skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It would be impossible to 100% conclusively and with absolute precision determine the exact connection between the two. That doesn't mean it's not the best available theory at the moment, that fits the most data. There are international, interstate, and even local level analysis all pointing to the same thing. There are longitudinal studies on children pointing to the same thing. And there are established and direct casual mechanisms in the brain biology that explain it. So what does waving a hand and saying "Nah nah can't prove it" do? By your standards do we have zero knowledge on all sociological matters, since it's impossible to design and implement a perfectly controlled study?
California Passes Net Neutrality Bill
I'm just getting my feet wet with react - but my impression from various blog posts and a bit of coding - is that in the beginning there was reasonml (ocaml dialect - mostly (but not only) targeting compilation to js target) - and react sort of "fell out" as a set of patterns/framework from doing functional programming of dom/gui/state.

And react for js, ("react") is those patterns + patterns for js to make everything (sort of) work without as solid a language to steer one away from various cliffs.

Which is one reason why I don't quite understand why there are class based components at all.

At any rate - my current goal is to try some reasonml+react - and I think it'll feel better. And I'm not surprised cs+react feels more sane than js+react.
I think we can agree that placing the lives of thousands at risk just so you can make a quick buck is indefensible, whether perpetrated by a man, a woman, or a green, warty alien. To suggest that criticism is misplaced or unfair because the accused happens to be a woman achieves nothing positive, not even for a feminist ideology.
Sounds noble, but how much of a difference does it make? 1 million tons of co2/yr is not that much. That's about the equivalent of a town of 60,000 Americans. Put in carbon credit terms, that's about $5-10 million bucks worth of carbon for a company making about $1.5 billion in profit per year.

Wouldn't it make more sense for the company to just plant trees or do environmental work or something? I imagine researching and eventually switching to an entirely different material will be on the order of (at least) a half a billion dollars for a company with six billion bucks a year in revenue, probably more.

[edit] I agree with the general sentiment of the comments below, and trust me I'm as concerned about climate change as the rest, but LEGO has so far invested about $200 million into something with an environmental cost of around $5-10 million - and they haven't even gotten close with the solutions they've found so far. $200 million spent in the right places can do a massive amount of good, far more IMHO than a more sustainable LEGO.

To put things in perspective: each LEGO brick is 47 grams of co2. One transatlantic flight is about 3 tons of co2. So one transatlantic flight is equivalent to nearly 60,000 LEGO pieces.

I agree that changes have to come from everywhere to effectively fight global warming, but I think that there's a limit. At what point do you just not bother? There's got to be a cutoff. And couldn't 200 million bucks be used so much more effectively against climate change?
Is it cheaper or easier to produce? The industrial process is difficult and hazardous. An alternative anti-knock agent is ethanol, which you can make at home. Originally, leaded gasoline was pushed by GM because they held the patents.
As someone who mostly develops in Go these days, I have envy of languages like Rust, Swift, OCaml and Haskell where "value-oriented programming" actually have rich language support.

In particular, "value types" are really useful for ASTs, configurations and other DSLs where you have graphs of polymorphic values.

For this, you really need sum types (often called tagged unions or enums), as illustrated in the article. In Go, the absence of a sum type mechanism means you have to use interfaces as a kludge. In a current project we have something like this:

type Expr interface {
isExpr()
}

type Identifier struct {
Name string
}
func (Identifier) isExpr()

type FuncCall struct {
Name string
Args []Expr
}
func (FuncCall) isExpr()

// ...

instead of something like:

type Expr enum (
Identifier struct {
Name string
}
FuncCall struct {
Name string
Args []*Expr
}
}

One annoyance in Go is that the compiler can't prove that your type switches are exhaustive, but there are other downsides, such as that all values must be boxed inside an interface.
I don't mean this as an attack or to be argumentative but could you elaborate on why it's so much more than a single dimensional configuration slider?

A comment with a statement or assertion and no reasoning is very difficult to discuss.
No, they didn't start with dictionaries, or any other parallel corpora; they learned the word by word translations as well from monolingual corpora, by finding alignments between monolingual word embeddings in the target languages.
> So write some drivers :)

Uh, I (and you, and everyone except Qualcomm) cannot do that. ath10k drivers are inherently broken without a proprietary firmware because "blah blah 802.11ac blah blah" waves hands around

The atheros chip in that microsoft thing has been around for quite a while.
This is noble but seems a little misguided. Legos seem like they'd have by far one of the lowest carbon to utility ratios of any toy you can buy. I used the ones I had as a kid for hours almost every day. I've passed them down to my kid who uses them daily. More than 99% are in perfect shape and I see no reason we won't one day pass them onto another generation.

When you're discarding the plastic junk some family member got for your kid just last Christmas, there probably aren't any Legos in there.

In the worst case, they're high quality ABS so they're more recyclable than most packaging you bother to sort.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17886695.
"this doesn't change the fact that it's representative of people's wishes"

Is it?

I wouldn't trust an electronic poll any more than I'd trust an electronic voting machine.
Without commenting on whether this method could be applied to whales, the method described here does not require a bilingual dictionary. They learned their "dictionary" unsupervised by aligning monolingual word embeddings.
We started using discord about a month ago. It was a blessing. Some engineers work remotely, while others work from HQs. We were using Google Hangouts, but GH lacks the ability to silence the remote user locally. If you silence a user, he must undo the silencing himself, which didn't fit well in our use case.

Engineers who were not working from HQs could not stand all the crazy sounds that came through office mics, so eventually they'd had to quit and be accessible only through slack.

The fact that discord allows us to press a specific key before talking, is amazing. It solved one of the hardest problems we had.
People on the team who like to have presence on social media do that. People who don't like it that much, don't. I don't see much politics in this but maybe I'm missing something.
I don't believe that's what the original poster was saying at all. It was that when "going green" the marketing department seems to be one deciding what they do first rather than the engineering team.
Robots to start killing crown-of-thorns starfish on Great Barrier Reef
Believing epistemic contradictions [pdf]
After 24 years, Doom II's final secret has been found
Well they do, in point of fact. I was debugging our corporate proxy and tailing the logs for a particular site- when using chrome I matched the site string despite it being directed to bypass proxy- but not going to the site, but to google, despite putting a full url in.

Anyone wanting to truly understand what chrome is doing should run an ssl decrypting proxy on their web traffic for awhile- it is eye opening.
There were lot's of similar companies at that time. This is a silly thing to get upset about.
Thanks, I guess I failed the RTFA test.

I had assumed that this detail is normally hard to dig up, so it is nice to see Amazon being up front and clear about it.
I did taichi in college (part of a wushu class) and it was damn amazing.

i did the self bribing, it works but not a lot. Hard to be judge and party. For bureaucracy I'm often more proactive to use the system against itself, namely giving them willfully stupid forms so they curate the required data, fill half of it and give me clear directions for the remaining part.
> Remember that in some cases people don't have the source code for programs, or the tools that could build it. Microsoft preserves that.

And even if they failed to preserve the source code or the toolchain for whatever reason, they go to extreme lengths to get fixes in:

https://blog.0patch.com/2017/11/did-microsoft-just-manually-...
The Power of Generative Metaphor
ReasonML is a very new language variant, and wasn't part of React's original implementation.

There's a really good history at https://stackshare.io/posts/the-react-story .
>> If it's lead, did crime rates increase 20 years after leaded fuel became a thing?

Yes. The rise and fall of violent crime rates correlate very tightly to the rise and fall of leaded fuel, with a ~20 year gap. You see the same correlations in different countries that had different phase in / phase out times, and different U.S. states that had different timelines. (E.g. if a state phased out leaded gas 5 years earlier than average, their crime wave also started abating 5 years earlier than average)
Burn All Your Textbooks (2017) [pdf]
China's leading the next big phone trend with sliding cameras
Extra hot combine batch №114 – FUNNY VIDEOS (VINES and COUBS)
I use Discord to post plans for my service. Everyone complains it doesn't send enough notifications. This is what I really like about slack. You never miss a mobile push notification, with Discord, sometimes you get a notifications, others you don't. It's hit or miss.
Show HN: Reactive Web UI for Your SQL Database
https://github.com/avichalp/wow

Using WebSockets, W.O.W hits a registered sql query
every `t` seconds and pushes the resulting table to the browser. Helps in debugging your backend code while you are developing the frontend.
And schedule of public transport.
What bothers me more is having started their business this way, they are heavily litigious to companies that make products compatible or similar to Lego. Its good to see they generally lose these cases.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lego_clone
> I'm unable to form long-term bonds with other professionals, though. I view colleagues from a more utilitarian point of view, only there to help us carry out the work, that serves a practical need for me, but not necessary for my personal company.

That's probably what all this is stemming from. Look at your colleagues and coworkers as people, just trying to make a living like you are. You don't need to go to bars with them, but showing a genuine interest in how they're doing in the morning when you both get into work can go a long way. At the end of the day, we're all just people trying to get by. If you have that friendly acquaintanceship then it will be rewarding in its own right for both of you, but could also lead to jobs in the future, not that this should be the reason for it, because like you said, then it would be disingenuous.
Abelian sandpile model
>The atheros chip in that microsoft thing has been around for quite a while.

Nope.

The atheros chip is new, every single surface device used MARVEL and MARVEL was total crap - always having issues connecting, flaky drivers, poor standby experience. The surface go is the first device to not use marvel and i hope the next Pro's and Surface Laptops go atheros.

https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/ath10k
Black Rock on side of angels in demanding Tesla shake up
Mini Real Wireless Headset Bluetooth Headset
According to US legal theory, the point of incentivizing investments is to increase how much money can be made by the creator, incentivizing creation.

To quote the Constitution, the purpose of copyright is "To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries." ie To increase how much creation there is.
That's a bit harsh. I moved to London in 2013 and I remember I had to order flat white off-menu most of the time back then. Most places knew how to make it but just charged capuchino on the bill. Today it's everywhere.

I was not a Starbucks customer though.
And yet I think that is much more interesting and valuable then the article.
JFK and FDR still seem like Democrats.

Hoover, Eisenhower, and Teddy still seem like Republicans.

The idea that the parties "switched" is little more than a notion with which Democrats try to distance themselves from the awful parts of their past.
Been there, done that. If you want to be secure, you need to enforce key rotation within a secure timeframe, whatever that means in your threat model use vault, kms or something similar to automatically rotate secrets. Then, leaking credentials will be inconsequential.
I'd suggest an older laptop off of eBay or the like, especially a ThinkPad (perhaps one of the small X2x0 series or one of the X1 series?)
Agreed except product types aren't the same as sum types, product types are records or what have you
So, I think there’s something you should know. When I made this quiz I made a mistake. I keep meaning to go back and change the quiz to fix it but it’s been so long that it’s a low priority for me. So I’ll just tell you what it is: Turns out the “digital” logo is apparently not actually Helvetica. It’s not any font. It’s a logo that happens to look a lot like Helvetica, which was designed the same year, and has often been recreated in Helvetica. But there’s a very nerdy story about it’s creation and maintenance that is probably perfect HN material that more of you would appreciate if only I’d noticed this post sooner. But for those of you who are still here, the “digital” logo story can be found at: https://nedbatchelder.com/blog/200712/ancient_history_the_di...
Unfortunately libhoudini is proprietary. I don't think it's being updated for newer Android versions either.
There was a long time of Democrat domination of the southern states' politics from the end of Reconstruction that didn't end until about sixteen years ago. It's hard to assign ideological values like left/right, or even positions of, e.g., capitalism vs. not-capitalism, to the parties before the 70s, and even since (with some exceptions).

The Democratic party had something of a flirtation with the left side of the spectrum in FDR, but it wasn't anything like a defining characteristic of the party back then, and JFK went pretty much in the other direction. The Republican party had Presidents like Coolidge, who would definitely be on the right side of the spectrum, but also Nixon, who gave us price controls and proposed single-payer health care.

It's all a bit of a mishmash with a few salient exponents of somewhat-consistent ideology here and there, like Presidents Teddy Roosevelt (a progressive of sorts), FDR, Reagan, and now Trump. Things do seem to be clarifying in recent times, but even so, it's still not always all very clear. The fact is that the individual candidates have more going for or against them than just party affiliation or ideology.
If I recall, this problem was used in "The Martian" by Andy Weir, when one of the rockets carrying supplies failed. At high pressures, some of the cargo liquified and the rocket exploded due to shifting weight distribution. It may have been another book...
Alternatively they would get better at filtering out your requests.
I’d recommend giving them a shot - I honestly feel way better after rebreather deco than OC. Portable gas blending is awesome.

If you’re using a rebreather properly and have sufficient bailout, they’re pretty reliable these days. You can switch to OC for sanity breaths if you see an issue and use the draeger ball-gag mouthpiece if you’re concerned about O2 hits.
Ethanol production competes with citizens for food (how many of those countries using leaded gas have experienced famines recently?). Adding it to gasoline results in a fuel with ~30% less energy per unit, so you'd have to produce more gasoline to get an equivalent amount of energy.

https://extension.psu.edu/fuel-ethanol-hero-or-villain
My grandfather made some coloured injection-moulded bricks for his children before Lego but didn't bother to patent the design.

We still have some of them in the family.
Signale: Hyper-Configurable Logging Utility for Nodejs Environments
> “It is important,” said Mr. Brooks, “that we can make a toy that doesn’t jeopardize” children’s future.

That's a weird looking quote. The last two words (children's future) aren't really part of what he said? Was that something the writer added or changed to make it more clear, or more evocative? If so, shouldn't it say [children's future]?
> Which is one reason why I don't quite understand why there are class based components at all.

Classes in js are just syntax sugar, so even if you're writing classes you're still actually writing function prototypes. As such there's little reason not to support them, and they're very welcome when you have a team of developers that are adapting to modern js development almost exclusively from traditional OO languages.
OTOH: it's a high-profile company with exacting requirements for its pieces. If they can convert, companies that might have been on the fence ("it's too hard! our requirements are special! nobody else is doing it") might jump in, too.
People running light clients should also be running their own full nodes, otherwise the shortage of peers will only get worse
https://github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/issues/15454
Why do you think it's unacceptable? "Marketing blitz" and "press blitz", for example, are in common use. OED (which defines it as "a sudden, energetic, and concerted effort, typically on a specific task") has more examples: https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/blitz.
>Did they also account for changes in how crime rates are reported over time?

The Bureau of Justice Statistics conducts a yearly survey asking people about the crimes they were a victim of in the past year regardless if the crimes were reported. The Bureau of Justice survey shows a much more dramatic reduction in crime than if you just look at reported crimes.

http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2018/01/30/5-facts-abou...

>Using the FBI numbers, the violent crime rate fell 48% between 1993 and 2016. Using the BJS data, the rate fell 74% during that span.
Google Maps: noting that I have unwittingly shared images of my wife and son
It’s not about the enviroment. It’s about virtue-signaling strongly enough to protect their business interests. You won’t see “Lego Buys Carbon Credits” as a headline on HN.
Hyper focus is a trait of ADHD, which seems counter intuitive, as you imagine that ADHD means you can't concentrate on anything, which is not at all true.
Biggest benefit I can see is that this'll probably lead to a fair bit more research into recyclable/renewable plastics. That tends to help industry as a whole eventually, as knowledge spreads.
You should waive technical interviews, full stop.

Most people have zero professional training on how to do them properly. So don't.

Using the technical interview approach, Einstein wouldn't get a job as a physicist because he had trouble doing simple math problems. That's not Einstein's fault. That's your fault.

Use methods of interviewing that are time-honored and aren't cargo cult. Conversational interviewing comes to mind.
Yep (spoilers), that was what happened to the rocket that was supposed to bring supplies to Watney so that he could survive until the next scheduled mission (prompting the crew currently returning to earth to "turn around")
The distancing claim is that the racists switched parties, not that the parties switched ideologies.

Ya know, like Strom.

If you don't think it's kind of obvious which party currently has more members that think it's fun to race bait or worse, well whatever.
Thanks for your reply and your openness. It's great that you find the time to answer random guys on HN.

Since you're here... I do wonder, how much of the React documentation did you write? The 'style' of the writing seems to match yours, e.g. when discussing Immutable JS.
The TOC is very tempting. Thanks for the link
Huawei Introduces Kirin 980: 7nm and Many World Firsts
MyGet has been acquired by Assembla
The hard part of this is that most companies aren't willing to support it (monetarily). You're expected to spend most of your time coding or, at best, thinking about the next problem. Thoughtul reflection rarely gets the support it ought to.

That said, I think it's worth investing your own time in doing it. I feel a lot more at ease when I take time to think about my work, and I think it pays off in my own career in the long run, even if it costs me some of my own time.
Every bit counts, and it'll count even more for eco conscious millennials and their children. Lego is a long term company.
As someone who works outside the Bay Area, this article feels weird to me. The summary of the article:

- Author interned at Google. It was boring but good pay.

- Because of this, never went back. Started a startup, built a product. Product did not make enough money. Realised making money is important. Tried to pivot something they thought could make lots of money but hated (adtech) and forced themselves to network with the adtech people they despised. It did not work out.

- Concludes it sucks that in SV engineers are highly paid and well treated and that they don’t organise to stand up for a totally different group who the author believes is low paid and not well treated.

- Concludes how tech is broken.

My two cents: welcome to the real world. Companies exist to make money. People will try to work at the best place they can make it to. Governments can shape the redistribution of wealth and social responsibility with rules and regulations, among others.
NAFTA: Don’t Trade Away the Internet
How are markets centralized, exactly? If centralization and hierarchies were the answer to all complexity, then the feudal system would still be relevant.

Markets are complex, organic things, with a lot of players.
My apologies, I'm guess I'm just too used to seeing internal politics everywhere.
I want Lego to make Technic that's light and strong enough for people to create actual flying drones.
Provably correct and provably fast are widely different concepts.
First CRISPR clinical trial backed by U.S. companies launches
You're right, I was thinking of something else.
Ultimately, all full nodes will also be light clients--that is the nature of the upcoming sharding changes.

It does not make sense to have a full node for every light client. A full node is perfectly capable of safely serving hundreds or thousands of light clients.

Also there are several initiatives towards incentivizing more light clients. I am working on one: https://vipnode.org/
Two legs means you can run the average fuel level much lower (about half) meaning less weight thus more efficient. (or if you prefer you can load the plane with more cargo).

Climbing to altitude is expensive yes but I'd imagine the costs of utilizing an extra airports facilities far outweigh this. (I suspect this plus the perceived advantage of "direct" flights is the reason they want this).