skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> since he was elected president last November, Donald Trump has paid more than 40 visits to Trump corporation properties. His Mar a Lago club in Florida makes twice as much profit as it did two years ago. Family friends fill government offices which oversee parts of the Trump business empire. The administration has hired dozens of former lobbyists, most of them working on issues they previously lobbied on.

I'm no Trump fan, but this article reads more like a political piece than a business one. The practice of securing government grants and not creating much wealth from them has a long history.
Are there any scheduling experts on here? So I've always been under the impression that HT just schedules instructions on the unused functional units.

So say your CPU has 100 adders, and when you resolve all your dependencies for incoming instructions, you can only use 60 of those adders when running instructions in parallel (out of order), so the HT/logical core uses the other 40 adders for another thread (so the HT cores get a lower priority than the standard cores; hence why operating system that are HT aware can be more efficient by scheduling lower priority threads on the HT cores).

Is that correct or am I way off? (HT wasn't a thing when I took architecture class. I had a dual AthlonXP back then, where I had two physically separate processors).
Also most people, especially in the cities, who are middle-middle class or richer tend to send their kids to primary and secondary schools taught in english.
Yes but it isn't clear to me whether it's enabled by default.
OMG, thank you for this! It has greatly improved my mobile browsing experience.

For chrome on Android, go to setting -> site setting -> JavaScript and then disable it.
I guess 10 million
Two Countries, Two Vastly Different Phone Bills
> Trouble is, as far as your question goes, various government entities including the Justice Dept. and the CIA, etc. were the ones taking advantage of the territorial immunity of the tribe concerned.

I just had the scary thought of the US setting up Guantanamo-like prisons on reservations. If it was legally possible, they probably would have done it already.
Google Releases Edge TPU and Cloud IoT Edge​ at Google Cloud Next
This article does very little to discuss much about its supposed main point.
In 2009, the number of businesses that closed down exceeded the number of new ventures for the first time in three decades, a sign that productive entrepreneurial activity is declining.

I haven't read the underlying paper, so this probably doesn't detract from the larger point. However, in terms of the Economist's article, I'm not sure that this is a good "sign" of any trend; rather, it would seem inextricably linked to the 2008 crash that led to the Great Recession.
Thread safety is not the issue. The issue is that multiple threads may want multiple different working directories simultaneously, for different work items. But there is one working directory for the process. This problem is partly alleviated by the ...at() family of system calls, of course.
Really? Going to through job postings and you can hit $90k/year with 3 years of experience.

Of course you start at $90-$100k as a new grad in Amazon and Google.
Genuine question: what do you do with Word docs sent back to you as email attachments with track changes and embedded comments?

I'm slowly realising that my colleagues for whom this "works" are never going to change. Our shared folders are littered with "Copy of FINAL final + comments 2.7.18-my-copy.docx.docx". It doesn't matter how slick my git + markdown + pandoc workflow is when conversations go like this:

"Just use track changes."

"But..."

"JUST USE TRACK CHANGES."
This thread is like a parody

You started this subthread by comparing 30+ passenger commercial amphibious vessels with sub-20' dinghies. Nonsense begets nonsense.
Try MIT. It's dead simple, very open and works for the scenarios you've listed.

Details - https://choosealicense.com/licenses/mit/
Is this a paid-for service? I get redirected to https://www.bloomberg.com/markets/stocks
First, I would strongly advice against putting a policy due to an effect that there is no consensus on its causes. Is housing expensive because of low interest rates, because of QE, because of the advance of NIMBYSM? etc

Second, taxes are much easier to add than to remove: a tax thought and applied with mechanism will outlive its purpose, so if there is a downturn in house prices the tax will become a burden.

Places like california also dont even charge the proper property taxes. Its most likely that increasing tax pressure in a state like CA will be increasing income taxes, which end up maybe hurting landlords by harming their prey.
Calling it a standard might be jumping the gun. from your very link

> Publication as a Working Draft does not imply endorsement by the W3C Membership. This is a draft document and may be updated, replaced or obsoleted by other documents at any time. It is inappropriate to cite this document as other than work in progress.
Source code:

https://github.com/uncomplicate/neanderthal/blob/master/exam...
If it makes money, keep doing it.
Looks exactly like the Feitian MultiPass FIDO: https://www.ftsafe.com/products/FIDO/Multi
It might be a good time for those devs you know to make a move, if they're at all unhappy with their job situation.

A few devs I know with >5 years experience have moved to new roles lately, and the companies didn't even hesitate when they asked for salaries well over 100k. I know it's just anecdotal, of course. Other probably have good counter-examples. but maybe it's a useful data point regardless.
That's sweet!

I wish even more great tools like this were ported to Rust or some other language that makes packaging easy.

Do you think it could be reused to support pug/jade or slim? These are very similar template languages, and like haml, both have dependencies (JavaScript for the former, also Ruby for the latter) that make them difficult to use everywhere.
Alright so we split it. 200B for space, 200B for humanity research
> This method can only be used if a planet and its star differ in their chemical compositions

How prevalent is that condition?
The economist piece is a year old as well.
Nifty has launched on PH promising to deliver the future of project management
Amazing Paper Craft _ DIY _ Craft _ ARTnTEC
What does that have to do with using JSON as a configuration format? Having a single primitive (or for that matter an array) is not very useful as a configuration file.
I know some developers with less than 5 years experience earning more than CAD90k/year in Toronto, but they're not the majority of developers I know.

Those jobs do exist, but they're hard to get and hard to find.
This is awesome! I love small well-done projects like this.
OpenBSD disables Intel's hyperthreading due to security concerns:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17350278
Yup, all the new building (buildings built after 1992) weren't under rent-control. Since last year, they now are under rent-control which means landlord can only increase rent by 1.7% every year, which is why you saw that jump in rent. Not leaving my condo until i manage to buy my own place, which is going to be very difficult as well.
I think it's more like what you would use to build serverless.com a more fair comparison IMO would be to https://cloud.google.com/functions/

but it didn't use neither so ...
A Professional Academic's Guide to Using Social Media
Has AMD fixed Spectre in its processors?
Android is also a platform with significantly higher amount of free and opensource apps (with which you ALSO need to compete!) and TCO of such a phone is significantly lower.

And yet you immediately jump to conclusion that everyone is doing something illegal.
It's a super hard article to follow. I felt like I was reading a list of tweets or something.
There are very few senior developer jobs over 150k Cad, even with a lot of experience.

I expect that to change as the hiring crunch continues but right now the ceiling has been slow to budge - much slower than the lower end of the spectrum, which is pressured more with average rent in Toronto going up over 15% year over year
My sinking feeling comes from seeing democracy dying, replaced by "right answers" declared from on high.

Suppose the UK held a referendum about whether RSA encryption should be legal. The voters narrowly vote to keep it legal. Suddenly the press, the universities, celebrities and think-tanks start proclaiming the voters were mis-informed. That foreign powers deceived voters to keep RSA encryption legal. That the vote should be re-held because voters have changed their minds. Suddenly, you can't post a tweet in favor of RSA encryption without a brigade shaming you and demanding you be fired. Can't you see how wrong this is?
Found this blogpost:

http://suppversity.blogspot.com/2013/06/natural-migraine-pro...
Native-Americans have a diverse background in the last hundred years, including military service, sports and film making.. generally not big on the Academic side, if that is possible to say.. the programs you allude to are fraught with difficulties, for all kinds of reasons.. not simple, and certainly not solved by urgent, well-meaning people..
Ahh, you are correct. So it's more like, hacker news upvote clickbait strategy - post year old article.
Differentiable Image Parameterizations
Is the grumpiness related to the reduced impact of human activity on global temperatures in this model?

Or maybe more a response to the press's general tendency to report new studies as significant before there's consensus or even a chance for others in the field to fully evaluate the claims.
I'm not sure HN is the right forum for that. Enjoy, uh, gushing.
That number comes from the parent comment's hypothetical 1% of each country's GDP
This isn't really specific to iPhones. Any goods traded on the international market which cost a similar amount (in absolute dollar terms) in any country will feel more expensive in purchasing power terms to people in poorer countries.

This applies to Harley Davidson motorcycles (which I would guess are pretty rare in India) just as much as it applies in iPhones.
On a 23:1 cycle, I have to be careful w/ the way I resume eating. Start with heavy foods and I'll be in the bathroom very soon.
> but that one is a lame reason: as much as we hurt Earth, it will remain much more habitable than Mars

If we stopped using all fossil fuels TODAY (as well as eliminated the cattle and hog industries), as in every single person on the planet, it would a few thousand years to return to pre-industrial revolution levels of CO2. We're realistically looking at a MINIMUM of 6ft increase in sea level before the end of the century (bye-bye most coastal cities unless you ring every last inch of coast with dikes). We are rapidly depleting aquifers the world around (much faster than they can replenish), we're rapidly depleting soil (creating appreciable amounts of topsoil takes centuries), population is still climbing, electricity demand the world around is climbing, someone is producing a banned ozone depleting compound ( https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/05/it-seems-someone-is-... ) etc.

It's not a lame reason, it is an extremely valid one. We need to develop the technology and means to have self-sustaining colonies (even if enclosed in habitats) off of Earth before stuff gets so bad here we simply don't have the resources to commit to doing such.
AT&T’s 1,000 Software Bots Are Doing Boring, Repetitive Work for Humans(02/2018)
It's hard to pinpoint an exact generation where I stop caring. Here's how I like to think of it.

If every human alive today died instantly and painlessly, ending the human species and potentially eliminating all sentient life in the universe, I wouldn't care. The people felt no pain, experienced no dread.

The only reason to care in that instance is if you believe that the human race has inherent value just be being alive. That's what I don't have.

Now, the interaction of this philosophy and the real world isn't always clean but in general, it leads me to prioritize current human life over future human life especially over the long term.

So, for example, a dollar spent feeding a hungry child today takes precedence over a dollar spent exploring the universe even if that exploration lays the groundwork for humans being a multi planetary species 500 years from now.

I hope that clears my position up somewhat.
From what I can see, the example you list there is just a missed optimization in the C compilers you tested. It's absolutely allowed, and clang trunk is happy to do it in C-mode, for example.
and yet, the saddest thing of them all, is that one can just... install Chrome!

The issue is that Google is possibly resorting to actions that violate antitrust laws in the US and the EU to encourage users to switch to Chrome. Antitrust isn't about monopolies; it's about the reduction of competition through abuse of market position. A monopoly isn't required to violate antitrust laws, nor is market competition a defense.
Or better robots. Not more expensive ones but more launches and faster progress. One would need to iterate and tolerate some failure.
Building a Serverless Email Platform at The New York Times
I think in any stride in life you can easily make decisions that aren't well thought out that are malicious without intent.
"Invisible hand" refers to the idea that each individual pursuing unencumbered their own best interest results in the best for society in general, as if there were an invisible intelligent force acting in society's interests. [1]

In a free economy, a monopoly can be contrary to this idea, as it can result in a suboptimal state for society, as if there were no overall-optimizing invisible hand.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invisible_hand
Summer of MakeCode for kids
Shoot, this is how I recapture our dog when he gets loose. Chasing him is no good, he thinks that's a game, so I just collapse on the sidewalk and yell for him to come help. He trots right back over to me.
I'm a Toronto native and have been working as a dev for the past two years. COL is extremely high compared to salaries. This is likely the biggest problem for anyone looking to move here. For example, a small 1 bedroom condo downtown will run you at least CA$2k a month. For a larger 1 bedroom or 1+den your easily looking at $2-3k in today's demanding market. Public transit is usually a hit or miss during rush hour. I'd suggest looking into Kitchener/Waterloo, Markham or Ottawa area if you're considering moving here. COL in these areas compared to Toronto is drastic and many of the bigN companies (Shopify, Google, IBM, etc..) are located here.
It makes US Dollars. So, as long as the rest of the world is willing to save in USD, keep doing it.
The other large confound is he was in the military service during this time. And stress can totally mess up the GI tract.
Ask HN: How is the California's new online cancellation law enforced?
So the new law[1] effect in 7/1/2018 requires business provide online cancellation if online subscription/offer is provided. But apparently the ADs I recently got were not doing that at all: let you activate your plan/subscription online by simply clicking a few buttons, then tell you "have to call to cancel". What department in California is supposed to enforce that law? How can they be aware of those violations?

[1]: https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billStatusClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB313
Not OP; just thought I'd chip in organizations like GiveWell. They're a non-profit dedicated to reviewing and researching charities to find the "best", most efficient, cost-effective ones in need of funds. Their website explains better: https://www.givewell.org/

Seems like the charities they've selected are well versed in the issues they attempted to address and have done a lot of work finding the best way to address them. After all, the employees of these charities are dedicating their lives and careers to solving a specific problem.

Note: I am not affiliated with GiveWell or their charities in any way besides having used them to donate.
It's possible that I'm missing something, but I believe that the result is necessarily identical in C, because there can be no observable side-effect of a struct copy in the C abstract machine.
The studio that makes Archer is also based in Atlanta.
An iOS tutorial to shaders to create visualisations
Chrome for Android, though I've been considering swapping to Firefox, as I've heard good things about it - Chrome doesn't support any add-ons.
Google adds machine-learning capabilities to its BigQuery cloud data warehouse
I like to check the trending repos once a day, but Github keeps moving the link to it, this is fantastic. While I am sure others will be asking to add more languages, could there be a feature to check multiple languages at once with the language displayed with the repo? It is annoying on Github to have to check both Javascript and Typescript for similar trending projects.

A simple vertical list would also be nice, but that is personal preference.
No, it just opened up for me. Maybe uBlock helped, but here's the relevant text:

> Mr. Chris MacAskill serves as President of SmugMug, Inc. Mr. MacAskill serves as Chief Executive Officer of Cakes Inc. Mr. MacAskill served as Chief Executive Officer of Barnes & Noble.com Professional, Technical and Business Bookstore since co-founding Fatbrain in June 1995. From September 1983 to September 1990, Mr. MacAskill served as Vice President of Engineering at Western Atlas International. In September 1981, Mr. MacAskill founded PSI, which was acquired by Western Atlas International in October 1983. Mr. MacAskill also serves as the Chairman of the Board of Barnes & Noble.com Professional, Technical and Business Bookstore. He serves as a Director of Cakes Inc. From June 1991 to June 1995, Mr. MacAskill served as Director of Developer Relations at NeXT Computer and General Magic. Mr. MacAskill received his B.S. in Geophysics from the University of Utah and received his M.S. in Geophysics from Stanford University.

Sorry for the formatting, but it's the same on the site.

If there's a better bio somewhere, I didn't see it.
"significant progress in the solutions of technical problems is frequently made not by a direct approach, but by first setting a goal of high challenge which offers a strong motivation for innovative work"
> It'll actually be most interesting to see how this might ultimately affect other entities that have been using it, such as State Universities.

It's hard to say, as State sovereign immunity is a Constitutional guarantee (11th Amendment) and thus in principle less subject to Congressional whim than the sovereignty of any other entity, when it comes to application of US law by US courts.
Believe it or not people actually assess the effectiveness of charities and you can choose good ones.

https://www.givewell.org/charities/top-charities

Some charities are more effective than others and obviously some are used for other reasons (like avoiding tax which silicon valley knows all about). There are good charities that do good work and if you want to help people they already exist. It's not about "good ideas" but actually having the infrastructure and staff to do something that is known to work (e.g. vaccinating people, educating people, housing people, clean water etc.).

Your focus on "good ideas" is the problem with Silicon Valley style thinking in this area. It's not the case that if only charities had better ideas they'd be more effective. The ideas and organisations are there. What they need is money and resources. That's where people with money, like Elon Musk, can really help.

He could also publicize some charities and not just focus on himself.
Can relate. I have an Android phone and I will never pay for an app. There are usually free alternatives for everything on F-droid. And I'm tech savvy enough to pirate when it is needed and I run an adblocker.
If you invest it all and withdraw about 4% per year (as warrenm mentioned) this would give you an income of $400,000 per year.
ruby practices based around bundler aren't perfect, but they did solve _this_ level of problem ~7 years ago.

It remains a mystery to me why python seems to have won the popularity battle against ruby. They are very similar languages, but in all ways they differ ruby seems superior to me.
> Processing of any personal information ("any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person") requires "clear, free, specific and unambiguous" consent.

That's totally wrong, please don't spread falsehoods like this. Consent is merely one of several possible bases for processing.
Assuming the study is taking adults on a 2500 calorie diet down to 1600, an extra 300 calories from metabolic effects is not insignificant but the majority of variance is explained from a simple model of calories where fat calories ~ carb calories ~ protein calories.

If you want to lose weight then simply counting calories and eating less is an effective strategy.
Thomas Sowell splits it down collectivist lines:

"If we attempt to define the political left by its proclaimed goals, it is clear that very similar goals have been proclaimed by people whom the left repudiates and anathematizes, such as Fascists in general and Nazis in particular. Instead of defining these (and other) groups by their proclaimed goals, we can define them by the specific institutional mechanisms and policies they use or advocate for achieving their goals. More specifically, they can be defined by the institutional mechanisms they seek to establish for making decisions with impacts on society at large. In order to keep the discussion manageable, the vast sweep of possible decision-making mechanisms can be dichotomized into those in which individuals make decisions individually for themselves and those in which decisions are made collectively by surrogates for society at large." [1]

[1] https://theindependentwhig.com/haidt-passages/sowell-the-lef...
Ask HN: How to look for a job overseas (specifically Germany)?
I am considering a move to Europe, but it is a daunting process when you have no connections. Want to move to Munich for various reasons, but I would assume simply applying for a job is not the way to go.

Questions are:
- How to find connections? Personal connections will not work, so it needs to be open group
- How does one interview for a very far away job? I am based in California
- As someone in their mid forties, how great is age discrimination?

My questions are broad, but I am looking specifically for Munich. South Germany will do, but definitely not Berlin. Would actually love any Mediterranean country, but there are almost no tech jobs there.

I am an EU citizen, but do not speak German. I do not know anyone in the tech industry in Europe.
Yes I think it more or less works that way. A hyperthread has its own set of registers and stack and everything, but for doing any actual work it shares the same functional blocks as any other thread running on the same core. I do think that the hyperthreading parts increase the numbers of some functional blocks like load/store units and such compared to non-hyperthreading parts though, to reduce contention (someone correct me if I'm wrong).

What this means is that hyperthreading does not really work so well on sustained, homogenuous workloads. For example doing very heavy computation on 8 threads of a 4-core CPU with 8 hardware threads, can actually reduce performance, because all threads will be contending for the same functional blocks of the CPU.
(This is also where you can add exceptions to allow Javascript, or block it for specific sites if you'd prefer to leave it enabled in general.)
I'm at $90k with ~3 years experience (located in Toronto). Many of my colleagues are either at 90 or very close (~85) with similar experience. I've lived in Vancouver as well and have seen similar compensation.
Being able to see the red of Mars at night is strange.

Since I (and probably most of us on HN) live in the worst area for light pollution it's not too often you can see other planets like this unaided.