skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No. Addiction is the inability to stop when you want to. Lack of self-control is generally a willpower / just not wanting to stop thing. But there are two kinds of addiction: physical and psychological.

Physical addiction can occur with things like heroin, alcohol, cigarettes, caffeine (the more and longer you use them the more likely you are to get addicted... generally speaking.) Your body literally craves/needs more and you can get sick or possibly even die if you stop too abruptly depending on the substance.

Then there's psychological addiction which most of the physically addictive drugs can be as well as things like pot (at least I don't recall hearing any scientific studies indicating it's physically addictive.) While your body isn't dependent on it, whatever it is, your brain effectively gets stuck in a feedback loop telling you that you need that other thing just like you need food or water.
>Another Intel scientist (unfortunately I can't re-find that source) later said that the power savings of async CPUs aren't as high as claimed by their proponents.

Because of all modern chips that made with any consideration for power saving use clock and power gating
Probably not. In 80%+ of Eastern Europe you'll get at least stares and I'd venture the "village idiots" will probably have a go at you...
Sysinternals Process Explorer also has this, and can show you per-'engine' gpu utilization, where engines represent things like shader cores, hardware video encoding cores, etc
Thanks for sharing. Agree on your sentiments that Glaswegians are friendly! Are you based in Glasgow?
Too true. I’ve been eyeing ditching my polish citizenship for a while now.
You might want to rephrase your post; implying that everyone who isn't a "coastal-American/NW-European tech worker" must therefore be either:

a) Religious nativists,

b) Supremacist ideolouges,

c) Ethnonationalists, or

d)"a great mass of impoverished third-worlders too [...] ignorant to even use birth control correctly"

...is simultaneously pretty offensive, and bafflingly hyperbolic. Alternatively, given that I live in Texas, and am therefore neither a coastal-American nor NW-European tech worker, would you mind telling me which of those four alternative categories I'm in?
The biggest benefit is in "long range" IO. There you use what's called "self clocking" signal forms.

This is why you don't need all your USB peripherals to be in perfect sync without having an associated penalty for frequency matching. In reality, things are a bit more complex, but in general self-clocking signal form is a must have for such applications.
Most honest comment. Love how it unfolds.
Madrid is a thousand times better. You feel the spanish culture everywhere you go. You’re also not suffocating in Barcelona’s tourism.
And the social benefits should not be ignored either (health care, child support, ..)

That actually seems like a rather good salary indeed, surely from a Belgian point of view.
>and I more than once got the feeling that I should just throw that bike down into the water to get rid of the obstacle (and what kept me from doing that was only that than the city would still have to get rid of it).

Sure, that feeling is perfectly normal, but you didn't throw the bike into the river, after all.
He quit three weeks later. Lots of people will have similar stories about tobacco.

Whether it's physiologically addictive or 'merely' psychologically addictive is somewhat irrelevant - are you going to belittle gambling addiction as just a "bad habit"?
I can't imagine any of that working for my inlaws and such.

But thinking about this, what if (assuming this was an open source social network) there was a data source hook. For example:

When I create my account, I could say "Get my data from X, and send my data to Y". Where I can expose an API on... AWS Api Gateway. Then when you visit my feed/wall, it pulls the data from that source. The only thing the social network stores is the API, and any Auth criteria. Then (Say I owned "Dumb Social Network") I don't own your data, you do, I just provide a place to display it.

If you don't want to use your own source for data then I can store it for you, but I may limit what I store to protect myself as a company (like GDPR)
In North America I would vote Montreal. It's 1/2 price of most American cities and 2x funner and cooler than almost any of them. LA and NYC have tons of cool, but they are expensive and doing fun stuff is generally expensive. Not so Montreal. Mtl has way more going on than even SF ever had back in the day, and it's much bigger than Austin, Boulder/Colorado Springs etc. etc.. During the summer, Montreal has an unbelievable amount of stuff to do. Carnivals, festivals, just jammed back to back, overlapping one another all summer.

More students per capita than anywhere (depending on how you define 'city' because of course Boston is a big one, but Mtl has 5 Unis right down town within a few Km of each other).

And 1/2 of the city is French, and it's like being in another country.

It has an intellectual/creative tradition from French culture, also, it's actually a global leader in AI, and not just one of those cities making pompous statements: UMtl has the largest AI research facility in North America, and $100M in spending announced, and ElementAI has raised hundreds of millions so this is no joke.

But the winters are very cold. And salaries lag. And taxes are high. Healthcare is universal and you will get service ... but it's not as good as in the US when you are covered.
Sure climate change is likely to make the climate worse than it is now, but climate on earth is already terrible in most places, and humanity needs to learn how to control it anyway.

If you are rich enough to give a good education to your children, the only thing you achieve by not having children is reducing the number of people who care about climate change and can do something about it.

Maybe your child will be the one who finds a way to terraform sahara, or build sea-steading cities, or create some other amazing thing.

As someone who have watched too much Cousteau documentaries as a child, was convinced that humanity is a pure evil as an adult, and is too old to marry and have children anymore, i would argue that not having children is a mistake.
I think it is applicable to Europe, but in a different way: Scandinavia and Switzerland are expensive, but salaries are equally high. Compare that to the French Riviera for example, where house prices are nearly as high as Stockholm, but salaries are much lower. That's the problem with sunshine: it attracts a lot of wealthy retirees and tourists, who distort the local market.
Your comment helped me put some thoughts in line.

Soy is a big reason the loss of biodiversity in my country. People are cutting down trees left and right because soy grows everywhere and pays well.

"That's easy", I could say, "just stop planting a single thing". But this doesn't make sense for the farmers, who are asked to give away money to allow (from their POV) rich people to ride more Hummers.

So we come with a better answer, "enact and enforce laws protecting native forests", and now we are back where we started, because a problem that we wanted to solve with individual action suddenly requires government intervention.

I believe in individual action, as I said in another comment. But I don't think it's an "either/or": we created governments specifically to solve problems like this.
They have data on people that never had a Facebook account in the first place, if that can give a clue.
People just can't seem to get past the notion that consumer electricity rates must be constant 24/7 despite enormous expense to make that happen.

Time of Use pricing exists in Portland. But it hasn't been done right. Even the utility itself admits: Time of Use is best if you use most of your electricity late at night or on weekends. If not, you will not benefit from this plan.

So, unless you want to charge an EV at night, or have "concrete batteries", variable pricing here is dumb.

When I discussed the perverse pricing with someone here whose job is literally to promote EVs, that person agreed, saying more or less: "Yeah, I looked into this for myself. I might be able to save $5/month and I might have to pay an extra $35/month."

Current fixed price electricity here is 7.2 ¢ per kWh. (plus other charges such as distribution cost).

Switch to time of use and pay 14.6 ¢ per kWh between 6 AM and 3 PM, and again between 8 PM and 10 PM.

At the peak between 3 PM and 8 PM pay 20 ¢ per kWh.

The cheap rate is 4.2 ¢ per kWh, between 10 PM and 6 AM weekdays, and all day on Sunday.

Hmmm ... let me see. I can pay 7.2 ¢ all the time ... or I can pay 14.6 ¢ or 20.0 ¢ most of the time ... and get cheap prices when my demand is lowest.

Fixed price is a no-brainer decision for most people. They don't give a fuck about the "enormous expense to make that happen"; most people will choose the plan that costs them less per month.

https://www.portlandgeneral.com/residential/power-choices/ti...
On the fact that types are useful to learning programming, I cannot agree more. I often hear php and javascript labelled as good for beginners, and I did start programming in those (I had no formal CS training and am not a programmer). I wrote crappy code for years before I started using VBA and discovered the benefit of setting option explicit on, and suddenly the IDE provided helpful feedback, objects became self discoverable. And that’s when I started to improve and moved to more sophisticated languages.
I have made such a list myself.

Asia: Bangkok, ChiangMai, Taiwan, Shanghai, Beijing, Hanoi.

Europe: Lisbon, Madrid, Milan, Bordeaux, Montpellier, Berlin, Varsaw

Not sorted
Seconded. Poland is probably the most religious and conservative country in the EU.
Kiev , Lviv , Kharkiv in Ukraine are extremely cheap, it’s still in Europe, and it has tons of talents. It’s a known talent pool actually. Eating out starts from $2 usd, for $3-4 you could even have a service in the restaurant. Renting a flat starts from $200/mo for some sub urbs areas. You can rent some office space for $150/mo I bet in most places you called cheap you spent more on coffee and smoothies.
Vilnius (and Lithuania in general) also has really great infrastructure - 1Gbps unlimited FTTH costs less than 20 EUR/month, 4G penetration and prices are better than almost anywhere else in Europe.
I'm not quite clear what it is that you "don't think is really true", then.
I'm not sure about this (I don't know that particular journalist or any of his reportings). That there is some kind of PR machine at work from the likes of Boeing and Lockheed, sure bet, they alsways do that. But then SpaceX has Elon Musk, a PR machine all of his own.

What did change so, and that I think is directly related to Musk as well, is how SpaceX is perceived now as compared to a few years ago. It all started with Teslas Model 3 issues and the subsequent Twitter issues, after that Musk, and by extension his companies, are seen in a different light by many. Whether this is justified or not is anyones guess.

Regarding SpaceX, competitors are now exploiting an opportunity, I just hope that Musk doesn't take the bait. On the other hand, maybe a somewhat more realistic approach doesnt't hurt. When did some "research" into SpaceX lately I saw a change in tone in articles, especially covering the financial side, from article in 2013 / 2014 to now. I have the impression that SpaceX, and Musk as well as Tesla, are also followinng the hype curve.

Added background: I'm not so optimistic regarding bith Tesla and SpceX anymore as have been, especially Tesla.
It's not an ad tech company. It's an anti adtech company. Long term goal is to kill Google Ads and other ad companies by outing competitors ad campaign, turning advertising useless.

This is achieved through lessening information asymmetry.
it really does not - if you’re running js that spends enough time doing double->integer conversion that that is a major bottleneck you might get some win. The instruction is not intrinsically faster than a regular float->integer conversion, the only real changes are to behavior around sentinel values. The biggest cost in floating point to integer conversion is the conversion itself, not handling of edge cases.

In reality the big win from this instruction is not performance, it’s code size.

So no, this instruction does not explain 40% perf improvement. It’s very easy to see why: for it to be a 40% (or any significant %) win your code would already have to be spending at least 40% of the time doing just double to int conversions. Not even micro benchmarks manage that level of insanity.
The Last Time the US Considered Copyright Protection for Typefaces
He said he's from the Bay area so I doubt he's used to clean air and clean streets. :)
The general idea is awesome. Excited about ranking using the bitcoinity metric mentioned by the top comment.

Any plans to include the top decentralized exchanges? (https://etherscan.io/stat/dextracker)
Bangalore, India.

Not a very good place to "live" - the traffic is _insane_, and you have to deal with us Indians.

But on the plus side, a dollar goes a long long way in India. Bangalore is on the expensive side for Indians. To put things into perspective, a decent dev job in India gets you 1300$ per month after taxes and comfortably puts you in the upper middle class. Monthly rent for a 3BHK apartment at a good location will be around 500-600$. So if you're planning to live off your savings, Bangalore is going to be cheap for you.

The weather is great.

The city is dubbed as the silicon valley of India, so lots of nerds, startups, and hackathons. But if you're into the more academic sort of intellectual pursuits, India is generally not the place for that.

Most of the people you want to interact with would speak English. Urban Bangalore is anglicized. But any "locals" you hire for help (yes, you will be able to afford a house help) will definitely not speak English.

On the other side, living in India would let you travel a lot. Just like Europe, the language and culture change every 300-400 km.

I can't stress enough how cheap India is going to be for you. However, keep in mind that everything else in the country is abysmal.
Man, this article implies that Germany, starting in 1970, was largely responsible for Vietnam's coffee production industry, and remains a huge international market for Vietnam's production. But this other article says the French introduced coffee production to Vietnam in 1857, that the industry peaked in the early 20th century, and that production actually crashed in the 1970s due to the Vietnam War--and it doesn't even mention Germany:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coffee_production_in_Vietnam

Pretty rare to see two linked Wikipedia articles contradict each other that much.
This makes me feel old.

If you change high school to college and hacker news to slashdot this story is familiar.
Rethinking our human origins in Africa
Barca has a specific kind of interesting architecture in places, but in others ... it's like ugly blocks of buildings from the 1960's. It's an odd town.
The reason for Barcelona not having as much spanish culture might be that they are catalan..
There have been five (5) successful missions to Hubble—beginning in 1993, then 1997, 1999, 2002, and 2009.[1]

The final mission, STS-125/SM4 (servicing mission 4), was done to prolong the life of the telescope. During the 12-day mission, they installed two (2) new instruments and performed two (2) repairs of failed equipment, and six new batteries in addition to replacing gyroscopes. This expected to extend Hubble’s lifespan by five (5) years from 2009.[2] So we were looking at an expected 2014 EOL date.

The 2009 mission was an interesting event in itself with Hubble’s durability aside. During a talk from Dr. Andrew Fuestel, he mentioned how NASA developed specialized tools for him to repair Hubble mid-orbit—which he said were the scariest times of his life—during his three (3) spacewalks.

[1] https://asd.gsfc.nasa.gov/archive/hubble/missions/sm4.html

[2]http://www.cbsnews.com/network/news/space/home/spacenews/fil...
One more reason to move to Mars?
I'm envious a little bit - the "nebula puffs" were awesome to watch even just on the webcast, I can't imagine how beautiful it must have been seeing them with one's own eyes right above you. :)
I grew up in Michigan, and hated it until a few years ago when my sister moved to Grand Rapids. GRR has some of the best veggie/vegan food I've had in the world, a strong arts scene and an equally vibrant underground music scene.

Ann Arbor is also quite fantastic. I study middle-eastern percussion, and Ann Arbor is a hub for my musical world. Every time I visit family in Michigan I take a couple of days to play house parties, go to concerts, take lessons, and jam. The Arabic/Turkish music scene there is very vibrant, and the city itself is unexpectedly diverse for the midwest.

The cost of living in Michigan is lower than in some third world countries. I bought my mother a house in Grand Rapids, in cash, for less than 25% of what it would have cost me for a down-payment on a 750 ft^2 condo in a really bad neighborhood in San Francisco.

The weather, however, is the deal-closer for me. Winters are pretty miserable.

(edited for clarity and punctuation)
Just keep in mind they put their dollars sign on the wrong side of the values. That might be a deal breaker
Have you considered Pune in India? The area has an excellent tech scene with both established companies and startups. It has excellent universities and the area has a lot of students and institutions. Everyone knows English in here. The area itself is has lots of beautiful places around for trekking and exploring if you are into that sort of thing, especially in the monsoon season.

And it's cheap. Really cheap. For 200$ you can get an excellent apartment in prime locations in the city itself. You daily food expenses won't be anymore than 10$ at the most.
We need to put a solar shade at L1.[0] That will give us time to switch to a renewable electric economy, before hitting the catastrophic methane release from permafrost thaw.[1]

At 7C, mathematical modeling [2] shows that we may lose two thirds of our oxygen generation (plankton) which could lead to complete human extinction within ~3600 years.[3]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_sunshade

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arctic_methane_emissions

[2] https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs11538-015-0126-...

[3] https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12576-016-0501-0
How are developer salaries there? For the quick glance I had one time they seemed really low.
> Don’t learn java as your first programming language.

I have to ask why you would give yourself this advice? I know enough java to know that I dont know java...
A North England uni town. Warwick perhaps?
Because JavaScript does not have types?

What you’re essentially asking is: why are you supporting JavaScript?

Also a lot of those optimizations occur in jits for statically types languages. Because many of the optimizations are functionally equivalent to “static” language ideas like devirtualisation and the like.
That's like saying the Pulitzer prize incentivizing sensationalism.
Big news move markets. Big news is hard to comes by. Big news requires efforts.

What other factors do you want the incentive to be on? Number of news per day? Amount of cat picture? Number of Like?
Chicago is a really wonderful city and I can vouch for everything tropdrop says here. I will also add, it's good for cycling (though do take care when not on dedicated lanes) and though the winter will leave you breathless and the summers will leave you panting, the vibrancy of city and everything it has to offer, and the affordability it still has, make up for it. It's one of my favourite cities in the world.
Kerala is great for tourism and spending a vacation, but I don't recall seeing a startup community thriving there - infact I did not see any known tech company there. Also the people there are English speaking, but not always. As far as tech intellectuals, I'm not sure how many there are in Kerala.

>high literacy

where literacy is defined as the ability to write my own name.

One would find a better-developed tech scene in Delhi/NCR and Bengaluru, but those aren't very nice places to live for different reasons. Kerala works only if the OP becomes a digital nomad and works remote.

Then there's also the problem of people going on strike whenever they like - flavour of the month types. When I went on a solo trip, they decided to strike due to the rise in fuel prices. Causes a lot of disruption in day-to-day activities. I'm guessing this is because of the influence of the communist party.
Yes it's hard to generalise of course. But the (lack of) success of quit smoking interventions should tell you that it is different to what is described here.

I don't think it is irrelevant.
The point is about how to help someone. Trying to get someone with a physiological addiction to realise the error of their ways is futile, like telling someone to unbreak their leg.
Or perhaps they would consider that the duty of childbearing & childrearing is the fundamental, undeniable linchpin of any successful civilization, and that their abdication of that responsibility at once betrays their family, their society, and their own bodies? And that their reasoning for not rearing children is incredibly and venomously selfish?

If you wish to betray your lineage, your society, and yourselves, go ahead. Pathetically follow fashion and sterilize your body. But know this: You do not belong to yourself. You belong to your partner, then your family, then your town, and then your nation, and then the greater civilization. You betray all of them in order of ascending disgrace when you do not procreate. You are not an individual, and no matter how much obtuse justification you spout - your chest indignantly puffed out, in blind pride - you will never become a standalone machine of individual thought and biology.

But, it's stupid and immature fun to snub Mom and Dad (which are really just avatars of your shared culture), and why should anyone expect anything more from those spouting such vapid, empty nonsense?
Off-topic, but what is the reason for the archive being linked in the comments so often? In this case, the article was published just a few days ago, and is still online.

The site doesn't seem to be down, and it's a university blog that can probably handle heavy traffic. On the other side, directing a lot of traffic to the Internet Archive to use it as a caching proxy is going to be burdensome.
It needs to be rephrased, but the point is otherwise good. I'd put it like this: only those who are both well enough to have time to care about climate and smart enough to understand the magnitude of the problem are the ones who'll be considering having no children as a mitigation strategy. If they all follow through, that leaves you with only people who can't care (due to economic situation) or don't care (religion/ideology/stupidity) reproducing and passing their values on to the next generation.

It's essentially the Idiocracy plot, with climate change twist.
The Bay Area is far from "misty" or "gray and miserable". Go live in some places that are truly like that, and then compare. Examples: Scotland, Luxembourg, etc.
Appreciate the perspective. I was visiting people who lived in Jberg for more than a decade or so, I wasn't about to question them.
- foundations + government grants https://archive.org/post/2776/who-funds-this

- donations (in-cash / in-kind)
https://archive.org/about/credits.php

- digitization services https://archive.org/scanning

- web archiving services https://archive-it.org

src: I work @ Internet Archive on https://openlibrary.org
Much as I love the 06, I don't think you can say it's somewhere where living costs are low. Tourists and Retirees significantly distort the housing and restaurant markets, to the detriment of those making local wages. That being said, if OP had asked "where can I ski in the morning and swim in the afternoon?", I wouldn't have hesitated :)
Probably 1,3, and 4.