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There’s only one time I ever spanked either of my children (one boy one girl).

Both of them around 5 years old went through a phase where they started dealing with anger/upset by hitting. In particular mom would enforce some limit or positive discipline or be telling them to do something and an argument would escalate to the child starting to pummel my wife.

At first this was dealt with separating them, carrying the child to their room and putting them on their bed and telling them to stay there until they have calmed down. Many discussions around better ways to respond, how to use their voice, how to manage that fire that builds up in their belly, what to do with their hands when they feel that urge to just hit, etc.

At some point you hit a wall with these strategies. It’s like telling a child “don’t run down the stairs” a hundred times but until they come crashing down and get a nasty bruise they won’t stop doing it.

So for both kids eventually there came a day when they were causing real physical harm to my wife (a small child can actually still hurt you) and it crossed a line.

“What you are doing is hurting your mom. Not just her heart but her body. It’s OK to be angry. Sometimes if you have to yell it’s OK to yell. It’s never OK to hit, kick, bite or scratch in anger. In the world if you hit someone do you know what happens? Besides getting in big trouble? You get hit back. The next time you hit your mom you’re getting a spanking.”

And then I proceeded to explain how in some houses children who misbehave get spanked, and that’s not how we choose to do it. But this has gotten to the point where we’re going to try that if it happens again.

Sure enough several days later another tantrum lead to my child starting to punch and kick.

I think in the end actually spanking my child was more memorable for me than it was for them. But I could see it clicked immediately for them.

For both of them it was a last resort, and for both of them it was necessary to finally crystallize that meltdowns can happen, but a violent meltdown is truly unacceptable.

In both cases I wished I hadn’t waited as long to finally resort to corporeal punishment because frankly the emotional distress to my wife in the meantime was a big cost to pay to avoid using it.

It’s so easy to gloss over the true grit involved in day-to-day parenting. Shit can get real, and spanking or not spanking both can carry consequences.

It’s easy to demonize the parent who resorts to spanking their child as an outlet for their own frustration. I think the modern attitude of shocked outrage to any spanking is itself damaging (even if many instances of spanking are indeed shocking and outrageous)

But it is also possible that not all children can learn all lessons aurally, and some lessons/boundaries are absolutely crucial to be established for the health and safety of the child, or the rest of the family.
There are some properties of the data that can be exploited to add weaker consistency guarantees. This leads to some desirable design trade-offs in terms of simplicity and performance optimisation. While this could result in data loss, it may be permissible given that queries can span large time ranges where one or two missing datapoints do not carry the same weight as a financial miscalculation, or loss of life.
The same could be said with multiplayer games played over mobile devices, with intermittent connectivity issues. In this domain, the player's moves are fast forwarded once connectivity is restored, as this provides no observable difference to other players.
My point is that it's very dependent on the use case, and does not apply across the board.
You’d keep a hand on a firearm just because here are 3-5 other people on the same 250-foot long stretch of concrete? That’s the most antisocial thing I’ve ever heard.

And yeah, that would make it unsafe.
I agree with your synopsis. Penrose raises interesting questions, but his answers are not very convincing. But then again, no materialist answer to his question is very convincing. Which gives us two options:

1. ignore the question by labeling it nonsensical

2. expand our range of hypotheses to include immaterial answers
On Physician Burnout and the Plight of the Modern Knowledge Worker
Actual source: https://twitter.com/tobyontour/status/1060150649298579456

twitter displays this thread OK. the linked page provides no extra value and removes the responses and spin-off threads.
I once worked with a quant that had a batch of strategies he was testing. The one that was performing the best he named ‘the front runner’

He was shocked when the firm required him to rename it & not use that name in any communication.
[Timelapse video] 2 hours of Diwali sky in 4 minutes
Effects in Functional Programming: Searching Twitter
Other options include making it a national holiday, or making it easy to vote close to home or work, and keep voting stations open for a very generous period.

Basically, you should be able to vote quickly before or after work without it cost more than 15 minutes.
I'm looking at it now and there's approximately $40k being sent/received per second. And this is small-scale compared to how much fiat money is changing hands every second.
Embodied computation is not AGI. For example, if it is an immaterial soul that is doing the non reducible processing, and we take the bit of matter that the soul communicates with the world through, we have not created AGI. We've only managed to entrap a beings soul in a machine.

If we can empirically quantify the behavior of an irreducible entity, which seems plausible, then the hypothesis is scientific.
Did you just explain why his feelings and culture are wrong with 'you can change'?
The tricky but potentially lucrative task of streaming videogames
Hello, author here :)

There are 4 applications the readers of this book are going to build along the way. I think that's more pragmatic than other programming books.

Most, not all, of the other mentioned topics are too niche to address them in a beginners GraphQL book that should be read by a broader audience IMO. But I keep these topics in a list to write supplementary blog posts about them.

Thanks for your insights on this! Helps a lot to identify the pain points the community has on this topic :)
“Be the Reason, Someone's Smile” a Patient's Word About Dr Faika Khan
That's not how it works.

The CEO reports to the board. The Chairman reports to the board. The board reports to the shareholders but only indirectly via shareholder meetings where votes will decide on renumeration, board composition etc.
How to Develop a Marketplace for Gaming Goods in 3 Months
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I think you will meet more refactoring in this book :) Great that you liked it!
I don’t think he is dead. A dead man would probably not care about his age.
Per a talk from Joshua Liebow-Feeser at the Rust Belt Rust 2018 conference, Google is heavily using Rust for networking in their new Fuchsia operating system.

This is a rough approximation of a quote he gave during the talk:

"What makes Rust different is not that you can write high-performance, bare-metal code. People use C and C++ to do that all the time. What makes Rust different is that when you write that code, it is safe, clean, and easy to use, and you are confident in its correctness."

If even Google is using Rust for performance-critical development, that seems pretty promising to me.
"Robyn joined Telstra in January 2017 as Chief Operations Officer (COO) and has been in the role of CFO since 1 October 2018."

https://www.telstra.com.au/aboutus/media/media-releases/Tels...

She was there < 2 years.
As a human who’ll be writing X, I sometimes enjoy the perspective of other humans who write X.
He was dead previously but now he is transdead after petitioning to have his death certificate changed.
Popularity influences ecosystem which influences programs written in the language. A language is more than just its spec. Larger mind share improves availability and quality of 3rd party libs, features, performance and quality of the compiler, brain power to guide the language forward, etc.

It's the second order effects that matter.
Energy Vault have an energy storage startup that might be nicely scaleable
Eh, you can get to dense suburbia in about 45 minutes, sparse suburbia in like 1 hour, and if you're willing to commute 90 minutes, maybe two hours, you're out in what city slickers would call "rural".

Also don't forget Long Island, the Other In State.

(I'm one of the idiots who commutes ~2 hours from near Poughkeepsie, which is (a) still on commuter rail [the super-express Hudson line train takes ~90 minutes, plus the time to get to & from it] and (b) where half of the food you find in NYC farmer's markets comes from. I kinda like it.)
I think in this situation age is like sex and the concept the subject calls age is really like mindset or mental age, which would be more like gender.

Although many states will amend drivers licenses so that sex is recorded as the subject’s gender [0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transgender_rights_in_the_Unit...
My chinese ex-girlfriend told me that changing his age is very common in china although it is illegal and done through corruption. Usually parents do it with babies or young children so that the child can go to school earlier for example.
Next up: teenagers trying to change their age to past the legal drinking age / age of consent.
I doubt Musk is stupid enough to do this. I’m sure Tesla is complying with the order.
I think you're probably still thinking about CSS as it was 5 years ago. When you had to do weird hacks to get things the way you wanted them. Modern CSS is much easier.

In fact, if you are sticking .row and .column everywhere you are doing considerably more work than just to define a grid layout using display: grid once in your CSS, and then just use semantic HTML thereafter.
The end is nigh. One more nail in the Linux coffin. Truly we are lost.
Flagging for off topic and not relevant. I don’t come to HN to see stuff like this.
I wouldn’t consider myself an “older person” with “outdated visions.” But I still wouldn’t want to work with or be managed by someone working remotely.
"Most beloved" is a weird way to put it but if it's a way to gauge the state of the language's ecosystem I'd say it's a very practical concern.

For instance these past few days I've been writing a small bootloader for some embedded ARM chip. I pondered going with Rust but ended up using C for two main reasons:

- I know that if it's doable in Rust it's doable in C but the opposite is not always true (or straightforward). In particular bare-metal/very low level Rust is still somewhat experimental, you can't use stable Rust if you want to be able to use inline ASM or other advanced features. I have very tight constraints regarding code size and memory use and I was concerned that I might not control that as effectively with Rust code than with C.

- There's already a bunch of C code written for this chip that I can reuse without any friction (no binding generation, no ffi etc...). The vendor even provides a huge header file with the full memory map and some code to init the PLLs.

If you're coding in a vacuum then how "beloved" a language is is mostly irrelevant but if you want to benefit from the ecosystem then having a language that people want to use and support is extremely important. The tooling will mature and stabilize as more and more people use Rust to write bare-metal code and device drivers, which will eventually make my first point above irrelevant. Then if the language becomes popular enough it will be easier to find Rust code or pre-made crates to do what you want which will hopefully eventually solve my 2nd issue.
White House shares manipulated Infowars video to justify CNN press ban
The cure for cancer already exists. We've had it for ages. It's THC found in the cannabis plants. See research from, among others, Compultense University in Spain.[1]
Many people suffering from various forms of cancer have been cured by using cannabis oil made from cannabis with high THC concentrations.

[1] https://youtu.be/1miGzTwK28U
What would be a good start: Every person, no exception allowed, shown in an ad must be older than 18. Drawn ads must only show adult persons. Offenders are barred from advertizing for a fixed amount of time.
A History of the Sentence "Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo." (1999-2015)
So, "urban" for you only means something like "urban core", eg, Manhattan, or the loop in Chicago, yes?

Why should we believe that "Fear of crowds is the norm for people with a rural/suburban mindset" is correct?

None of my aunts and uncles who were born and raised on a farm appear to have a fear of crowds. Most of them left the farm when they became adults ... and moved to cities.

For certain, most people from suburban areas do not have a fear of crowds. Otherwise, who goes to "crowded suburban malls" https://duckduckgo.com/?q=%22crowded+suburban+mall%22&t=ffsb... ?

I read a book last night about ranchers in the mid-20th century. These are certainly rural people. Yet the ranch hands would go to the fair or rodeo, which certainly had crowds.
I actually consider this statement very poor. It only appeals to programming language nerds with a wide array of experience. I see a ton of languages make this mistake, of telling me a bunch of features or properties of their language, expecting me to be interested in them for their own sake.

In order to understand this value proposition, you have to know what logic programming, functional programming, and declarative programming are and the relative strengths and weaknesses of each. Also it has a bunch of qualifiers that don't add much to the description. I know what static analysis is, but what is advanced static analysis? You also seem to have intuited that the language is performant, but that is not at all implied here.

A better statement to me would convey exactly what kind of workloads I might want to use Mercury for. As a user, I have something I want to get done, be that processing data, writing a game, or writing a network driver. I don't care about static analysis or logic programming per se. But I would if you told me it would make writing my game easier.
It sounds like he didn’t mean it seriously, but I’m willing to discuss the concept seriously.

Some of us think gender shouldn’t necessarily be tied to the body one was born in or currently inhabits (that is, gender != sex).

Is there a concept of age that is separate from the number of years the body has physically been in existence?

Don’t we sometimes say of an adult “he has the emotional development of a 5 year old”?

What would happen if, as with gender, we bifurcated the terms for physical vs mental age?
My thoughts exactly. Telstra is a step below what even Comcast is in the USA. Unless their plan is to ruthlessly extract capitol at the expense of the customer, this is bad signalling at best, and more likely a shift to profit over vision. I'm honestly hoping they fold soon so someone can use the momentum they created as they seem intent on squandering it and their tech. Still waiting for the right to reapir your own car Tesla.
I agree that you could in a lot of cases get along without these classes. But sometimes you want e.g. an anchor acting as a button in a web application. Or you want a button element with browser styles. You could argue that this is also already an anti-pattern but it does way less harm then leaking inline styles into the namespace and it is still semantic. Also this was just an example (maybe not the best one) to illustrate my point that class names should be semantic and not express solely presentational attributes. The later is what styles are there for.

Especially in a javascript driven web application you may want to select all "buttons that are disabled". But you never want to select elements that "have a rounded border of 2 px and a grey background and italic font style and....". This takes class names ad absurdum.
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Pete Shelley's XL 1 album came with a final track on the album that was a programme for the ZX Spectrum. You ran the programme while playing the song and it would play visuals that (roughly) went with the music and display the lyrics.

Here you go:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMtJjeX5UMk
The Key to a Long Life Has Little to Do with ‘Good Genes’
This is fantastic feedback - thanks!

The thresholds are pretty much guesswork - they're probably a bit off but I'll adjust them when I know more about how people use the service. One thing that might not be immediately obvious is the amount of data you can store at the different price points. The number of time series and the number of points per series go up, which means a lot more potential data storage each time you go up a level. More storage means more transfers, and so I set the levels and pricing based on worst-case calculations for AWS bandwidth usage costs.

And yes, it's hosted on AWS at the moment. Virginia. It should be reasonable fast for US-based users, but if it turns out to be viable I might look at distributing it more. As for scalability it is designed to be scalable, but currently there is a bottleneck in the form of a lookup database that is hit for each request for timeseries data. If I add caching of those lookups, it should scale well horizontally - I just add more API servers and timeseries databases

I'll definitely be adding code examples. Perhaps also documentation/howtos for interfacing via IFTTT, Zapier etc?

Oh, and the copy etc - I wanted to minimize the number of pages, so I put all the most useful info on the front page :) I definitely agree that e.g. an FAQ section would be nice.

Thanks again for some solid feedback!
Not a single book. But Onur Mutlu's CMU course is a great start

https://www.archive.ece.cmu.edu/~ece740/f15/doku.php
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I recommend you to start your own business consulting firm as Consulting is a significant and growing business.
Agreed. There's something fundamentally different about contacting someone via a video conference versus the organic nature of a quick chat about something.

This puts remote workers behind quite a ways. My old team was partially located in NYC and partially located in the Bay Area. There was a major difference in inter and intra location interactions and it affected the team in some negative ways.
There are alot of people who sell craft items on etsy.com or simillar sites you may get ideas from. Im not affliated with the website just an idea. I have also left my job recently in tech it was stressful and would like to do something else.
I’m not sure if this is a critique or a question. If former, then I don’t understand why would that matter. Even at 4 times the length of the code, Rust is safer, more robust and better optimized. So why would the length matter?
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My PhD was mainly focused on microscopy. I'd say yes and no - we are definitely heading towards the realm of dimnishing results with most microscopy techniques (cryo electron microscopy is an exception which is being used to understand protein structure, though id argue it's only important because we still don't have the computational ability to solve a protein structure given its sequence even though it's pure chemistry).

The field of connectomics is also exciting in this regard.

However, I'm more hopeful for future versions of microscopes which are not even in the realm of imagination of current researchers (an MRI microscope with micron resolution? Yes please!)
"What would happen if, as with gender, we bifurcated the terms for physical vs mental age?"

The size of the electorate would shrink sharply.
My plan right now is to rent in the city, buy a cabin or getaway house upstate for 200k and move there when I get older. Hard part is just finding somewhere that doesn't suck.
> Mainly so that any web designer can jump in on the site and be productive with it, not just me.

This is why I think CSS FWs (but also web FWs) are often preferred. At some point a large'ish team should be able to dive in to the project, get some shit done, and more on to other work. This get reeeealy hard without a high degree of standardization. FWs are primarily a means of standardization for me.
He's obviously trolling, but he does have a point. If gender is fluid why is it so important for trans people to look like women, or men? Is it a necessity? Then why adopt distinct male or female features, genitalia which do not work as intended? So, is it just cosmetic? Then why are they modifying their bodies? Just to feel well and free?
Same goes for this guy. He's feeling like he's much younger than he actually is. It's both a necessity and a cosmetic change in his birth certificate. Hell, let's kick off some studies to verify whether more people feel younger than they are. Sadly, I don't know any trans person to ask them how they feel and why they feel that way, in person.
Whether you choose to specialise or generalise I think should be influenced by the kind of job you're looking for. In the corporate world being a specialist will get you in the door for well defined job roles, whereas early stage startups are more interested in someone who can do a bit of everything well enough.
If you really enjoyed this video, you will love this defunct YouTube channel "Every Frame A Painting":

https://www.youtube.com/user/everyframeapainting/videos

Also, there is a semi-successor to the above called "Fandor" that I am subscribed to, which isn't as compelling/immersive/creative in its delivery, but it's still good:

https://www.youtube.com/user/Fandorific/videos

Fandor releases about 1 video a day. If you know other channels like this, please share.
> I can't remember where Telstra's ownership stopped whether it was to the first in-house socket or to the curb.

It's at the Network Boundary Point (NBP), which varies from premises to premises.

Free-standing houses that are more than 5-10 years old, it'll probably be the first socket.
For newer houses, there's a NBP that's either on the side of the house, or near the edge of the property.

For Strata / Multiple-Dwelling Properties, it may be a Distribution Frame.

Way back in the 90s, before Telecom Australia became Telstra, the ownership of all the internal wiring (defined as anything from the NBP onwards) was transferred to the owner of the premises. This was part of the competition stuff - allowing competitive bids on builds for wiring new premises, business, etc.
In the grand scheme of things I think the superres Nobel was extremely immature.
LIBOR is being replaced by SOFR and its siblings. They're starting to get reasonable traction.
Is there some lisp that has offers nearly as powerful and fast data processing and tensor algebra facilities like Pandas and Numpy of Python? I would love to use a lisp but am not sure how well are they going to manage with huge 2-3D arrays.
I've worked at Telstra so can shed some light on this.

1. Harassing retail staff for what is a corporate process problem is really inappropriate and pointless. I'm not surprised they called the police. Instead you should have called the TIO, ACCC or escalated via email.

2. The customer service issues at Telstra are incredibly deep and complex. It's a 40+ year old company where some of the processes still rely on dot matrix printers and faxes and there are thousands of IT systems. It's a mess. Call centres within Australia would do nothing to change the NPS which is why they were so easy to off-shore in the first place.

3. Telstra may not have a great customer service reputation. But they are one of the most revered telcos globally. They transitioned to 4G better than anyone and had the fastest network on the planet for quite some time. And they will do it again with 5G.

4. Denholm isn't hired to run customer service for Tesla. She was the CFO of a 40,000 odd employee highly technical, multi-faceted company e.g. their own venture fund. She also spent 7 years at Toyota so she has some automative experience as well as strong technical background.