skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Martial arts is not as good as unstructured play for executive function/focus.

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-love-wisdom/2015...

> Our findings offer support for a relationship between the time children spend in less-structured and structured activities and the development of self-directed executive function. When considering our entire participant sample, children who spent more time in less-structured activities displayed better self-directed control, even after controlling for age, verbal ability, and household income. By contrast, children who spent more time in structured activities exhibited poorer self-directed EF, controlling for the same factors.

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/articles/200301/the-overb...

> "Middle-class children in America are so overscheduled that they have almost no 'nothing time.' They have no time to call on their own resources and be creative. Creativity is making something out of nothing, and it takes time for that to happen," says Diane Ehrensaft, Ph.D., a developmental and clinical psychologist and professor at The Wright Institute in Berkeley, California. "In our efforts to produce Renaissance children who are competitive in all areas, we squelch creativity."

> Early-childhood-education specialist Peggy Patten, M.A., agrees and notes that children today have many wonderful opportunities, but they need time to explore things in depth. When they are involved in too many different things, they sacrifice breadth for depth.
Perhaps all children should receive good medical care, good food, and safe places to live.
Check:

https://www.thebalance.com/who-funds-biomedical-research-266...

"In a Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) study published in January 2010, the largest study to date to attempt to quantify U.S. funding of biomedical research by the pharmaceutical industry, government, and private sources, researchers estimate that U.S. biomedical research currently stands at about over $100 billion annually.

The pharmaceutical industry is the largest contributor towards funding research, funding over 60 percent. The government contributes to about a third of the costs, with foundations, advocacy organizations and individual donors responsible for the remaining investments."
You already know the type if you're calling .begin() or .end() on it. You don't care about the type of the iterator because you know it can iterate over the collection you're working with.

That's what auto fixes. It avoids coupling the concept of iterating from the specific type of the iterator which isn't important.

Similarly auto helps you achieve DRY. 'auto myFoo = std::make_unique<Foo>();'. The type wasn't removed, it just wasn't repeated twice.

But at this point auto, or things like auto, exist in nearly every major language. So you'll need to teach best practices for working with it at some point. That's a general thing that's everywhere.
The DNC does not function as a popular vote, but with a complex system of campaigning, finance, and ultimately delegate voting.

That part confuses me, since my tax dollars paid for my states primary election. Why are we subsidizing an internal party process?
VR is the quintessential boys toy. Not a mainstream product.
We already know that wolves and dogs use gaze tracking for communication and cooperation during hunting.
Yes, but there are better ways to do it.

A natural group to pay R&D for patent-free drugs is health insurance companies, who would benefit from the lower costs, and perhaps even come out ahead. But its hard for those companies to organize such an effort, because they can get the same benefit even if they don't contribute. It's a classic public goods problem.

Usually we solve public goods problems with taxes, and we could do that here, taxing the insurers and spending the money on R&D for patent-free drugs. Bernie Sanders introduced a bill to this effect several years ago. Iirc it involved "xprizes" for successful treatments, so bureaucrats wouldn't be steering all the research.
https://thebestschools.org/rankings/best-online-bachelor-in-...
Yes, it was. I don't know what happened that year, if my dad got a promotion, won the lottery (just kidding, there was no lottery then), or what, but we hadn't had a Christmas like that before.
I'm not sure what you are trying to say here.
Dns66
Yes they were. Thanks.
The Mysterious Case of Mme. Calment
I got both an iPad Pro LTE and a Surface GO LTE. My simple experience:

* Surface Go: You can do pretty much anything on this device. There's no software limitations, but it may just take a while as the performance is just slow.

* iPad Pro: It's really speedy. Everything is smooth and quick, however there's too many things that iOS just can't do. Apple makes a lot of complex things easy to do, but they also manage to make some very easy things very difficult.
This is a common idea that has some history and recent practical implementations, ex:
https://www.niklasroy.com/workshop/184/PneumaticComputing

I think his or gate is overthinking the issue. The only thing needed is a bunch of one way valves on each of the inputs, thus creating a sort of "wired OR": any input can create pressure on the output but that pressure can't disspate back to the unpressurized inputs.

By passing this "valve OR" through a single amplifier element set up as an inverter you get NOR gates which can have a large number of inputs and can be futurer used to synthesise any circuit.
Bitcoin Is Less Secure Than Most People Think
Because of course it isn’t.
"This gives other companies insight into what you have left"

I don't really understand... surely, you know exactly who the best employees in your competitors are just by searching for senior positions in Linkedin?
Yes for any sort of complicated input i.e. computer code, real world experience can not be used. On the other hand natural language processing almost good enough today for inputs with medium complexity like grocery list.

Real world interaction is obvious for certain fields where user does something that's comparable to a real world task. i.e. Loading ammunition, Surgery, Plumbing, Repair of various instruments.

For fields that don't have comparable real world representation I would imagine that we're again at the moment in computer science history where we have an opportunity to create a new desktop environment but in 3D space with certain well known natural gestures. For example transferring a file from my laptop to a smartphone doesn't have to be done with context menu, we can have a VR smartphone object and just drag file with our hands in that object lie we would do in real world if were to move a file from one place to another.

Instead of having to switch between different overlapping windows, we can have all windows laid out all around us in a comfortable zone. To go to particular window in focus we use certain gestures like pushing of pulling with hands.

Even if some gestures have to be created artificially, user would probably remember that better next time because of the muscle memory.

There's a really good discussion regarding this in Unity Unite 2016 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HzPDTrWcjxc). In fact 2016 conference had a lot of good VR related discussions.
That’s fair. I went into one of the new style stores last week to get a battery replacement.

The area displaying watches was at least twice the size of the previous version, and more central. They also had a much more deluxe area in accessory section displaying watch bands much more visibly.

I see all kinds of people with Apple watches around here. The entry level black sport band model seems to be the default men’s watch.
Most drug research is paid by the US taxpayer through research grants, not by private companies. Pharma company marketing budgets much exceed their drug research budgets.
I'm glad to hear that your rsi was helped by using the iPad Pro as a (near) laptop replacement. I, too, suffer from some form of rsi in my left hand (i.e. not my mouse hand) and was wondering what other steps you took to "fix" your rsi. Was it mainly due to the reduced use of a keyboard with the iPad, or did you take other actions at the same time? Thanks for the great review of the pros and cons of your experience.
5G is a specific ITU standard, just like 4G was. https://itu.int/dms_pub/itu-r/opb/rep/R-REP-M.2410-2017-PDF-...
Bash 5.0 released
> Also, are seriously suggesting that you can only only do organizing on platforms that are blocked by the firewall? It still amazes me how ignorant people are in the west.

The domestic Chinese social networks are fully staffed with censors [1] and likely police surveillance, so it would obviously be more difficult and dangerous for Chinese people to organize on them. The great firewall blocks the foreign that aren't willing to fully participate in that censorship and surveillance regime and that are large enough to be a threat, and the Communist Party likely judges the foreign operators to be less reliable partners in any case.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/02/business/china-internet-c...

Another factor that makes domestic Chinese websites a poor choice for political organizing and activism is the PRC government's efforts to make all web activity traceable to a national ID number. Why do you think it's now difficult to impossible to buy a activated SIM card at a corner shop, and why WIFI access points and most websites require an access code be sent by text message before you can get online or create an account?

> Finally, almost non of my Chinese friends who live in the west use FB even though they have the liberty to do so.

I don't use FB even though I have the liberty to do so.

> Again, somebody has to be quite ignorant not to see FB as a national security treat.

There are some very important distinctions that you're missing. The free exchange of ideas among citizens is not a national security threat unless you're a regime that is opposed to human rights [2] [3]. The issue with Facebook is really one of state-sponsored impersonation.

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Document_Number_Nine

[3] https://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/20/world/asia/chinas-new-lea...
For the first point you mean clinical trials? I wouldn’t call that advertising.

The 2nd point sounds like consulting fees, not advertising.

And the 3rd point is required to recruit for clinical trials. And the drug doesn’t even have a brand name at the point. Doesn’t seem like what the general public would call advertising.
> The simple act of a talented group viewing and marking a large flat surface can change the world.

Is this really such a common way to work and collaborate? I’ve rarely seen this even in co-locates teams. More usually problems are such that people work offline, put and document/proof-of-concept, presentation together and then maybe discuss the presentation/document verbally, or over email.

Not so much movie style enthusiastic whiteboarding. Maybe that would be better way of working, but is it really that common? Is there any data on this?
I think Delphi and C++ Builder were only good enough while WinAPI meant “C API”.

JavaScript is OK for platform-independent development with electron. For platform-specific i.e. WinRT not that good, .NET is just better, and MS put the JS libraries in maintenance mode: https://github.com/winjs/winjs

Python was never good. I’ve tried using winapi through C interop a few times, didn’t like it at all despite what I did wasn’t even too complex.
Can you clarify which claim is incorrect?
My main issue is that I was accused of "bringing race into the discussion", when it was already very much a part of the topic of the discussion (which you seem to agree). My points and explanation of dog whistles were aimed at that.

I want to be clear that I never accused the parent of being racist (and I don't have reason to believe he was being so). I just expressed that the specific choice of argument felt similar to rhetoric that racists do use, and that supporting it with non-racial evidence instead might better serve the argument. (I admit to also wanting to encourage readers to think critically about a topic so rife with racial tension on both sides)

>As a society we need to decide if we want to advantage some races over others. In my opinion it makes more sense to advantage people from poor backgrounds then it does based on race...

The justification for making it based on race is that it is a form of reparation to the collective racial communities, especially the black community, that have been negatively impacted by a deliberate effort by the government to keep them in a cycle of poverty (black codes, redlining, etc). The other goal is to have a broader ethnic representation in careers requiring a college-education, which is required to effectively remove the inherent internal prejudices in those circles (see also the push for getting women into STEM, and the backlash that they face upon entering due to the lack of women already there to set in-cultural norms).

An unfortunate side effects is that, taking only AA and diversity initiatives into account, a rich black person will have fewer opportunities than a poor Asian American, due to the already high proportion of East Asians in the relevant areas. That's more an issue of the extremely strong disparity of wealth and power in this country than an actual criticism of AA, however. Controlling for wealth, non-Asian POC will still often have fewer opportunities due the the strong influence of networking and in-group prejudice/bias on your career opportunities (which is one of the reasons that AA and diversity initiatives are required)

That being said, I don't know enough about the actual effects of said policies to judge their effectiveness, since I'm not a sociologist and assessing the real results of a policy with such complicated interactions is difficult. I can only speak confidently to the a priori justifications.
Ever tried Debian? It's a lot snappier than Ubuntu, especially when running a lighter desktop-- MATE and Xfce are easiest to set up IMHO. (The one pitfall I've run into is that you do need to install from media with non-free firmware if you want Wifi to work on hardware that's anywhere near current. With hardware that's newer than ~2016 you might even need to use a pre-release installer for the "testing" release)
Site has auto-playing audio if you scroll to the end of the article.
> "It is a myth that it is the pharma companies who fund much of R&D"

I dont think that statement is incorrect. They spend a ton on r&d (20%), which is more than pretty much any other industry

https://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/060115/how-much-dru...
> Until we have the ability to make iOS apps on-device, this will never be an option for a lot of folks it could be very useful for.

Codea is great for making games using just an iPad, using Lua. (However, you'll need Xcode on a Mac to submit your app to the App Store.)

https://itunes.apple.com/app/id439571171?mt=8
Why would you cap healthcare prices for insurers, they don’t set prices. You mean providers?

Half of US healthcare spending is public payers - Medicare and Medicaid. They do set prices for providers and still spend far more than other countries.

And if you’ve been involved in US healthcare you’d realize it’s drowning in regulations already. It’s not a free market by a stretch.
The Hubble scope had to spend several hours to find Ultima Thule. If Hubble is tied up or having glitches in the coming months or years, it could be hard to find new targets within the probe's aiming cone. I'm not sure Earth scopes are up to the task.
Well put. I think the moment of "?R takeoff" is when the first person manages to wear a consumer grade standalone VR headset for most of their day using passthrough. It will probably be an experience for nobody but those with the most hardened stomachs, but it will be an existence proof that you can then build software that can assume you have a raster buffer between your retinas and the incident world photons throughout your day that is 'full-cover' (ie every incident photon to your eyes is software proxied and modulated optionally by world photon sensor information via code, not physical properties like transparent glass.) That is basically the "final visual platform" for compute imho. Transparent AR glasses, if anything, are clearly a transitionary technology since they do not provide full software control over photon delivery to the eyes. (Also, I expect this event to happen quietly and unrecognized in late 2019 probably buried in a forum thread somewhere.)

From there, it will just take the hacker community to build apps that provide some type of 10x augmentation by a fully software-proxied visual system and a little bit of cultural normalization of it (probably within circles of teens/kids) to incentivize the acceleration of development of passthrough visor hardware that works better, is smaller, and has longer lasting batteries. But these will be mostly linear engineering problems, except perhaps the frame prediction algorithms needed to deal with camera sensor latency. Whereas the path to a set of AR glasses that mask out the world with full FoV seems a much more theoretical future that stretches the limits of known physics, this seems to be imminently becoming the problem of arranging bits not atoms with the arrival of fairly capable consumer standalone VR headsets with workable passthrough cameras.

If you think about it hard enough, if you woke up in 5 years and there was a market with good AR glasses and good VR goggles, but nobody tied the software together to enable all-day VR goggle wear via passthrough, clearly someone would do it and suddenly those devices are insanely more capable than the AR glass equivalent since they can take over your entire visual field and deliver all the same applications of the glasses. So it seems pretty inductive to me, if you buy into a few fairly simple assumptions, that this is our future, assuming that a software-proxied visual system can deliver value to daily life. The only counter argument (and in fact, one of the admitted theses for many people working on AR glasses) is that wearing a VR visor all day will make you look silly -- sometimes that's enough to tip things over for quite a while, but in the limit people are going to converge on what improves their life the most on net. (See: the segway has finally had it's day with the arrival of cheap electric scooters.)

Full-cover, rasterized vision seems to be the end game for how our visual system will interface with software systems.
Alibaba takes over Data Artisans (aka Flink)
Very stupid question please forgive me but I'm really passionate about alternative computing. How feasible is this in practice? I mean, I kinda understand how it works, but will it work like I imagine if I try build a circuit like this with a few nodes?
FREE-NFL-LIVE-ALABAMA-CRIMSON-TIDE-VS-CLEMSON-TIGERS-L-I-V-E-S-T-R-E-A-M-NFL
https://aminoapps.com/c/fnaf6ffps/page/blog/free-nfl-live-alabama-crimson-tide-vs-clemson-tigers-l-i-v-e-s-t-r-e-a-m-nfl/w04a_kRuourWZ3E3evlwpRvrw41zwnKQka

http://www.georgia-alpaca.com/groups/freenfllive-alabama-crimson-tide-vs-clemson-tigers-l-i-v-e-s-t-r-e-a-m-nfl/

https://aminoapps.com/c/fnaf6ffps/page/blog/nfl-game-alabama-crimson-tide-vs-clemson-tigers-2019-live-stream-ncaaf-final-game-on-tv-channel/QGD7_NLfXu30QGm4ork7q5E6orLRBrbPjE

http://www.georgia-alpaca.com/groups/ncaa-finalalabama-crimson-tide-vs-clemson-tigers-2019-live-stream-ncaaf-final-game-on-tv-channel/

http://www.georgia-alpaca.com/groups/finalgame-alabama-crimson-tide-vs-clemson-tigers-live-stream-ncaaf-live/
The Surface Pro 4 he mentions in the article is 4 years old. It was released in 2015. Things are hopefully better since then with the 5th gen and 6th Surface Pro devices.

I'm now on a Dell XPS 13, but the Surface Pro 4 I once had did definitely have plenty of bugs. I ended up getting my device swapped at least twice as it often would not wake up after being put to sleep.
Extramission is mainly the idea that light illuminates from the eyes though, not that it generates some force, which is the hypothesis in the article.
Surprised nobody mentioned

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polymer-cased_ammunition
Given how frequently people can tell when someone is looking at them from behind or at a distance, the book on attention as a material force is anything but closed.
Not sure why you are being downvoted here.. thanks for your perspective and contribution. I think hnews folks tend to fetishize what they see as “scientific thinking” a bit too much and anything that goes out of that narrow view tends to be downvoted into oblivion.
US Senate attempts to pass bill denying the right to boycot
Last Thursday, the Senate's frst bill of the new Congress- S.1- was introduced by Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL), and it encourages states to punish people boycotting for Palestinian rights.

To make matters worse, the Senate is scheduled to vote on this bill tomorrow, JAN 8.

It is important that we call both our Senators now and tell them to oppose this bill, and that we won’t support this violation of our right to boycott. Every single call makes a huge difference

Please, please, PLEASE,
Pick up the phone and tell your Senators to vote NO on S.1

https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/senate-bill/170
How Should I Run My Community Elections?
it's probably very very important evolutionary to know if the lion is looking at you or the gazelle 5 meters to the left. (and also very frustration-inducing for people who have strabismus)
They spend more on healthcare because a corporation presented a bill with a larger total at the bottom. NO human goes to the hospital and says, "...please charge me 37 dollars more than last visit for that generic aspirin..." All you international geniuses, help us out, stop investing in the for profit US healthcare system. Sell your holdings today, don't invest your retirement in funds that invest in for profit healthcare companies. That would get the ball rolling. Same goes for for profit prison management.

Trivia: What percentage of for profit healthcare corporations are directly or beneficially controlled by foreign investors who reside in countries that do not have our healthcare cost problems?
No mention of diet? Across the two populations in America, the diets between whites and blacks are vastly different.
> hundreds of billions (or trillions) in profit each and every year.

No company makes trillions of dollars in profit.
You should read the paper a bit more closely.

"We should forget about small efficiencies, say about 97% of the time: premature optimization is the root of all evil. Yet we should not pass up our opportunities in that critical 3 %. A good programmer will not be lulled into complacency by such reasoning, he will be wise to look carefully at the critical code; but only after that code has been identified"

We know that cache misses are not a small in-efficiency. This has been measured & observed on many real systems as a real, systemic problem. It's why data-oriented design is currently the King of game engine world, because cache misses kill performance. It is not premature to warn against it as a general practice as a result, as that's systemic de-optimization that will likely impact the critical 3%.
> Basically, men looking at women harms them, and we should avert our eyes

This is not what "male gaze" means. The idea of a male gaze, broadly speaking, is that the way women are portrayed in visual media (films, painting, photography, video games) caters to a male, heterosexual audience over other audiences, even at the expense of other aspects of the art. I think Lindsay Ellis does a good job of explaining this with examples [1]; particularly striking is the way Megan Fox as Mikaela Banes in Transformers is shot to maximise her sex appeal (to a straight male audience), so that even though the script ostensibly establishes Mikaela as savvy and competent, all that most viewers remember is that she's eye candy [2].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNkTeHpHj_I
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKyrUMUervU&t=1m05s