skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not OP, but my wife and I were pretty avid climbers before having kids (we have a 2 year old now). To be brutally honest, I haven't climbed since he was born with the exception of a few gym sessions where we got a babysitter. I've gotten deep into biking and skiing, which at least where I live are things you can do over a long lunch break. If you live or work near a climbing gym then I imagine that's similar, but the sort of climbing I enjoy requires at least full toddler-free day. And when that happens there's a list of about 100 things that are higher priority than climbing.

That being said, some friends who live in our neighborhood and have a kid the same age hire a nanny twice a week so that they can go climb after work. If it's a priority, you can make it happen.

But I am looking forward to teaching my son how to climb in a few short years, and cherishing the stage before then...
I live in a big city. So I just assume I'm always on camera. It doesn't give anyone the right to make a spectacle of me for venturing on by, but cameras there are and cameras there always will be.

The lack of signs doesn't mean cameras aren't there. You can't go anywhere in the core without being on multiple cameras.
Great news! I hope this isn't a sarcasm :)
What are you referring to when you say “operating system frameworks”?
It's trivially parrallelizable so I suspect that they're doing it on a gpu or something like that.
A delightful book I've been savouring over several months: Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts[1].

Let's hear from the abstract:

"[...] The idea for the book, which is entirely new, is to invite the reader into intimate conversations with twelve of the most famous manuscripts in existence and to explore with the author what they tell us about nearly a thousand years of medieval history - and sometimes about the modern world too. Christopher de Hamel introduces us to kings, queens, saints, scribes, artists, librarians, thieves, dealers, collectors and the international community of manuscript scholars, showing us how he and his fellows piece together evidence to reach unexpected conclusions. He traces the elaborate journeys which these exceptionally precious artefacts have made through time and space, shows us how they have been copied, who has owned them or lusted after them (and how we can tell), how they have been embroiled in politics and scholarly disputes, how they have been regarded as objects of supreme beauty and luxury and as symbols of national identity. The book touches on religion, art, literature, music, science and the history of taste.

"Part travel book, part detective story, part conversation with the reader, Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts conveys the fascination and excitement of encountering some of the greatest works of art in our culture which, in the originals, are to most people completely inaccessible. At the end, we have a slightly different perspective on history and how we come by knowledge. It is a most unusual book."

- - -

Don't let the page count (~550, modulo references) discourage you. The hardcover edition absolutely enhances the reading experience—it's beautifully bound, has plenty of pictures of medieval manuscripts, calligraphic exemplars and more. (I've mentioned it previously here[2].)

[1] https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/213/213069/meetings-with-rem...

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20332914
Good point! Dynamic languages are different in their terminology. AFAIK strongly typed languages have a clear definition of arrays. The OP was talking about arrays having "horrible performance if the user inserts text anywhere other than the end of the document". I think this statement has an implicit assumption that arrays are contiguous which is not true in Javascript.
The irrational decision to return to a environment where they get burned, again and again? Why?

I am not talking about signing up for Instagram. I am talking about staying on Instagram after a flood of sexual harassment, as described in the article.
Slay the Spire? There's lots of games that could work.
How is Arcade related to 32-bit?
I wonder if they have any plans for an API...?
* "the dream machine" is an fascinating, joyful account of jr licklider's work in interactive computing

* "hard landing" makes the airline industry seem tumultuous and exciting

* "a man for all markets" is the autobiography of ed thorpe, father of card counting and quant hedge funds

* "unix: a history and a memoir" is a mischievous first hand account from brian kernighan (of unix / c / awk fame)
What happens if the link content dies? Zotero pulls down a full text copy of the document and saves it, IIRC, and I no longer trust URLs on the web to stay up for any period of time (or be immutable at that position).
My past gf used to hitchhike with grown men when she was 14. My current gf used to party with sailors she found in the harbour when she was 16.

We used to laugh this off and reference the Cyndi Lauper song.

Both turned out to be professional and independent women btw.

Is all this monitoring really going to help? Or is it just going to freak parents out?

I'd rather see them go after predators actively than help AI monitor children.
> [...] how we should approach teaching in the setting where there is no internet access

Here is a link to a learning platform that is specially designed for the offline setting: https://learningequality.org/kolibri/
It can work both as a general purpose library (for self-directed learning) or as a LMS in a setting where there is someone who can "coach" the learners by monitoring their progress, organizing them into groups, and assigning specific lessons. In order for the content to work offline, it needs to be "packaged" as a Kolibri Channel (local copy of the content), then you can import it from a USB drive.

Another project in the localhost space is Kiwix-Serve: https://www.kiwix.org/en/downloads/kiwix-serve/
Kiwix content comes in .zim files (~= zip with html+assets in it). You can download lots of .zim files available here: https://wiki.kiwix.org/wiki/Content_in_all_languages In particular, the stackoverflow.com zim file (140GB) might be useful to have offline when learning to code.
I think the good part for the wife is that there is no requirement to actually stay in the office. You can work from home anywhere!
What can be said about Zorin OS that can't be said about dozens of other Linux distros?

Edit: Why was this downvoted?
The minimum wage in Romania is also €446/mo or $496/mo, so ~$2.86/hr. Compare that to the federal min wage of $7.25 or California's $12/hr.
That’s a question for people who know about epigenetics. But it seems so. Not necessarily our choices alone, but the environment as a whole.
Reddit wouldn’t tolerate any political opinions that go against the Virtuous Left either.
Try catching a cab in any developing asian nation. If you're white and not asking to go basically where they wanted to go anyhow, they'll just shake their head, say "no meter" and give you a highly inflated price.
Right, and that's where the negotiation begins. You'll be able to find a better outcome once you know what X, Y and Z are. Leverage in itself assumes that one party has to lose. But there are also negotatied outcomes where both parties are better off. For what it's worth, I'm an employer and although my employees have IP agreements I'd want them to feel real good if the business wanted their side project.
Mine are 15 and 16, they’ve been going out on trips with their friends for a couple of years. I will say though, the first years until they are in school full time are absolutely crucial. We reap what we sow in those few years for the rest of our lives, and they are crucial developmental time for the children. I never really knew how to deal with other people’s children much younger than myself, but having my own kids has been wonderful. Hard work, frustrating at times and yes it has to take priority over almost everything else for a long while, but it’s so worth it.
I imagine one day having AR glasses with which I can "project" a vim buffer on the wall, while having huge spreadsheets that I can analyze on another wall, and basically using the physical _room_ as enormous "screen".

That kind of workspace, to me, would feel so much more natural than being constrained to sitting on a chair in front of a display.
Depends on who you ask there are plenty that use lynx too.
Dad of a newborn here. I had to adapt. I had to make time for things that I want to learn. When I am on the train, now I take a book or even get work done on my laptop. I had to also cut down my netflix time to zero. I almost have no time left for physical exercise. Planning to fix that by getting a treadmill at home.
Thank you for bringing this up. The specific term, also a keyword in your linked paper, which describes this is "stereotype threat" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stereotype_threat . I'm calling it out specifically only because it's handy to have a short phrase to describe the phenomenon, and I'm not sure if everyone is aware of it or not.
LUKS2 (the current version) does support Argon2 with up to 4 GiB of memory and 4 threads.
But we're not even concerned with regular people having skills. Why are we concerned with convicts having skills? I don't understand your argument. Prison isn't a rehab center. It's a colony for removing people from society.
UIKit, AppKit, Windows SDK, Cocoa, Android SDK, ChromeOS, etc.

In AppKit, you can do a pretty full-featured text editor as a "Hello World" project.
> You will pay for your day-to-day expenses almost entirely through bonuses and stock, redirecting much of your base salary to retirement.

I think that will not be easy. Let's say you get hired as a "Senior Software Development Engineer" at Microsoft (internal folks will know this is Level 63 or 64). Your signing bonus will be approximately $20,000 to $30,000, and your stock award will be highly variable but generally has a 1-year cliff for vesting, so it can be disregarded your first year.* 20k-30k per year gives you only a minimal subsistence in the Seattle region or SF Bay Area, especially with the high cost of housing in both.

* https://www.levels.fyi/salary/Microsoft/SE/Senior-SDE/ gives a good idea of how much Microsoft pays a Level 63. Regarding stock awards, Microsoft does not give stock options or RSUs. Instead we have a RSU-like system for equity awards where the company gives you unrestricted stock on a schedule. It is RSU-like in that you can't sell the stock until it "vests", but unlike an RSU in that you don't hold the stock at all until it "vests", only a future right to get it.
I think it's going to be possible for solo developers to create what we now consider to be AAA-quality games in the not too distant future.

It seems absurd, but not so much when you start looking at the implications of applying AI like this to every part of the development pipeline. Especially if the capability is eventually packaged up into commercial programs or integrated with existing engines.

Creating a detailed character model no longer will require a world-class artist working in ZBrush, but simply choosing a few images and asking the AI to interpolate, with the artist input simply being to weight certain areas by hand so as to update the [ML] model.

There's already work on AI-based procedural animation systems. I'm sure AI rigging isn't far off either, if it doesn't already exist.

Procedural worlds are due for a quantum leap in my opinion, far beyond what current state of the art is.

Eventually voice actors are going to be obsolete as well. The current state of the art in speech synthesis has demonstrated it's basically possible now using existing principles, it just needs a lot of refinement.

The hardest problem I can foresee is probably the automated creation of story, including NPC dialog and interactions. That's almost AGI-level hard, but it too is probably solvable by just evolving existing techniques.

People are going to be able to create their own version of The Matrix soon, and it won't require a $500M budget, let alone a $500k budget.
I read a bunch of nonfiction in 2019, but the only nonfiction book I read that was published in 2019 and that I really liked was Rakim's _Sweat The Technique_.
I have a NordicTrack foldable rowing machine. Fits very nice in an NYC apartment even. Haven't used it for a couple of months.... No kids, though.
Would you please stop posting flamewar comments to HN? we ban accounts that do that, and eventually your main account as well.

If you'd please read https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and use HN as intended, we'd be grateful.
It's not about you.

Oversteer is inevitable. You'll somehow manage. Just like women somehow manage to power thru constant harassment.
It should not be against the rules to protest the posting of content which is not freely available on principle. I often speak up on this.
From a quick read it's actually pretty close to exactly what Sublime Text does. Source: Worked on that code at sublime recently.
>By scaling price with actor income, we are able to maintain a similar relative (dis)incentive across income levels

This is manifestly untrue, as I showed above.

If you're concerned over extremely poor people being unable to pay the cost, you can waive that or subsidize it. That's far from sufficient to justify scaling.
Replying here because GP is dead...

> yes, women really are on average less suited for many technical pursuits, a conclusion which some people are simply unwilling to accept, even though such an assertion actually says little about individuals.

The discussion of nurture and nature here is extremely important. Also on the front page of HN today: an exposition of the treatment that young girls are subjected to on the internet. Girls are "nurtured" (abused) into the belief or understanding that they are first and foremost sex objects.

Of the women I work with: over 90% in technical roles were told that "math/science isn't for girls" by at least one teacher in grade school, around 70% were told something similar in university. Of those with PhDs, more than half were told that women aren't cut out for academia by their supervisor.

So whenever folks claim "even though such an assertion actually says little about individuals," it's ignorant, at best, to how our society talks about this.

I'm willing to accept that "on average" adult women aren't cut out for technical roles. But given my experience at the helm of university calculus classes, I must say that "on average," adult men aren't cut out for technical roles either. But unlike women, they haven't been told repeatedly by parents, teachers, advisors, pastors, supervisors, that they're incapable on account of their gender.

With all that "nurture" it's incredible that folks are inclined to make such strong assertions about "nature."
I'm really enjoying 'Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years at Lockheed' currently.

I found it really interesting that their stealth aircraft model was so good, they had to redesign the poles it sat on.

Also it talks about a Russian paper they used based on maxwells equations, that allowed them to calculate the reflected RF from 2D surfaces, which I'm curious about finding.
Personal attacks are not ok. We ban accounts that post them. Maybe you don't owe the person better, but you definitely owe this community better if you're posting here. Would you mind read the site guidelines and taking the intended spirit to heart? We'd appreciate it.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
When you feel a lack of confidence or speed with of a tool you use frequently, it is easy to feel a mixture of frustration and shame.

That suffering might be due to an unmet desire: that you should get fluency but not require training. As a programmer, you might feel that human repetition is a sign that something needs to be built to prevent that repetition. But, if you talk to a teacher, sports coach, martial artist, or anyone else who works in the domain of training meat-based deep neural nets to solve problems quickly and confidently, you'll find this is false. If you are seeking a feeling of speed and confidence, embrace repetition.

Perhaps, play https://flexboxfroggy.com/ 10 times.
How is google avoiding anti-trust prosecution. I don't get how they can get away favoring their own product under another product to stifle competition. Imagine if Windows alerted you about insecurity and inferiority of GCP vs Azure when you visit sites that use GCP. Or a modal popup alert when you open chrome telling you how much faster and more secure Edge is. Refusing to run Firefox because it doesn't like it.

Why is google gettig a free pass in so many things?
Can you demonstrate your supposed cellphone-detection powers in a double-blind experiment? I sincerely doubt it, but I'd be interested in watching you try.
This has been a problem for years, which is too bad. No one really uses MHTML or any alternative. Hopefully Web Bundles* becomes a commonly supported spec.

* https://web.dev/web-bundles/
> How deeply fucked up are we as a society that hordes of men seek sexual satisfaction through that kind of dynamic? What did we do to them to generate a pathological craving to dominate and feel power?

Maybe they’re just a small minority of psychopaths that have always existed, and the internet has made it easier to trick them into revealing their true nature and produce objective evidence of it.
100% automated, official certificates for Docker containers
If I understand your comment correctly, "deciding whether a particular algorithm ..." means an arbitrary algorithm. For a specific algorithm, of course sometimes it is possible to prove that it halts for every input. It's only undecidable if the algorithm is regarded as an input.
Please don't take HN on nitpicky tangents, especially bilious ones. Every article contains some minor provocation. We all need to learn to handle those, not start threads about them.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Well that's the total opposite of what the planet needs.
I find that notion somewhere between comforting and irrelevant.

The difficulty lies in not succumbing to fatalistic complacency.

Accepting that one simply is of a heavy physique and not needlessly starving oneself sounds healthy to me. There are plenty of activities for which a heavy frame is desirable. On the other hand, giving up in the face of ones perceived insurmountable genetic makeup serves nothing.
The article seems to say that the difference here is strong enough that you can do that:

> To put this number in context, a D= 2.10 means a classification accuracy of 85%. In other words, their data suggests that the probability that a randomly picked individual will be correctly classified as male or female based on knowledge of their global personality profile is 85% (after correcting for the unreliability of the personality tests).
>> Consistent with prior research, the researchers found that the following traits are most exaggerated among females when considered separately from the rest of the gestalt: sensitivity, tender-mindedness, warmth, anxiety, appreciation of beauty, and openness to change. For males, the most exaggerated traits were emotional stability, assertiveness/dominance, dutifulness, conservatism, and conformity to social hierarchy and traditional structure.

I am very skeptical of any claim that such vague and abstract behaviour descriptions can be measured with accuracy. The cited studies are claimed to have been conducted cross-culturally, but I really doubt that different cultures would really assign the same meaning to these words. Even people within the same culture would understand what "sensitivity" or "dutifulness" means differently. For instance, if I like flowers, am I "sensitive"? If I cry at weddings? If I cry at Game of Thrones? At MMA fights? [1]

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[1] It's not a joke. I cried at the end of the Coleman-Emelianenko fight. When they hug at the end, with Coleman's face a bloody mess? I cried my fucking eyes out. Does that make me "sensitive"? "Appreciating of beauty"?
You can touch your chin with your eyes closed even though you can't see it and in fact haven't ever seen it. It's possible to lose this sense, too, which pretty much rules out the idea that it's merely a mental model. People with nerve injuries may lose their ability to touch their chins with their eyes closed, as I just described.
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SaaS for Running a SaaS Business
I hear you and am sorry about the wasted effort. vsadu's advice sounds good.
In one dimension, yes, sometimes. But I find myself having better control with grids, even in a single dimension.
Do you have any data to back up your claim that one side is claiming it's 100% nurture? Or is it anecdotal?

If we are going with anecdotal data, then here's mine: I've almost never heard anyone say it's 100% nurture.

I have heard people claim something close to 100% nature though. Just as one example, the pretty common "boys will be boys" excuse. As in they just can't help themselves because it's in their nature, right?
I agree with that and would add that dev tools are a manageable way for programmers early in their career to get feedback and learn what matters.

It’s pretty hard for one person to solve enough of a problem to have users in the general public. It obviously happens, but it’s not a sure thing.

It’s hard to get users that are not in the public too. I had internships early in my career working on IT stuff, at a large business and a university. I found those jobs were actually terrible for getting feedback from users because there was so much bureaucracy. The management would actually insulate you too much from complaints or feedback.

Dev tools are a good learning experience because programmers will give honest feedback if they don’t like something :)
I haven’t seen anyone independently verify this article specifically, but it seems pretty consistent with the reporting the New York Times has been doing on this issue over the last few months, notably this article which I think was pretty popular on HN: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/09/28/us/child-sex-...
There's about 25 million kids between 12 and 17 in the US ( https://datacenter.kidscount.org/data/tables/101-child-popul...)

I find it dubious that each one of them gets over 50 predators attacking them the moment the post a selfie on Instagram. Either a small number of pedophiles would be targeting thousands of kids per hour, or there are millions of pedophiles.

The basic premise of the article rings true (posting selfies on can lead to getting attacked by predators), but the numbers are just ludicrous.
Wow, I have had exactly this idea and it makes so much sense I was surprised I never heard anyone else come to this conclusion yet, but finally I seem to have found one. My idea in a nutshell:

tax only non renewable or finite resources and not labour

Finite resources include
- land use (be it housing, leisure or agriculture though desirable locations should have higher taxes)
- resources (metals, minerals)
- fossil fuels

Not to be taxed:
- labour
- wealth (having money has no environmental impact. It's the spending that matters)
- added value (get rid of VAT)

I feel like all tax systems are based on what is easy to be taxed, but I have never heard a good argument on why e.g. income should be taxed, but environmental impact not
Interesting. No mention of user testing, or how the system was validated that it matches the supposed qualities of "inclusiveness" (I guess more common word would be accessibility) and "user centricity".
I really want to buy the CM-1 T-Shirt, but with duty and shipping it's too much for a shirt the comments describe as being of poor t-shirt quality....

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https://shop.spreadshirt.com/mission-base-creations/cm+1+log...