skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, it does not. Say I'm 6' tall. "Normal" BMI is between 18.5 and 25, which translates to between 136.4 lbs - 184.3 lbs. Telling me my weight is going up or down tells me nothing about whether I fall into this healthy range. And, depending where I fall (below, within, or above the range), the actions I would wish to take differ. It's that simple.

What instrument do you have that measures your "weight relative to others and your history"? Don't you only want to measure it relative to other healthy individuals? And, if you are particularly underweight or overweight, wouldn't you want to know when you're in the normal range? An instrument that only tells you what direction the change is doesn't tell you any of that.
And the root cause of its suddenly "not being considering cool or exciting anymore" would be?
> be shipped around internally

How is that a problem? The issue at hand is the irresponsible handling of data (especially wrt 3rd parties), not the general handling of 1st-party data competently within an internal network.

So yes, it's a LOT better.
We're already there.
Why do you hang out with people who don't care about ethics?
AFAIK there is no prescriptive standard for Rust, there's only descriptions of how the rustc compiler works. But this was a very intentional decision quite some time ago, and is also the reason why the `std::ptr::NonNull` type exists (the documentation explicitly states this allows enums to use the forbidden value as a discriminant).

FWIW the module documentation of `std::option` does describe this optimization for Option<Box<T>>.

> This usage of Option to create safe nullable pointers is so common that Rust does special optimizations to make the representation of Option<Box<T>> a single pointer. Optional pointers in Rust are stored as efficiently as any other pointer type.
What you think you want while in classes and the shifting realities once you enter the workforce and be pretty night-and-day.

Personally I would have entertained the idea at working at a "Big 4"-type company out of school knowing that they were ethically opposed to me. I guess mostly because the name on a resume is worth multiple other jobs in some scenarios and gives you an advantage over your peers.

Just a few years later, a 6-figure salary doesn't seem that outrageous and unique to those big corporations. Now that the difference is only in the $10s of thousands, these decisions become a little more nuanced and uncertain. Besides that, once you hit the high 5-figures, money becomes less and less of a driver in your life unless you are in desperate need due to your circumstances.

My point is that I think fresh graduates will put aside their ethical qualms because they don't yet know their worth and place in the workforce. That can change pretty quick.

That being said, plenty of people just don't care, and that's why these companies still have thousands of developers. It's easy to be blissfully ignorant of your contributions to privacy degeneration and corporate takeovers of our lives when "all you do" is write some React components or speed up some data pipelines. The executives and managers are the ones who will really need to reckon with their consciences, knowing they implemented all these nasty programs.
Very sad. It's impossible to explain to someone what YTMND was like in 2004 if they didn't experience it themselves.
Oh man, turns out Dallas has four I.M. Pei buildings! Fountain Place, at least, seems to be as close to objectively cool as possible: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fountain_Place
Noam Chomsky and Michel Foucault – On Human Nature
So why aren't we just using Sleep As Android like normal people, and not using some weird devices to track it? Absolutely don't understand the fetish of expensive devices just to track sleep, and I'm the one here with the non-24hr circadian rhythm.
Nuclear power is reliable, safe, clean, and carbon-free. It’s the best technology choice for combatting climate change. People who dismiss nuclear energy aren’t serious players.
Wow when did Chris Hedges become a Russian propagandist? I used to really represent him, how did he get banned from western media?
Modern games just have the client run its own world simulation and rectify with the server later to hide the network latency. This strategy won't be possible with streaming. Is there some alternate optimization that can be made for streaming?

I'm working on a system that unifies single player and multi-player development. Think of it like zeit.co's "NodeJs Now" but for games, with a local-only configuration option. The way my system relates with streaming, is that the client is scaled way down in complexity. Basically, the sync protocol is a stream of positional updates from the server. The client becomes little more than a screen entity display. Then, the developer has the option to add a bit of "own world simulation" to further hide latency. (Or, in the case of the game I've implemented, just "own entity simulation" is enough.)
It doesn't need to be part of the process. As renewables build out, it's less and less clear how nuclear can fit in at all. Renewables crash the price of power too often for nuclear to compete.
I think the right of way/real estate issue is one of the things that makes it incredibly expensive, and why it's much easier and cheaper to build a useless line from nowhere to the outskirts of nowhere.

Maybe the rail line could somehow reuse the freeway right of way, but I'm not sure how that could work while retaining the roads for cars and trucks.
SciFi author Ian Banks 's culture series explores a future civilization where people is potentially immortal but in that society it happens that lots of people lives 150 / 200 or 300 years an then they choose self termination.
Facebook is not lacking on the problem in their web tech either. Like how terrible it's maintaining (or the lack of) flow. It's buggy as hell and I wish I didn't choose it couple years ago in my projects

And for React, the head of React left FB because of the hostile working environment earlier this year.
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/01/17/facebook-manager-quits-after...

Facebook led the way in frontend. But for future candidate, the important question is, if they have faith that FB will continue to lead that way.
Wasn't this just submitted... yesterday? Under the original title?

This text lifted from the subhed is oddly understated. "A cardinal that's half male, half female" is the piece's actual headline, easier to understand, and completely accurate.
It's not a question of deserving their suffering: it's about interfering with a standardized preparation metric for college level work to the disservice of everyone. No one is saying to make college admissions purely SAT based; applications are already multifactor composites. This is about an effort to undermine the numerically objective part of it under political pressure.
Exactly. And who gets to decide how oppressed you are?

Maybe you grew up in a poor neighborhood but have incredibly supportive parents/family?

Maybe you grew up in a billionaire family but with parents who are never around because they have business to run and places to go (as they can afford to)?

And the 'secret' part of the story really really bugs me. Why don't we turn US tax code into a state secret so that rich people/business cannot try to game the system to pay less tax?

EDIT: I got downvotes. But really, I'd like to know who gets to decide how oppressed you are?
Interesting point -- I've heard of vouchers, though admittedly have no experience with them.

But does it scale?
> Yes? Ever heard of school vouchers?

Wikipedia sums it up: "the evidence to date is not sufficient to warrant recommending that vouchers be adopted on a widespread basis; however, multiple positive findings support continued exploration."

Seems pretty reasonable that we don't let people replace the entire country's educational system with this new one until the evidence in favor of it is extremely compelling.
Is there actually a formal language semantics definition anywhere? I thought all we had was stuff like https://doc.rust-lang.org/reference/index.html which is explicitly listed as "not a formal spec".
Whether or not latency is an issue is hugely dependent on the title.

It's hugely dependent on particular network conditions. I wonder if SpaceX Starlink might have an option to optimize for latency?
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I said nothing of authoritarianism.

China provides evidence (if we really needed it) that it is possible to organize more effectively.

I am not insinuating any causal relationship between the authoritarianism and the more efficient organization.

I think that as a species we can absolutely do better than all of that, engineer an organizational system that is both efficient and above all _actually_ humane and democratic.
Definitely doesn't only affect back sleepers. I sleep almost exclusively on my side. There are some very small masks including a type that only has two tiny "pillows" (as I understand they are called) that rest right up on/in your nostrils. Mine basically only covers my nose and has the hose on the top of my head so I can turn from side to side. I'm not sure that would be good enough for a stomach sleeper, but it might. I can see how being a stomach sleeper could make wearing a respiratory mask difficult, for sure.
There was that russian cosmonaut study that consuming salt got you to consume more calories:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/08/health/salt-health-effect...
Seems like there should be two sites; one for people they want to "market" to, and one for developers.
A somewhat lesser known but (IMO) fun fact is that if you compile your executable with -export-dynamic, you can dlopen it and dlsym for functions inside of it just like you would with any other shared library (note that if your goal is to just load the executable, such as if it already has a constructor defined, you don't even need this flag).
The Louvre pyramid itself is a beautiful structure and it is certainly a sight to see.

That being said, its placement in a courtyard surrounded by strikingly beautiful and unique French Renaissance architecture is a testament to modern arrogance. It does not complement the theme or contribute to the panorama, but instead steals the view and obscures the art already there. It was highly controversial and divided Parisians against each other. Clearly the man had talent, but it's a little disgusting how proud of where it was placed.
I concede your point about faceless bureaucrats directing people's future, but,

> why should I or my children who did the right things (study, sacrifice, etc) suffer

Because plenty of other families and children do the same right things (study, sacrifice, etc), AND suffer other adversity. You're not special.
Back in the early 2000's in Ohio, under 80ms round trip latency was once advertised as 'leet gamer stuff.
The Government Spied on Me. You Could Be Next
You have Musk-y dick so deep down your throat it's in your stomach.
If you have to go to the extreme to make your argument, maybe you are wrong?

Yes, it is disconcerting to remove so many jobs. There needs to be a solution to that.
Labouring away can be hell, unless you're like me and doing what you love :)
The problem is that nuclear has become a loser technology. It's not failing because of the public thinks it's unsafe, it's failing because internally they can't compete (and excuses about regulation are just that, excuses.)

If nuclear were 1/3 its current cost we'd be building nuclear power plants left and right, protests be damned. But it's not, and we aren't, and we won't be. Deal.
Pre-Disclaimer: I don't mean to only pick on Google here, it applies to any company that collects such a vast amount of personal data on users. Also.. nothing personal :)

>Actually, Google has.

In extremely vague terms, yes. I want to see an itemized list.

For e.g. At company X, this is what we collect:

1) Your Name, age, location, DOB.
2) Your location is sent to COmpany X every 10 minutes
3) Your IP is tracked per-session
4) All this data is linked to your profile
5) Any thing you type in the search bar is sent to a company X server
6) After anonymizing (if we do it) this is what your data looks like
7) We never delete any of the above for the following reasons
etc,etc,etc

>And moreover, Google has been consistently on track to store less private data.

The default should be zero/as little as possible collection of data. From what you've said it seems like people can opt-out of some data collection, but its vague as to the specific nature of what data is still being collected versus what isn't.

>Hope the links I referenced will help dispel this notion. Google does take privacy seriously.

Unfortunately they don't. I won't dispute your second claim.
This would, of course, be far bore interesting if it was the clerical sort of cardinal.

Both due to the church political implications, and due to the fact that this sort of thing is rarer in mammals.
The Paris agreement probably doesn't gave informed consent of the population. I know very few people who are okay with increasing meat prices and reducing their consumption. Finding consensus on this where the people, not just the elite (politicians), agree is going to be difficult. Some countries are just going to disagree. Some are going to use these kinds of talks and rules to play political games etc. How are you going to force a country like China to follow this?

>50 years ago smoking was ubiquitous as a core social and recreational activity, now it’s marginalised.

Meat is the easiest way to get a reasonably balanced diet. There's a reason why we've eaten meat for longer than we've been humans. You're not going to curb that anywhere as easily as smoking. I would even be willing to bet that there are many many many people in the world who would be willing to fight to be able to eat meat.

A lot of this thread leads like the dreams of authoritarians.
> Woah, I had no idea he designed the Green Building.

He famously had problems with wind: The Great Sail was placed in order to break up wind off the Charles, which (by Bernoulli effect) would lock the doors at the bottom of the Green Building.

The funny part was: The Hancock Tower on the other side of the Charles had pretty much the same problem, but was too tall for remediation-by-artwork. They had a devil of a time redoing the windows in that building.

Anyway: 66 was always my favorite. Living in EC, it was always fun to show visitors the sharp point of that building.

RIP
The idea of a man spending 2 years visiting a retired lady’s suburban backyard bird feeder to study a bird, which then had to end because another bird showed up and took over the territory, is amusing to me.

Some people have unusual/interesting jobs.
Neither of those two things are the serious problem with nuclear. The serious problem, the showstopper, is that it's just too expensive.
Obesity rates in the US are at about 30%, which I don't think counts as "most".

https://www.stateofobesity.org/adult-obesity/
This should be medium link.
I often do the same thing... skim through articles and papers to get the gist. Trust me, this is one to ready all the way through.
I mean, what's the difference between being legally separated, getting a divorce on paper and then living common law?

Is an arranged marriage a fraud too? What if you get married for citizenship and then fall in love?

Why aren't gay partners subject to common law divorce precedents?
Book a flight to Rome, learn Italian, learn Roman dialect, and then you'll know what real swearing looks like :)
This is a lower rate than elsewhere in the US.
I've got a Charge 3, the one with the oxygen sensor, and I've also seen it think I was asleep when I wasn't. On the other hand, it seems weirdly reliable at telling if I'm in REM sleep or not. Whenever I wake up directly from what it says was REM sleep I remember my dreams but not otherwise.
W/r to comp, that's my data point, don't like? Then don't like...

FB has a salary cap below GOOG, AMZN is just cheap and prefers people leaving to countering. Then AMZN makes a big deal of hiring such people back for what they should have countered, proudly calling them "boomerangs."
...and next step should a proper audit of the while train fiasco...
That Asians respect the NDAs they signed?
I hear what you are saying, but that means you are advantaged. You had parents that cared and sacrificed and took and interest in your future. With that in mind they also probably made sure you studied and did your homework.

To be a bit blunt (and hopefully not offensive, just for example), if someone who didn't have those kind of parents and that type of situation makes the same scores as you, likely they either worked harder or have more ability.

Still I feel where you are coming from. Reverse discrimination for people who work hard is still B.S.
Devil's advocate:

I'd argue that you not eating out, getting socialized, and traveling actually made you less of a well-rounded individual and you probably should be penalized for those things. Colleges need diversity. They don't need the same kind of kid replicated 10,000 times. Racquetball, violin, AP calculus does not an interesting campus make.
In arena shooters like quake and similar games, input lag of 10ms (1-2 frames) is noticeable. 200ms would be an absolute joke.
Everybody's Rich but You
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Depending on how old you are now, by the time you're 83, you could find yourself being a part of the new "middle aged" group :-)
(i.e., we could end up inventing ways of increasing our lifespan dramatically).
During grad school I tutored (@ $50-$100/hr).

I could consistently help even the poorest students move from below 50th percentile to 75th percentile. Moving from < 600 to mid 700s is totally doable with sufficient tutoring [1]. Even for pretty dumb students.

I think SAT/ACT are pretty good tests [1], but they're horrendously over-gamed at this point. I have very little faith in either as anything other than a demonstration of how badly the student wants to be admitted to a good school and has money for tutoring.

[1] edit: i.e., SAT/ACT are not easy to game wit short-term coaching, but sustained tutoring can substantially increase students' performance... see thread below for further elaboration and discussion of "coaching doesn't help" studies.
I think you not quoting the rest of that sentence is quite disingenuous

>"...For example, we use service providers to help us with customer support"

As far as I'm aware there is no evidence that Google shares my personal information, without my explicit consent, with third parties like Cambridge Analytica, which collected tens of millions of individual user profiles.
It's pretty true that the pay trumps them all. But Google is generally pretty good at matching Facebook's offer. So when choosing between FB and Google, or any of FAANG, the pay is usually less of a concern. So being considered "not inspiring" and "evil" is definitively not helping FB to close on the candidates.
That’s what I thought. I snickered at the label on the header image:

> “If there’s one thing I know I didn’t do wrong, it’s the Louvre,”.
This has been a complaint especially in the adventure game community. If I go to the cinema to watch the endgame or a john wick movie, I pay 10 bucks for 2 hours of movies. A lot of AAA games are a bunch of boring filler with some interactivity, but you end up with a much worse money per minute ratio. If you discount cutscenes, I've spent 60 bucks on less than two hour of gameplay on some games.

Now, I could replay those games after some time. That improves my overall cost-benefit ratio from 60 bucks -> 2 hours of gameplay to 60 bucks -> 4 hours of gameplay. Or, if the game is good, even more. I have a bunch of adventure games I paid 10 bucks for, and I have replayed them a lot and I will replay them a lot.

However, if you have a AAA studio, they will consider a game a failure shortly after release. You get one play-through for 60$ and that's all you get, because then they shutdown the servers for their next thing. And of course they will "charge less" and "run updates" and "keep expansions going" and such so it's less obvious. I'm jaded at this point.
I'm not sure why this is getting downvoted. The United States has a system of de jure discrimination against white and asian men. Moreover, there is a great deal of de facto discretization against them as well. Many people seem to think that it is "fair" and appropriate for this to be the case, but I don't think its debatable that this is the fact of the matter. I think those who support this policy should defend it honestly instead of lying about it and claiming its not the policy, when it plainly is.
Jeez, the gender ratio in that pic is note worthy: https://lwn.net/Articles/787191/
> We have technology ready to make it safe just as we did with fire.

citation needed
I realize it's an insanely complicated feature, but is there any progress at all being made on live script modifications?

For years, it's been the feature I miss most from Chrome -- the ability to throw a breakpoint, edit the code that I'm looking at in the debugger, and then resume running with the new code. I'm never going to be able to switch 100% to Firefox dev tools as long as Chrome is the only browser with that feature.

Am I the only person who relies on this? I rarely see it brought up anymore, so it makes me wonder if with jsx and precompilers, people just don't use live editing as much as they used to. There must be some reason why more people aren't asking for it.

I know that at one point a couple years ago Mozilla was working on this, but since then I've heard nobody talking about it or giving progress updates of any kind.
Very minimally different, I rather strongly suspect. You'd probably get larger shareholder dividends, but not that much larger.

There's this idea we're dealing with here that there's massive, virtually untapped, make-everybody-well-paid amounts of money being wasted on management overhead. It's a very reasonable idea. Managers at the top get paid an amount of money that's clearly and obviously incredibly excessive and has absolutely no connection to anything!

Yet, it might be worth considering that this might not actually be true in the important broad sense. What if there isn't a vast pool of money locked up in management salaries that would dramatically improve the lives of workers? What if there isn't the "fix the car money" or "send a kid to college money" another poster was rhapsodizing about for every worker? Might it be worth considering that in most cases, managers aren't actually paid vastly more than their direct reports?

Besides, there are plenty of ways to structure businesses that would get around something as simplistic as a compensation ratio.

There will always be another "But what if we run the numbers differently?" scenario.