skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Or if the borrow doesn't outlive the source e.g. if a local goes out of scope.
> Don't be triggered,

This type of puerile language is not conducive to reasonable discussion.
In this case, we have Frosts words to lean on for a specific intent, and Frosts words to tell us that he himself personally experienced people misunderstanding it.
where is the code you pos?
> 8. Should I think about how many children I have (or don’t have)?

Maybe the worst point of the whole article, here is my point of view : educated and people aware of environment change have fewer kids, people with the opposite way of thinking have more kids and have the same education. We create a world where the people who don't care outnumber those who care, since the most praised government system is Democracy the power goes to the number.

Path to idiocracy (great message for a comedy movie).
Not where I live, but I am aware that's not representative for the entire world.

I am happy for the places where it works. Not sarcastic.
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If you insist upon cherry-picking an incoherent viewpoint from a basic principle: "I wish to live", I suppose one could concur with your premise.

See:

1) I, myself, my spawn, any reasonable proxy for me. a human?

2) Wish, desire, seek, want.

3) to live, life. continuance. reproduction, etc.

See, we are currently trashing the entire ball we live on:

1) too many of us. We did a good job at the whole "Go forth and multiply" thing. (talk about an incoherent philosophy: how about "the underpinnings of our civilization" for 2 points.)

resulting in:

A) loss of biodiversity. We killed the other animals

B) a HUGE footprint (land area) required for making our STUFF

C) hubris. we think OUR STUFF and OUR ECONOMY (read: make-believe silly nonsense we pretend is real) is more important than LIFE itself! The hacker news crowd is extremely guilty of this, as many people live in a simulated screen reality so much that they forgot about the wetware underpinnings of LIFE. your life.

2)We have no sense of collective responsibility, no sense of collective existence at all. It's not the squirrels fault that you can't understand why sustaining life on earth might be a worthy goal.

Collectively speaking, humanity is a dud. We didn't manage to organize anything with regards to our collective selves. We just ignorantly pursue selfish aims because some 18th century English "economist" (phlebotomist?) told us about "invisible hands"...

Maybe you should devote your vast brainpower to explaining the coherence involved in justifying industry and human "civilization" thus far?
no-one told me about this standard when I entered the industry. If it comes from some blog post that I haven't read, how am I meant to know that some small selection of developers prefer "simple/easy" as a dichotomy? It's not a correction if it's just a different opinion.
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huffman_coding#History
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Oh, so opinions are only valid from the right type of person with the right contributions? I guess I should be glad you did not raise concerns about skin color.
This is exactly correct. The guy I work for has friend who does sales at Oracle; as soon as he mentioned to his friend that he was starting a software company, the friend started telling him that Oracle was needed to make sure our data didn't get "corrupted" and started blaming random problems on not having Oracle; so the guy I work for started asking me if we needed to move to Oracle immediately and front the money for it. I was like, "hell no", we are a very small company, no need to pay a huge licensing fee just for a database that won't make a bit of difference to our customers... but he still sometimes floats the idea.
Oh I agree but the last year's tech is also from the big brands, no? While the CO2-reductions / reduce-corporations-influence argument usually tells you to buy locally sourced stuff.

I'd very much like to but there really are no such local vendors. :(
Jordan Peterson said it best: There is no wage gap. There is an earnings gap.

So, nobody is suggesting that wage gaps are fake. They're asserting it as undisputable fact. Find a place where men and women of equal experience, time at work and so on are being paid differently because of their gender and you have an easy lawsuit on your hands. In practice this doesn't happen because such discrimination doesn't happen.

Women nonetheless earn less because of choices they make, like choosing to work in HR instead of software engineering. This is not a crisis.

Re: (2) you seem to be cherry picking. It's been shown that female primary school school teachers are biased towards girls and some researchers have even started suggesting that this is partly responsible for increased female grades over time. Regardless, virtually nobody is claiming the total and absolute dominance of women in primary-age teaching is a crisis or a problem that needs solving. In fact it's trivial to find cases where men appear to be disadvantaged relative to women and there's absolute silence from the media, from politicians, etc.
From the "Schlock Mercenary" web comic: "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from a really big gun."

Yes, be careful what you wish for.
It definitely is!

When I say "it feels empty", I say that about my own feelings, and in the context of current world state. But I recognize that the ultimate goal is for more and more people to be able to just enjoy life.
Yes, your children don't get to live to benefit some other people's children.

That, or we end as species. Guess what? Worst case of global warming, mankind extermination. "Best" case, also mankind extermination.
Whilst this article has some points of merit, its premise infuriates me.

Shifting the blame to the consumer and shielding corporates is toxic. The Carbon Majors report last year illustrated pretty clearly that 100 companies have been the source of more than 70% of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions since 1988.

Me going vegan and not using straws isn't going to save the planet.
If we're being political I see 33 extensions that could have been written for a platform that was created to be more extensible (Atom, Emacs) rather than one which is distributed with spyware and is far less extensible.
Every service is an island
JetBrains definitely doesn't want a similar ecosystem and having things that work properly 100% of the time baked in is why people use the IDEs.
NASA shows off SpaceX’s upgraded Crew Dragon recovery vessel, tests helipad
Protein structure and function prediction with a knowledge graph
The graphic hides the fact that energy consumption and pollution are extremely correlated with income.

There is no meaningful "average" child, or average lifestyle, to base the last column on.

No, I'm not implying that we shouldn't decrease population, just pointing out energy inequality.

Also the chart severely underestimate the impact of diet.
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> Other than that, what’s the best daily action I can take?

While obviously well-intended, I fear this question might do more harm than good. The question stems (imho) from the fear of being helpless or the desire to be active, to do something in the face of a problem. The issue is that the desire to do good is trumped by the desire to feel good about yourself doing good. This might skew people to look for actions that are easy (therefor low-cost to feeling good) rather than helpful. For example I might decide to not use plastic straws, deliberately take shorted showers, and recycle and therefor feel good about doing my part for the environment. The risk is that doing negligible things might allow me to avoid doing the important ones. (I call these actions negligible because personal changes are hard to sustain, they don't scale, and the overall impact is relatively minute)

The important things were stated simply before the "Other than that", namely: "...
system-wide basis – like revamping our subsidy system for the energy and food industries" and what people should be doing is "... putting pressure on their governments and on companies to make the system-wide changes that are needed."

That's it. Make it a political agenda. Everything else is (relatively) fluff.
If ID is only used for voting then that seems like a huge waste for everyone involved.

I wonder how common ID usage is per state. Would be interesting to see how that correlate to state that currently require ID for voting.
Web push notifications and content marketing: could it go well?
It's not a joke or even a thought experiment. The Soviet Union basically did exactly that and had >50% female participation in CS courses.
Basically no to all of the above. One can question the wisdom of not standing up to aggressive nation states attacking and conquering other states - and doing nothing. Let's say the US had invented the bomb earlier and was using this strategy during the rise of Nazi Germany. Basically the plan would be to leave Japan, Russia, Germany, Italy unchecked as they conquered state after state until the whole rest of the world fell under horrifying authoritarian rule. Until one eventually comes for the US and both commit suicide. It seems a much worse scenario than the already horrifying one we had.

On the other hand let's say all had the bomb but are reluctant to use it. The nation's fight it out with conventional weaponry until the axis powers, realizing they have lost and with invasion in progress finally feel they have no other choice and commit mutually assured destruction. I think it would be hard to claim that wouldn't have happened given the temperament of some of their leaders. Perhaps in this case the allies would have showed restraint and not invaded to end the war - perhaps they would have been willing to negotiate terms.

I think basically my idea is a terrible one. But I also think the world war II scenario would end in nuclear exchange - the only way to avoid that is not push any power to the point of last resort, and negotiate an unsatisfying agreement that leaves the aggressors in power, no matter what horrible things they do. Would all have shown such restraint, would cooler heads have prevailed amid the terrible atrocities of total war? I'm not particularly optimistic of the chances.
I'd never seen this one before, but the history of accelerators is quite interesting.

In the Boston science museum there is a working tandem Van de Graaff generator with domes large enough that a lab was set up in each one to do experiments with particles flying through a tube between them.

Radio frequency linear accelerators were built with many electrodes that were much smaller, but were still limited by their length.

The cyclotron was an elegant solution that uses a uniform magnetic field to guide ions in a circular trajectory through the acceleration region of the same electrodes many times.
The problem with the "TV pickup" is the synchronicity of the use, not the power of the device. Kettles used throughout the day won't have that problem.
Author wants people to make huge sacrifices and it's written in a similar style like articles about startups or losing weight. The Fetishization of Redemptive suffering.

I do not believe this to be effective. It's much better to show them value e.g. electric cars tend to be safer, because of the battery pack, instant torque make the car zippy and they're quiet. I was thinking about getting an aircon, but I'll get a celling fan instead. It's cheaper and doesn't require much maintenance.

Showing people value proposition is more effective.
Do squirrels worth very much without humans to observe them? To whom?

They will be dead anyway in a few years, and their species also in a few MYr. Do you value their continuity more than our own?

Last time I checked, a lot of planets in our galaxy, I doubt squirrels have that much inherent value.

These are basically Malthus talks, with people suggesting to take straws who gets to live and who does not.
As I note elsewhere in this thread (!) while Threads might have been pessimistic about long term impact (e.g. nuclear winter) it is actually fairly optimistic about the scale of a Soviet nuclear attack on the UK.
65-year-old Swedish woman sentenced to prison for criticising Islam
A verified Twitter account impersonating Elon Musk collected over $150,000
Bloody hell, mate - It's perfectly valid to highlight the fact that somebody's PoV may be biased based on their past contributions, there's no need to bring race into it.

They're just a car company.
The die shot looks to have 15 core modules at 2 cores each. I assume the 28-core variant lasers out 2 for yields and clockspeeds. I guess this one would then be cutting out 6 cores per chip. Big chips really aren't the way forward.
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Is it a thing, or is it something made up by psychologists and social activists with an agenda?

It would appear to be unfalsifiable. If someone is sure they don't want X, and you're telling them they really do want X it's just that they've learned to be pathetic their whole life and now their entire thought process is inferior to yours, that seems not only like pseudo-science but actually a dangerously extreme belief.
> (if you are willing to pay Microsoft for that)

So ... same as with Oracle. The "if you are willing to pay" part is what people are crying about.
(January 2018)
Most countries actually did. Should you only send this message to societies which did not? Caution: Will be very un-PC.
And how am I supposed to figure out who to trust?

Reporters say Tesla is shitty. But reporters often lie and even more often exaggerate.

Musk says he cares about safety and all accusations are wrong. But CEOs often lie and even more often are uninformed or delusional.

If anyone has advice about how I can develop some trust in one side or the other, please let me know.
Show HN: A program to beat procrastination
I'm a mobile and web designer. I used to procrastinate a lot. After my procrastination became too much of a concern I learned about the psychology behind procrastination, the research done (and being done) on it, and how to overcome it. Then I made a series of changes to my approach in doing tasks and now I'm on top of my schedule (not completely but almost).

Based on my learning and experience I've started a program that aims to help people beat procrastination. The program is now in beta phase. So far, one person took part in the beta and in his words,

> the program helped me enough that I felt myself a steam raise, and others commented on my level of productivity with surprise and gratitude.

If I find it works the same way for more people I'll launch the program publicly. If you'd like to take part in the beta here's an outline:

1. You'll answer a questionnaire to let me understand your procrastination.
2. The program will run for 5 days. Each day you'll do a set of your procrastinated tasks. At the end of the day you'll answer a few questions to let me understand your bottlenecks, based on which I'll give you specific tips to overcome them.
3. At the end of the fifth day, if you're happy with the outcome of the program, and if you feel like it, you may pay what you want.

You'll be in complete control of the program and you can stop anytime you want. By joining the beta at worst you'll just continue the way it is; but if it works you'll get started on your long procrastinated tasks and feel great. Contact me if you're interested.
I didn't undestand why they said that diggers are on their own in the UK, and then in the next paragraph went on to talk about the UK's colour codes. It seemed like a contradiction.

I have a client who does groundworks and they always know when there's supposed to be something down there. You use the detectors to double check not as your only source. There could be something down there that's old and not on the registry or that HV power cable could be a few feet to the left of where it's supposed to be.

When you're the man taking a circular saw to the pavement and your boss is the one paying for the repairs, you check!
There is no user's freedom, just programmer's freedom. The whole concept was created when software users were almost all programmers. If suddenly it become legal to perform neurosurgery yourselves would you call that user's freedom?
If you're not a big reader then try the Harry Potter series. Although they are aimed at kids there is a lot of depth in them with the bonus they are easy to read and also quite gripping.
/bin and /usr/bin on Linux: design decisions in operating systems history, pt. 2
NATO alone had 3000 nuclear weapons stored in Europe ready for a Soviet invasion. If things really went to hell nobody was going to survive.
Hilarious Post by Under Armour CEO
Two interesting celebrities that have come out to talk about their own struggles with porn addiction: Chris Rock (in his stand-up special Tambourine) and Terry Crews in some IG posts I think.

It's always interesting how celebrities, who's lives we know relatively more about than internet strangers, can help contextualize and legitimize the sincerity of these sorts of problems.
I grew up around Dallas, a lot of the suburbs around there are _really_ nice (All-American feel, everybody goes to high school football games, etc.), had a lot of the fastest growing communities in the nation, the economy is booming in Texas, lower taxes, family friendly, and the culture is a lot more neighborly/friendly than most of the places I've lived (our neighbors brought over cookies when we moved in). Curious what gave you the opposite impression?
That's one thing I really don't get. I'm currently getting acquainted with AWS beyond the usual suspects (EC2, S3, RDS). Of course I was eager to check out their AI solutions. And guess what - they perform surprisingly subpar especially against the backdrop of their marketing promises. Now I know why they can't even keep their categorizations in order or provide a powerful text search - they lack the technology.
Is there a specific reason you're putting these people's names in scary-looking quotation mark? Because those seem to be their actual names.
Metrics, tracing, and logging (2017)
Bunkers are the first things to be hit I would imagine.
Per the caption it’s an Ivy Bridge, i.e. not the Xeon the article talks about.

There’s an annotated die photo of the CLAP (seriously, did nobody in Intel marketing predict “Intel gives you the CLAP”, “Intel CPUs have the CLAP” and khibosh this name?!) predecessor die at [1].

1: https://en.wikichip.org/wiki/intel/microarchitectures/skylak...
Meanwhile, Google's Chrome is going in the opposite direction, trying to show the user less and less such info to "improve UX".
What does the author of this article have to gain, or rather, why do you think she would fraudulently write an article on this topic?
There's a fallacy with this type of thinking. It's something to the effect that "the big bad wolf is causing the trouble, therefore, I'm powerless to do anything" The reason corporations do what they do is because they are providing a service to millions of customers at the lowest cost and the highest profits for them. We, consumers, like to shift all the blame to someone else, it lets us continue as we have without guilt. We need to feel we are powerless so we don't feel bad about not doing anything about the problem. The fix can come from the producers or the consumers or both. Saying that consumers are powerless just continues the inaction until the fix is forced onto all of us by nature.

Reducing power consumption and reducing the number of items we buy and eventually throw away is a start. Pushing politicians to make the hard choices is also part of the fix. But saying someone else has all the power, therefore, I can't do anything or I saying I can only do a little therefore I won't bother is not.
British underground utility colour codes explained
Mandatory link to "Idiocracy" and holding back on having children (it seemed like a joke back then!):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-N9nVLXMhPc
Bike paramedics stop the time-to-help-arriving clock, which is a KPI for health service administrators.

As they can't transport people to hospital and they don't carry strong painkillers they're basically useless if you've got, say, a broken arm.
That's kind-of the trap this whole article is addressing; some people are dealing with issues that are well outside of most peoples' experience. Their issues are so unrelatable that they get written off with these side theories an treated as insincere.

I've mentioned elsewhere that Chris Rock and Terry Crews have come out about their experiences with this issue. This lends the issue some legitimacy I think.
> This mentality is a problem.

How is that a "mentality"? How is it a problem?

> but long-term success is rarely predicated on gouging customers

It being predicated by gouging is not a claim of mine, success being accompanied by gouging it is enough. Would you say fleecing customers is "rare"?
One theory is that the new xeon comes with no HT to keep the power draw under 300W, which is why the footnotes mention no HT/SMT in test configuration...

This would also "fix" a lot of side channel attacks without new silicon being ready and Intel claims this CPU includes some hardware mitigations.
Not to get off topic but it's worth mentioning that, by definition, voting and electios help to establish and elevate confirmation bias.

For a scientific view on why we struggle to come together I'd recommend "The Influence Mind" by Tali Sharot.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/22/books/review/the-influent...
Cigar-shaped interstellar object may have been alien probe, Harvard paper claims
I'd have suggested planting more sugar maples as a carbon sink but climate change is impacting the production of maple syrup:

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/people-and-culture/food/t...
Yes. America is now so far gone that I should have used an /S my bad.
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Just to be clear, rust is not object oriented. You do not use inheritance nor do you have objects.

There was a recent post comparing rust to haskell https://www.fpcomplete.com/blog/2018/10/is-rust-functional. And tldr is yes it lends itself to a functional style...
I would certainly want to be able to inspect the code of a pacemaker and modify it if I decided it was necessary. Performing neurosurgery on my self is not possible regardless of legality. However, if I was having neurosurgery and I was educated enough to understand, then I would definitely want to see what the surgeon was planning to do.