skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Was put through the gifted program through my local school system when I was a kid, took the psych test for it, did honors/AP throughout high school, yadda yadda.

Do not pigeonhole your kid. That is the perfect, most direct way to fuck her up mentally into adulthood. My parents wanted me to be a doctor (immigrant parents) and sure enough all the programs were pushing me to subjects I had zero care for. I hated every bit of their push. They later tried I should be a lawyer. After I left home, I haven't spoken to them since. That was about 15 years ago. I wanted to be an engineer doing big things like bridges, skyscrapers or even rockets. They thought that didnt make for a "successful big career". I lost out on going to the colleges I wanted to for this because I didnt have the neccessary extra curricular activities to get in.

The thing with most gifted kids, they're interested in "all the things". I mean it. I went through a month to three long spurts of crazy dives into a topic. Still do actually.

Let your kid be curious. Expose them to the world. Dont narrow them down. They'll do that on their own as they explore the world, which will happen in their late teens at the soonest. Me having decent knowledge in an extremely wide range of topics has been my greatest asset, especially since I went into business for myself. If they become hyper specialized on their own, good, foster that. If they hyper study a topic, then jump to the next, foster that. Guess what, your daughter is a little human, not a fucking cog that society pretends to automatically own so they can solve the world's problems. This gifted child bullshit, I hate using this word but is appropriate, is extremely toxic for people especially when they grow up. Nothing is ever good enough and we feel underperforming at every turn.

Dont do this gifted pigeonholing bullshit to her, for the love of all that is pure and good. Raise her as a human and embrace her interests as they arise. The best you can do is love her and go out of your way to occasionally show her something new of the world.
> Its amusing that less than 24 hours ago on the 'how to write a resume that converts' thread many people commented that "Resumes are completely outdated", and now here we are with more negativity on this modern approach.

I find myself in state regularly. At least I know now how to recognize the paralizing absurdity. Still very often a new solution is best when it massages an old one to fix problems but the world seems to operate by big deviations that shock the status quo and then new and old blend again.
I like the idea of one cable to an external box of many inputs that lives in the tv stand.

It separates out the input box from the display (makes it easier to plug things into) and allows just one cable to come from the TV. You can also have a lot more ports this way (8 HDMI?)

Samsung has a TV that implements something like this (of course it has all the rest of the smart crap too that you could nix).

Also this makes it easy to potentially have upgradeable/future input boxes with new ports without having to modify the display.

It's still 'dumb', but I think breaking out the inputs is a better design.
> Execution is the most important thing

Ideas are necessary. Without ideas, execution is hollow. I really value "idea people."

We just need to work together.
What makes you think hiring managers will suddenly prioritize "quirky sexy hipsters" if those traits aren't desirable for the role? You seem to be assuming users on the hiring side will use it the same way the average TikTok user browses through average TikTok content
I don't use tiktok myself, but from what I've seen their core user group is (mostly young) people doing irresponsible and silly things to get views on the platform.
I don't think showing how irresponsible you are is the best way to convince an employer to hire you. Maybe this will work for certain positions like "social media manager" that some companies have, but as a general job board it will conflict with the main use of tiktok.
With respect, I work closely with editors for a couple of major Canadian publication.

The number of them who understand the subscription and unsubscribe process of any of their media properties and UX patterns enough to rule on the subject for one of their writers is probably near 0.

It's not because they don't care, or wouldn't take to concern; it's because it's a business matter and a big blind spot. They have no ruling power over it, and just generally expect subscriptions to be a resolved business matter since it has long been.

It's easy for us "tech" people to see these kinds of things; it's obvious to a lot of us because our days are consumed by it. That is not at all true for most people.

Thankfully, even with blaring blind spots, editors tend to be open for discussion—hell, they started the discussion.

I think before anyone goes off the rails, they should take a look at the NYT comments section on this article where they can see the top comments on both the All and Reader Picks tabs. There are a number of comments pointing directly back at the NYT about this issue. A lot of those comment sections, like HN, are moderated by humans: https://qr.ae/pGncF5

To me, it reads that this particular writer came upon a subject that began to concern them, did some research and put together a piece to open up a discussion. It's not a final ruling, and it's not complete (it's just an opinion after all).

To me, that seems healthy, not intellectually dishonest.
> rather information propagates at a certain speed, which also just so happens to be the speed of light.

Are these fundamentally related, or could we imagine a universe where these are two different numbers?
Universal Paperclips – play the role of an AI programmed to produce paperclips
In this case, I really don't think they're very different. I ended up in tech, but I didn't consider myself a techie at their age. I could do the stuff I mentioned, but pretty much everyone in my peer group could - and most of us did not end up going into tech. In some ways, they're more advanced (one of them used to play some tablet game that basically used programming concepts - though he's never touched real code or applied anything outside of roblox to my knowledge).
Bummer, I always considered Aukey the poor man's Anker. Decent enough products at a lower price, roughly comparable to RAVpower in feature/quality at least for the power banks. The main thing you lose is their ability to support some of the high voltage charge standards.

I'd rather see Amazon patrol trademark infringing products that inflate ratings. I mistakenly bought a 'thermapro' instead of a 'thermapen' and while it initially worked ok it eventually disintegrated around a year later.
Apple AirTag jailbroken already – hacked in rickroll attack
I think it would be uncontroversial to say that HackerNews would have had the exact same take if it existed.

And I, at the time, had the exact same take.

Despite being full of entrepreneurs and hackers, folks here are remarkably out of touch with the average consumer.

It's not a damning criticism. Like I said, I include myself in this group that reacted with a resounding "What? WHY?" to almost every single Apple product launched under Steve Jobs's tenure, and was wrong every time.

But it's a blindspot we should be cognizant of. And anything related with TikTok is the perfect confluence to lead to the most stale takes.

Having said that, there is always a bit of a survivorship bias with these trends.

I also was completely negative and dubious on Snapchat and turned out to have been vindicated.

I do think TikTok is something different. It captures my imagination and attention better than any platform EVER, and I include YouTube and Instagram in this. Their recommendation algorithm is truly wonderous.
Volunteer side is open to anyone, anywhere (assuming they are 13+, can get through our screening process, and can pass one of our certification quizzes).

Student side is currently only open to low-income high school students in the US who are 13+. Eligibility is based on a combination of the income demographics of their high school and zip code, but even students who don't pass the "quick check" can apply for access if they feel they are eligible.

https://gitlab.com/upchieve
You folks are horribly, horribly underpaid over there.

$130k is the kind of money a reasonably experienced developer can get in southern New Hampshire, or Ohio, or Arkansas.
Why must that be the case?
Good question — we used https://github.com/projectstorm/react-diagrams
Smart Home Alliance Announces New 'Matter' Connectivity Standard
For anybody who stumbles across this and is interested, this conversation is continued on reddit.

https://old.reddit.com/r/golang/comments/mlhvx0/i_wrote_yet_...
It'd be acceptable if the developer in turn were to refund me all the money I've given them when I was subscribed.

I'm left with nothing, they're left with nothing. That's fair enough.
Its nice to call out a SCP that isn't cringe self-insert material.
It feels kind of like training wheels for programming. Which some might be against, and I wouldn't really like it in my professional life, but 20 years ago when I was just starting to really program, this would have been a life saver.

Even just the infinite loop checker because of using or instead of and in the first example would have paid for itself just in debug time back then. And if it then TAUGHT you about Or and And and precedence, and then expand the knowledge further by explaining short circuiting with or an or for "performance" etc, that would be an excellent aid.
You'd have no problem finding economists to endorse my definition. As for judges, they only get to rule on cases that are brought to them, and that depends on the regulators.
For the read-only case it's the same except for a larger overhead of the cloning.

But for the case where the data is modified, Rc often goes with RefCell as Rc<RefCell<X>> and allows in-place mutation called interior mutability. This means that the other code that got the copy of the Rc will observe the write effects.
Disclaimer: I don't know what I'm talking about, just interested in trying to slightly grasp stuff like this.

Have they proven in this research (or other research) or is it generally understood that quantum teleportation propagates at the speed of light?
Loved this series. IMO many scp hubs/stories are low-quality or have unsavory themes. This series avoids the worst of that and tackles a difficult problem in a thoughtful way.
Cloudflare slipped too far into censorship to support them any further. I used to promote their service to customers but no longer. The last thing I want to power the Internet is a persobality driven agenda for censorship.
Online education, networking events, business cards.
He also pledged to make Amazon a carbon neutral company by 2040, which combined with the implicit goal of Amazon taking over the entire world economy (joking not joking) is a big deal.
> Why is it expensive? You can write it in 10 minutes. I've looked at the last cover letter that I wrote, it's 12 sentences in total.

10 minutes multiplied by how many applications one makes? If you apply for 60 jobs, that's 10 hours of work. Moreover, it's 10 hours of work where there's a good chance no one will read it.

I'm not saying anyone is right or wrong here. It's a question of whether one wants to take a gamble in curating and thinking someone will read it vs going for raw numbers and applying to as many places as possible.

Of course, if you know the other party will read it, it makes sense to write one.

> I can't even think what they could put in the cover letter that would automatically disqualify them.

Experience that is different from what you are looking for (or not at the scale you need, etc), which wasn't clear in the resume.

The last time I had this discussion on HN, I did get responses that said they have disqualified people for what's on their cover letter.
There are two states in the USA that require gas to be filled by an employee, no self-serve allowed. New Jersey and Oregon. This was put in place as a measure to protect jobs - for better or worse.
I feel like the "I saved a silly game my friends play from certain death during the lockdown period" is just a priori such a fun and light hearted claim that it's ridiculous to respond to it the same way you'd respond to "I saved the global economy"
Dfinity Launches Uber-Ambitious ‘Internet Computer’ After 5 Years of Development
This all points to a huge undersupply of housing.

If prices are set by the maximum that people can pay, rather than what the costs are to provide housing, then there's an easy solution: allow more housing to be built.

Nearly everybody can afford to pay for the costs of providing housing: the maintenance, the amortized cost of construction over the lifetime of the house.

What people can't afford to pay for are the increases in land prices due to the housing shortage. This sets up a two class system: those that own the land and see benefit from appreciating land prices, and continue to have the flexibility to move and own land becuase they bought early, and the unlanded, who are doomed to pay ever increasing land costs in their monthly rents, with all the benefit going to landlords and homeowners who reap the land rents.

It's a gigantic unproductive transfer of wealth from those with less to those with more. In addition to the human misery and poverty that this causes among working people, this also greatly increases inequality, which further reduced economic output of society.

And there's a simple solution to it all: allow people to pay to build housing rather than forcing them to bid up limited supply and pass off their stored labor to idle land owners.

However, the homeowners who benefit from this system are the ones with the political power to keep their rentierism enforced by law...
> The real question is how we pay for UBI. UBI, being universal, means everyone gets money. Where does that money come from, including over time and into the future?

Under the existing system there are benefits and they phase out aggressively. Some lower income people experience the equivalent of marginal tax rates in excess of 100%. It's a poverty trap -- you can't make a little more money because if you do, the government takes all of it. (And it's little better when they take 80% or 90% of it.) It's very bad.

Under a UBI the formal tax rate would be "higher" -- someone making low wages might be paying 30% compared to what is on paper 0% now, but it would really be 30% instead of 80+% after benefits phase outs that wouldn't exist. It effectively allows you to use a flat tax and end up with a system more progressive than the status quo. (Or you can make it more or less progressive as you please by changing the amount of the UBI.)

The largest beneficiaries of this are the working poor; the lower middle class. Right now they make "too much money" and have lost all the benefits. Under a UBI they would still receive some, e.g. at a 30% tax rate and a $12,000 UBI, someone making $30,000/year would net $3000.

The effect on people right in the middle would zero out. They'd nominally pay more in taxes and then get it all back.

But that $3000 has to come from somewhere, so the upper middle class might pay slightly more than they do now.

Maybe this means software developers would be paying slightly higher taxes. Or maybe not -- eliminating poverty traps is likely to produce economic benefits. First, people with less money have more, and are likely to spend it, which helps the economy. Second, it would likely produce an increase in wages, because people would be less desperate for jobs and employers would have to pay workers more. Both increase the tax base which allows the same level of benefits at a lower tax rate. Also, corporations would pay some of the taxes but only individuals would receive the UBI.
They have a trial for Nova, so I suggest checking it out. It’s not quite as fast as ST (on my aging 2013 MBP) and the extension ecosystem is still somewhat lacking.
Nonetheless, it feels fantastic to use and I’ve switched completely now
Ask HN: What RSS feeds to subscribe to for tech and for parenting?
I'm interested in the following topics:

- Parenting
- TypeScript React development
- UX development
- Software development generally good practices
- eXtreme Programming

I am already subscribed to the following, in case it's helpful:

- Kent Dodds
- Robin Wieruch
- Martin Fowler
- TypeScript Weekly
Maybe safety features are a weak force, but I know plenty of parents that buy vehicles based on safety features. Volvo is pretty famous for marketing their safety features and kid friendly features as a competitive differentiator.
> If you sacrifice one of those two things, you'll get a low SAT score. If you have both, you'll get a high score.

Even this is saying too much. I know someone who literally did two or three practice tests and got just shy of a 2400 (he got every q right and lost ten pts for his essay). There's nothing on the SAT that's difficult enough to need prep for a high school junior, with the possible exception of the permutation/combination qs.

Though note that this leaves a massive hole for those who are doing math at middle-school levels, which is true of a shocking fraction of the student population.
I think Nova is already on a somewhat similar model. You can buy it and use it forever, but you only get support/updates for a year. A subsequent year is (I think) $49.

If iOS supported this model I think most devs would be ok with it, pay upfront X amount, and then a slightly smaller amount yearly for continued support/updates/development. I wonder if we'd have more 'pro/dev' iOS apps if the App Store supported models like this?
>China's "sang wenhua", or "sang" culture, is a movement that ironically celebrates aimlessness and hopelessness.

China's version of 'doomer' culture? They managed to commercialize it quickly.
There's this misconception that bitcoin is private / "safe" for criminals. In reality, the block chain is public (and all of its transactions inside... that is how distributed ledger consensus is achieved among miners) and the on-ramps and off-ramps between fiat are all logged / tracked, especially Coinbase (since they are taking the "safe route" and playing by all of the rules with governments / regulators).

Your last-mile exchange from bitcoin back to USD on Coinbase, for example, is logged and monitored by Coinbase -- furthermore, the bank is incentivized to file Suspicious Activity Reports whenever they see these large wire transfers to the virtual banks used by the exchanges for withdrawing and depositing fiat. So, even privacy coins are tracked in this way (these necessary fiat exchanges).

You can basically say the same thing about IRS tracking crypto tax evaders.
Weaponizing this would be fantastic for use in ransomware.

"Pay us crypto or else we'll overwrite your disks with data about SCP-2521"
If you like this, you should also consider reading qntm's other work -- I thought `Ra` and `Fine Structure` were particularly good:

https://qntm.org/fiction
Could we realistically accelerate a space probe to faster speeds than what Voyagers and New Horizons are currently doing?
I wonder if cheese, in this case, is a proxy for "not eating a low-fat diet"? Since low-fat eating usually (but not necessarily) involves eating more "low fat" sugary, processed items, seed oils, and refined carbs, than a higher fat diet would. Again, on average, not to say you can't eat a healthy low-fat diet. Just that many people tend to avoid fat almost as a reflex, without understanding that some of the alternatives are much worse for them.
Is data science for most businesses just bs?
Oh I agree! but the very first example that the author gives is the difficulty of canceling Amazon Prime. That's a pretty big gaffe.

I canceled Amazon Prime once; yes it was a pain, yes it "required multiple screens and clicks"—but it was nothing as abusive as having to make a phone call and (one can only expect) wait on hold for a punishing length of time.
"focused on" is probably better terminology.
> Instead, we decided to add the [IntoIterator] trait implementation in all editions (starting in Rust 1.53.0), but add a small hack to avoid breakage until Rust 2021.

Eh, why not. We nerds are used to retconning in all the sci-fi universes anyway.
I'm curious, do you use iOS devices?
>Your whole argument hinges on the fact that the publications are intentionally trying to smear Tesla and their AutoPilot feature. The fact of the matter is that those articles very clearly state that they're quoting what the police say about the crash.

I don't think it has anything to do with smearing Tesla. I think that people have anxiety about self-driving cars and publications know that, so they play to that. This isn’t about Tesla, or AutoPilot. It’s about getting the details right.

If these publications are claiming to quote the police, they're doing a shitty job of it, because the police said only that there wasn't anyone in the driver's seat at the time of the crash. The police didn't comment on auto pilot, didn't comment on the car being "driverless" (which would imply that it never had a driver to start with, which it did. If someone takes their hands of the wheel to stop their kids in the back seat from fighting, does the car become driverless for that moment? If so, where are all the other news stories calling those crashes driverless? Car accidents happen all the time while the car is cruise control. Is that driverless? Why not? It's essentially the same technology that Tesla has for adaptive cruise control).
So, again, legal precedent is that Apple doesn’t have a monopoly.
> you do need nuclear power, and you're continuously exposed to cosmic rays

silly question: can CRs be harnessed for power?
That's a perspective I probably heard before but completely forgot about. Nice summary!

I suppose having an efficient resolution to any 'problem' would be a net benefit for all parties involved, even if we would think all sorts of negative thoughts about it from a technical perspective. The same goes for botched negotiations or indeed people who don't even know how to deal with cryptocurrency.

It does make me wonder when thinking about hostage negotiations if that parallel insurance concept has different requirements on the company in question. Say you ship expensive employees to a facility in a country where they are likely to be captured for ransom, you'd expect some training for the employees to deal with 'being held hostage', or 'reducing the likelyhood of being taken'. If that is the case, something similar would be sensible in the ransomware scenario, right?
When did Cloudflare slip into censorship?
A lot of occupations from early 1900's census are fairly weird and awesome.
Well, you don't have to use an Apple credit card in the App Store either.

That said, do you remember having to use Disney money in Disneyland for every transaction?