skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From the 2nd Link:

> Persistent cannabis use was associated with neuropsychological decline broadly across domains of functioning, even after controlling for years of education. Informants also reported noticing more cognitive problems for persistent cannabis users. Impairment was concentrated among adolescent-onset cannabis users, with more persistent use associated with greater decline. Further, cessation of cannabis use did not fully restore neuropsychological functioning among adolescent-onset cannabis users.

Does the last sentence mean what I think it means. That even after stopping cannabis use, the neuropsychological damage / cognitive problems remained, and didn't rollback the decline from cannabis use?

If yes, it's troubling. All my stoner friends claim no permanent damage from chronic use
And how many decades did it take for C++ to support std::array?

What people seem to ignore is that templates are a bottomless pit of complexity.

Swift is on version 3 and they still didn't finalize the semantics of generics. Not due to lack of trying. Swift was trying to design and implement generics from day 1 and they still haven't.

That's how complicated designing generics is.

I prefer stable language with fast compiler to Swift/Rust situation, with language taking years to mature and very slow compiler. Judging by popularity of Go, so do many other people.

While the languages probably will mature after couple more years, I don't see much hope for making the compiler as fast as Go, regardless of the effort. See C++ compilers.
That's an interesting perspective. It made me realize, I don't like admitting I screwed up, if I can fix it before anyone finds out!
>Much of his (online) social circle completely dropped away from him due to what they perceived as his use of bigoted racist language, not because they perceived him as having a temporary lapse in judgement or breakdown. They (the 'twitterverse') did judge him.

Not to excuse the behavior of those who judged him, but the ideal would be to get help before it gets to this point.

If I have a stomach bug, I would hope to get treatment before vomiting all over my food. I would fully expect my dinner guests to be disgusted by my outburst, it's only natural. I have had athlete friends who I have treated to lunch after an intense sporting event and had them vomit in the middle of the restaurant, and I don't blame anyone near us for getting up and leaving. It's not pleasant to see.

Saying "I'm not feeling well and I am getting help" is a lot easier to do before you've proven that fact. After you've had a racist outburst is the time when it's too late to save face. It's not too late to get help for sure, but at that point you're already going to suffer some repercussions.

No one should be blamed for getting help, but likewise no one should be blamed for not sticking by you when you refuse to get that help. It's a two-way street. No one who matters will judge you for getting help, but society will certainly judge you for anything do you do/say before you seek that assistance.
The difference is, they didn't cause their death by in sighting panic. They did it by suggesting they do, what they said they wanted to do.
This is (understandably!) a common request, and both are on our roadmap.
Due to easy access to cheap credit, government policies, and government subsidies, probably half of people who buy a house in the US can't actually afford to care for that house.
Being able to handle Japanese and being able to handle character encodings are two very different things.

Python 2.7 (byte) strings handle Japanese characters just fine for a lot of cases.

I don't think you nor parent have made a clear point for either case
The JavaScript ecosystem exploded in the last 5 years.

JavaScript developers weren't aware of what adding static typing could bring them and there was so much other stuff happening. Also, because JavaScript grew substantially in these years, many new devs joined and they had enough to do with learning JS.

Then CoffeeScript and later ES2015 came.

Many statically typed languages are able to compile to JS: Scala, Nim, Rust, Kotlin, Clojoure, Dart, OCaml/Reason.

Facebook even tries to add typing directly into JavaScript with Flow, which can even work with comments, so you aren't forced to run it through a special compiler before bundling.
Disappointingly misleading title, unless I somehow missed the bulk of this interview.
Why not make it so instead of loans, the university gives you 4 years of free school and than gets say 10% of your next 4 years of income?

Than the school has incentives to improve the academics in your favor.
In the Monty Hall problem, the bad outcome is opening a door and finding a goat -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monty_Hall_problem
> for example, videos that contain inflammatory religious or supremacist content.

Why does that trigger concerns for you about 'political content'?
I think I would agree with you, if I didnt have kids. But two kids under three, and you kind of dont know whats what after a few months.

My wife still uses pencil and pen so maybe someone will upvote me for that. Silly me thinking this was a tech audience.
I've sworn for years if I ever own a store, all prices will either include tax, or will be to a round dollar or quarter.

The US got rid of the half cent when it couldn't be used to buy anything of worth. Inflation adjusted, it had the value of 14 cents. I've started to leave pennies, nickels, and dimes in the "leave a penny, take a penny" holders.
Map of Live Conflicts on Earth
New Version of Diderot's Encyclopédie Electronic Edition
How'd you get that?
I really don't care if people "support" various forms of extreme violence by watching youtube movies. That is WAY better than supporting it by committing various forms of extreme violence.

Is there any actual evidence that these youtube videos are in fact driving people to commit acts of terrorism?
I moved to Newcastle, Australia from the US (Los Angeles) about two years ago. I was shocked when I received my energy bill.

Australians in general are hesitant to use their AC or electric heaters, opting to just layer up when it's cold or try to use fans in the summer. Many (most?) households don't have clothes dryers, using clotheslines instead.

I would like to see how much energy the average Australian household consumes. I'm not sure how much consumption would go up if power got cheaper, but mine sure would... I really dislike being cold inside my own house. That said, I much prefer living in Australia to the U.S., especially while raising a family.
I use Pocket on Mac and iOS. In Chrome on Mac, it has HN integration (via an extension IIRC).

80 points by agrocrag 19 hours ago | flag | hide | past | web | 62 comments | favorite | save to pocket

And, here's some alternatives: https://alternativeto.net/software/pocket/

Other alternatives are:

- use browser-specific cloud sync across devices

- using OS tricks to move the bookmarks file to a cloud file service like iCloud, OneDrive, Google Drive, Box, Dropbox, SpiderOak, etc.
> And basically, they stuffed that up for consumers by deciding to let the networks earn a guaranteed rate of return, based on their costs. That is, the more they spent, the more they earned.

This is an ignorant criticism. Every way of structuring utility markets has one problem or the other. If you deregulate the market, you end up with limited competition because of high barriers to entry. If you set rates to guarantee a fixed return on investment, you incentivize gold plating the network. And if you have the government set price caps, you get politicized prices that are too low and starve the utility of money needed to improve the network. Out of the alternatives, rate of return regulation is probably the least bad option.

Also, there are worse things than high prices limiting demand for coal-based electricity.
I'm not going to call judgment on any of this. I've seen totally rational and very 'cool' (as in, hard to perturb) people go from their normal happy self to strapped down on a stretcher in the space of 48 very long hours. People can be under absolutely immense pressure and not show it until something hits them at the wrong angle, or some tiny blood vessel in the brain decides it's had enough.

Crystals are like that too: along one axis you can up the pressure to incredible values and nothing will even show to indicate something is up, then you tap them lightly along another axis and boom, nothing but dust left.

Things that can trigger this kind of episode besides the obvious medical causes are simultaneous crisis in relationships, financial situation (probably not here) and professional life. Other ways in which it can happen are bad drug trips and many other ways besides.

Yet another option is that there is real substance to Ians claims about police brutality but he could have done a lot better if he wanted to make that claim and make it stick. All in all an extremely sad affair where I'm fairly sure we'll never know the real root cause, all we can do is keep our eyes open for repeats of such patterns in the people near to us and to hopefully react in time when we see them.
>That said, I much prefer living in Australia to the U.S., especially while raising a family.

Why is that?
Perhaps. The current set of boot instructions are for a NUC desktop, a laptop, and 2 ARM dev boards though. https://fuchsia.googlesource.com/magenta/+/master/docs/targe...
Is this a translation from German, or was it originally published in English? I ask, because this is so awkwardly worded as to be nearly unparseable:

> The laws by which the states of physical systems alter are independent of the alternative, to which of two systems of coordinates, in uniform motion of parallel translation relatively to each other, these alterations of state are referred (principle of relativity)
I appreciate Penchinas thoughts but its getting rampant on AngelList that leads (Penchina included) put in tiny amounts of money in ($1k) and then require their backers to put in 5x more to participate. With the standard carry terms (20%)

Even that's okay but then companies are dressed up hard to attract a quick investment draw. When it's largely a cheap lottery ticket for the lead.

VC is broken and AngelList allows more exposure to startups but this isn't a good thing.
> And that's exactly why I no longer use this question

This matters? Any other question stinks just the same, like my example of balance a b-tree in-place.

> I disagree...

What is it you desagree with? "Getting to the point where you have to start to worry about Big O is the hard part, not the other way around." or "I really hope we work in places where if you're unsure about Big O you can ask someone and they'll help you, not judge you."

> Without a good grasp of complexity...

I don't see how the interview style you seem to advocate finds people who are good at understanding complexity. This comes from experience, the opportunities to have worked on unfamiliar projects, not from reading a how to pass a job interview book.

> Some of us are bootstrapped in a cut-throat market

Some of us work in toxic environments that are hostile to women and people of color but ¯\_(ツ)_/¯, right?

> can't afford to plan employee retention 10 years into the future; And neither are most employees interested in that.

I would wager that everyone is interested in learning something new or deepening an existing skill in whatver job they take no matter the time period. The alternative would be to, which you seem to advocate, take a job, stand still in it for a few years, then wehn you're bored or feel like you're becoming obsolete, read some books on nights and weekends on whatever new trends people ask about in interviews, take a new job, stand still in it for a few years, and so on.
What about Debian + Go + Postgres ?
I don't know how it went in other areas of the world, but in Australia in wasn't on until about 11pm, or much later and frequently not at all depending on what else was on, like a long movie or sport. This meant that you couldn't even reliably record it.

The other problem with not really being episodic was that a lot of the individual episodes were really boring, it was hard to stay awake to the end of many episodes so between that, missed episodes and delays it was really hard to follow.
It really depends on the details of what the file system does. It is true that older file systems did not encrypt metadata but that's not the case for newer ones like ZFS or APFS.

The way I understand the scarce documentation about APFS is that all the metadata is encrypted with a disk key. But on top of that the file system encrypts user's files with a separate key.

So just like block level encryption plaintext never hits the disk.
This is really helpful, thanks for explaining!
As this technology gets more widespread, each nation will have a different set of rules of what people can and can not see.

The internet bubbles will get worse.
Investing in education benefits everyone. But I doubt the system which uses interest on education loans really cares about it.
The size of community is a direct result of the popularity of the language.

Haskell had almost 20 year head start over Go. That Go already surpassed it in the number of libraries speaks to the fact that people are picking Go over Haskell.

Following Occam's Razor, people pick Go over Haskell because they find it a better language, where "better" for them is probably different than how you define it, given that you think Go is "poorly designed" and it's a given that "poorly designed" language can't possibly be "better" than even mediocre language and I gather you place Haskell a bit higher than "mediocre".
> As it stands, you're in a minority. The consensus is that Go codebases are among the most readable.

Your statement is as unsubstantiated as his. But at least the parent doesn't feel as arrogant claiming he represents the majority. Go doesn't magically makes code more readable than any other language. It's just something some gophers like to think since they often start projects from scratch.
The last page says, "This edition of Einstein’s 'Does the Inertia of a Body Depend upon its Energy-Content' is based on the English translation of his original 1905 German language paper."
> I have just reached a point in my life where I will not be made to dance to the whims of the interviewer,

I think this interview style sends a signal, a lot of requirements that a programmer has to implement at work are made up ad-hoc/in an arbitrary manner. the message is that one is not supposed to question requirements too much and 'just do it'. (at least the filter is good enough to filter out a person who questions things)
This experiment should perhaps be mentioned here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13108404
Sounds like an ideal market for home solar and Tesla powerwalls.
Adsense / content sites. Automated saas business. Stock market.
There's an old joke where in Heaven the cooks are French,
the policemen are English, the mechanics are German, the lovers are Italian and the bankers are Swiss - whereas in Hell the cooks are English, the policemen are German, the mechanics are French, the lovers are Swiss and the bankers are Italian.

I'm pondering an updated version where in hell the healthcare system is American, the energy market is Australian... Anyone care to finish it off?
> It might have been the only scripting language for a while in Japan

No way. Perl used to be quite popular.
In the US, I remember it starting closer to prime time in my area, like 8 or 9 pm, but then moving around a lot. It was actually hard to find on TV, and was moved around from station to station, ending up I think on TNT.

I agree that Season 1 was pretty slow - and it made it feel like an episodic show because most of the plot lines weren't even vaguely connected. But it does all tie back in much later on, for example the Soul Hunter episode. I think it kind of threw people, as most other sci fi was definitely episodic.
This unbreakable umbrella looks like a formidable weapon. The story goes that the only time the famous swordsman Myamoto Musashi was fought to a draw was by Muso Gonnosuke yielding a short staff (Jo). An umbrella designed to be a weapon would presumably enough mass that trying to grab it while it's flying at you would be a pretty bad idea. While a Jo is longer you're not fighting a long sword here ;)

That doesn't mean the average joe should attempt to fight a knife wielding thug with their random umbrella but I think given training and the appropriate umbrella the knife is at a disadvantage. The big advantage of a knife is that it requires relatively little training to become very effective and certainly extremely difficult to face bare handed ... but a trained staff fighter is going to have a huge advantage against an equally trained opponent with a knife.
You refuse to acknowledge the police aspect. San Francisco police carry themselves unlike police in the Netherlands. It was a huge part of Ian's demise. That and HN censoring a post linking to his cries for help.

It was days after Christmas. It sounds like his wife and daughters were not a part of it. He was mixing benzos and alcohol. He was not in a good place.

He wasn't trying to break into his neighbors home. He was confused. Quite probably too out of it to know better. Police respond to a "violent burglar". Police in the states have shown a clear propensity to exacerbate situations like this rather than diffuse the situation.

So the police brutalized him when he didn't get on his knees and his community turned their back on him with the act of one man's wand of censorship.

And you reference a 90's film about a man that goes on a streak of violence that involved at least one bazooka if I recall correctly..

Stop. Please stop. So cold.
It is for exactly this reason I don't like pair programming either. I can't focus with someone watching over my shoulder!
In short, Facebook accidentally revealed the identities of the moderators responsible for taking down stories related to terrorism, to potential terrorists. The HN story is here. [0]

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14572585
Perhaps hate is a strong word but he clearly does not like them! He does talk about how they only care about themselves, boss around founders and then claim credit for the founders' success.
I understand the concern with some ads/ad networks. But advertising can be the best way to provide no-cost content and resources. As this thread shows, ad-blockers, though understandable, cause harm to those providing valuable and genuine content and services.

I pay for many services, but there are also many services I would never pay for, but happily would put up with ads. To me, your suggestion implies that enough people with ad blockers would otherwise pay for all ad-supported services. I doubt that.
Bankruptcy is a personal jubilee.

I think if you are talking about societal policies, we should try to move away from credentialism and better fund people that want to go study.

How you do that I have no idea.
Sure, if you have a 20:1 student-teacher ratio.
Wasn't there a list for free food? (I assume you mean for mails sent to other lists..)
Have a look at the "Treatise" section of this page: http://wiktenauer.com/wiki/Fiore_de%27i_Liberi

Expand one of the sections, like Grappling. Every move has a picture and an accompanying explanation. Nice!
Because everyone is so much more energy efficient by virtue of high energy bills
> It would probably require electrically driven thrust carriages rather than pneumatic - you would need one for every car using the system.

Not necessarily one per car. You'd probably have a chain of thrust carriages, with maybe some spacing in between each individual carriage. One or several cars would clump onto a thrust carriage -- there's nothing to prevent them from being quite long.

When it's time to get off the highway there might be a hole in the clump for a bit until someone getting onto the highway fills it in.

The one issue I see is that, in order to disconnect from the thrust carriage, you have to have a way to do so. The logical method is to use an electromagnet that can be powered on/off to connect/disconnect but then the car has to power that -- and that might sap it's range a bit.
I'm pretty sure all naiveté is accidental. There's a word for intentional naiveté: manipulation.
It's interesting, while I don't live in one of those cities, I've been meaning to drop Uber over all of their apparent complete lack of ethics. I hadn't done so yet, but this article has reminded me of it and I'm installing Lyft now.

As much as we hate to think it, both awareness and social proof in decision making matter. And while I wouldn't have admitted it, part of it was thinking in the back of my head that quitting wouldn't make a difference. Seeing the graph showing the real impact of the #quituber campaign was both surprising and to be perfectly honest a bit motivating to me to keep to my word to use Lyft. Maybe not a full quit, but at least a 50/50.
What I've heard from people installing solar at home is that even though you install solar and a battery, you are not allowed to disconnect from the network unless you are a rural property.

can anyone confirm this?
Back in 2015 when they were sniffing around Postmates I was extremely hopeful they'd acquire them and make "delivery" an AWS product
I dunno man, I don't think the languages are properly comparable for readability.

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Children are not spending all day with access to tens of thousands of dollars in sensitive equipment while unsupervised.

The school/makerspace comparison sucks.
It says "It should be suitable for teaching, research, and applications,
including building large systems."

So building production software is stated as 3rd most important goal.

In contrast, here's Rob Pike's talk about Go: https://talks.golang.org/2012/splash.article

The title: "Go at Google: Language Design in the Service of Software Engineering"

It puts building production software as the first most important goal.

It then goes in depth about how design decisions were driven by things the authors learned from Google's vast experience of writing production software.

It methodically describes pain points of large-scale software production and how Go's design decisions are trying to address those pain points.

Unlike Haskell, Go wasn't designed for teaching. It wasn't designed for research.

Go was designed for writing production software that needs to be reliable.
Companies are embracing open source these days, but not the GPL. We see that with gcc and clang, or in the way MacOS uses older versions of tools just to avoid GPLv3:

http://penguindreams.org/blog/the-philosophy-of-open-source-...

The OSS utopia pushed in the the 1990s, with tools like Gimp being one day comparable to Photoshop, never really happened.