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This description of Rome is how I see San Francisco. Formerly such a beautiful city, now all I see is garbage.

Recently my grandparents, who had never been outside of Germany before, visited me in San Francisco. As we left SFO by car and drove into the city, they eagerly took in the new sights. Everything they saw was new to them. After a long period of silence, they asked me, with a certain level of disbelief in their voice, “Why is there so much garbage on the streets in America?” I was stumped. Later, recounting their experience, they told me, “Driving into San Francisco felt like entering a land fill.” I will never forget those words.
He clearly stated he needed W2 income. It probably doesn't matter if it pays less than 1099.
Anecdote.

My oldest is turning 12, she has been doing calculus since second grade. Not "calculus" like taught in school to work through formulae, but rather she understands the concept of "infinite addition of infinitesimally small things". This is because she asks questions, and I give her full answers. The calculus thing started when on a train with me she asked if we can know the position of the train, given only its rate of acceleration. Yes, she did ask that in second grade. And we had an entire 1-hour train ride to determine that yes, it is possible and this is how.

Younger daughter has absolutely no interest in maths or science. She'll listen to daddy babble on about Arduino or Falcon rockets landing, and she'll even write some Python with me to solve a problem, but she has no real internal interest. Her grades show it.

From my experience with my girls, I would say "genetics and nature" are most important in bringing up curious people with good problem-solving skills (or however else you define "smart").

And now we get to the boy who proves otherwise. The woman I live with has a son in first grade, who when I met him a year ago knew not to put on his socks or soap himself in the shower. Why would he, when he could cry and his grandmothers and mother would do everything he sobs for? When he is with them, he cannot do simple addition or figure out how to open a door with an unusual handle. But with me, and only when he is alone with me, he multiplies, makes puns, eats more varied food, and solves puzzles.

The conclusion? I have none. Every child is different. Nurture them, answer their questions, but accept that some just won't be interested or able.
Is that true? I'm genuinely curious.

I really enjoyed this article. It's like "diaries of a call girl" for 50+ overqualified-but-underemployed men. Crossed with a Kevin Smith film.

If there was a github-style subscribe button that would notify me of his next article I would definitely click it. No idea if my "impression" contributed to the atlantic's bottom line (and presumably his paycheck) but I guarantee you I've never helped the bottom line of SI.
If you’re not experiencing any symptoms of sleep deprivation, then you’ve probably just got a normal circadian rhythm.

You might be a ‘night owl by preference’ and had some bad habits, but there are plenty of people who are night owls by necessity because of their circadian rhythm.
Differentiable Genetic Programming (2016)
I just ziptied an adapter to every pair of headphones I use (when I’m not using AirPods) and moved on with my life.
It’s not comparable at all.

Flash wasn’t an open standard and was a pretty poor standard at that. The main reason it wasn’t supported on the iPhone was that it was never designed to be used by touch devices.

The headphone jack is open, widely used, its design has been validated over decades of use, and is widespread.

Just yesterday I was the only person at an event who was able to play some custom music our family wanted to hear because my iPhone 6 was the only phone with a headphone jack that could then drive music to the DJ’s professional setup.
Nice! I've only passed HSK4 although I think I'm most of the way to HSK5 now. What techniques did you use to study?
I would expect that is true only if coolbeans makes no code changes, but my impression from reading the page is that it "fixes minor annoyances" which sounds like code changes to me. My mental model for this situation is the same as the Debian and Ubuntu relationship.

Don't get me wrong, AFAIK since NB is Apache Licensed then he doesn't have to publish any of the changes; I was just surprised.
> Cons:
> [...]
> - looks of disdain and confusion from other engineers
> it's probably inertia that's kept me from moving to fancier editors, but overall Netbeans has been solid and I'm just as productive as the other guys & gals.

+1
Couple released without charge over Gatwick drone 'could win substantial payout'
What do you do? I'm a programmer.
I know people who have to work 3 days in the morning, 1 day rest, 3 days in the afternoon, 1 day rest, and 3 days at night. I understand that there are places where they have to keep the workers in rotation, but why don't they change this monthly, for example? I don't think that in 3 days your internal clock can adjust.
I just got a google mini and I've had an echo for a few years now. Google and Amazon have and are building them with a simulated personality. I find it strange that I even feel that a hunk of plastic and metal has a personality.
We rely on a single human to drive a car.

In medicine, machine learning systems will work alongside other brains.

What are the instances you’re imagining where a group of brains running an important system are replaced by a single machine learning algorithm running in isolation?
I went for a walk today, around my neighborhood in San Francisco. It was filthy. It was really rather sad. I've been here a long time but am now actively looking to leave. It breaks my heart seeing the beautiful city treated as an open air insane asylum and trash pit.
Many people say this. I'm sure you can invent examples where a cheap car is indeed a false economy. But I'm pretty sure that, on average, total money spend on car per annum will be strictly increasing with income.

It would be interesting to have some actual data. An easy thing would be to look across countries, are there any cases where a poorer country has a larger (in absolute terms!) motor sector than a richer one? I would be surprised, this is certainly not the pattern.
https://www.bollymeditube.com/2018/12/how-to-cook-turkey-cro...
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There's a free jupyter notebook also provided by Google if you just want to dick around.
>> How do you do that with AI/ML-based systems?

Same as with humans: from statistics. I don't see any other way. E.g. autonomous cars will never have zero accident rate, but if they have half as many accidents per million miles as humans, it's a no brainer to me that they should be deployed. We're not going to get there in the next 20 years, so I'm not saying they should be deployed _now_, but eventually it will happen.
I understand what you are getting at, but I would call that a new frontier.

There was ultimately nothing black box about the code we cobbled together back then.
Thinking of understanding the Italian situation from outside Italy and from reading Saviano is, in my opinion, complete BS. I like to form a personal opinion with my own mind reading real newspapers and getting through different prospectives and then, again, form my own. I wouldn’t take Saviano’s words as pure gold, I don’t like someone who gained and still gains from “writing” those kind of things.
/r/homelab on reddit has some good stuff but the 12th gen Dell servers can run dual 300W cards (I use it with a GTX 1060)
Shared environmental effects are not illegible. You longitudinally study multiple children living in the same home and attending the same school and you control for genetics by studying homes where two children have been adopted from different families into the same family,so they share only the same shared environment.

Annnnd... it turns out, it seems, the shared environment doesn't explain more than 1%~2% of the variance.

The methodologies for the twin studies and adoption studies outlined seem, as far as I can tell, like the best possible way to try measure that variable. How else might you do it?

What isnt measurable directly are the non-shared environmental effects which contribute the Lions share of the variance attributable to the environment and represent about half the variance overall. The other half being genetics.

The point is that non-shared environmental differences are essentially random and parents and schools can't manufacture them.
Is it possible you're thinking of the SNES, rather than the NES?
i'd say most managers from india are pretty worthless if i talk from a purely experience based domain knowledge perspective, it's four years of college education they don't pay attention to followed by 2 years of a job they don't pay attention to and then ka-ching MBA PROGRAM followed by doing whatever the company that hires them wants them to do.

lots of wasted education and experience is basically pointless.
The opening titles are even better:

> Highways of the future may feature relaxed drivers, talking on the phone, faxing documents
I've seen the same thing with eastern eu/west asia outsourcing, where arguably they have fairly strong programmers overall, and can put out great projects, but the outsourced ones just suck. I believe it comes down to the same thing as in asia, if you don't really understand the problem and don't think you're gonna be maintaining the code you have no incentive to make it nice.

btw, I've seen the same thing with code in the US that is done by an outside team, it's just not as good as the stuff that you're gonna see internally.
It gets worse. I had hoped to show off Silicon Valley to them as a place that is, well, pretty awesome. Having spent their entire lives in Germany though, they didn’t come away very impressed. When we took the Caltrain from SF down to San Jose they laughed, saying how the rickety slow, old train reminded them of the Soviet-era trains they had in East Germany in the 70’s. I couldn’t disagree.

Later, we took BART. Let’s just say they were so put off by the stench and the filthy condition of the train car, they refused to even sit down, held a handkerchief in front of their face, and couldn’t wait to get out.

Needless to say, they were unimpressed by their visit to the Bay Area.
Is amazon having trouble hiring drivers? My submarine senses are tingling.

> my wife and I decided to refinance our home.

Hope it was fixed-interest.
This comment crosses into incivility. Please don't do that on HN, regardless of how right you think you are compared to someone else.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Oh, thank FSM. The private collector allowed them to dump a ROM.

https://archive.org/details/simcity-nes
That is not sufficient to make any kind of judgement using the words, "pretty much all of them."

How many of extraordinarily accomplished people didn't have intellectually nurturing environment? How many supportive, smart, educated and wealthy parents in history have had gifted children who have not became extraordinarily accomplished people?

More importantly, how many gifted kids are not realizing their potential because their parents are too busy working, and their school teachers suck? Many times I've heard people mentioning they hate math then describing horrible ways it was taught to them in school. Often they don't even realize it was horrible.
Would you please stop being rude to others in HN comments? I'm sure you can express your substantive points without this.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Also, please don't make single-purpose accounts on HN.
haha that really depends on the company. if you work in a company that focuses on "stability" expect to be surrounded by people who think family and culture is the most important. if you work in a startup expect a collegial "brogrammer" attitude. if you work in an outsourcing company expect to be bored out of your mind working on relatively outdated tech and spend most of your time fixing the codebase
I think this attitude might have something to do with the volume of emails that people receive. I'm a minor writer for Ars Technica and I always answer every email I get about my articles (or about anything) but then again I only get about five emails per month. It's easy and fun to do at that volume. If I got 500 or 5000, this would be a different story.
> For the first time in my working life, I HAVE to be awake at a certain time

This one on its own is (for me at least) far more important than the exact time when you go to bed/ wake up. Having the steady rhythm of life gives you the feeling of control and reduces anxieties, and you'll almost certainly feel better after some time. I used to work nightshifts in the data-center for a while and I would sleep during the day and it worked for me just fine. On the other hand while in the army I was getting up really early (4.30am every morning) every day, and again it was working great for me (after some adjustment period of course). So two completely opposite schedules, but both very strict and regular over the 6+ months period, and both made me feel very energetic and healthy. However, as a student I also briefly had a job with the weirdest floating schedule where you'd one day work a morning shift, then in the afternoon next day, then a nightshift, and then you'd have a free day afterwards. That one was a disaster, I just couldn't get used to that schedule. I gained 20 kg in 6 months and felt sleepy and tired all the time. Routine is a good thing.
> private parties are, in fact, in many cases subject to punishment for failing to avoid involvement with illegal activity

That's true IF and only IF they know a crime and do not reported it to the competent authority. They are nor police nor curt to decide autonomously. Impromptu autonomous decisions should happen ONLY in case immediate of danger-life situations that's hard to happen for an internet company.

> the only time they have to do that is if they want consequences reserved to public authorities to be applied

Might be my limited English but... I do not understand what you say... If you know a crime you have to report it and competent authority act and instruct you on how to act...

> This concept is bizarre and has never been generally accepted

Mh, in the EU and in general since the ancient Roman law it's actually generally accepted... We decide after French Revolution to split power in executive, legislative and judicial authorities and those are the sole that can act.
> From a Greek perspective, he's not wrong. Germany forced Greece's hand and made them take out a loans they could not pay rather then let them default on their loans as many bankrupt countries are wont to do.

That statement is patently wrong in many ways.

Greece asked the EU and the IMF for help as their long accounting con finally blew in the greek state's face.

Greece benefitted from a huge debt pardon which vanished about half of the nation's sovereign debt.

The emergency loans that Greece asked for were well below market rate and, more importantly, were actually accomplishable, as back then no one in the world wanted to loan billions th a bankrupt state.

And finally defaulting on debt would be disastrous to Greece. Greek governments were piling >10% deficits that were financed through loan after loan. If Greece defaulted then their access to credit would be cut immediately as no one in the world would be willing to lend them the billions they needed and risk not getting their money back. That meant Greece would be forced to cut their >10% deficit overnight, including also the effect of a major recession that would eclipse the one they actually had to endure. If the soft multi-year transition to self sustainable spending provided by the IMF/ECB/EU emergency loans and bailout program was harsh, what would a radical spending cut made overnight be?
> I've personally found that dark hours are more productive for mental tasks like programming. AFAICT not because of secondary factors like quietness or people being around, but simply that bright light undermines my ability to concentrate.

It's more like the Balmer's peak effect: the brain is so numb that it can't lose the concentration.
Wow! If I don’t set an alarm, I’ll easily sleep for 10 hours...
>Now I work at a place where they prefer many 0.5x engineers under tight control that do what they are told.

won't these engineers basically be replaced once someone figures out a way to automate menial dev tasks like wix for eg
that’s cool! thanks for the write up. i learned a bit
They're not random, they're just not systematizable at this point.
Well it depends, people turn it into whole businesses and get additional staff to arbitrage the hourly rates. I've seen a couple get 4m+
Not really the same. People were complaining about Flash for years before Apple's decision, there were good alternatives, and the complaints were about Apple not supporting Flash when it could have. I hated Flash but also thought it was unacceptable for Apple to unnecessarily ban it.

Floppies I'm not sure what you're talking about... Optical drives are still supported externally, and one of the big issues with that was really the same issue as with wired headphones: lack of ports. It's not just removing a type of port, it's reducing the number of ports--although removing a centrally important type of port is problematic enough also.

Removal of wired headphone ports was a solution imposed in order to create the appearance of a problem. Bluetooth headphones don't provide as good of possible audio quality, and are more power hungry. With wired ports, if you wanted Bluetooth anyway for whatever reason (and there are many), you could have them.

Whenever a topic like this comes up, it reminds me of the Onion satire (maybe it was not the Onion) about the laptop with just one big button instead of a keyboard.

A better analogy than CDs or Flash in this regard might be tablets: for a time people talked about the end of the keyboard, etc. and how everyone would use tablets. Many of us thought this was absurd for heavy work, and our concerns proved true. Tablets still are useful in all sorts of ways in the same way Bluetooth will be but getting rid of a physical port for audio seems premature.
Interestingly it doesn't work faster for Vim+Tmux on MacOS. I always thought it's issue of iTerm2 and Terminal.app but as README states it's probably something related to Vim or Tmux.

Glad Windows is supported now.

EDITED:
Just tried to run it on Windows and didn't get it working. I expect I should not have Rust installed, right? Error says something about winpty-agent - "agent executable does not exist"
Read the EULA for Windows; or Chrome; or Firefox; or Word; or ...
The no warranty clause is included in the BSD, MIT, GPL, MPL, and Apache licenses (and many others...)

Sometimes things will work out for you, sometimes it means exactly what it says on the tin: "I don't promise this works"
their parents were most likely smart and educated because of their genetics which they then passed down
2 years ago i'd say no but increasingly every new concept/tech stack i encounter has npm embedded in it to access a js library. same with python being used for automation/low level scripting.

unless you set out with the mindset of NO NODE/NO PYTHON, it tends to worm it's way into the project coz someone on the team thought it was convenient
yes, but afaik node with webgl is strictly slower than cuda/cudnn with Python or whatever serving
Ask HN: List of things you can do to improve your IQ and learning?
Is there a list of scientifically proven practical applied actions you can perform to improve your IQ and learning skills?
Like eat that food, do sudoku once a day, etc.
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unless you also support cuda/cudnn directly now ofc
Interesting, I am from Czech Republic, I was in Spain recently and I didn't feel like that at all. I have been mostly in Andalusia and the cities look great, Madrid looked fine as well.
The biggest reason the EU needed to be stringent with Greece, according to my Greek friends, was that insane levels of corruption in Greek governments meant the government was almost incapable of collecting taxes. Apparently there was a popular video about an area in Athens where the people paid almost no taxes, but an overhead view showed houses with swimming pools.
Hum, nice to know, thanks. I know that for instance a telco can lock a customers phone if it was an active spammer that with it's activity compromise/endanger telco service itself, however this can apply ONLY as a safety measure against immediate threats otherwise it can led to and adverse court decision because even if telco claim is valid it must demand communication to the costumer like "cease and desist letter" with proof that's it was received and a reasonable time after that event cut the service.
it isn't sustainable, people end up either moving to a less strenuous industry or pursuing higher education so they aren't devs anymore. it's really weird
While G and C have the same tube length, I think you wanted to ask "What happens when you buzz your lips for a note that doesn't match the length of tube?"

So, for example, a C and a D on a trumpet are different lengths. Basically: you don't get a note, or you get a funny sound. The trumpet doesn't resonate and it's very difficult to get your lips to buzz at the "wrong" note.

Some very good players who have great lip control can bend a note up and down like this for effect.

Poor amateurs like myself will often buzz not perfectly at the right tension and play slightly out of tune.
I don't know what possesses people to implement moronic surprises like this in software that people use to actually get things done. I remember just about shitting my pants when trying to boot a computer using Super GRUB Disk on April 1st and getting a prompt claiming that my hard drive was being formatted [1], or something along those lines. After wasting over a day with a non-booting machine verifying that I didn't catch something, I did some Googling and found out what my issue was. It is this exact kind of stupid bullshit that convinces people that open-source software is a joke that can't be taken seriously, and in some cases (such as this one), they're right.

[1] https://www.supergrubdisk.org/2012/04/02/happy-2012-april-fo...
I wasn't saying it doesn't. I wasn't saying anything remotely like that. Someone was downvoted for the normally unremarkable observation that intentional sabotage is unethical. I thought that this community response was hilarious and worthy of remark.

If it "swings both ways," I would be most interested in an opinion about the "other way" if you're willing to offer it.
Group selection isn't how evolution works.
I was one of the streamers. Love her and the song.
Late but this Quora answer has some details:

https://www.quora.com/Did-any-of-the-Bibles-contributors-act...

I cannot verify it all right now, I'm more of a practical guy when it comes to Christinanity, but a few of the writers from the new testament were followers, and two (?) were his step (if you belive in it like me) brothers.

For a common bloke from 2000 years ago multiple written sources from people who met him first hand should count as pretty well documented.

I'm not saying you should believe everything they wrote (although I do) I'm just pointing out that the basic facts are very well documented given the circumstances.
Any recent references you can link to, pls?
The antenna in Colorado is considerably easier to replace.