skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No not at all. I have seen the cleaners and have spoken to them and they are clearly women. One of them told me that she has no idea what we do, what the computers are used for and has never used a desktop pc. I doubt she is unique among her peers.

Quite a lot of people that do "Blue Collar" jobs that are in their 50s and 60s probably don't have to interact with a computer that often (I know my father doesn't). If they do it is normally through a kiosk of some sort or they are using their phone.

I was actually adjusting my coworkers expectations. He is younger than me and the thought hadn't entered his mind that someone may have never used a modern computer.

So in future before you start spouting about people being entitled, maybe you should not make a bunch of assumptions that is based on your incorrect reading of a comment.
Correctness isn't always the right thing to do. Games, in particular, are full of code that approximates the right thing and falls back to less and less correct solutions. It's more important to be fast than right in a lot of cases. Dropping frames can have a significant negative experience for players. Dropping an AI pathing algorithm, particle physics computation, or other background task can often be fine or even unnoticed.
Has anyone else given up TV and noticed beneficial effects?

"I replaced all TV time with reading time. TV is full of stories of murder, betrayal, and pain. It’s riveting, but it also messes with your mind. Once I figured this out, I started going to the library every day instead of watching TV."

This part resonated with me and I want to give it a shot. I default to TV when I have nothing to do, but I recognize how passive and lazy it is. You basically outsource your thinking for a couple hours a day. And I hadn't thought about how the stories we watch might be subconsciously changing the way we think.
Those pm2.5 number can be easily verified by others,just googled on pm2.5 sensors and they cost like 20~50 euros.
So i image there's probably a whole community of pollution watchers in China given the health risks associated with air pollution. And the local governments probably don't want more green protests marches.
The Encryption Debate Is Over: Dead at the Hands of Facebook
I agree... not only did the internet enable access to all the information, but it also provided the most convenient interface (removing the possibility of collecting a profit margin from the production of physical goods). I'm not sure how a corporation can compete with that; they are simply not lean enough, but I feel like individuals still can. Become a good writer, do solid research, offer unique insights, and build a fanbase. Then sell T-shirts.
https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/fenix/issues/3862#issuecom...

https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/fenix/issues/3651
That guy has nothing on Li Ching-Yuen:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Li_Ching-Yuen

7ft tall old guy who is incredibly fit and agile with many witnesses claiming their grandparents knew him as an old man when they were children.
the term "pizzagate" was part of the disinformation to throw the actual investigation under the bus.

The press focused on a leaked report that it all happened in a small pizza place. While it effectively (for the leakers) killed progress of the investigation (the one which consequences are being talked now in this thread, so it was very much real) it also gave a catchy name for a while, that cause real investigative reports to jump in.

fake news is a very interesting problem to follow.
> Full grown trees don't absord as much co2 as a tree that is still growing

This does not seem logical. Two cars emit more C02 than one car. Two leaves will absorb more CO2 than one leaf. A 2m young tree will never be able to consum so many CO2 as its older 40m high grandparent with a x10000 mass (mass that must be maintained).
Glad to know you're so well informed about about both the details and incentives of the various worldwide spy agencies.
As a PWA, not Electron fat.
https://github.com/Arkweid/lefthook/wiki/Comparison-with-oth...
The Canadian drug and medical device certification process is far more stringent than that of the USA.
What you describe is not superdeterminism, but a replay of a non local theory. The important part happens in the first run when you calculate the table.

What superdeterminism says, is that there exists local and deterministic evaluation rule that will compute consecutive states of the universe, but simply because of the way the rule works experimenters far away end up always choosing the experiments that yield correct results.

Superdeterminism is unpopular because the existence of such evaluation rule seems very unlikely.
There is something to be said for these kinds of vestigial remnants of technologies past. I've always been fascinated by them, and in fact this kind of thing in computer folklore -- for example parts of the docs that explain something exists "for historical reasons" -- are one of the things that got me into programming. For example the "size_t" size has pretty funny origins which I'll leave as an exercise to the reader. But this kind of thing also has a linguistic component which is also equally fascinating to me. For example how we still "dial" a phone, which then "rings" for the person being "called".
Most of the connections are in passing (if the article is to be believed) and would happen by the nature of being in such a class.
I personally like the url bar at the bottom of the screen because its easier to reach. I can understand how this being configurable would be important though.
Maine had a law allowing these imports (and imports from a few other countries) that was struck down as a violation of federal supremacy. While it was in effect, though, it was certainly appreciated by Mainers.
Not all of those names belong together in your list. The article says Bill Gates talked to him once at a social event, and his representative claims they never worked together. Some of the others on the list were in Eptsein's "Black Book" that he kept.
The good part is that electric cars automatically "produce" less CO2 as we replace fossil fuels on the grid. Most cars are around for more than ten years, but to reach climate goals we need to cut fossil fuel use quickly quickly. At least 50% reduction in all fossil fuels till 2030. Electricity is much easier to replace than, e.g., heating so hopefully the electric grid will lead the change.
so, I've been near sea lions on the Oregon coast - the males can be large and many 100s of pounds (bigger than actual Lions!) and rather intimidating.
This picture of the whale's mouth with a sea lion in it really puts into perspective how big the whale is.
I think we're about to find out there's a lot of asymmetry in the ability to use executive power, in that laws put some sort of ceiling (fuzzy, perhaps, but it's there) on the power of the executive branch in various areas, but there's no court-enforced floor on it, for the most part. So it's easy to, say, stop the CFPB from doing anything at all or cripple the EPA, but much harder to push those offices beyond their congressional mandate.

Restraint in this regard, and (especially) Republican willingness to let agencies, laws, and policies they don't like even sort-of work when they're in power, has essentially been due to courtesy or deference to convention. That may be going away.
I was in Bangkok for a month and have a couple of friends living there and would say it's very safe. Safer than any big city in the U.S.
cool! thanks for the response
> It was reported an expired Saudi passport was found in Epstein's safe;

That's not exactly true. It was reported the passport listed a residence in SA, but the country that issued the passport was undisclosed.
It depends on your situation.

Part of mine is that I've had 3 bosses straight up steal money from me over the years. So the fear/pain of getting screwed by another boss is greater than the pain of starting a company.

Apart from that, I don't know about you, but I came to the realization of how short life is awhile back. You have 70 or so years to do your thing, then that's it. You're dead. For me at least, the pain of dying and not having done anything with my life, is more than the short-term pain of working on your dream.

So I don't know man. I'd say it's more what do you want out of life vs self imposing pressure.
Not having a job-provided phone is great. Otherwise people have the wrong expectation to reach my co-workers almost 24/7, despite not being required to answer, given the nature of their jobs.

Some time ago I made the error of installing my corporate email on my personal phone and i feeled compeled to read every new email, causing me anxiety and stress. I prompty deleted it, not only for taht reason, but because I understood some legal implications of having job-related info on my personal device.
Well, technically it's available for everyone if the system has an app then the app can be reverse-engineered quite easily to get access to the API.
Actually yes. Walmart sells a few dells with 64gb eMMC and win 10 (30gb+)
No. They are even contributing to upstream Electron - and they did this before Github was acquired by Microsoft.

They just run more efficient software on top of electron than others do.
News radio strikes again. Thanks for the correction.
Would the importation from CA incentivize local mfgs to lower prices and disincentivize importation? Barring regulation to render imports illegal of something.
> Whereas you're talking about the sort of imaginary world where everybody begins a novel by perusing the copyright notice (…)

Not so much. I'm referring to a world where different weight and importance apply to different matter. There are things that are important and things that are really important (like your bank connection) and it is really the latter which matter.

> Users (…) e annoyed that they can't switch it off since it wastes space with things they don't care about (…)

With much the same anticipation we may expect users to hate the Start menu in Windows, since it occupies some space and they neither understand nor use it. Now guess, what happened. (Turns out, users are interested in knowing how to control their devices.)

Regarding prefetching, this was just escalating the idea. (In actuality, I'm not a friend of prefetching for any means. Don't waste bandwidth on a general level, just because you can't serve your assets in a time span that had been barely bearable with modems.)
> If browsers are simplifying the URI scheme for the alleged benefit of users, how do we expect these users to know anything about addresses?

You've accurately assessed the current state of affairs. The current average user knows essentially nothing about addresses. They might have a vague sense that domain matters, but that's about it.

Displaying more information that they do not understand does not enhance the security of the average user. Displaying more information useful to the exceptional user (i.e., us) has to be weighted the degree to which it leads average users to a learned helplessness reaction.
Request Map Generator
you're right I was, since it appears to be a bad link to UDPtunnel
Except if you're Danish, students are always excluded when counting who's poor or not. Technically students are poor (mostly), but it's viewed a temporary, and therefore they're not included.
Swing is quite good.

A good manager will ensure everyone has actually read Filthy Rich Clients, is aware of Swing theme component libraries and never does IO on the UI thread.

And for bonus points, that the team gets hold of an Java AOT compiler to native code.
> they might be able to spend time on other activities, but not to infiltrate two organizations at once.

This kinda contradicts itself. Maybe the answer isn't 2x but like 1.3x or something. But that's all my point. That it makes it easier.

No one is saying that it's a linear or exponential relationship. I'm sure everyone here would expect the effectiveness to be sublinear.

The problem though is that the number of people being snooped on isn't 10x. Not even 1kx. More like 1e6x. With that much more snooping if we aren't getting terrorists 10x faster (which let's be real, that's poor gain), I don't know how this is even remotely justifiable (maybe a good argument could be made at 1000x catch rate, but that's leaving out moral questions).

If you're going to talk about Amdahl, let's talk about Pareto. We know that catch rate is going to have a logarithmic catch rate compared to energy spent. Most terrorists will be easy to catch. The last 0.001% will take a ton of resources to catch. This is a key part to Amdahl's. You don't just throw more and more resources at the problem. You don't gain at a certain point and are wasting resources. If we're spending all that money, time, and sacrificing all that freedom just to scrape the bottom of the barrel, then I'd argue that this isn't a good use of resources. That's the issue at hand here. Amdahl's Law is the issue. People don't care about targeted surveillance. People care about mass surveillance that doesn't meaningfully improve the catch rate. It's a waste of money and an over reach in control.

But again, if you can show me data to suggest that the catch rate is much better then I'm open to changing my mind. But I'm highly skeptical that this is the case, because it doesn't match the intuition of the above principles.
As others have mentioned, United Healthcare has more patients on it's plan than the population of Canada. In addition, each province of Canada has their own drug plan (some don't and people buy private insurance), so there is no monolithic entity buying drugs for all of Canada.

The real reason is that the gov't simply decides what drugs are worth and then tells the drug companies. If the drug companies don't like it, then the gov't tells them they can't sell them in Canada. Think of it more like "price by fiat" than anything else.
Future is eSports as 16-year-old wins $3M at Fortnite WC
This is about churning, not regular rewards. Sign up for a new card, pay taxes on it among other things to meet the spending requirement for the signup bonus, get “free” $$$ for things you have to spend anyway.
Health insurers in most states are subject to a minimum loss ratio that says they must payout 85% of the premiums they take in. Insurers operating near this cap actually have an incentive to pay out more money in order to raise the cap on their profits.
>Cargo does a fantastic job for Rust in this regard. Rust won me over.

Cargo - that's exactly what I would love to have in C++. Probably there is something that I am just not aware of as I do not do a professional cpp development.
Because it takes a lot of time for maintainers to format every PR.
Geometric Algebra for Computer Graphics
bwahaha, way to twist the facts to fit your narrative my dude.
It would be cool if there were a variant of this variant where one also had to discover 1) what the legal moves were, and 2) whether there is an opponent there at all.
What are you talking about? Is there some registry out there whereby you announce at some point that you have had interactions with someone but renounce what they have done (or might have been convicted of?)?

Or did you expect these people upon reading the recent story to issue some kind of statement saying that they had interactions with someone (I might add accused at this point) and therefore wanted to get out front with the disclosure of association?
If the browser is going to allow scrolljacking, then I understand the case for it being implemented in the browser's CSS engine. But on so many sites it's a usability issue because space, pgup/pgdn, arrow keys (not to mention Vimium navigation) do not behave predictably.
How often do you go "back to basics" (read introductory book chapters, or classic papers, etc)?
There are a few pieces of supporting evidence that Epstein was involved in an intelligence operation. It seems likely he was related to Mossad in some way. Let me list the solid news sources first and then give some background on sources.

> Is there any doubt at this point? It was Mossad.

- "The sordid Epstein saga is a sex scandal, a human trafficking scandal, a financial scandal -- and now an espionage scandal too.
But whose?" John Schindler https://twitter.com/20committee/status/1149069968237039617
Schindler draws oblique links to Mossad.

- Alex Acosta, quoted as, "I was told Epstein ‘belonged to intelligence’ and to leave it alone,” he told his interviewers" - Vicky Ward, reporter whose profile of Epstein in 2002 in Vanity Fair had its editors kill mention of sexual accusations.

- Epstein had a fake foreign passport with his face but not his name. https://www.businessinsider.com/jeffrey-epstein-saudi-austri...

John Schindler is a good source for intelligence-related matters. He formerly worked for the Navy and the NSA but he has been unafraid to comment on or criticize the US government. He's actually a hard-core conservative, though he criticizes both parties; still he's worth reading for his insight. He often writes for the NY Observer but has been editorially independent from its ownership. And Vicky Ward has been following Epstein for years.

At this point, it is certain that Epstein is not related to the US intelligence agencies. It seems highly likely that he was doing intelligence work linked to Mossad in some way. We may find out, at some point.
Identity doesn't improve combat effectiveness.

The Air Force doesn't need to share the Army's motivated esprit d'corps because most of them will sit at a desk or work as mechanics.

> We in germany have a "Bundeswehr". There obviously are separate branches and what not. I'm actually not familiar with the internals, since we from the public usually think of the military as a single entity.

So you're making a point about copying the Bundeswehr but don't actually know how the BW is set up?

Everything you described already exists in the US: the Department of Defense (and, to some degree, NATO). They're the overarching coordinating civilian department that runs the military. But the US military is HUGE and each individual US military service is larger than most other countries combined militaries.

Having some sort of combined bootcamp is nice, but as someone else mentioned, the Canadians already tried that and gave up on the idea. The hyper-fit Marines have a completely different lifestyle than an Airforce mechanic who will fix radars 13 hours a day -- the mechanic can get away with a 6 week "basic" training and then sent off to mechanic school, while the USMC grunt needs to have that discipline worked into them, and there is no way to do that except the hard way.
https://www.prisonpolicy.org/reports/pie2019.html

Important to look at the whole picture. Even if we were to decriminalize all activity for all drugs, and assume 100% of drug crime inmates don't deserve to be there and should go free, it would nowhere near "empty" state and local prisons.

Also important to note that the vast majority of those incarcerated for drug crime are not in for possession, and even most people in jail for possession pleaded down from more serious charges.
> the country that issued the passport was undisclosed

It was an Austrian passport [1]. (Presumably fake.)

[1] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-people-jeffrey-epstein/fi...
Ask HN: Open-source authors, would you use this?
Dear HNers,

If you're an open source author or contributor, I would love your opinion:

I'm trying to imagine an open source monetization platform that's appealing to both contributors and companies. the idea is that, as an author, you can sell your services on the platform and companies would hire you to perform specific tasks, think of it as upwork for open source.

As an author, you can:

- Specify the professional services you could perform: custom integration, code review a specific PR, add a specific feature, etc..

- Get a "hire-me" badge to advertise that you're available for hiring.

- Get hired straight from the platform.

- Get tax forms for all your paid open source work in a single place.

As a company you can:
- Hire the authors of the projects you're relying on instead of wasting engineering time or relying on external consultants.

- Sponsor a specific feature, PR, or addition to an open source project.

- Only pay one entity, one bill for all your open source needs. No need to deal with paperwork or paying multiple individuals.

We all know that donations and Patreon don't work, mostly because they're sponsored by empathizing developers and not companies who make money by using your projects.

"Let's help this person out with a donation" is not an appealing use case for a company.

"Let's hire this person, who knows what they're doing, to avoid 2 weeks of dev work and the pain of maintaining a fork" is.
You might enjoy Japanese chess: "shogi"

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shogi
While studies like this are valuable, it's important to always consider context around data; highly recommend this article that explains why we should be skeptical [1].

In this case, the data is given to Eurostat by EU member states, who presumably collect income data for the purpose of taxation. This can create an inherent issue, as nobody would overstate their income, but many people would understate their income.

As a result, the percentage of Europeans who can't afford a 1 week annual holiday is likely lower. "By how much" is hard to tell, but it would be interesting to see if there's any anonymous income data collected for non-taxation purposes, from which we may get more accurate answers.

[1] https://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/why-data-is-neve...
I viewed the code pen example on my phone, and the bottom of the sections are cut off in each of the snapped positions. So, even the canonical example is making a ton of content inaccessible to people with minor motor control (that allow them to swipe and tap, but not keep their finger in a one pixel radius for extended periods of time).

Such issues tend to crop up later in life, precisely when you need to start cranking the font size up (and therefore get outside of the configurations checked during usability testing), so this is not only hitting a big percentage of the population, it will eventually hit a sizable fraction of the currently-healthy people reading this comment.

Which circle of Dante’s guide to web development in the inferno are we in again? I’m having trouble keeping track.
Well, if UHC decides to negotiate hard and fails, then people will leave UHC and move to another insurer which is willing to pay those insane prices.

If country X (with single payer plans) does the same thing, the only choice the pharmaceutical company has is to not be covered by insurance, which mean they won't sell their drug.
Also the state can just pass laws to make the pharmaceutical company life's miserable. UHC can't do that.
The Linux App Summit to Be Held in Barcelona in November
KDE and GNOME are joining forces to create a strong, free and open app ecosystem.

All the details here: https://dot.kde.org/2019/07/31/linux-application-summit-coming-barcelona-november
The technical review wasn't technical. It was a human roleplaying as a code formatter. The technical content was entirely found in the comment about ABI compatiblity.

I didn't see any discussion about tradeoffs, alternative approaches, or a survey of what other systems do for this kind of functionality, or detailed benchmark results.

The tone was roughly what I'd want people to give me in a code review -- the only problem is that it was trivial, and could have been summarized as "Fix the style, check it with $tool"
The original comment pointed out "entry points", so I assumed that they were talking about libraries rather than standard dead code elimination (which has been a thing for quite some time).
Arctic fires: What's unprecedented about them
Unfortunately nobody will ever really know.