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>Our elementary school uses chromebooks from 1st grade on, and I do see a lot of downsides.

When my family moved last year, we moved to a school system where Chromebooks are in use. (You can bring your own or the school will provide one for you for free). I was very worried about many of the downsides as well, but after 1.5 years, I think it's actually a pretty big positive.

In my case, my son has ADHD, so getting paperwork organized is a huge challenge for him. Being able to access everything is a life saver for him. About 50% of his homework and projects are completed and submitted online. Getting him to complete a creative project on paper is pulling teeth, but making a slide deck for the same thing with lots of clip art, etc. is easy and he'll do countless revisions.

I think some of the keys to success are that we only use the Chromebook for school stuff. Anything other than schoolwork happens elsewhere. The school system also does a good job balancing things and the "games" we've seen skew far more towards educational rather than game-like. As parents, we make it easy to find the recreational stuff on a different device, but that's a luxury we have that many don't. The result is that the school computer gets used for school.

So, it's possible to make it work well, but I agree that there are many places it can go wrong.
> Considering that getting it wrong is a federal felony, the incentive set by the law is clear even if, arguably, unintended.

I don’t think you’re wrong, but I would argue that if getting it wrong is a felony, not properly protecting the data should be a felony as well. I realize it isn’t, but incidents like this showcase just how poorly the laws around this type of thing are written. If you can’t properly protect the data, you shouldn’t be in this type of business.

Of course, in this case, this is a site registered in Andorra. So who even know what those laws required in the first place.
> The main reason me and my SO don't have kids is a deep concern about there not being any sure way to absolutely guarantee that a new person brought to this world will live a happy and fulfilling life

There is almost NOTHING you can do with an absolute guarantee in this world: You can't even drive down the road with an absolute guarantee that you won't end up having a stroke and killing few people. IOW - this is the true scotsman equivalent of justification. The idea here is that smart, empathetic and introspective folks have children and in turn raise smart, empathetic and introspective kids, thereby tilting humanity towards enlightenment. I look at it as my part to move humanity forward (the other part being me doing my best to provide for them AND ensure my own life has meaning as well). IOW I don't buy this reason - it sounds like perfection blocking reality to me.

> and that the ethical thing to do is to when able (SO finishing education) adopt a child in need to improve their lives.

It is awesome that folks adopt: Those kids do need a home. It may even be an ethical thing to do. BUT that doesn't make having your own kid unethical. As I mentioned before, I do believe you have an ethical commitment to move humanity forward as well. Ending your own gene branch just because there are other branches you could take care of is not an alternative: It is more of an orthogonal thing. IOW foster as many kids as you can. I don't buy that it is a replacement to not have kids, especially considering the argument above. If you can't foster, you can always contribute as well to foster care systems in your country.
If you're doing image stacking, could you dump some frames that were ruined? It would take a bit longer to collect enough frames.
> I realized that the firm’s fees would greatly exceed the amount of money that would end up going to the charity.

So who pays the bill for the firm's fees? Might be okay if it's a "sponsored by megacorp" kind of thing, but if it's just a civic-minded individual who's actually trying to run a real fundraiser?
I remember how it was before - they just screwed around in different ways such that doodling violent or rude stick figures was one of the better uses of the down time compared to outright mischief.
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I was thinking about this module just last week and had ascribed its terribleness to just being an old dungeon crawl but didn't know it had previously been a tournament module. That makes a lot of sense. The S4 published version has a ton of weird open-ended bits throughout which must have been added after for general publication.
Saying it will "Kill astronomy" is pretty hyperbolic.

It will likely affect some earthbound astronomy significantly, but much (most?) of the most important work in modern astronomy is satellite based.

I'm on the fence on this whole issue. It's not exactly clear what impact it will have on astronomy. Nor what impact it will have on making the internet pricing and availability. Where I used to live, the only options for internet access were expensive and really bad, the positive impact this might have is potentially quite big.

It's hard with a story like this to suss out what the long term effects will be so it's a big grey area.
NRO is willing to spend much more than SpaceX is on these and they're (probably) much larger giving them more volume to deal with the additional heat accumulation that comes with a darker satellite.
Sorry, late reply, hope you get this!

I believe it's totally "system 1", and actually by design.

First of all it's not a new kind of NN, it's more about applying a given problem to another technique, name consider math syntax as just another kind of language:

> represent complex mathematical expressions as a kind of language and then treating solutions as a translation problem

(which might seem obvious but I guess it took that much refinement to yield actual results)

Now, take these quotes, emphasis mine:

> Humans who are particularly good at symbolic math often rely on a kind of intuition. They have a sense of what the solution to a given problem should look like

> By training a model to detect patterns in symbolic equations, we believed that a neural network could piece together the clues that led to their solutions, roughly similar to a human’s intuition-based approach to complex problems.

Intuition, intuition-based approach: this is exactly what system 1 represents.

Also note the results:

> Our model demonstrated 99.7 percent accuracy when solving integration problems, and 94 percent and 81.2 percent accuracy, respectively, for first- and second-order differential equations.

One major difference between systems 1 and 2 is that 1 is fuzzy, intuitive, it's not always exact, it's very analog; whereas system 2 is able to be correct, exact, precise — and like the researchers themselves validating the 5,000 answers, you'd expect a "well trained" math intelligence to solve 100% (or close enough) of these problems. It may take time but give yourself 20 years and you'll get there no doubt; whereas this narrow language-AI with one hundred million examples still makes mistakes.

Very system 1 indeed.
Would you be open to adding other Genre's of applications in there? iPad has no built in Calculater application and it has been a beyond infuriating experience simply finding a non-bullshit one without any adds or anything.
Try to adapt the business processes to the ERP, instead of adapting the ERP to the custom business processes.

While I don't have hard data on this (and it would be hard to establish causality anyway), most of the ERP implementation failures I've witnessed and know about stem from line of business people who firmly believe their company's processes - e.g. collection, billing, etc - are very special and unique, when it is very rarely the case; and when it is, it shouldn't be, the process is likely overly complex due to inertia or lack of will/skills to improve or just legacy. Then, the customizations that need to be implemented to support the "special and unique processes" are so complex that the project's schedule and budget inevitably explode...

ERP implementations could actually be seen as a great opportunity to revisit, optimize and document current processes before the ERP is implemented...
Wow, this guy got a double life sentence plus 40 years for "money laundering, computer hacking, and conspiracy to traffic narcotics"? He could have gotten a lighter sentence if he had carried out a mass shooting.

And how did the flash drive trick work? Was he running Windows on that laptop? Very bad idea.
Unless it were our Sun. Then we might not feel so fortunate. :-)
Career wise, it comes down to 2 things: Your own expectations of how you are doing AND your manager/team's expectations of how you are doing. It seems like you are struggling with your own expectations of how you THINK you should be doing. I suggest you look at how your team thinks you are doing. If they are happy with you, that's great. You definitely want that first.
Junk info removed, mediocre info replaced, tags avoided, logically indexed, curation anti-gaming power-tiered, simplicity focused. I like the principles a lot.

I assume that "using questions" means something like contributors post pre-answered questions, hearkening back to the "questions prime the reader for the knowledge" idea you mentioned earlier. Also was glad to hear you're keeping design elements flexible to upgrade to whatever works better.

Sounds a bit like hackernews for compact knowledge, and I am curious how you will handle the contribution rules without sectioning (what kind of info is allowed) and logical indexing design.

I'd love to take a look and offer my thoughts when you're ready for private review. It's hard to find people who share a proactive passion for the progression of knowledge systems. Couldn't find your email on your hackernews bio, so just email me instead!
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I wonder if this could be used as an argument for Panpsychism?
That's one of the reasons I'm excited about SpaceX's Starship. It has a large diameter, so space telescope mirrors can be much bigger with less folding.
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My own little moment of fame: WWDC June 8, 2009, Keynote, 21 minutes and 22 seconds in: Bertrand Serlet says (about improvements to Preview): "We have added lots of little touches. The one I like...we have added a little bit of AI to actually infer the selection"

My colleague and I (we co-developed the "little bit of AI") never saw this comment (and the applause) live: we were still lining up outside of Moscone West. As Apple employees we weren't allowed in until all the guests and paying attendees had entered. Still, we watched the video afterwards and got a huge kick out of the mention.

BTW, the AI we added did not use neural nets or deep learning.
Check out the employee holiday bonus from 1983:
https://www.applearchive.org/1983-feed/apple-holiday-bonus
Not GP but I have some opinions as well. I would've been a Medium advocate several years ago. But all the things they've done in the past few years have been hostile to writers.

1. Got rid of custom domains, so you have to use a medium.com one. So if you're hoping to start a blog using Medium as a platform/engine but with your own domain, this is a dealbreaker.

2. Even if you have hundreds of followers, publishing an article on Medium does nothing about surfacing it to any of these followers. Your best bet to distribute the article is still posting on HN and Reddit or Twitter/FB.

3. On a related note, if you're hoping Medium would bring you traffic, it's 100% up to their editorial if they would feature your post on their homepage, email, etc. Probably best not to bet on it.

4. Various UI and UX issues pile up over the years. When you open a Medium article on a mobile on a fresh browser nowadays, you're likely faced with enough popups that cover more than half the screen. It's just not nice.

5. Most people hate their paywall. I don't have a strong opinion here myself.

TBH, most of the draw near the beginning of Medium was how easy it was to start an account and just write stuff, and the writing interface is nice. There has been a number of open source JS projects since then to emulate the Medium editor. IMO there really isn't any reason for anyone new to start on Medium anymore.
Someone has to provide you the basic materials and sustenance for any pursuit. Certain things will still be rare or kept that way for advantage...
I'm a skydiver. My guess (without knowing any details): while regular skydiving is rather safe, event jumps are much riskier. There's the unknown terrain, a usually much smaller landing zone, obstacles (trees etc). Low turns might be necessary, leading to a high speed landing. And there's also a psychological variable (many people are watching you). All those factors make the landing much more difficult.
Most astronomy is long exposure which the eventual mega constellation is particularly harmful too because there's no way currently to deal with the light reflecting off them.
I found this article super-difficult to read (due to the weird layout), but as far as I can tell they didn't mention Levi Strauss & Co and Waste Management, which is weirder than the layout.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/levi-strauss-sap-rollout-subst...

https://www.computerworld.com/article/2536212/waste-manageme...

Both $100MM+ boondoggles.
That was more 4th edition. 5th ed is less MMO-centric but it definitely has elements from newer RPGs like inspiration and mechanics like advantage to minimize the need to track lots of small +1's. There are variants in the core rulebook that make 5th ed much more like 1st ed in terms of lethality.
Streams and Tables in Kafka: Elasticity, Fault Tolerance and Advanced Concepts
Measuring popularity is potentially an issue here, since:

- Every game’s popularity measure is competing against all other games in stores, which definitely includes all the “bullshit” games (and there are probably way more of those).

- One form of “bullshit” is gaming the review system itself, e.g. finding ways to generate thousands of “reviews”.

- It is very difficult to get users to submit reviews.
I buy toilet paper from Who Gives A Crap: https://us.whogivesacrap.org/

The toilet paper is made from bamboo, and comes wrapped in paper in a cardboard box. They operate in USA, Australia, and the UK.
That was also one of my initial thoughts. But who knows. I'm sure milk consumption varies a lot in different geographies, cultural backgrounds, upbringings, etc...

I personally never drink milk. The only dairy product I regularly consume is butter. But I had a roommate who drank a glass of milk with dinner every day and occasionally had a bowl of cereal in the mornings. So It's at least a spectrum.
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While this certainly requires non trivial large scale space engineering, you should be able to build in in principle.

Basically a big bubble filled with the most useful gas for this + bunch of photodetectors inside at the appropriate places. You could also make the whole detection chamber much larger, than the ~30 km (?) of reasonably thick atmosphere you get on Earth.
Presumably because it's a mobile game with no IAP or ads.
> It seems like instead of having a hundred thousand micro-charities, it would be better if the money were just sent directly to a large charity that already operates at scale and can use the money more efficiently.

We could call it "taxes".
> if you don't have complaints you are not using it enough

I'm a daily user. I wish there were a way to enable the autocomplete and doc display that ptipython has. In both the terminal and jupyter it would be very helpful.
I mean, this seems to be the biological parallel of everything related to AI: there are massive discrepancies between the general public's perception of and expectations from the technology (a general-purpose AI), vs. what the technology actually does (very specific applications of statistical modeling using lots of data).
is cherenkov radiation even observable during dawn/dusk +/- 2 hours? I imagine that the atmospheric refraction of the sun would seriously hamper those observations during that time period.
Using the scientific method in isolation is enough to be a scientist. If I:

1. form a falsifiable hypothesis based on observation
2. come up with (reproducible) experiments in an attempt to confirm and (more importantly) falsify my hypothesis
3. accurately measure and analyze my experimental results
4. modify or throw out hypotheses where necessary
5. rinse repeat

I am a scientist. If I then make prescriptive statements / claims to people based on this science, it is of course imperative that I share my scientific methodology with whoever I am making these claims to. But I can do science on a desert island all alone.

but your chances are minimal of even being able to start the discussion,

Could you expand on this a bit? I'm not sure I understand the point you are making here. Furthermore, getting a PhD does not "prove" you can do proper science, even in scientific disciplines, as has been made clear by the reproducibility crisis in academia.
Astronomers are already criticizing such ideas, and have already created an international appeal by professional astronomers open for subscription to ask for an intervention from institutions and governments. See: https://astronomersappeal.wordpress.com/
They did, but you can only control what you know.
Reading is a great skill and encouraging kids to read has real value. I have an avid reader who is ten however who struggles with many aspects of writing and communication (organization, idea structure, penmanship, thinking before you speak, etc). He would much rather read and often rushes through other work so he can get back to his reading. He doesn't need more time to read sitting in class, he needs more practice speaking and presenting, learning to construct and edit work and other interactive skills.

Sending your kid to school to read independently seems like a waste of resources, likely tolerated because it takes work from everyone's shoulders and no one complains. I'd like to see the reading be the homework and the day filled with practice, teacher guidance and student coaching, similar to what Sal Khan promotes. None of this has much to do with technology and screens though...
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> any approvals would require having a particular condition to get a prescription (or an unethical doctor)

Wrong on both counts.

Let me introduce you to indian online pharmacies, where you can get mostly anything already. I get my eyedrops from less than the US deductible, delivered at my door. I have a prescription, but they didn't even check.

Even better: some molecules are on any restricted list, and thus legal to buy. IIRC, mk667 is very popular for weightlifters.

So I think everybody will be able to get their hands on these as soon as their efficiency is proved.
I see big problems with this type of arrangement - you raise ten dollars while spending five thousand on the event itself. Yet you will call this a charity event? Also what awareness? There are people who don't know breast cancer is bad (actually breast cancer isn't even that bad anymore. Most patients get quite a good cure)?

This is on top of the fact that the charity again takes a huge admin cut, and I'm willing to bet that the kind that organizes marathons with pink ribbons are the same that have 95% expense ratios.

If you go to Panda Express the person asks if you want to donate a few dimes for charity. I bet they contribute more to charity than these pretentious events. You don't call it a charity lunch do you?

Do these events if you want but be honest and call it for what they are which is just circular congratulatory social Sunday pasttimes for people with too much money (and ps someone somewhere might get a buck or two, maybe).
A fair amount of greenhouse gas emissions are from growing and transporting food. "Just stop" means that a fair amount of our food production stops. The problem with +4C is a lot of people dying; killing them earlier by starvation is not a solution.
Note that those road side systems are usually only used as a road sign and the vast majority (at least in California) use a cheaper and less accurate/repeatable sensor than the ones used by police for speed infractions. This is especially pronounced on highways where the same sensor can give you several different readings at 1-10 mph less than actual speed.
They need to hurry up with this, I'm not getting any younger and I haven't saved enough for retirement :O
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Ah, it's spiking edges as opposed to spiking node activations. I like this because it applies to 1 of many connections uniquely, rather than dividing the entire graph by spiking neurons. Exponentially more edges than nodes in a dense net. Connections are always more important than entities.

```The dendrites generated local spikes, had their own nonlinear input-output curves and had their own activation thresholds, distinct from those of the neuron as a whole```

How would this work in practice? Apply activations to multiplication values of the weight, or just don't perform the multiplication if the activation of the node is low?
That's totally different from America, where police will get pissed and yell at you to get lost if you ask them for directions. (Speaking from personal experience)
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If my job required me to go to a unconscious bias training I would treat it the same is if they forced me to go to church. I am sure companies would like it if everyone would treat each other as kin and share the religious experience, and the actually hours itself would unlikely be the worst experience compared to some of the worst days at the office, but I would still resign if they did it. Call it irrationality. I would simply no longer feel that there were any mutual trust and thus I would not feel safe in continuing working there.

I wonder how many companies can survive long term if employees don't trust their employer and the employer don't trust its employees.
Columns can only be sorted descending.

https://nobsgames.stavros.io/ios/?s=price
The amount of important work in modern astronomy that is satellite based is limited, as pointed out elsewhere on this thread.
Evernote works surprisingly well. I'm always surprised when I search for something and it finds random photos of white boards that contain the word or phrase I'm looking for.

Good Notes on the iPad is also shockingly good at OCR for handwriting. At least for the way I write.
If you have used the site for illegal reasons, then you bet your ass you should be worried.
Aren't the newest and biggest ground based telescopes made up of many mirrors that have millions of actuators on them to correct for atmospheric distortion? I don't see why you couldn't make similar multi-mirror telescopes in space. Here is a link to an article[1] that shows three of the biggest telescopes that have 7, 798 and 492 individual mirrors respectively. The biggest one has the most mirrors.

[1]https://www.space.com/22505-worlds-largest-telescopes-explai...
Looks fairly interesting. I have a lot of static data heavy sites where I struggle with Static site generators.

This might be a good alternative.

Suggestion: First class serverless/S3 support perhaps?

This also reminds me of how crt.sh runs primarily off Postgres: https://github.com/crtsh
This is horrible, and very very dangerous for the people involved.
As an adult learning about his personal history/development and late conversion to Catholicism explained a lot of what confused the kid version of me who read the books decades earlier
Unfortunately no job still does not get rid of the requirement to be near people to fully meet them. We'd need some sort of uploading technology or lotus eater level VR to skip that part.
Hard data for Kiev, Ukraine, with interesting analysis:

https://mobile.twitter.com/mourner/status/121746938033601741...