skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
States still cover most of the budget. As someone who went to school while poor and on a scholarship, I hated this, the price was so inflated because

1) The government pays the majority of it if you're poor, schools know you'll pay
2) If you're middle class your parents pay half of it, the government pays half of it, schools know they'll pay
3) If you're upper class, you might have a legacy admission and the school knows your parents will pay and probably donate to the school too
A very good question :) the reason is partly hilarious and absolutely mystifying (to me at least).

The TL;DR of it is that for some reason I haven't yet identified, using some kinds of electronic equipment affects my ability to focus and think clearly, and replaces whatever clarity I have with debilitating fog and anxiety instead, and the impact is so great this state can last for weeks afterwards in worst-case situations. I've been aware of this since 2008 (when I had a bad reaction to something that forced me off all my computers for 4 years), and it's the reason I can't work or study, because my nerves keep reacting (sometimes somewhat violently) to random bits of tech. :(

I know it's not a screen/display/eye thing, since the device that initially set me off (a PlayStation 2) caused problems even if wasn't plugged into a TV. I know it's not some kind of "electromagnetic radiation sensitivity" thing, because I've been using Wi-Fi for years, I started using Wi-Fi _after_ the PS2 reaction, and I've never had a single issue (no brain fog or other symptoms) with it.

I still can't use PS2s, I still get the same reactions, and I still react to random things. An electronic toll-way (highway) tag (the kind that beeps when it goes under a toll point). Some USB speakers. Multiple graphics cards. Random computers I have to avoid.

And, unfortunately, every LCD I have here. :(

So my ThinkPad T43, which for some random reason seems to be okay, is actually really just my "screen", although obviously I use its keyboard as well. I use it to VNC to an i3-based machine I previously used with the aforementioned LCDs until (eyebrow-raising story short) that PC got turned off and I realized the screens were only the icing on the cake and that the machine itself was also causing a lot of issues. Not sure whether it was switching the PSU or removing the GPU that helped, but I can tolerate it being on now, so that's how I browse. Typing over old+flaky 54Mbit Wi-Fi from upstairs to downstairs (with an amplified Wi-Fi dongle at my end, even! Definitely not an EM/RF sensitivity problem) is great: I was very impressed to find that per-character latency is only maybe 30-40ms, maybe even 25ms. (At some point I hope to measure it with a slow-mo camera, that would be cool.)

But yeah, the not-working and not-studying thing is driving me nuts. (Particularly with health issues involved that are really expensive to treat.... :D The reason I'm using a 12 year old computer isn't really because "it's a magic PC", it's more that I've just never been able to go shopping for anything [else].)
You can customize it to some extent. See ours for instance: https://youtu.be/iZjvVxbM3kY
My old CS professor used to talk about unary functions, binary functions, 3-ary functions...

Blew my mind to discover that “arity” is a real word.
There are many names for what Assange has done with Wikileaks, but "real journalism" is not one of them.
Bitwise Launches Three Crypto Indexes with New Index Advisory Board
Interesting story in particular, but in general, performance and memory behave like any other resource that is plentiful: they get used up until things are slowish again. Like road space. Things get added on top of each other until the reduction in speed becomes visible.

Because these days, unlike in the 90's, it's no help waiting for the next Pentium processor to come out this usually results in a heavy optimisation cycle in the underlying engine. For example Firefox has advertised a speed-up several times in the last 10 years, each coming from a focused effort to rewrite or optimise the JS engine, the rendering engine, or something else. Then things accumulate again, until things are too slow.

Obviously the cycles aren't wasted as you can do things with a few lines of high-level script that would've taken months to implement in the "good old times". But this development inevitably creates bizarre flashbacks where, occasionally, you're doing something simple like typing text on today's monster machines and it takes a few seconds for the screen to catch up your typing.

When I started programming, things were roughly and more or less instant. Typing was instant. There was a very short code path from handling the interrupt to updating screen. The computers reacted more like physical apparatus. Terminals at shops, warehouses, hospitals, with text-based programs to update data were pretty much instant too. Good clerks could bang their keyboard through multiple subscreens of their program in seconds, and you were checked in, goods reserved, or patient data updated. Later, when multitasking hit the mainstream, flipping between programs was instant. (Not on Windows, though.) Things like I/O took its time, of course, but at one point there was a peak moment where a software machine had nearly as low latencies as a physical machine.

From those times things have mostly gone downhill. Yes, we have immense processing power and near endless fast memory and disk storage. You can switch between browser tabs 300MB each pretty fast but there is a constant, nagging sense of slowness present all the time. Maybe sometimes switching that tab or bringing up another program takes longer, surprisingly, or there is something simple that just doesn't happen right away. The feeling of instant responsiveness is broken into shards: you can still see a reflection of it if you happen to look at the right angle but mostly its crumbles are pointing elsewhere.

Things like BeOS tried to reach back to that, with varying but acknowledgeable success. But real success in terms of popularity and market penetration seems to come from piling up stuff until things get too slow. So I doubt we never get back to the old world of instant response in spite of processing power keeps climbing up.
For those having fun with the rabbit hole that is solving sudoku and similar problems with a computer, I highly recommend taking a look at Knuth's Dancing Links. I had fun with the idea here: http://taeric.github.io/Sudoku.html

His latest book which is due out this year goes into quite a lot of depth specifically on sudoku. The one he released last year using SAT solvers has a few fun exercises. In particular, he uses a SAT solver to construct sudoku boards that have a unique solution, but do not have any forced moves on the board.
It is in general very difficult for people from developing countries to get tourist visas for the US, including majority Christian countries.
I hate material design. I don't want more vacant space, I want density.

Ive always loved Japanese website layouts. Content is beauty.
And only a few nationalities are eligible...
Probably "perf" would work here.
Do keep in mind that's a pretty serious selection bias filter you're applying to the tiny fraction of driver complaints people have (and I say that as the guy who kicked off the complaint about drivers)
Personal Loans, Bad Credit Loans, 10,000 loans up to $200,000
Wow I never thought of it like that!

If you have any pride in what you’re doing, I see that as a problem. Maybe you’re helping, but we will never be sure if you’re making things worse.
I'm pretty sure it's always been the case that those with power can cause a lot of damage with a small amount of effort.
As others have mentioned this all has to do with a probability of overstay. Somebody who's independently wealthy in a foreign country is going to generally have strong ties to that nation as well as property and other things that tie him to that nation. Poorer individuals have fewer ties and are going to be statistically more likely to overstay.

The individual from this blog has no employer, is a Thai national that writes more fluently in english than most natives, is carrying out part of his 'bucket list' -- traveling the world, writing about it on a personal page that's been mentioned by sites such as the BBC, and providing video including time lapse/high framerate footage shot from high definition AV equipment. There's an extremely high probability that he's rather well to do.
I wish there was a MoviePass like service for visa's. Pay a monthly/yearly for fee hassle free travel. Hopefully someday!

P.S.I don't have enough money to pay upfront to buy citizenship in Grenada
90% effective "birth control" still controls birth.

You just end up with 6 kids instead of 18.
Huh, so that uncomfortableness thing actually lengthens with time. Interesting.

</completely_naive> :)

Adds learning how to hold breath safely to todo list (Todo list falls over)
this does not work for me. when I type "gmail.com" it redirects to:

https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox

where should I put the /h/?
Visa-free travel was what made me truly understand what "privilege" means.

Having an Armenian passport and travelling extensively through my life made me very familiar with what the author describes: the months-long waits, the fees, the scramble for documents, the uncertainty, the inability to travel without planning months in advance, the queues, the unpleasant experiences at airports, etc...

Eventually I managed to become an Australian permanent resident, which grants the right to travel to New Zealand without a visa. Some time after, a sudden opportunity came up, and I landed at Auckland airport, having booked my tickets the night before. I handed my completely blank, recently renewed, Armenian passport to the immigration agent (permanent residency is technically a type of visa, there is no "green card", and Australian visas are electronic, not placed as labels in a passport unless requested). He scanned it, stamped it, and handed it back to me, welcoming me to NZ. Took all of 20 seconds.

That whole experience was completely surreal for me, not because it was so different, but because it was so mundane. There was nothing to suggest that this process might be different for some people. Everything about it screamed "this is normal", while my mind screamed the opposite.

That was my first-hand lesson that unless you've ever lacked a certain privilege, it is near-impossible to be innately aware of it. Sure, others may try to educate you and make you aware, but it doesn't convey just how profound of an impact a privilege can have on the lives of those who lack it.
> What you're seeing there is actually validation :), the lat/lng type is not magically inferred but instead explicitly requested by the code - if it were not valid it would generate a user-friendly, localized error message. Also the underlying document hierarchy that holds the data is validated. So on the contrary it is actually hard not to validate content in eno.

Please make this clear on the website! I think it’s a clever idea.

Also, this has garnered some attention on Lobste.rs [1], if you’re interested to read the discussion there as well.

[1]: https://lobste.rs/s/jno6gb/eno_notation_language_libraries
No, but it's fairly common for people on Ambien to have stories about crazy things their SO found them doing in the middle of the night. These stories often pop up in conversation similar to how drunk stories do. There's even an entire subreddit dedicated to the topic [1].

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/ambien/
For decades, China has been gradually diplomatically and economically marginalizing Taiwan, but it seems like these are recent escalations. Pray tell, what are you referring to? The various Straits Crises? I am not referring to military escalation, which is more bluffs and threats, but concrete aggression by cutting off Taiwan's diplomatic and economic partners. Are you referring to CSSTA? As deplorable as that pact was, it was not signed with the same overt aggression that this incident, and recent moves against airlines from calling Taiwan a country, possessed.
On a completely different matter... have just switched to Gmail new UI, and now my mac Mail keeps hanging on threaded emails while consuming very high CPU. Anyone else encountered this issue?
Try using Outlook. Gmail is a Ferrari in comparison.
Alexa said "I work for Amazon, but I'm here to help you"
I believe so. I have children and they don't really have a sense of our family history and I don't either. I feel like it a missing piece that I can't quite put together because everyone has died. I believe my cousin he has the best security he can buy, he should feel pretty secure. He has 4 billion dollars to spend on his protection...
Ah, come on, it’s quite witty - and it can get a bit worthy on here if someone isn’t sticking sticks into the termite mound. Plus, the commenter is using wit to validly draw attention to the ethics of habituating children to use of voice recognition tools where they are unable to consent to some of the underlying technology function. That’s a very valid wider point, but communicates it in a way which makes one laugh. More power to whoever wrote it.
I use it instead of less, tig is even less.
No, but I Saw the Game (1989)
If that were true, they wouldn't feel the need to ban Google. Naver is a completely different problem than China.
I put an Echo Dot in my son’s room a couple months after he was born to play music/white noise for him to fall asleep easier and to make the mornings easier when getting him ready (so that, for instance, I can use it to ascertain news/weather/daily travel info). Over the past year and a half since I put it in his room, he has of course been developing rapidly in his cognitive abilities, and he’s finally at the point now where he can wake the device on his own. It’s been several months of trying to talk to it, mostly by mimicking the simpler commands that he hears me say.

It’s interesting to me that he has grown up speaking at the Echo and slowly learning how to communicate with it in much the same way that he is learning to communicate with other people. His communicative learning progress is definitely a lot slower with the Echo than with me, but that makes sense since he spends a lot more time with people than with the Echo. Even still, I was very impressed the other day when he woke the Echo (and then promptly told it to “stop”, which has been in his vocabulary for a while now).

I’m not sure there’s any real point to this outside of just an interesting (to me) anecdote. And I guess it’s probably time I take the Echo out of his room, or at least figure out how to lock it down, so he doesn’t get into anything age-inappropriate or buy 500 cans of tomato sauce or something.

Anybody else have any interesting experiences with their little ones learning to communicate with smart devices?
> Is there something particularly hard about finding a qualified COO for Tesla?

From talking to a few former execs at Tesla, yes: working directly for Elon.
Lunar Laser Ranging: a continuing legacy of the Apollo program (1994) [pdf]
https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/h/
The cost of visas is generally not an issue, especially weighing it against the cost of flights, accommodation and food.

What I really wish for is a Common App-like system for visas that will copy over info like Name, Date and Place of Birth, Travel History etc from one visa application to another. Automating bank balance details would also be a nice touch.

P.S.: If you have an Indian passport, the number of countries we have access to visa-free keeps on growing, making this service less and less necessary.
I have also been noticing this for a while now... there was a hacker news recently about banks and other firms mining behavioral biometric data (cursor freezing, typing speed, phone angle, probably a load of other metrics likehow often you backspace and pause to reflect what you write or rewrite) for authentication purpouses...

Perhaps google is doing this too?
Interestingly, the parent comments that you are replying to are directly discussing the execution of the relatives.
It should be fixed, thanks again for catching it.

(followed the recommendation -- only for large screens though, it's late and I don't want to make mistakes ehehe)
I last used a floppy in anger around 2000. Is this that surprising a finding?
Quick Start Guide added. Now trying out WhatsApp API is super easy. Please share your feedback.
Those do cause a lot of problems in general, but this particular issue had a different root cause. He traces it all the way back from the symptoms in the article. Worth a read!
Well, your experience would be limited to the one or two countries you're a citizen of :)

It's definitely a thing across various ex-Soviet countries, and likely others as well.
You should have an actual button for that.
Automobiles cause over 1,000,000 deaths globally per year. Not to mention the number of human hours used to drive. Elimination of the need for people to drive and reducing auto deaths by, say 95%, I think would be world-changing.

What ratio of lives saved to extra deaths while creating self-driving tech would you accept?
Some advice doesn't feel right to me.

> I also promise not to accept other offers until I have a chance to discuss them with you.

Such things should be discussed separately. At this point I might not even know how solid our communication channel is. What if I have two offers and I really like one of them, now I can't accept it until I discussed it with the other two companies? They might flake on me and go dark. And now I broke my promise. Why would I even promise to them such a thing? It's like saying I will accept your offer no matter what, so feel free to lowball me. Because it's an unsolicited promise. It either doesn't have any weight behind it and you're a liar or it is a highly submissive gesture. It is submissive because the offer is to you, but you're discussing it with them, a third party, as if asking their permission to accept it. And you promised that. Nobody asked you to.

> How about I make a decision by…?

And then they try to negotiate your deadline by bringing it closer to theirs. Seeking a compromise. Not good. The correct thing to do is to communicate to them that their deadlines are their problems, not yours, and if they have to hire somebody within the next few days, then maybe they are not in the best position to be hiring anybody and should resolve their internal issues first. Forcing their deadline on you is rude. You can't name a number because you don't know how long the interview process at other companies is going to take. What if N days from now you're at the last stage of the interview at another company but the deadline with this company is about to expire? Now you have to call them and beg like a filthy peasant to extend their deadline for you. It was completely forced on you. A made up thing, respecting it is silly.
That was considered (see the discussion in the bug) but the v8 fix will also fix the memory leak, while still retaining the security value in CFG
Vivaldi is based on Chrome and adds some poweruser features. For example you can hibernate tabs. In your case, right-click on the tab you want to use, select "hibernate background tabs", done. I think Chrome has a tab hibernation extension you could try as well.
I just kind of figured we'd stop having UI lag by now. I work on a 24 core workstation with 64GB of RAM and things lag all the time. Not slow to complete, like jittery key entry and non-responses.

Haven't we figured out thread prioritization by now? Can't we make sure something draws 60 times per second while things are going on in the background? My Android Studio build should be totally isolated from my inbox.

I know this is a bit orthogonal to the article and that I'm certainly not well informed about Operating Systems these days, I'd love to get schooled in the comments.
Trump’s rhetoric was intriguing in this area at one point. The actions not so much.

As he cracks about “shithole” countries, China is building the infrastructure to exploit their resources. As allies in the Pacific look for leadership to contain China, we’re insulting NATO nations, who are for all intents US military vassal states.
I don't see how Chinese tech companies are going to be able to have it both ways either if they ever actually want to leave China. This is one market (the world) vs. another market (China), and they are increasingly becoming separated at the Internet level.

Also, if China decides the only way it can keep competing is by blocking their competition, then the rest of the world will just wag their finger at them when they complain about export markets for their cultural products. If the Chinese government were smart, they would find a way to let Facebook and Google in while maintaining control over censorship AND keeping its anointed tech companies with majority market shares.
Yes st kitts was the cheapest I think. It certainly used to be very popular a few years ago but not sure if there are better options right now. The primary reason being you got your money back after 5 years. All this iirc. First class passport like Germany are very costly compared to it.
Risk of death lowest for those who get half their calories from carbohydrates
That would cause a crazy economic implosion in the education sector. Anything like that would need to be done very gradually or else there would be massive layoffs at every university all at once.
Kinda; mainly that NtQueryVirtualMemory was super slow when scanning over CFG, which was bug fixed in the April 2018 Windows 10 update.

It also uncovered a "bug" (performance weakness?) in v8 that they were able to fix so less CFG blocks were allocated.

So kind of a win/win in the end, bugs fixed, world a slightly better place.
This is what happens when children talk to Alexa: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epyWW2e43UU
If I'd been tasked with debugging that, I'd have given up halfway and gone on a vacation.
A family member was taking Ambien and gave another family member quite a scare when they got up early for coffee and then passed out face down in their coffee.. and began talking gibberish while the ambulance was coming and taking them.. Doctors chalked it up to a TIA (mini stroke) but saw no physical evidence.
This whole idea of taxing future earnings is like one step away from indentured servitude.
do you have any examples or resources on Japanese style web design?
This happened to me in real life. I made a circuit board by hand in the 1980's called the Amiga 14. Basicly if you had the board and a 16 MHz 68000 it double the speed of your Amiga 1000.

I demo it at the World of Commodore in Toronto (I was a member of the Amiga Developer Group that had a booth) the following week I go a call from a gentleman, he wanted to buy 5,000 of them if I made them cheap enough.

But when I designed the circuit I just wanted something to speed up my computer, I never planned a design for mass production. I tried for weeks to change the design for mass production but I could not do it.

Today I know how to get the job done, but back then I did not have the knowledge to mass produce anything I designed.
I just tried that, and noticed promotions in the inbox, the non-HTML version separated the "primary" from the "promotions". Are they merging them to keep HTML version annoying?