jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I'm pretty sure unless the system is based on minimum-privilege strict audit (with audit logs regularly reviewed by a dedicated inspector team) - which I never ever seen happening anywhere - somebody out of lots of people that have access will be tempted.

And the reason why most of "unicorns" likely do not have strict audit system for PI is because it costs many $$$$ but brings exactly $0 in revenue. And until it becomes many $$$$ in potential lawsuit liability exposure, it will continue so, because nobody would invest serious effort in something that is only hurting the bottom line.
I'm still unclear what you're pointing to re: development. I think maybe you're saying their baby boom is over because their economy has developed?

You make 2 claims: population of the poor in the 1980s was exploding despite the one child policy, and the draconian government policy doesn't really matter in 2020.

It looks like your first claim isn't born out by the data [1]; it's hard to find "poor" population growth vs. non-poor, but rural vs. urban doesn't seem like an unrelated approximation. You can see that urban population was growing at a far faster rate than rural, which is pretty close to flat. Certainly it's likely that a lot of this is the rapid urbanization of China, but either way it doesn't seem like the population of the poor was exploding in the 1980s.

Re: the one child policy not mattering, birth rates were already on the decline before the one-child policy was adopted, and that's likely due to China's family planning initiative in the 70s [2]. And if you look at the Reuters graph, it really does look like that's the defining effect here (birth rates mostly leveled off after the initial steep decline, even after the one child policy was adopted). This isn't 2020-specific, but I think the broader context is more relevant.

(I wasn't aware China had this family planning initiative until just now so, I was wrong above).

So I still think the dynamic that most controls birth rates are women's access to birth control and status of their reproductive rights.

[1]: http://blogs.reuters.com/data-dive/2013/11/18/chinas-one-chi...

[2]: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22176797/
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[...]

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Swift frameworks that use ObjC system libraries will still use objc_msgSend.
Nobody needs tensorflow. That's just a kludge around the fact that python is terrible for ML.
Since there are an equal number of players on both teams, why would it matter if the system used the average or the sum of the players' Elo? Wouldn't both methods have the same outcome?
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Finding someone’s name in a phonebook doesn’t give you permission to represent yourself as them.
Considering all of the accidents I've been in have been while I was already stressed, this may be the new stupidest thing I've ever read on this site.
I'm not sure what numbers you're referring to, but if they were released under Tegnell I would take it with a ton of salt.

If you take a look at the BLM riots in the US, a lot of people were wearing masks. It's a contrast to several Trump events, where a lot of supporters famously got infected. That's not to mention the huge spike and spreading after spring break 2020..

I get the sense that you're trolling tbh.

Edit: Let us assume you're not.

"[Trump rallies gauged to] have led to more than 30,000 additional cases and at least 700 additional deaths."

https://www.latimes.com/science/story/2020-10-31/super-sprea...

"We demonstrate that cities which had [BLM] protests saw an increase in social distancing behavior for the overall population relative to cities that did not,” reads the report called, “Black lives matter protests, social distancing and COVID-19.”

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/report-blm-protests-have-n...

The CDC states that schools are not particularly bad, and the worst scenario are small, informal gatherings cf. https://abcnews.go.com/Health/covid-19-spreads-easily-expert...

These 3 articles suggest that it comes down to behavior. So if we assume that the Swedish studies are correct, they would reflect how schools deal with protocols. I think it's fair to assume a different result e.g. outside Sweden or Scandinavia.

It's also premature to say whether this still applies wrt the new variants from Brazil, GB and South Africa.
Side-note: I can confirm, that balance bikes make it way more easy for children to learn biking. Our first son had the side wheels and our second and third one had a balance bike.
Flamebait like this will get you banned on HN. We don't care what you're flaming for or against; we care about HN threads not being set on fire, or sent into deeper circles of hell.

No more of this, please.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I don't know that you need to teach them any of that. Version control is an abstraction. I have no clue what happens under the hood and I don't care.
I had no idea this history! My Bb copy for trumpet must have been from the first year of legitimate production. Always enjoyed reading this handmade comic-sans-y notation and have fond memories of my high school trio playing extended version of Red Clay.
that's a good point, though i still think there's something to be said for the motivational effects of both parties now being pushed to do or die
An iconic car with an almost 30-year production run? I'm sure Tesla would be OK with that kind of "boondoggle" on their hands.
What tells you there is nothing to gain? I was probably the only one to consider Google a degree above other GAFA companies because for a long time it resisted Chinese censorship and refused to give away access to the gmail account of Chinese activists.

In a world where so many companies' valuation is tied to the number of users willing to give you their personal data, reputation is a precious thing.
This analysis is just garbage.

“We consume a lot of goods therefore we are prosperous.”

Utter nonsense. I implore you to actually hang out in, not just visit, these places that got blown up so that some companies could make some basis points on their quarterly returns.

It’s also amazing that you’re saying that the “cultural” hangings on about the mid 20th century are something to be readjusted. Dude, these people are not going to become firmware engineers at night school. There is absolutely nothing wrong with wanting what was a normal family life at that time to exist in 2019. If your claim is that that is not possible, then declare what sacrifices are required. Did globalism make this impossible?
Spekboom (Portulacaria afra) is said to sequester up 10 times the carbon of a rain forest by area.

This is largely due to a special mechanism that continues photosynthesis at night.

And it grows best in semi-arid regions.

Where people don't live or farm.
Don't forget to adjust those mpg figures by ~13% for the higher energy density (and CO2 emissions) for diesel vs gasoline. So 30mpg diesel is ~ like 26.5 mpg gasoline.
Again: https://www.ipcc.ch/

Go read. Come back when you find errors in the reports.
I read it as the manager expects the employee to always be engaged with something, researching, trying new stuff, etc... not just waiting for orders to come from up above. I think it's good advice.
Crashing back to where it was in 2019?
> Biden has publicly stated his opposition to the cash-bail system, referring to the practice as a “modern-day debtors’ prison.” However, no evidence exists to suggest that donated funds came directly from the campaign.

You do realize posting bail isn’t excusing the punishment?

And Biden repeatedly condemned violence and the rioters. He and the other prominent dems did not spend months encouraging them.

And that NPR article is some rando, not a Congress person or anyone else important. Why did you even bring up some rando? If that’s the most relevant person you can find then you’re providing strong evidence against your case.
That’s an excuse, not the reason.

Blocking parler does jack shit in stopping people’s ability to coordinate violence. Mass texts, email chains, WhatsApp, signal, 4chan boards, etc are all there.
This seems like a fairly antiquated view that does not map well to the current era or actual definition of censorship (A cursory internet search will help to better inform you as to what censorship entails and what actions may reside within the purview of censorship).

One does not have to prosecuted by the government in order to have their speech censored, access to a public forum revoked, or have their livelihood and career threatened.

There are things you simply cannot say within our society due the fact that they are deemed subversive or improper. This arbitrary ability to ascribe these labels to speech and thereby limit its reach and punish those who speak it is the very abuse of power that is characterized as "censorship".

A government is one institution that concentrates power that can be a censor, but in modern times there are alternative organizational structures that are both powerful and global that can perform the act of "censorship".
That doesn't make any sense to me. Does it remove agency from people to note how demographics vote? Those people can be making their own decisions about which party is better for them, but still overwhelmingly pick one party, and it seems fine to me to point that out.
it's disgusting and I'm no republican or Trump supporter - 4/5 companies now completely control what people should say online
That was my approach for an analogous program that uses memcpy instead of printf. I didn't go with the jit-style you describe, however. If you're curious here's how I setup the syscalls https://github.com/jcande/xenocryst/blob/master/src/gadgets.... and here's the main loop https://github.com/jcande/xenocryst/blob/master/src/exec.c#L...
In Portland, too, right?
I'm aware, just pointing out that the transit method that kepler uses can only pick a percentage of planets even if they are of significant enough size to be found because from our viewing angle they don't transit.
Seeing the list of people who are endorsing this book and its concepts, and how influential those people are, is the most depressing thing I've come across all year.

Geraldine Quinn says it best: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_1HtfVfgOQ
Light a fire in your bones now. What inspires you?
Single page:

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/20/magazine/20pacemaker-t.htm...
If I'm reading this right he took messy javascript someone wrote, and ported it to a php library... If he didn't give original credit to the OP, then yeah thats rude, but don't we all end up porting old code at sometime or another?
My favourite is probably Barry Schwartz on the paradox of choice: http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/barry_schwartz_on_the_para...
That's fair enough. Are you still coming to the London meetup on Thursday?
I really don't think it's up to your or I to decide what matters to an author.
It is a well placed jab at Guido's (poorly worded) statement.
People come to Steve for meetings. His direction needs are pretty simple.
Meteogram for iPad is pretty great. I am a bit of a eater nerd though...
Eh, it's moderately useful. 5 MB is nothing these days — that's smaller than the L3 cache on a modern processor. If your game is only 5 MB, you hardly even need caching.
No. High book prices is not good for me, but it may be good for the authors. There are quite a big difference since there is a nearly limitless amount of good literature out there that I could enjoy.
- the stack-based API makes it reasonably easy not to goof with references and introduce hard-to-find GC bugs.

- reference-counting simplifies some stuff, but introduce other bug classes (e.g. circular references). Moreover, ref-counting GCs are generally outperformed by mark & sweep GCs (because most objects have a very short lifespan with dynamic languages).

- to create mutual references between userdata, you have to use the stack. It's cumbersome but it ensures that the GC state is always consistent. The choice is between cumbersome, buggy user code, and buggy GC code.

- lack of paradigms (or "officially preferred way to do things", as magistrally done by the Python community), is indeed annoying. It would be a fatal flaw in a general purpose language. In a language intended to be embedded, it is merely a debatable choice, although one I don't support. The language's purpose is limited to provide basic building blocks, APIs and paradigms are to be provided by the embedding application. I wished preferred paradigms were strongly suggested, too.

It would be possible to define a very elegant and productive programming ecosystem around Lua; one which would probably be marginally better than Python or Ruby at many tasks. But I'm not convinced that the improvements would be dramatic enough to let that Lua++ carve its own niche between the established generalist, stand-alone languages. Better stay the best language to embed with C IMO.
Yep Craigslist does the same thing.
Unfortunately the leetcode whiteboard interviewing strongly encourages this type. Even almost requires it. If all energy is spent on that, it is time not spent learning how to build stable products which can be maintained long term.

Because turns out that popping out algorithm exercise code after another into source control doesn't produce a good product. But that's what current interview fad measures, thus it's what it produces.
Sure, provided everyone agrees there have been no transactions and what the end result was. The PoW is necessary to ensure this consensus, but it would indeed become obsolete if people found a different way to form a consensus of the final state (ending bitcoin).
I don't think there's any need to worry about whether Covid-19 involves premeditation; it's easy to suggest that many countries' leaders exhibited a depraved indifference to human life that itself makes the resulting deaths through their inaction or incompetent action murder. Or, if you're not willing to admit that our leaders don't give a damn about us, why not "social negligent homicide"?
For the record: French fries are from Belgium
For growth stocks, doesn't this signal stagnation?
Semi-unrelated question: How secure are the hardware random number generators on say, a raspberry pi. Would these sort of things be cryptographically secure?
I find it a little problematic when these ancient practices are separated from their broader context. There are further, unknown implications by doing so. It is similar to what was done with what we call "Yoga" here in the west. I am not saying that these practices cannot evolve, they must. But they are certainly part of a tradition that has been coherently applied and studied for centuries.

In my opinion the result of this type of approach is a diluted, incomplete practice, focused mainly on symptom relief, which tends to forget the heart of the matter.

There is nothing wrong with taking these practices as inspiration to help people, and I think your approach is a good way to bring them to know more about these practices.

But perhaps you should bring a little more of the philosophical/theological side to this modern take on meditation, something like what Stephen Batchelor is doing with his Secular Buddhism.
I think the joke here is that their stock symbol is NET.
Agreed. The problem is that the Fed only has the power to inject dollars at the top of the economy, yet sales taxes and the IRS drain dollars from a broad base of the economy.

I think an MMO designer would suggest two options:

A. Nerf the Fed, which would have the problems you note.

B. A balancing mechanic -- Some more universally-accessable way to inject income at the base of the economy.
Ouch. Maybe you should be more aggressive about cleaning out the filters? Our Dyson says to clean them every 6 months or so I think, but if your house is especially dirty (say because the dogs track in a lot of dirt and shed) you should do it more often.

If you have not done it in awhile it can be surprising just how much better at picking up dirt it will become after a good cleaning. Because the filters are trying to get down to 2.5ppm they clog easily.
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Actually Intel is one of the best manufacturers about releasing documentation. Nvidia is one of the worst. ATI/AMD is pretty good.

Suspend/resume is problematic because the device manufacturers don't implement ACPI to the spec, the implement it to whatever works with Windows. Try OpenBSD sometime. Their have an independent implementation of AML that might work where others do not.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insourcing versus http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outsourcing
Technically a story with 1 vote and 0 comments would have the highest ratio. But point taken, not much commenting on this. Likely because this story was posted on HN a few weeks ago, though I can' seem to find the link.
The second movie ended a bit anticlimactic, although I was expecting to be rickrolled eventually.