skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, buts tens of thousands of dollars over the course of nearly 2 decades isn't all that much money. If your kid takes the bus, goes to public education, and you don't need childcare then the cost of a kid just boils down to room and board. Contrast that with a parent that sends their kid to private school, and wants to pay for a private undergrad. That's going to be on the order of at least the hundreds of thousands of dollars. Probably close to half a million.

Raising a kid to the expectations of an upper or even upper-middle class family costs orders of magnitude more than raising a kid to the expectations of a poor family. But said upper middle class family probably doesn't make a proportionally larger amount. I'd consider someone "poor" if they make 20-25k a year and "wealthy" if they make 200-250k+. But the costs of raising a child to the expectations of the latter is probably more than 10 times greater. Probably 20-30 times greater. Thus why kids are more proportionally expensive for higher income class people.
Researchers Prove Quantum Computers Are More Powerful Than Classical Computers
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> It worked, feature film quality.

Link to examples, otherwise your comment just reads like crankery.

By the way, I googled "Automated Actor Replacement in Filmed Media" and I couldn't find your Master's thesis. I could only find posts by you on HN, Quora, and other sites.
I want to point out that Vancouver’s municipal election is today (I’m standing in line for it), and many of the candidates are running on platforms related to the housing crisis.

Whatever you think of the issue, this particular article isn’t “about” the issue so much as it is a precisely-timed propaganda piece aimed at influencing the election.
See Dai et al, "Learning Combinatorial Optimization Algorithms Over Graphs", experiment section A.1.3 "Traveling Salesman Problem".

https://www.cc.gatech.edu/~lsong/papers/arxiv_rl_combopt.pdf

It does at least respectably well against the Concorde TSP solver although (unsurprisingly) doesn't beat it. Note that this also isn't a neural network that just maps a graph to a TSP solution; instead, the neural network function is a heuristic that guides the greedy construction of a solution one vertex at a time.
Only inside Google on the Ad Words team that kind of rescued Dart after the Chrome team stop caring about Dartium.

Now the Flutter project is Dart's last hope to keep it relevant outside Google.

It remains to be seen how serious Google is about Flutter, as the Android team only gives political correct answers when inquired about Flutter vs Android.
Future prediction.

Windows is no longer Microsofts core product, Microsofts cloud offering are its main revenue base. As a side effect Microsoft decides to open source the Windows code base. Microsoft is already the largest contributor of open source on Github.

Windows becomes a application compatibility layer in Linux and are also ported to Mac OS X. You can now run Windows apps on Linux and Mac OS X including games without the update issue.
Oh man, phone books. It's so weird that those are still delivered to possibly millions of households world wide. Why not save the environment a bit by asking to get off their delivery list?
When you say things like "rewrite history" the implication is one of significance.

The month Vesuvius erupted is fairly irrelevant. There aren't any consequences to the fact changing. Pompeii is quite important in historical understanding of Rome, you would expect "history rewriting" discoveries to really be something. This isn't. Mildly interesting perhaps.
I once tried to compile nheko, a Matrix client written in C++ and Qt. It makes heavy use of boost and compiling it crashed my system when I tried to compile using 2 jobs or more because it would eat up all my ram (6GB available at that time). Factor in the 2 seconds per compilation unit and it takes ages to compile. I managed to compile the native webrtc library with 8 jobs faster than this bare bones chat client on the same computer.
In my experience, any 3d printed item needs a lot of work to make it functional. It isn't as easy as hitting print and walking away.

Making one with a router and a cutting board is tedious, but I've done it and the result was functional. Making one with Lego and epoxy I have not done, but I know someone that has. It isn't like it takes days.
Your question was:

>You want to treat something with respect and then kill it to eat it? What exactly is the point?

I don't see how your values have any relevance on the answer to that question.
I actually gave a talk about automating influence on social media with what effectively amounted to chatbots, as a part of the 2016 election. Many of these factors were used, but also a few other interesting elements this article didn’t mention:

1. Geographic locales have linguistic norms that silently help in-group association. Adjusting rhetoric to these terms make people more pliable.

2. Context-aware sentiment is more impactful than general sentiment analysis. Someone may not have been a Trump supporter, but they didn’t like Hillary. This became another fulcrum.

3. Social leaders had the biggest impact, but social leaders can be made. This was leveraging a thought experiment conducted by DARPA, published in a paper titled, “Containment Control for a Social Network with State-Dependent Connectivity“ (https://arxiv.org/pdf/1402.5644.pdf)

These and a few other factors lead to my prediction of polling trajectories delivering a win for Trump in 2016 (the lecture was in August).
> NTFS does a symbolic link to these folders back to the System32 folder.

It creates hard links, not link symbolically.
It boggles my mind that inheritance is still taught in schools and universities. It's so easy to debunk the common lovely idea of "Square and Circle are a type of Shape, Rectangle is a type of Square" that it's not even worth talking about it -- you might want the square to be rendered in a GUI framework but have the Circle rendered only in your PDF reports, being one very lame example I can think of in under a minute. Many others exist on the net and they are much better than mine.

(Traits of types -- and thus multiple inheritance -- make much more sense if you so want to model the real world.)

"OOP is necessary" is a lie that is worth billions of dollars. Inheritance ends up being leaky and non-isolated. Every time.
An algorithm kicks businesses out of food stamp program on dubious fraud charges
This quote sets off alarm bells for sensationalism:

"People who do not perform very well on a treadmill test," Jaber said, "have almost double the risk of people with kidney failure on dialysis."

The quote doesn't appear to be part of the paper either. The first Google hit for all-cause kidney disease mortality says:

"The absolute risk for death increased exponentially with decreasing renal function in these studies. The magnitude of the unadjusted increase in risk ranged from approximately 38% to >1100%"

Those numbers are for non-dialysis patients. You'd expect the dialysis patients to be much worse due to the first sentence. The exercise paper says:

"The increase in all-cause mortality associated with reduced CRF (low vs elite: adjusted HR, 5.04; 95% CI, 4.10-6.20; P < .001; below average vs above average: adjusted HR, 1.41; 95% CI, 1.34-1.49; P < .001) was comparable to or greater than traditional clinical risk factors."

I don't think low vs elite is a fair interpretation of "not doing very well", so I'd take 41% as the increase in risk. That is very much not double 38-1100%. You'd assume it's certainly not double the exponentially worse-off dialysis patients. You wouldn't think 504% was either, even if you are charitable to the quote.

The findings seem interestingly strong. Overplaying them further should not be necessary.
I agree, but I think families are making that sacrifice by choosing quality over quantity. Families are choosing to have a single child and dedicate more resources towards raising him or her, rather than having multiple kids. And while it's true that one can't reliably quantify the quality of someone's childhood and subsequent life, the reality is that as countries develop and economies become more advanced the feasibility of having a productive life performing manual labor without much in the way of education reduces. Hence why developed wealthy places tend to have fewer kids and dedicate more resources towards them.
It's just following the laws of Resume Driven Development.

1) If it's not on your resume it needs to be.
2) If it's already on everyone's resume you must seek alternatives
3) Resumes are never finished, only abandoned

I'm starting to feel like I should expand this into a manifesto.
Saudi Arabia reportedly groomed Twitter employee to spy on user accounts
True. I have had Windows machines from work which I install Linux on as a dual boot. I need to use Windows maybe two or three times a year, and it can take hours for software updates to install when I do log in.
Conflating popularity with quality is a very common mistake.
The primary function of a personal trainer / nutritionist is not the advice they give, but that they force you to show up at the gym and keep track of what you're eating. It's 90% outsourcing of willpower and 10% knowledge.
> but for ~99.7% of our pages, it's gone!

Really, mostly getting rid of something is an effective optimization; 80-20 rule applies.
> availability of tools, libraries, and programmers.

These can -- and have been -- influenced by corporations. Many times.

It's a vicious cycle.
reminder that getting a professional trainer and a nutritionist is a luxury, you can easily learn how to diet and exercise off the internet the way that people learn programming
Trump shielding Saudis and punishing China says a lot on US commitment to rights
Correct way to solve that would be adding a new privileged Windows API call which ignores file locks and lies to other applications.
"The microscopic parameter changes [are] inherent in every print" seems like a weak argument for claiming that the article is garbage science. No two fingerprints are pixel-perfect, and DNA samples can get damaged, but this doesn't mean that such methods are invalid - in fact, they can be valid even in forensic contexts.
Oh, I know!

(To be fair, I should have said former colleague, back when I worked at NeuroSpin in 2010-2012).
To paraphrase Samuel Johnson, "Fake News is the Last Refuge of the Scoundrel".

The "fake news" meme itself is the last desperate attempt to preserve the fake news monopoly which giant publishers enjoyed for so long. There is really nothing left when this one wears out.

Before "fake news" we had massive injections of noise to drown out information, but that didn't work quite well, not in the long run.

The current trend of turning giant social platforms to Disney-like dystopias is not working well either. People are flocking back to ... web sites!

So what can we expect after "fake news" ? Probably Disneyfication of DNS, and that's where it ends.

Because audiences will shift to the lowest commeon denominator - IP addressing, as they did in the beginning (Napster, Gnutella) and still do (Bittorent, Tor).
Raster Vision: A New Framework for Deep Learning on Satellite and Aerial Imagery
So the "human right" commissions that are designed to facilitate violation of fundamental Charter rights are nothing? You can be subject to lifetime publication ban. All this without due process. And remember truth is not a defense at "human rights trials". Of course if you are well connected (Mark Steyn) you can raise enough hell that bolshevicks at the commission will not dare to send you to gulack.

So absolutely, freedom of speech is very limited over here. And to stay on topic, I absolutely get the new weed policy, more people stoned, less trouble will government have controlling population. Although it does seem redundant at this point as ignorance seems to be the real unifying Canadian value.
Why? People have been raising or fattening a pig in their yard for ages. One or two pigs a year, add a couple of chickens on top of that, and here we go.
Er, paper ammunition is definitely a thing. It's not beyond reason that one could forge/press the copper components oneself, either. The tricky part, which isn't all that tricky, is manufacturing the combustion mechanism. Charcoal, potassium and sulfur; or saltpeter, sulfur and charcoal. There's more than a few sources of instructions online.
I agree with the economic implications. Countries that experience an ageing population need to face the fact that they either have to raise taxes considerably, or reduce the care and benefits they extend to the elderly.

I also disagree heavily with the last paragraph. Creating disincentives for automation is the last thing a country needs when its workforce is shrinking. Automating jobs is a way of expanding the amount of labor available without actually needing more people in the work force. If anything, countries that are experiencing a population decline need to invest in more automation to maintain their economic output.
Some studies show an association between the herpes virus and Alzheimer’s
Well, I agree with you, but it doesn't contradict my point.

The fact that now, in 2018, it's possible to easily get high-quality coffee in Australia is not a complete explanation of why Starbucks is not popular there, since the same is true of the United States.
Fellow network engineers: this isn't referring to the Frame Relay you're thinking of [0].

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frame_Relay
Yes, there's also the classic using the hackers pace as a dating pool because you have no social skills. The introductory electronics project for women I wanted to make was the consentinator, a taster that would play 'no means no' while it's zapping something. The women I bounced the idea off all thought it was great, the guy on the committee who was using the space to try and get dates called me sexist for even suggesting a project based on gender instead of treating everyone like a hacker.

If you have the time look up the girl who ran the first tumbler. She's hilarious and had a few talks about this stuff. As well as some really great advice on how not to build robots.
>The older folks with the desk jobs are often quite literally sacrificing their own well-being for their family's, "deprioritizing their health" for another priority.

Family planning is not rocket science.

Choosing to breed without the appropriate resources may be socially normalized behaviour, but portraying parenthood as a selfless act is to gloss over the fact that the parents knowingly engendered the impoverished conditions that required it, and did so for selfish reasons. This precludes it being a sacrifice.
Most Initial Conversations Go Better Than People Think
You can't replace them but you can read them, copy them, and swap to the copy upon reboot.
Depends on the printer with a high end printer you can print a lower and go with no work needed other than to drill the holes for the FCG and magazine and bolt catches.

With a production or industrial prototyping printer you don’t need to do anything than drop your parts in.

Heck it wouldn’t surprise me if in a few years with multi material printing you’ll be able to print a fully functional lower even with the FCG I’ve already seen metal parinting demos that can print both rigid and spring metal materials in the same print.
Young Chinese women angered by TV blockbuster’s ‘twisted’ patriarchal values
Not that I'm aware of. It's just a plain Win32 app, nothing fancy.
Hairnah
That doesn't address what the parent comment was talking about.
You'd be surprised how well a serial number can be recovered even after it's been filed away. The stamping process that imprints each digit affects the metal underneath as well. Even when the physical characters have been filed away, the serial is readable using some advanced techniques[1]

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/scien...
I just voted!
I'm torn as jQuery allows dense code with it's query language, but at the same time it tends to produce brittle code that has high coupling and low cohesion, so that is hard to maintain.

I think the trade-off is that you opt for a more wholistic approach or framework that is more costly to bootstrap but easier to maintain, especially as complexity increases.
Tangentially related, but it seems pretty creepy how all LaserJet printers purposely print uniquely identifiable information on every sheet. I expect more and more things are going to be like this, although it may be technically difficult in 3D printing.
I'm not Canadian, so I'm left wondering. What do you mean?
Sadly grassfeed meat is even less sustainable than factory farmed and production at the current level is impossible, same as with energy we need to find a way to turn the tables and learn to waste less instead of producing more.
> Frankly on windows this is AFAIK a mostly-unheard-of technique. No one does mapping.

This must be incorrect.

Jeffrey Richter's advanced windows, a very widespread win32 book, introduced this technique to a LOT of developers, just when windows was the hot stuff for programmers. I don't think I've seen a win32 code base >100 Kloc without mapping. Understanding and using it is one of those rites of passage that marks the switch from junior to medior win32 developer.
> Including the one we're commenting on. There's a narrative being driven here

Not sure what narrative you mean, but it's not something any of us who work on HN is aware of.
something like ghost/custom mumbo-jumbo cms should do the trick
Anyone who can make cordite or cellulose gun powder at home, die press casings and make the primers and the bullets will be able to manufacture a complete gun without 3D printing, and better one at that.

Heck some high end air soft guns are made from the exactly the same material as an AR15 some even use real receivers with modification to prevent the drop in of parts converting those to a real gun would produce a more reliable weapon than most current 3D prints.

The “danger” of 3D printed guns isn’t about people with the will and skill but about trivializing it to the point where your idiot parking lot weed dealer can break into a maker space hit print and come out with a SAW and ammo to boot and were probably 50 years off from that point.
Removing jQuery is a curious and unproductive goal to have. You should focus on things that really matter to your users.
You should also remove drupal (bloated and low security cms based on php), that's making your site ways more slow than jQuery
The problem is when your choices are “Do I fix my car or buy groceries this week”
Is this much different than what a Thunderbolt-attached eGPU does when used to accelerate host graphics on a notebook? (I mean, besides the bandwidth available.)
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Oops, you are of course right!
Rare, for the individual. Common, for congress
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What if it’s not an unwillingness to sacrifice, but an unwillingness to take on risk and uncertainty that increases with financial success?

We now have an entire generation that has been saddled with crippling debt and has been given little to nothing in the way of tools to escape. Many of them saw something similar happen to their own parents, watching them struggle to keep the boat floating as they grew up. Is it really so strange that this group would approach having children with great caution and only commit once they acquire some level of assurance of reliable and reasonably strain-free access to resources? This is especially true for those who’ve “made it” to some extent and have managed to procure freedom from debt — they’re going to do everything in their power to avoid winding up in those circumstances a second time.

I don’t know, to me the attitude reads as more calculated and responsible than anything else.
Well, letting you get credit is not universal, or maybe not common. They want you to pay them for your degree.
I think rent control a is a big reason why this attitude exists. A large segment of rents (~70% of them) live in rent controlled units, and thus have no direct incentive to lower rents. In practice, most people probably wouldn't pay hundreds or thousands of dollars extra per month for a better view. But in SF, residents are shielded from that sort of tradeoff by rent control, and the costs of obstructing development are passed off to other people. If residents actually felt the impact of rising rents, the discussion around development would be a very different story.

In cities without rent control, like Seattle, development happens a lot quicker. Over the course of half a decade (2010-2015 IIRC) Seattle added more than twice the number of housing units as SF. Rent control's perverse system of incentives leads cities like SF to shoot themselves in the foot.
What was bad specifically? This comment reads more of a ‘the codebase we inherited sucked to rewrite’ than anything else.
This is a garbage article when compared with the headline. The “experts” is two property managers who don’t even agree on what’s happening or why.

I read real estate press almost every day, and this is pretty much a universal constant. For every bull, there is a bear. For every person predicting a market crash, there is a person predicting things will get even better. Even articles that should be straight forward statistical pieces are usually based on data from some startup web site nobody's every heard of that pushed out an infographic to get clicks.

The more I observe the real estate industry, the more I'm convinced that it's mostly made up of people too damaged to sell used cars anymore.
Because it's SF?
> Skynet, as China’s national security network is known, had 170 million cameras last year and Beijing plans to have another 400 million units installed across the country by 2020.

Oh wow, what an unfortunate name. Did the government choose that name oblivious to its use in movies, or is this just a nickname ascribed to the system?
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Your whole rant assumes using jquery from a CDN. While common, it’s not the only way to use it.
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>Haxe is strange in that it seems to be very well known among developers but relatively very few actually use it.

So like Lisp, Scheme, Haskell, ML and so on?
That’s terrible. I really feel for low-income cancer patients in the US. I’ve dealt with cancer in the family (in Canada) and found it difficult enough, and never had to deal with insurance paperwork.
Your users care about page load time. If you can remove jQuery then the page will load faster. Users do not care if your CMS is bloated and written in PHP.
Yeah, it's conceptually similar to Optimus or eGPUs but with two OSes instead of one.
I presume it's hailed as such an unbelievable achievement because the sorry state of frontend development means just answering "what is my exposure to library X" is impossible, so scrubbing a single leaf from a 30 wide 10 deep dependency tree is unheard of.
Was this response sent from 1998 via a time machine?
Overtraining. Smh.
Drupal will have no impact on site speed if it is behind a caching proxy
I don’t think so. Go is picking up steam with no sign of slowing down, and the more experience I get, the less I write OO code (I basically only use inheritance as a poor-man’s substitute for automatically delegating to a member, a la anonymous struct embedding in Go—basically syntax sugar).
No, plugins were already on the way out when Dart was released.

In short, some folks at Google had ambitions for Dart to eventually become a web standard with an interpreter built in to browsers, with compile-to-JavaScript used for the transition. That was a radical, unpopular idea and didn't happen even for Chrome, but Dart lives on as a nice compile-to-JavaScript language, and has new life on mobile due to Flutter.

Microsoft had a much more conservative strategy with Typescript and executed on it better. Having modest goals was a big win there.
Using ML to compare writing styles between Fox, NYT, and others