skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My brother in law was taught to sight-read (recognize words on sight and not to analyze phonemes) and he always struggled and regretted it!!!

Phonics is the #1 advantage of ALL western languages. The idea that teachers would not leverage the #1 advantage of the entire language just shows how foolish our teacher education system can be!

Don't let teachers screw up your kids with educational FADs! We didn't! We taught our kids at 3.5 - 4.5 to read using phonics before kindergarten! We used:

http://www.headsprout.com .

Our kids loved it! The risk of these FADs damaging your child's entire education would make this program cheap even if they charged $1000 (it's $200 - a small 10% increase over the last 14 years!)
Perhaps in a perfect world where a competent local government owns the poles.

You may be shocked to hear that Verizon or Spectrum won’t provide cheap or timely service to competitors looking to rent pole space.
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Computer vision is all data augmentation and convolutional neural networks. I would study the different network architectures to get a real understanding of the field. Start with:

1.) AlexNet/Vgg
2.) Resnet/Inception
3.) MobileNets, NasNet, EfficientNet etc.
It reminds me of Daemon[1] book by Daniel Suarez, which inspired the creation of smart contracts in Ethereum.

[1] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6665847-daemon
`funding` added support for suppressing the message if the env var `OPEN_SOURCE_CONTRIBUTOR` is set - these should help quiet down a variety of postinstall ads in CI envs and the like (the last two are used by core-js and opencollective-postinstall)

export OPEN_SOURCE_CONTRIBUTOR=true
export ADBLOCK=true
export DISABLE_OPENCOLLECTIVE=true
If an entity can choose to discard ethics because it negatively impacts their bottom line, then they probably had no ethics to begin with.
Your reasoning is actually an argument for why Japan developed like Europe, and that's indeed largely what happened. Have a read on sengoku- and meiji period. Japan's trajectory was very different from China's. What you probably mean is the 250ish year stable edo period under the Tokugawa warlord control when the emperor was stripped of power.
I disagree, but regardless, this sounds more like a comment for the article's Talk page instead of HN. Better yet, you could go find better examples (with a free license) or take your own and add them to the article.

Contributing to Wikipedia is quite fun and not enough people do it. You don't even need to make an account.
I think the oxygen in the tree materials is already combined with carbon in the form of CxHyOz hydrocarbons, where x,y,z = atoms of the respective atomic species.

Burning cellulose (poly-C6 H10 O5) to CO2 and H2O would require (for each molecule): 12O (for 6CO2) and 5O (for 5H2O). This is a total of 17O.

Cellulose contains only 5O, so 12O (or 6O2) would be required for a full stoichiometric burn of cellulose.
Agile has its place so it won't go away. I think it leads to messy code but for short projects, it really helps get things done.
Really doubt they could match the salaries that banks and FAANGs pay even if they wanted to.
Content production and distribution are the 2 main costs, paid by cash (subs/donations) or ads (which is just a secondary market for attention-to-cash conversion). That's all there is.

I'm not sure what you're even arguing now. You seem to be saying that some sites exist where the creator pays both costs instead of the consumer but I don't see what point that makes. Like I said, that particular scenario is an absolutely tiny portion of the content available.

Is your argument that only content that's completely paid for by the creator is good? That makes no sense.
Sure, will do on Monday when I'm there. Ceiling height is maybe 7.5 feet? There’s only one unit left with the original paneling and features (e.g. TV built into the wall, tape deck, dial phone) and it’s sadly not mine. There is a window sill. The window doesn’t open. Original blind was fish-eye, opened like a camera aperture.
Thanks for your thoughts and observations.

I may be one of these “simply sight readers”. I supposedly taught myself to read at an alarmingly, insufferably young age. I have no memory of learning to read whatsoever, only the before and the after. We had a complete set of McGuffey readers lying around (thanks for mentioning these, brought back memories!) but by the time I was looking at them I could already sight read and thought the phonics stuff seemed somewhere between too obvious, too detailed, and too boring. The first word my parents noticed me identify was a pretty bizarre proper noun and not phonics-friendly at all.

My best guess is that since everyone in my house could read, and clearly enjoyed it, and did it all the time, I had plenty of readers to study in action and lots of motivation to watch them. Kind of like when you see a little crawling toddler staring at an older kid who’s running, totally stunned with jealousy... calculating, calculating... From before I could read, I remember asking “what does that say?” a lot. Making them read me sentences on demand. I’m a very fortunate person.

I’d be interested to know how network effects helped your six children and many siblings, on top of the dedicated instruction. Seeing you reading casually, knowing you enjoyed it, seeing their peers do it.
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My kid’s school did mostly phonics with a fair amount of sight reading for common words. What a weird thing to be an absolutist about.
from memory GNU parallel has been advertising on the command line for ages, specifically:

" This helps funding further development; AND IT WON'T COST YOU A CENT.
If you pay 10000 EUR you should feel free to use GNU Parallel without citing."

Or words to that effect.

I haven't really been bothered about that, but I could see myself joining a riot if everyone decided that was a good idea. This guy is just bringing that closer.
Very interesting, and thanks for answering.

Could I ask what kind of project it is? I wonder if I'm just lucky that Clojure fits perfectly my use case, which is mostly a set of distributed systems of all kinds. So while as a whole there's tens of thousands of LOC. The components have very strong boundaries being as it's a set of services assembled together through RPC, PubSubs and DBs. Maybe that alleviate the lack of a static type checker.

We've adopted Clojure about 3 years ago, team of 10. We've had a few people leave and join throughout. Only one person knew Clojure beforehand. Our stack is about 50% Clojure, 40% Java and 10% Scala. Of all three, Clojure has given us the least issues, has been pretty easy to maintain and generally has fewer defects. Java tend to have the most bugs, almost always related to some shared state. Scala I find the hardest to extend and maintain, but the code base we have for it I think does Scala wrong, it's like the worst mix of OOP and FP.

> I dream of a statically typed Clojure with type inference, spec-inferred types and optional dynamic typing for REPL experimentation and glue code

That's pretty much exactly core.typed: https://blog.ambrosebs.com/2018/09/20/towards-typed-clj.html

That said, the project never managed to get more contributors.

If you're looking for a typed Lisp, I've been keeping my eyes out on Carp: https://github.com/carp-lang/Carp
Er... just don't respond?

There's no value in "debates" on the internet. I've seen really interesting technical discussion here on HN but it's mostly just people chiming in with their experience using a tool or talking about something they made. Contribute to those sorts of discussions and ignore the rest.
How does one not use leiningen? Do you just substitute lein for the other build tool provided by cognitect? All the tutorials I've seen have you jack-in to a lein REPL. I guess I could just use the jar file from the download directly as my REPL? I wish more tutorials started that way so I could learn without all the tools that I don't need at this point.

Thanks for helping point this out. Cursive has a trial license and is pretty cheap, but it is still annoying to get a license to something you might not need in my organization if others aren't already using it (probably easier to get visual studio for over $1k than $100 cursive license). VS Code asked me for the leiningen REPL path and I just gave up at that point for the night. I wish the Clojure download zip came with a very simple IDE like Dr. Racket or the GroovyConsole with line wrap, parenthesis matching/highlighting and a pane for the file and REPL and some pre- loaded tutorials. I would have no excuses.
rare instance of someone taking the lower ground and higher ground at the same time lol, bravo
I'd be happy to have all the switches in my house be networked and smart as long as the switches, the devices they control, and the network in between are under my control. But sadly they won't be because the companies that sell me the switches will want to monetize me by owning and monitoring that network. To which I say "No thanks, I'll stick with dumb switches."
This happens more often than you'd think.

If you think an item is worth posting, you can resubmit it, or ping the mods that something is high quality. They're pretty receptive. (hn@ycombinator.com)

Take a look at the "new" queue when you can. There's a lot of good content, and a ton of dreck. HN's hive mind is pretty good, most of the time.

I find it helpful to poke through particularly good users' submissions to see what they've offered up that hasn't been voted up.
Some possibly simpler alternatives to consider: Google Photos, Netlify, Gitlab/Github Pages
I'd say this is more of a feel good announcement than anything as it will have extremely little impact on the gaming industry. There are billions and billions of dollars to be made through MTX, major publishing companies do not care what small time studios have to say. The amount of people who actively stray away from MTX purchases are few in number compared to the people who spend money on in game purchases. You see small boycott attempts on subreddits for games all the time over MTX and they amount to nothing, there's just too many people that spend on cosmetics and in game boosts (when applicable) for game companies to back down from including them.

When done right, MTX options can be fun for players and profitable for the company. The problem is that they are rarely done right, as greed so often takes over. A good example is the last few Call of Duty games. They like to start the loot box system with cosmetics only and assure players that loot box only usable items will never happen. Only for them to be added months later as they realize how much money they can make from it. Sure controversy always ensues but who cares, these decision makers don't have a care in the world for people who complain, they raking in billions.
Right. This is why there have been no methamphetamine or heroin related deaths and for over 100 years. /s
> especially if you are a white or asian male

As far as whites, alumni preference is typically as strong or stronger a weighting than affirmative action in undergrad admissions, and segregation wasn't outlawed until around 50 years ago meaning there are less alumni for non-whites to draw on, and many of the schools received federal money during segregation.
Politics and business are incredibly complicated as well. In many ways it’s even harder to do reporting in those areas because there is no expert consensus you can consult. Is lowering corporate taxes better for the economy? There is little consensus. Even reporting “what people did” can be fraught with peril. (E.g. reporting that a company “paid no taxes” without addressing loss carry forwards.) Political and business systems, and in particular complex regulatory regimes like tax policy, are the product of many decades of refinement. Because journalists for the most part are ignorant of that history, they present every policy issue in this sort of context free way, leaning heavily on narrative and emotion to make up for their shallow understanding of the actual mechanics of what they’re writing about.
>a third of fourth graders can't read at a basic level

Academia/education in America needs to move past this "can't fail" philosophy.

Bad schools need to fail. Good schools need to grow.
Having been taught with phonics, or at least having seen my classmates taught this way, I'd never imagined the world could be this fucked up. If you're going to teach this way, why not throw out the language and write with Chinese characters? The Japanese have a whole set of phonic letters that they use to teach kids.

If a kid can't sound out supercalifragilisticexpialidocious, fire his teachers. "Sound out." Now there's a word I haven't heard in a long time.
Reading thru the link I found this (I did some formatting):

"The five crime types for which non-U.S. citizens were most likely to be prosecuted in U.S. district court were:

illegal reentry (72% of prosecutions),

drugs (13%),

fraud (4.5%),

alien smuggling (4%),

misuse of visas (2%).

The five crime types for which U.S. citizens were most likely to be prosecuted in U.S. district court were:

drugs (38% of prosecutions),

weapons (21%),

fraud (12%),

public order (12%),

alien smuggling (6%)."

Remember, these are prosecutions in courts, some crimes and activities are more likely to get caught than others, and the same plays out with prosecutions. Some evidence is easier than others to obtain and process. So somebody stepping over a physical line on camera much easier to have the prosecution cut and dry over say a drug deal. With that, I'd love to see the headcount/resources utilised in total cost per prosecution. Again, some types of crime may well be almost production line with dedicateds courts running 24/7. Such details are lacking for a true picture.

Though I'm fairly sure such a headline/subject title initially is click baity to the max. Bit like saying that ET caused a rise in "alien smuggling" as 1983 saw a rise in such court cases.

{EDIT - I must remember the double spacing quirks}
And SuperBowls.
I was simply being skeptical of the idea that historical records in the future will, in any serious way, deny the moon landings. Seems quite far fetched to me. Moon landing denial seems pretty fringe from my understanding.
Uber's Profitability Problem Is Structural
I ultimately agreed with her based on reading about the research, which is at this point 30+ years old -- and popularized 20+ years ago.
Sorry, but you're wrong. I watched a lawyer's YT channel video on this topic. It's legal tender for all public debts, but private companies can set whatever restrictions are on modes of payment so long as they don't violate local/county/state/federal laws and don't tick off their customers. For example, there's a number of airport baggage checkers around the US that are credit-card only... and a number of airlines' in-flight purchases that accept cards only. Also, prices on an shelf in most municipalities are "an invitation to treat," not a contract, so merchants only match shelf prices out of customer service, as it's rarely ever a legal requirement.

Disclaimer: I love cash because of the privacy, transferability and budgeting limitations it provides. (Cash is King.)
What does "fail" mean? What would happen to the children who attend a school that has "failed"?
Like React for front-end? Try Fire for backend
It seems plausible to me that if you have decent air sealing in your house and wildly inadequate ceiling insulation then an attic fan could help. Or if you have poor air sealing but you have enough space for outside air to enter your attic.

In a well-built house, the roof and ceiling shouldn’t be a major source of summer heat gain.
I don't follow your last point. It was Ireland and Norway that banned the movie, not Britain. Some British and American towns banned it, I believe mainly as a result of lobbying by evangelical Christian groups, and all did so sight unseen. America was the place with the most widespread demonstrations against the movie though.

So how does USA and Britain doing the exact same thing, to roughly similar extent prove any difference or historic need to separate?
That's like saying the Tang or Song eras didn't exist because they don't apply to Western Europe.
While there is still a disparity, it has decreased over time. The comp for senior engineers at the larger studios compares favorably with the broader technology sector, outside of a handful of companies.
According to that, "Non-U.S. citizens, who make up 7% of the U.S. population (per the U.S. Census Bureau accounted for 15% of all federal arrests and 15% of prosecutions in U.S. district court for non-immigration crimes in 2018 (tables 7a and 13)."

So, the reading I'm seeing, is non-U.S. citizens are more than twice as likely to be arrested and prosecuted for a non-immigration based crime.
51. Been coding professionally since 1989; I learned it on my own in 1979. I still do it for fun first and money second.
I know the rest of these, but Buddies is a new one; to whom does it refer?
When all under heaven know beauty as beauty,
There is then ugliness,
When all know the good as good,
There is then the not good.
Therefore being and non-being give rise to each other,
The difficult and easy complement each other,
The long and short shape each other,
The high and low lean on each other,
Voices and instruments harmonize with one another,
The front and rear follow upon each other.
Therefore the sage manages affairs without action,
Carries out teaching without speech.
Ten thousand things arise and he does not initiate them,
They come to be and he claims no possession of them,
He works without holding on,
Accomplishes without claiming merit.
Because he does not claim merit,
His merit does not go away. [0]

This is one of the key passages. Whenever we name something, it's opposite is created too. This problem lies at the heart of categorization and knowledge. Try to avoid that.

For those interested [1] has many translations of the Tao Te Ching to compare.

[0] https://terebess.hu/english/tao/e-m-chen.html

[1] https://terebess.hu/english/tao/_index.html
Regarding your last point, sometimes I will say "the stupidest thing that could possibly work". This is an idea that could work, but has serious and obvious flaws. I find that once a team gets used to it, saying out loud a stupid but plausible solution can frame the discussion away from "whats wrong with the idea" to "find something better".
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My response would fall under "Think globally, act locally."

You can't solve the big problem, but you should act in a manner that if everyone does as you do, then the big problem would get tackled.

In cases where your local choices have no impact, limiting your exposure to the information can be a good idea but still keep a way to get some of it from time to time.

There has to be a distinction made between "I don't care because I don't think it will affect me" vs. "I'm not giving much attention because I don't have a way to make a difference." I try to avoid the first kind. TBH, even if a person responded with the first, I couldn't really argue their choice.
Awesome, can’t wait to replicate the resounding successes of alcohol and drug prohibition. Alcohol usage dropped to zero throughout the 1920s and there were no unintended consequences right?
Ask HN: What sites should I have in my RSS feed?
I recently switched to RSS and I'm really enjoying how distraction-free reading is. (For anyone looking to do the same, I highly recommend NextCloud News if you have a server for cross-platform syncing). However, my RSS feeds are a little thin. Turns out finding RSS feeds is difficult, and finding ones that work well with the entire article and not just a header is next to impossible. What are some good websites with in-depth thoughtful articles that I can get via RSS? I honestly don't care about the content, just looking for material I can read and feel like I've learned, or expanded my own thoughts, distraction free.
I bet it's a bitch to learn addition or multiplication using Roman numerals!
Same thing that happens with everything else. They patronize a different service provider.
Interesting. What is your SaaS offering and how does it relate to the open source product?
Thanks, I look forward to reading it!
The latest Garmin fitness trackers have up to 36 hours battery life with GPS. They're designed for use by long-course triathletes and ultramarathon runners.
Coroutines are not quite threads, but then, they don't require a scheduler. They're also not quite firstclass continuations, but then, they're simpler to implement, simpler to use, and don't have the same implications for the rest of the language and implementation design. Still, they can do some of the things you might otherwise use threads or firstclass continuations for; and as reikonomusha points out, those things can be quite difficult to do otherwise in a clean way.

I'm sure some of the implementors (though not Symbolics, of course) would have been unenthusiastic about their inclusion, but still I wish it had been done.
Can someone explain why the amazon area needs to be developed at all? If there is no opportunity for development in the amazon area, people should move to where the opportunities are, rather than destroying such a unique and valuable area.
I'm both surprised and skeptical. It makes me wonder whether there's a larger story, now lost... Perhaps the archetypal occurrence was someone famously humorless, and their outburst was forever burned into the minds of those present. Or perhaps the first instance was on the estate of a noble who thought it funny and insisted everyone else find it funny, too...
Any web service from amazon is usually on the pricey side of normal.
>For example, a child who says "horse" when the word was "house" is probably relying too much on visual, or graphic, cues. A teacher in this case would encourage the child to pay more attention to what word would make sense in the sentence.

WTF? Wouldn't you just tell the child to slow down, look at the letters that make up the word, and speak the word out loud? This makes zero sense whatsoever
This type of wall looks quite unsafe, especially at night. It seems easy to fall off the top
of the wall into the ditch.
O-O is a state of mind and can be implemented in nearly all algorithmic languages, you just need senior people who know WTF they are doing. And I've seen a lot of spaghetti non-o-o code in places like the Google web crawler even though there are class definitions there are no actual objects.
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I am constantly learning from my own internal dialogue. Maybe the note taker is trying to arrive at a better understanding of something on their own.
The resistance to technological innovations is a very well-established human practice. I've shared Bernhard J. Stern's "Resistances to the Adoption of Technological Innovations" (1935) multiple times -- it's because I find it highly illuminating and well worth reading.

Original: https://archive.org/details/technologicaltre1937unitrich/pag... (faint copy)

Re-typed / markdown: https://pastebin.com/raw/Bapu75is (updated and corrected from April, 2019 version.)
Except, as they admit, it's not rare meat?

Just a gambling group.
How's the outgoing/ingress bandwidth comparison? Outgoing bandwidth is expensive on AWS.
I feel like a bit of a wet blanket saying this, but it's roughly equivalent to Google making its motto, "Don't be evil." Gestures are nice; actions better beget true intentions.
If you choose to download and not store your copy after consuming the media, that's your choice.

Streaming takes that choice away from the user in the first place. With nothing gained in exchange.
I haven't found this to be the case in most places I've worked. Notable exceptions were a startup where everyone was just trying to figure each other out or had mental energy they had to find a way to use up. Rarely there will be that person that's annoyingly trying to 1-up everything but that's not too common.