jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
What you're saying goes to the heart of the article: Why are things so different in western nations compared to developing nations w.r.t. child raising? Potty training is one of the many places where we diverge wildly.

Take for example Vietnam, where kids are out of diapers at around 9 months[1]. Even in the US the age at which children are potty trained has crept up slowly from 1 year to 19 months to 27 months today:

> In the U.S., until the 1950s, most children were using the potty in the first few months of life and completely trained by age 1. In the 1970s, 18 months was an average age to start. Now, it's around 24 to 30 months.[2]

As the article asks, what are the phenomena causing these changes and what explains the huge discrepancies between countries and cultures? Clearly the biology of children does NOT explain the difference.

1. https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/01/130130082726.h...

2. https://www.salon.com/2010/07/09/extreme_potty_training
On iOS, it's basically the same. Since iOS 13, we have SF Symbols, basically the iOS version of Wingdings, to replace PNGs when appropriate.
I worked there for half a day. Did the training and had just started my job when the manager told me they needed me tomorrow at a store 4 hours away at 6am. I left and never came back.
Seems like k8s is a big seller for a lot of companies. We don't use it currently on our team and the larger company is whole-sale in on AWS I'm not sure they'd ever be able to make the switch.

Always like to see why people make these big changes though, thanks!
But did the overbooked childhood enable that, or was the kid destined for a top-notch uni regardless?

The students gaining admissions to top unis are largely self-motivated, extremely smart, and would have chosen high-quality activities on their own.

Looking back at my own childhood, I chose my sports, music, and other activities. My parents enabled them, but never forced me into them. Would forcing me to play an additional sport, or forcing me to attend after-school tutoring made the difference between UVA and Harvard? I doubt it. And what did attending UVA instead of Harvard cost me? Hard to say for sure, but I'm inclined to say "not much" as I'm happily upper-middle-class as it is.

And considering my high school peers who did attend Ivies and similar, most of them either smarter or harder working than me.
Look into Saito Consensus:

https://saito.io/saito-whitepaper.pdf

The network pays the nodes that run infrastructure rather than miners or stakers. Cost-of-attack is generated by the same nodes, so paying for infrastructure does not defund consensus. Security scales with fee-throughput of the network, while fee-throughput pays for scalability.
It's not too bad if you use the firebase store. But yeah using the firebase realtime db for anything that requires relationships/indexing can be kinda cumbersome.
Thanks for these insights, both are interesting. I've thought about the same thing with the parliament, but I fear there are problems with that. If it turns out that there is a fairly stable selection at the top it might work and should make the voting more efficient.
I advise anyone interested in this to visit http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2011/04/new-in-labs-background... instead, as TFA is merely a short summary of the gmail blog post.
When interviewing candidates I am always very careful to give an accurate account of what I feel the expected work life balance is - I certainly wouldn't regard it, as one commenter does, as a "red flag" if someone asked about it.
Isn't it great to be disappointed when comparing your code against others? It gives you a set of higher standards to aim for and is preferrable to being the best coder from the small pool of people you work with
Who prints out password salts anyway?
It is a fine example, and it is true that my consumer devices don't have the capabilities required. However, now that we are diving into the details of your example, you are presenting the solution necessary.

If the programmer on the other side of the world is so much better than what you can find locally, surely it would be worth the investment for your company to buy high speed cameras, or remote probes, or whatever else, to make this sort of teleconferencing possible.

Laparoscopic surgeons manipulate human flesh by looking at a screen! The first remote robotic surgery happened 13 years ago!(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remote_surgery#The_Lindbergh_Op...) I understand that medical equipment is incredibly expensive, but you are not saving lives, so your equipment should be cheaper in an appropriate manner. It seems to me that when scaled out, that solution would be cheaper, and would promote better technological progress in the long run, than the upheaval required to import all the world's greatest programmers into the US.
Humans don't need it, but they want it. Everyone wants a bigger or fancier house, a bigger car, to travel more cheaply, to travel further(space tourism anyone?), etc.
I'm not a Gradle expert, so take this with a grain of salt.

Gradle a single-threaded execution in some parts (I believe it may be configuration?), because the build-rules are written in a full blown language with access to the filesystem, and internal parts of Gradle.

In Bazel, rules have to declare inputs and outputs, and this can be enforced with sandboxing. This allows to predict that two rules do not interfere with each other, so we know we can run them in parallel. Our extension language disallows direct access to the file system, and also forbids access to other sources of non-determinism, such as hash tables and the clock.
What about business/programmer/designer? I do a lot of all three with no real focus on one over the others. Do you want me to upvote three different things?
TY, I'll bookmark that as well for when I finish the other one.
If a work of art is too much of an inside joke, the "uselessly obscure" criterion is satisfied.
That's arguably the same way the United States came into being: People didn't like the way the current closed system was being done, so they decided to fork a new government and invite everyone to contribute.
Interesting. Speculation: The bigger the project, the more difficult it will be to maintain order and continuity.

It's not easy to fork an island.
I'm a network architect, working for an ISP.

I design and architect networks for our Internet customers and for our private customers as well.

I read Hacker News because I find it really interesting. Not living in the US, the whole startup thing is something I still, frankly, don't quite understand.

It's a whole other world that I find very interesting in almost a voyeuristic way.

I don't consider myself much of a Hacker. I install vim on my Windows XP machine at work to edit Router config's and the like, but I don't need to use any of its power.

I suspect there's quite a few people here like me that read the site and the comments, but never really post because I can't offer anything decent to the conversations.
I disagree. What you just described is the definition of a crackpot. If you want to achieve real results you need to have a firm understanding of the fundamentals, then you learn how to extrapolate. Besides, when learning theory you often undertake case studies that allow you see what real world problems you can actually apply these theories to.

If you watch the lectures, Professor Ng does a good job of showcasing projects that benefit from various algorithms.
I don't know about you, but I just stopped reading after the first dozen plugs and name drops. But judging from the beginning this seems like some kind of nightmarish future science fiction story in the tradition of Philip K Dick.

If someone finishes it, let me know how it turns out, ok? I wonder if he ever gets to that casino or whether it turns out that the casino does not exist and he is just a brain in a vat that is connected to every single web service out there.
The demand for dollars is internal to the US. Both businesses and consumers pay for things with expected future cash flow — for example, they pay their rent with their income (whether from customers or from a job). Or they took out loans with the expectation that they could pay the monthly payment with that cash flow.

When that cash flow stops — people stop eating out at restaurants, or consumers lose their jobs — they need cash (dollars) to pay their obligations. The supply of money is the same — the same number of dollars exist — but the demand is higher now.

Essentially, everyone is getting margin called all at once. If there is no intervention, businesses and people that are in sustainable & healthy in the long-term go bankrupt and fire workers, and our society loses a lot of organizational capital.

We don't want a short term shock (a pandemic) to hurt our long term growth. To avoid that, the Fed injects some money so that the supply can meet the demand. Then businesses can borrow money to pay their employees (and their rent), plus we don't fall into a deflationary spiral.
The price in the link seems to be higher than the one predicted in the article, but it is claimed that the version on sale has an Nvidia GTX760M...
Doesn't sound like they agreed to or chose to have their hands chopped off, though. They were tricked, kidnapped and held for ransom from a family too poor to pay anything. So I don't see what you're getting at?

Wikipedia has a good write up about wage-slavery, if you're curious: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wage_slavery
We forked this system four-and-a-half years ago, and have done a ton of work in the open; at this point, we identify ourselves much more strongly with illumos than we ever did with Solaris. We also have plenty of folks who have contributed to illumos who never worked for Sun and never contributed to Solaris; to us in the illumos community these are not "Solaris fragments" any more than they are "SVR4 fragments."

As for Oracle, trust me that I hate them as much as anyone[1], but raising Oracle with respect to illumos absolutely is FUD: the project isn't related to Oracle in any way (or any more than it is related to AT&T, which also holds copyright). Even where there are Oracle copyrights, this is open source, and the CDDL is an air-tight license that (sadly) has been battle-tested by Oracle's own lawyers. Thanks to the explicitness of the CDDL around things like patent, there really isn't much that Oracle can do. And indeed, given the massive Oracle-owned Solaris patent portfolio, the same cannot be said for other non-CDDL systems that may infringe those patents -- illumos is (perversely) the only one actually sheltered from Oracle bad behavior in that regard.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zRN7XLCRhc#t=34m0s
It is not a BTC address. It is an image, called aes.png. Maybe some kind of key?
playground: https://mistlog.github.io/react-peg-playground/
For the point number 3 you might be too much under influence of SpaceX marketing and launches.

China is on their way to mars as well with Tianwen-1, India is ramping up their space program, ESA is launching their stuff with Ariane vehicle as far as Jupiter, Russians with Angara have plan for crewed moon flyby in 2029. So it is not like other nations won't have that capability soon after US and not like US has it right now or next year.

Second part is that there is still not that much of commercial gain in going to Mars, Moon or other place. Most of the money is made in LEO with satellite communications, gps, utilities. Space mining is not going to be profitable for really long time into the future. Where going to India was profitable right away if you had a ship to carry spices you were really ahead of the others. Space ship capability is just the starting point and we still have to find something that is worth enough to send those ships there, even with SpaceX reusable rockets it is still not worth to mine rare earth elements somewhere else in the solar system.
Overturning an election is not effectively overthrowing the government, and it's certainly not sedition.

I also think most people who entered the Capitol building did so because they were just following the people in front of them; not conciously entering to voice their oppinions to the Senate and House.
So months of violent looting from the left and nothing; one afternoon of violent looting from the right and now extreme measures are taken?!?
Wasn't the brain removed in that classic frog and boiling water experiment?
really? So EC2 is a DARPA program? Would make sense as Internal is also a military project.

EDIT: can you provide some links thanks to this. Thanks.
How do you explain rabbit starvation then?
Wow! Consider moving to Pale Moon at least, it will work with more sites and gets security patches.
I don't think Aurora MySQL/Postgres are just forks, I think they are a completely custom datastore behind a MySQL or Postgres-compatible interface (which probably uses a lot of non-engine code from the open-source base database.)
The article lists several art marketplaces. Do the respect the unique identity of a peice across them or could two competing marketplaces both sell “the one and only Mona Lisa”?
TuxPaint, perhaps.
I know, they did not even put their employees on the blockchain! /s

There are many kinds of decentralization, and in this blog post it refers to decentralization of location -- there is not one place that is "Coinbase headquarters".
After a tumultous month that saw Facebook pull news from its platform in protest, Australia's government agrees to make the News Media Bargaining Code law.
NetBSD/amiga 1.0 was my first unix. It was much harder to install, update and admin than most contemporary OSes, but, wow, it was multi-user and open-source before the term open-source had been popularized.

Years later, when I switched to Linux, I was surprised by how much more usable it was. Early Linux distributions put effort into enabling color ls, virtual consoles and readline. Then came package installers, etc.

The BSDs lagged behind Linux in usability because they kept focusing on other aspects of operating system design, dismissing things like graphical installers as unnecessary frill. "man tar" was the canonical advice.

New users getting stuck in the middle of the installation procedure were being welcomed by the BSD community with internal jokes like "RTFM!" and "man man". Development mailing-lists were also filled with comments ridiculing Linux as bloated (due to having bash with readline as /bin/sh) and not a real UNIX (due to not being a direct descendant of the AT&T sources). Not to mention all the attacks on the GPL and GNU as not being sufficiently free.

It was a cult, essentially. Hopefully the BSD community has grown up since then, but it has already lost most of the mind share to Linux and macOS, which is arguably the only usable BSD desktop available to users who couldn't figure what to do with the "man man" advice.
>I kinda get that page count is an "easy metric", but iy seems super shortsighted to chose to not buy a book based purely on page count.

It's the best metric currently available for a book that has no reviews, and is from an author I haven't read anything else from.
Agreed. Or at least have a sortable system that would allow us to say only have remote jobs appear (for those of us that are interested in only that segment of the marketplace)
Smartphones are replacing standalone cameras, but the analysis in the article is busted. Popular camera models are constantly being replaced with newer shinier models, so of course every model trends down a little while after release. It'd probably be a lot more enlightening to do the analysis grouping usage by family (e.g. Canon G11, G10, G9, etc) once and then doing an age analysis for each family.
Irrelevant to the argument for or against deprecation, whoever did that website certainly don't have the authority to declare parts of the infrastructure of the Internet deprecated.
Why exclusion? FB Pages are public by default, no login required. Some individuals' comments may be invisible due to their privacy settings, but technically non-members are not excluded per se.
I'm don't think you work for a company that develops software at scale. An individual did that, yes, but did Google as an organization decide to do it explicitly? Probably not.
Do you guys dogfood your programming search questions or do you have an internal thing for that? Because honestly when I google technical stuff and get corrected despite using "" (since now '+' is deprecated) it makes me super rage. The only thing that escapes it is the super.crazy.java.conventions that are obvious.
On my first day of work (FT, not internship), a director pulled me into his office, closed the door, and said, "Look, this job really isn't that hard."

And he was right.

Attitude is what separates good bankers from bad bankers.
I don't use Yahoo, but I do like that the site is useful for casual information junkies. There's a very pleasant inundation of news in various media that you don't get from sources like google news or newspaper sites.
Hats off to you, sir, you beat me to it.
FYI, brudgers makes good points, but the beauty of Racket is they have subsets and supersets of languages, from an Algol implementation to a specialized language built for studying SICP. Neil van Dyke and some other Racketeers built it. I think it might be in need of a maintainer, but here it is nonetheless.

http://www.neilvandyke.org/racket-sicp/

Also keep in mind there is a different subset language designed by one of the developer/professors for his own book based upon his improvements to the SICP methodology, entitled How to Design Programs, as explained in his paper.

http://www.ccs.neu.edu/racket/pubs/fdpe2002-fffk.pdf

The second edition is available as HTML pages amongst the URLS below.

http://docs.racket-lang.org/teachpack/2htdpuniverse.html

http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/matthias/HtDP2e/
> If you want to securely create a new user account, you POST to Stormpath’s API.

And I must trust you handle it properly. If I understood correctly, Stormpath saves the password for me for my users? If so, no. If I were to do that, I would have enable oauth and openid (which is a pain in the ass to find a library that actually passes security audit today!) or I'd just switch to Persona myself.

To solve real authentication issue, we need a layer that works nice. Pyramid has a nice authentication layer, though I find that layer poorly documented or just confusing to work with (I have conquered that hurtle but to be honest, it was hard!).

There is a real reason why I prefer the Django style. It built a basic authentication layer for me (username password default). The downside is ORM and user are tightly coupled with Django. There is a tradeoff, obviously.

But if there were a single API call which I could use to map to any openID, oauth, that'd be really great. Does stormpath do it? That's what I need as a library. Why can't we make oauth, openid like network protocol having layered protocol design? It's still quite a mess to me that we don't have a standard reference implementation for major languages well enough to be trusted (both consumer and provider). Last year for a project I almost had to implement my own oauth provider implementation because other existing projects are either incomplete or dead.
Also hemp hearts - available from some costco stores and most whole foods are an excellent source of omega 3s. They are good in smoothies too.
How much do you trust the nodejs driver compatibility layers for oracle and db2? How about generating Excel files? Nothing comes close to poi yet.

That said, I'd suggest running node wither a service oriented architecture if both were non-negotiable requirements.
Then this really isn't a usability issue, if you replace the entire contents of a document with the clipboard, then click or shortcut to save, then click or shortcut to quit the application, that's really a human issue. It's too many steps to be labelled as a usability problem.

⌘-Z should have been adequate.
The average working class person knows more than you think.

They probably don't have a lot of time for abstract theory, but they do have experience dealing with the government. They've seen how broken their local public schools, VA care, and Medicare are. They've been overwhelmed and overborne by the complicated rules of government programs, and faced harsh penalties for slight missteps.

They also know that Democratic programs generally exclude them because by working for slightly more than minimum wage they earn too much to qualify. And they usually know people receiving government benefits, and they see the lifestyle these benefits impose, and they don't want that for themselves.
The last several screenfuls all all a very bitter rant. I find it hard to take seriously something written like this.
You might find this interesting:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21515725
It makes web pages like HN dark (in FF). I don't get why it takes so long to do it though, so toggling it is frustrating, and the side effects are pretty horrific as it throws boxes around everything.
To save a few clicks, here's the source:

https://github.com/fastsitephp/fastsitephp
What about the opposition because of worsened living standard of people around and because of the environmental impact, also hazardous maintenance etc? There is a wind farm being blocked in Germany over these concerns now. Same applies for solar and water (river/nature based) power plants in Europe.
Out-of-Band Story: I was at the Apple WWDC in the 1990s, where the guy demoed the graphing calculator app. He had been working on it as an unpaid "pseudo-hacker" for quite some time.

He received a standing ovation.

Don't you just love geeks?
In biotech hubs. I guess mainly SF, Boston, Oxbridge and Switzerland. But also other places. Biotech is a bit less concentrated.

I'm planning to start up my own one almost immediately.
Look harder.

My friends have worked on marriage, marijuana, human trafficking, consumer protection, etc, etc.

(My own efforts weren't as potent. At the time. Though I'd like to think my cohort moved the needle on election integrity issues. All the "radical" stuff we pushed 10 years ago is now received wisdom.)

In fact, I'd argue that most progress is bottom up, happening locally.

I highly recommend Camp Wellstone training for activists. Of course there's many others. On the left.

The political right has no shortage of resources for their activists.
FYI, Ledger is CLI and designed for accounting and keeping books:

https://github.com/jwiegley/ledger/wiki

There's a python implementation as well, if that's more up your hacking alley: https://furius.ca/beancount/
Still, I don't know in advance if that is true. Also are you sure that you haven't received spam mail from other entities than NYT, who got your address from the NYT?
The only real advantage would be that the Beatles would be included in Genius playlists.