skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Only worry about the milestones when they are way off. Like waaaay off. Every kid develops at a different rate.

They tried to get us all freaked out that our kid had a speech delay and that we needed speech therapy, and possibly other interventions. It was obvious that he understood what we were saying and could act on what we were saying so it seemed to us like his lights were on and that the language parts of his brain were working. Plus friends of ours had been down this road and gave us similar advice.

In a few more months he started talking and talking and talking, and hasn’t shut up since.

He’s in first grade now and his teacher is super impressed with his elevated vocabulary, and generally how articulate he is.

Sometimes kids just take their time getting somewhere.

Of course, there are times when something might be genuinely wrong, but if your kid seems happy and healthy and their “lights are on”, for lack of a better expression, just enjoy the hell out of this time because it goes crazy fast, and you never get it back.
> If your job is in high supply, your expectations matter very little because there will always be someone more desperate willing to work in worse conditions.

'Always' is an exaggeration, but yes, that's the gist of it.
It's impossibly detailed: it's fine now but will you track her first kiss, first boyfriend, first heartbreak at 15 too ?

Just let it go, make her happy and loved but focus much more on your wife than your daughter: a divorce would have devastating effect on whatever milestone you think your daughter reached.
People are larger than the technical problems indeed, but I think that would have been a good thing in the "self hosting" world the parent commenter desired. People willing to put in the proper energy are likely those worthwhile to listen to. With the "easy to use" nature you pointed out, it has brought everyone and their dog to the thunderdome babbling their nonsense daily.
> JS improves the user experience a lot, both in terms of interaction and speed, as well as making development more manageable

Almost. Most JS (caveat Google Docs etc.) creates the kind of experience users have come to expect. That's orthogonal to "improving" the user experience. Because of the keeping-up-with-the-joneses effects of frontend engineering and design patterns as spearheaded by giant, framework-authoring, standards-setting companies, there are strong incentives to converge on bad outcomes. For example, consider the common trend of replacing built-in controls with equivalents made out of "div soup" for the sake of providing consistent styling. This is done because it is thought that styling controls is a table-stakes necessity for interactive websites. Many studies indicate this, and many users request/demand it.

It's also misguided.

That's not to say that the studies--or the users--are wrong. But "this is how it is done and this is how we want it" is a norm, not some objectively superior optimum, and it's a norm that was created by many years of development. Some of that development was necessary, and advanced the state of the art. But much of it was fad/hype-driven, poorly thought-through, and slipshod. The end result is a bunch of tools/patterns/user expectations that bear little relation to what actually improves user experience.

In other words, JS often only improves things if you grant that the currently accepted definition of "improved" is actually an improvement over using other tools; often, it is not.

> at the expense of annoying purists

In other words, engineers. Engineers more interested in delivering quality than complying with norms or maximizing marginal click revenue by adding the 157th tracking library to a 50MB bundle.

> CSS/HTML gymnastics

Engineering.
Communications like what?

A short screen call is pretty standard. Many "candidates" aren't serious, so they show good faith by hopping on the phone. Text only communication is the path to getting ghosted, especially when it comes to emotional topics like salary.
Look up how recently we figured out what fascia was responsible for. We are more confident in our knowledge then we should be. We have come a long way and have a much longer way to go.
If the "mirror" isn't definitive, I don't see how this saves any work and it definitely adds a lot.

For example, to handle transfer restrictions and lockups, the founder "can configure the smart contract for the mirrortable through the platform's interface to implement various kinds of restrictions in the on-chain mirrorshares". So, in addition to working with the lawyers to add the restrictions to the legal docs, she also has to then create a smart contract duplicating this. And, if the angel tries to sell shares and the smart contract allows it, she can't rely on this as it maybe a bug, so she still has to dig through the original docs she signed.

How does this help anyone?
Some of the oil operators are even subsidizing its own companies working on renewable technologies.
Thank you for helping normalize it. I get bored of companies being insistent that they want "smart", "data driven" people who will nonetheless ignore the research to everyone's detriment.
I hate when people feel that harsh criticism isn't nice

Kind of a bad-faith strawman objection, TBH. I don't see anybody saying the issue is that the post wasn't sufficiently "nice."

I'm extrapolating here, but it sounds like you may often have this misconception w.r.t. metacriticism?

IME the issue people typically have with unnecessarily "harsh" criticism -- at least in engineering circles -- is that such unnecessarily harsh criticism is often counterproductive or at least wildly unproductive. I mean, what was the desired outcome here? Is criticizing some rando's spiritual practice supposed to benefit somebody, somehow?

I'm 1,000% in favor of speaking out or better yet, acting out when folks' religious beliefs interfere with others' freedoms. But I think that pretty clearly is not what was happening here.
Can you get rid of the font size property on your <body>? The text is very hard to read. (A viewport meta tag would be great too ). Thanks for the blues album suggestion!
DNS is generally restricted to a subset of the ASCII character set. While this isn't a strict limitation of DNS, there are enough DNS servers, clients, and applications using DNS that break on non-ASCII sequences that it's a de-facto standard.

In place of storing Unicode inside DNS, Unicode sequences outside RFC 952 (ASCII alphanumerics, case-insensitive, along with '-' and '.' characters) are encoded into RFC 952 compatible hostnames using Punycode, and stored thus in DNS.

Here in HN comments, Unicode is just embedded as actual UTF-8, no strange DNS encoding needed. The hostname, however, is actually xn--gckvb8fzb.com, hence why it's displayed as such.

(your browser will automatically convert from whatever encoding to Punycode where appropriate, so a link like https://xn--gckvb8fzb.com (should) work correctly, but the actual hostname lookup performed on the wire is for xn--gckvb8fzb.com)

Edit: well, HN also converts my Unicode hyperlink into the punycode equivalent. Interesting. It preserves the original encoding when I go back to edit the comment, but displays the Punycode form everywhere else. This gives credence to the idea this is intentional to avoid homoglyph attacks, as csnover states.
That map with the old couple really was brutal
care to name a few examples? The upfront costs associated seems non-trivial
I recently gave away one of two of my 7 year old 4K 27" monitors, thinking I could upgrade to something larger and higher resolution instead of using 2 monitors. I assumed I could get something around 35" and >4K but it doesn't exist. Aside from the Apple XDR display (32" 6K), there are 27" 4K monitors, a few 32" 4K monitors, or much larger (too large in my opinion) 4K or 8K TVs. Then there's a refresh rate arms race of smaller 1080p or 1440p monitors for gaming. And almost all of the options above aside from the XDR and large TVs look terrible next to a macbook. If you read monitor forums there's posts going back 2 years now saying "with HDMI 2.1 coming out soon, there will be more options." But nothing really appeared.

In the end I pulled the trigger on a 1440p 49" ultrawide[1] because it appeared on sale one day for $600 with only $50 shipping from US to Japan. I really like the form factor for working with references off to the side, but it's dim, washed-out, and blurry compared to the macbook I use it with. I'll be replacing it as soon as something better is available.

And why do all monitors have absolutely terrible UIs? I virtually never use any feature aside from switching inputs, and that usually takes 10 button presses. Usually the buttons are all in a row but represent up/down/left/right. Adding insult to injury, the monitor I'm now using has single button access to change the power LED color or add a crosshair to the screen. And if it loses signal for a split second, such as to change resolution, it either changes to another input or powers down. Either of these takes 10 seconds to fix. The manual shows a remote control with the buttons I want, but apparently it is no longer included, or available.

[1]https://www.monoprice.com/product?p_id=43305
All of those items can be accomplished over email. I think the recruiter/employer might have more of an advantage of discussing items like salary over the phone but that's all the more reason to prefer email as the potential employee.

Nevertheless, every step prior to discussing salary and interview with the actual employer/team can be done over email. Recruiters are typically less informed on the tech side anyway so there's really little reason to phone call type interviews/discussions.
> but that Jesus had to suffer, to what, to make God decide to be more lenient with how he interprets our sins?

Justice requires accountability for wrongs committed. When we break God's moral law, justice requires that we be held accountable.

Jesus suffered for us to take the punishment that our sins require. Jesus took the penalty for us. That allows God to be a merciful judge, yet still fulfill all justice.
Animals certainly seem to understand birth. In my experience, cats and dogs, at least being mammals, notice and act differently around pregnant women and newborn human children. If they can handle that, why not death?
> DRM on textbooks is an annoyance. For computer science books, it's little more than a fig-leaf.

The idea that you have to jump through hoops to format shift an ebook (or other item in digital form) that you paid for extremely annoying.

Apple's iTunes music store tracks went DRM-free with iTunes Plus in 2007. Amazon also sells DRM-free music. Why are iBooks and Kindle so late to the party?
The laser eye surgeon with glasses. ;)
The clock of the long now is an amazing piece of engineering.

I think we can give them some slack for being a bit behind. Building a clock inside a mountain designed to keep time for over 10,000 years is going to run into some issues.
Modern stuff is treated. Old stuff like a roof I had was just thicker than modern. The roof was standing seams at probably 30-40 years old. While there was rust, it was superficial. Takes a long time rust clear through even in Florida.
Also relevant: https://www.windytan.com/2012/11/the-sound-of-dialup-picture...
revised solution?

"

i am going to send a random posint next round, and will continue to do so until you also send a random posint.

When we both receive posints, if they are identical, resend.

Otherwise, if both are the same parity, then we should choose red on the following round. otherwise, blue.

If for some reason your message details a strategy similar to this but with a different color decision based on the parity, then we should use the larger posint sender as the one to dictate the color decision strategy.
"
So there’s two possibilities for this being your TikTok experience — either you haven’t used it much and you’re getting “generic TikTok” which has about the same quality as the YouTube homepage or the content you’re describing is what you engage with. In Reddit parlance you’ve gotta unsub from the defaults.

I don’t engage at all with cringe humor, politics or memes, and TikTok no longer shows me them except when it goes into “testing mode” where it takes a stab at some continent outside my sphere to see if I like it.

If you’re interests don’t translate well to video — dance, art, music, fashion, home decor, hiking, woodworking, skating, cooking, baking, etc. then it still might not be your thing even if you do give it time.
I'm surprised this implication was so unclear in my original comment (which did, after all, say, "In some cases, it will be fatal") that you thought it needed saying, so I've edited the comment to make it more explicit.

I'm sure it was deliberate on the part of whoever posted the original suggestion; perhaps they didn't expect kids to be reading it, or perhaps they just didn't care that some of them would die, or perhaps they didn't think the kids would really do it (like Soupy Sales: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/greenmail/). Certainly Alexa is designed deliberately to give kids minimally filtered access to the internet memepool; probably that does a wide range of harms, and killing hundreds of kids isn't even the biggest one. It also does some good, although probably most of that good is undermined by the pervasive surveillance implicit in the platform.
I'm sorry, but the vast majority of websites handle umatrix and ublock plus assorted other privacy tools, just fucking fine, often when I haven't enabled any javascript beyond the same domain stuff.

Then there are the sites that are kinda/mostly broken until I enable a couple of obvious exceptions I should probably have universally enabled. That's fair.

Then there are the sites that it takes a minute or two of messing around to get to work..I have to whitelist 10+ different domains for them. That's irritating.

Then there are the sites that I can't seem to get working properly at all, and eventually give up and just open in a private mode tab in Safari, because I trust that combo the most.

Parent commenter was right: Twitter is a dumpster fire that throws a hissy fit at the drop of a hat, in way very few other sites do; it's almost like they do it purposefully out of spite.

It's a fucking glorified PLAIN text messenger. There is no excuse for the level of complexity and unreliability of the code they throw at browsers, from such a large organization with such supposed high-level engineering talent.
This is IMHO not a sufficient justification for killing children.
Apropos very long running clocks: I wonder how long we've been counting the days of the week for without interruption? Ie was there ever some time of great upheaval when eg the Jewish people slipped up, and accidentally phase-shifted their sabbath?
You appear to already know it's awful?

When I first read it I thought the question was "is this parenting or scum'.. and I had already decided on the answer before realizing I misread. I'm certain your intentions are good but sheesh growing up in this household sounds like it's going to be torture. My 2 kids moved at wildly different speeds on different things. Good luck, as everyone knows it's a tough gig...
That's not true in most of continental Europe, nor in Quebec (Canada), since their legal system has a different origin than what you're describing.

Using Quebec's terminology by way of example, a contract where an advantage is given in exchange for rendering the obligation (so roughly a contract with consideration) is called an onerous contract, and most typical contracts for services fall into this category. The kind where one obligates oneself without receiving an advantage in return is called a gratuitous contract, and they classify gifts in this category.
Oh, we had that for a while with Smart Cars in Portland and I think Zip cars were similar. However, I've never seen them at the airport and had never considered renting them for multiple days. I think with how car centric the US is you frequently don't just need a car for a specific ride, but multiple days to not get stuck.
I saw their ads on Blind in the past, but I wasn’t sure how legit they are.
I don't think that is true anymore now that several jurisdictions says that the recruiter must mention a number first on the salary. They would never do that if they can at all avoid doing so. At any cost.
It's a mechanical watch and not self-correcting. So obviously, it'll drift over time.
A Zimbabwean archaeologist reimagines the story of an African civilisation
> bad build quality but the car is fun a hell to drive

just like all other luxury cars...
AI really is going to kill us all, but not how we imagined. It's going to randomly suggest terrible things until it picks us off one by one. Clever girl...
How do you reconcile that as a red flag with the massive raises people get from moving companies? Are you basically looking for someone who would turn down doubling their salary?
The thing I learned from our first child is that she’s going to be fine, she’s her own person, and she will be who she’ll be when she’s ready. My job as a parent isn’t to make sure she’s on track/time, my job is to help her be the best she can be. Once you start looking at it that way it’s very freeing.
I’m in the same boat, I’m holding on to my 30” ACD until I get get a pixel doubled version of it for under $2k.
With enough data we can filter out false positives. Thus we need mass scanning to gather this data and we will have a transition period where there will be a lot of false positives.
I think the benefits outweigh the negatives in the longterm.
> restating general principles like “be aware of cache”

It's a very powerful concept, and there really isn't all that much beyond it. That's the problem with pretty much all of the deep truths about computing, they're frankly pretty simple once you grok them.

But let's at least restate that well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSqbjfCCLrU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6EWVBNCxsc
And adult Americans [0] lost to conspiracies and the insanity we've seen popping up around the last couple years.

[0] https://www.dallasobserver.com/news/dallas-qanon-cult-member...
I'm surprised that Balaji is pitching the blockchain as the mirror not as the source of truth; I thought he was all in on the blockchain.
It's early days. This study is a snapshot that doesn't take into account the impact of expanded infrastructure for e-bikes and e-scooters. It will take time to assess of the aggregate impact of more mobility options and adoption of personal vehicles resulting from exposure to shared vehicles.

For example, one element that's sorely lacking for personal ebikes is widespread security. As things stand now, parking them anywhere in public regularly is a nonstarter due to high value and ease of theft. When a critical mass of personal ebikes makes secured parking services viable, then we have a positive feedback loop that encourages more people to use them.
https://shopify.github.io/draggable/
Compare and contrast this video from 'Medlife Crisis': https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yNzQ_sLGIuA

> Trying to detect disease early seems like an obviously good thing to do. But reality isn't always quite so straightforward, especially in medicine. If It Ducks Like A Quack is a series where I try to go beyond the hype and explore how complicated the apparently simple phenomena in medicine are.

One point from the video: five year survival rates of prostate cancer in the US are massively better than in the UK. However, roughly the same proportion of people die of prostate cancer in both countries. The US just screens a lot more.
Thanks, you reminded me to donate to the indispensable free things we take for granted.

https://archive.org/donate/
Thanks for this additional confirmation/data point!

Something clearly happened around 2017 to all of us... And to see the same ip range today come up again and again is really troubling.
Correct. As per my direct reply to the person you're responding to, the kind of concept that's analogous to a contract with consideration is called an onerous contract and the kind that lacks it is a gratuitous contract. (Quebec terminology; it's a standard continental European style civil law system with its ultimate main origin in the Custom of Paris which governed most French colonies until 1763.)
That's clbuttic. How doubleplusungood.
Former recruiter, current data analyst here… recruiters do that for 2 reasons.. 1) when you call someone it is immediate and you control the process. They aren’t waiting for you to email back. 2) recruiters want your “buy in”. It’s old school bs but if you can’t make time for a phone call then how committed are you to the process. Having said that, I’m currently looking and receive 10+ calls and emails a week. I rarely answer the calls or reply to emails but if the email is interesting to me and looks like a fit then I reply and ask them to call when they can.
You're wasting characters, /> is only a requirement of XHTML. You can just use <br> and it is valid.

Also, are HTML comments are allowed before the DOCTYPE technically? (this is the kind of tomfoolery that escapes unit testing on browsers)
> but in practice the little guys got shafted over a technicality

To me it looks like two software developers struck out on their own and got sued by the remaining 2-4 people - not exactly a David vs. Goliath situation.

The vast majority of companies have less than 10 people. Just because those formed a company does not mean they are Google.
> falls victim to the sunk cost fallacy.

I think I did this in reverse with a recruiter when I turned down a job with JP Morgan. He didn't like my reason for turning the job down and kept trying to give me a proper answer and kept calling several times as well as others in the firm calling.
Parenting has gotten extremely neurotic in the last 20 years. I can’t help but roll my eyes at most of the advice that’s considered essential these days.

Even the daycare wanted to go through their educational curriculum for 2 years olds and I just said just keep them alive and having fun please.
I recommend a book called "Selfish Reasons To Have More Kids" by Bryan Caplan. It's a short read, and very interesting. The basic argument is that we've turned modern parenting into a stressful chore, much as you describe. But by looking at separated twin studies, he argues that what we do as parents has much less impact on how our kids turn out than we would probably like to believe. Essentially, if your parenting is within decent normal parameters (i.e. there isn't an abusive situation or anything like that) your kids will probably turn out ok, and if they don't, it will probably not be because of anything you did.

This argument really goes against accepted wisdom, especially if you tend to the theory that your kids are malleable clay for you to shape as you wish. But intuitively, it makes a lot of sense. My brother and I were essentially raised in the same environment, and we could not be more different. So, which of us did my parents' input produce, and why didn't it work for the other one?

It seems counterintuitive, but embracing the idea that what you do doesn't make as much difference as you'd expect is very liberating. Like all parenting books, I'm sure some of the data is cherry picked to make a point so I take it with a grain of salt, but I've definitely changed my attitude as a result and it's made parenting much more pleasant. I'm not totally checked out, I'm still doing the best I can, but I'm not as anxious about how what I'm doing affects my daughter. Basically, it's much easier to enjoy the ride if you're not constantly stressing about what you're doing wrong, and counterintuitively (or not, perhaps) that has made me a better father.