skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Plastic Oceans: MEPs back EU ban on polluting throwaway plastics by 2021
Equality can be considered as many different things:

* Equal treatment under the law

* Equal treatment by kinda-public things like corporations and universities

* Equivalent opportunities in general

* Equivalent results
> The Mossad/Israel was publicly embarrassed with an assassination it conducted in Dubai in 2010.

Was it? So much of the news coverage of the Dubai assassination seemed to focus on how intricate the operation was and how it worked like clockwork, all very impressive. A team of spies spread out across Dubai, wearing disguises and even successfully dealing with unforeseen obstacles, seemed pretty romantic somehow, definitely more than a dissident just walking into his own country’s embassy and being killed there. And Israel was probably well aware of its agents being caught on CCTV, so the revelation of the operation was no embarrassment for the Mossad. On the other hand, I’m sure the Saudis wish that this whole episode could have passed unnoticed and that people would just believe Khashoggi left the embassy of his own accord.
Why do you believe that to be true?
"Russia cannot produce next-generation fighter aircraft"

Russia may not have the money to build it in numbers, but for sure they have the technology. The fighter aircrafts are very capable and the F-35 may well be a one trick pony (can't fly fast, can't dog fight, can't carry a huge load, needs tons of maintenance, is invisible to 3rd world countries and may or may not be visible to China or Russia).

https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/stealth-killer-russia...

https://www.businessinsider.com/photos-russian-su-35-pilot-f...

This military blog says the US may not be able to match the Russians in missile technology:
http://turcopolier.typepad.com/sic_semper_tyrannis/
My understanding is that GP poster's wife was in the same position as my relative, being pregnant and having previously had a C-section. That they got different advice, is precisely a difference in the standard of care. Problems with birth are certainly not one in a million.
Right, specifically Silicon Valley. Can’t think of any other industries with deep ties to Saudi Arabia. Probably not even worth thinking about.

Anyway, I wonder what the black stuff is in that illustration. Weird!
they've already done that here: https://privacyinternational.org/campaigns/uncovering-hidden... as part of their campaign
You will need to wear your high-G suits for that flight.
It's safe because it doesn't do anything?
All the casualties of the Iraq War (measure over a decade and a half) are just a drop in the bucket compared to number of people who have been killed or the number of children who have died of hunger in Yemen over a few years. Casualties in Yemen are reaching a half million and the number of deaths have not yet been tallied correctly by the UN due to the blockade
Indeed, this should be "computer misuse" as they're using Epic's servers against their TOS, without permission.

Similar category to hacking. Stricter penalties.
Google's Human-Sounding Phone Bot Comes to the Pixel
Flutter for Xamarin using SkiaSharp
I've got a ninja, it works really well for blending drinks.. I like to add almond milk, 2 tbsp heavy cream... if it's got no carbs I'll add some monkfruit as well. I'll have to look for some better protein isolate..unflavored I could probably cook with as well for added protein.
To be fair, this is an industry-wide disease. Jetbrains now tracks you too.
It's funny how this article views weapons and equipment deals with Saudi Arabia as a service the West is making for SA when in fact, that's just:

1. Securing the supply lines of the West and the stability of the world economy.

2. SA playing nice with Western powers and thanking them for their support. Not the other way around. The regional enemies of SA are Iran and Yemen. They have a strong behind-the-scenes intelligence relationship with Israel. They would do fine with Russian or Chinese weapons. Hell, they have enough money to kick-off their own military industrial complex.

I don't think the details of the arms deal are public but I suspect a lot of the money goes into "maintenance" from the weapons suppliers, not in technology transfer. They remain a vassal state to the US.

Their domestic human rights situation is despicable and disgusting, and I hate to find myself defending SA but the fake outrage over their foreign policy is highly irritating. They are no worse in that respect than any other country in the world, in fact the scale of their direct malfeasance is mostly regional. Countries with global reach have done worse in my eyes.
Bats fly blind tho.
Is this personally identifiable information? If not, then the GDPR has nothing to do with it.
This is not true, did you mean 50Mb ? And do you staticly build GTK or Electron?

Qt is split into modules, so if you don't use Webkit you don't include that module, if you don't use networking you don't include that, if you only do a CLI app you don't include the GUI module.
Here are a couple of useful tools for checking outage status:

https://outage.report/telegram

https://downdetector.com/status/telegram

Looks like they reported issues on Twitter as well:

https://twitter.com/telegram/status/1051190854004674560

> "One of our server clusters is down, can affect Middle East and Africa + parts of Europe. Working on bringing everyone back online."
The method given on that site for computing the component that comes from the last 2 digits of the year can be made a lot easier for mental calculation. I'll give some known improvements below, and then offer one of my own that is noticeably simpler.

In the following, let Y = the last two digits of the year (e.g., 18 for 2018), and let N be the value we are trying to be compute. We only actually need N mod 7, but I'm going to leave out the reduction mod 7 in the equations to reduce clutter.

The simplest way to compute N is simply:

N = Y + Y//4

I'll use Python3-like arithmetic and pseudocode in this comment, so "//" is integer division (with x for times to avoid accidental italics).

To keep the numbers smaller during mental calculation, people have developed alternatives. The one given in that link is this:

N = Y // 12
N += Y % 12
N += (Y % 12) // 4

An interesting alternative, called the "odd+11" method, is given on the Wikipedia article [1]:

if odd(Y): Y += 11
Y = Y // 2
if odd(Y): Y += 11
N = -Y

For the last step there, N = -Y, it will usually be easier and clearer to reduce Y mod 7 before doing that N = -Y. Also, given Y, sometimes the simplest way to get -Y mod 7 is to just note what you have to add to Y to get to a multiple of 7. For example, if when you get to that step Y = 20, note that adding 1 to Y gives a multiple of 7, so -20 mod 7 = 1.

Anyway, here's my method. It keeps the numbers smaller--if you reduce mod 7 aggressively never more than 12--at the cost of slightly more branches in the logic.

Let the last two digits of the year be T and U, so Y = 10 T + U.

N = 2 x T
if odd(T): N += 3
N += U
if odd(T):
N += (U+2)//4
else:
N += U//4

That if...else is taking into account the number of leap years that have occurred in the current decade (not including the year T0). When doing mental calculation, it is probably easier just to remember that if T is odd, at 1 if U >= 2 and add another 1 if U >= 6, and if T is even same except at 4 and 8.

Here are examples, using some years from the link, with parenthetical explanations for some of the numbers:

2018: T=1, U=8. 2x1(T) + 3(T is odd) + 8(U) + 2(U>=2,6) = 1 mod 7.

1929: T=2, U=9. 2x2(T) + 9(U) + 2(U>=4,8) = 1 mod 7.

1999: T=9, U=9. 2x2(T%7) + 3(T is odd) + 2(U%7) + 2(U>=2,6) = 4 mod 7. Note that I reduced U and T mod 7 inline when using them. You can do this as long as when checking odd/even you use the original T, and when adding in the leap year correction you use the original U. E.g., for 99, you could compute it like it was 22, except you have to add the 3 for odd T, and use 9 for the U>=2,6 check.

1982: T=8, U=2. 2x1(T%7) + 2(U) = 4 mod 7.

1969: T=6, U=9. 2x(-1)(T%7) + 2(U%7) + 2(U>=4,8) = 2 mod 7.

Some might find changing the leap year handling to this a little easier instead of just remembering the 2,6 or 4,8 +1 points. Change the if...else to this:

N += U//4
if odd(T) and N%4 >= 2: N += 1

E.g., compute the leap year adjustment with U//4 regardless of whether T is odd or even, and if U is in {2, 3, 6, 7} and T is odd, add one more.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doomsday_rule#The_%22odd_+_11%...
You don't exactly need 350k/y to get those numbers (at least I don't).

I don't know what the history will be over the next 20 years if you start now, but for the entire 8 years of my career so far (started at 24), my pre-tax compensation has been roughly 260k/y averaged (I'm at 350k now and started at ~120k), which has allowed me to comfortably save 120k+ a year.

My career has been a mix of a couple startups (one with decent exit, but nothing life changing, say 1.5 years worth of salary as financial outcome of the vested equity) and a big solid growing company (no FAANG though).
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Grey-hat is patching people's outdated MikroTik routers
For long enough flights, the one-time costs of descending, re-fueling, and climbing back to cruising altitude are worth it to reduce the continuing cost of the additional weight during cruise.
Uops.info: Characterizing Latency, Throughput, and Port Usage on Intel
How to stay sane with modern c++
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> Fact is you cannot use these sites realistically without these algorithms. It just can't be done.

You never used your browser's incognito mode?
Comparing this to the Cambridge Analytica breach or a HIPPA violation is disingenuous.

This is the information that was possibly was exposed: https://developers.google.com/+/web/api/rest/latest/people
Austin is a tech hot spot. It wasn’t always this way
Jordan Peterson says it's the opposite. I guess it also depends on how one defines 'rich'. If you're the only child of a multi-millionaire family, then you're in a much better financial position than being one of 3-5 children of a family that is only upper-middle class. But one cannot underestimate the power of having a high IQ though in terms of making wealth. You look at at all these successful people in STEM and start-ups, many from middle-class families and 2nd gen. immigrant families, and they tend to all have high IQs. Just a few days ago someone solved the 310 bitcoin challenge and made a cool $2 million. The person who solved it probably has a high IQ. Same for ppl who invested in bitcoin early. Again and again, with the possible exception of some actor and athletes, you find that with wealth, a high IQ is not far behind.
> Even at the low end that involves having 150k spare a year, plus a house and retirement fund?

You are forgetting interest, capital gains and appreciation.

Considering he has no children, $3-5 million is easily doable. Also, I was including house + retirement fund in the $3-5 million.

I wasn't having a laugh. I was just telling him that early retirement is a possibility. It's insane to worry to be worried about "career advice" in your 40s as a software dev.
You’re kidding right? The fact that parents are legally required to care for their children for 18 years throws a wrench into the theory that the freedom of parents is paramount. I don’t think there’s any precedent in culture or our legal system that puts freedom of parents at a higher priority over well being of children - nor should it. Children have no choice whether they are brought into the world, potential parents have full volition. Thus morally it is perfectly fair that the party with zero choice - the children - are protected.
It has nothing to do with eugenics. One can also create a genetic index/profile for heart disease risk or anything else.
Science is about repeatable experimental outcomes that are predicted In advance by theory.

Demanding that people believe in a theory that so far has not been supported by the experimental data is more like religion than science.
I've got both a XRackPro 12U[1] and Hergo Mercury-Deskmate/ApxServer 12U[2].

They're nearly identical and possibly manufactured by the same company, but the build quality of the XRackPro is ever so slightly better. The front and back doors are studier with less flex and the side panel latches have better spring back.

The doors and panels are easily removed for full access.

The casters provide great moveability.

They both were fitted with noise reduction foam, which provides adequate noise levels for home use as well.

I purchased them from auctions so I can't judge them by their steep retail price.

I use the tops as extra storage to house a standard printer on one and a 3D printer on the other. I've even considered adding a little homely aesthetics with butcher block on the top.

At first I stored the vacuum near by to keep the cats away and they associated the server noise as a vacuum and haven't ventured towards any.

[1] http://www.xrackpro.com/v/vspfiles/xrackpro2a.htm
[2] https://hergo.com/product/mercury-deskmate/
https://hergo.com/product/apxserver-12u/
I think they are working on the assumption most who would buy this device have extras.
Hurricane Michael creates new islands in Florida
I also read it was a good idea to use multiple senses, so now I lick people when I meet them and they never forget meeting me.
My name, being a traditional Hindu name, is a difficult one for non-Hindus to remember, so it often gives me a get out of jail free card. No one remembers my name, so can't feel offended if I forget theirs. The fact that I often do remember people's names means that I'm often the one left feeling a bit offended (but I don't take much offence anyway).
this is exactly the kind of advise i was hoping to get. thank you!
Conclusively solves the problem of having too much cash lying around. It also adds a new thing to trip on at night for no additional charge!

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> I’m awaiting the public disclosure of evidence of Khoshoggi’s murder.

Am I the only one who feels it's odd to so loudly declare that they have all this evidence... and then not let us see it? Maybe I'm just paranoid, but I have this feeling that means we'll never see it and the fact that we didn't will get memory holed later.

I honestly don't know what to make of this whole situation. I obviously don't like the idea that someone has been murdered and dismembered, but I get the feeling that a lot more is in play here than I can even pretend to understand because there are a lot of people who want to take over the area and resources, so I don't know what information we can even trust.
New Netflix Film “22 July” Paints Far-Right Ideology’s End Game as Terrorism
The Tussle Between America and Turkey
Ensenada in Baja California, México, there's a big expat community, there's beach, you are like 1-2 hours from San Diego, it does have a Mexico National University Unit, it hosts the baja score off road races, also there is a lot of breweries & fancy restaurants, plus, is has the same bay area timezone.
Listen to Morse code.
The problem is that the Saudi Regime has reached a point of not just murder but instability and poor judgement. IE, they brutally murdered someone of substance, in a lawless fashion, outside Saudi Arabia proper, for very little cause - after they brutally, physically extracted wealth from their own financier class (princes and such probably had taken a good portion of this corruptly but there's a reason for rule-of-law in these situations, other the state doesn't know when to quit).

It's one, sadly normal, thing these days to get blood money from one or another sources. It's another thing to get money from a powerful entity that kills anyone at all that displeases them - after all, at that point they might actually kill you, personally if you lose money or complain. I don't think even the Mafia is foolish enough to do this regularly.

And the evils of the Saudi Regime have been considered tolerable for years, in the interest of stability and, well, making money. Now you have something like a coal-mine that's broken out into the open. What to do, what to do?
Rick Doblin, Michael Pollan, etc Discuss Psychedelics at Harvard Medical School
> Just take a look at Wikipedia. There are more people on there with parents who are university professors, doctors or succesfull (sic) entrepreneurs than parents who are farmers. Even though the amount of farmers vastly outnumber the others.

Do you have any data to back this up?
Ask HN: How to talk to users?
I often see a lot of advice on 'talking to users' as fundamental to understanding their needs, building a product they love & running a profitable startup. However, it seems there is a right way to talk to users & perhaps, steer conversations in a way that provides you valuable insights or gets you closer to what their pain points are. How do you ideally talk to users, most especially if you're trying to validate a B2B idea?
Ten years ago today, I had the idea for an app I thought was interesting
Jordan Peterson is a hack.*

*He's not a data analyst, a behavioral scientist, or anything other than a public figure. A youtube personality's opinion doesn't matter in the real world.
The infrared emitters can "see" through the non-bone parts of a thumb, I think, but it would be hard to capture a valid face scan.
Serious answer, small faraday cage bags with velcro+zippers are already sold to law enforcement who need to seize a powered-on phone.
As usual, WP spins the story by leaving out a key detail: all mail is digitized for free.

So, just mail the damn books (or whatever printed matter you like).
Or use the GPS to disable face ID near customs checkpoints and police stations.
Its been about two years, but ~50MB was the range. Its quite possible the necessary optimization wasn't done (I wasn't responsible for that). But internal builds with static linking gave you that for free.
> ...must be bad at math - for overtime-exempt employees, each extra hour worked past 40 reduces your hourly pay rate by 2.5%.

Not really. The first one does, then the effect is getting smaller with each hour.
This is a much better tactic than the worst thing you can do, which is pretend you know and then use a wrong name. I lost a decent retail account by calling an owners friend ‘Ashley’ when she was really ‘Melissa’ when I met them at a party 3 months after initially meeting them at a trade show.
Does that mean one more woman, and there will be a discrimination problem against men?
Moonwalking with Einstein is an interesting book related to this topic. It’s about Joshua Foer’s journey becoming an American memory champion a few years back. Some parts delve lightly into remembering people’s names, among other memory techniques. Was one of Bill Gates suggested reading when it come out too. If you’re interested in this sort of stuff, I suggest picking it up.
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/sprint-reader-spee...
why not use something like Little Snitch or even TripMode to add opt-in functionality for all apps trying to make network connections?
The article repeats several times something along the lines of "money trumps genes" at the beginning, but it does mention what you're saying later on when talking about why IQ tests were deceiving:

"Such tests can’t be administered at conception, birth or infancy — before high-income parents have given their young children a head start by feeding them well, reading to them at higher rates and enrolling them in more activities.

“Two people who are genetically similar can have strikingly different IQ test scores because the richer ones have invested more in their kids,” Papageorge said. When you look at the raw genetic potential of the two people, though, “you see they’re actually quite similar.”"
Many. Plasma physics more closely predicted many variables, including the beloved CMB. Observations of galaxies moving by each other are mirrored experimentally in the lab. Plasma effects scale so they can be studied this way... But no, this is censored because the mainstream insists that the weakest force is the God of their universe.
Opening it in a hex editor is one of the things I do, yes. I also inspect imports too. If the code is obfuscated, that's another reason for rejection.
Pre-disposition to illness is fine. But that's not what the researchers are talking about when they talk about a superior "genetic score".
One method I personally adopted in my professional life is delaying the usage of pronouns until the day I personally believe I memorized the names properly. In a setting where I can say "She can do that.", I instead say "Jenna can do that." until I'm satisfied with my memory.
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for-profit prisons

This is not a for-profit prison.
I agree with everything you wrote, and have found that by and large companies don’t reward the good managers you described. The lack of recognition gets exhausting and eventually those good managers either leave management or start focusing on managing up for their own sake.

It has made me extraordinarily picky about any future management positions I may pick up.
If I had to pick between IQ and pre-existing wealth, I would choose wealth.

Having a high IQ still requires you to rely on luck by rolling the dice at investing (knowing to buy bitcoin is more gambling than intelligence), squeaking past super selective all-or-nothing societal gateways like Ivy League admissions, FAANG interviews, YCombinator, etc. against very stacked odds, tenacity whenever life randomly and inevitably decides to punch you in the gut, and tremendous sacrifices in terms of hard work, time, MORALITY (screwing people over and fighting hard to prevent others who are actively working against you from doing the same to you), and personal health.

I think the fact that you can solve puzzles really well on a test doesn't really lend itself well to money making at all. There's FAR too much of a chance/luck component to making money to attribute it to IQ alone. Any time I've ever made money, I came back thinking wow, I was very lucky -- even though everyone is still biased towards themselves in terms of their own personal attributes or qualities (intelligence, hard work, savviness, hustling, etc.) when they make money, I can still recognize that yes, buying and selling crypto at the right time was almost entirely luck -- so was teaching myself how to code when I was 8 years old growing up in a rural area where everyone else thought it was a waste of time. Hard work is a necessary but not sufficient condition to make money -- same applies to IQ. Often you'll find people who had the exact same amount of "talent" or worked just as hard doing exactly the same things as someone who has a lot of money but don't have anything to show for it. Right place, right time.

Meanwhile, having money handed to you on a silver plate by virtue of your birth family means being able to accomplish all of the above without doing or sacrificing anything at all, and you even still have a free pass from society to still have an ego about it. Even worse, many people somehow see having money as a moral characteristic while selectively ignoring the very often immoral cost of acquisition.
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No but she still got snatched by the Chinese government. You don't see a problem with that?
Yea Iraq and Libya sure turned out OK for everyone after those regimes were toppled. (Hint: they didn't)

I'd rather the US and NATO address the thousands of civilians that Saudi is killing in Yemen. That's an excellent reason not to sell weapons to them, but I must be the only one that thinks so...