skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I think the insulting part is the subtle insinuation that the money is more likely to be used to buy drugs/alcohol than for the purpose of feeding the recipient or otherwise helping them out of poverty.

> Even if 50% of recipients go buy drugs with the money, does it really matter?

The libertarian dream, however the unfortunate reality is that where the money is supposed to do things like feed your children, you instead squander it on drugs. If the presumption of drugs is too harsh, replace it with something equally stupid like cigarettes, lottery tickets, rent-to-own furniture or some other predatory service that the poor disproportionately participate in. This is not a behavior beneficial to anybody or worth enabling.

This is why we have systems like food stamps (disbursements that can only be spent on food), WIC (disbursements that can only be spent on fresh vegetables, baby food/formula, etc) and so on. Handing cash to people who don't know how to use it responsibly does not spontaneously teach them otherwise.
Eh. Everything is basically just there, or very very easy to get (just apt-get it). It's very easy to have a working development environment that doesn't get in the way.

Plus, every aspect of the operating system is ready to be explored, if you want. If there's something you don't like, just change it, rebuild your program, and you're good to go.
The tyranny of the rocket equation – Don Pettit – TEDxHouston 2013 [video]
I suppose so. As an embedded developer it appeals to me, but I haven't looked too much into it TBH. Do you know of any analysis done on the bugs in servo or any other large-ish project?
I'd say that in general, due to cultural expectations, men are better at anything that requires a domination mindset. Winning in zero-sum games.

The non-domination mindset focuses on non zero-sum win win results. This requires creating something out of nothing. An example is relationships. There is nothing directly measurable or improveable, but meaning is can still be derived purely through reorganization of actors and the interfaces between actors.

The degenerate win-win situation is when both actors win due to the loss if a third party. A wealthy country can have win-win between all sorts of actors as long as the negative consequences can be outsourced.

This implies that all existing win-win methodologies are probably corrupt in some way because there are very few people who expand their bubble of humanity recognition to all humans. Whether it's a different country or a different ideology, the tendency to dehumanize is trigger-happy.

I'd say that society creates two mindsets. One geared to winning. The other to living. Culture specializes these two mindsets into 2 groups. The male/female divide being one that matches fairly well due to physical difference.

This isn't the case now since mentally there is no large difference. At least in potential.

To focus nowadays though is too much on having the "living" mindset learn how to win. Instead it should focus on the winning mindset learning how to live.
Except if your taste is not right smack in the mainstream, those services have a terrible selection even combined.

I went to JustWatch and even pretended to be an American, just to make it easier on them.

First option, The Exterminating Angel. It's a classic, part of the list of 1000 best films by the NYT, and less than 60 years old. Nope, not even one service has it.

Second choice, Lore; still foreign, but it's a film from 2012, made already in the streaming era! Apparently I got to subscribe to "Fandor", so the price is now $40/month.

Third, let's give them an easy win: Missing, made in the US and owned by Universal! Yet another service, so called "Starz", for $9/month more.

Fourth, an American classic, they have to have Raging Bull... and no. Now it's something called "MaxGo", which from what I can tell costs another $10/m.

These were literally 4 of the 5 first movies I searched for, and we're already at your $60/month, and still missing one! It's not reasonable.
> Generally speaking, aren’t poor people poor because either they don’t know how to be not poor or can’t execute being not poor?

No. Generally speaking, people are poor because their parents were poor and because they are in a system which works to make and keep them poor.
This is absolutely false, tech is a force multiplier in nearly every business even if it doesn't require onsite software engineers to get that productivity bump. Look at the Bloomberg terminal in finance, Salesforce/CRM in sales, Epic in healthcare, Westlaw in legal work, the list goes on.

Now a lot of the time, firms can get a better product by purchasing one than trying to build something in house (where anyone producing HFT tech won't sell that product because it's an immensely valuable trade secret). This said, I'm sure there are forms of intelligence gathering that is also built in house by firms that allow them to implement market beating strategies.
> The proper separation between men and women is a major American conservative need.

It's way off topic for this thread, but I've never heard a conservative talk about needing to separate men and women.

> But what conservative viewpoints do you think are most under stress?

Well, minority religious viewpoints now that you bring it up. Religious people certainly feel feel like they have to be closeted. They don't use the terms "microaggressions", "soft bigotry", and "privilege", but orthodox religious people (of all stripes) talk about being at a disadvantage in professional settings all the time. Pastors routinely give sermons basically encouraging them (again, using different terms) to "come out of the closet", "celebrate their identity", and "engage in healthy dialogue".

Some think (including in this thread), "Good! It's their turn now anyway! They had their chance, now they can be the minorities!" not realizing that the imagined Mad Men suit is actually unlikely to be religious. Church membership is over-represented by women, the poor, the disabled, and so on. African Americans and Latinos are much more likely to attend church than Caucasians.

Some think, "Hey, they chose to be this way. They can be like the rest of us if they want respect." Again, I find this attitude ironic given the obvious parallels to other social justice issues. The religious do not feel like they have any say in who God is or what he wants. No more than atheists feel like they have a say in whether God exists. And, perhaps more than (most) athiests, a religious faith is a core part of someone's identity.

Basically, I find the fear of religious diversity is a glaring (and intentional) gap in the prevailing postmodern take on diversity. The usual response is usually some form of "they have it coming", which is frankly unrealistic, unhelpful, and combative.
> Having to resort to doing things like map/reduce for a simple group by / order is not the way to go IMO.

Perhaps you are unaware, but that is a straw-man. That’s not how you’re supposed to with MongoDB. You’d use the aggregation framework:

db.sales.aggregate(
[
{
$group : {
_id : null,
totalPrice: { $sum: { $multiply: [ "$price", "$quantity" ] } },
averageQuantity: { $avg: "$quantity" },
count: { $sum: 1 }
}
}
]
)

https://docs.mongodb.com/manual/reference/operator/aggregati...

https://docs.mongodb.com/manual/reference/operator/aggregati...

This has been the case since MongoDB 2.0, in 2012.
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Thats simply wrong, educate yourself young man!
OK. I see why they would have chosen to do that, and it disappoints me, but it seems to be weirdly more complex than that... this code prints the numbers in order (and continues to do so if you rearrange the calls to setImmediate and setTimeout or move them outside of the function either before or after)... so it is definitely returning from the function but it seems like the resolved value gets to jump the queue?

(async () => {
setImmediate(function() {
console.log("4");
});
setTimeout(function() {
console.log("3");
}, 0);
console.log(await new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
console.log("0");
resolve("2");
}));
})().catch();
console.log("1");
> We don't resell data.

There must be some confusion on my part, because I consider this product (https://plaid.com/products/income/) as selling the income data, I'm guessing it's unrelated to Coinbase.

In any case, are you able to unequivocally state that you do not collect this data for coinbase users, even if it's not for reselling? I know you might have good intentions, but there's no telling where that data will end up once it's collected (past the point of your 'exit' event).
Opportunity NYC was the previous program. The current one is called Family Rewards 2.0

> On average, the program cost $13,459 per family, 48 percent of which was paid directly to families as cash rewards.

This was over a three year period, which means that each family received 13459*.48/3 = $2150, or about $180/mo. So they provided between 2-5x as much money. I share your confusion though, as this is still categorically a lot smaller than I would've expected.

I guess it's less of a UBI type program and focuses more on cash rewards for good health and educational outcomes. For a low income family, $2k/yr is non-trivial.
Oh wow, I've been using Firefox Android (with uBlock) since ages. I never considered that. But yeah whenever some app renders a page in some embedded widget (probably Chrome) it's just .. .blegh.

So that is what AMP is for? No wonder I've never seen the use.
A very informative write-up. I believe that KNN is a great intro project for anyone getting into machine learning. I recently wrote an MNIST KNN classifier with numpy and pandas, this post certainly would have been helpful. https://github.com/ShahZafrani/machineLearningPractice/blob/...
You honestly think it's purely based on money? You read many quotes from Rob Walton or Jacqueline Mars?
maybe future laws and policy will take into account the more-or-less finite supply of bitcoin. maybe.

my point is that there is no guarantee that bitcoin will receive favorable decisions. it's hard for the lay person to understand (why not just print more?) and if ever declared a currency-non-grata could actively be attacked in this way.

i should add that i have engaged in btc currency speculation and had a positive result. the long term value/health of btc is of great benefit to me. but, it would be foolish for me to assume that because it would good for it to be so that it will be so.
Do you have an ORM that can translate to good PG queries using JSON/JSONB functions? I would LOVE that in Java/on the JVM.
She's mad at the party leadership and was a Mitt Romney supporter. I want to know what she has personally said that makes her alt-right. A lot of non-Alt-Right people worked at Breitbart, heck Ben Shapiro worked there.
>not being able to save syntactically incorrect code

Going deeper, it would be nice to not being able to enter syntactically incorrect code.
Could you train a neural net to look for suspicious objects with optimal viewing conditions on rooms?
Thank you for speaking up. I have seen the same time and time again growing up. Yet people can’t believe it is true. Poverty is not just a lack of money.
Always my favorite. You can take money out of my account instantly. Refund? "You should see that in your account in 3-4 weeks". Just brazen, at times.
I found that striking too. In this program they were provided "$13,459 per family, 48 percent of which was paid directly to families as cash rewards".

While I'm sure it was nice to receive a _little_ extra money, that certainly isn't going to be life changing. It's more of a tease than anything.
Low calorie stuff like herbs or lettuce are essentially the only plants that are practical to grow indoors at scale like this. Which makes perfect sense when you think about it but unfortunately means it will be very difficult to try to scale up to providing 2000 calories to a person, let alone the amount of plant matter chickens and cattle take.
Edit: To clarify what I'm getting at here is the fairly linear relationship between how much artificial light is input and calories output. If your indoor farm is getting natural light, such as a greenhouse, then things are different.
It sounds like the author wants coroutines, not promises.
30 years old misinterpreted quotes? Not really.

Now, he may well be a white supremacist (although I haven't heard any complaints from his Jewish cofounders, FWIW), but these do not prove it at all.
Why is this surprising? Most anti-poverty measures are ineffective. The "war on poverty" has not worked in a single metric. Affirmative action hasn't changed a thing. The only thing that can get you out of poverty is a good family structure, a culture built on performance (Chinese, Indian culture takes this waaaay to far, but it's a start).
I think "tougher and more expensive" is enough of a distinction. I buy a lot of gear in the hiking/camping/onebag world, and a lot of companies there comprise nothing other than a "our shit don't break" philosophy. For example, Goruck bags or Wolverine boots.
How to Be an Instagram Influencer for $300: A 2-Month Study
That second link is remarkably hard to read. I hate this hipster web design trend of using faint text that barely contrasts with the background. That's so the opposite of what a reading experience should be.

Anyway, on VP9... its disadvantage is that it's very computationally taxing compared to H.264 (and presumably VP8). MS Edge won't use VP9 on laptops that don't have hardware decoding for it, because decoding VP9 with software kills battery life. Are other browsers following similar policies on laptops? (this is only applies when the laptop is running on battery, and Edge will let you force VP9 even on battery in its flags).

H.264 is quite elegant and efficient from a computational perspective. Note that even when laptops have and use hardware decoding for VP9, they still use more battery than hardware decoding H.264 (which will be in any computer that has hardware for VP9). Though there must be a threshold where a difference in bitrate would equalize them.

I guess the days of H.264 computational efficiency are over if we want better compression. I'll read your links to see what to expect from AV1.
> [Sam] is one of the first editors to separate its UI from the actual editor - Sam can be used on both the command-line and as a graphical text editor.

Not even close to the first. TECO had both command-line and graphical editing in, ah, 1964: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TECO_(text_editor)#History
It is unusual to come unprompted, but I got feedback 80% of the times I asked.
There are no cryptocurrency investors, because cryptocurrencies are not an investment, they are speculation.

You have started a company to help people lose money.

In the future, kindly use your enthusiasm and skills for something more useful.
I'm no expert but this seems like a good case for doing random subsampling during the test.

IMO fast probabilistic total coverage test is better than no test or partial coverage.
Not sure why this was downvoted. Those pictures are right here:

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/05/photos-of-an-nsa...
there's the https://pudding.cool site that kind of does this stuff?
what do you want then? Everyone is supposed to have the same opinion?
Then the promises should have been advertised as a part of async/await syntax. But many articles promote using them by themselves.
It better be non cash based assistance then. If you're happily giving money to cocaine addicts then you're not being helpful at all.
Your philosophy of error handling composes poorly :)
So if you actually read what the program is here: Provide families with a average of $179/month if and only if they jump through a whole bunch of hoops, from doctor visits (which they have to pay for) to school attendance to working more hours (each of which must be documented by the program participants), and then although the program did reduce poverty (give people money, they're less poor), it didn't make them into upper class people magically. So it didn't achieve its goals.

Probably the average participant ended up spending dozens of hours doing bureaucratic tasks each month to get that $179.

This is neoliberalism in a nutshell.

Meanwhile, worthy people like the Koch brothers can get a $1 billion to $1.4 billion (estimated ANNUAL benefit from most recent Trump tax cuts to them personally) donation straight from the Federal Treasury and have to do exactly nothing to show that they "deserve" it.
Yeah, I screwed up and was looking at the wrong number.
You have a point. It's probably not unreasonable to test every Unicode codepoint against a low-level shared library, at least for APIs that process a single codepoint.

I don't think it's a no-brainer though.

And it is unreasonable to expect a testing technique to be applied in every case where it is reasonable to do so. There are a lot of techniques that are reasonable to use in any give case but it would be no sense at all to apply every one of them. To focus on this one, now, amounts to Monday morning quarterbacking. Once you know the bug it's easy to see how it could have been caught. Of course if you somehow knew of a bug ahead of time you wouldn't need any test at all!
Actually pure deuterium in the tests so far. But the design explicitly targets boron fusion. If it were adapted to D-T, then it would in fact need a steam turbine. The great thing about pB11 is that most of the energy output is fast-moving charged particles, and that's not true of D-T.
>> Visas are overwhelmingly only granted to technical fields. So people who can immigrate to america are the ones in technical fields.

Even so, why are there more of those technical immigrants female than the locals? That the majority of visas granted are for technical fields doesn't tell us anything about the gender of those who obtain them. There's nothing stopping 100% of immigrant IT workers from, e.g. India from being male. Why are they not?

Also, I'm not sure the assumption that visas are only granted to technical workers is correct. My experience is from the UK and I don't know what happens in the US, but over here, immigrants do all sorts of jobs. For example, many doctors and nurses in the NHS (the National Health Service) are from India or the EU; the majority of agricultural workers are from the EU; plumbers, famously, are all Polish; catering workers are from the EU; etc etc.
Yeah what's particularly frustrating is that I'm not a new user, I've had an account for years. If I had a problem signing up, and couldn't start using their service, that would be one thing, but that I already have money in there and they're preventing me from getting it back is what's really frustrating me.
Peter Thiel, retreating from Silicon Valley's tech scene, is moving to L.A
It's a nice idea, but he's using data that is waaaay too abstracted from anything he'd need for comparison.

For starters, he did mention that at that level, the courses are set differently and/or on different trails, so the speed numbers are meaningless, even in aggregate. (if the data are meaningless, don't do the analysis)

Even tho the aggregate speeds may be similar in Slalom and Giant Slalom, it doesn't remotely reveal relevant data.

At the lower levels, women and men do compete on the same course, women skiing first, so the course is in better shape. Their times are consistently slower than the men who run the same course later when it is more chewed up.

Similarly, when women racers occasionally ski as forerunners on the same course, although they're skiing as a course & systems check and not supposed to go flat-out, so might not squeeze out the last few tenths of a second, it's still the same results.

If it were down to only skills, mental toughness, preparation, I'd expect the women to ski as fast, but I'm pretty sure that there are some biomechanical factors in ski racing that will still be critical, e.g., muscle/bone leverage and similar factors that keep women's weightlifting below the men's results.

A lot of it is strength and flexibility, as you have to hold your edge in the ice (most race-courses are deliberately iced so they don't get so chewed up) against some serious forces and vibrations/chatter/bumps. Oversimplifying a bit, more strength allows you to hold the edge in better contact with the ice and generate higher turning forces, while simultaneously maintaining a supple feel for the surface and how your ski is working.

Source: Former USST alpine racer,(mostly DH, also SL/GS/SG).
ProBuilder joins Unity offering integrated in-editor Advanced Level Design
Interesting. Here (UK) fixed broadband is much better than that for latency. I ususually see 8-11ms on fixed broadband (DSL-based), yet my ping on 4G is generally more like 40-150ms, with lots of spikes.
> I would say some of these negative ideas are represented by the Republican party in its current incantation...

That's largely fair, but I'll point out that Trump didn't get a majority of the Republican primary vote. I think it's largely because there are plenty of Republicans who dislike Trump and weren't looking forward to all the blowback we're discussing in this thread even though Trump was in their bottom two choices for who would make a good President.

Painting entire people groups as bigoted due to election results they didn't necessarily even want is... well it's a conclusion based on an incomplete view of reality. With some charity, I can say there's an opportunity to share and learn what people actually think, but at some point the ignorance seems more willful than accidental.

Frankly, with the proclivity of all sites to either push these conversations into bubbles (Twitter, Facebook) or suppress them (professional settings, Hacker News), I'm not sure there's any suitable public space for actual understanding to happen. The problem is that all the spaces I listed seem (to me) to be controlled by the same social forces that conservatives are concerned about with respect to free speech and actual dialogue.
Share some code that you think looks amateurish. It’s hard to give feedback in a vacuum.
> McCarthyite propaganda around Holodomor

I am not sure if this even should be dignified with a reply.

Leftist talking points about "access to healthcare" only work on those who have no idea or first-hand experience with healthcare in countries that attempted to build that workers' paradise.
> Simple, and the rest of the movers and shakers

Yeah, a bank that announce that 1% of their customers had their account involuntarily closed with 30 days notice is sure to build trust in the new world order.

https://techcrunch.com/2017/04/14/simple-account-closures/
How to see hidden photos of someone on Facebook – 2018
Google Adblocker off to a questionable start
Google maintained Chrome AdBlocker [0][1] (based on BetterAds Standards) went into effect today. The API [2] shows 1253 sites flagged at the time of this post.

539 Warnings
714 Failing

Ads Off for 539 entries, paused for 45 entries, and 669 entries are pending.

Among the failing sites:

http://techradar.com - Tech news site
http://georgiadogs.com - College Sports Team
http://fox43.com - TV Station in the US

With only 1253 entries and months of preparation, I'm really disappointed about these questionable choices. Kudos to Google for the easy to access JSON interface for viewing the list.

[0] https://blog.chromium.org/2018/02/how-chromes-ad-filtering-works.html

[1] https://gizmodo.com/google-s-big-ad-blocking-update-comes-to-chrome-tomorro-1822992036

[2] https://developers.google.com/ad-experience-report/v1/reference/rest/v1/violatingSites/list
When you are performing a boondoggle, you generally had a reason or purpose in mind, and what you're doing right now is pointless towards that purpose.

For instance, let's say you wanted to improve the educational quality of a university and you build a new chemistry lab that costs a lot of money. You're about 80% of the way through when you realize that the lab is never going to help education if you can't attract competent professors. Oops. That's an example of a boondoggle.