skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"They are devices that enable creativity, collaboration, and problem solving — essential skills in an ever changing and uncertain world."

This sounds great, but the reality is that 99% of kids are using their phones to play Fortnite, look at social media sites, or chat with their friends.

These are all distractions for education and it's going to be nearly impossible to police in the classroom without banning phones outright.

I think it would also be better for many adults to do without their phones/electronics for a set period of time.
So why doesn’t one of these greedy lenders steal market share by writing payday loans at closer to normal rates?
You can help “rescue” weather data from the 1860s
Strange take. I’m socialist and communist countries, the rich make their money off government corruption. In the US rhe rich make their money off providing value to people in the free market.
I was wondering the same thing. Most jewelers don't work this way anymore either.
Though I admit that I haven't looked into the technicalities of how wireless charging works, I'd be concerned of passing radiation meant to hold enough energy to charge a battery through my own flesh. Even if it's somehow technically safe, you have to convince other people of that.
this is typical is any paradigm. even something like active record its possible to isolate all the actual DB interaction to just one file.
Weather Rescue Project
How are you using Tails for managing an airgapped system?

Is it just acting as a minimal secure Linux live image? I'd assume the Tor component isn't helpful for an airgapped system.
This is an excellent article.

The thing I noted that bears true with my experience: it's an evolution. As you come to understand the business better and better, you naturally evolve through some of the same steps.

To me, the steps feel something like imperative->repl->functional->pure functional->microservices->DSLs

I think if you keep to your code budgets at each step of this, it works out quite nicely. F# is a great tool for this kind of evolution because it's both multi-paradigm and plugs into a ton of other stuff.

Thanks guys!

ADD: It would be a mistake to read articles like this and jump into a DSL, in my opinion. I know a lot of guys who read some really cool books out there on things like DDD and want to start there. What's missing in articles and books like this is the backstory. These folks ended up where they were and were able to do what they're doing now because of a ton of learning. Not learning code. The business, the tech, and the customers all learning from one another. I don't see any way that this doesn't take a good bit of time.
They actually used to have them: https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2014/02/who-kille...

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/65488...

The short of it is that pacemakers last years already, and there's definitely an economic incentive to being able to charge thousands of dollars for a new device/battery, regardless of what The Atlantic would like to have you believe. The complications associated with pacemaker placement are high enough to warrant the risk reduction of only placing one once. You might argue that most patients don't need a pacemaker replacement since they're most likely going to die before needing one. What about the younger patient population of kids and young adults that need them due to arrhythmias or congenital heart disease?

There's maybe an argument to be made towards inconsistent battery life and not being sure when the batteries will fail due to lower and lower charge capacities. But pacemakers all have variable battery life due to each person's need for pacing. If someone needs constant pacing, they will probably need a replacement sooner. If it's every once in a while that they have an arrhythmia, then it will last far longer.
Cybercriminals Turn Opportunistic with Cryptocurrency Mining
Smart Recoil Reducer for Apex Legends
the "ruling class" would probably be not really interested in dealing with housing at all and would be more worried about people pointing out the lack of diversity at top C-level positions at major influential corporations.
How to Improve Political Forecast
Entertainment and/or fulfillment is most of the value in most books. Whether or not a book contains directly actionable information is mostly dependent on what you are trying to do. For example, a book about Kubernetes is only directly actionable when working with Kubernetes. At random, a human being is unlikely to use Kubernetes. So a book on Kubernetes usually doesn't contain any actionable information.

Suppose you read a book on Kubernetes today. You don't use Kubernetes. So you read it just because you are curious. That's the value of most books. If three years from now you start using Kubernetes then the book suddenly becomes directly actionable.
> This sort of thing is why I've started to wonder if employment rate is really all that meaningful as a general socioeconomic index. It is what it is, of course, but I'm not sure it's use as a proxy for well-being is really justified.

Great point. Look at how paradoxical it is.

Every time unemployment is high, they pump in more money (raising asset values). But unemployment is not high because of "lack" of money.

The real problem is unequal distribution of money pumped into the system. Unemployment is a joke. It's not like the world has run out of things to do. I can think of so many more jobs that need people (like more Boeing testers, more street cleaners, more infrastructure repairers, more artists, mores school teachers, more nurses etc.) None of that is happening because of lack of money. No, its happening because money is being sucked by the few at the cost of the society.
The Taste of Caffeine
The fact that this is even needed is why I like CSS-in-JS.
For insulation, lighting. Key aspect is that the cooling element in a fridge is seperate from the white insulation and is often raw metal.

Now, if you look at the back of the fridge where is expels/radiates the heat - that is black. For me, I've often thought that heat could be utilised. Be is pre warming up water designated for hot water use (which would also aid in cooling fridge and increase its efficiency and life expectancy as well). Or some peltier/sterling type energy recovery.

But good question and in the same spirit:

Why is thermal paste and pads white?
Unless you have a proof that it is fake, I prefer [citation needed].
The point is that, according to that narrative, you could be "less evil" than the other landlords. You can afford to "protect your investment" less than they do and it would still be a "good investment" (just not "an exploitative great investment"). You would be offering a better option and that should be enough to feel good about yourself.
For you, east is China, Mideast and subcontinent only, right?
I mean it's where users download apps but it's not the only place people sign up for subscriptions.

If customer acquisition is so expensive outside of the App Store then that's an argument that Apple's "we get 30% of all revenue made through us when you use our platform as a funnel" might actually be too low.
> Centralised planning will beat democratised decision making

Centralized / decentralized planning and democratic / autocratic decision making are orthogonal concerns.
Photo number 9. The box shows a picture of an Asteraceae that fits well with Cichorium intybus, a vegetable cultured in temperate areas (from Europe mainly), and the colours of the Romanian flag.

https://www.europol.europa.eu/sites/default/files/styles/eur...

over the green square, appears a whitish blur that could easily say Cicoarea in a stylised way (or maybe is just another picture)
Yes. That is my major concern. In fact, it has already happened! We have already Greece (with its China owned ports) blocking an EU statement:

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-eu-un-rights/greece-block...
That's the thing about being put in front of the mirror: it hurts.
Thanks! That all sounds about right. I suspect it's true that they could have done better but I guess they were just taken off guard.
I really connected with your comment, and it mirrors my personal attitude. Particularly this part:

> I see this project as an attempt at absolute honesty. And if we're being honest, doesn't everyone's life contain a fair amount of bleakness? We all have insecurities. We all suffer tragedies. We're all wrong about various things.

It is difficult to be genuine in this world, at least for me. I am afraid of people's judgements, whether real or imagined. It takes a lot of courage on the part of the OP to put out this sort of work, opening themselves and their beliefs to the scrutiny of anyone who chooses to read it.
DNA polymerase "reads" in one direction, so you prime the polymerase with a short DNA sequence (a primer), that is complementary and located 5' (before) the section you want to read
How much does plumbing need to change with the times? I suspect it changes at a glacial pace compared to high tech. Also, how much does it matter whether your pipes are done by top 1% of plumbers vs just some average plumber? Probably the work is interchangeable as long as the plumber has some experience and has been trained.

None of that is true when you are building something cutting edge with competitors lapping at your heels. Maybe web development has become like plumbing now ... but search algorithms, robotics, space travel, etc. are certainly not.
Thermal paste isn't designed to radiate heat -- it is intended to conduct it -- so its being black wouldn't make it more effective.
For those who talks about evil East must read Jhon Perkins Economic Hitman and they will find China innocent.
That’s not a contradiction. The minimums are low enough to qualify as a dump.
On the inside, even for the cooling elements, it should be irrelevant since the planckian locus at 300k is outside the visible spectrum. The importance of the albedo in the far infrared also depends whether most heat transfer in a fridge is convective or radiative.
Calculating the mean of a list of numbers (2016)
Yes, it's judgemental. This is a discussion forum and this is my view on it, this is how I "judge" it. But honestly, I'm all for weird & quirky.

However, my response to reading this post and the blog/wiki was very different than some of the more positive responses here. Ergo, the counter argument. I didn't get the positive weird/quirky feeling, rather the opposite.
Some people still think China's economy is a centralized one. No it's not. It's a mix of state owned and private - the former really good at long-term planning for national strategic goals, maintaining economic stability and building infrastructures with no short term returns, AND vibrating private sectors that drive innovation and employment. How they keep the balance of the two is mythical to many. However the Chinese came to this mixed system not by design, but with some luck. It needs to be studied and whether it can be replicated elsewhere remains a question.
A Look at Chinese Tech Workers' Struggle with Burnout and Work/Life Balance
Its even simpler- they send each other prototypes, way before release of a new model, so everyone can reverse engineer that.
If you had just left the issue alone then everyone would assume his comment was referring to malevolent Christians. As a Jew I find it disappointing that you have chosen to echo the antisemitism he was smart enough to retract from the discourse. These ways of thinking need to be censored and entirely destroyed. Delete your comment immediately.
Sounds like a (theoretical, I know) solution would be to limit carriers to advertising no more than their current rolling average of download speed across all users.

No one needs mention the obvious incentivizing to cut off all of the slowest areas/device/customers.

I just think being required to report something based an 'actual' performance as opposed to 'vague technical term' could be more informative and shift all this handwaving over to a 'look, we've improved out actual throughput!' basis.
Not just tech... life has already provided us with optimized tools for reading, writing, translating, and correcting DNA. The chemical properties of DNA are well known, and it's an incredibly stable molecule.

Doesnt really make sense to switch to a different copolymer.
Demonstration against Article13: 40k people in Munich
The reality is throughout civilized human history there are certain aspects of society that are better planned centrally, certain aspects that are better planned completely individualistically, and certain aspects that are better as a varied mix of both.

The biggest problem is people who insist one of those stances is the only correct one in practice, as well as morally, and deride other proven better options simply because of an ideological distaste for it.

A lot of us here are from the Tech and specifically software industry, and one of the most common refrains is to use the best tool for the circumstances. Sometimes that may be a functional language like Haskell, and in other cases may be Javascript.

The same concept applies to central planning vs markets. Both are just a few of many tools, and the correct approach is to pick the best tool for the specific job.
Wireless charging works with magnetic fields like a transformer (the primary coil being the wireless charging pad, the secondary being inside the device itself). There are people implanting magnets into their fingers and even after years I haven’t heard of any issues (the biggest risk with those seems to be the magnet shattering and small bits of it going in the blood stream, but nothing related to the magnetic field itself).
I wouldn't put exogenous nonsense DNA into my body. That's just asking for a bad time.
I thought exactly the same.
I would mostly attribute this to go’s compositional and prescriptive nature. Go sort of pushes you toward building highly reusable pieces that can be combined to create a system. It does that in a way that’s incredibly easy to grok, which allows developer communities to more easily grow around products.
It could be a matter of depth of field and viewing angle. I build tiny things - boards with parts down to 0406
and also 3D assemblies of small parts. I use a long range digital magnifier for PCBs but it's necessary to use a head mounted loupe for 3D assembly due to depth of field and the need to view from different directions.
Is there a goolge overlay site, that allows for auto-adding filters to the search fottages- to await the usualy stockfootage cruft for example?
Well, this is a discussion forum. The OP posted this wiki a couple of times to HN. You get positive comments, you get other, less positive or more critical ones.

The "if you don't like it, move along" argument is fine in general and I support it 100%, but in this case a bit strange as posting something to HN is mostly to get responses / views / arguments, not just gushing adoration.
electron? no thanks
Go look up the PT or KT extinction events. The PT was particularly traumatic and involved significant runaway warming, including possibly the firing of the "clathrate gun".

In general the point is, dramatic changes in the climate may be good for future evolved life forms, but they will suck for existing ones.
Yes, Italy is also allied or has trade partnerships with Saudi Arabia or Israel.
>The point is that, according to that narrative, you could be "less evil" than the other landlords. You can afford to "protect your investment" less

So, don't kick out people who don't pay their rent immediately?

Sounds like a recipe for achieving all of the "acclaim" for being a slumlord with none of the actual profit...
Avoidant Personality Disorder: “Safe When Alone, yet Lost in Their Aloneness”
After a DUI Felony Conviction
So I've had 4 DUI'S in my life time I'm only 27, after 4 DUI'S in my state the 4th one becomes a felony it's my first and only Felony I took a plea deal for 1 year because they wanted to give me a lot of prison time if I didn't take it like 5 years.

It's my first and only Felony . My Dream is to become a Web Developer if anything else fails I'd like to get a job working with computers in some kind of way first of I'd be down for a year I forgot a lot of things of coding

Sometimes my hope is shot because I got a Felony.

Can anyone explain to me is it over for me? Should I go find another career path like construction? or is Computer science or Web development an option for a guy like me? what are some good resources for me to learn and start my journey.

I studied PHP and Javascript in the past read some books on it online tutorials I'm not a total beginner I can learn fast.
you might still need it if you plan to use third party css libs, but not wholesale.
I'd say that's the standard actually. Landlords steal whatever they like, including deposits, because with most of these situations the tenants are too busy finding the means to continue existing to have any to spare for litigation.

I am not surprised by how many HN commenters seem to still have their rents sorted by their parents. Landlords are predominately thugs.
All of the Cambrian biodiversity was underwater, with nothing larger than bacteria on land. Would you consider it a good thing if the world suddenly flooded?

(In case the point isn't clear: even if we exactly reverted to Cambrian conditions, that would be Bad for humans (there were no humans in the Cambrian) - but that wouldn't happen anyway, what would actually happen is everything would die from the sudden shock.)
Larry Page's “Veiled Threat” to Leave Google -- Original Source?
>I have hand placed 01005 parts

Any more details you'd care to share? I was thinking of a project to use some 0402 LEDs in a pattern, and I've been balking at it.
Did you mean to say "clathrate gun"?
Photos Seconds Before Taken Tragic Disaster
> I also started making YouTube videos as I find the video format is often superior to just text and words.

No. A thousand times no.
That looks very interesting, particularly the UI layer for collaboration. Your website says it supports “massive data sets” but I would spell out what you mean since data for different fields vary by several orders of magnitude. (Massive for me starts at TBs and goes to petabytes.)

One of the issues for me is file-based versioning, which then requires the means to parse the format. A number of ventures and organizations (e.g., NeuroData without Borders) address versioning of the entire ecosystem necessary to correctly use the underlying data files, so not sure if that’s an explicit part of your ecosystem. Most importantly, is your stack going to be open source?
I'd argue that the fact that there is a trend to whataboutise in China threads has more value than the actual whataboutism. It may not be a lot but it doesn't need much to be more then a whataboutism.

Where is the value in your comment?
can't download the prebuilt file - 404
Add Macros for TypeScript
Reading this & Mailchimp's response, the crux of the debate is sharing things like the user's opt-out status?
Multivitamins: Overcoming the Illusion of Causality
You:

>> As far as I understand it, NVENC and the ilk are solutions that capture video output and encode it to H264. So they are x264 encoding accelerators, nothing more.

Me:

>> allowing one to stream the encoded video output to memory.

You're being pedantic. What I meant is that OnLive actually needed specialised hardware because they could not provide their service without it (as in: there was no capability in hardware, without changes to the codebase - to render not to an external display). You, on the other hand - are speaking about the conceptualised "perfect" implementation.

Google doesn't need that hardware in order to provide that service because by now there's a hardware capability that allows you to capture the screen of the device you are rendering to. They could try to be more efficient by using other hardware, but that's not a prerequisite for their Gaming Service.
Don't you think your analysis is a bit too much simplistic?

The ECB monetary politics was never meant to "save" any specific country (a whole system, maybe. You could argue abut this).

On Beijing giving away money to Italy: it is a commercial deal we are talking about. The political implications of this deal are way more complex than a passing statement.
Yes I will conceed it is far from an ideal way of describing how things are and with that, somewhat subjective in perception.

For me, it gets down to physics and how we perceive things. From a human perception aspect - the true colour of grass is green. But when you add the science aspect, it is not that clear cut. Somewhat gets down to context.

For me - if an object emits light - that's it's true colour. Equally how it refracts light is the perceived colour. Objects that emit light have a true and perceived colour the same. Though there is always other factors like whats in between the object and the light (be that refracted or emitted). The sun and sky being good example of that at play. But equally even at a small scale, the air will have an impact, even if we can not perceive it.

But yes, we're all human and with that, you are right in that the true colour from our perception shows grass is green. So I'll try and refer to grass as its true colour of green and it's physics colour as red/blue.

Which feels perhaps a better way of phrasing and one I'll try and run with until something better comes along.
This guy's another comment:

Quote: I may be overly cynical but it seems to me that China is the most honest country involved in governmental mass surveillance. They never tried to hide the intent behind their decisions whereas western nations always bring up false pretenses to eat away at their people's rights and freedoms. The most pathetic of all being "terrorism". We're all headed in the same direction, it's just going to be achieved through different means.
> There’s also no such thing as “deep learning”.

What do you mean by that?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_learning
Google's advantage is that they've got loads of cash. Speaking of that advantage is adding nothing to a conversation.
That doesn't make any sense. If "the west" is so evil, than it won't hurt it. Quite the opposite.

You don't even make sense within your own reality.
Yes, Italy is also allied or has trade partnerships with a country that tortures prisoners, overthrows democratically elected governments, invades countries on the whims of its military industrial complex, uses drone strikes indiscriminately, and who tech economy thrives on oil/oligarch money...
Stop trying to solve traffic and start building great places
Great points, thanks for posting. I'll try to incorporate this nuance in future posts.
Smartphone Addiction Associated with Impaired Decision-Making
I wonder if people who use a popular photo sharing site like Google Photos would be in favor of there photos with location meta data being used for a project like this.

I think I would if I could trust that it was only being used for something like this & not commercial advertising type projects.
That’s why I suggested a shallow copy
What is the point of a mechanical watch when there are far superior methods for timekeeping?
Wireguard there is one clear advantage for me: speed. I got a clear and immediate speed bost, because wireguard is significantly less cpu-intensive, and I was running on an $5/mo VPS. For openvpn, it had good support cross-platform and was reasonably easy to set up. Also, I am fairly sure that at least some of the options you listed are deprecated for security reasons.