skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem is still there even for the best of the kids, if you haven't noticed: when the earlier generation was growing up, there were 1-2 screens in the whole house and everyone was reading books, now it's dozens of devices in every hand (even the school now stupidly mandates ipads - forced a replacement down our throat for what was always carefully done with pen and paper), and it takes the current-gen kids a superhuman amount of willpower to get away from the devices, casual games, etc etc. Heck, even 90% of adults can't fight that constant dopamine stream from news or FB likes, even the most intelligent ones. So blame the kids all you want, it's a problem even for the best of them.
I'm torn on this one to be honest. Just to make the math easier let's say it costs the state $1/unit/day and 10% of those equipped are later found innocent. The state will have to charge people $1.10/day (or something close to that) due to the refunds, making it even harder for even more people to afford it in the first place.

Innocence doesn't mean that you didn't use the service. Should the taxpayers foot the bill? Perhaps but good luck politically. Should the guilty people who used the same service pay an inflated price?
TLDR - grab the lowest hanging fruit, always validate never assume, ask why 5xs
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If you're unaware of other cultures this will make no sense to you, but quitting in many places is very very hard.
There’s hope after all.
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How will this compare with Omnigraffle in terms of features and pricing?
Look at the stats from the Brooklyn Community Bail Fund and the Bronx Freedom Fund.
We do live in the "shameless plug" era.
Y'know what'd be useful?

ASCII export, so I can put nice diagrams in comments and docstrings. Also possibly (assuming those nice diagrams are unambiguous) a parsing bridge which lets me convert them into data.
Feinstein has almost single-handedly pushed for two renewals of FISA 702. So I wouldn't give her too much credit on that.
Bail bond is typically 10% of the bail amount. And that's the bail bondsman's to keep.

So, on a $500 bail, that's $50. If you're indigent, you might not have $50.
> The Missing Diagram Editor for the Mac

I’ve been using OmniGraffle for this purpose for ten plus years. They’re gone downhill since moving into the App Store but there certainly are diagramming tools for Mac...
I really hope this is an exaggeration.

Still, the US is not the only place with very mixed standards for driving tests. I once heard that the easiest way to get a Dutch driving license was on the Caribbean island of Saba, where you'd get your license if you could drive around the central square without causing an accident. I knew someone who got his license there, and he didn't dare to drive a car in Netherland. Fortunately he had a Dutch motorbike license.
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Really? Would you care to talk about your work with the gopher protocol and it's application in today's computing environment?
I like the idea and I applaud money being spent to investigate this, but this isn't gonna work.

Testing basic income in an environment where BI doesn't universally exist isn't going to yield any fruitful conclusions. The conclusions will be caveated with "we gave basic income to people who's peers don't have basic income and that could alter the results". This is why economics is such a difficult practice to comprehend because behaviors don't work in a vacuum (read anything by Kahneman and you'll understand).

On the other hand, if this at least gets the population to think UBI makes sense, even if we can't unilaterally test it properly, then I think that's a good thing.
IIUC it's critically dependent on the manufacturing process used.

> how much would it cost

A CPU IC isn't very interesting until it has some I/O, so it's much more meaningful to talk about an SoC with one or more of these darkriscv cores.

Sorry, I don't have an answer other than to say "this isn't quite complete enough for it to be useful for most tasks." That said, there's probably tons of open source implementations of DDR/SPI/PCI/USB interfaces (on opencores.org, e.g.). So it's "only" a matter of integrating these.
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A lot of the conveniences of the modern computing landscape are anything but.

Laggy response times in aforementioned text editors, frivolous UI animations on certain OSs, terrible web apps like JIRA...

The complexity doesn't necessarily mean better software. It's quite often worse along many dimensions: performance, usability, maintainability, portability.
Most people have notifications for all apps on, as it is the standard.
I don't see why this would be the case. Google has the advantage of seeing the content on pages with inbound links.
> I also delete anything I tweet after a few days.

Interesting. An automated way to enforce my own retention policy on these platforms would surely be a good thing. More so for facebook than for twitter I feel (but that's just a personal preference).
I struggle with the question whether to have children or not. I'm surrounded by new fathers who struggle with their children, whose wives have turned from attractive women into unattractive moms. I read witty comments all the time suggesting how much of a burden kids are.

This struggle burns me out.
check returns all non-error return values, so the function would be written as:

func ReadFile(path string) (string, error) {
b := check ioutil.ReadFile(path)
return string(b), nil
}
Too bad the influence is big! The entire generation will be easily to manipulate. The reason FB/Twitter lost over 20% in stocks in one day, is because the spying and manipulating fake news the government used as so-called 'anti-propaganda'. This is going way deeper.
Why is this an eu sponsored (?) project?
This is great! Kind of shocked that capitalism is looking to solve the governments problem. Things are changing.
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And then we have this counter-quote from another great mind:

"I never commit to memory anything that can easily be looked up in a book" - Albert Einstein
The article didn't focus solely on quins.

An example of a different class:
"Researchers have shown, for example, that aminoglycoside antibiotics can cause deafness by damaging mitochondria in the hair cells of the ear."

More general statement:
"They reported that antibiotics in several classes triggered oxidative stress — a build-up of reactive, oxygen-containing molecules — in mitochondria, inhibiting their function across a range of mammalian cells, as well as in mice."

I interpreted the article as saying that quins are the most obvious example of antibiotics causing harm, but one example for where they cause harm (mitochondria) is a problem shared by other antibiotics. Unfortunately there isn't a test for evaluating mitochondrial damage in the body. Since we can't test, we don't know the real extent of damage done by any antibiotic to human cells. More research is needed.
Reading the title I was actually hoping for a Gopher revival movement as a way to denounce the bloat surrounding HTTP and the mountain of protocols built haphazardly on top of it. Needless to say that I projected hard.
Would they regenerate after the skull was put back in place?

Are there other connections -such as the recently discovered lymphatic vessels - that are severed during craniotomies?

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2017/10/scientist...

I guess the bigger question I have is what are the repercussions/downsides of removing large portions of the skull temporarily?
> and the best feature: BSD license

IIRC this isn't the first open source RISC-V core but it's great to see another implementation.
Ask HN: Can a contractor earn as much or more than a full-time employee?
My understanding is that the main drawbacks of contracting is not to have any of the benefits of full-time employment, although from personal experience a few years ago, I struggled to consistently find clients and had periods without contracts, hence not making it worthwhile in the longer term.

As a FT employee now, I keep getting thousands of contract work offers, but these don't seem attractive from my previous experience.

Is there any of you out here able to consistently get contract work, which in the long term earn you as much or more than as a FT employee?

(in the context of software development, mobile/front-end/back-end)
If you can lose mobility in an accident by making your muscle stiffer, you can game some by making it more flexible.
I haven't seen numbers... does anybody know, or have sources, for the rate of skipping trial (with and without bail)?

I wonder if, like excessively long prison sentences, that increasing bail has limited returns (in terms of getting people to show up for their trials). IE, most people will come to trial anyways. Those that are likely to skip will skip regardless of bail amount.
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Quite a bit in theory but memory latency wouldn't decrease so there would have to be some added complexity in interfacing with it.
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I won't argue with that, but I'd just like to say that the newest Fortran versions actually make a quite modern language.

Most of its quirks are related with compatibility with older versions. If a new version without that handicap was released today, it may look nicer than most people think.
Forums are also a social media, but a less abusing one.
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My bike has the same problems as my convertible car: It gets flat tires, I get wet when it rains and it costs more energy to go uphill. Is my bike now a convertible car?

The definition of a social network is not in its problems but in its features.

And I'd say one of the defining features of a social network is discovery (e.g. new people, groups that share a common interest, etc.). This is completely lacking in WhatsApp - as you already need to be able to "have access" to the people you want to talk with before you can contact them - but is the integral experience with facebook or instagram.
Not exactly what you might be looking for, but check out https://monodraw.helftone.com/ and http://asciiflow.com/
I know that Denmark is trying hard to overtake Netherland as the best bicycle country in the world.

Also, according to some reports[1], there are 9 million bicycles in Beijing alone.

[1] Melua (2005)
From the study TFA is based on (on Sci-Hub: https://sci-hub.tw/http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2018/08... )

First, in general, air pollution inhibits respondents
’
test
performance. Except for the effects of 1-d and 7-d air pollution
exposure on math test scores (first and second columns in panel
B), all of the coefficients for mean APIs over a longer period are
negative and statistically significant.

Second, the damage of air
pollution on cognitive performance is more sizable when using
longer window of exposure measure. As shown at the bottom in
panel A, an increase in the 7-d-mean API by 1 SD lowers verbal
test scores by 0.278 point (0.026 SD), while a 1 SD increase in
average API over 3 y before the interview is associated with 1.132
points (0.108 SD) drop in verbal test scores.

Third, air pollution
exposure appears to exert a more negative effect on verbal test
performance than math test performance.

That doesn't imply that the effect is irreversible, but it does mean that there are long-term changes which accumulate with longer exposure to air pollution.
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Yes and I'm pretty sure the horse riding public was not fond of the new fangled horseless carriages when they started showing up on the streets either.
I'm unfamiliar with Larry Summers, but Damore wasn't just claiming that there were biological differences between the sexes.

He was also claiming that those biological differences made women less suited to work in technology and leadership related positions.
If you also people if punishments are severe enough, most will say no.

If you also people if a specific punishment is severe enough, most will say yes.

People require less severe punishments the more informed they are. Voting on judges is only going to get a more generalized mob effect.
Heavily discussed 2 days ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17851511
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I think your problem with /usr/bin/iosnoop might be due to SIP. I no longer remember exactly which I did, but I know that I either partially or completely disabled SIP when I started to use DTrace, a number of months ago. I might have used one of the procedures outlined in this post [1] to do so. I do know that /usr/bin/iosnoop seems to work for me - at least, I just this moment invoked it, and got regular DTrace-style output with no errors like you mention. I am running an up-to-date High Sierra (10.13.6).

Edit: SIP is only partially disabled on my system, just enough to allow DTrace to work.

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20160809042951/https://internals...
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IMHO for basic income to succeed esp the supplemental 1k type ine should have more options of partial work. For instance I would like to work only 3 days a week and building something useful or contributing to a social cause rest of the week knowing I have a cushion of basic income. But the flip side is many companies won't be willing to offer such jobs. At least I am not sure what value I can add to society through this extra income if I still have to work 40 hrs a week.
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One's likely adapted from novels as well.
Those things only require a couple hundred Mhz of general purpose computing to make sense.

Maybe less, should specific purpose assists be available.

And RAM address space sufficient to contain the tasks.
Dupe, comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17851511
Nobody is asking for "pro-American" leaks. Wikileaks tried to present itself as a unbiased source of leaked news, the moment they refuse to leak negative news about a nation or individual they are showing a bias.

If you go on Wikileaks right now and search "Russia" for 2012-2018, you get mostly news about how western plans are going to fail and how powerful Russia's military is. If you search for Russia in the "Syria Files" section, you get no results. How is that even possible?
UBI doesn't claim to solve wealth disparity
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The draft doesn't include any actual examples with multiple returns on a function that uses check internally, but the behavior is fully specified:

> A check returns from the enclosing function by returning the result of invoking the handler chain with the error value.

> A return statement in a handler causes the enclosing function to return immediately with the given return values. A return without values is only allowed if the enclosing function has no results or uses named results. In the latter case, the function returns with the current values of those results.

> A handler chain function takes an argument of type error and has the same result signature as the function for which it is defined.

> If the enclosing function has result parameters, it is a compile-time error if the handler chain for any check is not guaranteed to execute a return statement.

So any handler defined in ReadFile would be required to return (string, error) or not include a return at all (such that other handlers got their chance to interact with the error).
A couple

Tape. I own 10 different types of tape. Duck tape, the rainbow colored one, is great for visual identification + slight adhesive. You can just take your keyring / keyfob/ roll a few inches of 1" wide tape, it has many uses.

1. Have an idea at night → dump a stickynote with tape on doorknob, remove it morning → logit in computer notetaking platform

2. Have an idea anywhere → take a stickynote, dump it in your wallet → logit in computer

3. Important reminder to do something? → place it in associated location. E.G. if you need to bring backpack to work tomorrow, clip your wallet onto it. E.G. Need to reminder yourself something tomorrow? Throw a stickynote inbetween keys on keyboard. E.G Need to call someone in the morning → stickynote a reminder on your phone in morning.

Done, I strongly don't believe in a todolist app, it adds no value. Discipline is life. Simple is better.
QR feature? Nice, I didn't know about that. Though it's kind of disappointing that it directs to a google service...
Wadler's very easily my favourite academic writer - not only because his interests coincide with mine, but his writing keeps being genuinely amusing!
So, are you actually getting access to the Alpha when you sign up or are we just getting grabbed to someday down the line get Beta access?

I'd advise you to post this again when you have an actual software to show, that people can test out. I won't sign up for anything and I believe a lot of people don't really want anymore newsletters and sales pitches in their inbox.
You'd think the logical thing would be to put that helmet on your head, but that just feels silly on a casual bike.
Headline: A majority of U.S. teens are taking steps to limit smartphone and social media use

The study: 52% – said they are trying to limit their phone use in various ways.

Addicts will often lie about trying to get clean. "Trying to do" something is also not the same as "doing" something something.

I'm not saying that teens aren't taking concrete steps to reduce smartphone and social media use, and after all, the first step to getting clean is admitting you have a problem, something their parents can't do. I'm just saying it's irresponsible for TechCrunch to jump to this conclusion, and this headline is amounts to clickbait.
IIRC Campbell was also mainly responsible for the obsession with "psi" which pervades so much SF of that era. He was so utterly convinced that it represented the next stage of human evolution, imminent and wholly beneficial, that he actively discriminated against story submissions which didn't take the same view.

A few "rebellious" stories like PKD's The Golden Man only really make sense in the context of this dogmatic environment.
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This hits home the most in Industrial Engineering.

That field was not invented by academics, that was done by industry, and academia realized there was demand to teach it.

Getting a PhD in Industrial Engineering seemed like a contradiction. The studies my professors were pushing seemed useless and untestable. I tried to make suggestions towards my interests, using big data on life at home, or specific ergonomic issues were useful to every human alive.

When I left both my meetings with the professors, I realized I would be at their whim for the next 4-6 years.
In my experience with early stage startups, these models are often pure fiction and completely divorced from reality.

They look nice to investors.
Reality is very, very different.
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I feel this way everyday :)
You don't learn guitar with one blog post.

This is more abstract than guitar. There is not one technic you can follow.

Those skills use less the intellectual part of the brain and more the emotional one. It makes them hard to mass teach because words suck for explaining them.

I don't have a simple solution to offer, as I learned it by trial and errors, and also luck.

Therapy helped me but it's not scalable. Meditation too but it's very slow, and good luck to make teenagers practice it seriously. I would still recommand them, with the warning that quality vary hugely between practicians.

Lots of good books have helped as well. They are useless without practice though.

Because in the end, the only way to learn is to be in the situation, react differently and evaluate, then adapt.

Anyway, to all those with these challenges, good luck. It's possible to live an happy life as a square in a circle world. But it does requires to adapt and you may be the only one in charge to find a way.

Despite my seemingly pessimistic view on the topic, a positive way of seing this is to say : hey, nobody did it, let's make a website with plenty of content, practical examples in videos and exercices for those who need it.

You'd need a dozen of contributors with different social background and gender to make something that's worth it.

Things need to be very visual, so acting will be important. You need kids to be part of it as you'd get out of date easily. You'd need to remove judgement out of it. Not the right place to get your "drug are bad" messages through is.

Repetition is important, but sustainable progression is another. Practicing those skills will get you in trouble at first.

But more importantly, the emphasis must be based on real experiences from the teaching and in the exercices.

Hard to get righ. Interesting challenge.

A nice idea to explore.
Yea I just went with a $20 wifi dongle.
How does this compare with omnigraffle and yed?
Or forced participation in sports could do just the opposite for kids who were uncoordinated, have mild physical disabilities, etc...

I hated PE classes until the one or two I had to take in high school. Then I could elect to take weightlifting. I wasn’t coordinated at all but I could “pick things up and put them down”.

But no amount of “self-confidence” and having a “positive self-image” would stop a short fat uncoordinated computer geek [1] from getting bullied. No I wasn’t bullied in high school but I’m sure it didn’t have anything to do with being “self confident” and I wouldn’t have been able to “defend myself” against the football players if half of them weren’t my friends.

[1] I got better as an adult - got more into physical fitness and became a part time fitness instructor.
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Wow, this is amazing!
I also read this sentence and my immediate thought was that I would only use three exclamation marks in the documentation for a database engine to say something like "TWICE AS MUCH test coverage!!!"

If I want a fast database, I will just write my data to /dev/null. It has well-understood data durability guarantees and is very quick to write to.
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The secret approach seems to happen in America as well. I've seen it several times. Some quits and no one is told until a few days beforehand. People on other teams are not told until later, etc.

In Canada its much more open. Everyone knows, you give more 4-2 weeks depending on how senior you are. Usually there is gift-giving/going for lunch/etc.
That video demo is great - is it happening in real time?