skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Except this isn't true at all.

Facebook recently changed their algorithm to deliberately focus on the quality of engagement.

It had a material effect on marketers and news organisations so it was pretty significant.
clock_gettime overhead is on the order of ~20 ns (or about 60 cycles) on most systems implementing VDSO gettime, and is quite stable. The author is trying to measure something on the order of 75 ns.
> "Consumer preference seems to drive that one, unfortunately, with SUVs and trucks outselling sedans."

But "preference" is also influenced by the price of gas. A few years ago when gas prices shot up, SUV sales were down, cross-over vehicles became "the thing." But now that gas is cheap again, and getting cheaper, SUV sales a rocketing up again.
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>people flying around the world trying to stop it would not be major drivers of the problem.

Thats missing the point. The fact that these people arent willing to sacrifice the slightest convenience for the planet strongly suggests they dont actually believe what they are saying. Obviously no one person can ruin the planet.

And:
>"A 401k sounds great, but if everyone's starving and the world is in chaos, what's the point?"
Is just a nicer way to say:
>"I shouldn't save because the apocalypse is coming"

>marginal relative wealth increases

Understatement of the century.
>Former vice president Al Gore had a net worth of about $1.7 million at the turn of the century and 13 years later, his wealth has grown to more than $200 million.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2320452/Al-Gore-Rom...
I agree it's not wrong. While this article is light on specific proposals, I would likely agree with the author on many reforms.

But if those reforms actually happen, I bet the executive team at Buzzfeed won't be happy
The client doesn't have to use a "connected" UDP socket either. The client can bind to a random local port and use "sendto" to talk to many servers.
I used Vista for many years and was fine with it. The real problem was bad publicity. Tastemakers decided that it sucked and so went public opinion.

The real disaster was windows 8's user interface change. That really deserved to be panned. Microsoft was so cocky as to think that forcing a new interphase on users was a good thing. It was stupid.

I'd like an insider's view on that.
It's a shame no one is really talking about the elephant in the room. At the end of the day, most people are working on side projects... at the end of the day. If you really want to be effective working on something that isn't your primary thing, it absolutely can't be after a full days work, even if that work isn't very taxing. Your mind needs time to not be working, or at least, not be working on things similar to your day job. Worse, is many people working on side projects are also doing it at the expense of sleep, which is kind of like doubling down on a losing bet. Sure you might get lucky, but you've still got a negative expected value from your time. People get dumb when they're tired, and worse, is they often can't even tell how dumb they've gotten.

If you want to work on a side project, you probably don't want to work on it after work. And you probably don't want to work on it on your first of consecutive days off. Even writers who claim to be night owls tend to work on their writing first thing after a good sleep.

Also, if you really want to validate this wisdom, I suggest learning to play a competitive game with a ranking system (although you may never get around to your side project if you do...). I would bet dollars to donuts to that you will tend to gain ELO/rating early in the day, and you will tend to lose ELO/rating late in the day. That has held true for me for any game I play seriously. It can be even worse at night, in that as you lose game after game, you start to go on tilt, and try to keep playing until you get that win, or until you gain back the rating you started with. It's absolutely insane, but often not obviously insane until the next morning. Also, probably just take my word on it, and don't game competitively, you're life will be richer without it. Just understand that there is a mountain of evidence that talks about how bad people are at performing when tired, and that the very best artists tend to spend most of their time recovering from their creative endeavors, punctuated by very short, very intense periods of exceedingly high focus.
There's lots of studies suggesting you can do this at low cost. There are issues, from not solving some problems at all (ocean acidification) to creating others (localized rainfall reduction).

My own thoughts are that we should be exploring doing this as a secondary backstop (it has pretty high ROI), while aggressively cutting emissions as well.

https://www.carbonbrief.org/solar-geoengineering-may-not-coo...
Here is his Gitlab [1]. Looking at the history at least he maintains the book very actively for years.

[1] https://gitlab.com/fbb-git/cppannotations/commits/master
It's not so much
just because "tcp will freak out" as much as it is understanding no transport layer retransmission algorithms operating on the scale of 100+ms can be a replacement for 100us+ link layer reliability mechanisms like FEC and retransmission.
That bit about "designed to absorb impacts and avoid collisions" sounds like an excuse. Of course we all design for that.

The "better safety records" bit, if true, is a great argument that American trains need to be more able to withstand crashes. We might need to make them more impact-resistant, not less impact-resistant.
The Gods Must Be Crazy (1980) was a hit South African movie about a tribe of Kalahari Bushmen, and the consequences when an empty coke bottle thrown from a plane lands in their village, causing all kinds of problems. For the first time, something there's only one of, a tool everyone wants, private property, envy, possessiveness etc. Highly recommended.
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Why is the supposed pay gap the only metric used to define and quanitify a supposed concept of equality and egalitarian status?

It's a bit one-dimensional when there are many profoundly complex aspects to industrialized civilization.

There are also profound differences in the potential for life paths, between men and women, which cannot be scored like points on a plotted graph.

Do you need someone to enumerate all the bold and clear differences between men and women for you?
Costco's website also logs me out after every session. Extremely annoying since they don't show all prices without being logged in.
I would agree if Al Gore existed in a vacuum. There are other, less extravagant people who also claim that:

>climate change is real

>climate change is man made

>climate hazards will impact people all over the world

>climate change quickly creates additional hazards which need to be dealt with on top of whatever problems already affect us (erosion of infrastructure, salination of farmlands/aquifers due to flooding, traffic trapping people during a forest fire)

Perhaps Al Gore believes that individual actions are completely insignificant compared to the acts of corporations and governments. Maybe he is a closet climate-denier. If either of those things are true, it is inconvenient that many see him as the face of climate activism. I think the case for climate mitigation should hinge upon scientific evidence, rather than the lifestyle and personal opinions of a single man.
They have published the size of the list periodically as well as the budget to maintain it. There are something like 40-60k names in it and only about 1000 “US persons”.
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02:46 > if you actually look at the addictive brain it's the same brain circuitry involved in all addictions

Any links to research where I can look at the addictive brain?
This is relatable. I have even begun to read "War of Art". Consistency is key to momentum.

My most recent project won an overall award at ETHDenver - which at the time became the world's largest cryptocurrency hackathon. My teammate and I created a cyberpunk-themed cryptocurrency trading game based on the classic Drugwars. My teammate is a great multimedia/graphic artist, and it was very well received. If interested, Beta is at https://www.cachethegame.com.

However, I would about 20% of the current total project (it's been 9 months) was completed in the 36 hours of the hackathon. We were on a roll.

After the hackathon - we ended up talking to investors, but decided to pass. This is a double-edged sword with downside.

"Side" projects are hard in the way self-guided learning is hard. You don't have people breathing down your neck periodically to keep you on track.

The further we got along to releasing a Beta the more the "Resistance" crept in. To the point of, as soon as the Beta was released - basically taking several weeks off altogether.

This is where some seed investment would have helped, besides the obvious ability to clear the calendar a bit. Forget big splashes of "raising a ton of money" or an ICO - it's practical to raise a bit money for reasons I mentioned.
peek() { tmux split-window -p 33 $EDITOR $@ || exit; }

Though I like "tmux split-window -h", what tmux calls a "horizontal split", with the panes horizonally adjacent, with a vertical line dividing them.
Do the programmers not like arroz con gandules? Or is it just an established trend?
Interesting article. At least three super-cars, or rather, hyper-cars, are built by hand : McLaren, Koenigsegg and Pagani all use plenty of high tech but have workers who are lifers.
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I feel like there is an obvious reductio ad absurdam. If you are obese, yes, you can expect higher costs. If you are diagnosed with cancer, you can expect higher costs. If you are on your way to an appointment to check for cancer, you are higher risk than someone who has no cause to worry. If we take the idea of discriminating against known risk to an extreme, there would never be a payout at all, because hours, minutes, seconds, or milliseconds before a claim, there is always an indication of elevated risk. If you have full telemetry from all the cars you provide collision insurance for, you can determine that someone is an unacceptable risk moments before impact. "High frequency insurance underwriting" would only be a difference in degree from the sort of discrimination people defend, but it would make the entire industry pointless.

Therefore, I believe that everybody agrees discrimination against known risks must be limited by regulation or other means to make insurance viable; we're just arguing about where to set the boundary. It is generally accepted that race, religion, and so on are prohibited forms of discrimination, but that doesn't mean there is some principle that says all other forms of discrimination are ok. Furthermore, the arguments for discriminating against the obese logically apply to protected categories, so how do you reconcile that?

Apart from logic, I don't understand why anyone would want to argue in favor of discrimination against people who have a tendency to be obese, even if you don't have that particular issue. There are an unlimited number of conditions a person could have that could be similarly discriminated against.
Thank you for providing these detailed examples, some of these are serious showstoppers indeed and indicate this project is still very much in the alpha stage. It's always seemed to me that frameworks that try to emulate native UI widgets are continually chasing a moving target and the results can be quite hit or miss.
To the kernel QUIC is just a UDP socket managed by your application, it's nothing special in that regard.
"the more confused you are about what you're purchasing, the more likely you are to pay more and get less."

"Don't ascribe to malfeasance that which can be otherwise explained by incompetence" - Napoleon.

Having worked in this area I would say it's simply a matter of zero product strategy, not some dark pattern. And I'm not sure I agree with the confusion bit though you could be right, I don't think so. Confusion is death to a sales funnel.

Here's a product, oh, let's make a variation, oh, another variation with this cool new thing our M&A team bought, oops, power regs mean in that other country we need this - so let's make another model. But Microsoft wants a specific hardware version for their OS, so 10 more version. Hey have you seen this new stylus (!?) Marketing says 10% of Millennial want them, let's tweak the screen and make 5 more models with that.

Basically, there's no product strategy.

The 'web site' is basically just taking orders from Product, and simply 'doing their job' by organizing it in some way ... which may include some douchy designers view on how it ought to be displayed.

Then Marketing Ops posts some vanity metrics and voila.

Someone with a lot of power has to go in there and change that, and otherwise, it won't happen.

If the culture is not there from the start, or from the top, it won't happen.
because of cost. seattle's system is a multi billion dollar boondoggle. costs for just three stations went up by half a billion dollars on a current expansion that was to only cost two billion. systems like Seattle's burn through so much money because politicians in the local area get to decide who gets service and how instead of focusing on who needs service and where. then throw in the billions that system is already backlogged on maintenance and it will fold under its own weight if not cut back services on other parts to pay for the rail.

If you took all the money people spent to buy, maintain, and insure, their vehicles, then topped it off with the money the highway fund put into the roads to support it the cost per mile is one third what mass transit it costing.

light rail isn't flexible to the needs of a changing city. it however appeals to a romantic version of transit that does not exist nor did it ever outside of two or three cities in the world of which only one is in the US though if you push it Chicago can almost count. Instead it benefits politicians who love ribbon cutting and paying off contributors.
> That's an interesting comic. Though I think it's very one-sided

Of course. It provides a perspective, not all perspectives. But it's an important perspective. Not every household is this skewed in responsibilities, but many are. And just paying a bit of attention to what's going on and taking on some of these responsibilities, can alleviate a lot of stress.

It's certainly something I need to do more.
> I don't understand why Facebook is being singled out here.

From where I sit, they're not. Facebook is the canary in the coal mine because of its current outsized influence, but you can find similar pieces about all of the services you mentioned.

Here's an example, but I ran across a bunch more just looking for this one: https://www.wired.co.uk/article/youtube-for-kids-videos-prob...
This tech billionaire seems like a real asshole.
> I just want to know what Amazon would have to do to become moral

1. 8h/day max

2. double pay extra work and limit the maximum amount to +3h

3. not 'monitoring' bathroom breaks

4. not fire people on the spot, give them warnings and help them improve

5. don't use metrics as a weapon agains them, instead build programs that help improvements

6. let workers to pack seated as well (to not stay 8h on their feet)

7. hire more occasional workers for very peak days (ie: BF, CM)

8. Not fire for sick leaves nor holidays leaves

9. Not fire for taking holidays during BF

This are the first 9 thing that i can come out with.

It's interesting for me anyway how many of the things related to Unions and workers rights the are at the center of the debate in the US now, are either illegal or totally unacceptable in EU.
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Cheers. Wish I could reply with some interesting insights. My main take away is that the state of the world leaves a lot to be desired :(
Why Python? Couldn't hire real programmers?
Yes I would normally expect "cross-platform" to indicate support for iOS, Android, macOS, and Windows... not just the first two.
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The other elephant in the room will be the precipitous decline in fossil fuels in the coming decades , maybe sooner then we think and what this will do to our society in maintaining our present complexity and more importantly food production.
What if your problems are caused by being depressed?

It so happens that antidepressants cause people to gain weight frequently.
What strikes me about the comic is that the guest is talking to the husband, while she's there for the wife. It would make a lot more sense in this situation if the husband took care of the kids while the wife took care of her guest.
As a perfectionist myself, I continue to learn that you have to live with some "shit" in order to get your stuff out there. There's the tendency to rewrite/refactor, this makes side projects harder than it needs to be. It's self-defeating, really. There's plenty of time if you succeed, but no time if you don't.

The perfectionism also prevents shipping because you want to avoid the impending negative feedback of your current project, and so you bounce off to something else.

How to overcome? Experience (and failures) helps. You've spent so much perfection on something and it still didn't succeed the way you hoped. The next time you would care less about perfection and just ship.
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I was looking at numbers published by my state recently, and while suicide is the major cause of gun death (by a factor of about 5, IIRC) it was heavily skewed toward older (>50) rural males. What if those people are killing themselves for reasons like bankruptcy, divorce, inability to pay for medical care, etc, rather than temporary teen angst like everyone seems to assume?
Metro, Uber, etc.
I think you are on to something. For non-concentrated solar, what a low-cost application would use, the limit is given as 43%. The numbers given trigger my bull-detector hard and I've had some insight into the difficulties that you face if you actually want to build a rectifying diode. Those things are hard. Really hard. You're getting nowhere near where you'd have to be to achieve the limit. To satisfy the claims given, these guys have to be geniuses beyond imagination.

If something sounds too good to be true, it probably is.
It gets hard at the 90% point because that's when you realize your idea was bad, and nothing you can do at the last 10% will fix that.
It's barely been a week since the existence of a whole new kingdom of life was confirmed (https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-018-0708-8), certainly an exciting time for biologists. Must be tough even keeping up with the latest developments.
If you take Facebook out I'm pretty sure the market cap question flips to "true" in which case I'd cut the author some slack.
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http.sys is strictly for listening for inbound connections and not a general purpose HTTP API. Amongst other things, it lets multiple applications listen to port 80 on Windows.

Didn't read through this article the whole way, but it was the first I found to share that seemed to give a good overview: https://www.codeproject.com/articles/437733/demystify-http-s...
Yes.

Also, the voltage won't be very high. The diodes have to be efficient in the millivolt regime.
Let’s call it repeated observation. Watching people play video games induces a drug like numbness and craved fixation followed by withdrawal once the stimulus is removed. The withdrawal is observable as a lack of cognitive concentration compounded by emotional sensitivity.
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https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/gun-deaths/

Although that article is about gun deaths in general, at the end you can explore the data choosing suicide as the gun death category and comparing the different demographics.
I find it hard to do the bullshit company work(now it's more like startup, but corporate was hell too) while daydreaming I was spending my best hours and fuel on a number of things else that I'd rather do or work or build. But after 8-10 hours, since I only have the leftover fuel and small hours, then the incentives become more twisted.. e.g.: 5 hours left on the day, I've been thinking about working on my project all week, I need to rest a bit, I want to read, movies I'd like to watch, maybe I should skate or workout a bit to get a better mood, or get something to eat, will I get more stamina if I try to work at home or do I go to a coffee? Will it be worth it today to put 2 hours into my project, or will it just stress me out more? Maybe should I meet friends and have beer and hash because I'm already too stressed out?

So it becomes really hard. What I mean is that not having enough space/time to properly do your stuff really seems to matter to me. When I'm free for some days, I have no problem at all focusing on sorting through everything(treating myself, working on my projects, studying, doing physical activities, socializing), and I feel much more complete.

It's funny because what I consider to be for nothing is jobs, the biggest outcome possible out of a job is generally just another job in which you could have more of responsibility/flexibility/learning/money, but still just the same thing(I guess the payoff can be more promising in US or Europe, but I suspect this is an illusion for most). If you leave, they'll just find someone else to do the job, so really it doesn't matter.
Arguably this is somewhat of a kludge(?), but one option (which would involve less coding than making the engine work with different encodings) would be to use readers/writers to support other formats, and keep using UTF-8 internally.

UTF-16BE/LE and UTF-32, plus Windows CPs, are all really easy to do like this — probably others too.

(Note that depending on the range of codepoints used in files using these encodings, they may take more memory in UTF-8 form. This usually isn't an issue unless one is handling large files of Kanji)
As ugly as it looks now, the previous colors (Peninsula Commute era) looked worse. It was all dark gray with a red "bloody nose":

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:SP_3193_with_Train_1...
Have you tried to use WSL?

It is its own silo on Windows. Yes, it is native from an implementation standpoint, but does not play well (yet) with the rest of the Windows environment.

Install Visual Studio Code, the usual Windows version.

Explain to VS Code that it is really a good idea to use the Linux subsystem as its command-line environment. Not only interactive sessions like Bash on its integrated terminal, but also for git, compilers, Node, etc.

Once you have got that set up and your development workflow going ok, try setting up the same on Linux or macOS.

Which one would you prefer?

The Windows Subsystem for Linux is brilliant. PowerShell is brilliant. The dotNET universe can be brilliant.

I wish it was easy.
I would have agreed with you, but after having seen the documentary The Red Pill (2016), I'm more sympathetic to the GP. I think it's difficult for the people on the progressive/women's/feminist side of the debate (in which I included myself) to even listen to the "men's" side - it's a complex of interconnected issues. But I think that documentary at least might be a good starting point for discussion. I found it fascinating, and a very important film.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3686998/

Edit: Maybe downvoters might like to say why. Thanks.
This article has it backwards. Long, straight, wide roads are great for speeding cars but terrible for humans. It's the different between walkable places like and suburban American car sewers. But confidently wrong is completely on brand for this magazine, so thumbs up for them.
The scope of the issue makes individual lifestyle changes laughably pointless.

All major world governments needed to nationalize or brutally regulate polluting industries decades ago. They didn't, and it's tough to see a path forward now even assuming the political will to do so somehow appeared out of the ether.