skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Actually claiming there are a lot of climate change denialist out there is probably more religious.

Most skeptics if not all of them agree there is climate change, most of them even agree some of it is man-made.

The discussion is how much and you won't find any consensus on that no matter how much you try to ask for it.
What's your definition of "isolated issue"? Most people use it to mean a random one-off that isn't part of a pattern, which can't reasonably be applied to mass shootings in the US at this point.
You are saying that the corruption is established during the rule (before the change of power) but is more likely to be uncovered upon the change of power, correct?

As opposed to the corruption coming about because of the change of power, which is how I'm afraid some people could read your comment if they skim quickly.

Assuming that's what you mean, yes it makes a lot of sense.

To put it another way, stability of power tends to allow corruption to remain hidden.

So all the people who are reaping the benefits of corruption will love the idea of Xi staying in power.
For a community that likes to point out all the time that correlation is not causation, a lot of the posts so far seem to be making assumptions about causative direction.

But why should we assume that just because they're correlated in this study, high IQ causes longer life expectancy?

Maybe the same early childhood circumstances (such as better nutrition) that led to measurably higher IQ also led to individuals being healthier / more robust later in life.

Maybe exposure to certain toxins that decrease IQ (say, lead) also tends to make certain cancers more likely.
Inflation is one of the primary justifications for a lower capital gains rate, because getting taxed on inflation is quite the slap in the face.
I tend to agree that managers of engineers should have engineering experience. I think my reasons would differ from those of the author and many other engineers: it's much less charitable toward engineers. One of the best reasons to select managers who have been engineers, in my opinion, is because they know how much bullshit engineers engage in with respect to fad chasing, bikeshedding and other negative practices. It's important to know what the work of an engineer really entails: that includes the aspects of it that negatively impact the business and how as much as it does the aspects that contribute value and how.
During the timeframe of this study, not smoking would have been less common.
The exact same query takes 60-70ms in SQLite for me. This is not a very good MapD advertisement...

edit: Actually, I get this (uncached) in the sqlite3 CLI (the 60-70ms where via sqlitebrowser):

Run Time: real 0.018 user 0.018164 sys 0.000135

Here is the database if you want to play around with it. https://transfer.sh/VkWXe/sqlite.db.gz
Unfortunately while they do international _payments_ they don't seem to do international _payroll_ and _compliance_.

For other reasons, looks interesting. Thanks for the recommenation!
Tough questions we get asked: 2018 Annual Letter
> TL;DR: The more the delay between investment and revenue generation and the more capital intensive it is, the worst.

I think you're talking about high interest rates, not high inflation. High inflation means that, when you start generating income, you'll generate a higher income than with lower inflation. This, by itself, helps you repay the cost of your machinery faster.

Usually high inflation also comes high interest rates, and that creates a problem if you have a delay between investment and revenue, but not inflation itself.
Yeah, it’s a good book with great visuals. The author, Jamis Buck, actually lives in my town. He visited my University and gave a lecture on generating a Zelda like over-world by using maze algorithms. It was an interesting application. Jamis writes in Ruby and helped with Ruby on Rails. He has a good blog too [1].

[1]: http://weblog.jamisbuck.org
> I agree that a dictator starting a reckless regional conflict is a safe bet.

Would you say it is more or less safe than an elected official starting up a conflict to distract people around re-election time?

> Be it Taiwan

The PRC is already at war with Taiwan, and has been for decades now. As far as wars go, it's pretty bloodless, with the PRC only saber-rattling when Taiwan purchases and places new US weapons, but other than that both parties don't want to rock the boat, because that's bad for business.

So unless some idiot tries to get in between and force the issue, it's pretty safe to assume there will be no armed conflict in the near future between the PRC and Taiwan.
I presume you are talking about ScriptX created by an Apple spin-off Kaleida Labs? I'm reading about it right now, and I don't see any specific features useful for language-oriented programming, not even Lisp-like macros. From what I can see it doesn't seem to encourage this approach to software development at all, it looks like some kind of Smalltalk derivative with multiple inheritance bolted on.
Versioning is optional and just becomes part of the file data. Write garbage into that and it'll still take a lot to fix it.

Anyway, there's plenty of filesystems that have versioning built in as well.

Besides, I've been tasked with recovering the specific state of a database where every version of every object was available, and it was only some 200k or so records. That took me about 2 weeks. (mostly for writing code that could find a consistent version of the whole thing)
Startingstrength is very clear about the dangers of lifting to much weight. If your form starts to degrade, or the lift speed slows at the end of the 5 rep set, do not add anymore weight. Stay at that weight, or even decrease the weight until the complete set is done with no slow down and perfect form. If you blindly add five to ten pounds to your lift every session you will get injured, the book warns about this. Progressing slowly is not throwing out the whole program.
I think you might have a good point, there is no "objectively good" in politics. For example when you consider highly unequal incomes as a problem in society then you will support different measures than when you don't find that problematic at all. For both there is no "real" basis, the measurement for "good" is only your image of how you want the world to be in 100 years and thus entirely subjective.
Yes let's install a whole house UPS so the light bulbs work right...
This article and the comments here combine to illustrate for me the difficulty of making healthcare work in all the different ways it has to. I read the article, and I think, "Yeah! That's the kind of healthcare I want!" I read the comments with contrary opinions, and I think, "Those are great points — these counter-intuitive practices make sense when you need healthcare to scale." I talk to my wife, a physician, and I hear about what results in the rare cases when these protocols and consultations don't happen, and I think it's a wonder that hospitals function at all.

I think it's not a matter of finding the solution to the problem, but a maximization problem, where we have:

- patients who need to be cared for as human beings and allowed to make their own informed decisions, but who are generally not experts in medicine

- physicians who have more patients than they can keep in their minds at once, and who are reliant on nurses and computerized systems to keep patients breathing and not get sued, but who are also skilled, highly-educated professionals whose human judgment is frequently superior to any algorithm

- nurses who are both underpaid and responsible for more than their training considered

- hospitals that need to pay the bills, pay salaries, attract new physicians, etc.

There are so many conflicting aspects of this problem that any simple solution is probably unrealistic.
> "That's the crux of the issue. Without such a guarantee"

I actually meant that very generally. Any physical effort that's going to build muscle has risks: you're applying force somehow and there's a chance for that force to be misapplied and cause injury. The two exceptions I thought of are yoga and swimming (both of which I've also done on occasion).

That said, to each his own. I'm pretty conservative when it comes to the possibility of injuring myself, and I honestly don't think lifting free weights is inherently risky when one pays attention to technique and one's own condition (both in general and during a workout), which is true of any sport or fitness program. But if it doesn't appeal to you or you don't perceive the risks as I do, I'm sure you'll find something that meets your needs.
... provided it's public somewhere else (e.g. in the commit data).
For periods of standing longer than 2 hours. Also no data included in the article about whether this varies with the fitness of individuals.

Anyway, I thought we already knew that staying in one position - any position - for too long is detrimental? Isn't that why we have sit-stand desks?
I always look at it from a pollution angle. Even if global warming is a farce (I don’t think it is), cleaner air is a win. Cleaner water is a win. Etc. If you don’t want a greener world for climate reasons, why not a cleaner world for your lungs?
Yeah, so the question is about the order of magnitude it takes for each such simple measurement; how much time does it take to reset the whole thing and do measurement again - how many times per second/hour/whatever can we hope do do that.
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Yeh and I can probably watch a movie on the Apple watch too. But would I want to? Absolutely not.

I cannot understand why anyone would wear a fake analog looking watch on their wrist. It would be fine if the battery life wasn't literally a thousand times worse than a real watch.
It’s not been hard to get more than those returns in recent history.

The Nasdaq-100 total returns have been 32% last year and 155% over the past five years. This is a average of just over 20% a year.

Source: https://www.nasdaq.com/markets/indices/nasdaq-total-returns....
I've been using a standing desk full time for about 2 years now. I spend a majority of my day standing.

In between standing I also walk and jog every few hours (roughly 5 miles a day, mostly fast walking). I also do about 50 push ups and situps as general exercise.

My job consists of writing code, constantly learning new things, creating video courses (around software development topics) and blogging. So I would say the cognitive requirements are pretty high but I don't feel standing hinders my progress in thinking through problems. I never once felt like I had to sit down to solve a problem.

Other than the first week of standing I have not experienced any muscle pains or aches. I feel good.

If anyone is curious, here's a couple of posts I've written about standing desks:

https://nickjanetakis.com/blog/build-a-home-made-standing-de...

https://nickjanetakis.com/blog/results-after-using-a-standin...

I recommend trying it out. Your own body will give you feedback on whether or not it's working out for you.
I didn’t get that this time at least. It’s worth pointing out that while that’s not great, if they send the password before encrypting it for saving in the database and only send it internally to their own mail server then there’s little security risk. But it’s not best practise as it trains users to expect it from other sites.
On the other hand:

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/health/intelligence-mental...
> IntelliJ [is] popular because of Google, ...

IDEA is and was pretty well established in the Java/Scala world. Android Studio is the cherry on top.
Agree for reduced mobility, but re:poor night vision, I can do most things in my home in pitch darkness, as well as open the door from the outside: selecting the proper key from the key ring in my pocket, "feeling" the keyhole and inserting the key without looking at anything. Whenever I change the key cylinder I verify I can still do it with the new key.

This used to fascinate my wife. Now it just upsets her, she thinks I'm showing off to the kids. I'm not; I'm training for when the sun dies.
GPU databases have a higher latency, due to the need to copy data to and from the GPU. The data processed has to end up in the host RAM, to be sent to the client - it can't be sent directly from the GPU RAM.

The GPU really only helps when you need a higher throughput - eg. you're analyzing many billions of rows, or are running a relatively compute-intensive query.
Visualizing funding rounds and valuations of Airbnb, Reddit, Dropbox, Slack and more
Heh. Post a dissenting opinion, watch the karma disappear. Surely I can't be the only one that thinks we see enough of this from all angles on a daily basis.
Well, that's because the underlying approach needs an improvement. As an example, imagine that every doctor-patient communication is recorded with a camera. Now all you need to do to get facts from a primary source is to watch a video with another doctor talking to a patient. I'm not saying that this is the solution, but options do exist and they are worth exploration.
How to disable autoplay on Chrome
Completely agree, term limits are a weak check but better than nothing. It reserves power to a political elite that control the succession process, but at least that’s better than a single individual.
Something I think most Westerners who in liberal democracies don't understand is that the notion of "corruption" doesn't really exist in the rest of the world. At least not in the sense of being an immoral deviation from the norm.

What we think of as "corruption" would be better be termed "patronage", and it is the natural and default mode of political behaviour for human beings. It is impersonal, merit and market based systems that are the aberration, historically speaking. And, in the absence of strong institutions preventing it, societies inevitably revert to being patronage-based.

For example, imagine you are interviewing two people for a job. One is an extremely well-qualified and capable stranger. The other is a mediocre candidate, but is the son of a friend of your uncle. Who do you give the job to? For many people in the world, the idea that you would even consider not giving the job to the son of your uncle's friend is heresy. And they would not consider that attitude in any sense immoral or improper. Indeed, being in a position to help yourself and your acquaintances, and instead choosing to assist a stranger would instead be the perverse choice.

In a wider sense, within patrimonial societies there is never any question of ending patronage altogether. Instead, elite patronage networks compete with each other, and "anti-corruption" drives are about the dominant patronage-network cementing power and punishing another. We often see this in countries where every change in the government is accompanied by the prosecution of the old leaders for corruption by the new, only for the new themselves to be prosecuted a few years later upon leaving office.

Xi's efforts might be presented as being "anti-corruption" in nature, but they are very much about securing the position of himself and his patronage network. If he was serious about stopping corruption altogether, he would be concentrating on reforming China's institutions to make them more transparent, more merit-based and less susceptible to centralised political control. Instead, he's removing obstacles to himself and his patrons remaining in power indefinitely.
What's the point of putting this on Github when there's no source code available? Many people won't trust arbitrary code from a random user enough to run it on their machines.
NanoCore developer gets prison
Read between the line. It's a UFO/Rat 55 [0] in the sense that commercial pilot see poor airmanship and calling it out. The same kind of poor seamanship from the Navy we saw last year.

[0]https://thedailyintrep.com/nt-43a-the-rat-55-a-very-unusual-...
While I agree that being taxed on inflation is unfair, it would not be that hard to discount inflation when assessing taxes. Surely a tax system could accommodate that.
https://openenergymonitor.org/ based on raspberry pi
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Doesn't quantum transmission infrastructure require direct connections from A to B? I.e. you could use it for a single uninterrupted fiber cable, or for the channel between your antenna and a satellite, but not with our common fiber infrastructure that relies on repeaters / re-transmitters.

As soon as there's any device between you and the recipient that breaks the entanglement, all the guarantees of quantum encryption go out of the window, and it's possible to attack the comms at that retransmission point.
> It would cause economic ruin, social turmoil, and worse on a huge scale.

I don't think this is true at all. No one has the capacity to store everything and governments would be the ones that come closest. Why would they cause all those bag things? It does not make sense.

I am not saying they won't use it, but it will not have nearly those effects that you list.
I think the extension literally drops turbolinks into each page you visit. That’s it. So the source in the repository is the source of the extension - check manifest.json.
Yeah, but in that sense, C is "just syntactic sugar" for Assembly. You keep using "syntactic sugar" in a disparaging sense when everything short of machine code essentially qualifies. After all, what is a compiler but a program to strip out and distill the abstractions of using a higher level language into machine code?

Like I don't need functions or methods, either, but that doesn't mean that I should avoid their use. Shouldn't I decide when implementing a function or DSL is worth the effort? Yes, it's time consuming, but abstractions provide real value in programming.

All you're really saying is "I can implement a regex engine in C." I mean, no shit. But you're implying that means DSLs are somehow inappropriate or unworthy of use because of that. There are big flaws in that logic.
People may not like a compromise approach, but I've switched to using standard IMAP-based mail readers with gmail. If more people did that instead of using the gmail app and web site, Google would maybe see that AMP'd email wouldn't reach a large number of their customers.

Then again, maybe AMP is their solution to this third-party interface "problem": create an incompatible "feature" that will encourage or force users to abandon standards-based tools.

Kind of like what's happened with Google Talk. God I miss the Mac's Messages app being able to interface with my work's gsuite chat.

FWIW, the iOS email client has improved a lot over the last few iOS versions. Worth checking out if you haven't looked at it for a while.
haha. no worries. :)
Well the zombie apocalypse has to start somewhere
Disable Autoplay on Your Desktop

Just like with Chrome for Android, the desktop version will eventually get the same type of controls in the settings menu. Until then, you’ll have to use Chrome’s flags to disable autoplaying videos.

First, copy and paste
chrome://flags/#autoplay-policy
into Google Chrome’s URL bar. This will take you directly to a Chrome flag that you can change.

The Autoplay policy should be set to Default when you load the page. You’ll need to set the drop box option box to
Document user activation is required
so that you have to approve any video to play on a website.

Lastly, you’ll need to click on the blue
Relaunch Now button
found at the bottom of the page. This will restart the Chrome browser and activate the change.
"No one's figured out Satoshi Nakamoto yet."

Is that a fact?
Possibly an unpopular opinion, but at least it is Xi Jinping. China's system I think is rather horrid but numerous reports over the years suggest Xi is moderate, not an ideologue and leans slightly pro-West. Classified cables released by Wikileaks also point in this direction. If I am off the mark on this, please correct me as I find the area interesting.

https://wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/09BEIJING3128_a.html
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that's a matter of 'forking' resource usage...
For a nation-state level, it's going to be a lot dirtier (defaming, violence, and possible civil war)...
Yup - that's pretty much it!
But the fact is, it doesn’t and that’s the world we live in. We need to lower capital gains taxes sometime in these next few years.
They don't spend time and resources to "add regulation", they spend resources to have an open Internet.

Currently the path toward that is doing something against browser monoculture and doing something about the actions of the new FCC.

The FCC changed to a different regulatory regime, which is inadequate, hence Mozilla tries to get back to the previous one.

You can try to measure up regulation with some kind of one-dimensional measure, and claim that Mozilla wants "more", but that's completely missing the point.

You can also say that Mozilla would not be okay with a totally unregulated Internet, because it'd take decades for the ISP market to solve the short term problems, that doesn't mean they wouldn't like a plan that phases out regulation where markets are healthy.
There were some researchers working on noise saying that entangling more qubits has exponential difficulty, it's easy to create quantum computer with couple of quibits that we're seeing now, but it will be impossible to use more. If that's the case, we're safe.
How to Install Google Play Store on Chinese Smartphones and Tablets
It actually worked. People who are clueless about cryptography (i.e. like 99% of crypto investors) are totally on IOTA side here. Invancheglo is a grade A troll.
> A relative of mine just got PR in Slovakia and the "money in the bank" requirement is 2400 EUR

Is that the only requirement?

I just checked and Slovakia has a tiny immigrant population - <2% of total population. Compared to ~28% AU and ~14% US.

What am I missing? Have they drastically changed policies in the last 2-3 years?
A New Way to Recycle Batteries Uses Half the Energy
The person storing it and accessing don't necessarily have to work for the same nation-state.
MateBook X Pro hands-on: Huawei is getting really good at making laptops
I imagine this would break many JS-y websites? Since just swapping in the body means that you'll lose assertions about init code only running once
Perhaps you are mistaking people's expression of knowing things about reality, for an expression of knowing things about China.

It's OK for people to know things about reality. You shouldn't get offended by that.

How about an example.

Reality: Striving for safety is a good thing to do when developing a space program.

China: We strive for safety, but our situation is special and outsiders who criticize our safety don't understand our situation. We have safety, but we call it "safety with Chinese characteristics."

Here is an example of safety with Chinese characteristics. You see the rocket explode, just as western rockets often do as well. What is different is how the rocket is allowed to launch near a populated area, and how instead of having a self-destruct mechanism on failure, it is allowed to continue straight down into an area filled with houses. (Previously filled with houses, that is. Not anymore).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBJ9ue6GKek

Again, the Chinese government would call this safety with Chinese characteristics ("x with Chinese characteristics" is their term, not mine). But that doesn't make this disregard of human life right. One doesn't have to be Chinese to understand that. One only has to be human. We non-Chinese humans also have thousands of years of history, you do realize that right?

So people can know it to be true whether they've been to China or not. Apparently, the Chinese government rocket scientists, who should be pretty smart Chinese people who even come from the culture that invented rockets long before anyone else, do not know as much as that.