skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That said, it's 2018 and you should be using the GPU for all rendering. The only compositor I know of that actually works without one is plain old Weston, so it's not like falling back to CPU-munged bitmaps is some sort of compatibility mode. If you want to do pixel-level operations on your output framebuffer, write a fragment shader.
Which is pretty great way to bind Performance to compensation.
I feel like there is a fairly heavy executive... club that is happy to hire their buddies and keep paying each other.... they're also on the boards that make these decisions.

I think that forces driving the market are often, these same guys who are getting paid.
Having taken that very Applied Cryptography course twice, I assure you it is not easy. One of the most difficult in the program actually.
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I'm not sure what religious groups there are that actually have that view of sex. I usually hear that as an incorrect interpretation of Catholic views on human sexuality.

The usefulness of NFP depends on your perspective. If you require a 100% childless life, you're going to see it as useless. For faithful Catholics, using NFP with random failures can mean 3-5 kids instead of 8-12 kids. That's a huge difference.
Ancient Egyptians had been making mummies longer than anyone thought
In the case of oats (and cereal grains in general), it's 30 ppm (30,000 ppb).
Which is funny, because the Pioneer Valley is probably one of the least rube-y parts of the country I've ever visited.
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> Because that's most people's moral instinct, even across different cultures?

Yes, perhaps if the choice harms someone. But otherwise?
I've been with my wife for over 18 year years now. In a good year we probably have sex 100 times. If we'd been using this app for that time and ended up with 18 pregnancies in that time I'm not sure we'd agree that this is an effective method of contraception!
Market value for the average (not top tier) new grad is 200k? I seriously doubt that.
Building+Automated+Feature+Rollouts+on+Robust+Regression+Analysis
Unless competition for labor was decreasing as firms gained monopsony power.

https://lwp.law.harvard.edu/files/lwp/files/webpage_material...
We used to refer to this as “frictionless follow”.

(former tweep)
Why must everyone debate how other people should or should not have sex? What happens in the bedroom ought to stay in the bedroom. Unfortunately, many people who originally preached "freedom" have moved to a position of "those who do not are unenlightened and clinging to Bibles".
As jessriedel articulated, it seems overtly political. I probably wouldn't use it, but if someone else wants to, so what? Besides, even 90% accuracy is better than nothing (which some people use).
I think the pot luck you describe combined with it being super hard to evaluate who is a valuable executive and who isn't ... just makes it a very muddy / weird market.
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Using FAANG comp is definitely relevant if you have FAANG-level credentials and can get an offer from a FAANG. If IBM is interviewing this type of people, they're expected to make competitive offers rather than waste everyone's time.

The whole OP sounds like dictionary definition of HR dropping the ball, doing everything "corporate style", being out of touch with the market and the candidates, and then making unrealistic low offers. They deserve to be called out.

Moreover, there was an article about how many companies are trying to compete with FAANG for the same talent by providing higher compensation, which corresponds with my personal experience and that of my friends.

Apparently IBM decided to buck the trend.
Landmark has made good choices so far, and play some of the best films you can't find anywhere else. I'm also worried that Amazon will decide that it's more profitable to just have em switch to playing comic book movies nonstop like every other theater.
As a youngish person who wasn't really into musiic, my first exposure to her and that entire genre was the Blues Brothers. That movie and her scene is an absolute delight.
The big thing is that the South Shore is more blue-collar and suburban (and I suppose in general more politically conservative) than the North Shore or Metro West area so they think of it as full of hicks.
Which sounds like a management decision to cut costs by running them on the same server. This is probably why we are seeing ex regime department heads in the news lately as political pundits in hopes they create enough deflection to avoid prosecution for 30+ agents dying on their watch.
Perhaps he meant "write an app that uses an HTML rendering widget that also has the networking components built in"?

In the old days of Chrome you'd occasionally see WebKit engineers griping about how Chrome was taking all the credit for just repackaging WebKit. I remember wondering about this at some point and noticing the code was roughly 50-50 Chrome/WebKit in terms of size (which is a fraught measurement always but hopefully gives you the idea). To be sure the HTML-rendering part of a browser is a central piece of it, but the Chrome part included stuff like v8, the Windows port of WebKit, the network stack, the multiprocess architecture, all the browser widgetry like tabs, bookmarks, and the fancy URL bar, and so on. So I guess even for people who are close to this it's hard to say what making a browser entails.
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Have any current protonmail users experienced denial of service from online providers solely because of their email address?
Casper FFG research repository is here https://github.com/ethereum/casper
. Last committed before the sharding and casper research merger.
I'll try, then. Thanks.
New sponge for cleaning harbor oil leaks has a successful real-world test
Ask the question “How can I make the company better right now?”

Maybe there is some documentation that needs to be written, or some small bug you ran across the other day, etc
Mansard roofs. It's the mansard roofs. I never noticed them until i moved into a flat (not in Paris) which is in a mansard roof, and now i'm hyper-aware of them. Paris has them everywhere, and even has multi-storey ones, which are very rare in the UK.
Kubernetes Monitoring with Prometheus, the ultimate guide (part 1)
Been hoping Wayland would help improve the sad state of remote desktop on Linux but from what I can see I'll have to way another 5+ years for something useful :(

I've installed KDE Neon on a NUC to play around with and I really like it a lot. But the lack of proper RDP server support is the primary thing keeping Windows on my primary machines.

Key features required:

- Ability to resume local session from remote client and later locally again.

- Ability to start session from remote client if no local session exist, and later resume it locally.

- Performance (framebuffer-delta ala VNC is no-go).

- Functional clipboard, so I can copy/paste between client and host. Text required, though images and files would be nice.

Anyway, really nice piece of code. Sure it's 500 lines but it seems quite straight forward.
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I am still of the opinion that you need to look at the overall compensation of the company versus how much the bosses are taking in. this type of comparison can be made in many industries from sports to movies as well. there are always people at the top of the food chain but for some reason we single out corporate leaders rather than sports and movie stars. heck we could sit back and compare the pay and benefits of the leaders in politics to the rank and file at the bottom of their party or typing pools too.

my local university pays over a million plus benefits to its chancellor/president, how does that compare to the cafeteria workers or sanitation people of the university? a public funded university.

it is all perspective, you are being led by the nose to look everywhere but behind the curtain. behind that curtain you will find many who want to slap others with rules they will quietly excuse themselves from or word in such a way as to miss them. it is exploitation of jealousy for political benefit
> I've been told by so many fellow Israelis this myth about 'taking the wrong turn' in the West Bank, and, frankly it's a myth that hides the real problem, which is the occupation.

So, you're not actually a local, but you think that you know better about what's a myth and what's not? I shouldn't be surprised.
Google shaves half a gig off Android Poundland Edition
> There’s something you need to understand. The IRS places its workers permanently inside many companies where they continually receive privileged information while doing audits. So there’s plenty of money-making tips to go around.

They audit companies and auditors are told to pass along any information they find so IRS managers and friends can profit from it.

So then we have to ask how do they pick companies to audit? Would it be random if they could stand to enrich themselves.
And a truly great way to exacerbate economic inequality.
Most of the population drinks alcohol. Most of the population are not alcoholics.

I haven't abused opioids for recreational purposes, but I know people who have saved their prescribed codeine and gotten fucked up on it. They aren't addicted. I also walk to the supermarket every day, past the safe injection centre filled with smackheads. I've seen dead heroin addicts wheeled into the ambulance.

Not everyone is as susceptible to addiction as others, but the more opioids/alcohol/other drugs you take, the more likely you are to get addicted.
That's not how failure rates for birth control are calculated. The percentage is for a pregnancy occurring during a year with that method.
HN changed their algorithm? I posted this a day ago and still got credit. This is the first time.

I saw this term in the Economics: The User’s Guide by Ha-Joon Chang, which was recommended by HN readers:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17590984
Average Walmart worker earned $19,177 in 2017 while CEO Doug McMillon took home $22.8m – a ratio of 1,188-to-one. Yes its a big number, however I don't see anything wrong here. Walmart has around 2.3m workers, Doug's salary is roughly $10 per worker per year. Also, $23M is chump change as he is doing a great job in moving Walmart (just this morning Walmart stock increased 10% == $26B - 1000x his salary).

Salaries are only part of the equation. For example, Drew Houston (founder of Dropbox) is worth $3 billion while an software developer at Dropbox has net equity of less than $1 million. Thats 3000-to-1.
Maybe it's just me, but I'm not really mad at how much the CEO of the big tech company I work at makes, it really has no impact on me. If we took his compensation and spread it around, no-one would feel it.

I was much more irked by the difference between founder/early employee stakes at a startup where the magnitude of the difference was much smaller than 312x, but redistributing their stake would actually have been felt due to the smaller size.
It's simple: workers have less bargaining power than they used to have so they can't demand a share of the profits the way that those at the top can. I'm not a fan of unions because they have the same power-structure problems that any large organizations have, but the rise in pay inequality clearly coincides with the decline of unions.

No idea what the answer is. Whether it's some version of ensuring a worker advocate is on the board of a corporation or that some kind of coop ownership scheme gives employees voting rights, hell I have no idea, but pay inequality won't change on its own.

Workers that have done well are those who can either draw a direct line between their contribution and profits (sales) or are scarce enough to demand high compensation (tech workers). Most everybody else is shit out of luck from a negotiation perspective, at least without some form of collective action.
Kids are more likely than adults to submit to peer pressure from robots
Cryptocurrency investor robbed via his cellphone account sues AT&T for $224M
Iirc studies have shown very little correlation between executive compensation and company productivity/profitability.

The CEO is worth more than the typical janitor or manual laborer, you’d be pretty hard pressed to prove otherwise. But the current compensation scheme seems to be way out of wack with what each employee actually brings to the table.
Glassdoor is known to under-represent salaries. Check out their survey for Google:

https://www.glassdoor.com/Salary/Google-Salaries-E9079.htm
I really hate this meme; Randall did the world a great disservice by missing the point and putting it in a format which spread like wildfire for smug people to quote until the end of time. Free speech is a principal which extends farther than a very limited right in US law -- it's not a rule, it's not prescriptive, it's not afforded by any law -- it's an ideal. I don't in any way deny that you can find people who confuse the legal right with the ideal but if you talk to any lawyer for twenty seconds you'll realize that speech is far from the only area where this happens.

What happened is a free speech issue. Did the actions Microsoft took promote the healthy and open exchange of ideas or did they take an action in order to silence? Since Gab is largely a closed community this action wasn't so much protecting people from abuse so much as it was preventing like minded people from talking to each other. And no matter what I think about the things they said I still hold that they ought to be allowed to say them among themselves.
> I think maybe easier access to healthcare, mental and physical, could help?

I agree with almost everything else you have said. But this line has got to go from the most-common-reply-to-this-problem.

I think it's a huge canard, probably the biggest political canard in existence today, and there are far bigger problems that this presumption (that healthcare is what's needed) masks.

Just as you say, I think there are deep-seated problems with how we structure our society/lives/even just getting about, how we eat, how we are able to (or not) meet new people and create chance encounters, that do not happen for the vast majority of people. Problems that are new in the post 1800's world and seem to only be getting worse.

I do not think the solution is contained anywhere near "more healthcare." Our use in the US already tremendous, more than most countries and most time periods ever in existence. I do not think the solution is "more mental healthcare", unless you mean actually creating and inhabiting communities again, instead of living from space bubble to space bubble. I do not think that's what people mean when they say mental healthcare. Usually they mean hire more therapists instead of create more places where it's easier to have friends meet and people congregate.

It doesn't even pass the sniff test. If the answer was really more healthcare: When has the US consumed more healthcare (mental or physical) than today? In fact if some amount of healthcare = dispensing pills, it seems like this report proves that too much healthcare is one of the biggest contributors to this mortality problem.

I really wish people would stop repeating that statement and start focusing more on what else has gone wrong. I think you are on to something important with the rest of your post, but its too easy for people to drown it out with demanding that "healthcare" do something. I think it's a shame.
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My understanding is that yes, rangers can cull down the population, but it's actually not a bad solution to issue say $500 permit to hunt deer(that allows you to shoot say 2-3 animals), and that way you cull the numbers without engaging already thin group or rangers.

But the issue exists no matter who does the shooting - there are groups who protest any kind of animal shooting, even if their population is wildly out of control.
Huh? Do you also think that the bank "doesn't value your time as highly as their employees'" if they let you use banking services over a phone app? How about online courses, are teachers to be blamed for "not valuing students' time as much as their own"?

Personally, I find this attitude against automation (where possible, reasonable and useful) to be almost Luddite-like.

In addition, if you can automate the process, you might even be able to extend your candidate pool (i.e. interview a lot more people, and not rely on weakly-correlated-but-almost-arbitrary signals such as premium university name on the candidates' CVs, but instead select the actually good people).
I’m worried that this is starting to get to destabilizing levels of inequality.
So hate speech is not free speech when the consequences are severe?

The neoconservative movement, for instance, is accused of faking evidence of WMDs in order to get us into a serious war and causing a massive death toll. That accusation is that their speech was lies in order to get us into war. But they are center-right interventionists, many of whom were liberals before 9/11. Is neoconservatism hate speech?

Pro-life protestors claim that abortions in the US have murdered approximately the population of Spain since Roe v Wade. They also point out that Denmark has eliminated babies born with Down's syndrome. Is the pro-choice position hate speech?

I think a fair minded person can draw a distinction between these things, the point of politics is coexisting with people who aren't particularly fair minded and are going to try and game the system. The idea of free speech is that the simplest way to prevent gaming is not giving them a system to game, especially not one as ambiguous and dangerous as hate speech rules.
> Others had been destroyed in WW2 and/or replaced with modern, larger bridges.

I read a while ago that the destruction had actually rendered the bridges problem soluble (that is, that there is a modern Eulerian path); but I don't know if that was true at the time, or is still true.
Personally, I think of the 312x multiple (or other obscene comp number) as a mind-controlling poison a board likes to force upon a CEO. The compensation is so high that the executive is forced to adopt a "company/profit-first" mindset. The multiplier helps dissuade humanist thinking.
Can't speak about Germany, but we have 100Mb/s symmetric internet for about 5$/month at the Charles University student dorms here in Prague.

Technically, there is supposed to be some fairly brutal bandwidth sharing and the speed is not guaranteed in any way but I never had my speedtest drop under 90Mb/s
> but if you compare it to other countries where the capital IS the biggest city, and where there's always one party/coalition in control of the entire legislative and executive branches...well, they seem to actually function better, on average?

> Does anyone look at how Congress and the Presidency behave in the year 2018 and think, "ah yes, this clearly has the results we want"?

Here in 2018, we have the executive branch, and both houses of congress controlled by the same party. And as you point out, it's not going well.
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Well, it isn't called the French curve without reason.
This code is so well-commented that it makes me want to do some graphics programming – and I haven’t needed to do any graphics programming other than HTML canvas in 30 years. What a fantastic contribution. Thank you.
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From TFA:

> “Back in 2003-5 a memo was created within the IRS noting who was permitted to participate in ‘insider trading’,” says this whistleblower. “The memo noted that all IRS employees in the executive branch and those one step below (territory managers, etc.) were permitted to participate.”

This is not who decides what is 'permitted', which is of course within the purview of the SEC. The piece states:

> Why didn’t I bring these allegations to the proper authorities to investigate? I did and was essentially told to get lost

No, the author went to the IRS Inspector General, which is very much not the SEC. The SEC has a very popular (oversubscribed) whistleblower program which awards millions to those who provide material information or tips relating to such cases.

This article is, ahem, not credible.
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From personal experience, any site will render quickly of you kill the 10+ externally sourced JS frameworks it loads (or it will just show a white on white page that you can throw reader mode at).

Frankly what went wrong was that print media designers got involved and used flash and JS to turn static text into virtual pamphlets etc.
Not yet at around a year worth of usage. I use a custom .space address which I thought would bring its own issues, but hasn't. I have spf, dkim, and dmarc setup with it as well.
I bend the lower part of a pillow up to make a small "V" in which I position my neck. I find this comfortable, and a good way to prevent me from rolling my head in my sleep, which causes neck pain.

I've also found that I can only sleep on my back with my legs crossed. I'm not sure of the ergonomic consequences of this position. I also have a very firm mattress, which just makes sleeping on my side untenable.
Not that it matters. They could silently replace it with a backdoored script and your browser would never tell you it happened.

And to preempt the ProtonMail rep who is probably going to respond to this comment, I know that you can run the web app on localhost. But that doesn't mean that users who don't are any more secure.
Nice answer. Thanks. The example app looks like a great starting point.
The author does not consider that a filter can block TLS 1.3 and force apps to continue using TLS 1.2.
Google left China because the PLA was hacking gmail accounts in HK. It really is simple.
The first time I used Go on a big project, error handling bugged me enough that I wrote a package that let me use errors like exceptions:

https://github.com/s4y/go-exc

I’m not sure if I’d use it again today, but it was a fun exercise.
Yes, it's just that Germany wasn't looked at as an economy to be emulated until relatively recently. Whether that is due to the benefits of being in the EU, I don't know.
What are the chances that this has anything to do with merit? It's just another example of the same thing happening everywhere else in the American economy: people who are already rich taking more and more money for themselves, leaving much less for the rest of it. Of course there are people whose job it is to tell us that yes, these CEOs actually deserve this and have earned it, but that's just another part of the scam.
High school student hacked into Apple servers, downloaded 90GB of secure files
sorry, I meant productive for me, not for the company
There's a very good OCaml binding: https://github.com/fdopen/uwt . It works really well in the networking component of the Docker for Mac and Windows desktop apps (see https://github.com/moby/vpnkit)
As far as I can tell, the price here (Czechia) is based on language of the study programme not nationality. You can study in Czech for free even as a citizen of another EU (not sure about not-EU) country. I don't think it's particularly practical idea though. The fee for the english version was about 5-6k$ for academic year last time I checked.
> a lot of UTF-8 codecs in the real world actually no longer contain the code for handling the longer sequences.

Not exactly. A conforming decoder MUST reject them.

MySQL’s problem is that, by default, it can’t even handle all valid code points.
Overdosed actually overtook vehicle deaths before most public health officials realized that something horribly wrong was going on.

That we still haven’t done much about it is deeply distressing, tbh. I feel it’s a sign that we’re losing the ability to act towards unified goals, even politically safe ones like “no more drug overdoses please”.