skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Pre-modern climbers were likely much worse, for a variety of factors. First of all, in agrarian societies only a small segment of the population (mostly nobles) had any significant amounts of free time to pursue activities unrelated to food production. So the population of climbers was much smaller. On top of that, nutrition in general was a lot worse. Most of the population lived on diets just enough to survive. And lastly, literacy and information transfer was highly limited so climbers would not be able to teach each other their techniques as effectively and couldn't google the best climbing places.
Any Lidl near me in Prague in 2009 would take glass bottles and give you a cash deposit back.

The USA will probably get something like that when it catches up in 100 years.
A global currency is coming, whether you like it or not (2017)
Yeah, but you're assuming they have a counteroffer that's Netflix, Google or Amazon. Sure, some people get 2-3 offers, but I'd bet it's more common to get 1-2. Not out of skill or anything, just because the FAANG hiring process is random and arbitrary.
I made a factual statement.
>15 factors

That just seems so limited considering the variability of life.

It seems there are so many well intentioned efforts out there that seem focused on sort of economic or just easily measured statistics .... and people just try to unweave the weave by putting pressure on those easy to measure numbers.

I'm not sure that solves anything.
Every incident is obviously tragic, but statistically with the number of Teslas on the road is self-driving roughly on par with the number of expected deadly accidents with manually driven cars? This is still a nascent technology with a lot of promise and it is naive to expect that there will never be a fatality or issue.
It really does not, at all. How can you equate a combination of 15 factors (at least two of which are not tied to any specific identity) to improve admissions results, with a Nazi policy that directly foreran the Holocaust, and singled out groups for mass extermination?
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> In practice I think you'll be shocked how well GCC & LLVM make code vanish vs. Hotspot.

First of all, HotSpot is a VM, not a compiler. It has several compilers, among them C2 (the default optimizing compiler), Graal, but also LLVM (Zing is a HotSpot fork VM which uses an LLVM-based JIT called Falcon: https://www.azul.com/products/zing/falcon-jit-compiler/) + several GCs + other stuff.

Second, I think you may be shocked at the comparison of LLVM to C2: https://youtu.be/O87PaWkXlZ0 (they come up about the same, each winning/losing on different things). And that is when the optimization can be proven; whatever optimization you have, a JIT can apply them more aggressively.
Your design example doesn't apply because the end user in this case isn't directly effected by their negligence.

There is clear evidence that littering is societal. See how clean Japanese cities are despite almost everything being wrapped in plastic.
I’ve read many times Tesla owners saying the warnings pop up even if you have your hands on the wheel if you have a light touch. Has Tesla fixed this issue yet?
SFO–LAX is, or was very recently, the busiest air route in the country.
The majority are obese or overweight. The GP comment forgot the second half of the formulation.
> Maybe I am lazy but there really isn’t an easy and inexpensive way to market your blogs or apps.

HN, Reddit, and other social networks?
Hm... the topic is quite complex. Human perception is actually much slower than many people want to believe. Parts of the human vision system react no faster than around 1/25th of a second (other parts are faster - its complicated!). Hearing is similarly divided. AFAIK, auditory and visuak stimuli are processed together and merged over a rather large time window (to the point where one system can induce illusions in the other). But we are able to perceive time delays within a complex stimulus with very high precision.

I am not totally convinced that a high refresh rate monitor allows human vision to respond faster. I would rather suspect that most game loops are VSync-locked and a higher refresh rate leads to better input sampling and processing.

Maybe I should set up a simple test where I show a non-interactive sequence at various framerates and ask users to identify the highest framerate. And then repeat with interactive camera controls.
A small deposit is no incentive. Now if it were a significant amount like $.50-$1.00 per bottle you recycle, then you'd have people literally racing to get those bottles. Then just increase the price on the drinks itself by a bit to make up for that, which is also a disincentive to discourage a number of people from buying them in the first place.
Haha So true!
I thought that was blue collar?

Would you call a software engineer making $150,000/year working class? What about a lawyer somewhere in midwest scraping by on $50,000/year?

Now what about an independent plumber making $200,000/year? Working class or not?
I think the bottle deposit is an interesting optimization.

That said, I remember being in mexico and when you buy a coke "to go", they don't want to bottle to walk away. So they helpfully pour it in a plastic bag, stick a straw in it and seal the plastic bag to the straw with a rubber band.
> When the economy and population were properly booming, pretty much everyone had a decent change of getting promoted and building a strong career. If your office had 10 people today and 100 in a decade, odds are good that every one of the original ten made it into manager. We still build career expectations around this model, but it's mostly not true anymore.

Got any sources for that because while I don't have don't have data sources, I do have anecdotes from friends who work at Amazon and work for directors/VP's who started out as fulfilment workers despite everyone here loving to hate on Amazon fulfillment centers.
I feel like that top answer has a lot of things wrong with it.

The first AWS service was SQS in 2002.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_Web_Services#History

The wiki also says that AWS changed direction after a paper was written about reworking the retail compute infrastructure. It had a small section saying that they could sell excess compute as part of the rework.

After that paper came out they relaunched AWS in 2006 with S3, SQS and EC2.
Studies show that airports pollute far more than people realized, particularly LAX which is conveniently located upwind from the millions who live in south LA: https://news.usc.edu/63466/new-concerns-raised-about-air-pol...

Currently those ultra fine particles are not regulated at all, so I guess yes we are in legal limits until regulation catches up with the science.

The SF to LA flight path is also only 20k passengers short of being the most trafficked air route out of any U.S. airport.
Maybe I will then. I just assume that the technology to accurately determine REM vs Deep or Light sleep is not really available, so I can't fault Fitbit or any manufacturer for not having perfect sleep trackers. But, the marketing material does claim it's very accurate, so I should probably get more out of it since that's what I was sold.

Thanks for the advice.
I don't publish anything ever really so I don't understand the appeal of using Medium. Can anyone explain it to me? Is it just the ease of use? Write some text, click button, it's available online?
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I’m literally just asking what the term “vibrant individual” means.
Nuclear is uniquely terrible at filling in the occasional time slices renewables cannot. Nuclear's economics degrade horribly when used at low capacity factor like that. They are not complementary sources.
>Language is probably a decent one. If there was a major language shift in your family tree within the last 500 years, you can probably count yourself as disadvantaged in a lot of ways.

500yr is waaaaay too long. 100yr ago nobody in my family tree spoke English and they were all subsistence farming on a different continent. Every relative I know is decently prosperous. Some people make more of their lives than others but nobody is disadvantaged.

I have a friend who's grandparents had everything taken by the Japanese, then again by the communists, moved somewhere they couldn't even speak the language (they got called crazy but they got the last laugh when everyone else starved) and my friend owns a house in a gentrifying city and makes six figures sitting on his butt staring at a screen. Not bad for two generations.

I knew a woman who lost a good chunk of her immediate family to violence in a south American country her mom moved with her to the US (I'm pretty sure she came to the US as a refugee) they eventually wound up in one of the "worse" cities in NJ and her mom signed her up for some educational program that somehow led to her being sent to a prep school in New England and from there she wend to college and graduated from Colombia.

Compare all of those to my girlfriend's family tree which is chock full of deadbeats. I don't know a single one who is actively engaged in working hard to move up in the world. They've been on this continent longer than the existence of the nation they reside in. Maybe they made something of themselves once upon a time but this branch of the family tree has done nothing productive.

I think whether or not you grow up in a household with parents who are driven to raise their kids well is the primary determining factor. If colleges want to know how "disadvantaged" a kid is they should be looking at the parents. Immigrants for the most part tend to be very industrious and pass that on to their children and grandchildren but it seems to diminish over the generations and the variance among individuals takes over as the determining factor. Some individuals are highly driven. Some are deadbeats.
It’s 2019 – which VR headsets can you buy?
I've actually thought quite a bit about this issue over the past few years. Essentially the problem is that students with parents who did not score well are fighting a constant uphill battle.

Grade families like classes. The "class average" should always be a C (assume for sake of explanation that a C is 2000).

C, the student's initial score (call it the "crude score", C) is computed the same way it's always been

P is the student's penalty, computed from a weighted average of all of their ancestors' crude scores (w_k...w_1) as well as theirs (w_0).

For the next generation,

set w_k := w_(k-1)

if C > C_av: w_0 = w_1 * w_2 else: w_0 = w_1

normalize w_0...w_k

P = (sum(w_0...w_k) - C_av) * urgency

Where urgency is a measure of how in need the disadvantaged groups are as well as their numbers. This can be adjusted manually based on the political climate, maybe by a DAO that governs the College Board on the Ethereum blockchain.
That's only one reason this whole thing is bullshit. The other is that the alleged content is just random gibberish with no obvious intent or means to subvert anything. It's only by assuming that every post had its maximum theoretical pernicious effect (and that a pernicious effect was the intent in the first place, which is just supposition) that this whole thing becomes meaningful.

It is the desire to make this assumption (that Russia subverted the campaign) that drives the conclusion more than anything else. None of which is to say FB is innocent of blame. But their crime is hooking up an ad network to the social network, not colluding with Russians.
We will end up with boundaries for the "Internet". Each country will have its own "Internet" beacuse they are distrusting each other now.
It seems that getting more than 4 hours of it would be a good start.
Fair question. I'd like to think my close friends are ethical people, although it's not like I've seen them do the trolley problem. I'd categorize the people who would accept a Facebook (or even Palantir) offer in a second as casual acquaintances. As for why I'd be casual acquaintances with people who don't care about ethics, well, sometimes you can hang out with people who you don't trust completely.
Not everyone has the time to create their own platform and curation network. That's the reason why people will keep using Medium.

We need to stop acting like it's easy to build these types of platforms.
> That's just a basic constant fold optimization that can be statically handled

Incorrect. No static analysis can establish the constant in some of those cases if only because they are not provably constant. If the situation changes at runtime, those routines would need to be deoptimized and recompiled.

> It even has examples showing anything that would require runtime information (like mutable strings) don't get optimized.

The example does not show that "anything that would require runtime information don't get optimized" just that that case doesn't. I don't know Ruby, but I can imagine why guarding the constness of a mutable array may not be advisable.
That already exists in many places! Here in BC there's regulation around recyclables and minimum deposit pricing: http://www.bclaws.ca/EPLibraries/bclaws_new/document/ID/free...

One interesting result of this program is you may find people scrounging around neighbourhoods and trash cans to collect the recyclables so they can collect the deposit on them :)
It's an interesting situation, but most likely the company language of whatever company put together the truck is English.

Road signage, and other official signage is primarily posted in Swedish.

Swedish is very good for writing your next tome of epical poetry, it can be quite beautiful, but it's also rather unwieldy in many contexts.

It might actually not be the most commonly used language in a few generations, as the kids have already begun mixing Swedish and English something fierce.
You forgot South Asian people.
I am not claiming rice is a nutritionally complete food, I'm saying it is a perfectly fine part of a healthy diet.
Why couldn't it, you dont think software updates can improve performance across the board? But his point was developers could focus on a single api rather than having to deal with quirks in directx, opengl, vulkan, webgl, etc.
> Although I can imagine that back then the machines would only run for a matter of hours at best before breaking down and needing debugging.

Indeed, and that sometimes entailed the removal of actual bugs: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8a/H96566k....
3.5 million passengers per year isn’t enough to overcome the carbon footprint of building HSR in the first place. To just break even in that front, HSR has to replace every SF-LA flight, and also seven million car trips a year on top of that: https://www.citylab.com/transportation/2011/11/how-green-hig...
How does a child earn hard-working parents? They don't: they won the genetic lottery.
We're at about 20% in the USA with such programs:
http://www.ncsl.org/research/environment-and-natural-resourc...
His point is that it used to be that leftists defended freedom of speech from conservative oppression. Now it's the other way around.
Google also sees pretty much every website visit for every website in the world, through Google Analytics.
I'm in my 20s and everybody I know regularly and casually uses profanity, even the R-rated stuff. Older people of HN: is this anecdotally something that decreases with age, or is our generation genuinely more profane?

I would think having kids/friends who have kids would cut it down.
Given its cost, nuclear is a less plausible alternative to limit climate change than renewables. This would not have been true even ten years ago, but times change. And some people have not adjusted their mental models to reflect that change.
You’d be served well by reading confluent/Kafka documentation a bit more closely. They do not claim exactly once delivery, they claim (and achieve) exactly once processing (“semantics”) which is still very useful.
Well, no dog in this race obviously, but doesn't that mean that instead of penalizing you for your parents' good character, we penalize poor rural and urban kids for their parents' bad character?
The older I get, the funnier that quote gets.
Yes, it's easy to buy, but as I mentioned in another comment here, the price compels everyone to be cautious in using it and not let it escape. You can even find plenty of DIY videos on YouTube of people building their own refrigerant recovery machines (basically a compressor and a tank), so I'd say everyone recognises the importance of not just venting it into the atmosphere.

The last time I heard, the EPA certificate is itself very easy to obtain too; the fee is around $20, and it's a short open-book multiple-choice exam. Not really a hindrance considering that a gauge set and vacuum pump, which is obligatory if you intend to do anything with refrigeration, costs far more.
That’s an impressive claim. Source? I can think of a half dozen things that probably correlate as strongly with race. For example, what you ate for breakfast this morning.
ThinLTO does not work across shared libraries loaded at runtime. HotSpot does.
Yeah I don’t understand the question either :( I’m very interested to here the full problem and solution
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d4/Bank-of-...

After moving to Hong Kong, I lived near the Bank
of China Tower and I would see it every day. I never failed to be awed by the striking design until the day I left. It always felt like it, and the HSBC building close by were competing for wow factor.
I like aluminum better.

Glass bottles are not perfect. They are lots heavier, which leads to transportation pollution. They also break and hurt people.

As to plastics - You are correct, they do not recycle and when you try to do it, even with a very low ratio of recycled to new plastics you end up with crappy weak plastic - think laundry baskets that have handles that break easily.

i think we should just learn to burn plastics - efficiently and cleanly.
The college admission process (especially for more elite schools) already involves lots of secrecy.
Why do colleges need diversity? Don't we want want more specialists coming out of these institutions?
I feel like a lot of people just don't understand the normal distribution, the central limit theorem and the square root rules.

I don't think it's ever going to work trying to rally against the math the universe is built out of.
Sprinkle in a bunch of std::enable_if to do SFINAE and that's it. It's a way to tell the compiler a certain function or method should be enabled only when some other compile-time condition is true.
> radiation-blocking Faraday tents

Is there any research that indicates this would be beneficial in any way?
I get so confused when I have to use a computer or phone with Swedish, have had it set to English language for decades.
Anyone understanding economics, and not ignorant on the current state of the technology, cannot be pro-nuclear. The pro-nuclear position is very much based on wishful thinking about cost reduction.
IIRC, Google places a much higher emphasis on making counteroffers in the first place, as well as making those counteroffers hard to refuse.
...and his point is why should his dad make that sacrifice for his kids if the SAT board is just going to subvert his efforts?
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I see the buffer tank is listed as a water heater? Is that hooked up as a backup?
> "If they don’t stop selling physical versions with the arrival of video game streaming (just like they didn’t stop selling boxed versions of movies)"

They will once it becomes normalized. DRM for software has long been far more odious than seen in the movie industry.
Perhaps in some countries/demos. I'd bet Instagram and WhatsApp for free, basic communication are seen as much higher utility in a significant amount of the global population.
Inline breakpoints and human-friendly variable names are gamechangers! Looks like FF is going above and beyond Chrome devtools with this update.
10x Faster Parallel Python Without Python Multiprocessing
You're right that it should really make it cheaper if the tracks mostly go through empty land.

Then again the fact that there isn't much need for this train due to the low potential ridership makes it so the heart of the state was never in the project, and no one was really committed to it.
There is a selection effect going on. The algorithmic censorship of those groups also did a lot of collateral damage to regular folks in the Middle East who didn't have much of an influence or voice (limited or no English-language skills, not much connections to large media outlets or influential tech people, and located in a different part of the world - which affects organic reach of their social media posts even if they did voice their dissatisfaction with what was going on).
It’s not just ethics - they have shit wlb and cut-throat culture. If you top it off with mountains of tech debt due to above and brain-dead hiring practices it’s not that surprising they have trouble hiring despite huge compensation.
Reactors are wonderful when they're still in the CAD database. They become progressively less so as they encounter the real world.
I like the idea - but you need hiring managers to post jobs before it will be worthwhile. What is in it for them? Because it sounds to me like a way to voluntary have talent filter my jobs out of their search.
Le sigh. I should have known someone would throw that particular nitpick.

That’s an edge case. People who fall in that category already know that. And they’re very interested in their accurate, absolute weight.

Besides, BMI is just a convenient way of quantifying what a “healthy weight range” is. I could have used any range and said I was interested in weighing between X and Y.
Common Lisp implementations often have no GIL, and, btw, are able to reach C speeds in certain cases.
The question is should people be selected for admission by varying standards based on what set of X number of categories you fill on an SAT test.
We had it. I grew up returning glass bottles and worked at a bottling company in the late 80s doing nothing but sorting glass bottles by brand and type so that they could be washed, sanitized, filled and sent right back out. The job sucked.

This was also about the time we started getting 2 liter plastic bottles.
Who said anything about Nazis? Top schools, Harvard in particular, have long tradition of discriminating against Jews.
Great video thank you.

This “Adversity” score has me thinking of an analogy to physical beauty/attractiveness. I believe there is an incredibly high correlation,
especially residual to other factors, between physical traits and success and wealth. Something very unfair for those who are uglier.

Obviously the logical solution to that inequality isn’t to kick in the faces of the beautiful and handsome but instead focus on opportunities for those uglier to try and make themselves more attractive. In extremes plastic surgery for those with say cleft lip or other deformations.

Those who can’t understand the analogy says much about the source of their rage.

Hating the rich is still hate.

If the college board really wants to love the poor why don’t they come up with a plan to provide FREE tutoring to all the zipcodes in their model. I bet if they asked a few billionaires like Gates and Buffet they would even fund it.

Lifting the bottom up is not done by holding the top down. It just doesn’t work in reality.
It seems people are conflating "low adversity score" with "my perfect SAT score is ruined because my family lives in the nice suburbs".

I think this is just meant to add some standardized and measured context for admissions officers, like an objective version of other "adversity factors" already present in the admissions packet.

However, I think College Board have no business doing this themselves. Seems out of line and very different from standardized testing.
Pumped hydro is science fiction? No.