skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's a pretty interesting article.

While the measurement of performance is critical towards improving it, we need to be careful about how we incentivize that performance. As performance on a metric becomes more economically important, the less useful the metric is in actually measuring performance and the less real improvement can be gained by its measurement.
Whenever I hear about people spending outrageous amounts of money for something that should be really cheap, the first explanation that springs to mind is money laundering.
Disney could avoid this issue by printing the download codes onto the discs.
I would tend to agree. Somewhere else in the thread someone recounted a conversation with a 24 month old far more advanced than any two year old I've met could manage. I think it would be pretty lucid even for my 3yo. That's not to say the conversation couldn't have happened, but the advice seems somewhat miscalibrated if that is taken to be typical.

My question: for all this talk of rationalism, where is the research to show this approach yields better outcomes than any other?
Pharmacists must directly supervise dispensing. Many hospitals use a central-fill pharmacy where the prescriptions are filled for many hospitals.

The problem with these mergers is they allow health plans that further disadvantage other pharmacies or providers. Once those other options are eliminated we’ll see prices rise. Do people actually want the Home Depot’s of healthcare rather than the equivalent of the local hardware store? We’ll see I guess.
Thank you for sharing this. As a father, other parents are my greatest fear. Right now we live in Japan, and I gotta say the way preschoolers are treated here I'm really quite comfortable with (generally relaxed, but calm/sometimes stern talking-to, leaving other parents space, also tons and tons of infrastructure that helps, no helicoptering). I'm really quite concerned about moving back to Europe - while I like the schooling system there better, the helicopter-parenting scares me. My hope is that German-speaking / Swiss culture is still the way I remember, with lots of self-responsibility given at young age, but some stories I hear make me worried.
Inline graphics are pretty crazy. Might be useful for documentation though. Hyperlinks would make navigating large projects easier.

Terry is a very interesting guy. He pops up every now and then.
I'm hoping to combine this with a lack of understanding on false dichotomy to foster both respect and free thinking... Which are somewhat incongruous goals, so it's a toughie. The general idea is to not only talk to them like adults, but allow them to make choices like one also. But I'm hoping that offering controlled choices with consistent consequences will get us there. I'll know I'm in trouble when they start coming up with their own choices...
I would like to see western governments treat Chinese censorship as non-tariff barriers to trade when negotiating trade agreements.

Unfortunately for the most part western governments seem to have the same problem as western countries in not wanting to be frozen out of China and thus don't overtly question NTBs.
Have you read my reply to pysc? I don't think you can 'get out of the game' of punishment. The fact is that you will punish people you are in close relationship to whether you like it or not. Even a frown or silence can be punishment and these sorts of things are not always under voluntary control.

I agree that the development of the parent is the key to reducing this. But note that development and learning themselves require peace and keeping the peace is a function of authority, both in families and in wider society. (This is not to be confused with authority in knowledge, which is irrational.)
It's always ironic to me that people think implicits reduce code clarity, and yet those same people use runtime DI frameworks and possibly AOP. Scala implicits can in my opinion be thought of as a simple compile-time lexically-scoped DI framework. It's very much a compile-time equivalent of the @Autowired or @Inject annotation in runtime DI frameworks, except it has the benefit of lexical scoping.

The great thing about implicits is that errors occur at compile-time and your IDE can give you all the information you need to understand what implicits are in play. On the other hand, there is no tool in the world that will save you from a complex spring-based application with strange initialization order errors, certain features silently not working for who knows what reason, and often barely-comprehensible stacktraces.
Poor people of this country. I hope this government ends soon.
This is pretty much what I ended up doing. It's a collossal waste of power (and money) to run enterprise equipment in my area for a home network that is nowhere near enterprise-level in terms of utilization.
>But the "rules are bad" trope is, unfortunately, a trend in The Netherlands. Parents that live by this rule are sacrificing themselves. It's bad parenting.

TCS explicitly says don't sacrifice yourself, even in the specific essay linked. The people in the Netherlands are not doing TCS.

It's a common trap people fall into though, even with conventional parents. I agree that self-sacrifice is bad. There's a lot to TCS other than not having rules though.

You can't just drop rules and expect everything to work out great. That would be naive. You have to actively seek out solutions that work for you and your kid. And really work, not "work" in a compromising, sharing-of-misery kind of way.

>I see a lot of parents (mothers mostly) in public places desperately trying to explain their dissatisfaction to their misbehaving children.

What you aren't seeing is the thousands of times the child has been thwarted, denied, forced, coerced, dragged around, insufficiently helped, etc.

>The children meanwhile are completely disregarding them and will continue doing whatever they were doing untill the parents give up.

Does that strike you as the approach a child would take if their parent were typically super helpful, responsive, and had a really strong strong track record of taking the child seriously?

>The parents will end up awkwardly trying to ignore their children,

this is not TCS!

>visibly ashamed

ashamed of their helpless, dependent children who are actively upset about something!

>but still unable to use their authority for fear of breaking their chosen path to happy parenting.

You describe a sad situation but something that is not at all a criticism of TCS. It's rather compatible with the TCS worldview (the bare facts of the situations described, not your interpretation)

>They won't even raise their voice.

Having a big person yell at you isn't helpful or nice.
Scheme is a wonderful and flexible language. There's a reason it was used as a teaching language and in books like SICP. I don't use it very much, but you really have to admire some of the power in the language, like the way variable binding is handled to make macros so powerful. In short: scheme is probably one of the best base languages for building DSLs. If I had to pick "most tasteful" programming languages I would put scheme in the top 3. (Above Python, which is the language I use the most, and above C++ and Java which are other languages I use at work.)
Don't you think people were saying the same thing about having network accessible home computers decades ago?

Granted the internet of things is wildly different, and your points are valid, but surely we will find some happy medium between home automation ending in tears and a working solution?
This might be part of it, but good design must also be made a priority from the top for it to happen. If it’s not, even if the company is successful, good design will generally only be limited to the foremost marketing pages and quickly degrade after that.
How to read one hundred books in a year
Uh, why couldn't you just sign your authorized_keys file and post it somewhere public? Then you just literally download, verify signature, and 'import' it (overwrite or append to existing file).
It's a bit of an absurd position to take that it's legal to sell the codes but not legal to buy/use them.
Full reading list, for anyone interested: https://forrestbrazeal.com/2017/12/03/the-100-books-challeng...
I get it, I just don't know who would sell such insurance? It'd probably be extremely expensive to purchase, extremely expensive to write the contract, extremely expensive to litigate when they want to claim the losses weren't caused by systemic tech failure, etc.

Those costs would take so much off the top that you'd probably need to make this play with tens of millions just to offset those costs and make the potential returns worthwhile.

Also, by your argument, if bitcoin is going to be treated as a stable deflationary value store like gold, then that should put downward pressure on the price of gold (because they would be competing asset classes). It should also mean that bitcoin will eventually stabilize and merely reflect inflation.

But the appeal of gold is that it's a hard asset and it's stable. Bitcoin is the opposite of that. Why would its price be based on it being treated like gold when it isn't and will never be anything like gold?
Nice. The Websockets events as HTTP request response is similar to the architecture of Django Channels.
Apple's Tim Cook says developers have earned $17B from China App Store
Vertical shaking would unpack just as many things as it would pack. Horizontal shaking works because gravity is biasing the reorganization toward more packed arrangements.

Maybe you're thinking of (the equivalent in a crystalline solid) of "boiling"? E.g., giving a bump on the bottom of the cylinder, that would have enough force to scatter individual cubes, but not enough force to unlock cubes from the crystal.
Gave up halfway through the second episode. Has so much changed since then? Did they fire the entire writing staff? Was MacFarlane visited by magical elves who bestowed upon him the ability to act just a little bit? Is there a new joke other than "get this! the first officer is his ex-wife!" which they apparently came up with while high and thought it was funny enough to carry an entire series?
How quickly do they patch vulnerabilities, and what guarrantees do they provide to continue doing so for the life of the product? As "sexy" as these products look, they look to me like yet another walled garden.
My comment just mentioned the aesthetics of wind turbines and I still maintain they are no more ugly than a smokestack, city tower, bridge, radio antenna or even regular old suburban development that seldom get cancelled because of aesthetical concerns. What's so special about wind turbines that we hate how they look more than any other kind of development?

This argument holds for noise too: all the references I could find suggest wind turbines are far quieter than other forms of development. In my experience wind turbines aren't obtrusively loud at all. In my city we've installed a wind turbine at the top of a popular mountain and I can't remember ever distinctly hearing it, even within a couple of km[0]. The same cannot be said about highways or other development.

0. Grouse Mountain, overlooking Vancouver. I even think the wind turbine looks incredibly beautiful when you see it peaking up from the top of the mountain.

https://www.grousemountain.com/media/W1siZiIsIjIwMTcvMDEvMzA...
Yes, that's exactly what I said "would be nifty" above. I meant a client-side bash script or similar.
Absolutely. I use and love Stripe in my projects for its excellent documentation and simple setup. Compared to the god-awfulness that is PayPal docs, it made life so much easier. I literally could not care less about their dropdown transitions or white text on a blue background.
Sure, but if you confiscate the wealth of the 0.01% then it's not in their hands anymore and you can't take it from them again.
From the article, it seems that there are 2 opposite "evidence based medicine":

(a) do research, publish papers, test thoroughly new treatments in well defined trials and slowly build up a biological theory as well as official guidelines and treatments. And

(b): measure the outcomes of different hospitals, declare the best performer's methods as the state of the art and expand these methods elsewhere. If the measurement is sound, one can argue that they are both evidence based. The former is slow but may provide a deeper understanding of the inner workings of the deaease. The latter is fast but it's hard to tell exactly why it works so well.

The was a shift in machine learning research in recent years.

(a): write theoretical papers and study using math the generalization performance of algorithms.

(b) release a new challenging dataset every year (except a test set) and organize a prediction competition on this dataset. The winner algorithm is declared the state of the art, and can be applied to other datasets, event though Boone understands why it works so well.

The approach (b) was particularly fruitful and efficient in recent years. Let's hope that applying this approach to medicine Will lead to great outcomes!
The odds on favourite to be next British Prime Minister is a Chavez / Maduro apologist:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2017/08/11...

The former British Labour Party Mayor of London Ken Livingston said the problem in Venezuela was that not enough rich people were murdered:

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/aug/03/ken-livings...

An important Australian Trade Union pledged support for Maduro in August this year:

http://www.news.com.au/finance/economy/world-economy/austral...

(updated due to the comment below - thanks for that!)

In Australia there is a group called the Australian - Venezuelan solidarity network:

http://www.venezuelasolidarity.org/
Jony Ive interview [audio]
I've heard that's a CYA thing (for the food manufacturers), because a lot of the time the smaller objects won't have legally required nutrition facts on them. If someone resells it, the manufacturer can say "Well we told them not to!" instead of having to argue against a food reseller that they (the manufacturer) have an obligation to print nutrition information on the smaller objects because they (the reseller) assumed the food was eligible for reselling (the manufacturer would probably still win anyway but this cements their victory).
I was aware of and experimenting with bitcoin really really early. I never got too into it though but I’m certain I generated coins really early.

This is probably what the kid that lost his Babe Ruth baseball card feels like.
This is so obviously the creators of that game making fake transactions to establish fake value in their product. It's not hard to send 100k to yourself for something that has no value to make people believe that it does.
There might be if you first go out of your way to answer questions about dataflow throughput by pointing people toward block-structuring and mention keywords like "hyperblocks" there. People already do this; I've noticed a good few times now that I've done a number of increasingly-specific searches as I understand a problem better, and each time the answer that actually guides me to the next step comes from the same person/place.
This is the closest thing to true, imo. I'm not trying to say we know nothing about parenting. Beating your children probably leads to worse outcomes than not, for example. However the rest is vulnerable to a host of selection bias issues, which rarely seem to be addressed. I'm not saying to ignore advice either, but take it with a grain of salt. If it doesn't work for you, maybe you are doing it wrong. Or maybe your kid is just not the type for which it will work.
I think you might be vastly overestimating the value to Apple for having assembly (and sourcing of parts, even if made elsewhere) in China[0]. Apple would absolutely not want to lose that capability, it would drive up costs significantly.

0. https://www.macworld.co.uk/feature/apple/where-are-apple-pro...
Can you explain to me how Discord was able to copy Slack with (seemingly) no backlash?
On a predominately English forum, that is based out of the U.S.
Just read an article in Fortune mag. about a venture capitalist that's working to move more remote tech jobs to middle America.

I hope he succeeds. The more we share jobs/experiences/wealth/etc. the more we'll understand each other.
Goa, a state in India has a popular liquor called Feni which is made from the cashew apple https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feni_(liquor). This is a good way to make use of an otherwise perishable fruit.
That's not a reason to continue using it in new devices, isn't it? COM/LPT ports were there before USB too, yet they were replaced.
Improve tabline in SpaceVim, only two hours after feature request
I was under the impression that you were talking about cryptokitties community. Nothing can save it if the entire Ethereum community walks away.
IMHO there's an interesting case to be made here (that China won't take over the world), but this article seems to have all the thought and research of an off-the-cuff tweet. The author spends almost half the article talking about mobile payments, which is a really tiny part of international dominance.

He mentions the gravity model being a limiting factor. Huh? If anything, including the gravity model would sway the balance further towards China and away from the US. China is extremely close to a massive number of highly populated Asian countries, and can run inexpensive trains to Europe. The US has Canada (population 36 million) or Mexico (127 million) close by, but not really much else. As a result, China can inexpensively ship to ~5 billion people, and the US can ship to maybe 500MM. Throw in all of South America (only 400MM or so people) and the US's reach is still under a billion.

Some figures: Northeast US to southern South America is about 11,000 km straight line, which has to be done with a complicated series of trucks, trains, boats, more trucks, etc. Beijing to Eastern Europe is 6400km, and can be done with two trains.

I think that one of the big blocks for China will be regulations around product safety and manufacturing/labor standards. There will be also regional pride ("made in USA"/"made in Europe") products and specialized equipment (processors, optics, scientific equipment.) There are a lot of cases to be made, but I don't think this article makes any good ones.
Lol how in 2017 our yardstick of bad performance is fans kicking in. If even a 2013 can't handle code from today, that's way too complex and computationally demanding.
I've noticed that when this (selling "not for resale" items) is done as part of an import business, the importer will print and stick their own nutrition label onto the item. Which doesn't usually add that much more work, because often they're already re-labelling the item to add a translation of the item's name.
I love your humility. Thanks for sharing your thoughts.
In my hometown we built a wind turbine on the top of a mountain that overlooks the city. On clear days you can see the turbine poking out on top of the mountain and it looks absolutely gorgeous, like we're an advanced species intelligently harvesting energy from the planet. It's breathtaking in a way that's hard to describe.
It's strange you're so familiar with the forum's norms and guidelines and would yet start a completely off-topic, pointless meta-subthread. Those are much worse than tptacek's fairly tame response. If you disagree with the comment, you can downvote or if you feel it's that terrible, you can flag it so it gets moderator attention. If those options aren't available yet for your account, you can just participate a little longer until they are.
Right now we support RLE, RLE Delta RLE, Delta RLE, Dictionary, Bitpacking. Many of these are combined together. It does look interesting I am checking it out.
> Even the bike-sharing craze that's drawn so much attention in the West has exploded largely because of China's unique environment. Lower-income Chinese have gravitated toward the super-cheap services in order to solve the so-called last-mile problem, getting to and from public transport nodes. The technology didn't emerge first in the West partly because consumers -- even in bike-crazy Holland -- haven't really needed such a cost-effective solution.

This is a misconception. Holland has the earliest (2003) and most popular bike-sharing service offered by the NS (National Railways).
aka "When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure." - Goodhart's Law [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart%27s_law
I met a couple guys from their team a couple months ago at the ETHWaterloo hackathon (post from then [1]). They presented a contract analytics tool to graph the number and type of function calls, like an etherscan.io but for custom queries/reports. The queries they showed had function names like SireKitten(), it was all quite funny and I assumed the analytics tool was the main product and that the kitty contracts were a joke example. Never would've guessed that it would take off, but I didn't see all the cute avatars then either.

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15479945
Aw jeez this is pretty good
Do you really think that surveillance like this gives the government any more power than it already has over the common person? More than governments have always had over the common person?

Let's concern ourselves with electing good governments, not the capabilities they develop to defend us from criminals.
No thanks. DP over usb-c is way better for all laptops.
Not a bad article, but it is from 2004. Might be time for a follow-up.
Cats are fine and everything, but how about something more traditional, like flowers or something. i don't know, tulips maybe?
Upvoted your comment. Funny how people cannot see the obvious.
Not many people would pay taxes - unless threatened with violence.
> It belies the promise that we make to patients who become seriously ill: that they can count on the medical system to give them their very best chance at life.

Medicine makes no such promise. Doctors are going to handle any given condition with the currently accepted "reasonable and prudent" treatment. This is going to be appropriate for the vast majority of patients but it isn't necessarily everyone's "very best chance."
can this do 2x 4K @90Hz? e.g. for VR headsets.
A lot of b2b services have adopted that design style. https://www.octobat.com/ - https://baremetrics.com/ - https://www.intercom.com/

More I can't think of right now...
And plug it into what?
Man it’s kinda crazy that in 2017, it’s worthy of attention when a design has hover/touch down states for its buttons, but here we are.

Stripe’s design team does good work for sure, but what’s really striking is how most people building things for screens still ignore all the best practices that have been established over the past 35 years.
It has gotten significantly better and a number of episodes have honest, Trekkian approaches to moral dilemmas.
This article I doesn't take into the most recent episode which makes a good attempt at addressing the concerns that the author has about lemarr and yaphit. I'd be interesting in an update about how the author thinks it affects the series. Imo it was possible that best episode of the series.
This article spent paragraphs describing a normal distribution where a couple of descriptive statistics would do (mean and standard deviation). Ok, I kid, that would be too technical. The old adage still stands though: a picture is worth a thousand words. Instead of showing us what this curve looks like, they wasted the one graphic of their column inches on a useless stethoscope Gordian knot illustration.

One a plus side, this article appears to be famous and from 2004. Somebody must have produced graphic of this bell curve of CF outcomes by hospitals. Anybody got a link?