skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On top of that IKEA often has several of the best ranked air filtering plants from NASA's study available at great prices.
Take some pride in your work. Software is literally the most in demand profession today, you don't have to work for corrupt employers. You can contribute something positive to society and still make decent money.

In some other profession I'd make exceptions, but seriously the amount of money flowing to developers these days, there's no excuse to sell out.
The role of education (and parenting) is to teach the child how to sort information they obtain from sources like those googled results.

Why did he believe in those biased sources of info? How come he didn't have the skills to determine what is fact and what is opinion stated as fact?
Says something for the value of some sort of CI process. Here in Australia there are clear popular majorities for some form of loosening laws re marijuana, yet any politician who makes serious moves in that direction is crucified by the far right press. In effect, a foreigner (Rupert Murdoch) has a veto over Australian laws.

Even with a CI though, magic mushrooms would be a bridge too far here I suspect. Imagine allowing people to pick what's growing in the paddocks around them? The suburban world might end.
Re 2: Military research gets ignored all the time despite (because?) it often outpacing academia by decades. Not sure exactly why this happens, just wanted to note this phenomenon isn't specific to CO2 levels and cognition.
I think for me personally its:

Over the next 20-30 years personal freedoms and economic opportunities in the United States gradually erode, and large corporations seeking to continue/increase profit are entirely complicit in legally feeding their data into a surveillance state.

The goal of the model would be to decrease how fucked I am from this eventuality.
Molly’s significantly more dangerous than acid or psilocybin, no?
We should fix this with a new HTTP header. Browsers can verify that "expect redirect on next request" ends with the correct destination domain. It would be relatively simple for browsers to implement.

Google can set this on the headers for outgoing redirect link they already use for AdWords and search results. It would simply make sure that after all the 30X redirects, you actually land on the expected domain.

I can't believe this doesn't already exist. It would be widely useful even outside of ad-tech, when you need redirects for country specific subdomains for instance. And by the other replies on this thread it would fix an ancient security hole at the same time. Anybody want to make an RFC?
Interesting. Dang, you should write a book -- or at least a blog post -- on the psychological dynamics of internet communities!
And yet none of those updates that I can think of had such ridiculous regressions like you see in todays "ship daily" software.
I just saw ads on that blog post. I thought that was odd given the context. I went back to see again, and they were not there anymore. Is one of the included script tags up to no good?
United Nations Expert Arrested in Tunisia for Using an RTL-SDR
This article is not good. It has its good points but the rest of it is deeply and completely flawed and it definitely has the feeling of ideological propaganda.

If you don’t know why that is the case, I will explain.

Firstly, it causes me actual physical pain to read because I have a son and society has become so default toxic towards men and assumes that they are somehow evil and guilty for....wanting sex and not knowing how to get it, or laughing at stupid jokes...

The reason this article is bad is that it is that it does exactly the things which cause the alt-right movement to get stronger and stronger, while knowing that it is doing them. It is hard for me to look at this other than a form of propaganda.

Here are the real, severe problems:

1. Categorize everyone who disagrees with you as a Nazi or alt-right. 43% of the population leans republican, call them all Nazis and you get the alt right.
2. Ignore or dismiss 100% of the counter arguments without naming what they are, just that they “must be wrong”
3. dismissing the entire validity of the alt-right by saying “there was one Nazi there”

There was a Nazi in Seattle once, he got punched in the face after ten minutes by a mob from the Internet. It doesn’t mean that everyone in Seattle is a Nazi.

What Liberals are going to have to do in order to get people like me to ever vote for them again is the following:

- admit There are extreme views on both sides and we can see how certain aspects of the Democratic Party are out of control, but that doesn’t excuse allowing Nazis, get rid of them and we will get rid of our nutcases also
- If you don’t agree with 100% of what we are saying you still are welcome. We are not going to destroy your career and reputation if you want to argue over specifics
- We are not going to use the words “whiteness” and “privilege” as a derogatory insult implicating all white people as being bad.

I work in tech, my twitter stream is filled with anti male and anti white rhetoric. I have blocked dozens of people for this reason.

- We are going to proactively eliminate bad actors with extremely racist and negative, toxic views from our own side

Until the Democratic Party and liberals admit to these things, moderate their tone, I am never, never, never coming back, and I voted for Obama twice.

It is time to stop pretending that there is only a single right answer, this article is exactly the propaganda that is driving the alt right and if it continues you are going to see it grow and I will be joining it, at this rate, I’d this continues.
These blanket statements would seem less provocative and more convincing if you backed them up with reliable references.
Dunno why you're downvoted; to me it's a reasonable question. What I don't know--and why I am profoundly concerned about such recommendation algorithms--is if there's any way for non-Googlers to ever check that.
Invitation to join Akash
> When we did confront Sam—say, if we caught a glimpse of a vile meme on his phone—he assured us that it was meant to be funny and that we didn’t get it. It was either “post-ironic” or referenced multiple other events that created a maze-like series of in-jokes impossible for us to follow.

I have made it clear to people I know that parroting vile positions online "because of humor" isn't really a clarification that you can make, and even when fine in person it still offers safety to those that hold and speak then with fervor. Giving white supremacist positions as a joke cannot be effectively separated from being a white supremacist (most aren't violent), and satire in this era is nearly impossible.

Perhaps having been on the receiving end of racism and it's associated violence has made me bitter. I got increasingly angry at the authors apparently laissez faire attitude about everything and trying externalize so much blame for what happened. The parents have given up on responsibility and this is the obvious result. If you don't shape the culture and ethics of your children then someone else will.
Interesting that fiberglass fibers are typically 5-25 micrometers (µm), while asbestos fibers can be 180A to 300A (1 angstrom = 1/10000th of a micrometer. So an asbestos fiber is between ~200 to 1400 times smaller than a glass fiber.

Acrylic fibers are 15 µm to 25 µm.
Merino wool fibers are 15 µm to 30 µm.
And human hairs diameters are between 20 to 200 µm.

Seems to be a biological limit to the body cleaning system e.g. nanoparticles, abestos
>Other than that, the serialization format is not that exotic, broadly similar to FlatBuffers or Cap’n Proto. As a digression, I find it amusing that the word for packing a data structure into a byte buffer is “serialization” even when it’s designed to be accessed in parallel. Maybe we should come up with a better term, as “parallel-friendly serialization” is an oxymoron.

Great observation! I get the feeling there must be a great punny term for the enigmatic oxymoron "parallel-friendly serialization", but I can't quite put my finger on it.

(Reminds me of "de-optimizer" => "pessimizer", or "spectral frequency analysis and filtering" => "cepstral quefrency alanysis and liftering".)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cepstrum
Show HN: Flipt – an open-source feature flag solution
California's CISO Leaves State Government
Yup this is what i was thinking.
Oh, I thought you just needed a source on the harassment claims. I do not believe there was an explicit rejection, however at the bottom of the blog post, we have...

* We are not rolling our own. Whether we host it ourselves or pay for a service, we’re getting something off the shelf that best meets our needs.

* We are evaluating products, not protocols.

* We aren’t picking an outlier; whatever stack we choose needs to be a modern, proven service that seems to have a solid provenance and a good life ahead of it. We’re not moving from one idiosyncratic outlier stack to another idiosyncratic outlier stack.

Given other language such as "modern expectations" in regard to interfaces and being "spoiled for good options" as well as Rust's move to Discord possibly setting a precedent within Mozilla, the posters in the HN thread above don't have a lot of hope Matrix will be selected even via Riot.
Windows Implementation Libraries (WIL)
When you compare the US situation with other western countries your number one fear should be with US private insurances, private or not.
"The Windows Implementation Libraries (WIL) is a header-only C++ library created to make life easier for developers on Windows through readable type-safe C++ interfaces for common Windows coding patterns."
Amazing! I love the interface!
This thematically reminds me of the tweet

"When did you become radicalized by the U.S. health care non-system?"

https://twitter.com/AllOnMedicare/status/1124042436345569286
What’s New with Android Jetpack
How to Design Destructive Actions That Prevent Data Loss
Buying AMD would have been great.

There's always more to the (inside) story. Meaning I have no idea what's going, so should stay humble if I can't keep my mouth shut.

James Gosling's shared one theory for the downfall of Sun: radioactive packaging of the hot new UltraSparc-II chips cost the company billions.

http://nighthacks.com/jag/blog/336/index.html

I so wish Sun had survived. Jini, JavaSpaces, JXTA, grid computing... I recently had to do some AWS Lambda work (serverless & nodejs) and wanted to kill myself.

Thank you for sharing your views, theories. It's actually therapeutic.
Well, I don't know if I think a middle-aged man who goes to a rally to hold up a sign saying "NO TRUMP. NO KKK. NO FASCIST USA," is progress over the alt-right. To me it's the exact same thing -- an overly zealous person who takes politics as a tribal game and has no sincere intention of changing anybody's mind.
No, and your characterization reads as disingenuous.

To remove any ambiguity: what I am saying is that straight white men are, in general, the beneficiaries of positive cultural assumptions in ways that women and blacks and LGBT folks are not, and those assumptions have ripple effects that cascade into significant social benefits. American reactionaries really fucking like those social benefits, are threatened by the prospect of losing them (and, when it comes to poorer reactionaries, are afraid of losing what little status they convey over, say, poor blacks), and will fight to protect them.

"Rich reactionaries use poor black people to distract poor white people" is neither new nor controversial and pointing out that they do the same thing with women and LGBT folks--how do you think nonsense peddlers like Jordan Peterson and Stefan Bad History Molyneux get anywhere if not for this?--is not a stretch.
Please do not take HN into generic ideological flamewars. They're boring, they spread, and we don't want them here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
This was upper class resistance to the Nazis. The members of the Solf circle were aristocrats and included some members of the former Weimar government. There was other resistance centered in those social circles.

There was, of course, also resistance from groups in the middle and lower classes. One interesting aspect of the heroine of this tale is her piety, a common theme among those groups that crosses the lines of social class. Die Weise Rose was an example of a Catholic resistance group with similar motivations.

The lawyer Helmuth James von Moltke, who warned the diplomat Kiep of this informant's activities, was the great-grandnephew of Moltke the Elder, who won the Austro-Prussian and Franco-Prussian wars in the 19th century, and grandnephew of Moltke the Younger, who, when he was promoted far beyond his capabilities to Chief of the German General Staff, screwed up von Schlieffen's plan such that the German attack on France at the start of WWI devolved into the trench warfare that disaster became known for, instead of a decisive and quick victory in the west before attacking the Russians in the east.

The Helmuth von Moltke of this story was executed by the Nazis in early 1945.

I think it's always salutary to be reminded who the actual Nazis were and the kinds of things that they did to overcome the contemporary habit of calling political opponents by that name. Godwin's Law wouldn't be a thing if more people studied the actual history involved.
China’s Tinder Suspended in Chinese Appstores: Hookup Culture in the Crosshairs?
This is pretty disingenuous - we have spent loads of time making Riot work well with self-hosted servers (c.f. the current login & registration flows, which explicitly prompt you to select a server), and around 50% of the network are running their own servers. Our intention is to turn off the original matrix.org server once we have decentralised accounts and the network is healthy enough.
Downvotes aren't "I don't like you / your idea". Obviously some people use them that way, but ultimately they're about public moderation.

I downvoted your comment. I can explain why if you like. It's not because "I don't really care about what you're saying", and it's not right to be so dismissive. There are substantive reasons.

First, you set up a strawman: Why are Americans so obsessed with Nazis?

There are two implications here:

* The first is that there is an obsession, an irrational amount of attention. Obsession has strong negative associations. It's a highly loaded word. This is a common rhetorical pattern: choose such a loaded word and present it as the antecedent of whatever argument you're putting forth. It lays the groundwork of the ensuing discussion that, indeed, Americans are obsessed, why would anyone not agree with that? It's often used as part of a Gish Gallop, where highly editorialized statements are peppered throughout an argument, making a thorough response become far too long-winded, meandering, and rhetorically weak. It's a strong signal that someone is posting in bad faith; there are many ways to ask this question in a neutral way, but that wasn't done.

* The second is that Nazis are the issue, rather than fascism or the right-wing in general. It's definitely worth noting that this article specifically used the term "Alt-right", and only referred to Nazis when referring to actual neo-Nazis, Nazi symbolism/flags, etc. Generally, discussion of Nazis is common because it's an entirely apt and powerful example of right-wing ideology and political power.

Beyond the rhetorical flair, the rise of right-wing ideology in America has been so sudden and pervasive that it strains credulity that anyone would be surprised that the issue gets lots of attention. The rhetoric of foreign threats, heterodoxy and distrust of academics/authorities/elites, national/racial pride, traditional values, etc. are all shared between the contemporary alt-right and the Nazis, so these comparisons are bound to happen, and are often apt. Certainly it's not always used appropriately, but nothing can change the fact that these are, overall, similar right-wing movements.

Your comment went out of the way to bring up "obsession" with "Nazi hysteria" despite having nothing to do with this particular article, so it's hard to believe it's made in good faith. Perhaps it is, but the cost of false-positives in this sort of moderation strategy are very low; you can easily get around it by taking on a somewhat more neutral tone.
Bringing FM-7 back to life from death
If you're talking about improving support for incremental present in Vulkan implementations, let's definitely connect. Certainly I can see how to do it well on Windows/DirectX, using IDXGISwapChain1::Present1. On macOS I think it's impossible (though Chrome sometimes fakes it by pasting update layers on top of the base window in the compositor).
It has possibly more negative health effects when abused (or, possibly maybe, even regularly used). It also seems to have a goldmine of beneficial therapeutic effects that we haven't seen before.

And as with nearly all of these things - alcohol, tobacco, and prison are all much worse for you.
If you ever hop back into the realm of Java, take a look at Project Lombok [1]. It adds a list of helpful annotations for those sort of features.

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[1] https://projectlombok.org
OK, users don’t want control. I’ll start a Netflix with only one movie because they don’t want control over what they watch.
IMO docker is the Myspace of containers.

There's so many bugs I've just stopped caring. Like many devs, I have a bash alias to blow everything away when the daemon gets funky. And it behaves differently enough between platforms that, at least at my company, we've given up on running the same containers between different OS.

I really think the endgame will be a VM based container system backwards compatible with docker. At VM level it's far easier to deal with kernel level incompatibility. Not to mention the constant security bugs that come from sharing a kernel. Somewhat ironically MS is already doing this in a way by hosting a Linux kernel in a VM for their docker implementation. They're only a step away from launching a kernel for each container.

With how cheap ram is these days, sharing a kernel is pointless. You save maybe 50mb of ram per container in return for maddening implementation complexity and worse performance
Good grief. Please don't take HN threads further into ideological flamewar.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Docker could have never created Swarm and Compose at all. In hindsight if they went all-in on k8s from the beginning then they might now be the leader in enterprise k8s instead of Red Hat and IBM would be buying them. But this wasn't clear at all in 2014-2015.
It’s a physical attack, it’s literally inserting a baby into someone under conditions that were not consented to.
Yes, even I ran the tests and noticed printing the double in snprintf() is the bottleneck Any idea how we can do that faster and we get the format we need in `nnn`?
Peer influence is a real thing, parents aren't the only ones that get to shape their children, whether they like it or not.
SP-1200: The genesis of modern Hip Hop production
I’m European and I’m very worried about Nazis.

In both Europe and America for what it’s worth.
What makes you say that 2D graphics has worked well? Scrolling often janks, UI designers constantly have to work around limitations in the imaging model and performance quirks (for a long time, clipping to a rounded rect would kill performance), and there were lots of shortcuts with things like gamma for blending. I'm hoping to build something way better, where the UI always updates smoothly, and the UI designer doesn't have to be conscious of the limitations in the renderer.
My personal take on it is that in practice software liberation is more akin to the right to repair than to a need for intellectual property.

We currently have both a draconian IP regime and woefully inadequate right to repair, but fixing the latter does absolve free software from needing the former to function.
You can still make money from advertisements if you don’t track everything your users do. Magazines don’t know how long you look at a page and they still sell ads. It’s just harder.
Please don't take HN threads on generic ideological tangents. They never go anywhere interesting.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
What if you could hear my hands speak? (43 SEC video)
I agree it's a mess. We have docker swarm, docker compose, "regular" docker, the Moby fiasco. I'm just waiting for Enterprise Docker Faces to surface at this point.

Kubernetes isn't that great but it's less of a disaster than the current docker ecosystem.

I'm convinced another player will come in taking the best of both and give us something reasonable to work with. Maybe in 5 years or so...

Istio looks promising. The missing piece has always been convenient inter-container communication. I think something with mesh and gRPC baked into the core for strong service contracts would blow everyone else away.
I think it’s fair to use the term about those who self-identify as “Nazi”, “Neo Nazi” or generally express the historic Nazi party / 3rd Reich as their main philosophical inspiration.
Psychedelics have their ups and downs, but perhaps their best quality is their ability to enhance perspective. Being able to understand different points of views probably will change humans.

Just recently there was an article on the front or second page of hacker news which claimed caffeine and alcohol are responsible for civilization. (http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2017/02/28/alcohol-caf...)

I can't even imagine what our distant future holds as psychedelics become more accepted, but it is extremely encouraging given the mindset of our current leadership!
I don't want it either, that's why I posted since the person I replied to was the one bringing up communism out of no where
This is step in the right direction but just like the side effect disclaimers I think most people will get desensitized to it.

I don't know why there is so much focus on drugs though lately. Biggest costs are on the medical side.
The Repugnant Conclusion (2017)
More generally it comes back to the right to repair. We operate in this perverse economy where we lack a meaningful right to repair in the digital age because understanding on the subject is so scarce, but I personally believe in a strong consumer right to repair, and in a post-IP world that would include a requirement to disclose source of software - in practical terms, so the owner of the tractor can fix bugs in the tractors computer, but in general so anyone purchasing software - or just goods of any kind - should have the right to understand what it is and how it works.

Its one of the defined software freedoms of the FSF, after all, and its fundamentally why software freedom is advocated for, but it absolutely doesn't need copyright to be enshrined in law.
But laissez faire IS a cultural and ethical stance. “Live and let live” was a powerful cultural standard I remember from my childhood.

Deciding that these parents have “given up on responsibility” is a loaded accusation to make because their child has adopted political ideals you disagree with. Given the thoughtfulness of the piece i’d characterize it as unfair.
Base load power is inherently less useful than peaking power plants as the demand curve while predictable is extremely variable. Power companies build as many of them as they can get away with because they are cheap, not because there is some inherent advantage to steady state power.

Wind competes in exactly the same niche as the price is low though with some additional downsides. As you build more of them there is less utility in base load power as you end up producing wasted electricity production ever more frequently.

PS: Hydroelectric is generally the ideal peaking power plant as it’s cheap, the downside is you can’t build many if them.
NYC similarly deprioritized marijuana in 2014 but what happened in practice was only minorities were getting arrested during 'stop and frisk' searches in the subway. Now arrests are back up to what they were before.

It's actually kind of a clusterfuck.