skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My kid is a bit of a behavior problem.

The worst thing about some of this is these days so many of us are stuck leaving our kids with day care/school so much of the time, and plenty of these "professionals", don't get this stuff.

Day care here ran about $2k/month and the education level of the teachers was just not up to par for that amount of money. I always wondered where the money was going, they all had college degrees but got paid 1/2 or less what public teachers do in this area. There was a ton of bragging from management at the day care about how great the academic start was (this chain even brags about higher SAT scores!) and I think it was mostly hogwash. I was always thinking someone was making a lot of money on the day cares as it was not hard to figure out their approximate gross revenue/month. So often the day care was making things worse... take one step forward at home and 2 steps back at day care.

Thankfully my child is in public school now, we have a great school system, and the teachers are a million times better at dealing with this stuff in productive ways.
Yes, if all you wanted was a simple chart I wouldn't take the time to learn D3 unless I was motivated to learn it for other reasons. There are simpler solutions for simple charts.

I have used D3 for complicated visualizations, for example an orthographic view of stacked floor plans, you click on a floor and it slides out, zooms and re-orients itself and displays the time- and location-based data in different colored areas around the floor.

Complicated things like that is where D3 shines I think.
A lot of what you've described is covered in detail in the book:
"Peaceful Parent, Happy Kids: How to Stop Yelling and Start Connecting"

I have not used YouTube yet for parenting but I would imagine it's a great resource. That book is kinda lengthy but I think YouTube, podcast is easy to consume for busy parents. I haven't finished that book yet and I got it a few months ago grin.
So true. It's also interesting to me that many companies have switched from "Unlimited" PTO to "Flexible" PTO...

I had a co-worker recently who started counting up the time they'd taken off in the last year, realized it was much less than the industry average, and took off for Australia. Seemed like a very reasonable response to me.
If you are angry for hours maybe try going to exercise or meditate(fixing this issue is actually one of the goals of meditation) or something, but that is above my pay grade.

With my kid, he sometimes does not cool down during a tantrum until he goes in his room for timeout for a few minutes, and he is always measurably calmer after timeout. The recommended timeout time is 1 minute per year of age - it's not like they're abandoned for hours.
Looks like every "four eye approval" process I know. In the end just everything is confirmed out of pressure to have a clean queue. And let's be honest, just by looking at individual requests a person can never have the necessary context. Needless to mention that four eye approval of that kind isn't even a legal requirement under SOX.
I honestly don't know. I vaguely remember a schematic I saw some 10-15 years ago or so. It may very well not work at all, it was a concept.
> which were almost entirely cross platform...

Cross-platform Metal and SpriteKit? Wouldn't it be better to code against Vulkan (== MoltenVK) or OpenGL if being cross platform is the goal?

Or do you mean "cross platform" as for example Microsoft has often done. Within their platforms.

Current difficulty of developing native cross platform projects is depressing. You have to use domain specific tools like Unity, React Native, etc. Or just target the web browsers.
Yeah, I was using the scare quotes to indicate I was using the term loosely, and colloquially.
people from eastern europe were waiting for the americans to come and save them since 1947.

unfortunately the west was pretty much destroyed after ww2. but even in 1989 there was still hope that the soviet nightmare would finally end. and it did, thankfully.

unfortunately we’ve been left with the russian mafia state to deal further blows to the region.
> All of that after I explicitly asked for any and all paperwork that would require my signature up front before becoming an employee. (This was, of course, not included in what I was given prior to starting.)

I'd be interested in what would happen if you pushed hard on this point. Giving people surprise contracts after they have quit their previous job, moved their family and acquired a new house should not be acceptable.
Elon Musk Says Tesla Is Working on a James Bond-Style Submarine Car
Same here. Was a heavy user of Instagram until 2017, when I'd finally had enough of the endless product placement, brain-dead memes and half-nudity everywhere.

There was a time when social media was about regular people, but the second they became "sponsored", the content switched to mostly native advertising.

Never used Twitter, as it was obvious from day 1 that it was designed to be broadcast channel for brands and people desperately trying to be their own brand.
No taxation without representation.
Do you know if this talk is on YouTube?
It would be more useful to have another arm or two.
I don’t know about that. One requirement of a contract is a “meeting of the minds,” i.e. both sides are in agreement. An X indicates that, but “unverifiable” would seem not to.
I'm not skeptical of supernanny, I'm skeptical that simply changing the name from "timeout" to "naughty step" was the primary cause of any observed effect (rather that the whole slew of other, more meaningful, changes that were introduced at the same time)
Oh. Why?
Only 241 US coal plants remain, down from 530 in 2010
Frankly, Me and most of America think the FDA approves things according to the highest bidder. This is one of the biggest contributing factors to the anti vax movement. |

The trust in our govt and all govt agencies is simply gone.
third note: don't whine about being downvoted.
Where does he stop?
The withdrawals are unpleasant but certainly manageable. A good week and you're effectively detoxxed, two and your brain is reset. Moreover, as long as you refrain from adding sugar/sweetener to your coffee it's closer to a benign habit than an addiction, as black coffee has little to no downsides if your heart is ok.

This is coming from a pot/day drinker who's 'quit' multiple times. In the end it's not worth it, because coffee also comes with the pleasant social contract with other coffee drinkers as well as a appetite suppressing effect.
Great points. A lot of professional parenting advice givers are also just pseudo-science.. no different than fitness or nutrition people.

The recommendations are constantly changing... so clearly none if it is perfect.
That makes sense! Thanks!
“There was nothing in the Soviet system that prevented it from trading with the west from an ideological standpoint either.”

this is so false it’s crazy.
Thanks for sharing these links! My point was that I didn't know how to do this, not knowing these frameworks existed and unable to find them on my own search. You solved that issue for me. If these frameworks get more attention, maybe it'll be solved for more people!
Themes from the Velocity Conference 2019
> It arrives at 9:53

If you can count on that arrival time (within minutes), you can just time it so it coincides with you getting out the door. No need to worry about forgetting the pot on the stove, or noisy grinders, etc. It's more likely you'll make a mistake in the morning especially if you're not a morning person and you're still half asleep and in a hurry.

There's something for everyone.
> Do you disagree that adding two numbers is a constant time operation?

It is constant time by crypto programming definition in both theory and practice, and O(1) only in theory (bigints are a pain).

I did not try to claim that O(1) is nonsensical. Rather, that certain O(1) variable-input algorithms are in fact simply fixed input algorithms due to not considering its input.

I also find these "non-sensical" O(1) algorithms to be outliers.
This is wonderful work, and done in a respectful way that doesn't get in the way of the original site while adding quite a lot of really useful stuff. Great job with this. Now if only we could get HN to merge this into core...
That doesn't sound simple at all. How do you incentivize companies to do this? And what does it mean to "make it easier for maintainers to start companies"?
Which part of this idea is impracticable?
It remains to be seen whether the charges under the Espionage Act stick. They may not and I don't think they should. But it seems a bit breathless to declare these charges a "threat to journalism". Assange participated in the leaking of classified documents, which is different than simply publishing.

There's a sharp divide in how people view Assange. Some buy into his hipster-tech-Jesus persona. These people think the rape (read: surreptitious condom removal) allegations were materialized by the US government, somehow overlooking the fact that nearly everyone who has interacted with Assange has a negative opinion of him personally (see - https://www.lrb.co.uk/v36/n05/andrew-ohagan/ghosting).

I see Assange as a tragic figure. Publishing the "Collateral Murder" video was good. But Assange's worldview is basically incoherent. "All information should be open" is a naive position and there's a > 0 chance that Assange was used by Russia. When you publish everything, you're obviously putting yourself in a position in which you can be used. Further, states are allowed to have secrets for the same reason people are allowed to have secrets. It isn't possible for governments to conduct foreign policy with everything in the open. Basically, Assange did not "publish responsibly" and I believe his motivation was mostly personal fame. I'd contrast Assange with Daniel Ellsberg rather than comparing them as this article does.

That said, I think the US government would have been better off not pursuing him at all. Now that they have him, I hope he just gets a slap on the wrist.
Disagreeing with a fact doesn’t make a lot of sense. Maybe you meant to say “I didn’t know this was standard terminology” or “I think it’s a confusing choice of word anyway”.
"This isn't accurate. Actually, in most cases saving and updating local state is as easy as just running a query/mutation - everything happens for you seamlessly. Apollo Client's local state capabilities have changed quite a bit as of version 2.5, so give a newer version a try (and see the updated docs) to see if that helps."

You are glossing over the fact that there is a 3rd part, writing a reducer! This part is the most cumbersome in my opinion.

Lets say you wanted to keep a counter and increment it in your app. With Redux, you add it to your state, write an "increaseCounter" action, and then write a reducer. This reducer is just a plain function without any dependencies. A unit test for this reducer would just test that the count was updated.

However, with local state management with Apollo, you would either need to
1. write an incrementCounter mutation and an incrementCounter reducer. Inside that reducer, you would have to fetch the current count from the cache, update that count, and then write the results from the cache.
2. Just use `cache.writeQuery` or `cache.writeData`, but in either case, you need to fetch the current state of the cache, modify it, and then write the object back.

The problem with this is that any time you want to modify state, you need to always fetch the current state, and then write the state back. This is bad because

1. its super repetitive
2. it tightly binds the code of "how the state changes" to "how the state is queried and saved"

Overall, this whole approach of having to write a mutation and a reducer for every state change is annoying and verbose. Redux is just overall a better, more convenient pattern to incrementally update a piece of state.

We actually thought about adding a Redux layer on top of Apollo, so that we would just have a single "Redux" mutation that fetches the current state, passes it to a reducer, and then saves the transformed state in the cache to avoid all this fetching and saving, but then were afraid of potential performance issues of homerolling our own Redux, and went with actual Redux instead.
“It’s just standard whatever” is really fun when you want a change and you have all the leverage. It’s hilarious to watch the tune change when you say you just won’t sign in that case. Alas, I’ve only been in this position once.
My preference is to annotate exceptions to what I am signing in legible block print, and then initial and date at the end of each annotation.

When I sign, I include my full name and the date in block print as well as "with exceptions."

Bureaucrat/legal types usually understand that asking me to sign a fresh copy without those annotations is explicitly asking me to lie.
This Dear Bureaucrat letter seems interesting as well. In response to the query, "How do I deal with this inadequate computer system?", the response is to use Shadow IT. I have strong feelings against Shadow IT, but I have equally strong feelings about government IT systems being garbage. I'm torn.

https://www.federaltimes.com/opinions/2019/04/18/dear-bureau...
The “SQL Is Just as Easy as an ORM” Challenge
> This is standard terminology within programming and cryptography. This is the only practical definition to use, as cryptography commonly deals with arbitrarily sized inputs, which can of course not all run in O(1).

How about 'consistent time' or 'uniform time' for non-O(1) uses?
English NHS API Developer Portal
First hand living experience in a communist, and then authoritarian post-communist, country.

And before you say not all communist are alike and you can't generalize… yeah no, they are quite alike and you can generalize. Anyone who lived in any of them knows exactly what guanxi and other social concepts mean, the cultures are remarkably cookie-cutter.
> Many of the linked tweets don't resolve

Two of the three linked tweets don't resolve because the accounts appear to have removed older tweets. Having followed the two accounts for a while (Mark Curtis and Matt Kennard), I'm pretty sure this has nothing to do with a change of heart about the Guardian (a look at their recent tweets will confirm this).

Mark Curtis's tweet is captured by the Wayback Machine:

https://web.archive.org/web/20190411174950/https://twitter.c...

Matt Kennard's new Twitter account has plenty of interesting findings on the Guardian's deputy editor:

https://twitter.com/dckennard

> the rest of the web site appears to be purely a Greenwald support group in his seeming vendetta against his former employer.

Our suggested reading page - https://theguardian.fivefilters.org/assange/better-media.htm... - contains only one link to a Greenwald article, but considering Greenwald led the reporting at the Guardian on the NSA revelations which won the Guardian a Pulitzer, I think his comments on this matter shouldn't be so easily dismissed.

> I should add, if corporate-sponsored journalism outlets is a problem for your group, then I suggest you also drop The Intercept: "Financial backing for The Intercept was provided by Pierre Omidyar, the eBay founder."

Personally not a fan of The Intercept. I like Glenn Greenwald's work though.
Secrets need to be justified. Otherwise you cannot hold your allegedly democratic government accountable.

War crimes are no valid secrets and there was no legitimate channel. You would be ethically required to act and leak the information.
To me, the most surprising factoid in this article is that Estonia offers 86 weeks of maternity leave! That's so much! And with such a low cost of living... goodbye, Bay Area.
I would add, say “yes” as much as possible. Work out things that are an automatic yes at any time. This gives them control.

I’m not saying let them do whatever they want. I’m saying have activities, healthy snacks, whatever in place that are acceptable to you and your child and that you can say yes to when they want them.
I personally think Glenn Greenwald is piece of shit but that is beside the point. It doesnt matter what I think about whether or not the information in question should be exposed. As a person that has held a security clearance I can tell you this, it isnt for me to decide - That decision was way above my pay grade. I personally believe both Snowden and Manning should be imprisoned for a better part of the rest of their lives, but thats just me. They arent heroes, no matter how much you try to make that so. Its pretty egotistical of someone to believe they can see the bigger picture and know what the outcome of exposing that data will be. Data is classified for a reason and that decision wasn't made by you or I. It'd be even more maniacal of someone to decide the fate of others by exposing it which is what Assange, Snowden, Manning, and others have decided of their own volition to do.
In my experience it leads to less vacation for most workers. But some people take advantage of it without raising suspicion.

The average worker has no baseline for what amount is appropriate. They think they are always too busy. Their boss thinks they are too busy.

But some people get more by being untransparent. If I’m going on a fishing trip, I don’t tell anyone. If something comes up, “I’m out of the office, I can meet when I get back or do a call.” Nobody knows if I’m traveling for work or vacation.
Just installed. Thanks, this is an excellent addition. Good job!
I don't think that's the case. Another link: https://www.popsci.com/ai-pilot-beats-air-combat-expert-in-d...
Correct, within the Apple ecosystem — Mac, iOS.
There is an Awesome List[1] of open source healthcare projects. Also a quite nice blog[2] about various FOSS initiatives. Some of the important medical projects were accepted[3] in the Google Summer of Code this year.

[1] https://github.com/kakoni/awesome-healthcare

[2] https://medevel.com/

[3] https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/organizations/
My partner grew up in Poland and Ukraine and lived there through the collapse of the USSR and I've spent plenty of time in both countries. Believe, me I know how much they fucked up.

That doesn't change the fact the US engaged in market distortion and economic coercion on ideological grounds.

If that fact makes you uncomfortable, I suggest you inform your representatives, because they are still doing it to weaker nations that don't dance to the American tune today.

It might surprise you to hear as well that there are quite a few things people in Eastern Europe miss from the Soviet days. The heavy focus on community, childcare, free healthcare and and quality education in the trades and higher professions for example.

My partner and her family hate how individualistic and self-serving people can be in the west. There's basically no solidarity that compares to what they had in that system. That doesn't mean they want to go back to it, it just means there are lessons that we can learn from that system to improve our own.

Make no mistake, the USSR did some things right. It's mistakes do not erase them. Don't hold them to a standard you are not willing to hold your own country to, because the failings of capitalism and the lives lost due to those failings each year are legion.

To think otherwise is nothing short of ideological fundamentalism.

Posting something more substantial than "they deserved it" would be appreciated.

Otherwise don't bother.
This. Having been through the FDA process myself (though we didn't make it to NDA, sob) I have to say that dealing with the Agency was great. Tedious, but great, and nothing seemed stupid except some trivialities at the margin (e.g. certain formatting issues).

Honestly the worst parts of dealing with them are direct consequences of people trying to game the system. We went out of our way to make sure nothing we did could give that impression and got excellent guidance and response.
I forgot the link to the PSO document. Here it is, it's just four pages and it's pretty good: https://www.professionalstandards.org.uk/docs/default-source...
I think he means to say that companies who are benefiting from someone's work must pay them.
Without some kind of efficacy standard, you could sell water as a cancer cure. That would be very bad for health outcomes.

However, I do agree that it's a difficult topic, in general. Off-label drug uses is one example.
That really isn’t the truth though. What should be done?
You're breaking the site guidelines.
Highest bidder of what?
These things happen because the executives originally charged with implementation of some external compliance requirement know that they have the power to implement changes, but don’t have the ground-level information required to feed those changes. So these requirements get delegated down the org-chart, to people with ground-level information but without power; under the presumption that a response will flow back up the org-chart from said people, telling the higher-up what is needed-but-unavailable on the ground to actually implement the requirement.

In other words, the higher-up is trying to receive an error condition by installing an exception handler in their part of the system, and then expecting the ground-level routine to realize there’s a problem and throw an exception, and for that exception to make its way back to them.

But, unlike in software, where you usually feed everything as source through a single compiler at some point, and so you can force every component of the system to support exception-handling the same way; in organizational “systems”, the parts in the middle usually have no idea what to do with “exceptional” reports that cross their desks. They haven’t been informed that it’s part of their job to keep raising these reports up a level until someone sees them who can handle them. And because they haven’t been told that, they try to “handle” the exception themselves, in order to present a clean interface to their own boss—usually by just tossing the exception-report out, and chewing out their subordinate for giving it to them.

If you’re a CEO, and you think you might ever need to use “exception handling” as a way to collect ground-level information, you’ve gotta ensure every layer of your management understands this in advance—understands that they won’t be blamed for a “fault” happening below them, and in fact that this fault was expected, even encouraged by people above them; and that those higher-ups need to know when ground-level faults happen.

Sadly, even for organizations that that implement this policy perfectly... it only ends up “counting” for the types of exception-reports they were looking for at the time that they set up the policy. So, for example, retail companies know to reraise security reports; companies that employ tradespeople know to reraise health-and-safety reports; etc. But these same companies, when it comes to other types of exception-reports, are no better than anyone else. They learned a specific lesson, but not the general one.
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> Me and most of America think the FDA approves things according to the highest bidder.

Why do you think this?
agreed, the list is huge and so many of them seem like minor fixes -- for example the white flash that appears when opening a new tab in dark mode can be fixed with userChrome.css. its been an issue for a year. i don't know if mozilla is just broke or what, but it sure feels like their projects are hanging together by a thread. i still use it because i want them to succeed. i would be happy to work on it personally if mozilla would have me lol (instead ive made lots of extensions).