skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On the other hand Utah has one of the higher suicide rates in the country[1], and leads the country in use of antidepressants[2].

Despite being tongue-in-cheek I think the lesson is not so cut and dry. In my personal, anecdotal experience, a lot of the behavior in Utah is forced to keep up the image of a particular life style.

1: https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm6345a10.htm
2: http://articles.latimes.com/2002/feb/20/news/mn-28924
I would like to see your citations
I mean hell, why try and abstract out anything. We should go back to programming in binary, or at most assembly. We have a whole generation of developers who can't do either
One of my neighbours is a Vet and I've never asked.

I have listened when he's brought it up on his own accord, when he's been on both ends of war violence [giving it or receiving it]. They're not the prettiest images to imagine, let alone experience first hand as he did, but it's mine to listen and his to tell.
Magnus Carlsen, an unlikely chess master
So the takeaway here is apparently that POSIX mutexes on macOS/iOS are really slow due to an oddball design decision (fairness), and the browser vendors are racing to see who can reimplment them best. Windows and Linux do this just fine AFAICT.

Seems like it would be more effective for the WebKit folks to just work on their Darwin compatriots to fix the C library locks, no?
Excellent point..

one of my first gigs was troubleshooting an application failure over a low bandwidth dedicated link - everything worked fine until the traffic volume resulted in scheduling jitter due to buffer latency; the resulting added overhead of continual connection renegotiation operations killed what was rest of the link the link and caused the failure to propagate into the application itself..

thankfully this oversight led to me as an intern needing to perform the experiment to 'prove' the point, and a subsequent job offer.. so at least there was that :)
I was able to stay late after school, as I was close friends with one of my teachers. He would stay until 19:00 most days grading work and talking... now that I think of it, I could have pulled some great stunts.

Maybe randomizing the contents of a selection of not so random lockers... (purely for educational purposes, of course)
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> Think paid placements in movies. podcast/youtube sponsorships etc.

Well, product placement in movies is well known. Nearly everyone should know that companies pay millions of dollars to e.g. have James Bond drive their car.

What is way more evil is that what is called "influencer marketing", which you are addressing in your last part. It's especially evil because the target group for "influencers" is usually little kids.

But, once again, regulation comes to the rescue - at least in Germany, it's outright illegal. To quote §5a, sect. 6 UWG (law against unfair business practice):

(6) Unlauter handelt auch, wer den kommerziellen Zweck
einer geschäftlichen Handlung nicht kenntlich macht,
sofern sich dieser nicht unmittelbar aus den Umständen
ergibt, und das Nichtkenntlichmachen geeignet ist, den
Verbraucher zu einer geschäftlichen Entscheidung zu
veranlassen, die er andernfalls nicht getroffen hätte.

Translated (roughly, IANAL):

He acts unfair, who hides the commercial purpose of a
business transaction as long as this is not obvious
from the circumstances, and the hiding is able to
trick the consumer into a business transaction he
would not have done otherwise.

The illegal act hereby is, e.g. as a youtube influencer, hiding that you were paid by an advertiser/vendor to promote a certain item in a "review", because an unsuspecting consumer may not know that your "review" is bought.

This is the reason why "sponsored content" is clearly marked as such in German newspapers. Youtubers, on the other hand, have mostly ignored the law (and I'm happy for the day once someone uses the law to shut down the more obnoxious of the bunch like BibisBeautyPalace).
This sounds like a line from Riker on STTNG. Paraphrased: "Maybe if we felt everyone's deaths as closely as we do the ones close to us, human history would be a whole lot less bloody."
I think the point may include the fact a chemical plant and a water plant are not that much different in comparison to something which is would appear to be a radical shift in approach.

It is my opinion that this will be the function AI serves in reality.
They failed because it's not new nor is there a direct replacement market available. Just like video calls, it's not that it's not there, it's just not as 'wanted' as the creators of such tools think it is.
>> Much like the examples in this article, I haven't seen any bots that can present information in a way that is easier than a normal interface...

Funny, I see the interface of bots on a messaging platform as their only value. As for the AI/NLP, Meh. To me the possibility of replacing the umpteen apps and Web pages with a single consistent UI is the appealing part.
Fairness isn't an oddball design decision, it's an important assumption that many realtime systems rely on.
I'd go as far as saying they're usually symbolic - keeping the honest people honest, as the saying goes.
Speaking as someone who is apathetic to this entire issue, and the broader issue of religion and faith (and I mean deeply apathetic; an apathy arrived at through lengthy searching and introspection)... who cares? Virtually any piece about religion has a serious bias either for against; it's the nature of the tribal arrangement that is religion. The modern tribe of "evangelical atheists" (to be distinguished from the usual variety) is behaviorally identical to religion, with the sole exception of lacking faith in a higher power. Now, that might be an interesting distinction for some lengthy philosophical argument, but really who cares?

Hacking is definitely a rational pursuit, and nothing in the world of religion is rational, including people who think that you can argue a perfect stranger out of their belief system. Discussions about religion online are worse than pointless, and they're mostly pointless offline too. You can go far in the world if you take the stance, "I don't talk politics, religion, or dreams."
Are you serious? You're giving them too much credit. They'd be squashed in two seconds if they ever organized. North Korea is a threat. Not some hillbillies in your neck of the woods with a few deer hunting rifles that don't have jobs. A larger threat locally that's been around forever and needs no speculation is inner city youths with no jobs, no education and guns. They started calling Chicago "Chiraq".
As a Mormon, allow me to suggest that the logic underlying your comment re:less authenticity strikes me as kinda PT Barnum in its own special way. I mean, I am used to receiving informed tips on the history of my church from those who know better than me, but the other high-wire mental gymnastics here, well, hope we got a nice net underneath.
Need some extra motivation? Try this visualisation of your life up to this point
Yup. Baseball scene from Interstellar too. I guess Christopher Nolan has a thing for this type of view.

https://youtu.be/z5cV-N8xDgI
Utah differs from other Republican states in a number of significant ways. They are generally pro-immigrant, so much that some hardline Republicans have started referring to SLC as a "sanctuary city". With so many Mormons who've gotten to know the poor inhabitants in foreign countries while they served missions, there is a great deal of sympathy for migrants and less regard for the technicalities of their status.

They care a lot about civility and decorum; Utah did go Trump, but it was the reddest state in presidential elections since Bush 1, and it was only light red in 2016. Some people were calling it a toss-up state after McMullin entered the race, and he did end up taking double-digit percentages, far better than any other third-party candidate.

Like other state's reps, Utah's delegation has struggled in figuring out how to approach Trump. It's a tough situation for everyone. Chaffetz has flipped on Trump a number of times, endorsing, un-endorsing, and then re-endorsing. As another commenter points out, other Utahns in Congress are firmly anti-Trump.

The state has a pragmatic streak and has installed a state-funded light rail to reduce pollution. They're building new homeless shelters. Despite the harsh climate, SLC is a common destination for panhandlers because it's easy to get help there.

Yes, it's true that Utah is conservative, but it doesn't have quite the same edge you find in other largely-conservative places, like the South.

The inversion sucks and is definitely one of the worst things about Utah (another reason not to be there in winter), but it's usually only a problem for a few weeks (usually in January). I'm not sure how you propose resolving that. The state can't just snap its fingers and force everyone to drive zero-emissions cars, and they've already installed a light rail that is quite accessible throughout the metro. SLC and other cities in the area have strict anti-idling ordinances.

Opposing Obama's recent annexations of land (most prominently, Bear's Ears) into the National Parks system should not automatically be interpreted as being anti-public-land or anti-environment.
I hate to see so bleak a future, however two years ago I quit my job and started freelancing at 38. That has made me much, much more aware of the need to save money. It's not hard to make a simple spreadsheet and see when you're able to retire. I suggest everyone does so. It's very interesting to see your retirement date move up when you change your savings rate.
Show HN: Meatshields – A free, online, turn-based strategy game
I made an in-browser game called Meatshields (https://meatshields.com) which allows players to play a turn-based strategy game against many different players simultaneously.

The game is heavily inspired by Advance Wars and I wanted to give people the multiplayer experience I loved from my childhood. I couldn't find an online version of the gameplay that I really loved (Advance Wars By Web (AWBW) is FANTASTIC, but there are actually a few gameplay mechanics in Advance Wars that I take issue with that I wanted to try to balance myself), so I decided to make my own.

It's still pretty rough around the edges in some aspects but the game is fully playable and has a tutorial and optional AI opponents if you don't want to fight real humans.

Right now it's just the ground units that have been slightly rebalanced, but a lot of the other great features of those games have been included.
It's oddball in the sense that literally no one else does it. So I don't know what systems you mean, since by definition they don't run on Linux (glibc or bionic) or Windows.

I'm not saying there's no use case for a fair mutex anywhere (though I'll come really close and say that if you want fairness a lock is the wrong abstraction), I'm saying that stuffing a context switch into every contended call to pthread_mutex_unlock() is a terrible design decision.
Except that teen suicides in Utah are up. Way up. As in it's tripled in the past decade. And one of the factors is the Mormon church's notorious hostility towards LGBT youth: http://kutv.com/news/local/is-utahs-youth-suicide-rate-linke...

Utah has the 5th highest teen suicide rate in the country: https://www.equalityutah.org/issues/lgbt-youth

More: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/benjamin-knoll/is-the-recent-r... http://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/johnwright/utah_s_y...
I think you're right that chatbots need to be way more conversational, but I don't think having every company re-implement Cleverbot would be beneficial. Certainly Siri does this, but that gets old after awhile, and it's annoying when siri thinks you're looking for a joke or something clever when you just want information. I think the parallel to real life is when you call customer support, or order food at Wendy's. The conversation is usually extremely railroaded towards one specific subject (though within that domain, you can dive deep, like "are the pickles super sour or are they more like fresh pickles" that chatbots can't do yet)
It's just a shitty interface to the same software people already use. What am I missing?
Julia Evans (@b0rk) just had an article on that:

http://jvns.ca/blog/2017/04/01/slow-down-your-internet-with-...
The first sentence argues that buying the lock and posting a video of cracking the lock would be financially positive.

It's also not astroturfing if the company itself is advertising the product. The video's linked from Bowley's youtube channel.
The measurement problem is very broad: it impacts not just adtech, but finance/economics and corporate management.

It's some kind of weird math fetish, no more insightful than if we believed business ideas in French were automatically better than those in English.
The Algebraic Analog of P vs. NP
This is similar to how my pension will work here in Norway. I will be 62 at the end of the year and I will be able to start taking my pension (regardless of whether I work) but I could also delay taking it indefinitely. The total amount is fixed and predicated on the average age at death. So if I take it early I spread it more thinly. If I take it later I get more per year while taking it but risk missing out altogether by dying early; and it is not inheritable so if I want to give some away it's best to start early.
Nice explanation. Thanks! A bit off topic, but how do people make images that are so tall (in px)?
What's the consistent interface of bots? You need to know their supported commands to get anything done. Until we have actual AI it will remain an obfuscated command line. Interfaces like Siri are convenient because they actually use AI/NLP!

In many ways this new generation of chatbot is worse than what we had 20 years ago in IRC -- at least then the functionality was clearly presented.
> you depend on Nim, a C compiler, and a linker

It's a small number of build dependencies.

> I hope your C compiler supports cross compiling out of the box.

It does.
You are absolutely correct. There is no official Mormon policy of shunning. The teachings from the leaders of the church on this matter are very generous and admirable and tend to be along the lines of something like, "reach out in love."

I guess what I was referring to is a kind of informal shunning where close friends or family suddenly cut off contact with you when they learn you have left the church. It would be nice if more people followed the loving teachings from leaders. Many continue to maintain loving relationships, but others want nothing more to do with you, even after years of friendship.

I take responsibility for this relationship shifting to some degree. Sometimes I wish I had never told anyone I had left the church so my friends and family would assume I was still part of the tribe. It's not easy to hide it though since various small hints can give it away, like being seen with a coffee or without your temple garment undershirt. It's difficult.
As an obviously-biased Mormon I'm not sure the conclusion follows.

Certainly there are fantastical elements to my religion (as there are to all religions I know of), but we don't do what we do to compensate for that. We do what we do because we believe it.
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Taxes, with preferably much more progressive rates.

The pension age depends on the number of people of working age and their tax rate. Population growth is slowing down, so the options are to increase taxes or the retirement age.
If you don't need fairness, don't use a fair lock. The default assumption should be fairness because it doesn't require you to think (just like the default transaction isolation level should be serializable). As the blog post points out, OS X provides unfair mutexes too.

Windows locks are fair by default too, BTW (IIRC anyway). People just use the unfair version when they need performance.
Powerful description, thanks. Can one serve w/out being LDS?
He really paints a positive picture with the EU law and that big companies are going to shift, but that won't happen. The EU law is a joke and nobody will be really punished by that I assume. I would like too have less spying and the user in the driver seat of his own data, but that won't happen, there is just too much money on the table and the adtech system is waayy to big to just vanish. It's a fucking huge hydra
Standard answer to "if you have nothing to hide..."; someone, somewhere, can assume the worst from that information, and sometimes that person is legally empowered to make your life miserable based on their conclusion. So the logical choice is often to take measures to protect your privacy even when it shouldn't be necessary.
"Like many cults being required to believe something obviously wrong keeps the normies out and clearly defines who is in the 'in group' and who is in the 'out group'."

Its the same game played with politics instead of religion in academia, "coastal tech", soft sciences, mass media... Under static ruleset conditions, I donno, mid 60s to 2010 "boomer generation" lets say, its sort of an intelligence test to see if you're smart enough to observe others then play along, and whats more important than action is the social signalling to show you can be a trustable follower. If the players are willing intelligent players the game works really well and results will naturally be good. When people grow tired of the game or are too dumb to play or actively dislike the entrenched ruleset, you get periods of political turmoil, "populism" etc. People get very angry that their hard fought position in the game is wiped away with a new ruleset. "Polarization" especially politically is just the future being here but unevenly distributed, and the legacy ruleset isn't going to be deprecated or sunset quietly especially while those about to be obsolete still have a legacy voice.

"Obviously if I was gay I would have a different story."

The analogy with the above is white people starting to abandon the Democratic party, resulting in Trump, etc.
SDF still provides a free shell:

ssh://new@sdf.org

https://sdf.org/
It's interesting the situation was so bad McMullen ran and had a shot at winning the state, IIRC.
:) just wrote a post about John, more music too:

https://medium.com/@_NicT_/from-the-diaries-of-john-henry-43...
You might find some good pointers here: https://www.reddit.com/r/GetMotivated/comments/5950tm/text_i...
Yeah, as a developer that spends most of my day at the computer, the exciting thing about "bots" is the potential coelecensce of disparate UI paradigms
They end up just being command line interfaces at the end of the day.
Why would you want human editable for system configs but not app configs?
> No one serious thinks this behavior of the default locking primitive is a good thing.

Clearly some people do or OS X wouldn't do it.
referencing fuzzing so heavily in the definition places a lot of faith in understanding that there are those subtle varieties of fuzzers that can generate structured data/inputs.

I didn't know fuzzers did that, so I'd guess that others would miss the nuance there too; and it's a rather large part of property based testing

This is a definition that aims to be more "categorically correct" without providing a lot of intuitive explanatory power. (E.g. A monad is a monoid in the category of endofunctors). Maybe that's ok in that was the aim and PBT can't be reduced to a single sentence like a lot of abstract concepts

It also assumes a well-defined definition of a fuzzer

I was also surprised to not see the word 'invariants' mentioned once. Maybe that's very close to "property", but property has other connotations so it still seems useful
I really don't get it either. What is interesting about Messagepack?
Buggy firmware with edge cases is putting it mildly. I suppose a checksum of 0000 or ffff is technically an edge case, but not all that uncommon, and a pretty popular thing to get wrong.
sounds awesome. Can you share any links to already-published work?
If you remove the indentation, your > will markup the text as a quote. The indentation marks it as unwrapped preformatted text, which renders this text illegible on mobile.
BTW, I've no idea of the technicalities of this, but I travel frequently to places with terrible internet (and of course billions of people live in such places), and many web experiences degrade considerably.

If some supercool app or videos don't work, sure, no problem, but if reading some programming documentation (with maybe 30KB of actual text) or a bank statement (with maybe 2KB of actual information) or even getting a restaurant address/phone number doesn't work because of monstrously huge sites with much back and forth (what's the technical term here...), that's frustrating.

So please please please do try to make your sites usable over bad connections :-)
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Yes, and since 2006 there's been IFB in the upstream kernel to do most of the same work. My point was more that the one-way nature of qdiscs is a really huge thing to overlook.
Maybe I did not phrase it clearly enough, but I know that there is plenty of work, just not paid work. That's why I used the word "jobs".

Companies leave the demand for mental health on the table, because the metally ill don't have anything to offer to them in exchange.

But I certainly hope that the future is so bright as you describe it.
"When a query takes more than 1 second we send an alert into Slack."

One day, during a problem, every single query will take over a second, and this will be an exciting Slack channel to be in.
there was no mention of zoetrope.com I thought for sure there would be
The username is quite a sign of his trollingness.
>Important for whom? The writers? The readers? The advertisers? The company?

>The readers could care less.

On the contrary - many people with entirely valid points have been told to go pound sand because of their "distasteful views" in completely unrelated topics. The readers very much do take note if the writer is Stephen Hawking or Alex Jones. They don't care as much if it is Stephen Hawking writing on personal hair product or Alex Jones doing a history article on chewing gum. "Hawking is probably right and Jones is probably wrong." without even reading what they have to say, based on nothing but who they are.

Anonymity detaches preconceived notions from the article. Instead of instantly dismissing any points - no matter how valid - because of who said them the points can stand or fall on their own merit. Bad arguments are bad arguments - no matter who says them. Likewise for good arguments. But people's personal biases will accept bad arguments from people who often say things they agree with and dismiss good arguments from people who say things they often disagree with.
My stock joke about it is that when you land at SLC and are waiting at the baggage area it's like you're surrounded by cheerleaders--and that's just the moms. Seriously, I'm not Mormon but I feel that they've got a ton to teach most of the rest of us. Bloomberg article quantified it effectively.
This is interesting. Terrence McKenna[0] had some crazy theories about how we evolved and one of the involved mushroom of the psilocybin [1] kind. The idea was that these primarily grow on dung of herbivorous mammals. Since dung is used to track the game when hunting, our ansistors might have come across it and consumed it. It's been shown to improve visual perception in very low dosage. He also suggests the cave paintings of half game/half animals to be a byproduct of it. Of course, he had a nice theory but no way to prove it. But stuff like this hints on that possibility. Although much recent, this cave painting also suggests strong association with mushrooms. [2]

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[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terence_McKenna

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psilocybin

[2] http://erocx1.blogspot.com/2007/12/oldest-representations-of...