skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While shopping the toy section at Target a few weeks ago, in the science/educational section, I came across a few variations of a "//code programming game series"[0] by Thinkfun[1]. The titles I saw were "Robot Repair" which focusses on boolean logic, and "On the Brink" focussing on procedures.

The target age group indicated on the box says 8-adult, but I suspect it's quite likely that younger ages can also play along, with some help or guidance.

I haven't played or looked at them in depth, but from a superficial overview, these do look quite beneficial for understanding some of the core concepts.

[0]: https://www.thinkfun.com/learn-coding/
[1]: https://www.thinkfun.com/
I would go with "better safe than sorry" if I had to manage this sort of data. It might be fine so long as the URLs are all non-identifying stuff like the Wikipedia home page. But I bet I would have users with much more revealing bookmarks, like, say, their Keybase profile page, or URLs with session/auth tokens in query strings, or the home page of their church which has a congregation of less than 50 people.
The people who need to be cautious tend not to be, and vice versa.
When Did Americans Stop Marrying Cousins? Ask the World’s Largest Family Tree
there's also the stuff that ayasdi and carlsson were/are doing but i never really saw the point of that (e.g. just compute connected components instead persistent homology).
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>eat right, exercise, and get enough sleep

Of these three, diet has by far the most impact on t2 diabetes. The focus on casual exercise ("10k steps per day") is relatively useless compared to a low-inflammation diet. But there seem to be a lot of perverse incentives and special interests who keep the conversation muddled or focused elsewhere.
That's anarchy. Societies are societies because they put the good of the group above the good of the individual.
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Well it is not just Taiwan, China also has a beef with Japan, which the US is committed to defending too.
> My example of the Echo being used to monitor the political education of children is very plausible.

“Plausible” does not mean “not literally impossible”. It means something is reasonably possible. Your scenario is not reasonably possible. It is exceedingly unlikely. It is possible, perhaps plausible, that the government could tap the echo data feed, but that’s really a much different scenario than the active monitoring of children’s political education that you imagine.

You clearly don’t believe in the plausibility of these scenarios or you would not have three Echos in your house.
Its surprising that I don't see any of the new headless cms stacks here. Checkout https://headlesscms.org/

I am working on https://github.com/daptin/daptin
Is there any way you can think of to get a proxy for that feeling without actually having kid? I want to gather more data on whether I want to be a parent, and yet all parents tell me "you won't know until you try it."

What if I try it and don't enjoy being a parent? The cost of a child being stuck with an unhappy parent is too much to risk it.
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Notice that most of the comments here are describing post-hoc how having children has been fulfilling/great/worth it. Which isn't really the question - it's not asking if having children was a good move in retrospect.

It's interesting that most people's minds go there. I've had this happen myself after having a son - the original "why" almost doesn't matter or rather gets overshadowed by all the other parts of it (for most people, a deep sense of purpose and fulfillment).

To actually answer the question, my partner and I came to a place where our relationship was great, jobs were great, etc - but we felt a certain "is this it?". Sure, being DINKS is a nice life, lots of travel, easy, etc. But... hmmmmmm... is this it? Amuse ourselves until we die? Stay clean and simple, have fun, work hard... hmmmmmm....

Meanwhile there was a quiet impulse in the background beckoning towards creating something out of our relationship / position. It's hard to describe. Obviously biology is playing a role here. But what a wonderful chaotic creative thing, two different people coming together and making a third person.

So we had a vague sense of all that. And decided to go for it. As many other people have said in this thread, your life changes immediately and irrevocably when kids arrive, but for us it's been pure joy. Lots of chaos too.

My wife remarks that she didn't realize what a big hole was in her life before becoming a mother. That's maybe the best way to describe it. We had a sense that there was a hole in our lives, or something that would grow into a big hole if we didn't have kids.
I believe that insisting on seeing code is a trap. Code is notoriously tricky to evaluate without actually running it for a while, anyway - look at all the bugs that make it through code reviews - so it works well for "ok they're not completely full of shit" but rarely a lot beyond that.

If there's truly interesting and clever architectural stuff going on, that can be explained in words in an interview (in person or not). That puts some burden back on people skills, but... if you're creating clever solutions you can't explain to other technical people, I'm going to be worried about your ability to work on a team anyway.

If I'm hiring someone with more than 5 years of experience I'm hoping they can tell me some interesting war stories or have some interesting design ideas when asked about a potential business problem.
> less then him succeeded

They didn't succeed; they finished a significantly reduced project, likely for management to finally show some results to investors. If you were ever writing some complex project, there are things you might not have anticipated that need a lot of care to be resolved, which is why making estimates is so difficult in creative industries.

Let's have a different take: imagine "Rick" was working on proper distributed transaction support in e.g. inter-banking communication from the scratch, as that was what business needed. He underestimated the complexity in the beginning, finding more and more corner cases that would reduce high availability that was crucial for the product. This led him to work days and nights in order to solve every single issue that appeared, if he wanted to be honest to himself, his conscience, and not sell a fraud as his final product. Unfortunately, he didn't see anyone in his team capable of actually helping him share the burden. He could have probably done a PhD thesis with the amount of work it required.

Now, investors/management after plenty broken deadlines for this overly optimistic project decided to fire Rick and move on with the rest of the team. In order to ship anything, they decided to remove transactions completely, making it a simple CRUD app, that cannot be used for financially critical tasks and was appealing to a much smaller market (imagine small banks vs large multinationals). This app was what the team delivered quickly. They finally could show the results to their investors, and were supper happy and proud of their achievement. As some investors still had a bad taste in their mouth from broken promises, management decided to blame/shame Rick publicly to identify proper scapegoat.

Rick is now burned out, soon to be homeless, trying to recover from the 2 insane years, and likely out of doing any great work for the foreseeable future, if not forever. Moreover, his name is now blacklisted, because everybody in the industry took the side of management/investors and will never hire him.
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S.F. Tech Workers Protest for the Right to Unionize
Rich data grids with ES2017 in functional style
This is a library made with React and React-Virtualized for creating rich data grids with filtering, sorting, grouping and aggregates. It supports virtualization, and so it can handle very large amounts of data. It features also locked columns, custom renderers and columns resize. Filtering, sorting, grouping and aggregates computation are done client-side.

https://github.com/energydrink9/functional-data-grid
Strictly speaking, one may end up with a separate set projections for e.g. dividends. These may in a standardized
way present ranges for each KPI with confidence intervals associated.

I'd rather invest if that type of data were included. :)

As this is a somewhat large topic, I'll elaborate further throughout the series of blog posts.
Here in the US I had to take my son (he was 5 years old at the time) to the emergency room when he had slipped in the bathtub and hit his head which caused a huge gash right above his eye. We sat in the emergency room for 5 hours before any of the staff bothered to look at his open wound and then another 4 hours after that before they actually treated him.

The most infuriating part of the experience was the not-so-subtle attempt by the staff to see whether or not I had told them the truth about how he had sustained his injury by constantly asking him to recount how he had sustained his injury instead of actually treating his injury. On top of that, the staff were rude and generally dismissive when I asked how long they thought it would be before my son would receive treatment.

And then of course the billing nightmare that ensued was just extra icing on the cake. The hospital was in network for my insurance (which I verified before I went and again while I was there) but the staff neglected to tell me that they were contracted through a completely different company that turns out was not in network so I ended up having to pay almost $2000 for what amounted to a few stitches for my son.
This gem seems like a good way to get a full app view while remaining in the browser. The only thing I might add would be to have an example turning on these metrics on a per request basis (via a parameter) so that you could check performance for users other than admin users.

Aside: I've used scout on a production application and it is similar in quality to new relic but far simpler to understand.
A Hacker Returned $17M in Stolen Ethereum
> Not everyone works at a FANG where they are treated like top-tier employees.

But virtually any IT worker with demanded skills can find a job where they will be treated similarly well. Compared to most of other industries, tech has the lowest incentives to have labor unions.
Ya, isn't it obvious? The guy is definitely awkward. I think Chinese like to think he is doing it for the money, because they feel like it gives them face and they can't imagine anything else being possible. Americans look at it quite differently of course, they see some guy who obviously has a thing for China and is doing a bunch of cringey stuff because of that.

If he was doing that for the money, you'd think he would consult first with someone who actually knew better.
> As of right now, a well trained convolutional neural network is no more than a mechanical pattern matching algorithm on steroids.

And computers are at best mechanical pattern matching machines. This isn't something that's subject to empirical evidence, and appeals to ignorance or the limits of our current understanding will not do. Computers cannot be any more than that by definition (and arguably the word "matching" is being used in an analogous fashion; rather, a computer configured with an algorithm is such that given an initial state, it will lead to a final state that, when interpreted by a human being, can be interpreted consistently in the desired manner, i.e., a final state of 0 means that the initial configuration encoded two state that match, and a final state of 1 means that they did not). Abstraction is, by definition, NOT reducible to a mechanical process like this. The human interpreter is the one possessing abstract concepts and who interprets by means of meanings conventionally assigned to symbols or machine states. A machine may contain a state that we call an image, but no process can in-principle abstract anything from this aggregation of states. To claim otherwise is to completely misunderstand what symbol manipulation is. (Even a human being couldn't abstract anything from an image in a mode analogous to the way in which a computer operates. By analogy, given a matrix of RGB values, could you tell me what's in the image? Or could you at best compute, say, a value that, when looked up in an already given table of values, gives you a label such as "sheep"?)

However, that does not mean that AI cannot perform well, at least within narrow constraints. It may very well be possible to improve AI techniques to such a degree that it can assign the label "sheep" correctly with high accuracy. There simply is an in-principle difference between AI and actual intelligence.
So you prefer to throw them into the MS mono culture pit.
For me it was a sense of obligation which was brought home after reading this in the Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins: No doubt some of your cousins and great-uncles died in childhood, but not a single one of your ancestors did. Jerry Seinfeld then cemented my fate with "Don't break the chain".
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Yeah, this is what I would've expected (hence the devil's advocate qualifier), which is why I think our life expectancy has other causal factors.

Although, one thing to note is the the government does invest in private hospitals as well, so that 79% figure won't be exclusively public healthcare. This is due to public-private-partnerships whereby a single site will accommodate both a public and private hospital with the entire project being funded by a combination of public and private funds, usually with an extremely favourable arrangement for the private side.
What? Does your dishwasher have a hot water feed?
> Functions that allow the users to delete and automatically download/access their own data is good practice for legitimate interest but not needed. You are anyway in general allowed to deal with these types of request on a case by case basis if you provide your data subjects with an email address.

I want to be very clear - you _almost always without exception_ have to provide access to/copy of personal data to the data subject no matter what legal basis is used (consent or not). “Data portability”, providing the data in a commonly used electronic format, such as JSON/XML download, is optional when using legitimate interest but mandatory when using consent.

You also _normally_ have to delete personal data of those data subjects who have requested it. You also normally have to stop using the data for the purposes the data subject requests you to stop with.

These processes do not normally need to be automated (but with consent it should be as easy to provide consent for the data subject as it is to revoke it).
This is a great direction for a certain class of problems, but to call this a general approach for building a super computer ignores the biggest challenge of all: communication performance.

The leadership-class super computers have large budgets for network interconnects like Infiniband, because the hardest problems require ultra low-latency, high-throughput RDMA message passing between processes.
I generally understand the title of senior engineer at an organization as indicating that the so titled person can be relied on to solve the majority of engineering needs of that organization - essentially, a senior engineer is the person you ask how to do something when you don't know how to do something.
> The fix for the second attack involved limiting the number of outgoing connections a target can make to the same /24 chunk of IP address to 10. The changes are designed to make it significantly harder to completely isolate a user from other legitimate users.

Maybe it is the way the article is written, or how I've read it, but the original flaw involved just 2 nodes w/ 2 IP address. This fix sounds like you need 2 nodes w/ 2 IP addresses that don't have the same /24 octal? Is it that much more difficult?

> When even a single node presents users with a different version of the blockchain, they will be warned of an error that effectively defeats the attack.

Doesn't this just mean the attacker has to make sure to control all 13 connections before starting the attack?
Seems to be using the `Server-Timing` header — are there docs somewhere on what this expects & what features it supports? Are other browsers likely to follow it?
I don't suppose you're in the midwest? This place could use more of that.
Waymo released a 360-degree VR representation of what its robocar sees
But the EU has a greater population than the US. I don't know anything about economics, but surely the EU as a whole is as strong as the US economy. So... why can't the EU create a movie industry that is as dominant as Hollywood?
This is the W3C spec for it: https://www.w3.org/TR/server-timing/
Any PreCalculus text -> Stewart Calculus -> Strang + Axler Linear Algebra -> a Calculus based Statistics & Probability book. Do the problems in the books. Read each chapter. If you do that you'll know Calculus and Linear Algebra better than most. If you want to then move up from there study Real Analysis and higher level math like Measure theory (but this may not be necessary for your purposes).
What sensationalist and exaggerated rhetoric. People who claim imminent collapse and chaos in China have been doing so for decades. They can keep on trying. Nobody is listening to them.

The Chinese leadership knows too well what a complete trainwreck Mao and the Cultural Revolution have brought on the country. Their priority is always on developing the country further. They are way smarter and more pragmatic than some western media/elites want to imagine them to be (e.g. imagine them to be some Kim-esque figure who only cares about personal enjoyment and leaves the population dying. That's absolutely not the mentality of the current Chinese leadership.)

What if that guy was told that in Germany, UK etc. there are practically no limits on how long a head of state can serve, as long as they are re-elected? Substitute the name for China. Would they change their rhetoric 180 degrees around? All just ideological nonsense with no substance. Yes, Xi's reforms could fail. The power struggle could become so intense that it spirals out of control and harms the populace somehow. But it could also be the case that Xi truly realizes his vision and became the leader to make China the most powerful country for a long time to come, a la Lee Kuan Yew, Ataturk etc. It's all hugely uncertain at the moment. Talking as if China is doomed from now on exactly shows how ignorant and far from reality this person is.

Personally I hate the fact that China is becoming like another US on so many aspects of the society. But really, that is a totally separate matter.
Disappointed to find that winblows.com is no longer up.
Ugh. Snap is so f'ing over engineered. Linus chose AppImage for a reason. It's only a slightly over engineered implementation of Application Directories, which is the simple solution to this problem.
By your logic, wouldn't adopting be a better way to help the world? You would still be able to pass on your knowledge and attempt to create a better version of yourself, but you wouldn't be producing yet another person straining the resources of the world. Not to mention the massive value added to the life of your adopted child.
In general, most intelligent people are aware of the dangers of sampling bias and try to avoid it. But what do you do when your sample size is really small? We extrapolate from what we have seen work, but only a handful of open source projects have had the longevity and success that Linux has had.

We see the same thing with decisions on what kind of movies to make. A handful of high budget movies are made every year, and when its time to decide which movies to fund studios extrapolate from past successes and failures. This includes wrong ideas like "no movies centred around female superheroes because Catwoman, Elektra etc" or "international audiences only connect with white leads, not with black ones". It goes the other way too, Black Panther's success suddenly means that international audiences love black actors.

Me personally, I don't think either of the conclusions wrt black actors is correct - there's insufficient data to support either hypothesis. But people make do with the data they have, which is the same thing with Linux. "Linux is wildly successful - what do they do differently? Hmm, must be Linus' management style"
Same post, but readable:

> I didn't exactly choose to have children. When I was younger, I suffered from a series of highly debilitating health issues (the details of which I will not go into here) and a young woman chose to take advantage of the situation and become impregnated.

> Now, don't get me wrong; I love my children dearly. I did not chose to have them in any normal sense, however.
They missed the real fix for the problem--change how vesting works.

They are talking about changing vesting from 3 years to 5. Instead, how about take that pile of options and split it into 5 piles. Pile 1 vests in 3 years. Pile 2 vests in 4 years and so on.

The point is to spread it out over time--they'll do better with a long term approach.
What are you willing to give for the information you receive?
what happens to infertile couples? adopt?
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A "money maker" for who? In metro Atlanta it's between $20 and $25 a year and it's done by private businesses. The government doesn't make any money from it.

As far as less generators than cars. That's just the reason it's more important to test cars than generators.

You're not being "punished for buying a new car". It's just the opposite. You're not punishing people who have older cars where it would be prohibitively expensive to bring it up to standards.

It's not about one soccer mom. It's about the millions of cars on the road in major metropolitan cities. Your rights stop where my lungs begin.

https://patch.com/georgia/eastatlanta/atlanta-s-air-quality-...
Somebody skipped the rest of my post, apparently.
Hehe, your comment reminds me of Idiocracy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hL1-340ODCM
> Imagine a guidance from Apple saying they would make $2 per share with 47% probability. Investors will freak out.

if that's all it said, sure, because that sounds like apple just made some insanely high-variance bet. if instead apple provided some nice smooth probability distribution over possible earnings, folks would react much more reasonably.
You do realize that Saudi is the biggest ally of the US in the region and it starts all the wars/carries on its domestic affairs however it pleases, with US backing, right?
I was downvoted when I mentioned this issue 52 days ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16114295
Here's a gif I made showcasing Server Timing with Node.js + Chrome DevTools: https://umaar.com/dev-tips/136-server-timing/
My Windows desktop stays up for months at a time. This isn't a good metric for whether or not a system is good in 2018.
Coal consumption increased steadily since 1865 and is almost at its all time high right now. There was a tiny dip in the last few years, but oil consumption is still increasing.
Yes, possibly, and we have lightly considered it in the past. It is a really difficult process though, and I am not sure we really wanted to wait some indefinite amount of time and go through all the difficulty of the process. Maybe that was selfish in a way.
Most dishwashers are actually made to be hooked up to the hot water line, though it depends on the brand. The tip will not work if it's supplied with cold water.

I've seen some people/articles recommend hooking the dishwasher up with cold water, because the dishwasher's own heater is more efficient than your house/apartment hot-water heater. I don't know if this is true.
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