skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Similar story here in London; I have experience with 2 Indian recruiters and seems like I will not bother anymore.

They seem to only recruit for bullshit outsourcing companies - in my case they tried to advertise Infosys and Tata Consultancy Group. This meant none of them could tell me what the actual client was and what my day to day would be like.

Also the last one tried to get me to sign not one but two GDPR consent forms, the second by literally opening a PDF, filling-in a page manually (it wasn't a form so I guess I should've printed it out, filled it by hand and scanned it?).

Overall no thanks.
5 MacOS Vulnerabilities That Shouldn’t Be Overlooked
The beginning also links to another article they did on the subject, "The Opioid Epidemic In 6 Charts Designed To Deceive You." Trick 4, oddly containing no chart, is "blaming the drug companies." This is part of what they say, edited for length,

>Purdue, the makers of OxyContin was fined $653 million for its former actions. Other companies are now being investigated. But this is now irrelevant. Assigning blame may score some points with the readers, and provide fodder for trial attorneys, but does absolutely nothing to keep a single OD victim alive. Whatever certain companies did two decades ago is partly responsible for starting today's fentanyl OD epidemic, but it has nothing whatsoever to do with keeping it going.

That is absurd. "Yes I poisoned the water supply, but blaming me won't fix anything. It's not like I could do it again with all the poison I still have."

https://www.acsh.org/news/2017/10/12/opioid-epidemic-6-chart...
It must be off by 3 of 4 orders of magnitude. Python with asyncio does about 120_000 switches per second with a trivial fibre/coroutine here:

import time
import asyncio

REPS = 1_000_000

async def coro():
for i in range(REPS):
await asyncio.sleep(0)

t0 = time.time()
asyncio.run(coro())
dt = time.time() - t0
print(REPS / dt, 'reps/s')
Others already mentioned the escapist desire. I agree with that to an extent. We do want to run away from difficult tasks and one way is to think of what else we could be doing. Learning is usually thought of as universally positive, which makes it as guilt-free a distraction as you can get. You're not escaping. You're learning!

But I think something else could also contribute. Self drive is really difficult, which is why we waste so much of our free time. We built really good structures with incentives and penalties that force us to be productive even when we don't want to. Those are generally workplaces and classrooms, or just general life responsibilities and chores.

When you get productive doing something you don't want, naturally your first thought is what would I do with this productivity if I had a choice? Essentially, there are structures that motivates us to be productive in areas we don't want, and we wish we could use that in the areas we do want because our self drive is weak.

That's my theory any way.
Liabilities, anticipated income and expenditure: The art of retirement planning
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The world health organization recommends to breastfeed only up to 6 months and to keep breastfeeding (foods allowed too) until 2 years old, to give maximum benefits.

So no, 2 years is not necessarily too much.
The currently available generation of hardware based real time raytracing cannot beat the quality of rasterization at the same framerates. NVidia built a cool bit of hardware, but their media blitz was seriously misleading. It's much faster than anything you can do on earlier hardware, but that doesn't mean it's actually fast yet for general game engines.

One of the problems is that raytracing is inherently noisy, so you actually have to shoot many rays (or trace many paths) for each pixel on the screen, and you really need to get into the high double digits for acceptable results purely from raytracing.

Part of NVidia's sales pitch is that you can reduce the number of samples / rays using advanced post-processing filters based on CNNs. But then you're back to building a jenga tower of hacks, just this time on top of raytracing instead of on top of rasterization. You may prefer the raytracing jenga tower perhaps, but truth in advertisement should make it clear that raytracing alone just isn't there yet.

It's true though that this current generation of hardware is promising, and things are bound to get better quickly. For now, the most you're going to get is hybrid techniques where rasterization is used for the bulk of the rendering, and raytracing is used selectively e.g. for parts of a scene or for shadows.
15 Vestidos cortos de Espalda al Aire
> unfortunately FB has become the internet for many non-tech people

I'm wondering if this is slightly changing? I'm in a non-profit and we have a FB group for us volunteers. However, messages posted there, are seen sometimes by only 10, sometimes by only 2, members. Out of maybe 40 in total. The FB group doesn't work, because FB doesn't show things posted there, in people's news feed. Instead, FB shows one's friends kittens, and vacation pics? And we're looking for other solutions. (see below)

Agree about the benefits with forums. Closer to 100% certain delivery (instead of 5% or 50% in the Facebook group), and searchable discussion topics, categorizable, taggable, nice formatting and nice full screen editor, various types of topics (question-answers, or HackerNews open-ended, or Slack like chat), weekly summary emails and announcements ... if using sth. better than Facebook.

> But all of our discussions and knowledge shared within FB seems to fall into a "black hole".

Exactly

> Search functionality within groups is horrible

Yes

Plus, Facebook is rather buggy I think. I start typing a chat message — Facebook doesn't save any draft, and the chat message text gets lost because of the-lost-update-bug which FB hasn't fixed. Plus, the chat message window is sometimes like 1x1 cm, on a 30'' screen. Crazy. Network lockin —> UX disaster :-/

> I haven't found a way to convince people to go elsewhere

It'd be interesting to maybe talk a bit about good ways to do that? :- )

> nor have I found software that's convincing enough an alternative.

I'd like us to try Talkyard (see my profile), which I'm developing, and it's like Flarum and Discourse (which you mentioned). However there's also built-in chat, and Question-Answers topics for quickly finding a solution, if one gets stuck e.g. at work, so one can find a solution and get back to work. ... Whilst FB instead does its best to distract everyone with ads and new things in the news feed.
Exactly, preventing stress situations which can lead to complications
Who knows what it could lead to. But no I'm not implying that there is any great danger from this project, but I'm objecting to the idea that one party gaining exclusive information somehow leaves the other parties in an unchanged situation.
I'm sorry to hear that. I've had experience with a family member having cancer myself and they lasted only 3 months. It's a trade-off: fighting for something you believe in and enjoying life. If we realize it's not worth it we will drop everything in a heart beat.

That's why we hope to collect enough data to justify why we're doing it and that it's a bigger problem than we thought.
Following the first link "The Opioid Epidemic In 6 Charts Designed To Deceive You" I reach an article from 2017
that in its second paragraph states:

> ...despite the fact that the "evidence" contained in the recommendations had been carefully scrutinized[sic] and found unsupportable by FDA scientists.

where "found unsupportable by FDA scientists" is a link to a document from 2013 that reads in part

> FDA has carefully reviewed PROP's Petition and the numerous comments submitted to the public dockets by government entities, medical societies, healthcare providers, patients, and other members of the public. For the reasons described in detail in this response, the Petition is granted in part and denied in part.

Curious how "found unsupportable" turned out to be "granted in part" in the source, no?

This being the very first link investigated, and the error being intentional deception, I think it provides quite powerful validation of the ACSH's reputation as a shill.
But we don't know if people mean AngularJS (1) or Angular (2+) here. In my opinion, while angularJS is now getting a bit outdated and very different under the hood, for a user it's pretty similar to Vue.JS, which people do seem to love. Angular 2+ on the other hand seems to have added a layer of JavaEE-like over-engineering on top. I think a framework should be written with productivity as top concern and Angular 2+ is anything but that, it constantly works against you.
I'm reminded of back in 1997 (maybe 98, anyway long time ago), I had been on a JavaScript course with a British guy, and went over to his house. He showed me the little cv site he'd been working on, it had quite a nice design, much better than I would ever do if asked to design something. I looked at the code - it was all tables, so I decided to show him CSS at the end of which he thunderously proclaimed "That's what's wrong with this industry, there's always something new to learn!"

I think he's doing something with Sitecore now, make of that what you will.
Following the first link "The Opioid Epidemic In 6 Charts Designed To Deceive You" I reach an article from 2017
that in its second paragraph states:

> ...despite the fact that the "evidence" contained in the recommendations had been carefully scrutinized[sic] and found unsupportable by FDA scientists.

where "found unsupportable by FDA scientists" is a link to a document from 2013 that reads in part

> FDA has carefully reviewed PROP's Petition and the numerous comments submitted to the public dockets by government entities, medical societies, healthcare providers, patients, and other members of the public. For the reasons described in detail in this response, the Petition is granted in part and denied in part.

Curious how "found unsupportable" turned out to be "granted in part" in the source, no?
Wow, that’s cool! I didn’t know you could do it all in the browser. Hats off to the Babel devs.
It's far more profitable to promote outrage and that's exactly what Facebook's algorithms have done and are doing. And that's what you find in your news feed.

Youtube has pretty much the same problem on a different level.

That's despite the mealy mouthed bullshit that the dear leader spouts those days.
yeah nah…
Great content and great visual presentation, thank you!
More discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18482855
The other thing is that in real life your investment options are basically never a series of biased coin flips.
JVM and cache warm-up strategies for high traffic services
> Just like 99.9% of Arabic people aren't terrorists

Yeah, sure, one in a thousand Arabic person is a terrorist...
>> They do it because it feels amazing.

Heroin doesn't feel amazing. People say it does, but most of the time, it just knocks you off. I took the stuff maybe a dozen times or so, many years ago. I remember stumbling about town and falling asleep at cafes and bars, completely oblivious of what I looked like (an accomplished idiot, off my tits and completely ridiculous).

I remember a friend who was a full-on junkie, who used to say that heroin hooks you because it makes you very sociable and pleasant. Well, my experience is that, after he shot up, he would fall asleep on my bed. My mother would come in the room and ask why he's asleep and me and my other pals would tell her he's tired from work, him snoring throughout. But, you know- it makes you sociable, fun to be around, a real party animal.

(Edit: the other thing people say is that it makes you good at sex. Sure, except you can't get it up. But other than that, yeah, great sex.)

Delusional is what it makes you. You think it's making you feel good. All it does is make you feel nothing. If something hurts, I guess that feels "good". But if there's nothing broken in you, there's nothing you can get from this shit. Nothing.

Incidentally, my snoring friend died a few years down the line from a heart attack, at 34. Another friend became an addict and he's constantly in and out of detox communities since then. It's sad and it's not worh it. And I don't understand how it hooks you, because it just sucks. I stopped doing it because it was boring and pointless. If it was any good, I'd have been addicted too. But it's not. It's just dumb.

But, you know. If you're Nikki Sixx, then maybe you can have a great time even on heroin. I bet I would.
I'm still on board xD

Plenty of people still write travel blogs and think pieces without getting a salary for it. The thing that drives me crazy is twitter / facebook etc showing me content produced for free and STILL put it next to an ad.
Kdtrx: Keep Doing The Right Extraction
Regarding GraphQL, I think the reason is at least partially that there aren't too many applications that actually benefit from the all-dynamic approach of it. It's neat and useful in certain applications, but I wouldn't use it everywhere. The tooling isn't quite there yet also in my opinion, but the friction will probably go away with time.
C preprocessor is one of the worst design decisions in C. They could have made the directive system into brace-and-semicolon grammar and not introduce a second syntax.
His Kerbal Space Profram videos are really good and informative! Highly recommended!
A satirical take on paper review
I get these surveys every year and every year I find myself unable to complete them because the choices you can select are awful - I forget what, exactly, but none of the choices apply.
As a student currently studying and working in Berlin I wonder why Vue and specifically Angular are way more popular than React. Looking at local job posting Java and Angular seem to be king for almost everything. How come?
For people in the UK, Star Castle in the Scilly Isles is worth a visit http://www.castlesfortsbattles.co.uk/south_west/star_castle....
> Drug policy is so stupid.

In a nutshell, yes. The solution isn't as clear-cut as you'd make it out to be unfortunately.

> Morphine is awesome and has as its only long term side effect constipation.

That's sugar coating it. Morphine is a great solution to many things, but it's extremely addictive, and has more side effects than constipation (shallow breathing for one, which combined with alcohol can make for a nasty combination). Medical advice is also that opiods as a whole generally aren't effective for long term pain management.

> The only thing that makes heroin dangerous is the fact that it's not prescribed by a licensed pharmacist.

That's also a huge oversimplification. Source of the prescription/doses is definitely an issue (see how _most_ people manage dosages of other drugs - paracetamol/asprin/alcohol when left unattended) but ultimately it's the supply of the drugs - if I buy 100mg of morphine tablets from a pharmacy, I can be reasonably sure that it's 100mg of morphine, and that it's been stored in the correct environments, but if I buy it off some guy on the street, I've no idea if it's cut with fentanyl.

> Think about it: if you're addicted to pain medication maybe you're experiencing some pain. So like, prescribe them the pain medication, then help them deal with the cause of the pain.

That's _definitely_ an over-simplification. There's plenty (too much) being prescribed when it's not needed, and the usage isn't being monitored. When people do develop addiction issues, there is no help available for them. Vox [0](best source I could find with a 5m google sorry) has a reasonable explanation of the issue (with citations), and it's definitely not "give people in pain more opiods because morphine is safe"

[0] https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2017/8/1/15746780/opi...
I don't know of anything that's guaranteed to be effective out of the box. But as a rule, simpler is better. Any assumptions should be picked apart with a fine-tooth comb and tested for robustness. But in the end, there's not a whole lot that you can do: just cross your fingers and hope.
A comparison of Kubernetes container runtimes
was about to same the exact same thing. however, as long as this helps, in the broader sense, i hope he buys all the popularity he can get :)
Until literally 3-4 years ago, if you wanted to open an Apple Developer account from outside of US, you had to fill out a "payment form" with your credit card details and fax it(!!!!) to a US-based number for "verification". And no, Apple couldn't provide any other payment options for non-US residents.
As much as I dislike Javascript OP is right. The latest stack overflow survey[1] puts #7 on most loved languages and it's not even in top 25 most dreaded ones.

[1] - https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2018#most-loved-dr...
The editor should have indented that line correctly.
I use the following (in no particular order) -- definitely nothing fancy.

* weechat

* ffmpeg

* youtube-dl

* zsh

* watchman (https://facebook.github.io/watchman)

* megadl (rarely, but its a handy tool when you need it)

* brew (on my mac)

* mountsshfs (on my mac)

---

I moved away from orgmode and have been using it in VS since I have it open anyway. It covers me.

I also want to start using Mutt or something similar.

For those wondering, you can output an unnecessarily pretty list using:

history | tr -s ' ' | cut -d ' ' -f3 | sort | uniq -c | sort -n | tail | perl -lane 'print $F[1], "\t", $F[0], " ", "" x ($F[0] / 12)'
Ah damn that explains why i'm so awake from midnight to 4 am... My chronotype is definitely not a morning one,
It's interesting how many people would not recognize assembly language if shown a sample. In a way that is a statement as to how far compilers have come, that it is possible to produce perfectly good software that runs fast enough that only a limited number of people still has to know about the details of the underlying processor.

And in the case of interpreted languages or JIT'd languages the lines get blurred a bit more but even there it is clear that whoever uses say 'numpy' does not need an understanding of the underlying operations to get through their working day.

Higher levels of abstraction translate into higher productivity, in ever more rare cases it is worth breaking open those black boxes to go to work on the underlying plumbing.
J2CL: Java to Closure JavaScript Transpiler
I had an allergy to certain types of grasses. I changed my diet a bit to try and alter my gut flora alongside not avoiding the grasses. The allergy is significantly less/not noticable & far more tolerable. I even stopped antihistamines.
I find it amusing that your post links to a page which itself doesn't work without javascript. :)
- pdfgrep : grep search pdfs

- htop : A nicer version of the process viewer top

- rename : bulk rename things via a regex/sed-like interface

- youtube-dl -x : download the audio of a video

- locate : Find something anywhere.
https://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=63826 has download links. In theory if someone were to put this onto archive.org you could use the JS version of DosBox to try it out.
Ordering pizza in different programming languages
A follow-up study is using the placebo at a higher dosage.
Haven't seen Hledger [http://hledger.org/] in the recommendations. It is a great accounting tool!
PGP isn't that hard to learn, and 20 years ago when the main form of online messaging was email, using a desktop email client, it was easier. It would be considerably harder now with everyone communicating in walled-garden platforms.

I think we really missed an opportunity, and I don't see a way forward to a world where PGP keys are a widely-used basis for security communication and verifying identity online.
The Face Behind TheFacebook.com, Nov 2004 [pdf]
Is it just me or the website is very hard to read?
That depends on the problem space. For some problems latency does not need to be an issue, if the problem can be pipe-lined then you can keep all your cores running at a high percentage of their theoretical maximum load even if latency is high.

For real time applications this is usually not an option, there latency > some threshold will kill your proposed solution.
FCC Approves SpaceX Plan to Launch 7,500 Broadband Internet Satellites
Mobile Indie Spotlight Episode #4–SHI•RO-Reaching #1 in Puzzle Games on AppStore
Is your experience with companies that could make use of your other skill? If you understand accounting, and you're applying to a company that makes photography apps, that won't be given much value.
I am not talking about espionage. I am talking about the situation where the US government takes what someone who is not a US citizen and located in another country has spent two decades privately working on a technology and then when patenting it, is informed that not only has the US government taken the use of the technology but if he speaks on the details of that technology in any public way, he will be imprisoned. No objections allowed, no payments received, only punishment if he discusses the subject matter.

As I have watched him do this research and development over those two decades, I recently asked him how it was going. He only response was the above and he would not discuss further that technology to protect me, my family and his family from any repercussions.

As I have come across this kind of activity before, I take the entire "stealing of intellectual property" concept as something that governments like to indulge in and like to accuse others of the "heinous" action while trying to appear as lily white innocents themselves.

YMMV, but as far as I am concerned China is just the new USA.
I'll make sure my kids eat (some) peanuts/peanut products before they develop an allergy.
I keep a VPS running with Nginx on it for a specific port. Then I forward that port via SSH using remote forwarding to enable this exact functionality. It's free if you've already got a server running.
Its not safe to be queer. There are broad societal protection that one loses out on the second they aren't straight acting and cis-gendered, all it takes is a shift in the political winds for governments to start rounding up any class or minority they don't like.

There are "safer" places in the world to be queer, but the threat of danger and violence never goes away, even in gayborhoods like here in parts of Seattle.
I am from India. I have two close family members who are fighting metastatic cancer.

Their pain is not manageable with lower pain killers. I am thankful we have opoids to prescribe, which is making significant improvement to their quality of life.
Eh, I'll give it a go, although I realize the goalposts have not been properly fixed here. You can argue about what a "great country" is, what "theft" is and what is a "valuable resource". No country is a saint, at least no large country.

Anyway, I nominate Germany as a counterpoint to your thesis. Germany's greatness has not been built on theft, but on hard work and skill of the Germans. When Germany tried theft, or rather conquest, they failed badly, but when they got on with developing their own country rather than war, they succeeded pretty spectacularly.

Do you agree...?