skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, well, I mean it. I mean, the mechanism is actually similar: there's a "grown-up" (teacher) who uses their authority to convince a child (student) that something wrong (sex-related, or bad semantics of pointer assignment) is actually OK (and will come up on the next test), which then haunts that child (student) well into adulthood (job). Of course, the degree of harm done is on a completely different level, I'm not arguing that it's the same! But there are undeniable similarities in how this works. The comparison is obviously exaggerated, but by using it I want to change how teaching nonsense is seen, from a minor transgression to a major offense that it is.

I just can't understand why teachers are not judged by the same standards that lawyers and doctors are. The damage bad-educators do is very real. It may not look bad on average, but in specific cases, it can be really devastating to students' minds (vulnerable as they are).

Is it because people being taught don't (in general) vote? Or for some other reason? I don't know, but I don't think a bad educator should have an easier time than a bad doctor, who (at least in theory) would be removed from the profession outright if found out. Instead, bad teachers are left alone or sometimes transferred, and that's it. It looks incredibly similar to how some churches handle offenses of their priests.

If you're a teacher, please realize that you're partially responsible for the future life of many of your students, and start acting like it. Removing people who are not qualified (to teach) should be a priority in your school like it is in courts and hospitals. Please, stay cautious and vigilant, and don't let your colleagues tarnish the profession's reputation by teaching things that are provably (and, sometimes, obviously) wrong.
Taken the lead on what? What is their plan? Here is the Sec. of Agriculture Sonny Perdue talking about soybean tariffs [1] yesterday.

Q: You said the president has a plan. Even in broad strokes, what is that plan?

A: That’s in the president’s mind and in his negotiating strategy. He is a different type of negotiator. I don’t think any foreign country has ever gone up against a president like President Trump before. That’s his style. Frankly, it’s been pretty effective so far in other areas. I think he and President Xi (Jinping) in China have a great relationship. I think it will be dealt with on a personal basis. The goal is, obviously, to get China to change its ways so we can resume trade between our countries. The president, however, does not intend to tolerate a $350 billion to $400 billion trade deficit going forward.

[1] http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/ct-biz-sonny-perdue-q...
We started building Nano to solve a problem: the SVG images used on our website (embed with <img> tags) are not showing the correct font we've chosen - Roboto. After few rounds of testing and searching for solutions, embedding fonts seemed to be the best way to solve the problem, without ballooning our SVG files size. We've wrote a blog post on how we came up with this solution on CSS-Tricks here: https://css-tricks.com/using-custom-fonts-with-svg-in-an-ima...

Would love to get some comments from the HN community on Nano, especially on the compression we've done: https://vecta.io/blog/2018/05/08/how-nano-compresses-svg/

Anything else that you think we could have done better in terms of compression? :)
Somewhere in between the iPhone and iPhone+ would be ideal for me. The iPhone X would be it, if it had a different aspect ratio.
Not quite. The measurement problem only exists because of this recognition that I only experience one outcome. The key word is experience.

Contrary to the author's loose writing, Schrodinger's Cat (and environment) is in a superposition before it entangles with me. Decoherence (which is just a name for really complicated entanglement) does not change that; it only makes it hard to demonstrate the superposition.

And yet, after I entangle with it, I am no longer free to treat the system as a superposition. If you try to pin down when "I entangle with it," you will notice yourself trying to make precise when "I experience it." Clearly these problems are linked.

To quote Ed Witten:

> I’m not going to attempt to define consciousness, in a way that’s connected with the fact that I don’t believe it will become part of physics. And that has to do, I think, with the mysteries that bother a lot of people about quantum mechanics and its applications to the universe.

> Quantum mechanics kind of has an all-embracing property, that to completely make sense it has to be applied to everything in sight, including ultimately, the observer. But trying to apply quantum mechanics to ourselves makes us extremely uncomfortable. Especially because of our consciousness, which seems to clash with that idea. So we’re left with a disquiet concerning quantum mechanics, and its applications to the universe. And I do not believe that disquiet will go away. If anything, I suspect that it will acquire new dimensions.
To play Devil's advocate, you don't really know if it's really about one's physiology or just how you used it. I had two consecutive panic attacks back when I was 18 that led to me completely stopping for years before I tried it again years later in smaller doses, and I haven't had panic attacks since. Been smoking occasionally for about 5-6 now.
Easy to get in, but hard not to get caught has always been the case. Anyone with a lack of morals can go execute tellers and pull money out of cash drawers. But they’ll be in jail by the end of the day.
> I have to change careers to selling ice creams at the beach or something

You will learn to loathe ice cream, the beach, and even the nicest people you could see there. (Quoth Kierkegaard: https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/7141047-marry-and-you-will-...)
Which is why I got an iPhone SE. People at work were like "We can get you an 8 or an X" and I had to tell them, it's about the goddamn size of the phone.

I prefer a smaller phone and it's becoming increasingly difficult to get a decent one.
> This article is attempting to refute the value of the scientific method.

This is such an astonishingly poor take on this article, I can only hope you didn't read it.

Please go back and read the article and give a good faith effort to understand the author's point.
May I ask from where you are if you can't understand what derivatives are? Hell it's high school math
You were downvoted but you make a good point, and I think your example is better than mine.. Point taken.
There's a lot of research on this topic. Peloton[0] is one example. It's an in-memory SQL DB designed for OLTP and OLAP workloads that tunes itself. Andy Pavlo, one of the researchers, has an awesome series of lectures on YouTube that describes a lot of the modern research on database implementation[1].

[0]: https://pelotondb.io/

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLSE8ODhjZXjYplQRUlrgQ...
It's not federated, but it is distributed and fault tolerant. The protocol is open and widely implemented and the implementations are mature and stable.
I don't hink it's much more unlikely. And in the same vein, some ISPs change your IPv6 prefix regularly. It really depends on the ISP, their technology and their policies.
Well, we're talking about "instant fees".
Meanwhile, Samsung ran ads that made fun of iPhones for not having removable batteries, and then went ahead and started making phones without removable batteries.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SlelbGtPEdU
I'm sure they have but their target audience is adults so it shouldn't be a problem.
Why WP ENGINE Is Acquiring StudioPress
AMD is sending Ryzen/Radeon care packages to game developers
My Trackball Explorer thankfully is still chugging along. When it expires (could be a few years away at least), I'm planning on trying Logitech Trackman Marble. It looks similar enough...
I’ve been collecting GPS tracks of all the commercial flights I’ve been on for the past several years, using a little pocket receiver.

It’s been pretty interesting data, from seeing how ATC works differently from country to country (China is nuts - a flight from Beijing to Hong Kong will have hundreds of course changes to minimise overflight of populated areas), to how airports stack traffic, to where GPS jammers are being operated - many large airports seem to have a curtain of interference, presumably to stop drone intrusions. It’s also interesting seeing things like routes dog-legging around Ukraine, or ascending to a very high level to overfly Afghanistan - apparently pot-shots by armed groups are of not insignificant concern.

So far it’s only a few hundred flights, but it’s still pretty neat.
I think your giving the article too much credit. If it were saying what you are saying that’d be fine. But it continually, throughout the article attempts to discredit science all together.

Look, science doesn’t make everything clear cut 100% if the time. Science is the act of making theories, and looking for evidence to dispute those theories. Sometimes, in some areas we have to be OK with not understanding things. That’s part of science, it’s not it’s limitation. By admitting ignorance in some areas, we open the doors to the pursuit of knowledge.

Here are some choice quotes...

“What we nonexperts choose to believe about such matters will depend much more on whom we trust and what we find to be helpful than on what can be known to be true”

How about instead we suspend our beliefs and wait for data, rather than trusting someone just because? It’s okay to say, we don’t know!

“But if all this activity is just self-correction in action, then why not call alchemy, astrology, phrenology, eugenics, and scientific socialism science as well”

Because none of those other fields embraced abandoning beliefs in the face of evidence and data. How one could even compare them with science clearly demonstrates an attempt to misconstrue facts.
What prevents you from supporting IPv6-only networking? HTTP libraries support it out of the box. If you use sockets, just update them to use PF_INET6 and it'll be backward-compatible with IPv4 through IPv4-embedded IPv6 addresses.
IT and tech firm UST Global raises $250M from Temasek at a valuation of over $1B
We used to turn them off as soon as we stopped using the internet (this was also before any of us had a smartphone). I think the ISP also cut the connection every 24 hours and changed the IP to prevent people from having a static IP "for free".
The one thing I've never liked about Microsoft mice is that the scroll wheel doesn't click the way it does in everyone else's mice. It's too bad, because everything else about their mice was good, but that scroll wheel was a dealbreaker.
Magazine for MBAs says MBAs are brilliant and everyone else is just a resource. Not very convincing.
Take long 6 hours walks every day after work. No need to do something as drastic as changing careers. I bet ya that you'll get bored with outside play soon enough, and you'll come back with more appreciation for the comforts of an engineering life.
In civil engineering circles, it's known that a room which is too bright will cause eye strain and fatigue. There is an optimal level of light for the eyes to be most effective. But the computer makers and UI designers don't take this into account. Dark themes transmit less light to the eyes, causing less fatigue over time.
Your reply is written as if you think my objection is absurd - then in the middle of it you concede exactly the thing I'm objecting to, and describe it as "unusual and slightly flaky"!

I do get what you're saying; I can see why it's done this way. C++ lacks tuples at the language level, so there is no other way to do an anonymous tuple-style binding. Being forced to bind to the same name as the structure element would be inconvenient for various reasons. It makes sense. I just think it's problematic that changing the declaration order of a struct can silently break code that uses it. And it is different from other languages - not just natty ones like ML but also mainstream ones like Javascript ES6 - which makes it a point of some curiosity.

> What you appear to want is something entirely different: constructing something that automatically mirrors the names of the struct members.

It's all just a question of declaring and assigning local variables, there would be no mysterious objects or runtime reflection involved in either case.
Yo dawg, I hear you like NAT, so I'm going to put NAT in your NAT.

While IPv6 may suck, it really is time to take IPv4 out and shoot it in the head.
I think that is just the tongue in cheek language they like to use.
link without paywall
http://archive.is/6nR92
It took me a while to find a mouse I was happy with, but now that Razer required me to update my _mouse driver_ for GDPR compliance, I am thinking about switching to this. In general, I like my hardware to come with as little software as possible.
Maybe when the Chinese bubble crashes the present crop of neo-totalitarians and anti-democracy reactionaries will shut up. I am referring to those elements of both the alt-right and the totalitarian left who look to China (and similarly to Singapore) and pine for the miraculous efficiency of central planning and authoritarian rule by strong men. If only we had a king (or a one-party state or similar) we too could build infrastructure at breakneck speed and prop up the economy forever instead of dealing with the messy inefficiencies of democracy and consensus.

People were just as psyched out by the USSR. It looked miraculous until the 1980s. The Nazis psyched people out too. We didn't get to see how that one would have turned out long term because they blew themselves off the map with an insane war on two fronts but my guess would be similar to the USSR: a little period of apparently miraculous progress followed by rapid stagnation, being eaten alive by cancerous corruption, and collapse transitioning to something like Russia's present-day mafia state.

It's easier to go from zero to one than from one to N. Totalitarian regimes are very good at copying and rapidly implementing things they already know how to do, so they tend to go from zero to one with breathtaking speed. Then they hit a wall because their totalitarianism prohibits innovation (either cultural or technological) and is very fragile. The economic miracle ends when they run out of stuff to copy and usually their politics goes to hell when the Great Leader and/or revolutionary generation dies.

Social democracy sucks at rapid execution on the known. I get frustrated with it just like the next person. But it's the only system with a demonstrated track record of continuously marching into the unknown and of defending itself for long periods of time against extreme corruption.
Now that I'm comfortable with Erlang, writing in any language that doesn't support branching at the function heads is so depressing.
I really did.. please see comment attached to other reply here. I can only assume you didn’t read the article. It’s disguised as philosophy, but it’s filled with tons of logical fallacies. It’s anti-science propaganda in disguise as philosophy to make it palatable. The Weekley Standard has a history of anti-science agenda articles.
Do you use your email list to send third party promotional content?
The radiation detector is a valid measuring device. The hammer that smashes the vial of poison is a valid output device. The cat is a valid observer. But even the cat and the hammer are redundant - the radiation detector is enough.
If anything as a Canadian I rather see Canada openly and aggressive court China, Russia, EU and Mexico+Brazil as trading partners to significantly reduce dependence on US.

Canada needs to understand need of the hour is not to engage in moral-schooling with China and not to support ire-invoking causes in China -- our priority is Canada, Canadian economy and Canadians.

For too long our courting of USA and India has resulted in both US and India becoming arrogant towards us when it comes to foreign policy and diplomatic protocols.

Finally, as a clear signal, Canada should step up border patrol and aggressively stop any intake of folks fleeing to Canada from USA - US needs to understand Canada is not a dumping ground for their unwanted folks.
Why is this releavant to HN? Other makers have had 7" or larger phones. This reeks of blogspam. They can't even spell Iphone correctly:

> "similar to the iPhoen X."
Their subsequent update makes it sound like they still don't have a clue.

> Our team is still looking into the cause of the connectivity issues, and we'll continue to update you on our progress.
Uhmm... how exactly?

Idle, open connection won't suck your battery at all, it's just an open socket sitting somewhere in the RAM. The only problem with it is having to send keepalives due to broken NATs being prevalent that can quietly close your connection with you having no chance to know that until you decide to send something through it. Anyway, keepalive pings are way easier to process than a complete poll and will send your processor and baseband back into sleep much quicker. Also, on most networks you can actually keep a connection open for much longer than 15 minutes, and when the network is so horribly broken that you can't, you can always fallback to polling.

Both Android and iOS already employ various techniques for dealing with keepalive timeout calculation because... guess what... that's exactly how their push notification systems are working.

You gain better battery life from rarer pings, less roundtrips and easier to process responses. Periodic polling is absolutely the worst for your battery - isn't it just obvious?
> already approaching 30 minutes

I've been having connection trouble essentially all day.

As far as I can tell this has been going on for hours.
Cool New Features in Python 3.7
So you are saying people should sow discord?
Clothing/shoes are right at the bottom of the value chain. China was losing them already to Bangladesh and Vietnam and doesn't care. All you need for that is dirt cheap labor and a container port. It's not a strategic industry.

The higher value stuff is not going to move though. If America severs the tech supply chain we're not going to see manufacturing suddenly move to the US, we're going to see skyrocketing inflation in hi tech goods.

That is, until such time the US can build up a manufacturing ecosystem equivalent to the pearl river delta, which will take years.
Correct. This is why the White House did this unilaterally: it made the correct coordination among the west all but inevitable.
FYI you can take it apart and replace the switches
> I thought the WTO was a trade organization?

It’s also a rules-based organisation. China breaks the WTO’s state-owned entity rules, its access around domestic market rules, its freedom of navigation rules, its IP protection rules, et cetera.

China was admitted when it was non-compliant, with the belief that admission would drive opening and compliance [1]. That hypothesis is not sustained by evidence.

[1] https://www.economist.com/leaders/2018/03/01/how-the-west-go...
NoScript FTW.
I have a hard time believing these can compete with wireless for anything but the most remote areas.
I've always been fascinated by the idea of text-mode browsers, but for most of it the experience was more and more aggravating, and never practical. To the point where console-based browsers like w3m started to strive to work more like graphical browsers...

But I opened that page in eww (the browser mode in Emacs) and it just ran perfectly.

Up until just the other day, modern web pages were serving a decent text-mode fallout, but they were placing sidebar content before the main content, so it came up on top. This in spite of the fact that they could very easily have put it afterwards -- CSS is handling everything, no?

For an "evolution of the internet", it's great how gracefully this page degrades.
Sounds good, but:

1. Can you do it for 30+ years?

2. What do you do if you get sick/injured?

3. What will you do after 30 years of working for a bit more than minimum wage? I don't think you can save a lot for a rainy day...
IRC is actually viable, with https://riot.im for offline logging and mobile access.
Pure speculation: but the Aborigines are AFAIK relatively unique in their cultural isolation. Contrast this to any tribe living in Asia+Africa+Europe where migration over large scales definitely happened and cultural diffusion across thousands of miles and hundreds of distinct cultures was very possible.

I could see where this kind of cultural and physical mixing (migration) could dilute or mutate folk tales, washing out distinctive 'fact-derived' aspects of the stories
Street-Price will be far lower. Provider-Price will be even lower. I think the 1k is just a marketing-trick to make it seem more worth then it actually is.
Just to warn you, even on T-Mobile, not all hotspot devices support IPv6 (either by default or at all).

I forget if inbound connections work, though.
This reminds me of the copyright note at the bottom of most pages by Ken: https://kenrockwell.com/nikon/index.htm (see the last paragraph of "Help Me Help You" section)

"As this page is copyrighted and formally registered, it is unlawful to make copies, especially in the form of printouts for personal use. If you wish to make a printout for personal use, you are granted one-time permission only if you PayPal me $5.00 per printout or part thereof. Thank you!"
Polymath CEO Says Security Tokens the Crypto Future
The Intellimouse Explorer was my favorite, I continued buying them from eBay years after it was discontinued. But these days, Apple’s trackpads are leaps and bounds better.
But the EU has regularly created anti-dumping tariffs against Chinese steel in past years?
Tales of a C++ developer learning JavaScript
Matrix (https://matrix.org) is a good alternative to both Slack and Discord. The most complete client implementation is Riot (https://riot.im/).

The protocol itself is federated, so you can communicate with other Matrix users from your self-hosted instance. There are also bridges to IRC, XMPP, even Slack..
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U.S. Supreme Court Rules Against Unions on Mandatory Fees
Before I register to download the data, is there a smaller dataset for you to play with on the portal? I've been itching to do something fun after taking my SDC from Udacity. Nut1.8TB is way more than I can handle right now. Can someone upload a portion of this? (<10GB)?
Ask HN: Which industries will be transformed by ML in 10 years?
Which industries do you think will be transformed by ML within the next 10 years? Which ones do you think will be relatively unaffected?
Garrett Smith tackled similar themes. While his emphasis is on Erlang with its function heads (a feature nearly every other language could really use) he also shows examples in Python.

His ideas changed the way I think about clean code.

* http://www.gar1t.com/blog/solving-embarrassingly-obvious-pro...

* http://www.gar1t.com/blog/more-embarrassingly-obvious-proble...
It’s not screens that are the problem, it’s the internet.
ActivityPub W3C Recommendation: https://www.w3.org/TR/activitypub/
Same on macOS with Chrome
Yeah, that's still incorrect. We have no reason to suppose X because Y can explain X as an illusion.

It's the exact same process that happens in every other science: you don't expand your axiomatic basis unless you have to.
I'm happy to see this, although it's kind of disappointing that "perfect" products are ever retired in the first place in the constant drive for change, often simply for change's sake. I'm not against improvement, of course - the iPhone X is one of the most perfect products I've ever had the pleasure of owning - but at the same time the current Macbook Pro is the first model I've literally not wanted because of how bad the keyboard is. In chase of form they reduced function.

I suppose it's hard for companies to recognise when they're at "peak function" and to just stop changing things but it's encouraging to see MS recognise that all of their "innovations" might have actually been making things worse, and just go back to the old design. Hope it's the start of a trend. MS mice used to be my hands down favourite.