skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, I think we actually would because I don’t see much evidence that the number of talented kids who were pushed into it because of their obvious talents is greater than the number of kids who were talented but lacked the opportunities or support to actually do it.

My baby brother was a very good soccer player and was able to go to a selective high school in Sweden which uses very competitive try outs. Some of his classmates played in the highest league in Sweden and made more money than their own parents. My brother was a hopeful for the top league, until he broke his knee. He recovered and invested months of training to get back into shape, better shape than he ever was, to make the top teams see beyond his past injury and be so good they can’t ignore him. Then he broke the other knee and was damaged goods. The third highest league was as far as he could get and soccer stayed a hobby until he had to work and study at the same time at 20.

On the other hand, my brother had classmates who really wanted to postpone college and go all in playing on the elite level, and their parents refused. These parents were often highly educated themselves and just couldn’t see how such a high risk career as athletics could be a sound investment of one’s time.

I think if youths got to make their own career choices we would still have the same caliber of artists, athletes and what not because even the children who were pushed into it had to find some meaning behind what they did. Training for five hours straight is one thing, actually being receptive to what you need to learn while training for five hours is hard for anyone who doesn’t really care.
Here, at least 40% of programminging is done in C style syntax. The rest isn't in any consistent majority style. Most programmers are probably most familiar with C style and almost all are familiar in some form.

https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/
First time finishing, anyway. And yes, that's my music.
What about energy? (watt-hours?)
He was to late - someone Like Mat Cuts could have
We do have data on this. In the modern educated industrialised environment intelligence reduces fertility.

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/twin-research-and-hu...

> How Intelligence Affects Fertility 30 Years On: Retherford and Sewell Revisited — With Polygenic Scores and Numbers of Grandchildren

> Using newly available polygenic scores for educational attainment and cognitive ability, this paper investigates the possible presence and causes of a negative association between IQ and fertility in the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study sample, an issue that Retherford and Sewell first addressed 30 years ago. The effect of the polygenic score on the sample’s reproductive characteristics was indirect: a latent cognitive ability measure, comprised of both educational attainment and IQ, wholly mediated the relationship. Age at first birth mediated the negative effect of cognitive ability on sample fertility, which had a direct (positive) effect on the number of grandchildren. Significantly greater impacts of cognitive ability on the sample’s fertility characteristics were found among the female subsample. This indicates that, in this sample, having a genetic disposition toward higher cognitive ability does not directly reduce number of offspring; instead, higher cognitive ability is a risk factor for prolonging reproductive debut, which, especially for women, reduces the fertility window and, thus, the number of children and grandchildren that can be produced. By estimating the effect of the sample’s reproductive characteristics on the strength of polygenic selection, it was found that the genetic variance component of IQ should be declining at a rate between −.208 (95% CI [−.020, −.383]) and −.424 (95% CI [−.041, −.766]) points per decade, depending on whether GCTA-GREML or classical behavior genetic estimates of IQ heritability are used to correct for ‘missing’ heritability.
>CDC asks for help

Welcome. You're now on the set of a Generic Epidemic Horror Movie A
PLOS is a top-tier indexed refereed open-access journal.
An underrated part of this is the impact it has if they dont end up being accomplished. I was in an AG program K-8 but ended up getting mediocre SATs and living a pretty average life.

I’m personally very skeptical of the utility of similar programs now. I’m beginning to think keeping consistent expectations for everyone and letting those with differing interests or aptitudes enrich themselves is more egalitarian, especially for people who aren’t intellectually gifted (like me).
thats not the point

the point is to market the premium RGB'd hardware as some game specific hardware to kids that think "game cache" is anything but more memory
> Immutability is stronger than C++ const correctness and easier to use at the same time.

C++-style const appears to be stronger than just immutability, since you can have immutable objects in C++, but you can also pass const references to mutable objects.
You could cast thousands of these into space with lenses on them and they would have just enough power to send a signal when they detect an extraterrestrial planet or something.
Yes they have: https://www.projekt-deal.de/elsevier-news/
Despite being gaudy, what you are seeing are legitimate arrays of heat spreaders and sinks...these tend to be the on high performance mother boards, which often support good overclocking capacity.
I know it pretty popular to bash George Mason University these days... But one positive thing is our applied information technology program has courses requiring business skills, ethics and understanding of the global economy and culture. If you paid attention, and listened to the guest speakers they had come out weekly for the senior capstone project lectures, you'd learn quite a lot about navigating the worlds of commerce and government.
C# and Java as you mentioned use very C++-like syntax.
Another fascinating virus with cycles is the chicken pox virus. Not only does it cycle in the community as viruses do, but it also cycles generationally because older adults with shingles can infect children and give them chicken pox; it's the same virus with two very different activation modes.

In general our fleshy human bodies are amazingly good at fending off viruses, especially compared to our computers. Put a 10-year old computer out on the public Internet and see how long it lasts. A: Minutes, maybe hours.
In my experience, people who grew up under pressure to perform and with frequent external validation of their intelligence tend to humble brag a lot. I wonder if it's simply because they're mirroring what people have done to them. I grew up with something much different and find the bragging repulsive, but perhaps that's an expression of my own insecurity or jealousy to a degree.
Ah, yes, the captcha arms race. I've encountered bots that can solve simple text captchas (especially bots routed through Tor) and as ML gets cheaper and more accurate I do wonder what the end result will be...
It's overkill to use Tor for this. And I'm a little surprised that it works at all well, because Tor exits so commonly trigger CAPTCHAs.

Better, I think, would be using HTTPS proxies. But not free ones, which tend to get burned down pretty quickly. There are sites that lease private proxies, and guarantee that they work.
Volatile is not a memory barrier. Different threads can observe reordered accesses regardless of volatile.

There's a reason that it's been proposed for removal (http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2018/p115...)
Yeah, looks like quite a few of the plugins i rely on are on that list :(
What's wrong with alignment?
I worked full-time in C++ from 2012 to 2017, and I don't like the language. I also did feel like I had to use it: I was a developer on an Apache/Nginx webserver plugin, and since those are written in C our choices were (1) C, (2) C++, or (3) a C shim that communicates with some other language. None of these options were ideal, but of them (2) was our best one.
What the article largely says is that there isn't really a housing crisis if people make more money and pay more rent. Is it realistic to pay hundreds of dollars per month in rent when Microsoft pays hundreds of thousands of dollars per year in Seattle? Not from a market perspective. People paying what they can afford isn't really a housing crisis. That is essentially the market working, pricing valuable things highly. It might certainly be some other crisis however, like society favouring property over work.
Excellent points, and excellent work moderating, thanks for all you do.

I think the point about the headlines being the one thing everyone reads is especially important for everyone to realize, and I wish the people coming up with titles would realize and take seriously the huge responsibility they have, not just for the number of clicks they garner, but also the fact that very often people read that as the summary and internalize it as fact. Every time the writers stretch the truth to get more clicks, they’re doing slight harm to huge numbers of people.

Thanks for keeping this corner of the internet a bit cleaner of that.
Where did you see the article claim it was a memory barrier?
Interesting that you did not succeed negotiating. We had a case where our open-access fund would only help out if the fee was $2000 maximum. We communicated that to the journal and they obliged without further comment. (Though this was after review and that journal really wanted our paper as it was obvious that we would raise their impact factor). I agree that $2000 still seems like a lot of money for an online-only document that journal is not doing anything for aside a little adjusting of the final pdf + paying the editor.
I saw this design on Youtube, it has to be the most senseless and tasteless thing ever sold in computer hardware.
> Traditionally, the publishers accept papers for publication for free but charge steep subscription fees

To my knowledge (academic family and partner in NZ) this is false, publishers charge for both publication _and_ reading in general.
You will resonate with Aktie Kohn’s Unconditional Parenting which cites a lot of research confirming the long term futility and harm of extrinsic pressures encoded in common parenting practices and educational institutions.
That was pretty much my attitude then I wanted a high air flow case and switched to a Coolermaster H500 (2x200MM, 3x120mm noctua (two in the top, one on the back) with a glass side..and a tinted glass side.

The RGB stuff sorta grew on me and it's kind of interesting on Linux to be able to see the CPU fan stop spinning completely (never seems to happen on W10 though...).
A camp I worked at had a 11 year old genius as a camper. The real kind, the one that could list all of the elements on the periodic table from memory and discuss them with a clear understanding of their properties.

I asked to have him in my bunk; I am not a genius and will readily admit to be his inferior - so no need for competition there (I might even learn from him!). On the other hand, he had clear social deficiencies and was not very sportive, so there are plenty of things he could learn from me. He needed to be grown and changed from an egotistical insecure kid to a insightful intelligent young adult.

Instead the camp gave him to the charge of a counselor who was also a genius, and as expected they spent the whole summer each trying to prove they were smarter than the other. The kid usually won, but I can't imagine the summer contributed to a growing experience.

Remember that genius doesn't make a person. Don't let it blindside your treatment of them if you are charged with raising them. They need adults to teach them about life, even if the adults can't do math as fast as they could.
Different groups of people working on the two projects, though we communicate pretty frequently.
How much, if at all, has the investment from Google in open source projects like Tekton changed at all with the post-Diane Greene leadership?
There’s no reason to not have a simple on/off mechanism (hw or sw). My 6-7 year old MB has some LED traces on the PCB for some reason. Luckily they are dim, static, and ASUS included an option to turn it off in the BIOS. Some other components on the market now don’t these “luxuries”. They are unreasonably bright, blinking, and can only be disabled with a soldering iron.
Djokovic has a case for best tennis player ever with his winning record head to head over Federer and Nadal. Federer has a losing record against both. He racked up a lot of his titles before Nadal and Djokovic became world champion players.

Of course Nadal is best on clay.
You don't have to turn them on? I get the feeling people don't realize they have control over not just the color and action, but whether they're on at all.

And yes, I mean RAM, GPU, motherboard, fans, etc advertised as "RGB". If it's the same price and includes LED, then for all purposes it doesn't have LED.
I'm not sure what to do with this remark. You said my definition of social construction was untenable because the implications were too broad and you seemed to find that frightening. I responded by saying that social construction IS a theory with broad implications and gave you a reference to read, since you seem to be unfamiliar with these concepts. Your response seems a non sequitur.
It's an interesting idea, and I hope it's successful, but I'm wondering if a similar business model is possible. Imagine a service where a company or individual could submit a suggestion for a product / app / service, with no upfront cost, and the receiving company would offer to create the MVP and generate revenue from it until they recouped their costs, then demand only a small percentage of all future sales / subscriptions.

The company offering this would obviously have to be very careful about which ideas it invested its resources in, because it would be taking all the risk, but for simple ideas the exposure would be quite small. Also, anyone using this service would want to be very clear about what "recouping their costs" means, so that there isn't any creative accounting going on. In practice, it might just end up as a way for one company to harvest a lot of barely profitable ideas, but that might be sustainable, and eventually they might bag a unicorn.
> There’s less pressure to put something in a specific release when they happen less frequently.

I think this phrasing contradicts your point. Do you mean "more frequently", or am I missing something?
> The primary goal of a computing curriculum is to produce programmers and software engineers.

It reminds me of the old joke, "Computer Science could be called the post-Turing decline in the study of formal systems."
C++ needs to merge with Python to create the uber-language: Python for rapid development, and drop to C++ for performance. Like Cython, but with native integration.
> This doesn't mean that we shouldn't strive to do great things or encourage our children to do the same if they're inspired to. But before that, we need to learn to be satisfied with a simple life just existing in the world as ourselves without any extraordinary achievements.

Amazingly put. Unfortunately (or perhaps fortunately, I’m of two minds on this) I’m convinced this is a feature rather than a bug of American society. Deriving self worth from accomplishments is force fed culturally in every direction, including places where I wouldn’t necessarily expect it like politics (see Trumps Ivy League name dropping and Buttigiegs support relying heavily on his Harvard credentials).

Of course, would society be better off otherwise? I’m not sure.
That would be horrible if you had other systems that predated and did depend on the null (you could argue they shouldn't do that but well shouldn't and didn't aren't the same thing alas).
> In addition, Purism is needing to lead some of the development within the GNOME community, since there is not a large community around an upstream-first GNOME/GTK+ for mobile yet.

This makes me happy. This is good news for all Gnome users.
Please don't because you know we'll end up with a frankenstein language with the cons of both rather than the pros of both.
Yes but if you remove the French open victories from Nadal total (down to 6) total both Djokovic (down to 14) and Federer (down to 19) have more than twice (or even 3x times) the number of grand slam Victories. (Same for M1000)
I'd just like to say for anyone considering one of these new processors, there are some downsides I wasn't expecting. Overall I'm fine with them, but knowledge is power so here you go:

1. RDRAND returns -1 (and sets the carry bit meaning it thinks -1 is a random number). Supposedly this will be fixed in a BIOS update (which makes me think it's an intended mode wrongly turned on... a backdoor?)

2. On linux, CPU monitoring (e.g. temperature) is not available as AMD hasn't published the specs on that yet

3. While it has spectre "mitigations" (stibp, ibpb, ssbd), spectre is not yet dead (spectre_v1, spectre_v2, spec_store_bypass).

4. There is a bug/oddity in how it deals with %fs: https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=DragonFl...

5. PSP/SEV ccp driver calls hang (on my machine at least, might be the mobo) but luckily linux only waits a few seconds before giving up and continuing the boot process.

6. There have been reports of high idle voltages, but under linux w/o monitoring I have no idea if I'm affected or if the issue is real or significant.

For most use cases all of the above are minor and don't overshadow the price-performance success of these processors.
I never understood why university libraries are not making the journals themselves instead of having them done by companies and paying for the subscription. Every university would have like 5 or 6 journals and pay everything for those and all the scientific articles would be free. I mean elife does it and it is great.
Funnily enough I think the best player of all time is Novak Djokovic. He has 15 major titles to his name and currently holds a winning record vs both Nadal and Federer. All three have comparable winning percentages over their careers. I think people pencil in Federer as the best just because he is older than Nadal and Djokovic.
I hate unique_ptr and shared_ptr, using them is so glaringly inconsistent. Half the time you can’t construct a unique_ptr when it’s easy, because you don’t have the information until just enough later (like after a calculation or two in the body of your constructor) that you can’t use the easy way. So how do you transfer a unique_ptr? Well, the obvious ways don’t compile, and you eventually learn you have to move it, which involves using std::move(), but it always seems to go in the place I don’t expect it. And then how do you use a unique_ptr outside of your class? You can’t pass by value, for obvious reasons. Pass by reference, maybe? I think that’s frowned upon, I think you’re supposed to pass a naked pointer, and Modern C++ code is supposed to understand that naked pointers mean I’m loaning you this pointer. But I thought the point of Modern C++ was to get rid of pointers? Anyway, shared_ptr works completely the opposite way. You are supposed to pass the pointer by value. Now you can argue that of course it’s supposed to be that way, and the arguments are all cogent and when you spend half a day figuring it all out it makes sense. Until tomorrow when you forget it all and have to actually use the things. Plus I hate underscores with a passion, it hurts to type them. Modern C++ also seems to like making a line of code longer and longer, because you can’t just make a unique_ptr or shared_ptr with a constructor, no, you need make_unique<typename>(...), and the arguments are magically the same as the type’s constructor, even though it’s obviously a different function. Yuck! At least new and delete are pretty obvious how to use, and only have one special case to worry about ([]). Granted, the *_ptr are better, but I hate using them and wish I could use something that was shorter and easier to remember.
[2017] A large part of the technical side overlaps with running servers and services in general.
>Remember that genius doesn't make a person

adding to that. my friend is a straight up genius, can do calculations in his head faster than you can type them into wolfram alpha. people in my highschool used to ask him to do questions like a monkey

the only friends he had were people that talked to him like a normal person, shot the shit and went to parties together instead of asking him for homework help
I've worked with frameworks like GWT and Vaadin enough to know I prefer the DOM way of doing things over visualizing the view through code. Hell, I've used the React programmatic API before I used JSX...never going back.
I did, my mistake!
> Nadal is far from a clay court specialist.

If you take clay stats out of Nadal’s career, he’d go from being an all time great, to simply a very good player. His unrivalled dominance on clay is the defining element of his career.

Federer on the other hand has a much more well rounded career. He had more titles, more grand slams, and was dominant on both grass and hard courts. His clay stats are underwhelming, but it’s hard to tell if that’s because he’s not great on clay, or whether he was just unfortunate enough to be active at the same time as the greatest clay court player in history.
> Most people prefer Federer because Fed was successful first

With that reasoning, we would still be worshiping Pete Sampras.

No, Federer's ball skills are just something else. Which is why his spiritual home is Wimbledon, where skill tends to win over doggedness, and why I suspect he will keep playing longer than Nadal - who is already struggling with serious physical injuries at a much lower age, because his game has to abuse the body more. That does not mean Nadal is not superb at what he does (his stats on returns are incredible), but it's something that's a bit harder to appreciate.

> Your metaphor of car manufacturers really doesn’t do Nadal justice.

Toyota makes excellent and reliable cars, their production and distribution skills changed the history of manufacturing, and they periodically innovate in big and small ways. Anyone who knows anything about making cars, knows they are excellent at what they do and maybe the best manufacturer ever by a number of stats. They just don't warm the heart in the same way as more creative makers.
I was full-time wife and mom supporting my husband's demanding military career for two decades. Post divorce, I've struggled to make ends meet the entire time, in spite of having six years of college and still receiving alimony to this day, more than a decade later. This includes a stint of nearly six years of homelessness.

I also have a serious medical condition, so you can't blame it entirely on my gender. But I'm quite confident my gender is a significant factor in my intractable poverty.

My sons are incredibly loyal to me. They still live with me and tell me every single day "You're an awesome mom and I'm so glad you raised me."

I certainly don't regret raising them. But I'm extremely tired of being poor and also tired of listening to bullshit about how it's somehow not actually due to sexism.

Being told I'm being dismissive of the value of the work I lovingly devoted myself to for leaving a supportive comment about some other woman's writing is ...wow. I don't even have the words for this.

Like I said, women are damned if they do, damned if they don't. And I hope other people here see your reply as evidence of the kind of uphill battle I'm talking about.

It's quite the rarity these days for an American woman of my age who is college educated to have spent two decades as a homemaker. If I can't comment on the pitfalls involved in that without being attacked as disrespecting women, who the hell can?

Oh, I know: no one. Because the entire point is to make it impossible to escape the trap. The entire point of societal sexism is to keep women "barefoot and pregnant."
Which ones? We can see if there’s anything we can do about it