skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> a very unfashionable finding currently in the US, but the science is clear.

The science is not really that clear. Tyler Cowen [1] refers us to Jay Joseph [2] who refers us to other critics of "twins reared apart" ("TRA") studies:

Critics, however, have pointed to several key methodological problems with TRA studies (TRA study critics include Farber, 1981; Joseph, 2001, 2004, 2010; Kamin, 1974; Kamin & Goldberger, 2002; Lewontin, Rose, & Kamin, 1984; Taylor, 1980). These problems include (a) the doubtful “separation” of twins, who frequently grew up together and had contact over much of their lives, (b) similarity bias in the methods of MZA identiﬁcation and recruitment, (c) the questionable status of “intelligence” and “personality” as valid and quantiﬁable constructs, (d) the failure of the MISTRA researchers to publish or share raw data and life history information for the twins under study, and (e) the impact that the researchers’ bias in favor of genetic interpretations may have had on their results and conclusions.

and continues:

While these and other issues are important, the main problem with TRA studies such as Bouchard’s MISTRA is clear: the investigators used the wrong control group (MZTs). By using MZTs as controls, they failed to control for several key environmental factors shared by both MZA and MZT pairs (see Joseph, 2004; Rose, 1982). Environmental inﬂuences shared by both MZAs and MZTs include but are not limited to the following:

• They are exactly the same age (birth cohort).

• They are always the same sex.

• They are almost always the same ethnicity.

• Their appearance is strikingly similar (which will elicit more similar treatment from the social environment).

• They usually are raised in the same socioeconomic class.

• They usually are raised in the same culture.

• They shared the same prenatal environment.

• Most studied pairs spent a certain amount of time together in the same family environment, were aware of each other’s existence when studied, and often had regular contact over long periods of time (Farber, 1981; Kamin, 1974).

So maybe twin studies aren't the slam dunk they are often presented as.

[1] http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2011/02/wha....

[2] http://jayjoseph.net/yahoo_site_admin/assets/docs/Claims_and....

Also referenced by Cowen:

http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPag....

http://www.ssc.wisc.edu/econ/archive/wp2001-08.pdf
Sears is ~112 years old; that's quite the run. Moreover, they have brands that continue to be produced and sold in other stores.

Let's talk in 2106.
You can, yes, but not nearly in the same way.
Is it 25% less because they are a startup, or 25% less because you're no longer using your expertise in COBOL?
which isnt the same advice as "click without reading what you clicked"
Depends. But you can get the court orders re-examined. One issue is the lawyer fees though.
Babble of the proletariat. Try talking middle-class.
It's just another use-case for them I suppose. Interesting to see how, as tech companies become bigger, they go the same way as companies in all the other industries. I'm not surprised, but I am disappointed.
Exactly this. It's staggering how intellectually dishonest this piece is. I don't understand what is happening at the NYT, but this and other pieces like it lately are representative of just awful journalistic standards.
Selecting Fitzgerald was his first mistake.
I'm an expert the law. I can prove to you, that the entire legal system, is ABSOLUTELY, UNEQUIVOCALLY, broken beyond repair (at least for its stated purpose; as an extortion racket i.e. by the pen and not the sword, its pretty fucking good!).

And I can tell you right now; my advice is is worth a nickel.

Its like a doctor, taking care of a terminally-ill patient, where the doctor knows its hopeless, but the patient still doesn't. You try and make them comfortable. But in the end, they're still going to die.

That is where the "rejection" of experts is coming from. People realize, that the "experts" are essentially, worthless. The higher the price on an "expert", the more likely his judgement is compromised. Same goes with "agenda"-driven experts.

#1 thing, you need in an expert, is trust. EVEN before knowledge (which can be acquired in media res). If you can't trust that your "expert" is acting on your behalf, than that expert, is WORTHLESS.

Why do you think so many fin.product sellers, are desperate to escape "fiduciary" responsibilities? Because it makes them liable, for acting against your interests.
There's an even worse third constraint:

3) The energy content of the hydrogen tank needs to be greater than the energy content of the fuel tank.

And if you were going to add such a huge hydrogen tank to the car, and keep it filled, it would be simpler to use the hydrogen itself as fuel. Many people have indeed proposed hydrogen powered cars. Hydrogen powered cars in turn don't look like they have a very bright future because battery electric vehicles are reaching mass production first, and because batteries are more energetically efficient than storing/transforming energy via hydrogen.
I didn't say that USDC is superior because it cannot communicate with the other two.

I'm saying its superior because if adopted it would unite the two.
Now hang on, that can't be right - I didn't once get a Google overlay asking if I've ever bought a gift card for myself instead of someone else (seriously Google, has your data analysis not yet shown you I'M NEVER ANSWERING YOUR QUESTIONS). Nor even an autoplaying video with a five-second countdown timer that expires before you can get done with the click-throughs and aim the mouse at the one-pixel-wide target that will stop it playing.
I've yet to meet anyone militantly anti-religion here in the UK despite pretty much everyone I know being life long atheist or formerly religious. What would that even look like? I see no anti church demos, marches or anything. Just the odd individual going off on one on some Facebook post or other net forum from time to time. Just as some believers can.

The only thing I have seen is a wish to have bureaucracy and officialdom recognise "no belief in god" as an equally valid box to tick as CofE. For decades half of those ticking CofE or any of the non-conformist options were a vote for atheism. There's no box, tick what my family grandparents would have.

If I had to summarise UK views, most simply don't seem to care, or see the point of a supernatural being, a god, or some ancient human rules that restrict what you can eat or if you may control your reproduction. If you need tobacco or some deity to get through life have at it.

Humanism, some sort of earth centred belief, or Buddhism thanks to its philosophy and lack of creator have all risen as religion has become increasingly irrelevant for most.
The short answer is that while that reaction works in a beaker, it is too slow, inefficient and fragile. Plus there's also the thermodynamic perpetual motion machine in using the energy from a combustion reaction to reverse that combustion reaction.

Basically you'd need a second car worth of engine to generate the electricity to convert 1/3ish of the co2 from the first engine to ethylene (the rest winds up as methane, ethane, and CO.). Plus storage, maintenance and misc.

There are a few reviews by Hori that are more or less the gold
standard on the chemistry if you want to read more. Unfortunately the literature is full of fud though.
I think tech workers at Amazon are closer to the Sears workers than fulfillment center folks are.

My friends working at Amazon as tech workers are making money hand over fist right now. 100+ stocks each grant.

On the flipside, Amazon has a "projected total comp" which they keep you at, and if you're over projected, they don't give you more which is fucked. Google gives you 80k in stock and doesn't tie your future say to it.
And that's fine.

As long as you don't use religious arguments in an academic or professional context, it doesn't matter what unprovable thing you believe in.

I'm religious, but if we met in an academic or professional context, you'd likely think I'm agnostic because I try to limit myself to arguments that can be proven using observable and repeatable evidence.

If you believe the Flying Spaghetti Monster exists, then have at it. Just don't try to justify a bunch of colanders as a business expense as insurance against an angry FSM, but feel free to wear one as a religious symbol on your own dime.
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Even amateur's can use the data to make better workout decisions that lead to better outcomes, too. My workouts and quality of life are objectively better by using a smartwatch, and I'm a bit surprised by the luddites here on hacker news of all places.

Oh well, the markets have clearly spoken about the objective benefits of smartwatches.
We considered a wide range of platforms before making a decision. At this point, however, Ethereum is really the only viable option particularly from a security and wallet support perspective. That said, we have been developing the technology in such a way that it can be adapted to other blockchains in the future should CENTRE choose to do that. However, while incredibly important, the contract implementation isn't nearly as much work as the legal, operational, risk and audit components necessary to connect the traditional financial system to cryptocurrencies in an open and compliant way. Should CENTRE choose to provide an implementation on another blockchain, much of those other components would simply apply with little modification.
> If you dont have your own profitable startup in the next 5-10 years

I lived in the south SF Bay area for 20 years, and left 15 years ago. The culture was pretty insular then, but boy, that comment just drives how how much it worse it has gotten.

The thought that everybody needs to create a startup, much less a profitable one, seems laughable. It is also a surer way to economic loss than toughing it out as a worker bee.

I'm in my mid 50s and still happily employed as a drone. Every opportunity to move "up" into management I've rejected. I'm experienced, work well with others, and work hard; my career is doing fine and feel no job insecurity. There are plenty of other people at work who are as old or older than me who are highly respected. If you work some place where age is a disqualifier, it is a red flag.
I understand them having developed TLA+ to guide their design and test consistency primitives.
When to use the more powerful tools is an important (and tricky) lesson to master. Not every project needs React.

Lately I've been writing little personal projects using Vanilla JS. There's something rather therapeutic about limiting one's self to zero dependencies. I'm wildly surprised every time I come back to Vanilla JS to see just how many core features there are. I can do modules in the browser now! Yippee!

And beyond that, not even using JS and just using Django Templates or Jinja is great too.

But I write a lot of software that monitors and controls mobile robots in warehouses. For that kind of wild state management of 100+ data sources, all with their own incomplete states, controls, unpredictably erroneous behaviours, React + Redux is just a godsend.
Sears' huge pension liabilities was cited as one of the main reasons that prevented any possible re-structuring that could have saved the company when it was declining and heading to bankruptcy...
I mean, let's be realistic here. For how long was Sears in this pitiful state?... Getting all that real estate + semi-established brand was a private equity's wet dream, yet nobody ever contemplated that option.

And now that Sears is bankrupt, their pension fund is going into default and passed to the government who will need to fulfill those obligations (thankfully the pension benefit guaranty is not funded with tax revenues).

Of course, I'm not blaming Sears retirees. They deserve their pensions as much as any other person. But the reality is that corporate America learned this lesson a while ago and Sears is just one of many examples.

Is not about pleasing shareholders and fucking up employees as this article claims. It's a problem of business viability and long-term expectations.

Wanna increase salaries and stock grants? Sure, do it. Two quarters later Wall Street will fuck you up because your new shiny compensation model just shaved the company revenue. And guess what, they will punish you at much larger magnitude than your declining revenue.
So that 5% of lost revenue is going to cost you 20% or 30% of market value, and now all those stock grants are 30% less valuable. So your great initiative just put you in a negative spiral. And now your employees will be pissed, and the press will come and write an article claiming that your once frugal company is now a money firepit and that morale is low, completely forgetting their initial narrative on how you used to fuck over your employees.
Heuristics are good for algorithmic performance, not as good for judging human beings
Grassland does not tend to develop soil, so if employed in feeding cattle, the cattle is where the carbon is "sequestered" to - into and through them, out the rear end. If the grass is cut and harvested (at some expense) instead of fed to cattle, then we get a lot of carbon negative hay to do something with. Bury it maybe (to sequester) or biofuels (to release again).

With traditional timber plantations we get the carbon in a load of timber mostly. Build with some of it, pulp and burn the rest. Timber plantations tend not to build soil either.

With relatively unheard of silviculture - the detailed management of mixed forest, the optimum efficiency of carbon absorption can be arranged with select and native symbiotic species, while producing wood and foods and building soil mass. In addition to economic (and atmospheric) services advanced management of mixed forestry and groves can tolerate and support ancient plant and animal species - for future generations - which have been critically devastated by the persistent strategy of individuating production goals.

We don't need to get any smarter at all, we need to get wiser. There is plenty enough grassland now, its time to grow trees.
I'd really like there to be more servers which support OpenBMC.
Building a Simulation of the AY-3-8500
What is this higher standard?

You think hanging them up from yardarms would deter them?

You want to ensure proper behavior; you have to take away the tools that let them aggregate power in the first place; and prevent it from re-occurring.

There is no "higher" standard. There is only one standard; functional, competent, accountable, just.

If you don't have a legal system that can accomplish those. Then you need to scrap your legal system. Not "hold them to a higher standard", which often is just an escape clause for preferential treatment ("Chevron deference").
During their best years, when Sears was a genre-defining behemoth, workers owned 25% of the company, and a warehouse worker could get the same kind of retirement package a salesman could if they had the seniority.

They build an empire that lasted over a century, and flourished.

Sears' downturn didn't come until two decades after they phased out worker-friendly policies like profit sharing, and their decline was based on poor strategic decisions, not the profit-sharing that had existed decades earlier.

In other words, being excellent to their employees worked out great for Sears.
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oh, forgot about this paper (https://www.nature.com/articles/nature05873) which makes a pretty reasonable argument for paleo-shorelines on the northern basin of the Martian dichotomy. If this is correct then it'd be entirely reasonable to call the body of water responsible an "ocean"
Dude.

Case law, is the only thing that matters.
Six children dead in virus outbreak at health facility in Haskell
One of the things that makes it hard to choose which technology you begin with is that small projects don't stay small, even if you thing they will. So the risk is I think "hey it's s small project, I'll whip it up in Django", and then of course in six months I'm cursing myself for not starting in React.
contextType API looks great. I thought when I saw the new context API that it looked neat from a code cleanliness point of view, but a bit of a pain to use. This looks much easier :)
Great that was my intent. Good luck
I have JS disabled, but I was still able to see the “Start” button and some text. Not accurate!
What a shitty website. Can't even get the page to load without the text shifting and disappearing.
Haha that's hilarious. Don't worry about it, internet is full of dumb people. The only way to never offend anybody is to never do anything and have no personality whatsoever.

Keep the name, don't let them police all the delightful quirkiness out of the world.
It's Just Matrix Multiplication: Notation for Weaving [video]
Read the post two levels above yours.
You’re telling me that class objects in Java are immutable while they’re mutable in Ruby. That’s orthogonal to whether they’re objects.

> I'd recommend reading up on prototype inheritance

Thanks but I’ve already literally got my PhD in metaprogramming in Ruby and object model implementation in Java. Ruby doesn’t use anything like prototype inheritance.
That is a _lot_ of yak shaving to be done
I can really relate to this problem as it also exists in scientific chemicals and supplies.
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Yes, you are correct. Cheap energy is the main input to Direct-Air-Capture. Overflow energy from Solar and Wind is a great source of that.
So invites come out at 10pm pacific time or eastern?
Yup. And there's no easy answer, I think.

I think that part of it is just experience. You'll slowly learn to better predict which projects are likely to grow, especially in a way that needs a more expressive foundation.

I also think that the, "aw crap I have to re-write this from Django Templates to React" isn't exactly a bad thing. You've probably learned a ton about the problem you're solving by focusing on the problem directly in front of you[1] rather than trying to plan for the future problems that you don't quite understand yet. So when you tear it down to build the next iteration, the code you're replacing wasn't the valuable part.

[1] Not all projects are organic. But the ones that are, really benefit from a, "get this out in 2 weeks and learn what we don't yet know about it" rather than spending months trying to perfect some product that we're mostly just guessing at.
No. Politicians favoring policies that deliberately exclude the poor have failed us for 30 years.

We have never been able to make extensive progress on healthcare because voters elect politicians that fight against government health insurance (even fighting against spending government money on insurance for the disabled and elderly).

Free market ideologues have failed us, not the government. This is painfully obvious if you've ever been in another civilized country (Taiwan, Canada, UK, etc.).
Is LING still alive? Haven't seen much project activity in a while.
People are. But that's just one bet. There are lots of components in the ecosystem needed to make everything succeed
I really don't want to install an app to find out how this works.
Salatin’s mob grazing creates soil.

It is cheaper to raise them this way because you don’t need to buy corn feed.

The cows digest grass well. They do not digest corn well, which means corn fed cows produce methane and get sick, and don’t build the soil (sequestering carbon).

Definitely worth watching some YouTube videos and reading about it, it’s pretty fun and interesting.
Judging from the linked code, you're using multiprocessing. Using multiprocessing is not similar to OpenMP. If you want something like C+OpenMP, then you'd need to use threading. This parallel task runtime will use multithreading like OpenMP, and should be similar in speed.
Your example (taken with this one) actually makes it make more sense though -- seems like they remove names from articles.

I don't know why the mods have chosen to do that (I'm not going to speculate because there could be lots of reasons), but at the very least they're doing it consistently.
> But just a few years after that and I could hardly even read Perl code let alone try and code in it again.

Precisely this.

The Perl Cookbook (and Perl Book cookbook section) was an absolute godsend in the time before the web.

However, the fact that my Perl Book and Perl Cookbook fell apart from so much usage shows how the language never really stuck in my brain in spite of continuous low-level usage.
cuz they're in the Southern Hemisphere get at me NEXT QUESTION
Stupid question. I actually am a big fan of no borders but what's wrong with this? Seems like America entering the new millennium.

Edited also why was this downvoted?
Anesthesiology is a particularly pathological case, so to speak. You don't choose your anesthesiologist; it's the medical equivalent of a (very important and highly-paid) back-office function. So you've chosen an in-network hospital and an in-network surgeon? Surprise! You may also discover, months later, that your chart was read, while you were sleeping, by an out-of-network physician on call. Surprise!

The American system is literally (literally literally) unsustainable.
I think it has to do with the idea that technical skills are more transferable than product management and that there are more job openings for technical roles than management roles.
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India, but yes. And again, not exactly p2p, because large (meaning 100+ people group chats) that spread false alarms.
If that is the scenario that you care about, then you can use profile guided optimization in statically compiled languages.

Clang has instructions on how to do so here:
https://clang.llvm.org/docs/UsersManual.html#profile-guided-...
I disagree that "Armstrong the human being" is less interesting. It's just differently interesting. I felt the movie gave great insight into the man (acknowledging that his family were consulted), and also into how particular personality types are more suited to certain jobs than you might at think at first glance.
> “We need another solution,” [Judge Norblad] told me, “something to separate Bogle family members so they will not keep reinfecting themselves.” Norblad, who died in 2014, did not know how to do that.

Once upon a time judges could kick offenders out of their jurisdiction or a state entirely. I think this was eventually deemed unconstitutional, though I can't find any on-point caselaw and suspect it simply fell out of favor and assumed unconstitutional. IIRC the closest scholarly analysis I could find at the time (~10 years ago) discussed a governor's right to impose conditions on a pardon, and in particular the condition that one leave the state, which concluded that it was probably still constitutional because of how extensive is the pardon power.

In the 1960s or 1970s a relative of mine was kicked out of Wisconsin by an exasperated judge after drunkly shooting up a yacht in search of rumored hidden money; receiving a suspended sentence as long as he never set foot in Wisconsin again. He was happy to leave and both he and Wisconsin were probably the better for it. He was only in Wisconsin temporarily so it's not like Wisconsin exported its problems, either.

EDIT: 2013 Slate article on banishment and exile: https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2013/01/banishment-as-pu...
Yeah but then how do you achieve what perl 11 sets out to be then?

I'm not really trying to push this perl->rust transpilation idea (it was just a silly thought, people seem to have taken is very very seriously), but maybe v0.1 can just not support eval, and then see where they go from there?

Either way it seems like perl 11 is going to have to solve this issue of whether or not they have to bring interpreter & runtime with them as well if they want to support C/C++ speed and `eval`.
Can you please show one such instance of impossible demand? I thought that's two very distinct group of advocates.