skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> This simply isn't true. Between 1900 and 1905, Sweden's infant mortality rate was merely 2.3 per 1,000 live births [1] which is basically the same as they currently report (2.6 per 1,000 [2])

You're mixing up maternal mortality (the mother dies) with infant mortality (the child dies).

It would be quite remarkable indeed if somehow medicine in Sweden today achieved a slightly worse infant mortality than at the beginning of the previous century.
Work is where you get your paycheck. Treat it just like that. Let it fund your passions.

Cycling, music and meditation keep me sane. And enjoying culture - great film, etc...
Mars is a gigantic frigid rock. You can't eat it, you can't breathe it, and you can't touch it.

If you go to mars, you're going to be living in a bubble and it hardly even matters whether you're on Mars at that point (aside from being close enough to study it.) You could just as well colonize the bottom of the ocean or Antarctica, and there's plenty of value in doing those things because the rewards from the efforts could easily be transported back to normal society. And if you get sick or injured, you can still survive rather than casting your valuable experience into the void.

If the advances you speak of can't help you survive in Earth's mildly hostile uninhabited environments, then you can't expect them to work on Mars.
You: I’m too lazy to do much more than wine about my problems.
Everyone else: well, we’re just going to hang out over here with the solution. Come join us when your done whining.
It seems ironic to me that the HN crowd seems to support these circumvention of Apple's insular app distribution strategy, but on the other hand also supports Apple's clamp down on efforts to stop privacy violating apps.

For my part, I guess I would prefer that Apple at least open up iOS devices to both the app store and allowing users to install non-App Store apps, the Android model. This would probably satisfy both casual and more tech-savvy users. Unfortunately, I don't see Apple doing this any time as they are all about profits, and this strategy has been working very well so far.
The colorful graphs in Taleb's blog post here obscure the fact that his claims are completely unsubstantiated. He's also extremely condescending (bordering on dismissive) to a variety of disciplines.

There are cogent arguments that critique the use of IQ as an intelligence measure. This is not one of them.
Chronic issue for me. Consistently waiting on WebStorm lag to complete my typing/commands. May be the vim or other plugins I use, not sure. This is on 2 powerful machines. One Mac, one Windows.
It's a mistake to look at pools as distinct entities in themselves or to think that their members are in cohesion to do anything other than increase their chance of monetary gain from their pool generating valid bitcoin blocks. The mining collective has no power of its own, but its power is distributed entirely among its members. A mining operator loses no autonomy by joining a pool, and can leave it just as easily as the joined. Nobody is loyal to a pool.
> I suppose people living in their economically-alright bubbles will never be able to look objectively at how awful things are in so many places in the world. You just prefer the cozy illusion that it's all getting better.

These two statements do not contradict each other, at all.

It is possible for two things to simultaneously be true: things are awful for many people, AND things overall are better than they used to be.

People seem to hate Pinker because they interpret his words as saying their suffering doesn't matter. There is absolutely nothing about his argument that suggests this. It is exactly because suffering is so terrible that it is a good thing that there is less suffering now than in the past.

Bill Gates gets lumped in with Pinker here, and Gates is literally putting his money where his mouth is on this. He wouldn't invest his massive fortune into improving the world if his position was "things are great now, stop complaining."
The author's article is on a question that I considered before. I agree with her that it may make the process more 'fair', however, she fails to consider one consequence of a switch to a lotto based system. Namely:

How Much Should a Harvard Lotto Ticket Cost?[0]

The author mentions that "This system would also alleviate the cost to families associated with students applying to increasing numbers of colleges", but I disagree. If you look at the system in terms of expected value, then what should you pay for that lotto ticket? (Note, I'm quoting a bit from my article, please excuse the laziness)

Assume that you are actually applying to Harvard and they actually confess to using randomness in their admissions. Say that they still require a fee to submit your application. Today that fee is sitting at $75.00. Say that the ‘prestige’ of Harvard remains the same after this hypothetical confession to the use of randomness and that today’s median salary for a Harvard grad stays at ~$85,000.00/year.

The questions then is: Should you apply to Harvard and hope to be a random applicant that gets in at the $75.00 price? Should you place a bet?

After you go through the math and stats for a bit, the conclusion is that the price of a Harvard Lotto ticket should be ~$89,823.00 . That's ~1200:1 on your money. You should absolutely apply to Harvard if they held a lotto, and even if the number of applicants rose ~120,000%.

I go through each of the Ivies and there is an update at the bottom on the top Universities and Liberal Arts schools in the US. Spoiler: CMU is not very 'worth it' (still a steal, all the same) and Carleton and Davidson are very 'worth it' for the admissions price.

In the end: Go to college kids. The ROI is insane.

[0] http://heffern.net/rob/index.php/2018/05/18/hello-world/
I think you probably have a lower bar for social/financial success than what OP is talking about. You are neither famous nor rich, and people want to be famous and/or rich.

Mad props to you if you are 100% satisfied with you social status & financial success, though. I wish that I were. :)
What If China Is Growing Slower and Borrowing More Than the US?
I worked remotely for the first few years of my career. I assumed most programmers would be like HN, as reflected by my one other friend who programmed & also happened to read HN. Then I began working in an office with programmers, & was shocked to realize most programmers don't want to go on a forum after work that'll often discuss programming..
All humans are hindered by the duration of our short-term memory. That's why repetition is important.
Yes! I think Adium won that war.
Fortunately Electron apps don't have this problem, since their UI is GPU accelerated.
..hence the fact there should be a middle category, to remove the temptation. It does make me pretty cynical about political rhetoric on climate change when the opportunity to act fast to promote new technology is there, and they apparently do sweet FA.
Thanks for https://manytricks.com/moom/
And before 2018?
In a broad sense, the forces of safety and flexibility in a language tend to be at odds. Rust does a lot of clever things that push that curve some, but a big part of what makes it safer than C++ is what you can't do.
The problem here is the author’s development process. There’s an “old” programmer adage in regard to version control: merge early, merge often. It addresses the author’s issue directly.

So yes, it’s not the code that’s bad. It the development process. Bad (ok, fine, inexperience) developer.

https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=1643030
It is amazing that Google helps their only competitor in the smartphone space for the greater good.

Kudos to Google.
>The number of programming fuckups (or bugs - call them what you want) causing me real life stress seems to be increasing exponentially as I'm getting older

Why is that? Sure, the number of those fuckups might increase, but the number of fucks one gives as they're getting older should decrease!
This type of comment always surprises me, it is very short sighted.

so the criteria for success is 'making six digits' which you correlate to hard work and intelligence.

That ignores the following cases:

- Intelligent, hard working but not high income ( Academics)

- circumstances, today you make 'six digits' but due to thousands of variables ( Market, industry, health) you lose the ability to generate that income after having kids

- being hard working, intelligent does not make you any better parent, in fact there is a case for the opposite where you cannot dedicated time to the raising of children.

- Anecdotally I personally know many people who are making six digits, who would probably make terrible parents
They don't need to use PayTm - they just need to integrate Apple Pay with India's payment infrastructure. They just don't want to do that as they may come under RBI's regulation and other indian laws.
I have trouble making work together "one of the best of the team" and "one of the most exhausted". It seems weird to me that the "best" persons use a tool that so obviously drag them down (don't they realize they are more exhausted, slower and make more mistakes at the end of the day?)

I believe that there may be some post hoc, ergo propter hoc at play here.

For instance did you include the age of the persons in your observations? It wouldn't be surprising that the persons choosing vim are a bit older on average, and then one could think that they have a bit less stamina and are exhaust faster?

Or maybe they are actually doing more, like spending part of their energy helping others? That's also a pattern you can see often in group training sessions.

Also, you mentioned that you won't help them with the "weird issues" they usually have with vim. Do you apply the same treatment to non-vim users?
> why a group like Mensa International is relevant in today's society. Does an IQ test like the one Mensa requires has any relevance or correlation with performance in real life career or society?

Those are two very distinct questions, though.

I'd say that

1. Mensa is not very relevant (except maybe as a self-help group and dating club, which is by no means a bad thing.)

2. "relevance or correlation with performance" - that's a highly contested question. My take is that IQ and Big 5 factor "conscientiousness" (which includes grit, capacity to delay gratification, etc.) are among the best predictors for performance in real life that we have, which is not to say that they're particularly good predictors. They can only explain a fairly small part of the variability in outcomes.
Another take is that DESPITE there being a lot of 'amateurs' in the industry, the world generally seems to be humming along as normal, if not doing very well.
My goal wasn't so much to promote any specific answer, just to rebute the argument that the solution to memory safety bugs is to have better C programmers
The worst was keeping all the names straight.
JIRA loading times probably cost the software development industry 8-9 figures a year in lost productivity.

Wrike isn't far behind.

/Upload failed? Must be a day ending in "y".
So does vim support proper refactoring as it is in IntelliJ IDEA for any locally-scoped variable?
We are colonizing Antarctica. There are permanent settlements there. The bottom of the ocean has a different set of challenges than Mars due to the pressure, but sure we could do that too. We have 7.5 billion people here, you know, we don't all have to work on the same thing.
Nicely said. Master craftsmen spend much time and money acquiring high quality tools to use while they work. Most make many custom tools themselves. Having great working tools that become extensions of your body (and the body can be looked at as just a very tightly integrated tool for your mind) is key to long, highly productive sessions of creativity. Computer programmers also search for the same type of tools.
Yes. Stephen J Gould's "Mismeasure of Man" comes to mind. But then again, that's decades old.
That should not be occurring. I normally use it on Mac, but you should be able to type as fast as possible >200 WPM and not have it lag.
> “The problem isn’t the use of a memory unsafe language, but that the programmers who wrote this code are bad.”

This really goes to show how anti-worker the media is even among high-skill jobs.

In my mid 20s I now mentor a bit in coding. I’ve worked with young devs that inherently know many of the obvious security pitfalls that have caused massive security breaches a la Equifax.

Are devs at the front of these breaches bad? I don’t believe so. Many went through grueling multi-part interviews to land the position.

No, the issue a management one. Anti-worker is a meme in America and this is just another manifestation of the disingenuous “lack of tech talent” whining used to recruit more H1B.

It’s also why unreleastic growth targets cause gaming tech workers to face layoffs despite record breaking sales.
It's not only a distribution fee. Someone had to develop the frameworks, the APIs, the OS and all the other systems that allows for your App to exist. These things aren't free and take resources to make and run. We can argue about the exact % but people often take all the work that goes behind the scene for granted. Same for Youtube and any other platform. We're just so used to having it all for free that we forget the sheer amount of work that goes into making and maintaining the platform.
The VMHaus offers were actually added by the provider themselves in August 2018, they specifically selected Windows to be available.

On June 2017 they wrote: "Custom ISO - Use our available Windows & FreeBSD or bring your own ISO." (source: https://www.lowendtalk.com/discussion/116203/vmhaus-new-uk-l...)

I've sent them a message to clarify. :)
Most online marketplaces cost 30% - Steam, Google Play, App Store. That doesn’t make it alright, but no one is forcing you to write apps for iOS either.
This person is unfamiliar with what it means to run a public trading vehicle along with the value that comes with that. Public trading vehicles are designed to exercise capital from the capital markets. This is what enables public companies to grow. Crypto another form of a public trading vehicle in a new global capital marketplace and it helps legitimate companies grow.
This feels like cargo culting of Java's hashCode (or similar) to me. As I understand it, hashCode is used as an optimization in the implementation of data structures like hash maps and sets, not as the primarily equality check, since collisions can occur.

It would be simpler, faster, and more correct (no chance of collisions) to just implement an isEqual method.
I don't think it is a lack of philosophy so much as it is a crisis in the currently accepted philosophy of society. Basically, people are starting to realize that empiricism is incomplete, but society as a whole is so married to it that we suffer cognitive dissonance about this realization. One part of us wants to double down and insist that it is reality, rather than our model of it, that is wrong, while the other grasps desperately for a better model.
Combinator engine in Tcl
Is Google Drive a Tree or a Graph? Working with Folders via the Google Drive API
It's all about the Apple brand. The average consumer conflates iOS apps with Apple and Apple does not want even remote association with vice related content.
It's not the sharpness but the incredible amount of real estate you have. I can have documentation, a preview window and the code open at the same time in what would be their full screen resolution.

To anyone considering one, make sure it supports 60hz at full resolution, otherwise the choppyness makes it unusable.
I wish one could write the same title about software...
I had a quick look at the pricing page, and the "free" version seems to be ad supported (the paid version says "no ads, forever"). Though the FAQ on the homepage says it doesn't sell information, I'd like to know what ads are shown in the free version and what kind of tracking (if any) is used by the advertising network used by the service.
My great grandfather's phone number was only 3 digits, "123", guess they had less working memory back then
+100 for this effort, I don't even have much use for it but I applaud his effort to have a small client.
I've given €10 on patreon, this attitude should be encouraged.
I vote for all three.

* Types so I can prevent all the low hanging fruit.

* Contracts so I can encode invariants that the types
can't always express.

* Conventions so that everyone is talking the same
language and there is less confusion
Yes, they are outside of your control but you just don’t realize it yet. The “financial success” aspect can become a thing of the past pretty quickly if a dot-com crash were to happen again or if the next recession were to bring the FANGs back into “normal companies” territory when it comes to their total valuation, and I assume the “social validation” aspect will become a thing of the past for most computer programmers pretty soon, especially if AI will end up consuming even more existing jobs among other the general populace.
Everyone arguing with you seems to be fixated on how this is framed as an indicator instead of what yield curve inversion actually means and the effects it has that likely lead to a recession.
DoS Vulnerability Discovered in Nginx Unit
ruuning rider on an iMac Pro with 5120x2880 display, with no problems so far
This is pure harassment of perfectly reasonable people that so many of us are being subject to on this site.
It is reported as being used for that, yes, but that is not the same as the platform endorsing the content as the GP was claiming.
I can't think of many companies that I'm happier to have trying to push mandatory arbitration clauses. A conservative well-capitalized bank or brokerage will duly pay an arbitrator that becomes accustomed to their repeat business. They will likely have their books and legal department in order enough to come up to speed with common sense once a request for arbitration has been filed, or failing that supply irrefutable (even if not necessarily correct) documentation to the arbitrator to support siding against the consumer. In other words, they'll keep up the illusion that their kangaroo court works as claimed.

But Uber, what do they actually do well ? Besides executing on that whole "startup" thing of fomenting civil disobedience, greenwashing it as "sharing", and then capturing it to install themselves as new less-accountable middlemen? This type of grossly incompetent mishandling is exactly the kind of thing we need to demonstrate how ridiculous it is to even entertain these eval(input()) clauses in "contracts".
Thanks for the solution! It's elegant and is a great fit for my current work which involves retrofitting my codebase with type annotations.
From my experience, scaling problems are usually related with the app itself rather than the screen or the OS but;

After getting used to the retina display of macs, you realise how bad, how pixelated 1080p looks on texts. Especially the workplace monitors since they are usually the cheapest ones. Upgrading 4K gives you joy after being exposed to those cheap screens. :)
Doesn't the screw driver/drill analogy work here too? Drills cost a lot more money than screw drivers or hammers, require that you be working with screws rather than nails, and don't work unless you have electricity. Hence, they're not a worthwhile investment for everyone.

If you go far enough, you can cause the analogy to break down, but that's true of any analogy. This breaks down because the ROI for a drill is too short to compare with Vim.
This is an excellent example of how regulation should work as opposed to how it works in regulatory capture situations.

In a prisoners dilemma like set up, if any airline unilaterally changed their rules for pilots and crews, they would "lose out" when they didn't have crews to fly, while other airlines would "win more" by overworking their flight crews. The only "win" was for all airlines to not implement these changes.

But when the changes were forced on everyone, it removed the advantage of not following the guidelines (well it added a criminal or civil prosecution risk) and so all airlines have at least minimally rested crews.

That message seems to get lost sometimes.
REST APIs for Databases via OData – Thoughts?
We'll do our best! If you have any specific feedback, let me know and I'll look into it. :)
> when you can't rely on things like the postal service

FYI, While Amazon is really serious about India and is doing some good work there, the Indian Postal Service is really good and reliable. In fact, even Amazon uses the indian post to deliver to remote areas where they don't have have amazon delivery offices.
Seeing that you are and have always been allowed to sell a subscription outside of the App Store and still distribute within the store, you don’t need an enterprise certificate to do that as long as your app meets the guidelines.

Amazon Prime Video, Netflix, Spotify, DirectvNOW, Sling, and quite a few other apps don’t allow in app subscriptions. There are others that you can subscribe to inside or out of the app.
Tildes seems to be pretty interesting. It is developed by ex-reddit employee and is non-profit and open-source. Currently, it is in invite-only alpha.

https://blog.tildes.net/announcing-tildes
I like workona chrome plugin as my tab manager. I might have 5 google sheets open related to 5 different tasks, so that’s how I like my groups sorted. Sadly no Firefox support. Not saying getstation isn’t cool, just offering an alt.
Ok. But that’s also baked into the cost of the device at sale. If we’re talking about the App Store, bandwidth, redistribution, etc that it provides sure. But .. I don’t agree with your listed examples.
Thanks a lot for this recommendation. I bought it, read it, and found the heuristic algorithms in it could be applied to a problem I had to solve at work. So I'm very pleased you commented!
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What if you're antisocial and start to feel the echo chamber of only doing things you are proud of?