skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In my experience there's little long term retention from cramming.
Aren't most mobile OSes like this already?

>Or at the very least more elegant.

More elegant IMO would be reserving pointing devices for very spacial tasks: rearranging windows, drawing, clicking in hypertext etc. With keyboard shortcuts for all of these of course.
First, yes I agree that nuclear waste is an important issue that should be getting more attention than it does. However, this should not be thought of as a 10,000 or more year problem. Think back on the incredible expansion of knowledge in the last 100 years. Do we really believe that in another 100 years or so we won't have a way to safely reprocess this waste? This is a one or two hundred year problem at most. Can we not safely store two or three warehouses of material for 100 years? Thinking of this as a ten or fifty thousand year problem expresses a tremendous pessimism in the human ability to innovate.
I think the economics might work, as we already know he demand and the costs we should be able to ballpark the average hourly pay and simply switch to it.

It would alter the experience, probably for the better for the most part. The taxi drivers wouldn't be acting like a-holes on the roads since they wouldn't need to squeeze as much as miles in the workday. However, I'm sure that it would create a lot of unintended disruption too, that might be good and bad.

It might turn out that you can't find drivers for the job. AFAIK, this job is preferred by many people who need lots money fast or people who are between jobs, already having a job or people who wouldn't be able to get a proper job for one reason or another.

It can be tricky.
Yes, much higher portion of wealth is in real estate in China than other countries, this is key to understanding the problem. Real estate is basically a savings account for many people.
Germany turned off instruments being used on a joint project that si currently at Lagrange 2. This in turn resulted in Russia shutting down the project completely.

This is hardly "nothing happened". Perhaps you should have "wasted time" and read it...

more info on the above that was in fact mentioned in the OP article.
https://www.spacedaily.com/reports/Russia_stops_deliveries_o...
> So are you investment education or are you investment data?

Both! For example, think investopedia is great but it's not contextual education, aka it's not given to you at the right time. I was able to learn best by applying the numbers with education and actually exercising/using it. This is also why I believe that the static white text/endless pages of definitions isn't the type of education that ends up working in this case (people have short attention spans/it's boring/dry).

Responding to your other messages, I appreciate your honest concern around the gambling. I agree that when people trade/try to see patterns in charts, buy/sell within a year or two, that is gambling.

We may agree to disagree on this one, but long term stock investing, when you buy and hold great companies for 5, 10, 20 years, is what we are going for here. We believe that when you can identify a great company, and have patience/the right long term mindset to DCA into it over time, you can do well. You can do that with a small % of your capital, we are also adding suport for ETFs and I agree those are also great investment vehicles for people that don't have the time/care to truly analyze individual stocks/businesses.
I was hoping the author would mention the role and relevancy of THAAD.
It's natural. KYC is already required for existing digital "currency" exchanges; linking digital bank accounts to digital IDs is an easy choice ( better than a manual and error prone checking of scanned documents).

I think a government monopoly with limitations ( enshrined in law protections, access for everyone, etc.) is drastically better than free for all private oligopolies ( like we have today with Visa/MasterCard).
Very simplified

Dengue has multiple strains. The initial infection with one strain tends to be not so bad and you may acquire immunity to it. However, it triggers a much worse, often hemorrhagic outcome if you acquire one of the other strains.

Vaccines, afaik mirror that property, changing the risk calculation by removing the less risky first infection.
Yes, Europe has almost no convenience stores, I think there are some 7/11 in Scandinavia.

But here's the thing: We don't have convenience stores because we value or food and local cuisines. US and Japan uncultured compared to us, to a similar extent, so as you're American I am not surprised you like Japanese convenience stores.

No classy Japanese, of which there are not many, would think of them as suppliers of actually good food, though.

And of course there's trashy gas station food in Europe, but nobody from the middle and upper classes would ever touch it, we would rather starve. That's mostly for Bulgarian truck drivers, Russian farm helpers, etc.
Thanks, I'll take a look at it. I am looking more for code on github, for example.
> However, Coinbase, Instagram, Zapier etc came out of that batch.

(By Instagram, I imagine you meant Instacart?)
Yeah, I am on board.

Could also be modeled in law as “$15 in 2022 and inflation adjusted for every year after”, where inflation as we said is pegged to absolute productivity.
The connection between information entropy and thermodynamics entropy is pretty well established, as well as theories which relate the destruction of information to irreversability. This part of the article is actually not particularly controversial. The idea of a storage device gaining some mass when information in placed on it is not particularly new, but it is something which would be extremely difficult to measure. In terms of the question of absolute zero, you have to consider that the physical reality of a system at zero temperature (truely zero, not femtokelvin) and thus zero entropy is extremely weird: it would basically require a perfect crystal lattice extending infinitely in all directions. This is one of the reasons why it can't be reached. So the answer is basically that if you were to cool a hard disk to absolute zero (which is impossible), it would first require turning it into something not recognisable as a hard disk. (And if you're thinking we've come close to absolute zero in experiments, remember that the difference in scales between thermodynamic information/entropy and other information (even the information contained in the shape of a solid object, let alone any amount of information our current technology could store) is incredibly vast: the temperatures reached in labs don't really come close to that.

So while this is still basically a theoretical idea (and likely will stay that way for some time without a very clever experimental design and a lot of resources: notice they basically propose building a LIGO to perform their experiment), it's not as weird as you might think, and the ways in which it is apparently weird reflect a weirdness that is already present in thermodynamics.
If you just want to share a video dump it in /var/www/html. If it becomes very popular you'll be able to monetize it and pay for a CDN but that kind of popularity usually has to built up to so you shouldn't worry about it if you just want to share something.
I closed my bank account by being abroad for many years and not updating my KYC info when they asked for it
I agree, list does not indicate anything about waste unless it is "metal waste".
if you're "lucky". The last (pre-pandemic) interview I had at a certain NYC-based market data provider ended with a tour of what would be my work environment - an open-office hellscape consisting of rows of long tables with barely a meter of distance from your neighbor. I declined the offer.
Except for the corrosive hot flourine salts. Pyroprocessing and the IFR were demonstrated and work.
The mid-20s transition is the most obvious, I think simply because teenagers so often incredibly hot headed. But I believe emotional development continues throughout life as people acquire more experience with age (at least until senility kicks in.)
I've seen of the world what I need to see, that includes Japan and the US. Wasn't impressed.
Or he gets superceded by the Dimon "shoot the survivors" Medvedev.
In a similar topic of books about system design, someone on HN recommended A Pattern Language and The Timeless Way of Building by Christopher Alexander et. al.

They're not about designing distributed software systems... they're a complete design language for the proper design of a city, from the grossest elements to the most granular. You can flip to a random page and understand what makes a front yard really fulfill its purpose, or you can flip to a different page and learn why some public plazas just don't get used, while others flourish.

It's a template system for designing a room, a house, a neighborhood, a city, etc.

Makes you think about what a component is, what makes it "good" or "bad" at what it's supposed to do, and what makes it harmoniously integrate with other components.
Long half-life (thousands of years) products are usually not too worrisome because they are not very radioactive. That's the reason why they are long half-life.

Short half-life (days) products are very radioactive and dangerous, but because they are quickly depleted, they are manageable.

The worst are medium half-life (decades) products. Short enough to be dangerously radioactive, and long enough to be a long term problem. These are the ones that make Chernobyl inhospitable.
If my local credit union has an accessible branch office where I can speak to a human who can assist me, I have no need for technical support. Which is the way I prefer it anyways. Most financial corp tech that I've had to deal with has been trapped in an uncanny valley, doing a horrifying ineffective mimicry of secure services and account management. If they're incapable of crossing the divide to being actually good, I'd rather they'd just stay on the no-tech side.
That story caught my eye and I had a different take. This is just my experience and anecdote should always be taken with caution, but here we are.

I worked a little with someone, now deceased, who was maybe comparable to von Neumann in some ways as an academic or intellectual figure. Few in history are comparable to von Neumann really, but there are a lot of similarities in this person with reference to a different and narrower field. This person is cited in blog posts that show up on HN from time to time in disparate but related fields, and there's a similarity in a lot of respects at a smaller scale.

My impression with that person was that they were smart, very smart, but not actually smarter than a lot of other people I knew and respected in academics. They had this sort of persona, almost like a role they were playing, with an an accompanying reputation that sort of got amplified and mythologized into legend. I have a lot to say about this, but at some point it became like an ignition process, where fame led to more citations and attention, which fed off itself. A lot of what they wrote or thought about wasn't really that different from their colleagues, who were more cautious or prudent or less extravagant. Their reputation got kind of turned into something outsized from reality.

Stories like this with von Neumann (where "the question itself" or some important feature "go undescribed") kind of reminded me of my experiences in this regard. The details are fuzzy in these stories because they're exaggerated or obscure scrutiny, or are based on someone's subjective impression rather than the details.

Call me jaded, but as my career progressed and I've worked with more people, I've become increasingly skeptical of claims to great minds or genius. It's a tricky subject because I wouldn't say there's no such thing as cognitive ability, but as claims become more extreme, there's usually a different explanation. It's the regression to the mean phenomenon. Usually they're just in the right millieu, with the right colleagues, and/or have a certain character they project, or something.
Does this remain true if the waste producers were forced to factor in the “true” storage cost of the waste?
You need to think outside the box. You can have actually great to-go food without ever entering a convenience stores, even in Japan or the US.
This notion that "I want Japanese trash food to be respected" is as hilarious as it is creepy to me.
You are in a thread about a Spotify outage. The White House press secretary called for censorship of Joe Rogan and I expect it will happen soon as they find a reason. Personally I cant stand the user interface and many times I am away from a network connection and something I downloaded is not available or Spotify is just stalled trying to connect. Its probably just not a good fit for my use case
I thought this marketing effort was pretty inspired: Barilla Pasta created Spotify playlists that were the right length for their various pastas.

https://www.foodnetwork.com/fn-dish/news/barilla-spotify-how...
There are people already living in pretty inhospitable places. We don't even need to go to bomb shelters. Just look at let's say Dubai or Middle-East... Hot and dry locations, still supporting people. Maybe not as many people, but still reasonably survivable.
A lot of your questions also apply to the current situation. The difference is that right now your insurance company is the one making decisions about costs, benefits, and limits of care you receive. Making the government the de facto insurer wouldn't change that.
Stupid parents are very much everywhere
I self-taught from an early edition of Stewart and loved it.
I haven’t seen any good data that shows that the current system is actually good at doing that.
Looks like some European ones are already recovering quickly though
Ah. So that's why California real estate is so expensive.

I was wishing there was something like this, that also took population demographics like age, gender balance, education level into consideration.
Happy Sunday from Australia.
1. Why is Russia afraid of a defensive alliance with no compulsion to join (unlike the hilariously named Warsaw Pact)? The most enthusiastic members of the alliance are the closest to them... I wonder why...

2. NATO doesn't have hypersonic missiles. Russia has hypersonic missiles.

3. Why does Russia get to bolster their security by ravaging their democratic neighbours? Seems like zero-sum type behaviour. Maybe Russia should try making friends and stop using violence and threats.

[edit] Here I thought the invasion happened because Ukraine was a neo-Nazi state, in spite of their president being Jewish and having defeated his rival who was the incumbent in the last election. I also thought that it was because Ukraine isn't a real country, and Russia should have the same borders as it had in 1916 (which would include Poland and Lithuania). Hmmm. Seems the war was intended to wipe Ukraine (a democratic country) off the map and restore the Russian empire. You seem like an apologist for imperialism. And people are dying for no reason because of Putin and his war of conquest.
I think people find it very easy to judge parenting from the outside and/or with hindsight, whether their own or other peoples.

I know that my children will wish I did things differently. Whether that is location, discipline, activities, internet access etc etc. I know they will wish I made more reasoned choices in the moment. That I was never tired, distracted, frustrated. That I let them spend their time as they wished not as I feel is best for them.

Parenting is a parade of tough choices using vague heuristics and life experience. Being well intentioned is a bloody good start.
James Bond is as generically "the best at everything" as you can get.

Whatever the villain is into, golf, fencing, gambling, etc. James Bond will challenge the villain at his hobby and beat him before the action even begins.

Edited to add: But the biggest example is probably Superman, just born super at everything.
The West has tried working with Russia before the operation. The other side was actively uncooperative (they told everyone they would retreat from the Ukrainian border, but then didn't); it's not surprising at all that mutual trust and communication would break down as a result. Even so it is basically the Ukrainians who are refusing to back down now, not necessarily the West. They hold all the cards.
In some cases the experience is simply too traumatic for the fired employee, there’s no amount of professionalism, empathy, care, support the firing organization can provide to suppress a toxic dynamic to any remaining “engagement” with the organization. In these scenarios you really need to pull the band aid off and hard-terminate them; it’s best for everyone. And take your good intentions and put them into a retrospective and action plan to fix the organization, eg. modifying your interviews, eg. nipping performance problems in the bud, eg. pursuing only sustainable growth.

It’s also not easy to predict how a fired employee will react, but gets easier with experience. But big companies don’t leave room for any continued engagement for this reason- after layoffs they provide support at significant arm’s length.
I definitely wished for this. Sometimes I think this is well worth the additional weeks/month or two of support financially and otherwise to both keep good morale and to be pretty decent to that human being.
Getting there might be one thing. I think there is entirely enough made up wealth in economy and to get to that point.

Staying there after harsh reality of living in communal shoeboxes for years and decades, plus shipping things in at horrible expense however...
I don't see why there would be a fundamental reason why there would be an attachment size limit. I guess it would just need to be implemented by breaking the attachment into multiple keys? There may be some overhead but it seems that this is valuable because it allows large attachments to be split across servers as required.
> stupid parents are rare

How did you arrive at this conclusion?
To be fair the same happened to Freddie Mae and Fannie Mac, which were bailed out at the start of the 2008 financial crisis. Eventually they repaid their bail-out money and then some, but back then (2008-2009) that was not seen as a possibility.

At a more general level, I'd say it's very tough to let companies like Evergrande/Freddie Mae&Fannie Mac go down the drain because you risk the whole system going down, no matter if you're a de facto autocracy (like China) or a not so perfect democracy, like the US.
At the end of the article, it says they want to "shrink the distance a light beam has to travel to transmute atoms by a further 10,000 times". So, which is it: faster or nearer-by?
Gig work is great for easily defined, repeatable tasks. Uber is going from point A to point B. This is something done for a long point of human history, and can be easily optimized through maps and routing algorithms. General software development can be more murky, because usually:

1. The person writing the requirements doesn't fully understand what's needed from an eng perspective
2. They need someone to describe tradeoffs of eng approaches
3. They'll probably need custom changes due to shifting business or client needs
4. They might need someone to guide them on a better framework or eng setup for their project

Being able to actually complete a task well, on time or faster will get you a premium (it can be really hard to find). Being able to assist on a consulting side on top of that is very valuable and rare. I think the people who are really good on Upwork often get hired outright by contractors with more money or get higher paying side gigs (or they are outsourcing their work to other devs).
An Easy Layup for Stan
Quoting the article first paragraph I think is the best response

"I view the field of software development as a big logical system with highly interconnected and complex parts. Understanding such a big systems naturally requires having an excellent grasp on the tools used to build them. And the most fundamental one is logic itself. What follows from what, what are the starting-points or the elementary parts, what are the ways of composing these into more complex ones, ways to spot complete non-sense in the system and how to decompose the complex parts back to more fundamental ones to check their consistency and truth. The following book list contain titles that are all playing fields for one to start experimenting with such systems and gain the required confidence that one can master them. "

The recommendation are from that point of view and the authors selection from book he actually read and consider good for it.
I can't find any uses of it for me personally but I find this thing incredibly cool and nicely engineered and with attractive design. Could be a gold mine for kids education. Assuming of course there are no similar things from big guys (I've no idea what is really out there in this area).

As a work of a single person this project is totally amazing. The author is a gem.
All labor predominantly serves capital.
No clue to be honest. I've seen the finger pointed at progressive handling of crime in SF and Seattle, so I was curious if anyone had a counterexample for this.
Each team member a self employee with their own company. We always tried to solve it that way. We paid everyone the full cost of taxes, healthcare etc. Full cost to the company for an employee in the HQ country, was the same for one outside, in the same economic region. We set up long term contracts.

We had maybe 30+% of the team working that way, if we got big enough in a country outside the EU we set up a subsidiary there. Often a real pain to administer with a team of 100 people:, but sometimes the only way to make it work. Indonesia, India, Kenya, Burkina Faso, Mali.
At Oxford, my degree depended entirely on 8 three-hour exams at the end of the final year, which were mostly set by different people from the people teaching you. There are issues with this (not least that if you are slightly ill say during the two weeks of exams, it affects your whole degree) but one thing that was really nice compared with the other universities where I have taught is that the relationship with the people teaching you feels fair less adversarial and more cooperative. Also by not having exams in the second year (there were exams in the first year you had to pass but which didn't count towards your degree), there was more emphasis on really understanding the subject rather just jumping through hoops.

But I think this only worked because of the teaching system there - as a general rule you had two tutorials a week which were usually one-to-two (or sometimes one-to-one or one-to-three) and it was very hard to slack too much or not do the work for them. Such a system requires a significant amount of funding so probably isn't scalable. Colleges did sometimes set their own internal exams too during the course which didn't count towards your degree (but for which you could get monetary prizes if you did well in them!) but which you could fail which would set a process in motion in which you could be kicked out of the university.