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Self-taught learning has always been a highly minority pursuit. Most people don't do it, they need supportive people interacting with them or they aren't going to put in the effort or to even understand how they might learn effectively. That's why the most serious proponents of computer-aided, personalized learning argue against replacing teachers.

You can replace in-person lectures and perhaps many kinds of rote exercises via computer interaction. You can even gamify the latter and provide automated feedback, which is quite helpful from the student's
POV. But no, you absolutely can't replace the teacher altogether. Computer use in education also adds a ton of sedentary screen time to these kids' lifestyle that's not necessarily good for their health, so focusing on getting the best value for that use is incredibly important.
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The main problem near term is tropical diseases spreading. Eventually we'll have trouble feeding people and will likely have to abandon some regions because temperatures become deadly without AC.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effects_of_global_warming_on_h...
I like dc too, and wrote this plugin for Vim: https://github.com/fcpg/vim-colddeck

The power of old tools :)
Any clue if Google crawls from IPv6 addresses?
if noindex == true { content = "" }

Of course they still have it indexed in their own systems .... would you trust Google not to.
> How does your argument deal with the fact as nations becomes more developed, birthrates plummet?

There was an HN article recently that this (unfortunately) may be relatively short lived. Birthrates plummet particularly as women have better education and better access to contraception. However, as birthrates plummet, that also means there is new selective pressure that favors the genetics of people who want to have large families or are in some other way averse to birth control. That selective pressure didn't exist until the past 50 years or so.
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The ship have sailed is never an acceptable argument it’s just a lazy way to justify status quo.

As a French I’m pretty glad in retrospect that my ancestors under Napoleon reign and the Bourbon restoration didn’t go like “I really think democracy would have been a nice feature but I feel like this ship sailed”
Why is this so necessary currently? Nobody describes Einstein as a citizen scientist even when its main contributions were self funded. Describing Darwin, Mendel or Tesla as citizen scientists would be plain ridiculous. Science is not a religion, is a tool.
It is true but not on individual level, on country level. There are countries that generate > 80% of their energy from fossil fuels and do not have enough money to invest at scale in nuclear, or wind, or solar. Rich Western countries on the other hand invested in clean energy first, and now that they have significant advantage in that area they are trying to impose arbitrary CO2 limits, which is kind of pulling up the ladder behind them - now the poor countries not only have to find money to invest in clean energy, but also twice the amount, to pay penalties for exceeding those limits.
Or not alive, but fossilized. Speculation gets us nowhere - unless you happen to construct outside alternative life with modern nanotechnology and chemistry, it is bootless to even argue for other forms.

The closest we got is with Threose Nucleic Acids. Managed to get a working hemoglobin binder with this. But it is a relatively obvious analog.
The 'industrial' microSD cards based on MLC or pSLC with controlled or frozen BoM only make sense if you are going to use a device in extreme settings[1]. In most instances, a card in rPi will serve as a boot device, unless someone reappropriates it into a Dashcam or something similar, which has heavy duty write cycles or continuously reads/writes to and from the card; it will be wise to choose something that strikes a balance.

At a guess, the Samsung EVO family of consumer based cards, probably ranges between using TLC (older) to 2D or 3D V-NAND (newer). The more robust Pro series, which commands a premium, probably uses MLC or superior.[2]

[1] https://www.swissbit.com/products/nand-flash-products/micros...

[2] https://www.cactus-tech.com/resources/blog/details/slc-pslc-...
I'm pretty sure that's a price reduction. I think Soulver used to be either $19.99 or $24.99; Soulver 3 is a price increase (although not unreasonable).

However, it doesn't sync with Soulver for iOS yet. I suspect Soulver 3 will probably come to the Mac App Store once the iOS app is updated to use the new file format.
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> Whenever I see lines like that, "the web can be a resource hog, sometimes devouring CPU and memory", I really want to respond "no one cares".

That's an excellent summary of modern web development. Folks with 32 GB of RAM and the latest and greatest Intel CPU + the most expensive cutting edge video card decide what's acceptable resource usage. Cause hey, it works for me.
> Either you are a scientist or you aren't. If you do science you are a scientist. Point. No need to add any other adjective. Science should not act like a club with first class and second class members.

I hear you, but I'm curious why "citizen" sounds diminutive to your ear. Alternatives I've heard people use are "amatuer", "non-professional" or "backyard" scientist which all have a negative connotation to me. Honestly, I think using "citizen scientist" is to differentiate themselves from non-scientists who claim to be performing science:

1. Professional Scientists (professionals educated in a particular field of science)
2. Citizen Scientists (people attempting to do science, who recognize they are not professionals)
3. Self-described "scientists" (people ignore scientific method and reject science conflicting with their beliefs: industry lobbyists, homeopaths, flat-earthers, etc)

By making space for second-class members it means you can more easily have a club of people trying to do science (#1 and #2) and exclude #3 who seek to hijack science for their own personal purposes.
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There weren't man made fibres, so cotton or wool, silk if wealthy, was used for underwear. Trousers, jackets, dresses, and the rest were mostly wool. Many people only had two sets of outerwear - one of which was kept for outside work and for church: their "Sunday best". Dyes were often non-colour fast.

Wool and silk doesn't like being boiled or wrung, or even heavily agitated. Underwear didn't need to stay in shape, outerwear did. Cotton is far more tolerant of violent washing.

India's climate would, no doubt, see far less use of wool and multiple layers, far more of lighter weight cottons than Europe. Southern Europe probably somewhere in between. :)
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“There’s no shame in having to do it. Women of color, trans folks, queer folks — these institutions aren’t built to love us and support us. These institutions don’t care about our well-being,”

Does anyone else think that stereotyping is getting out of hand?

There are so so many reasons you might need or not need money outside of your race or sexual orientation and vic-versa. Maybe you have cancer. Maybe your house burned down. etc. Assuming that a person of a certain identity group needs financial support seems like a ridiculous assumption.

The amount of focus we put on identity groups these today seems unhealthy.

I understand their point, but it’s just not even close to the first we should bring up when encouraging people to ask for help.
in traditional classroom learning, sure. but that doesn't imply that a different teaching method altogether can't have benefits as well, and possibly out-do a good teacher-student ratio.

or put differently, traditional schooling is so bad that it is necessary to make classes smaller in order to give each student enough attention and opportunity to speak.

with individualized learning, as for example in montessori, that teacher attention is not needed because in montessori the teacher attention is individualized too. that is, while the teacher is paying attention to a particular child or group of children, all other children in the class carry own with their own work. so each child may get less time with the teacher, but that time is of much higher quality.
it's a completely different learning dynamic, and one that interestingly is capable of allowing a single teacher to handle larger classrooms.
Eyeballing this IEA report, globally there's about $600 billion per year spent on renewables, battery storage, and nuclear: https://www.iea.org/wei2018/

And let me assure you they have lobbyists.

Meanwhile, you have $10 billion to spend, once. It isn't an annual flow of money.

More renewable investment is helpful! But I fail to see how oligarchs could solve the problem as simply as you suggest simply by investing in renewables and lobbying.
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Way ahead of you. I started blocking Googlebot from my websites a few years ago, and never looked back!
100 bucks for anyone who uses a 50 year model/method and get within twice the word-error-rate of today's speech recognition systems.

Also, how do you explain the progress on ImageNet challenge over the last 10 years? Each method there uses the same dataset, yet error rates (top5) have gone from 30% in 2011 to around 3% in 2016.
Hey, it could definitely be your org, but I'll investigate fallbacks if the icons fail to load. Thanks for the heads up.

Right now ilograph is a SaaS app, so it would take some work to get it on-prem. Definitely possible though. That's a little further down the road; for the beta I'm focused more on the product and tech. All the same, thanks for the feedback!
And yet Notre Dame isn’t repaired/rebuilt yet. If all it needed were money then it would have been done the day after.
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> Figuring out accessing your computer via 192.168.0.x is way easier than figuring out how to issue a LE cert (the easy part) and use it on your dev server (the hard part).

It really isn't that hard. I still can't imagine this hypothetical "new dev" who is doing cross-browser testing of this specific feature but can't install a simple SSL cert or get help doing so.

This isn't a barrier for entry to new developers, this is a specific use case that requires learning a minor, otherwise useful skill to get around. I think that is a totally reasonable trade-off.
We test our medicines on a small group that is representative of the entire worlds population. We build soil models based on sampling a small region. We don't test your entire blood to do a medical test. I don't know what you mean by "real data", but representative sampling is how work gets done in every single domain in the world. Google can do this.
When you say "the pain involved in the latter is fairly small" are you speaking from personal experience?
The problem I have with this type of app is that I am never sure what will work and what will not. It's "natural language" only after you learn which subset of language the app actually understands.

I still can't find anything that beats my HP 50g (either physical or running in one of the emulators) for just about any kind of computation involving several pieces of data. For more data, a spreadsheet is really hard to beat.
>I honestly don't know why so many governments with strong antimonopoly laws tolerate Google shenanigans.

To build an anti-monopoly case you would have to do more than show that Google was the only good ad vendor. Are they the only ones that can give you clicks because they are smarter and better at their jobs than every other ad vendor, or are they the only ones that can give you clicks because of underhanded market tactics? If I was the best shoemaker in town, to the point where buying shoes from anybody else was a waste of time, that wouldn't be illegal. You'd have to show I was doing more to stop competition.
It's still a security risk. MITM happens regularly. Which means you better constrain it to either low-risk auth, or to networks you completely control.

For further risks, see e.g. https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/988/is-basic-au...

Yes, it's simple. And you're trading off security for simplicity. Make that choice, maybe, for your Intranet or your small blog. Commercial sites that have stored PII really, REALLY shouldn't.
I agree, but I think this issue is incredibly mishandled by reporting. The title in the linked article being a great example.

There is absolutely no proof of number 2 in your list, but that is by far the widest-held belief.

It's infuriating, because we can't have a useful societal dialog about the issue if the largest chunk of concerned people are, essentially, conspiracy theorist.
This technology is called "Settlement". Probably involves a lot of tech advocates known as "Lawyers".

https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20190418005212/en/
I wonder if this could also pave the way for lawsuits involving counterfeit merchandise.
>The original statement implied that profits always trump safety.

While that may be how you interpreted it, that isn't what he stated.

Death rates of various causes have been decreasing primarily due to technological and medical advancements, not because people are more conscious of others safety or less focused on profits. Companies time and time again still choose the cheaper options over peoples safety. If you need evidence look at the oil/gas industry, the pharmaceutical industry, politicians, companies that manufacture products over seas for pennies on the dollar while employees kill themselves from stress, and countless others.

You can even further apply this to tech companies such as Facebook, because while they may not be directly causing peoples deaths, they are having a major negative impact on society and constantly make declensions to maximize profits rather than look out for user safety and well being
>Animals are fed from crops, which sequester carbon from the air.

Most animals are fed from industrially grown crops. Those crops require tons of oil to grow and contribute to deforestation.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/oct/05/vast-ani...
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Not necessarily. I've had Google Voice (And maybe iphone?) ask me if they can use my voice-mail to improve transcription data, and I always say yes. But it's an explicit ask for each time (If I remember correctly), which is nice.
> The user interface frameworks and libraries of Javascript programming language work in a cycle. After every six months, they change positions and a new one pops up.

this article is total bullshit.
FWIW I didn’t find your comment to be ‘shilling’, particularly as you seem to be the crypto technical guy. Most importantly I dont think you sought to gain anything by posting that. I doubt some random comment on HN is shifting the needle on your USDC holdings.

Plenty of people promote their own work on HN as it’s their area of expertise.

But crypto has some baggage attached so people get sensitive.
There was already a thread on this, but it got locked and deleted because the HN Moderators are censorious cowards :\
Because I want it to be that powerful.
so..are we now willing to admit that they are contributing significantly to global climate change and overall pollution?
I really wonder about the people who work at Google. Surely they have people whose ideals are higher than this? It seems obvious that Google is a real threat to the freedom the internet originally made possible. But engineers still sign up in droves to work there? What kind of engineers are these? Do all of Google's employees simply disagree that Google is a threat? Do they not care? Are they just financially scared and willing to sell everyone else out so they can pay their mortgage? Are there efforts internally to try and stop them from centralizing everything? What's going on here? I know only a couple of people who don't think Google is a real problem today.
For anyone missing the joke, when the Dropbox announcement was posted to HN, that was exactly the reaction it got.
Good to know! I'm leaving it alone on my main FF installation, but I've set that in Developer Edition.
> That links says: “Unsolved problem in physics: Are the three forces of the Standard Model unified at high energies?”

Indeed, that's why I said only that there were theories about it.
Perhaps I should have been more specific; I was talking about MUNI:

> along Market Street, fingering out into a half dozen neighborhoods
The ethical way to do this is to pay a representative sample of your customers to come in and record their voice.
This is actually what my network looks like but I'm curious if we know of any ISP doing this. They would basically have to sniff on the bridge between Wi-Fi and wired, or even on the switch if both ends are wired. I'm usually rather pessimistic but that seems rather involved instead of "just" spying on all the non tech-savvy users using the default DNS settings which should make up 99% of your user base.
> along Market Street, fingering out into a half dozen neighborhoods
Do you understand at all how much damage you do to the cause of fighting climate change/environmentalism by playing these silly semantic games? How can I take you seriously when you arbitrarily redefine stuff you don't approve of as 'luxury'?
Moving out of functions simplifies dependencies and arguments of calling a function. Ownership control simplifies architecture.

All of eigen was originally based on template expressions, which are very complex. That technique / hack is not necessary if you move data structures. You no longer have to do elaborate work around to avoid copying temporaries.
The single most impactful to thing an individual can do is to work towards the development of large-scale policies that address climate change on a systemic level.

On a basic level, that starts with voting for people who have the competence and political cachet to implement such policies.
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> Also, for abiogenesis, given that we still can't reliably reproduce something like that, and that we have never seen new kinds of life spontaneously appearing on Earth, we do have some circumstantial evidence for the possibility that it is an incredibly unlikely event,

We have evidence that it is extremely unlikely under current conditions, but then we know that current conditions are unlike the conditions when life emerged on Earth (whatever it's origin), in part due to effects of life itself (such as the Oxygen Catastrophe).

Abiogenesis could be very likely under a combination of conditions that existed in the Hadean or Eoarchean Earth.
They are deep enough that it's not possible to make contact with the live and neutral pins before the ground pin. Try it, I just did and I wasn't able to do it regardless of angle.
I'm very confused by this article -- AMP is an optional framework: https://amp.dev/ and even if you use it you can opt out of having Google load/point to it: https://support.google.com/news/producer/answer/7281462?hl=e...
You don't need to no_index your site. What can you do about it? Just don't implement AMP. Yes, sites who do AMP get preferential treatment in search engines, but you can still get excellent results without it; it's a very small boost.
Plus figure-8 "racing", democross, etc.

Also - there are companies that let you have control over large equipment (loaders, bulldozers, excavators, etc).
> there is no single mention about new and better instruments that are available now

Computers that don't require vacuum tubes?

Just to understand the technology of the time: the first automated blood test was invented less than 5 years prior. The scanning electron microscope becomes commercially available 5 years later. The first MRI would happen about 10 years later.
You do understand that a key point in tyranny is forcibly imprisoning and/or murdering people who disagree with you, right? If you can justify that, then you're in a dangerous place, friend.
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That's how you deal with that problem with Java as well: arrays of primitives. If you need to operate on million of points, you can either use Point[] which will incur something like 16 MB additional memory or use two int[] arrays which won't incur any extra overhead short of few bytes. Your code won't be pretty, but it'll be fast and you can always hide this weirdness behind pretty API.
> and they are rebelling against them.

And also against foreigners, minorities, gays, women, liberals, fictional entities.

> Seems very democratic to me

It is very democratic. It's too early to say whether it's also good for humanity.
> Bonus attributes are it's addictive. Once you do it long enough, your brain will begin to encourage and reward this healthy behavior. Sometimes, it will even punish you for trying to skip exercise with negative emotions and nature's great motivator: shame.

Maybe I am non-normal here, but I've no idea what that feels like. Mind, I've run a marathon before, participated in a few organized athletic sports leauges, been on sports teams, improved my weight lifting substantially, and just gone for mile runs and bit of basketball.

I've never felt like I needed to go out and exercise. Sitting on the couch has always been just fine.

It has always been an internal battle to go out and exercise. I feel like crap after exercising. I'm tired, sweaty, grouchy, my legs are wobbly after any distance run, and it takes about 3 hours for me to wind down. I do sleep better, but I can't exercise after ~6pm if I want to get to sleep by ~10pm. My concentration is shot during the winding down and I can't work or study either. Truely, honestly, I do not like exercising. Like, I know it's good for me, but, man alive, it just sucks to do!

Look, I know I am weird here, but based off the data on rates of exercise, I'm not super certain that I'm too far off the average.
Saw that too and dismissed the project.

My PC has plenty of resources, but if I'm going to use a browser to read books, I might as well upload it to Google Play Books and use the browser I already have open for other things. It has the same functionality and my progress and bookmarks are synced across devices.

Granted, epubs are easily converted to HTML, but I shouldn't need an additional few hundreds Mb of RAM to read a 5Mb file.
seems obvious to me. Lonely people are more likely to pay for prostitution.

Loneliness is increasing.

So if true, you expect prostitution to go up.
You really have to twist the definition of the word "selling" to say that Google is selling data to their contracted workers.
>That's the civil engineering equivalent of rewriting the entire codebase from scratch.

And yet, "refactoring" is definitely a real thing in software engineering and is not uncommon, for good reason: many times you really do need to throw everything out and start from scratch.
Are you sure? Looking at my Soulver macOS receipt I did purchase it for $10 in 2012. I can't tell if it was a sale price but would be coincidental to have the same price cut 7-years apart.
Yeah.. I was really hoping there was something to see here beyond a unique form of mandatory obfuscation.

For instance, Hilbert curves have some interesting properties like the very roughly linear distance along the curve to near neighbors. (Sorry looked for citations but nothing good and succinct popped up quickly.)