skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Depends how you define "developed country". The world bank seems to consider GDP as the main factor, if you disagree with the common metric then you'll have to define how you see it.

China has a lot of wealth on display but overall isn't so well developed if you remember the fact that so many people live there. If China were as developed as the US, we would expect it to be something like 3x the economic activity as the US.

GDP per capita:

USA: 57k

Canada: 42k

UK: 39k

...

Kazakhstan: 8k

China: 8k

Libya: 7k

In addition by some metrics, it could be exploiting even harder to achieve further industrialization. For instance, China is way behind the US in CO2 emissions per capita even today, and if you count total CO2 emissions, the US is still #1. If China had equal CO2 emissions as the US per capita (which might indicate a similar level of industrialization), that would be disastrous.

https://www.ucsusa.org/global-warming/science-and-impacts/sc...
>I don't think that the question of whether there is an institutional problem necessitates large numbers of incidence.

If an institution has lower number of incidents than population average than it's rather ridiculous to claim that it has an "institutional problem" with those incidents.

And I assure you, HR people in any big corporation would laugh at those numbers.

Now, if your argument is that Ph.D. serfdom magnifies the consequences of every incident, than I fully agree. Read my comment below. Rather than instituting "oversight", however, it would be much more rational to end Ph.D. serfdom. It has other negative consequences, which wouldn't be solved by some "supervisor police".

Marvin Minsky and Alan Kay spoke at length about how US academic system today stiffles creativity and long-term research. Seems it wasn't always like that, and the different wasn't in more oversight. Quite the opposite, actually.

>For example, you could say that 99.99% of people don't get murdered, so if the police don't investigate murders, it's no big deal, after all it's just 0.01% of the population.

Beyond certain point adding more police does nothing to curb murder rates. It's not a linear relationship.
Why not? Afraid they'll actually get things done instead of faffing about with thefts and handouts and bureaucracy?
This is pretty dumb. Maybe I have a good imagination for malice but if I thought through every possible bad use of some code I could never write any code or produce nearly any item in the world. I suppose this is parallel to believing if guns themselves are bad or not.
That's a fair point. It's a heritage language for me, and my wife and in-laws are fluent, which leaves me in the dark or asking for translations all the time. I don't have a concrete goal, but I do have motive.
You weren't careful to say it in this subthread though. I had a whole response written up to talk about how you're being completely unreasonable with regards to most gaming projects before I saw this clarification. Now all that effort is wasted! ;)
I did one of my undergrads in mathematics. For me the primary benefit of studying pure mathematics was that it greatly improved my ability to think clearly. Mathematics more than almost any other discipline (physics and philosophy are on par with maths here) has the power to remove conceptual clutter, teach you to capture the essence of a problem, and be a more careful thinker. I've always been a first principles thinker, and maths made me a much better one. There is a night and day difference in how you think between the beginning and end of a good undergraduate Real Analysis course.

Applied to software engineering, it (indirectly) improved my abilty to understanding what a piece of software needs to do and why it's there. It also improved my ability to discern what level of abstraction is appropriate to the problem at hand, and figure out what questions to ask. In short, mathematics changes the way you think in a very powerful way. The precise contents of what you learn in the subject aren't necessarily applicable to everyday software engineering outside of a few areas, but the way of thinking is eminently so. For a personal example of where mathematics does come up in programming in a direct way, I do hobby graphics programming, which necessitates fluency in elementary linear algebra and benefits from grasping vector calculus (if you want to understand how light transport works and where physically-based rendering algorithms come from).
The Physics of the Agile Methodology
I’m assuming that this is paid access, right? Does the signup process mention this “hidden fee”?
Legalizing marijuana (btw I’m a huge proponent) was supposed to hurt the cartels and decrease violence but has made cartels much more violent and brutal. Instead of pushing weed across the border, they’ve been heavily pushing Meth, Heroine, and Cocaine instead. Their distribution from the north east to Chicago to LA is insane, they’ve got people hooked on these terrible drugs.

Look at the stats of drug deaths from different drugs over the last 10 years and see the huge spike. I believe double for cocaine, and triple for meth and heroine in just a few years. This is worse than 80s crack epedimic in terms of death. The cartels also didn’t get weaker they became more violent and richer.

I can’t beliebe I was so naive to think about legalizing drugs when I was in college. I am 100% for marijuana, medical marijuana without a doubt should be legal in every state anyone disagreeing has basically no merit. But the rest of them, I’m okay with a mild version of the Reagan crackdowns. We’re a lot less racist and a lot more forgiving from 30 years ago, I think we need to be a lot more forgiving for personal drug use or force the courts the option to send repeat offenders to rehab or prison and 100% they’d choose rehab, prison makes absolutely no sense for heavy hard drug users. We need to be even harsher for heavy drug dealing, gang violence, drug violence, and need far more agents stopping the drug inflows from the southern border and need to beef up our coast guard.

Also need to help the economy of flyover states because a lot of the drug deaths are from there.
I also practiced smiling to change my neutral expression (which used to cause people to worry that I might be sad) and now I constantly have a slight smile.

I still haven't gotten used to strangers on the street suddenly smiling brightly at me, it always takes me a moment to realize it was me who smiled at them first.

The secondary effect of receiving unexpected smiles definitely also helps to improve my mood.
My lizard brain demands a winner and a loser though.
At the same time, just because one thing which is caused by genetics is easily remedied, doesn’t mean others will be.
In a thread about Uber drivers in Brazil scamming, there are people talking about how it's a death sentence to walk into the wrong favela.

Are they wrong? That's not a normal, functioning, society, regardless of GDP.
As far as I see, solid is just bunch of existing standards bundled together. Especially RDF and things related to it.

The w3.org site describing solid is actually more readable: https://www.w3.org/community/rww/wiki/SoLiD

See also https://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/LinkedData.html
It contains also a Graphical Editor https://github.com/dddomodossola/remi/tree/master/editor that produces directly python code. no transition metalanguages.
This is submarine for the upcoming movie.

Of course, you can still enjoy the article. Just so you know, you are being primed.
OP is linking to the CBS instructions itself. It's not a news site.
I'm not the biggest fan of Tesla, but they might be the most impressive company of this decade

Out of curiosity, why do you think you included 'not the biggest fan'?
The military is an absolutely essential institution, but for the sake of the civilians and the soldiers, we shouldn't forget its function: Kill people and destroy their creations. I saw a recruiting commercial for the U.S. military showing an aircraft carrier and calling it a 'global force for good'. That misleads recruits: It's a global force of death and destruction, and that will be your job if you sign up. We don't like to think that, and we can't let that result in rejecting all use of the military - which is just as irresponsible - but we must face the reality of a very serious subject so we can think seriously about it.

When we imagine that the military is something else, especially something glorious, not only do we risk the worst evil of humanity, war, but we also harm the soldiers (and sailors): War is very damaging to them, and not just the dead and the physically wounded, but causing and experiencing death and destruction results in great psychological harm. Humans are not cut out to do it: IIRC the details, on D-Day in WWII, half the soldiers didn't fire their weapons when they should have. After every war, you can read that people 'were not the same' when they returned; many are damaged. Suicides are (or recently were) very high among U.S. soldiers, and the current wars are relatively very low risk for them. I've read interviews with elite special forces soldiers who talk about how hard it is, psychologically, to kill.

Another consequence is that we put soldiers in positions to fail: We send them to wars that they cannot win, usually because we ignore the essential requirement of a stable political outcome - Afghanistan and Iraq are only the two most recent examples. Many in the U.S. like to imagine an invincible force, a panacea for international problems, but just a brief glance at history shows otherwise: since WWII, there has been one clear victory (Gulf War), two endless stalemates (Korea, Afghanistan), one ongoing quagmire of mostly negative results (Iraq), and one loss (Vietnam). We also ask soldiers to do jobs they are not trained for, such as policing: Police are there to bring and maintain peace and public order; soldiers are trained to do the opposite, kill and destroy.

When we have a clear idea of a military's function, we can align outcomes with our values, minimize the use of soldiers precious lives and health, and put them in a position to succeed. To ignore the reality of the military's function, of killing people and destroying their civilization, is immoral IMO.
The w3.org site describing solid is much better (even if some links don't work):

https://www.w3.org/community/rww/wiki/SoLiD

https://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/LinkedData.html

inrupt.com site is just marketing hype and crap experience.
You're putting the macOS team on a pedestal. Accounts I read elsewhere are it's a pretty barebones crew and I bet there are many components sitting unmaintained release to release with bad defaults to boot.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18083641
SoLiD
USE, RED and real-world PgBouncer monitoring
Thanks for the helpful link to the listing of actual textbooks! I was looking in OP for that but somehow could not find it.
Nugache
I am not fully sure about this, but it might be against the GDPR? From what I understand you aren't allowed to block someone if they opt out of non-essential stuff.
However the GDPR hasn't been tried on anything like this yet, so it'll be interesting to watch in the future, but I am not expecting anything soon.
Serious question: why does everyone trust DuckDuckGo?
The original spice chemicals were pretty good. Only serious side effect was extreme tiredness the next day. Besides that they were good and trippy. Then the government banned that chemical so they keep modifying the structure to the point that some of them are really evil. This issue could probably be solved by legalising normal weed.
They're very cool electric scooters with long lasting light batteries, for around $2000 USD. Didn't see a single "pedalled" scooter there.
I never really get why military has such a bad press in the programmer's crowd.

I mean sure, killing people is bad in a society but it's precisely because the world has been so far a succession of ruthless wars between groups of people that having a military is a good thing to protect you.

I know the "military kills unethically etc.." and "we are a peaceful world etc.." arguments but maybe people are getting a bit too, and wrongly, "certain" that it will last. If anything, history has shown that it's a succession of cycles until the next wars. Better be able to be the strongest ones.

I've been in my country's military (Europe) and most of the people are not psychopath (a few, sure). they are normal people thinking their job is an important one to protect peace at home.

So yeah "just don't go to job that makes you uncomfortable". It's the only takeaway i get from that article but i don't share the military shaming. Would have been more convincing with a oil industry or "on-demand market" example
Mistakes are going to happen and the world has changed. The battlefield is everywhere now. It's not good, but from a high level the US leading the world led to fewer combat deaths.

https://www.vox.com/2015/6/23/8832311/war-casualties-600-yea...

Note that that graph is logarithmic.
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Mesh Shader Possibilities
Only after you've agreed to it does it popup the text "This development board can be only used for prototyping, it cannot be built into a product for commercial distribution. It cannot be re-sold or used as part of a production environment."

I suspect adding anything about restrictions was a last-minute job for Seeed, and it's probably not something given too much effort on their part. Realistically, an $85 devboard isn't going to end up being built into production items. And they're probably going to be a low enough quantity item for Seeed that they can manually look into any instances where someone has ordered more than 3 or 4 and just stop sending any more to them if it really rises up to being enough of a problem for Microsoft to complain.
It's not that simple.

Genes can be activated by the environment, as early as the womb. So in the case of the twins, a brief shortage of nutrients or oversupply of nutrients, may cause certain genes to not active, active late, activate differently, etc.

From what I gathered on the studies around it all, most of the outset is defined by genes, the environment then can play on the existing genes. Ie, if you don't have the genes to be smart, you won't be smart and there isn't much you can do about it past a certain point, if you do have them, you can be smart or you can still be dumb without being able to do anything about it. Or height. If you have genes to be 2m tall it won't help you much if a nutrient deficiency in early childhood stunts growth and leaves you at 1.6m.

So in the case of the identical twins, they likely have both a potential to develop autism or at least tendencies towards the spectrum but only in one the specific genes activated for whatever reason.
Yea I remember that discussion. I'm not sure if I'm entirely convinced, but there are so many studies in progress looking at this that I decided to try running Redshift on my desktop again.

I will say, it does seem to make it easier to fall asleep at night.
That's pretty clean code, good job OP!
This is a good example of someone twisting the term "serverless" to capture attention:

> Serverless Database Engine

> Most NoSQL database engines (i.e. MongoDB, Redis, CouchDB) are implemented as a separate server process. Programs that want to access the database communicate with the server using some kind of interprocess communication (typically TCP/IP) to send requests to the server and to receive back results. UnQLite like SQLite does not work this way. With UnQLite, the process that wants to access the database reads and writes directly from the database files on disk. There is no intermediary server process.

The fact that it's embedded doesn't actually have anything to do with what popular "serverless" architectures are designed to solve, i.e. writing code that does not need to run in a specific server process to be invoked on demand. By their definition of serverless, pretty much any library is "serverless"...

Edit: This is referring to "Classic Serverless" (https://sqlite.org/serverless.html) not "Neo-Serverless" architecture (my definition is more like "Neo-Serverless"). Thanks parhamn for pointing out the distinction.
Don't know if you know this, but given your example: The MP3s of the Joe Rogan Podcast can be downloaded from his website. Just an FYI.
That's accurate. Panasonic is in each Gigafactory manufacturing the 2170 cells and then hands them off to Tesla.
Yeah, but they pay for the web results
If you have no savings, just keep 1 year worth of living expenses in a savings accounts, and invest the rest.
The Mayan highlands in Guatemala are actually a great place to visit — I spent a month or so there a few years ago. The people are super nice and it’s just beautiful.
My lizard brain demands a winner and a loser though.

So those of us who strive to do better than the lizard brain should be taking up the nuanced, moderate view.
> And for informational artifacts, the right to "undo" or "take back" is also important, because the fact that what you say/publish is there to haunt you forever will have a chilling effect... lots of interesting things will go unsaid unwritten.

Yes, that's the root for a lot of information censorship. Society as a whole is still very immature and tends to pretend that not every human is flawed and has a past with mistakes. I hope that we can collectively move past that at some point.
Women in Silicon Valley Face a Massive Equity Gap
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> I mean, if you have a mortgage it doesn't matter at all if the price of the house you are living in falls.

I don't have that much insight in the technical details of mortgages in the US but at least in Sweden, if the price of your house falls too much, the bank will send you a (huge) bill for you to cover their risk. E.g. if you buy a house for $300000 and borrow $225000, then if the expected market price of your house would fall to $200000, the bank will simply send you a $25000 bill.
You were suggesting light doesn't have any other 'intrinsic properties' and that's not the case - phase (a laser is not just a monochromatic light source) and polarization come to mind. Whatever it is you're trying to argue, 'light is just wavelength and intensity' is not a sensible starting point.
In order for apps to make use of your POD data you’d have to give them access to it and once they have it you’re back to the same experience as pre-Solid, right? What am I missing?
What you're missing is that your eyes adjust the amount of light they let in and their sensitivity relative to ambient light, which can often result in a monitor having "inappropriate" brightness levels relative to that level. Nobody on the planet spends all day constantly adjusting their monitors' brightness and contrast levels, even assuming that it was possible to reach the appropriate levels in all ambient lighting conditions within the range of those controls (hint: it's not).

On the other hand, passive displays (books, e-ink) by their nature inherently match ambient lighting conditions, because they simply reflect ambient light. This is the equivalent of a monitor with a much wider range of contrast and brightness levels equipped with an automatic adaptive adjustment with sub-nanosecond response times, something that simply does not exist with present technology.

So yes, in theory a monitor could potentially match a passive display in terms of reducing eye strain and tiredness but in practice it is beyond the state of the art for now.
“Warning: if your threat model is a state-sponsored agency, you are better off without macOS, see OpenBSD.”

While my excessively paranoid self is inclined to agree, I am curious as to the author’s reasoning here.
"The armed conflict between the cartels and Mexico’s military, which has dragged on for 12 years, now ranks as the deadliest war in the world apart from Syria."

Do people still voluntarily go on holiday in Mexico?
... I think the ethical responsibility here is with the trigger-pullers and their chain of command; not the phone-finders.
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> I see that as a consequence and a failure of society
You're making some good points and I feel ambivalent about prop types however I wanted give a few solutions to some of the things you said.

You can use eslint to enforce the use of prop types, it'll read through your code and will give you a warning if you are using a prop without a corresponding prop types declaration, the rule is called react/prop-types

You can us PropTypes.shape and PropTypes.exact to define the shape of props that are objects, see https://www.npmjs.com/package/prop-types
The split is really 3 ways, nature/nurture/noise, although the latter two tend to get lumped together and called nurture.

The rule of thumb for most complex traits is half genetic, half environment... but this half is almost all "un-shared environment", meaning things specific to the individual (possibly random), not "shared environment" meaning observable things like parents, diet, schools, typically shared between siblings.

I don't know the numbers for autism, but would guess it's like this. Which is to say, be careful how you read statements that nurture plays a role -- it's often written to mean "not-nature", and but read to mean "upbringing".
Ah, I didn't read it correctly then.
Hang some nets in your back yard.
I don't think Firefox on Android supports this. On Desktop it's quite useful for when you want to search a site you don't have a shortcut for. Guessing the shortcut has usually worked for me.

Also, when your search didn't give you what you were looking for, you can just prepend e.g. !g to search on Google, which for me is slightly faster than to copy the query, go to the address bar, enter "g" and then paste.
I heard it was due to the corporations moving in and getting stronger. Their lawyers were far more ruthless.
Could you add “Deluded” or “Dumber Than Toast” before CBS? Pleeeeeaaase?