skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Farming is about economics. Good farmland is a place which given todays prices has enough profits to be worth farming on.

In general, people has been proportional spending less money on food for each decade that has gone past. Production per acer has also gone up, while the number of people working as farmers has significant dropped.

I am pretty sure that the reason why there is not more potato farmers in the world is because the price of potatoes are not high enough to utilize all the land where potatoes can be grown.

But even if we somehow run out of land we would still not need to build arcologies. The primary reason we don't have many seaweed farms in the world is because few cultures has seaweed as an primary diet. Economics could likely change that.
> Sure, but Erlang solves this problem indirectly.

It solves the issue quite directly.

> There's no risk of concurrent processes unexpectedly changing state (the real problem Trio addresses, or at least reduces the blast radius of) because there is no shared state.

That doesn't seem to have any relevance to Trio's purpose, a low-level spawn has this exact same guarantee and yet is pointed to as a problematic primitive right in the introduction. The essay says literally nothing about unexpected state changes. In fact the word "state" appears nowhere in the essay. The essay is about control flows and their structuring (or lack thereof).
That's down to the fact that there hasn't been anything more than maintenance investment in the english transport system since the 70's. It's probably the most over-priced, ineffective train system in the whole of europe. Partly because when it got privatized, most of the buyers were national train companies from other european states - who use the british train system to subsidize their own trains.
Their CES talks are usually quite good https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQ15HWCw_Ic

This one about their safety model is also quite interesting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L92hR5CSw1E
I went the opposite route and started wearing blue blocking glasses 1-hr before I go to sleep. Seemed way easier than trying to address each device and rouge blue LEDs around the house.

Along with melatonin and magnesium (also 1 hour before bed), this has helped my sleep quality greatly.
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isn't that already regulated?
For most of the population, intelligence is hardly the limiting factor in their education or professional achievement.

Blaming genetics for the results of collective political and economic underachievement is one stop short of blaming individuals for "poor breeding."
Slower speeds can increase the time to get from A to B therefore increasing fatigue which decreases attention which could lead to accidents, albeit they might not be completely fatal.

It's a great game, isn't it?
I purposefully tried to make the comment constructive and inclusive, hence the "we" and "together".

Hashing 4GB files may roll some eyes but I don't think it's helpful for Node to be shying away from it or dismissing it out of hand. I don't think that's a positive attitude for Node to have as a community going forward. Stress tests like this should only improve Node. What's there to lose? We should be saying "4GB, bring it on!"

Positively speaking, there's so much more we could be doing that we're not. We should be pushing the multi-core data plane side of Node far more than we are. There's so much potential for SIMD etc. in many APIs. Node is C++ under the hood after all. Javascript is just the control plane, not the data plane. And I actually do think Node has been lagging slightly in the performance department, and I don't mind if people call that out. This issue in particular has been open since 2012 (going back to the archives).

Lastly, my intention is definitely not to incorporate crypto-async into core. Core crypto has a completely different streaming crypto api. crypto-async was designed more as a stopgap for us at Ronomon in the meantime, but also as a proof-of-concept, to get the ball rolling and show people that the issue was worth pursuing.

So I stand by the remark and hope the issue will be a catalyst and wake-up call. Node has had some spectacular success but there's alot of work still to be done.
In an open sourced project who is the owner?
Well, there is an environmental component to all phenotypic traits. So when you want to know how an organism actually turned out, it’s more useful to measure the phenotype, rather than the genotype. Also, the understanding of which genetic variants contribute to higher IQ is rapidly improving, but still very far from practically useful.
Also, leave the booze for special occasions -- no drinking a "nightcap". It makes you feel similar to being tired, but it really lowers the quality of sleep. It seems to interfere with REM particularly, which is really important for actually feeling rested when you wake up.
> To be clear, I'm not saying that support for async crypto isn't worthwhile, but I'll strenuously object to making it the default without extensive evidence that it doesn't introduce performance regressions.

Pretty basic requirement for making performances changes: provide the actual numbers, or GTFO. He was asked multiple times to provide some numbers, sometime indirectly, and then directly in the above quote. Each time he responded with speculation:

> My bet would be the async crypto that's running on 8 cores.

> what will the latency look like [...]? It's actually going to be through the roof. The op will have been waiting around for a few seconds and the op's latency will be incredible.

Missed opportunity to back yourself up with facts, even if the situation is contrived to be the best-case scenario.
I think of JS as being Scheme-like, but not because of any love for the language. Instead, whenever I'm using JS I take a Crockford-like approach by only using a nice subset of the language: basically, closures and not much else.

When I'm writing JS in this way, my mental model is basically "a crappy Scheme", i.e. I'll tend to come up with implementations which are similar to what I'd do in Scheme (pure functions and closures), except I have to consciously avoid boilerplate (since there are no macros to tame it) and unbounded recursion (since there's no tail-call elimination), hence the "crappy".

Maybe it helps that none of my Scheme code has used continuations, outside of examples/playing, so there's less of a disconnect there?
What stats are you referring to? I think he's talking about the flavor of 'auto pilot' in Tesla cars that isn't the supposed to be the same as 'self driving' of waymo and the like. If there are stats about this it would be interesting to see, you may be right but I think I would be nervous too about something that can do almost everything but at any moment I have to wrestle control of the wheel, it would basically make me just want to drive myself so I don't have to be nervous about it and watch out for the moment something seems it may go wrong.
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DISCLAIMER - rant below.

The problem isn't Latin, the problem is how you use it. Nobody forced you to sometimes use C when you mean K. There are many languages where these letters don't overlap.

Nobody forced you to use both PH and F for the same sound. Why even use PH? It's not like anybody cares if that particular word was stolen from Greek or not. And if some people do - they can check it on wikipedia. Make it all use f and be done with it.

The whole too/two/to situation is ridiculous. Ridiculous spelling is also ridiculous. Why put "o" before only one of these "u"? Either put it before both or none... Also - beautiful. Really? Eau?

And why sometimes there's one "l" and sometimes there are two? Full, but plentiful. WTF?

If you bothered to refactor the language every century - English would be perfectly reasonable now. Instead the whole world is stuck with learning centuries of design debt to communicate.
Is there data that backs up this assertion?
Listopad is a Ukrainian word for October
The worst instance of this for me was when I was younger and would get a high fever. My brain would just constantly go over the same concepts, try to reconcile them, fail, retry etc.

Usually it would attempt something similar to yours, like reconciling the concept of orange with a physical shape, which just immediately fails.
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Here is the AR5 report which is toning down it's previous predictions from in other words things weren't as bad as claimed. It's not as black and white and the consequences are even more speculative.

"Future climate will depend on committed warming caused by past anthropogenic emissions, as well as future anthropogenic
emissions and natural climate variability. The global mean surface temperature change for the period 2016–2035 relative to
1986–2005 is similar for the four RCPs and will likely be in the range 0.3°C to 0.7°C (medium confidence). This assumes that
there will be no major volcanic eruptions or changes in some natural sources (e.g., CH4 and N2O), or unexpected changes in
total solar irradiance. By mid-21st century, the magnitude of the projected climate change is substantially affected by the
choice of emissions scenario. {2.2.1, Table 2.1}
Relative to 1850–1900, global surface temperature change for the end of the 21st century (2081–2100) is projected to likely
exceed 1.5°C for RCP4.5, RCP6.0 and RCP8.5 (high confidence). Warming is likely to exceed 2°C for RCP6.0 and RCP8.5
(high confidence), more likely than not to exceed 2°C for RCP4.5 (medium confidence), but unlikely to exceed 2°C for RCP2.6
(medium confidence). {2.2.1}
The increase of global mean surface temperature by the end of the 21st century (2081–2100) relative to 1986–2005 is likely
to be 0.3°C to 1.7°C under RCP2.6, 1.1°C to 2.6°C under RCP4.5, 1.4°C to 3.1°C under RCP6.0 and 2.6°C to 4.8°C under
RCP8.59
. The Arctic region will continue to warm more rapidly than the global mean (Figure SPM.6a, Figure SPM.7a). {2.2.1,
Figure 2.1, Figure 2.2, Table 2.1}
It is virtually certain that there will be more frequent hot and fewer cold temperature extremes over most land areas on daily
and seasonal timescales, as global mean surface temperature increases. It is very likely that heat waves will occur with a
higher frequency and longer duration. Occasional cold winter extremes will continue to occur. {2.2.1}"

https://www.ipcc.ch/pdf/assessment-report/ar5/syr/SYR_AR5_FI...
You don't have to repeat yourself, clarity was not the problem with your previous post.

It may be that the parent poster is completely biased, but not commenting on the writing of a judge that did not write an opinion on this decision is not evidence of that. That you think it is reveals your ideological biases, though.
How does social media affect stress?
You do need to have a foundation which you can learn in a university but also outside a university. My bet is that you can learn it faster and cheaper outside university.
Yes but remember "the market can stay irrational longer than you can remain liquid".

You can be right about a catastrophy, and so wrong on the timeline while everybody keeps dancing it seems your worries were just ghosts.

I'm still amazed at some people around me, eating pizza, drawning in alcohol, and living this old.

I wouldn't recommand this lifestyle though, while they would certainly defend it the way a lot of people in this thread defend our current society ways.
CloudQuant makes it clear that your Intellectual Property (IP) is yours. If you develop an alpha signal, and you collect your data on the site through backtesting, then that is part of your IP provided it isn't a copy CQ provided proprietary or licensed data (Market Data, Alt-Data, Fundamental Data...)

We do limit the size of downloads to ensure that you are not copying these licensed data sets.
Those look awfully uncomfortable, but it's a very interesting idea.
In general I agree. For any gene, you'd expect those alleles which give their holder an advantage in the environment they inhabit to be passed on to their descendants, including those which influence brain development. But if their environment ever changes, or they're put into a different environment, they might find themselves at a disadvantage compared with those native to their new environment. Environment is important as it determines which traits and which genetic variants are selected for, and genetics is important as it determines which environment people will flourish in. So if you only use a single number to measure intelligence, it it will only be a good predictor for a single environment.
That's an argument for starting at 1, not at 0.

At age 0, you have no elements in your array of years. So the first year is also element 1.

If you want code to reflect the way you've done counting and arithmetic your whole life, you'd want it to start at 1.
As a sort of reductio-ad-absurdum, imagine if somebody came up with 'GQ', or 'goodness quotient'. It's absolutely the case you could use a battery of tests to check how likely somebody is to do anti-social behaviour. 'Goodness' is about as conceptually well-defined as intelligence.
For what it's worth WP Engine didn't raise "hundreds of millions of dollars." Their most recent round was a PE deal that resulted in the investor taking a controlling interest in the company. Most of the $250 million figure went to buying out option holders.

I worked there for 2.5 years (a great experience) and it mostly felt like a mature business rather than a growth stage startup.
Tesla Model 3 Teardown
Do you also consider Waymo to be a vendor?
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Yes, this works, but you have to do it on every boot, right? I had also just found out about it recently and it worked but I was poking around in the bios for the permanent solution.
My plan is to use after-work activities to make up for the social isolation. Though I'm more on the introverted side to begin with, I figure I'll find more people I enjoy spending time with by doing activities with people who like to do those same activities than I would by socializing with my co-workers. Plus even remote it's not like you can't socialize with co-workers over video and chat.
No its not. Land use is actually staying constant or going down. Overall we actually have a reforestation and the return of nature in many places because the land is not used for farming anymore. It has nothing to do with McMansions, humans are becoming more urban.

There is also tons of lower quality land that could be farmed if you really needed to as well.

Around 45% of corn production is used to make transport fuel rather then food. Most of Brazilian transport fuel is also made from food.

Simply put, there is HUGE amounts of potential for increase in food production.

All of this is without using advanced things like factory food production.

Also, food is not becoming more expensive other then being more expensive because of oil and transport cost.

https://thebreakthrough.org/index.php/journal/past-issues/is...

> So what then is your point? That we put almost all the human population into arcologies like the Stephenson cyberpunk novels?

No. My point is that spreading irrational fear and false facts about food availability is wrong and you should stop scaring the uninformed people.

I don't propose anything. Human can just live where they like. Buy food and energy where they want to buy it. Most move to urban centers voluntary. Only 0.5% of land is actually paved and that's where the waste majority of people live.

My point is that we have lots of energy and we have lots of food. There is no real concern that either is gone run out. There is not even a need for government to do any gigantic policies (unless they want to fix carbon emissions, then a carbon tax would easily resolve the problem).

The future will be one of more unused land that is untouched by humans and that will happen without a conservation policy.
Polish is a Slavic language and Latin letters are not suitable for it. I'm Russian who speaks English and a bit French and I can understand some Polish words (common roots etc.) like dobrze, dzień dobry, wiedzieć, znać, but I have no idea how to write them (looked up this words in Google Translate).

P.S. And I like to play Witcher III with Polish voices and Russian subtitles.
Bridge is the first that springs to mind, and that is most definitely a gambling game.
QEMU version 2.12.0 released – Spectre/Meltdown/Rpi3/
Which video codecs have that inbuilt?
Plenty of shops in the big retail park near my house (Edinburgh, UK) don't open until 10am.
If they won't be on some level it's an extreme waste of effort.
Shopify plus allow you to adjust the checkout styling and template.
Well OP isn't suggesting adjusting everything for income - just this one thing.
There is an oversupply of average and less-than-average. My companies are too small to hire at that level.

There is an undersupply of most highly specialized roles.
"A loot box is a consumable virtual item which can be redeemed to receive a randomised selection of further virtual items."

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loot_box
The military paid for a study on sea level rise. The results were scary
Not saying the quote's depiction is accurate, but I like the way that the stock price is connected to a future state. Much easier to understand than "the PE ratio is too high".
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Good question! I don't drive the route often enough to give a proper assessment although it doesn't seem worse.

Getting off-topic, but I've been a heavy user of the M27 / M3 for approx 25 years. In that time, the main delay that I encounter routinely is now the stretch from Southampton to Winchester whereas it used to be the top end of the M3 (around Junction 4a). More generally, although the UK's traffic density has increased this (anecdotally) seems to have been offset to some extent by significant improvements in several key motorway junctions (e.g. M27/M3, A34/M4), which I feel that I can often get through faster than I used to.
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Maybe, but Google's tacotron2 also used about 24 hours of speech and gives results that are indistinguishable from humans.
Here is what Aegir/BOA uses:

https://www.drupal.org/project/provision/issues/2960825

https://cgit.drupalcode.org/provision/commit/?id=638b03d
This sounds a bit condescending. Just because it's normal for shops to open early doesn't mean that people who work those jobs are less negatively impacted by alarms and sleep quality. What's the difference between being tired & miserable in a manual labor position and being tired & miserable in an engineering/devops position?
Since those companies ostensibly don't want to publish the probabilities, potentially because they employ far more subtle 'personalized' addictive tweaks, you can not state (1). In contrast, the distribution for cards in trading card games seems fairly well known, not just to the publisher, but also to the buyer, and no 'personalized tweaking' can occur.
Magic the Gathering cards have a use beyond collecting. Its an actual game people play, and card prices are driven not only by their rarity, but their utility. Usually when a card spikes in price it is because someone somewhere has made a successful deck archetype that utilizes the card.

That's why most decks played in competitive Magic only have 75 cards, but usually average several hundred dollars, sometimes pushing 1000 in some formats.
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There is actually an extensive literature on IQ and it is the strongest known predictor of job performance and life outcomes. And these findings are some of the most well replicated research in the social sciences.
College is free in some places, even to foreigners. I think Germany is one such place.

A lot of great US schools give full tuition based on need now, and it's possible to get a loan or find temporary work to pay the other bills.
There is one single paragraph on Tesla, less than 5% of the article. And it's just an example where several others could have been used instead.
I had the same problem with the 'b' key double input on single press. I started using a silicone transparent keyboard protection to prevent dust and small crumbs coming in. So far it's great!

I know this is very frustrating, so give it a try. It shouldn't cost more than 10-20$ and it's totally worth the price imho.
You can get high-enough availability just fine on Postgres. Very few applications require zero downtime. With pgbouncer or similar in front, you can generally flip to a slave with very minimal impact. The issue comes in situations like the one in this case where a mistake leads to being left without up to date slaves and your system can't handle the read load on a single server.

I agree with you in principle, but for most systems it's total overkill. It wouldn't be total overkill if distributed solutions were easy to set up and without tradeoffs, but we're nowhere near being there.

In most cases then, restoration time is the biggest barrier to getting "high-enough" availability without re-engineering everything for a totally different system. Often you can prevent that from becoming an issue by siloing functionality into separate databases, offloading logs and analytics for example. Or buying faster SSDs for your DB servers... There are many approaches depending on the size of your dataset, and most people never outgrow those options.

To put it this way: Gitlab.com's database is small enough that fitting it in RAM on a commodity server is easily doable. While they'd still need to have snapshots on disk, at that point beating the restore speeds they're reporting would be trivial.
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No, that's really helpful, thank you. I don't know much about the different genres so having someone point me in any direction is good. Much appreciated.
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Bookmarked, nice!
A little design feedback: I think the font-weight for the content of the posts is too thin. Yeah ok it's apple stylish, but not very comfortable to read from my point of view.
> says something about how society has progressed in the past two decades

Or regressed, depending on your views about personal liberty and what the obligations of the state are.
Genetics predicts some part of IQ; not all of it.
The numbers are all here: https://github.com/ronomon/crypto-async#performance
Is this the HN equivalent of the old "goatse" links? Or do some people on HN not realizes that jwz substitutes a page with an explicit graphic image when linked to on HN?

Would be nice to see an HN update that converts jwz links to non-clickable.
I'm not sure, which is why I hedged my words rather carefully. I'm skeptical about a dyslexia gene (or genes) myself, as writing is relatively recent and there have been only a few hundred years to select for it, but it's not my area of expertise.

So, if you like, you can replace dyxlexia with condition A, Italian with subject B, and French with subject C.
Exactly. I'm going to make a brave prediction that "the market will drop, then go up again and drop again."

It's called a business cycle!
You are labouring under a severe misapprehension.
Fair enough; I don't know as much as perhaps I should about the European situation.
If the author knows about Rust, it's a little odd that he didn't mention scoped-threadpool, which is pretty close to this idea:

http://kimundi.github.io/scoped-threadpool-rs/scoped_threadp...

EDIT: He compares to Rust in a comment on the Reddit thread:

https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/8es8x3/notes_o...

As an aside, HN users tend to sneer at Reddit, but this is another case where the discussion on Reddit is better than the one here.