skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Let's work that through. We'll do a few generations, starting with 8 families of each type, with each type on their own separate isolated island to keep things simple. We start with 16 people on each island, half male and half female. Going generation by generation:

First: 56 kids, or 8 kids

Second: 196 kids, or 4 kids

Third: 686 kids, or 2 kids

Fourth: 2401 kids, or 1 kid

Fifth: 8403 kids, or extinction

Now, your idea that a child of a large family of 7 is less reproductively fit isn't going to help the low-reproduction families at all. They go extinct; they are thus clearly unfit. Unless the high reproduction families are losing about 5 of every 7 to early death, their population grows exponentially.

In reality, there are not separate islands. The resource exhaustion caused by the high-rate families will not just affect them. Everybody is effected. Even if the high-rate families are more affected, it isn't likely to stop them and anyway there is no saving the low-rate families from extinction.
Dev, singular. PlayerUnknown/Brendan Greene did the ARMA 2 and 3 mods by himself, and was brought in by Daybreak/SOE to direct the creation of the H1Z1 BR mode.
I wonder what is going to happen in 10years to SF if the housing prices continue to rise? If the housing market is out of reach for the “tech elite” then tech companies will not be able to continue to thrive without workers to fill vacancies or fill the positions in new companies.

Tennessee is a great choice for a new home. The healthcare industry is the main driver of fantastic opportunities for those with superior computer skills. TN has no income tax, homes are very affordable here, etc.

We are not in the healthcare industry but we will be hiring several employees soon including a CTO and we do not expect any difficulties in finding people to work in our Nashville or Chattanooga location. With a number of colleges and universities here, opportunities seem plentiful for those wanting to teach in these areas as well.
> GLOBAL is the tool I use nowdays, and updating the tags database or looking up symbols is something that should be getting heavy lifting in an external process.

What do you use for GLOBAL? ggtags.el works like you describe (calls start-file-process to start a GLOBAL process).
> I feel that you haven't fully examined your own position on this matter.

You're the one who hasn't fully examined my position on this matter, judging by your bizarre strawman argument.
Personally the reason I don't complain about not getting overtime pay is because just as often as I'm working 12 hour days, I'm sitting at work playing games on my phone. Working in a more operational side of the IT spectrum, unless I have a major project I'm working on, my job is dependent on there actually being work to do.

Might not be the typical case for IT workers, but if I started complaining about overtime pay and wanting to get paid for hours I'm actually working, I might just find myself taking a pay cut.
A place for mistakes and failures
He has a lot of good videos out there but this is the one specifically covering Africa / population predictions and the misconceptions / dated knowledge.

https://youtu.be/FACK2knC08E
it still is

https://github.com/tgalal/yowsup
Hey all! Cratesa aims to be a site with the largest collection of mistakes and failures for anyone to learn from.
What's your take?
Football can be played/practiced on any large grass field in any climate any time of the year. Hockey requires an indoor facility with expensive chilling and maintenance equipment if you want to play outside of a few northern cities for a few months out of the year. Inner city Houston kids will never have access to hockey facilities in any significant numbers.
That is called a positive attitude towards accepting mistakes and moving forward. Uber finally got a good CEO.
I often see Home Depot rented vans being used for this. No idea how that can be profitable.
Ask HN: How do I build a community like Hacker News and Reddit?
Maybe a better formulated question would be - do the Meltdown changes to kernel impose performance penalty on AMD processors as well (regardless of exploitability)?
There is no shortage of people in the world and no reason to add additional people who are old or diseased, and have no particular skills that are necessary in the future.

It’s much cheaper (not to mention more fun) to make more babies.
>everyone should have the right to basic understanding of personal finances and basic economics.

This is silly. Living within your means is like doing the dishes or the laundry. When someone "doesn't know how" or "needs to learn how" it's not that they're missing or failing to comprehend information. Even if they lack it, it's trivial to acquire. The relevant entities are discipline, habit, and values. This is not something you can learn in a lecture, only by doing.

If you're just clueless about personal finance, the worst thing that happens is you pay for tax prep services (something many of us do anyway to save time).

Going broke or getting up to your eyeballs in debt is either an arithmetic error (don't try and tell me schools don't teach subtraction), a failure of self-control (if your income should be enough for you situation), or a symptom of insufficient income for your situation. I'll venture a guess that most of the time, it's the latter.
If we had the ability to reanimate 1,000 people from ancient Egypt, it seems highly plausible the resources could be found to do it. These people would be a font of information from a long forgotten past. The only question is whether they could adjust to the present.

So if preserved people from the past survived long enough, it seems like historical interest could motivate people to re-animate them. There may be other motivations but that's one.

Maybe only a small selection would be reanimated at any one time. But that might others to revived later.
I think his point is that religion can be a causal factor of women education.

I.e., suppression of women in extreme sects of Christianity and Islam.
I _love_ the simplicity. Really well done project.
The Matrix Calculus You Need For Deep Learning
No, seriously, they don't sell personal data to the highest bidder. There is no such data sales product that they offer. It doesn't exist. They don't compile lists of web sites you visit and sell it to anyone.

They don't keep vast logs of everything you've ever done because it's expensive to store and simply isn't worth anything, especially if it isn't recent. They do want to keep your age and gender and what city you live in, that sort of thing. They don't care what you look like.

> Google and Facebook buy the data from those credit agencies

No they freaking don't. Facebook barely makes one dollar per month per user. Google makes something like $2 per month per user. Credit reports cost on the order of $20 each. Do the math.
The thing is we know how to contain pop growth and it does not have to be drastic like China's. India is trying to implement novel kinds of birth control[1] and in addition, we know educating women [and following into the workforce] helps bring down pop growth in a generation.

So we know the solution, whether the world or locals are willing to implement them are another question.

I don't think there is any way the world remains livable with 12 billion aspirational consumers.

[1]https://www.wired.com/2011/04/ff_vasectomy/
For those of you who don't know much about cryonics (myself included), Wait But Why [1] has has fantastic primer.

[1] https://waitbutwhy.com/2016/03/cryonics.html
Really, taking their adult autonomy away is the first step? How about education?

When do you educate somebody about how to control millions of dollars of assets, in the moment of giving them autonomy over them? If you want to propose education, then its rational to propose the control over the money before and during education is there, no? or, do you propose letting them blow the million on drugs and sex, and then teach them how to sustainably hold onto it, when all they have is a debt hole?
> while simultaneously admonishing people who assuming data from github will always be accurate.

Admonishing how? The change of policy would motivate them to do nothing at all, perpetuating the mistake.
Tronc buys majority stake of BestReviews at $100m+ valuation
Absolutely better.
It’s an object detector, not an image classifier.
Ask HN: 2018: What are the 2 most helpful software that you use in your life?
There's a petri dish too!! swoon I've been using the microscope to mean "science" all these years. Now I'll have some real options.

https://emojipedia.org/petri-dish/
Yep, doesn't fix it for me.
Even Amazon, with all the server capacity in the world, is not going to be able to store and process every sound heard by every Alexa in real time.
Strong disagree for the recommended tick rate for csgo. I played a decent amount of competitive cs, from 1.3 all the way to csgo. Lots of competitive server hosts will go up to 120 (ESEA comes to mind) , and the difference between 120 and 60 is certainly noticeable. Going down to 13 would be almost unplayable.
How do we contain population growth? That seems, to me, to be the single largest unsolved problem in the world.
The difficulty changes don't involve a rule change. The difficulty is always determined by the same set of rules.

>>The author of the paper, Nick Szabo, is a direct contributor to the concepts behind the current trend of crypto exchange systems.

That only tangentially connects this to cryptocurrency. The topic of the paper is the origins of money, with a heavy emphasis on early human prehistory. Like I said, if you have an axe to grind against cryptocurrency and those who had the foresight to mine it early, save it for another thread and don't turn this one into yet another debate about it.
As the procedure has not been proved to be reversible, it suggests to me that finding a future cure for the original ailment is the easiest assumption to make in this field. I'm more interested to get better answers to the myth that "Cryonics is not a belief that the dead can be revived" than those presented in the article.
I'd be hard pressed to say that there are things I think are impossible, but there are a great many things I think are very improbable. In the movie A.I., there's a part where advanced aliens temporarily restore the life of the hero's "mother" using a lock of her hair and some pseudoscientific stuff about information they managed to retrieve from the space-time continuum. All this without even having access to her brain! Impossible? I don't know - perhaps having the theoretical ability to retrieve a specific configuration which maybe exists at some dimension, somehow holographically stored in the fabric of universe combined with an unimaginably advanced intelligence and technological ability might make it doable. Do I believe there's a non zero probability if it being possible? Yes. Do I believe it will ever happen? No. Although cryonics is far less presumptuous than reviving back a personality from a lock of hair and information extracted from the "spacetime continuum", the complete lack of evidence for any sort of reversibility of the process makes me extremely skeptical in the wisdom in paying for such a procedure, regardless of how well intentioned it might be.
Apologies, I meant that to be an example of how I think it should be. Not a hypothetical, either. Like you say, you can already write things this way.

My only complaint is it still blocks sometimes. Overall, works like a champ.
The Critics Must Be Crazy: 'Altered Carbon' Is a Terrific New Netflix Original
Usually there is actually a gun. People are desperate for jobs, because if you don't work you don't eat.

And exploiting desperate people can lead you down a dark path as a society... provided anyone in the US still gives a shit about empathy, morality and the value of life.
If you're in a situation where throwaway-hardware makes sense, you'll care how the throwing-away is actually done.

While not throwaway hardware, the company I work for destroys hard drives and other persistent memory devices before discarding computers. If the persistent memory device cannot be easily and reliably destroyed, the whole device is.

I bet journalists with sensitive information are far more thorough.
Easy access to credit and sudden unfortunate circumstances bite people more often than you might think. You have it under control, until you don't.
The math books teaching the formulas for calculating interest is not the same as personal finance education. As a geek of course I knew all the formulas, I couldn't even take a math class my senior year because I took Calculus as a junior and they ran out of possible math classes for me to take. But although I knew all the formulas, nope, I can't recall any math problems, or any explanations/descriptions, relating to: how credit cards work, minimum payments, grace periods before interest starts, the fact that after paying interest you have to pay it off and wait a full period before the grace period resumes, how balance transfers work... and that's just credit cards, and just the basics, not the more advanced topics like travel points/cashback, signup bonuses, churning, etc which you probably shouldn't be teaching kids anyway.

Nor was I ever taught anything about savings accounts, tax-deferred retirement accounts, stock investing, etc. Although I hear stock investing in particular does come up in a lot of schools because it's "fun". But I never had any teachers let us play the stock market for fun, I totally would have been into that. I was never even shown a tax form in school, let alone had it explained.

I was able to do my own taxes because my dad showed me how. My mom showed me how to balance a checkbook, although that rapidly became useless knowledge when I could start monitoring my account online on a daily basis :) The rest I just kinda figured out, or didn't. My dad told me credit cards were bad but never explained them, ended up getting in debt, have been out of debt for a few years and now use credit cards responsibly -- "pay off in full to get the cashback, never pay interest". Nope nobody ever told me that either.
Damn straight. 100% of stupid whiteboard coding questions could easily be solved with taking 10 minutes to google / explain the solution. So why are these stupidities even asked? In other words, the author is incompetent and shouldn't be in charge of hiring. He won't hire someone because he won't take 10 fucking minutes to explain to them something beyond simple (although if you explain it in big O terms, it's not simple). That's a manager who is in the wrong job.
What are the other cases of US intervention in this style? I can understand the consternation at some level, but has something happened in the past 2 decades that I just missed?
No it's not. I don't know of any non-naturally born people who have an advantage. Currently, people born via IVF are more likely to be born prematurely and with increased risks of mental and physical problems.

We may be there soon, but we're definitely not there yet.
> Nobody said it would need to be secure?

Then ignore the security warnings.
Like I said in the root, talking generally 10-12Hz is really common because you need to handle dropped packets cleanly.

I don't know about the CS 1.6 days, I used to play a ton of early cs and was an admin on one of the most popular Frontline Force servers. We ran tick rate of 12 if I recall correctly.
I mean, if you want a direct quote from Lennart Augustsson, here's a quick transcription of the relevant parts of the relevant video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgOzYZDrXL0

> So strictness is really fantastic, I must say. Stack traces work. When something goes wrong, you can say "so you call things from there to there to there". It's the single most time saving thing from Mu compared to Haskell, because things do go wrong from now and then, and it's so great to know exactly what went wrong... And strict languages have what I call resource composition. So if you understand the complexity of 2 parts you can stick them together and nothing weird happens. They add up. That's not true in lazy languages. And debugging, it's sensible in strict languages. And exceptions, they actually work! Strictness is great. It's terrible, also. So it has nice resource composition but it doesn't compose nicely semantically. So laziness has some good things as well. I think laziness is a much nicer way of programming except for these pesky resources. You definitely need some lazy functions, even C has lazy functions.

And then he goes on to talk about the ways that they allow laziness in a strict language, and when they need laziness.

Screenshots of relevant slides. Considering that the report was pretty much a summary of the talks given at CUFP, I don't know why you would cast doubt on its legitimacy.

https://i.imgur.com/fqr5P8g.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/HieskA0.jpg
I have no love for Riot-the-games-company, but there are pretty good reasons why Riot-the-software-company is so well-respected. Bear in mind that stuff like that blog post are just the upper crust of that iceberg. They basically took the notion of Chef best practices away from Opscode (now Chef, Inc.) and completely redefined them with environment cookbooks and Berkshelf. Things in devops have moved on somewhat, as they always do--but they were, and I assume still very much are, serious about building good processes and the tools necessary to make them better.
Or "bacterium + flagellum + circumflex".
I used to live in Surfside, which is right next door to the Bal Harbour Shops. Hard to tell from photos, but the mall is TINY.

Also, the foot traffic is really light. Most people seem to hang out at the few cafés or restaurants. But I suppose with prices like that, they need a lot less traffic to pay rent.
the second paragrph of this article says that the sanctions are largely symbolic? If so, how does that lead to economic collapse?
Isn't this exactly what you would expect from something pleasant and rare? If you just want to make an area more affordable, you should make it less pleasant.

The answer is to do this more, until it's not special, and during the process subsidize. In fact, if mixed-use areas are inherently more livable, build more public housing projects around a mixed-use format.

> The study of Toronto neighbourhoods found that the increased cost, which was further heightened by the retraction of government support for affordable housing in mixed-use areas[...]
With Waymo Settlement, Uber C.E.O. Makes His Mark
Exactly. Debt is typically caused by having less income than your situation demands (illness, parenthood, college without parental support, etc) and should be viewed as a symptom, not a cause.
In times like these, the medium really is the message.
First Flume and now this.

Flume is a map reduce framework at google and it is also the same name as a product by apache.
> Surely it would have made more sense for the existing behaviour to be the default

Since the pawn doesn't have the Emoji_Presentation property, that's basically what the standard says outside of contexts where emoji presentation is the default for anything that has the emoji property; the text presentation and emoji presentation modifiers are generically available to override the defaults.
I think that depends on what you mean by "desirable design". Default appearance of the GUI, design of the packages and release schedule, choices in the filesystem structure, configuration in a default install?
Ask HN: Best game engine for indie game developer?
Hey everyone! I know nothing about gamedev, but I'm pretty experienced at programming and CG, and I'm thinking about learning some gamedev.

Aside from Unity/Unreal (which seem like tools for big studios other than an indie hobbyist), what are some other game engines I should consider?
Male fertility rates have fallen drastically. https://www.cnn.com/2017/07/25/health/sperm-counts-declining...

Male testosterone production has been decreasing as well, at a population level. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17062768

Also interesting to note that medical academia has been gradually lowering the requirements for what is considered a healthy testosterone concentration. Minimal acceptable bioavailable testosterone for a healthy young man used to be considered on the order of 500ng/dL, now it’s generally considered around 300ng/dL.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1089/rej.2014.1636

"Can memory be retained after cryopreservation? Our research has attempted to answer this long-standing question by using the nematode worm Caenorhabditis elegans, a well-known model organism for biological research that has generated revolutionary findings but has not been tested for memory retention after cryopreservation. Our study's goal was to test C. elegans' memory recall after vitrification and reviving. Using a method of sensory imprinting in the young C. elegans, we establish that learning acquired through olfactory cues shapes the animal's behavior and the learning is retained at the adult stage after vitrification. Our research method included olfactory imprinting with the chemical benzaldehyde (C6H5CHO) for phase-sense olfactory imprinting at the L1 stage, the fast-cooling SafeSpeed method for vitrification at the L2 stage, reviving, and a chemotaxis assay for testing memory retention of learning at the adult stage. Our results in testing memory retention after cryopreservation show that the mechanisms that regulate the odorant imprinting (a form of long-term memory) in C. elegans have not been modified by the process of vitrification or by slow freezing."
Airbnb's Public Fight to Stay Private Is Complicated
If Steve Jobs hasn't done it, then who am I to waste money on this.
We already have lab grown meat, and a lot of the reasons it isn't feasible at scale right now have more to do with subsidies on meat production and sale that don't currently apply to lab grown than on any practical limitation.

And its not that lab meat is cheaper in a vacuum right now, more that huge meat subsidies (either direct, guarantees and insurances from the state, and allowing meat producers to externalize a huge portion of their water / pollution costs) hamper investment into lab meat that would exist in a purely free market. Traditional meat is just artificially cheap.
Fast, beautiful and useful database tool
I'm just surprised this didn't happen sooner. The housing disaster that is the bay area has been around for quite some time. Of course, now is worst, bust still.
I don't think anyone should have their property confiscated without warning for a clerical error. I think that everyone should be treated equally in that respect.
Indian bourses to stop providing data feeds to overseas exchanges
Can't easily find how much it costs? I definitely want to try it out :)
I'm seeing black arrows in Firefox and Chrome.

Blue emoji arrows in Edge.
https://xkcd.com/793/

https://xkcd.com/1831/
> An example is how the uneducated largely voted for Brexit, and won't change their minds in the face of evidence that it was a bad vote,

I'd argue that there's no evidence that Brexit was a bad vote for people without significant savings (designated in sterling.) It's easy to understand why the elites would hate it; it's responsible for a 10% loss in their worth.

I think you're still (accidentally) assuming that the descendants of people of merit still hold that merit somehow, rather than just having divergent interests due to their positions as owners and managers, rather than wage-earners.

edit:

> Many of us want to build cool things and make money and contribute to the world, and capitalism makes sure we're rewarded for it,

Capitalism rewards destruction, deception, and extortion as often, if not more often, as it rewards productive activity. Ransomware is a cool thing, as an application of technology.