skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It seems likely that US social security is linked with this: "Elderly poverty in the U.S. decreased dramatically during the twentieth century. Between 1960 and 1995, the official poverty rate of those aged 65 and above fell from 35 percent to 10 percent, and research has documented similarly steep declines dating back to at least 1939." [0]

[0] - https://www.nber.org/aginghealth/summer04/w10466.html
Call your congressional representative. Ask them to sponsor legislation to remove pay access to PACER.
> But there are diminishing returns to adding more cores past a certain point which will depend on your codebase and compiler. If your builds are at 100% CPU utilization most of the time then you will probably see pretty large gains, but sometimes a significant chunk of the time ends up being bottlenecked by single threaded performance.

You should check out Phoronix's Rome benchmarks. Compilers seem to love L3 cache, and the new Threadripper parts have 128MB of it. https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=amd-epyc...

The Epyc 7502 in that chart is going to be roughly equivalent to the 32-core Threadripper 3 announced today. Both are 32 cores with 128MB of L3, but the Threadripper part has a much higher base & turbo clock speed so it'd compile even faster. Probably.
Clearly the jaywalker was not agile enough.
I noticed the same thing: what religion you are (and whether you have one) isn't a guarantee of whether you're a "good person." I have a Catholic friend who spends his time complaining, being negative, and mainly serving himself, but then you also have Venerable Fulton Sheen who was also Catholic and an amazing guy. And I know some Lutherans who love Jesus more than many Catholics that I know do. And some non-religious people who are more forgiving than many Christians I know.

Just last night I was telling my children about this principle, and explaining the Catholic perspective of it to them: it all comes down to how much love a person has in their heart. And love is naturally selfless and self-sacrificing. The famous hyperbole is "God is love", not that God isn't also God, but that if you have love in you, you have God in you to some extent. And the more a person loves someone, the more they will seek to find out what they can do to please that person and what they should avoid to not offend that person.

So there will always be people who love Jesus but don't even know he's God! Because they God's name, which isn't so much a bunch of letters as it is what he stands for: goodness, kindness, gentleness, unity, self-sacrifice, selflessness, mercy, courage, hope, trust, and so on. Anyone who loves these things loves God, even if they've only heard lies about Jesus. They may hate that false version of Jesus, but they love the true one!

That's not to say our religion is useless, and that anyone can just "be a good person" without ever belonging to it. But if you want to please someone and give them fish, but didn't know that they hate seafood, they will see and appreciate your good intentions, but also kind of wish you looked further into what they really like and dislike. This is what the Catholic Church is: through it, God told the world what he loves and what displeases him. Not in the hypocrisy of the many non-Catholics out there who go to Mass every Sunday and shout at you for being homosexual. But in her immutable teachings and in her explanations of what she meant when she wrote down the Gospels.
It will certainly have it's limits. I don't know whether tokio spawns new threads if it detects all others are used up - likely not that this point of time. However work-stealing at least allows to mitigate the impact of some accidentally blocking code. E.g. if a syscall is made that takes longer than expected - or if a library holds a mutex for longer than necessary. It shouldn't be used as an excuse for simply blocking everywhere in an async task executor - but it will to reduce the impact, and give developers some time and wiggle room to improve the associated code.
One step further – all that miserable work can be productive! Match prospective couples/friends with someone who has a grueling job they need completed (e.g. help me move this refrigerator). It's like Tinder x TaskRabbit – couples fulfilling your Instacart order as a first date.
I agree. Really poorly done - I'm surprised this is on the front page of HN.
That's how we get flamewars. What feels like honest bluntness on the inside seems like trollish flames on the outside—not to everyone, of course, but reliably to someone, who then feels justified not only in reacting but escalating.

The only way out of this, if you want to have an internet forum that doesn't burn (which we do!) is for everyone to practice making their points in a more thoughtful way. Maybe you don't owe better to the closers-of-source-code; but you owe it to the community if commenting here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Someone should Kickstart a modern "Unbox = Programming" computer.
It's been a while since I looked at the C64 Serial Registry. For a long time I had the earliest serial number recorded there that wasn't a prototype. Looks like I've been topped!
Been a big fan of DEV since the early days. Congrats!
The operational efficiency of both is probably within 10% of each other, so not that significant compared to the big picture of what we are discussing. My guess is that DAC actually fares worse because you have to run an enormous bank of fans to suck in all that air which is why it costs more.

As for cost, I'm not ignoring it, it was my point. Fuel from one pathway costs more from another pathway. High cost is a barrier to taking a solution out of the lab and actually putting it into action to causing less CO2 to be emitted. If 2 fuel pathways have the same carbon footprint but one costs less than the other why would you choose the one that costs more?

I'm willing to listen if you would like to explain why you think DAC is better but so far you haven't done that, you've just been insulting which I don't get.
Aircraft carrier catapults do that. When launching the aircraft, all the energy is expended from the ground. Looking forward to such gigantic machines on airports, how much they would charge per flight, and problems like terrain slowly moving due to the gigantic forces at play.
But the signatures are not. If them mark the types/functions async, what happened?

I must rewrite all the calls?
> He has been paying into a scheme for many decades, even though there was no requirement for him to do so.

Yes, that's true, and to his credit. However, the people whom he hired during that time negotiated their salary and chose their place of employment knowing about the pension scheme, so the whole thing is not quite the act of pure, disinterested benevolence the article makes it out to be.
Bill Gates criticises Elizabeth Warren's plan for tax on super-rich
Google Edged Out Rivals and Built the World’s Dominant Ad Machine
The assumption wasn't that similar things had similar properties, it was that similar things had sympathetic connections where one could affect another. In your example, that would be the belief that lion bites could be treated with tiger fur because both lions and tigers looked like big cats.
> I think that one is easy to detect in testing

I have seen that not detected in testing too many times. With a work stealing execution context the code will still run fine unless under heavy load (which will exhaust the thread pool and lock the application).
Not yours to “not allow”.
Algorand Implements Smart Contracts at Layer 1
>>> The moral of the story is that governments and businesses should just abolish all pension, superannuation, 401K plans, etc... and let people manage their own retirement.

That is definitely not the moral of the story.

Aside from that, what exactly do you think a 401k is, if not a vehicle for people to manage their own retirement? The only government involvement in a 401k is non-involvement in the form of allowing you to contribute pre-tax money. And the broker won't be involved either if you're smart and elect to invest in indexes, rather than mutual funds (which can have high fees).
Same, my old system started acting up... was (and still) waiting for r9-3950X to drop.. but even the jump to a 3600 was significant to say the least. Will swap for 3950X on release, and should keep me for the next 5+ years. That said the 3600 is no slouch.

Aside: I did a min-cycle upgrade to a good nvme drive (samsung 860) and a GTX 1080 when that video card came out, which was a pretty big bump on the old box.
The most interesting part of this article to me is that carbon offsets to cover 12T of CO2 emissions comes out to only $10/month. I've never looked into personal carbon offsets before, but that seems really cheap.
I’m not sure there is any way to show that, you’d need historical data to compare to.

I think a lot of people expected that scientific advances and evidence would prove to be so convincing and powerful that superstition, irrational clinging to false beliefs and the use of misinformation would fall away and lose their power. That doesn’t seem to be happening, and so this feels like a regression even if it’s just the same old trash piling up for the same old reasons.
Yeah these closed-platform protocols can take a hike. Zero interest. Stop trying to build a business around the needless reinvention of the wheel.
That would mislead people into thinking it's a type variable satisfying a trait called LifeTime instead of a lifetime variable. It would be confusing.
Astrology is one of the three Hermetic sciences. Hermeticism won - today, we live in the Hermetic world of Newton where natural laws hold universally, certum et verissimum. In winning, it shed its skin and rebranded, leaving its earlier trappings behind to be worn by ideological losers.

If your astrology company isn't hiring Hermetic sorcerers, but rather new-age writers and "engineers", it's more or less SEO blog spam.
That last bit is a good idea. I'm embarrassed not to have thought of it, or at least to have forgotten if we did.
Email (once abused) sucks because it was born when trust was implicit between both parties in a communication, plus the creators wouldn't even imagine that wonderful tool one day would be used for mass spamming, "419" scams and the like.
Those days are long gone sadly, but the protocol is there in the open to be hardened and made more modern (just like NNTP could become a social networking killer if properly extended). Add basic security by default, write clients so conversation mode becomes the norm and you get a mail client that would be much much easier to push to other users.
Example: https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Geary

100 times easier than reinventing the wheel, and we get the huge benefit of using well known open protocols and decentralized servers that can talk to each other, and are already there.
Only the less efficient "peaker plants".
Just stop posting anything about your personal life on it, block all forms of geolocation (other than by IP, which they can still do), and use it for only shitposting.

I'm honestly creeped out by people who post photos of the interior of their homes, the children, etc on Facebook now.
> With how easy it is to slip up and destroy the pins on these things

Every socket based CPU I ever saw had a graphical mark or a little cut out on the top of the chip which lined up on the motherboard's socket.

Unless you went out of your way to ignore that marking and jammed it in the odds of bending pins are really really low / close to impossible.

I'd be more concerned about mounting an after market heat sink on the CPU. I don't know how much has changed in the last few years but the amount of force you need to use to lock them down makes you think you're going to snap your motherboard in half.
If you aren't already, drop in an nvme drive (may need a pcie x4 adapter)... depending on what you are using, that would be a huge boost as well.
Countries are increasingly willing to censor speech online
There is a maximum number of threads and it's by default set to the # of cores (based on the docs for tokio-executor's ThreadPool and Builder). The docs also say that the # of threads starts at 0 and will increase, so one can do the Scala strategy of starting with large threadpools - one of my projects last year defaulted to 100-200 threads per pool to avoid just this problem.

I think the question you're asking is, "are deadlocks possible?" and the answer to that seems like it would be yes. I would hope that Rust's memory model makes accidental memory sharing dependencies & deadlocks harder to cause, but you can always create 8 threads waiting on a mutex and a 9th that will release it, and have the 8 spinlock on the waiting part.

The "async-std" library, one of a few attempts to write async-aware primitive functions around blocking calls to the filesystem, mutexes, etc, implements async wrappers around mutex and others that should ensure that yield points are correctly inserted and the task goes back into the queues if it's blocked.

That seems to me the right solution - make sure all your blocking calls with a potential for deadlocking check "am I blocked?" first and if so, put themselves back onto the task queue instead of spinning.
The Myth and Magic of Generating New Ideas
It's always great to see more women authors and diversity in tech. At the same time, I think interpretating this as an explicit rejection of the above seems a bit stretch. I've seen these advice at Google for a long time. My intern host taught me to not be personal, and that "criticizing the code is not criticizing you" 7 years ago. I'd love more help to understand the above claim.
I was looking at HelloSign too. I volunteer with a non-profit that has forms for adopting orphans abroad. The amount of paperwork is insane. Being able to leverage same data points (date, name, address, etc) and apply it to multiple forms is a good idea. HR would benefit too. New hire paper work. In 2019, you'd think this would be all online and digital, but there's still paper involved for regulatory/legal reasons or because the old dinosaurs will not retire yet.
Great comment. Now when I think about it, it makes sense to have some indifferent "web devs" to do stuff no one else wants to, somewhat like janitors. They won't care as long as it pays their bills anyway.

> suspect you're less concerned about your work environment than salaries being pulled down

Actually I was more concerned about my work environment. With development it's really hard to get a salary that is not directly proportionate to what your skills are worth.
Don't Produce Private Keys
> How do you reconcile that with the terrible things that have been part of it. That church has itself had some serious problems

The Church is not just her members, which admittedly do fail so very often and in serious ways. If the Church were just the members, I would not be Catholic today. But the Church is far more: she is "the pillar and the bulwark of the truth" according to the Bible. She is the mother of all Saints. She is the keeper of the true interpretation of God's Word, because she also authored the Gospels.

When I say "the Catholic Church", I usually mean the collective writings of the saints, and the lives of the saints -- who had the Spirit of Christ and showed what it means to really reach the full potential of being a Christian[1] -- and the 7 Sacraments which are the source of the power of Jesus within us.

[1] Check out the writings of St. Francis de Sales, the sermons of Ven. Fulton Sheen, the life of St. Francis of Assisi or of St. Ignatius of Loyola, the writings of St. Theresa of Calcutta, and the autobiography of St. Therese of Lisieux
This looks like a fast acquisition target.
The problem here is that the engineers are likely working under an industrial exemption so there is no professional license liability assumed.

I personally have not come across a single software engineer or controls engineer who has had to certify a design.
OR ...

The comments encourage critical thinking about the claims made by the post.
Pratchett was on to something with the entire Discworld and other stuff besides.

Every time I hear of a new, promising cure for Alzheimer's I go a little happy and a little sad, because I think that, if he had held a bit longer, maybe...

But then, none of those cures ever work out in the end so I'm just left with the sad. Sad that I never got the chance to see him up close and shake him by the hand.
Housing and education have increased at 3-4x times inflation. Which is why you could pay tuition with a summer job, but now there is no way to do so.
You can try a couple of times. But the idea is amusing. Like it's big enough to just have long runs of known text embedded so it's really just holding on to actual text. That would be funny.
Seems like the lack of a livable government pension is the real issue here. Why should an employer have to worry about "paying" employees after they stop working for you? There should be social programs under democratic control that deal with stuff like that.
Totally agree that wealth creation is a thing distinct from distribution, and that it matters.

However, I'm not aware of any metrics or markers for wealth creation - other than revenue / profit. So in other words, most of our attempts to study economics ignore this, just like the model in TFA. They look at successful businesses and growing GDP and infer that wealth must have been created.

Another related concept - similarly murky and unaccounted for - is wealth destruction. If wealth is defined, say, as the capacity for people to live a good life, then how often is this capacity destroyed in the pursuit of growing business? We similarly have no markers for this factor in most of our economic models that I'm aware of.
They changed the interface between the CPU & the chipset, that appears to be the main breakage. Specifically they doubled the width of it, not just bumped from PCI-E 3.0 to 4.0. Instead of an x4 connection it's now an x8 connection.

It does suck, but since they also seem to have dropped any of the lower-cost SKUs it's probably not a motherboard upgrade that's going to stop you from dropping $1400 on a CPU.

And if you really were considering a 64C one, it's hard to believe a price difference of ~$400 will matter on what's going to likely be a ~$4000 CPU. It's a ~10% price difference.
I don't know of any society that has a justice system without a punitive aspect to it.
>Do you know how much empty space there is in the western US? Not to mention the midwest?

Have you ever been to those places? There's a severe limit to the amount of freshwater available in those places, and the weather is pretty lousy in many parts. Not many people want to live in a place where the summer temperatures are over 110F, or where the winter temperatures are around -40.

There's lots of unused space on this planet, sure. Antarctica is the prime example of this: an entire continent with almost no humans living there. Would you like to live there?

And finally, and time humans build and live on land that's in a nice, temperate location, that means there's that much land that's now unavailable for agriculture. We can't grow food in Antarctica.
I can count on the fingers of one hand the number of programs I've seen in my life longer than 100 lines with consistent conventions.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/29509889/

Again, we’re not talking about HIV. We’re talking about all the other potential viruses (including those known and still mutating). To think that we’re done seeing new fatal STDs is to ignore the history of biology and epidemics.
Yes: Buy. Borrow. Die. It's how the wealthy skip taxes in the US.

Or, if she is seriously so destitute and financially illiterate that this is all too hard there are targeted programs in California for her: https://www.sco.ca.gov/ardtax_prop_tax_postponement.html

The fact is that Prop 13 is just a handout to successful land speculators at the expense of everyone else.
You can turn on show-dead in your profile and it is un-nuked.
I think I can agree with you, but first I think we'd have to somehow define how to even approach this feature.

Eg, fundamentally I feel like you're making a distinction between blocking I/o and a "blocking" for loop. At the end of the day, they're the same in my view - one is just more likely to be costly.

So I think for this feature to be done right, we'd have to somehow be able to analyze the likelihood of an expensive operation - and the negative consequence that action might have on the rest of the workload. Eg, I would want the same hypothetical behavior and compile-time warnings/errors that a huge file-load might cause, with a huge loop.

Otherwise a simple function call which involves no I/O and looks innocent could have the same terrible behavior as some I/O call does.

Defining that, and informing the compiler seems obscenely difficult. To that degree, I think any interaction with any sort of heap-y thing like iterating over a Vec would have to error the compiler if used in a Future context.

_everything_ would have to be willing to yield. Not sure I like it. Interesting thought experiment though. I imagine some GC languages do exactly this.
The Rise and Fall of WeWork
I was going to say there aren't any, but here is a list: https://gist.github.com/sagivo/3a4b2f2c7ac6e1b5267c2f1f59ac6...
Mainly because avgas is not a meaningful contributor to climate change or environmental lead. It's a pittance when compared to anything else; commercial aviation all sources, DoD, road transport for GhG and piping, paint, and industrial sources for lead.
That's not even the most efficient $/ton offsets that are available. There are non-profits like Cool Earth that are using cleverer approaches to get things down into the vicinity of $1/ton.
Hey, nice! What kind of components are you using? Engine, batteries, etc.? Did you pick those yourself, or borrow the design from an existing system like the e-help for hang gliders?
*I meant that PReP is not a cure-all.
I used to do Tarot card demonstrations for friends, explaining exactly what the psychology was, that it was just arbitrary noise and they were projecting on to random open ended ink blot like designs and assigning meaning to it.

Didn't work. All my friends believe now I am psychic. Because how could I know these things that I showed them?
Not to change text, to change the unit. One example, they wanted a carbon monoxide detector added to the unit even though the unit has no heater (tropical rental). They said this was to give confidence as guests don't know that there isn't a heater. Things like that.
Have billionaires accumulated their wealth illegitimately?
Yes, it's the same kind of rhetoric that people in pretty much all religions/beliefs/denominations use about all the others to trick people into joining.

Yours is wrong, ours is right. Yours is misguided, ours knows the true way. Yours is corrupt, ours is trustworthy and wholesome. Yours won't help your soul reach enlightenment, ours will save you. Yours is counterfeit, ours is real.
Here's a bad question from someone who doesn't really understand the differences of CPU architectures and is therefore apprehensive about making related decisions:

Will I be hurting myself if I buy a computer with an AMD chip, in that I might end up in a situation where certain programs won't work for me? E.g., if I do fancy 3d modeling (Cinema4d, fancy renderers), if I do multi-threaded programming (in matlab), if I do physical simulations ( in COSMOL), etc.?
> I did a min-cycle upgrade to a good nvme drive (samsung 860) and a GTX 1080 when that video card came out, which was a pretty big bump on the old box.

In your day to day, how big of a difference is that drive vs a SATA SSD you might have bought 5-6 years ago?

I know going from a HDD to an SSD was a mind blowing experience but now things open so fast even on an old SATA SSD that I find it hard to imagine things can feel that much faster.