skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Over a decade ago my aunt taught 4th grade. She told me that a lot of kids were getting there who couldn't read and it was impossible to teach them 4th grade material.

This seems like that on greater scale.

More granular mastery-based progression seems like it would be a good start.
Frequency response graphs are readily available if you're interested in comparison, but I think there are simple qualitative facts about the Yeti that people miss when they check out, and get disappointed by when it arrives. For example, condenser microphones like the Yeti can be particularly useless in loud environments. Combined with the fact that most people keep the mic a few feet away from their face, the resulting acoustics can be pretty bad. Even if the Yeti did sound better, most people would prefer the Shure simply because of it's dynamic, punchy sound.
This was fascinating to read, but I think the guy is ultimately innocent. He executed a series of speculative trades using the platform's rules and mechanisms. It reminds me of the 2013 case of some guys who took advantage of a software bug in a video poker game. “All these guys did is simply push a sequence of buttons that they were legally entitled to push.”

This sounds very much like the same thing, and since digital currency is not heavily regulated, some might say at all, I think the outcome, while unfortunate, is not illegal.

Sadly Day & Keller and others will likely haunt this poor kid with lawsuits and frivolous attacks, but in my book he did not break the law.

https://www.wired.com/2013/11/video-poker-case/
> because by the time Miami is six metres under water

It won't happen suddenly in one day.
Do you mean 2D-only CAD programs? Because you don't have to go 3D with SolveSpace, nor do you have to go 3D with CAD Sketcher for Blender (it uses a Python port of the SolveSpace's solver).

Yes, FreeCAD can export 2D. See https://wiki.freecadweb.org/Manual:Generating_2D_drawings
Maybe, or maybe there are ways to identify and eliminate the bots and spammers.

For example, it could be linked to accounts, and dishonest accounts get removed, together with all their votes. Or the votes are kept, but because they're so different from real people's votes, they only count for the search results shown to other bots and spammers.

And at the very least, your own votes should override anyone else's votes, so for regular users who actively vote, the search results will still be close to what they want.

I'm also thinking about classifying results by different contexts. A page might be very relevant in one context, and not at all in another. But do let users control those contexts.
This is terrible advice (also from a smurf account).

Yes unsubstantiated claims can be harmful, but that doesn’t mean that no such claims should ever be made. The author is not just bad mouthing their research group, but presenting their perspective of what took place.
Less spam might equal less ad sales so it isn't in Google's best short term interest to actually fix it.
I personally use dd for such cases as well, but I don't mind downloading a "giant electron application which bundles Chrome and Xbox joystick divers" (I just downloaded Etcher and it takes 40MB on my machine) if that's what it takes to lower the risk of accidentally wiping my hard drive when I want to write an ISO to a USB drive.
https://marco.org/podcasting-microphones Here is a good way to hear them. I have the ATR2100X.
If someone start a Physics degree without knowing how to add fraction is it the duty of a university professor to correct such deficiencies?

>Just stop acting like its someone else's problem to solve.

It is a problem for all the precedent teachers that let pass someone so unprepared.
Thank you. Lots of folks complain about twitter threads, few actually articulate any positives even when they find there to be some.
I will hand in my notice tomorrow, after circa 1 year as a PhD student. In fact, I'm switching fields: from a PhD in Mechanical Engineering (energy systems) to a software developer role in a non-engineering sector. Very little of my 7 years (MSc) and subsequent circa 1 year as a PhD will carry over.

Certainly an exciting step, although the program here was pretty excellent. Good supervision, full funding for the entire duration, topic of my choosing (I wrote parts of the grant).

The main reason I'm leaving is that Mech.Eng. PhDs just seem like such a conservative bunch. Most end up either in tiny, provincial ventures (think utilities companies, for my field) or as middle managers at huge companies (where I live, car manufacturers). They then are, for all intents and purposes, managers and not engineers anymore. The title is the ticket to a cushy life. Academia was never an option; the kind of work professors and researchers do seems horrendous! You're chasing grants and need to manage such a wide range of the most frustrating but also mundane issues.

Here's to hoping a software development career is more fruitful and fulfilling. A life-long IC position seems attractive. You get the benefits, but little of the fuss.

It seems like PhDs are sought after (if they are) for their frustration tolerances and project management capabilities. Maybe I didn't have enough of either. Then again, I'm absolutely convinced many more would quit prematurely if they had attractive alternatives. A lot of mechanical engineer PhDs don't, but thanks to the software world and my passion for it, I do.
Concurrent writers isn't a thing people directly need. What they need is high write throughput. One way to improve write throughput is with concurrency, but the other way is by just being fast.

Making the database fast has the advantage of not requiring extra concurrency complications throughout the rest of your application.
Would it be an exploit if I discover the math to move all bitcoin in existence to whatever address I want then do so?
navies in general are in a very pondersome position in the 21st century. Most missile technology has significantly outpaced their ability to operate uncontested in blue water. this has led to endless, aimless voyages, rattling the chains of kissingers soft power to evermore capable adversaries who simply arent as interested as they were 50 years ago.

These fleets are expensive to maintain. without a purpose like the cold war which afforded constant meaningful training, they become little more than a floating maritime exercise in cleaning and cooking. The accident rate of the US navy in the past decade serves as far more of a teachable resource than the Moskva.
God I hate twitter. Why they still hang on to their silly limited functionality, I don't know. Is it fear of change? Threadreader is even worse, with all those ads!
Earth has something like 150 million square kilometers of ocean. 4mil is a tiny corner of that area. Depth/light remains by far the primary limitation for sea grass, preventing it from even attempting to colonize the vast majority of the worlds oceans. Compare other carbon sinks like plankton which can exist across the ocean irrespective of water depth.
IMO good advising is critical. You must have someone you believe in and work with. Screening a prospective research group or advisor AHEAD OF TIME is the due diligence of the academic world. Don't work with someone you don't think will support you when you are stuck and advertise your accomplishments when you make them.

I totally agree with the comments who say "performance" is an essential part of research. Somebody (your advisor, then later you) needs to be telling people how important your work is, where it can lead, what it will be good for, etc.

If you're not at this stage yet, my advice is cast a wide net and interview several prospective advisors about their work, etc. A bad fit will waste years of your life.
It’s exactly as I described. He said he wouldn’t go after anyone for rules violations, and he didn’t. The previous busybody HOA President was quite bothered, but it seemed most people just wanted to be left alone.
I find that thread safety annotations in clang help prevent deadlocks when there’s a tricky section.
> People quote low prices for renewables today that we might be scoffing at in 50 years just like we scoff at the early claim that "nuclear power is too cheap to meter"

There's a huge difference between nuclear and renewables that firmly comes down on the side of renewables: they can be deployed incrementally with variable levels of capital investment, and can be iterated on rapidly.

Solar can be deployed at a scale from a backpack camp charger all the way up to gigawatt-scale solar farms. It's the same technology.

This matters because it's exponentially easier to raise and deploy small amounts of capital continuously than to raise huge lump sums. Nuclear power requires huge lump sums. There are no reactors that, say, cost as much as a car or a laptop or even an aircraft. Reactors start at hundreds of millions for the smallest possible scale and go up rapidly from there.

Incremental cost leads directly to the ability to rapidly iterate. You can't rapidly iterate on things that cost hundreds of millions to billions of dollars. Every nuclear power plant is a monument.

There's been talk of small modular reactors for years, but "small" here is perhaps tens to hundreds of millions. That is still gigantic, too large for the kind of rapid iteration you get with electronics like solar panels and batteries.
I'm Anglo, and in my experience the word doesn't come up enough in conversation to know the difference (and I've never spoken French). It took me decades of visiting light houses before I knew how the lens name was pronounced.
> To be human is to desire freedom and be free.

Hm? Like every species, being a member of that species means having been selected by evolution over countless generations to further the species. It's an ingenious distributed algorithm, if you wish. To "desire freedom" is a nice illusion that you are telling yourself, quite rightfully, but that's not what it means "to be human".

> edit: there is no benefit worthy of risking our freedom to tyrannical governance

Anarchy is not the solution. Brings us right back to medieval times.
That's why it's Grandpa and funny.
The usual way that the difference is presented is that concurrency is a semantic property of your program independent of its runtime performance while parallelism is a runtime property of your program independent of its semantics.

In particular, a basic property of concurrent programs is non-determinism. It must be always be available (can't be offline while serving one response) to service multiple requests in non-deterministic order (and often will give responses in a non-deterministic order as well even for a deterministic order of requests, or at least leave such an option available in its semantics). There are almost always other invariants that must be preserved (which is what is means for a concurrent program to be correct), but generally the invariants are lax enough that a concurrent program does not make guarantees about being deterministic. This has no direct relationship with its runtime implementation. For example you could implement a concurrent program in a single-threaded fashion just by interleaving and jumping back and forth between servicing different requests. This is effectively how something like green threads or async-await works.

Parallelism on the other hand is a property of the runtime. Indeed, often parallel programs are meant to be entirely deterministic in their semantics (e.g. map-reduce-type computations), where the answer will always be the same no matter what. You just might have faster runtime. But parallelism has no inherent link to non-determinism in the way that concurrency does, because after all determinism/non-determinism is a semantic property.
The first question is already kind of weird. I don't think eating every few hours is a prerequisite to feeling good (I'm 24hr fasted and feeling extremely good right now)

And when you click "no" the next advice is "If there's a specific food you want, it's okay to eat it! You don't have to eat perfectly healthy all the time"

For people with low self control this is a vicious cycle
Is it? To me it seemed like any potentially powerful enough type system starts needing at least some degree of type annotations at some point. Something something typechecking halting problem? Don't know the specifics though.
Why is the title missing "behind"? I get that the second "far" is perhaps sensationalistic, but without "behind" the meaning is lost and perhaps inverted.
How could someone be sidelined by this?

EDIT: Since we've hit the reply nesting limit. I still don't see how having an activity that involves so many people sidelines anyone or how a lack of that activity would improve the involvement?

I can't think of any school sanctioned activities that discriminated against any student based on their appearance, even cheer. I had giant glasses that slid down my nose, a belly and braces. Believe me, the only thing that kept me from feeling included was my own perception of myself. Having coaches and a routine that forced me to exercise and lift weights was one of the best things I ever did.
Well not Russia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_uranium_p...
Until someone finds a way to calculate another key to move his eth.
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The problem with laser weapons so far is that they have insufficient power and are fighting the inverse square law.

Heating to create sufficient damage takes multiple seconds in good conditions. They work great in field tests where the operator can keep the target aligned exactly for a while and the target operator isn't evading. Add mirror finishes, thermal shielding, automated detection and evasion, much of which is cheap, and that'll stay a demonstrator weapon for a long time.

I don't think anyone is worried about the claimed Russian lasers against drones (particularly since Russia tends to tout a lot of vaporware), but I'd be worried that since Russia is already happy to systematically commit and even advertise their war crimes, that they'd start using the lasers as blinding weapons despite the fact that it is also a war crime.
Indirection / dupe, see: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31476069
Absolutely. They are guilty of writing vulnerable code, being hacked, and stolen from.
Russia can't get their act together to keep their trucks running. Due to chronic economic malaise and instability, they're not going to be a reliable producer of that fuel for a while.
For facilities with more than 1GW capacity Wikipedia has a list [1] (though note that that's merely the turbine's capacity, the total amount stored is the GWh figure that's missing for half of the entries).

There's also a list specifically with installations that aren't pumped hydro, but none of those would make the list above because of their limited capacity [2]. Pumped hydro dominates the storage game so far, both in number of installations and maximum size.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_pumped-storage_hydroel...

2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_energy_storage_power_p...
One of the points of digital assets is that the code is the contract, so whatever the code says is what was agreed to. There can be no cheating (in theory) hence no need to resort to courts etc.
In practice signing up for a regular account w/ debit card, bankid etc as a US citizen isn't very different from signing up as a Sweden.

You'll run into issues trying to open an account for trading stocks though.
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/swiftread-read-fas...
QM is not something you can pick up in a couple of sessions from your research supervisor. It's probably the hardest concept to grasp in Physics and some argue Physics is the hardest field to study.
>Sinking a ship via missile isn't a new thing (1980's, HMS Sheffield).

Earlier than that- the Israelis lost the destroyer Eilat to Egyptian SS-N-2 Styx missiles in 1967.

In fact, the Germans had quite a lot of success with air-launched anti-ship missiles in WW2, although it's debatable whether those count- they were more like guided bombs.

Interestingly, though, this does seem to be the first case of a large warship being successfully sunk by a missile launched from dry land. Argentina hit HMS Glamorgan with a truck-launched Exocet in 1982, killing 14 of the crew, destroying the embarked helicopter, and achieving a successful mission kill, but it didn't sink. And Yugoslavia used an anti-tank missile to sink a small Croatian armed speedboat during the 1991 Siege of Dubrovnik. Every other sinking of a ship by a missile has involved one launched from the sea or air.
I assume the #1 public schools in Massachusetts are Cambridge/Beacon Hill? There are many more reasons why they would be best in class than de-emphasizing football.
In his case it was a lot more than 46%
These all sound awesome, I think I will have to make one of them this weekend. The "Old Time Pork Cake" is calling to me.

https://www.texascooking.com/recipes/sausage-bundt-cake.htm

https://newfoundland.ws/christmas-old-time-pork-cake-recipe/

https://eatwithjean.com/pork-floss-roll-cake/
Safeway sells mostly cakebread. The "healthy" branding is an advertising gimmick, going all the way back to their founding as "Doctors Associates, Inc" to mislead customer into thinking something medical related was involved in the business.
> Nuclear is becoming more expensive while solar and wind are becoming much cheaper.

I'm all for renewables, but this seems rather distorted in a world where we don't price in the externalities of burning fossil fuel.

> Nuclear proliferation is an unsolved problem

Finland could have nukes if they wanted. If a technological backwater like North Korea can get them, anyone can.

Nuclear proliferation isn't being held back by technical details, but policies, international sanctions from the likes of the US etc.

> Centralized [power] production is intrinsically less democratic than distributed.

Is it? E.g. Norway and Switzerland are diversifying now, but for decades hydro-power dwarfed anything else in their energy mix. Hydro is arguably a lot more centralized than nuclear.

I could just as equally advance my pet theory that if your society doesn't have a collective stake in some sort of centralized infrastructure (health care, energy production etc.) that people are less likely to see any point in the whole project of collective decision making in a democracy.

But I think both of us would just be spitballing at that point.

> Safe very-long-term storage of nuclear waste is still being debated. Affordable solutions to reprocess and destroy existing waste have not been adopted yet.

Nuclear waste is known to be a non-issue to pretty much anyone in the know about nuclear.

If we actually cared about taking care of it we could enrich it and get rid of it that way.

It's not causing any near-term harm sitting in barrels on-site at nuclear power plants.

It's only an "issue" because it's really not, so nobody's had the incentive to really "solve" it politically.

> Deployment of new nuclear power takes decades and ...

DK, NL, and DE recently signed an agreement for off-shore wind that's expected to be fully completed in 2050. Everything takes a long time.

> ....might be too slow do address climate change.

We're pissing in the wind when it comes to climate change at this point.

> Many argue that society should address overproduction and overconsumption of goods, and
therefore energy, rather than increasing energy production.

Those people are already free to try for a hunter-gatherer lifestyle in the Kalahari or Amazon, meanwhile most sensible commentators will note that there's pretty much a direct line between any metric that measures human prosperity and increased energy usage.

There's no issue with increased energy use per-se, just the production methods that have externalities, such as burning fossil fuel (without subsequent capture).
The era of remote control won't last too long though because of signal jamming. Autonomous systems that don't need constant control by a human operator is the next logical progression.
Aaron was so ahead of his time. We need more like him.
> You can fork the current head of the mainnet blockchain to localhost and try infinite permutations for free to see what the next state of the blockchain will be. And then if you like that state, you can then pay to send the working transaction to the mainnet to make that same state occur, in a sure bet.

You have described mining.
> The nominees for higher office are now chosen by popular primaries rather than by the party machine in a “smoke-filled room”

for the Republican Party perhaps (assuming you trust the integrity of their primaries)—the Democratic Party (highly ironically, given their name) has a "superdelegates" system that means in practice that the nominees for President are in fact chosen by "the party machine in a 'smoke-filled room'".
Yeah, the attacker resides in Canada, so even if found guilty he's looking at easy jail time at the worst. All he has to do
is wait a few years and the $ is his. not like in the US in which feds hand out decade+ sentences like candy on Halloween.
I don’t think that tech companies are the systemic risk here, but they could certainly start the chain of events. In 2008 the governments and central banks had tools to use to try to bring us out quickly. Todays risk involves the possibility of stagflation, which is a long slog to get out of.
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>I always struggle with these valuations because like I said above the true value of something is what someone else will pay for it so I think they are an estimation at best.

This is true of anything. I own a used car, it is an asset, and has an estimated value that will only be verified/or disproven if I need to go through with selling it.

If a company is liquidated, share holders are indeed behind creditors in getting paid out, so they would not get this full value.

It seems that you understand it fully, what exactly is the struggle you are having?
3) is it okay for society to collectively make decisions that reduce the liberty of an individual if that individual makes choices that endanger everyone else?
So in the winter everyone just freezes to death since they can't afford heat? That's a solution?
See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31478308

And no, I didn't get the URL wrong ;)

(meaning: just read TFA)
Well, this is going to send us down a rabbit hole but the reverse is also true: there are multiple interpretations of a given law and the judge tries to use their judgement to square the law with the facts.

(Rabbit hole because I sense this is a debate lawyers have all through law school, and there are various schools of thoughts about the nature of the law etc)
I suspect GP is exagerating. I've been an Aussie stay at home dad for years and know many others, and I've never seen or heard anything remotely close to this.

There are for sure social gaps and service gaps, but assaults in the street like the GP is describing seem... far fetched.
I'm curious how many schools this is actually true for. I played football 'back in the day'; but despite winning our district/traveling mid-state for playoffs; I never felt like the team got any special treatment. We showed up an hour before school for weights and stayed a few hours after every day + Saturdays; ~nothing mid-day at all outside of the Misc rally the entire school attended.
I was curious, so I just mixed a teaspoon of sugar and water into a paste and put it in my dogs’ bowls. Two completely different breeds. Both went crazy for it.
Both love
Milk too. Neither dog will eat raw fruit
This a complete myth. Management and founders have broad power to set priorities.
Genshin [borrowed that mechanic from/was inspired by] another genre, namely fighting games¹).

And you got to admit, some (boss) fights in Genshin feel like they could come straight out of Soulcalibur.

So yeah, leading animations can definitely be a fun and interesting gameplay element, especially if you throw in cancels.

¹) https://streetfighter.fandom.com/wiki/Cancel