jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
A country gets rich before the birth rate falls, so just driving down the birth rate of a poor country doesn't affect the underlying mechanism. You can't just copy the superficial aspects of a successful society and expect the rest to just fall into place, for the same reason that simply holding elections doesn't magically turn a dictatorship into a stable functioning democracy. You have to address the root causes, if they are amenable to analysis.
Awesome points. I agree with giving the programmer all the uninterrupted time to hack. As a matter of fact, allowing someone dedicated to his or her project to work without unnecessary intervention applies across the industry board. When you're in the zone, there's definitely no stopping you - and best to keep doing what you're doing while the creative juices are endlessly flowing.
Yea they really need to change the background behind the code. There are so many new frameworks with unknown user bases and support out there that their website design can be the difference between getting users or not.
Bingo, birth rate is a consequence, not a cause. He's trying to put the cart before the horse.
In addition, an LLC is incredibly easy with regard to paperwork and effort compared to a corporation, and gives the owner(s) limited liability as well as tax advantages (vs sole proprietorships or partnerships).
Have you seen Kleppmann's automerge library? https://github.com/automerge/automerge
This is a tremendous non sequitur. Being a world power and the level of poverty within a country have little to do with each other.
I think a large part of the problem with conservative policy positions (at least in the US) is that they're mostly unchanged from 30-40 years ago. Despite mountains of evidence on things like work requirements for government benefits, multiplier effects of stimulus spending vs tax cuts, benefits of expanding healthcare coverage, and many more, the conservative positions remain the same.

I would guess this is likely because these positions are more based on philosophy than they are on actual economics or other evidence-based fields. This was a reasonable position when there wasn't strong evidence to either prove or disprove these arguments, but at some point the evidence becomes overwhelming, and those positions should no longer be considered serious. We're long passed that point on a number of issues, but it sure doesn't seem like anything will change anytime soon.
I wouldn't say it is a scam. There are a lot of benefits to running load in the cloud, understanding what works for your business is the hard part.
Did that change?
I agree that immediate-mode is a pleasant mental model, though I've heard mixed things about performance. It does a ton of potentially redundant work (though maybe memoization could reduce that), but it removes so much complexity that there's a genuine trade-off. I'm not sure how things shake out in practice; I haven't used it for anything real.

Though the bigger reality for most front-end devs in 2021 is that most of us are building for the web, and the web doesn't really allow for immediate-mode
Your quote is only from first half of the abstract... You haven't even quoted any statistics, where are you getting "statistically insignificant" from? The article itself shows that there is an association between AD and long-term PM2.5. See below for some actual statistical findings:

"In multilevel structural equation models, PM2.5 was associated with greater declines in immediate recall and new learning, but no association was found with decline in delayed-recall or composite scores. For each interquartile increment (2.81 μg/m3) of PM2.5, the annual decline rate was significantly accelerated by 19.3% [95% confidence interval (CI) = 1.9% to 36.2%] for Trials 1–3 and 14.8% (4.4% to 24.9%) for List B performance, adjusting for multiple potential confounders. Long-term PM2.5 exposure was associated with increased Alzheimer’s disease pattern similarity scores, which accounted for 22.6% (95% CI: 1% to 68.9%) and 10.7% (95% CI: 1.0% to 30.3%) of the total adverse PM2.5 effects on Trials 1–3 and List B, respectively. The observed associations remained after excluding incident cases of dementia and stroke during the follow-up, or further adjusting for small-vessel ischaemic disease volumes. Our findings illustrate the continuum of PM2.5 neurotoxicity that contributes to early decline of immediate free recall/new learning at the preclinical stage, which is mediated by progressive atrophy of grey matter indicative of increased Alzheimer’s disease risk, independent of cerebrovascular damage."
Are there benefits in learning Coq for those who work mainly with general purpose programming?
I've only been working there for a year, but the company has been on a general upward curve it seems.
According to Wikipedia [1], you have ~160k active military with ~1.5M that could be conscripted. That's not huge, but it's enough to give an enemy a bad time, especially with the Swiss terrain and strategic defenses. And I'm sure they'd have a bunch of other countries willing to back them up, depending on the belligerent.

I highly doubt it'll come to that. It would be much easier to just infiltrate the fab and replace stock going to an important destination.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swiss_Armed_Forces
> I've been fantasizing about complex Pivot Tables, sparklines, VLOOKUPS, most of which I've never even used before!

When writing software, I often ask myself, "what's the simplest thing that could ever possibly work", and then proceed to implement it that way. You might try doing the same.
Event arbitrage
"I have struggled with this problem for all of my academic and professional career. It was only until this year until I finally started addressing it. After a lot of thought and reading, I've found that I procrastinate for the following reasons:

1) The task is mundane or repetitive.

2) I think the task is trivial. "Oh, thats something I can bang out in a few hours, and I've got all week to work on it"

3) There is a tricky problem within the task that I haven't figured out yet."

You've nailed it, especially number 3. I'll take out my pencil & paper, start sketching out things. The moment something stumps me, I put it down and get up 'for a drink of water.' While I'm up, might as well see what's on USA. Maybe White Collar or Burn Notice...and three hours pass.

If I may ask, how old are you? And why are you 'angry'
Ditto for X, Y, W.
About the word "API" - I don't think it means what you think it means.
SEO and that is about all that matters
I'm a little confused is he saying too much government intervention was the problem or not enough?
No.

Social mobility != Economic mobility

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_mobility and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maslow%27s_hierarchy_of_needs
The original iPhone (the 2g) was the most durable, but Apple went and changed the design after that to materials that were much less durable. I work in this area (within Apple) so I'm in a good position to judge.

I have the original iPhone 2g covered in dents and scratches (from the previous owner mainly, it's second hand) yet I know it's never gonna badly dent, and will never crack from regular drops and general wear and tear.

Incidentally, the iPhone 4g has benn drop tested, and the results aren't good. So much for Apple's much vaunted durability:

http://www.ismashphone.com/2010/06/shattered-like-a-glass-go...
"May the sign of the exponential be ever in your favor." -- @dbasch, a great tweet concluding that thread
Interesting, I've been playing with React/Flux a bit lately. I enjoy them more than other JS frameworks, but agree it doesn't feel like it's quite right yet.

This blog post from the same author gives a bit more detail than the presentation slides: http://futurice.com/blog/reactive-mvc-and-the-virtual-dom

Looking forward to seeing the presentation video
The forgetting problem can be solved with an app: "Hey! I notice you've been parked at home for 10 minutes and aren't plugged in..."
I don't disagree with this, it's actually a portion of the point I was trying to make. That is, all other things equal, they should be equivalent. It's the "other things" here which may make the results different, and I'm not sure that's a bad thing.

For example, consider a parade scheduled from 11 AM to 1 PM on Sunday, known well in advance, and an impromptu protest that really gets way at some random point in the afternoon, most people didn't know about, and causes logistical problems for many people. I value and appreciate the need for both, but I also understand and support the police trying to contain and in some cases disperse (peacefully!) the second. Indeed, the anti-establishment bent the protests often have usually benefits from some police presence, IMO. It's a better story and reaches more ears.
JNA bridging is not that useful in Android's context though :( .
Sure, you can write some parts of your code in Rust, but anything that uses a platform API will still have to be written in Java.
I would not mind to see Google replace Java by Rust coming next IO.
"Blocking websites" is a degree-of-freedom national governments simply should not have.
Very helpful. :-) Thanks!
accidents != fatalities
Mumford's Grothendieck obituary was posted to HN a couple weeks ago but unfortunately didn't get any discussion.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8755800
This is the broken window theory. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broken_windows_theory

The (somewhat controversial) idea is that if you go out of your way to punish smaller crimes, people don't do the bigger ones. It wasn't cost effective for police in NYC to stop the smaller crimes (people spraying water on your windshield and asking for a dollar to wipe it off) but larger crimes dropped with it.

If you view police as a fixed cost, then perhaps it is worthwhile.

That said, there are plenty of holes in the theory.

Gary Becker writes a lot about the economics of crime too. http://chicagomaroon.com/2012/05/25/the-economics-of-crime-w...
> Over the years, I've refined ways of stretching papers. I can write a four-word sentence in 40 words. Just give me one phrase of quotable text, and I'll produce two pages of ponderous explanation. I can say in 10 pages what most normal people could say in a paragraph.

I did this a lot while in college--I'm sure many did. The quality of the work was terrible in hindsight, and I did cheat myself out of some good learning opportunities. But, the thing that bothers me to this day is that no teacher ever called me out. My writing tends to be technically correct, which wasn't very common in most of my classes. I think the fluff was acceptable in comparison to sloppy spelling and grammar.
The big problem is the 64GB SSD. The difference in retail cost with a 256GB is about $50, in bulk it'd probably be closer to $20-25. I really don't understand Google's logic here. I guess they see people buying the Pixel for non-Googley things to be a problem?
Interestingly, the original Macintosh File System (MFS, the predecessor to HFS which was the predecessor to the current HFS+) was a non-hierarchical filesystem (that's why HFS has the H). The original Macintosh system software supported hierarchical directories, of course - by maintaining a database mapping file-system nodes to paths. When the user opened a particular folder, it queried the database for nodes whose path matched.

Of course, no database is perfect, and sometimes things got messed up. There was a special key chord the user could hold down during startup that would cause the Finder to rebuild all its databases. When done on an MFS volume, all the hierarchy painstakingly created by the user would be erased, and all the files on a volume would wind up in the root directory.
Let's instead say 2x a person's annual income in credit card debt at 20% annual interest, a debt which was brought on by a number of short-term necessary but bad decisions, then left to grow for a couple of years due to unfortunate circumstances. That's the modern form of debt slavery, with no easy way of refinancing the debt or increasing the income. Such a scenario usually comes along with some other serious challenges, such as major health issues.

In the US, personal bankruptcy is an option. But not all Western countries have this luxury. In Norway, for instance, personal bankruptcy basically amounts to entering a 5-year contract of indentured servitude (you by law have to earn as much as you can, and get to use only the smallest possible amount of it to feed and clothe yourself - the debtors take the rest).
That's a feature. You can encode an entire webpage, including JavaScript, and, yes, including alerts.

As long as they don't have user accounts or database access or such, XSS doesn't let an attacker do anything meaningful. It's not weak security, it's just how the site works.

Edit: To point out the obvious, your iframe trickery is not necessary. Script tags are not escaped, nor are event attributes: http://hashify.me/PGRpdiBvbmNsaWNrPSJhbGVydCgnVGhpcyBpc25cJ3...
Not sure about the nameless part:

"'He was definitely pushed out by the board,' said Patrick Moorhead, principal analyst with Moor Insights & Strategy, in an interview Friday"
That is quite a bit of effort criticizing something that ought to be taken tongue-in-cheek.

I'm pretty sure I could write a 1-100 list too and simply answer every question with: "Depends" and it would be just as correct.
It wouldn't have been that bad had they made one simple change .. from (20% of College Students) to (20% of <some big name school>) or (20% of a major public university).

It would have actually been more impressive if they weren't so vague .. now they are probably going to turn off a lot of good prospects.

I say this as a YC alum whose 1st job post was fairly ill-advised (though not dishonest). Believe me, it is quite tempting to play around, so I wouldn't be too hard especially on the smaller teams who haven't been recruiting/employing for too long.

They will learn, soon enough. It's also important to note that many teams consist of 17-22 year olds, and as this app is aimed at college students it seems like it could be one of those teams. So cut them some slack.
The first Surface was always going to have issues. But I think the real problem was that it should have come to market much sooner. And yet the idea of Microsoft getting into hardware must have been a difficult move given the culture and alliances they've worked so hard to build over the years.
Sort of depends on the effectiveness :-) But more seriously looking through my daughters old glaze catalogs there doesn't seem to be a glaze with a mix of gold and silver particulates, much less one with "exact proportions" hinted at in the article.

Given the effect of being different colors when different types of liquids were in the cup seems so novel, I found that surprising. I have no idea if I can write to the glazing company and ask them to mix me up a special glaze, but if it recreated this effect I am sure it would be popular with folks.
Tangent: based on my internal perceptions throughout the past decades, I’m positively shocked that a Black Lotus is only worth $11,000.
Where are the uses of the calculus of variations with neural nets?
I have never seen anything close to real time updates on Waze, even 10 years ago. Its always very delayed jumps and never seeming to be actual accurate positions.
They do if you rent them out.
Its bold to even call them investments.

They are akin to a lottery / market speculation.

They are assets with no underlying value, other than the subjective whims of the prospective buyer.

A rich mans game, if you will.
Can you cite cases where you've seen that happen? You don't even need links; if you have the topic and the rough time these things happened, we can go find them in the Wikipedia backlog.
It was in The Internship, that's what put the idea in my head, and as far as I know it's in there because they do/did do that, with the idea being you get a better understanding of who you're writing features for if you get your questions from the horse's mouth occasionally.
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I don't think it is surprising at all that Turing took the possibility of telepathy seriously. Many scientists and educated people took the possibility seriously in the 1950s, 60s, and 70s. This is reflected in the many research projects conducted at the time in academia and government (most infamously, the MKULTRA CIA program).

You can see this belief represented in the "hard" science fiction published at the time, much of which treated telepathy and other ESP subjects seriously--including Bester's The Demolished Man, Asimov's Foundation series, Heinlein's Stranger in a Strange Land, Clarke's Childhood's End, and Niven's Known Space series.

There was a real and broadly shared sense, for several decades, that psychology and ESP might be the area of the next fundamental scientific breakthrough.

It was not until the 1980s that it became clear ESP was a dead-end, and today it's mostly mocked by the scientific community as a source of scams. But to apply today's mindset to Turing's 1950 paper is a pretty substantial hindsight error.
Congratulations to the Wit.ai team.

I was never a user, but when I checked them out, did think their offering showed great promise. I suppose the offer from Facebook must've been too good to say no.
> web seems to be the only one having these growing pains.

Mostly because web development believes itself to be drastically different from every type of software in the past.

Of course, it isn't. It's bog-standard business programming piled on with loads of incidental complexity that happens to be 'open.'

The only thing different is everyone feels subject to Internet Time, and speed to ship is valued over everything, including vision, conceptual clarity, and correctness.
> you don't have to have real surveillance to do this. All you need is the belief that the surveillance is going on

A standard play these thugs often set up is a single intricate surveillance incident where the mark knows they're being watched very closely, then do another one much later on. This is intended to leave the victim in a state of constant paranoia during the majority of the times they're not being watched. It takes a lot of self-control to remain calm most times when this one's used against you.

Another technique when the surveillers have less control is the fatwa. I was in Hong Kong about 12 years ago on a ferry from some outer island when one (a young Australian-sounding male) of two people talking a few seats behind me suddenly said to the other (a young North American girl) "There's some people back home who want to know where in the world that guy up there is at all times. I better ring this in." He then talked loudly on the phone giving some details about me. The girl he was with had an embarrassed expression on her face like she couldn't believe what she was hearing. This all happened while I was moving from Melbourne (Australia, not Florida) to China to live. Unfortunately, that surveillance fatwa against me seems to still be in place over a decade later, and those who issued it are even willing to nudge along local people in China to use methods that would be illegal back in Australia/NZ.

Perhaps good news is that those in control of the surveillance always use intermediaries to hide themselves, and most intermediaries have a need to show off rather than hide themselves. By doing things like talking to yourself or "to God" a lot out loud within hearing of where bugs may be, changing what you say for different locations, you can often find out something about probable actors involved when stuff you've said comes back to you.
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> so traditionally Emacs Lisp scripts have super-long-variable-names-in-order-to-avoid-collisions

I don't think dynamic scoping is the only reason for this. Scheme has lexical scoping yet long-identifier-names are popular with scheme as well.

Personally I prefer lexical scoping with long-identifier-names. I find it more pleasant to read. And with modern auto-completion systems, it's no longer inconvenient to write code like that.
Doctors should start making house calls again. In full protective gear
Well, yeah, but bold is nearly impossible to tell from crazy, and people really don't like being told that "actually, the most efficient management technique in this case is to throw money randomly at a lightly-filtered set of projects."

People want to believe that blue-sky research can be predicted, managed, and optimized, no matter the staggering mountains of evidence to the contrary.
Before anyone gets on a soapbox, here's a quick reminder that if you're reading this post, there's a good chance that you're part of that top 10%.
In which case, we just need to make those details an equal part of the plan.
It's a recession, not an apocalypse. These are kind of old news:

1. Budgeting. Know exactly where your money goes and what dials you can turn.

2. It's less about skills than products and services. So it becomes a better time to be a Costco or a cobbler (which helps people save money) than to be a Tesla (which helps people spend money).

For software, my suspicion is infinite monthly SaaS subscriptions will come under more scrutiny. And it might be a bad time to run a money-bleeding self-driving car startup. But that's my only firm guess at this point.
No government did this, even when months ago China was shutting down it's factories and locking down a hundred million people zero preparation was done by all of our politicians. My country ran out of masks two weeks ago and people are just wearing makeshift masks
It's nice service. Honestly I want to create a page to review my boss. Are you sure he won't be able to know who created this page ?