skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is the infrastructure in place to support this? I feel like the removal of payphones in public places makes me hesitant to support a smartphone ban of any sort. Yes, they shouldn't be in the classroom, but if students have them in their locker... I remember in junior high, my sister and I had a rather busy extracurricular schedule, and my mother couldn't always be counted upon to remember when events let out. Payphones were a good way to arrange transportation from various events. All those payphones are gone now.
I think the problem isn't so much the technology, maybe it is just our general teaching methodology. I feel like in US schools we don't allow much room for self-learning inside the school itself, every class has a teacher and lesson plans, and not a lot of self-guidance. Personally I learned a lot on my own through high school that never would have been taught (z80 assembly to build games for the Ti-83.) I did most of that on my own, at home, rather than during class time for other essentially "irrelevant" courses. I think the main issue is what may seem unimportant to a child when they are a child, might end up being an important part of their life in the future. But they just don't know what they like or what they want to do when they are young, which is why we have general education courses.

Maybe if there were more opportunities for that it would be useful. But given the infinite amount of distractions a personal smartphone can provide I don't see how you can have 30 kids just doing whatever simultaneously and have a positive outcome for the majority.
Also, a good subreddit for IF and weight training: https://www.reddit.com/r/leangains/
Perhaps you should read up a little on Autism Spectrum Disorder. James Damore almost certainly tends to the autistic, and it can lead to both some insensitive statements not intended the way they were taken, and being unable to recognize some of the social situations he was put in.
It’s true, if you cure Alzheimer’s you will probably be worth hundreds of billions of dollars, but scientifically Pharma is groping in the dark at this point in time. The last decade or so has had a series of extremely expensive last stage clinical failures and Pfizer isn’t known for cutting edge science.
I would be interested to see research that compares TV in past eras with smart phones of today. I wonder if research showed the same types of trends with TV during the mid century when it became so ubiquitous.

I'm not saying smartphones are not damaging, but I think humans have always looked for ways to cut lose and that often means in ways that are unhealthy.
I heard of an interesting conspiracy theory that Telegram & Mr. Durov are the grandiose project of the Russian secret service. Mr. Durov's company VKontakte that is the clone of Facebook in Russia is now fully controlled by structures affiliated to Kremlin after Mr. Durov was allowed to sell the company and leave Russia. The theory says that he was allowed to do so in exchange of building fully controlled global IM which is secure on paper but transparent to certain observers. BS? Probably! But if telegram is successful in creating global in-app purchase system that is centralized(the article mentions that) and controlled by Kremlin, that would be an awesome undercover operation, the one of a bigger caliber than Trump's election.
Considering that religion from the relevant eras was largely a mechanism of control (or, less ominously, societal orchestration), this is not surprising.

I'd very much like to read an exploration of the relationship between the rise of irreligious social constructs and the decline of the importance of religion in modern states.
> Teaching is the reason why professors are there

Repeating this line over and over does not make it so. (Tenure-track CS) professors at Harvard are not there to (primarily) teach (undergraduate) courses. This is just a fact.

> If you can't/don't want to teach you should be a professional researcher and admit that

Professional researchers do not typically advise doctoral students. So professors at research universities are doing a lot of teaching that someone at an industry lab probably would not be doing.

Classroom teaching is not the only form of teaching, and professional researchers do not grow on trees.

> Via tuition, etc... fraudulent to the students paying tutition

Tenure-track professors at places like Harvard fund themselves through grants, not undergraduate tuition dollars.
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> but standardization hadn't got far

That's true, but not really fair: even ANSI C standard was only 2 years old at that time, despite C being way older than C++. Standardization takes a lot of time …
I love Apple Pay and use it all the time at the 'Giant' stores in North east US.
There are all sorts of techniques you can use to create features smaller than the wavelength. Optical Proximity Correction, Immersion, phase-shifting, multi-patterning, etc:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immersion_lithography

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_proximity_correction

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phase-shift_mask

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple_patterning
It replaced my credit card wherever NFC is enabled (so basically everywhere except that one noodle place). So 11 times over the last week. I'm based in Oz though, so we seem to be ahead of the US with payments.
I always get downvoted when I talk about Snowden because people want to see it in all or nothing terms like you do but our governments don't just go around killing people that are trying to do the right thing.

Plus, if he wanted, he could have always set up a complex insurance scheme so that if he died the documents came out.
>But rent control manipulates the free market. With rent control, people who might otherwise move, don't.

But rent control manipulates the free market. With rent control, people who might otherwise be priced out and forced to move away, aren't.
People's image of HN mods' political bias is entirely predictable from their own ideological affiliation. Strong rightists think we (and HN itself) lean left, strong leftists think we (and HN) lean right. Since the conclusions you all draw are so contradictory, I don't think these charges have much informational value—at least not about us. There's clearly a cognitive bias at work here.

If you don't believe me, here are some quite typical posts that run the contrary direction to yours:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16019694

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15307091

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15034119

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14529468

These people are having the same reaction as you are, they just start from the opposite end of the football field.

That doesn't mean we're magic centrists in a centrist fairyland. It means the situation is affected by other factors, some of which aren't obvious. If you want to look at this objectively you have to work to suspend your own political feelings, which is not easy to do and not something many people want to.
Unequivocal yes. If I wasn't paying them to do that on company time, it would negatively impact their performance towards goals that were requested.
I didn't think middle class people worked at Walmart.

Nevertheless, many corporations offer employees company stock at a discount (these aren't the same as stock options). Those are usually well worth taking advantage of. But still, many choose not to, and that is their choice. They aren't being excluded from stock investing.
You might enjoy the goofy origin story of Santa Claus in Lappland

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/21/opinion/santa-christmas-m...
Apologies for replying to my own comment, but apparently they are including the "imputed rent" in the calculation. That is, the amount of rent you would have paid if you didn't own the home. The thing is, you have to live somewhere, so if you didn't own the home you would have been paying rent. That's why the imputed rent isn't included in Case-Schiller, because as an investment you're not living in the home and it would be double counting to assume that you are. So I'm quite skeptical of this analysis that equities are the same rate of return as housing.
I mean, the massive progress in science, medical, renewable energy, etc. are pretty good problems to be solving. The silly games and facebooks are only a problem for those who choose to participate in them.
One thing to keep in mind when using materialized views is that a refresh will recompute the complete view and discard the old one. If at a certain size you might want to make sure your database server doesn't drown in rebuilds.

The alternative to building a materialized view may be to build an index with a tsvector instead, though the that might not work since the document is not trivial; it certainly would have a problem with tags, though those can be treated separately. The huge advantage of an index is that it's automatically refreshed for you.

Realistically though, you'll probably never run into performance problems building a materialized view due to too many submitted recipes. ;)
Thats a good point, kids today have reduced binge drinking and smoking, the stuff you could do on the go in the old days.
I'm always a little skeptical of arguments that new technologies are actually damaging. I'm willing to accept that people are sometimes unhappy adjusting to new things (and that people are unhappy with how other people use their new technology), but people have been saying that [new technology here] is bad for thousands of years—Plato even complained about writing because it's "bad for memory"[1]. If you frame the questions such that the metrics you choose to measure it are going to come up poorly, then yes, new technology looks bad.

[1] https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/259062-if-men-learn-this-it...
I know nothing of the American Interest in particular. But there is nothing wrong with particular publications having particular philosphical starting points. First, an author's analysis is usually more incisive if she has a clear personal thesis. Secondly, the reader is better prepared if she knows the biases of the writer.

We can't expect to read articles as if they are the neutral truth (which doesn't exist anyway). That's why we need a free press expressing a diverse bunch of ideas.
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I think the difference between computer-based distractions (video games, smartphones) and those previous (television, newspapers, etc) is that the former is interactive, which leads one to feel as if they are doing something. Getting to the next level in a game or posting a comment or status that gets lots of likes and replies feels like work and reward, whereas one-way consumption doesn’t offer the same subconscious justification.

If I spend all day watching Netflix I feel like I’ve done nothing but vegetate, but if I play video games I’ve made progress. If I’m constantly scrolling through Facebook I’m keeping up with my friends. If I zigzag half a dozen news sites (I would never pay for or read enough to justify half a dozen newspaper subscriptions) I am being informed about the world.

In each of these cases I know that 90+% of what I experience is mostly garbage with no meaningful long term benefits to my life, but they’re so much more engaging than previous forms of distraction and so they are much harder to put down.
Also just going to say, if you had taken away my smartphone/internet in highschool I would have just dropped out, moved out, and probably would have been better for it. Most of the profitable skills I know are self-taught, from the internet. It's very bizarre to me that we're having this discussion on hnews.
I will state from first hand, anecdotal experience that a ketogenic diet greatly reduced hangry feelings for me. I ate to satiation at meals, and I could go much longer without eating.
My point is more that the anecdotal stuff matters -- by being ham-fisted in your attempts to address diversity you reduce inclusiveness.
You can tap those physical buttons and the thought will never cross your mind to check the weather, and ooh since we're at it, how's things on facebook? Email? Oh boy! 10 minutes down the toilet because I wanted to change the song playing!
Possibly. But Prop 13 is the real problem.
I don't think anyone would consider an software engineer to be someone who works on engines. They engineer software solutions. (Designing, developing, gathering requirements, and insure correctness)
A lunar gateway makes zero sense for any purpose (exploring the moon, mining the moon, going to mars), it's only been proposed to give the horrifically overpriced SLS a mission.

Russia only wants to partner for national prestige. It's space program has been starved near to death.
> That's why you see the clean transition because the text in memory and video mode remains unchanged

It's not so with amdgpu (Polaris at least). Looks like there some glitch that makes color noise appear in between, and screen is reset.
Having read up on some of the building purchases in my own neighborhood (East Village of NYC), it seems that rent control is bad for honest landlords and good for the slimey ones who are willing to "encourage" people to leave. And thanks to Coase's theorem the building sales are usually in that direction.
Disappointed to see HN still ignoring the fact that sex and gender are two different things. No matter how correlated, the coefficient is still less than one.

Sex is a biological expression (and exists on a spectrum with the vast majority of the population at one of two poles) and gender is a social construct, i.e., anyone can decide what their gender is and they have the inalienable right, by the same liberty that we all enjoy, to do so.
Agreed. I guess what I was getting at was, given her particularly less than favorable views on deregulation and hyper free-market views in other respects, I find her opinion on this interesting.
The funny thing about these type of thought exercise is whether you would be a better person?

I am who I am because of all the mistakes I have made, because of all the crisis I went though during my projects, because of the laughter and satisfaction in my life so far.
You're certainly confused about target retirement funds - withdrawals from them are exactly like regular IRAs or 401ks. It's a target retirement date, not a target death date - when I have a Target Retirement 2050 fund, it doesn't mean the fund is empty in 2050, it means that I expect to cease putting contributions in in 2050 and start making withdrawals, and so the asset mix should change such that some fraction of the fund (depending upon your expected monthly withdrawals) is in fixed-income investments that will provide a guaranteed revenue stream, rather than stocks where you can lose principal at the whims of the market.

You're probably confused about reversed mortgages: my understanding of them is that you do not actually sell your house to the bank, you take a line of credit for a certain monthly payment with your house as collateral, and then rather than making payments on the loan, the interest compounds against the equity in your house. My stepfather was a former banker who did financial counseling for seniors (often including whether or not to take a reverse mortgage), so I do have some knowledge in this area...
Yes.

In deep corporate America, there are plenty of people who have virtually no responsibilities beyond a few basic configuration tasks. They are still unable to perform many of these tasks without significant help from coworkers. And we cover for them.

Every incompetent coworker I can think of was a man. I do not think this is confirmation bias, I think it's basic statistics, because most of the engineers those employers hired were men.
None of my credit cards do at the moment. I've had 1 or 2 in the past but the issuer replaced them with non-contactless cards (I think Chase Slate even claimed removing contactless was for security reasons)
Forget about Smartphones, Binge watching in kids is what I am afraid of. There is more than enough content on Netflix to not get out of the house for years.
Buyer beware. Your one Google account is trendils into everything. For example: I uploaded some clips of an old 90s show and got flagged for copyright. Now I can't upload/comment/sign into Youtube.

How does this affect Google Pay? What about Google Domains? Bleh. I don't really like all-in-accounts anymore. Much rather have separate silo'd accounts.
I didn't say that, and I don't have an opinion on that. I used sprinting as an example for a reason; the reason why women are under-represented among top sprint times is clearly biological, and I was hoping to point at the impossibility of fixing it through changing the sociological structure of track-and-field to be more accepting to women.

I think a sociological explanation for any biological phenomena has to be made up. This is why we need to have an honest discussion about the merits of biological explanations, so that we can figure out the root causes and spend our efforts effectively.
>First class on the United 747 was a fairly pleasant experience.

That's because United only has security break the nose and teeth of the plebes in the back.
I recommend Peter Attia's highly engaging and informative talk [0] on the same topic, which I think does a better job at articulating the motivation behind possible approaches to attacking the issue of health- and life-span.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDFxdkck354
News UK finds domain spoofing to cost $1M a month in lost revenue
It’s a little unclear, but I seem to remember reading places that accept “Apple Pay” rather than just general NFC are supposed to be exempt from the limit (different back ends), but it’s super-unclear when you can do this so always easier to assume you can’t than look like an idiot.
This has nothing at all to do with socialism.
The problem is, in our society, there is NO option to say you were wrong and walk it all back. Once it's out there on the internet, you are crucified for life with it. Its sad because the "crime" doesn't fit the punishment.
linkname is brilliant thanks! I've done that sort of thing with an assembler shim in the past.
Sure, they might spent 99.9% of their time on the device for entertainment purposes... But that other .1% is still enriching them.

This assumes only positive externalities. The problem with things like Candy Crush is that there might be a net negative for the user in the highly engineered feedback loop.

Finding ways to waste time isn't unique to computers - you could subscribe to a newspaper because everyone else does, but only look at the sports results or the crossword. For that matter I can read books abusively as well as informatively - computers aren't the cause of people wasting time or making bad choices. You could argue that they are more highly engineered to keep people making such choices in the name of profit, though. Admittedly people have leveled the same critique at novels, and they're not entirely wrong.

Now I agree that most people actually get more real use of out their smartphones than just playing games, but I do also agree with the top post that we encourage people to spend their money powerful pocket computers and then frequently those devices end up as conduits for advertising to buy more stuff.

It's not that people are bad for playing Candy Crush, but that we're glorifying the people who make Candy Crush because of their ability to cash in, while many other worthy smartphone projects go underdeveloped/underused because they don't have a billion-dollar story attached.
I'm working on http://madewithreactnative.com where I showcase apps made with React Native and interview developers and teams who have gone down that road about their experience.

I want to expand to also include interviews with developers who have made tools and libraries FOR React Native.

If you're interested in doing an interview, I'd be happy to talk to you.
I can pay for the bus here in Portland with it. That's pretty nice. Outside of that and McDonald's though, I haven't seen many places that support NFC.
> (I assume Google is already doing this)

Yeah, Google spent a quarter-billion dollars on racial diversity and got nowhere. https://www.fastcompany.com/3066914/google-and-tech-struggle... So there's a metric they haven't even figured out how to game yet, that's how bad the situation is. As I replied to your sibling comment, the industry wouldn't need to hire so many women (and other tech minorities) if they could keep women from quitting so fast.
Stating this fact is the only way this comment could possibly be noticed. I wouldnt be surprised if lieing to this extent is the only way that these anecdotes could ever see the light of day. Though it doesnt change the validity of the points made
Agreed that the 380 is still the most comfortable for pax (unless you crave lower cabin altitude), but the 777 safety record is stellar (only 6 hull losses with 1500 built: BA 38 with ice in the fuel lines, EgyptAir 667 fire on the ground, Asiana 214 in SFO, MH 370, MH 17 (rocket), and the Emirates 521 bounce in Dubai). Looks like a pretty sound design to me.
> there's a limit of £30(?) for contactless transactions

Check with your bank if you can adjust it. Many places allow changing it. You can also sometimes change the amount that you don't require the pin for.
Having a series 0 apple watch myself, part of the reason I stopped using it was how big a pain in the butt it is when you need to do anything with it. X_X Especially if you do a major enough update on your phone that the watch needs to be re-paired.
Avocado hasn't been a "staple" in that sense. It's basically a condiment. The potato equivalent in Mexico would be nixtamal.

Otherwise, damn, it sucked to be Irish...
Both of them are bad, restrictions on new development are even worse. It's a huge, huge mess.
I'm in the USA. At first I loved it, and used it often, but the main problem for me was that it's buggy as hell. 80% of the time it works, 20% of the time the merchant's terminal freaks out and I have to whip out my card anyway, so it wastes time and the people behind me in line wonder why I am trying to do some fancy thing with my phone rather than just use the card that works. After that happened about a dozen times I just stopped using it.
> Which will primarily hurt the ones who were using them for more interesting purposes.

I guess they can record the lecture with a voice recorder (very cheap on Amazon) and get the lecture slides afterwards, like everyone else.

It's pretty simple: thing A is widely misused and is causing problems to 99% of people. Banning it has a huge net-positive effect, despite having perhaps a negative effect on 1% of people.

Worth it.
I stopped believing in progress personally. Progress doesn't help you in many important part of life. We're spending too much time on science, and often to fix economic / political errors of the past.
I never said it does. Buying new hardware today does not protect you from Spectre/Meltdown either, the new hardware shipping for the next year at least (and the stuff currently on the shelf) does not protect you.

I suggested delaying a new purchase until the CPUs are fixed (who knows how long that will take) or upgrade by purchasing used to get a bump in performance regardless of the hardware flaw (which will still require software mitigation and thus have performance degradation).

Most hardware worth using right now has the hardware flaw so you might as well upgrade (for performance) by purchasing used.
I'm about as left wing as it gets, but I don't want to see the guy ruined. Retributive justice is how we get the drug war working with the broken prison system to create an underclass.

I want to see James Damore understand the impact of his words and learn from it. I don't want him thrown out of society for a single really big mistake and a poor handling of the consequences.
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If you want a single file configuration on k8s, take a look at kedge.org

It's basically an extended version of native k8s yaml with some smart defaults and grouping resources similar to compose.