skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
males are more susceptible to diseases than women, and probably not just genetic ones: https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2006-03/jaaj-xck0316...

other explanations included, its no surprise that there's a sudden die off of male lineages in the Y with agriculture coming into the scene.

to me, its another example of yin/yang creation/destruction push/pull where males drive evolution through destruction and females preserve the species dna.
It's a giant round of caseless ammunition? Neat!!
If your use-case for Websockets was "make a bunch of concurrent RPC requests without the browser queuing them" then you can achieve the same concurrency semantics using regular AJAX REST calls, as long as they happen to transit over HTTP/2. For a lot of people, that was all they wanted.

As well, if you add a single SSE channel to that, riding in the same HTTP/2 socket, you now can do everything Websockets can do.

And if you throw a web server like Caddy between your HTTP/2 clients and your application server, now your app server can just be implemented in terms of regular HTTP/1 request-handling, with no need to implement any connection-oriented protocols at all.
You believe that these well-liked tools/initiatives were random anomalies, born independently from and untouched by Microsoft's leadership?
Aren't dev tools are going cloud. MS might have just bought a bunch of servers with nasty dependencies on Jenkins in the hopes it results in more deployments to Azure.
I imagine a live charger status network/app would be a good thing to have.
Then we catch up.

Or we don't, because autonomous killing machines are a big enough risk to all life they're not worth it. For example, you don't see an arms race to develop nastier strains of the flu or ebola, because that would be stupid for everyone.
Perhaps the best way to understand what makes Julia fast is to watch these two videos about Python and R and what makes them so hard to optimize:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCGofLIzX6g

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HStF1RJOyxI

Take everything mentioned in these videos that make Python and R really hard to optimize and don't do those things :D
I know of some towns in upstate NY that employ "crow hazing" techniques to harass and eventually drive away large flocks. Typically these groups tend to use nonlethal (and as non physically damaging as possible) methods like air rifles and lasers, and sometimes just bright lights.

http://www.wwnytv.com/story/37317955/crow-hazing-in-watertow...
Taking a step back from the fact that this is "Green energy", and all the usual virtue signaling associated with it nowadays.

From a pure economic point of view, this is literally tax-money that will help the top 10% buy EVs more easily (because the other 90% cannot afford anything else than traditional vehicles). It is literally subsidizing a lifestyle on Tax Money.

If this made sense economically, people would buy EVs without the need for state and federal subsidies.
In theory, if you can pair generation and consumption more locally (such as a solar roof powering the car sitting under it), transmission costs can drop as well.

In the small scale, producing infrastructure that can bill your meter going both ways only increases the cost.

But in the large scale, not having to build and maintain more high-power distribution towers across hundreds of miles of difficult to access terrain decreases cost.
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As someone who has run a relay on my home network for years now this has never come up. At least not that I've been able to discern.

I think it might be a problem if I also ran a mail server from home, but almost nobody does that anymore.
Microsoft wouldn't benefit from killing GitHub.

Heck Microsoft killed their own competitor TFS and pushed people to migrate to Git, and uses GitHub themselves for hosting several products. Microsoft also has full Git support in Visual Studio Online (their enterprise competitor to GitHub), Visual Studio, and VS Code.

Microsoft would likely use GitHub to advertise their development products, tools, and services like Azure. I doubt they'd want to "extinguish" GitHub because it just means less eyes on their adverts.
I don't see how the desire simply for defense can avoid developing autonomy in micro-drone interceptors: Oh no, a bad guy drone is flying right towards the pope! Deploy the autonomous interception drone to stop it. No way a human pilot can conceivably defend against this type threat. Which means we need autonomy to protect, and that does lead to the dual-use dilemma.
haproxy terminates tcp session. ipvs/katran does not. the whole purpose of ipvs/katran is to scale out layer of load balancers, which terminates tcp (transport in general) sessions. so tl;dr ipvs/katran solving the problem of scaling out "haproxy/nginx/varnish/w/e else" layer
No perhaps about it. Natural gas is far better a fossil fuel to burn than coal per BTU.

Still not ideal, of course. But it absolutely has its place as a transition fuel as we work to decarbonize our energy production.
I don't think that's the right way to look at the graph. It says that out of 100k 15-24 yr olds 74 died, and also out of 100k 85-1xx yr olds 13k died. This is purely a measure of death rates and doesn't take the age distribution into account.

to get the probability of dying before 50 you have to look at the total number of deaths/pear, distributed by age: https://www.statcan.gc.ca/pub/91-209-x/2013001/article/11867...

the area under the curve for 0->50 looks about 1/10 of the overall, so I'd say the op is about right.
1 cyclist was killed by a criminal driving recklessly beyond speed limit on JFK, and was near a T-shaped intersection and was riding in the parking/shoulder lane.

1 cyclist was killed in a SOMA intersection by a DUI operator through no fault of her own with legal right-of-way.
> lacking the understanding and ability to grasp complex and nuanced issues he would have to have to handle a pan-epidemic.

I mean, the guy can't even read.
Willing, but capable? Who has the AI, Maps, signals intelligence, and everything else capability to replace Google?
Interesting that Google are using the non-US (British, Aus, NZ) spelling as well...
The U.S. really has turned into a banana republic. This, together with Monday's SCOTUS decision barring employee class actions (EPIC SYSTEMS CORP. v. LEWIS), means that if you aren't playing for sufficiently high stakes to make it worthwhile to hire your own legal team, you're pretty much fair game for those who can.
I think this was different then regular military projects because of drones, drones have a terrible reputation.
Read the article. This isn't going towards buying EVs, it's going towards installing a public network of charging stations. Wealthy or not, you won't buy an EV if you can't charge it.

It also explicitly places an emphasis on placing stations in disadvantaged communities, and focuses on heavy duty vehicles including buses. This is not primarily putting in Tesla charging stations.
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Or the money could be invested in power storage making those baseline plants obsolete.
> I think the Microsoft of today is very different from the Microsoft of the nineties.

If they've managed to change that much, then nothing prevents them to make the opposite turn and return to the monopolistic Microsoft as soon as a new CEO steps in.

That's why I prefer Microsoft to stay away from the products and projects everybody loves. Furthermore, I don't think Microsoft has anything to contribute to GitHub.
It's for this very reason that we've got a Model 3 arriving soon. It wasn't until I looked a bit more into the charging infrastructure that I realized that today's non-Tesla electric vehicles are effectively commuter/errand cars only. Without truly fast supercharging-style charge rates, you can't really take other electrics on a roadtrip.

Some people might consider 1-2 45min supercharging stops between SF and San Diego to be too much to tolerate, but wait until you tell them they've got to wait 3 or 4+ hours at a chargepoint station instead -- especially given that the charging infra isn't as tightly coupled to the in-car experience (maps, realtime charger info, etc).

I don't feel like I can trust random public chargers to exist and be available. Even at work, where we have 14 chargepoint chargers, they're all taken by 9am. I'm sure if I got plugged in (hah!) to the correct slack groups I'd be able to figure out when I can shuffle my car in, but realistically, you can only rely on home charging today.
They seem to have gotten the racist freak outs under control in my area. In the last year we’ve moved on to animal welfare freak outs.

A couple of weeks ago there was a thread condemning jogging with your dog. The OP was pretty upset about someone jogging with their dog during the heat of the day. There’s plenty of validity to the concern that someone could overheat their dog, but the crazy just exploded from the woodwork. A flame war erupted and several of the commenters stopped just shy of calling for dog joggers to be stoned.

Nextdoor seems to bring out a special brand of crazy.
Depends on where you are... here in Phoenix, for example, I think I may see a handful and only in the downtown area, or on the front of a bus.
I can’t wait for them to suck at this and then quit eventually.

I really wish they would just become a Platform company and let the next doors of the world build on them and let goog take 30% of revenue.

They are bad at network/human stuff. As evidenced by this site “coming soon.”
Don't really agree with most comments trashing this hypothetical deal, bringing up the Skype precedent.

Its been what, 2 years since the Linked-in and Xamarin acquisitions? Nothing seems to have changed. Microsoft just seems to know that the desktop is no longer the cash cow that it used to be, office still is but may not last long, so its a good idea to diversify its portfolio.

Satya is not Ballmer.
What is /etc/resolv.conf pointing to? and what is running on that host?
That assumes you live somewhere that has local journos to speak of. I only live about 40 miles outside of a major US city. But there's no real local news source. I'd only find out about an emergency because of a auto-call from the local emergency services or because it was such big news that it was covered in the Boston Globe.
Are Bitcoin transactions traceable
care to explain this a little further? Genuinely curious what these deficiencies are and who they benefit.
Perhaps I should clarify what I mean by rolling stop. The behavior I see is probably better described as a yield. The car will slow down, to 5-10 mph at the stop sign before accelerating back up to 25-35. I regularly walk through this neighborhood, and its outright dangerous. I feel much safer walking in downtown SF. My hunch is these drivers are mostly just looking for other cars and cops, as I have had a ton of close encounters as pedestrian. And to make matters worse, the streets are not very well lit at night.
The fact that the Microsoft of the past 2 years is "getting better" at something they've tried to do for many decades is a great reason to be worried about them taking ownership of a product they are unfamiliar with.

e.g. "GitHub is really starting to improve again" - Devs in 2050
The Rise of Raspberry Pi in Consumer Hardware
It's very likely if there were a legitimate threat or need for the technology, employee opinion on helping the military would likely change. China and Russia are regularly highlighted as the bogeymen in these scenarios, but how many people realistically would suggest either is likely to say... invade or fire on the United States?
If all externalities of traditional vehicles would be captured in their price you'd be right.
I did a secondary analysis, which you can see here: https://github.com/sbuss/sf-planning-pipeline/blob/master/Ne... -- scroll down to "Break down by project type" which shows how the category of housing that Jane Kim's Prop C affects has cratered, while the other categories are stable or growing.

Even 18% (now 19%) can't be done at the majority of parcels in the city. I guess it's fine for SOMA, which has the highest land values and transit connectivity of any part of the city, but it doesn't work elsewhere.
Nextdoor was nice, but it seems to be full of anima people in my neighborhood. Every week is a post on how some loud noise distressed their tiny dog and then a bunch of posts about what kind of thunder blanket is best.
I mainly use the admin console (and that's where I would prefer the controls to be). Right now to update group permissions I use the admin console to go into the google groups console and then update the permissions there (as far as I know, there's no way to update google group permissions from the admin console).
Wow what a revelation, thanks for bringing that to my attention.

Of course I am an edge case. I never made a contrary claim, just dropped my two cents in the bin, but of course I've been HNed for doing so.
And it's not just the reputation of drones, it's taking another step towards autonomous killing machines.

Robots probably wouldn't be as bad, but the other autonomous killing machines we have are pathogens, and all countries have pretty much decided it's counterproductive to develop pathogens for warfare at this point
The problem is there aren’t enough homes. Price is a reflection of that. Santa Clara County has about a 10 day inventory last time I checked.
...yes, an immediate decision to reject an offer from a company trying to pressure them like that. Or is that what you meant?
> exercise their rights

These aren't their natural right. Some laws are just bad independent of whether most people support or agreed to them. This is most obvious in dictatorships, but dysfunction strikes all systems.
You don't deserve to be downvoted for your statement, as it is correct- coal plants can function 34/7, unlike most other green sources other than geothermal.

Of course, gas plants can also function continuously, and for baseline, nothing beats nuclear. But burning gas for energy is far better than just releasing it unburned in to the air, or flaring it for no productive purpose.

As we get more large-scale batteries online, the variable output of things like wind and solar will matter less, and they will be able to provide an ever-increasing percentage of our energy mix. This is well underway, but it is a huge task that will take a long time to complete.
If you mean that judges or law enforcement should be able to punish actions that are not against the law, then I disagree wholeheartedly.
Stripe is building a Ruby typechecker
> and rather provide some constructive criticism

Sure, from a more-or-less former-user perspective:

-Facebook should stop abusing the notification system. Try enabling it. It kind of sucks. You expect notifications about X, but they also give you notifications that are X-like-ish-kinda-if-you-squint-but-really-Y. Now try not using Facebook for a few days. Facebook will act like a 15-year-old who didn't hear from bae for 2 hours. It's a seemingly nonstop deluge of notifications about people and things you probably don't care about. Did you know my mom's cousin just made a post? Neither did I. I also didn't care. I don't even think my mom cares. I was surprised we were even FB friends. I haven't seen her since her wedding 30 years ago.

-Friend suggestions are generally useless. Facebook doesn't seem to have figured out that if my aunt, uncle, and my cousins are friends with someone but not friends with anyone else in our family, that they are either a family friend or a relative from the other side of the family. Sure, I might be friends with that person, but this makes up a huge portion of my suggestions, and it's always useless.

-Friend suggestions are also creepy. I will start a new class with a woman I've never seen before in it. We will not exchange numbers or email. We will share no phone numbers. We might have different majors. We have no mutual friends. We will generally not interact or possibly she will flirt. Time will go by. My (unusual) last name will appear in print. Then I will get a friend suggestion. If I were single it would be great to know which girls are looking me up, I guess...?

-The interface is noisy and designed to get me to engage more with Facebook, but it's so off-putting I can't stand to be on it for long. Literally half my browser window gets ignored. Less is more. "Games Your Friends Play", "Instant Games", "Games"... and then right next to it in the chat component, "Instant Games","Your Games". I don't even play games on FB. The ones I have linked to Facebook are all phone apps which coincidentally I could (but don't) also play on FB.

I could go on, but meh.
The risk now is that some bad actor is replacing TLS certificates, which is an uncommon and tamper-evident event. Tor is handing your traffic to an unknown 3rd party.

Plus, users do not understand what Tor is or how to use it.

Fighting political battles with software is dumb — the end result is going to be a permanent loss of freedom, as governments force the use of platforms with trusted app stores.
The i7's in 15" macbooks are only quad-core, and while they can "boost" up to 3.9Ghz, the thermals of the laptop can't sustain that for long before dropping down to 2.9Ghz

Meanwhile, the XPS has 6-core (Coffee Lake), and can sustain 4.1Ghz indefinitely.

It's a very noticeable difference.

http://cpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Intel-Core-i7-8750H-vs-...
I usually just leave it on in the background while I program/study.

I also might have a tiny problem......
I've never seen that
I would say they can be reduced to numbers like that today, it's just that the implied error bars around the numbers would be huge.

Then in the optimization problem of determining what to invest donations into, the amount of gain from putting money into AI research would be correspondingly penalized by the amount of uncertainty (this is known as mean-variance optimization).

It's very much like a choice to invest in a solid, fundamental company which you know will give you 5% return next quarter, or invest in a very uncertain start-up which might give you 1000% return next quarter or might give you -50%.

The start-up investment might have a higher expected value, but also a much higher risk. At that point, the way to distinguish between whether you prefer to invest in the "sure bet" company or the "risky and ambiguous" start-up would be down to your personal tolerance for risk.

It could be perfectly rational to invest in the start-up in that situation. If you personally have a high risk tolerance. If you don't, then the start-up would look like a crazy, speculative bet with huge downside.

So some people might look at AI and say, "We don't have a good idea what the capabilities will be in ~50 years. So there is a huge risk that my charity donations will be wasted because in 50 years we realize we never needed to worry about this problem. Or we might use current AI research to thwart an unimaginable global crisis."

That person then looks into various sources of thought on putting actual numbers and actual error bars, the best we can, onto the problem, say by reading the Global Catastrophic Risk book, or stuff by Bostrom, or consulting surveys of current practitioners' estimates.

At the end of that process, it could totally end up being the rational course of action for that person to still invest in AI charities. Yes, their estimate for the expected value of the donation might have huge error bars around it, but under their particular beliefs about risk-return trade-offs, that might not cause their optimized decision to change.
Better Place was a startup that bet on this model. It didn't work out in their case, which is not to say it's necessarily a bad model.

https://www.fastcompany.com/3028159/a-broken-place-better-pl...
By giving you any credit at all for any of your donations, is still passing judgement on you.

EA is just doing the same moral judgement using a different accounting metric.

By going out to dinner with you wife, you are making both you and your wife happy. For that, you get 1 morality point in my book.

If you instead took that money and gave it to the make a wish foundation, you get 10 morality points.

And by giving it to the gates foundation, to help prevent Malaria, you get 100 morality points.

It is exactly the same thing it you yourself were to congratulate someone else on donating to a charity that you like. You are making a moral judgement on them.

Me making a moral judgement on you is no different.

Nobody "has" to do anything. I will fully admit that the average doctor is a better person than I am. Just like how I am probably a better person than the average pay day loan scammer.

Everyone makes judgements every day about other people. EA is just saying that these judgements should be evidence based.
They are both generally true. In the absence of data, people default towards their emotional connections. Ie, a cancer survivor donating to a cancer charity. But if someone could provide data showing persuasively that you can save 10x more lives via malaria charities, that would often override the emotional appeals for many people.

It's much easier to give in to your emotions, when you aren't encumbered by contradictory data.
Companies should die off from competitive pressures. It is hard to build a company and many thousands of people rely on a company like Xerox for their welfare. I think there is a problem with the wanton destruction of companies so that a small group can take dicerolls on whether or not capital can pay down debt over the short to medium term. I'm all for activist investors, but Icahn has always been more of a vulture. His self dealing in the TWA fiasco was particularly egregious.
> Current problem: My ThinkPad docking station has a GPU multiplexer that prevents it from being able to drive two external monitors. Doesn't look like there's a solution at all.

Which ThinkPad do/did you have?

I'm not a ThinkPad fan, but a lot of my co-workers have ThinkPad X1s with a docking station and are able to drive two external monitors plus the built-in display. Most use Windows, some use Linux, all seem to work fine.

I'm using a 2017 15" MacBook Pro and am able to drive two external monitors plus the built-in display as well. This requires a couple of adapters, but I've got it down to one thing that needs to be plugged in. It's very flaky though.

Honestly, the ThinkPads my co-workers use do this a lot better than the MBP does.
Because they don't exist. It's like predicating your actions on the possible future existence of the easter bunny.

Why are these people not attempting to research the ability to contact or create deities, or perpetual motion machines? Because they don't exist.
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Google maps already has the _Local Guide_ feature and _Ask the community_ section which is very similar to this.