skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Infanticide doesn’t mean psychopaths. It’s been practiced, and I think super bad, by many cultures. I don’t think that means the culture is full of psychopaths.

Also, I assumed the reason there was no evidence posted for the Chinese infanticide claim is that it’s extremely common and has been known for a long time. I just assumed everyone was aware.

It doesn’t mean people killing literal babies, but does mean stuff like more abortions of female embryos. [0]

Wikipedia [1] has a more general article with more links to sources.

[0] https://www.npr.org/2016/02/01/465124337/how-chinas-one-chil...
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Female_infanticide_in_China
The value of the location based tracking is overrated.

Anyway, if you post an image to Facebook, Instagram or WhatsApp, the EXIF data has your location, or it can be solved from the content of the image.
In Toronto (and I mean Toronto proper, not an hour's commute away), a modest house is easily over 1,000,000, and prices are only climbing.
Git restful: a thought experiment to help understand how Git works, part 1
So we basically are seeing that google was "right" from their point of view in securing a mobile OS.

Facebook maybe thought this day would never arrive and could have avoided that by doing their own mobile OS too.

Well, maybe they declared this battle as lost and focused on the next one: VR. Problem is that VR took too long to arrive and death on mobile can kill Facebook?
Thanks for the information. Clearly it is still expensive to ship to low orbit - but as the costs come down more people will be able to get in. Your comments make me feel a bit better about it.

I think my concern with VC funded start-ups is that they don't have funding to actually do full lifecycle if the company never makes it or if revenue never arrives. In which case the full lifecycle component doesn't really exist.
That's because of all the times someone has chosen FOSS and regretted it after receiving a smug "you get what you pay for".
You'll find that most crime Syndicates in the Western Hemisphere have a hidden Anarchist root, when you dig deep enough.

Mexican cartels? Much like US street gangs are often the perverted evolution of community defense networks, trace their roots back to Anarchist Revolutionaries from the Mexican Revolution.

The problem with simply decapitating these groups and besmirching their ideologies as "evil" becomes that the network-building skills still exist among fringe members - so vast that it becomes impossible to catch them all.

And by marginalizing their ideas, you leave them with nothing to build towards, aside from illicit dark-capitalist empires.

There are exceptions on the fringes. Down south in the Hills of Chiapas, the contemporary indigenous people remember Emilio Zapata as a hero. So they built what many modern Anarchists consider a flagship project for modern anticapitalist, anti-state self governance.

Though, there is a tangled history with Anarchism in Mexico itself. Much like in the Spanish Civil War, Anarchists of that day considered the Church to be a dangerously oppressive force, and sometimes violently eschewed ties to groups open about religion.

This is how Franco the Fascist won international sympathy and assistance in Spain; in Mexico? It simply kept the Anarchist forces divided. The Southern Mexican (more indigenous) forces carries crosses and Catholic iconography as they marched, fighting for community self-determination. The more Northern, contemporarily-academic Anarchist forces viewed these "backwater illiterates" as dangerous zealots, even as they shared the same goals.

When the profoundly successful Mexican Revolution Zapatistas marched to Mexico City to reinforce the more academic minded Anarchists? These unsuccessful Anarchists not-so-politely told their southern comrades to "f#$k off and go pray elsewhere," even as they were losing.

So the seeds of the current faux-democratic regime? Won out over the Anarchists. And slowly, painstakingly, over decades pushed the Southern autonomous forces back.

"Anarchism" became a dirty word to the Southern Community-Autonomy forces, even to this day among modern Zapatistas.

And the state, after crushing the ideology? Found the same North-Mexican networks rebuilt to a new purpose - enriching the communities off of US-targetted newly-imposed contraband. The state aligned with the US for aid in crushing this threat, while the networks persisted, mutated, became downright cancerous and heirarchical.

These networks even inherited the contemporary Anarchist penchant for "adventurism" and assassination, which modern anarchists consider a stain upon their history.
In the case of sanctions or other similar political action - "бомбить Воронеж" - "bombing Voronezh"
1.4 million is the average income of the 1% (according to the article), not the threshold.
How to improve the Critical Path CSS on web using the “Above-The-Fold strategy?
Earlier discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17549189
Rare to see such high quality content here. I share your analysis. But I believe Xi came at a time the mainland needed to be strengthened, to avoid being trumped over again (opium war like)

He is still needed? Maybe, because you said:

> The last 4 years saw rising nationalism in the US, and it has also been rising in Europe and in China. This is not good.

It is not good. Eventually the future for the mainland is bright, with good material condition and freedom. The situation is not ready yet. You can not "impose" democracy, the population must be ready.

But I believe all is done right and set for the generation being born now ("3 children per family") to be the happiest in the world.
If you have a masters, >3 years of experience and aren't making 50-70k in Wester Europe, you either don't put emphasis on your career, or you need to switch jobs and work on your negotiation skills.
Slang != Proper non-insulting terms that somebody finds insulting. The original comment was related to the word paralyzed which is miles away from using the word cunt and a pretty stupid comparison tbh.
Emulate 20 transistors using hundreds of millions of transistors!
> use a different one

Patched stock Debian Linux is less secure than a 6mo out of date W10 machine: change my view.
The Monty Hall problem revisited
can you give some examples of them being legitimately useful and advantageous compared to the existing financial infrastructure?

haven’t seen anything where it’s actually needed or better. and basically all examples end up with some sort of trust needed at some point.

such as gambling on the outcome of a sports game. it would still require a dependency on some sort of Api to provide the sports results and then you’re trusting the api to give uncorrupted correct results… which defeats the purpose of “trustless”
Whenever I read articles like this, I get more and more horrified.

I mean, I know that adtech spy on us a lot, but I didn't knew for example that using Bluetooth while the app is shut down was possible.

Makes me very wary even of dumbphones, for example I bought a dumbphone recently, and yet it came with Facebook and Google Assistant both pre-installed.
I have been a Prime member for many years. I've noticed that while I used to get everything in 2 days or less, now, even after the virus thing is waning, a lot of stuff is taking 4-5 days, though it still says it is Amazon Prime shipping.

I think this is also due to cementing their monopoly power. Now that everyone is addicted to Amazon, myself included, they can use lower-cost shipping whenever they want and don't have to ship everything in 2 days, thus increase their margins.
Not as good as The Fifth Element, but I liked it a lot.

I don't understand why it gets so much hate. All movies have parts that are well done and parts that I would have done differently.
It is my understanding that capture based emulation of a given sound seems like a better idea than it really is. Say you capture a given amp or pedal sound - even if you get the latency down to acceptable #s, what if you want/need to turn a knob? Tweaking knobs is an essential part of the process of dialing in a sound relative to your guitar and output environment.

Contrast with the Fractalaudio approach of modeling each component of a device. Fractal's AxeFx is the gold standard and any geek would gush over the HW and SW engineering. The best part is that the company owner keeps improving his algos and pushing out updates for free. This device costs the equivalent of a good amp head and is loaded with more amps and effects than any of the competition.

Sorry if this sounded like an ad, but I am always surprised how little airtime this amazing product gets in hacker circles.
Morr importantly, what many of you need to ask yourself, and what very few are focusing on is: 1) Who the fuck is Satoshi?
2) Why would the entire western world classify BTC as curency and remove VAT on it only after couple of years in existence, whilst at the same time silver legal tender coins are in most countried taxed with VAT.
3) Why have the regulators turned a blind eye to Tether? It was obvious to anybody already in 2016 they were responsbile for the run up in BTC prices. And know when everybody knows that they are a scam, they still continue to pump and distort the entire crypto market.
4) Why is Coinbase, a regulated exchange allowed to faciliate major scams lile Tether on its platform?

And only crickets from regulators. Thats where the real story/dog is burried.
I’ve been looking for ways to better treat hEDS. I’ve started researching how to fix mitochondrial damage. I’ll look into this. Thanks.
It will decimate the ecosystem and have no impact on users.

Meanwhile a world of premium-priced alternatives or subscriptions remains out of reach because of Apple's 30% commission and $0.99 minimum charge, and lack of support for upgrade pricing (although Apple will happily launch competitor apps and take 100% of the proceeds, as well as giving itself premium search positioning).

Some of the biggest companies (eg. Facebook) might just buy carrier user data directly, actually worsening privacy.
Yes, Sergey Shoygu is probably going to be the next president. Shoygu speaks nine(!) languages fluently. Compare Putin and Shoygu with the trash leaders the West produces today. It is no comparison, walk over.

I'm not an expert on Russia, but unstable? I can't really see that in the news cycle either. USA on the other hand have had massive riots for months and 25 000 national guard posted in the capital. The divisive politics that has accelerated with the Trump presidency where the different sides now view each others as (almost) enemies of the state, how are they going to pull themselves up from this? Seems very unstable.
FYI. Support Noyb here if you like to support them! (I do) :

https://noyb.eu/en/support-us
Missed that! Sorry.
Ottawa is #6, and Montreal isn’t even on the list ... ok
FWIW Wikimedia salaries linked by bomdo in reply are all topped by entry level from https://www.levels.fyi/?compare=Facebook,Amazon,Google&track...

At entry level you typically manage a two-pizzas sized team in one fairly limited domain. "Have this desk and a bunch of people, figure out how to run a worldwide wiki" would be a typical senior manager/director assignment (a.k.a. middle management).

If we set aside an argument about IT salaries fairness, I think people at Wikimedia deserve some thanks for taking a salary cut to undeniably make a difference on the world.
Much better than most alternatives so far. And it can be improved further.
Being willing to do whatever it takes is the only way. If that means trashing your phone, you've got to be willing to go through with it. If you're not willing to make sacrifices to change then the addiction will just continue to run its course.

I say this as someone who handled it poorly as a teenager and young adult--I eventually overcame the addiction by replacing it with a more social hobby (guitar), after a lot of self-isolation and lost sleep. Trashing my computer would have been a far quicker way, and my life would look completely different today if I'd done it.
> Pure functions: Functional programs are constructed using only pure functions, meaning functions that have no side effects. A function has a side effect if it does anything other than simply return a result. For example, modifying global state, printing a message to the console, and mutating the DOM are all side effects.

This really makes it sound like functional programming cannot accomplish much of value.

Can't do I/O? Can't do UI? Is functional programming just for computation then? How many people even work in software that only does pure computation anymore? What good is pure computation if you can't even write it to a terminal after, because "No I/O"

This seems silly. Surely functional programming must have a broader definition than this.
cuz that doesn't exist with poker gurus, or books selling algorithms to win at blackjack.
What do they have to do? Their only job is to keep the servers running. Everything else is a task they invented for themselves to earn more money.
That is true. It is also not my point above.
Great historical background - thanks Paul!
And I do not see a good reason to give money to a fundation so it can pay such high wages, because California.
> Ketamine mostly likely doesn't help depression because of being a psychadelic

You may have this backward. Ketamine might not be a psychedelic drug but can yield similar positive outcomes.

ref: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-lucid-mind/20210...
There definitely are a lot of people moving into computer science for the money, but there are also many people doing it because they enjoy solving the problems. I would argue the people who deserve the high salaries, the "10x" engineers, are more often the latter than the former and the rest just gets dragged along.

Personally I recently quit my high paying industry job and moved to an engineering heavy PhD position (HPC), because I enjoy solving complex problems.
The issue is that video compression (to produce good compression) creates anti-redundancy - it puts more information into fewer bits by adding dependencies for more areas onto a few bits, and merging many duplicate (redundant) bits into one spot. It also makes later frames more dependent on earlier frames and the side effects of decompressing, to avoid transferring the information again (and adding more anti-redundancy).

With a real-time feed used for command and control of something like a fast moving aircraft in close proximity to objects, you have the opposite situation - you want maximum reliability, clear and predictable degradation, and fastest recovery, even if it comes at the cost of clarity or bandwidth.

They’re literally working to opposite goals.
> That was due to the original 2-child policy from the 70s.

[citation needed]

Where is there more information on this? I do not see it mentioned for China:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two-child_policy

The birth rate also started falling in the 1960s:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Birth_rate_in_China.svg

* https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/SPDYNTFRTINCHN

> There's no credible analysis that suggest PRC family planning policies did not directly and dramatically reduce population. 300M IUDs and 100M sterilizations aren't placebos.

Of course the policies reduced fertility rates and population growth. The question is whether they were needed in the first place, or whether general development would have achieved the same result anyway.
> You can go the extra mile and turn the UID:GID into build args like the original parent and you're good to go.

That doesn't help you if you're attempting to use pre-built/existing Docker images that are not built internally and make the assumption that “1000:1000 is good enough”. You then not only have to hack around Docker limitations, but also around someone else's broken assumption.
Curious about making tasks more complex.

A new dev at my work is pushing for graphql, and I am sceptical. We have way to much complexity at present and it seems like a new less understood tech that is only going to increase complexity rather than reduce it.

Do you have any examples you are willing to share.
It seems somehow just right that an article about this has a super annoying video playing above the content, scrolling with you as you read.
> Gentrification has nothing to do with it.

Perhaps there something better to call it. But when Katrina comes and wipes the euphemistic slate clean, the poorer people that used to live in those houses aren't coming back to inhabit the same land, they go elsewhere. And the middle-class people that move to the new properties often leave somewhere behind too. It's possible that in the macro, it's just migration patterns, but in the micro there's been a rise in tax revenue, land value etc. in New Orleans.
This is awesome news. We need the web to not be reliant on ads and also build the expectation amongst users that they need to pay for articles/services etc. just like how they would in the real world. This is the first step in doing both
Awesome extension. It doesn't always disable though, it often just accepts them all...
Big difference.
That was from 2013, and written from the perspective that gold represents “real” worth - some platonic ideal constant measure, but it doesn’t. It’s a deflationary non-productive asset whose value is speculative and usually varied with general fear of inflation. Inflation is benchmarked against CPI. This is goldbuggery and fringe economics. By the way; that’s from the Forbes opinion piece section, not Forbes proper.

The author suggests you cannot measure inflation except by dividing by the spot price of gold. This is false, and why we have the CPI.

[1] https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2018/08/07/for-most-us...
The last person to edit the page, of course! ;)
Where does the idea that "nested objects in responses are not RESTful" come from? It seems very common from graphql enthusiasts.
You misunderstand me. I don't think Mozilla's mismanagement was responsible for Firefox's decline in market share, although it probably can't have helped. My concern is that now that that decline has happened, for one reason or another, Mozilla's mismanagement of their finances means the entire existence of Firefox is at risk, along with the seat at the web standards table that it represents.
> I'm sick of tech companies giving the only way to decline their preferred approach as "maybe later".

I've seen this rehashed through the years. Having worked at 4 different tech companies now, I think I can reconstruct why this happens.

UX: "Okay team, here's the opt-in dialog box."

PM: "Wait, the buttons say 'Yes' and 'No.' We don't want people to click 'No' because my perf and promo is tied to the number of people who click 'Yes.' Look, what if they want to change their minds later? Or what if they want to just think about it and then make a decision to enable my team's feature tomorrow? Are we just going to let those numbers slip by?"

UX: "Uh, well, I suppose we could add a third button, 'Maybe later.'"

PM: "THREE buttons?? Are you kidding me? That's too many. Have you even read the book Essentialism, bro? What if they accidentally click 'No' when they really want to just decide later? Or what if we change the feature enough that we can justify prompting them again with the updated version of the feature? If they clicked 'No' then they might feel that we're harassing them or something with another prompt later on."

UX: "Well, maybe we should err on the side of respecting the user's wishes. Sure, we might give up some of the engagement numbers..."

PM: "NNNGNNGGGHHPHHHTHTTTTHHHHHHHH WHAAAAAT!?!? MY BONUUUUUUS"

UX: "Okay okay okay, how about if we just make the 'No' and 'Maybe later?'"

PM: "Hmmm, that's sort of suggestive too. It might make someone who's thinking 'No' to start thinking 'Maybe later' because that's what they read. I like it. And can we make the 'Yes' sound a little less noncommittal while we're at it? Make it a little easier to click on? Maybe something chirpy and agreeable, like 'Sure!' People love being agreeable, don't they? Don't you?"
Donating my time to grow a VC-funded company: why I quit mentoring at Plato
https://files.edeva.se/brochures/english/evaluation_lkpg_en....

I wouldn't say stop signs are bad, they're put there for a reason. Speed bumps however force you to slow down way below the allowed speed, then while you're on the pedal you might just accelerat back to whatever speed.

The actibump in Linköping, Sweden solves this by only being in the way if you drive too fast. Used to live next to one of these, worked like a charm.
Question is does google still collect the location data. And are they acting monopolistic here.

My understanding is that even the latest version of android phones home your location in real-time. Which google uses itself for ads.
I recently had to start working with GIS data and also didn’t want to be bound to anything ESRI related. I picked up PostGIS (along with the SQLite one Spacialite) and it’s really a dream to use. This history bite is really cool!
You’re totally right. I guess what I wrote above doesn’t hold water. And an intuitive way to think about it is that each child does not know the sex of the child before it—if you had a line of children and each mother simply took the next child in the line, you would expect a 50-50 sex distribution even if mothers followed the rules given above.
Signal is a service and free but i'm not the product because it operate on donations. there is a lots of services living only on donations.
95 times out of 100 the interview is simply robotic repetition of the same cliches. You watch the interview for the other 5 times when you sometimes do gain greater exposure or understanding through an emotional or unguarded moment.

This is not BS. This is part and parcel of the job she has signed on for. Apparently she finds it very unpleasant, but that doesn’t make it any less an obligation of her job.
Software development has costs which can[1] be distributed across their users: Linux costs a lot less per user to run if there's 10_000_000 installs versus 10 installs. And the value of the product to, say a specific 1000 users might be such that they're willing to pay its entire costs and tolerate the consequences of the GPL.

Services are different, in that each individual user will tend to place an additional load on the systems. It is much more obvious if there is 10 GB of data that can be attribute to virgoerns which must be managed and much more obvious that virgoerns should perhaps contribute to that.

> I don't mind paid services, but I don't think they should get a free pass for being unethical just because they run on someone else computer, under a different label.

This is an independent question from the above. Services, paid or free, should be obliged to act ethically. If they won't do that voluntarily, then they must be regulated. Part of this should be placing an explicit value on the data that they extract and including it in invoices; during some months, Google should perhaps pay you for your use of their services. Certainly if they're going to go around and cap your usage of their storage at 15 GB, then they should accept the reasonableness to cap their usage of your data.

[1]: "Can" doesn't necessarily "invariably must be able to"; individual circumstances and tradeoffs will have an effect on the extent to which the costs can approach constant values as users grow.
This is a valid literary technique, if you're not aware.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cut-up_technique
Sorry it scrolled up for me.

To be considered sky high in my book you need to be actually rich - able to afford luxuries such as own a luxury home, driving a premium car, be able to rent a yacht for a vacation - you need to be making >150k for your income to be noteworthy, otherwise you're just doing well off - higher middle class.

Sorry but there's nothing sky high about earning 80k EUR per year and living in London, Zurich, Oslo, Amsterdam, Munich, etc. you barely stand out, especially if you socialise with other college educated workers, you're probably the norm or below it for career people.