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> I maintain that I am flagging this because I consider it off-topic and not intellectually stimulating.

The discussion happening in this thread does not support your conclusions. As per the HN guidelines:

> Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.

There is an interesting phenomenon here -- that sex rates are apparently changing very significantly. Whether or not you personally were inspired the post, it is clear that this has provoked plenty of intellectually stimulating discussion here. If the flag button is abused, it makes the moderator's jobs harder. To properly flag posts, a good rule of thumb is to ask these questions before flagging a post:

1. Are people having civil discussions and learning new
points of view in a constructive manner?
Whether or not you are interested or able to
participate in the discussions has no bearing on the
answer to this question.
2. If the post isn't about computers/technology,
is there something academic about the post?
Is there data to discuss, its implications, etc.?

If you can answer "yes" to these questions, you probably shouldn't be flagging the post.
Yeah, you can compile to WASM since the last few versions of Go (1.10 or 1.11)!
Good! Despite the Brexit fiasco, the UK is getting this issue correct. Our Congress will NEVER regulate the Silicon Valley billionaires because they have been completely bought.
In addition, it encourages inefficient use of existing housing.
> 20 people were to stand up on a soapbox with a megaphone in times square screaming about /r/redpill, /r/fatpeoplehate, etc concepts they would be removed if legal, and if not legal a huge countermovement would appear to try to force them out

I think you badly underestimate the apathy towards this stuff. Perhaps a better comparison would be the anti-abortion protestors, who can be pretty extreme.

> 30 minute produced broadcast dedicated to sharing fake crime stats about Muslims

This is absolutely routine in the regular media.

https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/why-the-british-media-i... / https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/apr/27/islamo...

The Times is today running a series of highly misleading selectively quoted articles about gender identity services, presumably with the intent of causing violence against and suicide among trans people.
Many ways to do this.

Make the password widely-known. Announce it over the intercom. Post it on the walls.

Offer both encrypted and non-encrypted SSIDs. The non-encrypted SSID could even just be a captive portal with instructions to connect to the encrypted SSID.

If you're feeling wild, use WPA2 Enterprise, and accept any credentials.
>targets a wide array of web content, including child exploitation, false news, terrorist activity and extreme violence

Ah the good old Four Horsemen of the Infocalypse.
It's actually far less in IT. A close relative worked in construction. You think tech has bad harassment issues? Construction had open prostitution at work, rape jokes targeted towards the female engineers, and some people would urinate openly.

Anything with undereducated people are also quite toxic. Both the managers and colleagues often have very low willpower and get emotional over small issues, starting fights for small things, like not getting them a drink, or touching their car.

In tech, people are not so replaceable, so most companies have plenty of financial incentive to treat each other respectfully.

Startups can be a little worse than usual, because the people are younger and there's more of a "college" climate.
Tbf I would assume if that's true it's because the men feel the need to achieve more. Thus women still do get more on alimony and child support but the men focus more on a career.
The problem I see with all these Anecdotes is, that when a person starts to take care of their body like you did, they attack multiple health problems at once: improving sleep, reducing coffee, eating more greens, a little bit more workout. So it is more the sum than a single thing.
This is just a description of a normal Monopoly which I think is pretty rare in housing because I never hear about it.
Having a compressed ISA AND a smaller decoder is a win-win.

There are, sadly, non-intrinsic reasons why x86 holds the position it does - nobody has the kind of money Intel has to invest in high-performance desktop CPUs. The few companies that do either go after the x86 market or ignore the desktop and low/mid-range server niche.
It is already possible using a combination of WPA Enterprise (802.1x) and RADIUS. The RADIUS server is configured to accept any username/password combination, effectively providing an open access point but isolating its users because the 802.1x scheme employs different key material for each user (not completely sure about that key material part but I think that's how it works).
Its something not done in polite circles. The whole of PUA culture is about hacking the sexual market. A bunch of it delves into things that are thought of as distasteful.
This is very well written - https://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2013/03/how-doctors-die/
Wouldn't it be sufficient to change the Google advertising ID (AAID) to some random ID?
It render all this data gathering useless.
Babel's designed first and foremost with extensibility in mind. Of course an opinionated build tool with no extensibility to speak of (tsc), is going to be easier to set up and get started with than one that designed with extensibility as a core principle.

That doesn't mean one's necessarily fundamentally better or worse than the other, but the great thing about extensible tools is that they can often be used as building blocks for other more opinionated tools that abstracts away configuration details from the user by providing an opinionated set of defaults, and still offer the ability to customize when users' needs are not adequately met by the defaults.

Case in point - Parcel actually uses babel under the hood:

https://parceljs.org/javascript.html#default-babel-transform...

All it does is configures a default set of plugins & presets for you. You can override any and all compilation behavior Parcel provides by default simply by adding the appropriate babel config files.

TypeScript could have done the same with their build tooling, by extending babel with plugins/presets and providing the exact same set of functionality to users as what tsc's is capable of currently in terms of compilation features (which is currently afaik a strict subset of what babel + its plugin ecosystem is able to provide).

That would give users the exact same out-of-the-box experience as tsc does currently, and offer them the opportunity to extend compilation behavior with additional plugins and presets when the need arises.

That extending the compilation behavior of tsc, after so many years of development and wide adoption, is still not even on the roadmap right now is the core of my disappointment with them choosing to develop their own _non-extensible_ compilation tooling vs just extending babel, where they would have been able to offer extensibility for free from day 1.
The first 100 pages of that book (Master of the Senate) is the best history of the tensions of the US that I've ever read. At this point, if someone wants to discuss some of the more charged topics with me, I insist they read that first.

On a similar note, I'd argue that if you read The Power Broker, you get a whole new level of understand of why New York City is the way it is.
French book reveals how Qatar funded Muslim Brotherhood mosques in Europe
To add to that: backup generators are also a logistical mess. Diesel doesn't last infinitely. Do in particular if you expect to run large generators to sustain significant load (like in big data centers, I don't know how significant the load is for the backup gens of a nuclear plant), the amount of diesel you get to store is impressive. Which in turn means that the logistics/tank life issues of the fuel get worse.

The physical&power infrastructure side of big data centers is really quite interesting, by the way. Not something we all get exposed to regularly but I can only encourage anyone who has a chance to learn about it to take that opportunity.
How do you reform a billion-person platform to detect a suicide attempt in real-time?

There's much wrong with Facebook but blaming them for not preventing the actions of their users at the moment those actions take place is moronic.
How about just taxing the profits of house sales exorbitantly? Eg 70% tax on profits of house sales unless you are a UK resident and it's your only home. This way it's still worth buying housing with the intention of leasing it, but buying housing just to sit on it will be drastically less profitably.
Calling safe spaces 'fascist' offhandedly is rather extreme. such a statement should probably be explained or left out. Currently, it just looks hostile for the sake of being hostile.
I'm not here to dig up all studies showing those results. Here is (probably the best) one. The MCE was orignally designed to show the opposite:

https://www.bmj.com/content/353/bmj.i1246
After reading the first sentence of your reply I (correctly) guessed which country you were talking about. It's a depressing state of affairs for sure.
Well, if you want to implement it optimally then you need to be doing srcsets and the easiest way to do them is to put the img width and height in the tag. Then run mod_pagespeed to tidy up the html. It then creates the srceset images. It will not be a solution to everyone's taste but it abstracts out the srcset bit to the server so you can have clean markup. If you are caching your pages at some level then it isn't going to be looking up image dimensions too often. Plus looking up image dimensions server side is a simple ask, no network needed.

I am going with the explicit image dimensions, srcsets and no lazy loading, which happens to be a feature of mod_pagespeed. With figure elements or picture elements for the content images, populated with the srcsets, I see this new browser side lazyload as the missing feature needed to preserve document structure, not have any javascript cludges and serve images in a way that respects data saving and viewport size.

Time to add the new 'lazy' attribute. Firefox and Safari users might not benefit yet but this is no need to wait.
Philippines Dispatch -  A Family Craft with a Deadly Toll: Illegal Gun Making
We switched our staging/dev environments to DO because of cost. A small Kubernetes cluster and hosted Postgres does not cost much there and is very easy to setup. But their hosted Kubernetes and Postgres services are still in “early access” so I’m holding off running production services on there for now.

The switch to Azure will likely happen post-acquisition to move everything into the infrastructure of the buyer.
Enforced monogamy in western societies is part of a broader history of social control that came to exist because it was good at perpetuating itself

It's one interpretation, good for those who accepts the faith tenets of post-structuralism. The other is that it came to exist because of its viability in particular economic conditions.

Also, if acceptance of promiscuity as a social norm really benefits exactly women is a really big question.
Criminals don't have to do programs either. You're claiming it's worth imposing a forced attendance because some people are a social. Its their right to be so and mine to tell you to eat a bag of dicks if you think you can force me to do something.
The history of environmental illness epidemics is chock full of people in power with this attitude. A new technology is poorly understood technology. The lack of peer reviewed research does not prove that it's safe, either.
Replace "evolution" with "changes". I don't necessarily mean Darwinian evolution (if that's what you thought).
Japanese food has pretty high carb but they are mostly unprocessed.
> I stopped reading after this point. Facebook has no clue what kind of stuff gets posted on their platform, and their AI isn't powerful enough to detect it.

The question isn't whether it's currently technically viable for Facebook to monitor the content their users post, but that since they're hosting it, maybe they should have a clue and design the service accordingly. If they are held liable for it and can't solve the problem technically, just let them (and services like it) die off. It wouldn't be a great loss to society as far as I'm concerned.

> It's similar to when Marilyn Manson got blamed for Columbine

What was Marilyn Manson's connection to the Columbine shooting? What is Facebook's connection to hosting morally repulsive content on their service? In my opinion these answers are different enough to merit the question on which grounds you make this comparison.
Correlation != causation. India is mostly vegetarian, not vegan - people eat diary products like paneer, ghee and yoghurt en masse. Meat foods are generally not that great - chicken with tons of bones, very chewy mutton, fish with tons of thin bones. I became +-vegetarian for few months when I backpacked there.

Their diet is generally not that good though - tons of carbs, little physical activity unless in 'blue collar' job. Older folks are almost always overweight. Maybe genes also don't help, not sure there.
Business being the key term here - this kid is 13, and from what I can tell, doesn't make any money from this. How would it make sense for him to pay to have this available via CDN?
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It’s a bit different to have a product which is demonstrated as better in a massive, independently audited, randomized control trial.
Are these price tags inherent in the treatment itself, or is this a "bleeding edge prices" issue that will ultimately subside with time and patient volume?
Designing a Pitch Deck
I agree and disagree with a lot of points.

Most importantly, writing programs on whiteboards. I hate this, but it's an insightful way to measure the individuals thinking processing, decision-making skills, and communications skills.

Expect them to fail and see how they handle the situation and themselves.
The biggest challenge is the public perception of AI and over-hype of what is a very complex digital memorisation technique.
Clearly. And surprised at how many different types of food seem to affect so many adversely. I'm soooo lucky in that I've been able to eat anything and drink anything all my life without having sleep or any other problems (48 now, weigh 68kg, sleep like a champ, eat when I'm hungry and drink when I'm thirsty).
The annoying part is that App Nap also does this with plugged in desktops or even worse with servers that don't even have a monitor plugged in. At least it can be disabled systemwide.
The presence of a lot of people doesn't tell you whether it's safe, only how many people are at risk if a fire does start. E.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Station_nightclub_fire
> * Does not install Tor, OpenVPN, or other risky servers

What do you mean by "risky servers" here? I run OpenVPN on a few servers, is there something I should know?
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Obviously, quality is a matter of personal taste. Kanye's material, particularly his recent stuff, isn't much to my taste.

But I don't care who or what it is, when anyone sells millions of units of anything, it indicates something significant that can't just be hand-waved away with an empty dismissal.
Selecting such a photo for an article aiming to promote nuclear power defeats the purpose. I actually thought that was a coal plant, until reading the fine print.

Maybe the content was written by some folks, and media selection was made by others against nuclear?
The "good'ol'data" approach is useless when the data themselves are useless from the get go.

LDL cholesterol is not a predictor, indicator or otherwise relevant measure with regards to disease, at all. If anything, HDL/trig ratio might be.
Normal Thermal pads are TERRRIBLE and will cause the computer to overheat.

Except those new fancy graphite thermal pads ( thermal grizzly sells some ). Those are generally worse than good paste but are pretty good and they have the added pro of being reusable and keeping their thermal property forever unlike paste. In a laptop that is subject to tension stress they may provide better cooling over time.
It doesn't actually matter whether people are "comfortable" on Facebook or not, it matters whether they're being incited to murder people. Facebook has an effect outside its users. The Bhopal of racism.
Just as bad as the people who obsess over "beautiful code" and whatnot are the people who straight out reject the idea, then label those who observe them the "enemy" of this industry.

I think the key here really is mindfulness. Developers read code significantly more than they write them, and one of the primary goals of best practices and clean coding guidelines is to help teams communicate effectively through code. Writing code well is a skill, but that doesn't start and end at taking all the "rules" to heart; that's just the first step. The next is really to recognise that there aren't any rules, but more heuristics based on collective experiences. Software development is not an exact science, and just like the Agile Manifesto, clean coding guidelines only provide framework upon which to build any team's practices: a starting point from which to find what actually works for their project.
I advise all my friends to do a "one food and work up" diet. I had massive problems with sleep, my skin, my bowel movements, general fatigue, long-onset DOMS after working out - the list goes on. These are completely gone now I pin-pointed the issue. I cut back everything, and added things one ingredient at a time. I started with only root veg, then added legumes, then brassicaceae veg (kale, cauliflower, broccoli etc.) That covered all my nutritional needs bar B12, which I supplement. From there, I've slowly added one more food every couple of week.

My only guess is that I have a histamine response to some kind of compound found in grains and certain types of spices. The body is a strange machination. Honestly, doing the reduction diet was the best thing I've ever done. If you could make a medication that brought me from how I felt 3 years ago to where I am now, you'd be worth more than Bezos.
Right now, Brexit is consuming over 100% of the sustainable effort of the UK government. If the UK government decided Facebook was no longer welcome, it would not be able to operate in London. On the other hand, if the UK government was functioning correctly, it also wouldn’t need to be that heavy-handed.
"Reddit, like Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter,"
...
"It was a place to form anonymous communities around niche interests"

Huh?

None of these platforms got established as primarily long tail platforms.
They were meant to be potentially big with lowest common denominators (news, aggregation, social connection in education communities) and grow into niches.

Niche are topical forums and topical social networks.
Frankly, that should be their problem. Maybe billion-person platforms are altogether not morally scalable?
the spec says "[…] the image dimensions can be decoded from the first 2KB of the image".

It doesn't say anything about when the dimensions are known and I would assume it's using those in that case.

However, loading 2KB of an image is enough for most image formats to determine the dimensions even if they aren't specified in the hosting document (because most image formats contain a header specifying dimensions).
GPS was designed a long time ago, and the data rate for ephemeris and almanac data is.... 50 bits per second.

That's not an exaggeration for comic effect. There's literally 50 bits per second from each satellite. 6.25 bytes.

So the navigation messages are packed extremely densely. To the point that plenty of numbers don't even start on byte boundaries.
Btw, it's not "just one" study, but a meta study. I guess you understand the difference?

Please link the studies showing the opposite results.
The real thing I've learned from this comment section is that Hacker News is full of incels.

Maybe if men stop acting so shitty they'd get more sex?
Seems like a problem a simple diode would fix. Is this really an issue?
> The 787 didn't even exist when the GPS time last rolled over, so it's quite unusual to see it have this problem

It's not as unusual as you'd think:

https://blog.fosketts.net/2019/04/06/gps-time-rollover-failu...

There you see a nice summary of the problem and an example a Mercedes car from, if I understood, 2008 experiencing the same type of problems. Also discussed on HN:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19593227

It's like having a Y2K bug software and saying "but that software didn't exist before 1900." It doesn't matter when the "epochs" are, it's just about what the design covered or didn't.

I've personally fixed the trading software which failed to correctly implement the correct rollover of the decades (i.e. the transition from year 9 to year 0 in the names), not to mention Y2K. It was simply tested before only "in the same decade."

It's definitely a failure in the development process, for the software that is supposed to work in some bigger time frame, and not only shortly.
Doesn't the widely-known password render the encryption useless to anyone that has captured the 4-way handshake at the beginning of your WIFI-session? With the PSK and your session keys an attacker can decrypt your traffic if I remember it correctly.
Good. Piracy must be eradicated if culture is to survive.
Why Has the West Been So Successful?
https://www.forbes.com/sites/neilhowe/2017/10/02/youre-not-t...

There are studies linked there.
Our history has been a fight to survive and thrive where it's been possible to survive and thrive within the environment of our own ecosystem. Despite some exploration, we haven't exactly built cities in Antarctica or the ocean floor, because we can't thrive there. Whatever drive to colonize and grow that might exist in our DNA doesn't extend into space. There's no natural evolutionary path into space - it's unimaginably vast, it costs a ludicrous amount of effort and energy expenditure just to reach orbit, and once you're there literally every aspect of it is hostile to life, and every step is exponentially more expensive and deadly.

I can imagine a species with the same drives as ours, but which doesn't advance beyond colonizing its own solar system, or sending probes to nearby stars, because I can imagine that happening with us. I suspect that, as far as space exploration (much less long term colonization) goes, politics, economics and culture matter far more than our innate drive to find whatever's over the next mountain. We had the capability for manned lunar landings, but didn't follow up with moon-bases or a colony on Mars because that initial drive was fueled by competition and fear between superpowers. We gave up that capability because there was nothing interesting on the moon, and the public stopped caring, and anything but probes started to seem like a boondoggle.

And we're lucky enough to have a moon and a couple of nearby planets to keep us curious. How many technologically advanced but "landlocked" civilizations might there be, who don't venture into space because there's nothing to even theoretically colonize for hundreds, if not thousands, of light years?

Of course, if we had warp drives, things would be different. But the Fermi Paradox suggests that such things are either not possible, or somehow not reliable over the long term, possibly due to energy requirements or something.
How is dredging a channel an easier, cheaper or more intuitive way than a dog to keep foxes away?