skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>What holds them back is that they don’t learn to be original.

More than likely, they simply lacked the capacity to be original (as in, world-class historical originality, which is the subject under discussion here), just in the same way that almost all people lack this capacity. It's only particularly surprising that child prodigies rarely become adult geniuses if you confuse genius with the capacity to learn information and acquire skills. Mastering calculus at age 6, though highly unusual, does not in itself constitute original work, and, going off of the data, is not an extremely strong indicator of the presence of the capacity to do original work.

So you can't necessarily expect creativity-focused interventions on child prodigies to produce more revolutionary geniuses than normal.
It's the school / union's fault. The allegation was that it happened in the classroom. Nowadays, there is no reason to not have cameras in all the classrooms.

Sensor tech could be used to figure out how to do education better, and obviously it would avoid problems like this.
Currently, https://josephg.com/sp/current returns a png with 3x8 (RGB) bits/pixel. But since the image has only 16 colors, you can reduce its filesize to ~20% (from ~714 to ~147 KB, with http://optipng.sourceforge.net/). Can't you can gain performance and reduce bandwith by keeping the image serverside as a 4 bit png?
Yeah this is actually a terrible article. The author keeps confusing creativity with success. And he keeps thinking that "creative" people are the ones that change the world, which is ridiculous. To change the world, you need to be almost insanely stubborn and almost insanely self-confident.
These reactions are definitely not what you think they are.

It's more about facebook collecting insight on your state of mind that they could not guess or find out otherwise than providing alternative to the like button.
There's no dislike button or negative equivalent to the like button. But you can provide negative feedback by reporting the post to have it censored or the author banned.
I have heard people complain about false positives, but I check from time to time and don't see any.

I am using the paid Gmail product, no idea if that makes it any different.

I assume the volume they deal in would make a Bayesian filter more effective.
Yes, it's pretty much like Scheme define but with pattern matching (and correspondingly without the (define (do-it) ...) shorthand; you say (to (do-it) ...) instead).

They go out of scope at the end of a scope block, as usual; but conditionals introduce subscopes for the different branches. There's a (hide ...) macro I use occasionally.

To bind multiple things at once, there's the pattern matching, e.g.

(let `(,x ,y) point)

(Not sure if that's what you're asking about.)

It's always bugged me in Scheme how binding forms are repeated, one type like DEFINE and another like LET, and DEFINE behaving not quite the same at top level vs. internally.

(Added: Another little nit that to me grew over the years is that Scheme is just kind of verbose. You don't want to see shorter, clearer code in Python.)
No, I think that both Italian and Italian-American cooking have evolved over that time. Italian-American cooking isn't a snapshot of early century southern Italy, and neither is a given Italian region a snapshot of its past. Both have moved forward independently. Both have changed a bit in my lifetime.
I loved the article! It's a great mix of details and big picture stuff. I'm sure it's nothing new for enthusiasts, but it's always a delight to get information in this "goldilocks zone". I encourage anyone to write and post more articles like this!
The more widely used definition of subsistence farming implies literal self sufficiency and living in a simple self constructed dwelling, not sending your children to college while slaves work in the fields or hiring local artisans to construct a grand estate (Monticello).
Not the author, but:

Awesome visualizations: https://bost.ocks.org/mike/algorithms/#maze-generation

Explanation of most maze-generation algorithms: http://weblog.jamisbuck.org/2011/2/7/maze-generation-algorit...
table-cloth is embellishment, but four-course does seem to be part of the system:
https://karenlebillon.com/french-school-lunch-menus/
I would not be surprised if this was part of a follow-up to the infamous mood experiment where they manipulated facebook's useds moods through timeline tinkering.
It's so important to let your kid think. I see parents helicoptering and it's very damaging. I had met a couple at a friendly gathering that brought their 2 year old. Not only could he hardly talk, which was surprising to me, he had no chance to make any decision. The child and his parents were paging through a sales flyer, because they didn't think to bring suitable activities, and they were ogling over toys. So I pointed to the knives on a page that came up and joined in, "oh let's get these" and the child instinctively said yeah! Then I could see the clockworks moving and before the kid could say anything the parents chimed in. A missed opportunity to let the kid make his own, good, decision. I fear he'll grow up and fail to make decisions at all.

Conversely, with my children, I try to talk with them as much as I can, and let them talk too. I let them order food themselves and I demand good table manners. That doesn't mean they can't be children, but they are not allowed to climb under or on the table, or be a nuisance. An easy fix for a problem child in a restaurant is to leave. The child must learn that there are consequences. The child wont go? Leave without them and they will freak and catch up. They fail that drag them out. Saying no and sticking with it is important, but equally important is giving the child a chance to catch up, mentally, with decision making and situational awareness.
How does NSA spying on financial transactions erode confidence in banking system?
At least where I work, switching from perl to python happens when the guy that wrote the perl leaves the company and nobody else wants to touch it.

Every time I've been handed a perl script to 'fix', if I think I'm ever going to have to touch it again, I rewrite it in python. Our perl code is a migraine-inducing mess of unmaintainable punctuation vomit.
Is that sarcasm? Really?
If I remember correctly (disclaimer: it's been a while since I read about this, and IANAL), they don't get permission in advance, but rather take steps to make themselves harder to attack legally. There are two prongs to the strategy:

1) Disable access to works upon request, but only after challenging the requesting party to substantiate the claim that they represent the actual copyright owner. Apparently, a whole goddamn lot of copyrights have hazy ownership thanks to corporate mergers/dissolutions/reorganizations being messy, but the claimed owners are rarely called on it. I suppose the implicit promise is that IA would demand the same in a lawsuit.

2) Only allow access to some works via "streaming", e.g. running a game in an in-browser emulator at archive.org but not providing download links. Of course a technically savvy user can retrieve the underlying files, but this purportedly puts it under the legal framework of "broadcasting" rather than "copying", which is supposed to somehow limit legal remedies available to copyright owners.
During the “Ice Ages” or “Snowball Earth” times, where was all the energy?
I believe he's referring to the 50 CIA employees who knew there were 2 suspected terrorists inside the US. As Richard Clarke alleged, the CIA purposely withheld this information from the White House because they appear to have been running a sting operation.

If you look at "Interview #07 (Washington, DC) by FF4Films on Youtube, Richard Clarke makes this allegation. It's pretty clear the situation is quite different than just saying the warnings were too non-specific to notice.
I took it out cause it seemed egregious, but since you're somewhat familiar with the topic, here's a little more to build on:

Imagine yourself as a bounded poset if you don't make much money or a bounded proset if you do. By definition, you have both initial and terminal objects, called "bottom" & "top," respectively. For many, this concept may be tricky, as people's heads and asses are often indistinguishable. They're zero objects, so let's not worry about them. Also, don't confuse prosets with brosets (bounded prosets where all tops are fully faithful phalluses, ie. dickheads), as brosets do not preserve meaningful structure. Brosets use the "No homo" identity functor to demonstrate this property ("homo" being the notation for "homomorphism").

But I digress...

Identify a path from your bottom to your top. Apply the pullback of energy from the environment to yourself through your bottom and then use the pushout to the next object in the path. Make sure each object is an Abelian category or this won't work, BTW. It helps to sync the movement of your hips with your breathing, also. Same goes for hand gestures. When the energy reaches your top, tighten all of your muscles and hold your breath for the final pushout.

I find it helpful to visualize/fantasize a well-defined coeffects system for Idris.

(If your comment was serious, Google "energy orgasms" for way more than I can ever explain...I haven't really dug into it yet)
Intuitively it sounds quite sensible. The more a nation can sustain itself on its internal market, the longer they can hold out through negative external circumstances.

Much like energy. When everything is going rosy, relying on high % imports can be economically beneficial. In the case of extreme events like local or global wars, it leaves the country extremely fragile. Even outside wars, if there are drastic price increases in the global market then you are highly exposed. Look at OPEC, the power they wield and how they direct their efforts in essentially geo-political 'battles'.

I don't know much about it, but I suspect that energy and agricultural self-sufficiency are very important and underestimated factors in (developed) nation state security.
I genuinely hope you receive funding.
Be the Muse’s First Lead DevOps Eng, building infrastructure to help 50M+ people
I guess the real question is do these cost savings actually save them money in the long run? Considering they had to do all the extra engineering work. Or is this just to thumb the big manufactures? Just another case of NIH syndrome?
Einstein was a fairly talented amateur violinist as I recall.
The shocking level of economic ignorance of the author shows how utterly irresponsible and demagogic the Guardian is. This is rank sensationalism at the expense of public's correct perception of the world.

To call earning passive income on assets one owns "rentier" earning of income is to show unquestioned acceptance of socialist assumptions about the right to property, to ignore the value the person's assets contribute, and to totally neglect the role that delayed consumption (aka saving) and investment analysis, both components of investing and acquiring assets, have in wealth generation.

This is the quack economics the article is promoting:

>To understand why, we need to recognise that there are two ways of making money. The first is what most of us do: work. That means tapping into our knowledge and know-how (our “human capital” in economic terms) to create something new, whether that’s a takeout app, a wedding cake, a stylish updo, or a perfectly poured pint. To work is to create. Ergo, to work is to create new wealth.

>But there is also a second way to make money. That’s the rentier way: by leveraging control over something that already exists, such as land, knowledge, or money, to increase your wealth. You produce nothing, yet profit nonetheless. By definition, the rentier makes his living at others’ expense, using his power to claim economic benefit.
I think the OP, when saying "Preferrably on an emulator or FPGA already. Oberon did this.” meant that Oberon (second edition; the first one ran on a NS32032) ran on a FPGA (https://lists.inf.ethz.ch/pipermail/oberon/2013/006922.html, https://www.inf.ethz.ch/personal/wirth/ProjectOberon/PO.Comp...)
Most user do care, but they lack time as they have to work constantly to pay rent, school, food and repay debt, or study.
If you bought a TV/car/fridge that is not compatible with your electricity source suddenly you'd notice how it was nice that they followed the open specifications and protocols and that you had no idea the reason they work was because they did.
I think Chinese is an example that's so extreme, it's not really very useful for such comparisons.

Anyway, if we look at European languages, English is the one that's extreme in terms of how non-obvious the correspondence of its script and its phonetics are. It's not just that the mapping is very arbitrary - French can be similarly arbitrary in dropping consonants, for example - but it's also very inconsistent. You think you've learned how some combination of letters is pronounced by looking at some word and then hearing it... and then you find out that the same combination can be pronounced in three more ways.

There are still patterns behind all it, and eventually you grok them, but they're way more complicated than "this letter plus this letter gives this sound", which is typical of other languages - or at least such simplified rules can be used to speak in a way that others will understand. Not so in English - you have to learn all those exceptions and subtle rules to be understood.

A few examples: "live" / "life"; "leaf" / "leaven"; "over" / "oven"; "even" / "seven"; "dew" / "sew"; "dull" / "bull"; "mint" / "pint".
Checkout Adonisjs and Mern stack.
I've seems lot of people from other branches of engineering and medicine on HN. My guess is that biology is just an interest in the natural form of tech, seems to be a lot of overlap.
John Allspaw at Etsy talks about these safety culture luminaries all the time.
> there's usually a magnitude difference between these occupations and the highest paid CEOs.

Is there?

According to http://incomefile.com/richest/top-10-highest-paid-ceos-chief... , https://www.forbes.com/actors/#22dd8ef340fe and https://www.forbes.com/athletes/list/ it's the same range, approx. $20m-$100m.
Not all of that core is replaceable, because the locations the cores came from have since melted.
I have an interest in technology. This place has a good offering of technology news and discussion that I can't find elsewhere.

Also, a significant number of my investment gains originated from stuff I read here (bought a bunch of Monero when it was $0.45/unit, for example).

Finally, I learned a little programming (mostly Go and C++) to automate some stuff at work and home (reports, backups, email notifications and things like that). HN is a reasonable litmus test for what people are using to do stuff like this.
The situation has already deteriorated to the point that we have talk warning us of a possible upcoming death of transit[1].

[1]: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/gih/the-death-of-transit
The way this would work out is that you win very small amounts when correctly shorting, but lose big amounts for incorrectly shorting. Shorting everything would work out to a small overall loss.
unfortunately the article doesn't mention what if any consequences there are for the student who falsely accused this teacher and ruined his life
I'm batting 0 for 2 so far in this thread, but I'll take a stab at it now I've been reminded of those crazy beasts' existence. :)

struct Foo {
int i;
int inc()
{
return ++i;
}
};

int Foo::*i_ptr = &Foo::i; // Pointer to member
int (Foo::*inc_ptr)() = &Foo::inc; // Pointer to method

Foo my_foo(0);

(&my_foo)->i_ptr; // Error: my_foo has no member "i_ptr"
(&my_foo)->*i_ptr; // OK
my_foo.inc_ptr(); // Error: my_foo has no member "inc_ptr"
my_foo.*inc_ptr(); // OK

// This is also why you can't create references
// to methods or other class members

int (&print)(const char *) = std::puts; // OK
int (Foo::&inc_ref)() = Foo::inc; // Error

int &my_int = my_foo.i; // OK
int Foo::&i_ref = Foo::i; // Error
What is your company? What does it do? Have you considered remote workers, aka: experienced older people who want to live in a better place for their families?
If you want an E5 you know where to find it.
Was not expecting this on HN! Check out github.com/ninjadev/re for the latest demo made with nin. We (authors) are all at revision right now, so questions might not get answered right away.
Actually what he said is that regulation is "primarily responsible" for the shortage, which seems contentious -- what about the failed crops, after all -- but it seems to me that he probably had some motivation for saying that beyond pedantry.
I'm not sure how much we can trust your vague, half-remembered understanding of Japanese farming subsidies, but it's not clear to me that the right move for a country that's been in a long slump is to start making moves that will destroy domestic industries.
Even if there was, it wouldn't automatically follow that you needed to maximize short-term value rather than long-term value.

Many of the things put forward as "maximizing shareholder value" are talking about short-term value, and do so at the expense of long-term value.
From Gates:

>Take a look at the Forbes 400 list of the wealthiest Americans. About half the people on the list are entrepreneurs whose companies did very well (thanks to hard work as well as a lot of luck). Contrary to Piketty’s rentier hypothesis, I don’t see anyone on the list whose ancestors bought a great parcel of land in 1780 and have been accumulating family wealth by collecting rents ever since. In America, that old money is long gone—through instability, inflation, taxes, philanthropy, and spending.

This is exactly why I don't buy the "rentier class" argument. Even the mega-wealthy families of the robber-baron era are not that well represented in these lists.

The other take on the wealth that is rarely discussed is the incentive that the ability to secure the lives of ones offspring provides - it is a very powerful drive. I suspect a large number of very talented individuals would accelerate their retirement if they were not able to pass their wealth on to their kids.

While I heavily rely on my skills/labor for income, even I would make very different choices if I had no hope of passing on at least something. Fair or not, it's a pretty primal instinct.
memory bandwidth gets to be a limiter quickly with many cores for certain workloads.
Two axes: Voluntary/involuntary and for cause/no cause

Based on the above, you get "resigned before being fired," "quit," "fired," or "laid off/let go." Three of those likely also mean "may not be eligible for unemployment."

Size of the action isn't really relevant except that large actions are generally in the last cell even it they're being used to clear underperforming people.
But what if Netflix can be a role model for other companies? Doing the right thing, and being successful.

Before I joined, I was a little cynical about big business and the shady moves you hear about to make a profit. It's been refreshing to join Netflix and find it to be an honest company with a simple business model: build a product that people want to buy.
So THAT'S why there were no potato chips at Family Mart yesterday.
Well, when they ask you to care, you can tell them that. I wouldn't hold my breath, though.
Macintosh Introduction Film (January 1984)
We continue to automate an simultaneously make new jobs all of the time. The same arguments you used about driving could be applied to the printing press displacing people who copied books, etc. The more technology increases, the more our quality of life seems to improve.

There was almost no automation during the great depression, yet most people were unemployed. Automation has most certainly increased since 2009 and unemployment has fallen.

I'm skeptical there is any correlation between automation and unemployment at all, unless you are measuring job counts in a very specific industry being automated away.
vs. what? Having no domestic production? And what happens if China decides to start WWIII and they face a prolonged siege with no domestic food production capabilities?

Or should they leave the feeding of their entire population up to the whims of the US government? I think the last election should make obvious the folly in that line of reasoning.
With all the buzz around mastodon lately, several of its claims and people expectation have been debunked.

Mastodon is just another of the alternatives that already exist and is mostly a take on twitter and microblogging.
How to Disappear
I fully agree, although as with autonomous vehicles, it remains to be seen what actually happens in 5 years vs. what happens in 50 years.
> Feynman realized this when he tried to teach his children and discovered that what worked for his son did not work for his daughter.

Feynman's son was his biological offspring, while the daughter was adopted.

I think this is relevant information that was left out.

Edit:
Also, Feynman's son chose to pursuit philosophy, much to Feynman's dismay.
I see that makes sense, thanks for the clarification and the links. The more I hear about Oberon the more intrigued I am. Thanks for the links.
Sounds like phony pop psychology. I was raised with strict rules and was able to derive what to do in other circumstances because I was still taught moral principals. I know plenty of people raised with strict rules but nobody that was raised with completely unexplained rules so it's a bit of a strawman comparison.
Project co-author here. Check out our demo submission to Revision made with nin, "What Are You Syncing About", here: http://arkt.is/what-are-you-syncing-about/

View in chrome with webgl on for the best experience, or on your iPhone if you have a newer one!
Skyscrapers Overtake Suburban Sprawl as Tech’s Towering Status Symbol
It just amazes me people can't see this. Workers produce value, their labour is the product. The difference between the value produced and the cost of labour is the profit.

Paying labour as little as possible is capitalism. Competition between companies means there is no choice other than to seek to maximize this.
The regulations can be changed without putting domestic farmers out of business. For example, they could add tariffs to imported potatoes to make them cost as much as (or even more than) domestic potatoes, and use the revenue to help Hokkaido farmers rebuild their farms. No need for a hard limit on the imported amount.
I'm currently reading "Anti-Piketty". I should have known from the title that it would be full of ad-hominem attacks, but I thought right wing intellectuals had more self respect.
I strongly disagree with much of that. Hacking capability is not nearly as specialized as nuclear or ICBM technology. Computer science is taught in almost every university, and knowledge on it can be acquired in many non-formal settings. A 0day can be purchased in the range of $100,000, which is well within the budget of many countries. Additionally, there are many "advanced persistent threats" that are thought not to be state sponsored.
Although mirrorless cameras are not necessarily higher margin (though I suspect that they are based on reduced size and complexity), they are potentially higher revenue because purchasing used lenses and accessories is a significantly attractive option than with 35mm systems. Less diversity of options, fewer total available units compared to say a Canon 300mm f2.8.
The brave and brilliant world of Emily Reynolds
Most people probably expect a high level of privacy.
So where are all the computer generated images?
My apologies for not understanding your intent.
Sure but I was making a general point to defend the "like" system on modern social networks which was criticized as addictive. There's nothing special about Facebook in that regard.

Photography books are great, I've read a few, but they don't give you feedback. Spending time alone in the mountains isn't a practical option for most of us.