skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ban plastic bottles. Make them use glass bottles in a closed cycle where the bottles are constantly cycled and then turned into something else when they can't be cycled... or use aluminum which is recyclable.

And let's call out recycling for the sham that it is. Recycling is a lie for plastics, plastics can not be economically recycled. They must be banned and the polluters made to internalize the externality.
This article focuses on tech barons but the vast majority of people in the valley, even those in tech, are not tech barons. Tech barons do what they can but business in the valley is anything but top down waterfall in nature.
It's not and probably won't be any time soon, if ever.

https://forums.geforce.com/default/topic/1034029/pc/geforce-...
Not sure what you are talking about, it’s definitely endian neutral. You can’t take different page sized fs and put it on another page size arch, but that’s a separate issue.
A quick search shows that juices are at least as sugary if not moreso, especially grape juice.

I live next to a shop that squeezes fresh juice, but I mix it with at least three parts carbonated water. Otherwise it's such an easy way to overconsume calories. And possibly the least fulfilling way, as well.
We got it all wrong folks. We should be giving priority to the children of millionaires who are diverse because they had the opportunity to go on vacation every summer/winter break.
The phrase "America First" has some... historical baggage.

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=dr+suess+america+first+comic&iax=i...

If you're aware of this and comfortable with it, more power to you, but sometimes it seems like not everyone saying it knows about this.

Normally I wouldn't touch this with a ten foot pole, but in this case I genuinely wish to be helpful. Best.
> There is no more objectively defensible aesthetic criteria

Oh, come now. There are lots of designs everyone would agree are objectively ugly. But they rarely get built these days. So if it seems like everything is subjective, it's because everything we see has passed the not-objectively-ugly filter.
Coincidentally Onkyo is in talks to sell its audio business to the US owner of Denon+Marantz, after having rescued Pioneer. Hi-Fi as a whole seems to be in a downward spiral, just like cameras, and most of the growth is in mobile audio.
We could just start by addressing the elephant in the room which is that black people are disproportionately arrested for marijuana despite using drugs at the same rate as white people [1].

Which, naturally, can cripple families for incredibly small amounts of possession.

[1] https://www.splcenter.org/20180918/racial-profiling-louisian...
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. This includes Africans, indigenous people, but also people from countries where a central version of their language spread from the capital out, although not as bad of a case.

If your Asian parents immigrated and sacrificed hard for you, but still speak the language that their grandparents and their grandparents before them spoke, well, your parents sacrificed, but like, people go through shit. White people, black people, Asians, all types of people get exploited into nothingness. Into being not even human.

Not going on vacation is not a hardship.
Just spent 2 weeks on Sabah, Borneo. Even the very remote beaches hours away from large human settlements are littered with plastic bottles and grocery bags. While diving you often see bags floating around. Both, on the surface and below.

Ironically even the island hopping boat carried a tray of bottled water for anyone to take. Not sure what % of bottles gets left behind at the end of the day.

Maybe a small deposit on each bottle would help to essentially pay people to collect them.
Limited upside for the stock?
Sheryl hired the swiftboat campaigners to stop Congress. Finding out about that made me assume that over time most of their employees would trend in the opposite direction of optimistic.
I've always seen taking away the actual punch of the words as an unintentional benefit. To be quite honest, I think someone can more concisely and personally convey shock and disgust without using any 'swear words' at all.
Facebook has their privacy policy too. So what? Even if all the listed policies are followed, even if they don't have loopholes (and they almost certainly do), Google still collects and retains metric fuckton of information that isn't necessary to provide the actual services it provides. The NYT article is great demonstration. And there is very little oversight around this.
Not going on vacation is not a hardship.

Edit: This guy’s parents might have actually been through some shit. Asia was not a nice place over the last century. If he had said something like ‘my parents escaped pol pot’ or something ummmm, actually horrendous, then, I mean, that’s a hardship. And had this commenter framed it in that way, then it gives a whole other dimension to the discussion. But he didn’t.

I’m going to repeat this for anyone spoiled enough by western society to ever say this:

The lack of vacations is not a fucking hardship.
If you are going to say "nuclear is cheap, we just have to live with meltdowns and learn to like them", then you might as well stop wasting your keystrokes. That dog won't hunt.

Or if you're saying "reactors are going to be just as safe even if all those expensive regulations are removed", then you have to justify that (and justify that removing regulations will reduce the cost enough). I am extremely skeptical.
Quora is garbage now... When I wanted to find answers for some political concepts (not political or ideological opinions) and information about other societies I found it completely biased, even from people who claim to be "experts".
> With Facebook, what annoyed me was that they set up internal teams to help with political candidates social media campaigns - no matter who the candidates are.

I have become more and more convinced that this is Facebook's real business model; that enabling instances of archetype CambridgeAnalytica is the purpose the company actually exists for.
Personally I don't mind unusual syntax. I do find it a bit problematic that programming languages seem to select syntax almost at random, or at least they don't tend to spend a lot of time explaining it [0]. A lot of special characters can quickly become less pleasant with a non-English keyboard however. Especially if the syntax is hard to predict (with for example autocomplete).

[0] https://www.adacore.com/uploads_gems/Ada_Safe_and_Secure_Boo...
How is it only for young and naive? 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), I will just stream a lot of stuff first and then buy boxed versions of the games i end up liking a lot. Just like I already do with movies, music vinyls, and digital versions of video games.
Game of Thrones Petition
"Potential criminal" is a term so vague as to be useless, because its boundaries are overwhelming shaped to oppress minorities and the poor.

Consider criminalization of loitering and its effects on poor people, criminalization of "gang association" (even when in practice it can mean "cousin of a gang member" or "babysat the child of a gang member's sister"), and the soft-touch handling of Oxycontin addicts while crack cocaine users get life in prison.
This is a terrible policy. These factors aren't subject to being quantified, and thus can't be compared equally.

You can't compare one zip code versus another to say which is geographically more "adverse". Poor white, trailer trash neighborhood vs drug-infested, gang-ridden city streets. Schools with 75% of students on free-lunch vs schools that have suffered mass shootings. Single black mother working as a nurse making $80k a year raising two kids versus Indian single mom who was abused by her husband and filed for divorce and custody.

On the flip side, what message do you tell to a white male from an upper middle class background who is raised in a good school district? He wants to go to an Ivy League. What should he do, how can he prepare?
The remnants of AECL were sold for just $15M. They didn't get sales of the new generation CANDUs, and the Canadian government eventually got tired of subsidizing them.
I think I still don't understand what's happening in this scenario.

If everyone shoots simultaneously (so in particular everyone does get the chance to shoot) then I die iff the one person shooting at me hits me. Probability equals probability that a given shot hits (so in this case 1/6). No dependence at all on the number of people.

If everyone shoots sequentially, this seems just like what I described above. Probability of death is now p/(1+p) instead of p, at least if you're first to shoot and n is very large. (Unless something's very broken in the heuristic argument I gave. Let's try another. First approximation says a fraction p of people die. But that's not quite right because people who die don't get to shoot, so next approximation says we get p(1-p). Next approximation says we get p(1-p(1-p)). Etc. We can either solve the obvious equation, or else notice that we're getting more and more terms of the binomial expansion of p/(1+p).

I don't see anything here that doesn't look, in a crude approximation, like a fraction p of people dying (p, again, is probability that a given shot hits, which in this case is 1/6).

I must be misunderstanding something in the problem statement here. Perhaps it would be clearer if I'd seen the movie?

Oh, what about this version? You shoot first, things proceed cyclically, and we keep going until just one person is left. What's the chance that it's you? Naively it seems like this should be approximately 1/n no matter what p is; shooting first could confer some advantage but surely it can't be much for large n. So this can't yield anything like 1/e either. Drat.
> Now Asians will be discriminated against secretly.

So, a separate number being added to College Board's overall package is secret discrimination against Asian students? The "adversity score," according to the article, is calculated based on 15 different factors. The two listed (relative quality of the student’s high school and the crime rate/poverty level of the student’s home neighborhood) are not directly tied to any one race.

I know that promoting affirmative action is tantamount to blasphemy on this site, but let's be honest here.

Standardized tests alone are really not the great equalizer that many might think. I am a Nigerian-American immigrant, but my parents were able to afford expensive, one-on-one ACT tutoring/prep, and I scored a 34, and was awarded the National Merit scholarship after SAT prep. Not everyone can say that they had the same opportunities I did.

A so-called "adversity score" doesn't have to be the end-all, be-all. If it can provide additional context to the scores students receive, then it can really give first-generation, low-income, etc. students a fair shot at competitive universities.

Besides - nobody said schools have to consider the "adversity score," anyways.

> I’m getting pushed further and further to the right.

I also don't understand how a single organization making a change to its testing package, in the interest of leveling the playing field, is somehow "pushing" your political beliefs in any one direction... It's your choice whether you want to align your beliefs more closely with any side.
Chicago Finds a Way to Improve Public Housing: Libraries
Exactly what LA dealt with regarding the expo line. Parts are elevated through LA past USC and you zip through with a beautiful view of the hills, then back at grade in santa monica and the train has to sit in traffic because it doesn't have priority. The purple line extension almost didn't happen because the brilliant citizen-scientists of beverly hills were convinced there would be too much underground vibration or the city would explode or something, hard to say what particular grievance they are on these days.
Yes, and with 1 in 6 Americans on them it seems that a critical mass has been reached that doesn't want to hear about adverse effects of their fix anymore. So there is a lack of serious discussion about them.
That seems obvious. If you don't use Facebook you're pretty much outside of the Facebook tracking network with a few exceptions wrt Facebook cookie tracking which you can kill with a browser plugin like Facebook Disconnect. With Google, the tracking surface area is orders of magnitude more ubiquitous - everything from Search to YouTube to Chrome to Email to Android and on and on. Facebook is almost (but not quite) negligible in comparison.
> The NTSB’s preliminary report said the driver engaged Autopilot about 10 seconds before crashing into a semitrailer, and the system did not detect the driver’s hands on the wheel for fewer than eight seconds before the crash.

> Tesla said in a statement that after the driver engaged the system he “immediately removed his hands from the wheel. Autopilot had not been used at any other time during that drive.”

It was obvious from the crash that autopilot was engaged and the driver was distracted. It’s heartwrenching to think the system had only just been engaged mere seconds earlier.

It seems like the driver had something happen in that 10 seconds and thought they could attend to it with their eyes off the road.

I hope one day they get the system to the point where it is intended to be used like that.
So kick life's ass, tell it to back off, and blog that info somewhere!

It would be good info for the rest of us, and it would be great if you could chronicle that stuff.

(Don't tell Life I said to kick it's ass, please. It will crush me.)
Measurements are a great motivator! When I was starting an exercise regime being able to track my progress with a WiFi scale was a huge help. Losing one or two pounds didn’t make a huge visual difference, but damned if I wanted to keep driving that line down.
Anecdotal, but in the past year, I had tons of recruiters from Google/Amazon/etc. knocking on my LinkedIn box. However, not a single one from Facebook. Maybe they just simply didn’t fund recruiting efforts as much as the other tech companies or weren’t hiring as aggressively.
This is actually an excellent case where Rust can help you completely remove the need to lock and help you keep your memory safe — if you can make it clear that your config object will live longer than all threads referencing it (which shouldn’t be hard if it is truly global), then Rust will let you share it among all threads with no further overhead at all, for programmer or processor.
We had our monthly "Technology Exchange" meeting at work today (internal lighting talks and short tech talks) and one of the presentations was an interview with a guy who is about to retire after working for our little unit for the last 40 years. When he started, the 6 or 7 programmers had to share 3 terminals (so you wrote you programs on paper before you typed them in). They thought it was great because they didn't have to punch cards anymore. They had a little mini computer in University Hall (across the street from the Berkeley campus) that was the size of a hardware rack where they could test some of their PL/I code -- but had to dial up on a modem to the mainframe down in Westwood (UCLA) to actually run the jobs (he said that computer took up a whole room). The original project for our group was to produce an annual union catalog of the UC libraries holdings on microfiche.

We also had the first network that connected all the campuses, with microwave line of sight to mount zion (UCSF) and satellite dishes. Someone had to write 75k lines of assembly to implement the TCP/IP stack for the mainframe.

Was RG58 the stuff that had the "vampire taps"? We still had some of that when I started at the libraries in 1996.
> I think rustc does not iterate llvm optimization passes and thus even with lto leaves opportunities on the table.

I think you'd need to support that with some evidence. If there's any code that hotspot manages to out-optimize LLVM on that'd be a fascinating investigation.

In practice I think you'll be shocked how well GCC & LLVM make code vanish vs. Hotspot. It's one of the major reasons benchmarking C/C++ code is so damn hard, the optimizer tends to eliminate the entire thing.
> If we want incarceration to make people less criminal, not more criminal, then the prisoners should not be spending their time with criminals. The prisoners should be spending their time with mentors, teachers, and counselors.

I immediately think of Nordic prison systems, where even the highest-security prisons are usually set up as an idealized microcosm of the outside world, with real living spaces, personal prisoner responsibility for preparing meals and cleaning up, grocery shopping and money management, workshops and classes, jobs that are designed for real vocational training, etc [1]. The recidivism rates are around 20% (some of the lowest in the world), with specific prisons approaching 15%.

[1]: https://www.theguardian.com/society/2013/feb/25/norwegian-pr...
fourplexes fit in with single family homes[0]. what makes you averse to a fourplex in your neighborhood?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McAvinney_Fourplex
History of Big Data: A Technical Comedy
Good read about how, as far back as the 50's, the beverage industry used the "Keep America Beautiful" campaign to shift blame and responsibility for pollution onto consumers:
https://www.chicagotribune.com/opinion/commentary/ct-perspec...
You normally get a full two hours to edit a comment.
On the otherhand I have tons of first hand experience with bottles, and its a very simple task to take care of your own trash. Its just a matter of doing it.
But Google does all of this as well with its api/fonts/analytics/etc being used.
In part this initiative rewards bad parenting and lack of responsibility for raising your kids.

If you made imense effort to provide the best education possible to your child, to put him in a good school (even if that meant depriving yourself from a better material life and having 2 jobs), if you kept a non perfect marriage because that would be better for your child, if you only had one kid because you couldn't afford to provide a good education for more than one, what this law is telling you is: bad luck, you shouldn't have done it because now, we are going to adjust his score back for it so that none of that matters.
For years, there has been strong criticism of reliance on standardized tests, as there are quite a few people who "just don't test well". This extends the flawed philosophy of attempting to condense a complicated question into a single statistic to an even more complicated question. My parents worked very hard to get me into a good school. I was one of the poorest in my neighborhood, and our house was one of the smallest. The college board did not have access to my parents' actual incomes.

To answer your question, I think many will suffer, though they must not necessarily. I would have objected long before; ethnicity should never be a consideration. Why? Because people are not statistics. When thinking on statistics, you can't use them to judge one individual case, only to make predictions about a population. That means while these predictions or introduced biases are generally true, some people get screwed. We, as a society, are set up to work differently. Look at our justice system: a very high burden of proof means that we believe it better for ten guilty men to walk free than for one to go to jail. I would argue the same premise applies here: it is better for ten people to judged without race (though availability of opportunity can be a consideration) and result in a somewhat unfair distribution than for one unprivileged person to be kept out of college because he's the wrong race. In other words, I would rather we don't tinker with the ratio based on race than for one poor white kid out of Appalachia to have his score "adjusted" down and his application turned down.

I guess both are unjust, but one has injustice as the result of intervention, and the other has injustice as the result of non-intervention.

There was a skit by a comedian years ago called "Modern Educayshun", which predicted this almost exactly. That was comedy then.
No, it's just a cover for their missile program.
> Or they claim they do, but then the 6 figure salary, cushy benefits and signing bonus wins them over.

But the issue is that top recruits can get a 6 figure salary, cushy benefits and a signing bonus from Netflix or Google or Amazon or AirBnB etc. etc. It's still easy to at least to pretend to be moral of you can shun Facebook as an employer but don't need to give anything up to do so.
> They take FOREVER to warm up a house after a set back, so don't bother with a deep setback overnight

Steam and other radiant systems don't deal with temperature setbacks well. In the UK and Ireland people perform a deep setback (on their hot water system) overnight then usually just accept that the house will be cold in the mornings.
Because it's factual.
Sugar is very soluble?

It's not at all hard and as prviously stated, fruit juices contain at least as much sugars naturally.
> The problem w renewables is they are focused on meeting current energy demand.

What does that even mean? That renewables run into some hard limit beyond current energy consumption? That would be wrong.
> In any event, a JIT could and would do it in some cases; e.g.: https://gist.github.com/chrisseaton/4464807d93b972813e49

Uh, what? That's just a basic constant fold optimization that can be statically handled? It even has examples showing anything that would require runtime information (like mutable strings) don't get optimized.
There might be some potential debate about which people are genuinely most dangerous.
Interestingly, black and Hispanic people support vouchers at a slightly higher rate than white people. That is remarkable because whites overall skew heavily conservative. (Trump and Romney won white non-Hispanic voters approximately 60-40.) White liberals are the only demographic that strongly oppose school choice and vouchers.

Source: https://www.gse.upenn.edu/news/press-releases/poll-majority-...
>So, a separate number being added to College Board's overall package is secret discrimination against Asian students?

It sounds kind of like, "put a gold star on all of the Jewish applicants, and allow each reviewer to decide how to act on that information individually."
V8 uses runtime type/value information to specialize methods in some cases[1]. I find it hard to believe that HotSpot doesn’t either.

Obviously complex objects are impossible to handle, but branching on an integer that’s always the same value isn’t. Same for constant folding, if an argument is determined to be constant at runtime then that’s going to affect the choices the JIT makes.

1. https://ponyfoo.com/articles/an-introduction-to-speculative-...
This site appears to break scrolling inertia on touch screen devices.
Not paywalled article:
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/sat-add-adversity-score...

Pretty concerning and really doesn’t capture various types of adversity faced in childhood. Feels like another box kids would need to fit in to...
SF to LA is the second most trafficked air route in the U.S. carrying 3,507,702 in 2017, only roughly 20,000 flyers fewer than JFK to LA which is number one. This is very much supposed to be an alternative to flying and the resulting pollution.
Wait till you hear what they're saying about self-driving cars
They most likely wont be released, but the hope is that google contributes to open source like vulkan, linux video drivers, graphics rendering, as well as potentially release their own tooling.