skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In support of your point:

If you have special needs children with brain issues, early intervention is best. Doing something about the problem while they are very young can lead to lifelong enhanced productivity and quality of life. On the flip side, trying to intercede and screwing it up can have lifelong negative consequences.

I'm generally pro nutrition, not pro drug, but I'm not anywhere near as anti drug as most people imagine me to be. Anecdotally, I have known people who had anger management issues and the like who did the kind of drugs that mellow you out.
Congratulations on getting up to bat and giving it your all. Consider the loss tuition.
then they blame crypto
Ha. It's in process. Not ready yet. I'll report back if we fail miserably.
Show HN: Allocate stuff between several people based on personal preference
I expected some estimate when the turbine generates enough energy to make the concrete instead...perhaps I have too high expectations.
Unless I’m looking in the wrong place, this seems like a good way to ring up a massive bill. 10,000 messages/month doesn’t seem like a stretch. At $0.0075/message that’s $75/month. Not exactly cheap just so you can SMS from your favorite IRC client.
I can relate, I was born/grew up overseas and was raised this way before my parents moved back to the states. I moved back with them, and it was surprising how little my friends had in life skills. I had learned to cook (from watching/learning) already and would cook for myself after school for example, while most of my friends would have zero ideas on what to do.

It's sad how the U.S. Government prevents native American kids to have this experience in populated areas. There's a cultural vibe of individualism preventing overwatch of kids by adults which has led, in part, to the prohibitive autonomy that I had as a kid.

I was told by my mom that at the age of 4 years old, I hailed a taxi cab alone in the Philippines while she went to the bathroom in a McDonalds. That would never happen here in America.
Yeah, I'd spend all day every day just reading.
heh.

He doesn't like the economist at all.

I don't agree in general, the economist is often good. This article (and economics generally)... I have to agree. Heavy on Oxbridge feel, light on actual ideas.

Most of what these kind of articles convey is a feel, justified by technical sounding babble that a friendly reader will assume is adequate.

Ironically, the iconic example of this kind of carry on is marxism. 93.6% of all communist/marxist writing was a sharp tongued criticism. Moral critiques of capitalism. Critical reporting on the state of the urban working class in Europe. But, Marx (and his Bougie Oxbridge readers) needed more than that though. They needed to refute "Bourgeoisie Economists" and "Liberal Political Scientists." That's why Das Capital was so important. No one read it, but owning a copy added intellectual weight to one's marxism.
There's nothing "rare" about it. Hanlon's Razor is a motto for credulous children.
> 6... the built-in desert scheme works well on almost every machine ...

Agreed.

For a bit of an optimization to that:

- https://github.com/rainux/vim-desert-warm-256

Not many stars on it, but works on a few machines without needing to have extra stuff installed.
How do we shut this place - Option Impact - down?

Ideally, regulators would, but we live in a hyper-capitalistic age, so they probably won't.
Glassdoor dramatically underestimates salaries. My position is listed as about half of what I'm actually paid (and I'm "average"). Paysa and LinkedIn are accurate for my position, but I think both generally tend to underestimate most people's total comp as well, particularly for software engineers in the Bay Area. Honestly, as bizarre as it sounds, comp info from Blind seems to be the most accurate. Levels.fyi is fairly accurate as well, but only if you look at the newest entries on the spreadsheet (and not on the level averages on the main page).
It doesn't seem to work on Windows 10 :(
I've yet to experience any subscription service that immediately shuts off access due to a declined card.
Probably because of people like me. Had one on a few keyboards (including current Lenovo) and I was recently wondering why they still have them. I've never found one second of benefit, it just irritates me to even try it.

Not that it's the right view at all. Who knows what "most people" prefer but the lack of them might indicate a general cluelessness of how to use them.

It's possible other manufacturers don't add it because when they've tried it doesn't move their sales needle at all. Those who want it are particular about usage and eg just use Lenovo?
They use Google's index I believe, but that is not the same as using Google's results.
I don't generally encourage the practice of bypassing social gates -- if they want you to tweet or like to view their content, then just move on if you object -- but they don't actually check if you performed the social action. So you can just disable blocking the twitter button, click the tweet button, dismiss the popup and download
This is a topic that really interests me, I'd love to squeeze more info out of you!

Can you elucidate about the sea of measurements that you can extract from software? What are the things that can usefully be measured in the current art?

>made after some analytical process rooted in mathematical and physical laws, from a set of defensible alternatives, under economic and ethical constraints

Ok - how can we do analysis of things that are not measured? In the end all the software design I've ever seen comes down to "this is the best we can do honestly" there could be 100 better ways or this way could be horribly flawed, there's no way to figure this out a-priori.

When I went to college I roomed with a bunch of Aerospace engineers. They spent days and weeks doing structural calculations which were underpinned by physical knowledge of the materials that were in the structures. If the actuator lever for the flap was too heavy or not strong enough when it was made of aluminium then it could be made of titanium instead; but they knew. The sums showed them.

I did CS; at the time we thought that formal modelling would do the same for us.. that is beginning to come back with thing like Lamport's work on TLA+ but I think that the last 30 years have shown us how little we know.

Now yes, people built cathedrals in the middle ages, and bridges. Some of those are around as monuments to their craft. But a lot of them aren't, a lot of them fell on people's heads.
thanks for a reference about James Randi! Now I reliazed that indeed if the claims survives exteremely sofisiticated scrutiny, then it really does not matter if it was a fraud or not, and one would need to accept one lives in a world where one is predictable in one way or another.
Dr. Hamilton (who coined the term "software engineering") developed a system of software construction she called "Higher Order Software" distilled from her experience writing the code for the Apollo 11 mission.[0]

Unfortunately, her insights have been largely ignored. I first heard about it twenty years ago in a book called "System Design from Provably Correct Constructs" (which, oddly enough, doesn't mention Hamilton outside of a few references in the back.)

In modern terms, programs in HOS are developed by the direct elaboration of the Abstract Syntax Tree (like Lisp code) using only a limited set of operations which each preserve the semantic correctness of the tree. In this way, you are prevented from building incorrect software.[1]

(You might build a barn instead of a pool, but it will be a fine barn.[2])

In addition to the availability of a defect-free development methodology, Category Theory provides a solid mathematical foundation for determining the most-highly-factored form(s) of a given code-base. Meaning, if you have a "categorical" programming language you can more-or-less automatically extract the most general form of your program, which can then be used "over" different categories to get different concrete programs from one piece of code, with confidence (mathematical confidence) that they are valid, correct programs. There's now a great explanation by Conal Elliott about this called "Compiling to Categories"[3].

In any event, I would say that Category Theory gives us a language-agnostic way to rigorously define the "cleanliness" or "beauty" of software.

The tools are there. We have to notice them and pick them up.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Hamilton_%28scientist...

[1] You're not editing text files and then using other tools to (try to) ensure they're not broken too badly. No linters, no formatters, no syntax errors, no type conflicts, no off-by-one errors, etc... Hamilton identified all the sources of error in program construction and designed a system that eliminated them.

[2] "'Tis a fine barn but 'tis no pool, English."

[3] "Compiling to Categories" Conal Elliott February 2017 http://conal.net/papers/compiling-to-categories/
> and then you get employers saying they dont get skilled people.

That’s not the problem of academia.
God is the objective morality because he will interact with creation. If he didn’t, you’re right.
Genealogists Turn to Cousins’ DNA and Family Trees to Crack Five More Cold Cases
Guessing you're basically building a FUSE filesystem with a Google Drive backend? I know KeyBase.IO did something similar accross platforms. Not sure if thats how you did it but might interest you to check out FUSE too.
... because the people doing the emitting are different from the people doing the capturing?
Only if the article mentioned it!

Oh wait, it did!

https://www.usenix.org/conference/nsdi18/presentation/geng
> Excel is cheap and ubiquitous, everyone has it.

Compared to other programming languages, it’s certainly not cheap! In comparison to numerical analysis tools, maybe…
Sure. The idea is that you get the benefits of public cloud and cost savings of BYO hardware for extra capacity at lower cost. Of course, you're now absorbing hardware maintenance costs as well. I haven't seen a cost breakdown really making a strong case one way or the other, but my company is doing it anyway.
> Particularly anything to do with the theory of the firm

Theory of the firm is closer to a hypothesis. I’m not sure how one would experimentally verity its claims.
They aren't comparable. The compression strength is too low to prevent oxidation of iron rebar (though epoxy-basalt rebar could replace), limiting you only to forms of ancient Rome: primarily vaults, domes, and vertical walls one or two stories tall (upon which wooden structures went higher).

You also need much more limestone because the material is weaker, incurring higher environmental impact that way.
I think we're past peak phone. I don't care about improvements in my phone anymore, I just want security patches. The fact that the phone is getting better is uninteresting to me. You might as well tell my new lawnmowers are better.
(Disclosure: Zoho CEO here)
Have you looked at Zoho Sprints?
https://www.zoho.com/sprints/
>I'm in southern Germany at the moment, visiting my girlfriend's family. The winding roads in the Schwarzwald area are absolutely amazing to drive,

I learned to drive there. Recommend this route:

Sasbachwalden > Seebach > Ottenhoefen > Allerheiligen > Ruhestein

https://www.google.com/maps/dir/77887+Sasbachwalden,+Germany...

Have fun! The race is always won on the corners, not on the straights ...
If this is a profitable scheme (I don't think it is because of charging and theft issues), the competitors will move into the market as well (there is no moat). In big cities the market will be very segmented so they won't be able to reap all the profits, and the margins will be very thin due to intense competition.
Actually, it's "megawatts of energy" that doesn't make sense; home per month, on the other hand, is a valid unit of power.
It's a set of standing stones like Stonehenge, but they are only 12 inches tall? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qAXzzHM8zLw
Ask HN: What process do you use when building a modern Web/Mobile App?
I'm researching the processes used to design modern web and mobile apps:

(a) In particular, is the PRD -> SRD -> Design -> Implementation -> Testing flow still used?

(b) What do you use to capture the UI aspects and requirements?

(c) How are tool choices made when similar tools exist?

Pointing me to a set of "starter" web links would be just fine.
I don't think that makes it a science.

When Karl Popper criticised economics (and freudianism) for being a pseudo-science, there wasn't a real macro-micro divide. Adam Smith, Ricardo and the like were essentially micro-economists.

You can experiment in some very small (raise the price of a product on a shelf) ways. The bulk of economics is about how these small components interact as a large dynamic. When it comes to predictions like "increasing minimum wage will lead to increased unemployment," it's never been adequately demonstrated experimentally.
And it's great when someone like Johanna Weber has a brilliant insight about a delta formed wing and it turns into a beautiful outcome like Concorde - if all the calculations are around to un-bullshit it to bits !
This article talked a lot about keyboards, but failed to say why. What is the advantage of a Model M? I used one for a long time, and it's in the closet now. I can type faster on modern keyboards, because my fingers don't move as far. I suspect the only real reason to use a Model M is perceived "hacker cred."
As if these propositions aren't directly linked.

Ok, imagine theres a plate of cooked chicken breast next to a plate of grilled human forearm.

Suddenly, you would say, "yes these two pieces of meat are both equally delicious!"
Paid but actively developed with responsive developers: https://mountainduck.io/
What I’m saying is quite simple - understand the world or at least the U.S. for what it is and act accordingly.

There is no loyalty from any company. The days where there was an understood social contract between corporate America where they would take you in a train you and where you could work your way up the ranks and stay there for years is long gone. Corporate America is only interested in “increasing shareholder value”.

Since corporate America has no loyalty to you and will not train you - it’s your responsibility to train yourself and be ready to either jump ship for a better opportunity at the first chance you get or be ready to swim to the next opportunity when corporate America throws you off the boat.

The reality is that whether you believe that a college education is “a right” and that people shouldn’t have to go into tens of thousands of debt for a chance at a better life, American society disagrees. If you are investing tens of thousands of dollars for college, your reward can’t be just “being a better member of society”, it has to be - can I get a job to provide my own income, health care, retirement etc and have enough saved to provide my own safety net.

A liberal education if you are a software developer won’t help you achieve those goals.

Why is it so crazy that a college should teach you how to use source control? No matter what type of software development you are doing, you’re going to need it. What’s wrong with teaching you whichever is the most popular marketable front end MVC framework during your senior year so you can be productive on a job that’s not going to train you?

True you have to be a life long learner but six months after you graduate from college you’re going to have to start paying that student loan back and the way the government is trying to overturn the ACA, you’re not going to be able to stay on mommy and daddy’s health insurance after you get out of college - if they even have health insurance.
How about death to parent's who allow this, and instead they can just drop their kid off at the nearest hospital, fire department, police, etc? Plenty of people in the world would be for adopting these kids, it's assinine that there is even a discussion on whether any human should be allowed to kill another because of tradition.

Better the tribe and their traditions cease to exist, than blatant child murder continues to go unpunished.

I'm all for the prime directive in a space-faring society, to namely not let the people even know 'we' exist, but this is totally different. They are aware of us, as we are of them, and this is the same planet, which we all co-habitate and there's geneva conventions and human rights that ALL humans must have, regardless of where they are born into.
Your solution is to further overload the police and prison systems?

If we as humans went bankrupt, it was when we decided to start having the government police what substances people can and cannot use.
"...across geographic regions, such that one could treat a set of virtual machines as one ultra-wide-bus CPU with a 1 GHz clock speed."

I'm not entirely sure what you're trying to say here, but I am entirely sure that it's wrong.

A precise clock isn't the same thing as the removal of latency, and the operations of a CPU are ordered. That is, I can't start working on the multiplication of A * (B + C) until the addition result is available. Furthermore, if the elements of the operation, B and C, or parts of those elements, were separated by miles (or even feet), the latency of that operation would increase by orders of magnitude.

I doubt that even a 1MHz distributed processor would be achievable as a large distributed bit field computer as you've laid out here.

If you're worried about overhead in computing, it is critical to remember that a foot is a nanosecond. I'd much rather break my data down to register size (and I often do) than ship my data over a wire or fiber (which I also often do).
Most HFT shops are relatively small. HFT is all about latency and turn over. Big quant shops might have HFT elements but lean far more towards systematic/algo strategies that can be relatively high latency (still super low latency, but not HFT) because these are the only strategies that you can deploy serious var with. The guys crushing HFT are not huge hedge funds, and they are solving more engineering problems than building trading models.

Also, no, small traders don't lose. Retail traders et al get much tighter spreads, cheaper execution by routing to internalizers, etc. It's big institutionals with size to trade that get front run and have to worry about HFT killing their shortfall. On the institutional side, it's about lit venues preferring HFT w/ special orders types and thin top of book. On the retail side, the issue mostly comes down to direct feed vs. SIP/CQS thanks to NBBO that opened the door for latency arb courtesy of yet more regulation. Blame your regulators folks. This is why dark pools became a thing.

> and the liquidity support they provide to the markets is dubious, at best, since they pull the plug as soon as things get crazy

This bit is certainly true.

Source: hedge fund trader who hates HFT not in principal but because they are good at what they do
I've been using one for about six months now. The ortholinear layout and the custom key mapping reduced my WPM to near zero for about a week, and it took about a month to get back to full speed, but now you'd have to pry it from my cold dead hands. I love it so much I take it to the office and back home with me every day. I guess I should buy another one.
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I didn't mean to imply that at all.

What I meant is that when the whole thing blew up in 2012, they clearly thought they could use the crisis and the understandable attempts by themselves and the BoE to avoid a bank run to deflect all criticism of their Libor rigging more generally.

That's what I think the purpose of Bob Diamond's accusations against the BoE was. An attempt to confuse the two issues. The Guardian article doesn't make the distinction clear at all.
I don’t think this helps enough. It’ll keep people from pouncing on NASDAQ very quickly due to NASDAQ movements, but instead people will play the game of trying to be the last one into the window when trading based on information from other sources.

Some form of clever randomization might help, but getting that right is very complicated.
Honestly I’m not sure I really get 2.5 more utility from my current phone than from the Handspring Visor I carried around in the early Naughties. Not having to slide on an external box with its own pack of four AA batteries to have GPS is nice I guess.
What would be the negative effect if the time quantum was much larger, say, an hour, a day, a week?
Ask HN: Open source iOS Swift projects without dependencies?
I've found curated lists on Github, but almost every projects uses podfiles or carthage dependencies even if it's a simple project.

Does anyone know of some "pure"/"vanilla" open source Swift projects?

I'm trying to refresh my Swift knowledge (tried it out a couple years ago) and don't want to import unnecessary libraries just to do simple things.
Old-style parenting gives the child responsibility but definitely not control.
I'm doing that too. I clone into "~/.config/nvim/stow/", then stow figures out how to put all that stuff into the proper places. Occasionally there is a conflict, but that is usually for files that I don't want anyway, like "build" or "LICENSE".
> the daunting task of hiring a team, from low-level engineers to a new VP

I don't think "low-level" means what the article's author thinks it means.
Ditto. I'm using clone for this same function. I'm using it for casual file access (not lots of intensive access every day all day) but I'd like to know of there is any benefit to this over rclone, since as mentioned rclone has a pretty big user base..
La distribución de Linux Gentoo sufre un ataque en su cuenta principal de GitHub
You're not really talking to Jesus.
Now this is the high quality debate I come for
This sounds a little like Pomodoro method, but for reading.
I don't know if there are any good Linux GUI debuggers, but gdb is a comprehensive debugger and can do something similar with the skip command.

Any gui debugger for Linux is probably a frontend to gdb, so as long as it lets you passthrough commands to gdb it can do this.
The demoscene has had a bit of fun with Excel too:

http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=11368

http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=53021
Again, I wasn't here to debate your political opinions, I was just simply pointing out that Twitter does censor, and providing a US .gov sourced example.

Try Reddit for your garbage opinions.
In 2018, none of the people impacted took pictures?..
These sorts of stories should require every commenter to disclose how many children they have. Nothing like parenting stories bring out the parenting experts with zero experience.
I'm disappointed to see this article trot out the "unsafe" trope, especially after, earlier in the article, citing the Maya mother stating her child knows how to avoid traffic.

> Now, many parents in the U.S. can't go full-on Maya to motivate kids. It's often not practical — or safe — to give kids that much autonomy in many places, for instance.

I'm not asserting that traffic is the only US safety concern (or that it's even comparable for that example), but I would have hoped the authors would at least put in a link to an article regarding safety concerns or the controversy, without implicitly taking sides.
Essentially everyone where I grew up was nominally Christian (we were highly unusual as an atheist family), and it was the churchiest pillar-of-the-community families whose kids acted out the worst.