skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
He's also been heard (by myself) describing other climate scientists as "politicians and scientists who want to be politicians."

He gave a talk to the Huntsville L5 Society (http://chapters.nss.org/al/HAL5/), started out with that, and managed to set off my kook-detector hard. I haven't been back to any of the HAL5 events since.
You misunderstand the grandparent post. He is saying that you don't get to change rules of economics. But you (in this case the government) does get to setup the rules of the marketplace. And it is this combination of basic economics and rules of the marketplace (in this case government hiding cross subsidies for Medicare) that results in the mess we are in. But the basic rules of supply, demand and self-interest are the same here as they are in the auto mechanic business and as they were in Soviet Union.
You can, as long as the gear ratios are all compatible (you can't have any gear being driven at two different speeds or they'll lock). You also have to have an even number of gears or they'll lock (because you'll be turning in opposite directions).
> good human rights record (Western democracies)

slightly less-awful human rights records

Made it more accurately descriptive.
There are certain differences but I wouldn't say the syntax is "far away". It's incredibly similar to Python.
Not even just efficient C functions. I use PyCUDA all the time to go even faster! Really beats writing c-cuda by hand for me. Numba looks even better but I haven't tried it out myself yet.
>> Is this how 'people in general work'

>Yes.

Well, that was a quick 'discussion'! Glad you came along! Thanks for the downvote!
>>> The websites that have been blocked were based on an advisory by Anti Terrorism Squad, and were carrying Anti India content from ISIS.

This was the reason of block. No doubt blocking the whole site (especially if it's a platform/user curated content site) isn't intelligent response, but it only indicates incompetence (and not blanket ban on free speech) on behalf of some officials as many of them may still not have good understanding of how the latest web stuff works.
So true. In cases where teeth don't get out as easily as intended, they are sliced, hammered and broken out of your jaw - feels so medieval.
It took me and my husband about 10 months to get ours, but a colleague in the same situation as us got his in 6 months or so, using the expedited parallell process.

I was on an L1-A visa, which gets you into the EB-1C green card preference category, couple that with coming from a non-capped country, and that's pretty much as fast as you can get one.

Meanwhile, I was forced to fire one of my direct reports, because she didn't win the H1-B lottery that year, and couldn't get her student visa renewed, so she lost her work permit. And even if she had won the lottery, she would have been years away from a green card.

It was quite the eye-opener for me to experience the vast differences depending on where you're from and what you do. Especially since getting a green card wasn't a goal for me. The company paid for it, and the weather is nice here, so whatever. And then having colleagues who desperately want one and need one, and have to suffer for years and the whims of luck.

Ugh. :-/
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I'm a dev as well, and thus 'left brain' dominant, so I sometimes fantasize about buying a ticket to some foreign country and focusing on 'right brain' things like learning a language, writing, traveling, making videos, etc.

I've actually started to learn to Chinese in the past (through Pimsleur) and travelled to Taiwan where I could put it into practice. It was great fun, I miss it a lot, but ultimately I decided it's not as great an investment as learning programming stuff.

I think if you are going to learn a new language, it really helps to live in a country where you will need to use it. Do you have much desire to travel to and/or live in Taiwan or China? Also, the best language learning hack is to find a partner that's fluent in the language you are attempting to learn, and ideally doesn't speak your language so well, so you are constantly forced to converse in the other language. Not sure of your relationship status, but it's another thing to take into account.

I'm glad I started to learn another language. Even today, years after I've stopped actively learning Chinese, I still lookup Chinese phrases and can pick up small things when I hear people speaking it. Hell, not too long ago a waitress at a Chinese restaurant asked me 不要饭吗 (don't want rice?). I felt quite proud that I could answer back 要 (want).

One major drawback of learning Chinese is the massive number of characters (both simplified and traditional) you'd have to learn to read it, though if you are just speaking it that issue will be alleviated, but it always helps to know the characters.

That's another aspect of spoken languages - they are far more memorization heavy. As programmers, we need to focus more on learning concepts and principles, then quickly looking up specifics when needed.

When speaking a language you don't have time to look up words or phrases, so you're heavily reliant on memory, and in general there's just a lot of stuff to memorize.

Bit scattered and rambly, but hopefully this all helps in your decision.
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A 10% difference between the populations they're chosen from does not indicate a strong difference between them.
It's only been around since 2004ish. Our PM back then was really chummy with Bush. Dunno if it was a thanks for military help but we've been war buddies plenty of times since ww2. We rarely invade people on our own initiate and mostly use our military to help you guys out.

Also, I don't know why you guys would be giving us thank you privileges for ww2. We were at a lot more risk from Japan and you put in far more work to stop them. If anything it'd be the other way around!
...and then we'll all realize that among self-conscious species humans have the most developed cognitive system, yet some of us still try to imply that this has nothing to do with ethicality so they can feel justified to not having to feel accountable for their actions more than how the other species do.
I think the very reasonable expectation is that you can only have issues with respect to accessing different parts of adjacent bitfield members, since in those cases the compiler generally really needs to access other members of the structure.
> Summed over the entirety of its orbital path over the last 500 Myr, based on the new weighted symmetrical model, we find that the Sun has spent ∼60% of its time in the spiral arms

This is a statistical observation. In any case, do you have a source for your assertion?

http://saj.matf.bg.ac.rs/187/pdf/043-052.pdf
> Well, that was a quick 'discussion'! Glad you came along!

You're welcome! The discussion of how there is an impulse for people to get upset and defensive when told they're wrong, and how it impedes learning, is very well established. It's not worth wasting time on a weird side argument about it. The answer is just 'yes, that happens a lot'.

Edit:

> Thanks for the downvote!

Hey, feel free to continue with the rest of the conversation without me. I'm not going to judge. I'm only going to snip at weird unproductive semi-insulting tangents.
I don't use adblockers so I'm not 100% sure how they work, but don't mobile ones work at some system level to prevent other apps (e.g. Chrome) from showing ads? Why wouldn't they also target other popular apps with ads like Facebook?
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Where did you move from? I think that makes the difference between loving it or not loving it.
If the effect is the same, isn't it still lack of free speech?
What happens is that hospitals and other health care organizations negotiate a rate per procedure, not per patient. They look at how much it "should" cost, based on materials and doctor's time.

You can't go to an insurance company and say, "I know we negotiated a rate of X for this procedure, but the patient is poor, so I'd like to charge less for it." Well, you can, but the insurance company would come back with "Sorry, that's not in our agreement. X for procedure Y." Or worse: "So, you can actually charge less for procedure Y? In that case, we'd like you to charge that lesser rate anytime you perform that procedure, regardless of the wealth of the client."
I genuinely don't understand the use case of this over the default OS pkg manager. Separation of concerns? Uniformity across *nixes?

Either way, it doesn't seem very compelling.
> one giant cage match

Sounds like we could use some rats
I thought that only applied to citizens! What the hell, America?
I'll try to dig it up. I suspect it's sitting in an SVN repo somewhere...

If I recall, I took a stock Python interpreter and instrumented it with RDTSC instructions to do lightweight timestamps on GIL acquisitions and releases.
Rubin-Ford effect

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vera_Rubin#Galaxy_rotation_pro...
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I've started ignoring .io domains, because they seem to be a convenient shorthand for "I care more about being trendy than being correct." I doubt this project is based in the British Indian Ocean Territory.
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Thom, I am also an O1 filing an EB1-A. Did u file premium to be approved in less than two weeks?
May I ask what you do for a living? From what I understand O1 is a very difficult visa category to get into.
maybe because a cat can't afford to go to school and study for their future job?
You never seem to pass up an opportunity to slag us, usually with statements that are factually wrong.

Nick (kogir) left to work on a startup over a year ago. As for features, come back in a few days and review what you said here.
> but to upend society has an almost horrific cultural connotation, a cultural catastophe referred to only as "that critical time" or "those difficult times"

In historical context the Chinese have every right to be weary. Between WW2 and the "Great Leap Forward" over fifty million have died due to famine and warfare, either inflicted by international forces or the ruling class.
I've always held the mindset, "If a company doesn't want to hire me for me being me, I don't want to work at that company," which obviously only works well when you have ample opportunities to select from during job searches.

If there is a correlation between people posting less and fear of being rejected from future jobs, I wonder if Facebook will see more posting as the job market continues to improve (and vice versa). Would be interesting to plot out.
I have to say, even in '93 Antigua (spent 2 days there) was absolutely amazing. 10 Weeks there must have been absolutely fantastic, and I bet you speak Spanish like a native with that immersion.
> it will never produce any differences betweens JITs and thus can't show whether one is good or bad

It can tell you which JITs can't even manage to remove the loop, which is useful to know.
Hmm we encountered the flies on the west coast, but not in this area, east of invercargill.
The Gimp uses TinySCHEME, actually (it used to use SIOD, iirc, but was replaced with TinySCHEME a while back).
The FBI just interviewed Hillary Clinton about her private email server
I did say "no plan", not "never gonna happen." I don't think even Guido could really promise the latter.

I went back and looked, and this is the best reference I could find: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9847740. It's not much more informative than the present discussion, and the best I can say is that I don't know anything about efforts to make cpython use the annotations for any changes in runtime behavior (either through code generation, or at runtime).
One can only hope they'll do exciting things with their Oculus acquisition, both in and outside of the gaming market.
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> My understanding is that user scripts allow you to match based on the URL.

Yes.

> It would still be a predefined set of URLs (or URL patterns) with a binary option for the user (install and accept everything, or don't).

No.

> zeta0134's approach would be to put the user in charge of building this white- or blacklist.

As I said before, this is what Greasemonkey gives you.
I'm sure there's a "single reason" the developer rationalizes in their own mind, but I'm fatigued as hell having to make sure I have yet another package manager installed just to get the %thing%.

Obligatory xkcd: xkcd.com/927
There are a few sources, mostly behind paywalls. Here is one example (just a press release, however): http://www.jacksonhealthcare.com/media-room/news/md-salaries...
How Facebook’s FbStart program helped MomentCam pass 300M downloads (2015)
I thought modern neuroscience agrees that all parts of the brain are contributing to consciousness?
This looks like a compiler problem.

If you turn that bit-field into a plain unsigned int, the problem goes away, right?

If an unsigned int can be accessed all by itself without involving the adjacent lock.

This strongly suggests that the compiler should be using "units" for bit-field allocation which are no larger than unsigned int.

It's odd for for a bit-field derived from, the type unsigned int to cause an access which is wider than unsigned int.

Also, nowhere in the standard does it say that the bit-field "units" can be shared with adjacent non-members. In C99 the wording is, "If enough space remains, a bit-field that immediately follows another bit-field in a structure shall be packed into adjacent bits of the same unit." I.e. unit sharing takes place when a bit-field follows a bit-field. I can find no other text which specifies or permits unit sharing between a non-bit-field and a following bit-field.
That's just anothet point to a short list. Sure, the list is longer, but the problem that the train derailed to begin with, that happens here, in europe, as well.
I don't know what country you are from, but in America people who follow all the rules, no matter how petty and arbitrary, and like to call out people who don't are considered to be boring busy bodies and not at all someone you'd like to spend time with.
>> Did we ask the animals too? Maybe the pig consensus is different

> Most mammals react to painful stimuli <snip>

Which didn't really address the parent's point.

Since we can't ask the animals we can't know, so perhaps the pig consensus is:

"Yeah, look, we know you're killing us and eating us, but we really don't care. In fact, we like it, prefer. Put it this way, if we were our there in the wild we'd have to fend for ourselves, and either get eaten by our predators, or die of disease or old age. At least you kill us quickly. You don't even extend that dignity to your own kind, nope, you let each other, sometimes even force each other, to suffer till the very last breath and extract as much economic value out of each other as you can via the 'health care system' and 'palliative care', and then you don't even have the dignity to eat, or otherwise recycle, the carcass, no you just bury it in cemeteries where you don't grow food, or worse yet burn them, whereby the worms can't even eat them, and worsen your carbon pollution problem."

And there ya go, absurd isn't it. I certainly think so.

I live near pasture, we walk the dogs through it, the cows that hang out there are protective of their young, and definitely appear to have something going on between their eyes, they're quite adorable, both the young and old, and recently they're no longer there. Perhaps they got moved, perhaps we've eaten them. They could very well have ended up on my plate and I wouldn't know. But at least their lives had meaning and purpose, which is more than I can say for my life at times. The only reason I won't eat my dogs is through some quirt of culture that causes me think doing so is weird.

> Or, because you're right and you know it, ignore the entirety of this post.

Absolutely. If all we have is opinion, let's go with mine, because I guarantee it's stronger than yours. I'm even willing to go to war over it. Well, not me personally, I prefer baths and hot cups of tea, but we do seem quite eager to send each others children off to war.

I'm trying to be facetious here, because I don't really understand why people bother to keep having these arguments over differences of opinion. It generally doesn't work, unless someone is almost already there but hasn't quite accepted that they agree with you.

As Amezarak suggest in the last paragraph, perhaps the best way to go about changing culture is to attempt to gradually shift the Overton window[1], because right now the idea of Vegetarian or Vegan as policy or law is very much in the 'Unthinkable' stage.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overton_window
How often are you reaching for the debugger?

Most of the time I'm just writing tests / code, so spinning up babel-node-debug on the occasions when I'm stumped isn't a major problem.
I go to the US 2-3 times a year. I have been to over 30 states. I'm from Canada.

Everything is better in the US. Better companies, better cities, better salaries, better healthcare, better prices, better services, better schools, lower taxes, etc.

99% of the content I read online seems to be aimed at american people. All the advice, tips, tricks, guides and news assume that the reader lives in the US. You would be surprised how often (online) american people assume that they're talking to other american people. Sorry, but the service, loophole, employer, store, offer or product doesn't exist here in Canada.

And when you look at the tech salaries in the US. How can you NOT feel envious?
Yes, absolutely. But the insurance won't pay for those.

Many self-employed folks import drugs from Canada. For awhile, local governments in my area were doing it as well.
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You haven't exactly defined what you mean by "biological reality". I don't really see how what you're proposing is any different from naturalism. Resignation to intentions of nature, i.e., statements like these:

> I am claiming that amorality is reality

Is exactly what I consider naturalism. That's what nature wants you to think. Why is that statement even significant? Morality, as I've stated earlier, is derived from a subjective experience. It starts existing the moment someone has experiences they like and don't like. It's a simple place to begin, everyone shares it, everyone agrees on the good or the bad side of it. The only difference is that there are people who are OK with the bad happening, and those who are not. But both groups are aware of the bad.

I will say there is a big difference between a civilization where the bad is OK and one where it is not. I also know which one I'd prefer to live in. Which one pretty much everyone will prefer to live in. That's not a coincidence. Those who would prefer to live in the other civilization are also those who always expect to be on top. That seems quite a condition. Again, not a coincidence.

"fashionable social norms" are an approximation, that doesn't mean the thing they're trying to approximate doesn't exist. Just like physics don't cease to exist because our conclusions about it are not always correct.

> And it couldn't be any other way. Everything we do is 'according to evolution', ergo the disenfranchised being accorded rights is 'according to evolution,' not somehow contra to it. We are animals, not gods.

Are meteors hitting dinosaurs according to evolution, too? "Everything we do is according to evolution" is a rather tautological, unfalsifiable belief. At some point, we need to start distinguishing what evolution intended and what we do. The aforementioned fashionable social norms to me don't sound like evolution had it all figured out already. Caring for the weak and our own is a thing social animals do? To a very, very limited point... we didn't do that at all for quite a few members of society for a very long time. It seems to have taken us a lot of civilized development to even start thinking about such things. Natural fear of the other is still fighting us at every turn. Desire to eat meat is fighting us in this very topic. No, I don't think evolution has anything to do with this, unless it's evolution of thought itself. There are clearly forces in opposition to each other here.

If we are not gods, someone else is.

> Maybe, but we have moved the goalposts from 'suffering is evil' to 'suffering for another's enjoyment is evil.'

I haven't moved such goalposts, I made an example, and you should stop projecting your own conclusions when they were not at all present in the post you're responding to. The purpose of the example wasn't at all to say that suffering for another's enjoyment is evil (consensual BDSM is a thing), but to say that someone suffering due to things they didn't choose is very different from suffering due to things they chose. The difference here is obvious and I'm not going to explain it again.
They don't try to cover up train accidents, though. Nobody would even have this idea, I mean what the?
That's like, your opinion, man :)
It was really interesting seeing the positive media spin on this. "Interview" is a decent word, but the number of headlines declaring the FBI "quizzed" and "chatted with" Clinton about her emails was both a little hilarious and a little frightening. They all made sure to call Bill's private meeting with the attorney general "brave" and "courageous", never noting that it was, in fact, illegal.
Unit to integration test
How is this news? This entire post is blogspam referencing a 2014 Blackhat presentation about a cheap social engineering trick that has nothing to do with SSL.

https://www.trustwave.com/Resources/SpiderLabs-Blog/Reflecte...
Please don't feed flamewars on HN.
Yes, but still about as large as France and Germany combined.

Also other nations with authoritarian and anti-freedom stances have large populations (Pakistan >200M, Nigeria >180M, Iran 80 M, Bangladesh >170M, etc).

If voting power is based on population, China and India alone could outvote Western democracies.
My Outlook deals with AW and RE transparently, to the point where I don't even see any of them when in conversation mode. What's the specific problem you have with it?
The Law is the basis of my concerns for Rust. I love the language, but I feel that using it consists of a considerable amount of yak-shaving; I have a habit of loving languages that violate The Law, Scheme and Haskell being among them.