skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> They care about your actual cost of living.

Except they don't. If they cared for that they would ask for your rent and economic situation.

They are not asking your cost of living to help you, they are asking which hiring pool you belong to in order to cut on operational costs.

You could be living rent free & debt free in a high pay area and still get a higher pay than someone with dependents, debts and a high (for their area) rent.

This is the part that disturbs me.

Being born in a good situation and staying with your parents without any costs would mean your paycheck is bigger than someone born in a worst situation that is also living at home.

You might as well build your class barriers out of concrete at that point. Postal-code discrimination is something that should be removed from our lives. Remote working is one solutions to this issue. I really hope that this practice doesn't become a trend.
OP is saying that there is pollution for both options, and the total cost of that pollution is proportional to the total cost of ownership of the product.

He doesn't provide evidence, but it seems at least plausible.
That doesn't look like a very practical way to drop deliveries for an individual house.
A beautiful display of the consequences of kaizen[0].

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaizen
There are plenty. Freeglut not being in active development for a while, AFAIK, will not support high-dpi devices (where the window resolution and surface resolution do not match), or newer drivers for different input devices. Freeglut locks you in to OpenGL instead of other rendering APIs. Getting multi-monitor setups up and running is harder. Joystick support is paltry to nonexistent.
If you live in Europe, you might have a case.
The parent assertion was "White supremacy was the cause for the worst wars of the 20th century"...

gaogao switch the convo to "racial supremacy". Not to say that it doesn't have something to do with wars of the 20th century.

It might even be seen that by making this switch and excluding non-imperialistic wars, we would be minimizing the atrocities and war crimes committed in Africa and the rest of the third world against native populations.

> Are you seriously denying that Nazis were motivated by ideology of racial supremacy?

I'm not even going to acknowledge this statement. How on earth did you made this cognitive leap?
If you have poor insulation and drafty construction, the attic ventilator may be doing more harm than good.

It can be pulling up cooled air from within the house into the attic, and then pumping it out of the house. No wonder your bills are enormous.

In cases like yours, retrofitting insulation should more than pay for itself in just a couple of years.
Except this is censorship based on political ideologies
> What would happen if tomorrow Twitter went bankrupt and stop its services?

Everyone's lives would improve and productivity would increase worldwide? Was this a trick question?
What features of Scala Native do you think will improve Scala code quality?
How would the rules look for establishing the long-term governance of a wikiocracy? Specifically, my impression is that it works because it has good people. If the good people left and lesser people replaced them, could it still be made to work?

One of the things I'll give the US is as crappy as the leaders get, the system still remains cohesive rather than suffering a bloody coup every four years.
The WHO reports are very informative as well: https://www.who.int/ebola/situation-reports/drc-2018/en/

The latest report (4 June 2019): https://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/handle/10665/325126/SITR...

Figure 1 on Page 3 is a good-ish overall representation of the situation. Ebola is sustaining itself. It hasn't gone geometric yet, but it could at nearly any time, if not already.

One important thing to note is that though it may seem that in the last 3 weeks the epidemic has been tapering off, that is an artifact of the reporting situation there. There is a significant lag in identification of deaths and causes. Feel free to look back over the other reports to see this reporting lag effects.

Another thing to note is that North-Kivu province is about the same size as West Virginia with about 2.5X the population. Goma, the capital there, has a population of about that of San Jose proper.

Combined with other sources that other HNers have linked, the Nature article is correct to sound the alarm here. The Ebola fighters are trying their best (despite the complicated social situations, weather, gear, humidity, and resource limitations), but Ebola is not quitting either. This situation is not something to wave away and is very deserving of international attention.
Thats not at all what they were saying. The thread states white supremacy was the cause of the wars.

It historically and factually was not.

It played a role.

It was not the cause.

Nobody is saying Hitler wasn't a racist (wtf.)
I'm wondering why YouTube doesn't have something like Reddit's "quarantine" where certain videos and/or channels are blocked from the recommendation algorithms without being outright banned, but still available for those who specifically search for them.
Well then they should have a transparent blacklist of censored topics that the majority of users collectively agree on. Otherwise it's too easy to start lobbying for the censoring of politically advantageous "extremism" (i.e. groups petitioning YouTube to censor anti-abortion rabbit holes as "misogynistic extremism")
AI Beatbox and Self-Awareness: A Night of Artistic Intelligence
The horrible truth about Apple's repeated engineering failures [video]
Although this was mostly a decompiled project, I really appreciate the architecture and code style of https://github.com/OpenTTD/OpenTTD which seems to use OOP minimally and more c oriented code.
Cool, nebulous ring around Milky Way's supermassive black hole
This may be the best political advertisement I've seen. Or the only good one?/s

Yeah it's really funny. But beyond that, there's nothing mean or of substance in it. Most political ads cannot claim the former and try to hide the latter, I think ^_^

Thanks for sharing!
Africa Is Computing’s Newest, Most Promising Frontier: Three Why
> You had to build it from scratch

Thats exactly what I'm trying to do here (sort of), I'm like 2 years in on the project and I've only just begun to actually test the thing. https://github.com/castis/currant
I agree, it is very interesting. Here's a longer article about it from a couple months back.

https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-poli...
> If used sanely, the power consumption cost is tiny compared to buying a new computer.

That depends entirely on how long you plan to use the system. 1 year vs 5 years is a huge difference.
That's the pun :). "The king is dead long live the king" originally comes from the French court and actually was used to refer to the old king dying and the heir to become the new king. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_king_is_dead,_long_live_th...!
Oh god, I feel like I'm in a reddit thread
Yes ... so they have experience in crashing planes, which is relevant. /s
Gmail explicitly ignores '.' in email addresses. I don't think it's standard behaviour across other email systems, though, and even gmail didn't always ignore it.
Solving the sun's super-heating mystery with Parker Solar Probe
Rebelgecko's comment (which is what I was responding to - not the entire thread) clearly suggests that the Nazi's racist ideology was just for show, and that they didn't really believe it.

I doubt you can point to any reputable historian of World War II who denies that the Nazi's racist ideology, and its expansionist tendencies, played a major role in the outbreak of WWII. Think Sudetenland.
Kik Gets in Trouble over Tokens
Great, let's take down all fundamentalist Christian and Muslim videos now because we know that there were crusades and jihads in the past. I'm not being sarcastic, I really hope they apply this rule consistently. But my problem here is that I know that some of these groups will get a pass, and I think that's what a lot of people dislike about this rule but are not willing to admit.
W. V. O. Quine was one of the most prominent American philosophers of the 20th century. There are several collections of his essays; I recommend "From a Logical Point of View".
It seems clang-7 agrees with you— it compiles the multiplication down to shl+add, so the perf is completely identical, see:

http://quick-bench.com/CdxqB_qPD3VS5H7igB31FFoqLLo
Carnival is a horrible unethical company. Our nation would be lucky to be rid of them.
This is a very salient point and I'm surprised it was down-voted (it might be because your point #2 could be perceived as being needlessly provocative).

One has to wonder why the U.S refuses to brand China a currency manipulator [1]. You have already stated the answer, but it's worth repeating: it is in the best interest of U.S corporations importing goods from China for the Yuan to be artificially weak. As always, the truth depends on whether one stands to benefit from it or not.

Rest assured that the moment this is not longer the case, the U.S won't hesitate to point the finger and dole out punishment accordingly.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/28/us/politics/treasury-decl...
White supremacists are fine with "lesser races" be subjugated and "taught their place" under the rulership of their "true masters". Practically none of supremacists want to exterminate other races - only to take superior position over them. Which matches the position of Islamic supremacists - you can live under Islamic rule (either as Muslim subject to Islamic authority, or as infidel recognizing Islamic law supremacy and bowing to it) or die.
>Ban people promoting violence?

There's a constitutional amendment between the first and the third that is specifically for turning a misbehaving government off and back on, specifically using violence, whether that government likes it or not, because violence is the only thing that tyrants bend the knee for.

And free speech is more important than your and my feelings combined, and one person's hate speech is another's common sense, and vice versa. Who gets to decide?
A treasure map to understanding the epigenetic causes of disease
Aside from the hyperbolic "Kill your heroes" heading, the whole article is about management error. It doesn't even advocate firing the hero if they emerge, just recognition of this emergence as a warning signal that things are going wrong for the organization.

I think the topic of the article is analogous to a military situation familiar from pop culture and current events. Let's focus on the human dynamics and ignore any technical baggage that might confuse the issue with 10x or rockstar developers and such. You can have regular infantry and special forces. The pathological situation would be expecting special forces levels of performance out of an infantry group, embedding a few special members to magically elevate them. It will deteriorate morale for all involved and produce unpredictable results, since they do not have the training and methods to work together effectively. But, don't get distracted into thinking that this argues that no regular infantry can be heroic. It's a metaphor, not a moral judgment.

If properly managed, special units would have different missions which might complement the regular units. The special unit members are held to higher standards and still must cooperate. Self-serving cowboys typically get washed out, as the special teams demand high unit cohesion in order to accomplish their missions. But, the special team can excel together, not being limited by the roles, capabilities, and methods of a regular unit.

It is not good for one member to try to stand apart from his unit. He can mentor and motivate from within, but members of the unit need to be able to rely on each other and to some degree substitute for each other. It would be a mistake to let him try to create his own special grade informally within the regular group, lacking the proper logistics and management support for that role.

Another failure mode, not discussed in the article, is when an organization tries to be "all special". Lacking missions aligned to their preparation, they will eventually lose their skills and morale. They will start to perform unpredictably as they lose cohesion and focus. Also, in an attempt to grow a large special force, you would eventually run into supply problems and lower your entry or retention standards. Then, you might end up with forces special in name only, returning to the original scenario with a general infantry with some special members embedded in a toxic brew.
> Could you please give me some pointers as to how it would work?

What do you mean by work? It already works quiet well. Except for the entry barrier.

> On the other hand, have you tried IPFS?

I have tried it a while ago and it is very unreliable. There seems to be just one server which really keeps files. You have no transparency about who and how many have one particular file.

Magnet links + torrents are essentially the same thing as IPFS but much more robust, transparent, reliable and established.
My gaming desktop right now is actually an old Dell Precision tower with a third gen i7 that I got for $140 off eBay.
I swapped out the PSU, upped the ram to 16gb, added an SSD I had laying around, and replaced the Quadro GPU with a 1060. In all it cost me about $350 and comfortably runs every game I own. Power draw isn't too much of a concern since it isn't used too often.
> YouTube is going too far. This will either be the biggest footgun due to unintended blast radius, or will be selectively enforced so that they have an excuse to editorialize and shut down stuff they or their advertisers personally find icky (entirely subjectively) while ignoring other stuff that breaks these rules.

Pretty sure it'll be the latter. Selective enforcement seems to be the name of the game in SV, and IMO that's going to bite them in the ass eventually. (this isn't to say that selective enforcement is avoidable with the ruleset they've chosen, because it's probably not, but instead that policies that minimize the opportunity for selective enforcement should be used)
> Many of the languages traditionally clubbed by the Indian government as Hindi are much farther away from standard Hindi than Urdu.

Indeed, a large percentage of 'Hindi dialects' are nothing of the sort. Many Rajasthani 'dialects' are far closer to Gujarati than they are to Hindi.
May I ask why would Intel send you a server for free or what occupation comes with perks like this?
Crispr baby mutation significantly increases mortality
That’s a double edged sword. The schools will charge exorbitant tuition if they know employers are paying for it. Did your employer reimburse you, or was it a direct payment? I took several classes after my MSEE, and employer reimbursed, with the downside that it was taxable.
But thats just it, thats exactly how it is - closed over itself.

The intent comes from the design, decided by the physics of the system. With this physics set, life is possible, and this sort of life can survive. Deeper intent comes through in the form of meaning - it was necessary that as intelligent agents evolved and emerged, that they have understandings of good and bad, happiness and pain. And from those, life lessons which are universal - tied to existence of life in general - emerge. If it is destined that whatever surviving life learns these principles to survive, that seems to give a sort of roadmap for existence, an intention of how its supposed to go.

I like this view as it models the universe in self contained meaningful (includes purpose) way without any supernatural claim. I don't believe it necessarily shuts out any supernatural claim either, if you happen to have such belief. But of course you can simply call the universe or the concept of existence itself 'God', and it does seem quite fitting still.
It's not an "assumption", it's supported by evidence and SMEs. Like I said, we have to use our brains and actually think about things instead of taking NK's word for everything.
Mozilla CEO: The web the world needs can be ours again, if we want it
Anyone knows if there is a date in sight for the v2 release?
I did undergrad research in school (CS, moved on to industry after I got my BS) and I heard the same thing; all of the grad students I worked with (Masters as well as PhDs) were paid by grants and the like. I went to a large state university that was pretty good at CS but not elite, yet all the people I worked with managed to not go into debt to get their advanced degrees. It's anecdotal I know, but I thought it was a given to never go into debt as a CS/engineering grad student if you can help it.
>India's definition of what is and what is not a language is highly politicized and highly idiosyncratic.

To some extent this is true of all languages, and it's a big part of nation building to draw the lines in whatever ways are convenient. Like, who decided Catalan, Portuguese, Spanish, and Italian are all separate languages but Swiss, Quebecois, Alsatian, West African, and French versions of French are all the same? Where are we drawing lines if not at political boundaries?

According to Hobsbawn, the original sources of developing national identity came from newspapers. Once the printing press became a thing, over time, whatever language a region read its news in slowly became the way for natural cultural divisions to form. The presence of news and a common literary canon created an imagined community around it.

India didn't have nationalism form this way since British administrative districts cut across linguistic/cultural lines. They muddied the natural process of nation-formation by having everyone speak English as a lingua franca and relegating the native languages to private life. But the Islam/Hindu cleavage was still there, so that's where the division came in at independence. (Among other cleavages that the early government of India managed to keep under control).
Fight for the Future launches campaign against airline facial recognition
This is one area where code reuse bites us and I think this is why you see so many systems starting to resemble functional code principles.

There are many code bases where you delegate an action to a module that goes out and modifies state (or doesn't) based on its own rules. Composing these things becomes challenging.

It leads to situations where verbs that sound like they should be side effect free are unknowingly causing an avalanche of updates behind the scenes.

And when two calls can touch the same objects in a different order (eg, when you have many-to-one relationships), then you are up a creek without a paddle.
The Coming GOP Apocalypse
The interesting bit is the experiment here as far as I know, but that is completely consistent with QM (basically validates it).

https://www.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/bwlhh9/anyo...
If you don't have better ideas for improving your packet size at least push your JSON through msgpack.

I'm about to change over to msgpack for my own multiplayer real time browser game. I'd use protobuf, but the extra code generation step would get in the way of my plans to turn my MMO into an MMO-game-as-lambdas PaaS project.

Right now, I'm using my own protocol which uses something somewhat like base-85 for encoding, except it's base-92. It's a binary packing format, but packs directly into base-92 encoding. This packed base-92 is encapsulated into JSON, which minimizes the use of keys. This might all sound horrible, but I'm able to achieve what Flatpack achieves: no copies are needed to extract the data. That, and the remaining slight JSON overhead makes it easier to debug network traffic.
School vouchers.

Still bad for college: why give free money to the richest of society?
What about the calls to boycott Hobby Lobby or Chick-fil-A for what they've argued are their religious positions? That's certainly exclusionary.

Or preachers telling the world that gays are evil sinners that need to be saved by conversion therapy? That's discriminatory.

Or feminist groups that advocate for women-only programs and institutions? Dividing the world into groups with different treatment is certainly segregation.
An oral history of the hamburger icon (from the people who were there)
I'm not entirely sure that certain large sites have thought through the legal implications of this kind of behavior, and no I'm not talking about "censorship!" or other free speech laws that are applicable to government rather than private entities.

Back during the late 90s all of us working on public websites knew that allowing user-contributed content was a great way to build both community and to increase the sheer amount of content, which increased advertising revenues. But there's a catch to user-contributed content... in order to avoid legal responsibility as a site owner for the user content posted on the site you can't moderate that content directly. The reason for this is the "common carrier" rule.

Common carrier essentially states that as a communications platform you are not liable for the legal implications of the communications that occur on your platform as long as you do not choose to engage in editing or moderating that content. AT&T, for example, was not legally liable for a conversation that occurred on their telephone network even if the conversation involved the commission of a crime (we're plotting a terror attack, a bank robbery, etc.) The reason they were not liable was because they did not monitor the communications on their network and did not cut off a phone call if it sounded like you were planning something illegal, evil, whatever.

The minute you, as the carrier, begin actively moderating the content (as opposed to setting up common universal rules such as site karma or user driven moderation), you are responsible for ALL of that content. You managed to remove 99.99% of all illegal communication? Too bad, you're still on the hook for that 0.01% that you missed.

This does not mean that content may never be removed by the company, it's just that they must do it under the order of a court or applicable government entity... in the same way that AT&T could not tap your phones absent a court order.

Many sites opted not to have user-contributed content due to the potential concerns regarding advertisers or their own brand reputation. Others did allow such content and later removed things such as comments and the like due to the conflict between violating common carrier and the problems that arose with advertisers and/or their brand (see Yahoo Finance comments circa 2002 or so).
Cool Gas Circles Milky Way’s Supermassive Black Hole
Forecast is a 60% increase of the world population by the end of the century...

The future of climate change and the environment is hopeless because of that as we already don't do anything now.

I don't know who's childishly downvoting any comment that points this out. I can only suggest that they wake up and smell the coffee.
Is the implication of your question that Nazis, Sandy Hook Truthers and Holocaust Deniers are right-wing and so they need to be even handed and ban left-wing groups too?
Because I'm low on RAM on this box: Auto Tab Discard (and reduce worker processes in settings)

To leave somewhat less of a digital trail: uBlock Origin, Decentraleyes, Privacy Badger.

Absolute livesaver: Form History Control.

Nice tweaks: Tree Style Tab, Fix Twitter, Google Search Link Fix, Link Alert, Link Cleaner, Reload in Address Bar.

Product-specific stuff: LastPass, Enhanced Steam, Fanatical Assistant, Amazon Smile Redirect.

This isn't an addon, but I made a bookmark with the URL https://web.archive.org/web/submit?url=%s and the keyword "rez". (You can add keywords in the full Bookmarks window, Ctrl-Shift-B.) Now I can load any page in the Internet Archive by putting the word "rez" in front of it in the address bar!