skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> There are 0 starving people in the United States,

That is somewhere between misleading and flat-out untrue. While starving to death in the US is exceedingly rare, the number is still non-zero and there are literally millions who are "food insecure" (the term used for statistics etc.) to some degree or other. That's starving, as anyone who has actually had trouble affording decent meals (as I did when I was young) would know. The fact that there are also poor people who are obese doesn't change that one bit.

And you know the funny thing? The reason there are so few people starving to the point of death is distinctly non-capitalist food programs. Capitalism failed them; social democracy saved them. That you would claim the near opposite is frankly disgusting.
What? You must be talking about some opt-in sandboxing.

What about the millions of sites that load jQuery from a CDN and then use $.ajax() to make requests to their home domain?
You say that the evaluations of students that are only looking for good grades are useless. What colleges are selling and what students are buying, at very high prices, are credentials.

If colleges, and those that work at them, want to be in the education business rather than the credential selling business they ought to take a good long look at where and how they went wrong instead of constantly trying to push the blame onto to people that, again, are just buying what they are selling.
Controversial opinion, but I'd have little problem with Google (for instance) having anonymised access (and obviously there is _a LOT_ of caveats here) to medical data (again, for instance) in exchange for digitising the NHS (again, for instance). At least you'd have some assurances it worked and was secure.

The amount of low ball quotes for government work that I've seen or heard of that go over budget or barely work is a little worrying. I've also seen teams of developers that are by no means first rate; it's little surprise we end up with these failures.
I saw this in action. Parking under a tree with some sort of cherry every day, I saw the day the flock arrived. It was about 1 or 2 days before the fruit ripened. The flock's members proceeded to pluck each fruit from the tree, test it with their beak, and 9 times out of 10 drop it on the ground as too green. Stripped the tree in a minute.

If the flock had waited a day, of course, each bird would have had 10X the fruit. But any member of the flock that waited that day would have found a stripped tree. Hard to see how the genetics of the bird flock could ever escape this tragedy.
If you are predicting, chances are you don't care about all the decimals being correct and you'd rather get the result quickly.
Predatory lenders have co-opted New York’s court system
I would suspect that there's some internal structure made of a different material (steel, air, silly putty, whatever) that is tuned to act as a damper or allows the screw to flex in a certain way that changes its acoustic signature allowing it to be quiet at higher speeds like those crappy flex fans for car radiators.

Casting in an internal pocket with sufficient accuracy(!) in a part so massive would have been very, very, very difficult/expensive if not impossible with the kinds of industrial process control that were available in the 1960s.
I've wondered that quite a lot myself. I see some serious parallels with those of my female peers who used self-harm as a similar plea for attention, usually because underlying suffering wasn't being dealt with. The literature on self-harm showed similar patterns of social contagion.

The bigger question for me is how could we sort between the two, and should we want to even if we could. Gender transition, and genderqueer presentation are relatively harmless ways to alleviate pain.
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Cool! I can't wait to try it. But make sure it implements rainbow parentheses and powerful intuitive autocompletion. These former is essential to make a LISP editor usable, the latter is essential to make it cool enough for people to care trying it.
> If the gods didn't favor our army in battle it surely must be that we didn't slaughter enough goats

Excellent analogy. Thank you.
Sleep, hard exercise, goals following (a variant of) the rule of threes. Keep perspective.

I try to sleep from 9pm to 5am with minor alterations.

I lift heavy things. Some lighter things faster. Follow a program. I like bergeron.

Rule of threes. Have three goals for the day. More often than not, break those into three milestones throughout given time periods. It tends to line up similarly as an pomodoro for me.

Keeping perspective. Understanding how what I'm working on helps my personal development goals, my manager's development and business goals, and how it helps the business. Understanding that I have to balance all that with family time and experiencing life (which, aside from the boss part, everything above helps with).
I don't think it's a conscious choice. I would think its a psychological phenomenon possibly more common in those who are naturally attention seeking but i doubt they intentionally mean to seek attention. i do agree that if they are attention seeking it could detract from the rest of the trans community.
Ah I see - so your issue is with the proliferation of tiny libraries associated with NPM?

That's not inherently an issue with Javascript. I agree that solving every issue with a library is bad in the same way that solving every issue by copy-pasting from stack overflow is bad, but it's not inherent to the language. I primarily work in Javascript these days and I've never actually seen a project that relies on an excess of micro-libraries. A good teacher will teach students to understand programming logic, not to lean on excessive crutches.
Why not a chromebook?
> I personally found it to be a turn-off.

I feel like this is mentioned (by the people who just glance over Nim) every time there is some discussion about Nim, and IMO it is blown way out of proportion.

In my cca year and half of using Nim, I not even once had a problem with the style insensitivity.

IMO, you (general you) shouldn't use `my_foo` and `myFoo` for different things, regardless if a language allows for it or not.
because their comment is entirely unresponsive to the evidence discussed in the OP, which suggests that there is some kind of new thing happening in at least some of these cases.
The rest of the Nazis mostly stayed in Germany, mostly unharassed and given jobs like running the foreign ministry.
> Fourth, PciDSS, where are you when we need you? Weren't it already against the rules to allow third party code on payment pages???

No.

You're required to get audited, document certain decisions, and follow some pretty high label 101 level security requirements. You can absolutely use third party libraries on payment pages (source: we do and are PCI certified).
I worked at Amazon on a team that built a mobile point of sale application. We had one supplier for our card reader that was this family owned company. It was a super tight night company — They even had a wall of how long employees worked at the company and some were there over 40 years. That being said, we (Amazon) wanted to move to blue tooth card readers. What I heard is that we tried to strong arm them into doing what we wanted even though the company had so many other clients and we weren't a big enough priority for them to drop everything and focus on us. The relationship was so strained that when myself and a few engineers went down to debug something with the hardware team from the other company, we were told to walk on egg shells and be careful about what we said.
That's not how life expectancy works.

That's not how books work either, actually.
I know this is controversial and I have adult friends that I believe are truly transgender and seem happy after transitioning, but man do I feel uncomfortable diagnosing prepubescent or adolescents as ‘transgender’. I think kids should absolutely be allowed to choose their identity and dress how they like and be called what they like. I’ve got a 2 year old boy and if when he’s five he wants to wear dresses and call himself Tina, I’m okay with that, no judgement, but at the point where there’s medical intervention is where I draw the line. Puberty and hormones are weird and unpredictable and you never know how someone will be when they’re 20 or 22 compared to where they are when they’re 12 or 9 or even 16.

If someone is a full grown adult and fully understands the consequences, they should be able to do what they like, but for children I don’t think adults should be pushing permanent life-changing medical treatments on them.

Edit: I'm just going to add another thing. As someone who thinks traditional gender roles are largely bullshit, I think it's unfortunate that kids who may prefer clothes or activities traditionally associated with the opposite gender are being pushed to believe that they actually are that gender. Why can't boys like to wear "girly" clothes and play with dolls without being told they're actually a girl inside? Why can't girls cut their hair short and play sports without being told they must really somehow literally be a boy?
I think you'll come to regret this attitude when you reach your mid-30s with no skills other than the concrete procedural skills you picked up on the job. I use my education constantly, and in ways I wouldn't have anticipated. I often see people doing things the hard way because they don't know there's any other way, or passing on opportunities to do something interesting because they don't realize it's even possible.
I would say it is far less acceptable for boys to talk about their gender dysphoria than is it for girls, if only because even if a girl wears boys clothes and doesn't 'pass' they'll receive much less attention than the opposite situation.

That's entirely without considering the stigma society imposes on men who want to talk about their mental health at all.
>And those regulations pose a huge barrier to entry for new competitors, and favor large airlines over small ones because a large airline can more easily absorb the costs of compliance.

Have you seen the EU airline market? It's _insanely_ competitive with dozens of airlines flying everywhere, all with rigorous safety standards.
Yes and no. Thing is, we may be burned already few times, but cannot prove or check it.

Did the bank set your mortgage rate based on risks, derived from your data?

Did you lost job application because your private emails leaked conflict on previous job?

It is dark ways your data can propagate, Goofle is a business, and it makes money on your data. Is ad targeting the only service they sell?

I just decided to ungoogle myself completely, and hide from all tracking on the web. No data from me anymore, I ceased to exist :)
ZAPCC – drop in replacement for clang, that is focused on compilation speed
Hope the same step is taken against mobile phone manufacturers who fill the phone with unwanted apps
That's very interesting - I use a similar approach. In my case, it wasn't deliberate. It came about from working on a variety of projects with management that had unclear and frequently shifting requirements.

A monolithic SPA approach turned into too much work when you'd have to throw out a bunch of code one day, replace it the next day with something just similar enough to cause a bunch of refactoring and bugs, etc.

In that context, it's easier to treat each page or major component as its own mini-SPA, then glue them together with a bare minimum of code.

For the same general reason, and to echo other comments, I recently chose Angular over React (or Vue) simply because Angular has a lot of built-in functionality that helps prevent a downward spiral of dependency maintenance from third party libraries and plugins, even if it's a little slower overall on many benchmarks.
One major issue with Julia is that it only recently reached 1.0, with a lot of breaking changes, that make a lot of libraries incompatible.

Another issue is that it's not always that fast, for a recent project I never managed to exceed 100 MFLOPS, at which point I switched to C++ and got 3 GFLOPS. But the python version stalled out at 4 MFLOPS though...
Spain to lead Japan in global life expectancy, US continues to slide
I had an operating system with a parameter of a scalar process id, which in our parlance was spelled pidTarget. The documentation folk 'corrected' it in the manual to pIdTarget, which would mean a pointer to a target id.

Not hard to make up any number of examples where spacing or capitalization matter for good reason. They matter to humans; its just silly to make them not matter to the compiler.
Definitely wait until spring, preferably summer, unless you're attracted to damp weather.

On OpenStreetMap, the pedestrianized roads are marked in a pale blue-grey [1].

They aren't labelled the same way on Google Maps, perhaps because on the smaller pedestrian streets vehicles aren't always completely banned, just strongly discouraged by the signs, surface, layout, and attitude of pedestrians.

The OSM cycle map layer needs a few updates for consistency, but most roads outside the very centre of the city have a separate cycle lane like one of these [2], or else almost no traffic. At school time or weekends I see 5-6 year old children cycling with their parents — other cyclists will overtake more carefully. Older children make similar journeys alone.

The Netherlands is similar. Within cities, the canals lead to some different approaches, and between cities, they provide nice long-distance cycling routes. I think the Netherlands is probably the better destination for a cycling holiday, but the difference between a Dutch and Danish city doesn't matter for a city holiday.

[1] https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=16/55.6802/12.5753

[2] https://ggwash.org/view/43010/copenhagen-uses-this-one-trick...
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I don't want to be a downer, and I'm glad you enjoy it, but...

I find that engaging with fictional universes this way really exposes the man behind the curtain - contrivances that we forgive because they further the plot within the context of a story suddenly stand out as hugely improbable, or inconsistent with the rest of the universe. Stories are only really designed to feel realistic from a particular perspective - when you glom them together, you don't really get a very coherent universe. It may be a ticklish premise that Darth Maul actually survives and goes on to do this or that, but when you've been reading about Jedi and Sith who've all cheated death in some improbable way dozens of times each, it stretches credibility. It may be fun to read a story about a tiny ship with more destructive power than the Death Star, but if you've just been reading all about the Death Star and how hard it was to build then it starts to raise uncomfortable (and unanswerable) questions about the underlying universe.
Distributed monolith
My understanding is that EB is a packaging together of lower-level AWS components (like auto-scaling groups) that you can use individually and patch together yourself if you wish. Maybe that could be a route to look into?
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> "When I was a college instructor I found that when I tried hard - putting a lot of thought into pedagogy, having weekly (open notes) quizzes, assigning challenging but fair homework - I got terrible evaluations, even though the average grade in my class was higher than other teachers who were teaching the same course. When I phoned it in, didn't really try, was very lax with the homework and often made the quizzes take-home, I got excellent reviews but the average grade in the class was worse."

It must've been a frustrating experience.

At the same time - you're making a very broad statement here based on a rather personal experience. You went from a certain regimen yielding certain results, to a different regimen yielding different results. There are way too many parameters here to draw conclusions.
I misunderstood what you meant, my apologies.
How do people here feel about a website including 3rd party JavaScript from their payment processor or bank on the payment page? This article mentions Adyen JavaScript being included, but that seems fine here?
I still cant bring myself to purchase a Lenovo product because of this, despite the generally favourable reviews I see on HN regarding the ThinkPads. Its just such a revolting decision to me to do that to a paying customer.

I may just put my money where my mouth is and start the break up with Google too, as painful as that will be. I just dont feel like I align with these fucking companies at all anymore.
It's almost 2019 and it's pretty amazing that no other language among the dozens available for web development feature easy server-side deployment.

It's frustrating and baffling for anyone who wants to provide users with an easy way to self-install or self-host.

Easy server deployment of apps simply doesn't exist (unless you're Wordpress with one-click installs available everywhere). Many developers consider easy deployment a non-issue.

Here's a previous question I asked on the topic:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14781420
I don't think you need SRI if you already have SCP with hash?

SCP covers dynamically loaded scripts also, which should provide more security than SRI.
Notwithstanding all the criticism of technology and technologists it's important and heartening to realize that there are people who genuinely try to make a positive difference even in the face of their own burdens. Rest in Peace.
The Prisoner's Dilemma shows that individuals will always act in their being interest.

Watch Divorce Corp Inc. to see the most fucked up shit happening to people getting divorced.
Isn't Deutsche Bank the only bank that will still do business with Trump?
Sure, evalutations are flawed, but it appears that universities are unable or unwilling to develop other quality measures. For example, this semester I've had a networking professor that would get half way into explaining something interesting and then state that he didn't care about the topic so he didn't prepare to talk about it and we'd be moving on to something else.

I've got an A in that class, but I wouldn't say that I learned much from it due to that attitude. I don't think that the CS department here has any way to tell that something like that is happening without evaluations.
> ... but you can be assured that the network calls your page are making are hitting the correct 3rd parties ...

The browser's sandbox security model already does this for us with the same origin policy.

> ... and even inspect to see that the payloads are "correct".

This is what SRI already does for us.
I'm certainly not attributing malice to it, or conscious choice. As someone else said, the newfound acceptance of talking about it could have made it a new outlet of attention seeking. Most people at that stage in their life don't choose that kind of thing and don't self-reflect unless it's pointed out.
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So much for the pen test and the code review conducted by the PCI auditor. I guess I'm the only idiot who actually follows the guidelines....
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Reformat the computer?

I do this on 100% of my computers now. I thought there was a risk of losing some functionality like the touch screen, but everything works and far better than when I bought it.
There's an article in the NEJM from 2002 reporting something similar [1] - at least to me as a layman. Since the linked PNAS paper is paywalled, can anyone comment on what's actually new with this announcement?

[1] Paternal Inheritance of Mitochondrial DNA https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa020350
Yes, but 1600 of them escaped to live the American dream, protected by America's military-industrial-pharmaceutical complex and they went on to create the society we have today: impervious to any reproach over its war crimes and crimes against humanity, the American empire rules us all and continues the effort to rid the world of unsavoury cultures deemed inferior by the hidden elite...

American's need to educate themselves about just how much their hallowed CIA was usurped by the Nazi elite. Its a sham to consider America free of their influence.
Takes up 200gb or so across 5 servers (this is according to ClickHouse's query stats). Actual disk might be a bit higher.
Not well-versed in genetics, but isn't it just possible that this finding could be explained by casting some doubt on who the father actually is? If the mitochondrial DNA came from a father with a different mother, it could look like it came from a different father? that sort of thing.
Another comment mentioned audio, so I'll also volunteer our Zombies, Run!, which is not just a bunch of zombie groans in your ears (a common misunderstanding) but actually a 300+ episode audio drama/game where you are a running in a zombie apocalypse, and you hear updates and instructions from your radio operator via your headphones.

https://zombiesrungame.com
> The odds seem pretty good that we will find extraterrestrial life, someday.

I know I have an unpopular opinion here, but I just don't see it happening. It seems like wishful thinking to expect to find life extraterrestrial life. Of course, I'd love to find out I'm wrong. But what is the observable data to suggest otherwise?
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I haven't done Big Bend yet, but that's on the list this coming spring!
Well I'm glad Scott Hutchins is at least doing the bare minimum.
I wish there would be a comprehensive list of timesavers like this somewhere!
I wonder if SRI management could be done at the browser/plugin/unblock level? Ie block the loading of a script if the content hash different from the last time it was loaded.
Discussion from last year's AoC: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15813318
Appreciate the list! I've enjoyed Government Canyon, and I'm headed to Lost Maples next weekend. I'll have to check out some of those adventures further away.
I've been doing the AoC in factor since the beginning and this year I'm trying rust. Looks like i'm following the opposite path as you are :)
I agree that it sounds uncomfortable for a child to make just a permanent life-changing decision like that, but the counter point is that transitioning is significantly easier on the body and mind before puberty happens.
Note that the blog post is also about deployment, not just about performance. Does Julia support statically compiled executables without dependencies or GC?
Oh sorry about that. I didn't know they had to be your personal work. Duly noted
Wiped my comment because it was too late too delete. I shouldn't have passed any judgement on this woman at all. I don't need to have an opinion on the internet.
I read that and translated it to, "This is between our customers and their credit card company. It's not like we'll get in any real trouble."
I have cut back in my use of Facebook, Apple, and Amazon. These companies are dangers to consumers and developers at their current scale. I'm not sure that is debatable either.

As much as I like capitalism, these tech giants have power that worry me.
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His comment is silly, but if enough people did kill themselves after the book came out then it could affect life expectancy.
How would you pay such a non-integer sum?