skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think everyone feels pressured, and not in the same ways. Not just teens or adults.

My personal experience growing up and living in a 'Western' society is that we're collectively very bad at empathy and empathizing. It is not obvious that people understand each other; lacking the full context of knowing the ambitions, desires, loathings and fears an individual has. There is no time, common social etiquette, or polite way of limiting parts of interactions that are too sensitive in that moment.

It is so pervasive that many movies have these issues as critical dependencies that enable the actual plot. (Often in the form of; keep a secret from family/loved ones to protect them)
Float can be invested in pretty much anything. You're right that as an industry it tends to go into low risk fixed income investments but that's because it's safe (and easy for companies whose core strength is selling insurance) not because it's required.
You did a hidden-city ticket, is what you mean.

Airlines don't much care for that, and are known to shut down frequent-flyer accounts or take other punitive actions against you if you do that.
Hidden figures: How Silicon Valley keeps diversity data secret
Let's build a blockchain – A mini-cryptocurrency in Ruby [video]
Not sure it's much higher, I'd say roughly the same when you consider tax bracket and things like 401k. But sure, it's not cheap.
It's still anecdotal - but as a high school teacher I'm seeing/hearing increasing reports of anxiety in my district and neighboring districts. Other things seem to be on the decline (teen pregnancy, alcohol use) - but anxiety seems to be on a steady upswing, unfortunately.
Great piece. I think the future of FaaS architecture still isn't widely understood (see: slim vs fat function discussion below) mostly because people are going to great lengths to shoehorn old architectural styles into FaaS platforms.

To be honest, I think AWS Lambda (and Azure Functions / etc.) nailed the compute and economic model, but only got halfway there WRT abstraction layer and ideal development for serverless functions themselves. There's an opportunity here to introduce millions of new software engineers to a programming model where they no longer have to think about how their web services run and can treat remote function calls like first-class citizens of their development environment.

In fact, this is what we've built and we're continuing to iterate upon at StdLib [1]. One of the most common pieces of feedback we receive from our customers is; "this is everything serverless should be." We have an open source Gateway specification called FaaSlang [2] that makes local development a breeze and perfectly in sync with production functions, as well as providing automatic error (type, parameter) checking at the request level, before function execution. We've only been able to get here by "throwing the baby out with the bathwater" and reimagining backend web development with serverless functions from the ground up.

Disclaimer: I'm the founder of the company and pretty gosh darn excited about the future of this space. Check us out if you get the chance, you won't be disappointed. :)

[1] https://stdlib.com/

[2] https://github.com/faaslang/faaslang
I asked a younger Dane how to say "sixtieth" (for example). She couldn't tell me -- she only know how to say "number sixty". Even the textbook only gave ordinal numbers up to 31, for giving the date.

Every Dane I've asked just knows the numbers. It's confusing for foreigners, since many (most?) also know at least two other European languages. When I hear "tres" I'm thinking "three", and it obviously does mean three. It's difficult to think "sixty" instead.
Like Michael Lewis states in the Big Short, immigrants will be blamed for the corporate racketeering that regularly takes place in the US.
Why do they even bother putting this out? There is zero information content with respect to what they are actually doing. I still have no idea what they are doing.
A bitcoin
KRACK was in plain sight for 13y behind a paywall
> the SRS system keeps the memory fresh

Memory freshening can be used responsibly, as part of a balanced mental diet. However...

I saw a paper go by years ago, on someone who seemed to have outlier excellent memory retention. They could tell you what they did on arbitrary days decades past. It turned out they were just an expert on their own life, spending much time each day refreshing memories.

Less extreme, the story of an elderly widower, who would sit out each day, replaying memories of time with his wife. Each like a little dopamine hit, no app required.
I have absolutely no reason to believe your claim. What's your evidence?

In fact, it doesn't make sense: it's not like hard covers get cheaper over time.
Nevada residents don't pay income taxes. They pay sales and property taxes (primarily). The majority of the income in the state, however, comes through sales taxes. Almost certainly not all from residents. Nevada itself is subsidized by outsiders visiting the state.

The people of Nevada lose more money in what they choose not to tax the casinos that whatever they may have directly or indirectly put into Musk's factory.

Some details on Nevada's revenue: https://ballotpedia.org/Tax_policy_in_Nevada
A little difference is that during the Manhattan project you had the Humanity greatest minds unemployed and relocating to the USA.
I don't think it's grains in particular that mess with satiety - it's carbohydrate-heavy diets (particularly simple carbohydrates) vs protein/fats. Protein in particular is known to be highly satisfying, and it tends to be less calorie-dense than carb-heavy foods. Carb-heavy foods are everywhere, because they prepare easily and keep for a very long time, and provide a lot of calories in a small package. Sugar + fat together make our brains super happy and trigger the "put all of that in my face now" response. In the right form, even starchy carbohydrates can be really easy to put down - consider a big bowl of mashed potatoes or white rice for example!

I actually agree with you about IIFYM needing the right personality type. http://physiqonomics.com/fat-loss/ is probably my favorite "how to be not fat" page in existence and it outlines that issue quite well - if you can be disciplined to stop eating, then IIFYM works great. If you can't, then full abstinence is pretty necessary. I find that I'm much more successful on an IIFYM diet than an abstinence diet, because on the latter I find myself craving the "forbidden fruit" and it eats at me until I crack, then I feel guilty, and it spirals from there. On IIFYM, I can let myself have whatever I'm craving, knowing that I just have to make up for it with the rest of my intake that day. The actual mechanical part of counting macros is pretty trivial once you've learned how to do it (MyFitnessPal learns your dietary habits quickly, and trivializes the process).

Not every approach works for everyone, but I have a lot of frustration around a lot of the diet fads that are constantly looking for the "magic bullet" - no fat! no sugar! only specific carbs! lots of carbs! 3 gallons of coconut oil daily! Only eat every 6 days! - when, IMO, the only magic bullet is self-discipline to find out how to keep yourself from overeating, and my experience has been that that can be different for each person based on their psychological tendencies.
If someone told me I had to clock a 8 hour day, come home and do several hours more work, and then do a bunch of menial labor five days a week I would be annoyed too. It is totally reasonable for someone to be irked when they are given no autonomy at any point during a day.
> this assumption has met some strong evidence that would disprove it.

There is no evidence either way. Behavioral targeting works to some extent, e.g. retargeting. I visit Ford Fusion specs, later on Fox News a Ford Ad for a different truck appears.

Detecting fraudulent sites is not only counter-productive for platforms (AOL One is shockingly lenient to pump up their "reach" numbers), but sites as well. Sites will pay for inflated automated traffic to consume advertising budgets. The foxes are decided how to parse up the hens.
I went to my city's "public school you need to test into" (so it was very big on academics) and it still had a shop class.
It’s a regulated public utility, like almost every electric distribution company. Nevada’s electric rates, which are subject to government review and approval, are below the national average. What’s exploitive about it?
Another difference is that atomic fission is a dozen or two orders of magnitude simpler than biology.
Compared to the Nordic countries or Netherlands, 'exceptional' might be the wrong word. But certainly compared to, say, Germany or France, the level of English is in my experience considerably higher in the Baltics (and in Poland too). I say this having lived in both Germany and France and visited all the Baltic countries.

"Even doctors may not have good English" -- in Paris I'm happy to find one that will speak English at all. Do not underestimate how unwilling or afraid to speak English a lot of people are even in places like Paris and Berlin.
A serving is ~3/4 of a can.
The issue here might be overload of homework that kids have these days. Teachers are often literally going insane; you can see this at top universities and it's trickling down to elementary schools. Work like crazy, dread finals, do this till you die.
I actually see Scala as Java's spiritual successor. Go is in an entirely different ballpark.
Actually it is. All the wonders we did when we could put our hands on some calcium carbide...
Clozes could help, if the question can be expressed as a series of steps or as individual facets.
> Though I'm not surprised it took literally funding Hezbollah (in contravention of UN SCR 2178 I might add) for them to take a look at what their monetisation schemes were enabling.

Fine. Google should demonetize the videos or channels, but they shouldn't take down the channels altogether.

> searching something as innocuous as "feminist" gives the results it does

What's innocuous about feminist?

> it's not hard to see youtube as being one of the foremost contributors to extremism

That's what extremists say. That's why lgbt subs are demonetized.

> especially in kids.

I always get suspicious when pretty bring up "kids" or exploit "kids" to support an agenda.

> Real change won't happen until flagged videos get penalised in recommendations and search results too.

So you are advocating google censor?
If you have BMW, VW, Daimler, Siemens, Bosch and Liebherr, you can afford not being friendly to startups. Until the next market turn or a disruptive tech makes those irrelevant.
I could see this working if sites with a good track record were trusted more when making claims.

A site's trustability could be punished when one of its fact checks is flagged for review and discovered to be wrong.

Will be interesting with Wikipedia in the mix. It could be the web's fact checking backbone.
A mnemonic device I try to remember as a divorced parent is "SOS":

Self-awareness: What are my issues.

Objectivity: Am I projecting them on my kid.

Selflessness: Its tough being a child of divorce, what sacrifices can I reasonably make to give them as normal a life as possible?

But none of this impacts homework, which is mountains higher than I had as a child.
If you go jogging every day and follow that up with 30 minutes at the riverside thinking -nothing- your cortisol can drop dramatically in 2 weeks.

Can you provide the source for this? I would like to read up.

Any other sources of knowledge to learn about neurosciences you would like to recommend would also be helpful.
This is a very wise answer! This reminds me of the movie "Iron Sky" which involves Nazis on the Moon. I found the film surprisingly intelligent (at least more than I expected) and had some visually nice political commentary.
I'm deeply involved in digital advertising and I don't even understand what you're trying to say, so maybe you could rephrase? At the very least, the "common wisdom" number is suspect (a random lampshade). I've measured bot traffic as high as 98% from quality news sites like the OCRegister.com
Behavior is influenced by environments. Kids have a natural proclivity to experiment with things -- innovate, regardless of the circumstances. Have you never noticed? However, they are not very often left free to innovate.

Someone mentioned their kid spent too much time playing videogames. I did too. After I finally got a computer, someday I found this old game called Doom 2. I spent months with it, as it was so smooth on my low end computer. Then I got bored, but I discovered I could create my own levels! I had nothing to model, so I created a level based on my school. I didn't have maps of anything, but my school was easy to remember as I went there every day.

Now imagine any of this is a modern context - a teenager doing nothing, mixing and burning random chemicals to see what happens, and finally not just playing "violent" videogames, but making one replicating the school floor plan!! I would be certainly labelled a menace to society!!

The environment influences behavior of kids and most of the time, I think it exerts a negative influence. I believe in free time, and being non judgemental. Everyone has to figure out their own path in life.
The challenge is to fit the FAT or EXT2 filesystem in single-block bootloader itself. Also it should read a track at time so that booting from old floppy drives is fast:

https://github.com/jhallen/joes-sandbox/tree/master/boot
https://buyshared.net
In general I find websites asking permission to send desktop notifications extremely impolite. I have the feature disabled, and can see the site. Alternatively, maybe uBlock or Privacy Badger is blocking something which checks whether I've allowed notifications?
Economies of scale would make the opposite true.
It doesn’t take that much machine learning to identify an ad and if micro payments were built into the browser they could be trivially tuned to only award payments on non-advertisers.
Roughly 25 years ago when I was a kid, I remember drinking orange juice out of small 4" glasses with oranges on the side at diners and in homes. These glasses hold about 6 oz of juice, which is about 85 calories.

These glasses have been replaced by much larger ones. These days a 'small' juice is 12-16 oz, or 150-200 calories, which is just as bad as pop.

Portion sizes are growing with the collective waistline of America.
I honestly can't connect with the kind of people that ads (fully) work on.

The absolute /best/ case for an ad is that it might remind me that there's some consumable item that I buy every so often (food/etc) and that I either have some I can consume or that I'm getting low and might want to restock.

For example, an ad for a restaurant I already like might remind me of the positive prior experiences and encourage me to return sooner for more.

However, I'd probably go back there / buy more anyway without the ad. Is it really an /efficient/ use of their money? Couldn't they just make their products more attractive by cutting the costs (not spend on marketing)?

Other ads might be for products I don't already get/buy... those are probably most effective as 'suggested' results near the top of searches when I'm looking for a specific product or in a specific topic of inquiry that seems related to seeking a solution.
Of course not, but they can mine other coins that are more asic resistant.
> It is really, really surprising that this is discovered so lately. We should be knowing this for 30 or so years. I have a strong guess that this article is overpresenting how new this is. Otherwise something really weird is going on.

1) You're right, it's not that new. I'm pretty sure I've read it at least once before on _HN_ itself.

2) Nutritional science is a mess not because something weird is going on but because it's really, really hard. It's difficult enough to study the short and long term effects of substances on the body when you're taking about a drug but when you're trying to do it for something like food. Food is intimately tied to culture, habit, social settings, and mood, which makes it hard to fully regiment what your test subjects are taking. Nutrients also both appear and are metabolized in extremely complex arrangements that we still don't fully understand (even something as basic as calorie counts use a pretty ridiculous, roundabout measurement technique), which makes it hard to accurately track. It also is something that everyone has to do all the time, so (unlike drugs), we have to go with "best current understanding" recommendations, which create their own political and reputational effects on scientific study when they're contradicted.

We just this year upended decades of public health consensus on the effects of low sodium on blood pressure. This isn't "something weird" going on, it's par for the course for the field.
This wouldn't solve the problem is payment is required up front for the content.
If I was a company which had placed map()/reduce() at the core of my working logic, and I had emerging machine learning systems (hate the words, but lets go with it) which demonstrated algorithmic ability to tune and select patterns in "things" I would probably say pre- in-vivo drug analysis was a tractable problem: If protein folding is a "thing" then there are probably other "things" about drugs which are tractable to widespread, large scale compute farm logic, which is in the end, about map()/reduce() and the smarts.

In other words, what Calico is doing, is perhaps more 'boring' than people want, but more applicable to what it has -a (french metric) tonne of money, and specific computer science based smarts at scale.
Funny, I was making something similar myself!

http://acostanza.com/2017/10/13/airing-tv-show-api-python-po...

Even using the same API... what a small world. I'm glad I can use yours instead now! I was actually thinking it would be fun to use Python to search the Tv Maze API for cast of different shows you like and then find common shows with the same actors. Might be a waste of time though. Nice job on Tello.
Not sure what you're alluding to since they're one and the same. This situation's been building for well over a decade. Bush talked tough but did nothing when he was in Office, Obama chose to pull a Chamberlain (same with Iran) and now Trump is swinging the pendulum the other way. Hopefully he doesn't swing too far too fast.

It's like watching a slow motion train wreck, kind of satisfying but damn is it terrifying.
Several companies with $1B valuations were missed:

Reddit
Zenefits
Gusto
Docker
Flexport
Coinbase
Twitch.tv
Quora
Door Dash
Machine Zone
Mixpanel
I and the other students from the AP classes at my school effectively had no electives -- we all took math, science, English, history, a foreign language, and at least one music class every semester of every year throughout middle and high school. With 6 classes a day and extra curricular sports, robotics and music there was no way to take a shop or home-ec class, and that's after getting arts and gym waived.
Are you thinking about using React for a project soon instead? I'm kind of considering it too, but I really like using Angular 4
I don't think the gift is worth the tradeoff. There are many ways to help your child become a better writer without selfishly burdening them with chores and more stress.
Doesn't everyone on Android use Timely?
We had a shop class. What we didn't have was time to take it without skipping out on another core class. This should be required curriculum -- that was the point I took home from the article.
The recommendation is about added sugars, which means sugars that are processed to remove all the fiber and everything else. Fruit is not added sugar.
Never gonna work. The publishers will simply add advertising again at some point so they're gonna reap double benefits.

These people need to care for pigs. Or better yet, go homeless and dig for peach pits in a dumpster.

They won't ever learn.
The 18% transformation is associated with the change in risk due to a serving of coke every day for a decade. Option b) is correct.
> This is typical of Google, providing a technical solution to a human problem that can't be solved easily.

Google didn't want to do this. It was the traditional media attacking google, facebook and social media after the last election.

> Not everything can be tweaked with an algorithm.

It's not a tweak. It's getting google to align with the traditional media's rhetoric.

If washingtonpost or the nytimes says X, then google has to adhere to X.
Fruit juice is no better than soda pop.
Sometimes I forget how much danger astronauts constantly put themselves in to further human kind. They're literally at the end of where we are as a species with a frayed rope.

They're the modern day version of Magellan and his crew.
Yeah, sounds like Google.
I totally agree that the homework load can be crazy. My son I mentioned above used to bring home an inordinate amount of homework a couple of years ago. But it seems that his school has seen the light, as we've noticed that he and his brother do have a much lighter daily homework load this year. But that seems to have been replaced with more longer term projects and assignments (all of which they leave till the last minute - ^sigh^)
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Modifying something for future benefits is exactly what sentient beings are doing. Yeah, bacteria are small. But small is not the same as dumb.
I disagree A database for 1.3 million users? You can use off the shelf software.

350 million? You need a entirely different class of solution.
I agree about Germany (depends a lot on the city, though) or esp. France.

Latvian, Lithuanian and Estonian (which is non indo european language) have virtually no non-native speakers and large amounts of the Russian born citizens (and aliens) may not speak the language, rendering English a good choice to obtain information. Having tiny user base forces the case compared to France, Germany or Italy (imo worse than both France/Germany).

For instance movies at the theater (and largely on the TV) have no dubbing unless they are targeted to kids who are unable to read.
Ask HN: How to find better clients as a two-person remote dev team?
I'm a European developer and I've been subcontracting through Gigster and similar for the last year making around $7.5k/month ($50/h) working with US based companies, 100% remote.

Recently I've decided to team up with a good friend and work directly with clients. I do client-side development (React, es6 etc.) and UX design, while my colleague does Ruby on Rails, DevOps and system administration. We are high-skilled, self-managing, and have worked together on several complex projects.

We work remotely and are based in a small Central European country, but we're happy to visit US based clients when required. We are looking to charge $80+/per person/per hour.

The biggest hurdle is finding the first $80+/h client, as we never took the time to grow our professional networks (subcontracting will do that to you).

I've read patio11's essays and those of many other similar authors, but most of the advice is based on local consulting.

Are there any HN-ers who are working 100% remotely outside the US, and have been able to earn $13+k/month consistently? What's your story?
Indeed I worked at PARC (at ISL, using Interlisp) and used all three platforms.

This article was about the '73 Alto implementation though, which preceded the D machines (and preceded my time at PARC by a decade as well). At that time Interlisp was PDP-10 only and had no GUI.
Let's be frank, R&D costs are not the problem here.
These robots were water based. I'm kicking myself for not putting on my trollface and saying "Well, the back end (i.e., the thruster bit) was handled by our firmware guys; all my work was on the main control unit in the front end of the robot..."
Yeah, that makes more sense!
Doesn't too much of anything damage your body?