skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fraternal_birth_order_and_male...

"Secondly, the fraternal birth order effect operates through a biological mechanism during prenatal life, not during childhood or adolescence. Direct evidence for this is the fact that the fraternal birth order effect has been found even in males not raised with their biological brothers – it has been determined that biological brothers increase the odds of homosexuality in later-born males even if they were reared in different households, whereas non-biological siblings, such as step-brothers or adopted brothers, have no effect on male sexual orientation."

That is consistency with a "kin-selection" theory of homosexuality, that within a family, evolutionary factors favor having partially non-reproductive members in a family (perhaps because in a family with two males, on average, the total reproductive fitness is greater where there is one father and one uncle, not two fathers)
I have comrades who have, and it's a mixed bag, like everything in life.

You're giving a prime example of how binary thinking ruins the human mind.
Shorter pipelines don't fundamentally change anything about speculative vulnerabilities. Longer pipelines allow faster clock rates, but that is not the problem here. Speculative vulnerabilities are because branch prediction is needed to get the CPU looking far enough in the future to feed all the functional units so that it can execute not just one instruction per clock, but 4 (actually u-ops, but you get the picture). To do that, you need to know the execution path far into the future. That is not really related to the pipeline depth at all.
Well, 'lots of simple cores' is potentially one answer - but it does require you to have the type of workload that can work well heavily threaded. Similarly, CPUs that are heavily threaded rather than speculative, i.e. they don't mind stalling because they have lots of other threads they can switch to.
Time to abolish prisons now.. is that what you are trying to say?
According to the government, every leak of classified information "may" put the goverment's personnel and interests at risk. That doesn't mean it's true, and even if it is true it's not necessarily a sufficient reason to halt publication.
> Instead of taxing gasoline to help fill in the road budget

In the UK we don't. We tax gasoline because it has negative externalities (same as us taxing cigarettes and alcohol). It goes into the central budget that's run by Phillip Hammond in the UK. Out of that, and income tax, national insurance, VAT, alcohol tax, etc, he funds the national road network, trident renewal, the state pension, the nhs, etc. Some of that money goes to councils to spend on what they want.

Electric cars don't have those externalities of burning gasoline in the middle of our cities.

While we don't tax fossil fuels used to generate electricity, we do subsidise non-fossil-fuels used to generate electricity. It probably should be the other way round, however in any case burning gas (not oil) in a power plant out of town and charging an electric car is better than burning oil in an ICE in the middle of a city and thus should attract far less tax. Currently 42% of UK electricity is being generated by Gas - no other fossil fuels.

The councils then take the money from central government, and the local council tax (about £1500 a household), into a local pot, and fund things like bin collections, maintaining parks, operating libraries, and maintaining the local roads.

> why not tax vehicles based on actual road usage, and their size and weight?

Until relatively recently that's not really been possible (ANPR makes it possible), hence taxing fuel as a proxy.

> Then you don't have all of the "electric cars and bikes don't pay gas taxes" stupid debates.

Given that the cost of a road is wear and tear (which a pedestrian or bike causes pretty much zero)

Charging more than £5 a year for even the most extreme cyclist wouldn't make any sense. Because damage increases at 2^4, 1 mile car does about 1/100,000th of the damage of a lorry. A bike and car is a similar ratio - therefore if you charged a bike 1p per mile, you should charge a car £1000 a mile and a lorry £100 million a mile.
At least in the US you can invest in a car company or a mining company for example. In Africa the companies that do anything important are either state owned or foreign companies for the most part (as far as I know).
That should be really obvious. They’re selling $8,000 of software options whose unit cost is zero, after all.
Ask HN: What Are the Pros of Being Hired vs. Being Contractor in Remote Teams?
Writing Linux File System for Fun
Your philosophy is admirable. Unfortunately it's also the one that led us here. Shall we wait until the surveillance state has us intractably under its boot before we stop arguing over whether its power should exist and start focusing on who we would like wielding it?
I love how all the reactionaries come out to glom on to these sorts of findings.
Speaking of Brazil reminds me of a documentary about Ayrton Senna I watched years ago. He flew his beautiful helicopter to his beautiful skyscraper in Sao Paolo, then to his beautiful beach house and then taking out his beautiful boat. All that with dirty, poor kids and the slums in Sao Paolo in the background. It was a really jarring experience.
yes! this is the quora link that finally explained to me how it worked
Relativistic effects are irrelevant at the level of precision required for running a system distributed across the surface of Earth, what you are describing is just due to a lack of properly synchronized clocks. Place an atomic clock at each node and there is no need for any C deciding the ordering of A and B. Alternatively you may also be able to use logical clocks like a Lamport clock or a vector clock to establish an ordering in a distributed system in absence of properly synchronized clocks but that depends on the use case.
Last time I tried to use GIMP I wanted to do a simple affine transform on an image. I selected the transform tool and GIMP crashed. Apparently this is a known bug since 2016. Just checked, still broken.
When people say GIMP sucks they really mean it.
Pluralsight, Inc. Announces Closing of Initial Public Offering
I am reminded of an old Usenet post... proof of the existence of the System Administrator. https://everything2.com/title/Existence+of+the+System+Admini... is the copy I can find on google.

From the argument from design:

> One looks at a simple computer, and sees evidence of intelligent design.

> One looks at a Sun Sparc 20 and... um... well... Okay, One looks at a DEC Alpha and sees evidence of intelligent design.

And from the counter argument:

> If you think the network implies intelligent design, you haven't seen our network.
Actually that has been debunked several times. It is true that the giant planets suck some objects away from hitting Earth. But it is also true that they are responsible for hurling an equal or more number of projectiles TOWARDS Earth.
Jank = of extremely poor or unreliable quality.
Propaganda talking point.

Can you link to a single item that put a single military person in danger? Even intelligence officials couldn't when asked by congress.
Yes and No, I guess.
It depends.. I don't know what someone would achieve by arguing that way, hence my reply.

But please enlighten me..
Maybe I am getting it wrong, or am just not seeing it..

But sure, just put it all on "biochemical processes".. and no one is responsible for anything any more.
Brave New World.
"Writing Linux File System for Fun" by Maciej Grochowski

Slides: https://github.com/cppdug/presentations/blob/master/files/20...

Abstract: The UNIX Filesystem story goes back to the first implementation of the operating system. Since then there were many different implementations and improvements, that makes FileSystem quite complicated but also rock solid piece of software. Currently, most people treat FS as a black box or indivisible part of OS. In this talk, I want to present some basics about FS by doing a simple implementation of Filesystem.
Why limit it to the USA? If anything the USA has the least misbehaven government among the nations where high performance chips are manufactured. I don't trust 'em wholesale, but I certainly don't trust the China any more, nor Russia, nor even Korea, Taiwan, or Japan (which I am partial to).
Maybe they were trying to say that the need for these incentives might be moot. With such a great disparity in wealth, I’m sure their prison systems are probably still better than any alternative prison in Brazil.
That's not what it says. Or at least it's not what the article says; the title is a bit dodgy. It's saying that the early habitable zone planets we're currently finding are likely tidally locked, because they're easier to find with current observational techniques.
"Thoroughly Modern Mongo: Modernising the MongoDB Codebase" by Bernard Gorman

Slides: https://github.com/cppdug/presentations/blob/master/files/20...

Abstract: Keeping up with recent improvements to the C++ standard is considered a priority at MongoDB; from its origins in C++03, the project has been successively migrated through C++11 and 14 in recent years, with an imminent move to C++ 17 on the horizon. For a codebase that is already nearing a million lines of code and with any number of areas under continuous active development, this commitment obviously presents a significant logistical challenge. This talk will discuss why and how we invest ongoing effort into incrementally modernising the codebase itself, as well as our build system and testing infrastructure, in service of ever greater developer productivity.
Well, not only that; caffeine in plants acts as a natural pesticide.
Our designers worked really hard on this :)

I wonder if we might be able to post something technical to our blog about the various iterations of the new look and feel. It was a massive difference along the way. I'm going to suggest this to the team because I think some, like you, might really like to see how it evolved as development progressed.

I'm definitely going to let our designers know about your comment though. They had their work cut out for them on this release.

More fun though is some of this makes a lot of sense to bring to 1Password for iOS.... hint hint...

Kyle

AgileBits
"Exactly how the largest protocol-level hack of a cryptocurrency in recent memory could preceed said cryptocurrency increasing in price and then announcing a partnership with the most trafficked porn-site on the internet is a question I’m forced to leave open-ended; my personal pet-theory is that it has something to do with the fact that the world makes no sense and human beings are all completely out of their goddamn minds."
the “silent majority” is a fantastic sign of a bad argument

the truth is actually very simple; politics is merely one aspect, not always present, rarely the most important, and even more rarely interesting
> Yes I check my phone at last once every few minutes when I'm at home, does that made me an "addict"?

Probably. Many applications (web, desktop or mobile) today are designed to maximize interaction. They try to tickle our reward loop as often as possible, and vie for our attention between themselves. They manipulate us into devoting them our attention while feeling good about it.

On the other hand, we tend to constantly crave for entertainment. If it wasn't apps, it would be TV, movies, newspapers, books, etc. I guess we can't be helped.
Have you heard of "examples." They are things you provide in order to make your point more clear. Seriously.
Unfortunately, I am unable to read the article on my phone. The code examples do not render properly. They extend off the left and right sides clipping most of the code. Some sort of word wrap or shrinkage might be better.
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17126150.
BMW Fixes Security Flaws in Several Well-Known Car Models
Call it the police industrial complex if you want (some people do), but it's all the same thing.
> Over geological time period, the zone is likely to suffer unpredictable and novel variability

Earth does that too, though. Ice ages, the odd large impact, etc.
There are only a certain number of spaces on the front page, and I think there's a legitimate argument that the vitriol political discussions tend to generate will subtly seep into a community over time. I'd rather see the political garbage relegated to the many other places more suited for it.

This means accepting that certain topics are not a good fit here. Do we really need to re-litigate "what about the jobs?" anytime an AI discussion comes up? Or "what about Trump?" every time Twitter comes up?
Here the way autodiff for a simple 1-D concatenation is computed. First we write the concat itself:

function (A[SA], B[SB]) -> (O) {
O[i : SA + SB] = +(A[i] + B[i - SA]);
}

Note, that SA and SB are the sizes of the two tensors, and due to the way that edge case handling works, either A or B is out of bounds and thus equivalent to zero for each index i of O. Now in the case of +/+ accumulation/combination, the autodiff writes the derivative of each input as the sum over only the output (rather than multiplied by the other inputs as in the +/* case). This gives us:

dA[i : SA] = +(dO[i]);
dB[i - SA : SB] = +(dO[i]);

A further reduce/defract slightly changes this to:

dA[i : SA] = +(dO[i]);
dB[i : SB] = +(dO[i + SA]);

which basically extracts the proper portion of the derivative of dO into dA and dB respectively.
Definitely, both because they have less of unique position in the auto industry than Apple does in the phone industry (Apple is the only real integrated mobile phone player), and unlike Apple they've barely been around a decade. Apple has close to 50 years of corporate mystique at this point and probably is only beaten in brand recognition by Coca-Cola.
> current state of astrophysics and astrochemistry

Surely the specialist knowledge comes after the general knowledge? If a Nobel prize winning Astrophysicist says "there are exoplanets where you can make a perpetual motion machine" you would not let him get away with that?

The guy further up was just saying that there are general things about modelling (a very broad topic that reaches across all of science) that don't add up.

Ultimately, reasoning about observations are authoritative, not credentials.
I don't know. I think we should gather as much data as possible without looking for conditions similar to earth. We have no idea how life can develop.
> I love the ability to batch up the notifications. In my ideal world, I would get notifications at 8AM, 12pm, 5pm and 9pm. And that's all.

Couldn't you do this manually by silencing your phone except for alarms, and then setting vibrate-only alarms at those times?

Alarm goes off, you check your phone and deal with any notifications you have so far, and then you go back to ignoring it.
It's possible that in the short term, Amazon could be changing the economics of mass surveillance, making it more feasible for police departments that could not afford such tech before. But at this point, I think a change of dynamic is important, and that we actually _need_ an 800 pound gorilla to frighten us, before people wake up and start demanding action at the state and federal level.

It's already been half a decade since the UK surveillance regime and the reality of mass surveillance was opened to us, yet nobody batted an eyelid in the US. Meanwhile, facial recognition has improved by an order of magnitude and has already silently been seeing deployment everywhere around us. I'm being led to believe that unless we have a public poster boy to rally against, the situation isn't going to change.
Downvoted for asking a simple question?

Is that what HN has come to? Really?

I'm really sorry my friend.

They (downvoters) fail to realize that they are shooting the messengers, nothing more. But smart people understand. They know and will never cease to keeping them honest..
I hadn't heard it either, but the term does have a specific meaning: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eyeball_planet
The point is that they made it available to customers as a full, scalable pipeline. They can (and will) improve their accuracy continuously. Any kiddo can take some bleeding-edge wide resnet variation and get better results than they have right now, but can't make it available at scale to anyone.
Wouldn't most parents be thrilled for their kids to earn money and learn life lessons by working a job they enjoy? Even if it costs them $20 a month?
I meet everything with criticism until it proves applicable. I hope this app succeeds as much as the next person, I just enjoy creating discussion on this type of forum. Instead of just blindly saying "Go app team", I want to point out all the concerns I have with the foundation of the app. That is what this site is about, intellectual discussion.
vanilla-js is really powerful! One incredible feature they don't even list yet is Web Components.
Previously I had a blog where I wrote about any issues I ran across while developing, or anything that required a decent amount of research to solve. I would regularly reference it, and other people found it useful (based on the traffic I received).
> AFAIK, it is generally thought that our concept of numbers is at a more abstract, symbol-manipulation level

Which is a necessary abstraction to inhibit the aforementioned fallacy. Not that I know any particulars or anything.
Renault Twizy? Add some glow-in-the-dark pinstriping and you’re there and just a little over budget (~$10.5k converted from £).
What's the downside to requiring banks to purchase money from the government? Does it outweigh the benefit of the public wealth that would be created?
Let me increase your rent so we can pay for said rehab program. If you say no, then you have no right to say anything.
Yes, but at least he wanna get started something
Well, thanks! No, I never "turned around", nor do I think that what I described is particularly cool, since it puts some ~ consequences on the way I communicate, like e.g. I'm falling off conversation for few seconds before an answer emerges. But is this next thing safe and pragmatic? Any good read on that? Asking out of curiosity and because I'm not really into that... 'spiritual' thing that accompanies many mind-related areas.
Yeah, this "interaction-free" measurement didn't sit well with me, either.
Vacuous truths are still vacuous.
The good thing that I see is that they were the ones who pushed other companies to start/revive their EV lines.

It's a tragedy. They created competition and are -about to- fail to compete.
Nothing against it in the guidelines.
How Slack designs app loading experience
I think it's pretty safe to ignore anything David Brooks is writing. He has a long track record of describing bogus societal trends.
The article does a bad job explaining what "unprofitable" means. Unprofitable on a pure gross margin perspective? After you take into account warranties or financing? Unprofitable after you amortize R&D?

It should be more clear on what they mean finance-wise there.
Where's the infeasibility exactly? Currently it's used as fertilizer. As long as they can sell it for higher than the price of new fertilizer, they will be making profit. So really the question is, how much are people willing to pay for it, or how can companies convince people they need to pay more for it?

Arabica coffee is currently 2.962 USD per kilogram, and we pay double that for a cup of coffee using about 8 grams. We're paying 125x more for a cuppa than the cost of the beans. So it's certainly possible someone could come up with a way to make some small profit off the pulp. (Incidentally, tea is 0.0288 USD/kg, but obviously it weighs a lot less and we drink a lot less of it)
Why do you believe that brains have to be magic for prisons to make sense?
My haskell library beam[1] does just that. It'll catch scoping errors, aggregation errors, and more, through the type system. I'm implementing support for recursive queries right now!

Also, for the record, SQL is a strongly typed, declarative language, even if it doesn't seem that way.

[1] (http://tathougies.github.io/beam/)
Slack introduces Actions: a new way to turn conversations into action
Another Virtual DOM thing - which is obviously wrong.
I should clarify in saying that I check my phone for texts and call every few minutes, since I always keep it on vibrate. If I'm waiting on something and I have a few minutes to kill, I'll open up a funny picture app or youtube and consume a few minutes of entertainment. I don't see anything wrong with that. It's not affecting my health, productivity, or social interactions.
Rental electric scooters disrupt California's economy – its sidewalks, too
Fischer summarizes:

A layperson might ask, What difference—besides diss’ing social scientists—does it make if these interesting articles about loneliness growing are off a bit? First, they are off a lot. But more important, they are a critical distraction. Chatter about feelings (of mainly affluent folks) distracts us from the many real crises of our time—say, widened inequality, children growing up in criminally and chemically dangerous neighborhoods, the dissolution of job security for middle Americans, drug addiction, housing shortages (where the jobs are), a medical system mess, hyper-partisanship, and so on. That’s what makes the loneliness scare not just annoying but also another drag on serious problem-solving.

Ahh the cruelty of science. I would agree that the claim Brooks, an op-ed writer, made is overblown and sensationalized a bit in order to get readers interested, but that doesn't make those who are indeed lonely, and those who the NY Times article focuses on, any less lonely or visible.

It seems like the post's author is dismissing that there are lonely people out there because Brooks wrote something that overstates their numbers. As any social scientist would tell you, even the best numbers we have on these phenomena are problematic and incomplete.
no, that would be a different topic (although prisons are probably not the best way to introduce socially beneficial patterns into human mind, quite the opposite).
ACLU: Amazon shouldn't sell face-recognition tech to police
Thanks, exactly what I was looking for. I went to "Create New Style" and added the following and now I'm all set:

html {
filter: grayscale(100%) !important;
}
Objects in JavaScript are references so internally it's just a pointer being passed around.
A tutorial for Bash completion
Ha! I would support any tax that pays for real drug rehabs...much cheaper than prison and better chance to fix the real problem.
EP Conference of Presidents with Mark Zuckerberg
If you're looking at your phone every few minutes you are almost certainly interrupting social activities or whatever it is you're doing that requires more than a few minutes of continued focus.

If you're not convinced that any of this applies to you even if you're spending all your time on your phone.. well that too would be a typical reaction of someone who is addicted.

You might also be displacing other activities that require prolonged attention without even noticing it. How many books does the average person read that checks their smartphone every five minutes?
Speaking of Mint, has anyone else found it super buggy and unreliable? All of my accounts seem to have incorrect numbers more often than not.
The Origins of Urban Segregation in the United States
"Whatever means you want" just has to not include matching to a database of suspicious people that are not currently under investigation for a real crime. Or to something with a floating definition like "terrorist". Which it won't. Just because Washington County says it's not currently being used for mass surveillance doesn't mean it won't be in the future or for other departments.