skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> This assumes that the pension system there will be able to sustain itself in a few decades hence despite low birth rates and limited immigration.

Indeed, the system is not perfect and the general outlook of it is pretty bad. But you still have a higher chance of getting a pension at 65 in Europe than in the US while being mediocre. Also don't forget automation, which I'd assume will trickle down to benefit the lower and middle European Class faster than it'll happen in the US.
Again, assumptions. The future is unsure for sure.

>Also, most people in developing countries, i.e. most people in the world, do not have that option.

Indeed. But most people on HN are usually from North America or WE, so you know... saying that is a bit disingenuous. You could say "most people are _dirt_ (emphasis on dirt) poor and cannot lift themselves out of poverty". Yes, most people in the world are like that, but we all know that for example this article is not directed at those sorts of people, but rather at "Westeners", who probably won't go hungry in their lives ever unless a major catastrophe happens.
Is 'Oumuamua an interstellar spaceship? I'm still going with 'No.'
Spwhitton/git-remote-gcrypt: PGP-encrypted Git remotes
For 'business CRUD' interfaces, choosing something like Bootstrap is a good option.

Record lists and entry edit forms etc generally don't need a designers eye.
I’m not a parent so I don’t think I have a super great understanding of which punishments are most effective, but ones I can think of:

- Taking away something that they like

- scolding them

- giving them a time-out

I’m not sure if they are as effective as spanking or not, but they can all be ways of turning long-term consequences into short-term ones, and I don’t think they are vilified the same way as spanking.

My point being that the violent part of spanking is what is frowned upon, not the making-consequences-immediate part.
That is so unethical. If you want to buy shelf space, be upfront about it.
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A case study of how Netflix improved the Loading and Time-to-Interactive metrics for the "logged-out" homepage. Basically, it comes down to removing React and using Prefetch.
Australian regulators waxed lyrical about how "it's different here" at the time, both sides of politics said the same.

3 years later and the banks ended up in court for interest rate rigging, all the regulators decreeing innocence from upon high now have lucrative private sector finance jobs and the relevant ministers lying through their teeth have long moved on.

No one held at all accountable for supporting a rotten industry, in fact the opposite. Banks are the new untouchables.
Technology gestation and social norming in the ancient city of Jerusalem
Do you know _anything_ about the Australian political system and public engagement with politics?

Australian here, if you want to actually find out. Your assumptions about how it works are definitely not true in practice, and it's an interesting application of game theory to explain why.
Click through and read the privacy policy. It's reasonable to me: https://contractfortheweb.org/privacy-policy
Marketing and good communication design is important though, if you want to actually reach new users. If somebody can't get the gist of what you're about from a glance, they are far less likely to invest a year into giving it a solid try.
> it's inaccurate ... even to draw to much of a link between population and emissions

I agree only if the data about the countries are observed independently. That is, if somebody says "the country X is so and so because overpopulation." But once we speak about the world:

Once one accepts that there's only one planet and the humans on it, it's much more obvious: the critics are always ready to say that the humans as the whole starve less as we reached this number of billions. But the analysis of how it was possible gives a simple answer: we have pushed the previous limits by simply using more resources and more energy. Both of which are much more limited than a lot of humans are willing to know: the heavier elements (and even as light as helium) are produced in the stars, so once we don't have enough available on the earth's crust, we'll have big problems. The arable land is also limited, we're already mostly using everything usable, and pushing the limits there affects everything else. Finally, we managed to use half of easily reachable oil, only to discover a new way to exact it, giving us approximately a few times more than before. But by burning the hydrocarbons we're making very big problems for everything on the planet, including us.

Look at these graphs, soon you will not be able, thanks to the administration which doesn't like such details to be even read about:

http://cdiac.ess-dive.lbl.gov/trends/emis/glo_2014.html

especially "Global Per Capita Carbon Emission Estimates." Note that in the same time period the number of capita of the world steadily increases.

https://www.researchgate.net/figure/World-Population-1800-20...

At 2000 we were at 6 billion. Now we're at 7.7 billion.

We do continuously use at least the same energy per every human on the planet, not less (in fact we used mostly always more and more). And given that a lot of people in the "second and third world" produce the stuff for the people in the first, the "first world" just enjoys the benefits of the cheap labor and new consumers being steadily born in new quantities and the use of more energy for everything, but all at the cost of... the whole future.

So yes, in such a context overpopulation of the planet is one of the topics that are so inconvenient that most are not even ready to think about it.
S0md3v/AwesomeXSS: Awesome XSS stuff
Glorious-codes/glorious-demo: The easiest way to demonstrate your code in action
List of open source tools for AWS security
> irregardless

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irregardless
Applying HumanOps to On-Call
No they dont. Are you using safari?
I dunno, how is this different from the Amish or Hasidic jews having their own isolated communities? These people want to raise their families in communities which they feel share their values. Is this not the market force at work? What's the issue here?
Never played Pokemon Go but in Ingress I'm pretty sure playing with multiple accounts (and devices) was a bannable offense.

I did meet a guy who carried a ridiculous amount of gear for playing. Batteries, portable wifi modules for group meets, antennae. Sims for every network in case signal was unavailable for some. Satelite phone for when there was none.
I have zero ideas how any of these work underneath, but out of a wild guess, is there any chance that alignment (or similar) is the issue? e.g. maybe RocksDB tries to align its writes to some boundary in a way that's awful for Optane's technology?
> When you need bigger scale Matrix has some go and rust server implementations, you can also use postgres etc.

Only Synapse is usable though. Dendrite (Go+Kafka) is getting there, but Ruma (Rust) seems to have been stalled waiting for the programming language to stabilize.
Poking around it kind of looks like a Linux distro in the truest sense. It's more a collection of freely available packages than anything else.
Apple supplier AAC Tech Q3 profit dives 29 pct
Does anyone have experience with MacInCloud [1]? The pricings looks alot more flexible with hourly or weekly rates.

[1] https://portal.macincloud.com/select/#/plans
Exactly. I agree, not because of vanity, but because if a language fails to market itself well, it's probably not going to succeed in becoming adopted, and adoption breeds support in the form of open source libraries and job prospects.

Most devs don't have the time to pick up esoteric hobbyist languages because they're clever.
Adding to what some others have said, a toroidal shape for an inductor has some particularly nice properties for RF applications. The magnetic field outside an ideal toroid is exactly zero, regardless of what's going on inside the toroid. Even for real toroids, the leakage is very low.
FYI, "IDs which most minorities don't have" is incorrect and it looks sort of racist.

Here, the first third interviewing people at UC Berkeley with that idea and the remainder interviewing actual minorities:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrBxZGWCdgs
I've recently begun to learn a programming language (python) at age 27.
I'm using various resources including youtube, however the one which has been most helpful has been codecademy.com

I highly recommend it and I'm actually kinda sad that I didn't begin to learn 10 years ago.
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Thank you for creating this, Robin.
Announcing Robyn Denholm as Tesla’s New Board Chair – Tesla
BigInt: Arbitrary precision integers in JavaScript
From the article, the guy who ran the study apparently still has reservations on this point: "And he can even be disparaging of his own work, wondering, for instance, whether the study in which placebos were openly given to irritable bowel syndrome patients succeeded only because it convinced the subjects that the sugar was really a drug."
Smart Contracts Are Not the Law
>That’s how it feels to me anyway. Europe certainly has it’s growing share of racists.

As a Spaniard, here thankfully not really, thanks to (I'd claim) our disunity as a "Nation" or State.

We love to hate each other more than hate foreigners or whatever.
Functional JavaScript – Functors, Monads, and Promises
Yes, you're totally right. I was writing too quickly and mixed up that sentence's point.

What I meant to express was that the 100% 2nd choice candidate will lose to Condorcet winner if there's 51% support for the Condorcet winner. I.e. majority support. That's true also for non-Condorcet systems. My point was that Condorcet systems are always also strict majoritarian, and there are reasonable arguments that majoritarianism can be undesireable (such as cases of polarizing slim-majority winner.
Robyn Denholm to Replace Elon Musk as Tesla Chair: CNBC reported
I really do hate to be the guy this guy, but after having to maintain a website a contractor built in Tachyons, I've hated it with a passion of [insert hyperbolic phrase here].

What do you love about it/what am I missing? For me it felt like a tutorial on the most egregious CSS/dom anti-patterns, and I haven't been able to get past it.
I created a bot that talks to recruiters for me (and it's sooo good)
Does your client have redundant infrastructure and network connections? I hope nobody is trying to run public services on these things...
in SV, got an L5 offer couple years back, barely matching my relatively low for SV total with the base lower. They pretty much refused to negotiate. The same experience as couple acquaintances - one even took such an offer and not surprisingly ran away a year later. On the other hand - some other acquaintances make $400K-$500K as L5/L6 there.
Probably a stupid question: Instead of 6 core or 8 core CPUs, why Intel doesn't make 4 traditional cores + 2 FPGA cores on same die?
Don’t Hire by Whiteboarding and Coding Tests Unless You Are Google, or the Likes
Things that don't scale was really inspiring actually I haven't gone through it yet but after this, we are able to start a new startup which suddenly started growing like a charm and then I came to know that I should consider things that don't scale to measure my scales and sales. https://newpipeapk.xyz/
When Accounts Are “Hacked” Due to Poor Passwords, Victims Must Share the Blame
Friend just bought a $400,000 one-bedroom co-op in Midtown East. He makes a low six-figure salary, and will have to be judicious about his spending for a few years. New York isn’t the Bay Area—we build supply to meet demand.
Thanks so much for the elaborate response.

We have the product on a live server now, so we'll probably keep it up and running for people to get a feel of it without having to put in the effort to set it up.
Tesla Names Robyn Denholm as Chairman to Replace Elon Musk
Making Sense of React Hooks – Dan Abramov
There is a huge number of people in the world outside of the West who are between "dirt-poor" and having European-style pension. They do read such self-help articles.
There is an interesting take on this matter in "Patriotic Act" show by "Hassan Minhaj" (episode 3):

https://www.netflix.com/watch/80990674
I think "legally" is not a word that we should use here.
It is still a city. Is it that hard to accept that not everyone wants to live in a city, never mind a metropolis like NYC?
In all my decades of working with computers, redhat was by far the worst company with the most incompetent staff that I've encountered. redhat's "engineers" preferred to spend time arguing with their customers rather then solving their problems and severely struggling to understand where in the code the issues are.

Where they particularly struggled were higher order architectural abstractions and their consequences and system engineering for backwards compatibility.

Their bugzilla.redhat.com is chalk full if examples of struggling to understand and debug the code and arguing with customers.

I sure as hell hope there will never be another computer company like redhat.
Interesting; I've only ever seen ceramic waterless urinals.
Not just Chrome, also happens for Firefox on Android, and only the last few weeks.

Trying to open in a new tab, you can end up selecting text rather than triggering the context menu.
> Vendors have support plans and SLAs so if you need 24/7 support then make sure that is indeed what you're paying for.

Those are totally useless during an existential crisis without associated indemnity (which any vendor would be crazy to provide) against loss due to failur to perform.

> I do not see how having spare engineering talent capable of reading, editing and running a custom database build is the more realistic or faster option for any business in case of issues.

I don't see how it isn't, considering that "custom database build" could be so simple as to be trivial. In the GP's case, it was merely using a specific version.

Even the characterization of the required engineering talent as "spare" seems incongruous, as, in small companies, the talent requird to handle unexpected problems with technlogies fundamenta to running the business is essential, not superfluous.
Why Estimating Is So Damn Hard
NYC is not reserved for the rich, though; there's plenty of working class people living there, and house prices are actually falling.

How would Elysium play out if many people could simply move there?
I'm not sure what you mean "Math profs art".

There are countless resources around the area of generative art. This guy has a few interesting projects although I wouldn't call him an artist :-) [1]. He created a tool to approximate pictures with vectors that produces cool results [2].

This other guy puts out lots of cool stuff, including some stuff done with shaders and webgl [3].

Another very interesting area of generative art is livecoding [4], where people write in real time music and sometimes visuals using software tools [4].

Finally, just found out github has a generative-art tag so maybe you can find some interesting things people have done there [5]. These are the main things I can think of from the top of my head w/o Googling more :-).

1: https://www.michaelfogleman.com/

2: https://primitive.lol/

3: http://quasimondo.com/

4: https://toplap.org/

5: https://github.com/topics/generative-art
The big difference, in my perception, between New York and the Bay Area is the availability, diversity and public interest in the arts. That brings people together in a unique, cerebral way and helps digest emerging monocultures.
> Abuse is abuse

I know. I was at the receiving end of it.

I didn't and still don't find abuse as funny. What is funny is the massive difference in raising kids. Typical American families treat their kids with respect and let them be independent. But here in India, if kids are independent by birth they are beaten badly for "speaking like an adult when it is not your place". I've seen girls and boys who are 20+yrs old and their mothers buy underwears for them!!

Isn't it funny?

And since you were hit as a child. Tell me, do you remember being beaten for a pointless reason and then you started crying and then your parents kept beating you until you stopped crying?
Show HN: Culori – a general-purpose color library for JavaScript
I’ve recently re-started work on this library after a half-year hiatus — fixing a few bugs and adding more extensive documentation. I’m quite happy with most of the features, but I’m not convinced it’s ready for the first stable release. I have some concerns that the interpolation section is a bit overwrought, but I haven’t found a better way to combine the interpolation method (linear, basis spline, natural spline etc.) and how to interpret values (simple numeric values vs. hues vs. alpha values).

In either case, I’d love if you gave it a spin and let me know your thoughts on the functionality, API, and how the docs read in general. Another pair of eyes would be very helpful at this point!
Well, mother was "strict" so she would "discipline" me. But there is a big difference between mental and physical abuse and discipline but typically, Indian parents don't recognize it

But its ok. I'm over it. Whatever I am is because of my past, or rather despite it.
That’s a nice way to put it. Descartes wrote “I exist, that’s certain—but how often?”
Sure, I work for Red Hat. You pay for support, training, access to consultants, certifications. All software is available for free, just with trademarks removed.
Array index syntax over variable width data is problematic

Which is why Python uses a solution that ensures fixed-width data. There's never a need to worry if a code point will extend over multiple code units of the internal storage model, because the way Python now handles strings ensures that won't happen.

I really think a lot of your problem with this is not actually with the string type, but with the existence of a string type. You want to talk in terms of bytes and indexes into arrays of bytes and iterating over bytes. But that's fundamentally not what a well-implemented string type should ever be, and Python has a bytes type for you (rather than a kinda-string-ish-sometimes type that's actually bytes and will blow up if you try to work with it as a string) if you really want to go there.
These methods did not work with me. Or at least they didn't scale well... When I did something totally dumb (like stealing a piece of candy from a store), my parents upped the punishment to physical violence, and that showed me just how bad my action was.

If I were to steal something as an adult and went to jail, i would face physical abuse. Spanking is useful is portraying that outcome, without me actually having to go to jail.
Why this software developer teaches meditation
> In spite of its lack of popularity, LISP (now "Lisp" or sometimes "Arc") remains an influential language in "key algorithmic techniques such as recursion and condescension"

- A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Programming Languages
It relies on Zulip's central notification service, so not entirely self-hosted.
Pretty typical for a mid-level engineer at a top quant fund. More senior salaries get into the low 7 figures.

Source: recently interviewed with a few top quant funds in NY
Well, you might not have been hit as a child. A lot of children are. And being one of them, let me assure you, none of my friends knew the shit I went through at home. Nobody still knows.

So yeah, it might not be Normal for you, and I am genuinely happy that you weren't abused as a child. More power to you.
Social Networks Relieved; Midterm Elections 2018
True, those absurd excesses of conspicuous consumption that do not simulate at least a soupcon of some plausibly life-improving property are seldom flaunted where the other classes may observe, but privacy is itself now one of the essential privileges of the moneyed elite, protected by the same class barriers that lucre's natural owners erect to satisfy their disproportionate need for the life-improving mental feelings of safety and security (from those on the opposite side of the barriers). Any 21st century moralist who does not accept that they are wealthy only in proportion to the number of things that they can do without is a phony.
How bad is running macOS + XCode in virtual machine? Is it that bad?
This discussion came up in even during that Netflix thread.

These companies aren't looking for top 1% people. They are looking for top 1% people who are in form currently.

The day you get unlucky and slip out of form, they don't want you.
That's odd to read. The scouts are very different in the UK. They have an explicit "Open to all" policy. I know several scout leaders who are gay, plenty who are women, and I believe they've removed the mention of god from the pledge.
World War I Epilogue – A World Without War?
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Well, Alan Key pretty much said that in the 70s, and has stuck to his high level guns all this time.
That means Amsterdam is no longer a viable option for hosting your servers or using a VPN service that's located there (most are).
I am in this boat too. I have diagnosed PTSD that still haunts me to this day.

This stood out to me from the article:

“Spanking alone is associated with outcomes similar to those of children who experience physical abuse, the new academy statement says.“

Spanking is not similar to child abuse. It is child abuse.
I don't think one can perfectly replace the other. In many experiments where both technologies could be used, sequencing data is more valuable (currently). But for some questions, you must have microscope data.
The Java class caught my eye. Is that a wrapper around a native lib or you make RPC calls to something?

HTML to PDF is something I never thought about since Firefox does it (and results usually aren’t great).
ATSC has a data rate of about 20MBit/s net of FEC (it transmits 2 data bits for every signal bit at 32mbit/s). That works out to 9GB/hour or 15MB per minute. Might be able to do some cool things with that during the late hours.
> Another thing I've learned is that we are extremely brittle about this practice, as a society. Our thinking about keeping logs tends to be black & white (a common sign of lack of education on the matter) and we hesitate or think in terms like "OCD" when people around us really leverage this practice[1]. IMO this is really unfortunate.

That's some wisdom
Why didn't it remain court order based for stuff like this? What was their reasoning for needing to bypass the courts?
Oh I see that now. That was explained by the company as basically a single very large contract that was lost to a competitor, plus a very very strong second quarter the previous year (when you earnings growth was over 40%). However earnings per share were actually above the analysts expectations.
"We had made the product so easy to use and so important, that we had out-engineered ourselves."

Yeah, so "easy" that we had to debug and extend microdhcp code to properly support PXE booting and add option 150 because you guys offered nothing with which to properly boot XEN VM's; XEN was so woefully unfinished that we had to finish it for you and now you're telling us how complete of a product it is and patting yourself on the back.

"Details-schmetails", it's "the big picture" that's important, which is that someone cashed out, am I right?

This is one of the reasons why my passion and love for computers turned to bitter disappointment: the lies and really bad, half-cooked software. Damn it all, Keith Wesolowski was so right[1].

[1] http://dtrace.org/blogs/wesolows/2014/12/29/fin/
The libuv library Node makes us of for handling async calls is written in C.
The patterns are easy to learn (for me) and makes building components very quick while still being very customizable without having to add a whole bunch of one-off styles. And everything is still standardized.

It also removes the need to constantly reference CSS at all, and can just stick to HTML/JSX instead. It can get very verbose though, but that's a minor trade-off I think.
AWS already has Chime. They don’t need anything else.