skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Another anecdote people might not like: Sunday school was an amazing form of early-childhood education for me. Some of my first experiences with music, art, and reading were in Sunday school. It taught me to love drawing and singing which I still like to this day. We were taught to obey our parents or go to Hell, to pay attention or go to Hell, to share and be kind and to empathize... or go to Hell... Which everyone of course realizes the implications of, even at very young ages.

I once had a very interesting conversation with a high school teacher of mine who taught very high-level math. Speaking only of his students who were in honors courses, he said that there was a clear divide between students from religious homes and students from secular ones. The religious ones were much more diligent and willing to learn. The non-religious ones may have been smart but were sometimes unmotivated or couldn't handle the rigorous pace of work. The religion itself didn't matter - we had Hindu, Christian, and Jewish kids in the class, maybe one Muslim but I don't remember. He himself was a Christian so maybe he was biased, but I believe it.
OpenCensus and Go database/sql
I would advise everyone to start using these keyboards in open floor offices. That'll certainly hasten the end of this terrible fad (the open floor offices, not the keyboards).
I don't understand the need for your comment
A floating point representation is not really the issue, the issue is not using base 10, and IEEE 754 specifies base 2 and base 10 floating point formats and operations. But I am of course not sure whether the original comment referred to base 2 or base 10 and given how common the mistake of using base 2 floating point numbers for financial calculations is, you may be correct with the intention of your comment.
It isn't just tech like phones and laptops. Cars for example are one of the biggest purchases that people make and increased quality has resulted in them staying on the road 50% longer than they did a couple decades ago. In that case, looking at the nominal cost of the car doesn't tell you nearly enough about inflation. The actual cost measured by miles driven or years owned has dropped drastically. You might not be richer because your car is more reliable. But you are certainly richer because you only have to buy a new car every 12 years instead of every 8. Things like that need to be considered.
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It was easy to miss, they introduced it a whopping 2 years later than the small version.
A First Look at the Helm 3 Plan
How does the LimeSDR stack up here?
I personally would love to see more such companies (more innovation) but unfortunately Bird scooters seem to be having legal trouble in my city Milwaukee:

https://www.cbs58.com/news/bird-scooters-in-milwaukee-are-il...
Someone's gotta explain to me what "structural changes in the economy" means. Does it mean that the economy is like a big building and we added another floor? Is the economy now like one of those whacky nu-architecture prizewinning buildings that are shaped like giant globs of play-do?

Or is it one of those phrases that can be used to mean absolutely anything at all?
I think it might be worse than superficial. They're trying to trick readers into thinking that it contains more information than it does. Not cricket, Economist.
Learning DevOps, building the ASP.NET Core Workshop, and keeping it up to date
Everyone wants to live in New York or San Francisco? This is not true.
I really wish someone resurrected the beam spring keyboards. I'm quite sure all design patents on those are long expired.
Happens in every field. Compare what is said to reported or if you have knowledge of something, frankly could be anything sports, business etc, how poorly it's reported in the press.
Is there any documentation at all? I couldn't find any. The playground[1] isn't useful without the schema.

1. https://api.cleargraph.com/
Thanks for this! I didn't realise this feature existed.
> You probably lost a great bartender and taco server

I would have never tried the pastrami taco if it hadn’t been for her!

> Why not discuss it with her?

She’s campaigning. Not sure distractions would help. In any case, these sorts of proposals benefit from specificity. Next steps are doing homework and proposing specific rule changes.
This is actually old news.
I'm not sure why anybody would publish something like this, it is irresponsible.

It's an important question of how drugs affect people. And there is only 1 way to answer that: rigorous scientific study.

Why we need controlled studies:

NOT self-reporting. You cannot take a substance that by definition disconnects you from reality, then take the hallucinating person's account of improvement as evidence. That is laughable.

NOT anecdotes.

MUST BE ANONYMOUS. This writer has a financial incentive to overhype to get more clicks.

No SELECTION BIAS. I want to hear accounts from the people who never recovered from acid too.

--

I largely think the drug war is absurd. But any magazine running a piece like this is absurd.
The Evolution of the Windows Command-Line
The HN guidelines [0] are actually a remarkably good set of principles for online discussion of challenging topics.

> Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something ... Please don't insinuate that someone hasn't read an article "Did you even read the article? It mentions that" can be shortened to "The article mentions that.” ... Comments should get more civil and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive.

The standard of care each of us puts into each of our own responses is what makes HN-quality conversations possible or impossible.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I posted this article because I was absolutely shocked by the level of mental gymnastics or gross ignorance that could motivate even a propagandist to come up with such a one-sided, factually anaemic and fundamentally misleading article on such an important issue for so many on here based in Europe.
When talking about chess: "But even the most powerful program can be defeated by a skilled human player with access to a computer—even a computer less powerful than the opponent."

Is that true? Can a state-of-the-art chess engine plus a grandmaster really outperform just the state-of-the-art chess engine?
Good point, I admit I was being facetious. An even further one would be one of those "keyboards" which project a keyboard image on a table!

I can tell you why I like the Apple keyboards, including the newer butterfly ones. As much as I loved the Model M i never used it correctly as I always bottomed out the keys instead of relying on the tactile feedback to know when to stop. As a result what I really want to feel is the satisfying thunk at the bottom of every keystroke. Something about the travel distance and feel of those Apple keyboards is just close enough to comfortable that it became good enough.
It'd first need to be a democracy.
Doesn't matter what you play a vinyl on, vinyls are just going to be worse than CDs, despite what proponents tell you.

When you extract the audio by literally scraping a piece of metal across the surface- every time you play a vinyl, you degrade it. The "warm" quality of the audio proponents talk about is just noise introduced by the degrading material.

When CDs were new, many of them were mastered poorly. So there is a very specific few years where you want the vinyl instead of the CD. That's the most you can say for vinyl.

/tangent
> A 5% yield is only reasonable for low-risk blue-chip equities

Emphasis on “eventually”. A basic test for valuation sanity is “are the earnings this company would need for a zero-growth valuation possible?”
Oh yeah. They should bring way more profit home....
One thing to keep in mind: It's easy to think of stagnant wage levels as implying that everyone is working the same jobs and getting 2% nominal raises per year. Another possibility is that a subset of the population is seeing real wage growth while a different subset is being pushed into lower-wage jobs by automation and/or outsourcing.

The hivemind of Trump supporters would have you believe the latter, and while I'm decidedly not one of them, that explanation definitely strikes me as more plausible. Though I'd contend that there are probably 3 buckets, not 2:

- Those who work in highly-paid fields that aren't vulnerable to automation or outsourcing, including those who are driving the automation and outsourcing of other fields. These people see real wage growth.

- Those who work in relatively low-wage jobs (e.g., in the service sector) that are prone to automation and/or outsourcing, but for whom automation has been gradual because their low wages mitigate the benefits of automation and outsourcing. For these people, I suspect that real wages are more or less stagnant - they have no leverage since their jobs could be at least partially automated if it were worthwhile to do so, but it hasn't been worthwhile yet.

- Those who work in highly-paid fields that are susceptible to automation and/or outsourcing. Many of these jobs have been automated and/or outsourced due to the significant cost savings from doing so, pushing these people into lower-wage jobs. These are the coal miners and skilled tradespeople who form the core of Trump's voting base.

Of course, there are jobs that don't fall cleanly into any of these buckets - lawyers are a good example - but my impression is that this is still a good model for understanding wage levels for many jobs. Obviously I'm speculating quite a bit here (though BLS projections seem to support my argument [0]), so please let me know if you know of any evidence that contradicts this.

[0] https://www.bls.gov/emp/tables/industries-large-grow-decline...
Text-only link because NPR couldn't be bothered to make their GDPR compliance page link to the correct page:
https://text.npr.org/s.php?sId=621752789
The Players on Your DevSecOps Team
As I understand it from the outside, it is now official Church doctrine that the particular prohibition that was universally understood to apply to coffee and tea but sometimes interpreted more broadly is limited (in the strict sense) to coffee and tea (the latter, I believe, in the strict sense of drinks made from Camellia sinensis), but that rather recent doctrinal clarification did not erase the fairly strong tradition that the prohibition in application should be treated much more broadly than it's express limits, even if the Church does not specifically dictate the precise bounds, and so the widespread (though not universal) practice of abstention from caffeine as a stimulant prohibited by the broader prohibition in which the specific prohibition now deemed to mean “coffee and tea” continues.

This isn't inherently regional, though variations in the practice probably have some loose correlation with geography.
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Although this is fairly nice, I would recommend Syncthing over this. It has the benefit of not relying on any third party to store your data, it's all exclusively on your devices, along with some very solid security.
HackRF One seems to have strikingly different architecture compared to KiwiSDR, so I'm not sure if they are really comparable at all.
Facebook reveals data-sharing partnerships, ties to Chinese firms
Relevant: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/1991/10/-quot...

"The magazine is written by young people pretending to be old people... If American readers got a look at the pimply complexions of their economic gurus, they would cancel their subscriptions in droves."
I don't use sprint.ly, although I've been aware of it for a while, but this does slightly worry me, and certainly it's sad to hear of something that's been a very personal investment for somebody failing.

We use Clubhouse, another project management system cut from the "more than Trello, less than JIRA, and somewhat opinionated about how you should work" mould. I don't love it in some ways but, y'know, it's pretty good. Our tech team, plus a number of people outside the team use it and, in the last 12 months, we've added getting on for 16,000 stories.

If Clubhouse failed I'm not sure exactly what we'd do: possibly use GitHub projects given that these are starting to get close to good enough (they've been good enough for my side-projects for a while). Hell if I'll go back to JIRA, but the thought of migrating all that data makes me feel slightly unwell no matter the eventual destination.
See AWS snowmobile:

https://aws.amazon.com/snowmobile/
Reminds me of "Plasma Crystals": dust in plasma can form crystals.

> Dusty plasmas are interesting because the presence of particles significantly alters the charged particle equilibrium leading to different phenomena. It is a field of current research. Electrostatic coupling between the grains can vary over a wide range so that the states of the dusty plasma can change from weakly coupled (gaseous) to crystalline. Such plasmas are of interest as a non-Hamiltonian system of interacting particles and as a means to study generic fundamental physics of self-organization, pattern formation, phase transitions, and scaling.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dusty_plasma
Yeah, but even a local wallet isn't local. You could write down or memorize the private key and manipulate the funds from a new wallet client on a different machine.
It seems to have an old comment about speed of OprnOffice. I think this has changed now, interested to see if this is still the case!
The numbers are pretty clear. The top 20%, which roughly correlates to the college-educated professionally-employed class, has seen their real income and social welfare steadily go up for the last half century. The bottom 80% has seen stagnation and decline, as well as increased social ills like drug addiction, broken homes, and so forth. Notably, this pattern exists even if you look at just white people, so a racial explanation won’t do.
If it’s not coming from a plane then maybe someone has fun freezing poop and lunching it into the air.
>That's frustrating and lazy

I think it's frustrating (for you) and cheap. For them writing in Python and not C is probably (see my previous comment for my acknowledgement of the lameness of "probably") significantly cheaper - possibly several orders of magnitude cheaper. For you 128GB RAM is pricy, but nothing like the cost of software written "the old way". You are paying for their time savings with your hardware, the alternative is to pay for their time which would be way more expensive.

You definitely have a point wrt. Systems apps; C++ is needed if you want to go close to the metal. I think that Julia is pushing it out of a lot of scientific apps though.
No doubt that this is horrible practice and customer service on googles-side - but at the hypotethical question - what if the card holder is unreachable blabla - we loose years of work etc. Well if you are not professional enough to back-up your system regularly you should loose everthing and it's your fault to begin with... For real - google is not the only one who should step up there game... Only because it's in the cloud now, doesn't mean you should ignore decades old best-practices... servers die, hard-drives die - people with passwords die... handling stuff like that is part of your job...
These scooters I think are really interesting, even if the 'leave them anywhere' aspect is a bit over the top/annoying.

They could be especially handy for last mile between subway/light rail stations and homes/workplaces.
Yes. Children use their phones for cheating in quizzes and exams. Plus it distracts them from their lectures.
There's a lot of range of behavior when it comes to strict parents, but just for the sake of tossing out my own anecdote the friends I had growing up with what I thought were ultra strict parents, all ended up acting out in later years. These were smart, disciplined kids that I grew up with, but when finally out from under their parents things changed as they went through university and eventually early life away from their parents.

To me it seemed they were just kept in a bottle for years and then other development started as soon as it could away from mom and dad.

Granted, what you and I think of as strict parenting could be very different things, and a few had a sibling who actually stuck with a very straight and narrow path through life.
Sure. Many things are. The question is not whether concrete is a marvelously useful material; the question is whether other materials might have fewer negative externalities without compromising function.

Note that you can rewrite that notion to discourage thinking about replacements for lots of things in the modern economy. Oil is a major input into nearly all other investments, so "spending" dino-juice carbon to enable everything else should usually come out a net gain, right?
I'm assuming it's the spinning up of "Space Force".
> Economics can’t be a science yet

Macroeconomics, yes. Microeconomics is a proper science. It has theories which make predictions which can be demonstrated in experiments.
My 2 cents: ScratchJr worked for my daughters at an earlier age and not so interested in programming. IMHO if you can use the capabilities of MIT Full Scratch you can start programming in a language like Python.

Also, my daughters started playing with Alice3D objects at a very early stage and I was in charge of scripting the objects. At 8-9 year old they can script the objects by themselves.

Another toy is the Lego Mindstorms where you can build the robot (I think it is complicate for young kids) and they can script the action in the iOS app.
Centuries? Doesn't the material lose much of its strength when the rebar rusts away, which it certainly does in a century?
That's exactly the point, it could mean anything.

In this case, I think "structural" is a euphemism for "equilibrium state," what would happen in the economy if everything stays as it is now long enough for things to settle down.

It's nonspecific even for a euphemism. "Structure" could mean "the type of products now made in the economy." It could mean "the fact that labour markets are internationalised," as the article stops short of alluding to a paragraph earlier. It could mean "the fact that we the economy is made of fewer, larger companies."
The emphasis on oil may reflect a European perspective. Only 19% of US oil is imported now, and the US generates very little electricity from oil. The US is a natural gas exporter. If the US wants energy independence, it's within reach.

At the other extreme, Japan imports essentially all its oil, as does the UK. Both import most of their natural gas.
(Non-physicist, please bear with me)

Of these 5 criticisms of contemporary theory, all of them except dark matter seem to stem from a suspicion about the eventual result through the lens of beauty, unification, etc. However, the dark matter problem stands out as one where measurements do not line up with theory, and seems more of a classic example of how we've typically "turned the crank" on making progress in the past.

How big is the concerted effort to understand dark matter vs trying to attack these other concerns in theoretical physics? It certainly seems like an aggressive, field-wide effort is warranted given it's one of the few universally acknowledged and reproducible blatant predictive errors in current models. The discovery of these errors seems like a huge gift to physicists.
it could mean he's developed a sense in the "right side" of his brain which isn't logic-based. Unfortunately, it's impossible to tell whether someone's taste is bullshit or finely tuned. The best-in-class typically do not follow axiomatic rules either. In this case it's probably the former.
Acerbic swipes are not ok here. Please don't do this on HN, regardless of how bad another comment is.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I can't imagine how you could hope to reach nanosecond-precision over the internet without changing all the routing hardware in use today. With PTP you can already reach sub-microsecond synchronization but you need full hardware support for every network element on the route if you want to achieve that. The timestamping is done on the network PHY itself, which is how you can remove all jitter introduced by the kernel stack. Anything receiving and re-transmitting the packet along the way must update the timestamps to account for the processing delay.

Huygens is a little more clever and uses a statistical approach to sample multiple clocks and correlate them (if I understand correctly) however it still seems designed to work within a datacenter, I assume that over the internet the signal-to-noise ratio for measurements would worsen very significantly and lower the precision dramatically. It could well still outperform NTP however.
I haven’t heard this. What do you mean by “a similar theorem that is classically equivalent”?
Have you tried reading or learning? I've always a book in my bag for unexpected breaks. Depending on the topic or book, you can easily go from something else to reading and back to work.

A month ago there was a thread about the "one book that changed your life": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17168136

I read Mindset by Carol Dweck since then and found it very interesting (and applicable to some parts of my life and behaviour).
It's a matter of taste, but I love my Unicomp "Battleship" PC-122 keyboard. It's noisy, but it feels great and the sound is reminiscent of a time when computers were built to last rather than being thrown away to be recycled when they break.

But then I'm a nostalgic.
Cold brew coffee is awesome too. It has the added bonuses in that it’s lower acidity than hot coffee, and you don’t need very expensive roast to get a good result
It would be pretty funny if they extended it to "just my uncommitted changes." ie: I want to step through every line I have written, but skip everything else...
Posting like this will get you banned here regardless of how much sense another comment makes. Please don't do this again.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Maybe it's poorly made and the blades will fall off after a month?
That first class all looked like misfits, social outcasts, and the typical d&d crowd. Entrepreneurship wasn't cool back then. I think those are who I will invest in if I'm ever in that position: people who are entrepreneurs because they have no other choice, not people who are entrepreneurs because they could do anything.
A baby has 100 billion neurons and 100 trillion to 1 quadrillion synapses, so they have a rather large advantage (as of yet).

That said, I'm not sure babies are as clever as you suggest. By the time they can verbalize "tank" they've had a vast amount of neural training. Try running this experiment with a 6-month-old; I'll bet on the program.
> these decisions didn't rest on "well, they're not actually authorized by law" as much as "it's been well-agreed by common sense that these things can't be patented."

By their own terms, these decisions purport to be based on the statute section 101. The Supreme Court rarely if ever bases a decision only on what it considers common sense.

If the text of 101 changes, there’s no reason to think the caselaw that’s grown up around it would stay valid.
reminded me of:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCeOEQVUWZ0&vl=en
No, it is not exact line. I would have to check the exact lines in studies, but basically expectations rise with age.

But largely, I think that the goal should be to teach kids to have abilities like patience and functioning when you are not center of attention instead of categorizing them into "good enough" and "bad" categories. Ultimately, don't blame child.

That teaching won't happen if adults knee jerk to wave everything away.
Work as an independent contractor. Get a small project, spend a few days or weeks completing it. Work on your research for a few weeks. Rinse and repeat.
San Francisco's minimum hourly wage bumps to $15 today
How would the math work on that? Simple addition now requires coordination of results across many CPUs. Worst case is N-1 ticks where N is the CPU count.
What operation would get faster by such a virtual CPU?