skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Student weren't going to leave Cambridge no matter what. They could offer a subpar year and everyone would still "show up." Same reason Harvard can charge $55k for watching its free videos this year.

In April parents were already talking about "pods" as an alternative to remote learning in K-12 schools.

If the average K-12 school wasn't promising what parents wanted - in person education - the parents would get it somewhere else, pulling their student and the ~10k funding that comes with the student right from the school.

This was the ONLY factor at play and is highly predictive of the preparedness of remote learning at various institutions.

The bigger takeaway is that parents, not students or teachers, are almost always the antagonists.
Sounds like a great yak-shaving opportunity, to write a script that automates it
>I don’t agree that belief in pseudoscience, rumor, or superstition is anymore prevalent than it was before social media. I think it’s just more visible to everyone how many people do believe wacky ideas.

I think this is a key point. In particular I think educated people (for want of a better term) are often dangerously out of touch with how many people (particularly internationally) don't share their worldview. I remember the first time having dinner with a family and finding out I was the only person at the table who believed in Darwinian evolution. I was shocked because these people weren't even particularly religious. Up to that point, except for strict religious people I don't think I'd even spoken to someone who didn't believe in evolution. Or at least, it never came up.

And this is the point really - what social media does do is increase social friction on these topics. I worked with a guy who didn't believe dinosaurs existed (also not religious). After the initial debates it was fairly easy to just let it rest since he was a nice guy and completely sane on all other topics. But if this had been on social media if I had seen anti-dinosaur posts on a regular basis that would probably have got to me eventually and I would have blocked him. Even though, in social terms it doesn't matter if he believes in dinosaurs or not.

The other thing it does is make people feel less embarrassed of holding particular viewpoints. Lots more people than you might think believe in witches and curses but (quite rightly) think they'll be ridiculed if they discuss this too openly. But if you're on a Facebook group where everyone believes in witchcraft it starts to feel like a legitimate opinion. And then someone else sees one of your pro-witch posts and suddenly there's a discussion about where all this new belief in witches came from. This kind of conflict drives a shitload of activity and makes everyone involved feel bad one way or another.
> The fact that is not legal is pretty embarrassing for our civilization.

Philosophically speaking sure, but practically it already works fine now.

I don’t think any judge is going to convict a researcher for bypassing these paywalls. if Elsevier and company will decide to prosecute, it will become a PR nightmare for them. Also likely to cause a legislative response which will undermine their ability to collect their profits. I don’t believe these people are stupid, I think they understand these consequences as well.

> adding "... reddit" often improves results in my experience

Interesting, will try next time. I have an account there for a few years, but wasn’t using it much.
> That just got me into the queue for MORE scam ads!

I once created a Facebook account to test something and for some reason it decided I was some sort of gambling addict (that e-mail was registered on a legitimate gambling website and I guess they leaked it) and the "people you may know" was full of fake accounts all related to some kind of scummy mobile casino game (I guess the game requires login with FB or maybe gives new people free tokens so they just register tons of fake accounts?).

I've spent a good 20 minutes reporting every single one of them (up to actually hitting the rate limit on the report endpoint) and not only did the algorithm not take the hint that maybe it wasn't a good idea to recommend me more accounts out of that category but their support didn't deem the majority of them as violating the community guidelines despite them being obviously fake (and I couldn't notice any difference between those that were deemed as violating their guidelines and those that don't).
The Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) had the final say [0]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RRS_Sir_David_Attenborough#Nam...
Now custom instructions are directly on the regular instruction space...

(+ there's the can of worms of target-specific MSRs being writable from user-space, Apple does this as part of APRR to flip the JIT region from RW- to R-X and vice-versa without going through a trip to the kernel. That also has the advantage that the state is modifiable per-thread)
> The Chinese market was never actually open to American companies.

Well, in the short term, American companies are making a pretty penny in China.

Apple benefits from China in two ways. 1) Cheap labor, and 2) huge sales of their products to the Chinese themselves.

Even Facebook, which doesn’t work in China, is making $5 billion in revenue annually from ad sales.
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Being clueless != not knowing the jargon. In fact, one of the most common forms of cluelessness is throwing jargon around in a misguided attempt to show that you know things that you actually don't. Being clueless means not knowing something that you really should have known, and that does not include jargon. I'll give you an example from my own experience: I had a meeting with a name-brand VC during which I levied some harsh criticism at a company that it turned out that they had invested in, indicating that I either didn't know they had invested in it or that I did know and was just being obnoxious. Either way, I was exhibiting cluelessness. One of the many things you are expected to know before talking to any VC is all the information on their web site: their portfolio companies, who the partners are, where they spent their careers, what their investment thesis is. Happily, that one mistake was not enough to actually get me blackballed throughout the industry, but I never had another meeting with anyone at that firm.
This is one of the most intellectually dishonest things I have ever read on Hacker News. There is _no_ evidence presented here that wind and solar are responsible for anything more than a negligible fraction of this species loss.

It reminds me rather of https://www.tylervigen.com/spurious-correlations
I've heard you can have sex without having children these days.
Dimon kind of throws them under the bus, doesn't he:

"Work output by younger employees was particularly affected on Mondays and Fridays, according to findings discussed by Chief Executive Office Jamie Dimon in a private meeting with Keefe, Bruyette & Woods analysts. That, along with worries that remote work is no substitute for organic interaction, are part of why the biggest U.S. bank is urging more workers to return to offices over the coming weeks."

Of course, if one were cynical, you might suspect he wanted return to office anyway and young workers are a convenient and safe group to blame.
In other news, “can we blame the past for the present?”
I consider many of these ideas have been well exploited by Wolfram Mathematica since 1988. The idea of computational thinking has been there since then. It's unfair not to give a historical review of these ideas in the beginning of the lecture.
I had explicitly written "remote Muslim minority" to point exactly at the Uyghurs, while avoiding connotations like Guantanamo, or the Japanese internment camps in WW2, to undermine the sloppy argumentation of the post I replied to.
reminds me of bearer shares
> There is no way Nvidia will spend 40 billion on this without them deliberately or inadvertently destroy ARM's open CPU and GPU ecosystem

But why would a company spend that much money to buy a company and destroy it afterwards?
People can't complain about achievement gaps and then also complain about the only ways to lower them. When one parent is in prison and the other is working nonstop, how is a kid supposed to learn from their parents all the things kids are expected to know by kindergarten?
> companies deliberately need to become less customer focused when they’re in hyper growth mainstream adoption

But, Amazon doesn't seem to have done that. Someone even claimed Amazon sells customer service, they still seem to do so but at the expense of their employees.

Thanks for the recommendation of the book.
I have found that the repetition usually only works if it comes from multiple sources. It's the primary reason I encourage the 'new guy' to take their "this doesn't make sense" questions up the chain of command or to the groups we collaborate with.

One, I hate to crush a spirit, although I'm just sending them to someone else to do it. Two, about one time in ten they come back with a preliminary roadmap to a solution.

I can tell Steve until I'm blue in the face that this code is nuts and get nowhere, or I can send three other people to tell him once and finally he'll take it seriously.

I don't think it's malicious, I think it's a combination of basic human psychology with learning strategies. Sometimes you have to shop for new instruction because the perspective your teacher brings simply doesn't resonate. Each person reinforces the neural connections and phrases it a little differently (perhaps especially with new people, because they are fresh off the street and don't use our jargon yet?)
> Solar needs to have standby fossil plants that keep at idle or else you get brownouts.

There are lots of known ways to deal with this, including grid scale batteries and demand-response, both of which are now reaching the electricity market.

What we need is the political and cultural shift to support massive investment in these technologies. There will be room for natural gas as a bridge fuel, but coal has no future. And yes, it's not happening fast enough, and no snap of the fingers will do it.

> CO2 is a stupid thing to focus on

Only if you're willing to ignore the clearly visible impacts of global warming amplified destructive events worldwide. The waters are rising and the global warming denial island is getting smaller with every passing year.

> We need to consume less things.

We need to consume less-carbon-intensive things (hyphenation intentional). We can start by consuming longer-lasting things, consuming things whose materials are more readily recyclable, and reducing waste (where no utility is derived from the consumption). But the first step is to reduce the carbon intensity of things we already consume.
The authors wrote they work at:

"Rule of Law Society & Rule of Law Foundation, New York, NY, USA."
Buying copious amounts of offsets is probably how Google gets to claim it’s carbon neutral in the first place.
Name them after oil and coal companies. "Death toll of Heatwave Exxon rises".
Is there any evidence that the people/pages verification is safe? I've seen plenty of fake accounts and the existence of misinformation or outright criminal (card fraud, etc) pages suggests the opposite.
But if a state has sufficient personnel to handle an emergency (say a tornado strike on a town), they have too much personnel the rest of the time. Whereas, with a governmental entity, they can go from emergency to emergency, keeping wasted resources to a minimum.

The governmental agency can also shift resources from one state to another without having to wait for the resolution of aid politics between the individual states (not to mention the states the aid would be transported through).

Of course, there are significant inefficiencies that exist in those entities in reality, but what would realistically prevent those same inefficiencies from existing in a state-run system as well?
This is something Ive been excited about for a while. I tried to cobble it together myself and never got a reliable working binary.

The examples directory has a scenic app, very coo.

2020 is the year of elixir on the desktop :P
Biodiversity makes life worth living. I want to be able to eat more than potatoes as the only vegetable, or see forests with all the different beautiful plants and trees instead of just desert.
Mindhouse Achieves Monitoring Nirvana with Apache Druid
Another way to put this is it puts 130% of the source heat out into the environment.
I shortened the TLDR:

TL;DR: don't click ads
I decided to donate one day, but then I did some research and concluded they don't really need more money, they have these ever-increasing "goals" but those goals are not only to keep their site up, it's to fund a lot of other things of questionable need. So I decided to take that money to some small websites that I think could benefit way more.

Anyway, the way I see, wikipedia falls into the "Education" category, which is the one I tend to be more willing to donate to.
> This is why applaud California's recent decision to halt standardized tests, such as SAT and ACT, as a mandatory placement criteria for entering university. All those tests measure, given the youth and maturity of traditional high school students, is extreme preparation and not performance or potential.

But that also applies for grades as well. High school is preparation for college. Shouldn't colleges select for people who are prepared over those who are not? Should we get rid of grades, extracurriculars, etc? What should colleges use then? Just legacy admissions?

> I think research generally bears this out across a variety of metrics and meaures including violent crime data. The human brain is still developing until around age 24 give or take two years.

So then let those people reapply for college when they "mature". What does that have to do with SATs?

> Preparation in that regard is a socio-economic stratifier as it takes time and money outside of the student's own initiative and state provided education.

This is hilarious. SATs and ACTs acted as an objective factor against "socio-economic" factors. High school grades are unreliable as different schools grade differently. It also prevents against wealthier students buying better grades by paying for people to do their homework for them. It guards against wealthier students being able to afford quality extracurricular activities vs poor students.

The SATs and ACTs were the only objective factor a less advantaged minority group could use to show discrimination in admission. It existed as an objective national measure and currently, it's the only ones that we have in college admissions. Frankly, it's the only test we have to measure actual discrimination in colleges. And the virtue signalers want to get rid of it?

Your entire comment is in favor of GT score and SATs. You even said that you were a "dumb 17 year old". You weren't prepared.

> Generally, everybody who entered the military as a teenager notices dramatic improvement on that test when retaking it later life even with no preparation.

No kidding. That's true for everything. It's why you can join the military later in life.

So the military and colleges should take everyone who isn't prepared? All you are arguing for is people should enter military and colleges at different ages because some people are less prepared than others at certain ages.

I don't know why you are so hung up about SATs, ASVAB, only. Why not grades? Why not extracurriculars? Your argument applies to those as well. People mature at different ages. So lets get rid of every measure and let anyone in.

Everyone is against the most fair and objective test measure. There are so many media articles and social media spam about it. Not so much about legacy admissions and the real privileges.
I don't see the contradiction. The heat it moves plus the heat generated through inefficiency. It's always > heat moved.
I can't tell if the word "imaginary" is a (very good) pun in relation to Bandersnatch (developed by Liverpool's Imagine software) but, as many people will already know, it did kind of exist.

The ambitiousness of the project helped Imagine, one of the UK's most successful games companies, go bust, all while being filmed for a BBC documentary[0].

Bandersnatch would eventually be released as Brataccas[1], and the brand "Imagine" was taken over by the other company in the BBC documentary, Manchester's Ocean software[2], which went on to further success, later merging with French company Infogrames.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yt9BsZCifgU

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brataccas

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocean_Software
I think the difference is that China would just ignore it and still have all the access to the technology since it's open source already.
How to Persist React State in Local Storage
To understand the full horror of Barney, text alone won't do

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VcHbf8Kz0c
What is the basis for claiming that corporations underinvest in R&D? How do you calculate the right level of R&D investment?
Verizon acquires Tracfone in a deal worth more than $6B
> Tsunamis, by themselves, don't contaminate ocean-water with radioactive material to a density high enough to create a 10-km no-fish-zone

OK, fair enough, I think it may be a good idea not to build nuclear reactors in potential direct paths of tsunamis, or at least not on the seashore <20 meters above sea level, when there’s a local fishing industry, to minimize economic risk. But if the fact that the most powerful earthquake ever recorded in Japan, the fourth most powerful earthquake in the recorded history of the world, causing the only nuclear “disaster” to share the same maximum classification as Chernobyl, killed at maximum one person singular, a thousand times less than an average year of rooftop solar https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2008/03/deaths-per-twh-for-all... § The safety issues with Rooftop solar installations / http://www.osha.gov/Publications/Construction_Fatalities/Con..., “raise[s] serious questions about the safety of nuclear power,” I don’t know an appropriate adjective to describe the questions raised by one form of solar killing 3 orders of magnitude more yearly.

(Edit: On fires)

Heat may exacerbate fires, but it doesn’t change the fact that you can’t burn what isn’t there, and there simply wouldn’t be anywhere near as much flammable undergrowth, etc. if firefighters didn’t fight to prevent nature from removing it in smaller, safer quantities. The number of deaths from natural disasters relative to population is decreasing and there’s no reason for the west coast to be an exception (other than blaming the weather and ignoring inconvenient facts and logic).
For the unfamiliar, GREASE is a technique originally developed for TLS, to ensure that clients & servers correctly handle unexpected & unusual (but valid) inputs, and thereby that the protocol can continue evolve in future: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc8701#section-1
New low-cost graphene face masks show promise in coronavirus deactivation
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/01/linus-torvalds-zfs-s...

https://www.zdnet.com/article/linus-torvalds-i-hope-intels-a...

/shrug. The guy can't keep from popping off with obviously false statements about things he knows nothing about. What exactly do you want me to say? Yes, he's been a good manager for the linux kernel, but he is self-admittedly hyperbolic and statements like these show that he really doesn't have an issue running his mouth about things that he really doesn't understand.

It is the old problem with software engineers: they think expertise in one field or one area makes them a certified supergenius with relevant input in completely unrelated areas. I can't count how many times I've seen someone on HN suggest One Weird Trick To Solve Hard Problems in [aerospace/materials sciences/etc]. Linus suffers from the same thing.

His experiences with NVIDIA are probably relevant, and if so we can discuss that, but the fact that he gave someone the middle finger in a Q+A session is not. That's just Linus being an asshole.

(and him being a long-term successful project manager doesn't make him not an asshole either. Jensen's an asshole and he's one of the most successful tech CEOs of all time. Linus doesn't mince words and we should do the same - he's an asshole on a professional level, the "I'm just being blunt!" schtick is just a nice dressing for what would in any other setting be described as a textbook toxic work environment, and his defenses are textbook "haha it's just locker room talk/we're all friends here" excuses that people causing toxic work environment are wont to make. He knows it, he said he'd tone it down, that lasted about a month and he's back to hyperbolic rants about things he doesn't really understand... like ZFS and AVX. But hey I guess they're not directed at people this time.)

Again, if he's got relevant technical input we can discuss that but "linus gives the middle finger!!!!" is not the last word on the topic.
You are making the assumption that moving data centers underwater would also come along with a 10,000-fold increase in the number of data centers? That seems like an unnecessarily hyperbolic approach.

That would mean going from 8.4 million data centers to 840 billion data centers. I mean, come on...

But hey, let's roll with it. What would be the effect on the environment if we literally had 10,000 times more data centers ABOVE ground, for comparison? After all, you are neglecting to take into account the fact that a HUGE amount of the wattage used by existing data centers has been cooling via HVAC, and by switching to underwater cooling their overall watt usage would theoretically drop a good bit due to the efficiency gains.
I worked with the Grouparoo guys years ago at TaskRabbit. They're a super impressive team. Excited to watch their progress with Grouparoo!
Hail overlord of social media moderation, Larry Ellison.
This article is just for static sites, but does anyone have experience with an SPA on gitlab pages? Do you have to do the same 404 redirect dance in order to get routing to work like with GitHub pages?
How to Get 1000 Website Visitor or YouTube Views per Day for Free
I called 2020 August to be the aliens month and 2020 September the random explosions month. But i'm contempt with this resolution as well.
I’ve found Tika’s PDF to HTML parser to be pretty good. My only complaint is that in a double spaced document where there is equal amount of space between paragraphs and normal lines, it labels every line as a separate paragraph.
> No-go theorems exist

That's K-K, not U-U.
Most systems won’t change overnight because of the guy on top. What makes you so sure Brazil would have done better with the opposing party candidate as president?

Maybe the problem lies in a supposedly chronically underfunded healthcare system, by a number of previous administrations? This would then reflect, in an electoral democracy, of the citizenry’s misplaced priorities.
There's quite a lot of ocean that doesn't hardly have a "native habitat". Most ocean doesn't look like a coral reef, most ocean looks like water sitting on top of dirt.

Unfortunately, the living parts of oceans are also the parts that tend to be easy to get to, and putting stuff farther away will be more expensive. But careful placement may be able to mitigate that.

It is still ultimately a 3D environment where the vast, vast bulk of the 3D environment is not thriving with heat-sensitive life. Our 2D surface intuition misleads us here. Our mental images of the ocean are of the exceptional locations, not the common ones.
https://songma.github.io/files/cem_killeracquisitions.pdf
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>Self-Reporting and Photothermally Enhanced Rapid Bacterial Killing on a Laser-Induced Graphene Mask

https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acsnano.0c05330
It's easy, I have every single Facebook owned domain blocked at the network level and I never see a Facebook ad. Or Facebook.