electricians, or building engineers/heavy machine owner/operators. And they all are doing fine. Here are some examples of rough pay(all are unions jobs and dues are due):

- Owner/operator of heavy construction equipment typically makes $175 an hour or more(maintenance costs are high and work dispatch takes a cut also) yearly salary was usually ~ $150k

- Electricians make between $47-55 an hour, this does not include overtime as my Wife's cousin made 40-50% more due to OT.

- Building engineers pay varies, but a good amount pay $80-90k+.

All salaries are SF bay area, almost everyone mentioned owns their own home. Ages range from low 60's to early 40's. One important point that differs from the Simpsons is that every person mentioned(all are married) the spouse works and also makes a similar salary(no one has more than 2 kids also). So a Simpsons existence is very hard to emulate, but the "trades" pay more than alot of people expect.
Exactly.

I was gonna say just that. Frank Grimes clearly explained in so many words that by real life standards Homer would never have attained such a relatively high level of success.

A guy with Homer's intellect, at best, could only at best, hope to work at Walmart maybe as a stock person or security guard.

With such a salary, first of all, he might not have even been able to keep Marge around, much less, not end up anywhere but a trailer park or some similar dwelling.
If you have 14 drinks a week on a regular basis you have a problem.
No arguments here. The US is a nation of profound and disgusting hypocrisies. But see my sibling comment.
This is frustrating. Although I understand why this study is helpful, I believe it would have been much more helpful had we been asking a different question.

Violence, per se, is not as relevant as the context for that violence. The more revelatory question is not whether 'violent video games do lead to agression' but instead whether they could.

If, for example, the protagonist in a video game has an attitude or behavior that is treated as aspirational then it's more likely that players of that game (especially those with less life experience) will themselves ascribe to that attitude or behavior. And if that newfound attitude or behavior persists, then over time it is likely to lead to changes in action.

The study that would be more helpful is not the one that evaluates the impact of violent content due to its mere presence but rather evaluates the impact based on the context in which that violence is presented.
> It's not my imagination. My parents see the same thing. I don't care if the statistics say it's better.

Kind of strange, though, isn't it? We live in a safer time than any before (have regressed slightly in the past few years), but many, many people have an intrinsic gut reaction that things are getting worse.

"Our sires' age was worse than our grandsires'. We, their sons, are more
worthless than they; so in our turn we shall give the world a progeny yet more
corrupt." - Horace, ~20BC
I would suggest that the BBC rewarding Prof Bill Buchanan with a quote in a story for this silly bit of grandstanding is a bad idea.

He says, "one day we will build a digital world fit for the 21st Century ..." and I roll my eyes. At least he could follow this up with some tweets that educate his audience about how these sorts of agreement /should/ be drafted. But I suspect that he is just a drive-by critic and doesn't have any insights into how they should be drafted.

And now I feel so snarky.. the man's twitter profile says "Old World Breaker/New World Creator" .. I could only dream of growing up to be this pretentious!
This comment was flagged so I vouched for it.

You may disagree with it but it’s a reasonable position.

Look at the official moderna data from the FDA. The placebo and vaccine groups of 15k have the exact same death rate. So according to the very dataset used to approve the vaccine, there is a strong case that COVID isn’t killing people, rather it’s their underlying conditions. And curing COVID will not save most
of these people, it just buys a couple months or years.
It was realistic. My parents had basically the same lifestyle but with 5 kids and no pets.
Agreed, I am just wary of journalist referencing other journalists as "evidence". But I have since found some very damning evidence here: https://shahit.biz/eng/ This is very sad to read and understand. I hope this site gets more attention than these articles
My parents forbade me from watching it because Bart was disrespectful to his parents (then maybe don't get me a Bart Simpson doll for my third birthday?). Then South Park came out and they had a new windmill to tilt at.
Apple doesn't really need their own ISA, because they have an architectural ARM license, and complete design knowledge in-house.

Meaning they can do anything they want on an ARM base, they're already not beholden to any third-party designer or roadmap, which is what hampered them with both PPC and x86 (I'm not old enough to remember the 68k and really know why they moved off of it).

The only reason they'd have to move away from ARM is if the ISA ends up preventing them from doing something, somehow.
I don't think this is the latest iteration of the tech, but http://advances.realtimerendering.com/s2015/AlexEvans_SIGGRA... goes into the history and R&D behind Dreams's rendering engine.
Vimeo is cyber security friendly FYI.
The unrealistic part is that the house would only cost $100k. Also homer makes closer to $25k
> Why is this ethical responsibility somehow always offloaded to the consumer?

Because NO ONE else seems to be up to the task.

I think folks here are getting lost in the weeds about precise definitions which don't really matter that much and what they think are laws that can be applied across national boundaries (generally, that's not feasible).

There has been an effort to ban "conflict minerals" from modern supply chains. It's partially successful (in that you effectively get "a sticker" that you can show-off if your supply chain doesn't use children as miners). It would be nice if, AT LEAST, a similar half-measure could be done for "forced labor" (or whatever you want to call what they're doing to the Uighurs).
I would read your rebuttal article.
"Kazakh" is one of the 56 ethnicities officially recognized by the Chinese government, so it's easily possible to be simultaneously Chinese and Kazakh.

In Dina Nurdybai's case, the article mentions that her new home is in Almaty, Kazakhstan but "she lived in the county of Nilka, located in northeast Xinjiang, near the border with Kazakhstan".

Nilka is part of the Ili Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture of Xinjiang. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nilka_County
The system seems kind of weird. My friend works at a hospital in one of those provinces and they are doing a quasi-lottery system to distribute the vaccine to their employees. Users have to login to a system, pick a time beginning at a certain time of day, and if there are no availability well tough luck. My friend was aghast that they weren't prioritizing employees most likely to intubate patients
> The objective of this study was to investigate the behavior of the GlassMasterDisc of Syylex under extreme climatic conditions (90°C and 85% relative humidity) and to demonstrate the potential of this technology for digital archiving.

> The result of this study is that the GlassMasterDisc has a much longer lifetime in accelerated aging than other available DVD±R

I wouldn't draw any other conclusions on normal ageing of other tested media. They did an accelerated aging test at 90°C and 85% RH, where most discs didn't last a single test cycle (of 10 days), two discs lasted a single cycle, and only syylex lasted all 4 cycles.

Quote on a brand-name DVD

> This DVD model had the longest lifetime (i.e. 1500h) at 80°C and 85% RH. At 90°C, it is destroyed after the first cycle of 250 hours.

For an idea of what it does to the substrate:

> [for measurement] DVDs have to be taken [out] .. To prevent the formation of water droplets in the polycarbonate, it is necessary to "purify" the polycarbonate from the water that was absorbed at high temperature.

OTOH, I had CDs (Verbatim, upper middle class), of which about 1-2 of 50 had issues after 20 years storage (in dark, mostly room-temperature conditions).
You can make up as many fictional backstories as you want, but gmail was launched because signed-in users enjoy vastly better search quality and prior to gmail there was no reason to associate your identity with Google.
What about this summer? The way DHS and local police specifically targeted journalists? That's way more harmful to "liberal democracy" than some foreign sock puppet dumping evidence of high-level corruption.
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Totally missed this 10 days ago, but here are some things to consider based on my experience.
Look at their funding. Not always bad, but have they taken a bridge round (something to keep them afloat while they get a bigger round together).

Did they have a down round i.e. valuation stayed flat or went negative after they took more money. This almost always dilutes common stock way more then preferred stock and VCs usually have preferred. They often re-cap in this case as well (change the terms of the cap table). Basically any time VCs have the upper hand they will dilute common stock holders.

Really, don't expect to get any meaningful amount of money unless the company sells for way way more than they raised or if the company goes public and the only way you're going to make the big bucks is if the company sells for a huge multiple while they are relatively small or goes public.
The problem I have with this accusation is that it works either way.
Had they published after the elections they would have been called a secret Clinton ally. There is always some group to gain/loose politically from exposing documents like that regardless of the timing.
Welcome to academia, may I offer you tenureship?
> "about [...] the awful things that humans can do to each other"

> [...] How is that entertaining?

I know what you mean. I have the same feelings, but restricted to depictions in my native language of people hurting each other in psychologically realistic ways.

I'm not bothered with any physical violence especially voiced with English dialogues. They somehow seem cartoonish to me.

But I pretty much have to avoid all Polish movies because they often use those really unpleasant themes.

They are made because they have audience. I have friends who love those movies and themes.

I tried to find out, what exactly appeals to them in those themes and best I could get out of them was that those brutal themes are somehow more 'real', that they expose how people 'truly' are. And that somehow has a value for them.

Probably morbid fascination pays a part in this too.
It's still a simplistic view on HuK's part because he completely ignores civ bonuses and the rest of the tech tree!

To elaborate: at lower levels, most civs probably feel or play the same. Macro and micro are in short supply, so economy and tech bonuses don't make much of a difference.

Once one starts playing above mid ELO on the ladder, this changes completely. Eco bonuses can make or break an entire match and dictate the style of play for each civ. For example, the Saracens have a unique playstyle where they exploit resource trading at the market to get aggressive early and still maintain a fast age up time (much, much more important than tech/hatchery levels in SC2). From the tech side, the Incas have a common strategy that involves rushing with static defence and fighting with villagers. Protoss can do this too with a cannon rush, but the Incas strategy is far more viable (and actually scary at mid-high level) because they get armour upgrades on their villagers.

So yes, there are only so many ways to assemble a unique army of military units in AOE 2. That in no way implies that there are only that many meaningful matchups. I respect HuK's RTS prowess as well, but I'm afraid he's missed the boat pretty badly on this one.
The Sierra really has the most challenging terrain of the entire trail, and is hard to get to from most major cities. Better would be to enter the trail near Mt. Baden-Powell / Wrightwood / Big Bear from Los Angeles. It also has a longer viable season than the Sierra.

Other options are Mt. Hood (near Portland), and Stevens Pass (near Seattle).
Yet you can browse youtube and learn how to build an AR-15 lower reciever, learn tactical shooting, and knife fighting*... But for the love of all things lawful don't explain a buffer overflow or a side-channel attack.

I am not suggesting those videos/channels be banned either just pointing the uneven absurdity of YT's policies.
Ask HN: Why don't companies want to employ people on 4 day per week contracts?
Last week I posted a "Show HN" for a side-project I'm working on: https://www.28hrworkweek.com/

The idea is to post job listings which have a better work / life balance (e.g. max 30 hours per week), at the trade-off of a slightly reduced salary.

I was pleased when a lot of developers signed up. I then contacted a ton of companies asking if they would be interested in offering their open positions on a 4 day / week contract, for 80% of the starting salary, e.g.

- Before: Software engineer (38hrs) $100k

- After: Software engineer (30hrs) $80k

So far I've had 0 companies interested. Isn't 5 software developers @ $80k / 30hrs just the same as 4 @ $100k / 38hrs? I'd argue the former is even better as the developers will be less fatigued!

Why are companies not interested in this? Is it because:

- the stereotype of being "lazy"?

- "its the way we've always done it"...?

- extra paperwork?

- something else I'm missing?
Chinese Submarine Drone Discovered Near Gateway to Indian Ocean
Of course applications 30 years ago had login screens and were accessed remotely, they just didn't do that using HTTP and HTML, which set us back in terms of some capabilities for a while.

What you're saying about requirements outpacing ability might be true, but it is not Brooks's point, which is also true, and that business requirements change has little to do with his point: For most given requirements, it is not 10x easier to do something from scratch today than it was 30 years ago.

We've certainly accumulated many software components over the past 30 years and made them freely available, and that has helped productivity a lot -- as Brooks wrote it might. But, as he predicted, we haven't developed any new programming paradigm or technique that has increased our ability by much.
I'm not sure, but I'm not liking the media present we have.
Related: https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2020/nov/20/apple-lobbying...

Guess a public boycott of iPhone/Apple is easy move to fight this mess. I don't wanna think about labors when touching my phone every time.
Even a simple boolean like that is still subject to mostly getting results from upset people. People don’t tend to fill out surveys or reviews unless they’re either (1) upset or (2) there’s a reward (like “$1 off your next order” surveys)
The Possibility of Hope (Children of Men, 2007)
Sure it does, such a joke is often called absurdist or surrealist humor. Quite popular on Twitter.

Anyway, I think that is a lot more likely than some obscure cultural reference that we’re expected to parse in the middle of musing about digital mapping.
But make sure that salt is made from a source that complies with your countries regulations on salt manufacturing and labeling...
The Russians always make good jokes in situations like that lmao
Converting 1980s Czechoslovak Activist Games for Exhibition and Education
Savings account (which is measured in that link) is different than savings. It wouldn't account for money in a checking account or other investments.

Holding sbustnaitail money in a savings account is pretty dumb with interest rates being so low for at least the last entire generation.

Though I suspect net worth and retirement savings are still pretty low.
> How do we know this is true if the data was burned?

Sadly we don't, and likely never will. Assange mentioned the laptop data and hinted at what it might contain in an interview. We do definitely know that a large cache of data got held hostage and eventually burned when fuckhead left. Like I mentioned before, there was a whole Benedict Cumberbartch movie made about the fallout there: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1837703/
Dawn – Limit Your Morning Phone Usage
> There's some truth here, but it's important not to use anecdotes too much to guide intuition because the sample size is often too small and too biased.

In a community like HN there's also kind of a "meta-anecdote" that emerges. If there was a link, you'd expect to see at least someone posting an ancedote about how their friend got into violent games and then became violent themselves; instead it's mainly the opposite.

I'm still not arguing this observation is scientifically rigorous in any way whatsoever, merely that multiple ancedotes can be more useful than a single one. There could be other reasons such as those that are violent or hang out with those that are don't post on HN - but that also hints there is something more to it then just or even the violent games themselves.
For the unaware, they're essentially identical to WordPress' Pingbacks. You configure your website so that other websites let you know whenever they link to you.
Clickable link to side project: https://www.28hrworkweek.com/
A CI server written in Simple Haskell
You mean the “People’s Republic of China”, right? The “Republic of China” is more commonly known as “Taiwan”.
Did you look at the death rate this year? We are on track for 10٪ excess deaths, most of those with at least a decade of life expectancy.

The clinical trial for the vaccine was not going to see this with only a few hundred observed cases. That's only a handful of deaths.
> For those without savings and/or limited income, it becomes a game of robbing Peter to pay Paul.

Yep. And in many of these situations Peter is future you and Paul is current you.
Boyle's Law describes a behavior without positing the mechanism.

What does it mean for a gas to heat up? Is the quantity of heat energy increasing, or the temperature?

A thermometer generally measures the temperature of molecules adjacent to the thermometer, which is a function of the amplitude of those molecules' vibration. More molecules within a given space increases the heat capacity, and the total heat energy represented by a temperature of the total quantity of molecules, but the temperature is a function of the average heat energy per individual molecule.

The temperature increase described by Boyle's law is a consequence of the work required to compress a gas—somewhere there has to be a compressor imparting kinetic energy to individual atoms.

Think of it this way, you have two containers of heat energy represented by 1L of an ideal gas at 1 atmosphere and 20°C. If you magically transported the contents of both containers into a single 1L container, and they continued to express a temperature of 20°C, you would have twice as much stuff, and contain twice as much heat energy in 1L. If on the other hand you had twice as much stuff and a higher temperature, then you would have increased the total amount of energy present in the universe.

The temperature comes from the extra energy put into the system to compress the gas rather than expressly from the density of the heat energy.
> And that VB desktop app was not accessible to web browsers.

That wouldn't be a problem. I work in mainframes, web applications of today are a reimplementation of CICS and other green screen apps. Yes, there is more bells and whistles, it's nicer, but the technology for "distributed" applications has been there for a long time.
Open Source Key Decoding App
Google's fundamental relationship with users is statistical, and I think it shows. They're very good at optimizing metrics; their search, for example has remained the leader 20+ years on. In that world, if you lose a few users or give a bad experience, well, there are plenty more where those came from, and the ones who leave will often come back.

I think they mistakenly bring that attitude to their consumer businesses, though. The stories of bad customer experiences are legion. Like you, I've learned that I can't really trust them. Which is true of all companies, of course, but it's different with Google. Amazon is even more rapacious, but I trust them to be long-term greedy, to not shoot themselves in the foot with some short-sighted action. For all their flaws, they understand that customer relationships have long-term value.
Accompanied with drug treatment provided to all, yes, that's a very popular view here.

What drug treatment is available for sugar addiction to people who are self-harming and don't know how to stop?

If classifying it as a drug solved that problem by feeding all human beings healthier foods, so that they can get their caloric intake without industry-cheap sugars, I would absolutely be on board with that :)
They have removed ALOT of gun channels as well. Most of the bigger Gun channels now just talk about news / reviews not really educational for that it is moved to BitChute or other YT Alternatives
With a little tuning SwiftKey is amazing. (For me I mostly just need to turn off the replace-words-automatically-using-insane-replacements option.)
I agree completely. I look forward to more leaks that discredit and diminish the DHS and law enforcement. But that doesn't mean that I trust Wikileaks to adequately balance the motivations and lensing of its sources with its mission of absolute transparency.
I guess it depends on where the house is located. Springfield seems like it is sort of supposed to be far from major cities like "Capital City", so maybe it makes sense for the house to be cheap, as it is in a low cost of living area.