skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Exactly. Skimming through a book is not reading a book. Reading a book is not studying what's in a book. That's what I'd assume it's common knowledge about books.

That and the usual study techniques: you read the material once, read it again and underline the key material, maybe you write down a summary with that and/or a scheme, you memorise that a few times —possibly reading it aloud— and then you write it down in your own words.
We clearly know a lot. Not everything but you're lumping things way too black and white.
Single parenthood is a thankless task. Is there evidence that single fathers fare any better?
The title should be corrected to "SPARK", not "Spark". It's used all caps each time it's mentioned on the page. That's also how I've seen this tool referred to elsewhere in the programming language literature: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPARK_(programming_language)
What I gained, lost and learned while working for Microsoft
That reminds me of an article about how by staying private longer, startups and investors were trying to capture most (if not all) of the upside from the company's growth.

I had not taken in to the logical conclusion that by going public, they would essentially be poisoning the well for everyone coming after them. Thanks!
This is good food for thought, thanks for the discussion.
I remember that. Fluid dynamics is a very tricky thing to model and the work they did was really cool. There's a good video presentation on it here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYA0f6R5KAI
Impossibility of With clause inlining is indeed one of the major limitation of Postgres, compared to Oracle. We we still have to wait for optimizer hints
But much cheaper per device. I guess it depends how much data you are expecting to transfer.
> especially if you know English, people will just switch to it on the first hint of a struggle, making immersion hard to attain.

Maybe in Europe. I had someone switch to English on me and shortly afterward ask permission to switch back, having gotten tired out. It's more common not to switch at all.

The worst case was a guy working for an apartment rental company who got fed up with texting and just called me. I can text. I can't speak.
I disagree with the central conceit of this piece.

>as a medium, books are surprisingly bad at conveying knowledge, and readers mostly don’t realize it.

I posit it is not that books are bad at conveying knowledge, it is that people are bad at absorbing abstract knowledge they don't put to concrete use, and that people often read non-fiction books which have no practical application in their lives. A teenager in Africa can read a book on electronics and build a generator. He learned, because he employed what he read. A man can read a book a book about building a cabin and build a cabin.

Effete upper-middle-class desk-jockeys will happily read a treatise on particle physics or ethnography but are helpless to recall it a month later because the knowledge had no real impact on their lives and thus the brain cleaned house and threw it out.
I heard a Russian diplomat speak Swedish once. It was both flattering and a little scary. Pitch perfect.
That and some excellent mountain bike trails.
Here’s a really good episode by the package manager-focused podcast The Manifest, about Maven with Brian Fox. https://manifest.fm/6
>We have evidence that we are seeing a rise in temperatures

For the majority of the earths history, the poles have had no ice on them. Their current existence is a holdover from our last ice-age.

Wouldn't it be rational to conclude that earth's temperatures are meandering back to its natural state?
Tiny-Curl
I guess that the air resistance against the air barrier would be even higher: if the air is moving at the speed of the train, you have the same friction per surface unit than you would have with static air against the moving train, only your area is now much bigger.

You do save the energy needed to part the air aside as the train moves forward, since the air barrier would have a constant cross-section. I don’t know how that compares to the increase in friction due to greater surface.

Finally, other aspect I just realized: when you try to stop the train, you have a rush of air pushing you at several hundred Km/h, and that would be an enormous mass. You could enter a side branch which would then close behind the train and have a smaller mass of air to slow down.

I’m not an engineer and have no experience on the subject, but my hunch is that it could easily end up being even more difficult.
Wonderful to see you here! Thank YOU for Bulma, struggled to find something more lightweight and simple to use. It's simply the best :)
Looks like Keybase Teams is exactly for that:

https://keybase.io/blog/introducing-keybase-teams
The question is, is that their call to make? Does Goldman Sachs share the same opinion?
> They have an accent as well. I guess that's because at some point people stop being corrected on the exact sound they are making.

> Likewise with other language learning issues. When you're an adult, nobody corrects your grammar once it's good enough to be understood.

While it is true that nobody corrects adults, nobody corrects children either. Children just put in a lot more practice than most adults.
It's not Instagram's problem, nor should it be made to be.

Apple could certainly do more to facilitate MDM, but a phone known for letting your parents track your GPS and MITM your communications would not prove popular with the kids.

In the end the parents are the ones provisioning the device, paying the phone bill and are ultimately responsible for both it and its user...yet they have no administrative privileges over anything of relevance.

By all logic children should never be given access to fully-encrypted black boxes.
Great thanks for proving my point. Let’s replace technologist by medical professionals and you can see immediately that parents consent is required for most medical procedures barring edge cases where doctors get a court order. Oh also COPPA exists for this very deluded thinking that “technologist” like you have.
Maybe compared to silence, but often not net if it's displacing other stimulus.

I'm not entirely sure it's even always true compared to silence. Sometimes I feel like other bits of my own brain can be competing for attention and that occupying them can be a win.
I’m Brazilian but I’ve had people think I’m American since I’ve lost most of my accent. It’s funny though that when I’m tired my accent shows up.

I do the immersion thing without even calling it so. My view is that if I’m living in another country, I should integrate and learn the culture. I stopped associating with Brazilians who were only interested in staying within a Brazilian bubble doing Brazilian things. Might as well just go back to Brazil if that’s what you want to do.
I bet air rushing through 100 mile tunnel has _much_ more resistance than half a mile long train rushing through air at same speed. There is much more interface between a wall and moving air at the former case.
You can always tell when someone powerful is losing the argument, because they resort to censorship.
I get that Google is very powerful and it lives off of our data and I get how this may be construed as an attack on our privacy but the amount of misinformation and conspiracy theories I am seeing on this thread is appalling. First, Google is just implementing an electronic ID standard that will work as a replacement for traditional paper ID cards. They are also working on a mechanism to display the ID card even when the phone doesn't have enough power to boot.

I don't get the concerns about it being mandatory because you can't expect everyone to have the same set of IDs and besides it's just a convenience feature like storing our membership cards or our emergency contact information in a wallet.

There is justifiable concern over the privacy aspect as we don't know if the IDs are stored locally on the device or if it's synced to the cloud. It will be troubling if it's the latter but criticising Google about this even before the feature has been finalized and released seems perplexing to me.
I don't want to! But we can't have people posting like that here, so please don't. And unfortunately you have a history of posting in an aggressive style. I realize this is likely more cultural than intentional, but in a cross-cultural environment like HN is, that unfortunately doesn't help. The effects are just the same, and that is what we have to go by.

If you'd take a look at the site guidelines and recalibrate, we'd be grateful.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Good? I don't think they mean "re-examine" in the same way you mean "re-examine".
If a company's expecting to be fined 5 billion dollars, it's pretty certain that it did something bad.

And I don't think that one would have to uproot their lives, just quit and find another job. I hear there's a very strong market for FAANG engineers...
The Obama Appointee the Trump Administration Loves
Kind of reminds me of the time someone got sued because they made building codes public.

I find any sort of restriction of access to _standards_ problematic.
Jesus. All of the classic hallmarks of a shitpost. 1) Pick an ancient piece of human wisdom to shit on. 2) Make up some phony criticism. 3) Don't actually offer any solutions to your phony problem.

I'll spare you the trouble of reading further, either in this article or in my subsequent diatribe. The insight offered here is: "People don't absorb information perfectly, it requires effort and work to learn from reading."

>So let’s reframe the question. Rather than “how might we make books actually work reliably,” we can ask: How might we design mediums which do the job of a non-fiction book—but which actually work reliably?

Hey, how about framing this as "Communication and writing is hard", or "Language is full of ambiguity, human knowledge is always incomplete, human memory is limited, metaphysics fails to accurately model reality, period, so the whole project is fucked," or "people in general lack viable epistemologies", etc.?

Hey, how about writing this article cogently first, before you go shitting on all of literature?

On the other hand, this is a great study in Silicon Valley bullshit. This guy is going to "disrupt" the way we read, by somehow inventing a new way to write that no one has ever tried before. Good luck with that.
I have suffered from severe treatment-resistant depression since childhood, but that's completely irrelevant - anecdotal experiences are no substitute for good data. The best available data suggests that social media has a mix of positive and negative effects on self-harm and suicidal behaviour, with no clear net effect. Ill-conceived policy with a poor evidence base may stifle healthy conversation and connection, while doing little or nothing to reduce harms.

https://dx.doi.org/10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0077555

If you sincerely believe that your daughter's phone is trying to kill her, then take away her damned phone.
New street safety plan for students offers lessons for all cities
The interesting thing about OT is that almost every non-trivial editor uses that as its model, because it makes undo/redo very simple.
I went into this article thinking I would hate it, but as I read it over, each point that came up in my mind ("obviously there's a difference between passive and active learning," "spaced repetition would make a big difference," etc.) was addressed soon after (a sign of a well-organized article).

OTOH, I think the criticisms in the comments here, are strange (even ignoring comments whose criticisms are dismissed by actually reading the article). So much of the evolution of UI design is moving from 'the user can do all these things,' to 'it is easy for the user to do these things' and 'the user interfaces with the product in the way that we want.' When a reader picks up a book without a vested interest in understanding its contents, they will read it once, cover to cover, rather quickly, without taking many notes, and will then proceed to forget most of what they read (not only the details, but even the concepts). Perhaps it'd be a good idea for authors of popular non-fiction books (i.e., will be read by many such people) to 'trick' readers into learning by augmenting the text with proven learning techniques, which work when the book is picked up and read with the above technique.
Since some of the other coins post-date Columbus (by several hundred years), the stash pretty much has to have been brought there after Columbus landed.
SNES games do have an intrinsic header that describes the cartridge content. What’s missing has to be guessed through heuristics. bsnes has a file format for describing this stuff in detail, but it’s so far not been very popular because users like things to be self-contained.

That brings up another interesting point. foone says the ROM data dumped would be identical, but that’s disingenuous. The DSP firmware is part of the cartridge, too, and it is clearly different. byuu has proposed catenating the DSP image to the base ROM for this reason. Of course, the Pilotwings case was unique, being the only game to ship with two different DSP firmwares.
Addendum
6. When you make architectural decisions (creating some function in code instead of sql for example) go ahead and explain your reasoning to the client in some form or fashion. Volunteer this casually at a meeting. It creates a good bond between the two of you, and the client will probably reciprocate by telling you about some more "businessy" trade off or decision they've made. It also allows the two of you to communicate better in the future, and you will both know each other's implicit priorities better. Do this sparingly, but definitely do it. At worst the client will be bored, but at best it's a good force multiplier.
Much-needed Outline.com link: https://outline.com/AqBm6M

Outline seems to have doubled-up some of the images, unfortunately.
TL;DR: "Books don't work because I have a learning disability."
I think CRDTs would make much more sense in a projectional editor than a text one. When the changes are mutations to the abstract syntax tree its more well defined how a merge would end. Also, the merge results don't have the opportunity to be invalid syntax.
I have always been wondering why doesn't everybody do this and insist on using Google Analytics and other 3rd-party trackers instead.
like ponzi scheme? Cause I feel that's all it really is at this point lol
Fn option is Not nearly as good. Keys aren't lined up correctly and you cant tell where you are by feel.
> That means consistent latency

Does it? Based on my admittedly limited knowledge of refcounting, either freeing an object can take an non-predictable amount of time (decrementing the reference counters of all the objects pointed to by a freed object), or allocating new memory can take a non-predictable amount of time (by lazily deferring the above mentioned decrements until that memory is needed upon allocation).
Which means Gitlab would likely cease to exist as a standalone product but rather be integrated into GCP or the like (similar to Gemnasium and Gitorious after Gitlab acquired them)
From what I can tell 5 out of 7 board seats are owned by VCs and it's very unlikely the founders retain majority shares given their 5 rounds of funding. So I doubt it's their call to make in any way.
Yeah, seconded, i thought this was about running large-int arithmetic on apache spark.
We have tried them both in production and regarding pause times both reduces them a lot in our case. At the end our use case was better served from ZGC: lower pause times and smaller latency.

We have throughput intensive loads where pause times do not matter and so we do not use ZGC or Shenandoah, it seems that in these cases even ParallelGC is better than G1 but that is another story.

I've tried to summarize this experience in this post (incl. GraalVM and different JDK versions)

https://discuss.graphhopper.com/t/3011
You might also be interested in Sophie Wilson's "Generation renaming" scheme. Unfortunately AFAIK the only open description of it is in the patents, which of course are written in patentese:

https://patentimages.storage.googleapis.com/e2/c4/39/301ea43...
https://patentimages.storage.googleapis.com/fd/de/de/7fdbc30...
Upton Sinclair, circa 1900:

>It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.

True 100 years ago, true today.

https://quoteinvestigator.com/2017/11/30/salary/
And even after value types arrive it will be years before library ecosystem leverage that. Typical Java projects use dozens of 3rd party libraries and they are not going to see much effect in next 5 years.
>This is the company of analytics - whatever approach is being taken is probably backed by a gargantuan amount of data.

Take a look outside your window. Have you understood quantum physics yet? No? I guess all of the available data doesn't help you, because it still requires effort and careful observation to glean insights from it.

The same goes for Google. Data by itself does not guarantee anything. You can look at a piece of data and not reach any conclusion, or reach the wrong conclusion. More data does not mean more insight.

In my field (biology) we are suddenly drowning in data - we are producing new datasets much faster than we can analyze them. Our understanding is not increasing at a commensurate pace because we lack the ability to turn these data into useful knowledge.
The Daily Mail is rubbish.
So ".net Standard" is going to mean two different (incompatible) things in the future?
Seems simple. No credit, until you do.
That's not true. Studies show that many pupils are better able to absorb information while doodling or by other repetitive actions. Many many famous authors have used long walks as a way to help themselves write.
The US government says it takes 1100 hours (44 weeks) to learn Polish:

https://www.state.gov/m/fsi/sls/c78549.htm

What methods did you use to shave off ~40 weeks that are required for normal people to learn the language ?
I have started to ponder a hypothesis that this thing applies to almost any learning. People claim that it is easier for kids to learn, but for most of the things kids learn, they use much more time than any middle aged could in practice. Like, "ooh, look, my nephew learned backflip on a trampoline so quickly and easily, I would never learn that". Yep, he just spent hours a day on the thing for the last couple of months. You do the same and I bet backflip is not that hard.
If a bunch of developers got together to create a site and surrounding campaign it sure would be great.

I'd be happy to help support it (through Patreon or something?). I'd even donate some labour if it were needed.
> I witnessed a few people from Poland end up with almost no Polish accent, even though they came to the USA in middle age.

I presume you mean they spoke no English before they moved to the USA. I recently read Steven Pinker's book The Language Instinct, which left me with the impression that what you describe is impossible, and that adults are never able to learn a language to 'native' proficiency. This article seems to refute that.
But not necessarily in one place, we don't know how Oracle stores encryption keys in RAM. So even if you magically have the whole RAM dump after the reboot, it wouldn't be a trivial task to find the key.
I am from Norway and we love you, Polish people. <3
PLOS One has very little reviewing standards and accepts almost all papers.

Given how strongly linked smartphones are to all aspects of life. You are vastly underestimating difficulty of taking aways someone’s smartphone. Since worst case you can ask Cops and Telecom provider for location.
It’s not the phone but the companies that gather user data which is then used to psychologically influence people.
> - $350,000/month to improve railroad crossings

Unless I missed something, this number is incorrect according to https://www.icc.illinois.gov/railroad/

> Each month $3.5 million in state motor fuel tax receipts is transferred from the Motor Fuel Tax (MFT) fund to the Grade Crossing Protection Fund. This amount provides the GCPF with $39 million annually to be used for safety improvements at highway/rail crossings on local roads and streets.

Off topic, but this seemed like an enormous amount of money to me. And that doesn't seem to include crossings on state highways which come out of a different fund.

So the state of Illinois is spending at least $117,000 per day on railroad crossings. According to the same page, Illinois has 7,600 railroad crossings so that's at least $15 per day for every railroad crossing in the state.

Edit: I just reviewed your source and it is also cited at 3.5 million.
> Let’s replace technologist by medical professionals and you can see immediately that parents consent is required for most medical procedures barring edge cases where doctors get a court order.

Many states allow minors to receive mental health treatment without the consent of their parents and allow those minors to retain confidentiality.

https://dx.doi.org/10.1080%2F1067828X.2013.777380
It's one of the reasons the US system seems to be working best in these times; the constitution making laws difficult to change works perfectly to stop moral outrages and controversies and make people reconsider whether that 'something' is the best solution.
> Reading “thinking fast thinking slow” should not take 8-9 hours... it could easily take 50 (after all, it represents many years and thousands of hours of work by the preeminent thinker on the subject).

but would it really? a good way to know is by letting the author teach you the book. do you think it will take 50 hours? think of university courses in which the teacher is teaching their own book. they will not go through every line and details although they must have found the details important enough to be put in the book; yet you will learn key ideas that will help you grasp the subject.Even if you learn the details in depth ,when they are not useful for you, you will eventually forget them.

As for divine comedy, It is a work of art that can be interpreted in many ways , it inspires many people in different ways that even the author would not have imagined.

so if you spend 50 hours reading a non-fiction do you enjoy all of those hours? do you remember all the details you went through? if you are only going to remember some of the key ideas then why bother spending 50 hours on it?
In the US, specifically Georgia, the justice system is almost strictly punative with little to no provision for rehabilitation. Should you get stuck in it, it is designed to punish you to the maximum normal sentence, not to help you in any way. As far as I can tell, it's not designed as a rehabilitation for the imprisioned. Probation and parole similarly act with punative means only. In practice, the probation officers are not your friends and they are not there to help you.
I agree with you, it's not a great article.

I submitted it because it's currently the best available piece advancing this position. Regulation will come, and if people don't want that regulation they'll need to develop much better arguments than this.
Raising a toddler has demonstrated to me how much bullshit the idea of "kids are language sponges" is. My kid is like an ESL speaker: he doesn't understand grammar, he often will swallow sentences when he lacks the vocabulary to complete them, and he regularly mixes up word order and so on. He's been learning full-time in an immersion environment for several years. I'm pretty sure an adult that received this kind of immersive education would have been a much better English speaker by now.
I can really appreciate your point "When you're an adult, nobody corrects your grammar once it's good enough to be understood." It's true. I speak near-fluent Russian as a second language, but it's hard for me to get better because people are too polite to correct my mistakes. If my idea clear, people don't want to appear impolite.

I can't be too critical: I do the same thing when people speak broken English to me. If the idea they want to express is clear, it seems improper to correct them.