skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From the article:

> The suicide rate for children is twice what it is for children during months when school is in session than when it’s not in session,” according to Dr. Gray. “That’s true for suicide completion, suicide attempts and suicidal ideation, whereas for adults, it’s higher in the summer.

It seems that families are particularly under stress if such observances can be made. As a single white guy, I find this a bit alarming because I've always had this notion that a family unit would be an easier way to ride out deep depression, rather than not. It just goes to show.
I too grew up in the be home for dinner generation and am very grateful for having lived it.

One of the comments I sometimes make to others when this topic comes up is that I'm glad that cell phones and the Internet didn't exist when I was a kid. Why? Because I likely would have missed out on the best parts of being a kid. Boredom was great. We would then find something non-boring to do, such as: ride bikes, play basketball/football/baseball, swim, listen to music, ride go carts, and so on.
There's two types of formats: 1) those people complain about, and 2) those no one use.
I spent my childhood in southeast asia. No one was what would be considered anything other than various levels of poor compared to the US.

All of us neighborhood kids ran around in semi-feral packs and played together, being home before night, and I enjoyed it very much. Yes, there was a lot of work to be done. But kids got to be kids, too, and suffered none of the overscheduled insanity I see around me nowadays.

Slight aside- I honestly think that being able to contribute to the household from a young age was good for our mental health, too. Even if (as an example) hunting grasshoppers for a snack was silly fun together, we were proud to hand over our catch, and it felt good to be appreciated by the adults.
TOML is basically a standardized version of INI.
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Volcanoes?
Homicide isn't even in the top 10 ways to die in the US. The students are in more danger from drowning, by a wide margin, than any school shooting.

https://www.cdc.gov/homeandrecreationalsafety/water-safety/w...
Stop saying “remote” if you need a specific timezone
You're absolutely right - I'm used to talking to reasonably well-adjusted, grown up adults with a thick skin and a sense of humour. That's often not the case here, so unless you agonise over every single word and avoid speaking directly, your posts will go grey.

Again, I'm a bad cultural fit. Not apportioning blame, I'm sure many here see me as a rude provocateur for my cavalier use of the word 'obsess'. That's life.
If you are using DNS challenge type, then LetsEncrypt doesn't have to talk to the internal service. You just need the name of the internal service to be in public DNS. (You don't even need its internal IP address in there, LetsEncrypt only looks at the TXT record of _acme-challenge.)
@Causalityl , @jranmer - question for both of you (or whoever) - at what rate of death if any would it become appropriate to do these types of drills and why?
Unless I'm quite mistaken, free range child rearing was very much the norm basically anywhere in America or Europe for at least several centuries (with the caveat that children were also commonly used as a labor force, especially with subsistence farming). Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn, while admittedly idealized caricatures, spend prodigious amounts of time outdoors unsupervised, and this is seen as normal. Red Riding Hood walks to her grandmother's house alone. Rupert Bear spends his time wandering the local fields with his friends. Etc...

If you want a vivid picture of just how free-range life was in 19th century America, I recommend "Two Little Savages" by Ernest Thompson Seton, a fictionalized autobiography of the author's childhood published in 1903. While it's certainly a romanticized picture, and the events in the book represent an unusual amount of freedom for the protagonists, it still documents fantastically a variety of 19th century parenting styles and the nature of the society that has been lost.
Who is We? Actually I think I get it - we had kids in NYC too. But we left and I find the stories in the article to be rather alien now.

Kids running free from house to house and playing on their own. Is that really so rare outside of some of the big cities?
Excellent, modules as singletons is covered:

> Modules are “singletons” in Python because import only creates a single copy of each module; subsequent imports of the same name keep returning the same module object. For example, when the Module Objects chapter of the Python/C API Reference Manual asserts that “Single-phase initialization creates singleton modules,” it means by a “singleton module” a module for which only one object is ever created.

You have to be careful that every place that imports the module does so in such a way as to get the same (cached) module object from sys.modules, but this is pretty usually straightforward.
Thanks, sorry, misread. Was asking because am curious about how the deaths break down overall as this would affect what we might want to focus on when attempting to reduce them.
C64 and many Atari, Apple, and Nintendo products used it, including arcade machines. People still make new stuff, with new interesting hacks, for all of them, every day. I suspect anything new wouldn't be as interesting as playing with the old systems because if anything needed more interesting features these days, they'd use something much more modern. Back then they had to squeeze all the "interesting" they could out of the 6502 specifically. You can easily play with it in the browser [1].

[1] https://8bitworkshop.com/v3.4.0/?=&file=examples%2Fbrickgame...
Yeah the moment they introduced a ROM call to optimize the routine, I kind of lost interest.
It's really one of the reasons that I got my son into Scouts in the first place. It forces the type of activities that should really just be normal.
Which is more likely, they solved vehicle autonomy or they pay someone to control their scooters to make it look like they solved it?
https://github.com/an-tao/drogon
> For youngsters these days, an hour of free play is like a drop of water in the desert.

I'm over my free NYT limit, but the lead caught my eye. Is this a by-product of raising kids in the city, or just a symptom of a tightly wound parent?

I have three kids and their free play was never restricted. I work out of a home office in a kid-packed neighborhood. I hear kids of all ages playing outside after school, on weekends, and all day long in the summer. Not seeing the desert.
To be fair, I don't think Japan is exactly a good model to bring up here. Kids are independent with their free time, but most of their free time is taken up having to study seven days a week while dealing with absent parents having to work long hours and a grueling school system that is part of the reason why Japan has such a high suicide rate among youths.

Which I think is more of a problem than helicopter parenting in America and is what I think our school system is turning into. We're already working longer hours for less pay and increasing pressure on children to perform well even in Kindergarten.
Pretty much all languages designed for mathematics use 1-based indexing. Mathematica, R, Matlab, Fortran, etc. Either people have to think that the designers of these languages all made a mistake, or realize that it makes much more sense for mathematical computing to follow mathematical standards.
> Packing it with obnoxious words like "afficionado" is a red flag to me.

I'm not so sure about that. I like using unusual words because it adds a bit of color. The words should still be natural, though, not like you were trying too hard.
TIL German 'gift' and English 'gift' are actually the same word! I had assumed it was a coincidence.
Compared to whites in that time period, sure. The raising of kids seems to me to be a multifaceted issue. One interesting example: most would agree that having two parents in a household is better for raising kids. In the early 20th century, despite racism and segregation, black divorce rates and birth outside of wedlock was much lower than it is for blacks today. Of course, those rates have gone up for all races over time but more drastically so for blacks. As a result, the children are often brought up with one parent (which most would agree, means the children are worse off in that respect compared to black children of say 100 years ago). Whether or not this trend is a good or bad thing is a completely different discussion than that of the causality.
I mean. I’m not okay either. I work to try to reduce my screen time as much as I can but when it’s part of the job and also an always ready hit of dissociative dopamine in my pocket it creates an awful feedback loop that I’m not equipped to handle.

At work as a programmer, you’re “supposed” to spend some free time doing projects and have “hobby development”, so you can reach the next career echelon. Even not in a programming career, everything is rushed, it must happen now. People are either on or off, and off is a dissociative activity, desperately trying to save our sanity so that we can be on the next day. We’re rich, but it doesn’t feel like it. I think we need a way for the culture to emphasize “slow down”. If you travel to other countries, you’ll find a much slower pace of life - there needs to be a better way to opt into something like that without giving up basic security. If I quit my job to pursue a slower pace of life, it’s almost a guarantee that I will lose my health insurance. I probably would have to move to another area, but the “slow” areas are either riddled with their own problems or are the playgrounds of the super rich. Where’s the calm, collected, slow middle? I’d like to find it. My job is even very good about work life balance and I struggle with this.
I dunno. If I was British, I’d be hanging on to my nuts reaaal tight or maybe look into selling the left one
Trump Says Apple’s Cook Concerned About Losing Edge to Samsung with Tariffs
It's a named opinion column, not news.
No they do not. They didn't even demo it or provide a video.
You could indeed make the case that the intractability/undecidability-type theorems suggest that the problem of program verification is inherently difficult, and not something that can be solved in most cases using a trick. It requires some deep thinking in many cases, the same kind of thinking required to find complex mathematical proofs.

Currently humans are much better at proofs that require this kind of deep thinking. Automated tools are better for proofs that are based on a simple structure, like a large enumeration of cases (as in SAT solving and model checking, oversimplifying things a bit). This is the very reason they are automated: the reasoning performed by them is so simple/well-structured that we are able to write a program to do it for us.

However, many proofs fall outside of this easy-to-automate subset, and require human assistance. Human intuition does consistently do better than automated tools, but there is no single easily recognizable "trick" or "method" to it, which makes it hard to implement in a tool.

In my view, the reason that theoretical results do not apply very directly to human reasoning is precisely that human reasoning is "intuitive" and hard to capture in a program. We are not really Turing machines in any practical sense. We are more adept at proving things (perhaps creating automated tools to help us along the way) than any known algorithm.

I absolutely agree that automated tools make much more sense for your average industry application, but if you want to be able to use the full power of human intuition, instead of restricting yourself to program properties that are easy to prove automatically, then there is no way around manual proofs.
Right! It's the combination of new laws/regulations and the higher likelihood of litigation when kids get hurt.

On the other hand, there are plenty of parents who completely neglect their kids. We don't want that either.
The Nazi book of anatomy still used by surgeons
The CDC does an amazing job of gather stats on what kills people in the USA. https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/deaths.htm and those statistics have a section on child mortality.
Because it sounds right and seems like common-sense. I did put "I think" and "likely" in there so I would have thought it was obvious I was speculating.

Do we need to ask everyone whether they have "particularized" knowledge for every comment they make?
Kids in Japan lead carefree "be home by dark" lives up until late middle school and high school, when they start studying 4+hrs/day and sleeping <5hrs/night to prep for standardized tests. I don't think Japan is a horrific dystopia for teens but it's hardly the "let kids be kids" culture that America of yesteryear (apparently) was.
Not for me. I'm guessing you use chrome and signed in?
These might be the most misunderstood, dogmatically constructed documents that exist. In reality, a bit of common sense and a basic understanding of how recruitment processes tend to work will go a long way. Hopefully for those new to the job market who don't yet have that understanding, a careers advisor or similar mentor will help them to acquire it quickly.

If you're applying somewhere big and you haven't established any prior connection then chances are you're going to be screened by some sort of automated system as a first step, so you need to provide sufficient information in sufficiently recognisable terms to clear that hurdle. Sometimes this is little better than a tedious keyword-matching exercise, but it's a necessary first step if you're not in a position to reach a real person at your potential employer from the start.

In any case, the first human being to read your CV/resume and make a real decision on progressing your application or not is probably going to be spending seconds, not minutes, reviewing it. Chances are they'll be looking for your general area(s) of competence and approximate level of experience to see if you fit the required profile, and any obvious red flags that would disqualify you immediately. Anything else is a potentially damaging distraction at this stage.

Subsequent human beings to read your CV/resume will hopefully be involved in the in-person recruiting process, i.e., phone screens, on-site interviews, etc. These people are probably going to spend a bit longer reading now you're on a short(er) list, but they're probably looking for the opposite: what particular qualities or specific accomplishments make you stand out from the crowd as a better candidate?

It follows from the above that an effective CV/resume should probably include just enough filler and buzzwords to get past an automated filter, just enough overview material to show you're the right sort of candidate, and then a few carefully selected highlights to intrigue the people making the real decisions in the later stages and provide interesting interview topics. Anything else, particularly a complete life history including the LOGO program you wrote at age 10 to draw a circle, is wasting everyone's time and just gives more opportunities to get rejected.

If you can't fit that on a single page at any stage in your career then improving your CV/resume writing skills will probably improve your chances of landing that next job (barring certain fields like academia, where expectations are often quite different to most recruitment processes).
It’s was A) “that’s what cows eat”
Child Protective Services is the thing I've most feared as a parent. Getting caught up in that system is about the worst thing that can happen to a child.
That's a surprise! It sounds like the first in its line. As Wikipedia says:

> Scheme was originally called "Schemer", in the tradition of other Lisp-derived languages such as Planner or Conniver.

If there's any programming language family which condones trickery, I would think this would be it.
The follow up revealed that Chinese journalist is also a policeman. He used a different name on his bank accounts & ID card which is impossible in China. He stated himself tourism. A working visa is required to work as a journalist in HK.
Cool. It doesn't matter.
It’s a treasure from the “old web”. Information dense, simple markup, possibly updated by hand...
Honestly, the generation of my-kid-has-a-phone-with-gps is probably going to have even more freedom.
I've never understood this. JSON is really not that difficult to work with manually. I tend to write my config files as JSON for utilities I write. What is it with peoples' innate aversion to braces?
Silly question - what can you really do with liquid nitrogen at home? I can think of cooking applications but I’m pressed to think of something else.
I don't have a kid (yet), and I started to write out my plan, but then I changed it. Now it I'm thinking about this:

Treat them like you would treat a beggar or salesperson you don't want to interact with, say "No thanks" with minimal eye contact and keep moving (or if stationary, ignore them).
These articles are always about the privileged gatekeeping how others raise kids.
What is the replacement material? Graphene? It will be a long time before that switch happens.
Sometimes, my kids will say they're bored. My response to them is that my job is not to entertain them. They totally get it, though sometimes they're still bored...
> Which I think is more of a problem than helicopter parenting in America

Sorry, as a parent in Japan, I beg to disagree. The system here has lots of problems, don't get me wrong - and I really don't like the "juku" (cram-school) model at all. But particularly at younger ages (which in many ways are the most important ones), there is still that fundamental freedom to be on your own with your friends.

Kids age as young as 5 are often out on their own with their friends outside, or walking to school, etc. That's something you would be arrested for in the U.S.

I see the North American situation as much more scary, TBH.
Same link got 238 comments 7 months ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18805624
“The $300 textbook is dead,” says the CEO of textbook maker Pearson
The difference in my experience is that once you know what's wrong with your whitespaces in Python, you're out of the woods. The interpreter is your friend from that point onward. YAML parsers, on the other hand, give you these really strange errors that are pretty difficult to understand, and it doesn't end with whitespaces.
I wish comments like this required an age verification to post. "You must be this crotchety to denigrate millenials."
The same way that having ad tech companies track our every movement online is going to deliver a better experience?

Freedom comes from being free. Not from being surveilled.
I don’t know where the line is, but I think I would sooner pull my kids out to homeschool than have them be further traumatized/militarized by letting them participate in active shooter drills. It’s insane and will be a self-fulfilling prophecy. The more you expose kids to this kind of lifestyle, the more it becomes... part of their lifestyle.
I can assure you that no child gives two shits about how many likes your Saturday activity received on any social media platform.

A handful of worms, a skinned knee, and arms covered in poison ivy they’ll remember. The perfect sunset shot they won’t.
Instagram with no persistence? Snapchat!
I think they did mean nonscalar keys. Say I have a compoubd primary key in a database, over 3 columns. In YAML, representing that key as an array of the three columns' values (or a map from column name to value) makes sense, and so does using that as a key in other maps.
Also in Japan, and we feel comfortable letting our 5 year old roam around the neighborhood on his own. And when he starts 1st grade he will walk to school with his friends.

The only thing that really scares me here are cars. People tend to drive a little too fast in residential areas IMO. Especially delivery trucks... although at least you can hear them coming from far away.
Utah actually passed something to mitigate against that kind of response last year. https://www.sltrib.com/news/2018/01/24/utah-lawmakers-pass-b...
The whole premise reminds me of the infamous "impossible is nothing" resume submitted to UBS back in 2006. Sadly, the author died. For those unfamiliar, it included:

* Cover letter

* Resume: one and a half pages

* Writing sample: eight pages

* A glamour shot of Vayner

* Seven-minute video that features the following feats by Vayner:

* Interview: gives advice for achieving life goals

* Bench press: 495 pounds (225 kilograms)

* Downhill skiing with jumps

* Tennis serve: 140 miles per hour (225 km/h or 63 m/s)

* Ballroom dancing with a female dancer

* Karate chop: seven bricks broken

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impossible_Is_Nothing_(video_r...
Knowing there is no way those numbers are right I point out it's dodgy looking, get viciously downvoted (probably by some kind of yay US crowd who dislike people living in China having an opinion) but when the source is quoted has literally been corrected by its own authors.[0] Typical HN.

[0] https://pubs.acs.org/doi/suppl/10.1021/acs.est.7b06377/suppl...
I’d like to throw out a mention for a book that takes one of the topics from Ignition! and covers it in depth. The Green Flame https://www.amazon.com/Green-Flame-Andrew-Dequasie-ebook/dp/... is a book about the Borane fuels project, which is covered briefly in the chapter of Ignition! on exotic fuels, and will probably be a worthwhile read for anyone who loves Ignition!.
Thanks, Jude! From a quick scan, it seems there are quite a few companies in direct competition--particularly in: 1) incoming sharing education, 2) bespoke computer processors, 3) medical billing, and 4) recruiting software.
Completely agree, cars are the main thing that worry me as well (in the city).
Why not plan an activity or build something together?
I recommend to any parent Peter Gray's column in Psychology Today, Freedom to Learn https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/freedom-learn

and his book Freed to Learn https://www.amazon.com/Free-Learn-Unleashing-Instinct-Self-R....

He writes about how kids learn on their own if we don't straightjacket them too much and how we're straightjacketing them.

Also Lenore Skenazy's Let Grow: https://letgrow.org, a program to help restore childhood. She was called the worst mom in America after she wrote how she let her 9-year-old take the subway home, embraced the title, and started the free range kid movement.
I sometimes think writing a CV/resume in LaTeX is a bit like writing your "any language you like" interview programs in Haskell. It can be the secret handshake that sends a positive signal to the right observer, but unless you really nail it, it probably just looks a bit weird to most people.
Look - I'm sure you can find some outlier news article about this happening, but as someone who actually has professional contact with CPS once in a while, this is - in my opinion - wildly hyperbolic. The social workers I know who work for CPS have excessive work loads of really intense circumstances (like, children being preyed upon, beaten, chained to radiators...). They're not doing parent interviews because someone let their 10-year-old walk to the park.
> Kids age as young as 5 are often out on their own with their friends outside, or walking to school, etc. That's something you would be arrested for in the U.S.

Do you mean "until age 5"? All of the kids I knew from that area of the world, as young as elementary school, spent every second either studying for school or practicing piano/violin.
I don't aversion to braces. Rather, my issues with JSON is that it doesn't have comments and that you cannot use a optional trailing comma.