skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I believe it is more than just a shift in parenting.

I am a parent of a 7 year old. The expectations I place on him are to work hard when faced with a task, and don't give up too easily. In terms of activities, the only requirements are swimming (as a life skill, not as a competition), and some kind of musical exposure (something I feel I lacked as a child). He is also required to keep screen time to a reasonable level.

Otherwise, he is free to play when he wants in an unstructured way, be as creative as he wants building things at his own volition, and is super independent.

However, I am still completely floored at his knowledge of the world compared to my wife and I at his age. I recall in grade 1 being just generally dazed and confused. My son and his peers just know so much more about the world due to technology that it is honestly mind-boggling. It is like speaking with little adults sometimes. Obviously the emotional maturity is still that of a 7 year old (actually I would say lower for my son), but his grasp on reality is extremely mature, and I don't think he is the exception.

I believe technology has changed our children completely. They are smarter than ever before, and yearn for more constantly (as we do, addicted to information on our devices). My son is constantly pressuring me to "teach him to code" and I have not said a word about it, or given in to that request yet as I think he needs more time to just play and explore the natural world.

I can only conclude that things have changed drastically for children, and it is hard to keep up. There are obviously go-getter parents out there, wanting their kids to be superstars, but I don't know if that is the general trend.
In some European countries, it used to be a vocation, and there used to be a choice being made for the postman job to be a meaningful one. I know first hand a postman who works longer hours for free because he believes it's his duty to keep performing the whole social aspect of his job. He'll help older, illiterate people send and read mail, and won't pass the opportunity for a daily chat with the people who need it.

When the Belgian postal service was privatized, the productivity of workers doubled (or so I've heard). But I don't think the efficiency of the whole logistics sector benefited from it. Some businesses are natural monopolies, and no optimization and mistreatment of workers are going to make up for turning one dense delivery round performed by a lazy postman into several ones performed by overworked gig economy delivery workers.
As a parent, I've noticed the biggest problem that prevents "free range" kids is other adults without kids.

Those of us WITH kids relish getting the kids outside and out of our hair. But those without kids frequently are calling the parents to complain our children are roaming the neighborhood, perhaps on their property. Or they fear these kids will create problems. Usually, however, they're just kids being kids. Going on adventures & learning to resolve their own problems without a grownup hovering over them.

I think the issue is the proportion of adults with kids has declined, so parents run into non-parents all the time that don't enjoy seeing kids roaming around. Whereas when I was a kid, most adults were more understanding.
> Think of all those shitty little video clips people take at a concert. Could all those be combined to make some high quality panoramic video?

People definitely have created very cool, close to seeming professionally-produced, full-length concert films out of tens of separate YouTube uploads. It takes a lot of editing skill though.

An actual 3D panorama is vastly harder, but remember Microsoft PhotoSynth? That rendered a 3D point cloud out of hundreds/thousands of tourist photos, and positioned the photos from where they were taken.
> A private investigation revealed it might have understated its debt by $4.5 billion in 2019. Shetty’s financial services firm Finablr, an LSE-listed enterprise that owns the remittance firm UAE Exchange, has discovered that $100 million worth of cheques were issued from the company without the board’s knowledge.

The interesting question here would be - Who should foot the bill? The shareholders can only take action based on data they have in public. It's the job of govt agencies along with the corporation to ensure that the data is appropriate. Now, you have people investing into equity based on data ... which was falsified.
Not a comparison, an observation. Those societies which tried to create prosperity by redistribution, found there is in fact too little to redistribute. And indeed, therefore, engaged in mass murder to deal with that scarcity.

The same holds today. The GDP of the planet, distributed to all its population is a one-off 20k USD. Not enough wealth for almost anything.

Wealth is about producing over time, and increasing global wealth, ie. decreasing global poverty, is about producing more.

I think the failure to associate such policies with the genocides which underpin them is one of the great educational and moral failures of the 20th C. It hasn't been explained to people that our society is the most moral (by being the richest) in history because people engage in productive activities which provide for their own wealth.
What is this newspaper even? How credible is it? The lack of citations makes me pretty skeptical.
An expectation of the rule doesn't make it a rule. If you dig deeper I am sure you will stumble upon to doctors who went to jail for other political activities too. You don't understand the nuances here, you don't get public support if you say something against the nationalistic stance, if you dig you will find that doctors involved in the kurdish politics can also be jailed.

Whatever. Believe whatever you want, go ahead believe that I died from COVID-19 but the government is covering up by writing replies to you from my account.

Things are fine in Turkey(regarding the COVID-19 situation), Erdogan being a dictator doesn't change a thing about that, journalist in jail don't automatically count as COVID-19 deaths.
The AMD Ryzen platform holds so much promise. There's just one problem: all of their consumer chipset motherboards are terrible. Really, really flakey and bad. If you're used to slapping in name-brand memory to a board and booting it up, LOL good luck with AMD! Your options for current gen Ryzens are:

x570 -> Requires active cooling (fans) on the chipset because it throws off too much heat. The proprietray fan will die and your motherboard needs replacing. Congrats! Also, the PCIe lane configurations are weird (x8 x8 x8).

x470 -> Don't even look at your memory the wrong way if you want it to boot. Also, you need an older gen Ryzen/Athlon to update the BIOS to something that works with Ryzen 3000. Sure, there are stickers all over the box touting 'Ryzen 3000 compatibility!' but that's only after you update the BIOS. The BIOS the board ships with won't work at all.

b450 -> Dicier to run new stuff on such an older platform. The implementations are supposedly power weak for higher core count 3900/3950 CPUs.

AMD really dropped the ball on these chipset. They're the things that are leading to terrible user experiences and why folks end up going back to Intel after countless dollars wasted on shipping, RMAs, and swapping gear. No motherboard manufacturer actually designs anything. They just bundle chips together and change logos in the BIOS. Some might have a "flashback" button that works on half the boards, but there's little to differentiate one from the other.

If you want something that just works and is fast, stick with Intel because their chipsets are better. I'm writing this on a 3900x, too...

EDIT: Since many are doubting what I went through, let me list the permutations of boards, DIMMs, and CPUs.

CPUs: 3900x and 220GE
DIMMs: Corsair Ballistix, G.Skill FlareX, Samsung ECC (unbuffered)
Boards: x470 Taichi and Hero VII

I finally got my third Taichi to boot with a 220GE to the point that I could flash a BIOS to something "stable" for the 3900x.

I've literally built hundreds of servers and PCs in my lifetime (including AMD Romes). I know what I'm doing. This ecosystem just isn't mature yet!
Well, you’re 16. It shows.

Every teenagers generation could be described as exhibitionist. “Hold my beer and watch this.” is how they used to proclaim some shallow effort at relevance was about to occur.

You describe how people are obsessed with credentials and don’t take pride in achievement anymore. That’s conflicting rhetoric.

You’re trying too hard to make a point.

They’re humans. That hasn’t changed. What’s changed is what society drives toward success in. What society surrounds us with.

Look at Bezos and Gates. Andreessen.

Helped into prestige positions by the ideological buy in of their masses.

Same as priests and Presidents of old.

Those people are propped up. No way they have power without others doing in their direction at scale.

That’s what humans do. No one in power ever got there with their own two hands.

Look at all the post modernist wank and reproducibility issues in social sciences, and the oceans of ink spent conjuring nonsense.

Humans are a vain species that, until recently, truly believed at scale it could be forever.

Covid19 has brought the awareness that not paying attention doesn’t mean the world stands still. Folks are realizing growth isn’t forever. Humanity isn’t necessarily forever as they were able to believe for thousands of years.

Is being lonelier bad? Perhaps we’ve been pushing socialize 24/7! too hard and this is a correction.

The falloff in human contact for me has me back to a space opera I’ve been curating for over a decade. My analog jack git repo, where I’m building a collection of software to curate for the rest of my days, to avoid buying it, has exploded with new ideas.

If you don’t like the screen addiction you’re seeing, yet you’re seeking connection via a screen to hash it out.

Unplug from the internet and this audience. It’s just people too, and you can probably learn all you need to know about them by intimately observing a subset in your own community.

They laugh, they cry, they act like jerks, they ignore real problems for their novelty & nostalgia chasing.

Thinking any of us here are saying anything that hasn’t been said a million times is vanity. Which is all the web is. Vain and impermanent people looking for the forever they were promised as kids via a number of misguided social norms.
Most of the issues and why a lot of things are not offered in Quebec is rarely because of bill 101 or language in general. It is not difficult to get something translated and offer it in a binlingual version. Heck, countries with much smaller populations get a localized version of international products.

Usually, at least when i was in insurance, it is because of legal and regulatory reason.
While the law systems in Canada is based on the common law, the law system in Quebec is based on the french civil code. This had repercussions on the way a lot of regulation is thought about. So when it was time to get our products ready for Canada, we had to do a few special cases for Quebec. My guess is that a lot of suppliers just overlook it or do not want to perform the appropriate checks and adaptations because they are not organized in a way to handle this distinction inside a country.
I think this is wildly inappropriate. To label something as "vital survival stuff" puts a moral burden on the postman to figure it out.
> The thing that remains is a very different activity with very different properties.

Do you write a correct formal spec the first time round? I don't. Proofs sometimes pass or fail when they shouldn't.

When these problem occur I call them bugs, and I call process of finding and fixing them debugging.
There are quite a few other French-speaking places in America and most of them are (or see themselves) under no cultural threat.

Bill 101 was only created by the Quebecers for themselves, not by some entity above them in order to protect them.
Never seen that before.

There’s definitely a hierarchy to Ivy League schools, but it varies depending on which one you went to.

(Source, one of 3 in my immediate family who went to an Ivy.)
These sorts of things were once common.

Fans would send letters to Rip Torn by simply putting a little tear in the envelope.

Chicago had a Sherman Hotel where the Thompson Center is now. People from the south refused to write the name "Sherman," so the post office got used to delivering letters addressed to things like "That hotel whose name must not be written, Chicago."

Large post offices had entire departments of people to decode addresses back then. Today the letter either gets bounced, or sent to the dead letter office.
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They probably don’t care that much in the case of email either. Would it be better to explain it by analogy? “This is like email, you pick a provider and you can talk to anyone from there.”
Each piece should have had its own concession.
It makes sense that MIT is absent as large donations can’t guarantee your kid gets into MIT.
This looks really good. I'm looking to dive in to Clojure.

Do you recommend my first book be something like this, or something more "traditional", like O'Reilly's "Living Clojure" or "Clojure"?
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Same! The initial tweets are generally ok.

But as soon as you scroll down, the comments make you want to throw up.
The point of the original article is that almost all right-wing politics is saturated in disinformation. The particular combination of disinformation, racism, and incitement to violence or disruption that characterised the_donald, and their persistent inability to rein it in despite the site admins begging them to, led to them getting banned. It is entirely their own fault. Just as I can work up no sympathy for those with self-inflicted bleach injuries due to being stupid enough to listen to him.

> not sure where right-leaning centrists are supposed to go

Given that's basically Biden's Democrat party, I don't think they're an endangered species just yet.

(There is also a disinformation problem on the left, but nowhere near as prevalent in the mainstream politics and news organisations, and a non-aligned smattering of nonsense such as the anti-5G campaign)
I find this constant sniping tiresome and boring. Yes, even people with great minds are humans, with all the failings that come with it. We are almost all lonely and seeking comfort and praise.

Isn't what is remarkable about Feynman worth celebrating? Perhaps even more so because he was only a human being.
No idea if relevant in your situation, but postal companies are crazy good at mapping indicators to physical addresses.

F.ex. high-throughput OCR in the 1960s! [1]

To look at it another way, they were one of the first companies with access to big data-scale training sets (all mail flow!), albeit due to electronic storage limitations, persisted in the form of physical mail.

When you're running at a volume where a < 1% error rate means opening a new floor of manual sorters, you get pretty good at things. And it's a perfect environment for continuous improvement (customer abstracted from actual implementation, well specified process input and output interfaces, fallback plans for exception handling, and internal authority to experiment).

[1] US Postal Service OCR video from 1970: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=V4LJs2ZoDR4
Sweden has an interesting pattern with a period of about one week. It appears that they have some activity that occurs weekly that results in new cases. There is a persistent 2-3 day plateau before the next caseload increase.
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Could have been actual insiders dumping.
Do Intel consumer chips support ECC memory now? Without ECC, I'm not sure I'd be comfortable doing any scientific computing or production serving. (I would consider using them for things like CI, though, because the price sure is good.)
I think there are more nuanced value conflicts around the workstation case. There's nothing wrong with the values you're working from, but they've slipped down my list over the past few years.

Nix can certainly be limiting in some ways. But everything can--we just habituate.

It's possible to find interesting tools that aren't at all cross-platform, or that require hours of DIY spelunking to get compiling, or that are only in some other repository. It's possible to find something you want to use that either isn't packaged for or is broken in every package manager.

I use Nix (on macOS and NixOS) for roughly the same reasons: convenience and flexibility. But from a different angle, I guess. It is freeing to know that everything I need to make forward progress on all of my personal and professional projects is specified. I have the flexibility to resume work on the projects I care about with almost no friction beyond securing new hardware.
Phones and servers in the offices have more than enough processing power to do this, without the cloud surveillance service.

Also, it's been done by sound engineers for decades.
I’m so sick of these hatchet jobs on long dead people. If you are not empathetic enough to put yourself in the position of a different society, you’re probably not empathic enough to criticize a persons character. Additionally, I don’t care if he was sexist. We don’t like Feynman because he was a feminist. We like Feynman because he led the charge in scientific discovery and progress. No one is perfect.
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It probably compiles to the same code as the equivalent if statements. Source: this person who certainly knows better than I do https://twitter.com/bgolus/status/1235254923819802626
A press conference does not come at the expense of doing concrete things. It has a purpose. One of those purposes is to keep people's spirits up with hopeful news about things that are being tried, to show that all angles are being pursued, etc. You can argue all you want that you know better how to do a press conference as a sitting president of the USA, but it's absurd to fault him for giving medical advice. He didn't.

You might as well condemn all newspapers, websites, or newscasters, and commenters the moment they start talking about potential new areas of research or treatment.

The reason the media got all pissy about it is because the President started doing what they consider to be their own proprietary job that nobody else can do: spreading rumors (aka "news").
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For those who aren't aware, radium paint was used quite a bit prior to the 1970s or so as a glow in the dark material, typically used on watches and clocks to allow them to be read in the dark.

You can still find many of these old items on ebay and in antique stores. Typically they no longer glow in the dark due to the radiation breaking down the phosphors in the paint, but they remain radioactive because the half-life is > 1000 years.

(I only know this stuff because of my interest in old tube electronics and radios, some of which have radium dial clocks)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radium_dials
It really is amazing. Both how fast items can travel across a country or around the world to a specific person, but also just the sheer volume of material moved.

I just wish it wasn't primarily used to deliver what is literally trash into my mailbox. I say literally because I take most everything that shows up in my mailbox and throw it straight in the trash.
I would position they gambled. We're still not sure if people become immune and if so how long.

We have an idea of better statistics but there is much unknown, especially in the early days of these decisions. Gambling at an analytical level is playing the odds as much as these guys are playing odds from a position of expertise from their field. Maybe we dont call it game ling because it's "analysis" but the difference is language but the fundamentals are the same. They are both taking bets based on incomplete information and what they feel is the best option.

If the knew more and weren't modeling off big assumed variables I'd agree with you. But when you make decisions off big unknown variables I say it's gambling regardless of your education or level of expertise.
The Flynn effect denotes the increase of IQ over time and is well established and documented (not necessarily well understood, though, albeit there are many theories).

And the last decade or so has indeed seen a reversal of the Flynn effect.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flynn_effect

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18956085
If you're going to criticize visual programming languages in general based on a 31-year-old paper written by Brad Myers in 1989, then you should at least look at some of the work he has done addressing those problems he set out in that paper, over the intervening three decades.

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~bam/

>Brad A. Myers is a Professor in the Human-Computer Interaction Institute in the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University. He was chosen to receive the ACM SIGCHI Lifetime Achievement Award in Research in 2017, for outstanding fundamental and influential research contributions to the study of human-computer interaction. He is an IEEE Fellow, ACM Fellow, member of the CHI Academy, and winner of 15 Best Paper type awards and 5 Most Influential Paper Awards. He is the author or editor of over 500 publications, including the books "Creating User Interfaces by Demonstration" and "Languages for Developing User Interfaces," and he has been on the editorial board of six journals. He has been a consultant on user interface design and implementation to over 90 companies, and regularly teaches courses on user interface design and software. Myers received a PhD in computer science at the University of Toronto where he developed the Peridot user interface tool. He received the MS and BSc degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology during which time he was a research intern at Xerox PARC. From 1980 until 1983, he worked at PERQ Systems Corporation. His research interests include user interfaces, programming environments, programming language design, end-user software engineering (EUSE), API usability, developer experience (DevX or DX), interaction techniques, programming by example, mobile computing, and visual programming. He belongs to ACM, SIGCHI, IEEE, and the IEEE Computer Society.

For example, he wrote this one year later in 1990:

Creating User Interfaces Using Programming by Example, Visual Programming, and Constraints. Brad A Myers. ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems, Vol 12, No. 2, April 1990.

http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.460...

I really enjoyed this 1999 paper “A Taxonomy of Simulation Software: A work in progress” from Learning Technology Review by Kurt Schmucker at Apple. It covered many of my favorite visual programming languages.

http://donhopkins.com/home/documents/taxonomy.pdf

And it's also worth reading the more modern and comprehensive "Gadget Background Survey" that Chaim Gingold did at HARC, which includes Alan Kay's favorites, Rockey’s Boots and Robot Odyssey, and Chaim's amazing SimCity Reverse Diagrams and lots of great stuff I’d never seen before:

http://chaim.io/download/Gingold%20(2017)%20Gadget%20(1)%20S...

I've also been greatly inspired by the systems described in the classic books “Visual Programming” by Nan C Shu, and “Watch What I Do: Programming by Demonstration” edited by Alan Cypher.

Visual Programming. Nan C Shu:

https://archive.org/details/visualprogrammin00shu_2pf

Watch What I Do: Programming by Demonstration. Allen Cypher,. Daniel Conrad Halbert.

https://archive.org/details/watchwhatido00alle
Somewhat disheartening that the author believes by default that the encryption wasn't tampered with on the proprietary server side of this proprietary client.