skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah but there's more to mental states than how they make us feel. They have content and meaning. Which may affect subsequent and contingent feelings, for example.

>Our outdated brains are built to handle the realities of ancient societies. Our brain is supposed to be really good at certain things like escaping a lion attack, finding a mate, or sharing a common meal.

So, in discovering the laws of thermodynamics, evolution and quantum theory, which our brains presumably weren't designed for, we were just being lucky? When will this luck run out, exactly, and how?
I'm personally pretty riveted by this article -- it seems to translate the beneficial mental health activity of tracking your emotional progression over time (which lots of cool, useful mental health apps and startups allow users to do now, and this genre of hack is one of the most common at mental health hackathons) to an entirely different perspective on how to view human existence.

I wonder what the trade-offs of adopting this perspective are. On the one hand, we'd become more attuned to our emotional states, and mental health would presumably be positively affected; but on the other hand, in creating a society that relates every single venture and activity and thought process back to the end goal of how the individual feels about it, aren't we making people a lot more selfish?

Maybe this perspective in combination with a healthy sense of altruism, ethics, vision / dreams / ambitions, etc., might be a neat way to view the world. Or maybe a lot of us already view the world a lot like this, subconsciously.
Seamless connection to GCP, DigitalOcean, and private servers using same gateway
How much cloud spend do you control? That's the reality of how decisions are made.
The article indicates the opposite:

"The fruit had a larger pit and less flesh than today’s avocados..."
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peach pits are pretty big
The article doesn't really seem to back that up. Lots of the people pushing that theory are definitely alt-right types, but when the article doesn't present any facts to contradict them it doesn't make it seem like they're actually wrong. For some "conspiracy theories" it can be impossible to prove someone wrong, but there should be some pretty straightforward statistics to help figure out if this is bogus or not. FWIW it seems to be a commonly held belief by South Africans. The ones I know told me that in SA they won't stop at a red stoplight ("robot") in certain areas. The risk of getting carjacked and murdered is higher (or perceived to be higher) than the risk of getting in a deadly car crash when running a red light.
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That's not context, those are "estimate numbers" about COVERT operations you didn't even source.

The drone numbers are even less useful because two different US administrations [0] [1] went through the effort of redefining "enemy combatant" to pretty up the "collateral damage" by drones. That's why Pakistan alone actually tallies up to over 3.400 drone victims [2].

You then compare that with 1989 Tiananmen Square and Tibet, so it is only fair to also factor in 2003 Iraq because just like China hasn't admitted any wrongdoing in Tiananmen Square, the US has yet to admit that going into Iraq was wrong.

Which counts just as much regardless of the US "not annexing Iraq", it still was an illegal war of aggression wreaking havoc on a sovereign country, killing hundreds of thousands of people, displacing millions as refugees, with the US government employing tactics like torture and abducting family members to fight an insurgency [3], destabilizing the region to this day.

And that's only Iraq, which hasn't been the only "US terrorism interventions" we've had in these past 2 decades but only one out of many.

The fact that so many people are unaware/in denial about a lot of this, only shows how effective the US government has been in hiding and legitimizing its own crimes against humanity.

And even when international bodies, like the ICC, try to investigate: The US shuts it down by sabotaging [4] any efforts at investigation and flat out threatening involved countries with sanctions [5].

So if we really want to be "realists", we have to be real about all of it, and not just cherry-pick estimated numbers to tally them up against each other.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enemy_combatant#Change_of_mean...

[1] https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2012/05/under-o...

[2] http://drones.pitchinteractive.com/

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq_prison_abuse_scandals

[4] https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/mar/15/mike-pompeo-...

[5] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-45474864
We've heard bits about this going back far before Trump: https://www.refworld.org/docid/5283411d4.html

See section 4.1
I have several questions:

1. What exact syntactic differences does this have from rust, and why?

Some differences I see are in function definitions: lack of `fn` keyword, `->` for function return type, and colons for parameter types.

2. How does this make use of the borrow-checker, if at all?

3. Who is the target audience? Is it meant for general mathematical acceleration or graphics?

It seems to be meant for scientific purposes, seeing as it provides a system of units and constants.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Introspection_illusion
It looks like, according to the article, you at least have to have a history of email accounts. I don’t know if that applies for the other social accounts.
CloudHarmony used to track this at some level for free, but it looks like you now need to sign-up or pay to get more than 1 month of history?

The last time I looked at it (back when it showed more info for free, IIRC), AWS had the best uptime of the three big cloud providers, with Azure in 2nd and GCP in 3rd.

IIRC, the memorable thing was that, shortly afterwards, the head of Google Cloud made a big announcement that CloudHarmony showed that GCP had the best uptime when CloudHarmony showed that it actually had the worst. Google was calculating this by computing downtime = downtime per region * number of regions, but at the time, Azure had ~30 regions and AWS had ~15 vs. ~5 for Google and if you looked at average region downtime or global outage downtime, Google came out as the worst, not the best.
Because at the beginning they got an increase in food security for a small increase in hours worked. Then as time went on their population grew larger and they became better able to divide into agricultural, administrative and violence specialists and with their greater population and capacity for violence they expanded. The greater population and military prowess meant that in a competition with hunter gatherers for land and other resources the agriculturalists generally won. They couldn’t revert to hunter gathering without huge loss of life due to the loss of food and over time their population grew until they were near the carrying capacity of agriculture and sometimes overshot and died in famines or wars.

Agriculture is great for a small number of generations for everyone and then you can’t go back without mass death.
This is both off topic and a flamewar topic, which the site guidelines ask people not to introduce.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

To give this article a fairer chance at having its actual content discussed, I'm going to collapse this subthread.
I’d wager VWP visitors outnumber Visa applicants by a wide margin. Assuming they actually intend to perform even a cursory check of each social media account they’ll get bogged down for hours by trying to prove someone lying about not having a certain account.

As an aside: someone posted a screenshot of the form showing one of the named sites was MySpace but doesn’t include Telegram (and you can use Telegram without a username too). Anyway - I hope someone comes to their senses (perhaps an ACLU lawsuit re: should people be forced to disclose membership of sites like Grindr?) and they remove the stupid question.
I think there are several reformers who were former terrorists. They work to de-radicalize youth. This should apply to those kind of edge cases
Well, that's not specifically Perl above―it should work in most languages with `switch`. It's also highly questionable to my taste, as I don't see why `if` wouldn't do. I've chastised a dude many a time for its use, but that was only one of his dubious choices in life, so...
Those are all fair comments. Thanks for adding them. I'll read the article you posted. I'm still unhappy that as a society we put 14 year olds in jail, but your comments clarify things about the case for me.

I will add that the fact that the 15 yr old suspect lied reflects even more poorly on the police. It's really strange that they wouldn't have told him "if you are under 16 we have to have your parents here" and then he would have lied. That looks very strange to me and makes me speculate there was more there in the confessions.
Hey hey,

I’m reading this thread with no context or agenda and I don’t see the first commenter saying anything about white farmers.

When you say “started this thread” that seems misleading because you brought an interesting perspective about allegations regarding the victimizations of white farmers in to this. But it didn’t seem to be at all what the original commented was elucidating.

Actually the vulnerability of farmers to violent depredation in contrast to hunters or herders has been proposed as a huge factor throughout history and prehistory guiding physical and social evolution.

That was my first association.

So, I don’t know what the original commenter meant but I’m not certain you do either.
I believe that that graph is adjusted for Urban CPI so so increased costs would be taken into account. It's also a bit difficult to see the change in median household income due to the scale so here's the federal reserve's version where it is easier to see[1]. The increase in real median household income has been significant since the mid 80s. There are plenty of factors in play but I don't really think stagnant wages relative to other countries are to blame for fewer American tourists. Honestly, I just don't know many people in the U.S. who would think to vacation to Malaysia. The Caribbean is a lot closer and less expensive to travel to.

[1]https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MEHOINUSA672N
There are at least the following environmental impacts possible:

- decreasing the amount of water available downstream.

- changing were the downstream water ends up.

- changing the speed of water downstream.

- changing the variability in the stream’s deficit the downstream.

- making it harder/impossible for animals to move along the stream.

I would think this does do the last, and, likely, also the next to last.
This is probably somehow coded in human's mechanism. People's happiness and sadness are relative, and it's all dynamic. Most of those who won a really big lottery don't last happy as long as they thought. Most of those who lost their legs will accept the truth after a while and find it's bad but it's not all that bad.

This makes some people keep pursuing higher goals, while some other people find to get out of the loop is to enjoy their life right now.
My comment wasn't about hating or not hating China. It was about western companies having rational economic concern over depending on companies and resources under China's control.

The belt and road project in particular was not supposed to raise any negative emotions about China at all, it was meant to demonstrate that China does have an interest in expanding it's economic power, as indicated in my original comment.

To the extent that I raised moral issues with China (that was the part about concentration camps) the point was that we should expect them to not use this economic power based on some sort of principle of fairness.

I'd also be careful with the use of the word Chinese, since it applies both to the country and to the people. The vast majority of Chinese people are perfectly nice normal people, just like every other large ethnic group really.
Oh, Sorry. It's a really shaky rhetorical flourish if you don't instinctively associate "the engine of the world" with Atlas Shrugged, Galts Gulch and the criticisms thereof.

In plainer English: it's not a swipe at engineers, it's a swipe at engineers who think they few highly skilled individuals produce the majority of the economic output of the world.
> Test for password existence in public databases

While we're on the topic of security guidelines, this one really ought to be mandatory for any organization that cares about security in the slightest. It immediately invalidates the overwhelming majority of the class of laughably-insecure passwords selected by users.
It's not an either/or proposition, I'm sure that will happen as well.

For what it's worth, as a Canadian, we all already know how dependent we are on the US.
You can directly link into and share game states. I presume that a variety of interactive observer modes would also be fairly trivial to accomplish based on their architecture. This experience will be significantly different to normal YouTube and Twitch. It won't kill Twitch, but the viewing method will be different and likely eat into their market.
From what I’ve been told, the issue is that the people with political capital (managers, PMs, etc) are quick to move after successful launches and milestones. No matter how many competent engineers hang around, the product/team becomes resource and attention starved.
Well then it'd be an army of unskilled labor wouldn't it.
While I empathise with what you went through I don't think it's fully honest to expect the doctor to always start off suspecting serious disease when most of the time it's something banal. There's also the issue of patient-doctor trust, where he might have had a few poeple in the past make their symptoms out to be bigger then they really were. It's all about acting on the data available and while I guess he should have behaved differently he basically had 2 pieces of information: your description of how you felt and a normal temperature reading. What would you have done in his place?
Do you really think that the average American family is getting thousands of dollars of debt for college for any other reason than helping their kids get a job?

I was responding to the idea of just “googling for the answer”. In both of the situations above, the student would search for the answer and get back an example that was insecure, but how would they know that? In the first case, the sql statement is a prime target for a sql injection attack where they should have used parameters and in the second case, they should have not included their credentials in their code at all and configured their local box to store credentials in their user directory and used a role on AWS.

And you wonder why not only can’t Johnnie do FizzBuzz, but why in 2019 developers are writing insecure applications.

But why would I as a hiring manager (I’m a reformed dev lead), hire a junior developer who just knows theory and will spend the first six months to a year doing “negative work” when I could pay the boot camp grad or the recent immigrant who was focused on learning useful skills a few thousand more?
I just came across a test that passed spuriously because it passed an object to a function that mutated one of its arguments and then used that object in the assertions.
So, here's the point - as a baseline, if you have a fishing pole or can read a book about which plants are edible and which are not, you are not going to starve. Everything else is icing on the cake. Of course your actions matter, but there is a sea of minutiae that people tend to spend time on that simply doesn't matter in the grand scheme of the universe.

You will screw up. There are people smarter than you. Do your best to contribute and be honest about what you know and don't know, and you will be highly valued by your peers.
> Monopolies don't inherently harm the consumer. The harm comes from abusing your monopoly once you have it. Hence, the concentration in law more on the harm than on the existence per se of a monopoly.

This is only true if you consider maximizing your profit by producing as cheaply as possible while selling them for the price the market will bear — in short, maximizing profit — an abuse of a monopoly. Banning a for-profit company from trying to make a profit doesn't sound like a coherent policy.

> Antitrust law is really more about

Is is pretty much irrelevant in a discussion about ought.
Have you considered paying them better and tying compensation directly to profit?
Part of the "original" appeal of Netfix was that it was a one-stop-shop, and that effectively killed piracy for a large number of people. The legal solution was easier than the illegal one!

Segregation will just revert many back to piracy as you say, until some future round of consolidation.
Oh yeah we've been very kind to ethnic minorities in USA. Please ignore the Indian reservations and (not current, barely) kidnap-and-assimilate Indian boarding schools. Please ignore the racial disparities in prison. Please ignore The Drug War...
Tioman?
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The associated article on creating an electronic load controller for his microhydro system is also very interesting: https://ludens.cl/Electron/picelc/picelc.html
In practice I'd stake money on it, even taking into account the tech-savvy users who would otherwise use password managers but are forced to log in manually every time they step away from their computer for five minutes (I'm pretty sure it is intentionally impossible that you can't use a password manager on the Windows login form, for example).
If your want to version secrets, environment variables and code together... you can, just make sure to use a proper solution such as http://configrd.io.
That was just a feel good message like “All men are created equal” or separation of church and state
I prefer to limit mutation to changing what a local variable refers to: mutations that escape into the calling context can create all sorts of really nasty headaches.
Shipping means getting to 100% of what is necessary. So if are getting 80% of the results and shipping, that means that somebody else is doing 80% of the work.

Let's put it this way. If Christopher Columbus was looking for the new world and he got 80% of the results the reward would be a watery grave.
They corroborate your story with the data the NSA has stored and then permanently ban you from the USA for life for lying because Facebook was forced to give them your IP which is tied to the Gmail account Google was forced to disclose information about where your flight booking information was received.
> Wages are too low.

Compared to costs

We know mainly why costs are too high in the Bay Area, and it's mostly housing. Which is a solvable problem, if only the market was able to expand housing supply.
It is very curious that an article so heavy on how others talk about something, wouldn't mention the leader of a major South African political party saying "We are not calling for the slaughter of white people‚ at least for now" [1]. A statement that was explicitly not commented on by the largest party. In fact, he received their support when he got in trouble for repeatedly singing "shoot the boer".

Seems rather comparable to if the KKK had 10% of the senate in the US, and the tacit cooperation of one of the two major parties.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_Freedom_Fighters#Anti...
Also, how many of those ice cars were parked in a garage and unnattended?
Glad someone else linked this! I tried submitting it to HN but it didn't gain much traction.
I'm also happy paying for content but equally happy to immediately switch to pirating if it gets too complicated. Probably easier now than it was before - internet is a lot faster, anonymity is a lot better, hardware is a lot cheaper and things like Plex make it pretty damn straight forward to get it up and going.

Almost everyone in Australia pirated Game of Thrones -- the only streaming service provider was also the only major cable TV operator and not many people took the bait and signed up.
I’m pretty sure the consensus is that humans wiped them out.
You bought a cheap throw away car, of course it's losing money. How is that worth making broad arguments about an entire industry?
It's just Goodhart's law in effect: If a status page is used as a target metric in an SLA the status page ceases to be a useful measure.
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Interestingly enough, I travelled to the San Diego two years ago and I was expecting a round of “premium questioning” because I had a (long expired) multi-entry visa for Syria in my (now expired) passport (I was in Damascus in late 2009), but the guy didn’t care at all, just asked what the purpose of my US visit was, spent a few minutes looking at my passport and checking his computer and then he welcomed me and sent me on my way. It was all rather painless and everyone was relatively friendly.
How is a simple question and reference to an event a flame war?
oh man....so ALL of my gmail gets banned?

this is FUCKED. its aking to holding my youtube and google play accounts hostage.
> but there should be some pretty straightforward statistics to help figure out if this is bogus or not.

Sometimes they're not: https://www.thelocal.se/20180508/why-sweden-doesnt-keep-stat...
Mmm I get your point, and I’m all-in on the evolution of language, but I’m not sure you picked a great example here.

‘Cyning’ is, by any measure, no longer in use. ‘Miniscule’ is mostly recognised as an error.

The word is spelled ‘minuscule’. It really is.
...non-American...

You don't need this qualifier. Our leaders don't care about the opinions of us, their subjects, either.