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I've learned over the last few years that much of the parenting that parents do is far removed anything that can be seen. Anything that you can conclude is a direct function of your influence amounts to a very very low percentage of your actual influence. Not that I disagree with the importance of influence in the later bits, but so much of what a child is learning for the first time is all the subtle stuff you don't realize you're doing. How you and your spouse resolve conflict, and you and the child resolve conflict, and you deal with your own emotions, facial cues, body language, regular language, music taste etc
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Ah, the great nation of Sweden. With an enormous GDP not even remotely rivaling that of cities with notorious "socialist" land use laws, like NY, LA, Chicago, or San Francisco. LA, in particular, has approximately the same population but fewer natural resources and yet has a GDP double that of Sweden.

Private property protections are not a panacea. If they were, then Somalia would be a capitalist's paradise instead of a warlord's paradise.
Getting the info from "working with IBM" directly.
Eric A. Posner and E. Glen Weyl propose Non-Marxist hyper-market alternative in their book the Radical Markets. https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691177502/ra...

It's called Common Ownership Self-Assessed Tax (COST). http://radicalmarkets.com/chapters/property-is-monopoly/
Account associated with a phone number is totally different from "scan your contacts".
If you are a bet receiver of funds, who is the net giver?
It would at least least disperse the risk from "don't hire women of a certain age" to "don't hire people of a certain age" which I think is a win on the margin.
Hilarious and wrong headed. Chicago is the largest city stateside (Toronto on the Canadian side) next to a Great Lake with the infrastructure and hinterland to support a large population. Fresh water supply is going to be critical in a climate crisis.
I’d look on the climate changer denier debunking websites. That’s the sort of trope that gets rolled out by the fossil fuel “think tanks” and denier troll farms.

Example: https://www.desmogblog.com/institute-energy-research-admits-...
A preference is fine, if it's in proportion to how much experience from the last couple years is actually worth over experience from 7 years ago. So maybe $5k less in initial salary.

The preference for someone having zero gaps in employment is extremely overrated, and giving many more people gaps in employment to disrupt that idea is great.
Bjarne Stroustrup never expected C++ to be very widely used. He made it anyway.

Alex Stepanov never thought that anyone would care about his ideas on generic programming. He pursued them anyway. They became the STL.

True, building a new language is almost always going to fail. The problem is, when someone starts working on a new language, they don't know if it's doomed or not. It is good that 1000 people try, because from that we get one language that many people use, and 10 specialized languages that a few people use, and 10 languages that nobody uses but future people steal some of the ideas.

> The same goes for Linux, which is the paradigm of wasted efforts.

Um... what? Wasted because nobody uses it? Very much no. Wasted because it's a duplication of what was there before? To some degree, yes. But not everything in Linux was in Unix before it. And Unix couldn't run all the places that Linux does (smartphones to mainframes). So, no, Linux is not wasted effort.
OP was talking about "Twitter asks to scan your contacts", not to add a phone number.
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Hmm. That discussion is better than this one, and probably so is the article, since nearly any third-party article is better than corporate press releases.

Since the community still wants to discuss this, maybe it's best if we merge the threads and re-up that submission. Especially since it got hit by multiple software penalties which normally we would have overridden.

Good catch—thanks!
You mean that, for instance, a standard-library generic sort function, might require that your comparator function behave correctly when the arguments are reversed?

That's an interesting idea. Like Java interfaces, but with formal contracts.

I doubt that putting these contracts into the standard-library would give you good proof-coverage though.
Honestly the book Purely Functional Data Structures opened my eyes to the different approach functional languages supply. The concept of pattern matching is so pervasive in ML and I would say that in tandem with creating data structures using types is the central idea of ML that you put to use when using it.
There is considerable energy and funding being applied to car ion sequestration. Burying fiberglass, or carbon fibre, which does not decompose (creating methane) is sequestering carbon. So it’s the right thing to do.
In my current company we are deploying almost all code as docker (with exceptions of lambda functions) when talked to multiple developers. No one uses docker for local development, except maybe using it to spin another service that might interact with the app, but even that isn't preferred. Mainly because unless you're running Linux, docker is quite expensive on resources due to running under VM.
From NOAA web site, when you click on "Previous RSL Trends" button:

> Although the trend may vary with the end year, there is no statistically significant difference between the calculated trends if their 95% confidence intervals overlap. Therefore, the most recent calculated trend is not necessarily more accurate than the previous trends; it is merely a little more precise. If several recent years have anomalously high or low water levels, the values may actually move slightly away from the true long-term linear trend.
> you have one of those private, encrypted phone numbers that prevents unauthorized usage? Get over yourself, it's public information.

Is it?

If I find out your phone number, "stuff4ben", then I know who "stuff4ben" really is.

People have been missing this for a LONG time now. Phone numbers are the unique identifier, especially with portability.

You can use 50 different usernames across 50 different sites but with that phone number, I know they are all you.

Which I can then link up to the 1,000 other sites you use those 50 usernames on without providing your phone number, and it's still likely you.

The NSA's database must be very interesting out at the Utah Data Center. This is how it all works, because you can mask your IP address using Tor but you can't mask any of that unless you've taken very careful steps along the entire history of your internet usage, from the start.
I had this wonky idea that maybe buildings in these area should be adapted to have their first floors underwater yet still usable in some ways.
Do note that with dedicated servers you are subjecting yourself to things such as hardware upgrades and failures which you will have to manage yourself if you want to prevent downtime.

And while Hetzner customer support is generally excellent, in my experience, their handling of DDoS incidents will generally leave your server blackholed and sometimes requires manual intervention to get back online.

This is something you need to account for in terms of redundance if you are planning to expose your application directly to the net without any CDN/Load balancer/DDoS filter in place.

From my experience it makes sense to work with a data centre that is less focussed on a mass market but allows for individual client relations to mitigate risks like that.
I love Hetzner for what they are and do host some services with them, but I wouldn't build a business around services hosted there.

And this not only goes for Hetzner but pretty much any provider whose business model is based on low margin/high throughput.
There are quite a few videos on youtube (nerdrage ? forgot) where people use light radioactive material to energize photovoltaic cells.
How do bodies position arms, legs, wings and organs?
Yes, they are mostly wrong. The five national minority languages were explicitly written into law in 1999. In the same article where you got that quote you'll have read (but failed to mention) that 'A significant immigration to Sweden did not start until after World War I' [1]. Also it is a little... far-fetched... to pull in the fact that Sweden used to be a conquering nation - the period called 'stormaktstiden' [2] (the time of great power) here - as 'proof' that Sweden used to be more diverse. It wasn't Sweden which used to be more diverse, it was just that the Swedish kings had turned their country into a well-oiled military machine which was used to spread Swedish influence and power over a large area. It was actually the fact that Sweden was so homogeneous which made it possible for King Gustav I Vasa to take over from the Roman Catholic church and found the Church of Sweden (in 1536) and use its organisation to help create that well-oiled military machine in the first place.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Official_minority_languages_of...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swedish_Empire
> In physics and engineering, the challenge is to make mathematical models of the world that accurately predict how it works. Once we've done that we can declare success.

With enough epicycles one can make the heliocentric model as accurate as one wants as far as forecasting positions of planets. A system of DNN sequence models will do just as good, if not better.

Since we regard Einstein highly (at least more highly than an undergrad who can train a TensorFlow model on planetary position data), it makes me think there is more to physics than having a mathematical model with good predictive accuracy.
This was the scientist that not only hypothesized that umami was a "basic taste" with receptors directly on the tongue, alongside the west's 4 well studied ones (sweet, salty, salty, bitter), but went on to prove it.

(His work actually puts the other four "basic tastes" to shame because where those four are mostly "well studied" in the social sciences [psychology tests of where on the tongue most responded to each of the 4], he actually narrowed down the specific taste receptors for glutamate, and how they operate.)
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When you bought your shoes - regardless of which shoes you bought - you also contributed to 3M corporation, which makes the adhesive which holds almost every modern shoe together.

When your paycheck is deposited, you used the ACH clearing houses propping up your bank's ability to make transfers.

When you applied to buy a mortgage, or for renters insurance on your apartment, you supported credit check companies like Experian.

Did you do this because you love Experian and 3M? Did you make a critical evaluation of each of their offerings, investments, subsidiaries, owners, share holders and stated outlooks? Did you factor the environmental impact of the aerosol which powers Super 77 glue when you decided to buy shoes?

Since you're a major supporter of 3M and Experian, I assume you also attend their quarterly briefings by phone. Do you feel they will continue to act in an appropriate and moral way for the foreseeable future? If not, do you intend to return your shoes and find a new dwelling?
"don't hire married people in their late 20s and early 30s" incentive?" --> "Don't hire people during their most economically productive ages."

Not an economically viable strategy for any company looking to stay in business more than a year or two.
Are these actually being sold now? I first saw these advertised by citylabs years ago with vague wording on availability and maybe-pricing in the $3k range.
mc32 wasn't talking about 2016 vs 2020. It was 2019 vs 2020.
This comment, along with another on this thread and finally by a few statements from a friend made me want to pursue writing a server app to help with this endeavor. I always say Ok I'm going to start writing and introspecting on my life, but always quit shortly thereafter. My plan is to have a server run cron jobs to text / email me to help facilitate this writing and introspection
I'd imagine it should change in the future. We're looking at something like a 10,000x increase in production so current models won't hold in the future.
>Anyone affected by this should be suing twitter for even collecting this information! My friend can give away my phone number because of this data collection.

Given the ramifications on leaking Name with phone number of people who didn't agree directly anything with Twitter and just had there contact details trawled by any of their friends signing up. Not good as with that, hijacking phone numbers has been done many ways and times, even the CEO of Twitter had that stunt pulled upon him. What with 2FA for many being a text message sent to your phone number. The ramifications of this could be bigger than they first appear and remember. They only found this, how long has this been open to such abuse. So anybody who had their phone number hijacked in X period of time, this `might` be a possible explanation in some of those instances.

Legally - no idea how this will pan out, but certainly not be the last we read about this.
Broken today? More like last 4+ years...
I came across this book when exploring L-Systems based on this earlier HN post - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21749806

If the book is inspiring it might be worth going through some of the insightful comments in that post.
Capitalism wouldn't (we wouldn't suddenly switch to socialism or some other economic model), but the investment markets would in that they would cease to exist. I don't see that as a good thing for individuals or society.
so edison was a PC gamer?
The government of Somalia provides private property protection?
Why are you being negative about a particular distro? You clearly have a chip on your shoulder or an ulterior motive. FreeBSD also powers my NAS (FreeNAS) in my house. It also features ZFS as a first-tier filesystem. Use whatever the fsck you want, but stop being a jerk please. People STILL care about these distros and work to improve them in whatever "niche" markets you think they're in, no sense in you being a little beach about it.
As choward already mentioned, I think NixOS is a very good choice: aarch64 is decently well supported with a bunch of people running NixOS on their Raspbys, and cross compilation support is really good too if needed. See https://nixos.wiki/wiki/NixOS_on_ARM/Raspberry_Pi for more info, or hop into #nixos and/or #nixos-aarch64 on Freenode for help
If you're on a systemd distro, one advantage is you already have systemd-nspawn. Although, on debian boxes, it's split out into the systemd-container package.

Another advantage is it's somewhat integrated into the rest of systemd, having hooks into systemd-machined and the machinectl tooling, and an out-of-box instance unit file for systemd-nspawn@ where the instance name maps to the machine name. Meaning you can trivially start a container w/`systemctl start systemd-nspawn@that-contained-webservice` having nothing more than something useful in /var/lib/machines/that-contained-webservice/, or enable it to start at boot like any other systemd service i.e. `systemctl enable systemd-nspawn@that-contained-webservice`.

BTW, rkt was basically just a wrapper around systemd-nspawn, though the pluggable stages supported alternative containment mechanisms. The nspawn stage1 is what was originally shipped from the beginning.
This is unsurprising given their positioning in the market. Apple sells exclusively premium devices (for the most part). A huge portion of Android's install base is comprised of budget devices whose users are less likely to spend money on apps.
That was not at all as conclusive as I was expecting, for several reasons:

* it's study not studies

* it refers strictly to educational performance

* it's likely detecting something else entirely: "The researchers found that same-sex parents are often wealthier, older and more educated than the typical different-sex couple. Same-sex couples often have to use expensive fertility treatments to have a child, meaning they are very motivated to become parents and tend to have a high level of wealth. This is likely to be a key reason their children perform well in school, the economists found" [...] "When the economists controlled for income and wealth, there were a much smaller gap between the test scores of children of same-sex parents and children different-sex parents, although children of homosexual couples still had slightly higher scores."
Seems to be the way to go. I'm waiting for docker to run on Windows 10 home.
There are plenty of men that have zero interest in having a career! Most people get jobs because they have to. Or at the very least, they would choose a shorter work week if they could.

If wages erode, that's a failing of capitalism, not of the idea that more people should have more options. You could restrict supply by having people not work completely at random and get the same effect on wages. I don't know what the best way to fix things is, but making employment based on gender is a dumb way to do it.
Much of the Antarctic landmass is below sea level, if the Antarctic ice shield melted the continent would look like an archipelago. There is much water tied up in the Antarctic ice shield(well, it took 40 myr to accumulate, you get this much even in a cold desert), on average it's 2 km thick. The IPCC estimates that if it melts fully it would result in 50 m of sea level rise.
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>There’s a general observation here: attempts to add performance to a slow system often add complexity, in the form of complex caching, distributed systems, or additional bookkeeping for fine-grained incremental recomputation. These features add complexity and new classes of bugs, and also add overhead and make straight-line performance even worse, further increasing the problem.

>When a tool is fast in the first place, these additional layers may be unnecessary to achieve acceptable overall performance, resulting in a system that is in net much simpler for a given level of performance.
That was exactly the comment. Thank you! It sounds like everyone and their mother was exploiting the API based on today's post. Thanks again.
> [a better model] paving the way for machinery that could, for instance, scan the ocean and notify ship captains that they face a 13% chance of running into a 30-meter wave in the next 15 minutes.

What sorts of actions would captains take under these circumstances? Rogue waves are so large and powerful--would any action be enough to prevent losing a ship?
Didn't Stalin have gas wagons and mass purges? Seems a bit disingenuous to claim that Marxism killed millions of people while entirely ignoring his unchecked dictatorship.
My understanding is there have been betavoltaic cells for a long time, and with improvements in semiconductor manufacturing technology, they've been able to move towards less radioactive materials such as the tritium used by citylabs. These things exist, but of course, tritium is not cheap.
Are the shades of red based on migration relative to that same region's previous numbers, or some national average?
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I have been working for YEARS on an ERP implementation in a custom manufacturing operation practically by myself.

As bad as I'm sure SAP is to deal with, I crave it or anything else (Salesforce?) that has any sort of easy customization, automation API and fosters some sort of community.

A large part of my particular ERP's business model seems to be to make the data model so esoteric that you are forced to go to them for any type of customization at all. Unfortunately, they make a habit of firing any of their halfway decent employees every time they get acquired (4 or 5 times so far).
Ask HN: Job Board Frustrations for Developers
What are your biggest frustrations with using job boards and job aggregators both large (Monster, Indeed) and small (Unicorn Hunt, WeWorkRemotely)? What features would your dream job board include?
The wiki page for SML claims it's used by chip manufacturers like ARM, but no citation.

However, languages like Ocaml and F# are direct descendants of ML, and those languages see wider modern adoption. In this sense ML is kind of equivalent to C, and something like Ocaml is kind of equivalent to C++. Haskell is also in the ML family but its laziness and emphasis on purity keeps it a bit separate from its cousins.

In general, FP sees adoption where correctness is of overriding importance -- e.g., Jane Street's use of Ocaml.
> The physical laws are correlational

You mean if I extend the spring the weight stretching it will increase ?
I don't have much of an opinion other than to observe that Yiddish & Romani being on that list is worthy of a good chuckle. (I happen to be able to speak a bit of both and I've visited Sweden several times)
or you can just use AzureSQL and essentially just pay what it costs for the box, because it is platform as a service. Its far cheaper (and easier to maintain) than what it'd cost to buy a SQL Server license and run it on a VM.
It looks like the topic is new to HN, though, in the sense that we've never had a thread about Occam the language.

At least I couldn't find one. Anybody?
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Um what? Somalia has the worst private property protections.

https://www.globalpropertyguide.com/Africa/property-rights-i...
ML is a general-purpose programming language, and as such its use case cannot be narrowly specified. (They say it's good for writing compilers, but I wouldn't latch on that.)
There is also the little matter of Windows (since 7 I think?) requiring kernel drivers to be code signed, unless you want to run your system with a permanent "Development mode" text overlay, not to mention the arcane procedure required to activate that in the first place. (You can't add another cert to the trusted set, either.)

So that puts a little damper on the whole "open source" thing. Of course it is also not effective at all, Stuxnet was famously signed by Realtek.
Ask HN: Are LineageOS security updates just as secure as OEM's?
> This glacier alone will cause a global sea level rise of three feet.

Where did you get that information? This source from Wikipedia says it would cause a rise of 4 inches:

At the beginning of 2020, researchers from the ITGC took measurements to develop scenarios for the future of the glacier and to predict the time frame for a possible collapse: The erosion of the glacier by warmed ocean water seems to be stronger than expected. The researchers noted with concern, that at the baseline of the glacier, the temperature of the water is already more than two degrees above freezing point. They confirm thawing of the Thwaites glacier contributes about four percent of global sea-level rise. The collapse of this glacier alone would raise the sea level by about 65 centimetres (25 inches).[25]
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We don't know that they were fine. Until Sanders campaign urged them to make a change in transparency, only the final delegate count was reported. So it could've been a dumpster fire every other time and they just obscured the discrepancies with "final delegate count"
Void Linux, Gentoo, and Arch Linux package LXD without Snap. Perhaps other distros too.
Author here. fully agree that the description is vague and doesn't really tell you where it stands versus something like F* , SPARK, etc.

That's partially because frankly i don't know yet. We'll have to discover slowly how far the first class proof expressions can be pushed.

the word "safe" here is actually gone now, because it indeed says something different. thanks for the feedback.
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