skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When kids have to juggle with more than one language, their initial learning is slower than kids who learn only one. Eventually that difference disappears, but that could explain the fear of the parents when they initially see their kids developing in the local language slower than their age-peers.
The risk with reading framework books is that it is obsolete before you finish reading them, also there are too many of them.
Belief boosted community. Black churches, unified by a belief in the intrinsic value of humanity, got people to vote, to march, and to change. Whites, Asians, and others, unified by a common core belief pushed against the violence and racism of their day to improve the lots of their fellow man. At the forefront was not a scientist, not a technocrat, but a preacher, surrounded by preachers.

At its zenith, as with all things lofty, religion started to fade. In its setting the government rose. It took up the mantle of diety. It became father. We live in its world now. We are poorer for it.

Government takes power from the people and apportions it to its acolytes. Organization for its own sake is the status quo. To streamline government is to unemploye millions. Our calf requires total subservience with little benefit.

Perhaps we’ll find a way to control our new leviathan. Maybe we can yoke it to till the soil of communal need. We could even do that by trying to preserve the dignity of man. To do that we might have to abandon our new truth that life is an accident. That man has no more importance than a rock. This might be a noble lie. We need something for we have only straw to grasp now handed to us by our new religion postmodernism.
What part of columnar DB can be accelerated by FGPA and Graphic cards?
This is the same argument people use every time, and that Tesla uses. The general public does not know that. It's an irresponsible name for the system and they know it.
The developers at Emagic were truly something special back to the Atari ST Notator days. It's really unfortunate how Apple bought and killed off gems like SoundDiver, not to mention Logic for other platforms.
I personally find the Apple TV UI fine, not great but easy enough. However, discoverability is still horrible. It constantly shows the same recommendations over and over, including things I've just watched. You need to know what you want and then hope they have it online.

Not sure what you mean about the Hollywood model. Just about everything I've watched developed by Netflix has been above average. Maybe their junk is for things I'm not interested...
Likely, only the rich will be able to run out and get gene mods for some time.
I always notice there are a TON of people working at every In N Out. Like maybe 10 people behind the counter versus 3 at a McDonalds.

Anyone know what's up with that?
Can you "invent" a lowest common denominator?
> "Apple's (formerly emagic's) Logic software actually made this visible to the user, using 3840 delta-time units per quarter note and presenting an Event List interface [1] where you could edit integers for offset and length directly. As opposed to other WYSIWIG notation software like Finale and Sibelius..."

Actually pretty much every midi tracker program (which Logic is even though it also does notation) use delta-time units, of which 3840 per quarter note is pretty standard practice.

Sibelius & Finale are only notation editors. But notation editors might even internally represent the midi event times using 3840 delta-time units even though they deliberately hide that from the end user, for good reason because their user base is musicans who play written sheet music instead of dealing with midi. I don't know that for sure about Sibelius & Finale since their code is closed, but the open source MuseScore editor does use 3840. [1]

[1] https://github.com/musescore/MuseScore/search?q=3840
So this actually points to a big problem with how we measure growth.

If you start from the assumption that well-being or some other desirable policy goal can be measured by income (profits, wages, etc), I'd argue most of the things in this list aren't likely to increase either wages or profits of companies.

But they are likely to create economic surplus - that thing that makes us want to trade/transact in the first place. Economic surplus is why you'd rather buy a Netflix package for $10 than rent a $3 video from the video store. You're massively better off with Netflix even though Netflix's profits and your wages haven't moved.

The problem is, we don't have a good way to measure this. Economists are aware of the problem, and it's something that makes comparison of GDP across decades difficult. There are many things that are better or flat-out new compared to what existed 50 years ago. How do you compare the experience of driving a modern, safe, smooth-driving car to an older one? Or the experience of talking cross-continent for practically nothing on Skype?

I agree that these technologies are going to reshape our world, I just don't think those gains are necessarily going to show up in GDP, at least not how we measure it today. And I also think this whole "real wages have stagnated" argument is a bit of a red herring. Maybe they have...so what. People are much, much better off today than they were even 20 years ago. We have more things, they're better in almost every way, less disease, the world is just 100% a better place, and anyone who says otherwise is just trying to push some redistributionist political agenda. I'm not saying inequality isn't a problem, but it's borderline lying to suggest our lives haven't gotten any better over the last 30 years because "real wages have stagnated".
Wow Japan totally dominates the lists! I wonder how they do that.
$y + $z must be greater than $x. If $y is money and $z is scientific contributions... $y is most likely not something people are offering money for. So in an open market its value is at or near $0. So $z by itself must exceed $x.

To not care about the $z, $y must exceed $x by itself and that seems really unlikely for the types of things that OP suggested instead of proof-of-work.
Or as an excuse for driving drunk https://mobile.twitter.com/CHPSanFrancisco/status/9544189332...
I think the main difference is that, on an airplane, a momentary (less than 5 seconds) lapse in judgment isn’t going to down the plane. Pilots know when they have to be heavily engaged — during takeoff and landing — and when to let autopilot take over. Here, if you zone out for a few seconds at any point in your trip you could easily kill yourself and others.
> Is this work lifestyle so different from software engineering in the 80s when representation in cs programs was far better?

Good point. I don't have an answer there. I can think of a few things though:

* Maybe other professions changed and become more appealing so more women found it easier to become doctors or say lawyers. Maybe those women went into STEM before and now with more access to scholarships they could do something else?

* Culture changed. There was a great push in the 50s and 60s for STEM to overcome the Soviets, who were seen as winning the space race. So there were more programs to get children interested in science, and somehow it resulted in girls of that era being more attracted to it. By the 80s they grew up to get jobs so would be contributing to the statistics.

* The new tech companies that grew rapidly had more of a toxic male "brogrammer" culture unwelcome to women, and maybe paradoxically a more traditional places like NASA or IBM where people wore formal attire and pocket protectors also was a place were there was less harassment and more professionalism. As those new "startups" become large tech giants they had failed to pay attention to harassment and behavior of its "ninja rockstar programmers"

* Gaming culture. Maybe computer games started to become more popular. Those were geared more towards boys, as a result more boys got to spend time on computers, at first playing games, then trying to hack games and write their own.

But I imagine women were always underrepresented in STEM and computing and there is no one single factor. Was 80s a "golden age" of STEM for women? What was the percentage difference. How did it compare to representation in CS only vs STEM. I couldn't find good answers, maybe you'd have more luck.
Spotify does pretty much the same thing
As good as a Tesla is - and I'm not saying it's bad - there are other cars that are better this kind of thing. https://www.reddit.com/r/teslamotors/comments/7s36dk/got_tbo...
I've looked into Vue.js, and they seem to indicate that it's easier to get up an running than react (using what you describe here). Are you suggesting vue.js and react work exactly the same?
Nodes vs. Nodelets: Process options create confusion across the semi industry
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I've got my 96-year-old grandmother using Uber - https://www.gosmartride.com :)
> I've led several small-ish projects (1-2 people, 3-6 months) that could replace dozens or even 1000s of experts in their respective fields.

Can you give some specifics on projects?
I have flagged this article. All paywalled articles should be posted with a link to a nonpaywalled version or it excludes a nontrivial amount of users.
First a nitpick: gravity waves are those things you see on the surface of the ocean. You're asking about gravitational waves, which are a disturbance in the curvature of spacetime.

As for the speed, nobody knows! In fact for the last 100 years it was only conjectured that they travel at the same speed as light. It was only last year that a really solid measurement was taken by simultaneously observing a neutron star inspiral in both visible light and gravitational wave observatories.

Presumably when you make your Grand Unified Theory you'll have to explain this.
I love your point about them being another pillar of civilization, independent as much as possible from corporate and government power. Well put.

Regarding the use of hedge funds, I think that when you're managing a multi-billion dollar endowment in a $300+ trillion global finance world, you'd be crazy not to. Stock markets represent only a fraction of total invested assets worldwide. Bond markets are larger by far, but interest rates have been so low for so long that it's hard to grow your money there in a straight-forward manner. So to diversify without killing growth you need novel but robust (i.e. not pure play) investment strategies that leverage varied facets of the global economy, which is where hedge funds come in.

Whether schools should be spending more of their endowment is another question--set of questions, really. But the talk about hedge funds just seems like a pointless, sensationalist distraction. Hedge funds aren't merely a niche, high-risk corner of the finance world like they were a couple of decades ago. They're still complex and opaque, but so is modern software; that sort of systemic complexity seems, in part, inevitable.
Native Tamil 'speaker' here.

My parents put me in English medium school with Hindi as second language (Several years of Sanskrit as well) to survive outside south India (they suffered outside South India, for not knowing Hindi; they trained themselves in it and gave easier way to me learn other languages).

But since I didn't have formal education in Tamil, a highly sophisticated language evolved over (2000-3000 years); I can't write or read genuine version of it (can do some guess work based on familiar characters from common media). But I can speak in Tamil fluently since my family speaks in Tamil, also at several times my friends who are into Tamil literature have been amazed by my choice of vocabulary when speaking in Tamil.

I think,

1. I compensate for my lack of knowledge in reading/writing Tamil by listening keenly to the language.

2. I can say from first hand experience that, the OP is also benefitted by living in an environment where he gets to listen to Tamil quite regularly; enough to give him understanding of the language.
No, CORS doesn't apply here. CORS regulates cross-origin requests, but the attack here makes the browser think the requests are same-origin.

(Also, CORS can only be used to permit access that would normally be denied. CORS does not offer any way to deny access that is normally permitted.)
The existence of sickle cell and cystic fibrosis means we have a moral obligation to use it, and prevent these horrible diseases.

We have ethical justification to use genetic manipulation to enhance lives. By not doing so you're sentencing people to a life of suffering.
In boats we have had autopilot for decades. It takes the boat on a straight path to a point via GPS only. You must pay attention and correct course for obsticals in your path. Simple, logical and efficient.
What if you factor in storage? If your paid to take energy off grid you can store it and still potentially run 24/7.
The concept of needing more energy when speaking a 2dn language really resonates with my experience:

While learning English as a 2nd language, we noticed that when in a group of nonnative speaker, the who does the talking had a harder time understanding the native speakers than the others from the group. This never failed, whoever spoke had more problem to understand than he listeners.

Maybe an explanation is that the extra cognitive energy uses to speak prevented as good comprehension as when fully spending the energy/focus on listening.
> Why doesnt Tesla take their Semi model and make a Fire-Engine model????

The automation in Tesla's vehicles is, and should be, designed around modern conditions, not a utopia. Otherwise disable all those features until that utopia arrives.

Or would we say collisions with pedestrians are okay until such pedestrians all have autonomous human beacons (made by Tesla, of course)?
I'm a strong believer in using minimal but sufficient regulations and taxes to shape market growth.

There are some absolutely unnecessary regulations, like the loopholes Tesla has to go through to sell cars because traditional dealerships don't want to lose money, or unfair taxes against green energy - protectionism must die.

There are also outdated but reasonable regulations, like Seattle's density regulations. Our housing crisis is caused by the market lagging far behind economic growth because it took years for the public to recognize the city was growing, years to change the laws, and then more years for the normal construction timeline. Density regulations as a concept make sense, but we haven't figured out how to auto-scale limits to avoid falling behind.

And then there are areas where we do need more regulations. For example, we absolutely need more regulations on credit cards and loans in addition to better finance education in highschool. Consumers are responsible for being informed, but there's still no excuse for even offering to saddle someone with a high-interest loan that they can never hope to pay off... some people are simply too dumb to understand the math.

I like the phrase "evidence-based regulations", but sometimes the evidence is stale or measuring the wrong thing, and the data doesn't guarantee we implement the right system of incentives.
Yeah, I can't really answer that one for you, I don't own any coins and I don't really have a need to (apart from maybe needing to be rich if I had bought some 2 years ago). We're right back where we started, just because we don't find any value in it, doesn't mean other people also don't. Sure, the market might be inflated at the moment and over valued but there's gotta be some truth somewhere in it otherwise people wouldn't have been using it for the whole time coins were cheap.
Ummm.... They hire retired NYPD (and off-duty NYPD) for a lot worse things than getting cards.
I love it! For all the bad things bitcoin has brought, I have to say it makes me feel like I'm living in a cyberpunk novel! Snow Crash...Neuromancer.... I think people are focusing on all the negatives and overlooking all the fascinating aspects of whats going on. The internet has basically spontaneously created an interesting and suspicious technology. I think it's really only been possible thanks to the increasingly effective and available means of energy production, such that almost a consumer commodity.

Neal Stephenson, if you're reading this, this would make an amazing sci-fi novel.
mrustc compiles Rust to C; I don’t think idiomatic is a goal though.
Thank you dundercoder for sharing your experiences, would be very interested in the adaptations you made to your working environment as your eyesight failed. It also got me thinking about my own locale, and I would agree with volkl48. I live in Walla Walla, WA now, which has three colleges and a very walkable downtown. Sounds like you have kids, and we have reasonable public schools. It's a 45 minute flight to Seattle. There is a public bus system that covers much of the area; surprising for a US city of only 30,000 people. Really though you can cover the entire downtown area on foot. Sounds like as a suburbanite it might be more your speed over a metro area.
I don't have any scars from a cello bite.
You cannot expect me to make responsible decisions so long as non-normal distributions are allowed to exist!
This is a despicable use of technology. I hope the innocent have their names cleared.
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I think the context in which Linus exists professionally is perennially misunderstood. IMO he basically has to be this way, or else the kernel would have been effectively stolen by [insert powerful tech company] at various crucial moments throughout its history. I see his particular position in technology as being truly unique, and that it essentially just requires somewhat exaggerated rhetoric and even superficially childish antics to protect the independence of the kernel.

This is not to say that Linus’ behavior is a good model for “how engineers should generally behave”. It just isn’t, and anyone behaving this way in a company should almost certainly be fired. I think he’d probably agree, to boot. But I could be wrong about that.

P.S. I hope I don’t come across with disagreeing with you about any of what you think tech “should” be. I totally agree with you.
Heck, why assume it's a continuum when it could be n-dimensional space. There's lots of stuff that can't be mapped to the real number line.
It's amazing that they can get away with this. It's a bribe by any other name. And it's a terrible sign of the police that they go apesh*t about losing the ability to sell/give get out of jail cards.

I guess it's simpler than handing the ticket to a cop friend and asking them to fix it (happened in our lifetime) but still kills the rule of law.

And when you see this, is it hard to believe there are 2 tiers of justice in the inner city?
Is there any significant difference between MH-Z19 and MH-Z19B?
How about folding @ home? https://curecoin.net/
To be fair, controlled flight into terrain unfortunately also has precedent.
What vote? There hasn't been a vote on Net Neutrality. If there had, it seems that at least Tester would have voted in favor, considering he's demanded that it be continued repeatedly to the FCC.

Did you imagine that a vote had been conducted, and then further imagine that the obviously Republican Senators from Montana voted against it?
>Taxes imposed on import do not hurt solar, as much as they will help the American solar industry.

What's backing up this claim? Because not only is this at a glance in violation of several trade agreements the U.S. has made internationally, it also defies core theories and principles that have
fueled the last several decades of trade law and agreements [1].

This absolutely REEKS of the typical bullshit the right+ in this country like to put out every time they're elected while also dripping with short sighted protectionism.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tariffs_in_United_States_histo...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16208392
The end of George Dyson's classic article on Google goes:

For 30 years I have been wondering, what indication of its
existence might we expect from a true AI? Certainly not
any explicit revelation, which might spark a movement to
pull the plug. Anomalous accumulation or creation of
wealth might be a sign, or an unquenchable thirst for raw
information, storage space, and processing cycles, or a
concerted attempt to secure an uninterrupted, autonomous
power supply. But the real sign, I suspect, would be a
circle of cheerful, contented, intellectually and
physically well-nourished people surrounding the AI. There
wouldn't be any need for True Believers, or the
downloading of human brains or anything sinister like
that: just a gradual, gentle, pervasive and mutually
beneficial contact between us and a growing something
else. This remains a non-testable hypothesis, for now. The
best description comes from science fiction writer Simon
Ings:

When our machines overtook us, too complex and efficient
for us to control, they did it so fast and so smoothly and
so usefully, only a fool or a prophet would have dared
complain."

https://www.edge.org/conversation/turing-39s-cathedral
>Margins are tight no matter how large your farm is. I have no idea why a farm of any size of would haphazardly use glyphosate?

The way corporate farms work is different (I'd assume based on other experiences) than a private farm. One core concept is time to harvest. There are massive combine harvest schedules that start in the south and work their way north to harvest. If your crop isn't ready on time, the loss in time and cost to come back south could be huge cost. Where if you douse a field with glyphosates, you can guarantee a very specific time for harvest. Both a dead crop, and a dry one. Which makes it so you don't have to use dryers, something common around our parts, that cost a lot of money to run.

So I can see a lot of reasons that it would make sense to intentionally soak a field in the stuff every year weather it killed weeds or not. And this is just off the top of my head.

>Why does your friend only react to glyphosate in wheat but not other food products?

I am not suggesting that is the reason in the first place, it's just a guess. Doctors didn't think unseeable microbes could kill people until the 1800s. And more recently doctors didn't believe it possible that people would have sever reactions to latex, yet we know that is true now. So I am not going to assume anything good about a chemical designed to kill things, and it would be the first thing I'd remove from my diet if I was getting sick like her from eating. (vomitting and in bed with fever for days, ick)
Yes, but most of those devices come with free Netflix. Also, a lot of people get them specifically for Netflix (and not so much the other services).
Proof of Concept: Ransomware Strain Encrypts Cloud Email
> given that this is not the first time I've posted something similar

Funny, I didn’t see that in your ten day long comment history.
they funded quantstamp
For me it's a different angle: it's so I can understand what my toddler wants!

We've been teaching ASL (and thus English) since she was 6 months old. This is not our native tongue. But even at 2 now, it's very difficult to understand a lot of what she's saying. Having her sign along makes it somewhat easier, but it's still a guessing game. At this age, her speech and signs aren't always very clear.

Having an even larger vocabulary in another language would make it even harder to guess what she wants! We'll start teaching her our native tongue as she gets a little bit older.