skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The state became the church, its leaders became the saints.

Can you name a single attempt to eradicate religion that didn't end up with the very description you provide?
ADHD is BOTH underdiagnosed and overdiagnosed, under a Bayesian interpretation of the data.

See a [Slatestarcodex article](http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/09/17/joint-over-and-underdia...) on it.

> In one of them, I was informed that America is medicalizing normal childhood mischief and loading anyone who gets worse than a B+ up with Ritalin or amphetamines as part of the pathologization of everyday life.

> In another, I was informed that ADHD is shamefully underdiagnosed and most of the children who need stimulants most are going without them and failing school unnecessarily, so we need better screening programs and more efforts to seek out potential sufferers of the condition.

> So I asked one of my attendings, Dr. L, which one it was. Are we overdosing ADHD? Or underdiagnosing it?
Coincidentally, here's Rust's getting started workflow:

- Install Rust

- Install VSCode + Rust plugin

- Start working
Microsoft Wins $480M Military Contract to Bring HoloLens to Battlefield
Tracked down this reference to: N. K. Jemisin - the first in the series being The Fifth Season, winner of the Hugo Award for Best Novel 2016. Thanks for the reading tip!
You do realize that this is not new behavior of the Chinese Communist Party?

Up to 55 million Chinese individuals died during the Great Leap Forward.

https://www.liberation.fr/planete/2011/06/17/la-chine-creuse...
Because building a successful company = building many successful careers. The point that many companies still do not get!!!

You absolutely have to invest in your people in a best possible way if you are interested at all in building a GREAT company.
I don't think demand for housing is called a fad. Demand for housing changes. What was once a bad place to live becomes a good place to live. Unless you want to freeze the nature of changing demand, we need to change the way we build housing.

Also, as long as population increases, housing stock will have to increase more.
I don’t believe this is exactly right: the major problem is most businesses can’t distinguish which techies are worth $250 or $5,000 up front. So they make the choice of going cheap and hoping it works out.
Some of the few do go the premium route, and still end up in a project failure or overrun. So can you fault them?
"empowers" is such a bullshit word.
I think Airtable and Notion are focused on tracking manually-generated data (the former does well for structured data, the latter for unstructured data), whereas Asana is more focused on team collaboration / async communication. As a result, Airtable and Notion are great for personal use, but it's not clear to me that they can excel at the kinds of usecases that Asana meets for collaborative work tracking.
Brutal. Imagine the effect raising the minimum wage could have on top of that.
Maybe not – Rich Hickey [video]
Oh? Would you like to tell when is a _good_ time for your father to die? He's going to die sometime, you know.

And maybe taking care of a parent with dementia is actually more of a problem when you're older and have kids of your own?

At my advanced age, I have the advantage of remembering things like the arguments you would hear back in the 1960's about why interracial marriage was a bad idea. Not because we're racist of course! But think of the practical difficulties. Like, the kids won't fit into either community! I'm sure you can think of more reasons too.
The multiverse and the many worlds have nothing to do with each other.

Multiverse postulates multiple universes with different laws of physics, while many worlds postulates worlds with the same laws, just different results for quantum events.

You could even have many-worlds inside multiverse. And some multiverse's with and without many worlds.
Advice from a dinosaur: Find a divorced dad who has custody of his kid(s) and is in dire need of help with raising them. Nothing is more meaningful that providing children with a good home to grow up in. Pour her soul into it. Make sure said dad is reasonably good with money, as she clearly is not. Don't be too picky about looks, but make sure it's someone who can basically float her boat. Forsake all others. Then follow grandma's recipe: Keep his stomach full and his balls empty.

Does that sound awful? Does it matter, if it works?
The monument is actually a monument to those who remained patriotic despite the injustice rather than any sort of apology. It specifically excludes those who wouldn't call themselves patriotic after their country put their whole family in a camp and stole their land. And I have zero confidence that we wouldn't do the same thing today in a heartbeat. Also, going to throw out there that the Japanese internment covered all Japanese on the west coast. The Uighur estimates are single digits percentages of all Uighur population in China.

It's not that I think one crime justifies another. It's that the current poitical appartus of the past 30 years or so justifies it's actions in the now to those with traditionally liberal sensibilities with trumped up outrage over low information situations that when all of the facts are in turns out to be something we would totally do or have recently done. Iraq wasn't putting babies in incubators. We didn't have to invade a country to kill bin Laden (we ended up doing that in a country that was protecting him, but had nukes so they were off limits). Iraq didn't have a nuclear program or any yellow cake. etc. etc.
Perhaps additional usage of military force isn’t the right way to solve our problems in the Middle East? Have you considered that there might be other ways of resolving this conflict other than just resorting to taking out humans and replacing them with an autonomous counterpart?

People always seem so resigned and certain in their beliefs that warfare and killing are inevitable and impossible to avoid. It always strikes me as almost irrational in a way, or perhaps it’s a sort of sunk cost fallacy wherein once you’ve committed to military conflict, it’s extremely difficult to go back on it as that would require admitting the already existing destruction and death that has accumulated was all for nothing. And so to protect themselves from such a truth, they continue the cycle of death and destruction knowingly or unknowingly acting to condemn their children to the same fate.
You just assume every Muslim in that region is a terrorist? Based on what exactly?
I just don't think it is accurate. Often pursuing something means giving up other things, which won't help you not to struggle in life. There is often no plateau in menial or highly competitive professions. Trying to e.g. become a writer will leave you struggling for a long time. Unless some can provide for you in the meantime, which has little to do with your own focus. I just don't think focus as such is that relevant for whether you will struggle or not in life. A lazy programmer is still on average very likely going to struggle less than a dedicated service worker. There are plenty of, say, high school football players who have more grit than most of us but are doing worse in life than the kid who barely knew how to tie his own shoes.
UBS exec tells CNBC that Bitcoin is 'fatally flawed'
Yes. The owner always has the right to monitor what goes on with his/her property. If you remove that right (like what is happening on mobile devices, unfortunately), it's a slippery slope to a situation where no one has absolute ownership of what they "own", which is even more treacherous for privacy.
Hickey's `Maybe` example feels misguided (about breaking existing callers). If Maybe is an input just keep the original function around and provide a new one that wraps it.

originalF :: x -> y

f :: Maybe x -> y
f None = newDefaultBehavior
f (Some x) = originalF x

If `Maybe` is an output then existing callers SHOULD be broken, because they must now handle a new possibility of failure they didn't before. The fact that this doesn't happen in Clojure is actually a source of pain for me.

It's also rather interesting that Hickey also comes to the same conclusion that optionality doesn't belong in a data structure, but for slightly different reasons: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17906171
US SEC Charges Floyd Mayweather Jr and DJ Khaled for Unlawfully Promoting ICO
Which they regularly do.

See: LA Gold Line for the nth time that a Big Rig smashes through the center divider and rests on the tracks.
It's nice that your parents are able to help with your kids. But, you know, it's rather common nowadays for people with kids to have parents (whatever their age) that live thousands of miles away...
YouTube and the music industry are both wrong on Article 13
Dell.com resets all customer passwords after cyber attack
By refusing to take an L, Zuck is just making legislators more interested in regulating speach and fucking up a good thing for all of us.
Its ceiling is too low.

I have only found it useful for the most basic of tasks (like a personal priority list) or a single project's sprint tracking. It falls apart terribly when you need to introduce any sort of collaboration and process.

Compare that to something like JIRA. JIRA has a high floor, but can be very useful as long as people don't go crazy.
They have a clean, effective website. It has a pleasing look, and mostly it's just what a webpage should be, after all: a document. Text, images, an interactive code editor. Some CSS to make it look pleasing and readable. A navbar at the top. It works, it is pleasing to the eye, it communicates what it what it is meant to communicate and links to 4 important sections of the website.

Wait, let's throw all that away and develop a vomit-inducing monstrosity, complete with: in-your-face extra-bold title headers, jarring colours and colour changes, overall very large design suitable for tablets and not desktops (which is after all where most of your target audience should be accessing from)... What a complete cock-up. The web design equivalent of painting flames on your car: an immature attempt to look "cool" that turns the thing into an horrendous mess.

I can only sincerely ask why why why.
I know that they are actively looking at it.

One thing though, does your lambdas need both public and private access? Else you can place them in a subnet for private only, since the slow part is the ENI for the Nat Gateway.
MS would have probably eaten into iPhone share but not much of Android.
Undersea landslide?
"easy way" wtf
Where do I or China say that? It's single digit percentages of Uighur that are interned, and the governor and large portions of the police of the region are Uighur.

This is exactly the kind of fundamental misconception of the situation that's particularly terrifying to me.
Can you say more about what makes it “far from perfect” besides the error messages? What are its other weaknesses? I’m still in the honeymoon phase and want to hear more from folks who have shipped code.
I think the main fear people have isn't the concept of generics, but the implementation of generics. Go's primary goal is simplicity, and implementing generics isn't simple.
Though maintenance is an issue, I’ve been told another issue is craftsmanship. It was slapped together by slaves to serve as a tomb for the third wife of an emperor who had a harem of 2000 women yet saw it fit to drag his favorite into the battlefield for his comfort (she succumbed to complications bearing no. 14 in the 19th year of her marriage). They might as well let it crumble. It's a grotesque monument which tourists adore.
dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18565555
If they now legalize the Bird and Lime scooters people want to ride: https://www.theverge.com/2018/8/30/17800960/scooters-sf-perm..., they'll really be getting somewhere.
Something like datalog would have been much more impressive, but then the burden of implementing a parser for your upstream services would have probably been way too much of a burden. It's too general to be useful :(
They may not need those money and agreed to take them only at that high valuation. There have been several pretty similar deals in the last couple of years. It's a win-win for both sides. The company gets a lot of financial power and pushes the sales up, that drives valuation up - in a year or 2 from the current 100M+ ARR they will be doing 300M and either IPO at 4B or 11th hour acquisition at 6-8B.
See the progression of voice recognition. The answer is, yes, a BCI is still useful and will still be used, even if it makes errors. It will of course grow more useful and become more embedded into our lives, as it gets more accurate.
Glad to see more work being done on the general purpose data browser concept.

I've been spending occasional free moments working on one since 2014[0], and this is the first time I've come across something with any significant overlap in conception[1].

It still blows my mind that I can describe the concept to programmers (and/or show a video demo) and have the most typical response be along the lines of, "but what would you use it for?" (To be fair though: this is certainly in part—though not totally—due to the particulars of the poor job I've done attempting to communicate the idea, e.g. by demoing visualizations of algorithms on random data.)

It would be easier to answer what you wouldn't use it for. When is it not useful to see the data your code is operating on? When in the video he talked about having one monitor for the data browser and one for emacs, that made complete sense to me. I see writing programs in the future turning out that way: you get a dedicated, mostly passive display of the data your code is operating while you program.

It's almost like we're so trained at having to deal with invisible program data it ceases to be obvious that in building something whose fundamental goal is to transform data (i.e. computer programs), one would benefit enormously through the ability to see the data being transformed.

Prior to this the best way I had of describing the purpose was to point to the Chrome dev tools object explorer and Firefox's console.table(...)[2]. But this is the first thing I've seen also taking on the 'unifying' aspect of the project, based on—as was pointed out in the video—the fact that data tends to come in a limited number of shapes.

[0] http://symbolflux.com/projects/avd

[1] There are still significant differences though—for one thing mine is focused much more on time-evolution of data. Where he showed the quick display of a graph of a set of numeric values for instance, I'm building a corresponding feature but it would instead work with a single numeric variable and display a graph of its values over time.

[2] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Console/tab...
> you're comparing a Manhattan high-rise to 20 single-family homes.

That's generally what people mean by "Dense Urban" vs "sprawl", yes? You could replace "Manhattan" with "Chicago Loop" and it would be the roughly identical.

> These mid-rise apartments are cheaper per-capita both capital wise and maintenance wise than sprawly single-family homes.

They aren't, sprawly apartments (like duplexes, or low-mid-rise apartments) are roughly equivalent to costs as sprawly single family homes, and dense apartments are more expensive.

This gets confusing, because sprawly apartments (like duplexes or low-rises) are usually lower quality and lower maintained than nearby single family homes, and therefore are cheaper. But if you brought the SFH down to that lower level of maintenance, they too would be cheaper in a similar way. (And similarly, if you brought those low-density apartments up to the quality of nearby SFH, they would be slightly more expensive).

> Read Strong Towns

I have, many many times. They get promoted on HN on a literally daily basis.

Strong Towns is a fun blog to read, but unfortunately, Strong Towns is simply wrong sometimes. Their understanding of suburban finances is one thing they are semi-routinely incorrect on, they assume most suburbs are only financially viable if they continiously grow -- and while this is true for some, it is not common for most. The Growth Ponzi scheme they mention, while true for a handful of suburbs, does not apply in any way to 75% or more of suburbs across the US.

Don't take my word for it. Most municipalities budgets are public record (they should all be, really). Look up one near you, and see this for yourself.
You just need 1 more year of gold+ and 400 total nights and you'll be lifetime gold.
Logs from the Edge
Microsoft cites expensive cloud integration in their quarterly reports as the reason for increasing profits. Almost $7 billion in revenue last quarter.
I'm curious, who tells people to live like college youths?
Given that "China is locking up Uyghurs" is the title used pretty much everywhere, I think you may be onto something. :)
The life expectancy of a man who has already reached the age of 51 however, is 82, because that average no longer includes deaths of younger men. If you add things like good health, education and higher income, which are likely for someone that decides to have kids at 51 (and that manages to find a most likely younger partner willing to have kids with them), then one might lose their parent at the age of 35. It's still early but not uncommon.
With the advent of regulatory law the legal codes are no longer the full story. It’s quite possible they are decisions of a regulatory body which will not show up in statute.
Seems like this thread needs a link to:
http://aosabook.org/en/index.html
Hey Mike! Thanks for d3, etc. Is the playground newly released today?
Clever Ways to Effectively Build Strong Client Relationships
>There may be events that are purely chaotic. If you could rewind the universe, the outcome would change following a probability.

Chaos is not the same thing as randomness. Chaos is defined as "completely deterministic, but a small change in the state at one time will produce a large and rapidly growing change in the state at later times," which implies that if you knew today perfectly you could predict the future forever, but if you are even a little bit wrong it will be magnified, eventually, in to being totally wrong.
I wonder if the writer of this article has a disdain for people sexy-izing things (like pikini would be grouping supposed individual swimsuit pics into a group of of pics that would be sexy-izing in a way?), or if she has a love of facebook, or a misunderstanding of the tech in this issue - or maybe I am not understanding how the API permissions used to work.. but..

"Pikinis went out of business in 2015 after Facebook changed its API to cut off app developers from their users’ friends data. It did this ostensibly to protect users' privacy."

Wouldn't the person using pikini already have access to the photos their friends had posted? So the pikini app would just be gathering and highlighting pics that were already accessible to the person? So I don't think putting the "fbook was being chivalrousness and trying to protect privacy through API breach" is the right light to shine on this.

Again I may be not understanding how the API worked, and if so apologies for thinking this article is leaning towards fbook was trying to protect while others were trying to syphon via security holes.

Also, "The irony in all of this is that it hinges on a decision Facebook made to protect user privacy from apps just like Pikinis, which seized on weak data protections to pry into Facebook users' personal photos."

Again, I am assuming the way things worked is that User A already had access to User B's photos. This was not some hacker system made that gave you access to someone's pictures on their phone through the API - this was pictures that people had uploaded to the fbook albums and were already accessible to friends right?

Only fbook itself (all of it's employees and those who demand access to the data via gov orders) gets access to all the pics on someone's phone through messenger app and the like, not friends of the person and APIs that could connect like friends. Right?

Again I may be confused by how the tech works, I've read some about these things over the years, and things had changed by the time I got to my bookmarks and read up on and tried to use things like the open graph searches and such. Apologies to the author or anyone else if these questions come off as offensive in any way, it's just the thoughts that came up the first time I read through the article.
Also, at least in Go, it is fairly trivial to do:

type Billions fixed.Fixed

and then add operators to allow Fixed to be added, String() would add a B at the end etc. So 0.1 is 100 million, etc.

Like I said, if you are summing into the billions, you are probably not concerned about .00001 pennies
Not /the/ brand name, /a/ brand name.

I'm saying the actual manufacturer should be required, as in, whichever factory made the parts, not the fly by night name so many rebranded products have.
It’s only wire fraud if you’re a private citizen. If you’re a government employee it’s an honest and excusable mistake.
It's all open-source and out there now though, so I don't think you really need to trust them, right?
Even if it's supposed to be a regulation (which, given the claim that these are really old laws still on the books, is unlikely), regulations are still public, citable documents that are relatively easy to track down.
> Programming in rust doesn't make you understand memory barriers.

I'm not a fan of the new website, but it's possible that the intent was to be "with Rust, you don't have to".
Coming across this for the first time, very cool!

Going to do this in Scala, if anybody wants to join my email is in my bio.
> a homegrown spiritual practice

No it's not. It's an espionage program funded by Taiwan.

Did you see any spiritual practice attack capitol hill? I think not.
not really, except that all of them are going to zero, so fixed.Fixed should be sufficient :)
Except that Booking actually has data to back this all up. It's very common to do "holdbacks" so that you, say, give an old version of your website to a very small portion of your user's, then compare its conversion rate to a version of your site that has all the latest A/B test winners. Booking also tracks religiously how conversion rates change over time.

The whole point being that the way Booking (and other) companies act is the exact opposite of a cargo cult. Everything needs to be backed up with data and challenging conclusions is part of the culture.

All that said, a common complaint of Booking is that it has a ton of "dark UI" patterns, so it will be interesting if there is any long term blowback against short term A/B winners that erode the goodwill to the brand over time.
Oh, that guy. See this New York Times article from 1977.[1]

"Over the course of several years, Alpert claimed to have taken some 300 acid trips. Inevitably, the problem became one of facing the blandness of coming down.... Once, he says he and five others locked themselves in a building for three weeks and dropped 400 micrograms of LSD every four hours. Still; when the trip was over, it was over. Finished. Done. In “Be Here Now,” Ram Dass describes the pain: “It was as if you'd come into the kingdom of heaven and seen how it all is, and then you got cast out again.” Looking for a way to get up there and stay up there, maybe even without drugs ... Alpert split for India."

Today. tuned out, turned off, and dropped out of sight.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/1977/12/04/archives/confessions-of-a...
SIMD-Visualizer: A tool to graphically visualize SIMD code
As a long ago game developer, we never used floating point - I'm sure things have changed now - but we always used fixed point integer, with lookup tables for sin, etc.
I'm interested in something like this - is the code publicly available?