skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it's fine for the environment to be honest. Sending 1$ sort of thing free shipping overseas does not sound right.
I'm not at all convinced that sperm banks have procedures that are in any sense "rigorous." For example, there's a Dutch man who fathered 200 children through a sperm bank.

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/nov/24/sperm-donor-...
Everyone is separated from their kids when they're arrested. This is a fake scandal.

As for poor living conditions, it isn't really a systemic or intentional thing. Conditions vary by facility. Some are remarkably fine, some are strained beyond their capacity. That's not really their fault. Let's apply some agency to the people coming across the border, rather than just ICE. Personally, I wouldn't think to illegally sneak into a country, refuse to leave, then complain about not getting dental care and a comfy bed fast enough. Spare me. How about we just not let them in?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/the-head-of-ice-c...
You Probably Can’t Use the Yield Curve to Time the Market
An hour if you're lucky :-)

I think I haven't been able, in the last years, to update a Windows 7 SP1, without using hacks.
I think you are partly right.

My understanding is that the special aliasing rules apply only to `char` and `unsigned char` in C++, not to `signed char`. In C, however, I think it applies to all three.

AFAIK char is a distinct type from signed char and unsigned char, regardless of whether it is signed or not. In practice it will have the same representation as those but will not be the same type:

https://godbolt.org/z/D6ylkf

So `signed char` would seem to be a way to get a strongly typed char not subject to the aliasing rules (even if bare char is signed), but compilers don't take advantage as far as I can tell.
Rather a lot of name brand stuff is also getting shipped from China.
Yes a gay man like Thiel not looking out for LGBTQ people's rights would be quite shocking. But then money knows no gender orientation.
I don't know about that, I'm unqualified to answer. However, ocean liners do use very dirty fuels (compared to automobiles) and very dirty engines with respect to sulfur and nitrogen oxides emissions
The original article includes a link at the bottom to a part 2 posted 6 months later that addresses many of your questions.
https://whathappensonthehomestead.com/an-update-about-our-sa...
Low tech magazine has a good writeup on energy stability and security as it relates to green energy: https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2018/12/keeping-some-of-th...
There's almost 2 million domesticated reindeer worldwide, compared to 1.4 billion cattle, so it's tiny for sure. But in most of those regions, it's regulated such that only first people/native inhabitants/etc. are legally allowed to work reindeer.
Yes, many programmers do live-coding sessions, but how many are making money doing it (and enough to live from that)?
The land of the free, pretty much by definition assumes no social services.

That being said, I personally would not mind retiring in the UK with British medicine, British housing and British retirement benefits.
I live in the city without a car but what you are suggesting is literally infeasible for most of the US, it goes far beyond "short term pain". There is no viable way to build usable, economical public transport for vast, low-density suburban sprawl. Blocking roads does not solve this obvious problem. The topology of most US infrastructure is designed in such a way that this conversion is not possible without demolishing and rebuilding thousands of square kilometers of existing infrastructure. That is a very expensive proposition.

Even if all new construction and city growth is optimized for not needing a car, and a significant fraction of it is, that doesn't change the reality that 300 million people live in areas where a car is an absolute and largely irreplaceable necessity because the existing infrastructure requires it.
Most redirects on the web are fairly innocuous, but now and then they are used to point to malware or otherwise deceive. Since this is a magazine/news site I wouldn't worry, though there is the chance it's another hacked Wordpress site used to redirect visitors to malware / drive-by downloads.
Oh man. I found Hordes recently and was impressed. I guess I didn't expect a 3D game to run so smoothly in my browser. Glad to see it here! Quick question, what's the plan with beta? I signed up a few days ago! Great work, by the way!
Unfortunately the lack of funding is purely political football. Regarding the separation issue, how do feel about prisons which historically involve separation from family members?
I think it also must be noted that this would be the case with zero piracy as well. It's not pirates who eat up all the IP revenue, it's the middlemen between the artist and the audience.
For me, the thing that's missing from the article is the 'so what?'

If Linux package managers were faster then <it would affect me how?>
Data Center Design in 7 Days (2017)
That's a very kind way to characterize their work. Regardless, they are in the mass surveillance business. Some of their product manuals are out there to read.

Edit: I personally think calling them just a 'consulting' company is a silly way to obscure the things on which they consult.
I almost never order stuff from China here in Canada because its very expensive to ship anything and inconsistently takes forever or semi-forever.

I was wondering how Wish.com made money...
I think it comes down to just understanding IP and TCP in general. Which I don't really (IP) or do sorta (TCP).

As far as kernel architecture, the rest of the system can work with the assumption "writes go into a buffer, reads come from a buffer, and the networking subsystem does the right thing in between", plus some stuff about DMA optimizations.
being a buyer off ebay what always surprised me is the next to nothing if not free shipping from China. It is good to see it changing as an article from 2014 [1] indicated how the USPS is getting soaked for the shipping on our side of the ocean.

if this is fallout from the trade issues it honestly is the only good outcome of them

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/storyline/wp/2014/09/12/...
Wrap them in carbon nanotubes :)
Well, we agree on this much, at least. :)
Hey, author of the Haskell re-write (https://github.com/facebook/duckling). We've implemented custom dimensions for extensibility (example: https://github.com/facebook/duckling/blob/master/exe/CustomD...).
No, the point is they are currently not selling any at $35k. They are filling the high-end orders first, hoping that they can do $35k profitably in the end.
My reply is a direct paraphrase of the article’s arguments. Did we read the same article in its entirety?

> Car traffic shares its roads with buses, often bicycles.

Not in the scenario argued for by the article.

> And the distances you need to cover don't get shorter if you remove roads or parking spaces.

Two things the article goes to great pains to make clear—the distances you need to cover are a direct result of horrible parking policy, and the distances become irrelevant as more space is given to denser development and increased public transport options with dedicated space.

> What assumptions does your "theory" base this claim on? That newly built houses will quickly fill with people working nearby? Perhaps they just like their small houses on the hills of LA and don't want to move to the busy center of the city.

All of the assumptions and data presented and explained at length in the article. That newly built housing popping up in the place of vast, sprawling parkings areas would fill with new tenants in Los Angeles does not strike me as an outlandish conclusion. Have you lived there? Yes, some people like living in the surrounding areas—but that’s somewhat forced by limited housing supply and god-awful traffic. I don’t think I’m the only person born and raised in LA who would have jumped at the chance to be right in the busy city center, especially while younger. Most of my remaining family members in the area would still do it. The rest moved away after 30+ years of being fed up with the gridlock. City centers are vibrant, awesome places. Lots of people would love to live close to work and play, and leave all the driving for when they’re ready to get out of the city.
I like 'Better Explained'[1]. It specifically focuses on intuitive understanding of mathematics.

A post I like is on adding numbers 1 to 100 [2]. The staple formula is n(n+1)/2, sum of arithmetic progression. How can we intuitively arrive that this formula?

> Technique 1: Pair Numbers
Pairing numbers is a common approach to this problem. Instead of writing all the numbers in a single column, let’s wrap the numbers around, like this:

1 2 3 4 5

10 9 8 7 6

An interesting pattern emerges: the sum of each column is 11. As the top row increases, the bottom row decreases, so the sum stays the same.

Because 1 is paired with 10 (our n), we can say that each column has (n+1). And how many pairs do we have? Well, we have 2 equal rows, we must have n/2 pairs.

Number of Paris x Sum of Each Pair = (n/2) (n + 1) = n(n+1) / 2

[1] https://betterexplained.com/

[2] https://betterexplained.com/articles/techniques-for-adding-t...
Only compared to alternative forms of transportation for the same distance, like airplane.

Still, shorter is better.
Social services have been present in America since before Revolutionary times.

This idea that 'America Great Again' means selfishness and abandoning the old and poor, is a purely modern idea of the last decade.
The US withdrawing from TPP directly resulted in a vastly-improved treaty. The problem is that the US didn't sign up to the new version.
At least in the context of copyright, independent creation of something is not infringement.
> it was probably instrumental in China's phenomenal economic growth

Yes, it was subsidized postal shipping by the kind overlord USA that allowed china to become a "conquering superpower", without it Xi would still be in the paddy field.
Most efficient price/volume wise, and dirtiest, environment wise
Pre-rendering static websites with the 23 year-old wget command
Handing people money to pay for rent would be an equally leftist alternative to setting prices, you can be a leftist without being authoritarian.
I mean why "should [the compiler] be able to assume that a previous write cannot affect the next read from the size field"?

It's not that the size field is a function of the iteration variable (i?) but that the previous write may have overwritten the size field, because the size field is located at some arbitrary place in memory, and the array backing the vector is located at some other arbitrary place and they may overlap (but only because the vector type is uint8_t/char - if it other than a char type the compiler can be sure they don't overlap because the size() fields are pointers which have a distinct type from uint32_t and are not subject to the "char aliasing loophole" rule).
Yes, there is evidence, right on the ICE website: https://www.ice.gov/features/ERO-2018
Intro to Web Prolog for Erlangers (2019) [pdf]
> It's not uncommon to hear a fan talking about buying a product specifically to support the creator.

A consideration: Could a reason for this also be that people do want to avoid that their money goes to "evil media companies" who will use this money to fight against them (think DRM, think anti-consumer legislation etc.)?
Bitcoin’s Lightning Network Is Still Struggling to Spark
You can't just mandate low costs by fiat. That's why it causes market distortion.

You could also say mandate that say breakfast at a hotel should cost no more than $1. You'd get that, but you'd also pay for it via rising hotel prices that would need to subsidize that benefit some enjoy with a higher room fee that everyone would pay for.

In this case lower shipping rates for some are subsidized with higher shipping rates for others, or in some other countries with the same problem corresponding state subsidies for the postal service paid for out of the general state budget.
Could you explain that? I, and I think a lot of HN readers, are strongly of the impression that Palantir sells a platform and toolkit for mass data analysis specifically meant for human tracking across large government datasets. I understand that as with any large-scale implementation, a good portion of their actual project dollars will come from billable hours to get it running and keep it running, but they're certainly not run like an actual consulting company.

Also, neither SAP nor IBM are consulting companies. SAP is an ERP provider and IBM is a cloud-based solution provider and outsourcing company. Most people would say consulting companies are those like Accenture, Deloitte, McKinsey, BCG, etc.
I don't follow...are you claiming that no piracy leads to less streaming services? Couldn't one easily defend the opposite, that a lot of music on streaming services would drive users to get free versions via piracy?
FINALLY! The Chinese have had a free ride selling directly into the living rooms of Americans free of tax and regulation for too long. The Chinese manufacturers were financed by the Chinese Gov. and USPS which effectively destroyed segments of retail competition in e-commerce.

Trump fixed it unlike another politician before him. #ArtOfTheDeal
Support Tump for a 2nd term. Show your support openly. The USA needs change.
This could still be a problem if those sellers move to Fulfillment By Amazon. My understanding (and I'd like to be corrected if I'm wrong) is that Amazon's current policy is to commingle products with the same SKU from different sellers, so it will become even more likely to pay for the original and get the knockoff.
Free online color converter, and algorithms explained
Typekit, not Typescript.

Just thought it'd be good to clarify.
Your quote is for surface parking. Theirs is for above-ground parking. It is much more expensive to build a structure strong enough to hold a bunch of cars off the ground than it is to just pave a flat area.
Fix our attitude to car parking and the rest will follow. In Japan there's no street parking, thus narrow streets and no need for sidewalks, saving even more space for actual stuff. If you want to own a car, it's your responsibility to pay for space to keep it in (and you're not even allowed to buy one without showing that you've got a space), you don't get to just dump it in some public space.
Actually, it’s awesome that they have realized that the definition of library is changing from a store of media into place where people can meet and hang around and do stuff together. There isn’t that much of public space for people unless you’re attending some school. And in case somebody asks, hanging outside in Finnish winter is not that fun all the time ;D

I’ve visited Oodi a lot more than traditional libraries as I already have the need for books satiated with Kindle and such.
Okay, what if the SaaS companies start posting anonymously as customers, and claim to be paying exorbitant prices?

Would that just make people feel better about the prices they are paying?
Will this even matter when Chinese Alibaba/Aliexpress sellers recently started sending their items to Singapore to avoid tariffs and shipping restrictions?
We are deeply embedded in an era of surveillance-capitalism. Technology has made it trivial to passively gather information about people and inexpensive to store data indefinitely, so companies gather, stockpile, and re-sell everything they can. Crucially, the future applications of this data are not limited by our current imagination.

I find the dismissive attitude of this article extremely disappointing. Bad actors are getting away with overreach because they are given the benefit of the doubt. Stop enabling them. Re-evaluate every aspect of your interaction with third-party services and truly consider what they could be doing, from the least-generous perspective available.

Consider how many "best practices" and tools for web development (including browsers themselves) are ultimately designed and popularized by companies with an open interest in spying on users. Technologies like CDNs, AMP, embeddable analytics packages, generic authentication providers, and social sharing buttons all provide some utility or convenience, and may be acceptable or appropriate in some contexts, but it is absurd to consider them harmless. If you have a website, the buck stops with you.

Countless websites- including Stratechery- are literally selling the privacy of their users for kilobytes of hosting costs or mild conveniences. Step up your game, and don't pretend you can't treat your audience with more respect.
Cholesterol is fine, but someone should talk to the crows about sugar and carbohydrates. It can lead to insulin resistance with time and eventually metabolic syndrome and eventually diabetes. Our hospitals would put the crows on statins and BP meds instead of changing their diet.
the placement new is not UB, at least at a language level. Modifying the vector would break the vector invariant, leading to UB. The specialization is UB only because vector is an std type, otherwise is perfectly legal.

In both cases, yes, if you hardcode the specific std::vector invariants in the compiler, it might be able to do better, but a user provided vector class wouldn't benefit from the same optimisations.

Note that compilers are not beyond hardcoding invariants of standard library facilities: malloc, C string functions, etc are treated as primitives by the compiler (for example, the result of malloc cannot alias with any other pointer), but for a complex class like vector, it does not seem appropriate and it is better to use compiler hooks in the implementation that are also available to the user (restrict, builtin functions, alias annotations, etc).
Great question - we're in the same field, so competitors - but:

>How Are You Different From Pingdom, GtMetrix, Or SpeedCurve?
All are solid services, and you'd be in good hands if you ended up with any of them. There are a few things that separate us, though: MachMetrics gives you more testing options than Pingdom, better automation than GtMetrix, and more payment flexibility than SpeedCurve.
Well, they purported to be. Questionaires to select donors; catalogs for the recipients to peruse and choose.

In many banks other than the strawman provided, it meant that 'eugenics' was alive and well most places.
My guess is that the existence of groups that have an excellent track record or producing highly successful individuals creates bursts the privilege narrative and causes cognitive dissonance and downvoting.

Jews were slaughtered by the millions in Europe and had most of their possessions and capital stolen from them and yet after their ordeal was over, they recovered and many built all that they had lost again from the ground up, many of them many times over. Plus, look at the number of noble prize winners, 20% of whom have been Jewish.

The Chinese came over to the West coast in the US and were the very definition of a marginalized community, yet they've done remarkably well. Those that have time to apply the strong values around work and building up intergenerational wealth in a country that respects property rights have absolutely flourished. These days, many of those that aren't well off are typically those that are recent immigrants that fled a countries where they did not have the opportunity to build wealth so they are starting again from the bottom.

Mormons were persecuted and moved westward trying to find a place where they'd be left alone and they've done remarkably well for themselves in and around Utah.

It goes beyond those groups. The Quakers in New England did well. Many of the Italian and Irish immigrants that came to the US and settled in the Northeast United States have done quite well for themselves despite being second class citizens in the US upon their arrival. One of the best examples showing that culture and values matter is that black immigrants out-earn US-born blacks.

Culture and values matter. It's what leads parents to have books in the house, what leads them to get their kids reading books, what leads them to be involved in their children's schooling, what leads them to join the PTA, what leads them to teach their kids about money and savings, what leads them to maintain a nuclear family instead of splitting up into single-parent households, what leads them to teach pro-social pro-cooperation values like not coveting what others have, forgiveness and hard work, and lastly what leads them to eventually have families of their own and pass along all the culture and values to their kids that their parents taught them. Rome was not built in a day.

Yes, wealth plays a role, but something lead to that wealth creation in the first place and lead to that wealth persisting across generations instead of it all being gone by the third generation that inherited it. Plus, most of the wealth held by individuals in the groups above weren't earned all by one massively successful individual. Most of it was build upon incrementally by each generation that passed along not only wealth, but the culture and values that built that wealth and that will allow that wealth to be built into an even larger pot for the next generation.
If it goes into effect September 31st then it’s never going into effect.
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Didn't MSFT just announce they're moving away from UWP in favour of Win32?
Yes, public transportation is oddly expensive in most German cities I know of. But the network is often very good and you can get special deals for month tickets with your employer.
In terms of dollars per unit weight moved, yes. They are not only moving massive amounts of cargo with low drag, they're also relatively lightweight compared to the product being moved. Also, there's no maintenance cost to keeping a flat path across the Pacific like there is in keeping roads free of potholes.

In terms of environmental damage, not at all. Container ships burn some of the nastiest, most sulphrous and damaging forms of crude oil in existence, with little to no emissions controls.

I think rail transport is best, but I could be wrong.
> This was an early factor in third-wave feminism accepting gender identity, which is why almost all millenial and gen-Z feminists accept trans and intersex people and why TERFs tend to be older

I don't see why this story would lead anyone to accept gender identity.

I also think there are many millenials and gen-Z's who would be classified as "TERFs", and in fact would view the term as derogatory.
There seems to be a transition in the young between when they talk out loud to themselves and then when they bring the voice inside.

Interestingly, some people do not have an inner voice...
"I'm a rabid leftist". I appreciate your candor, but if you think "things should cost what they cost", then you're not nearly as rabid as many of the rabid leftists that I've encountered.
> At the end of the day the plain old "give me money to give you thing" works the best for all parties involved (assuming said parties want to be involved), despite any drawbacks.

This is the heart of it for me. All the new monetization models developed in the last 20 years suck. I don't want software as a service, I don't want freemium, I certainly don't want to be the product for ad-supported software. All I want is to pay you for the thing and get the thing and then for you to leave me alone until you release a new version of the thing.
An auto-updating browser is essential to me. For nearly all other software I abhor automatic updates, but for something as vulnerable as a browser it's absolutely crucial.