skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Knowledge of SQL databases at which level? DBA level? Programmer level?

The distinction is important because when recruiters ask "do you know SQL databases?", 99% of the time they mean "have you used one, and can you write a query with joins?" or "do you know how to create indexes?". The almost never mean "do you understand how a database is implemented?" or "do you know the difference between consistency and isolation levels?".
This was my experience also. My mom taught me phonics at home, while my peers learned whole language at school. And (quite possibly as a result) I was reading much longer books at a much earlier age than my peers.
Phonetic spelling is probably the greatest invention in written languages since paper.

I am constantly amazed that teachers on the front lines fail to recognize this. I'm saddened that UI designers keep replacing phonetically spelled words with icons and emojis.
My prediction is that he'll feel different when he's 75...
DeepMind: Douglas Adams was right–knowledge without understanding is meaningless
They're capitalizing NASA wrong throughout. It's irritating.
But mostly, it's a graveyard of unanswered questions.
> "There was once a workman who made a glass cup that was unbreakable. So he was given an audience of the Emperor with his invention; he made Caesar give it back to him and then threw it on the floor. Caesar was as frightened as could be. But the man picked up his cup from the ground: it was dented like a bronze bowl; then he took a little hammer out of his pocket and made the cup quite sound again without any trouble. After doing this he thought he had himself seated on the throne of Jupiter, especially when Caesar said to him: 'Does anyone else know how to blow glass like this?' Just see what happened. He said not, and then Caesar had him beheaded. Why? Because if his invention were generally known we should treat gold like dirt. " (Satyricon 51)

This apocryphal story on economic incentives vs progressive incentives is as relevant today as it was 2000 years ago.
How do you define "political"? Slippery slope.
His aunt is the first foreigner who got "Chinese green card"(Permenent Residency in China). Very famous couple in China long time ago.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_Hinton
Time on it’s own is not enough as the faster the boat goes the more fuel it consumes per hour.

That said, at each specific speed you get a rate as x gallons per hour.
"through" and "tough" aren't hard, because by the time the reader is exposed to them they are well trained in phonics and are able to handle exceptions to the rules with little difficulty.

I learned to read with Dick+Jane, but was taught phonetic reading.

I remember looking over my mom's shoulder while she read books that were just walls of text. I couldn't read, and thought reading was some magical skill. It was pretty exciting to learn to read and then I could read anything. It was like someone turned the lights on.
There's something to be said about the utility of old analog systems during emergency situations -- which is part of the responsibility of the FCC to account for.

Dead phones and offline towers are not unheard of in disaster situations.

For example: https://twitter.com/CarmenScurato/status/910957644256546817
The reason for this debate is that different IQ levels require different techniques. Higher IQ students will be more able to apply patterns and systems from phonics to words seen for the first time.

Lower IQ students tend to struggle with mapping systems onto new material. So the more brute force systems, like memorizing whole words, tends to have more success.

We see similar things in learning mathematics.
There is a reading comprehension system[0] which combines visual association (pictures) with various forms of word identification (spelling, phonemes, sentence composition, etc.).

In short, associating pictures with the words which describe them in various comprehension exercises, increasing in difficulty based on progress, has shown to help students in their reading comprehension.

Perhaps this can help some parents out there.

0 - http://www.explodethecode.com/
Clojure is not a particularly cryptic or difficult language so maybe a refresher in the language and standard library might help.
> If we put ethnicity ahead of national origin America can’t claim anything to its name. Period.

It's silly to put ethnicity ahead of national origin, though, since one of America's biggest qualities it that it is a melting pot.
This feels like saying "If we put learning curve ahead of type safety Haskell can't claim anything to its name. Period." It's true, but kinda vacuous.
I wish I knew how I could avoid feeling so helpless.

Try to leave at a time of your choosing. Try to set some parameters or goals for how/when to do that, such as paying down debt, having a savings cushion or lining up another job.

Control some piece of it to some degree.
An ah! ah! wall?
Somewhat unrelated, but I was given a copy of Microsoft Visual C++ 6 and MSDN documentation, and in the samples, was the source code for an early version of WordPad. It was an old MFC app. I wonder if Notepad was an MFC app originally too.
Amazon fires: Fines for environmental crimes drop under Bolsonaro
Ask HN: How Old Are You?
I'm nearly 50. Been online professionally since about '94.

Chose 'online' as my 'place of work' back then and never looked back.
Instagram influencers: Have we stopped believing?
anecdotal of course but i know me and many of my friends dont buy $60 games with microtransactions (of any kind), or games with lootboxes. we're ok with not playing overwatch or EA/ActiBliz/Ubisofts latest cash-grab at the expense of not feeling like we're being manipulated/shafted 24/7
I'm just curious how the averages change in life. And in communities. Particularly pseudo-anonymous ones like this.
Maybe tenors are seen as worth developing because it is so much more rare than a male baritone?

I’m not sure your hypothesis has any weight, but I do sympathize with you ;).

OTOH, I suspect many of the falsetto and high male voices are more successful in an autotune era because of the sweet sauce that even a small application of autotune gives a vocal recording. The Weeknd’s mixing engineer has professed to using a little autotune on everything because that’s what people are used to hearing, i would be surprised if other popular artists aren’t using at least a little autotune for flavor. It really stabilizes and adds a sweetness to an otherwise shaky or weak falsetto / high male head voice.
The food in those areas is also insanely sugar and fat oriented. It made sense back when people were doing hard farming work 15 hours a day and needed the calories. But the cuisine didn't change, if anything it got sweeter. When I'm traveling, I run into difficulty finding low calorie dishes when passing through rural areas and now basically simply don't eat there. It's infectious: the asian cuisines found in rural areas has nothing to do with actual asian food. Expect deep fried chicken drenched in actual sugar syrup in most dishes. Because nothing else will sell so the restaurant owners adapt. It's not surprising to look around and see so many people that are waddling around, driving around stores little electric cart things, with pasty acne riddled skin, thin hair falling out in clumps, and generally looking like they are at death's door despite being under 40.
There's very little overhead with docker, and considerable security benefits when running a stranger's code from the internet.

I also find it much easier to `docker run ...` than to clone, install deps, build, and run.

If you would rather compile and run it yourself, that's always an option.
Argument Invention from First Principles
Which is to say, there is no tipping point?
I know a couple high-powered executives who have to fly all over the world and meet tough deadlines. They love routine. They love staying at the exact same hotel every time they’re in town, meeting me at the same restaurant we always go to, etc. They love seeing me because I’m someone from their “real life” who just happens to be in the city they’re rushing through. They also know a lot of the waiters, security guards, building staff, etc they see each day by name. This constrained routine and rich social life seems key to their mental health and when mental health is good, physical health is easier to invest in. And vice-versa of course. But I think people forget that it’s hard to eat broccoli when you really just want to cry.

I wonder whether anyone could do it. I tried traveling all the time for work and I just kept getting sick. But, I also didn’t like that job and resented it taking me away from my home city.
I’m guessing visits around 12PM and around 7PM
True, and important because it can cause awful outcomes, but in my experience people are generally just operating from a different set of priors, perspectives, and incentives.

As they say about paranoia, sometimes they really are out to get you. But you probably shouldn’t live life assuming that all the time.
They use this technique in the Singaporean Zoo.
Don't worry, they do the same thing to everyone, including the President. Making up quotes, that is.
In the early 00s I went to upgrade the RAM in my father’s pre-built PC and was confronted with two sticks that had been welded in. It was a bit too bizarre for me to be overly upset.
How to Read 2 Books a Week
We still use their numbering system today, in prefaces and clocks!
This includes a huge number of arrests for crossing the border.

If you ignore immigration crimes, non-U.S. citizens are less likely to commit crimes than U.S. citizens.

Without context, this is a textbook case of lying with statistics.
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I think he argues against extending life at the cost of quality of life, the title is a bit misleading.
Yes, I've seen OOP etc. done in C. As you say, it's awful, and so people don't do it. People devise their algorithms and data structures in ways that work smoothly with the language's features.

I'm sure you can compute sine and cosine tables using Roman numerals, too. But it would be so awfully ugly and tedious it's hardly a surprise that few would consider attempting it.
Clojure isn’t “Java family” any more than anything running on top if a C runtime is C family. Clojure is also a lot more if a functional programming language than Common Lisp is.

I also disagree with you on C++. Cc+11 was a fantastic improvement, C++14 added some missing stuff — at this point I was sold and eagerly awaiting C++17 — but when 17 arrivd and when I saw what 20 adds... it has become so complex that I don’t understand it at all anymore. I used to scoff at the people who said C++ was too complex, but after ~18 years of using the language its now reached a point where I am no longer comfortable using it. I see code that uses C++17 and recently 20 and I have no idea what its doing anymore. I am no longer confident that I can write safe, non bug-ridden code in C++.
The registrar for the domain is likely GoDaddy.

There is absolutely nothing special about Domains by Proxy.

If you place your domain with eg Cloudflare, they'll conceal your registration information. Dozens of other prominent registrars will do the same thing for either free and inexpensively.
Probably the discovery of solid state devices and the invention of the digital computer is more important than the "Internet"
I came from a big family, and I have 6 children.

I have taught all my children to read using McGuffey. I helped many of my siblings learn to read. Much of the discussion around phonics is missing the point.

It is a caricature to say that "phonetic" reading is completely phonetic to the exclusion of sight reading. This is binary thinking. Nobody teaches it that way.

The goal is not and never was to read phonetically ever after. In fact, from very early on, the concept of "sight words" is introduced. The phonetic method is a bridge and a tool to internalize words. The goal is to recognize words effortlessly, without thought.

So what is the difference between the old phonetic methods, the later sight methods, and the modern (debunked) contextual methods?

It's all about where you start. The phonetic method uses phonics as its foundational concept. You begin with the sounds, and you learn the exceptions as you go. But even the exceptions are aided by phonetics. Most "sight" words still have enough of a phonetic component to clue the reader into what's going on.

Sight reading, on the other hand, assumes the reader will pick up enough phonics as they go along, contextually. But with this method, everything must be learned by rote. The "bridge" of having phonetic tools at your disposal is not taught.

Now some children are simply sight readers, and do poorly with phonics. Not all minds are alike. But even sight readers benefit from having a foundation in phonics.
The Path to Dijkstra’s Handwriting (2013)
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Airport security: 3D baggage scanners could end liquid restrictions
The rise of technology was not so much the birth of new capacities, but the removal of old constraints.

China, despite a much larger and more educated population, did not spark the industrial revolution. Their feedback loops were too stable, their elites too competent.

From the perspective of the old power hierarchy, the industrial revolution was a disaster.

The nobility floated on that great cruel ocean first charted by Malthus, an ocean which began to boil.
You manage what you measure, and we have been measuring over/under on task time almost exclusively for at least twenty years.
> The reason for this debate is that different IQ levels need different techniques.

"IQ levels" are almost impossible to measure objectively, excluding medically identified learning disabilities. Reading comprehension difficulties are less a function of fluid intelligence (commonly called "IQ"), and more so environmentally induced. Examples of this are, but not limited to:

- Instability at home

- Lack of parental involvement

- Prejudice, explicit or subliminal, by school staff.

- Hunger and/or fatigue

- Dejection resulting from some combination of the above.
Lovers gonna love, haters gonna hate.
typed: angryangels, got Angry chicken xD
Yes, agreed. That being said, there are languages (without naming names) that lend themselves to readability by others and those that don't.
That explains why sometimes the talktotransformer samples are so short!
I think the point is that for early readers three-cueing (MSV) is counter-productive as it neglects the skill of identifying the words themselves. Reading must come before reading comprehension. Just like you have to memorize numbers before you can do basic arithmetic, or learn algebraic notation before you can learn algebra--that is, algebra as a tool for exploring and applying higher-order mathematical concepts.

It seems to me that MSV is precisely the method that illiterate people use to fake literacy. Likewise for people who've developed a very minimal foreign language proficiency--they can get by in certain contexts but they're not in a position to constructively build fluency. If MSV were sufficient alone such people (and I include myself when it comes to foreign language proficiency) wouldn't be stuck at a dead-end.

MSV is obviously an essential skill, just not for acquiring foundational literacy. For one thing, early readers already understand the vocabulary. At that age they wouldn't be reading words like "benign" or even "tough"--some children might not fully understand them, but in any event learning to identify and distinguish such words is unnecessary at that stage. The primary task is to teach them how to identify enough of their existing vocabulary on the page that they can read sentences, paragraphs, pages, books, etc--enough to support basic narratives and concepts, especially unfamiliar ones. Only once they can read proficiently can reading become an independent channel for language acquisition and comprehension, where higher-order reasoning skills like MSV can be constructively applied, including toward furthering their literacy.
Oooh, that brings back memories of college
Why do you think they're getting less attention?
If the loot boxes or micro-transactions are only for cosmetic items, I don’t mind them. If something is pay to win, I won’t play it.
No I intentionally only work the 37.5hours I'm contracted to and no more, hoping to get it down to 30hours this year. I'd only ever make an exception to that if I was working for myself.
Trump adds tarrifs to 550B of Chinese imports in trade war reprisal
If I had to guess, the individuals demanding that google employees be allowed to debate political subjects because "everything is political" are the same people who would argue that consumers of google's services shouldn't expect that google won't censor them. An odd position to take if you ask me.
It's still shitty. General lack of ethics and honesty is not some moral high ground that sits above mere classism and contempt for the poor and presumed powerless.
Money, engineering talent, and virtually infinite resources to continue research
OP specified civilized countries.
> I'm sure you can compute sine and cosine tables using Roman numerals, too. But it would be so awfully ugly and tedious it's hardly a surprise that few would consider attempting it.

Ptolemy’s table of chords was calculated in base 60 (inherited from Mesopotamians), by probably a Roman citizen living in Egypt and writing in Greek.

It was probably done on some kind of a counting board analogous to the ones used for decimal calculations. Hellenistic mathematicians didn’t do written arithmetic either.

And yes, making such tables is inherently “awfully ugly and tedious”, unless you have an electronic calculator to do it for you.
Even if a tiny amount was sequestered each year over the course of 55 million years there would be a huge pile of carbon there. But it isn’t there, is it?
Rent seeking is commonly defined as seeking to extract economic gain without contributing back a benefit. Whether you like the project/funding approach or not, it doesn't seem to fit the accusation of "rent seeking".
> Phonetic spelling is probably the greatest invention in written languages since paper.

> I am constantly amazed that teachers on the front lines fail to recognize this.

Some have. One system which embodies what you desire in interactive multimedia form is:

http://www.explodethecode.com/02_how/
Okay, I'm seriously impressed, this is amazing! Congrats on launching.
Here's some counterpoints to the other points made:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3522469/

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23181629

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23630060
I wish I could say the same. I seem to be the only one of my friends willing to take a hard stance on these things. They view the situation as it still being better than just not playing a new video game, even though they might be getting screwed over. It’s really frustrating to be honest, because I can tell I’ve ended up ostracizing myself over it.
I've seen OOP code written in Fortran-10. It blew my mind at the time (I didn't even know it was called OOP until years later).

But only once. And probably by someone who had learned OOP in another language that was built around OOP.

I was in the C business before, during, and after the OOP revolution. I never saw any OOP attempts in C before C++ came along and popularized OOP. Many C programmers didn't want to move to C++, and were determined to make it work in C. It did work, but the result was kinda hideous and terribly fragile (had to throw type safety out the window with all the necessary casting).

> I don't know of anyone else who has written a working C++ compiler almost by themselves

Neither do I :-) Thanks for the kind words.
A Hon-Hon is a Ha-Ha where the incline leads directly into a tunnel.
You choose all of those things when choosing a partner for making a baby the old-fashioned way. Why is it Ok in that case but not this one?
Check this out: http://www.thefreshloaf.com/node/37259/mythbusters-grain-yea...

It seems like the source of microorganisms is from the input grain itself, not what's in the air.
my initial reply was a post about oil mining in the amazon...

Additionally tectonic plates move, 55 million years ago the amazon probably wasn't even there. Additionally oil found on land could've been produced by biomass under the ocean and vice versa it's all moving around all the time. Likely the oil found underneath the amazon could have been produced at a time where that tectonic plate was under water.
The social dynamics of groups are really interesting.

I'm in a Facebook group for vegans, where people continually justify eating things that have meat byproducts in them because they're convenient or they "don't believe its actually there" even though something is labeled as such. Its quite comical. I also just stopped participating because it was ridiculous.
It seems that you don't even need something as complicated as a ladder, a sufficiently long and sturdy plank could act as a ramp. Make the wall ADA compatible.
150 million kilometers = 150 gigameters
Dynamic and functional. Lazy evaluation. Real immutable data structures. Core.async. A modern lisp not constrained by the exclusive use of parens, ie. [] for vectors and {} for sets & maps as with JS, Python and Ruby. Real REPL-driven development. Macros. Spacemacs with CIDER. Polymorphism which beats OOP at its own game. Massive Java ecosystem at your fingertips plus 25000 pure Clojure libraries and last, but by no means least - a rock 'n roll BDFL with a mullet.
Yeah, I've seen that table. It was just a few entries, if I recall correctly. Few enough that one could have gotten the numbers by using drawings instead of calculation. And there were errors in it, too.

> And yes, making such tables is inherently “awfully ugly and tedious”,

Yup, but people did make such extensive tables long before calculators, many thousands more entries than that chord table, and far more accurately.
We will be remembered for our most important achievement: bringing high speed access to cat pictures to the masses.
I have fixed this in https://oilshell.org/ :

https://www.oilshell.org/release/0.7.pre3/doc/osh-manual.htm...

Well actually there's one more thing I want to fix:

https://github.com/oilshell/oil/issues/179

That will fix your case, because foo is a function, and the disabling of errexit in || is indeed problematic there.

Please subscribe to the bug, or feel free to e-mail at andy@oilshell.org if you want to know when it's fixed. I have another person "on the line" (author of envdir I believe) who also wants this fixed.

It would be great to have you both try this out and verify that errexit in Oil has no more pitfalls :)
This is how these fertility doctors are caught. Their illicit offspring find matches for half siblings on genealogy sites.
That's why one doesn't usually do these deeply personal things that are probably completely illegal while they are on their job site and using systems that do not belong to them for those activities. Guarantee there's something very specific about it in the policy agreements they signed before getting anywhere near the possibility of takeoff.

Training for this kind of work most definitely includes grappling with the fact that you're going to be away for a while, and customarily "personal issues" at such distances will not be private. Especially when laws are allegedly broken.

Unless they installed SpaceTOR, I suppose. Then they can do all the illegal online dirty work they wish. Allegedly.
The deepfake artists must be stopped
The Amazon does not burn naturally. Fires there are man made to clear land for agriculture.
If I go to a restaurant's website I want to know two, maybe there things, their hours, the menu, and possibly their phone number/reservation link. I have never wanted anything else.