skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From Wild Kratts (apologies for quoting kids programs but it's what comes to mind):

> there's no bad guys just predators and prey.

My rather simplistic logic is that humans are predators and I have nothing particularly against that. For 100,000+ years we were hunter-gatherers and very good at it. Humans would kill animals because they wanted the food. Lions kill whatever they can for food, so did we.

From Jared Diamond's book "Collapse", the inuit survived because they would kill whales and seals and keep the blubber for months until it was in a putrid but still edible state and managed to outlast other humans.

However I have two issues:

1. We now have very good farming methods that allow us to avoid eating meat

2. We completely abstract the killing of animals to factories and trawlers and wrap it up in economics and talk about 'efficiency' of killing and wanting our meat as cheap as possible

In some ways I mind less about the killing of whales because it's really hard to kill whales and they live a free life until they are killed. Factory farming of pigs, lambs, chickens and cows seems much more cruel.

So where as I understand the rather animalistic nature of humans, I wish we would use our intellect to stop the cruelty.

> Where do we get this sense of superiority?

There was a recent article on HN [1] about the history of vegetarianism [0], there it talks about that Plato and Aristotle reasoned that humans were the only creatures with immortal souls (Pythagoras had argued earlier that animals did have souls) and the universe was for human use to do as they please. Further they argued that there was a hierarchy of beings with plants and animals at the bottom, and they didn't deserve justice because they couldn't reason.

Edit: the words of Plato and Aristotle remind me of George Orwell's pigs in Animal Farm, where as Pythagoras had argued that all animals had souls and so were to some extent equal, Plato and Aristotle came back saying that humans have immortal souls or equivalently "some are more equal than others".

[0]: http://advocacy.britannica.com/blog/advocacy/2010/08/the-hid...

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17807278
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> Used wisely

Federal mandatory spending was $2.5 trillion in 2017. Mandatory spending includes social security, medicare, medicaid, unemploy. comp., veterans benefits, EIC, etc.

Interest on the debt was $263 billion.

Defense spending was $590 billion.

Just those categories $2.5 + $.263 + $.590 = $3.353 Trillion

Federal revenue in 2017, including payroll and income taxes, was $3.3 Trillion.

Just those three categories exceed total revenue and the remaining budget, non-defense discretionary, spending was just $610 billion.

Everybody hates taxes and just about everyone thinks the government is too bloated. Politicians love arguing about stupid piddly $10 million programs but real spending changes would be very, very painful.

What I'm saying is I don't see a path toward to world you're describing.

For example,

> For pensions ... percentage held directly from the salary

That's great and it can make a lot of sense. But how do we get there? Right now we have social security funded by payroll taxes. Those taxes alone exceed your ideal 10% tax rate for most. We can't remove those payroll taxes because what would fund social security? We can't remove social security because what would happen to the people dependent and soon to be dependent on it?
If they had studied number of mosquito bites received and the probability of autism, would they have gotten the same result? Or if they studied outdoor air temperature during pregnancy and autism, would they have seen a link? Probably ... so be careful about assuming causality here.
I'm in the unfortunate situation where I'm not the dumbest person in the room. It sucks, having to learn things the hard way digging through stackoverflow questions / blog posts when you can ask a question right away / get an answer.

I learned everything about programming myself with just online materials available to everyone. When I started stagnating & had issues managing this work project, I set aside a budget to subcontract more a much more experienced developer. Then I started attending meetups, starting working on nonprofit projects so I can learn from others smarter than me.

The lesson here is that even if you aren't the stupidest person in the room, you can make yourself not the smartest either. You are just a few emails away, a small sized budget to pretty much getting any teacher / mentor you want, and communicating via slack. You can always crowdsource answers and advice on reddit/stackoverflow
This is fascinating. I take it you have to create your own C-corp or LLC in order for this to work?
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It's the same for Firefox (61.0.2), maybe the version number is detected wrongly on the new versions.
In these replies: everyone misunderstanding what jlawson actually explained.
What does age have to do with anything? By that logic we should only hunt animals with short life spans.

Hunting is a scared act, and killing an animal should never be taken lightly. However, the average life span of on animal shouldn't have any bearing on the matter.
Yeah, I had to look for it too. It's in the firefox hamburger menu, where you'll find the add-ons, preferences, etc.
> This is off the top of my head. There's lots more.

I'm sure there is. But there's no way to pretend that it at all approaches the scale of discrimination that women or blacks or gays have been subjected to. The mere existence of violent reprisals doesn't put their victimization on an equal footing with those who had to fear the KKK. Those events are currently far more exceptional than gay-bashing or lynching of blacks have been in the past.

And among your specific examples, all but Stanger were activists working in support of political causes that put other minorities in a very understandable defensive mood, given how government-supported white nationalism would obviously cause far more harm than white nationalists have been receiving from the riots they help incite. (This is not to say that they were deserving of violence because of their activism, but it means they aren't a representative sample of their political group as a whole.)

The picture I'm seeing isn't tyranny or even a trajectory leading to tyranny. It's outlier events at the fringe of a conflict that is overwhelmingly a peaceful albeit heated political conflict. Any disagreement at this scale will have outliers like this. More than one quarter of US adults voted for Trump. Are there any demographic measures by which they're collectively worse off than blacks during the Jim Crow era? Especially the ones who are no more active in promoting their beliefs than bumper stickers, yard signs, and voting in primaries? Are there actual statistics to support your assertions that they're being thoroughly shut out of so many career paths and industries, not just self-selecting to avoid institutions they view as full of bad people and bad morals? Is anyone who's not a public figure being subjected to this supposed tyranny?

Calling the current conditions for right-wing extremists in the US "tyranny" seems like a vast overreach (and one that offensively minimizes much worse historical oppressions), which is why I asked for clarification whether that was what was really meant.
You could probably get close to this with a hypervisor-based setup, but it's going to be the hypervisor in control of the hardware farming out bits of it to both guest OSes.
> Portability is nice but the reality is that almost no one uses it. Typically you have to create different packages for different platforms anyway just because of the installer.

Strange you think that, because mobile phones use a variety of processors and architectures, and virtually all the binaries running on them were shipped with a platform-agnostic bytecode. Not to mention all the Java servers out there, or cloud services like Azure and Google Cloud which host .NET VMs.

As for your question, JIT has a few advantages beyond portability:

1. The fact that the bytecode isn't tied to the machine means the CPU and architecture has more flexibility to change, introduce new registers, vector units, and so on, and the VM can take advantage of these features without needing recompilation and redistribution of every program.

2. The machinery permitting runtime compilation is typically used for other things by programmers, like manually dynamically compiling new program fragments based on user input which are more performance-optimal (think LINQ expression trees and other forms of quasiquotation/explicit staging).

3. Programs can benefit from progress in optimization algorithms without needing to statically recompile and redistribute every program.

4. Bytecode is typically much safer and easier to analyze for various safety and security properties, so they can be shipped to clients on-demand for special purposes. Like web assembly.

As you can see, the main benefits aren't tied to performance, but to portability, safety and flexibility. I think the usual focus on performance is a red herring.
If you haven't read it pick up a copy of Silent Spring by Rachel Carson which covered the indiscriminate use of pesticides and the effect on the wider ecosystem.

The awareness she helped raise contributed to the founding of the EPA and the banning of DDT.
1. Spend some time on wondering what really ultimately matters.

2. Make a list of what you want to do.

3. Sort it by (how much do I want it/how much time may be necessary to accomplish it)*

4. Take the first item and focus on it, if two items have similar value then it doesn't matter which one you choose, just make a choice. * *

5. Go back, preferably to step 1.

* If you can, try switching mindset to "things I want to be doing right now" from "things I want to get done". It makes choosing easier, but you need to be honest with yourself (because then thanks to rational thinking you can avoid instant gratification pitfall)

* * Some activities may work towards multiple goals at once, those may be attractive.
Autism has also been linked to maternal age. Maybe older women just happen to also have more DDT because they had more time to accumulate it or they were alive longer for when DDT was widely used.
METHOD: The investigation was derived from the Finnish Prenatal Study of Autism, a national birth cohort study based on a nested case-control design. Cases of autism among children born between 1987 and 2005 were ascertained by national registry linkages. In cases of childhood autism and matched control subjects (778 matched case-control pairs), maternal serum specimens from early pregnancy were assayed for levels of p,p'-DDE and total levels of PCBs.

RESULTS: The odds of autism among offspring were significantly increased with maternal p,p'-DDE levels that were in the highest 75th percentile, with adjustment for maternal age, parity, and history of psychiatric disorders (odds ratio=1.32, 95% CI=1.02, 1.71). The odds of autism with intellectual disability were increased by greater than twofold with maternal p,p'-DDE levels above this threshold (odds ratio=2.21, 95% CI=1.32, 3.69). There was no association between total levels of maternal PCBs and autism.

CONCLUSIONS: These findings provide the first biomarker-based evidence that maternal exposure to insecticides is associated with autism among offspring. Although further research is necessary to replicate this finding, this study has implications for the prevention of autism and may provide a better understanding of its pathogenesis.

This would be more convincing if someone went and correlated DDT contamination levels in a region with autism levels in the same region.
he said that most of ROS 1 was engineered before any of today's well known frameworks were available , hence the lot of custom tools.

catkin is built on top of CMake, so that's no excuse.
There's also a blue button if you click the i to the left of the current address.
Try kodak
Mostly agreed. I was a bit surprised that the NYT published it. I worry a bit that they let themselves be played, given the way it will be interpreted/used vs. what (I think) was actually meant.

But I suppose there's nothing abnormal in publishing an op-ed by a current official. (The anonymity aside.) And it's certainly newsworthy even if it is a sort of wolf in sheep's clothing.
Is there any penalty? In most laws there is a penalty if you don't have regular disputes about your patents and rights.

But nobody wants to starve patent troll lawyers. There is a complete industry which we should get rid off, because it doesn't do anything productive.
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That's only "New circuit for this site", which is different from "New Identity".
Utterly unusable on mobile.
I needed a job. I had just graduated, my degree (ocean engineering) was not a huge market; but, the offer was in the city I wanted to live. This was also in 1984. There was one IBM PC in a closet and two Wang word processors that used 8-inch floppies. After two years, my focus was on IT. I don't regret the choice at all.
For showing and hiding with a global keyword, couldn't you rely on your DE/WM to handle that for you?
Suggest CSV plus a Table Schema in a nice little Data Package: https://frictionlessdata.io/data-packages/

There's a wide set of tooling for Tabular Data Packages, plus underlying data is CSV which anyone can use.

If you want this done automatically you can just publish your CSV to https://datahub.io/ and your Tabular Data Package is made automatically for you.
Fuzzers don't have to be non-deterministic.
I can already see the click-bait headlines:

"mosquito bites linked to autism"

"outdoor recreation during pregnancy may cause autism"

"are children conceived on camping trips more likely to be autistic?
Pentagram Monster. The battery still stays alive for over 2 weeks, after all these years.
Presumably they at least controlled for age race and socioeconomic level. If they didn’t then the results are very suspicious.
> How can any human come up with the idea of hunting creatures that are 200 years old?

What does age have to do with anything? If people are hungry, they will hunt. If there are resources that we need, we'll use it.

Trees grow for thousands of years, but I bet you have a home and furniture made of wood. Lobsters can live up to 100 years. People love lobster.

> Where do we get this sense of superiority?

Our intelligence and the fact that we are at the top of the food chain? Killer whales hunt and kill whales. Where do killer whales get their sense of superiority?
>Hunting is a scared act,

pfft
In practice its a bunch of drunk fat guys sitting in a blind shooting deer at the deer feeder with a gun.
They've removed `www.` from website url's in the address bar. Actually knowing if I'm on the www subdomain can be very useful, especially as a web developer checking if domains have been setup correctly.

Reminds me of when windows started to hide file extensions by default.
Personally I always assumed it is not about fear at all. Ask any bigoted moron and they won't say they are afraid of gay people and I believe them. I think it could be a few things. One possibility is that the person believes in a certain social hierarchy and is trying to enforce it (e.g. they believe gay people should be lower on the hierarchy than them and feel justified in letting them know it). Another alternative is someone who feels bad is trying to displace their own negative emotions and picking the easiest targets because they feel they are low in the hierarchy themselves. Probably there is also some merit to parents wanting grandkids and being upset if their child is gay. Another possibility is religious motivations - deeply religious people may worry their gay relative won't be accepted in to heaven or something like that.
I did feel myself uncomfortable with the situation

But was that discomfort specifically related to homosexuality or just the general discomfort one feels when one finds oneself in an entirely alien social context? If you where to go with him to that coffee shop twice a week for a couple of month do you think you'd still find it uncomfortable?
Has anyone found the full text of this tax funded study published anywhere that's not charging $35 to read it?
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> This can be frustrating because it makes you responsible for something you cannot control

If bad recommendations are a product of bad/non-existent documentation then that very much is something you can control and a direct consequence of that neglect.

If docker couldn't be bothered the blame should not be with the bad recommendations.
Which brings us to discussions about conciousness. Lex Fridman had an interesting discussion with Christof Koch [0] as part of the MIT AI courses, and further Koch's TEDx lecture is very interesting.

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=piHkfmeU7Wo

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHRbnNwIg1g
There are some Greenland sharks that are almost 300 years old, possibly as old as 500.
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2016/08/these-sh...
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> Although banned for more than 30 years in many countries due to suspected health effects, chemicals such as DDT and PCBs still exist in the environment due to their slow breakdown and the way they accumulate in plants and animals in the food chain. According to the CDC, most of the U.S. population has detectable levels of DDE

These sentences are crying out loud to all of us, especially all of us that are pushing products meant to be eaten, applied on skin, sprayed in the air, sprayed on plants we eat, without adequate and long-term testing, focusing only on perceived short-term advantages (Was DDT efficient? Damn it was!)
It's the only software (besides Sublime) I run on my laptop that actually feels like it's using the 40 years of transistor improvements I'm paying for.

I wish more software fell into this category. It's still a little odd to me that something as conceptually simple as a terminal emulator should require a full blown GPU in order to perform smoothly.
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And iDefense is doing something similar?
In defense of the URL
in fact we are greatly harming ourselves by animal production
I'm not following your numbers. Max social security contribution is $16000 a year. 30 years of contributions at 4% return gives $1m; at 8%, $1.8m
You can use ROS with Python and Linux. In fact, that's a big chunk of actual ROS-based systems out there, with most of the rest being C++ and Linux.

For simple robots, you can get away with a simple script. But say, you want to attach more sensors, add some visualization, some logging, etc. Pretty soon you'll find yourself writing multithreaded (not great in Python) and/or multiprocess code, some kind of simple GUI to visualize data, some logging code, some way to manage parameters... and before you know it you'll find yourself writing your own little version of ROS (or more generally, robotic middleware). And without the huge ecosystem of ROS packages that might solve all sort of problems for you.
I think highschools need to identify kids early on in sort of like a speed dating process when they're younger. If they show interest in highschool have some ways for kids to start building background in say learning about hardware / electronics or software or just DIY building things (woodshop / welding / auto / construction / plumbing / electrical) (these are huge fields, and it's not like it's medically oriented or anything). I realize some schools had ROP for this stuff, but we need more participation by community colleges in life skills, even if highschool is more of a social gathering for people their age, you won't find a lot of highly specialized people teaching at high schools, because the background requirements are just too different. A CS Professor is more likely to be the strange highschool kid, who has an interest in teaching other people their craft, and may inspire others based on the way they got interested. I guess just a lot of PC (politically correct) things going on int he world, and people think that everyone who teaches younger people needs a specialization in educating younger people. That is not how the real world works. People learn from everyone they meet regardless of background.
There's TeXmacs, which lets you enter mathematics either via point-and-click palettes or using TeX notation. I like it a lot. Downsides: 1. Development seems more or less dead. 2. It's not always been perfectly stable. 3. It's kinda sluggish, especially on older slower machines.
"No boundary existed between work and life."

I'm some senses, this is a story about an older way of doing things.. or a capitalism that has existed at a smaller scale alongside the I understand/liberal system we generally think of as capitalism (or socialism, really).

That is, things work by convention, affiliation and duty. They don't work through formal agreements, roles and contracts.

Family is a true economic unit, with productive capacity, credit potential and such. Affiliations with other families are important.

The ability of one hotelier family to assess an informal loan to another one... Its not necessarily worse than a Banks's.
This really bothers me too. For a while, I've been considering writing a window manager (or wayland compositor) that tabs all windows by default, and provides an easy model around un-nesting tabs and tiling the new window. Something like the tabs of i3 meets the simplicity of bspwm. The idea being I can then just use new windows for applications, and have the same keyboard shortcuts and semantics for tabs everywhere.
See also: https://github.com/get-iplayer/get_iplayer
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A quick glance at depression and teen suicide
> Other potential applications include phytomining - growing hyperaccumulator plants on nutrient-poor but metal-rich soils to extract the elements they take up.

Why nutrient-poor? Isn't it enough for them to extract metal?
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We'll probably consider freedom and equality good things int the next centuries, but our ideas of what to call freedom and equality seems to be changing drastically from time to time.

Not so long time ago people were fighting for more sexual freedom, it was even possible to produce a film about sexual love between underaged people (with underaged actors) for instance. Today we're introducing more rules about how people should sexually approach each other and paedophilia is an absolute taboo. And we consider this change a step towards freedom and equality again.

So I wouldn't be surprised if our definition of freedom would deny homosexuality at some later point.
I understand that, but my point is good luck doing a lot of that "statistics-based data science" using just SQL.
maybe. However in most countries the courts tend to see through such things. I wouldn't be surprised if Amazon doesn't risk this loophole. If they do (even accidentally) I expect some lawyer will sue - there are a bunch of EU countries to choose which to sue in, the results might be different in each.
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30 years ago, we didn't have 8+ megapixel displays.

And the GPUs were character-based, with only 256 different characters, usually 16 colors/each. That's the main reason for the hardware requirements. Essentially, these shaders emulate a character-based fixed function GPU from 30 years ago, adding features like more colors, Unicode, and custom fonts.