skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do you mean chimeralism [0][1]?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chimera_(genetics)#Humans

[1] https://abcnews.go.com/m/story?id=2315693
A big problem is that many people will ultimately ignore DND anyway.
Reading the guidelines now, "Use known letters (or their best attempt to write the letters) to represent written language especially for meaningful words like their names or phrases such as "I love you."" - they weren't WRITING letters before 1. That would be crazy, simply because their muscles aren't nearly developed enough to do that kind of detailed work by 1. My oldest didn't start writing his name out until 3.

Also, the US Dept of Education guidelines are really like "if this isn't happening by this age, then there's a problem" - in terms of brains, kids develop at vastly different speeds - they can jump ahead and then fall behind - I personally didn't get math until a very late age thanks to a good teacher, thank god standardized testing wasn't the norm or else I would have been put on the "slow track". My older son is advanced in some ways, but way behind in others.

There is no blueprint for what kids should know when, and advancement is closer to a random walk than a linear progression. (how the physical body develops, which bounds stuff like speaking, writing, etc is pretty linear though)
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Yes, you probably shouldn’t be asking “what next” constantly, but it is important to validate you’re doing the right things. It depends how you ask it and the frequency.

In between decent blocks of work (epics, milestones, etc) I tend to ask my manager if priorities have changed since we last spoke and if he needs help with anything before I do the next feature.

This prevents me from wandering off and doing unneeded or less-needed work. That’s also true agile.
Google dropping inbox was what finally got me abandon their products as much as I could. Switch to Firefox and use DDG as my primary search provider.

FYI, Darwin Mail[0] was made soon after Inbox shuttered as a paid alternative. I gave it a spin but didn't stick with it mainly out of apathy.

[0] https://darwinmail.app/
A basic maths competence test would consist in trying to find out what the person thinks mathematics actually is. Inexperienced people would mostly think of computations, such as evaluating integrals or computing eigenvalues. People who understand maths know that it chiefly deals with definitions, theorems, proofs, conjectures and problem solving (that last one is sometimes forgotten even by very theoretical mathematicians, but it's key to some areas such as graph theory, combinatorics, etc.).
> As an example, the city could provide a free reloadable prepaid card to people who qualify as underbanked (based on some combination of income and residential address).

Then you still have the people who are underbanked for some reason but don't qualify as underbanked under that criteria. The only reliable way to do it would be to provide it to everyone, no questions asked (you can't even require proof of identity or residence, otherwise you'd still have the homeless people who lost their documents and can't get new ones). In the end, that reloadable prepaid card becomes a more complicated, less reliable form of physical cash.
Lots of great lessons. For those wanting more, I wrote a blog post a while back about our own lessons learned with Google Ads:

https://www.getleadup.com/post/the-startup-founders-guide-to...
On the other hand, I used Thunderbird for almost a decade, then switched to Gmail and never looked back.

Mileages vary.
> Setting aside quality assurance and risk assessment/mitigation, I'm seriously impressed with the speed in which they construct complex infrastructure.

Not only infrastructure, it's just everything here glides like on butter in comparison to my experience in Canada and US, both in public and private spheres.

My experience making business in Canada: drag and head current in everything. That's a part of the culture: to complicate things, add friction, and "we don't know how it will go, so we wouldn't do anything" attitude

In the West, people feel to have something almost bordering on subconscious compulsion to impede things, and add friction to anything around.

From one side, your people have a burning desire to show concern, and involve themselves into everything, and on another, they have no real intention to do a thing beyond that.

> The are some good reasons we don't quite go at this pace, but there are lots of good lessons about expediency to be gleaned as well.

The biggest impediment you have in the West is the MBA culture everywhere. Everybody tries to speak like a banker or lawyer, and even think of that as something good!

How many fund managers do you need to define a strategy how to write a hello world app? You know the answer already, but these people will simply not take no as an answer, and will not let things go until they get it.
There's lots of optical data transport, even plausible research for on-chip communication, but nobody really has a plausibly commercial optical transistor except at a very conceptual stage.
(Sorry, no links, but this is fairly uncontroversial US history:)

There was a big debate around the bill of rights. Proponents felt it was essential, because otherwise the government would violate those rights. Opponents either didn’t feel this was a justified fear, actively wanted more state power, or claimed that enshrining certain rights explicitly implies that they were the only ones reserved to the people.

That last objection was the basis for the Tenth Amendment.

That said, in practice, what the government can and can’t do is decided not by the text of the Constitution but by the string of precedents that control its legal interpretation.

In other words, reading the Constitution gives you at best a very basic intuition of how the US political system works, and this intuition will often be very very wrong.

So, you’re theoretically right, but it doesn’t affect the practical reality on the ground even in principle.
Casper Has Big Dreams, but Wall Street Is Waking Up to Losses as Its IPO Nears
Quirky related trivia point when talking about legal tender - Scottish bank notes aren't legal tender, either in Scotland or anywhere else!
I'd never heard of this - fascinating. For others who are interested, there's a decent, referenced, account from the Bank of England's blog here: https://bankunderground.co.uk/2016/01/20/the-cheque-republic...

Doesn't sound like there was "no harm to the economy" though, except in the broader sense. A quote from an Irish building contractor cited in the article: "I employ only 10 people. If it hadn’t been for the bank strike I’d be hiring 30. I’d say I’ve lost up to £20,000 over it ... One of my problems is finding the money to pay the wages. I run round from Wednesday to Friday to scrape them up, and in that time I can do no other work."
Interesting...

> "...a customer acquisition cost way above one-third of customer lifetime value"

Is this really so terrible? As I understand it a lot of mobile games pay more for acquisition than they'll make from the user in e.g. IAP's to scale up their player base and climb the charts. What is a normal CPA vs LTV in the SaaS space?

Also, if you pay less to acquire these customers than you will make from them over time, you haven't quite wasted 50k have you?
If US law doesn't grant protection to Assange because he's neither a US citizen nor physically present in America, then it also shouldn't be possible to prosecute him for things he did while neither a US citizen nor physically present in America.
Disinformation threat pushes Doomsday Clock closer to midnight
Yes, but compared to an IDE (Pycharm in this case) there is no comparison.
You're comparing magnitudes there ... but I've a feeling there's a base-rate somewhere, relating to how dangerous just a relatively small amount of nuclear waste can be if it gets into groundwater or something.

The real problem with nuclear is that it's a one way only system. The effects of other forms of fuel can in theory be sequestered eventually. Sequestration of nuclear waste is exactly something that yout don't want to happen.

As you say, it's a matter of scale. A limited amount of nuclear power is probably fine, and safe. But it can never be the "solution" to our energy problems until the various problems are solved satisfactorily.
The problem is that you need C/C++ expertise to build packages, which creates a barriers between users of packages and makers of packages.

This is a big selling point for Julia. One is seeing much faster package development on Julia than on Python because you use the same language on both ends. Package users are often able to contribute to the packages they use.

Also the Python-Linkage has major limitations. If you create anything that requires the user to pass a function defined in Python to the C/C++ layer you take a performance hit. Think about solvers e.g.

For machine learning that is a big deal. In Julia you can write your own scientific models and do automatic differentiation and training on them. If you do the same in Python you get a huge performance penalty. C/C++ cannot really help you.
I miss Inbox too, it was a pleasure to use it.

My inbox was always empty, no spam e-mails no useless stuff.

Only actionable e-mails and scheduled tasks

The people behind it should start a new business based on it.
Where I live these cards are expensive. For example, I considered buying one for a $60 a year service.

The card itself costs just $1, but there is a $6.95 per month fee. So it costs me $7.95, minimum, to use one of these (13%).

There are also fees for reloading the cards without EFT. If you keep the card all year it costs $83.40.
I don't see why non-ideal cannot define ideal, but within a small standard deviation is possible.
I've been only using desktop mail until Inbox by Gmail came along (and it's most important features where ported to Gmain). For me email has become my main TODO management. So everything goes into email and I heavily rely on Gmail's snooze to schedule stuff. On mobile the Gmail app is great but I haven't found a desktop client that is nothing more than 'Gmail in a standalone browser'. So I'm sticking with just having an extra tab open with Gmail.
Yes! This is so much more important than whether you use "for" or "map".
I'm convinced that the outdated nature of polling entirely explains Biden's numbers. He appeals to clueless old people, and polling as practiced today over-samples that demographic.
>We're talking about substances that will remain toxic for thousands of years

Most substances are toxic forever. If you bury mercury or lead in a hole a dig it up in a few million years it will be just as toxic. Radioactive substances are an anomaly in that they become less toxic over time.
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Web apps are simply easier to use, go to a given URL, log in and you're there.
By 2050 Earth will have carrying capacity of 2bln people at most.
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Definitely not managing.
There's also Transportr, they use the same library for accessing transit data though. Transportr has some really good guides here, how it works under the hood and how to help with contributing other networks:

https://transportr.app/contribute/
> This is why I belive Julia has a real chance against Python. It hits all the right checkboxes: It is easy to learn, simple tools, while also being highly productive and giving great performance.

The only thing that makes me anxious about Julia is Dan Luu's complaint that testing is not a big part of the culture. Generally, for code folks are going to rely on to be correct, I want some mechanism for assuring correctness. Types, tests, proofs, whatever, but I want to see them.

Admittedly this is true of a lot of scientific computing, so I may be misplacing my nervousness.
Somebody has to write the standards. Transit agencies don't care about making a data format that works for other transit agencies, as it doesn't affect them. Only companies that need data from multiple transit agencies will do this kind of work.

There are two approaches to aggregating data. You can either treat each agency as a unique snowflake, or you can convince all agencies to use the same format. The former approach means that all work you do is only for you, and you've built up an interesting base of intellectual property in an industry that doesn't matter. (There is no money in providing transit directions.) The latter means that anyone can show up and do neat things with transit data. (I have my own little webpage, jrock.us/mta.html that uses this data to provide me with exactly the interface I want. Do you think the MTA wanted to hire programmers to make this for people like me? Absolutely not. But they did make it for Google, and now I benefit.)
Just means you need a better banking institution.

By the way this highlights the need for something like Bitcoin.
From the Federal Reserve website:

Q. Is it legal for a business in the United States to refuse cash as a form of payment?

A. Section 31 U.S.C. 5103, entitled "Legal tender," states: "United States coins and currency [including Federal reserve notes and circulating notes of Federal reserve banks and national banks] are legal tender for all debts, public charges, taxes, and dues."

This statute means that all United States money as identified above is a valid and legal offer of payment for debts when tendered to a creditor. There is, however, no Federal statute mandating that a private business, a person, or an organization must accept currency or coins as payment for goods or services. Private businesses are free to develop their own policies on whether to accept cash unless there is a state law which says otherwise.

Link: https://www.federalreserve.gov/faqs/currency_12772.htm
The technology is here now. If a bad actor wants your data they can easily get it without you submitting anything. Unless you protect your bodily fluids I think you should generally already consider your dna compromised.
> kids knew the alphabet before 1 year old

Not to pick on you, but this seems like a completely superficial goal.

As far as I can tell listening comprehension is by far the most important foundational language/reasoning skill.

I would be quite surprised if, all else equal, there were any long-term difference between a kid who learns the alphabet at age 1 and a kid who learns the alphabet at age 4.

On the other hand, the kids whose parents read to them for 1+ hours per day end up way ahead of their peers who aren’t read to.
All this helps!
Yes, Inbox was great! Now that I can quickly archive or delete emails (on Android at least) with swipes I at least get by with Gmail.

I agree with everyone else who recommends an email client like Thunderbird if you want to avoid the web client!
That screams "better reporting".
Rhodium photocatalyst does double duty to generate hydrogen
- Will the sender have to pay for each mail or it is a one time thing?
- Will the receiver have the option to adjust the nominal amount and who keeps the amount paid by the sender?
1) Energy efficiency will surely be better over time but population is also increasing and migration rate to Germany is increasing as well. So this will probably even out the efficiency improvements.

2) Energy storage is a very difficult and expensive task. Germany is able to store energy around 7.6 GW[1], this number is comical next to the TWh numbers we are discussing.

3) You should perhaps read a bit more about this here [2] to be informed. It is quite obvious and proven from technological perspective and material costs that renewable energy is right now more expensive to produce and still causes more human fatalities than nuclear energy.

[1] : https://www.cleanenergywire.org/dossiers/energy-storage-and-...
[2] : https://www.cleanenergywire.org/factsheets/how-much-does-ger...
These are well-known properties of any fast reactor, like Terrapower's.

Only about one percent of high-level nuclear waste is fission products, the broken-apart atoms left after fission. The rest is U238, unused U235, plutonium, and other transuranics produced by absorbing neutrons without fissioning. Fast reactors can fission all of these. That's why they can run on nuclear waste.

For the same reason, they can get over a hundred times as much energy from the same amount of uranium ore. Conventional reactors can only use the U235, which is 0.7% of natural uranium.

That's a great start, but with such efficient use, it's practical to get the uranium from seawater. We can do that now at five times the cost of mining; if we only need 1% as much uranium, then total fuel cost would be 5% as much as nuclear reactors spend on fuel today. Fast reactors fueled from seawater would last for millions of years.
Is a transaction yet to occur, or that can be cancelled easily when posted terms aren't met, really a 'debt' in the legal sense, though?
This strikes me as ridiculous and heavy-handed.

We should focus on finding a way to provide vulnerable groups a way to pay at cashless stores rather than increasing the overhead of operating a business (accepting cash, maintaining change, coordinating bank deposits, etc.). Many of these places are coffee shops where their entire ledger is automated.

How can we complain that small businesses are closing in NYC and then continue to add regulations which may make it harder for them to operate? That seems like an oxymoron.
Vault can do a lot more than AWS Secrets Manager -- possibly GCP too but I've not checked. So if you're paying for Vault (bare in mind Hashicorp also do a free version) then odds are you want enterprise features rather than an encrypted key/value store.
How did you get that impression? Making laws that prevent abuse while permitting the benefits of facial recognition is difficult and takes time. During that time, companies using it could cause a lot of damage. So temporarily banning it altogether as a stopgap makes a lot of sense.
I would argue that because it could have been Lua in the first place. Fastest C ffi. Faster, simpler scripting language with natural 1 - indexed arrays like in fortran, matlab. It got some traction, yes, from ML community thanks to Torch but Python had better batteries already at that time.
This legislation should really be about making this process free and easy rather than punishing stores for being lean.
Fast reactors can burn waste pretty well, as few other designs. However, it's politically problematic because it involves using plutonium burning (not as fuel, but produced in the reactor while burning down uranium).

This is not liked by certain governments, even if theoretically NPT gives a framework to do it safely, and large scale commercial reprocessing essentially died after India used Canada-built CANDU reactors to kickstart their nuclear weapons program.
The rich don't like negative interest rates, are pulling cash out of Swiss banks
I don't think that the type systems are too complex. I think the issue is that approximately zero effort (perhaps even negative effort) has been put into the UX of the type system. We have tools for debugging run-time errors, such as debuggers and tracing. When you shift errors from run-time to compile-time, as type systems do, you need similar tools to debug and inspect type checking. Very little work has been done here.
There's also some false equivalency in the quote above. "Environmentalists" is a vague term.

If we asked Environmental Energy SCIENTISTS, they overwhelmingly support nuclear power.
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Yes. You'd (we'd) need better infrastructure (20 miles is doable via train or something) and more remote work. That's also something that will be more widespread in the coming years.

Plus we need more environmental-conscious lifestyle choices from people. Where one lives is also a lifestyle choice, not an invariant.

The only reason today's cities exists the way they are (huge suburbs, lots of commuting) is because they are based on car transportation, unfortunately this is pretty hard to change.

See this for a historical overview: https://www.citylab.com/transportation/2019/08/commute-time-...
> I think you may also see Clojure overtake Scala for the same reason. The simplicity of Clojure may in the long run overtake Scala although Scala benefits a lot from similarity to Java at a superficial level.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't Scala overtake Clojure some years ago as the second most popular language on the JVM (second to Java ofc). From my point of view it rarely happens that these trends reverse.

Scala has the advantage that it allows OOP or Functional Programming, which Clojure does not.

But I do get your point about simplicity. I tried 3 times to learn functional programming by learning Haskell and it never clicked. Then I learned Clojure and who would have thought, functional programming is actually not as hard as Haskell makes it out to be.
I use groupmarks.com very cool.
You can share with team, screenshot, organize them, ...
Gmail, at least before this last UI regression, was always markedly better than desktop email clients. I think they've tried to fix things, but it still is considerably worse than the old UI.

Outlook and Thunderbird are not great. However they probably are better than the current Gmail webapp...
I used to be much the same, but being able to have my mail available anywhere I am is useful - even running 3 computers and a phone it always seemed a pain to get IMAP working (nearly always ended up having to stay on POP3 as a result). And gone are the days when you have to worry about having local files on a computer - backing up your email store file of whatever form.

Having said that, I'd love to jump the Google ship if I could find any other mail provider that had a good app for mobile and had snooze, which for me is the killer feature for email.
Alternatively, opt out of the status game and try to construct and pursue your own definition of excellence, rather than simply defining it in terms of your position in the social hierarchy.

"Main deficiency of active people. Active men are usually lacking in higher activity-I mean individual activity. They are active as officials, businessmen, scholars, that is, as generic beings, but not as quite particular, single and unique men. In this respect they are lazy.

It is the misfortune of active men that their activity is almost always a bit irrational. For example, one must not inquire of the money-gathering banker what the purpose for his restless activity is: it is irrational. Active people roll like a stone, conforming to the stupidity of mechanics.

Today as always, men fall into two groups: slaves and free men. Whoever does not have two-thirds of his day for himself, is a slave, whatever he may be: a statesman, a businessman, an official, or a scholar."

- Nietzsche
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"Lesson #3: Stick to keywords that you have landing pages and content for"

This sounds self-evident but we all know sales people who sell a fiction and then engineering has to scramble to (try to) turn it into reality.
> Why should people get to break the law?

Because laws are made by people and as such can be flawed.
I agree, especially if the employee is new to the job. I don't want my recently graduated surgical nurse deciding what to do next.
I think Brooks is still right and what author mentions is not one thing but a set of practices that became proven enough that became almost like a standard approach in software development. And they provide some productivity gains if we compare how software was built 50 years ago. Yes, the difference is big but we forget that all those things were introduced incrementally and in the course of decades. So yes, together they make a huge difference but they haven’t appeared in one day.