skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's an immense amount of effort to do it consistently. And it gets harder with each kid, at least for me.

One of the things you figure out is that some kids aren't interested. And if your kid isn't interested in thinking about prime numbers, you're going to be hard pressed to change that. Conversely they will have interests that you don't share, and it's going to be harder for you to participate meaningfully in that beyond being generally supportive. They are individuals that way.
Musk Buys $9.85M in Tesla Stock After Taunting Shorts
> Well, it's just taking money out of circulation with taxes and paying it out again. It's not inherently speeding anything up - if anything, slowing it down, since it spends some time in the governments pockets.

This is completely wrong.

The principle I'm referring to is a standard component of basic macroeconomics and is completely uncontroversial among economists. There's lots of literature about this effect if you'd like to learn more.
You're presumably answering the question posed by the post's title saying "yes", i.e., that it is causative, which would imply correlation. Why was that not a fair inference to draw?
If you are arguing that the immigration policies force these bright minds out of the country you are correct. Offering a green-card along with MS or Phd will help USA lot more.

But even if they all leave it is not a zero sum game because even if these people build industries in China that compete with USA they are pushing the boundaries of science that helps everyone. Will USA benefit if some Chinese kid invents say a diabetes cure ? Of course it will.

Of course American can complain that it was not invented in USA but that is how the future is going to be and that is likely to be the new world order.
<Pedantry>Doesn't take into account neck deformation when string tension changes.</Pedantry>
>How is that confusing in the context of everything else I wrote?

Because when you declare a school of thought to be "extreme" it's kind of weird to agree with the core (and most controversial) concepts and only disagree on unspecified details.

On the one hand, it's like declaring that the Catholic Church is run by religious extremists because their wafers are exactly the wrong shade of pale off-white. On the other hand, it's exactly like that as well.
Not just ready for production apps, ready for the announcement of Fuchsia as the replacement for Android. "Did we mention that Flutter is THE app-building tool kit for Fuchsia?"
I found some examples of consent (by Drip):

https://i.imgur.com/QPzXiWN.png

https://i.imgur.com/KiX2aCc.png

Although time will tell. My gut tells me that users will click decline and without any negative consequences (a redirect) and the dialog simply closes. Users will get used to doing that for all other EU sites and these startups marketing efforts will suffer.

Remember cookie law? Everyone I know is conditioned to click and not even look at the privacy policy.

That means overall, less profits for marketing and then lost sales.

It's going to be very interesting to see how competitive EU startups become verses US startups where in the US, GDPR doesn't exist (for now).

That said as well. Where US startups have much greater profits for marketing to non-EU regions, and EU startups cannot compete again due to less revenue due to regulations. EU startups will shrink against their US counterparts.

Again, all of this is my own speculation and lets see how things are in 2 years time.

Very interesting times ahead.
It needs to handle new interactions too. Humans aren't predictable
It is way more complicated than just altitude, with zones and procedures, incredibly long checklists and a bit of maths. But a plane that can't reach 4000ft is probably in a mayday situation, and there is absolutely no time to try to dump fuel, it's a slow procedure.
Recently I have been playing with kubernetes through Rancher. I like how easy it is to install kubernetes through rancher, essentially I ran 2 commands: 1. on the machine that runs rancher and 2. on the first node in my cluster.

After a few days of playing I set up lets encrypt with load balancing, a running app (Rails). A remaining issue are persistent volumes and how truly persistent these are. I haven't found out yet which solution I should pick for this. Longhorn is a Rancher product, which is probably what I will read more about now, but I cannot be sure. There are so many concepts and terminology that you need to figure out. Having Rancher in between is not helping me get a hang of kubernetes itself more purely of course.

A while back I was playing with Docker Swarm and I must say that I like Docker Swarm better in the sense that it feels closer to the source and because it is built into Docker. I get a feeling however that Kubernetes is where the future is so learning more about Docker Swarm is probably less worthwhile.
Deadlines are also both a blessing and a curse. On the one hand, they’re not very flexible if you get busy or there are reasons to slip a bit to sync up with external events. Or just to take a bit more time.

On the other hand, deadlines impose a certain discipline and also force you to wrap things up by a certain date and not draw things out.
Do while foreach try catch explode array_push, but always boring for loops at end. Throw exceptions.\n
Don't read my echo.
> people in pre-industrial societies, where there were large families, lots of exposure to death growing up,

Considering how much time and energy was devoted to ideological systems centered on denying the finality of death, I have a feeling they didn't have any healthier an attitude towards it than we do.

Though, having dealt with a number of dying patients and their families, it would be great if people in the US could at least get past the denial stage and accept that dying is a real thing. It's not giving up, it's not failure, it's not whatever; it's the way we all end up.
Similar thing is happening to my wife’s hospital stateside. Management consultants have gone as far recommending the removal of snacks from all levels including those serving children. Which then in turn has operational employees battling management on expense reports. The whole thing is amazing considering some of the consultants have no medical background.
Nicely done. One correction: the sound(s) that arise from two different notes sounding together are sum and difference tones, not overtones. Each individual tone has a collection of overtones (i.e. the harmonic series), and those and the fundamentals can interact to produce an audible beat when they aren't in tune, which can be the sum or difference of two frequencies that are almost but not quite in sync with each other.
I found some examples of consent (by Drip):

Something tells me they collect more than "e.g. your name and email address."
Athelas (YC S16) hiring software engineers to make blood testing more affordable
Athelas(www.athelas.com) uses Convolutional Neural Networks and microfluidic technology to make blood testing radically more accessible. We use an imaging based modality to obtain results faster, cheaper, and at the same accuracy as the existing state of the art.

We're looking for a software engineer to support work across our ML stack, API stack, Device stack, and frontend.

You'll get to be one of the foundational members who sets the tone, quality, and success of our product. You'll be given independence and real ownership over your work.

Reach out at dhruv@athelas.com with your resume if you're interested.
Simulated Moon Dust Kills Cells and Alters DNA
Author here of a technical book published with Packt several years ago. I had the first mover advantage as the only book of significance covering a Java library that was (and is) very widely used.

Total page count was ~350-400. It took me approximately 600-800 hours of research, authoring, editing, and final to complete the book. I had a full-time job and so spent about 6-9 months of nights and weekends.

I actually haven't added up the total of royalties but it was probably somewhere over $15-20k on sales of several thousand copies.

I wasn't in a position at the time to capitalize on the consulting / speaking gigs that folks have mentioned, and had I thought more about it I would have put myself in that position.

It definitely has been worth the experience as folks mentioned both in terms of resume-building (a book is a great thing to bring to interviews) as well as general reputation.

Also, if you are truly building a quality technical book, the level of research and knowledge required to do a good job was (for me) at least 5x the depth of my day-to-day work. As goes the old adage, you think you know something well until you try to teach it -- this was definitely true of my research efforts.

Summary - not worth it financially, but it definitely changed my career overall for the better.

If anyone wants to know more details, please reply here or PM me and I'm happy to answer as best I can.
You can be dominate and still hold the community back. Look at Internet Explorer. IE11 is the reason most people can't use ES2015+ features natively until the end of 2025.
There is https://noiszy.com/ which isn't Facebook specific. Here's counter arguments why it won't work for privacy https://lifehacker.com/generating-a-bunch-of-internet-noise-...
Actually, NYC is very safe compared to most metro areas in the US. On a 2016 ranking, it was the 95th most dangerous metro area out of the 105 ranked.

https://smartgrowthamerica.org/dangerous-by-design/
It sure is trendy to think so though!

I'm currently supporting ops of some "eventually consistent, globally distributed" (if you can fathom through the previous engineer's algorithms) built-from-scratch system designed to be resilient in the face of multi-megaX-transactions-per-second, that currently contains all of 8K records.

Whereas stackoverflow.com runs on SQL. Their own hardware at that.

I half wonder if a large chunk of AWS's revenue could be replaced by https://www.amazon.co.uk/electrical-sockets-adhesive-sticker...
Technology moves forward and there isn't a suggestion that older versions of wordpress stop existing, just that a new version should be cut on PHP7 so that sanity can creep in.

There were some BC breaks in PHP7 but most of them will only hit you if you're a terrible person, the easiest to demonstrate is that

list($a[], $a[]) = [2, 3];

Went from $a being [3, 2] to [2, 3] in PHP7.
That's bullshit (sorry), Al Khwarizmi wrote a book with the words Al-Jabr in its title and we translate those words to mean calculation.

> The Compendious Book on Calculation by Completion and Balancing (Arabic: الكتاب المختصر في حساب الجبر والمقابلة‎ al-Kitāb al-mukhtaṣar fī ḥisāb al-jabr wal-muqābala)

What the words meant originally is not entirely clear. Something like to set, adjust, reckon, I reckon.

PS: And as was pointed out, the Author is said to be from Persia
This appears to be an obvious appeal to authority. An individual's qualifications have no bearing on the soundness of their arguments.

Further, the term "lawyer" doesn't mean that someone is entitled to practice law; merely someone educated in the law. A lawyer is typically (but not always!) someone who has attended a law school. An attorney is someone who has passed the bar exam and is therefore entitled to practice law in that jurisdiction.

All attorneys are lawyers, but not all lawyers are attorneys.

Note that a lay person who has devoted the time necessary to know and understand the law can be termed a "lawyer". I would argue, based on the quality of the article the author is in fact a lawyer despite their assertion that they are not.
What I'm waiting for, though, is for a big player to do a modern, clean "Kubernetes first" cloud offering.

IBM Cloud Private is a Kubernetes-based private cloud offering, though from your other points I don't think it will have everything you want.

https://www.ibm.com/cloud/private
So the answer is no, you don't want to talk to me. I can figure it out myself. (I realize you aren't the GP, but you did choose to reply.)

I think you are thinking of Mastodon primarily as a technical platform. I am thinking of it primarily as a social environment.

When I was active on Metafilter, there was a new social platform all the members were talking about. It was invitation only. I was homeless at the time and I was generally treated pretty badly by most members there. Nonetheless, someone gave me an invitation and I joined. And it was pointless because what few people I did recognize were people with a track record of treating me terribly.

If people have little walled gardens, but are hesitant for any reason to admit me to their inner circle, then there's no there there for me.

Sure, I can figure out the technical details, if I have reason to. But I don't have sufficient connection to have reason to. Walled gardens serve an inner circle of people. I don't belong to any inner circle that are using Mastodon.

Perhaps that will change. But it won't likely change by joining Mastodon. It might change by somehow becoming an insider somewhere with a group that already uses and prefers the platform.
It's not a "lie"- do people honestly expect VCs to just hand over money willy-nilly? Obviously, it is an investment, and they expect to make a return on their investment. I blame dumb Founders, not VCs, for thinking otherwise.
I'm not running for office in NYC, and your sarcasm seems to indicate you didn't read past the first sentence of my comment.

Jaywalking was @Sangermaine's straw man issue, not mine. I was thinking more about speeding and aggressive driving than about what pedestrians do.

Your comment seems to indicate you might not know how traffic laws are made or enforced. They are rarely touched by elected officials.

I honestly don't know why I'm getting such vigorous push-back here. My original comment was about safety and nothing more. People hate speeding and seat-belt laws too, yet it's a fact that lower speed limits and mandatory seat-belts save lives.
My recollection from looking into the research myself was that though a large proportion of those who claimed MSG intolerance ended up having none, some proportion _did_ have the intolerance. The conclusion that MSG intolerance isn't real on that basis was overstated. Similarly, though many people who claim gluten intolerance have no such thing, some in fact do.

Given the nigh-infinite space of possibilities that is the human genome and the various environments and experiences of seven billion human beings, in my mind it's almost guaranteed that every human being will experience at least one medical condition that is insufficiently frequent in the population that it is "unknown to science". When your personal experience deviates from the common interpretation of scientific findings, what do you do?

I could be wrong. Maybe it's all in my head somehow? But that's a sort of real effect, too.

What I do know is that by avoiding MSG the quality of my diet has improved immeasurably, and my intestines aren't in agony. It's just an anecdote. An anecdote that happens to be my own life.
People in inner parts of California have to spend significantly more on energy because of extreme weather while we enjoy the moderate weather in Mountain View.

California has higher energy prices and the poor people who tend to live in inner parts are suffering a lot.

When you look at profitability you need to deduct the government subsidies and assume that it comes from our taxes. Is it really sensible idea to tax a farmer in yolo county to pay more for his energy usage because the rich people in bay area have decides that solar is more important ?

This leads to more inequality, resentment and a divided society.
When you look at $ per flying hour (the standard measurement of aircraft ownership), the 747 is peanuts compared to something like Concorde.

Almost every airport in the world has infrastructure to handle a 747. Very few can handle something like Concorde. (Talking mainly runway length requirements and noise abatement regulations). Not to mention service facilities (and the Concorde needs LOTS of servicing between flight sequences).

Also, 747 qualified pilots, mechanics and support personnel are easily found whereas Concorde experts are like hens teeth, and likely very expensive to boot.

Plenty of lease companies and boneyards have spares and components to keep a 747 flying too, but very few have replacement Concorde engines or avionics on hand.

Added to the mix, these 'uber rich' who can afford a 747 also like things like King sized beds, shower facilities, meeting rooms, even spas in their aircraft for maximum comfort. There is simply no room in the Concorde's narrow airframe or limited payload capacity to even think of trying to fit these things in.
> I think it's time to fear it.

as a consumer, i agree. but so do a lot of companies.

Run down the list of private sectors that spend the most on information technology -- health care, banking, retail, insurance -- and all of them worry Amazon is coming for them.

https://www.bloomberg.com/gadfly/articles/2018-02-15/worried...
This is really neat and well crafted!

Constructive feedback:

After you tune the guitar and hit the 'play a lick', the notes ring on too long. I'm not sure how you've configured your sound generators, but you'll need to configure an envelope on the sound that cuts it off before the next note rings. This would come down to simply adjusting the 'release' parameter to be very small (though not zero) so that the sound decays quickly before the next note begins.

Also, after that, in the paragraph under "How does it work", the statement "Guitars generate noise through the vibration of their strings" is a little bothersome. While this is true, it would be more correct to say sound (or even pitches) instead of noise. The technical meaning of noise is a random distribution of frequencies across the sound spectrum, and actually sounds like the static you hear when you're radio is not tuned into a station. It's somewhat true because a guitar string will generate a quick burst of noise after being plucked, but after that the string settles into a resonating cycle that follows the harmonic series, which is definitely not noise.

Third nitpick... oh man, I'll try to be brief, but I would just take out the section on beats and 'overtones'. As elihu mentioned, its actually 'difference tones'. Overtones are a part of a single sound. I would take the part out because it's actually bad practice to eliminate beats when tuning a guitar using open strings (in other words, tuning by perfect fourths) because the frets of a guitar are tuned to 12 Tone Equal temperament. If you eliminate the beats in a perfect fourth it will be a Justly tuned perfect fourth, which is 498 cents. An equally tempered perfect fourth is 500 cents even. The result would be the A string will be 2 cents flat, and then the D string will be 4 cents flat, and the G string 6 cents.. etc. If you want to keep the part about beats and tune by ear, its better to play the A on the E string and tune using a unison. Then you can use the beats trick!

Disclosure: BA in Music with emphasis on Guitar and Sound Design. (See, BA's aren't completely useless!)
My team's experience is the exact opposite - we're very happy with it, especially because it _doesn't_ obscure the k8s API and is quickly rebased on top of upstream.

It's been great for us since we were productive from day one without having to worry about setting up Kubernetes or figuring out things like deployments and builds. Their documentation is great and the Ansible installer is very helpful. They have a lot of operational docs, which are invaluable (day two ops guide, among others).

Apart from the obvious PaaS features, it has a lot of small and seemingly minor improvements like "oc rsync --watch" (copy changed files to a container) or "oc rsh dc/foobar", proper auditing, and a lot of other small stuff that makes life easier.

Red Hat is one the main k8s contributors and is responsible for the RBAC implementation, among others.

You did not mention any particular pain points, but I'd love to hear about them.
I think the observations that the author makes are quite interesting, but his conclusions are quite a stretch.

Human society and natural law always reward meritocracy. I think he makes a mistake when he tries to suggest that all activities and lifestyles of any "class" of people are equally valuable.

Eating unhealthily is objectively bad. Smoking cigarettes is objectively bad. Its not a sign or "oppression" if you teach your kids not to get pregnant in high school or advise them against alcoholism and drug use...
Thank you. I will give it a look.
Don't protest self-driving cars, protest the laws you feel shouldn't apply to you. After all, there are plenty of other reasons jaywalking laws might become more strictly enforced.
Yes. They said "preliminarily" the Uber driver was not at fault. Judging from the footage, that was reasonable. You can't put the blame off the woman, you can't just cross a road at night like that and expect to be noticed.

Accidents like that happen all the time, it's only because of the self-driving car that this is newsworthy.

Imagine if there wasn't any dashcam footage and this was a normal car with a distracted driver, without any other witnesses they would likely be off the hook.
So to break things down as I think we're partially of the same view:

1. To start with the end, nobody's suggesting they're exclusively on Mastodon (which is not the only Fediverse tool, there are others), and they absolutely should syndicate far and wide. However, posting to Mastodon/Pleroma/Whatever first and syndicating the content elsewhere means that if this happens again, they don't lose tweets.

2. Drawing from a pool 300x bigger doesn't make for 300x better interactions. Generally Fediverse SNR seems to be better, but this is more or less so depending upon interest and representation. Bear in mind OP's twitter account had followers in the hundreds, like my Mastodon account does. I have thousands on twitter, but I only interact with maybe 50-100 people there.

3. WRT your friend, there's now https://joinmastodon.org/, which will guide them to an instance. Your friend is not required to use Mastodon to participate in the Fediverse. There are other tools out there. They're all linked (you can use Pleroma and read Mastodon toots for example). The whole point of the fediverse is that it isn't a walled garden and that you own your content.

4. There are tools to assist with migrating Mastodon accounts but they're early stage. I agree this sucks, but in it's defence it's because Mastodon is new and expanding and the tools are improving.

5. This was the bit I wanted to talk about:

> it's been very hard for me to discover people to follow

Yup. I completely agree. The solution however is right under your nose. The way to find people to follow in the Fediverse is:

1. Search for hashtags you're interested in.

2. Find people using those hashtags and check out their feeds.

3. Look at who they follow and check those people out.

This is how every social network pretty much used to work, and fundamentally is down to the fact that in the fediverse you own your presence, your data and your network which means you are responsible for it. There's nobody pushing for engagement, nobody making money from filling your feed with ads. The price is personal responsibility.

If you think that's too high a price to pay, that's fine. Stay in the walled garden with curated content and risk having all the content you produced for corporations for free so they could sell ads to be pushed to you and your friends erased at the drop of a hat without explanation.

And you can say it'll never work, it'll never replace twitter or facebook. But HN will never replace Reddit and Lobsters will never replace HN, yet both are doing pretty well for the communities they serve. Once you bend your head around the concept that fediverse communities as a whole have no interest in replicating Twitter or Facebook it starts to make a lot more sense.
>> anything made by Corel to be extremely fragile

Quark and Adobe weren't any better.