skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wasn't trying to single out girls, only that it's an observed pattern that young girls (teens) talk to their friends constantly. It used to be with a phone, now it's probably via multiple ways. AFAIK the same pattern does not exist with young men to the same level. I have no idea why. I only know that it's an observed pattern than fits enough that it's a stereotype.

It's old but it was one of the first hits

https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2010/04/20/chapter-two-...

How teens communicate might have changed but I'm guessing the relative amounts show girls still use it more.

I firmly believe that at some point those same people will embrace full eye AR (not phone AR) as a preferred or common way to communicate over all current methods. Further, I believe that once it's possible for them to do it easily without cumbersome equipment that AR will become mainstream.

It's clearly years out but the fact that I can carry a tiny and relatively light computer on my wrist with display (a smart watch) suggests it might not be that far off to have stylish glasses with similar tech at a price people will pay for once the applications make it clear they want it.

If you asked in 2007 how many non-techies wanted a PDA the answer would likely have been close to 0. Now the answer is close to 100% of them carrying one at all times. I think AR will be no different. What has to happen is they need to go from the bulky Apple Newton level tech of today to something light and useful.
I've learnt basics of Godot game engine. It still a ongoing process but managed to learn it for like a week in my spare time.
Nah. It’s still ambiguous. I also read it to be referring to the state of Georgia in the the US Nation. It would be a lot clearer to say Nation of Georgia. Then there’s no ambiguity.
JSON to YAML is super easy, and back too. That's what we do here. YAML+comments is generated by humans, conver to JSON, merged with JSON made by machines into final JSON configs used by loads of apps. And dumping the whole thing, or parts back out to YAML is trivial.
ERHS is in Prince George's County, which, while well-off as far as majority-black counties go, is far from the wealthiest in the area (due in part to the structural difficulties of building and maintaining black/brown wealth in America). To be frank, it is in one of the wealthier and whiter parts of PG, but it remains a diverse public school that largely draws students from the surrounding community. If Google or Brin were to donate to either the school or the county, it would decrease inequality in comparison to competing jurisdictions (e.g., Montgomery, Fairfax, Anne Arundel, and Loudon Counties, let alone DC itself).

This might not hold for other cases, but it really does in this one.
Being small doesn’t necessarily make you insignificant. Maybe you are, maybe you aren’t, but a vast quantity of completely empty space shouldn’t make you feel that way. It’s empty! Some big rocks? Chunks of ice? Clouds of gas? Who cares?

More terrifying, if you ask me, is the possibility that out of all this stuff we might very well be the only significant thing in all of it.
Why Use Virtual Design and Construction?
Maybe human right to live?
They are different languages and you can be exited for both and want to use both. I think it is unnecessary to have this kind of comment after every statement on other languages as if ones excitement for one would completely take the other one out of the picture.

I would say why I really like Zig is because the minimalism of C is still there in the syntax and it makes a whole lot of very smart choices to keep this simplicity while being so much more expressive than C.

If you really need some Rust pro's I would say it is great as the language that finally brings more of ML and functional ideas into high performance programming. Most languages nowadays have fp things but Rust has it very deep into its core. Other than that it is great to see proof systems reaching the mainstream and the security guarantees its ownership system gives is great.
It’s a fair bit worse than this. Organized crime ensures that power is free for mining.

https://www.wired.com/story/cryptocurrency-boom-post-soviet-...
This has a ton of red flags that are typical of snake-oil crypto.
With modifications, maybe. Like, you don't have to store everything on the service's end until you're ready to delete it. Also we don't seem to have a P2P service with the kind of contract I mentioned.
I get this natural high when I find a breakthrough in a problem. My brain gets amped up and I literally can't focus and finish because of the buzzing sensation. I know it's my cue to get up from my desk and take a walk, usually a 10 to 20 minute walk until my brain settles down.

So having had this happen so much I've come up with an analogy. I love riding my bike and where I live it's really hilly. The best part about hills in this case is that fits the stopping when the going gets good: I change gears when I first climb a hill, making it easier to climb; once I'm close to the top the consistent effort I put into hill climbing pays off. This is where I get to stop pedalling.

Likewise, when working once the answer is there before you, stop, take a break and let your brain coast as it rewards itself with sweet dopamine for doing a good job.

To continue with the analogy, finishing a hard problem is like letting the potential gravitational energy do the work for you. It gives you chance to recuperate and focus on the next hill in front of you.
There is no holding steady. Pouring more money on the situation in the hopes of maintaining the status quo will just get lots of people killed... more than the normal amount of people who usually get killed. Glamour is opium for the masses, it's a high-level mind-control spell cast on oppressed people to confuse and persuade them. Most victims of glamour will never actually have access to the fantastical things that they've witnessed and as they get wise to that, they start to break stuff. Remember the Oktober Revolution komrade? If Tuvalu really leans into that strategy, they'll be setting the course for their own destruction and also depriving the continental world of a good role model for climate hazard mitigation; any effective strategies from the pacific will eventually be exported to continental coasts and interiors as their situations degrade at a slower rate.
You can't really do it in c++ in the same way. If you mess up you will crash on invalid memory reference. With Java, you'll catch a bad cast or a null ref exception instead.
If one assumes some level of constant or near-constant surveillance, I think there's likely some facial recognition or perhaps some kind of matching of your "bio signature" that's going on. These guys swap SIM cards all the time, and are pretty wise to RF tracking at this point.
Which master's degree unlocks the coolest jobs post-grad?
I can make 400k as a FAANG engineer working as a senior swe building cloud apps, APIs, frontends, business logic blah blah.
I have zero interest in continuing with this line of work.
Options:
1.) Pivot job title/responsibility into eng. management of aforementioned types of products.
2.) Pivot nto a more targeted and interesting discipline (robotics, bioinformatics, AI, etc.). Upskill required.
2a.) Do this via a Master's/ PHd.
2b.) Do this with a job transfer (maybe impossible?).
3.) Pivot into the business side of things (sales, product management, etc.)
4.) Run a random startup and hope for the best.

I have a degree in CS and a degree in Applied Math but 10 years of working as a SWE my math skills have certainly deteriorated. Non-target random state school undergrad w/ average GPA, a very high GRE score, and well respected brand name companies on resume (as a SWE).

In terms of my interest in the above options 2 > 3 > 4 >> 1

I know plentttty of PhDs doing menial engineering jobs or stuck in post-doc hell so I'm not sold on a PhD. I could be convinced though depending on certain factors.

The ideal would be a master's program that leads to an actual engineering specialization that is worth it.
Has anybody graduated with a Master's in Robotics, Bioinformatics, Mechatronics, etc. and found the job prospects on the other side to be worth the effort?
If I self studied state-estimation, control theory, and worked at a company doing ROS programming would that get me to the same place?
Really looking forward to someone who can comment on this to break it down for those of us who want to know but can't even. :)
Yes: https://www.ncameron.org/blog/raft-paper/
Shameless plug. https://nojvek.com

It’s a super simple site that I wanted to make minimal and mobile friendly.
+1 - and if you could use zstd with custom dictionary, then you can achieve even better compression ratios
That's interesting. Atom (last I checked) shows you profiling of how each package contributes to start-up time, and it's always been slow regardless. It seems like it's been consistently slow for 5.5 years now, which is unfortunate.

Start-up time was the number one reason I was not sold on the Luna language editor -- they were building it on top of Atom! (they are rebuilding it though, or maybe that is already done)
Issue recently closed by Stale-bot, not updated since Nov 2018.

IME Atom is not nearly as slow as it used to be, unless you're on a remote FS or have many, many files in the project directory - like it scans them all when starting - so I just keep my project directory small.
Depending on the stack, you can use some open source libraries. Datascript is quite robust, and useable from javascript/clojurescript.
https://github.com/tonsky/datascript
Here's the Melbourne Australia version: http://stkildamelbourne.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/So...

I'd prefer a view of the Alps - but a view of the beach isn't too bad.
From Prison to Python – Shadeed Wallace-Stepter
Found out there's a w3 working group trying to come up with solutions

https://www.w3.org/community/httpslocal/
Causation isn't mutually exclusive. The relationship between obesity and heart disease is clearly causative. Any causation between income and obesity does not negate this..

This is an important distinction.
Zuckerberg was the one who said $3 billion. Which doesn't count ongoing development expense for the last 3 years, but from news reports it looks to be in the billions. And apparently they're spending circa another $1 billion on VR acquisitions this year: https://www.fool.com/investing/2019/12/07/facebook-is-on-a-b...

I do believe that it doesn't cost that much to bring something VR-ish to market, as long as they're trying to replicate older hardware with commodity gear. But if they want to push the state of the art forward, I'm not shocked at all by those numbers. Apple's spending something like $15 billion a year on R&D, and billions more on acquisitions. Maybe that's unnecessary for VR, but certainly a lot of VR advocates still believe that true success requires further technical innovation.
Being touched is an undeniable signal you are surrounded by the tribe, which triggers the reproductive sequence, since it takes a village to raise a child.
Amazing that so many comments compare Atom performance to Sublime and TextMate, but do not mention the fact that Sublime and TextMate are native while Atom is based on Electron. They profile module loads etc, but fail to recognize that Atom first has to start layout engine and JS engine, then initialize all that code and only after that it can start executing application code. As a personal rant, and performance issues aside, HTML5+CSS+JS is a terrible programming paradigm, unfortunately the only one that stuck for web apps. But to use the same paradigm on desktop????
Clojure Shootout: keep vs. filter
I actually wanted to be a garbage truck driver when I was little. I think it was the power to crush stuff that really stirred my imagination. The smell never really bothered me much and I figured that you would get used to it anyway. The dirty never bother me much either; I was constantly playing in our neighbors backyard that we called the dirt-hole. Yup, garbage man was almost the perfect job.

Instead, my love for computers (ahhh, VIC-20) grew and I went to college to learn more. I really love what I do but if things went sideways I could see myself being a garbage man.
Found this while researching around the microfrontends article that was posted a few days ago.

A number of interesting ideas here. What prompted me to post it was this part:

> Build a Resilient Site

> Your feature should be useful, even if JavaScript failed or hasn’t executed yet. Use Universal Rendering and Progressive Enhancement to improve perceived performance.
Big Data in Fintech: How Fintech Is Leveraging Big Data to Win over Banks
I've discovered a very interesting thing, which apparently most in the machine learning space don't realise (I didn't until recently). Trading isn't what most people think it is at all. I've spent a week or two doing a bit of reading into what it actually is.

Three things that have jumped out at me:

1) Trading is not investing. I was extremely doubtful about a lot of the "models" people throw around in this area because to me they seemed closer to numerology than anything related to investment. Then someone pointed out that trading is not investing, and suddenly I looked at these models in a new light.

2) There's lots of interesting trading you can do even without having any idea about what the price is going to do. Do you think volatility is going to increase? You can make money from that - read about the Collar Trade Strategy (This is just an example).

3) There's lots of strategies which don't make enough money for companies to be interested in, but are viable for an individual.
CentOS 6 Through CentOS 8 Benchmarks on Intel Xeon Server
Ukraine has natural gas as Hunter Biden will confirm.
Here's a video of something similar where they constructed a scale model of the universe in the desert: https://youtube.com/watch?v=Kj4524AAZdE
Is Google Making Us Stupid? What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains (2008)
> First, that their app is a better mobile experience. And I'd agree, actually, but I understand why someone would disagree. From their perspective it's an easy download and it's native app and it's way better.

It’s been two years since I last used the native iOS Reddit client, even though I think the responsive web version is embarrassingly bad, because of one reason alone: battery life.

I doubled my screen-on battery life by abandoning the native client.

Maybe in the two year interval they found a way to not be battery vampires but I’m not particularly in the mood to give them the benefit of the doubt.

Keep in mind that just about two literal years ago, the mobile experience was pretty much exactly the same as it is today, if not worse.

I imagine I’m not alone in this perspective: the “smooth, slick, native” app is worse than the stuttering, crashing, mobile web version. Period. Because I value my battery life.
Policy support to restrict creating new Azure DevOps organizations
I guess the lack of rotation of the bullet made it inaccurate?
New Tutorials: Learn the Basic Concepts of Quantum Computing
A comment like "You have a problem, your problem is not me. Have you been drinking?" so obviously breaks the guidelines that yes, I'm pretty sure this is about the guidelines.

If someone else posted an insulting comment and we didn't moderate it, the likeliest explanation is that we didn't see it. We don't come close to seeing everything that gets posted here. You can always let us know at hn@ycombinator.com if there's something we need to take care of.
Teaching Quantum Computing with Q
The biggest obstacle to locating any business outside of Manhattan is the transit system. Most subway lines run between the outer boroughs and Manhattan, and the regional commuter railroads (LIRR, NJ Transit, PATH and Metro North) all terminate in Manhattan (or primarily in Manhattan, since LIRR also has stations in Brooklyn and Queens). Thus, locating a business outside of Manhattan greatly reduces the area from which it can recruit employees.
Quantum at Microsoft Ignite 2019
The worst feature of new Reddit was a thread opened as a title plus maybe the top 5 comments and further scrolling transitions to a frontpage feed. But they seem to be A-B testing it on old Reddit also now.

I guess it improves their user session time metrics but as a user the experience sucks and I feel Ellen Pao and earlier CEO's eras would not have sold out the user experience the same way (though maybe that's just because they lacked the dev resources to do so)
Jobs of the future are clustering in a handful of U.S. cities, study finds
But someone could hypothetically convert the WARC files back to static HTML and host them on the clear web.
But that's not what the government can actually deliver. All the government can really do is take money from one set of people under threat of violence, and give it to another set of people. That's it. It's a parasite. It doesn't produce anything. If you believe in the law of conservation of energy, adding government to any process will only make it less efficient. See e.g. US student loans and what that did to college tuition.
https://www.iras.gov.sg/irashome/Annual-Reports/Corporate-In... says that Singapore isn't that Georgist. At least on the face of it, when measured by where the tax take comes from.

Living here, I think we could levy a land value tax, and decrease eg person income taxes or VAT. But I can't complain too much in practice.
Cool video—how was such fluid 3D achieved on the GBA hardware? Anyone know of any war story articles about developing 3D games on the GBA?
Robots Are Bad News for Millennial Workers
Perhaps. Though that's quite a different discussion from the one about how some laws are silly and implemented even sillier.
Niklas Zennström made a fortune from Skype, twice. First by selling it to Ebay, then be acquiring it back and then selling it to Microsoft.
But as a mailing list, each subscriber has the entire archive, at least from the date they joined. And any one of them can make it publicly accessible at any point in the future. In practice it will undoubtedly result in the destruction of enormous amounts of human knowledge, but at least in theory not much is getting immediately lost.
Sweden packed the inner four planets into Stockholm, with Pluto ending up 300km away. :)
The newer dwarf planets and the depiction of the termination shock however let the model expand all the way up to Kiruna.

https://twistedsifter.com/2014/10/the-sweden-solar-system-sc...
There is no video calling, but I already have other solutions that I use for that. Keybase is end-to-end encrypted as mentioned in the other comment, has good multi-platform support, and is free. The fact that the user can revoke a device if it is compromised is excellent. I also have intentions for using it as a secure SSO ID across company applications using the API(https://keybase.io/docs/api/1.0/intro). (Basically replacing how some companies use Active Directory)

For me the secure identity and communication part of Keybase is a critical base layer that no one else really gets right. I can have a new hire create a Keybase account and use that to securely exchange documents (e.g. w-4 allocation, health insurance, etc.) two weeks before they are even part of the company.

The only long-term downside to Keybase for me is it is a centralized cloud service run by a single company and the application is not open source. What I really want is a decentralized open source version of Keybase that's operated as a global network that lots of companies/individuals ran nodes for and you paid for your use of the network. That way I'd be more certain that it will be around in 10 years time.
> So you promote furthering social inequality?

No. I promote creating a culture of contributing back to educational institutions if you have the means to do so.

> Also donations from rich guys to their schools creates so many bad incentives even if you don't consider the direct effects. It means that rich kids will be valued more since they are tied to donations, it means that schools will seek out people who might become rich in the fuuture etc.

Schools have no way of knowing which of their kids will become rich and therefore there is 0 substance to your assertion that donating to schools will change their structure in perverse ways. Public Schools by definition don't select their students anyways.
I tried atom in the past and felt the definite slowness by comparison to other text editors, I would definitely need to check it out today to see if anything has changed. I currently use vscode and it feels really snappy for the practically the same functionality.

I also find it interesting that Microsoft is looming over both of these projects, I wonder what that will mean for the future.
Discussed at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10081136
We had centrifugal pellet guns at roadside carnivals 30+ years ago, glass bottles were the targets. You could barely hit the target from 25 feet away because the power simply wasn't there, and so many times those pellets simply ricocheted right back at you. Those got replaced with the more 'fair' and powerful tube/air-fed rifles which got used to shoot out a star on a piece of paper (which in and of itself is a bit of a scam if you don't know the trick.)
Fair enough. Id say 3d and the two screens make it harder. Also memory latency and clock speed is somewhat more complex, what with the tightly coupled memory.
Fix Earth's climate crisis instead of dreaming of other planets
> The same goes for almost every new cyber attacks out there.

It does? Back when the press mostly meant a few big companies in your own country it was easier to suppress info. Now for example the US government might be able to ask CNN/Fox/NYT etc but they can't likely ask the BBC or Al Jazeera or the 1000s of news sites, bloggers, tweeters, facebookers.
Bacj when the Cell was around (PS3), there were sometimes discusisons about the similarities between it and the Cray - local memory, different insn set for vector processors vs the "CPU". I guess the Cray was easier to program because you could still address the shared memory from the vector programs without DMA or other hoops.
Are fetal tongues strong enough to induce cavitation? Are fetal mouths strong enough not to be shredded by cavitation bubbles collapsing? AFAIK cavitation kills a ship's screw sooner or later.
LLVM-IR is not properly specified, it changes significantly every 6 months (and even faster), and Rust exploits that
Fireants Survive Floods
Exactly. Especially since Google is trying to transform reCAPTCHA into an enterprise offering: https://cloud.google.com/recaptcha-enterprise/
Guilt should be based on total emissions if the entire country is being considered because that’s what matters to the planet.
Firefox or Brave on Android will allow extensions.
It is much worse than that. 40% of american men are obese, which,for the average body type, is ~50 lbs above normal.

From wikipedia:
>The National Center for Health Statistics at the CDC showed that 39.6% of US adults age 20 and older were obese as of 2015-2016 (37.9% for men and 41.1% for women).[1]
Obesity in an adult is defined as a BMI of 30 and above.

The Average american male is 5'10. A "normal healthy" BMI of 22 is 153 lbs. A BMI of 30 is 209 lbs. [2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obesity_in_the_United_States
[2]
https://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health/educational/lose_wt/BMI/bmi...
I think I found what it is talking about here: http://wxmaps.org/subx_custom.php

The UX is... primitive, but it does produce seemingly plausible results for the location I tried.