skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They are, but ADHD is particularly unresponsive to other interventions. So those drugs are usually what ends up being the only effective treatment anyways.
Across media I've seen a lot more of "species with only one gender" (e.g: Mass Effect), "species with no concept of gender" (e.g: Steven Universe).

This probably makes more sense given how often sci-fi is about social commentary, and gender equality is more accepted these days, while gender identity is a bigger issue. In the case of Steven Universe the creator Rebecca Sugar recently gave an interview to NPR (https://the1a.org/audio/#/shows/2018-07-09/the-mind-behind-a...) where she revealed she identifies as non-binary and having gems be genderless but female-coded in the show is a good expression for that.

The only example of this trope I can think of is the Anime series "Vandread" where somehow humanity ended up being split into a male planet and a female planet, so long removed they no longer recognise each other as the same species. It's basically just an excuse for the male protagonist to come across a ship of women, etc...
Intersting talk. Here are some other talks about the history and origins of Go:

Evolution of Go (Griesemer, GopherCon 2015)

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ReKdcpNyQg

Slides: https://talks.golang.org/2015/gophercon-goevolution.slide

Origins of Go Concurrency (Rob Pike, OSCON 2010)

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DtUzH3zoFo

Slides: http://go-lang.cat-v.org/talks/slides/emerging-languages-cam...
Would that mean 5% could be false positives? That would be a lot.
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Until you’ve got some moderately complex state and infrastructure to handle it, where you end up recreating the whole State -> Render loop of React in jQuery. I recently did this. It works, well, and with less bugs than most hacky jQuery DOM modification, but by the end I was pining for any other modern view library that already solved this. Same reason I used to pine for jQuery on some projects.
At this point, reading headlines like this, I'm just going into the comment thread expecting the top comment to tell me, why the headline is BS. And again, I was right.
Giving methylphenidate to children with ADHD actually improves their symptoms later in life (even if they stop taking the medication).
Ask HN: Advice on how to do B2B market research
I want to create a business that will allow me to do mathematics and software development. Now, I know that is too broad. It encompasses so much possibility that it is almost meaningless. So I want to identify a more specific area, e.g. machine learning or simulation, that gives a potential client a better idea of what the business can do.

But I am having difficulty in identifying which specific areas or terms to use. I think the problem is that I am putting the cart before the horse -- that I need to identify a need in a particular market in order to know what kinds of math and software businesses would find useful. But I'm not sure how to do that. How do you figure out what needs or wants a business has? I know this is pretty elementary marketing but I really have no idea what the first step in such a process would be.

Any help or advice is greatly appreciated.
> A side effect is that you'll pick up a lot of geography by osmosis, which is in my experience, the easiest way to learn that subject - you're looking at maps and borders and terrain features constantly.

My son loves Crusader Kings 2 (and EU3), and had such an easy time in his history class because of this. He knew the geography of Europe down cold.

He's currently digging into Hearts of Iron IV.

To be honest these grand strategy games aren't really my thing but I should give them a shot. Their systems just seem overwhelming to a new player.
Thinking of an Onion headline: "This tech sucks" says person trying to use niche technology for the first time without knowing its specificities and limitations.
I agree, but that's not what everyone wants. I don't think they necessarily should want it, either. If writing in this style gets more people to read then so much the better - the complaints about it in this thread are, if we're going to be fully self-aware about it, a very tiny and unrepresentative microcosm compared to the total readership in play.

We're not all running around as hyperrational machine gods :). What matters to some people doesn't matter to others, and it's probably very hard to optimize widely disseminated content for accessibility, enjoyability and depth of technical coverage. I might go so far as to say you need to pick two.
The reverse has actually been done: https://dragonegg.llvm.org
Sure!

The backend is pretty much this (messy) file - https://github.com/chinedufn/percy/blob/master/examples/isom... .

It

1. Pulls in your application crate
2. Initializes your app (more or less sets initial state
3. Renders your app's virtual DOM into an HTML string
4. Serves the HTML to the client, along with the initial state serialized into JSON in a script tag (using serde-json)
5.Also serves the WASM script and the JS that initializes the WASM

So that's your server crate. Then your client crate also pulls in your same application crate and you compile it to WebAssembly and that's what runs browser side.

Feel free to let me know if any of that was poorly explained!
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17613709
Its a shame that they have to use evidence of a crime to abuse those minorities.

<sarcasm>
Thanks again, Steve, for a very clear and sober explanation of this. It's like you're inside our heads! You grok.
> Your are neglecting the option of exposing a limited subview of the filesystem like containers do.

No I'm not. I said the limitation is a step forward. I didn't intend to imply it is perfect. It is not at all perfect.

> The big red box on top says it's not on standards-track.

Correct, but most standards started as experiments by the browsers. I think it qualifies as "people are working on it" but means it is probably far from being standardized.

> Can I send open file descriptors like I can with unix domain sockets? Can I share memory for low-latency atomics? Futexes?

No. But you already knew that. But it does allow for data communication which in my opinion solves the 80% use case for IPC. From my experience (YMMV) the features you described while useful are not needed for most consumer apps.

Don't let perfect be the enemy of good.
Would somebody explain if that actually makes (sort of) sense or it's pure trolling?
> Whether we like to admit it or not alcohol has left a giant, negative, impact on our society.

I don't think anyone disputes that. The question at hand however is if the legal status of alcohol has any influence on the impact, and if so, what it is.

The assumptions of drug or alcohol prohibition are that
a) Making a substance illegal reduces consumption of that substance.
b) Reduced consumption results in reduced harm.

The thing about b) is that not every drinker is a violent drunk and not every drug user is using drugs in harmful way. Prohibitionists are assuming that it not only reduces the number of users, but also that it reduces the number of problematic users.

Now the casual pot smoker or the "one beer after work" drinker is not causing trouble for society. At the same time, they are the ones most likely stopping consumption should the substance become illegal. However, the alcohol or heroin addict may not cease consumption the day his substance of choice (or at this point, habit) becomes illegal but instead acquire it through the black market, potentially causing more damage than the substance itself would.
False positives don't necessarily mean the test was executed incorrectly. It often means you are testing for something closely related to the information you want.

If a test failed because _ then it failed independent of why it failed. If your long lost twin causes you to be involved with a paternity suit or homicide investigation then that's both a false positive and a significant problem.
In a regular DOM there's just a tree of elements, this makes many operations tedious, e.g. finding elements with a given set of classes and so on. So with an inverted-index shadow DOM you get another DOM with element shadows and an index of element properties back to the shadow elements (making it an inverted index). Then simple boolean retrieval can be used instead of DOM traversal. Much more efficient. The actual reason why you want to use shadowing instead of direct-mapped nodes/elements is shadowing enabling E2C (element change coalescing) meaning instead of shadow element changes directly transferring over to a change of the actual DOM element you can batch changes on shadow elements together and change a bunch of DOM elements in one go, which avoids unpartitioned (and therefore wasteful) re-renders by the browser engine.
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You are projecting. Everything is always in a constant state of chaos. Order comes from the mind that decides to see order. Order is born into the mind that is born of chaos.

My world is not turned upside by anything. My world has been turned upside down more times than I have numbers to count with, and I believe in Cantor's infinity of infinities.

When I find out about some cool identity, I go with it.

The thing is, so do you.

Local assumptions are garbage. Adapt faster. That's the rule.

"One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." - Friedrich Nietzsche
Yup. That's what I'm worried about.

And people growing up with today web-first, mobile-first computing model have no clue of the power and capabilities computers have. With data being owned and hidden by apps/webapps, limited interoperability, nonexistent shortcuts, little to no means of automation of tasks, people won't even be able to conceive new ways to use their machines, because the tools for that aren't available.
> they are subject to taxes when converting from crypto

Using a Bitcoin gift card to purchase goods is the same as selling it for cash.

> you can literally have them lose value in your pocket via deflationary monetary policy

Deflation means your money gains value doing nothing. The dollar is inflationary. It loses a little bit of value if it sits around doing nothing. (If you have lots of money losing money to inflation, you're hiding illegally-obtained currency or doing something stupid.)

Moreover, this is an odd complaint to make of the dollar relative to cryptocurrencies, which have a habit of suddenly losing lots of value.

> the work only with the confines of a nations borders

Dollars are relatively internationalized. And again, an odd complaint to make of the dollar relative to cryptocurrencies.

Disclaimer: I am neither a lawyer nor a CPA. This is not legal nor tax advice.
For people who feel like they should be reading about more science but find straight-science bland, I don't begrudge them having access to journalism that makes it easier for them to consume. My chief concern is that this style of writing is overwhelmingly dominant in all major outlets. You can find some niche science-heavy writing, but they are so unpopular that they don't have any of the resources of the major newspapers.

> ...so many stories in that style popping up on HN, NYT, WSJ or Economist

Incidentally, this has not been my experience with the Economist. I find their science reporting to be the highest quality (both in correctness and in directness) of any of the major outlets. They are the only ones that have written about my field several times and always gotten it basically right.
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Depends on what your industry is. If you're compiling c++ for mobile, clang is pretty much your only choice for iOS and the default choice for Android ...
To me it looks like the author had an idea, then the title and then was not able to actually find enough data to support the idea. They went with the title anyways.

I'd pitch two more examples:

In Dune by Frank Herbert the whole Tleilaxu population is male and nobody knows what happened to their women (this is explained later in the book). It seems odd to me that this was not mentioned in the article as I assume that Dune is more known that any of the books the author mentioned. Tleilaxu in the book have a sort of religious hatred for women.

In the The Risen Empire by Scott Westerfeld the initial antagonist is a race human women who have "since disposed of the useless gender" and merged with machines. This is stated as a matter of fact and is not a theme explored by the book.
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Worked for the last 10,000+ years and still works today.

Sure, at some point in the future it might get fixed or always fail, but until then you need to deal with today not some mythical perfect future.
It's relevant, but not as an excuse to dismiss the problem.

One of the perennial problems with machine learning is that it has a tendency to intensify pre-existing biases in the system. It's not just that the algorithm tends to reflect biases in the source data, it's that that reflection tends to encourage the people using the system, who generally have some role in creating that source data in the first place, to become even more biased.
Why are so many companies getting hacked lately, and what can be done about it?
Exactly, I find myself (unconsciously) skimming the first sentences of each paragraph of these long articles until the actual content starts. It feels like having to sit through the first 5 secs of a YT ad before you can skip it.

All because the writers get paid by the word, i suppose?
Children that receive methylphenidate suffer from less severe ADHD symptoms later in life, supposedly. If you look at it through this lens it becomes ethically problematic to deny them the medication, especially because it will not do this in adults (obviously it still treats the symptoms in adults, it just doesn't make them less bad over time).
This is an absolutely standard issue with developers looking at licenses from their perspective rather than the users's.

It's tiresome to remind people to please remember, GPL tries to ensure user freedoms that might not align with what developers would want, this does not make it less free, it makes it less free for developers.
Wow, if that's the case then this article is quite unfair.

They should rerun this at 95% confidence and see how many mismatches they get, I suspect it will be much lower than the 6.4% they have at 80% confidence, thought it might cost more than the $12.33 they were willing to invest in this hitpiece against rekognition.
This is a long, horrific read about exactly that, resulting in the execution of an almost certainly innocent man.

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2009/09/07/trial-by-fire

> Many arson investigators, it turned out, had only a high-school education. In most states, in order to be certified, investigators had to take a forty-hour course on fire investigation, and pass a written exam. Often, the bulk of an investigator’s training came on the job, learning from “old-timers” in the field, who passed down a body of wisdom about the telltale signs of arson, even though a study in 1977 warned that there was nothing in “the scientific literature to substantiate their validity.”

> In 1992, the National Fire Protection Association, which promotes fire prevention and safety, published its first scientifically based guidelines to arson investigation. Still, many arson investigators believed that what they did was more an art than a science—a blend of experience and intuition. In 1997, the International Association of Arson Investigators filed a legal brief arguing that arson sleuths should not be bound by a 1993 Supreme Court decision requiring experts who testified at trials to adhere to the scientific method. What arson sleuths did, the brief claimed, was “less scientific.” By 2000, after the courts had rejected such claims, arson investigators increasingly recognized the scientific method, but there remained great variance in the field, with many practitioners still relying on the unverified techniques that had been used for generations. “People investigated fire largely with a flat-earth approach,” Hurst told me. “It looks like arson—therefore, it’s arson.” He went on, “My view is you have to have a scientific basis. Otherwise, it’s no different than witch-hunting.”
Cryptoeconomics, speaking Cantonese...this guys an actual part of the blockchain himself.
> That being said, the web standards process is healthier than its ever been

Some disagree: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/09/open-letter-w3c-direct...

Obviously it’s better in aggregate than the web of applet and flash times, though.
Isn't Mercury too faint and too close to the Sun to see with naked eye?
That's a fairly aggressive tone of yours. I'm not going to respond.
That is memorable. The shock value is part of the training, makes it stick with you more than if it was just a dry list of instructions.
Another good tool if you want to write front end in a great general purpose language is scalajs. It allows you to reuse the dame Scala code for backend and front end.
I should have qualified that with an exclusion for recurring and future events. Identifying present and past times, which is the majority case, is not that difficult. Future times is one of those cases where the availability heuristic fools you; you can readily think of cases where it is a concern, but it is the clear minority of things that have to deal with time.
Different psuedo-VMs, I mean browsers, operate differently even on the same specs for various technologies (CSS, JS). They already act effectively like "particular operating systems," except they're less efficient and more obnoxious to work with.
In my opinion, this is where the crux of the misinformed population epidemic resides. Sensational headline that causes mass amounts of doubt, panic, uncertainty, and outrage will get thousands and thousands of retweets and shares, yet the very valid response to it from the accused will not get any traction.
That sounds very interesting, could expand on it?
So I looked for the FB stock price and found this gem of an article: https://www.zacks.com/stock/news/312831/should-you-buy-faceb...

> Based on Facebook’s continued importance to advertisers, its growing user figures across its many platforms, its solid valuation picture, and strong earnings trends, Facebook looks like it might be a stock worth buying before it reports its Q2 financial results after market close on Wednesday, July 25.
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Racial minorities are gong to be greatly overrepresented in a collection of mugshots, so it's almost certainly just the case that it's easier to make mistakes in that direction.

If the algorithm is, say, 99.99% accurate on faces that are the same race, gender, and roughly age, and there's 100 faces in there that match those, it'll correctly say no match .9999^100 = 99% of the time. If there's 5000, it's only going to find no match .9999^5000 = 60% of the time.
The full blown computers running in Minecraft has made me hope for more games that make computation an integrated part of game mechanics.

Like what if parts of the game code where represented as the environment. So that you can build your own game. Perhaps you can mod the game from inside the game. Or perhaps something more controlled, like modifying the level generation by interacting with the level itself.
How does this compare to the Yew framework?
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Benjamin seems to be a bona fide geek, and the rest of his website is quite something. The [electronic wedding invitation](https://benjamin.computer/posts/2016-11-29-WeddingInvite.htm...) is another favorite of mine. I don't think he is trolling, no.
> Deflation means your money gains value doing nothing. You're criticizing an aspect of inflationary monetary policy.

What a surprise, the person railing against fiat currency and trying to reinvent credit cards "but with bitcoin, and without fees!" has no idea what they're talking about.

And I think you only need that disclaimer if you are a lawyer or CPA and what you're saying could reasonably be construed as legal or tax advice.
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biasception.
This can be the title of a new film where ai-powered echo chambers produce progressively more polarized societies until civil war and anarchy destroy all of humankind.
Oh wait, this might just be reality already.
> Don't let perfect be the enemy of good.

The problem isn't perfectionism, but that at least some of us believe that things are moving in the wrong direction - towards making vendors own everything, and end-users in control of nothing.
> LLVM-IR has enabled this nice separation between the language front-end and the compilation back-end.

You're implying that GCC doesn't have a separation between language front-end and compilation back-end, but that's not true.

GCC has a consistent internal representation known as GENERIC where the front-ends and back-ends meet just like LLVM.
At least native applications are something static you can verify. With web 'apps' like, say, anything based on electron, the end user has no control about what code is run. Instead the 'app' just pulls down and runs whatever the company/etc wants you to run dynamically and differently every time with the permissions you gave originally.
to which cockroaches might survive better than us : )
> anxiety/depression would be replaced by confidence and optimism; lethargy and mental sluggishness would be replaced by physical energy, creativity, productivity and accomplishment; anger resentment towards people in my life would be replaced by kindness and compassion; my chaotic, shambolic lifestyle would be replaced by orderliness.

> However, these states of wellbeing would be accompanied by a nagging sense of fear and dread, that this version of myself wasn't the "real me", that it was unsafe for me to be in this state of health, and that I needed to go back to being my anxious, depressed, sluggish old self.

Isn't this just the manic/depression cycle?
It's pop science coverage in Bloomberg, for the layman who has no interest in space exploration outside of the article.

Articles filled with technical detail would bore the reader.

If you want actual comprehensive, tech orientated coverage, there are other more suitable publications out there.
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I always thought that it was just an attempt at making the piece look more literary and less dry, it's especially common in long form journalism. You want a protagonist, acts, a resolution. It's news but also a novel. I think many people also want to be able to relate and empathize with the character in the story and don't like very technical pieces, see for instance 99% of Hollywood blockbusters. You want romance and tension, not cold sci-fi.

I don't mind it too much personally but I'm sure that a lot of the time many of these details are over-emphasized or maybe sometimes completely made up to paint a more vivid picture. That's fine for a novel but not so great for a journalistic endeavor.
Then doesn't the municipalities foot the bill for prosecution and incarceration?
GCC is still important, but yeah Clang is definitely more popular and gaining popularity.

I don't think the performance difference between them is significant, but Clang is much nicer if you want to use it as a library, add a new backend, etc. Basically if you want to do anything other than run it from the command line.

Oh also, Clang does cross-compilation in a not totally insane way.

I wouldn't be surprised if GCC is abandoned eventually, but it will be at least 10 years.
Not to minimize the awe and mad brainfuck skillz, but ... esolangs can be used productively, FSVO productivity; for example, the CLC-INTERCAL compiler is self-hosting (it was originally implemented in Perl but rewritten in its own dialect fairly early on in its development).