skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm going to provide some anecdata. As a new father, you get to talking with a number of new parents too, with kids that are similar in age to your own. One of the potential downsides to this is that when you talk about your kids, you start to compare them to each other and create a competition where none should exist. It's hard, but as a new parent, you should really try to avoid this and instead focus on nurturing your child to be the best he/she can be.

(Aside: what's the currently accepted pronoun there? I was always taught "they" is incorrect grammar, but without devolving this discussion, that seems to be accepted now?)

My son is 13 months old now, and crawls like a maniac, ever since he was roughly 5 months old. Very social, talkative, active, all those good things. Pulls up and stands all the time, can climb in and out of toy vehicles, climbs stairs, all of that. When I hold him while he stands, he is barely putting any weight on me. Even if he's not walking, he should be able to stand on his own. But he doesn't, and he absolutely refuses to do so. He sees cousins and other big kids walking, and isn't afraid to crawl to them and play, but it doesn't inspire him to walk.

We know a lot of other kids that are younger than him, his age, or a few months older, and they are walking. He's stronger and more capable than them, but they're walking and he isn't.

My wife and I comment on this fact all the time, about how it seems that walking has nothing to do with strength, and it's more about readiness. I doubt that my son isn't walking because he's not strong enough, nor is it because he doesn't have a good environment, save for the fact that I'm not pushing him to walk (i.e. I'm enjoying the calm before the storm.)

Readiness for walking is definitely dependent on a number of factors, but I'm willing to bet that genetics is a big part of it too. Apparently I didn't really walk until I was 2 years old.

Babies and walking is a very interesting phenomenon that really lets you see into the working of genetics and environment.
Deerfield bets on NYC, blueprints $635M biotech hub in midtown Manhattan
"Exile" is far, far from "imprisoned".

Many people, introverts, like me, are more annoyed by people than needing company. I've dreamed about living in exile out in the wilderness (it's too much effort and risk for me so I haven't). Other's have done it voluntarily.

It's vastly better than prison.
Also, you learn from missing deadlines. So having deadlines must be valuable even if you consistently miss them.
So, do you believe the general public should create a list of past government employed individuals and ban them from accessing the job market? That completely has no chance, what so ever, to have any negative repercussions in time. But draws the line to solve the problem you're having. Then no one with a conflicting interest from the gov can persuade their opinion into the public through private enterprise means.
Nuclear reactors are dispatchable in theory, but it's not economical in practice. One nice thing about nuclear reactors is that they can run more or less wide open for long periods of time. But the flip side of that is that the operational cost isn't driven by fuel consumption. It costs about the same to operate a reactor whether you run it at 100% capacity or 10% capacity.

So the financial models for reactors are built around selling electricity at a certain price and a certain capacity for several decades, maybe as long as 50 years. Most of the cost is up-front, which makes it very capital-sensitive. And capital is risk-sensitive, so unpredictability in energy prices and the risk of less expensive alternatives appearing (which is exactly what has happened over the past decade, with three different sources coming it at half the price of nuclear) raises the risk, which makes the capital much more expensive, which makes the reactor that much more expensive, which raises the price targets they need to hit, and thus... at a certain point, it makes zero economic sense to build reactors. It doesn't even make sense to keep running reactors we already have, which is why many are shutting down years ahead of their official end-of-life plans (and causing hundreds of millions, maybe billions, in sunk cost, which has an impact on risk...)

Dispatchability means NOTHING. There's a reactor in Iowa that's getting closed because it lost key industrial customers to cheaper wind. It can't be operated profitably at 50% power.
When you #define hippie whoever you want it to mean then I guess anyone is as greedy as anyone else.
The companies which consumers generally have no choice about (landline ISPs) complaining about antitrust with a company that I'm one click away from abandoning for a competitor. This is rich.
> Ships have the advantage of being able to dump waste in the middle of the ocean where there is little to no life (too deep, no light, no plants. There is some life). Compared to what other, land based, industries do this is comparatively benign. Here the waste gets diluted by an essentially infinite sink.

There is life everywhere that there is a temperature gradient to exploit. Just because we haven't named it doesn't mean it isn't there. There's life in ices, life at the top of mountains, life in the deep ocean, and life in the shallow places. So I would prefer to err on the side of caution.

By the way, the same arguments you're making for dumping sulfurous water were also made for the introduction of PEG into our toothpastes, shampoos, body wash, lotions, and various other cleaners. It was only after the same plastics were discovered at all levels of our food chain that someone realized it was actually a bad idea to do this. So I'm skeptical of any argument for dumping based on the small quantity of dumped materials. Humans are really good at scaling up small actions into huge consequences. And now there's plastic microbeads in our oceans, lakes, streams, fish, birds, game animals--basically anything that eats anything has measurable quantities.
> When someone is lying, the passive voice is a very common choice of words.

The passive voice was used to write this sentence.
> I'm afraid I won't be able to find interesting work with just a MSc, and I'm really afraid of getting a boring software engineering gig.

This is probably true. Most jobs you'll get with a BS+Msc are going to be app development. Web, mobile, server... pick your flavor. You'll largely be using tools developed by other people, to build applications.

The really interesting jobs are absolutely held by Phds. But that's not to say that having a Phd guarantees you'll get one of those jobs.

I think if you have the option to get a Phd, hunker down, and do it. The industry is headed for a correction in salaries soon. Way too easy of work is being done for 100k+ salaries. When that correction happens, you're going to be happy that you have a Phd and are doing work in a much more challenging field that warrants the pay.
Interesting article let down by in irrelevant title. Nothing in there about how the world needs oil.
I think there's a class of narcissist that doesn't really have knowledge and beliefs as much as they have desires and things to say that get them closer to their desires.

So in some sense I think asking what Adam Neumann and Elizabeth Holmes really believe is a category error. Knowing the truth makes lying really hard. If you spend a lot of time figuring out what's true, that builds mental habits that make lying feel bad. But if mostly ignore "true", then it's much easier to focus only on what Nixon's press secretary called the "operative statement" [1]. For narcissist CEOs, I think they treat the objective truth like a child sometimes treats a scary closet: if they never look at it or think about it, it's not a problem.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2003/02/16/weekinreview/the-nation-t...
Should gambling be illegal? If you believe in human freedom then no, it shouldn't, so maybe you're barking up the wrong tree here. Let's focus on the fact that A) this practice is generally turning the AAA industry into grindy garbage and B) this stuff is targeted towards kids
Ask HN: How to get first clients as a freelance consultant?
Depth charts in college sports already work to even out the teams. The reason a top QB recruit would go to Notre Dame instead of USC is because USC already has 3 top ranked QBs and you wouldn't get any playing time until your senior year. Whereas at a lower tier school that same recruit might be able to start much earlier and therefore be able to enter the league draft earlier. Obviously this doesn't solve the problem 100% but you already see recruits taking this into account when signing and in some cases even transferring.
I would have said share holders
I don't know what the aggregate statistics are, so I don't know the data says about this at the societal level. But at the individual level, I think it is more accurate to say this varies and it may work with some people but not others.

There is a thing that officially gets called Oppositional Defiant Disorder where you have a kid whose wiring boils down to You can't make me! Neither of my sons has been given such a diagnosis, but that's perhaps in part because I recognized that trying to force issues as a routine thing or be dictatorial with them would be counterproductive.

As a parent, I didn't use a punishment model because I believed that would backfire with my kids. Maybe it kind of works with some kids, but I was sure that would be a case of "There will be hell to pay" in my home.

Studies typically show that every dollar invested in the health, welfare and education of preschoolers saves multiple dollars down the line on things like prison. Of course, we still need some means to address the issue when things go sideways, but it's problematic to focus overly much on addressing problems at that late stage.

We have jokes about "the third world country of America" because America does a relatively poor job of designing a society that generally works for most people and prevents issues as much as possible. Instead, we deal with problems after they develop at a point when they are much harder to address and when any optimal outcomes are no longer possible.
The 4th option is to disallow teams who are in states that violate the bylaws from joining post season play at NCAA events (basketball), and to lobby CFP committee to do the same.

I believe the NCAA will go with option 4, then once more states pass the same laws, eventually go to option 3.*

D0 is not really on the table because it is dilutive to 'P5' school earnings vs today's system of pretending to include G5 while excluding them from the big payouts.

*The reason they will go with option 4 is that the only conference impacted by the law will be the Pac 12. While Larry Scott (Pac 12 commissioner) is probably not happy, he can't really move the needle for the NCAA like Big10/SEC could. If this law get enacted in Florida, that would be the tipping point to go to option 3. Going with option 4 today really only leaves the Rose Bowl as the only loose end.
Ask HN: What to do with a business I no longer want?
I bootstrapped an e-commerce business many years ago and it has always been just myself. It is in a niche I no longer care about and have little desire to keep operating it. It has always been profitable enough to keep it going, but not profitable enough to scale it or bring on employees.

I offered it to people in my network, then listed it with a broker, but did not result in a sale. The business is not complicated but also not a simple SaaS or FBA that most buyers seem to want. A fair valuation is likely high five-figures.

What have others done in this scenario? While it is running I don't have much time to work on something new/different and I feel it would be a shame to shut down a profitable and established business, but there is also opportunity cost for me to keep running it.
Beautifully put, with afterward from Milton Freidman putting it into context.
Ted Chiang's The Lifecycle of Software Objects. What happens when support for the platform for your artificial mind is deprecated? (or in this case, your child's). Warning: heartbreaking.
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Ok, but with competition he probably would have had more pressure to publish sooner and more often.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Taste_of_Armageddon
Classic situation faced repeatedly throughout one's career -- I used the word nuance just yesterday!

Lest we forget, stack exchange is already rising from the ashes of the 'Experts Exchange' if anyone remembers that --
I'm certain the crazies weren't entirely random, just as the sudden rise of the Tea Party at the time wasn't entirely grassroots.
The overwhelming majority of top college players have negligible chances of playing in the NFL. The potential rewards for a high school player getting paid ASP generally dwarfs any long term career prospects.
I agree completely. I truly don't care for sports, despite attending several of my alma mater's football games, but I've always felt the same way.

Why are college players limited to "scholarships" (which are essentially 100% tuition coverage, 100% on-campus food/dining coverage, and a $1500 scooter to get around -- of course nothing to scoff at when compared to a student taking out loans for the same education), while the colleges rake in millions?

Colleges - at least the one I attended - make a ridiculous amount of money off these games via tickets and merchandise, the latter even when the team is in the off-season. There's a reason why colleges are able to pay their coaches millions. (My own alma mater left a "bad" coach with a multi-million dollar severance package.)
Anyone claiming that the F-35 is invisible is either uninformed or propagandizing.
debug and safe modes in zig disallow overflows entirely unless you specifically use the wrapping operator to clearly specify your intent. These checks are removed in speed-optimized builds.

In other words, the compiler will enforce that `a + b` does not overflow through all your testing and wherever you explicitly say such checks are required, but turns them into nops for you when you desire speed. You can let the compiler know that you explicitly want wrapping overflow (and not some undefined kind) using the wrapping operator `a +% b`.
Oh man, what a fantastic film. It's a been a while since I saw Margin Call, but I still feel like it's one of the films that best captured the 2008 financial crisis. Jeremy Irons' portrayal of a Goldman CEO-like character — I think he's the one who delivers the line you quoted — remains probably the most convincing portrayal of that type of person I can remember.

The wonderful board room scene:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hhy7JUinlu0
Google helped kill off Amazon's smartphone, emails allege
University teams in the US have a storied history. The University of Alabama isn't going to shutdown Crimson Tide so that they can work with out of state NFL teams.
The context is "but has failed to be a research hub, in contrast to rich city states like Singapore."

Are these city states research hubs? Hong Kong or Liechtenstein perhaps.
Please check your facts:
https://ziglang.org/documentation/master/#Integer-Overflow
Yes, but this is at a time when the overall market is close to an all-time high.

What happens when the inevitable correction comes? The Fed will run out of monetary tricks, eventually.
Uber is preparing for a future with self-driving cars. If they are the network to rent those cares, they will make back everything and more. The manufacturers and even the self-driving software won't matter. All that matters is being the app that summons the rides.

The network is not as defensible as facebook, but all the other players would have to stick together to dethrone them.
One could argue that it's not "different enough" seeing as how it ostensibly functions the same as React from a bird's eye view. However it takes learning both to understand the strengths and weaknesses, an uneducated assessment wouldn't be enough. All I'm saying is that if you're curious, find out. Don't drag your company into it but learn in your free time. It doesn't actually take all that long to pick up a framework.
It's rather simple, the assumption that the industry is for the players is incorrect.

The industry will loudly tell you it's about the athletes. That's bullshit.
This shifts much of the power from the legislature to the court. 'Something shifty' can be very broad.
"The fall of communism, in a strict Marxist view of the world, is an abomination,..."

Ok, but would Marxism understand the societies that have called themselves communist as being such - my understanding is the common argument is that they are not truly communist and that no, Marx would not have considered them as such. As this post doesn't seem to even address that argument I find it highly suspect, as well argued as it would otherwise appear.
most negative reviews have nothing to do with the actual product - its usually complaints about the poor packaging or late delivery time
As much as we'd like to draw a sharp line between "Real Businesses" and "Frauds," so much of it actually comes down to whether you can match your ambitions to the amount of money you're likely to raise.

Think about the construction of the Panama Canal. The first few attempts were total fails, because canal-building technology wasn't as advanced as people thought, and eventually the funders got tired of what they perceived as "throwing good money after bad."

Eventually the canal did get built. Technology improved and the winning venture had enough funding to make it happen.

As a thought experiment, if We/Neumann/Softbank had enough money to buy or lease all the great real estate in the world, and to educate all the population in We schools, so that they needed/wanted We offices when they grew up, it could have ruled the world. Putting it that bluntly makes it sound silly, which is probably the right way to view the Neumann era in retrospect.

But when We's future liquidity seemed almost endless, it was possible to dream big dreams. What got them undone is the reality that capital markets do not stay giddy forever. At the top of every cycle, there's always someone who ginned up an enormous flop -- losing their funding partway through for a dream that would not work without more capital.
>It simply allows athletes to make money from their own brand. Not sure how anyone can be against this.

Indeed. I'm not necessarily opposed to amateur sports remaining "amateur" (whatever that looks like). But the fact that these athletes aren't allowed to make money from their likeness on their personal social media accounts is preposterous.

Trying to go pro is not easy. Most people dedicate their entire young lives to the effort and end up with nothing to show for it.
> Similar for heavy metals. These dissolve into salt water, and were already present in solution since the dawn of time. We won't change those numbers significantly. (again, assuming you're not dumping it just off of land like the Japanese did in the 50s)

This is not true. Due to biomagnification, there is already significant contamination of fish stocks with (methyl)mercury:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercury_in_fish
Or, you know, the truth leans heavily on one side, considering that there's not a single one even remotely relevant fact checking organization on the other one.
If the partnership between tech and the US government were as tight as you might think, we wouldn't be losing so badly on the information warfare front.

The fact is that the United States has such a massive bureaucracy between itself private innovation. If we had anyone dual-employed in both government and the private sector, they're in the latter because they can'd do anything useful for the former.
They describe themselves as Marxist-Lenninist. Lmfao. OK sure.
> There's not going to be much national demand for a state-only organization

Uh, this would be true of many states but not of states like CA/TX/FL.

There would absolutely be demand for a CA-only athletic organization.

There's a reason California did this and not, say, Alaska (no offense to Alaska of course).
Don't college athletes already have the same right to profit from endorsements as college students that non-athlete college students have? And then they get additional subsidized opportunities for being athletes?

What I am saying is that all college students have the same rights to profit from their endorsements as "college students" whether they are athletes or not.
I'm interested in the justification for this. The following link says about 25% of US GHG emissions are from coal, but coal burning makes up the vast majority GHG emissions for electricity production.

https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/index.php?page=environme...
GPS, Galileo and More: How do they work and what happened during the big outage?
I meant nobody has dug it up for the purpose of ousting Stallman. The fact that it's from 2003 and not exactly secret makes me doubt that it had any significance in Stallman being forced to step down. It looks more like the pitchforks & torches mob first decided they want his head and then looked for justification.
I think that would be problematic because the standard library is still very unstable. You can see from the release notes just how much changed from 0.4.0. A wiki page would be outdated right away.

One of the tenets of my development process with Zig is "avoid local maximums". A wiki for std lib documentation is not the long term solution to the problem, and so I won't be investing any time into it. All my time is invested in the long term solution.
The Borderlands franchise has been criticised for its repetitive grind since the first release.

There's a hashtag dedicated to this complaint (#BOREDerlands) that goes back some years, and it appeared in a yachtzee review.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=sRY3dKpRskE
I want to see graphs that support this assertion. Yes, I expect that in an area with higher income housing becomes more expensive, but so does everything else. Unless you can show data to prove this I really doubt that an increase of median income of X% results in rent increasing X%, I rather suspect the rents increase to some smaller percentage of that together with increase in other things.

Rents are demand and offer, if the offer is perfectly static (no new housing/rental units are being made available) then if you have immigration in an area you should see rental pricing increasing according to that, rather than increase according to medium income.

EDIT: As for solving this with public housing, that'll simply make it that the market price is not reflecting the demand, but it doesn't change the underlying issue that there is more demand than offer. Which means that there will be other ways to "fight" for those limited units (instead of market price it will be "favors" or lottery or "first come first served" which tends to favor existing residents over newer ones).
People used to love Google: what happened?
Well speaking for myself it was obvious to me, but it was NOT obvious it wouldn't work. A lot of companies had successful IPOs with those issues.
Be curious. Follow up on that curiosity with actual experimentation.

You need a big funnel of ideas - read a lot of technical stuff (HN, trade magazines, etc.).

The way to get good ideas is to get lots of ideas and throw the bad ones away.
— Dr. Linus Pauling

Write software for your own use; modify and be involved in open source software that interests you.

Buy eval boards and other hardware that you can experiment with.

People who do great things look at the same world everyone else does, but notice some odd detail that's compellingly mysterious.
— Paul Graham
> No, that's a very caricatured interpretation of Christian theology about stewardship of the environment.

It's a quite accurate view of the particular views expressed by plenty of climate change deniers; there are more robust sets of Christian beliefs about stewardship of the environment, but they don't tend to coexist with vocal climate denial.