skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Eh, it's not that big a deal. You have to monitor what they do (it helps to have a tablet that supports strong parental controls at this age), and set an expectation early on (and follow through) that tablet time is limited duration, and a privilege.
My experience is the exact opposite. I've regularly pulled data/observations/ideas from 1920's-1960's era articles and cited them. (Heck, I've used depth soundings from Capitan Cook's expeditions in the 1700's as data when making detailed bathymetric maps -- it was the only thing available in the area.)

You can't be a researcher in a field and only read articles from the last 20 years. I've lost count of the number of times I've been struggling with a problem, come up with a partial solution, then found a nice, complete, well-thought-out solution in some random engineering journal from the 40's. Use the literature. Never, ever, ignore papers just because they're from a few years back. You may need to filter the ideas through a few paradigm shifts, but the underlying observations and methods can be very useful.

Textbooks can be wonderful overviews and great ways to learn, but they only scratch the surface of topics. Furthermore, in most cases, you can't directly cite textbooks. Only original research is citeable. Review papers, most textbooks, and other compendiums are not citeable in any field I've been involved with. The exceptions are textbooks that have original research in them, which are very common, but are more akin to special editions of a journal than most textbooks.
Wikipedia:
> The European Space Agency began funding the Prometheus development in June 2017 with €85 million provided through an ESA capital mechanism called the Future Launchers Preparatory Program.[1]

Based on what information have they been spending 'years' on that engine?
The founders were against a standing army, preferring citizen-based militias. Looking at the behavior of Imperial America, one sees the wisdom.

I suppose one bright spot in this otherwise dismal time is that both the left and the right mostly agree that we shouldn't be dropping bombs on people.
You can probably buy a breakfast sandwich anywhere. But unfortunately, you can't buy a buttered roll in New England.
Exactly! Cocktail party effect requires two functional ears and I'm sure this can be helpful to people with only one functional ear.

> The cocktail party effect works best as a binauraleffect, which requires hearing with both ears. People with only one functioning ear seem much more distracted by interfering noise than people with two typical ears.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cocktail_party_effect
Someone mentioned this on HN before: https://spidr.today/

It seems like a reasonable alternative. I wonder how sites will react if it gets as big as Google.
My all time favorite theory: http://pbfcomics.com/comics/dinosaur-meteors/
A very interesting and difficult part of these kinds of questions is that what we look for has to be very carefully considered. If we look for just what we know now, we might not find the evidence, even if it's there. One of my favorite examples of this is radio waves. Try telling someone in the 1600s about them; it seems unlikely they'd believe you--but yet they've existed forever (?) and e.g. lightning and other natural forces can generate them.
Is that because the electronics were more attractive, or because he was still in the 'learn to read' phase and it was work to get through a large book? Crossing the threshold into 'read to learn' skill level is a huge turning point in how a kid looks at books [in my experience].
Not intended to assault but those are two rather bold statements, I mean that WhatsApp does not and Telegram does have anti Putin interests, anything substantial and verifiable behind those claims that you can share with us?
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A source on ancient mythos not having a basis in science or facts? Or that they served political purposes in their time?
Wouldn't it be easier for said third parties to just distribute changed checksum?
Well, at least not on those who don’t deserve it.
>that was something I respected about Jobs (and a few other industrialists) -- the combined ability to understand new technology, visualize how it could be brought to a broad market, and then do it successfully

Jobs participated in a Q&A at the MIT Sloan School of Management in 1992, and one of the topics he discussed were the marketing pivots needed for the Mac and Next once he figured out what real world tasks those platforms excelled at that their competition did not. (desktop publishing and enterprise rapid application development)

Video of the talk has recently been made available.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gk-9Fd2mEnI
Oh, there's nothing wrong with wanting to control other's thoughts and actions. I want everybody to give me money, for nothing, just out of sheer love to me, and execute every wish I have, quickly and eagerly. Believing others have an obligation to do it and you can use governmental coercion to force it and calling it "right" indeed sounds kinda bizarre. But then again, a lot of things in contemporary Europe look kinda bizarre to me...
I often miss Ruby's 'tap' when writing Java. Happily, in Rust, it's easy enough to add yourself:

https://play.rust-lang.org/?gist=d40d8ca9bd77bbd60626be72740...

I only implement let and also from Kotlin, because Rust doesn't really have the idea of method receivers in quite the same way as Kotlin, so the others are pointless.
> where your fate is 'centrally planned' by how impressive your maths skills are

Is it better than a fate that is generally determined by how rich your parents are? I give you that there are more options in the States, but this plays a huge role. Social mobility has been declining in the US.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socioeconomic_mobility_in_the_...

Not saying I prefer the Chinese model, but most people prefer the idea of meritocracy to inherited wealth.
> The only reason the launch market seems to be easy to compete in is because the US launch market has historically been a prime example of corruption.

That is mostly false. Almost all government have historically given precidents to individual companies. The US for a long time actually had more competition then Europe and it is already more competitive now.

Europe has Arianespace and it has a monopoly and gets massive amount of public funding. That is actually more corrupt compared to the US.

The reality is that SpaceX could never have existed in Europe. If Musk was from France, he would be some guy with a few good ideas somewhere deep inside of ESA or Arianespace.
In 2010, there was a camp for gifted children (up to 18, but mostly around about 10) in Sweden. (This story is from a book about gifted children.) The camp had a BYOC computer room, and at one time, the kids in there were mostly playing Minecraft, with one parent keeping watch. There was a rule against killing other players and destroying other people’s constructions, but then it happened that one kid poured lava and destroyed someone else’s stuff. The parent keeping watch thought that this would lead to fighting, ejection and subsequent banning of the offending party, but he chose to stay in the background and silently observe the kids instead of intervening directly. Instead of fighting, the kids self-organized a parliament and debated the pros and cons against “cheating”, decided unanimously not to cheat, and continued to build things together. The parent was flabbergasted and later remarked that few adults would have done what these kids did.
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If the american left and american right agreed on that, we probably wouldn’t have been at war for the last 17 years, sadly.
I will add that organic chemistry regualarly uses sequential art in the form of chemical reaction mechanisms.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reaction_mechanism
No, actually that's not what the word means. Otherwise you'd have no rights outside of what "they declare" - i.e. if "they" don't say you're human, you are not human and you have to agree with it. Nobody really believes in that.
In traditional Quebec cuisine, people would save the fat rendered from pork roast, then spread it on toast the next morning.

Not many people do it anymore. I had it once and am not a fan, it had a strong garlic taste from the roast.
To be fair, the anti-Microsoft sentiment didn't just pop up out of nowhere. I've been burned by Microsoft's bullshit so many times that I will go out of my way to deny them any semblance of power, lest they try to leverage it for some new anti-consumer vendor lock-in scheme.

How's that old saying go? Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me 47 times, shame on me.
This is kind of the "why aren't we all buried in bones" question that YECs raise. Very little makes it into the fossil record -- fossilization is sensitive to a lot of different conditions, and then someone's gotta find it later besides.

Going past a few tens of thousands of years, fossils start to either be of very large things, or of very large communities of small things.

I'd be surprised if any future scientists could find even a single piece of modern jewelry a million years from now.
Systems thinking is not just about thinking. It’s about understanding causality and feedback loops. Sometimes these things are hard to understand intuitively but can be better grasped with mathematics and network theory.
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They don’t nearly convey how bad it is to actually live there, which I have. It’s depressing how so relatively few places really care about keeping a clean environment.
The value of Uber isn't the app, it's the network of drivers/riders.
Email address + billing address is personal data.

The minimum requirements for SaaS would be:

- Having a Privacy Policy. Among other things, specific identify the Data Controller (you), inform users of their rights (there are 8 rights under GDPR), whether you transfer data internationally (EU>US), and others.

- Getting active consent from users. Under GDPR, you must request a "clear, unambiguous affirmative consent" from users. The "clickwrap" method of design might be good to follow.

We shared a quick "GPDR Compliance Plan" video on YouTube a while ago that might be useful: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2F9HEhTpSg
I take it that the point was that the left and the right are anti-bomb, but the centre is strongly pro-bomb.
I didn't really learn how to write until grad school. Even though I went to a top tier public university and a highly ranked HS, it was pretty easy to get by without writing more than a couple of paragraphs.
And the stuff at the Lagrange points, assumedly in rather stable orbits.
It seems like the round trip time for that type of operation would be pretty challenging for situations where you have, for example, six seconds to avoid crashing into a road barrier..
Who is to judge who deserves it? The use of force is only justifiable for defense. Defense is clearly not the main focus in US action.
>After all if you have enough candidates, you can choose to only hire clones if the founders

Or you could choose to hire people who aren't clones. It's not like you're stuck with Hobb's Choice when you have a glut of options
The article is the usual more-effort-is-needed pablum one expects from articles on education.

Any analysis of American children that ignores demographics is silly. 44% of California children don't speak english at home. What on earth do you expect from these children if you test them in english proficiency?
I can imagine we had very similar conversations & skeptics when the first design for flying machines were proposed. Today we have lost all those scientific advancements made in those times and in time we will re-discover what was already discovered & lost.

I think you are taking an extremely parochial view of things by calling Vedas as "mythology". I believe I do not have to tell you about "Any advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic"... You look at the advanced technology that we unfortunately lost and you think it is magic (mythology in your words). Look around you & think of all the insane (to current humans) & incredible accomplishments of humans that our sciences of today still cannot explain convincingly how they were possible.

By the way, Indra was not a god - god, it was a role, the role of the king of gods. Besides the trimurthis anybody can become Indra. And Buddhism, if you have read it is by far very similar to Hinduism sans the gods concept, but it still embodies the concept of isht-devata by making buddha the preferred god. Both + Jainism are what are known as dharmic gods & have a not of commonality between them that the differences are quite obscure.

Finally, there is no such thing as Brahmanism except in the minds of those who felt threatened by Hinduism & its natural concepts and approach to the betterment of humanity in general. In other words, once you remove Brahmins and Hinduism will cease to exist.

Further, there was never a case of obliterating Buddhist monasteries (by Hindus)! Why would that be if Buddha was an avatara? Again these are narratives that want to paint anything coming out of (ancient) India & hinduism in very bad light. It is mischievous at best, please do not fall for such gimmicks & false narratives & do not feed them. There were some fights between Jains & Buddhists for a very brief time, but with Hinduism it was rarely physical because of the (earlier mentioned) concept of Ishta-devata / polytheism.
Fossils represent a very tiny portion of whatever was there at that time.
We don't have bones, we have fossils.
Radioisotopes decay; which isotopes are you thinking of that have half-lives of millions of years and would be found in detectable quantities?

(I was going to raise the same point, thinking of low-background steel and the effects of nuclear testing on our atmosphere, but after some more reading it appears that most of those isotopes decay over shorter periods or weren't sufficiently elevated to be discernible from the background, if it were being examined in the far future.)
>Why isn't it written 2K=mv², which expresses the same mathematical equality in a smaller, simpler form?

Because you want to find the value of K, which means that if it was expressed thusly, you'll still need to divide by 2 to get to the desired result.
I think part of the attitude is that there's a lot of very cheap and inexperienced front-end devs who claim to be full stack to impress potential clients. Many freelancer directories are full of these people, and clients often end up paying more in the long run when they have to hire someone else to fix all the problems that start popping up.
How would one convince the others to re-invest in W3C HTML and DOM? Microsoft's rationale a few years ago was that WHATWG wasn't a real standards organization with a patent policy, dispute resolution system, etc., and that created various legal and business concerns.

It turned out to be much easier to add a legal framework to WHATWG than to convince the HTML and DOM standards community to move back to W3C. Basically, people work on specs (and code) together in the places where there is a critical mass of expertise and energy being productively engaged. The key variable is the people, not the organization.

I don't understand the dynamics of how these critical masses of expertise coalesce, break up, and move around. I have learned that it's much more efficient to go with the flow than try to redirect it.
As an adult, I think it's because electronics are more attractive. As a kid, I gladly slogged through the Silmarillion. Given my choice of verb, I'm not sure that I could do it today. Reading the comments on HN gives me a much quicker and sharper burst of pleasure.
I have watched this talk from Bret Victor at least once a year to help me think about what to work on:

Inventing on Principle
https://vimeo.com/36579366
I'd say Rust's first line of solutions for this is macro_rules. They are structured, allow common patterns to be re-used in various places, can be reviewed and maintained in one place and apply to all uses, they can even be distributed via crates.io.
The american left and right (and the maligned center) do agree on it, you can look at the polls on the syrian intervention. That's the insanity. Our foreign policy is controlled by people who do not care what we think.
Sigh, even here, on an article whose very purpose is to point out that = does not mean equality as used by mathematicians, there are people calling this an abuse of notation. It's not; it's the standard notation in asymptotics. Using set-theoretic notation is cumbersome — you have to use “∈” in things like 3n^2 + 5 = O(n^2), but “⊆” in things like (n+O(√n))^2 = n^2 + O(n√n) — and defeats much of the point of using O() notation in the first place. I've mostly seen programmers / CS people insist on calling it abuse of notation and try to pedantically and counterproductively use set-theoretic notation, when mathematicians have been freely using the = sign for more than a century, from before the birth of computers. (Not repeating my comment from earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16834297)
Indeed -- it's become fashionable to replace tests of critical thinking with tests of rote regurgitation, since the former are "biased" towards students with wealthy or intellectual parents.

I'm skeptical this is good idea. Even the famous "oarsman:regatta" SAT analogy, oft-cited as a culturally biased question, had a lower black/white gap than culturally neutral questions on the same exam [1].

> In countries that specify the content to be taught at each grade level, standardized tests can test students on what they’ve learned in school. But in the United States, where schools are all teaching different content, test designers give students passages on a variety of topics that may have nothing to do with what they’ve learned in school—life in the Arctic, for example, or the disappearance of Amelia Earhart.

[1] https://archive.org/stream/TheBellCurve/bell-curve-richard-j...
Science has not been able to address every single thing. In fact science is not developed enough to address anything much beyond the most basic things. I'm not trying to disparage science, but I want to emphasize that there is like 99.99% of things we do not know or understand, which is great considering we will all have super interesting times ahead of us. Not a moment of boredom.
Yeah I hate the we're going to redefine full stack developer to mean world renown expert on front end and back end. And then say there are no full stack developers.

When there are plenty of products that get shipped everyday by "full stack developers". Who don't necessarily identity as exclusively a front end or back end dev.
After it has finished processing, youtube-dl will (by default) download the best format anyway.
When I was a kid I played with Lego. Every free moment was spent with Lego. My parents were continually warned by their friends and even our family doctor that I shouldn't spend so much time playing with Lego. It was 'addictive' and the time I spent playing with Lego was time I wasn't concentrating on homework, throwing ball, and other important things a child should be doing. The point is, every generation tends to have a play devil, the thing that will lead to the destruction of our society and hamper our children's long term success.
Can that happen? You can come to a stop within 2-3 seconds.
appears to have significantly reduced literacy,
increased infant mortality, limited the provision
of a variety of local public goods, and may also
have significantly reduced local political competition

I believe it, and I'll tell you why.

If you look at your typical in-group microcosm, a leader often refuses to accept the leadership of others. This promotes that individual to their own level of incompetance, so to speak. Leaders usually attract people less capable than themselves, and extremely domineering personalities enjoy lording over people they perceive as their lessers. I've watched this concept cut across tons of low-level menial jobs and up into higher level executive cliques.

Meanwhile, violence as an action to produce an effect has differing effects at the scale of a populace in which strangers co-exist, than within the individual microcosm. Alternatives to violence might include exile, which for the social group has an effective outcome that matches crippling injury, murder or jail. An individual is removed from the game. Clashes in leadership are at the core of violence. But violence is unsophisticated, and it's usually not your geniuses resorting to it reflexively.

For an extreme example of the sustained effect of violence removing participants from a society, look at Afghanistan, which has been dealing with violence as a fact of life since the 80's. Brain drain, orphans everywhere, no parents, no one going to school, because learning to survive at all is the only education that pays off.

On a gradient, the premise of continued violence between strangers in a small town scales similarly, and all the worse if every town in a region is dealing with the same shit. The less time anyone has to sit and think about some trivial diversion, the dumber society is on a whole, and the less everyone gets back from the benefits of permitting others to sit and think, in return.
> the title could clarify that yeast had most likely become domesticated in China, maybe around 4,000 ago, from which all modern domesticated yeast may have descended

That’s not what the paper says. The out-of-China event is estimated to be ~15,000 years ago while the various domestication events were only 4,000 years ago. [1]

[1]: https://static-content.springer.com/esm/art%3A10.1038%2Fs415... see note 4.
I’m not sure throwing control to a remote human in this situation would be much better given that they’d need to be able to immediately act correctly. I guess they’re confident about their abilities at speed. I would guess this is probably more to address “there’s an ambulance parked in the intersection, can I go around it or should I turn around and find another way” type questions
Interesting. Thank you for that.

Some years ago a friend of mine coily posed this same question to me

In this part, I think you meant coyly which has a different meaning from coily.
My guess would be that the greek-run diners in Chicago (big fan myself, Omega all the way) are less heavy on jewish deli food.

You'll see matzo ball soup, pastrami, etc, but not as many knishes and latke.
New Zealand has mixed member proportional representation, which is explained well in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QT0I-sdoSXU

The US's political system is extremely antiquated, and is not at all appropriate for a post-industrial economy. We do have a few nice things though, like a very strong protection for speech. Arguably too strong right now though, as it gives corporations nearly unlimited rights to influence elections.
Isn't this the constant feature of long lasting, low intensity conflicts and occupations?

The morale of occupying force starts to decline under constant resistance. This has been true in the Latin America, Africa, Caucasus, Asia etc. Eventually you end up with high crime, corruption and death squads.