skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah it's possible things have changed in the last 20 years but when I was growing up any pressure to read above grade level was purely social. I remember showing up to kindergarten very proud that I was reading Ramona, and one of my friends totally dismissed it because he was reading Harry Potter. So of course I begged my parents for Harry Potter after that, which lead to a pretty good run of advancing my reading over a couple years while "competing" with my friend.

It is true I read a bunch of books in early elementary years that I definitely did not have the ability to understand on a higher level, like Animal Farm and Frankenstein. But I still think I got a lot out of the experience. It's funny because I was totally glued to those books at the time, but then when we started reading "real" books for school around grade 7 I lost interest. Perhaps my early fascination was more with the mechanics of language than it was with any broader themes or symbolism. Or maybe I just hate being told to do things, probably a bit of both.

So yeah, I think reading early can be great and if the child is showing an interest in that it is great to encourage. I wish the teachers/admins at my school were as helpful as my parents/peers, but instead they forced everybody to do assignments using a particular pool of books each year based on age. In first grade my mom ended up doing a "book report" on Make Way for Ducklings because I straight up refused.

I do agree it shouldn't be pressured if the child isn't into it though. Different kids are different, so of course schooling is going to require different approaches.
The problem is that it can always be taken away from you. Remember, the Affordable Care Act ruling is supposed to come out this summer.

I am on an orphan drug myself (subcutaneous immunoglobulin, which I am self-infusing at the moment...) which costed $278,000/year under contract, when I lived in the US. Of course the provider bills a much higher amount. But the figure I gave is the one that is paid out, over the course of a year.

You should know that the third leading cause of death in the US is believed to be preventable medical errors. This has been corroborated via multiple follow-up studies, just google "third leading cause of death US medical errors". But, here is the original article: https://www.bmj.com/content/353/bmj.i2139

You can go to the "best hospitals", have the "best insurance", and "be able to pay for care", but you cannot evade a statistic like that. The medical error rate is on par with developing countries, by the way.

Also, 7-8% of the general population collectively has some sort of rare disease, which is theoretically treated by orphan drugs. There are now orphan drugs that cost $2 million/year per person, and the cost is so extortionate that it is literally going to screw over the US health system. Such meds have to be taken for life.: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/25/health/drug-prices-rare-d...

Also, life expectancy does not look so good in the US.

How healthy will we be in 2040? http://www.healthdata.org/news-release/how-healthy-will-we-b...

US was 43rd worldwide in life expectancy in 2016. In 2040, we are expected to be 64th.

Honestly, this kind of stuff is why I emigrated and I am a dual US|EU (Croatian) citizen. As an EU citizen, I have Freedom of Movement rights to live/work/retire in 30+ countries within the EU and EFTA (minus Liechtenstein--has an immigration quota).

Because of your health status, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand are off limits because they have strict medical inadmissability clauses in their immigration laws. I would stay away from the UK too, because they could implement such rules post-Brexit.

But, I have studied healthcare systems, logistics of healthcare, along with rules for acquiring citizenship, for hundreds of hours. If you want any help or advice, feel free to shoot me an email (check my profile).
How much raw resources for semiconductors do we have left?
And it only works with MongoDB shipped with older versions of Debian. The current Debian doesn't even have the most current version of MongoDB (due to Debian policy of backporting security fixes only) but even that is too new! In the future it would not surprise me the least to find that the only way to use the Unifi controller will be by using a non-supported distro.
I had assumed a setup which had several VMs, with one being a PFSense or similar to be less secure than a standalone firewall. Reading about the pros and cons leads me to conclude that security in a virtual setup is just fine.
Blackberry Key2 is still a normal phone with excellent normal phone qualities, including a normal physical keyboard.
As the person who wrote it, I'm not sure; I think this one of those things that's colored by opinion as much as fact. I would like to hear someone say what they think.

The bit about Manchin is fact, though. They can't change the rule without him, and he doesn't want to eliminate the filibuster. He did say that he would consider modifying it to make it more difficult, however.
I’ve been thinking of getting a pine phone. The concept sure looks interesting.
WoW FSD!? that's very audacious :Ð
You can view all components in sketch cloud or Figma community file. I’ll update website for same. Thanks for feedback
Medical insurance companies know they get a slice of the pie, so the size of the pie is really, really important to future growth.

Also, can't help but wonder if your insurance company has an ownership interest in Descovy...somewhere. $2200 is cheap if you're paying it to yourself. And the pie grows.

Yeah, that's my mildly paranoid writing for the week, methinks.
"train good, car bad"
I think it’s more likely we will see Microsoft and Google taking substantial share of the US Android market over the next 5+ years
While I appreciate what you did there by allowing search by phone number. The home page of that website is terrible, you claim to be a website for news but it’s really just far left propaganda, interspersed with communist agenda items, and a smattering of kinda center left articles.
I don't think you're alone with these thoughts. The absence of evidence of other sentient beings (Fermi paradox IIRC) is an input to the theoretical Great Filter.

EDIT: I misread what you wrote. It's not quite as related. But maybe only a little.
In the hope that young earth creationists might read it and learn something?
I wish I could be more sad about this. LG lost a lot of trust during their bootloop era, around the time of the G4. They had some interesting ideas with their V series, but I just couldn't bring myself to trust them after my G4 died in less than 18 months.
Samsung's software design feels like an analogy of Korean corporate structure.
They peaked at LG V20. Replaceable battery, useful 2nd screen, and kickass audio chip.

An end of an era...
I wrote a blog post a while back about whether methods like these will be necessary in the future:

http://mitchgordon.me/machine/learning/2020/01/13/do-we-real...
Interesting. But isn't this more like something (re-routing of text-messages) that happens inside compromised telecom service-provider? If they can hack the telecom-provider they don't need to get my phone-number from Facebook.
The "mild respiratory flu" description is utter bullshit.

There was an analysis a couple of days ago about a very high percentage of people having to return to ICU 3 months after going in for covid. And another high percentage dying after the 3 months.

That's not anecdotal, that's statistics.
Code Smell 66 – Shotgun Surgery
What? Page layout and design is not the exclusive domain of software written in the last few years. Wordstar, Word Perfect, Electric Pencil, Display Write and many others programs contemporary to that era gave people enough control to write books, term and research papers, legal documents of every stripe and anything else you care to name. WYSIWYG made it far easier for the general public to perform typesetting tasks but that's not what we're talking about here.
Pure anecdote but my kid started sight reading around 2.5 and was legitimately reading at about three. We thought she might be purely sight reading until we brought home new books and she'd read them. She's just over 3.5 and has moved on to "chapter books." (Nothing over 25 pages or so with 3_4 page chapters.) She learned to read by being read to and answering her questions and learning the sounds and then trying them. She's just starting to spell words over four characters and math is still tricky (only tried addition) but she's definitely literate.

I won't say it's possible for every kid but it's definitely not impossible.
They're obsessed with making money. No 3.5mm means you're more likely to buy bluetooth earbuds. No SD? Cloud services. Battery? You'll get a new phone after 18-24 months. No charger? Wireless charging pad.

Apple can "get away" with it because to a lot of people it's a luxury/lifestyle brand. Android vendors copy them because they want to create new revenue streams by removing features/out of nothing too!
Isn't OnePlus starting to eat the share that LG, HTC & Motorola once served? They seem to be the only ones that reliably update their software, don't have horrendous hardware issues and consistently have good LineageOS support.
I dont know about the LG G2 bit the V20 also has the same characteristics.
> Curious: there is an unbelievably huge wealth of this type of "content" that lives almost exclusively in history books, or at least seems profoundly difficult to find on the internet.

> Then there's the insane illusion that virtually all knowledge is accessible within the first Google search result page, so I'm always pleased whenever articles like this one find their way to the surface...

The accurate and valuable knowledge humanity has produced is mostly behind paywalls: Books and scholarly journals (and also the best journalism). The masses get the dregs - rumors, speculation, ignorance, disinformation, misinformation - 99% crap is not an exaggeration, IMHO. It also is a massive barrier against anyone, including kids, who try to actually learn. Then the experts wring their hands about all the ignorance and false beliefs held by the public, and how uneducated everyone is.

Reading actual scholarly work - from people who have personally examined the primary evidence, and who have the expertise to put it in context with prior evidence and have the skills to evaluate it - is transformative (as is the best journalism - people who also examine the evidence, etc.). The difference between that and usual Internet information is mind-altering - they are different worlds, and often say completely different things. What seemed reasonable on the Internet immediately becomes ignorant and deceptive, sometimes intentionally, and useless. (An important trick is to remember next time that what seems reasonable and useful is really, no matter how convincing it feels, is really ignorant and useless.) Also, IME the scholarly work usually is easy to read - easier than the BS on the Internet, because people who know what they're talking about and have evidence tend to write clearly and get directly to the point.

I sprung for a personal subscription to the Oxford English Dictionary - I think ~$90 as a special. Just that is transformative: a quick history, at my fingertips, of every concept ever expressed in English - with the primary evidence right there!

...

If we could make all the valuable, accurate information available to the public, it could be transformative for everyone. I wish the Gates Foundation would spare a few billion to buy the IP to the scholarly journals and books and make them open. That may do more than any investment.
That's typically configurable with the test system.
The entire purpose of infrastructure is to enable commerce that makes life better for the tax payers who fund it.

Horse and buggy enthusiasts hate semis but people who shop at Amazon love them.

The same goes for people who want self driving cars and the infrastructure they will be supported by. If the world goes that way, it's because the people want it.
Honest question, who are the people who need more chargers? Definitely being anecdotal but everyone in my circle is drowning in generations of random usb adaptors, myself included. I’ve been very supportive of removing wasteful redundancy but again, this is subjective
Yeah I meant the V20. Apologies.
What is Sony doing these days?
IP addresses are (probably) considered personal data under the GDPR.

https://www.fieldfisher.com/en/services/privacy-security-and...
Can't say I blame them. Phones are really close to being commodities. Samsung and Apple have the top end on lockdown. Xiaomi will obliterate you on the low and mid range. So your only real option is to dump huge amounts of cash into top photo and app folks and try to fight with the big two.
If I had a dollar for every caching bug I've encountered, I'd be a rich man.
Silica, a precursor to silicon wafers, makes up about 10% of the Earth's crust by mass [1].

[1] https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/14356007.a23...
> For the level of depth we went into, I may as well have just taken a Coursera course.

This may be true for graduate programs, but I wholeheartedly believe that undergrad Comp Sci programs should be completed at a 4-year school mostly because the course work is less specialized, much easier to teach and generally attracts pretty decent pool of instructors at most schools.

Additionally, bootcamps are not online courses and shouldn't be conflated. A 6 to 9-months bootcamp goes through material at such a high pace that it often becomes counter-productive. I have a friend who paid $10K for a 6-months bootcamp, got burned out and learned very little in the end. The entire experience basically turned him away. I have another friend who started Comp Sci program at a community college and he's been absolutely happy with overall experience and pace. I have helped both of them and would generally recommend staying the hell away from bootcamps, especially with no prior programming experience.
> In first grade my mom ended up doing a "book report" on Make Way for Ducklings because I straight up refused.

See, and that's its own bummer. Make Way for Ducklings is a gorgeous book. Its Lexile measure isn't shabby for a 1st grader, either... but it's not a great book for kids to read on their own (hence it is "AD" -- or adult-directed).
Raw resources? You mean Silicon? You mean 27%[0] of the planets crust? Yeah, we have a bit.

[0] https://www.rsc.org/periodic-table/element/14/silicon
If you have never read it before, “On the Building Blocks of Mathematical Logic”[1] is incredibly readable given that it's talking pure theory and trying to do something quite remarkable. Basically it teaches you to remove variables from arbitrary logic expressions, including logic expressions that have existential and universal quantification, and just represent them with a couple of fixed symbols (you can get it down to 2, which if you were so inclined you could call 0 and 1).

That's a pretty lofty goal and Schönfinkel just baby-steps you into it, “you know how NAND gates (the Sheffer stroke) work and can make any other boolean circuit by making AND and NOT and OR the following ways? Cool. Here’s how we can extend that idea to ‘there exists X such that...’ and here is how you curry functions and use the Applicative functor for functions in practice to remove multiple calls of the same argument, and with those you can write anything point-free and do away with arguments and symbols altogether.”

At the end of reading it, there is simultaneously a sense of epiphany and a sense of confused scope, like when you've been walking up a mountain all day and you turn around and you don't really believe that you have gotten as high as you have gotten, every step was reasonable and the sum total is unreasonable. Well worth the reading time.

[1] https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/data/uploads/2020/12/Sch...
Cannot recommend gqless highly enough for making graphql actually fun to use and closer to something like meteor/firebase syntax[0].

And I’ll self-promote, I’ve been working on what I consider to be a “next generation” style system for React that solves my biggest issue with it currently: being able to performantly write styles in a nice syntax that optimize for both web and native. Called SnackUI, still in beta[1]. It has an optimizing compiler that really speeds up React apps a ton, but still lets them run fully on native, even with themes and responsive queries.

I’ve been hacking on a cool project for the last year using the two of them and really believe in them both.

[0] https://gqless.com

[1] https://github.com/snackui/snackui
String theorist Michio Kaku: 'Reaching out to aliens is a terrible idea'
> do a factory reset on their routers and Access Points ASAP

This is a miserable user experience. If you do a reset and don’t know the SSH password on APs or cameras you get to spend a hellish few hours crawling though ceiling insulation, climbing ladders and physically resetting devices. It’s so shit. I’ve just done it, but not due to security concerns, but instead because of a UDM-P crapping out randomly.
I haven't seen one or it would've saved me a ton of trouble. I think it might be quite a while before I finish putting this into an sqlite database given all the schema nonsense and the weekend being almost over now.
"Secure documents" is a whole 'nother ball of wax, and has no bearing on this specific question. PDFs themselves address that use-case poorly as well.

My (and others') point is and remains that a spatially-fixed layout does serve a useful purpose for some documents. Including the 140 million or so published books and an even larger count of formatted published articles.

Yes, for short texts, dynamic flow within an HTML webpage is useful. Yes, for very small devices, virtually any format sucks and blows (this is a device problem, not an inherent PDF problem).

I'm not a fan of websites that dump what should be Web-formatted content as PDFs. But I'm also not a fan of the notion that everything should be an HTML document either.

(I've used various online document formats for going on 40 years, from raw ASCII (or EBCDIC) through roff/nroff/troff/groff, HTML, LaTeX, various flavours of Markdown, etc. I've hand typed out several books simply to have a suitable online digital format of them (I hope this serves to indicate my level of obsessiveness, if not sanity, on this topic). I'm a huge fan of Pandoc and its ability to take a standard markup format and produce a wide range of output endpoints (usually: PDF, ePub, HTML, plain ASCII text, though a few others may be included).

I'm also a recent convert to large-format eBook readers. And from that experience I can make two specific observations:

1. The behaviour of HTML and web browsers on an eInk device really sucks. Pagination and not triggering scroll actions with the merest suggestion of a hint of breathing on the surface is hugely underappreciated.

2. PDFs (or equivalent paginated documents, e.g., DJVU) offer an excellent reading experience on such devices.

I'm not a huge fan of the PDF file format, mind, it's far too variable and has too many surprises and vulnerabilities. As a reading medium, however, it's quite good, especially when produced with competent tools.
I've built a python library called ZipReport to manage and generate PDF reports from HTML using paged.js - https://github.com/zipreport

The actual PDF generation component is an electron application, so it may fit your "frontend technology" requirement.
Can someone enlighten me on why manufacturers who have experience with software, such as Microsoft, don’t create their own OS for their mobile phones? I recognize that it’s easier and faster to iterate to just use Android with some sprinkles on top, but even if it meant spending 4-5 years developing it, the potential market share is absolutely massive. I can see the first year or two would not be great since app developers would need to build their apps, but after that initial hurdle, then I’d imagine it wouldn’t be as bad. After that, it comes down to sales, marketing and mindshare adoption.

To me regarding LG, I was never a fan of their phones, but less competition is always bad in my book.

Edit: Yes I remember the Windows Phone and it’s failures, was thinking more of starting a newer OS these days rather than several years ago.
The Tax-Subsidy Waltz
It's going to be interesting when class actions start happening for companies pushing the mandatory arbitration garbage. If a class action still proceeds because enough people have opted out, then it will demonstrate real damages. After which, everybody who didn't opt out will have a pretty strong case to arbitrate asking for at least the same compensation - while a settlement isn't an admission of guilt it does demonstrate merit, and the arbitrator will not want to admit that they're an outright sham. And once this gets popular (eg a one-stop website for submitting your arbitration claim), the company is going to be stuck paying all of those separate arbitration case fees as they promised.
This website itself is a work of art.

The DOM is a modern day canvas.
There's a big difference between refusing to allow a blind person to take their rigorously-trained guide dog into an Uber or a restaurant, or an aeroplane, and refusing access access to someone's service pitbull (or, as you mention it, service pony[1]). The concept of service animals and unofficial assistance dogs as opposed to guide dogs abuses the accommodations that societies have made to help blind people. And now businesses are being put in a position where they have to find a way of limiting the downsides from the proliferation of "service animals" and "emotional assistance animals" without discriminating against blind people, with both hands tied behind their backs.

Cities are unfriendly to people with pets. Private rented accommodation and transportation are unfriendly to people with pets. And an Uber surcharge that covered finding drivers who were willing to [generally] transport people with dogs would probably be unpopular with dog owners, as are additional deposits and cleaning fees for apartments. Have you considered that many people would prefer not to use an Uber that had previously been used to transport a dog (guide dogs excepted), or to go to a mall that had dogs (apart from guide dogs)? And there's the question of training. Do you know how much it costs to train a guide dog (even excluding the helping-blind-people parts)? Or that many breeds of dog aren't suitable for the high level of training that enables guide dogs to be accepted and respected? Realistically, the vast majority of people wouldn't go to the lengths of training their [emotional support] animal to that level. And would you be happy with restricting access to malls to pet owners that could afford that level of training? Some would see it as discriminatory. And it would all be completely unenforceable and lead to massive liability for business owners.

1. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/miniature-horse-on-plane-woman-...
TeX's initial release was 1978.
Getting signal to devices isn’t a problem, but it’s not easy having an AP receive signal from a low power device. Multiple APs is the way to go in my experience.
No

- someone who worked at a semiconductor startup
I'm still amazed at how well the LG G3 holds up today (with custom roms). That era of LG phones was great.

It's too bad that they started to concentrate all their efforts on coming up with the dumbest gimmicks possible (like that ridiculous second screen on the V20)

Sometimes it seems like Apple owes much of its success to the bizarre fact that all their competitors are completely incompetent.
Then why wasn't there massive commercial success for the phones that kept these features, like a headphone jack an SD card? Samsung tried to market it for a few years, but eventually surrendered to the same trends like the rest of the market. If this was really so bad for consumers, they would've chosen the alternatives that were available at the time.
Apples controversial decisions aren't without reason, probably they realized it makes sense for them too.