skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Say you are a high risk for cancer insurance will be more expensive employers in the UA will not want to employ you.
Stay-in-place formwork is made as easy as erecting steel stud walls, and covering them with high grade MgO drywall of sufficient thickness and density (1.5cm D1.1). Chinese suppliers have plenty of that prefabricated with fitures. https://s.1688.com/company/company_search.htm?keywords=%C4%A...

One important thing: always ask for MgO board with MgSO4 binder. MgClOn ones can turn corrosive due to minute manufacturing procedure deviations.

Foamed concrete:

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

Made in two ways:

1. You mix polymer or protein foam into concrete.

2. You mix bubble generating chemical into concrete that will expand it after the pour.

It is a tricky and rather obscure tech mostly used across the former bloc countries or places that used to receive Soviet tech like India. Working with it is much more of a skill rather than science, and this hampers its adoption.

Biggest roadblocks other than skill intensity:

1. Corrosion protection - porous concrete is obviously more permeable than solid one. Easy ways to protect armature do not work as with solid concrete. Zinc anodized steel or other consumable protections will simply be consumed much earlier than in solid concrete, or worse, be eaten by lower PH of a foam concrete after settling. You have to put additional alkalinisers, or flyash, but they can destroy the foam. Finding a foam that will stand your alkaliniser, or a particular composition of flyash (flyash from different powerplants and blast furnaces can be dramatically different chemically and change in composition over time!) is always a challenge.

2. Faster hardening, especially with alkalinisers or geopolymer base - 40 MPa in just 2 days. You also have to spray formwork with water copiously to prevent it from premature drying.

3. Bigger sensitivity to chemical purity of components in general. Additives for foam concrete are an esoteric matter.

What I say about it: advantages worth the trouble

1. You can go down in density down to 350 per cube, or even 150 if you are a concrete chemistry magician. 350 gives you 0.1 W/mK thermal conductivity

2. Incomparably more flowable and pumpable.

3. You can use cements that are wholly geopolymer based or natural cements which is a huge economic incentive.

4. Can be used structurally above 600 per cube density with 13kg/cm2 load bearing capacity. Load bearing capacity goes up non-linearly. 850/cube already give you 30kg/cm2

5. Settled foam concrete is workable with just saws and hand tools. If you have to fix a screw up, it is much easier than with solid Portland cement.

6. Works like magic with stay-in-place formwork.
Agree with everything except the "I wouldn't be surprised to see more scrutiny". That would surprise me!
The USCIS refers to "immediate family" as parents, spouses and children, as seen on your first link, so "extended family" would involve siblings. One of those situations where a term can have a legal meaning that's different from how it is commonly used. The NPR part also links to another article that explains who can be sponsored right away.
Oh so if we follow that out further we find that managers and COs work for the employees too!
It is less than "plainly obvious," to me, that Japan, South Korea, and China (not to mention the older historical examples of the United States, the United Kingdom, and Germany, which are mentioned but get less attention in the piece) were all successful in their project of industrialization in spite of, rather than because of, common traits of the paths they all took to get there. Certainly I would not consider it comparable to arguing against evolution to claim the opposite.
> There was a time when cabal-install had a (warranted) reputation for being nearly impossible to use and regularly creating dependency hell

> You almost certainly do not want to use stack install.

> The .cabal file is, ultimately, what is used to build your project, but modern versions of stack generate projects that use hpack, which uses an alternate configuration file, the package.yaml file, to generate the .cabal file. This can get a little bit confusing, since it means you have three configuration files in your project

> Frankly, I think the UX around this is terrible.

This goes to show that no amount of static typing can save you from implementing badly-designed software.
This is exactly why hardware wallets are so very important when dealing with cryptocurrencies, don't keep funds on an exchange that you can't afford to lose. That being said, intentionally misleading customers for the period and extent that exchange owner Francesco Firano did is beyond unacceptable. I sincerely hope the community will promptly abandon BitGrail as there is no way to trust them ever again.
If you read the article, it's still going to have cooling, but with chilled water in the floor instead of cold forced air.
Very relevant book, http://www.anthempress.com/kicking-away-the-ladder
U.S. Federal Reserve Might Accept Ripple – Viral Docks
Economics is a far more fallible science than biology.
The majority of users are not tech aware security engineers. The majority of users (myself included) don't want to spend hours of our lives effectively specializing in android/ios under the hood design, and/or browsing shady blogs and forums looking for ways to root our phones.

Don't underestimate the domain knowledge that you've acquired, and the amount necessary to root a phone, let alone take control of linux embedded in a television. It's about more than just not knowing that we're being spied on. It simply isn't efficient to expect so many people, who have already specialized according to their professions and interests, to also take on this level of domain specific knowledge.
This is an incredibly important point!

Openly sharing your genetic information makes both you AND your relatives more vulnerable, with vulnerability decreasing as relatedness decreases. It also reveals potentially sensitive information about family traits.
> China has billions of people

Calm down, it hasn't even reached 1.5 billion yet.
Never heard back from these guys. Are you guys just overwhelmed by the amount of applicants?

You've also been posting for a long time - I'm sure that a great amount of talent has applied.
The problem is in order to be seen as core HR increasing try and pitch themselves as some elite function that is key to business success when in fact they are there just to service the needs of the company. Building services are another culprit.

This leads to fads such as stack ranking which in 99% of cases causes huge damage to companies by being penny wise and pound foolish.
I think a lot of people say this. Very few informed people say this. But for a layperson, its difficult to tell who is informed and who isn't (and in fact laypeople haven't heard of the real experts: Hinton who?)
I liked his (Jordan Peterson) explanation of James Damores paper. It seems rooted in biological facts and there was extensive research that was scientifically accepted cited. I really like Peterson and I think his critiques are really valid. His most recent appearance on Joe Rogan's podcast really interested me and I found it both novel and a great scientific exploration of social & biological concepts. I don't understand the controversy around him tbh.
Yes, see https://github.com/DanielG/ghc-mod/issues/900
Ask HN: After web development, where can I go?
I am very, very bored with front-end development.

Truthfully, for the last two years I've been rather dissatisfied with my programming career more generally. I've done a lot of thinking about alternative careers, including some quite radical changes, like going into law or the civil service.

But I still want to give software engineering a chance. I've been enthralled by computers since I was about ten. That's twenty years of passion. I don't want to just throw that away unless I have to.

My background to tech isn't a traditional one. I studied English literature intending to become a critic, but became disillusioned with academia sometime around my third year. I worked as a technical writer, then a UX designer, before finally sidestepping into JavaScript programming.

I am now a senior developer and tech lead at what should be an exciting startup. For the last year I've been mostly doing WebVR development (through THREE.js) and Node backend work. I've convinced my team to adopt TypeScript and written some fairly involved bits of client side code. But it still feels hollow.

I feel I'd like to try something much more technical, much more low-level. My first experience of programming was writing ARMIPS assembler patches for classic PSOne games. My first GUI tool was an app I cobbled together just to write a videogame mod. I feel I'd like to capture the same excitement and hands-on, low-abstraction way of working.

What would be the easiest way to achieve this?
Nobody. With the vast majority of corporations your relationship with them is not only entirely professional, it is mercenary. They have no allegiance to you, they will end your employment the nanosecond they believe that it makes financial sense to do so. And they will hurt you quite easily without even the slightest thought. Yes, you can still maintain a friendly relationship with your company, and not every corporation is the same, but if you don't start from a policy of distrust and wariness you can easily walk into a disaster. Don't put blind trust into your employer, let your trust be built on multiple specific examples of them being worthy of trust.
Player of games is the only one I loved.
> media provocateurs and the liberal journalists

Please don't post ideological boilerplate to HN. This is not a site for ideological battle.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
The trouble is, you don't know that the person you report to (HR or another person mandated to report to HR) is the harasser's best buddy.

Now you're fucked.
It is good that people are trying to get computation closer to the memory again.
> I don't think it's a law of nature that "things will always work out ok"

So long as people like you keep asking the critical questions, we're not lost :)

Lots of resources/jobs could be spent making life better for the majority of people. UBI is an extreme example of this. Universal health care, free higher education, solving homelessness, a human justice system, entertainment, could all use more resources.

The question is if America has the will to make this happen. As it won't be possible with state-sponsored wealth redistribution. I suspect European countries will be a lot better at finding the balance.
I don't understand HN culture sometimes. This parent comment to mine is asking a legitimate question that begs a thoughtful answer. Why is he being down-voted simply because he's not jumping on the bandwagon? Don't we come here because we want discussion of a nuance level a few cuts above the rest?
If you program a modern custom web app (let's say with vue) with Google Maps you will also start to curse at it because it's complicated and frustrating to deal with.
Nothing against legacy support (it should stay!) but sometimes you want to work with things easily with modern techniques.
In many places, the laws protecting employees are better than whatever you can make the company sign as a contractor.
Surely, it should be Realistic_Typist_?
You've been using HN primarily for ideological battle. That's an abuse of this site, regardless of which ideology you're promulgating, because it destroys the intellectual curiosity which the site is for.

Since (a) the site guidelines explicitly ask you not do this; (b) you've ignored our recent request to stop doing this, and (c) you've been using multiple accounts to do it in this thread, we've banned this account.

Please don't create accounts to break the site guidelines with.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Well, retirement accounts are certainly awesome, but there should be an investment account for your 5-year to 20-year planned events.

Between weddings, funerals, car purchases, home purchases, major home renovations (new roof, new windows, etc. etc.), there are a lot of things that can be planned for 5 to 15 years out that probably should be properly invested. These lengths are long enough that sitting on cash is probably a bad idea, short enough that you need it before you can crack your retirement accounts.

Some of those things can be paid from your 401k or Roth IRA, but its a bad idea IMO to draw from your tax-advantaged retirement accounts in these cases.

A real world example: if you are beginning to look for a house and will likely need $70k+ for a good down payment, that would be the time to buy put-options to "lock in" your $70k.

You haven't found a house yet, but within 6 months or so, you'll likely need the money.

Without options, you'd basically be forced to sell your stocks ASAP, in case the market crashes and ruins your plans. But with a put-option, you negate all the downside risks, while retaining the ability to collect dividends and benefit from upward swings of the market. The put options allows you to confidently hold the stocks up until the week before closing (You'll still need time to transfer the money and generate a cashier's check, but you won't have to worry about market fluctuations)
I haven't had any issues so far on my 2013 Macbook Air.
The whole point of a smartphone are third party apps.

LG had more than a dozen phones with touch screen (resistive) at that time that had "apps" but no third party apps (except for JavaME apps).

The game changer (as the linked site from Apple states as well) was an App Store allowing direct access to third party apps. And that's what created another modern tech revolution.
If you’re a company with a lousy reputation, you’ll still lose out on good people to a well-funded company with a good reputation.

I mean, you could try to outbid your competitors on every hire, but that’s not a sustainable strategy.
The extent to which developers are taken advantage of is really concerning IMHO, you wouldn't tell a plumber how to fix a pipe so why is it that people think it's ok to constantly tell developers how to do their job?
Ask HN: Best resources to learn flexbox in 2018?
Which were the most useful for you?

Thanks!
> Nobody even implements DX other than high-powered desktop GPUs

err, Intel iGPU, available in something as tiny/low-power as a LattePanda board… and all the Windows tablets…
Well, as a small developer I'd love to see a higher-level, easier-to-use API (than Vulkan) that can be used as a modern, cross platform replacement for OpenGL. If it could be used both in a browser and standalone even better. If it was available outside of a browser (even as a Vulkan/Metal wrapper), I think it could become a no-brainer replacement for where OpenGL ES is used today.

I understand that engine developers can get some (small?) percent improvement from an ultra-low-level API that exposes more platform specific details. But they almost always support multiple APIs natively, and already use the low level ones where available. There may be a small performance benefit (over a higher level API) in the browser, but I don't think the browser is a likely target for ultra heavyweight apps / games, that usually are multi-GB downloads anyway, in the near future. And keep in mind that if smaller software sticks with WebGL because of API complexity, that might be a big performance loss for the user.

But a higher level API would have great benefits everywhere! Right now the only real cross-platform graphics API is OpenGL ES 3.0, which is becoming more and more obsolete, with little sign of the situation changing. No compute shaders, no AZDO, etc. Any move beyond that feature set now requires multiple APIs, shaders etc. And the easiest way for a small developer to get those features is still to skip Vulkan and to stick with GL ES 3.1+ on Win/Linux/Android and choose Metal on Mac/iOS. Of course on the web for those features there are no options at all.

I think if a new API was available that was easy to use and truly cross platform (including web), it would be the obvious first API to implement for all new graphics software. And this would be a much larger benefit than an unknown performance improvement that is accessible mostly to engine developers.
Most of the time you have to write metrics into the code (and have a place set up to collect the data), that alone is a step a lot of places don't do or don't do enough.
I am amazed when I see video footage of a keyboard being put together by hand, each keyboard being a 102 piece jigsaw puzzle done with cottage industry workflow and technology levels.

I had assumed that all of this had been automated and that robots would be doing it all.

It really is a question of people being cheaper than robots.

Personally I would prefer people to be able to have the robots do the work and more people share that wealth in some socialist republic where there are huge sport centers, universities and creche facilities. The thing is that having factories full of people can be considered 'wage slavery', robots are okay with being slaves and they don't need wages.
Because Georgia isn't a libertarian dream country.

They suffer from relatively high corruption. Transparency.org lists them as comparable to Grenada, Costa Rica, and Rwanda.

Georgia has been subject to being ripped apart by Russia. Its politics are directly, violently influenced by its giant neighbor.

There are no other highly prosperous nations in the region to trade with. All nations in the region are either extremely low on the per capita wealth & per capita income scores, or a few are barely mid-lower tier. Turkey, Romania, Bulgaria, Moldova, Russia, Ukraine, Syria, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Belarus, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Serbia, etc. These are quite poor nations per capita. It's like you expect a Singapore or Hong Kong to pop up out of nowhere amongst the desert, without a Japan + South Korea + China to trade with. Much less being eg Denmark in the midst of economic valhalla, or Canada riding on the world's richest economy.

They get ranked very low on property rights protections, government integrity (ie corruption), and judicial:

https://www.heritage.org/index/country/georgia

You can have low taxes, or flat taxes, as in Russia as well, but if your system is a totalitarian dictatorship and part command & control economy, the results are still going to overwhelmingly tend to be mediocre. Or in the case of Georgia, if you still suffer from weak property rights protections and high corruption, trust is going to be very low when it comes to investing. To say nothing of the risk that Russia will randomly destroy the nation, as it's known today, in any given year. That foreign capital investment is a prerequisite to massive economic development.

Prosperous nations very rarely exist in such circumstances, save for a few extremely resource rich examples, such as Qatar, UAE, Brunei and Saudi. Those few isolated examples are all that have existed in modern history out of the present ~195 nations.
And I start to think that web tech is becoming a fast food of software development.
It depends on the society and how it is structured. Generally, no.
RavenDB 4.0 is out
> There's this thing called conflict of interest, still, that doesn't mean they can't be friendly to you and offer you advice.

That's exactly what conflict of interest means: a situation in which the concerns or aims of two different parties are incompatible.

They can't offer you advice. Well, I mean, they can and they do, but take it with a Ganymede-sized grain of salt.
We still need social benefits to keep up with potentially devastating changes in society.
Having recently talked to a workplace attorney about this, you are correct and the parent poster is pushing a naive and simplistic idea of how workplace litigation works.

It is important that you give the company notice of bad behavior so that they can be held responsible later if they fail to stop it. That notice could come from your attorney if you want to feel more protected, but saying blanket "don't talk to HR ever" is not correct.
It's not what the people who are experts believe, it's what everyone else thinks. The fact is that "deep learning" is now just routinely and casually called "AI" across the industry. And you can bet that people who make decisions who are not sufficiently savvy to know the limits will be duped into a false sense of confidence in this technology.
Shakespeare the author of the plays is one and the same with the actor and producer and theater manager, per the article.
"I have had a child. And I have already decided that the only social interaction he will have will be real-time or near real time. This means face to face, live video, real time chat (sms Hangouts is okay). This shows real interest and attention to the other party in real time and allows true connections to be formed."

Remember how physical letter-writing used to be hugely important?

We lost something there that wasn't real-time.
I think I might have seen a canvas-only embedded "browser" without the DOM somewhere on github already…
The size of the implant can't be the issue because the implants (empty) were also implanted in the active controls, who maintained their weight/food intake. Any discomfort must have come from the additional weight, but of course, that ought to also be true of mice who are fat. The crosscheck with the less-boney mice, without any implants at all, also helps support that it is the change in weight itself and not an associated effect of the implanted spheres, which is the cause.

> Could they do this again with a larger animal with weights that could be applied without any potential discomfort?

One hopes so. Larger animals are harder to work with, of course. But it's wild to imagine that putting on a weight vest might help you lose weight, even for a field which has no shortage of strange results relating to genetics/diet/metabolism/weightloss once you go beyond theological doctrine like CICO.
If the alternative isn’t social and economic measures to help poeple out of a job, then what you’re saying is just a slightly glossy version of “fuck ‘em.” Telling people to just let “progress” roll over them without alternatives is nasty, useless, and counterproductive.
It creates an opportunity for lying by way of equivocation, but it is also just an unavoidable part of language and communication. The statement NPR made doesn't drastically change if "extended family" contains cousins or not, and they link to more information right next to the statement. It's hard for me to see malice in the action.
Thanks for the Clive reference. I hadn't seen it.
I blame secularization. Human beings are genetically very good conduits for transfer of ideas. This is why in the past religions had such success in becoming popular and "infecting" people's brains.

But once modern society decided that religion is bad, they created a memetic vacuum, a population of brains with empty slots ready to attach to whatever big idea came next. And that happened to be social networks with their strong feedback loops and financial incentives to be as addictive as possible.

I wish there was a church option again that was a bit less loony. Something focused on community and shared values, less on the mystical. Honestly I think Unitarians come close but I don't know why their numbers are record low; maybe there needs to be more of a social network backlash to get some new members through the door.
How long will that be true? And if it stays true, will it be because people are being payed less and less?