skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I really like that a lot, but it needs more awareness of geography as it relates to human travel. In particular, main road networks and major waterways. A district should not count as compact if it is not contiguous via major roads, avoiding toll bridges and ferries whenever possible. And it should have a resistance to crossing major rivers.

For example, Richmond and Sausalito should not be in the same district, and the Sacramento river should be a divide at least as far up as Antioch and Rio Vista.

Likewise, Vashon Island in WA should not be split across 2 congressional districts, but (since too small to be a district on its own) should be entirely in one of the districts it has a ferry connection to. And Puget Sound should be a hard divide.
People need to lobby for laws protecting consumer interests. There just isn’t any large coporation willing to foot the bill here.
> Education is getting more decentralized and so the only real value of these institutions is brand recognition and network.

This is simply not true. I went to what I would call a tier 3 school for undergrad and then ended up at MIT for graduate work. The difference between the two institutions was really night and day. Not only are the classes more rigorous and the instructors objectively better at MIT, but the students just think differently: they have much more ambition and are far less constrained by the status quo / what their parents did. Being around that totally changed my outlook of what is possible and what I should expect from myself, and really pushed me to make huge career and self-education strides.
Good education and fully native speakers of English and a society that keeps "engineers and scientists" in their place so cheap also you save a lot on not having to provide heath care.
Isn’t ‘trade secret’ the wrong terminology as long as they accept federal subsidies?
sorry for hurting your feelings. I had tweeted it before and thought it was quite relevant to the post so I shared it here as well. If a couple of hashtags bother you, you should re-evaluate your priorities in life.
> consistently raising better children

Most of my extended family is Chinese-born. This cohort (educated, upper middle class and above) definitely raises better test-takers. They are statistically much less likely to divorce and much less likely to be on public assistance. I value these traits enormously myself.

It is not clear to me they are better children. Personal anecdata shows that many of these kids were raised with such obsessive concern with getting into Ivy League colleges that they are not complete adults, and often don't know what to do with their lives when they graduate.
I am deeply disappointed to hear that there is a feature baked into HN that is unreadable on mobile.

But now that I know... I'll pay attention.
Thanks for that overview of her categories; it got me interested and searching a bit for a more detailed version. Now I think I'll give the original essay a shot, and I hardly ever read philosophy. Link to save anyone else 10 seconds of googling: http://faculty.webster.edu/corbetre/philosophy/existentialis...

(Also, this feels eerily similar to the first time I realized "Oh, going and reading the source of $LIBRARY is an option if the docs are too vague.")
Genocide means wiping a nation or people and has expanded in modern times to cover mass killings for various political reasons.

Mass killing of animals is not genocide in any form. Your philosophy might deem them equivalent and I respect that view, but you should accept it's an extreme, minority position.
You're looking at all the wrong places
> "The Master & His Emissary", an incredibly flawed but also very inspiring tome mixing loose interpretations of brain science, art history and philosophy

What are some of the flaws? Or what would I be able to read in order to notice them?
The text of a comment itself is user generated content that can contain copyrighted material.
I think this is the kind of mindset that is being challenged here.

You actually can set up objective criteria for entry to a college. That some groups perform better than others in no way means they are not objective.

The unwillingness to accept the possibility that objective criteria might not result in equal outcomes from all groups is the problem. The rabbit hole of "that can't be objective because it challenges my assumption that all groups would perform equally" only ends in bad places.
Impartial Automatic Redistricting
I feel relatively successful now at 28 as a programmer, speaker, founder etc after having had to eat with the homeless every day when I was 20, so this comment hits pretty close to home.
Already posted:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17418081
I don't see how a Roku stick/set-top box can gather that information. It seems like antenna info etc. would only be accessible if you're using the version of Roku that's built into the TV itself.
> went to a good public school

To clarify: "public school" here means "private school" in American, yes?
O Nariz de Isabelle.
This is basically the same situation all 'platforms' and 'social media sites' are stuck in now. On the one hand, they want to be allowed to censor content to please advertisers and make things 'palatable' to the mainstream, yet at the same time they want the legal immunities granted to a common carrier like an electricity company or telephone company.

Twitter, YouTube, Reddit, Medium, Instagram and various others are all in the exact same situation. Hopefully at one point they'll be made to take a real stance and either admit they're a publisher or stay neutral on content.
SQS isn't really pub-sub. That'd be more Kinesis.
Yes, we marked this as a dupe, but on second thought I had a feeling that much of the community didn't see it and—to judge by the comments in the first thread—might like to. So we'll change the URL from https://github.com/plotly/plotly.py/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md to the more-informative blog post and give this one a second chance. We do that sometimes with borderline cases.
Reasonable might be to move higher up the food chain and impose life sentences on the people with the dollars ordering these species to be killed.

It is just a bowl of tragedy down in the trenches.
48% who voted and don't for get many British citizens where denied a vote in a breathtakingly example of gerrymandering that would make a Sothern democrat blush.

oh and the Gross Incompetence of David Cameron in how they wrote the goddam question.
The anti-poaching team is already outmanned and outgunned. This will do wonders for their numbers.

This means poachers now have nothing to lose if they get caught (they'll get killed if captured), so they might as well try to blaze their way out of the situation. Anti-poachers will themselves become endangered.

We tried this in the US wrt kidnapping in the 60s. All it resulted in was dead kids, since kidnappers had nothing to lose if ransom demands were not met-- whether they release the victim or not, they were going to fry for the crime either way. We had to scale back the punishment to provide some incentive to release victims alive.
My humble suggestion(s) to make "favorites" more useful (and hopefully more used):

1. add the ability to "favorite" from the front page. I rarely "favorite" anything, because I grew accustomed to using "upvote" as the mechanism to save stories. I would switch, but that extra little bit of friction of needing to click through first, means I stick with my old habit.

2. Add "favorite" for comments as well.

3. (maybe) - consider renaming "favorite" to "save"? Possibly people who are used to seeing the "save" link on Reddit would find that more intuitive.
Since the cat's out of the bag.
You can also just use a ClipIt action.
Axolotl Genome Slowly Yields Secrets of Limb Regrowth
Well, Harris has been out-of-date for decades in anthropological circles, I'm afraid. He's a fun read, but I wouldn't take his books too seriously at this point. It's pretty well understood now that a strict economic materialist framework doesn't explain why people do what they do (humans are _not_ rational actors, by any stretch of the imagination), but he was never able to allow himself to think outside his Marxian box.

Granted, I've only had a cursory look at Bennenson, Ryan, and Jetha, but they're a couple of psychologists and a medical doctor, none of whom seem to have a deep background in cultural anthropology. Unsurprisingly, their works appear to fall back on the usual just-so stories taken from sociobiology and evolutionary psychology.

TL;DR: I respectfully disagree with the implication that these sources are strong counterarguments to the article's thesis.
One better is to not have districts at all, and instead use proportional representation, which is what's used in more than 50% of all major democracies around the globe[1].

IMHO, more important than eliminating Gerrymandering, is eliminating the two party system. In truly competitive governments with 10-15 parties holding seats, it's incredibly risky to lie, BS, or ignore arguments. In our two party system most of the arguments are just designed to talk you out of voting at all if you favor the other party.

[1]: http://www.fairvote.org/research_electoralsystems_world
Mr. Rogers started broadcasting in 1968, the same year MLK was assassinated.

Mister Rogers Neighborhood was airing during the LA riots, during the Attica riots, during the height of Vietnam, during 9/11, during Watergate, etc.

Issues of racial resentment and hatred were dealt with, head on, by Mr. Rogers in Mister Rogers Neighborhood.

The television series continued until 2001, a year when the cultural and racial makeup of the USA was very similar to what it is today. The core message remained the same.
It's much the same in Oxford, add in the hordes of tourists and I would say it's not a good place to live unless you are an academic.
> Toddlers are being arbitrarily kidnapped

Citation?
"there's no cultural barrier to overcome"

There is indeed a cultural barrier in the United States when it comes to vegetarian diets. Many Americans avoid "fake meat" due to their cultural beliefs.
Lot easier to build out than a content business, believe it.
Data URL's do this without relying on the server.

E.g. this one cribbed from StackOverflow:

data:text/plain;base64,SGVsbG8sIHdvcmxkISBJJ20gZG93bmxvYWRlZCB2aWEgImRhdGE6dGV4dC9wbGFpbjsuLi4iIFVSTCB1c2luZyA8YSBkb3dubG9hZD0iZmlsZV9uYW1lIi4uLj4uDQpNeSBiaXJ0aHBsYWNlOiBodHRwOi8vc3RhY2tvdmVyZmxvdy5jb20vcXVlc3Rpb25zLzY0Njg1MTcvDQoNCk1vcmUgYWJvdXQ6DQpodHRwOi8vd3d3LnczLm9yZy9UUi9odG1sL2xpbmtzLmh0bWwjYXR0ci1oeXBlcmxpbmstZG93bmxvYWQNCmh0dHA6Ly93d3cudzMub3JnL1RSL2h0bWwvbGlua3MuaHRtbCNkb3dubG9hZGluZy1yZXNvdXJjZXMNCg0KQnJvd3NlciBzdXBwb3J0OiBodHRwOi8vY2FuaXVzZS5jb20vZG93bmxvYWQ=
I don't really see this as US propaganda. I think it's likely that MegaUpload was facilitating for profit copyright infringement. If copyright exists for any reason it should be to stop other people from selling your intellectual property for a profit.

MegaUpload did not just host files but they also made it easy to share access to those files and paid people who hosted files that were shared a lot.

MegaUpload knew about content that was infringing on copyright and did nothing about it (per the indictment). When MegaUpload was given take down notices they did not remove offending content but instead deactivated links to the content. If I torrented a movie, uploaded it on MegaUpload, then generated a hundred links to share on a hundred forum posts, I could share the movie, make money from Mega for doing so, and avoid take downs by generating new links.

Do you believe that intellectual property should be defended by law?
FWIW, I've heard the "100x safer" number tossed out at conferences on ADAS. I.e. an autonomous vehicle needs to crash 100x less frequently, kill 100x less people, etc. for the public to truly accept it as better than human drivers.

Logically, this doesn't make any sense, but taking control away from people leads to some psychological hurdles.
This has not been my experience engaging in the political process in the US, both on individual campaigns and when working on specific issues (drug decriminalization and incarceration and gerrymandering, specifically).

Whether people are married to their ideas through money or ideology, you are left with little recourse. History is written by the victor, not the noble.
Exactly right, except that we do not have to continue with this burden. Here’s how this is possible:

Vote for politicians willing to refuse corporate donations.

Visit justicedemocrats.com for details on how to vote this November.
> …but even in those cases, sources usually end up being stored long-term in files, as a matter of convenience.

Is that "the file as a basic organizing unit of code"?

Even when code is organized in applications and classes and versions… and persistence comes from a database, the database will be implemented using a computer file system.

https://books.google.com/books?id=ld6E19QIMo4C
The expectation with cars is not that everyone is lawful and considerate, but that everyone has a decent chance of being held accountable for their actions.
> Outline view

Thanks VSCode team for bringing this feature to the editor. I can't even mention how long I waited to see it in the next version of the Sublime Text (I still have hope) and the VSCode.

BTW why outline in IDEs is always in the different panel? Sometimes I feel like I would like to have an "org-mode" or a "workflowy" feel. I mean all references to classes, method, functions etc. displayed below the file in the sidebar. Then if I have errors or warning in hello() function I will be able to quickly find where I have a problem in my code - I need to only look on file list and I will see 2E bagde near src/main.c file and 1E at hello() and foo() functions. No need to lookup the 'Problems' panel anymore for quick fixes. And for markdown files it will be just like a table of contents.
...and brought Ernie Coombs with him. If you're Canadian, you might remember Mr. Coombs as Mr. Dressup. Bob Homme (The Friendly Giant) came up for much the same reason at much the same time.
> But those who have good social skills in our culture will have a hard time forming new and unique ideas, and will often get talked into believing big, fundamental ideas that are wrong or crazy. I'd compare it to being a smoker in the 1960s.

I can assure you that having good social skills is absolutely nothing like being a smoker in the 1960s. And, there is no absolute relationship between having good social skills and getting talked into believing crazy ideas.

I have absolutely no idea where you get those ideas, but they are completely and demonstrably wrong.
I do give the two week notice, but it's out of courtesy, not guilt.
This not only a problem with the EU, but with concentrated power in general. It wouldn't be cost effective to lobby every single government to pass this type of legislation, but when you concentrate it into a single place, suddenly intense lobbying becomes cost effective.

I have a similar attitude to the US Federal government and why I think state rights are supreme. You lose economies of scale, but gain a distributed and hard(er) to corrupt system.
Yes. The GP comment is somewhat glib. Culbertson is following Europa exploration closely. He passed out a press release on a possible Europa plume recently: https://mobile.twitter.com/spcplcyonline/status/994323304453...
Yandex leaks internal Google Docs
At some point poaching an endangered species should be a capital offence. This is irreversible species death we speak of. I know we can in theory sequence them and create eggs and somehow raise to term - in some future time and cost.
So once the animal hits a critical rating - this death penalty kicks in, and I mean kicks in hard. All those geezers with rhino horn daggers - stomped by a rhino. This would limit the demand - those guys like to swagger with their rhino horn daggers - make it legal to shoot them from ambush...

I would like to see a world where rhino horn could be farmed in tissue farms, same for ocelot furs etc, never any need to kill an animal for body parts
My opponents are bad laws and bad ideas. Let's make lists of those.

Individual people may have both good ideas and bad ideas, and those may change over time.

Lists of opponents' names are a really bad solution because they ignore the distinction between people and ideas.
Their interaction with processes is very awkward compared to shells or even Tcl.
You mentioned “compiled” without “…to native code”.

If that’s what you meant, C# fits quite well. The language is safe, very high-level but has easy ways to use C interop or pointer arithmetic, performance is adequate for many practical applications, asynchronous IO and multithreading are IMO best in the class, tons of libraries, good documentation, many users.

The main downside is limited options for cross-platform GUI. On windows it’s very good, on mobile platforms OK, for the rest of them (Linux esp. embedded, OSX) there’re no good options that I know of.

Another one is runtime size, current version is around 25-30 MB. No installation is required, but for some applications that’s still too much.
NetApp system zips past IBM monolith in all-flash array benchmark scrap
The problem is more that the lawmakers need something to do... EU is producing a torrent of regulations, which is a bit absurd since it's layered on top of a substantial amount of already existing legislation in the member states.

It's not so much about "harmonizing the markets" - it's just full speed ahead, high and low, idealistic, corporatistic, amateurish or razor sharp, but all the time relentless building the superstate.
That's why the sheer insanity of Objective C++ intrigues me.

I always speculated that Jobs went up to the engineers, "hey, we use a lot of Objective C in OS X, right?"

"Yes, sir, Mr. Jobs."

"Well, everyone else, namely Adobe, is using C++ and we need them writing apps for the Mac. We've gotta have those apps. So we're going to need to support that."

"Um, yes sir, Mr. Jobs, we'll get right on that."

He leaves, and they look around nervously. "He's pulling our leg, right?"
Cambridge and Oxford have been gentrified for a very long time
What you really need to do is pad out the book with text that looks as much as possible like the real book, but isn't.

One of the best things I've seen in that regard (although I doubt this was the reason for it) is simply the old "preview of forthcoming novel FOO by $AUTHOR" section.
i like that this essay puts the complexity of the brain into perspective, but the distinction between a computer and an organism is kind of arbitrary. brains are physical systems that can be modeled mathematically. if you can create a mathematical model of a thing, you can execute that model on a computer. a brain isn't a classical computer, but that doesn't mean that a computer can't simulate a brain.

we currently lack the ability to recreate a brain-like entity, but the subtext that i am reading here is that the complexity of the brain is such that accurately modelling a brain in mathematical terms is impossible. the "brain-as-computer" model may not be accurate, but everything that exists can be expressed in mathematical (and therefore compute-able) terms.

i doubt that cyberbrains will run on anything that we recognize as a general-purpose cpu. gpu micro-architecture is already a significantly more efficient option for performing nn computations. as our grasp on this stuff improves, more specific silicon is being developed to make it even more efficient.
So he is exactly right : 80% of the code handles edges cases. You are the one who is flipped.
I use org-protocol-capture[0] (in Emacs) along with Syncthing to push my .org files to all of my devices (including mobile). That way it's local but accessible from 'anywhere' (for me).

[0] https://github.com/alphapapa/org-protocol-capture-html
The Alphabet-scale comparisons are fair wrt to whether this is a "big" bet or not, but trying to minimize this via comparison to total world sales or California registrations less so (given that a primary promise of transit AVs is that they may replace many privately-owned vehicles).

While some have projected how many traditional vehicles they can displace, I don't think anyone really knows how that'll play out. I doubt any of these companies will go making bets that obviously rival the scale of traditional vehicle sales/ownership at the time they're made, especially before they get a sense of how reliable AV transit affects the decisions individuals make about car ownership as they face major maintenance, repairs, and replacement.

I've read one projection that says each could replace 10 traditional vehicles. If that worked out, it seems like a bet on 10m vehicles, enough to replace all 100m sold worldwide, would be astonishingly bold. If you assumed an initial scope of the entire US, the equivalent bold bet would be 1.7m vehicles. If you reduced the scope to California, that bet would be about 200k vehicles. If we guess that the difference between "astonishingly bold" and "bold" is an order of magnitude, these would be reduced to 1m, 170k, and 20k...
Europa is tidally locked so radiation on far side should be same as on Callisto
Discussed at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7824588.
Looking into things it seems the guy represent Huston and surrounding areas...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Culberson
There has been lots of discussion lately about Ruby and malloc. jemalloc gives the best results for Server Performance and memory usage [1], but is slightly slower in low memory usage scenario i.e Non Server usage which is popular in Japan. But jemalloc sometimes ( Not sure if this is still the case ) doesn't work well with muslc, used in Alpine Linux.

The Ruby Core team has decided against [2] shipping jemalloc by default, but will use it when it is available. Which ultimately led to some work on SleepyGC [3] and Transient heap [4].

[1] https://www.mikeperham.com/2018/04/25/taming-rails-memory-bl...

[2] https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/14718

[3] https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/14723

[4] https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/14858
Underwriting profit hasn't always been a big component of insurer profits - typically "float" or that interest on the premiums held has been the big driver. But in a low interest rate world, companies have had to keep more and more underwriting profit in order to exceed cost of capital. As they need more UW profit, so the fight over claims gets worse...

You are right though that money needs to be set aside for bad years - in insurance we call it "reserving", and actually it is already accounted for before the 5-15%. It is stashed away in the loss ratio as "incurred but not reported" or is paid in reinsurance premiums, which are a fixed cost. 5-15% is what is left over after all that (and admin expenses).
I think it depends on where in the world the user is from.

Where I'm located, it doesn't seem like WhatsApp is used much, or at all. I don't think I've ever met anyone in my personal or professional lives who uses it.

So if I were building an app using these APIs, it probably wouldn't even occur to me to test it with WhatsApp. I'd test it with Messenger, sure, and SMS. Maybe even Hangouts, or whatever the newest Google chat app is.

I don't think it's farfetched to think that someone could have received one of these notices even though they've never used WhatsApp.
I've thought about this a lot, but assuming you want to be pleasant for interactive use, you're subject to a tremendous number of constraints. Just to start with:

rm foo bar
rm -rf *

must be invocations of the rm command with the appropriate arguments.

You need bare strings, you need variable interpolation, you need redirects.

I think there's some room to break a few idioms and make something nicer, but it really is a hard problem. The choice to break things has to be based on how common an idiom is, how painful it is to not use it, and how much benefit you can get.