skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
IMHO, you should attach the pollution directly with corporations and money. Then you could readily tell which companies and industries are pushing "externalities" on their local populations and "poisoning the well" as it were.

I enjoy that people can downvote without as much as a rebuttal. Cowards! =)
> if everyone did the same [..] that strategy collapses.

I think the idea is that if everyone did the same, operators and carriers would be scrambling to recapture the market with user-friendly privacy-respecting devices and services, so everyone could have a ethical phone, including rms.
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Or work with a geographer client that wants to integrate his first terrible, terrible plugin into postgis.

Or contribute to a mess of an open source project that your microservice happen to depend on.

Or debug your student exercice that found yet a brand new way to crash that you never heard of.

Or find what are the side effects of your 3am emergency fix during the last red teaming.

Programming is a vast land.
I bet Charles Stross could come up with a clever occult explanation of this for a Laundry Files novel.
There is part truth in what you say.

Where I lived, I was the only white person in the whole neighbourhood. I later learned there was another - after we dated and a neighbour told me because he found that odd.

When I learned to drive, I was the only white person in the school. When I took the exam, there was a white examinator - we all feared him, because he failed more students than most based on technicalities. We he told me he would fail me if I didn't do this special maneuver right on my 3rd and final attempt, I thought to myself I'll total the car if needed, but I'll do whatever. Because there was this doubt in my mind he was being extra pricky for me because of that.

When I went to the university, there was about 2 other white person in my whole class. I would estimate 5% to 10% maximum of the university. Things I heard.

Things told to me when I tried to run for a student election: "you are a nice person and you have good ideas, unfortunately we both know we are not going to be elected. I would have a chance. You don't".

He was wrong, I was elected. It was always an uphill battle. Eventually I said f that, and I moved away. The thing that really drove it was often being asked "how long are your vacation here?"

I guess everything else I tried to do doesn't make a difference in the mind of most people. Yes I had good friends that saw beyond the difference and to which I was a normal person. But in the daily life you meet more than just friends.

You know the funnier thing? I'm not exactly what one US person would call white. When I visited europe, I found it funny to be followed by security guard. To always be asked to have my bag inspected. To be checked for ID - sometimes everyday by the same policeman. Just for fun.

It aint fun.

So I am the biggest racist? Maybe. I am no longer a minority. I moved to a country where I do not stand out. It has been years. I love every minute of it. Being able to have normal interaction with people who won't assume the worst of me.

It sucks to stand out in the middle.
Why Joe Armstrong sucks
> Javascript/WASM is not controlled by any one large company or organization

It’s disproportionally affected by Google.
Why do credit cards have expiration dates?
Elon Musk Goes to War with Panasonic on Twitter
1) per capita statistics explicitly ignore fertility rate effects

2) even though the US fertility rate has been below replacement rate since the early 1970s (https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/SPDYNTFRTINUSA), population has continued to grow because of immigration. Per capita effects of immigrants fade as their lifestyles become more like those of the existing population.
LastPass. Often unstable, horrible client with bad UX but works well enough most of the time for the customer not to consider switching to an alternative.
... for values of "cease to exist entirely" measured in "populated by millions of people, but considerably fewer millions than before" and values of "relatively short order" measured in centuries.
I would hope it's opt in for those scenarios. If the host is too "tiny" to carry around GCs, then a whole host of languages are not viable anyway. Requiring a GC wouldn't do them any favors.
The public transport congestion is reduced by higher density. Pretty much everyone (in Sydney) is trying to get to the center. If you have more dwellings in the center, you reduce the number of people relying on PT. In cities that are less of a star structure, this may work even better. People end up trying to live close to their workplace and relying less on the transportation.

The need for transportation is a side-effect of not having sufficient dwellings close to where people are commuting to.
> But if you want to do that at age 40, it's super likely that it's not by choice. And that's not something we ought to necessarily allow

If you mandate luxury in housing, everyone who cannot afford that level of luxury will go without housing -- or will end up in illegal and unsafe sublets with abusive landlords, which is far worse than an apartment of one's own that happens to have a floor area that is below your idea of luxury.
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I mean, let's just imagine a hypothetical situation where the totalitarian system breaks down, riots happen and 1+ billion people are starving in China. I do not expect the West to sit and wait it out while it happens.

The West will surely only get to hear all the "sorry sorry sorrys" when it's too late.

Unless the many of us who believe that modern democracies ARE better are wrong, in which case China can continue taking IP, threatening foreign companies and claiming oceans while the rest of the world waits for it all to go tits up.
A comparative study of slow and fast Surya Namaskar on physiological function
From TFA:

>> Mozilla this week announced a project called WASI (WebAssembly System Interface) to standardize how WebAssembly code interacts with operating systems.

This is just another implementation of holes that allow web sites access to the rest of your system. It really is supposed to be the operating systems job to manage resources and what can be accessed. The problem is this functionality keeps getting re-implemented by others with different agendas.
What would they know? This was written twenty years ago, and as far as I'm aware neither of them had any relevant experience with languages that allow for debugger-driven development, production quality selective tracing or anything of any sophistication.

A lot of programming these days involves sending and interrogating complex data via awkward and ill-documented APIs and no amount of abstract a-priori thought or judicious print statements (and good luck printing anything with complex structure with C or Go) is gonna come anywhere close to being able to do an API call, drop into the debugger to see what's going wrong, pretty print deeply nested data sanely and effortlessly and fix up some code or value in the debugger and press on.
I would blame that on the current economy, where getting contract work is already work in itself, and the fact that insurance and other taxes need to be paid all year round. I guess that having 1-2 months clocked in per year won't instill confidence in potential customers either.
> Reminds me of client-side JS frameworks. Or Electron apps.

Even big framework web apps on a core 2 duo running old Firefox, that is nowhere as bad as early Java trying to run something as a web applet.

I remember staring at that crazy Java applet load spinner and hating Java, and this was already in the early 2000s (on the first white iBook running Mac OS 9). It would have been much worse 7 years earlier.

It was really just the JVM’s startup time and the clunky AWT-based UI that made Java lose on web clients. Flash easily dethroned Java there because it started almost instantaneously and could do fancy animations (recall dial-up speeds meant video wasn’t an option).
For years AmEx has allowed recurring charges to continue after a number or expiration date change. But I'm pretty sure they don't share new information with the merchant as part of that.

It's nice after a stolen card number to know recurring charges will continue automatically.
JavaScript: Destructuring Assignment
Video of Tesla Catching Fire – 21.Apr.2019, Shanghai
That’s just like people who are going to be “smart” and use a card with a low credit limit to attach to their hobby AWS accounts.

Just because the charge was declined when you were billed doesn’t mean you don’t owe the money.
Hard to say without reading all the specs/proposals: https://webassembly.org/docs/future-features/

But yeah, even specification itself is WIP
No, assuming all their trades are short term, probably not correct, and assuming this basket option allows them to make short term trades look like long term. then they are saving the long term minus the short term rate each year, so 40% - 25% = 15%

So this saves them, or makes then an additional, 15% each year on taxes.

So a 35% gain each year becomes a 20% return each year. That's pretty darn significant and if true makes their returns fall in line with many other of their peers, which also means they no longer look like the superstar fund that some people make them out to be.
They finally made a chip. It's on 180nm: a node that chipmakers were on 18 years ago. To put into perspective, even eASIC retired their offering that was on 90nm node (2004-2005). University students regularly do deep sub-micron. SiFive targets modern nodes with micro-style cores running faster than this. I'm probably just going to keep recommending modern alternatives.
Here’s an interesting one: when your card is compromised and a new card number is issued, many banks will allow charges to continue using the old card number, provided the charges were occurring on an ongoing basis from that same merchant before the compromise. This is designed to prevent disruption of ongoing subscriptions in the event of compromise.

About a month ago I was reviewing my statement and noticed I was being billed by Spotify twice each month. I contacted Spotify to ask why they were billing me twice, and they asked for my account info and indicated my account was only being billed once. They then asked for the first 6 and last four of my car number to search that way, and again indicated I was only being billed once.

I sent them a screenshot of my online account statement at which point they agreed they were billing me twice but could not find the origin of the duplicate charge.

Finally it dawned on me - my bank had sent me a new card a long while back because of a suspected compromise. I’d had that card for a long time, and had the number memorized. I gave the old card number to them and bam - they found the source of the fraudulent transactions.

This means that even though my card number was compromised and cancelled, it can still be used for payment at any merchant for which I’ve had an ongoing subscription. Since these are merchants I do business with, it makes it doubly hard to notice the fraudulent charges as seeing “Spotify” or “Netflix” or whatever does not raise my eyebrow. Only in a careful month by month review did I pick up on the fraudulent transactions.

As a side note Spotify was very quick to reverse the duplicates and appear to have blocked that old card number from being used in their system again. Although a frustrating experience overall, they were very good to work with.
Whilst changing countries recently, I downsized to a 6m2 appartement for the days I came through the city.
I've lived in 20m2 apartments before, and find the 6m2 vastly more comfortable, for a few reasons.
6 - 10m2 are tiny, which force you to keep possessions to a minimum, and stay neat and organised.
20m2 is double the size, but double the frustration: you can almost do many things in it, but always at a compromise.

I'd have never expected it until I lived it, but 10m2 is much more comfortable than 20.
Any comparison will be spurious because the candidates are different in so many respects. Renewable generation is a much more broad and varied category than Nuclear power. All nuclear power plants boil water to spin turbines and options of how to do that efficiently and safely with nuclear reactors has been hugely globally researched for about 70 years making the situation today stagnant in comparison to renewables.

There are a range of renewable generation and storage options only seriously industrially developed for just a couple of decades yet already wind and solar products are the cheapest form of new generation (without subsidies).

So in depth comparative analysis is moot now, current renewable options are cheaper even including current storage options to make them dispatch-able, and they will continue to get cheaper. Nuclear will not catch up without some game changing invention which would practically amount to a new technology that we cant debate yet.

Only lingering passionate argument from the years when there was some uncertainty about renewables potential maintains any vision of nuclear competing with them to provide carbon neutral and environmentally friendly power, at the present and into the foreseeable future.

https://www.lazard.com/perspective/levelized-cost-of-energy-...
If one can devise a set of tests exhibiting that a particular instance works correctly, then a subscription becomes possible, as in "the customer pays a rent, as long as the software works as specified", maybe even along with some provision for penalties.

In a way that's what xaaS offers.

However devising a way to let the customer keep his data on-premises may be a major factor, as some (many?) consider their data confidential and therefore prefer store it on their own controlled environments.

As any serving software needs an adequate underlying machine and OS, the service company needs subcontracting partners and/or ways to certify.

It seems to me that Red Hat (along with SUSE, and many other similar companies) may one day adopt this approach.
I'm so often confused by these comments.

Are you saying that we could stick a JVM in the browser and ship Java applets around to be progressively/streaming loaded and executed in browser?

I don't know much about the JVM but it seems the goal of WASM and the JVM were quite different, no? And yes, WASI has overlap with JVM, but if WASM catches on and people like it, how does WASI make any less sense?

Are you advocating we have WASM and JVM but no WASI? Is that better? Not sure why anyone is crying here..
On some people, there is fear and ignorance.

But some know very well what they're doing. I have posted my personal story below.

You are free to disbelieve me
Chernobyl happened for a lot of reasons, you’re being reductive. The reactor design, testing procedure, and crew all contributed to that disaster.

If I had to pick one reason, I would blame reactor design. The RBMK reactor had what’s known as a positive void coefficient. When voids (boiling water pockets) formed, these reduced the reactor’s ability to moderate neutrons, thus accelerating the reaction rate. This makes the reactor fundamentally unsafe, and guaranteed that something was going to go wrong.

This is a design flaw that has thankfully been fixed in other reactors, including all other RBMK reactors. The flaw was known to the Soviet’s at the time, but the RBMK was designed to produce nuclear weapons, so they swept the flaws under the rug.
Do you think that all cultures are the same?
Their sales and support approach to Meet hardware is also abysmal. If they sold hardware direct, supported it through an official channel, and had reasonable documentation around it, they would slay, especially for customers who already have G Suite. Instead, it’s a confusing web of resellers bundling off-the-shelf hardware.
>> I feel like it might be a cause of being a bit older but my (single) mother always said that women and men were equal in worth not aptitude.

My (also single) dad says that men are smarter and more ambitious than women, that womens' place is at home, taking care of the children and that society is broken because women are trying to do the things that men are naturally better at doing and don't want to do what they're good at.

Your mom against my dad. Who wins?
Right, it's a pity RSA does not use 32 or 64 bit ints.
Codesandbox 3 (VS Code in the Browser)
I'd be curious to hear more precisely what you'd propose here.

My impression that, unfortunately, many such attempts to (essentially) make life better for working mothers appear to have pushed us away from families-with-kids, and towards ever more singletons (including single mothers). They tend, I think, to move us from a system in which the family is the economic unit, to one in which its personal compromises are not necessary.
Pleasure. Just found out that the NanoPi M4 (which also has a PCIe slot) has a 4x SATA option available, which for a NAS project makes this the current favorite.

https://www.friendlyarm.com/index.php?route=product/product&...
This is a very interesting take. The only problem in using this analogy for social media companies is that in a coffee shop you pay for the coffee. In case of social media you don’t pay for anything. So there is no incentive to maintain your privacy:
I don't really know much about the science behind how men and women as populations differ. However, I wonder if it would be possible for society to have a more nuanced approach to these issues:

Encourage men and women as individuals to pursue roles that match their aptitudes and personalities even if they do not line up with their sex.

Provide wisdom or rules of thumb based on how men and women as populations may differ.

However, the problem that I would see with this approach is that humans tend to be lazy in their thinking, so general rules of thumb tend to become absolute rules.
The "average" surveillance camera often does not have sufficient pixels-on-target/pixels-per-foot to do face detection for the majority of persons in the scene. The trend towards higher resolution cameras (eg: from an average resolution of ~3MP today towards 4K resolution) will of course help with face detection somewhat, but you also have angle of view concerns, and the fact that people don't always walk towards the camera for a good face shot.

Various companies have been implementing appearance search functionality that lets you search for similar appearances across multiple cameras to find the scene/image where you got a facial shot of a person of interest. Preventing the majority of cameras from classifying someone as a "person" object would significantly disrupt that workflow.
What you are stating is factually at odds with TFA, and your example of tracking sex in research studies is interesting because the NIH tweets:

Sex can influence health & disease in many ways, which is why NIH requires that researchers consider sex as a biological variable (SABV) in all stages of research: http://bit.ly/2KXGL7k
Given that (as I have to assume) most human diets are optimized to some extent around the parameter "Doesn't contain much arsenic", something could be the largest contributor of arsenic while still providing too little arsenic to have an effect on health.
Could you explain more why you think absolute equality of outcome should be a goal for humanity? I understand and support the argument that we should not penalise people for being unfortunate enough to be born in less advantaged circumstances, through nationality, parental resources or genetic abilities.

However it seems unreasonable for example to seek equal outcomes between person A who spends their time studying (deferring gratification) and person B who spends their time in leisure activities. Or person A who saves for retirement and person B who spends all the money.

This is not from a moral perspective, but just in terms of how we wish to incentivise behaviour.
Isn't that what the goal of software should be? Solving problems with older implementations?

Do people think WASM is not better than the JVM for streaming browser based usage? Did it learn nothing from the JVM? The sarcasm in these threads always confuses me.
The real key part of this phrase is "sufficiently complicated". GraphQL shines in certain scenarios, but not every API needs this complexity.
Banks have offered virtual credit cards for many years; in Portugal it's been available since at least 2006.
Historically, that's a reasonable supposition. The hypothesis that poor countries can achieve economic prosperity without emissions requires proof.
Privacy.com does this too with debit cards for free. You link it to a bank account, and it generates disposable card numbers that can be locked to a given merchant and given a maximum amount that can be charged at once before they decline.
People like you are the toxic ones and will be remembered in history as the gullible "useful idiots".
You follow the party propaganda of Big Corporations to crank out more workers in oder to dump STEM wages.
Just as Corporations love Illegal immigration to slave away at their factories.
Just as Corporations love H1B visas to put pressure on local professional wages.
Just as Corporations in SV love to make agreements among each other to keep wages low.

The Career Women is by simple logic just a short term trend that will vanish.
Why? Because these particular type of women have birthrate of 0.5 (you need 2.1 for sustainment) So they have way to few kids to pass on their values.
Meanwhile traditional women have 2-3 Birthrates, so they pass on their values to their kids.
It should be obvious who will come out on top.

It's deeply dehumanising to suggest to a women who wants to be a mother that she should learn some random profession to increase sales by 0.1%.
People like you act like every women is trying to solve cancer, reality is that most workers Women and Men, do insignificant work just to satisfy our GDP growth Cult that is propagated by our overlords the Big Corps.
Jesus I find my London 79m2 apartment claustrophobic do you spend any time indoors other than sleeping? What about Guests? Partners?
> Any constructive discussion is welcome.

I want to attack the premise that a shrinking population is inherently a problem. The only clearly stated problem that I've seen
is how social security will likely crumble since the fewer younger people won't be able to support the large aging population.

But this ignores how productivity has been and will continue to rise thanks to machines. I think we can easily take care of an aging population if we make proper use of new technology.

In fact I think that reducing our numbers is necessary for our survival.

We live in a capitalist world, where constant growth is assumed and expected, but the earth is a relatively closed system and you know what happens with bacteria in closed systems? They reproduce until they exhaust the system's resources and then they all die.
r/wallstreetbets :D

Just joking. Don't downvote please
Definitely experienced this helping a friend who qualified for FFA. I ended up contacting them on Twitter and they gave me a promo code after recognizing the site was misleading.

The solution probably entails making it illegal for them to upsell folks below the income bar, and require them to provide the free filing option based on the forms entered.
Not sure using fictional characters from Dostoyevsky as specimen of behavioural patterns is very convincing.
Can the title be changed to something less clickbaity?
#1 is my point, and as for #2, there aren't many newspapers calling for reduced immigration to reduce CO2 emissions, are there? Have fewer children, but don't dare consider reducing immigration.
only needed to make a political statement, not really useful or competitive.
Not sure why you are being downvoted. This is simply true. To solve this problem will require a GLOBAL effort. Notice China didn't pull out of the Paris agreement. The sad truth is every country has been failing to meet its agreements so far and some are hostile to the problem like the USA (who has a major political party denying the problem exists).