skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>> a very much consenting populace.

My WW2 knowledge isn't deep but I seem to recall this being a big problem back then. But I guess it's all good now.
With all respect, it sounds like you want to be "excellent" but without the work?

You can't have one without the other. If you don't want to do the work that's totally fine, but you have to come to agreement with yourself that you stop measuring yourself against that. Really, the secret to tech is caring enough about the people and the results to do a good job. Do that and you will be more than fine. Just be sure you're getting something you want out of your job!

Decide what you want exactly, and be willing to sit with the question for a long while without an answer. Do you want to be in tech? Do you want to be deeply technical? Do you want to mix technical work with people management?

Once you know what you want, you will find work you want to do to get there, if need be.
Did Andrew Yang work at Yahoo sure your not thinking of Jerry Yang?
We're not that far off. JET previously achieved Q=0.67, ie. two-thirds as much energy output as input. (The new result has higher output but lower Q.)

For a practical reactor we need Q around 30, which might seem far away but tokamak output scales with the square of reactor volume and the fourth power of magnetic field strength. Double the field, 16X the output, and we can generate much more powerful magnetic fields with modern superconductors than we can with JET's copper coils.
As far as I can tell, it uses blown fuses to encode the key. I'd bet Ken Shirriff (or anybody with similar hardware) could get the key out and clone this.

Edit: my mistake, that's the old, busted being compared to the new, shiny. You'll need more than microphotography. As I recall, folks have done cool stuff inducing current with lasers, which could probably work here. Slightly fancier tech required, but I'm dubious that this is actualmy uncloneable
I'm an engineer (turned product manager) working on Arc: https://www.arcadia.com/arc. We experienced a lot of the same developer experience and coverage issues with other solutions.

To date we have coverage of 120+ utilities all over the country and many of our paying customers have praised the developer experience. You can sign up for API keys and try it out here:
https://arc.arcadia.com/signup.

OP, I'm curious what specific developer experiences or tools or data coverage you feel are lacking from what we've put together.
More of all 18-34 year olds are staying with their parents, not just men[0], so this may be a problem of unavailable housing or some other non-gender specific problem.

[0]https://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/terence-p-jeffrey/censu...
Probably "grenade". A flashbang grenade is a bright and loud but less destructive grenade used to startle people before an attack. Widely used by American police investigating possession of trivial amounts of marijuana.
They don't stay 25 forever. In the long run, they often settle down with another professional. Maybe one with a better salary and/or better benefits. Then they have less than two kids. Maybe just a couple cats.

The big question is what they do after the divorces that 30-40% of them will have. Maybe they get jobs in HR or PR?
They have a dedicated coaching program (https://start.interviewing.io/dashboard/interviewee/dedicate... - not sure if that link works unless you are logged in) which is what my critique was of. The FAQ says if you can write a loop that returns some data then it's worth signing up for dedicated coaching for FAANG companies. I found that claim not to be true.
Let's assume those are mostly legitimate (BAYC being cool is highly questionable but ok)

Even then all of those are services and goods for the crypto ecosystem.

So much of crypto space is turtles all the way down.

Besides evading capital controls, there is not much real world adoption for crypto still.

You start living in the crypto world and then yes you start thinking DeFi is cool and useful. I am yet to see how DeFi can help someone who is not already invested in crypto.

PS Mined first BTC in 2011 but got out of the whole greenhouse in 2017.
> How far can a boring person with diversified interest go?

Someone once said "quantity has a quality all its own."
A diverse skill set can be a force multiplier when tackling challenging problems. Bringing a wider perspective can lead to more optimal solutions.

> If one doesn't aim for excellence, is it a bad thing?

Is it a bad thing if other people don't aim for excellence? The guy fixing your brakes? The airplane mechanic on your next flight? The front-end developer of the corporate chat program you use every day?

That's not to say everything you produce must be perfect in every way - but I've always found that I never feel bad when I know I've given my best effort. Whereas knowingly under-performing does tend to eat at you.

> I am really early in my career and sometimes I get cold feet when I see how incredible other people are.

Lack of experience is a temporary state. The smartest, most experienced person in the room started from ignorance. They put in the time and effort to improve and you can certainly get there too if it interests you.

> What does it take to uplift myself and my own levels?

My recommendation would be to find a hobby or side project that is at least somewhat related to your field. Something that you find interesting and can use as a springboard for skill development. Getting involved in an open source project is a good example of somewhere one could contribute as well as benefit.
I'm sorry but you are grossly mistaken when you say this, maybe it's true for the bottom half of men.

"You need intelligence, emotional intellect, and analytical skills. All of which men and women are on an equal footing at."
Also:

https://sive.rs/pg2 - Simplify: move code into database functions

https://sive.rs/pg - PostgreSQL example of self-contained stored procedures

some linked examples: https://github.com/sivers/store/tree/master/store/functions

I like this idea in theory ... although it would cause me to need to know a lot more SQL, which is a powerful but hostile language :-/

I care about factoring stuff out into expressions / functions and SQL fails in that regard ...

https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/writing/against-sql/

It's hard to imagine doing this with a ton of duplication. I have written SQL by hand and there are probably more confusing corners than in shell, which is saying a lot!
Because we have to agree on some authority, and almost everyone is going to prefer the government's authority to yours.
Similar here, I use snippets for some of these things as well. As long as you're using a monospace font, I find it nice to take advantage of things like grid layouts in the extra column space for splitting up concepts into groups for example.
Whilst there may be a few nuggets of truth buried somewhere in this cynical mine for male votes, this is pretty low even for Andrew Yang.
Commercial and restaurant kitchens are overwhelmingly gas, even though commercial induction ranges do exist.

If induction were actually far superior, they would have switched by now. They haven't.
An interesting argument, and a good intuition for why the Kelly criterion is good.

As far as it relates to my comment and comment: I think you're advancing a third answer to the "why" question, not showing why "maximizing expected geometric growth" is a better "why" than "maximizing (logarithmic) utility".

With that said, I still think the "maximizing (logarithmic) utility" answer is the only good motivation. My reasoning is that most people (myself included) define rationality to be: maximizing expected utility. From this, we can derive the Kelly criterion.
“Most”?
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Big tech get a free pass because, in the western world at least, they offer their regular sacrifice to the dogmatic left God.
Yeah. This is what I was talking about. It's $4000 to $3500 for 10 mock interviews and there is supposed to be some type of training/coaching build it. But it's basically just 10 mock interviews.
One thing I wish people leeny (who work with hiring managers) tell companies is that as people start hitting 35-40, they dont' have same motivation to solve a trick coding question in 40 min interview. I can demonstrate that I have all the knowledge to do the problem, but if you want me to write compilable (throwaway) code with absolutely no mistakes, you have to loose some candidates. As you age, solving one off puzzles is a nuisance.
> Everyone in my mentions saying Safari is the worst, it’s the new IE… Can you point to specific bugs & missing support that frustrate you, inhibit you making websites/apps. Bonus points for links to tickets. Specifics we can fix. Vague hate is honestly super counterproductive.

Don't expect users to understand why they hate Safari. Due to the nature of the Apple ecosystem, it's Apple's job alone to figure out what their users want. That's why Safari will never be able to compete with the open source browsers.
Remember Office Space? Sounds to me that you’ve got upper management written all over you
Storage likely will be a non-issue once sodium ion batteries scale up, even cheaper and safer than LFP. A couple more years of scale efficiencies and alt+storage will be cheaper without subsidies. Consumer solar+storage will be cheaper than nat gas in a couple years with any rational subsidy.

Land issues? Seriously?

The land issue for solar is a non-issue, it's like fake hand-wringing by the oil astroturfers over birds and windmills when skyscrapers kill 100xs more birds. There's this type of land called desert. Also, there is this thing called roofs where modern solar panels only need a small part of the roof to do a suburban house or apartment building including recharging your EV.

The land issue for wind is even less on an issue:

As for wind, I don't know if you've seen windmills on farms but... yeah, the pole doesn't take up much space. Then there is offshore wind. Windmills can integrate with existing use land (why not nature preserves?), you don't need to dedicate acreage to windmill farms.

Meanwhile, fusion reactors have a wee bit of problems with neutrons flying everywhere and turning the reactor vessels slightly radioactive from neutron capture. Maybe they'll fix that with good absorption spectrum elements, but let's not pretend fusion is 100% clean.

https://thebulletin.org/2017/04/fusion-reactors-not-what-the...

But again, the promise is there for fusion and LFTR/"new" fission. Keep the research, maybe the economics will turn around. Industry sure would need it to fully decarbonize, or, heck, space colonies. Or flying cars! Or any of the other sci-fi stuff we have given up on.

Right now we have an existential threat from GW, and an actual industrialized / productized and economic path is right there: wind and solar. That's what we need money printing for.
Ironically Mazda got rid of their touch screen for their new cars.
I'd like to see a side-by-side... The sun is always in the sky, just not where power is needed. If you look at the global investment into fusion, I wonder by what order of magnitude that compares to scrapping that work and building HVDC lines East-West to major population centers and North-South to places with super-high availability wind resources. We could basically build those "tomorrow" as compared to spending billions/year in research and then tens of billions/year in actual construction cost when we figure out the technology. Not a 'fair' comparison by any stretch but I think it'd be interesting.
Yes but this spaceship was made by Apple. It's a feature.
The scientist at the center of the Covid lab leak controversy
They have never been supported in Safari for iOS, where it matters much more.
Org-roam-bibtex: Org Roam integration with bibliography management software
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Back in the dot-com era (and maybe since), there were some startups in the micropayments space.

>If we had a magic wand, and there were no technical, business, or security constraints, what would the ideal micropayment system look like? A button on the web page that, when I press it, sends $0.25 from my bank account to the web site.

That sounds like exposing my bank account quite a bit too freely. The obvious approach is that you have an account with someone who collects the money and distributes it--and yes it would probably be prepaid.

In any case, if there were a demand the technical and UX problems can be overcome. The bigger issue, other than establishing the network, are getting people to actually pay per article--given that we've mostly moved to all you can eat subscriptions for other media--at an amount that would actually pay the bills. And in light of the fact that a lot of people don't want mental transaction costs to decide if reading an article is worth it every time they want to read something. (Which Clay Shirky brought up 20 years ago.)
I pitty todays boys. The entire world from school to internet has something against being playfull, hyper active, agressively competitive, and all the other things that boys are by nature. One fight and here comes therapy and even meds.

I would be crucified for what I did as a youth even though nobody got hurt and I turned out to be a top 1% productive member of society.

Today being a docile beast of burden is the only acceptable option. If not completely in practice at least ideologically. Most comply but increasingly more choose to opt out of society or worse: become hypocrits and schemers that comply in appearence but cross any boundary in secret practice. If most rules are stupid they might all be. Rational conclusion for a boy.
> But do you think the government should step in and enforce such a limitation?

No, it should be a social norm.

I'm not suggesting teenagers shouldn't use the internet at all, but it should be in a family environment. e.g. what used to be the desktop in the family lounge.

I think things like unrestricted access to Reddit, tiktok, Tumblr, Facebook, Instagram have proved toxic for young teenagers.
We have one and it’s great for low-and-slow unattended cooking. We don’t use it for regular/daily cooking because we just don’t have the space to give it, but agreed that it would work technically for a lot of our cooking if it took up space where the cooktop is or if our kitchen was bigger/had more countertop space.
Possibly yes! Edit: but I'm having a deja vu. Did we already have this conversation?!?
No one is denigrating this work, but it's obviously easier to consistently get right than the fiddly processes GP describes. There is a rectangle of a particular size, and various substances are applied to it.

You didn't mention UI design, which is the worst aspect of this technology.
If you're feeling brave, you can replace your iPod's hard drive with an SSD
Women marginalized in technology was mostly bullshit abuse of statistics. It is just being assumed that fewer women has to be the result of discrimination. It is not.
The quality of the interviewer is one thing that the interviewee can’t control. The main interviewer failures are:

1) Letting the interviewer struggle. By the end of the interview, the candidate should know what the solution looks like, even if they couldn’t solve the problem themselves. If you let someone struggle too long, you’re failing them. Give feedback early. Point out caveats. Don’t have them code up a dumb a solution, and then in the last 10 minutes tell them to redo it with a completely different approach because it’s suboptimal. (Im not talking about special cars they can retrofit, or if the original wrong solution was trivial. Use your judgement.) The interviewer understands the nuances of the problem. The candidate probably doesn’t. After all, they just heard problem.

2) DO NOT CONFUSE THEM! This happens by giving the wrong feedback. You might think you’re helping someone, but you could be knocking them off their game. If they’re going for the optimal solution, and they know the approach, just let them. It’s not wrong, I’m fact it’s the most correct answer. It’s very easy to confuse someone in these timed and stressful situations. Don’t don’t do it!

3) If it’s a design question, or something else with multiple reasonable answers, then there are multiple correct answers. Make them state their assumptions. Ask how the solution would change if something was different.

Don’t expect someone to come in off the street and understand the nuances of your use case and data issues. You didn’t understand them until you were confronted with the obstacles either.
I should have been more specific. Has anyone had a good experience with the dedicated coaching program? I know the value of a mock interview. The coaching program didnt see to provide the value that they advertised for me. I wanted to know if I'm unique or if other have had the same experience.
Yeah, this was way more accurate for me than I expected.

I figured that I'd be old/wise/literate enough to know many of the "female" words. Nope
Something police use to disorient and theoretically help disperse a crowd - like a grenade except it creates only a mostly-harmless noise and flash of light.
US-based cis-hetero white man here. The data reinforce the impression you get glancing at the headlines or spending a day out anywhere in America observing other men. Dare I say it even reinforces what I know from painful firsthand experience as a man, at the lowest points in my life. I was lucky though, with a supportive family who helped me through the confusing years of early adulthood.

You can point to the decline of organized religion and with it traditional gender roles, but then what explains the relative stability in post-Christian Europe? The China Shock combined with America's threadbare social safety net starts looking more salient. We have inherited a much less trusting, much more alienated society than you are likely to find overseas.

Whatever the cause I fully reject the lazy conclusion this is somehow women's fault. The "Lump of Labor" fallacy is just that, a fallacy. Economic gains are not zero-sum.
>Certainly the extended lockdowns were harmful, I totally agree. I do think it's important to call out our increasing knowledge over time. Executively imposed lockdowns we're certainly justified under most states' emergency laws.

It's always a 20/20 hindsight thing. I think I would have also locked down for 2 weeks and shutdown the borders.

>Firstly, based on what we knew at the time, lockdowns in March and April were absolutely warranted. Beyond that, many states started building frameworks to manage public health, relying on indicators and public data. Mostly those frameworks stopped adapting in summer/fall 2020 despite radically increasing knowledge. That's when it all became politicized.

Yep, this.

>Metrics should have been updated over time and they largely didn't. We started hearing whispers of hospital utilization and some metrics like bed count started showing up but then it became clear Those were misleading numbers anyway. We never got any sense of the medical staff burnout crisis which should have been critical.

100% of ICU beds are occupied! Oh wait.. that's true literally all the time.

>Those emergency laws were badly abused though and many legislatures simply allowed the executive to usurp power instead of jealously guarding it (as they should) and taking up debate on its own. Emergency laws have expiration dates to prevent executive overreach and few states complained when the executive just started declaring the same emergency over and over again, a clear corruption of the purpose of the statute.

Now imagine another virus escapes a lab. One that is actually far worse than the spanish flu. Will kill 50% of the world population.

Are we ready for it now? Nope. No way.
Thanks for the link. Here's a little bit of detail about their sample gathering, which I found interesting:

The test was made available on a dedicated website (http://vocabulary.ugent.be/). Access to the test was unlimited. Participants were asked whether English was their native language, what their age and gender were, which country they came from, and their level of education. For the present purposes, we limited the analyses to the first three tests taken by native speakers of English from the USA and the UK.Footnote 1 All in all, we analyzed the data of 221,268 individuals who completed 265,346 sessions. Of these, 56% were completed by female participants and 44% by male participants.

The site encourages participation with a hook similar to that used by many online quizzes:

Word test

How many English words do you know? With this test you get a valid estimate of your English vocabulary size within 4 minutes and you help scientific research.

Is this a representative sample? I doubt it. Probably it went viral in some specific communities.

Maybe there's still something interesting to learn from it... but I'd take it with a grain of neodymium.
I disagree. Job performance is believed to follow either a symmetric normal distribution or an L shaped distribution. In either case, the mean is either very close to or greater than the median.

See e.g. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1744-6570....
> As far as the GDPR not being “hard”. It’s 11 chapters with 99 sections.

Yet, the guiding principles are clear as day, just like the ten commandments. (Don't collect personal data without consent, store it responsibly, allow users to introspect data about themselves and remove it and you shouldn't need to worry.[1])

And it also only becomes a real problem when someone wants to get away with breaking both the spirit and the wording of the law.

[1]: And yes, I'm aware that this is mostly incompatible with the practice of hoovering up all you can get, selling it to everyone who wants to buy and generally abusing it for fun and profit in every conceivable way, but that isn't the fault of the law but a problem that companies who habe grown addicted to now antiquated business models have to brought on themselves, isn't it?
I think we are many, many years away from a quantum computer being able to break 256-bit ECC:

https://sam-jaques.appspot.com/quantum_landscape

https://www.bsi.bund.de/EN/Topics/Cryptography/QuantumComput...

The current record in factoring with Shor's algorithm is 21. Yes. 3*7. That record has stood for 12 years and arguably is not even running Shor's because it required a priori knowledge of the factors.

Even with "cheating" by using knowledge of the factors, in 20 years we have seen seen a single bit of improvement.

None of the new quantum computers from IonQ, Google, or QuEra with 32-256 qubits are even able to even replicate those early results. D-Wave claims 5000 qubits, but that is for adiabatic QC, which to my knowledge, cannot run Shor's algorithm.

To be a threat, QCs need millions of qubits and orders of magnitude better error correction. I think people make the mistake of looking at the speed of progress of classical computers and thinking it applies to QC. It's just not happening.
Think beyond dating. If they want to get a place together, do they have the combined resources to swing rent?

It's not like everyone lives on a farm anymore. You probably can't just build a starter house on the other side of her dad's back 40 acres.
This is speculation on my part, but I've felt that it's because women know they may want a child in their lifetime and due to their biological clock it gives them a window to plan back from.

They know they should do it between certain ages which means they need a career which means they need an education e.t.c.

There's nothing equivalent for men, no event they can see coming within a decade or two that helps anchor them in their lives.
Doulas are yuppie stuff in the US, mostly. Also connected with home births to a large degree, rates of interest in which I'd expect are also connected with income, to a point. I'd definitely bet most US fathers wouldn't be able to tell you what it means, though it's possible that a majority of fathers on this site know the term (I did—but then, of course I do).
Big Tech’s climate goals are weaker than they seem