skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Scientists May Finally Know Why the Moon Disappeared in 1110[video]
I often hear that uyghurs organs are sold as pure/halal organs to muslims from Saudi Arabia (and other rich muslims countries). If it is true -- and I think it is -- that is indeed absolutly abominable.

https://www.saveuighur.org/the-economics-of-chinas-organ-har...

https://theircc.org/organharvesting/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organ_harvesting_from_Falun_Go...
>I don't see people finding meaningful content on it

I think the problem is that "meaningful content" doesn't really matter. Ever heard of mukbang? Or reaction videos? Lots of people understand that if you make a 10 minute video that can be used as background noise while working or playing video games, you can make a lot of money. Youtube has to be aware of this, which would explain why they so quickly take down any video that advertisers might not like.

It may become a dinosaur to people who value quality content, but go search the topics I mentioned and compare the view counts to the types of videos you normally watch.
>Has anyone considered investing in emerging markets overseas?

"Does investing in emerging markets still make sense? | Apart from China and India, there is little sign that developing economies are converging with the developed world." (https://www.ft.com/content/0bd159f2-937b-11e9-aea1-2b1d33ac3...)
>I am forever thankful for a childhood like that - but letting my kids run amok in this day and age for hours brings me a lot of anxiety. It is an interesting paradox that makes me a bit sad.

Anxiety because of what the kids may do or anxiety because of what other adults may do?
I have my own ideas about making CI/CD for DSLs easier. I don't think transpiling is necessarily the right approach, since not every language has a valid transpilation targe (here's my bias showing - consider a hardware description language, there can't really be a transpilation target).

One of the problems in designing generic tools for language development is they have to be far more abstract than the author might realize at first. The notion of evaluation is a big one, as in what it means to evaluate a chunk of code, what its results are, its intermediate products, and when the evaluation takes place (is it compile time, run time, parse time, etc). I think the next generation of tools are going to inspect these subtleties a lot more than traditional tools, since it has a big impact on usage when languages have heavy macro or other compile/parse time evaluation.
I can't see the full text to evaluate the server, but if there is an established and proven diagnostic tool for measuring aggression and that's the tool they used, then the methodology may be sound.
>muh whataboutism
> This one choice by the maps team

Probably wasn’t the maps team that made the decision. Let’s not confuse the ace team that put out a leading-class product with their idiot management.
Reminded of this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=206

and less so, more peterson spam, as it were.

https://youtu.be/txyGqaeAMbQ?t=27
I mean, that's one problem, but even with the most radio-transparent walls available, you're looking at something with a very limited range, really only suitable for deployment in dense urban areas. And dense urban areas normally have decent fixed-line broadband. And pretty good LTE.

One edge-case application _might_ be stadiums, large train stations etc. But in practice these days these can often be covered quite adequately with small LTE nodes. And that will improve with 5G, even without mmWave.
I've seen this number around for a long time, but since I never saw a source posted, I don't know if this is still true.

Edit: I found https://covidtracking.com/analysis-updates/ltc-deaths-pass-1... for December 2, which shows about 100,000 deaths from "long-term care facilities". Not all states report differences between staff and residents dying, but I think it's reasonable to estimate it's mostly residents. On that day they show a total of 265,000 deaths in the USA, so about 37% from LTC.
I find it interesting that the FDA is recommending 1 drink per day for adult males, meanwhile Europeans live longer than us and drink a lot, on average [1]

"World Health Organization figures show the French are far from being the heaviest drinkers in Europe. They have an average annual consumption per person of 12.6 litres of pure alcohol among the over-15s, behind Lithuania’s 15 litres, Germany’s 13.4 litres, Ireland and Luxembourg’s 13 litres each and Latvia’s 12.9 litres. In the UK 11.5 litres are drunk per person annually. Wine represents 58% of all the alcohol consumed in France.
"

The moral of the story IMO is take anything these institutions recommend with a grain of salt. This is the same FDA that pushed the carb-heavy food pyramid for years, ignoring all of the sugar and corn syrup added to everything[2]

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/mar/27/the-french-mus...

[2]https://www.salon.com/2015/04/12/the_fdas_phony_nutrition_sc...
How is the access for various OS distros for the non-pi boards. I tried a few about 6-8 years ago that were more powerful than the Pi at the time, but suffered from a lot of misc issues, and the availability of baseline OS support was really lacking at the time. I can run Ubuntu Server images on the Pi, but how is the support on this other hardware?

I feel more comfortable that the x86 devices will be better supported by community distros than non raspberri pi arm boards from this past experience. The 8gb Pis are enough to play around with home-lab getting more familiar with Kubernetes and setup/configure for distributed software, but wouldn't mind a bit more compute power to go with it.

Also, I kind of wish more of these were direct sale rather than kickstarter/crowdsupply backed, etc. I have already lost enough money on various projects that I've stopped backing things. I know it's always a risk, but at this point it's been much less worth it for me.

edit: One addition, cases for those of us without 3D printer access or experience is another common issue.
Google indexes every invoice you get. If you use gmail they know exactly what you order at which store.
Here’s a test:

Design this game with negative stereotypes and see how many people suddenly flip on how they think about the influence of the in-game social and anti-social aspects.
Yes, it’s known that if you’re low income, you should look for government employment offering defined benefit pensions, otherwise there’s no way you will earn enough to save enough for your older years.
I tried abstaining from games for a month. I just watched more youtube instead. Improvement of productivity was scarce if any.
You’re confusing a firewall and a NAT. Having a publicly routable IP address does not in any way imply allowing external connectivity to that address.

The firewall rule that allows packets from ESTABLISHED and RELATED connections back to a host behind a NAT is the exact same rule that allows packets to get through a default-drop firewall.
For pots it doesn’t really make much difference, but cooking on a stainless steel frying pan is very different, especially when cooking eggs, fish etc. You need to heat the pan first, add a bit of oil and onion to the hot pan and spread that around (something in the onion creates a non-stick effect) before adding the eggs.
Seems unfortunate that we focus so much effort on tracking income statistics vs well being ones.

It’s clear that money is poorly correlated with a satisfied life. I wish there was a way to track that with minimal bias.

Income is a red herring above certain thresholds.
> We're failing our women by making them work.

I think you should re-examine your opinion and address the misogyny inherent to the outdated and authoritarian concept that women shouldn't be doing important work unless it's related to child rearing. Women and men alike want to accomplish things in life beyond parenting.
I don't know. That seems oddly zero sum to me (which is why I alluded to it before). It suggests that there never are real productivity gains—in the sense that any resultant wage increases are followed by compensatory inflation.

Yet even if that were true, if we treat this purely as zero sum (and don't account for economic growth), we can still easily look at _distribution_ of wealth and income, and the trends there (as I noted elsewhere), both in the US and the developed world more broadly, are directionally consistent with less income due to labor and a greater role of capital ownership.

I don't think this inflationary argument (which may be valid) would explain why capital ownership would be an increasing share of overall wealth. I tend to think this is better explained by (crudely summarizing) Piketty's thesis that the Kuznets curve is simply wrong, that (unfortunately) war and commensurate economic upheaval is associated with a flattening of inequality, and that the long period of relative growth and stability in the west almost inevitably leads to increasing inequality and a relative weakening of the labor force.
I've made friends with people at Meetup but I also agree with the above. My guess is that there are people that are looking to make friends, but whether they succeed or fail, they're going to stop going to the Meetup. What this means is that you're more likely to meet the regulars that really aren't that interested in making general friends.
Your second line is simply not true. Both American [1] and United [2] have committed to waiving change fees if you don't want to fly on a 737 MAX. Southwest is farther away from bringing the MAX back into service, so they have less detail on their site [3], but it sounds like they'll do something similar.

[1] https://www.aa.com/i18n/travel-info/737-MAX-return-to-servic...

[2] https://www.united.com/ual/en/us/fly/travel/inflight/aircraf... (under "What if I don't want to fly on a MAX?")

[3] https://www.southwest.com/737-max/#return-to-service-plan (under "What are Customers' options if they don't want to fly on a 737 MAX?")
Someone doesn't have to own it for it to be fraud to mislead someone using it.

No one owns the word "gold" but if I sell you a bunch of gold plated tungsten as "gold" I'm still defrauding you.
Marge Simpson did not have an income. Is supporting a family of 5 on a $25,000 income possible in the US? Let's at least adjust for inflation since 1995, and Homer's wages would amount to $42,000.

Since they all had their own bedrooms, they'd need a 4 bedroom home (assume Maggie still sleeps with Marge & Homer). The author is in Michigan. Let's choose Flint to simulate having a Nuke in the back yard. A 4 bedroom home in Flint (not in the 'lead zone', Marge would never allow it) is minimum $200,000. Payments on a mortgage at 3% are about $800/mo.

Monthly Expenses:

$800 Mortgage

$300 property tax

$700 food for 5

$150 clothes (the kids are growing, need shoes annually, need diapers for Maggie...)

$300 Auto expenses (used car, maintenance, insurance, gas)

$2,250/month so far. That covers the basics and leaves $16,000! But what about health insurance?

(gulp)

What are the odds that Homer's $20/hr. job includes fully paid health insurance for his family of 5? Let's give a little benefit and say at least it covers Homer as the employee (a stretch, yes?). His employer would require him to pay for his 3 kids and wife. Grampa is on Medicare/Medicaid + social security. So he's on his own...

To calibrate for the rest of the family...

Hmm... Healthcare.gov says that marketplace plans are not available in Homer's county.

And, according to eHealth.com, Homer doesn't qualify for 'savings'.

So, it's off to Healthcare.gov, which requires an account, so I'll stop there.

From recent personal experience, the most basic plans run $1,500/month and have deductibles that would bankrupt Homer. Lower deductibles would put the premiums out of reach. I think he is out of cash at this point.
Okay. I just bought Bucatini off of Amazon (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00YQ7CYWU (only 1 left, blah, blah)). I'm not much of a pasta eater but, damn, that was a fun read...
Hypothesis: Constraints on time is the cause of accidental complexity. Given infinite time I would think longer, yak shave more, rewrite everything simpler, recur until perfect. In real life what constrains time? The business, its competition and available resources. Traded off vs speed of human thought and communication.
Sounds like the start of an autoimmune disease. Lupus, Sjogrens, rheumatoid, etc

Popular treatment is to eliminate sugar as a starting point. Then move onto other inflammatory foods.
> "I'd rather be subjected to the US legal (and extralegal) system than the Russian legal system"

No contest but I think GP point was not about the absolute quality of democracy right now but rather about which power did more to destroy democracy in the recent years.
Reading this comment thread was a recordbreaking Google experience of ‘Daydream sounds cool’ to ‘they killed it’.
"Slavery" etymology takes its roots with the "Slavs" people, who were, well, enslaved in medieval times. The term has been commonly accepted to describe various similar patterns before and after those times.

I agree that yesterday or today slavery is just slavery, whatever subtile differences there might be.
In physics the heating described by Boyle's law is a consequence of work, typically the kinetic energy imparted to molecules by a compressor.

A temperature increase resulting from compression is a temperature increase resulting from friction. In other words, it's friction all the way down (until it's electromagnetism and other fundamental forces).
In my experience, anyone can learn to program but only a fraction of people can learn enough or get good enough to move into senior and beyond roles. You can learn the language syntax, and have enough best practices (that you may or may not understand) jammed into your head, that you are still a net benefit to the team. But the folks who move into senior/staff/principal roles either have a natural aptitude for it, or spend a lot more than 40 hours a week on it, or both.
Title is misleading !! Article is more about Openstreetmap than any unholy alliance
Don't you need some kind of a cultural awakening to force politicians to introduce legislation?
Is that the going rate nowadays for a competent investigative writer? I thought the major conglomerates also commission these ‘art pieces’ at a decent rate.
I think the change might be multiplayer. The games where you loose half of the time (often in ways that seem unfair) can be really infuriating.
I’ve minimized my consumption of meat over the years, because the way we treat animals in the factory farms is too cruel.

It’s not perfect, because I eat dairy and eggs which introduce their own set of cruelty.

Likewise, I’m severely disappointed by Apple. I’ve switched from Android to iPhone because I like Apple’s stance on privacy.

I’m extremely bothered that Apple with its resource is not lobbying to change the playing field and make it expensive to use slave labor.

I get that they cannot do it today, but what excuse is there to not play the long game?
It’s actually okay to do nothing instead! Constantly keeping the mind entertained doesn’t give the poor thing any breathing space or time to come up with it’s own entertainment!
https://bmcmedethics.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s129...
The brevity is pretty unique but lets see what would be conveyed by honoring that wish

Translation: "As someone that lives in desirable parts of high cost of living areas, even the largest premium units are below the average square footage mentioned in that article, I generally try not to think about it but it is fascinating to see, I think I can relate to other people that earn enough to comfortably live in these areas, but it is not common to ever talk about being financially stable in an expensive area, lets go back to pretending that we are all struggling and 'got a good deal' on our 900 sq ft penthouse."
And what do you think about people who develop their own AI anime girlfriend? Even sharing their work as free software libraries?

In your wording it only looks like it is the exploitation of people by businessmen selling the happiness as a product, whereas it can actually be the user themselves developing it for their purposes (like when it's opensource, hackable, or even DIY, etc).
It does mention AES-256. The pairing of that with SHA-1 and RSA-1024 is peculiar.
Women entering the workforce in larger degrees helped keep wages low because of the influx of unskilled labor. As they gained more skills and upper level positions, again it expanded the skilled labor pool and decreased wages.

It's not women's fault collectively though. The funny thing is mass influx of labor like this are the very things unions have fought against. But unlike non-americans, unions couldn't be anti-women because they'd look bad, and they couldn't be anti-women in the workforce because it'd also be anti American since they're citizens.
My mother got her first vaccination shot yesterday. She's in a nursing home in Virginia. She's already had one COVID exposure (luckily she didn't get it), and it's just scary there.
It's very interesting to read that you actually need to wear your hearing aids all the time. Because, I have the exact same condition with almost exactly the same loss curve (except at 8kHz where it's ~10dB above yours), but I only need to wear my aids in conferences or lectures (school was particularly hard). I refused to wear them and still do, because they wear me out in 1-2 hours.

Now, I have more severe problems, because of all this teleconferencing going on. Not a single smartphone I know supports what you are doing on the PC. Are there any?
"Your" President said many "great" things...
Frankly I see both sides.

As long as we're using anecdotal evidence ...

many of the people I personally know who have suffered the worst during the pandemic, are people who never saved or put away money away when times are good. They also, never invested in additional education nor skills. Their disposable income went to vacations, new cars, daily coffee at Starbucks, and a bunch of other frivolities. Always carrying a near zero bank account from end of pay period to end of pay period. But hey, at least they met their responsibilities. They were functioning paycheck-to-paycheck people.

Now many broke and really struggling even if they are still employed. Why? Because of reduced hours or salaries to adjust for the pandemic. Usually these kinds of people are susceptible to the slightest change in their salary. That's part and parcel of not saving and living strictly paycheck to paycheck.

Do they deserve it? No of course not. Nobody deserves bad fortune like this. These people weren't trying to harm others and they were decent hard working people.

However, ... it's not hard to see why they end up like this.

These people were never taught to save away money when times were good, to live within their means, to invest, to do the math before buying a car and making modest decisions, heck, even to have the common sense to know that a daily coffee at Starbucks is a terrible financial decision.

And many of of these people, even people who are still gainfully employed usually retort with: well I'm never gonna be able to own a home, so I buy what I want with my money now to make myself happy., but the thing is, many people who own homes now, also didn't just have all the money available and had to save up for the down payment and probably live a few years house poor.

This expectation that we should all be able to own at least: one smartphone, one computer, one expensive game console, etc. etc. that wasn't a thing back then. Today there are so many things vying for our dollars, that it's hard to just make the choice to save up for a home.

But nevertheless, it still needs to be done and especially now during times of a pandemic, the money we put away isn't for a home, but rather, to get through this crisis.

It is not victim shaming / blaming to point out that stupid frivolous behavior / practices are a root cause of people's problems.

However, it's imperative to understand that bad circumstances, such as COVID-19 can derail the plans of even the most thoughtful, budget conscious and financially savvy people.

The thing is, to never take for granted that good times last indefinitely and not squander money earned.
Maybe the feeling of inferiority is really just an appreciation for the contributions of the other "tribes", which I'd argue makes you able to "cross tribal lines"
The US Census threshold-based poverty rate does OK at country-level aggregates, but it flatters high-cost/high-income places and exaggerates the problems of low-cost/low-income places. We might be better served by using the Census Bureau's supplemental poverty rates.

It has a significant impact on rates: https://www.census.gov/library/publications/2020/demo/p60-27...

California's, for example, goes from 12-ish percent (average) to 18-ish percent (below only DC).
That's assuming the training set is all of the media that mainstream Google Translate was trained on. The paper talks about more specialized training sets so it's quite possible something like onigiri could end up under-represented (though I suspect it's common enough in manga that it would be something more obscure). Naturally the "jelly donut" part would only slip in if they used untrustworthy data like forum posts or 4kids localizations, but that's exactly the kind of data that Google Translate and similar algos scrape from the internet for training.
Except Goldstein, another character in the same work, does align with reality...
All I know is all the people mentioned do not live lavishly, they do not go on expensive vacations, they do not drive Tesla/BMW/Mercedes, eat out constantly, or dress expensively. So having another spouse working and being in the trades I think its very doable as long as you pick your house/condo in the right place, ie. Hayward/east bay, Santa Cruz Mountains, Daly City/South San Francisco. Also saving up for a downpayment for a few years is needed.
No. Trump has done basically nothing and hasn't managed to run a mini holocaust, crush democracy in one corner of his realm, launch a preventable global pandemic and engage another nuclear power in direct military conflict.

For all his evil, he's not effective. Xi Jinping is what Trump dreamed of being...
HIV / AIDS doesn't kill anyone.

Its the NEXT disease that kills you: all HIV does is kill off your white-blood cells and prevent your body from fighting off the next disease.

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Colloquially: when someone dies of a typical flu / cold when they were infected by AIDS, we call that "dying because of AIDS", even though AIDS had very little to do with the ultimate death of that person.
Julian Assange's Mandarin, Russian & Persian comprehension skills probably aren't up for the task. And copying and pasting leaks in Google Translate probably wouldn't work either.
If you truly want to get healthy visit any naturopathic doc. They will readily give you recommendations to cut sugar out of your diet. They will also closely monitor your blood levels for a ton of different alarms. It's odd because it's stuff that regular doctors "should" do but instead a regular doctor just prescribes stuff when you get frequent headaches or prescribes different stuff if you have moods. They don't even test your blood for various things unless you ask these days.

A naturopath will typically find the hormonal imbalances that is causing all this shit and provide supplements that actually work. Sure they may also recommend a statin, but you will get there far faster than a 9-5 kaiser MD.
Essays historically originated---with Montaigne's Essais---as discursive, digressive, long-form prose. They are a prose artform that attempts to achieve more than a straightforward information dump.

You might not like the form, and there are certainly many bad examples, but a long essay is no more a failure to write a short blog article than a poem is a failure to write a news report.