skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The #1 factor in determining if a kid will have a desired outcome is if they have a mom and a dad present. It's really that simple. And that means parental involvement.

It's sad one is labeled a racist or anti-feminist or w/e when you point this obvious fact out. ~70% of black kids are born to single mom's. That's a broken culture. White kids are at ~30% and rising and we see the same failure rates. That's a broken culture. Asian's have 2-parent families and have success. Even the lower class ones, suggesting income/class shouldn't be a factor in having kids with 2 parents.

So of course the next step is to demonize the nuclear family. The trends keep getting worse.
PHDs are more about idealism for most than practical outcomes.

Would be cool if colleges were required to estimate number of job openings relevant to each PHD program vs current cohort sizes. Or some central body could
Spoken like a true intellectual.

But no, I will waste my time any way I please. Luckily that decision is decentralized.

I'm not even a crypto promoter nor do I own a single web3 token. I was defending nuance in debate, quite ironical that you double down in the opposite direction, but not unexpected.
Stablecoins may not be the most popular but they're way up there (BinanceUSD is the #3 most traded coin today coin today, under Bitcoin and the main smart contract platform Ethereum).

You can get pretty good yields for holding stablecoins. Personally I tend to only use it for paying for things with crypto though (I used it to buy my last computer, for example), but I'm more of "treat crypto as an asset" and not "treat crypto as a currency" person.

It doesn't help that a stablecoin imploded a couple of weeks ago (Luna) so people are rightfully a bit skeptical of stablecoins (in particular, those that rely on an algorithm to automatically balance it, like Luna did) for the moment.
This was me. I should've bailed in the first year, gone into tech as I was perfectly able to do then, and been richer. If the program doesn't feel like, bail and join the work force. You'll be happier and richer.
I spent 2 years and quit - but had an amazing time before and after :)

https://yboris.com/quitting/
Hard disagree about authority being baked into platforms. Authority should be granted by the user using a social trust graph, with defaults in place for users who aren't savvy enough to manage their own trust.
Here is an example: https://oberon-lang.github.io/, see section Generic Programming; note how the modules have type parameters and how generic module is instantiated by the import declaration in the example of section Object Oriented Programming.

Here is the specification: https://github.com/oberon-lang/specification/blob/master/The...

Here is a discussion why it is designed like this: https://oberon-lang.github.io/2021/07/17/considering-generic...
> In fact, a concerned parent will wildly outperform a school teacher.

A parent teaches maybe 2 students per day. A school teacher teaches maybe 200 students per day. It's an unfair comparison.
You’re saying write it this way instead?

def my_func:
...

my_decorated_func = my_decorator(my_func)
Well, there’s your first thing to fix.
d) I genuinely believe that Medjedovic should show up in court to test that theory.

The only thing interesting about this case is how incompetent he was, while having his entire brand and identity be based on intellectual superiority. He should have used a virgin address and Tornado cash. He should have not needed to risk any funds for failure, as he should have tested the transaction in a localhost staging environment for free. Him getting doxxed is the only thing that allows this theory to be tested, whether he, or we, believe it was legal, it is now unnecessary liability. Instead, everyone knows who he is, that he's spiraling mentally, a judge in his hometown jurisdiction froze his addresses and the funds within it (which is a legal abstraction that does not freeze the funds but makes it illegal to move them until the order is lifted, in his favor or not). Just piling on the liability.

I think “code is law” is a decent crux of a more fleshed out defense, I think the Canadian attorney for the project founders is grasping but I’m not as familiar with the direction courts go there, I would prefer to see something similar play out in US federal appeals court (which is sadly after the drama of trials court and how opinions calcify throughout). It would be great and beneficial to see a transcript of how the “Sushi flooding” is argued the context of a broad computer access abuse law.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I seem to remember a while after the Web2 craze, the Web was incrementing several times a year, at least.

Because my Web goes to 11!

Did I miss something, or hasn't the rest of the World Wide Web already moved far far beyond Web3, a long long time ago?

Am I misunderstanding it, or is "Web3" meant to sound charmingly retro, with that "Internet Explorer 3" ring to it?

What's the Web3 crowd going to re-invent next: XMLCoins, in ActiveX wallets, powered by Server Push, decorated with Under Construction animated GIF NFTs?
From 'blooood filled capillaries' to closing by calling kissing a 'non-sexual intimate behavior', this was hilarious. Thanks for posting!
Integration tests take far more time to maintain. Major functionality changes can affect all of your tests. With unit tests they may invalidate a few, but that’s okay because they were cheap to begin with.

If your unit tests are hard, you need to refactor your code.
Perhaps. I've quit all social media except HN.
> Bostrom's brand of fear mongering does not appear to be based in science, logic, or basic common sense. I mean, a lot of world issues are obvious to the naked eye: overpopulation, consumption, housing prices, destruction of natural habitats.

I really wonder whether people commenting here have actually read the article. It's quite involved, I've already spent a few hours and am far from through. It's fair to assume that most people have spent less time.

Your comment is not very much related to the type of events that he is describing in the article. How are housing prices even remotely a technological development leading to devastation of civilization? If anything they are just an artifact of a particular economic incentive structure.
Played a internet flash version of this in a class 20 years or so later. Coolmathgames or something.

Found it. It has been updatrd since. https://www.coolmathgames.com/0-lemonade-stand
Right now they're shooting down small drones with $100k manpads. I'm not convinced drones are sensitive to ECM.
Mainly because you can't make it major.
Is he wrong? What is "Web3", except a trendy marketing term to make the old seem like it's new? All I hear about Web3 is that it's the future, it's the next big thing, it's blowing up, it's coming soon - but they were saying the same things five years ago about "blockchain", and none of those promises came true.

The only thing that seems to have materially changed since 2017 is that "blockchain" is now rebranded as "Web3", meaning its enthusiasts can recycle the same old promises about how this stuff is definitely the next big thing and hope that no-one will say "hold on, haven't you been saying this for five years now without a single thing to show for it?"
> Deploying 5GW of solar and storage, or 3-4GW of wind, is far easier, faster, and cheaper than trying to build a new reactor

Besides the intermittency of renewables everyone else has already mentioned, a nuclear reactor has a life of 50 years, which is extendable with maintenance. There are literally reactors built in the 1950s still operating today. Solar and wind installations have to be fully rebuilt every 15-20 years (and the decommissioned materials recycled).

So you get stable power, for at least twice as long.
If your sense of worth is derived by anything other than fundamentals, you're setting yourself up for failure.

And to lose a lot of money
I played one of these simulations in one of my Marketing Operations class, I think it was Markstrat.

It was quite fun and we because competitive about it.
Obligatory: I am a PhD. I understand the pyramid-ish scheme that academia is.

Your advisor is playing the 'grant-reward' game, and in most circumstances that enables you to play your 'ideal' PhD game. However your ideals are not the same as your advisors, your PhD-mates, or your school.

The sooner you recognize you are the standard-bearer for graduating, the sooner you realize it's time to take off the kid-gloves and start directly but professionally confronting your colleagues and advisors until you find what you are looking for.

If you don't find it in six months after you change, write what you did and you can collect a masters. It really is that simple, they need you to graduate.

PhD is a choose-your-own-adventure in real-life. No two PhDs are the same.
The Moskva had been recently refitted (possibly this involved embezzling the pertintent funds, but still), "it was ready to be scuttled" is just propaganda aimed at understating the loss.
In Physics it's not unusual to start a PhD in a sub-discipline that you've got little experience in (I realize the author works more on the information theory side of things). When I started my PhD in experimental quantum computing I had experience with superconductivity and low-temperature physics but none with qubit design or high-frequency RF system design. It's the point of a PhD to learn about these things and get qualified to do your own research afterwards (e.g. as a PostDoc).
> The military we have—an army built around tanks, a navy built around ships, and an air force built around planes, all of which are technologically advanced and astronomically expensive—is platform-centric.

The US has been transitioning off tanks for a while now

https://www.marinecorpstimes.com/news/your-marine-corps/2021...

I suspect, most systems will continue to move underwater for the navy. We will also likely couple it with autonomous drones and decoys
My fursona is like a cartoon character in that they're considered "fully clothed" without any accessories.

Adding accessories doesn't make him dressed "less modestly" than depicted at base.

You're reaching and it's really unfortunate.

Please stop assuming "furry = sexual". It's a bad belief that stems from the homophobia of the early Internet (i.e. Something Awful).
I was thinking as I read that comment that it seemed unlikely you would not only (1) attempt to use companies' logos without their permission and without accurately representing the relationship, but also (2) get away with it
I used to work in a produce department, so I do the same thing but with fruits and veggies.
You can also do this with Caddy, using this plugin: https://github.com/lucaslorentz/caddy-docker-proxy
Until some bacteria mutates to digest it. It's definitely not a long-term solution.
These exercises are always half BS and half valuable insight that you can't even get from years of experience. It gets very hard to tell which is which though.
> likely you mean OCaml here

No, I was thinking of Ada or Oberon+. Here is a discussion: https://oberon-lang.github.io/2021/07/17/considering-generic...
@dang The title of the piece is "Kids are far, far behind in school".
Personally, I'm new to twitter, and I much prefer these long chains of tweets rather than long form blog posts or articles. These long chains of tweets allow one to give support, comment on, disagree with, share or like a particular sentence or idea, rather than the entire collection, thus allowing more nuance.

Other advantages:

- Quickly understand which tweets/sentences matter by scanning the likes

- Debate can stem from any tweet, so discussion is immediately less conflated and more focussed on specific parts or ideas
So, 4 dollars out of less than 10 total, then (subtracting out self hosted sites' revenue)?

This part of the copy confused me too.

What percentage of ghost users set up payments at all? I'm guessing it is a tiny fraction, making the ratio of the two numbers meaningless.

(Independently, the two numbers are each a great achievement!)
It sounds a bit like his supervisor(s) didn't know to much about Quantum Computing as well. Really seems like a strange situation...
Pre pandemic the US educational system was behind compared to most other developed countries. Now it's just sad. People don't seem to care. And those that do put their kids in private schools that provide better education.

I remember feeling smart for the first time in my life when I went to a public high school. My peers were not dumb but the average level of knowledge was pretty shallow and not so wide. This was a smallish high school in a small state (2000ish kids in new england) in the early 2000s. I know its worse now.
WordPress, contrary to what most think, is pretty fast and performant. The reason why so many WordPress sites are slow and can't handle traffic, is because they are run by marketing people who don't understand the tech, and load it up with dozens of poorly written extensions to add user tracking, calls to action, and other dynamic behavior to increase retention. These sorts of practices have nothing to do with whether the framework itself is fast or not.

As has already been mentioned as well below, it is trivial to set up caching on a WordPress site. Most of the WordPress sites that I run are entirely served from cache by nginx. Some are just CMS APIs that I use for a next.js build, and others have the simply static plugin which will rebuild the assets whenever something changes. It's really quite an amazing system, and as much as I do not enjoy PHP or WordPress, there is a reason why it is so ubiquitous now.

WordPress does have a serious problem of underqualified people writing plugins for it and such, but again that is not WordPress's fault, unless you want to blame WordPress for being successful enough to attract those people.
Reminds me of the early stages of Universal Paperclips.
Don't Buy a Yeti
Backyard Wood Powered Generator
Well the purpose of jam is to conserve fruit with sugar so maybe not. Honey also doesn’t spoil even after thousands of years.
>It's called the HN 'Hug of Death'

AKA just "hugged".
Those are/were real units

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hogshead

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rod_(unit)
what i think is concerning is that the drone will likely become the new ak47 and we will have a new era of guerilla warfare and terrorism on our hands
A judge is not deciding whether something is "fair" they are deciding whether it is illegal to the letter and/or spirit of the law. The reason this is at odds with us is that many things are legal that are not "fair".

The specific danger here legally is trying to apply general laws into an unregulated market. It's a bit like borrowing money from your mate and then trying to take him to court because he's asking for too much interest.
As of Caddy v2.5.1, you can easily pair Caddy with Authelia to provide auth for all your services!
I would love PhDs to be thought of as something you dive into when you have something to pursue, perhaps many years later in life rather than a follow on immediately after study.

As a comparison imagine if VC funding only went to the highest scoring new grads and the business proposal was asked for after the invitation to take on VC funding. That's pretty much what's been happening with PhDs. You get the marks, you get invited to take on a PhD and then you look for projects. A totally inorganic process that leads to a gross misallocation of resources.
Note that this hypothesis has been challenged, e.g. here [1] (paper here [2]).

[1] https://www.earthmagazine.org/article/lack-fungi-did-not-lea...

[2] https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1517943113
There is.

Other sports play a lot more games. Football has a predictable and consistent schedule, Friday nights in the fall. The limited number of home games (only 5 or 6 usually) also keeps involvement at a level that's not overwhelming for the student body.

Additionally, football teams can support a lot more players than any other sport with rosters typically 50 players or more. Especially in smaller schools, this means almost everybody will know somebody who plays.

Lastly, football is the most diverse sport in the US. There's a role for everybody. From smaller faster guys playing receiver, more medium sized athletes playing defense at linebacker or defensive back and bigger stronger guys playing offensive and defensive line. Even the soccer players can find a role at kicker / punter.

It brings together more people from different racial backgrounds than any other sport as well.

I was not an athlete in high school by any stretch. I was an overweight kid who played MtG, DnD and Duke Nukem all the time who just happened to be 6 feet tall. I played football for 4 years and learned a lot about hard work while I got in much better shape. Even though I was never a starter, I'd do it again in a heartbeat.
Football's the reason I dropped band when I no longer needed an arts elective. I'd have stayed in all four years, otherwise.

Being required to waste an entire evening at a football game to play for a few minutes here and there was insulting.

I'm pretty sure it's also the reason the curriculum was built almost entirely around the microscopic musical niche of marching band, rather than instruments & skills that were more likely to be useful in life beyond college.
I'm really starting to think this anti-web3 and generally anti-crypto sentiment is being encouraged and pushed by corporations and elites so they can take over the space and add it to their hypercapitalist armoire
Vitalik made an interesting comment on Interland thats a bit hidden by being in the substack comments, so resurfacing it here.

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Interesting! This reminds me of what Prospera wanted to do, where someone in a traditionally regulated category could choose to be regulated by any OCED country of their choice. In general, I think I agree that this approach has lower risk of having bad unknown-unknown consequences than most other approaches I've seen that would achieve the same level of libertarian-ness.

Some significant game-theoretic risks that immediately come to mind:

* If Interland gets into a strong rivalry or cold war with another country, that country could try to attack Interland by legalizing something terrible that happens to have negligible impact in the other country for situation-specific reasons but has a big impact in Interland. For example, Iran could legalize murdering Korean people. This would have a very small impact to Iran itself, but it would make Interland permanently useless as a cosmopolitan business and culture hub in addition to severe one-time costs on Koreans even if there's a waiting period before the law propagates.

* Texas-abortion-law-style strategies. Another country that wanted to affect Interland policy could avoid banning X, but instead legalize private individuals doing some really harmful thing to people who do X.

* There are lots of poor countries that are probably very easy to corrupt but also not really worth corrupting because not much (in dollar terms) is happening there. But if Interland law is tethered to the weakest one of those countries, then people could corrupt those countries in order to legalize terrible things in Interland.

Possible mitigations:

* Instead of using a total-intersection rule, use a 90% intersection rule. Something must be illegal in 90% of reference countries to be illegal in Interland.

* Have a judicial body define a legal category of "private punishment behavior" (basically, selectively going after people with the goal of disincentivizing a particular act), and require that behavior to follow the opposite rule (it must be _legal_ in all or almost all reference countries to be legal in Interland). The definition of "private punishment behavior" intuitively feels similar to categories like "hate crimes", so there's probably precedent that you can carry over.

* Allow the legislative body to remove a country from the reference country list if something terrible happens as a result of that country being on the list, and constitutionally rate-limit the use of this mechanism. In addition to the self-correcting property, this creates an incentive alignment: countries know that if they screw up and influence Interland law in bad ways, they will lose their influence over Interland.
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I' not sure if it's included in your criteria, but what about Potosi? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potos%C3%AD They have a huge mine system and you can visit some of them (and have a lot of nice old buildings in the surface).

[Remember that it's very high, so the Oxygen content is low and you must take it easy and avoid sports and dancing until you are use to the Oxygen level.]
Yeah, but at least your PI should know about your field. This is a really weird article and weird PhD experience.
Blue Sky research is like that: you're venturing into new areas.
I remember the advertisement posted by Shackleton:
_"Men wanted for hazardous journey. Low wages, bitter cold, long hours of complete darkness. Safe return doubtful. Honour and recognition in event of success."_

That's how I feel about this. Chances of success are not as high as one would like, however, case affirmative, honour and recognition. A lot!
I do a very similar thing. Sometimes when I describe my height, I'm "five and a half foot, nine"
Russia said they're shooting down drones with laser weapons, which sounds kinda reasonable. Probably fairly quick to aim, and definitely very quick to deliver.

Colourless, instant laser is the Star Wars we deserve, not the Star Wars we wanted, though ;)
I find it disturbing that Medjedovic was prosecuted in the first place. If anyone is guilty of this situation, it's Kellar and Day.
Broadcom in Advanced Talks to Buy VMware
Could you share details as to the why?
Windows 11 hacked three more times on last day of Pwn2Own contest
You seem to dismiss publishing as performative when you don't rate the work. I can tell you that a lot of genius work dies on the vine because the researcher isn't capable in these "performative" aspects of the job. And many genius researchers' work never gets read/cited because they can't write.

Publishing and disseminating work is a skill that (imo) is almost entirely distinct from researching, but you must have this skillset to succeed in research. If your research group is succeeding by picking low hanging fruit (in your eyes) then this is a great sign. You should learn from them. Your talents will not go to waste through learning these new skills.

Lastly, if you like TA work then you should definitely continue because you can then look for lecturing positions after. To my knowledge TA roles generally require postgrad/PhD.
I'm someone who finished a PhD, here's my perspective.

You don't believe your supervisor or your research group and so you quit, great. It's great that you have the critical thinking abilities and confidence in yourself to make such a decision.

However, I think it's extremely unprofessional to write a blog post saying that your supervisor is superficial or your research group is performative art. I don't say this because I think we should just take the venerable professor's word for it, but because accusations in general, if they're vague enough, are impossible to defend against. I think if there's enough substance to make your comment specific, you should. Maybe even write a paper explaining why what they're doing is nonsense. If you're right, this would genuinely be a contribution to the field.

If you can't be specific enough to be scientific about it, just keep it to yourself.
The amount of natural gas consumed by the industry is already very low.

Germany needs to stop exporting electricity.

Most of export electricity comes from gas turbine topping plant which work during high EU electricity price times.