skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I will not start a discussion around the validity of research because that conversation belongs in academic peer review and at this level it is pointless and it will end nowhere. But feel free to look for studies on these topics and form your own opinion:

- Proper nutrition helps IQ. Iodine consumption helps IQ.

- Poor health conditions, including presence of sub-saharan parasites, lowers IQ.

- Lead poisoning (e.g: lead-based paint and mining activities) lowers IQ.
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(I still think it's outrageous that C is still a single-pass language - we shouldn't need separate simultaneous declaration and definitions any more)

Maybe not, but I have a hard time to believe that it can be considered even a slight annoyance to anyone but people just learning how to program. The same people that are annoyed by it probably benefits from it anyway, forces them to actually think about what they are doing.

Also makes it easier to get an overview of the code using just a text editor. KISS.
The left hand of darkness, by Ursula Le Guin.

I found it by working my way through the list of joint nebula and hugo award winners (which is a really fun project, because all of them are amazing books). It is my favorite sci-fi book. It changes the way you look at gender, especially if you haven't questioned the concept much before.
1. Sorry, didn't know about that. Just took a cursory glance through the source code.

3. 126 lines in 1 file is still an order of magnitude smaller.

4. The source has a Perl and a sed script, although they are not used in the password generation.

(2) is still a concern, especially on servers and embedded computers.
> Then it tells you to be genuinely interested in someone. How can you force yourself to be interested in someone?

I truly believe you can. I feel the issue is most of the time that we don't want to care. That we value our own ideas and issues higher than those of others. For me the practice of deep listening [1] really helped me to better relate with people with whom I didn't really relate beforehand. Yes, it's exhausting and yes, I fail still often enough but it shows me that we have a choice.

[1] https://www.mindful.org/deep-listening/
Computer science-y question.

Initially this question was going to be "can we log executed instructions" but I rapidly realized that not even DDR5 could keep up with such a logging system - it would slow things down too much and likely mask the bug (not to mention the TBs of space that would be needed).

Rethinking a bit, my 2nd take is to see if it's possible to somehow repeatedly synthesize workloads from (presumably smaller, more manageable amounts of) seed data.

One of the users in the AMD forum thread (I don't seem to be able to get a permalink) mentions that they're experiencing gcc crashes on Ubuntu inside VMWare on Win10! This means that the bug fits inside two kernels' preemptation/task scheduling and a hypervisor! Interesting.

What stumps me is that some users are experiencing gcc segfaults, while others are getting faults in `sh`.

...yeah this has me stumped. CPUs are so fast, and we have no idea where the problem is.

EDIT: This comment is interesting: https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/6f08mb/compili...
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Wow. I've never thought of it that way before
The part about the private messages and huge media files is not clear. If I want to share some message with my friends only should I encrypt the message using their public keys and publish the result on blockchain? Would those be $number_of_friends messages or is there a way to publish it just once? How expensive that would be? Should I use IPFS for media files? Has anybody ever implemented these parts in practice?

How can I convince people to use my Facebook killer app instead of Facebook if they have to pay for every action (update profile, send message, post something, etc.), the price is not clear in advance (who knows how much "gas" every action would cost), and the process of publishing is not instant (IIRC Facebook has 2 billions of active users, can Ethereum handle that scale? It's supposed to be used by thousands of different projects, right?).

What's sidechain? Is it something I have to develop myself (i.e. something Ethereum does not provide out of the box)? If that's the case why do I need Ethereum at all?
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_The Art of Electronics_. As a software guy who sometimes is involved in embedded systems, having a good understanding of what's going on at the resistor/capacitor/transistor level would have helped a lot. I did a bunch of hobby electronics as a teenager, but never had circuit theory. I knew a lot about digital design, but not the analog stuff that the whole world ultimately rests on.

So now, when I hear a switching power supply whine in protest, I will think of it as the squeals of pain of the engineers whose life I turned into a living hell because of my lack of appreciation for P = IV. I’m truly sorry. I wasn’t thinking. (And this is just the first chapter of that book).
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Direct permalink: https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/6f08mb/compili...

Couldn't find the comment with that link for some reason - thanks for mentioning the username, had to get it from their account page :)
The US industry has always been on the forefront of trying to convince people that they can afford stuff they actually can't and came up with a lot of creative ways to do this. The best example of course is the recent housing crisis.
I'd say europeans in general are more debt and risk averse, this even shows in the lack of credit card adoption in places like germany.
"kind of immature" is a bit vague, but I disagree. I'm using GuixSD on almost all of my machines (a server, two laptops, an audio workstation) without problems.

It is quite easy to overwrite the kernel package to use in a system configuration (e.g. to use a kernel with the RT patches applied), but I should say that I use the default kernel on all but one machine.
Parents asked "how the book recommendation works". Your answer isn't really enlightening: The key here would be how you find similar books that are really recommendable and (especially if you are addressing vivid readers) how you try to minimize recommendation loops and dupes.
What database or training did you use to find similar books?
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My point of view is quite local, however I don't see any of the company I work with having their data only on Google or AWS without a very clear way to get it out.

Honestly I see IoT a lot like Machine Learning, everybody is talking about it, everybody want to be part of the game, but there is not a clear solution.

Businesses have very specific use cases that require some, not trivial, understanding of the technology, to be fulfilled in full.
Even more to actually use the data gathered.

For the foreseeable future I see the need to a quite senior figure to enable IoT in businesses.

Once a senior figure has such data in clear, a way to mine value out of that data I see at least unlikely that she is going to push all of that only on google only to fetch then back once you need to do your visualization or analysis.
Maybe if you are completely sold to the google ecosystem, it may make sense, but still...
As others have already noted, this was written before the election (2015).
Because at some point in life/work you might just do something Jesus would have done, and in some circles it doesn't go unnoticed.
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The bible, cover to cover: if reading western literature or philosophy produced in whatever year A.D., the bible is required reading for comprehending many the references and various rhetorical modes. I'm irreligious from a muslim background myself but I'm reading it now. Same goes for the qoran, my family is not a practicing muslim family and thus I never read it, but it's a part of the canon, must be read. I'm not sure if I would like to have read these earlier tho, as now I have the consciousness to not be fooled by the stuff in these books.

Karen Armstrong's A Short History of Myth is a very nice guide into mythology and what that and religion are. It's like a vaccine for any sort of fundamentalism or bigotry, if read with some accompanying knowledge of mythological traditions.
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Oh! If it's against the law, surely that will stop annoying phone calls! How did we not think of that easy solution to the problem!?
the french system looks bad when the volume is laid on a table, but has another advantage: in multi-volume sets, the numbers on the spine read in the natural sequence, left to right and top to bottom.

By the way in Italy, in our usual anarchy, both systems are in use :-)
Disclamer: I am French.

We are wrong. Up to today I thought that the direction was merely a choice, seeing both books flat made me change my mind.
Compulsory licenses have precedent in the music industry.
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What's the benefit of this? Saving disk space?
> 20 years later he decided to look at everything again and was appalled that latex was still the best option he had.

I've always wanted to build a latex based reporting system for similar reasons, all existing reporting systems suck and I wouldn't be surprised if I could build a latex based system to be the least worst option.

I wonder if there are other areas that it would be useful?
Not only that, it is biased towards the notion thathat it is what we do and eat that makes us live longer, while not exploring the possibility that environmental factors could instead be making us live shorter. Air pollution, chemicals, or anything else really.

I'm also surprised they didn't mention how all the blue zones happen to be gorgeous environments, warm (but not too warm), sunny, with good soil, etc.
Seems down for me?
Yep. I use this regularly. I really like it.
Completely random tip: The Left Hand of Darkness is today's "Audible Daily Deal", so you can get the audiobook version for $3.95. This is true for 2017-06-04.

Just happened to notice the email today and thought it might be relevant to someone... if so, enjoy :)
The part about marriage is very true. I take issue with your other part, though.

I don't think his domain knowledge delivering medicine in Ghana is of very high value. It is probably easily attained. That means that all the value of his going back to Ghana is provided on the basis of his education. This means that anyone with his education is a good candidate for the job.

So why ask immigrants specifically to compensate for brain drain? Why shouldn't any of the people graduating from Johns Hopkins go to Ghana and solve their healthcare? Any of them would be needed much more there than in the US.

Tying people to the country of their birth is nonsense. If it's utilitarianism we seek, let's send our infectious diseases experts over there. That's where they're needed. Not at the CDC.
The process is usually:

- Help someone get control over the country, through elections or by force. Or just buy whoever wins.

- Approve loans at high interest rates and allow that person to keep the majority of the money so it never gets spent in the country itself.

- When the country defaults on the debt, start a re-structuring process involving the neocolonization: privatize everything, pass unequal trade treaties, pass unfair labor regulations... effectively enslave the country.

Low wages and no social mobility and no influence in government is almost undistinguishable from slavery. And that's the situation in many poor countries.
> Migration since the 60's has become a giant IQ-sorting system and that's having huge consequences on all sides. And this never seems to get discussed, oddly.

It's discussed a lot. It's where the term "brain drain" comes from. Hundreds of studies have been done on the subject, many of which are linked on the wikipedia page for "human capital flight," which is the academic term for what you're talking about: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_capital_flight
Unfortunately its not true in many cases I have seen, essentially because the tail of the error does not fall fast enough. Technically, for all bounded RVs all moments are bounded, but in some of these situations the variance is so high that its infinite for practical purposes.

All you need is the tail to fall slower than a quadratic.
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>> an "ICO production" company to create the coins and infrastructure for them to do their own ICOs?

Isn't that what Ethereum is for?
Rollo Tomassi – The Rational Male

If my younger self had read this, I think my course of life would be very much different than it is right now. Just a caution that it might come off as misogynistic ramblings for some readers.
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Just came across a forum (https://lockedpost.com) which stores its messages directly in the Bitcoin ledger. The unique thing about it is that messages are prefixed with a sequence number, meaning the site admin cannot tamper with messages displayed on the website. I think this is cool but what do you guys think?
I fear now an entire generation (Gen Z) grows up with services like Youtube, Musical.ly, Spotify and iCloud/GoogleCloud for their photos.

They never interact with images and audio files, they don't know about metadata at all. They don't use notebook or a PC. They are vendor locked to iOS or Android. They are not dumb, but less and less have the initiative search around and try out new things outside the box. They stay inside their apps, they don't know the vast web outside that can be searched with Google search engine. (it depends on parents and schools to inspire them to try out more)
I'm assuming you're talking about algorithmic cryptotrading here since you'd like to utilize your CS skills. No need to inform you that trading by bots is extremely risky, i'm sure you already know it.

Well here you go:

Grab some foreknowledge of cryptocurriencies from https://github.com/Xel/Blockchain-stuff.

Sound knowledge of Quant,Stats and Economics in general. Also grab the Black Swan by Nassim Taleb if you can.

Learn a bit of technical analysis: Familiarize yourself with indicators

You'd need to spend some time on exchanges that have APIs, play around with the system a bit.

Learn about what kind of trading is allowed and what types of orders you can make.

Trade by hand just to get a feel of what trading is like. Some exchanges have demo trading in built when you sign up. Play around until you're comfortable

Find the trading strategy you're comfortable and begin to automate it.

Be prepared to lose lots of money!!!

Also join telegram chats of the various cryptogroups. Their analysis is so spot on, it sometimes feels like insider trading. Good luck
I think the secular perspective about the bible, Quran, and other Abrahamic sacred texts, is far more interesting than the contents within. This is the perspective so rarely visited by athiests, agnostics, or religious folks.
The trend in the bay area seems to be diverging from the rest of the country (post link is pointing to the Bay Areea details, got pointed there via http://wolfstreet.com/2017/06/04/hiring-declines-in-san-fran...)
To Have or To Be? by Erich Fromm.

I did read it fairly early and it had an quite an impact on my life and thinking. It put into words a lot of my discomfort with a life focused on materialistic success. And it was inspiring seeing an intelectual combining so many of the thoughts and topics he developed during his lifetime into one coherent and approachable book.
What.

When did `mov` get 96 different instructions?
+1 for Different Seasons. I still get goosebumps when thinking about reading this book a few years ago. This man is a master of words.
The price is right though isn't it
FWIW, I think there's a huge difference in approach (and humility[1]) between the Btrfs and Bcachefs developers. I'm sponsoring the latter.

[1] I tried to make this point, perhaps badly.
where's D-lang? it would be interesting to compare D with C, C++, and Rust
The most common thing I come across is devs saying the DB is slow but the load on the DB server is 0.1... Always profile before you tune!
It's kind of amazing that there isn't more terrorism focusing on train lines, bridges and other infrastructure. That was the most effective way resistance against Germany during WWII worked.

And to boot: some of it is easy. You just have to bend one rail segment. Manually (which is doable with basic DIY equipment), or explosively. If you're okay with trying 5 times a large boulder positioned between the tracks where it can't be pushed aside easily has a decent chance of derailing a train. And that is a disaster. The amount of stored power in a train's movement is more than enough to destroy it. When this sort of shit happens by accident, there's usually double, sometimes triple digits dead. Targeted, you could do more. Without a few particular train lines, US oil production would slow to a crawl.

They are also far easier to destroy than to rebuild. Terror attack, and things go back to normal in a matter of hours. Sucks for the 5 people, but the economy is not going to be seriously impacted. With trains, and because there's a lot of cleanup, after which the entire line needs to be checked (and obviously not with a high speed train) a derailed train will take a week or two to fix, more on longer lines. It seems to me that disconnecting small cities in middle America from the train network and make coast-to-coast freight go a LOT slower wouldn't be out of the question for even a small organisation.
> You prefer to focus on the _method_ of telling a joke (timing and so on)

No, I don't. That's something I mentioned that makes a joke good, but you're ignoring what I said makes a joke a joke: the silliness leading to a catastrophic collapse of a pre-conceived understanding into a different but plausible model.

You seem determined to be right about this. Again, note that I do not claim that these kind of performances aren't funny (since that is a matter for the beholder); but that they are not jokes, and their barrier to understanding is exclusionary and elistist.
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All my Chinese and Japanese books have the spine text going vertically down. Some have English text mixed in though, which is (horizontally) downwards. I can't imagine a book with French text mixed in (horizontally) upwards with the Chinese (vertically) downwards text would look very natural.
Another highly annoying example of good ideas just not finished properly is trying to use multiple virtual desktops on multiple monitors. For some reason switching the virtual destkots switches to the new desktop for ALL physical monitors. Just why...

The devs have also STILL not figured out how to give a simple and easy way to move windows from one monitor to another from the alt-tab menu.
Yes, and install speed too since you're writing the files once
https://discuss.atom.io/t/the-deuce-editor-architecture/2218 goes into a bit of detail regarding the editor, deuce. Note, you can download and play with the IDE, and read the source code, it is part of OpenDylan distribution, but sadly only works on windows right now https://opendylan.org/
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I also don't miss the process of removing each extension one by one, rebooting each time to find the culprit.
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At high school and uni whenever I carved my name with pen into the page edges of my newly bought textbooks on the first day of term to dissuade book thiefs, I always held the book face up while doing so. It would have felt unnatural to hold the book upside down while performing this sacred rite.
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Just like JavaScript, PHP used to be slow. Then, large amounts of effort and/or money were spent into making them not so.
Great work! Could you comment on the difference between your offering with ListenBrainz and LibreFM?
It's a fun idea and many people have had it first thing when they heard of Rust... So why did no one do it?

Quite simply: No one is going to rewrite the Linux Kernel in Rust. It is far too big and also you are not solving any real issues either. Rust only protects you from a small fraction of errors and while for an application like a browser, this can be a big gain, I would argue that it is negligible for a kernel in general. Reasons being that all the device IO, component interaction, privilege escalations, logical errors, hardware errors, firmware errors/bugs all can NOT be addressed by rust. Even for a browser, Rust is only a band-aid. The amount of logical errors and security holes in something as complex as a modern web-browser is more than enough of an attack surface. No need for a rouge pointer to weird memory.

What is MUCH more viable though is a project to compartmentalize the Linux Kernel into HVMs. I forgot the name but there are efforts to put nearly everything into its own HVM. Which means if the printer driver goes nuts, it can't really do anything to your system except not print anymore. If your graphics driver goes nuts, well then you won't see anything... And so on.

This means, almost no code rewrites and still MUCH higher protection than RUST. Rust does not compartmentalize. If any of your system components is fucked, your whole system is still fucked. That is why it's pointless to rewrite a kernel because of a language. You need to compartmentalize it...

Look at QubesOS for an early user-space effort. Would be nice to have a Qubes-Kernel too.
Thanks to both you and taeric for keeping the exchange civil.
There's not going to be hundreds. The first crew flight is supposed to happen next year.
I thought full insurance would be an unwaivable requirement in those cases of leasing. How could they be in debt for accidents?
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Its common sense. Source or not do you really think Intel would have introduced a new line of products if it weren't for AMD? The price cuts also seem to be reflecting that. Intel just arent as innovative as they used to be and it seems that they are now trying the adapt to situations so they arent at a disadvantage. Linus makes honest videos, and his opinion sure might not be everyones cup of tea but atleast he isnt afraid to bring attention to the elephant in the room.
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