skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Reminds me of the "Zero Population" scare of the 70s...

Zero Population was politically evangelized much like climate change for nearly a decade before the fears were proven to be unfounded and mass starvation just wasn't happening as predicted.

I'm not saying in any way climate change isn't real, but I am saying let's not jump to hasty conclusions. Raising kids is one of the greatest joys life offers, so we better be DARN sure that we aren't making a "premature optimization" here.
File a Radar.
> What if "throw shit at the wall and see what sticks" really is a better way of making software than "engineering"?

What if it isn't.
Software + Engineer -> electrontrepreneur. So true, nowadays.
Preventing attempts at collections (like this law does), insurance reform, "medicare for all", etc, etc. are nice but they don't address the root problem. Costs are out of control. Until we find a way to control costs we will still pay way too much. All that changes until then is who pays what amounts and the point at which payment is made. The hospitals are just going to shuffle around who pays what in order to make up for the income they're not getting from surprise bills unless there's something (actual competition, a government payer who won't put up with that crap, etc,) to stop them.

Sure this is a step in a good direction but there's only so many band-aids you can apply to a gunshot wound. While unscrupulous practices like this bill takes aim at should be weeded out it strikes me as hopeless in light of the bigger picture.
I went to check this out and he spends around 20 seconds to misquote AOC on the issue, adding nothing, then goes on to talk about how he wants more transparency in government climate science, and he asserts without evidence that president Trump is genuinely concerned that he has the issue wrong. I’m not going to derail this conversation except to say he basically says nothing of substance on the matter .
I think so. There isn't anything controversial being said here.

Children given education, good home lives, and goals are more likely to succeed than those without access to those opportunities. It isn't fair, but that doesn't mean we can't look for other ways to improve outcomes across the board.
>Firefox treats scripts running from bookmarklets as being scripts that are directly on the page. This means that unless you list `script-src: unsafe-inline`, your CSP policy can disable the user's ability to use bookmarklets. This is the single instance where a site owner has control over the user agent without the user having ultimate veto powers.

about:config -> security.csp.enable -> false
Detroit lookup tables for absentee precincts. In Excel, values are clip art
Free/libre/open-source software.
#1 Ego cogito, ergo sum
Quitting oil requires energy storage. A lot of it.
My son is 6.

He likes electronics because they have games. Usually the older games are better for him anyway because they are simpler. Right now his favorites are Worms Armageddon (iPad/PC/N64) and San Francisco Rush 2049 (N64).

Since he doesn't have free access to any of these devices, he is perfectly happy to use whatever we allow at the time ("Daddy, can we play games on the TV from when you were a little boy", referring to a 12" junky CRT for the SNES). I have no doubt he would be thrilled to have some kind of retro computer to use QBasic on, just like I did when I was 8.

You wildly underestimate the power of a child's imagination. The problem is free access to overstimulating contemporary technology, not some intrinsic boringness of old software.
Did any of those groups they have a scientific basis for believing that having kids would speed up the advent of the apocalypse or worsen its effects?

Let's not draw false parallels.
Walmart et al is most likely hiring and won't give you panic attacks.
Most people would rather exist than not exist, and although it can sometimes seem like it, not everyone in the entire world is severely clinically depressed. Parents make decisions for their children all the time, and existence is one the the safest bets.
Details of Microsoft’s Azure Kinect DK Depth+color Camera
Front end Weekly Digest (18 – 24 Feb 2019)
>She knows that section 13 of the Facebook community standards prohibits videos that depict the murder of one or more people

>It’s a place where employees can be fired for making just a few errors a week

As I understand it, an employee has to make sure its extremely likely that it is a murder. She is told she can pause it by the psychiatrist, not to close it. You as an individual dont need to find out. Just close it immediately if you assume its gore.
Cognitive science’s search for a common morality
It's not about whether human life is still worth it, it's about whether we should have fewer children to lighten the cost.

There are plenty of people who are vegetarian who feel this way too. It isn't just meat eaters. Having a child is far more impactful than eating meat or driving electric cars.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/jul/12/want-to-...
The Great Stork Derby
Yes. I don’t think ending the species is a good response to climate change.
Meltano (By Gitlab): Business Intelligence as Code
I used to love it, back when Thinkpads still had real buttons to go with it. Then they replaced them with trackpad clicking, which makes using it a pain, because it'd usually register movements besides the click, completely defeating the best feature of the TrackPoint, it's pixel-perfect precision. It was never as quick to use as a mouse, of course, but I could always position the cursor exactly where I wanted before clicking.
I like it too, the screen is poor though
Use Google Sheets as your no-setup database
Show HN: Kaneskii – A different take on content aggregation and discussion
But other people and their children are not mentioned.
There's two perspectives:

1. The world will become a place of suffering. The assumption here is either that childhood is a terrible experience, or that suicide is immoral. Your children can decide for themselves if they don't think it's worth being alive in the future

2. Overpopulation is the cause of this doomsday. In that case, we're asserting that having children today means less children will be born in the future. This implies we need to reduce birthrates to more efficiently invest the planet. Unfortunately this line of thought can quickly devolve into eugenics. There are better ways to stabilize population. Relevant: Does saving kids’ lives lead to overpopulation? https://www.gatesnotes.com/2018-Annual-Letter?WT.mc_id=02_13...
The thing I never understood that if entropy steadily marches on, and the sun's energy is finite, isn't this all going to end bad anyways? What will it matter to if we all voluntarily go extinct and add another millennia or two or three to the Earth? It will either overheat in a global warming or face eternal freezing when the sun burns out. Why not enjoy the ride while it lasts and allow others to as well.
I always wondered why they don't have a system where the videos or images are shown first filtered, like blurred, and then at the discretion of the operator, they can take "several levels of blurring" off until they see the original image. That way, for some images/videos/ you can tell if it's violent/inappropriate right away, and the operator may see "less" of whatever is disturbing for them.

I've also wondered how they deal with long videos that may seem correct for the first minutes, but the real inappropriate content is interlaced for a few frames in-between or later in the video.
The use is that most people use AWS like if it was a datacenter they don't own.

If you're going for AWS, you should consider rewriting a lot of your services to use AWS features well.

Auto Scaling Groups and Fargate EC2 are some common components I see few companies using.

If your instances are the same size through the day, you are doing it wrong!*

*Exception: If you provide the same level of service and traffic 24/7.
That's not quite true. While it's true that it doesn't export treeshakeable exports, you can import things piecemeal like `import h from 'mithril/hyperscript'`.

The rationale is that mithril always tries to be explicit, whereas treeshaking is a form of compiler magic.
It's possible. There's a VS Code extension that does this already called lit-plugin. If it becomes easier to add TypeScript compiler plugins via configuration, then I'm sure one will appear, allowing errors at build time.
More significant than cows? I would rather cut back on meat and dairy consumption than be forbidden from raising children.
Just wanted to make a shoutout to Corey Quinn, who has a consultancy which literally works on lowering your excessive AWS bills. He also runs the most excellent Last Week in AWS newsletter https://lastweekinaws.com/ and podcast Screaming in the Cloud: https://www.screaminginthecloud.com

I've personally known Corey for 10+ years and he's a good dude, so if anyone is looking to lower their AWS bills, talk to Corey.
Yes, it was ostensibly about privacy but the actual compliance requirements align with jurisdiction and access rather than privacy.
> ...yet what is the best thing for the kids? That's a harder thing to know - you can't really compare "not existing" with "living in a world that has a ton of issues".

LOL! I certainly can 'compare "not existing" with "living in a world that has a ton of issues"'.

In the "don't exist" case, there is no possibility of anything good happening.

In the "exist" case, there is a possibility of something good happening.

Easy choice, and that's entirely outside my belief that the human race should continue, thrive, and expand across the stars. Climate change is likely not as severe as the alarmists portray, and is very likely to be solved by market forces. The future is bright!
Poor how? I have a nice IPS in x220 and it looks amazing!
At the time X61s was notably smaller and more expensive than its competitors and other models in the Thinkpad lineup. The "normal-sized" model T61 has both touchpad and Trackpoint, so leaving touchpad out may have something to do with the case dimensions. Maybe there were no space left for it or it would have been awkwardly positioned when using keyboard or Trackpoint, and on a more "special" model leaving it out has been a valid option. After all, T61 was available for customers absolutely requiring the touchpad.
Examples of Optical Illusions in Photos
There was a classic TV ad by an oil company that said that CO2 is great because it is plant food. It's still an argument used by folks who oppose CO2 controls.
I'm stuck between a rock and a hard place because this article makes a lot of sense.

https://www.outsideonline.com/2380751/sunscreen-sun-exposure...

I think I'm just going to use daily sunscreen on my face only.
It is an important speculative question, but also misses the fact right now that worldwide fertility is crashing[1].

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/health-46118103
There's no such thing as a Thinkpad without a Trackpoint and proper buttons.
No surprise to see this comment getting downvoted. :-P

Meat eaters (and haters), see for yourself the recent discussion on meat vs plants:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19235684

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19177116
It's an elegant way of covering noise with more noise.
If you and your partner want to have kids then please do so and educate them and for God's sake please vaccinate them. Most importantly, when the time comes move out of their way (unlike the current set of politicians who only want to live in climate change denial.)
It’s Chubby, and it is a lock server :)
Thirty-million-page backup of humanity headed to moon aboard Israeli lander
Welcome to my world.
Also, if I were an Aussie and I'd gotten a request like this, I'd feel pretty incentivized to make the backdoor as blatant and suspicious-looking as possible. The government ordered you to do it; it did not order you to do a good job.

So "evil PR" would probably be the easiest thing to catch, and it definitely seems like other compromise vectors are where the real danger is.
Probably an over-summary but basically correct: the X series optimised portability and only had a trackpoint, while the T series optimised fully-featuredness and had both trackpoint and trackpad.

I still fire up my T61 from time to time -- it's the only computer in the house that still has a DVD drive.
Yeah it looks like an android figure so PIA would use some new designs for sure to stand out in the market a bit. Their website also looks bit too clip-art fakey. Otherwise good service and been using it also
I wonder how a $150 chromebook would compare.

$150 is in the territory of "Drive to store and buy in an emergency".
Last year during Christmas I visited my mother for a day and she still uses my MacBook Pro from early 2008. It doesn't hold much of a charge anymore (it's on it's 2nd replacement battery) but it works delightfully for web browsing, terminal use and I'm sure that I could do most of my daily SRE work on it.
Agreed, it's one thing to have good primitives like Go channels but Erlang/Elixir provide an entire system from which to build a concurrent/async application. Things like error handling, messaging, storage, and structuring your application well for concurrency are already basically built-in into the standard approach you take building Erlang/Elixir apps.
There is an alternative view that regular sun exposure is beneficial, and that many of the health benefits linked to vitamin D are actually just using vitamin D as a proxy for sun exposure. If this is the case, it's plausible that allowing for more UVB exposure indoors would be a net benefit.

Previous HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18890475
X40s are great for journaling. :)
I get your argument, but in terms of environmental impact on climate change, those ‘smart, educated, and motivated’ kids will likely have a greater negative impact on climate change than less educated kids.

It is the successful people who harm the environment the most.

I still don’t believe that we should stop having kids, but let’s not pretend that OUR kids won’t harm the environment.
Does it mean that the developers of GNU/Linux must provide compatiblity with every piece of hardware in the world?
"The Population Bomb" was a pretty fashionable scientific prediction back in the 1960s which had a significant following in the academic and policymaker circles at the time.

It extrapolated from data about population growth, farmland capacity, etc, to reach the irrefutable conclusion that there is going to be mass starvation and famine in the 1970s. It led to calls for China-style population controls, to articles about whether it's ethical to have children, etc.

What happened instead is that population growth has slowed down quite a bit without government intervention, and that we've gotten a lot more efficient at growing food.

This does not prove anything when it comes to climate change, but is an interesting anecdote.
That is creating an extra container object which needs to be allocated separately. Rust doesn't require that.

I'm sure that you can construct the container object at each call site so that it behaves like rust (and it would just be allocated on the stack), but it would get a little ugly. In rust, it's very seamless and "rust-like" even though you are operating on a native C struct.

Similarly, the Option type magic is pretty darn useful. I'm sure you could do that in C++ as well, but again it would end up ugly because you'd need to invent a new COption type or something.
Battery life is necessary to do my job, and is pretty much the only reason I get new hardware now.
> The thing I never understood that if entropy steadily marches on, and the sun's energy is finite, isn't this all going to end bad anyways?

Ha, well the current estimate is that things should be roughly OK for about another billion years, give or take.

It is interesting to reflect that the run of life on Earth is 3/4 (or so) done, though...

> What will it matter to if we all voluntarily go extinct and add another millennia or two or three to the Earth? It will either overheat in a global warming or face eternal freezing when the sun burns out. Why not enjoy the ride while it lasts and allow others to as well.

We'll be in other star systems long before the Earth is uninhabitable...
One outcome happens in the next hundred years, another in the next few dozen billion years. I know which one I prefer...
Too bright! Just not the old school matte thing somehow.
How many people who browse /r/watchpeopledie browse the sub for a length of time equivalent to an entire work day, Monday to Friday? And how many of those users, who browse videos of people dying all day every day, for pleasure, are qualified to judge what is offensive and what is not? These people should be referred to mental health professionals, not assess what is suitable for the world.

You're also entirely missing my original point. The people currently doing the job don't like it. They don't want to be doing it. And yet they are. Why do you suppose that is? Perhaps... because there are no other jobs available? Saying "you should be looking for a new job" to these people is like telling a homeless man he really ought to be looking for a rental property in his budget range.
President Trump:

contradictator (contradict/dictator)
Middle management at my $FORTUNE_500 was the opposite, and I'd been using a 10 year old laptop for development with the exception of an SSD upgrade a wonderful IT dude gifted me when he saw that the mandatory malware scanner was eating 100% of the drive bandwidth almost all the time. So if your workplace is good to you with new systems be thankful. I didn't get mine until IT was outsourced and the outsourced guys couldn't figure out how to buy the right SODIMMs for my ancient lappy to get it to 16gb.
The people making the planes made meticulous changes to the design before anything was built so I really don't think your point is supported by aeroplane manufacturers. The builders weren't just told make it faster and more fuel efficient and to get on with building it.
I really hope she is the one who practices this and doesn't have kids, and the others who think this way.
+1 Nord is awesome.
I know from experience that it works.
Earlier you claim you will only ever hit ~300Mbit, but then you link to an article where the author hit 885Mbit throughput after tweaking a few settings and ensuring OpenSSL was using AES-NI.
The term deadlock has been used for message passing issues since the dawn of time. It is literally the same issue.

Using timeouts to paper over issues is just wrong. I accept that timeouts are necessary to deal with network issues (and a timeout should cause the connection to be dropped, so won't solve the deadlock issue), but certainly they are not required for in-application message passing.

Finally if an actor won't send a message untill it has received another one, I fail to see how statically declared handlers will help.
> Unfortunately I have to wait 4 months between stem cell treatments

Would a 5 day water fast help you?

Ref: "Fasting boosts stem cells’ regenerative capacity" http://news.mit.edu/2018/fasting-boosts-stem-cells-regenerat...
Ah ok, I think I understand your position better. Would it be fair to say you disagree with the invocation of the word "theft" because of negative connotations (almost everyone would agree theft == bad)? Would you say that people using that thought experiment are engaging in Argumentum ad dictionarium?

I appreciate the discussion btw :-)
>I have never seen a company where a large number of people were actively harming the company and the company survived.

Sorta buried the lede there, eh?
The three questions: "At what cost? With what hard evidence? And _compared to what?_"
Isn't that the point of the article pretty much? You easily get used to ignorable errors, making it harder to catch the non-ignorable, if you don't pay attention to not do that.
As someone who has worked on language runtimes in a corporate environment, I believe there’s some truth to this. One successful example of this would be Mike Pall, of the LuaJIT fame.
It's an interesting question. I think where it goes awry is that your choices directly impact the ability of others to enjoy it. So your voluntary choices (assuming they're detrimental) could mean billions of people don't even get that choice. So what gives you the right to make that choice for them?

Not arguing, just offering a counterpoint.
For those used to shock sites from 10-20 years ago, this is very different, I'm not going to link to anything but the disturbing content is on a few whole new levels.

I can't even imagine doing this job. This should be 100% automated with only 0.01% error rate for the first-pass filter (e.g. before it reaches humans).

They are willing to spare their users the horrors but not their own employees/contractors...
Hmm, circa 2012. I've checked in on it a handful of times in the ensuing years, but I came across Go in 2014 and it ended up suiting my needs almost perfectly (rapid application development, simple, great performance, mostly safe, fantastic tooling/ecosystem, zero-runtime-dependencies, etc).

As for where the hostility took place, it was most Ada proponents who would pop up in /r/programming, here on HN, etc. I'm sure the circumstances select for the most toxic folks from any community, but it seemed especially potent from Ada folks (could have been bad luck, ymmv and all that).

Would love for Ada to modernize and improve tooling/ecosystem, but between Go and Rust, I'm afraid that the advantages for a modern Ada might be marginal. It seems unfortunate for Ada that it didn't modernize prior to 2012; it could have eaten both Go and Rust's lunch before they even existed.
http://www.neuroplastix.com/styled-4/aboutus.html

Maybe Dr. Moskowtizs. His technique is the subject of chapter 1 in Norman Doidge’s “The Brain’s Way of Healing”
This is /r/im14andthisisdeep material. Life is inherently joyful, especially for children, even under challenging circumstances. The net happiness rating in Bangladesh is +74%--i.e. 74% more people report themselves happy than report themselves unhappy: https://www.globalresearch.ca/global-polling-which-nations-a.... Decreasing human population decreases the aggregate net happiness experienced by the world.

Also, almost nobody believes it would be better to not exist than to exist in challenging circumstances. That's why cancer patients fight through incredibly painful chemotherapy to get a few extra years of life. If you were offered a painless, consequence free death, would you take up that offer to avoid facing the upcoming uncertainties of climate change? Almost nobody would. Why do you think your potential kids would feel differently?
My Own Experience with Basic and teaching programming:

I know from teaching kids is that LINE NUMBERS makes more sense to them. Personally I HATE line numbers and think they are the devil.

I was showing kids my old 1970s code books that I use to copy into basic and play games. I told them how I was in 1st grade and that my dad would help debug them with me. They all wanted to try and one kid copied a good 300 lines for a battleship game. For some reason the logical numbers made sense to them. That kid must have played that game dozens of times because he felt like he made it.

My own opinion is that BASIC shouldn't be used to teach programming. I opt for Racket.
Numbers of kids may also be relevant.

If you're choosing to have kids, it still seems more ecologically responsible to have two or fewer. If two adults have up to two children, that's an overall reduction in population (because not all children reproduce or reach reproductive age).

Fortunately this is already happening[0] which is why several Western countries populations are shrinking[1] often being propped up by immigration.

[0] PDF Warning: https://www.census.gov/content/dam/Census/library/visualizat...

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/joelkotkin/2017/02/01/death-spi...