skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Not only does it not pay taxes as an entity despite its CEO's $31 million dollar salary

So it operates like every single partnership out there, tax-wise.
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Yeah, that's how I'm understanding it as well.
There are 5300 colleges in the US. Assume a third (~1700) are alternatives for these students, that’s 6 students per college. Assume only 500 are desirable, and it’s still only 20 students per school.

At no point did I say these students shouldn’t receive an education. I’m arguing about the wasteful use of resources to be educated in a specific (edit: clean, renewable) energy resource poor location.
As someone who played football in pop warner, high school, and Div.3 NCAA for 12 years, I worry about the long term damage to my brain. If I have boys, I will absolutely not allow them to play football in its current state.

If the NFL cared about its future, it would immediately get rid of helmets à la rugby. People will not hit with their head if they don't have a hard plastic case around it.
Brazil's indigenous languages are under threat
I am still on a 4.3GHz 3570K at home (holding up pretty well after some minor mechanical/percussive maintenance revived a dead memory channel caused by a flaky CPU socket). I'm eyeing 3rd Gen Ryzen later this year but for now upgrading from 16GB DDR3 to 16GB DDR4 doesn't seem cheap ;).
I find discussion on IP theft that spends too much time moralizing to be an ineffective argument, in part because of the hypocrisy, but also because it probably won't work on people with completely different values.

If we accept that we are Britain in the 1800s, and that we enjoy certain benefits to being the reserve currency of the world, then the question becomes, what strategically can the US do to remain the dominant player in the world?

Can transfer of technology know-how be stopped, given the changes in the world since 1800? If anything information is more available than ever, so it seems like a losing battle.

What about a show of force, like the Opium War forced Beijing to open its markets? Tricky as well, on one hand.. nuclear war. On the other hand, that power disparity continues to narrow over time, if there were a time to risk it all it would be now.

I'm sure there are other strategies out there as well, but those are two that come to mind.
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/the-nfl-made-13-billion-la...
FWIW, not one of over >30 people interviewed and rejected from Nigeria stayed back in the US illegally. That includes myself and my co founder who were the first Nigeria based founders to get an interview in 2014.

After all, there is a business to be built back home.
My iPhone did this to me. I’m sure people get suggested to share memories of their abusive ex all the time. :(
Browser green threads could be amazing!

Specifically an Erlang/Elixir-ish actor async implementation
After a major knee surgery my incision was closed up with staples that looked suspiciously similar to ones I've seen in an office supply store. Well, except the price; I think the surgical ones cost several orders of magnitude more.
Musk's "reckless" comment about Autopilot capabilities could put drivers at risk
People in general are bad at judging risks, worse still at trying to judge the risk of head trauma decades down the road from now, especially with the number of people involved loudly pitching for their views to take sway.

I've no doubt some of them have the training and understanding to examine the data (math majors in college - must be some, I'm sure), run the statistics and pick out noise from signal, which I expect wouldn't be an easy thing given the long stretches of time and the many confounding factors involved, but I expect few of those capable of it even try, so the majority are left with the same vox-pops and media segments everyone else has on the subject.

Couple that with the macho attitudes and self-image in the sport, and that the entertainment needs to keep working for the sport to keep making money (nothing entertaining about permanent head trauma), and that the people having to judge these risks are young males being offered life-changing opportunities and sums of money, and it seems that the default position here should be that we consider football players incapable of weighing the risks (much as we should, by default, consider people bad at judging risks).

Why would we think they are somehow especially capable of judging the risks?
The rewrite is often just replacing document ready with a different event.

Compare this with rewriting your app as an SPA.
Yes, this is very common in JS, and somewhat common in other popular dynamic languages. In TypeScript, for example, you'd implement this by defining several overloaded signatures. Note that this isn't C++ or Java, so you still have a single function implementing all of them - the various overloads just specify what happens depending on the arguments you pass.

https://www.typescriptlang.org/docs/handbook/functions.html#...

This is a limited approach, because the overloads aren't a part of a function type - i.e. you can't have an anonymous function value that is overload-typed, it must be a named function. In principle, a similar mechanism could be used for types as well, it just doesn't usually come up in that context (e.g. callbacks typically don't return different things), which is probably why they didn't do it.
PEXT / PDEP are not instructions that would compile automatically in anything I'm aware of.

Its a new fundamental bitwise operator. Some other programmers have called it a "bitwise gather (pext) or bitwise scatter (pdep)" (EDIT: Had it backwards the first time). Its a very powerful way to think about bits that Intel just invented in those instructions.

If you have any data-structure that is bitwise, I can almost guarantee you that PEXT or PDEP will be useful in some operation. These instructions have been used to calculate bishop / rook moves in less than five operations.

https://www.chessprogramming.org/BMI2#PEXTBitboards

And yes, remember that bishops and rooks can be blocked by other pieces. So given all the pieces on a chessboard, and the location of the bishop in question, calculate all possible locations the bishop can move (after accounting for "being blocked").
Why do we think workers in a nuclear plant are incapable of weighing the risks when choosing whether or not to work there? Employers (in this case the NFL and the team owners) have had a long history of endangering the health of their employees if there was profit to be made.
UI lock-ups are because of thread locks, not because you don't have enough cores. Actually I could load all my 4 cores at 100% with some task and PC would be very responsive, it's really hard to notice a difference in most tasks. So yeah, 32 cores are nice when you have work for those cores, but it's not magic. Frequency is magic :)
High Fidelity Hiring Bay Area Educator to Teach WWII History in Virtual Reality
That sounds incredibly painful.
Sure. So a contractor gets flexible hours, the possibility to telecommute and leeway on how projects are handled right? Give that a try some time as a contractor and let us know how hard the company tries to abide by those rules. I'm sure it'll work out swell.
In a statically typed language, the code will not run until I have convinced the compiler that it should. If I wanted to explore the behaviour of `frobnicate` before committing to a design, I would still have to define all those satellite types that may well become unnecessary.
Yuck so u help those scam MLM companies flourish?
Same, and my old man died 21 years ago. We’re so used to the opposite that it’s strange when they outlive us.
Definitely agree on how annoying that is, but as far as I know no one has really pulled off client side rendering in any way looking even close to equal on all browsers and platforms. I know I spent years on another project trying to do just that before resigning to render the final result (PDF in this case) server side - so at least _that_ was consistent, albeit unfortunately not with the expectations one has from having seen the client side rendering before.
It's not. ~NFL = ~Champions League.
Apex Legends hits 10M players in just three days
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> of course..there is no better application for sharp minds and PhD in AI than helping retailers to sell more sh*t.

We can write computer vision algorithms for military drone targeting systems instead, if that makes you feel better.
I love these kind of articles where people are transparent about their salaries. I don't quite understand the envy and the backlash the author receives. With such a negative reaction, I doubt we'll see too many articles like this in the future (who needs all the negativity?).

I'm a software developer myself for +10 years and haven't made $500k in my whole career and for some reason I don't feel any envy for him. On the contrary, I am glad that we're in an industry where people can earn this big.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_professional_sports_le...

NFL had €11,394 million (over eleven billion Euro) in revenue in 2017 whereas the Premier League had €5,340 million (over five billion Euro) in revenue for 2016–17.

MLB and the NBA also beat out the Premier League in revenue.

EDIT: OK, OK, I thought the GP was talking about sports LEAGUES not NFL vs sports as a whole. I read "sports league."
Kaepernick does take more sacks than most, instead of making low-percentage/interception-likely pressured throws, he holds out. A lot of that is on his offensive linemen, though.

Regardless of whether you like the guy, Chart Party had an excellent special on Colin, and feels quite differently:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1I0cUTXwr-k
Well, the original commenter overstated the importance of eSports, but you're overstating the appeal of American Football.

The global sports are probably soccer, and basketball, in that order. And even those are only because they are the cheapest to play. Just need a ball and a goal. I think this appeal is reflected in global revenue, and certainly in participation, outside of US. I'm pretty sure it's soccer by far.
> For points, it simply takes each point, calculates which pixel it would land in, and aggregates per pixel, without ever storing all the data points per pixel.

That is literally what opengl does. If you mean a histogram per pixel in depth, that's literally voxels in perspective space.

If there are usability benefits here, that's great, but everything seems to be centered around there being new rendering techniques here, when not only are they not new, they're completely trivial, with solidified names and formalized math.
Hungary- so desperate for kids that mothers of four won’t need to pay income tax
Thanks but no thanks!
I agree with this. It also seems that it allows different parts of your brain to talk to each other that normally don't, given how commonly people report effects similar to synesthesia.
> Is that true? Do rugby and Australian Rules Football have the same problem?

I don't think it's as bad, but the AFL does have a concussion problem. (A quick search didn't turn up any numbers, but here's a relevant article: https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2018/mar/20/link-between-c... .)

Players don't go in head-first quite as much as they seem to in American football, but every player has to leave their head vulnerable in certain situations (bending down to pick up a contested ball; going back with the flight of the ball) and some are crazy-brave or even lead with the head deliberately to draw a free kick.

Rugby is probably a better game to use as a comparison, because it is much more similar to American football, with teams lining up and facing each other front-on. Apparently concussion is the most common injury in English rugby: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concussions_in_rugby_union
US Senators Wyden and Rubio have signed a joint letter to urge VPN Ban [pdf]
>boring to watch

I bet you enjoy watching people pass a soccer ball for 90 minutes to a 0-0 tie
A while back, I was working on a fun little video game side project which used BMI2 instructions to compute Morton codes on the critical path.

Voxels were stored in a buffer sorted in Morton order. The idea was to balance performance improvements realized by increased spatial locality against the cost of computing the Morton codes. The trade-off was only worthwhile on Intel because of the use of pdep/pext in optimized encode/decode functions.

I imagine something similar would probably apply to texture lookups in a software 3D renderer.
Five things that scare me about AI
I'm confused, where is the reading happening that is causing T2 to be surprised? But in any case, I'm saying that if a and b are the same descriptor, then fsync(b)'s success should imply both a and b are written to disk, by the specification of fsync. I don't see where you're seeing a contradiction.
How would a sensor know who initiated the contact? Most head contact is not directly intentional, it happens when you tackle someone at speed in traffic, and they hit someone else or the ground.
Meditation, music, cycling.
Sadly that kind of thing picked up with some crowds in Canada regarding our PM's chosen attire as well.

It seems to really strike some people for some reason.
I feel like it'd have to be a really weird overlap between:

- A place that doesn't already have an ATM

- A place that doesn't have an ATM on the way

- Needing the cash so quickly and immediately that I'm willing to pay a service fee that would make it worth it for both the driver and the company
Would you, if you were him?

How much would you consider it to be your "fair share" out of those money?
The "spectacle" of the Super Bowl may be lost, but the NFL is far from "bleeding".

>Says Costas: "Look, the NFL isn't just the most important sports property, it's the single-most important property in all of American television. And it isn't even close."
Mutual intelligibility is rarely the only reason for calling a different langauge different. E.g the scandinavian langauges are relatively easily mutually intelligible, so is Czech and Slovak, yet they are called different languages mainly for political reasons. On the other hand, many of the Chinese "dialects" are not even alike, yet they are still considered one language for political reasons. Even perhaps more familiar "Black English" is usually considered to be nothing more than English with bad grammar, even though it's very clearly a distinct language of its own, that is not readily mutually intelligible with standard american English.
> stdin/stdout/stderr may be redirected during the lifetime of a program. The OS manages them and they are "reference pointers" (file handles) for multiple reasons.

> Also, "state" does not necessarily imply "mutable".

Okay, sure. I'd rather not get into a semantic argument about the meaning of the word "state". Suffice it to say that I'm talking about mutable global state.
I'm from Las Vegas and that's not a great description of the situation.

The vote to approve the stadium will rank as one of the top 5 most corrupt things to ever happen in our city... which was formerly ran by the mob.

And think about this... the capacity of the stadium is 65,000. If all 8 games are SELLOUTS, and every single attendee looses $100 to the casinos after every single game, that's 52 million dollars. So it would take about 20 years to pay for the Billion dollar stadium.

Obviously thats disastrously simplified, but if you think we can pay for this stadium with just a small tax on the increased revenue.... that's way way off.
>I'm just saying, the guy got repeated tryouts

He never got any try out's. That's the whole basis of his grievance. The Bronco's offered to trade for him before he was cut, but he'd take a $4million paycut so he declined. After he was cut there were no try outs or offers.
That was my first thought too. At $1/W, 17MW of solar power would be $17mm + supporting infrastructure and that would be very expensive for solar at that scale. I don't know what coal plants typically cost but this seems an order of magnitude too high.
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/the-nfl-made-13-billion-la...

This article says otherwise, but who knows, maybe it's wrong.
Calling an activity 'boring to watch' is not a cogent argument.
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I largely agree with this sentiment:

> It is a BS opinion that one which says that maths is something got by putting bricks over bricks. By the contrary, it consists of an eternal returning to the same points, ever seeing them from a different perspective, with deeper understanding.

But want to point out the same concept within programming. As a programmer most of us learned to get things done, but often poorly, when we started. Instead of an array, your early programs likely used A1, A2, A3, etc. Then you learn arrays and suddenly what seemed like a bear to maintain was made trivial, and the utility of for loops was made obvious. Dozens, hundreds, maybe even thousands of lines of code could be eliminated with simple patterns from these early programs.

See things like The Evolution of a Haskell Programmer [0] for an entertaining take on this idea. When you start viewing mathematics in a similar light it can really help improve your level of math comprehension rapidly.

Sure, you could do sums before you learned calculus. But it was tedious to sum up N values of a discrete function (without a computer, of course). Then you learn calculus and find out how to integrate that function and then the summation becomes as trivial as the integration (easy in some cases, hard in others). Instead of treating each new math concept as totally new or a level above the thing before, examine how prior problems can be solved in light of this new concept. And, like programming, there will be a hundred ways to solve a particular problem (different data representations, different techniques). Learn to see the same problem from multiple perspectives and see how that shifts the difficulty of solving it.

[0] https://www.willamette.edu/~fruehr/haskell/evolution.html
They are fortunate, then. I have known some pretty fair painters over the years--good enough to be shown in a local gallery--and they have not had trust funds. Some taught, some worked in printing production.
As someone who used to religiously watched, this is just another reason why I'm glad I stopped watching the NFL several years ago.

Between the awful viewing experience with annoying commercials, cliche talking heads, concussion cover ups, highly questionable refs, rampant cheating, the kneeing debacle, etc. I'm surprised more folks my age haven't bailed on the NFL.
Regardless of it being good protection, it's better than leather skullcap. Also, with boxing headgear you're fighting the gloves, which protect a fighters hands, but do nothing to soften the impact to the head.
Ironically, much of the rest of this thread is people saying they refuse to use or don't like semver _because_ they want to be introducing backwards-breaking changes without incrementing the major version number.

So, while there may be some projects that introduce backwards-breaking changes and increment major versions willy-nilly, I think actual observed developer behavior does not justify Russ Cox's supposition that semver does not serve as a disincentive to introduce breaking changes generally. People are complaining about semver _because_ they find it a disincentive, and don't want it there telling them they can't release backwards breaks without a major version bump they don't want to do :) Of course, you can lead a horse to water...

Perhaps the semver docs should make it clear that frequent backwards-breaking releases _still are likely_ to create developer pain even if you increment the major version release number, I dunno.
Doomsday Docker security hole uncovered
For those wondering what this is, see https://github.com/kristapsdz/openrsync
Technology won't solve America's mass school shootings dilemma
Wouldn’t the optics there be worse? If someone was hit they may start to bleed quite a bit. And you don’t want that on camera.

Even if they’re much safer overall because it’s just a split eyebrow.
I don't see anything wrong with something like "Angular 2 (v1.3.6-a)".

It's not a new version of the same software -- it's new software.
New trees happen quickly, and remove carbon in the process. New coal not so much.
You don't need to be loyal to your employers, use them for your own good
The Premier League is one league in a country of fewer than 70 million people. Try adding up all the leagues across Europe for a fairer comparison. Then it's no contest - football (the one played with feet) takes it
That's cool. Know what else would be cool and probably get more use? Fixing bugs, improving performance on large documents, and bringing the feature set more up to date.
The linked article http://time.com/83200/privacy-internet-big-data-opt-out/ explores the issue a tiny bit deeper. But still, the only conclusion is basically "We felt like criminals trying to avoid the internet knowing I was pregnant".
They could have chosen any amount for a salary in the example and they chose $25,000?
Yep, I definitely remember the 'winmodem' as the primary villain in my early attempts to get my first linux box online ca. 1999
There is a shorter period to prepare for a YC interview than to get into the program after passing the YC interview.

Once you get into YC, you can take your time and it is easier to make a case at the embassy.

First of all, the US visa spaces are fully booked. The next open interview slots are somewhere in April so instead of founders trying to prepare for their YC interview, they are spending an enormous amount of time trying to get an earlier slot for a US visa interview.

After managing to get a slot it is another many days of preparing and hoping not to be rejected.

It costs at least $200 per interview in a country where the minimum wage is hoping to be increased to $80/month later this year.

All this is happening as their contemporaries from US and Europe only have to book a flight in 5 mins and return back to preparing for their YC interview and building their startup.

The world is flat indeed!
CTE is a major issue for parents and the NFL in general. Others mention that this results in a decreased 'pipeline' of talented players[0]. Heck, even Donny himself is uncharacteristically cagey about his youngest son playing on the gridiron:

>President Donald Trump said football was a dangerous sport and that he would have a hard time letting his son Barron play given the risk of head injuries. [1]

[0] https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2019/02/football-...

[1] https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2019/02/03/trump-barron-...
John Elway, who is the GM of the Broncos, gave an interview a few months ago about Kaepernick after he had given a deposition as part of Kaepernick's lawsuit against the NFL. Elway knew he'd get in some trouble since I guess he wasn't supposed to talk about it, but he sniped that teams (or it might have just been the Broncos that he was sure of) had offered Kaepernick a contract but that Kaepernick turned them all down because he simply wanted more money.
Most people do not have pneumonia and accuracy has no meaning without data on what it was measured on.

It is important to know if it was tested on suspected pneumonia cases, any breathing problems, any illnesses or sample of general population.

The number is less than impressive if it was just suspected pneumonia cases. (Because then, the treatment is wide spectrum antibiotics blind anyway plus supportive. And culture to see what bug it is.)
Tbh, when you said "biggest sports" I didn't think you were looking for "league with most revenue", might explain some of the reactions.
If these birds mate for life then isnt the mate ~ the same age? Or is this a until death do us part situation?