skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The two biggest factors that I can come up with would be the lack of ability to control attention, and the inability to consider the long term repercussions of actions.

If you can't force yourself to keep attention on the road, you're going to crash. If you can't think about how that daily pint of ice cream will affect you beyond "it tastes good now", you're going to gain weight.
There is something upsetting about this website, and it may just be that this company is obviously for-profit, but I don't think it needs as much stock photography.
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There seem to be higher costs for offshore wind that aren't going to go away with extra projects. Maintenance is more expensive because the turbines are in a salt water environment, and the electrical interconnect to the shore is an order of magnitude more expensive than equivalents on land.
That's not true, you're going from string _and_ an integer, because '*' is a binary operator. (And it isn't communicative as shown here, which is another 'problem')

But that's not really the point, crdoconnor seems to think that languages should throw an error in cases like this, not just keep the type of the first argument.
> "In 2019, the spacecraft will be far enough from the sun
> that we could image it directly with Hubble and figure
> out the rate of spin," said Ossing.

Nice.
> Is it just a perf thing?

Mostly. I can't speak to protobuf's serialization format personally, but similar binary serialization like Thrift's TCompactProtocol or TDenseProtocol outperform JSON and you get schemas for "free*" (as in, in your producer and consumer's glue code by virtue of codegen, and not as an afterthought).

The IDL and codegen is a big part of gRPC and Thrift. The rest is opinionatedness and less cognitive effort -- the format is non-human-readable anyway so less propensity for bikeshedding about cosmetic stuff in JSON.
This is pretty important stuff, thank you for posting.

Often times, 'a problem' exists largely because a person's behaviour and/or performance exists outside of the local norm.

Given this, then by definition the amount and types of such problems are largely driven by the norm.

As you said, I don't have anything at hand to back this up, but this seems like a very reasonable way to explain some of these big diagnosis deltas.
dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12345283

Also, please link to original announcements instead of news reports were available.
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And that pharmacies will often try to give you EpiPens with an expiration date less than a year away, indirectly increasing the cost (since most districts will require unexpired pens, and refuse your child even if then pen is a day too old).

It's a racket.
I'm not really talking about the poorest of the poor who don't have any skills, although I'm sure there are plenty NGOs who are interested in finding cheap housing solutions for them. I'm talking about those who are emerging from poverty and have found a place in the economy. Climate change will pull them back down into poverty if the place they've settled in is flooded, or no longer has access to clean water, or can't grow enough food.

Climate change isn't going to just affect the poor, it will affect the rich too--people who live in places like Southern Florida and New York City. If thousands or millions of those people get displaced, they're going to want to find a decent place to live quickly, and will have funds (either savings, insurance, or from government aid) to afford it.

And you're also forgetting the #1 rule of economics, lowering the price for something means more people can afford it. There is a price point where everyone can afford housing, it's just that for many that point is very near zero. Still, the closer you get to zero, the more people fall under that umbrella of being able to afford it.
The perceived danger is that a stranger will kidnap your children if you let them walk to and from the park. The real danger is they're more likely to be kidnapped if you leave them at home with friends or relatives.
in the short term, optimizing traffic lights could greatly reduce fossil fuel consumption.

The current model uses PLCs but something like a neural net or some other type of machine learning could supplement this system to make it more efficient.
I've done a lot of B2B business in Vietnam over the last year, this article does not surprise me. The people there are kind, super smart and very hard working.

I'm recently back on the market for a (software engineering) job. If anyone has any leads for a westerner to find work in Vietnam, I'd love to talk to you.
> These rants come off as coming from either (1) back-end developers who never touch UI code or anything on the client-side (not where Node.js thrives) (2) armchair commentators who don't actually have to get shit done

Half this post is from the creator of Node.js
Furthermore amortization isn't always accounted for in Big-O. Inserting into into the head of a linked list is O(1), and for a vector it is O(n). But on modern hardware vector inserts are much faster.

If your software engineering begins and ends with Big-O notation, your likely doing a terrible job. Measure, and test. Always.
My favorite story about this mission: the engineers bought a (human) casket to ship one of the antennas! https://astroanecdotes.com/2015/12/27/the-casket-with-an-imp...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12345283
Why do people on meth enjoy cleaning? There is little difference between meth and Adderall. Taking any type of stimulant even coffee helps people do menial tasks and be more optimistic while doing them.

Maybe millions of people are effected by some problem of distraction and lack of focus. But to suggest there's some biochemical reason for this that's cured by amphetamines seems like pseudoscience to me.

Drugs do work. If you want to take amphetamines to improve your work performance, go for it. But to suggest that it's a disease seems disingenuous.

There's something like 16 million Americans who take Adderall, which has drastically increased in used (300%+ from 2008-2012). Another poll said 35% of college students had said they'd tried Adderall.

The science of ADHD is ambiguous. The science of moderate uses of amphetamine or methamphetamines for improving work performance is easier to understand.
It is done this way and it happened to me. The public school I was attending told my parents in 2nd grade put him on Ritalin or we are going to expel him.
It's incredibly difficult to rectify free will with every person is equally valuable. The correlation of that is all behavior is equally virtuous, be it reading, getting high, or punting babies off bridges.

I would settle for a communally accepted floor we don't let people fall below.
I thought that was an interesting point as well. I'm having trouble coming up w/ full argument but one point is that there's huge differences btwn food and healthcare.

When you only have $20 to spend on food for the week, you don't need to go to the government for help. You can cook and eat rice and beans all week. That's what I did in college.

The difference w/ healthcare is there's no rice and beans of cancer treatment or ER visits. People aren't regularly given a decision between death and going to a fancy restaurant.
But life isn't fair. We didn't create this problem, it just is. What we can do is work on solutions. So what are those solutions? You can't bury your head in the sand and pretend that the worlds resources aren't finite.
This was a exercise in the "Will It Fly" book early on.

I have started doing the 5 minute journal, and the sentence on how could I have made today better really helps with this aspect. You start to notice some patterns over time, and that can help guide change.
In other places, August is a comfortable time to traipse around compared to the rest of the year. You want get outdoors when the sun is out and it's warm.
already? about time I say ;)
Make Sure the Abstraction is Worth It

Yes! All abstraction has a price. This is what people really mean when "all abstractions leak." Basically, all code and runtime features have a cost in terms of developer resources, cpu, memory, etc. The "inner game" of development isn't being able to muster huge amounts of "cleverness" power. The "inner game" is being able to put whatever resources you have to the best possible use.
So don't call it a disease. Call it a Snuffleupagus. Just don't stop treating patients affected by this particular Snuffleupagus because it doesn't meet your definition of a "disease".
> You cannot buy healthcare at the cost of food.

The two industries aren't even remotely close to be able to make a comparison like that. Why not let healthcare operate as a free(er) market?
Memory contiguity may be the most fundamental thing to keep in mind when doing numerical computing, for example.
How do you know? The medical industry regularly has shortages of dozens of different products [1]. And that is to say nothing of the cost of navigating through all the regulatory hurdles.

[1] http://www.economicpolicyjournal.com/2015/10/drug-shortages-...
Funding Your Startup - a Founder's Guide to Liquidation Preferences
The kind of slave that earn top 5% income you mean ?
The climate system on Earth is subject to the butterfly effect, but we frequently have good-enough predictions, e.g. the stuff airline pilots rely on.

When confronted with complexity, throwing up hands is not the correct response.
Main.java:17: error: incompatible types: String cannot be converted to int
int z = x + y;

>btw, Python: '1' * 3 -> '111'

In theory I agree with this but in practise I see this so rarely used it barely matters.
Those certainly could result in some mental disorder. An awkward personality and to some degree low IQ could be symptomatic of a mental disorder as well. It's definatly possible to make a convincing case that all mental illness is a manufactured construct [1]. But I don't think you can reasonably say ADHD is not a disease and still believe, say, depression or anxiety disorders are diseases.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Myth_of_Mental_Illness
The analysis seems a bit off, I'd attribute the reduced interest in Pokemon Go almost entirely to game implementation specific gaffes, and lack of depth in the particular game rather than any sort of indicator regarding augmented reality.
I've recently switched my primary browsing back to Safari on my 2012-era MacBook Air. Battery life is noticeably better.

I still launch Chrome and FF regularly for development, but my tab-hell lives in Safari now.
> This turned out to be caused by HTTP/2.0 which only allows 1 billion streams over a single connection.

Hilarious. People called this issue out as an obvious flaw when HTTP/2.0 was first proposed, got ignored, and here the issue is.

For those unfamiliar:

HTTP/2.0 uses an unsigned 31-bit integer to identity individual streams over a connection.

Server-initiated streams must use even identifiers.

Client-initiated streams must use odd identifiers.

Identifiers are not reclaimed once a stream is closed. Once you've initiated (2^31)/2 streams, you've exhausted the identifier pool and there's nothing you can do other than close the connection.

For comparison, SSH channels use a 32-bit arbitrary channel identifier, specified by the initiating party, creating an identifier tuple of (peer, channel). Channel identifiers can be re-used after an existing channel with that identifier is closed.

As a result, SSH doesn't have this problem, or the need to divide the identifier space into even/odd (server/client) channel space.
We aren't morally obliged to treat people for things that aren't diseases.
> gRPC can help make connecting, operating and debugging distributed systems as easy as making local function calls

Oh lol, again
The iOS reading list frequently fails to sync offline content to my device, stranding me contentless on airplanes. It's incredibly annoying, and is specifically why I began using Instapaper.
I would say, yes, the economic theory of the "tragedy of the commons" is a major part of the issue. Good thing that the modern counterparts to those theorists have come to understand that the solution to the tragedy of the commons is to ensure that the costs of the consumption are borne by the consumer.

Regulation, societal norms drafted from the start to ensure transparency, and the "greater good" spirit that, one could easily argue, would be prevalent in those who would choose to risk their lives to leave this rock behind... all those things would form the framework by which our offspring would ensure that they're capable of learning from the mistakes of their forebears.

I believe that, as a race, we're too late to undo the damage we've done to our environment. The patient (our way of life) is terminal, we can only hope to make ourselves comfortable in our waning years without unnecessarily spreading the disease.

But, as cliché as it sounds, I am not hopeless, and I simply cannot allow myself to believe that future generations would do the same thing if they had another planet - or even this one - to start over again. I MUST believe that part of the human condition includes learning from and not repeating the mistakes that cost billions of lives.
> The system doesn't always reward the best performer

Reading your comment, it brought back to mind: employee value isn't a linear scale, from "bad" to "good". What they contribute is complex.
> The Instapaper team will be moving from betaworks in New York City to Pinterest’s headquarters in San Francisco

I wonder how the instapaper team feels about that (and/or how much say they had in it).
This: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/31/Mystic_G...

This is the Mystic Generating Station in Everett, MA.

It is inside Boston Harbor, and receives liquified natural gas to generate electricity.

The arrival of gas ships in Everett is a big security event, and is greeted with a general closure of shipping lanes, chopper patrols over the harbor, and patrol cars at every point in the harbor that are close to the ship. Because each of those ships is a floating fuel-air bomb able to take out the whole city.

Every wind turbine, every solar panel, and every bicycle dynamo hooked to a hamster wheel in New England, lengthens to time between visits from these ships.

So yes, I do feel they are beautiful.
"People need a lot of things. You’ll die without food long before you’ll die without health care, and yet few people say we need to “take the profit motive out of farming”."

I'll say this too when I get a $65,000 bill at the grocery store.
If you use Alfred, you can setup a workflow (edit, this is the one I've used in the past and works currently: http://www.alfredforum.com/topic/4524-safari-reading-list/ ) to do this with a key combo
How did you get gigs at BIGCORPs?
> If it needs to be fast for CPython, it has to be written in C, but if it needs to be fast for a JIT, you cannot use C. He showed a simple mysum() function that totaled up the elements in an iterable. If it is passed a Python object like list(range(N)), the JIT knows what it is and can do lots of optimizations. But if it is passed a NumPy array, which is "opaque C stuff", the JIT doesn't understand it, so it will have trouble even achieving the performance of a non-NumPy version on a JIT-less Python.

There's a third way here - run the C code using the same JIT as the Python code, instead of compiling it natively.

That might sound mind-bending, but C is just a language like any other. It's actually fairly simple and consistent to implement compared to something like Python. You can interpret and JIT compile it if you want to - there's no major magic to that.

Then you can optimise the C code and the Python code at the same time, inline the two, do the same optimisations as you do on Python code, etc. We're using this technique to run Ruby C extensions in JRuby and the results so far are great - running real C extensions faster than native code because we can optimise both the Ruby and the C at the same time.

http://chrisseaton.com/rubytruffle/cext/
I have made something at least similar.

There is another post on my site about integrating live visualization with D3 as well.

I found that the metadata pertaining to signal strength to be too variable based on device manufacturer to be accurately used for a distance calculation without a lot of individual fine tuning or at the very least triangulation.

Triangulation runs into its problems though because of the inaccuracies of usb timing.

http://www.coderecon.com/pages/post_4
No, and I think that's part of the joke for Pinboard.
Why would you select against `; drop database prod;?
The current problem is the pricing is completely non-transparent hence consumers cannot choose based upon price. No one knows what anything costs until a bill arrives much, much later. In addition, it is extremely opaque how the numbers on the bill are arrived at.
From an outside perspective with no skin in the game (other than using Python profusely and just generally wanting it to be the "best" possible Python it can be) I wouldn't be so quick to call it obviously unfair.

The exact phrasing was:

> PyPy is ten years old at this point, but to a first approximation, no one is using it.

Using your 0.5% - 1.0% PyPI metric as an approximation for how many people are actually using pypy, I think it's reasonable to say that. I personally would definitely have phrased it differently, but if >=99% of the market isn't using PyPy, then it is far, far, far removed from the "mainstream" market. In fairness, the Python community is, on the whole, large enough to give you a reasonably sustainable niche, but it pales in comparison to the market itself.

It's a bit like comparing Facebook to CouchSurfing, to be honest. You know about it, maybe even have some friends who have done it, and hey, it's still 3 million people, but in comparison to Facebook... no one uses it. And that's not a value judgment or anything, it's just a scale of comparison kind of thing.

That being said, I share your frustration about the deep schism between web vs scientific in the Python community, and I think it's really a shame for the community as a whole. Unfortunately I'm not sure that's going to change very soon: the web side of things has a tremendous amount of momentum (and money) invested in "their" architecture, and at the same time, the scientific side of things has far, far less patience for pain points in their language tooling.

Put differently, if your background and job is programming, you're more likely to view "dealing with this programming problem" as actual work, but if your background and job is "I have this data, and I need to analyze it", then "fiddling with this programming problem" is, at best, a frustrating distraction from your actual task. And I think both arenas need to have a better appreciation for the other: as programmers, our tools generally really do suck for everyone, we're just used to it; as data scientists, we are woefully under-aware of how difficult these programming problems can be. Some more unity would be tremendously beneficial for all.

And then on top of it all, there's this whole group of weirdos using Python for stuff like desktop applications (I happen to be in this camp). Good luck finding a packaging and deployment solution there!
There is no right to food in the US. But there sure as hell is in the majority of the world [0]. It is widely agreed that you shouldn't need to pay for the minimum amount of food to survive, the rest is gravy.

As for the way costs are different in the health sector :-

With food it is a very simple supply demand structure with limited demand and low and predictable skill required for supply.

Health has a near unlimited demand, high and unpredictable skill is required for supply.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_to_food
We don't yet know how many of those are being overdiagnosed - we don't yet know the limits of the spectrum. There's a lot of opinion on both sides, which is never helpful.

I can say that I wish I had had 30 more years on amphetamines, the difference has been marked. For the first time in my life the engine wasn't misfiring. If it were certain to take a decade or more of my remaining life, I'd continue fully aware. I still drift, but I think that's more because I have the habits. For me it'll still be a lifelong process to try and correct the bad habits and thought patterns reinforced throughout the first half of my life. Others will be less clear beneficiaries of treatment or better served in other ways.

I think diagnosing and treating toddlers and 7 year olds is appalling - better to try and manage it, or look into causative factors like poor home environment and such. A more Scandinavian approach to school may help more (The UK would benefit from this too). A good proportion will grow out of it. That comes back to wider real awareness though especially with first contact - teachers and GPs etc.
Perhaps what isn't said is that Mu-nan understood he was no good to his family and decided it would be best for him to leave. I wouldn't conclude that the actions are self-absorbed... only that that is a perspective, but ultimately not the only one.
We replaced the title with a photo caption from the article that appears to summarize what the researcher means by "showing up". If anyone suggests a better (more accurate and neutral) title, we can change it again.
He has to release the domain, the fine is if he doesn't comply with the court order to so.
Some of these questions have been studied. When the same criteria are used, prevalence is comparable in Germany, Brazil and other locations. The recognition of the condition is affected by cultural factors but that's true for many conditions.

ADHD by definition is a condition that originates in childhood and persists into adulthood in about 1/2 or more of cases. In adults ADHD is indeed a chronic condition that often responds to amphetamine or methylphenidate treatment. At therapeutic doses, long-term treatment with such agents is generally well-tolerated, but careful monitoring is necessary to assure medication use remains effective and tolerable.

Interestingly, amphetamine has been used for this purpose for nearly 80 years, and methylphenidate for >50 years. Despite the several decades these agents have been employed, nothing more effective has yet been developed.

As I pointed out in my other comment, among adults anyway, the issue is that ADHD is vastly undertreated to the severe detriment of individuals, their families, communities and nation as a whole.
It's simpler than that. Dense population dropoff lines up with dropoff in average rainfall: http://www.wrcc.dri.edu/pcpn/us_precip.gif
Right, remember that houses in this neck of the woods are typically prefab houses that are shipped to Alaska, then shipped to the middle of nowhere, then assembled.

It gets expensive really quickly.

There are no hardware stores with building materials already there, and no trees to make a cabin with. A locally sourced house would probably be a permafrost dirt hut, which would melt as global warming continues or maybe a discarded shipping container. They must bring in prefabs, just full stop.

Look at the pictures, they aren't living high on the hog, but I guarantee the buildings you see in the picture are comparable in price to the 300k/person.
Google Brain releases two large datasets for robotics research
Try to eat ramen noodles for the rest of your life and see how your health goes. Most health issues today are directly related to diet. However, processed food and snacks are much cheaper (ramen noodles) than healthy alternatives. McDonald's is a lot cheaper than going to the store and cooking a meal. So no, food is not cheaper when you try to compare it against healthcare.
Terrorizing Ourselves? What Happened at JFK Airport on Sunday August 14th?
The difference is probability.