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Yes, not everyone has caught up yet.

The watershed event was publication of Powell's "Deadly Voyager" this year. Powell is a respected, mainstream geologist. Hancock's most vocal mainstream critics have issued public mea culpas. The book is available on Kindle, free for Prime members, and is a quick and enlightening read.

The opposition for the past 13 years turns out to be a real black eye for geology. One group's failure to discover corroborating evidence was treated as a demonstration of falsehood and possible fraud, rather than what turned out to be a failure to sample the correct stratum. The negative evidence, interpreted correctly, reinforces the Impact Hypothesis by showing that the particles reported occur only in the cited layer, and not in samples straddling the layer.

The most compelling evidence is widespread, very sharp platinum enrichment at the layer, at dozens of sites, and particles that exhibit melting of materials that melt only well over 2000 degrees C, which does not occur in forest fires or volcanic eruptions.
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Just clicking around on real estate sites, large houses with gardens in nature seem to be rather cheap there. Maybe you are in another region but with mortgage % low, the prices like [0][1][2] are far from needing to be a millionaire.

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Ask HN: DevExpress/DevExtreme vs. KendoUI for a greenfield React app?
I'm evaluating different UI libraries for a greenfield SaaS app. We will probably be using React at this point and just need to decide on the UI library.

From my research, the main contenders that meet our needs are:

* DevExtreme (https://js.devexpress.com/)

* KendoUI (https://www.telerik.com/kendo-react-ui/)

Our needs are fairly basic:

* Simple data grids

* Reusable general components (buttons, menus, dialog popouts, etc)

* Several graphical data representations

* Ideally, a report designer component (DevExpress seems to offer a very nice solution).

Has anyone used one/both of these frameworks? Would you recommend one?
Cal State sticker-price in-state tuition is only $5,700/year. California Community College tuition is only like $1,600/year. If my kid went to our local community college and then transferred to our local Cal State, that's only an average of $3,600/year for four years. Sure, there are families that can't afford that, and we have Cal Grants to help bring that cost down even further.

The $200k figure is something you arrive at when you start sending your kids to schools like USC. Their tuition is $58,000/year.

Assuming you could pony up $3,600/year, what would be an argument for not sending your kids to college in favor of them doing an online thing?

If they can't keep up with the material, they can enroll in fewer classes. If they're bored, they can take more, or take graduate-level classes.
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This reads more like a case to end the United States of America. The fundamental problem is that ditching the electoral college will subject many people of varied opinions, backgrounds, lifestyles, and cultures to a tyranny of the majority (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyranny_of_the_majority). This is already a problem even within states, where a few cities end up with enormous political power and can basically subject everyone else to their whims. The urban-rural divide is incredibly unhealthy (https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2020/02/26/across-cou...) and makes those subject to the tyranny of the majority lose belief in democracy because they feel unrepresented. The solution is not less electoral college but more, so people can live their own lives. And governments that are broader in geographical scope (state and federal) should have incredibly narrow political/legal scope, with the majority of power seated at more local levels. That is how everyone can feel represented, retains locality of culture, retain faith in the system, and coexist without eventual civil war.
Here’s also a big misconception. When a CPU runs it has access to the entire memory (or more specifically, a process can chew up almost all available memory if allowed). The cost of copying from RAM to L1|2|3 cache is lot lower than GPU.

GPU on the other hand is slightly complex. It behaves like lots of small CPUs with their own local memory. They can access the full swath of memory but in parts and copying between the two is much more expensive. If the problem can be boiled down to map on GPU and reduce, then GPU excels. If the problem is serial or can be parallelized with SIMD instructions, CPU will run circles around GPU.

SIMD has come pretty far.
I knew my example would be misunderstood. Please follow the plentiful links from the above article for a more informed view.
This analysis neglects the impact of moving heavy industry offshore -- Britain still benefits from the consumption of industrial products, historically some industrial products consumed domestically may have been manufactured in Britain where CO2 emissions from manufacturing would be counted as British emissions. Now the same products are manufactured in China, perhaps with lower environmental regulation. Both countries share a single atmosphere & so in terms of global warming it is irrelevant in which country the emissions occur. If outsourcing manufacturing without reducing emissions makes British emissions look lower by some metric then that metric is not very useful for thinking about progress in dealing with climate change.

The economist podcast [1] touched on this topic recently during an interview with Prof Dieter Helm [2] who has a series of lectures & a new book about this.

[1] For the podcast, check out the last 9 minutes of https://www.economist.com/podcasts/2020/09/08/tech-wreck-the...

[2] http://www.dieterhelm.co.uk/
A large chunk of the Danish “green/renewable” energy comes from biomass plants when the wind isn’t blowing. So this is a debate we’re currently having, and it’s basically looking more and more like a legislative hack.

Biomass plants burn biomass instead of fossil fuels. We’re currently burning a lot of wood by-products from the Estonian lumber (timber?) industry.

I’m not big on the science, and I hope someone can put it better, but the arguing, as I understand it, goes something like: “the trees have absorbed CO2, so burning them is CO2 neutral”, but it’s not like burning wood stuff doesn’t release CO2.
Unfortunately that's obnoxiously inefficient if you're trying to run it through text-to-speech in real time.
You think oracle is paying for this without it being rewarded some nice matching government contracts or other investments/deals to match the expense?
>Have one person responsible for economic matter, one person for international affairs and the military, and one person for all other domestic policy.

This is an incredibly unrealistic idea for the same reason the Commerce Clause can be used to justify anything. How do you govern international affairs without the power to oversee implementation of treaties? How do you do anything in "other domestic policy" without affecting the economy? All of those things are intrinsically linked to each other, and trying to split them apart and consider them in isolation would be catastrophic, except for the fact that it's impossible.
Thanks. I will rectify this now :)
A CD is readily available, dead cheap, unbreakable (if not actively trying to break it).

Making a mirror would be a far more involved process.
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I'm now a user of Vim, not classical Vi (partly because of windows)
Yes, this is my point. The school should buy them. If the school isn't sufficiently funded, the local area should fund the school. If the local area cannot, then we move up the chain. The funds exist, they should be directed at education, housing, etc.
> wait a day

How does that solve the problem of having the bucket accessible and empty in two hours?
There's also the issue with SCOTUS potentially declaring it an interstate compact (as defined by the Constitution's compact clause) and striking down its legality - although IIRC the point of that was preventing secession and it hasn't been used for anything else. I would think that other sorts of interstate compacts like the shared peach pass(GA)/sun pass(FL)/quick pass(NC) would be illegal if someone were to challenge the constitutionality of them under that clause.
Dad went for a pack of smokes?
Going the other way is terrible too. I had to work on making text in pdfs that our software generated selectable and searchable. PDF simply doesn't have any way to communicate the semantics to the viewer, so things like columns, sidebars, drop letters, etc. Would all confuse viewers. It didn't help that every pdf viewer uses its own heuristics to figure out how text is supposed to be ordered. Ironically, Acrobat was one of the worst at figuring out the intended layout.
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It's free only if you discount the teacher's time.
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The article talks about how students who went to elite Indian collegs perform similiar to students who went to low tier colleges in standardized exit tests wich is apparently a thing in India.

The only issue is, students don't take any standardized exit tests in India. Which makes the whole paper pointless.

I went some digging to see what data this paper is using. Apparently this is what I found out.

> All students in colleges (private or public) affiliated with the same university take the same exit exams. These exams vary by stream of education, but conditional
on the stream, private and public college students study the same curriculum and take the same exit tests.

> I obtained administrative data from colleges in a district in North India and the university with which they were affiliated.

The issue with using this data is that almost none of elite colleges in India are affliated to some University. They are their own University. So apparently the data of the paper doesn't include any elite colleges! Kind of ironic given the title of the paper "Prestige Matters: Wage Premiumand Value Addition in Elite Colleges"
Senate apportionment could be handled gradually by a new amendment: 5 years after each census, the largest state is divided into 2 new states.
This is what frustrates the heck out of me when platforms decide to redo their entire user experience, just because they feel the need to "change something".

Thereby forcing all of their users to learn the new UI immediately, not even with due warning.

One or two platforms doing is in a week or so is a pain. But when lots of platforms do this in a short period of it, it can be "throw hands up in the air and do something else". :(
"More representationally elected" does NOT equate to any of the absolute garbage you are assuming are my views.

Please respond to actual comments rather than your vivid imagination.

I mean, seriously, try to find evidence of your response in my comment. Please, try your best. This is why there is no more "good faith."
The best advice anyone can give you is to take everyone else’s parenting advice with a pinch of salt and find what works for your family.

I don’t just mean advice you read on HN, but any and all advice. Advice from friends and from your extended family. Even advice from your health care workers. Every baby is different and what works for one child wouldn’t work for another. So by all means listen to suggestions people might make but don’t stress if you end up doing things completely differently. As long as you show the child love the rest is just an implementation detail.
It amazes me the sheer number of people that just don't get this.

I personally believe that this influence Republicans to move a bit more center. but who knows?

A good example of what could happen to close the national voting gap: Republicans would actually campaign in California and a few of the big blue states. Right now, someone voting for a republican in California has very little incentive to show up to vote. Republicans start campaigning there and the voters now have a reason to show up. Maybe not enough to close the gap completely, but it could close it a lot with no policy changes, just campaigning and a reason for people to show.

The same could happen the other way, but the big population blue states are more abandoned by Republicans than the big red states are by dems (it seems).

Anyhow, if you change the rules, the players are going to change their game.
I think they're fine? I didn't say great. In fact, I did say that I don't think ML will ever live up to my friends' recommendations, and that's primarily what I look at on Goodreads. My news feed thing is a list of books my friends want to read, are reading, or have read and rated, and that's more than good enough for me.

As far as the recommendations goes, I mean, I guess you could say I skip past most of them and only get the interesting ones, but at least the algorithm put it in front of me.

Again, my bigger problem with Goodreads is the performance. I'd use it a lot more and interact with my friends a lot more (and thus get better recs from them!) if it was a speedier site.
Have you seen the mill cpu?
Should we avoid consuming animal products to reduce risk for chronic disease?
Sidebar: Why has the AirPod design become so ubiquitous? I always thought they were the ugliest earbuds since earbuds became small. Is there some technical reason they have this design? Or do people actually like it? Or is it simply the Apple effect?
Biomass is obviously CO2 neutral as long as it is replaced. The ratio between burned and used is of course important. Is 1:1 CO2 neutral? Probably not, due to losses and transport. Is 1:2, 1:3?
I used to wonder myself: how is it possible that the world hasn't been taken over by single people without kids? Well, then I realized that I never also did before having kids :-D - There will be very hard times (for months and months) but you'll grow into them and they'll look fine when you look back. In my case, detachment from social networks (e.g. shutting down with no possibility of going back) really increased my time to be with the baby and focus to do what I had to do when I could. Leaving the phone&computer in another room when doing most tasks and when sleeping (to prevent me from those 10 seconds that are half an hour of wasted sleep or time), also helped... All best!
There are already interstate compacts over water rights without the blessing of the Federal government. I don't think those have ever been found unconstitutional.
What's the impact of those manufacturing emissions? Like, did they shift 10% offshore and reduce in other sectors? Or is the reduction in manufacturing the primary needle mover?
I did W20 and S20 back to back (had to pivot due to COVID). I much preferred the remote S20 batch it’s not even close. There are so many advantages and almost no drawbacks in my opinion.
That may be. But if you want to start a successful movement, think about how it would look as a constitutional amendment. How would you define the amendment in such a way that it accomplishes the desired change, but in a way that 2/3 of congress could still get behind it?
I follow my friends, and my friends tend to have good taste! This is essentially my strategy. I do have a few friends who have recommended books that I didn't like, so I just don't listen to their recs anymore. Solved problem!

That's one of the problems I have with ML-based recommenders. I can't identify any particular ML algorithm, and therefore I can't say "This one has consistently given me bad recommendations, so I'll ignore it. But I do like this one over here." Whereas with my friends, I know that Lori and Nicole gives good recs and Brad doesn't, so I'll ignore Brad's and read recs from the other two.
A win for all the conservatives on TikTok. Larry is a big Trump supporter.
We don't have the Electoral College Hamilton envisioned in Federalist 68.
https://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/fed68.asp

They were supposed to be regular people, not politicians. And certainly not the worst people ever conceived: party loyalists. That's The system we use.

It's also not the ultimate decision making body. If the results are disputed, and no candidate gets 270 Electors, House of Representatives chooses the president, one vote per state. Senate choose VP, one vote per senator.
Don't thank us, thank Hurricane Electric (he.net).

20 years ago, I was on irc.lightning.net and thought that was the best run efnet server. The MOTD advertised their IP transit services. They became he.net and that is why rsync.net does (most) of their IP transit with them.
Again, this is fundamentally impossible to get ratified, because ratification takes 2/3 of states, which means you're going to have to get the ones currently benefiting from the Senate structure to sign on.

EDIT: Also, splitting up states is wildly inefficient, to the point of being laughable as a solution to any problem. First of all, how do you choose where do you draw the line? Maybe California makes it relatively easy, since there's exactly two major population centers, and maybe you can find a way to split Texas in the desert and Florida in the swamp, but once you get to New York in the 4th cycle you're going to have a big problem. Then, you have to split up all the existing stuff the state has - who gets custody of prisoners? who gets the state treasury and/or debt? And finally, you have the simple task of setting up a second state government from scratch - just write a new constitution, have snap elections for all your officials at every level, write new building and utility codes (and figure out how to handle what you already have, especially if the new sub-state is not politically aligned with the old one), hire and train an entirely new civil service, and start collecting taxes.
One of the claims in the video is that: If all of the trees in the United States (I think) were burned in these plants that it would power the United States (I think) for one year (I'm sure). Given that it takes more than 1 year to regrow all of the trees it seems like a foolish decision.

Apparently some of the plants also choose/have to incinerate vulcanized rubber (tires) to burn green/wet lumber.

Frankly, just using the documentary as my reference, this seems like an awful scheme and I can't fathom how subsidies and policy supported this technology.
The Mersenne-Twister approach should certainly not be studied anymore, even if some popular old libraries still use it. It fell long out of favor, is too slow, and not good enough.

Modern PRNG's can be tested with Dieharder, TestU01 or STS and benchmarked. This article only talks about primitive old LCG's (not any good one) or MT.
Apple is a design authority.

If Apple says it looks good, then people believe it looks good.
You’re not too far off. There’s for example the Quantis random number generator, which uses photons:

https://www.idquantique.com/random-number-generation/product...

From the brochure:

“ Photons - light particles - are sent one by one onto a semi-transparent mirror and detected. The exclusive events (reflection - transmission) are associated to « 0 » - « 1 » bit values.”
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DCC and DG clashed over the cloning of the DG machine. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_General_Corp._v._Digital_....
It's sad how unprepared districts were over this summer when they could have been prioritizing and figuring out solutions. Within about 2 hours of working through workflows I was able to help out a family member in primary education figure out what could be bought to buy and what kinds of questions to ask their administration.

In the end we made a high value and bang-for-your-buck setup by purchasing great but older and used components such as a 1920x1200 IPS U2412m monitor off ebay for $99. A ring light with camera mount, Apple Pencil, AirServer for showing the iPad on screen and being able to cast. Amongst other components I wasn't using and let them borrow like a Apple Trackpad and wireless keyboard.

The thing that saddened me was teachers who only found out weeks before the start of school were having to figure out their setups and were unaware of how technology could be integrated for a benefit and didn't know what they didn't know. Stuff like using an iPad with an Apple Pencil and AirServer on a mac to cast a lesson drawn onto the desktop and then share that with a zoom meeting.
Looking through the prism of the attribute/accomplishment/acquisition trichotomy, the industrial revolution made acquisitions absolutely much cheaper, accomplishments relatively more expensive, and left attributes (with the notable exception of certain phenotypic expressions) utterly unchanged.

With the internet, we should have some examples of production of accomplishable disciplines scaling in the same way that production of acquirable objects scaled. I can't think of examples off the top of my head, however. Arguably, modern languages?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23515204
I'm not sure life-cycle analysis is that useful in this case.

If a paper bag requires more energy to produce, it could still be better for the environment as it doesn't stay around polluting the world forever.
Sage is everything and the kitchen sink. Numerical, analytical, integer, all accessible from a leaky python abstraction.

Your python code will look a lot like calls to maxima, which will happen under the hood.

You can think of it like bash, as a contrived example, most sage programs would be like calling an inline python script to find all files whose size is an even number of bytes, passing the results through pipes, pretty printing them with ls and finally sorting them alphabetically with sort.

Whether you think this is good or bad depends on how familiar you are with the underlying systems. I think that it's great since I can use one program to dispatch whatever I need to the correct state of the art project and get a result that with a bit of massaging can be fed into another project.
It's been a while since I've looked at the spec but I don't remember anything like that.
This looks quite useful but it appears it hasn’t been updated since 2010, and I’d imagine there’s been some advancements in this domain in the last decade. If anyone knows of similar tools for aligning and improving book scans, I’d love to hear of them. Thanks for this in any case!
Oracle has recently acquired top global brands as customers for their cloud business : https://www.zdnet.com/article/oracle-beats-q1-estimates-wins...