skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Found your counter interesting so looked up this[1].

We already have the tech to do selection as above but it is cost prohibitive to produce the number of embryos required to do it at scale.

Where you misunderstood was that this is selection, not modification.

We do not know which genes to modify specifically.

We can however, using commonality and statistics, select embryos for increased likelihood of increased intelligence based on a number of different phenotypes.

That's where my understanding ends but the link below has more.

The interesting idea was that we can repeat the selection process using the already selected for embryos - effectively skipping potentially many generations. As in, your kids could more correctly be your great great great great great grandkids.

What I want to know is how far you could theoretically take it before the statistical analysis starts to break down.

As in, can we get to twice as intelligent? Does our statistics / scoring even know what that might look like?

Could we be looking at human induced evolution?

[1] https://www.gwern.net/Embryo-selection#polygenic-scores-for-...
It is very uncommon to have a flag associated with a language. In my 35 years of life, I have never encountered it. Only when I googeled esperanto I saw a green with white star flag.
This will be no change for me. Where I’m at UPS and FedEx just toss the package at the porch/doors and then bolt. Very unprofessional and NEVER once ring the door bell. I don’t expect them to wait, but FFS how much extra work is it to hit the damn doorbell?
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In defense of ceph the documentation is fantastic and ceph clusters have only gotten easier toanage with every release. I am a homelabber, not a sysadmin and I run a cluster and have only run into one or two issues that the docs or patch notes didn't cover. Also the mailing list is incredibly friendly and helpful. The IRC channel is not as useful iny experience though, seems like with many there are a ton of idlers.

One does need to keep up with the release notes, mainly for the past couple releases, especially with the latest release, luminous which marked stable bluestore as a more performance alternative to filestore.
Shit. Switching to c5 would save them over 100k/month at a minimum and net better performance to boot. I’d get on that.
Your absence from emacs-devel is felt, there was so much excitement when you were around.
manpages can generally be assumed to be out of date
I believe you are completely incorrect, but fortunately the tide is turning. This article points out that 17 states now require personal finance education in high school, but 20 years ago only one state did (Illinois). http://www.businessinsider.com/high-schools-teaching-persona...

I certainly did not have it myself, and my K-12 years were from 1985-1998 in Indiana (public school). We had an accounting class. We had a government class that taught how a bill becomes a law and all that. We even had a home economics class where we learned how to make pillows and pigs-in-blankets. But no personal finance whatsoever, and certainly no economics until college.

I distinctly remember approximately 15 minutes of relevant personal finance education in all my primary school years, when one math teacher went off-curriculum at the end of a class to show us the magic of compound interest. (It blew my mind)

Everything else, from balancing a checkbook (no that wasn't taught in accounting) to filling out tax forms to how credit cards work was either taught by my parents or self-learned through social context.

You do realize how many poor college students have been taken in by credit card offers that used to be right on campus to sign up gullible freshmen, don't you? Fortunately I think that has fallen out of practice (it got enough publicity that colleges now realize it makes them look bad, I think). But for how many years have millions of 18-year-olds fallen into this kind of trap?

You think any of those people had personal finance classes? I seriously, seriously doubt that. I think the vast majority of Americans (until recently) did not have any such formal education on how to navigate money in the real world.

I don't have any idea the prevalence of this kind of education in other countries, though.
What is a good source to read more about that?
It's not a true meritocracy if some people have better access to opportunities such as education and jobs because of where they were born or who their parents are.

That's not to say that the criticism of meritocracy isn't valid.
If you ask millennials, Peak child is already here. total fertility rates for the group are in decline.

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/millennials-say-no-to-kids...
You don't see how a child born to a lower class family of 7 might not be less reproductively fit than. A single child from the the same class?

Think of it this way, given what you know of class dynamics and sexual selection in humans, if your child had the choice of selecting between one in a random assortation, without knowing which was which, which one would be advantaged and why?
BTW, any sane business would put their best salesmen on dealing with their wealthier clients, and those salesmen will know that haranguing customers on the phone is hardly the best way to sell them.
Meritocracy is just a bare-bones version of a "founding myth" that a society adopts when enough people reject the traditional narrative.

The problem is that it is so absolutist that it is easy to find holes and internal inconsistencies in its story. Hence it can scarcely perform its function--namely, to provide a narrative that establishes the legitimacy of the ruling class--for very long.

Look only at the examples given in the article.

>The most effective way to rile the meritocrats is to attack their faith in expertise: Lord Turnbull, a former Cabinet secretary, has said that Brexiteers’ willingness to question current Treasury forecasts of the impact of Brexit was reminiscent of pre-war Nazi Germany.

Of course there is nothing wrongheaded about contesting the findings of government economic forecasts--governments produce such forecasts out of necessity, not because they exemplify any paragon of scientific truth. Reasonable people often disagree about them.

>The easiest way to rile the populists is to imply that their attachment to symbols of national identity, such as blue passports or the Cross of St George, is a sign of low intelligence.

This is so absurd it barely needs any mention. Nation-states have existed for a long time, and preference for their symbols has nothing to do with intelligence or lack thereof.

So you have a dissident group making a claim about a point of fact, and the soi-disant intellectually superior group responding with an ad hominem that slurs vasts swaths of the population. This is not a sustainable situation.
Only PUBG and Fortnite have such shitty tickrates.
>The job (creative) necessitated that my work which was done for a major corporation not be included in my portfolio which made it very hard to find new employment overnight

Put it in your portfolio
Anecdotally, I majored in economics at a large public school with a (at the time) national championship caliber hockey team. All of the players on that team that made it to the NHL attended the same classes I did. Most did come from privileged backgrounds but at least one grew up in the projects of Toronto. The coach strongly encouraged his players to take at least a few classes that would give them some financial grounding.
Do we know if Venezuelans' use social media? I've got an idea...
Maybe I don't want to live in a world inhabited by "reanimated massed".

But I do want to see spaceships bringing people beyond the boundaries of human life spans.

I don't one can reasonably hope for faster-than-light travel. But cryonics is a technology that looks, at the very least, feasible.
My daughter got locked out several times. After doing webcam picture, passport, and many other verifications, it took more than three months until her account stabilized. She was getting locked out a few days after her account got "approved." I honestly wonder what kind of joke of a system these bastards have! At the same time, daily I get "friend" requests by several fake accounts. In other words, Facebook does a great jobs stopping legit users, but cares less about fakes as those inflate the size of their userbase greatly! In fact, I know many who were forced to create 2-3 new accounts, because they kept getting locked out!
Just this week, I've once again found Prime -- on multiple packages -- to apparently mean "when we get around to it".

I'm going to finally watch "The Wire" and a few other of their streaming offers that have been on my todo list, and then consider not renewing. (And... I'm wondering how onerous the process of effectively disconnecting them from my credit card will be.)
In Asia, it has likely happened already.

In the poster boy of overpopulation, Bangladesh, the fertility rate dropped from 6.2 children to 2.1 children per mother (https://www.ft.com/content/f60e2ddc-0bbc-11e1-9861-00144feab...). No Asian country today has fertility rate above 2.5 AFAIK (except maybe the Philippines).
Africa is going to be crucial

What we have seen in the different projections of future global population is that Africa is the most influential and contentious. What happens in Africa now and in the coming decades will determine what size and structure the global population will have at the end of the century.18

It seems less certain what the future for Africa will look like; there is considerable disagreement between UN and WC-IIASA projections. Even the medium projections vary significantly between the two institutions: The UN projects a population of 4.5 billion while WC-IIASA projects a population of only 2.6 billion. This difference of 2 billion is just as large as the difference between the projection for the global population by the UN (11.2 billion in 2100) and WC-IIASA (8.9 billion in 2100). Whether the world population increases to more than 10 billion will be decided by the speed with which Africa develops – especially how quickly women get access to better education, women's opportunities within the job market, and how rapidly the improvements in child health continue.

It's really quite astounding. If the UN's predictions are accurate, Africa's population will soar to 4.5 billion, with the Sub-Saharan part alone accounting for 4 of that 4.5 billion. Which means tens or even hundreds of millions of migrants flooding Western nations, making the current crisis seem like a drizzle when compared with this storm looming off in the distance.

You would think this would be major news, discussed openly and often by the talking heads on cable news networks and given front page billing by major newspapers. Instead, you hear virtually nothing about it, unlike (for example) Peak Oil.

Though not as famous as other dystopian novels like 1984 or Brave New World, this might yet prove to be the most prophetic: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camp_of_the_Saints
What area is this out of curiosity?
I was forced by management at a previous gig to use a RedHat consultant to set up a satellite server. In the end, I had to help him set it up after it became clear he wasn't able to do it on his own. It was a huge waste of money, and I'd caution anybody to pay close attention to contract management if you're going to get them in.
In this case I can assure you the US had little to do with the economic collapse. The reason why the economy went down the drain was because of an extreme currency control. Just months after Maduro got ahold of power, he got rid of the only mechanism that existed to buy foreign currency legally. So what happened is that people had to resort to buy US dollars at black market rates. That caused shortages, inflation, etc.

Then they had the brilliant idea to enforce price controls on a lot of goods, which only served to ensure that nobody wanted to produce or trade said good.

US/EU sanctions only came recently and are targeted at individuals, so no, this mess is caused by the Venezuelan government itself.
Satire, not news.
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You might find it interesting to read up on other things by the late Hans Rosling e.g. https://www.google.ch/amp/s/www.bbc.com/news/amp/world-39211... - one of his key arguments is the Wests beliefs about 3rd world population growth are largely outdated and lack awareness of how much progress has been made.
I really hope so. This is a beautiful country that deserves better. Oil has made us rich and now screwed us up in a massive way.
The people I know who still use Facebook are doing it less and less.

What is holding them back are the friends who are not using any other social media.
My intended goal was to evade the GFW for a two week work trip, whereafter I was deleting the droplet anyway. I didn't know what protocols would be effective against the GFW and have neither the time nor capacity to set these up manually. Moreover, as the sibling mentioned, you can pick which you install.

I agree that minimising the attack surface is the right course of action but on balance the increased risk of several protocols didn't outweigh the convenience given my purpose and temporary nature.

I fell back to global roaming data if I needed to do anything involving logging in, which I avoided doing unless strictly necessary anyway (e.g.: no banking, etc.).

All this is moot, however, as I was citing it for the point at hand rather than suggesting it over a manually set-up install of Wiregard.
I think we can agree meritocracy means the best people for the job get the job. But, your contention points out what factors we evaluate when we say "best". Do we take "best" to mean when they apply for the job after years of some environment? Or "best" to mean the original genetic disposition independent of environment?
In ten years: "To further protect our passengers, Alphabet OS cars will no longer be manually navigable down unmarked roads either."
That honestly sounds like a nightmare. The last thing I want when shopping is to be hassled by salespeople.
> In my experience in the Bay area with people who suddenly have more wealth than their friends and family ever did, there are two ways that people seem to split. Either they start splendiforus spending because they are "rich" or the start calculating what sort of 'burn rate' they can support drawing down at a rate of anywhere between 2% and 10% of their net worth.

Wow that's depressing as hell. I've seen the spending side of things, but for a long time out of college I was making more money than anyone I knew and also spending towards the bottom of the distribution. I think I was 25 when my average return started covering my cost of living.

My family didn't have much money growing up (due to medical reasons) and my parents don't really know much about managing money, probably because they both come from upper-class backgrounds where family money just seemed "taken care of". So I have to confess I'm not really sure where the financial irresponsibility of the sorts discussed in this post comes from. I'm tempted to say that it's a simply matter of high time preference, but that's a really self-serving explanation, so I'm not quite satisfied.
You also were born in the past. Are you not comfortable with death by your own declaration? So why do you work to avoid it, rather than embracing it? Why are you still alive? Are you not, by your own ethics, outside your time, creating a mess, and less valuable than people born after you?

Yet you undertake continual efforts to remain alive, embracing the use of food and medicine - technologies developed purely and entirely to stave off naturally occurring death.

I feel that you haven't fully examined your own position on this matter.
This information is very much outdated. (Windows XP is referenced in it)

CSGO matchmaking servers (run at 64 ticks) force you to use cl_updaterate 64.

Even in CS 1.6 days, most leagues and servers enforced updaterate 100 and rate 20000. Nearly every player could handle it. And those who couldn't, well, bad luck for them. Playing with 100ms+ is no fun for anybody.
Savings accounts don't do great over the long term. The safest thing is usually just to buy real estate as long as the prices aren't stupid.
Kinda, but none of the pictures on either of those links look like an exact copy.
Good point. The article suggests that the original definition was more oriented to finding those with the "best" attributes at a young age and putting them at the top. E.g., 'They were the 1854 Northcote-Trevelyan report, which opened civil-service jobs to competitive examinations, and the Education Act of 1944, which decreed that children should be educated according to their “age, ability and aptitude”.'
Sorry this is false. Certainly their poor economic policies helped lead to the mess they are in but its not accurate to say that US/EU policies and sanctions didn't play a significant role. Nor is it accurate to say that these sanctions "came recently" or were targeted only at individuals. We have been sanctioned the entire country of Venezuela for well over a decade.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-iran-usa-sanctions/u-s-sa...
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Its easy to forget why Chavez/Maduro got in power in the first place because for most people its ancient history by now. But Venezuela is not a Paradise gone bad. It was always a bad deal for anyone who was non wealthy and didn't live in a gated community.
For the most part, I don’t have the finished products or enough of them to include them well in my portfolio. They were projects only used internally and I did the technical side of things before handing that over. I have good references and everything but I am in an industry that relies almost entirely on a portfolio. I do have a portfolio from side jobs but it misrepresents my experience. This is why I did the side jobs.
Hi Nick! I'm still working on certification and guards, but in a very early stage company now. Do you know I can predict and (sometimes) control the progress of certification testing of cross domain solutions? That was my PhD.

Now I'm working to rid the world of CDS boxes built on PCs running Linux; I know exactly what you mean. It doesn't matter that you're running SE Linux; the vulnerabilities are lower down in the hardware—Meltdown and Spectre and what's coming after Spectre will go right through your VMs and your policy enforcement and your hardened OS. What's needed is a completely different way of solving the cross domain problem; that's what I've got in prototype.

I've taught Clive's energy gap notion to my students in university classes. That notion is deeply ingrained in what I'm proposing now. Could I talk with you in more detail about that idea of yours for visually inspectable process node?
It may be a screed. We could get into the numbers of why basic income doesn't work and talk about the realities of implementing it, but nobody needs to hear me blabbering more than I have.

If the tone sounds exasperated, it's because I don't believe "basic income" is a panacea that is a real or considered answer to what the article is addressing which is inequality due to a "meritocratic" system. It's become a meme.

We've got a social ill? Basic income!
No, I restated a summary of my original post. Same goalposts. Same location.
Clearly the problem lies with their government, military and policing forces. It says police officers steal, turn the other way or take bribes. That means they aren't police officers. Even the military doesn't care about it's people.

Like people say, "How can I help you if you can't even help yourself".

"Soldiers or policemen seldom help, according to interviews with two dozen drivers."

"But as the crowd chanted menacingly “Food for the people!”, the soldiers muttered something about the goods being insured – which they were not – and drove off, he said."

"At some, a bribe is required, with a bag of potatoes now more effective than increasingly worthless cash."

"policemen joined in the fray, taking bananas and cheese with the crowd."
Sort of. BattleRoyale was initially developed as a mod for ARMA 2 by Brendan Greene (PlayerUnknown). He then went on to make a mod for ARMA 3, then later worked with the H1Z1 devs for the H1Z1 battle royale mode named King of the Kill.

After that, he moved on to making his own game with a supporting development company fully centered around his ideas at his direction with creative freedom that was not limited with being a mod (ARMA 2/3) or under the restraints of a larger company (SOE/Daybreak with H1Z1).

Brendan is largely the progenitor of the video game battle royale mode, and his name carries a lot of weight in the genre itself.
Just because it's not required doesn't mean it didn't happen.

> You think any of those people had personal finance classes?

Yes, I'm almost certain some of them did. All the education in the world won't make good decisions for you when you once you set out in your own. We've been teaching kids sex ed for decades but we still have STDs and unwanted pregnancies.

You really never had any other math teachers assign problems related to compound interest, investments, credit cards, savings accounts? I was in school just 2 years later and these problems were very common in the math books we had.
US intervention seems like an option. Especially given the fact that Venezuela is looking to sell oil for Yuan[https://www.forbes.com/sites/ellenrwald/2017/09/15/venezuela...]

a move that has been the strongest predictor of US intervention in the past 2 decades.
In principle I could be on board with cryonics, but I have one principled objection that I can't seem to get around:

I see no reason why anyone with the ability to re-animate/heal cryo-preserved strangers would do so.
Riot Games has an engineering blog that goes into some good details:
https://engineering.riotgames.com/

Disclaimer: Riot Games Engineer :-)
It's probably the "performance optimization" and such described below having an effect. This stuff happens in a lot of the traditional types of companies that are labor and equipment heavy. The new bosses in middle gotta push productivity up, costs down. They might mandate performance standards or with the time optimization allocate the "right" amount of hours for each job. The workers might get fired for not meeting specific numbers.

https://harpers.org/archive/2015/03/the-spy-who-fired-me/?si...

They probably don't have many better options either given they were doing deliveries for UPS and FedEx. The employees responding to that environment will either accidentally or intentionally in spite do stuff like that. I've seen quite a few of those companies. You also get to experience more spite the less the company or customers care about them. The jobs that require slaving away for nothing under assholes are the most consistent in generating that effect.
The word "meritocracy" also implies that its a way of running government. I'm not sure if it's proposed as an alternative to democracy. I doubt that many people would think the leaders of government, the politicians, are carefully selected from the entire population base, the best of the best, so it seems that what we have now isn't meritocracy.
Style guides don't resolve the ambiguity, they just tell you it exists.