skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a biochemist, I just want to chime in that I think part of the reason for an apparent increase rise in cancer rates is that we have eliminated many other causes of death already - we have to die of something, and cancer is something that is not "curable" in the sense of other disorders.

After looking at the list of publications purported to be evidence, I have to agree with the other comments here casting doubt. Most, if not all, of these publications are in no-name journals with few citations. I found one paper where the author listed a gmail email address (are they unaffiliated with any institution?)
Copy/paste the dead comment, for posterity to show Annatard getting rekt yet again:

>No sorry, but that's incorrect.

WRONG! It is factually correct that Linux beats illumos in performance.

>I saw the bug requests myself when the database was still accessible, and I read multiple accounts from engineers working on performance improvements at Sun Microsystems

As did I, and the former lead performance engineer at Joyent says Linux beats illumos: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16382456

>who I trust far more than anecdotal, arbitrary claim from you here in "Hacker" "News" of all places, which has meanwhile become notorious.

Hopefully you trust the anecdotes of the lead performance engineer that worked on illumos LOL!

>And considering I know how fast illumos is because I ran Solaris and Linux on the same hardware, I'll just stick with running SmartOS, thank you very much:

I also ran it with the same hardware, and Linux beats it in pretty much every category. You can continue to use your Slowlaris based OS and live in the past. Your prerogative. https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=opensola....

>for example, Solaris would regularly peak to 85 MB/s while Linux could barely muster 55 MB/s on the same hardware...

AHAHAHA I got more performance from my junk server on Linux 10 years ago, easily beating Solaris, regularly peaking around 100 MB/s.

>HTTP response times are up to 10x faster on Solaris; and so on, and so forth.

I got 40x response time increases on Linux; and so on, and so forth.

>I've never seen Linux max out 40 Gbps per second and saturate the switch, but I sure as hell did do that with Solaris 10 on a DELL server, of all the shitty hardware out there.

Wow, so slow. We had to get special switches specifically because Linux would over saturate way past 40 Gbps. Never had that issue with Slowlaris.

> I've also never been able to get Linux to deliver anywhere close to 100 MB/s with NFS, while SmartOS regularly delivered over 433 MB/s, while peaking multiple times at 533 MB/s; that's faster than our EMC SAN was at work!

AHAHAHAHA Slowlaris could barely make it through a day without NFS crashing. We were regularly peaking in the 800 MB/s range with Linux, that's faster than Slowlaris crashing on the EMC SAN at work!

>So yeah, I'll stick with what doesn't break backwards compatibility and is blazingly fast...

Ah, so you'll stick with Linux! Awesome!

>Solaris and SmartOS for the win.

Winning the dunce award for antiquated OSes, yep.

>Good luck with GNU and Linux. You'll need it.

Good luck with the OS that runs the fastest super computers in the world, all of HFT, etc.? Yep, we'll need luck to leverage the best platform to push us into the future. Thanks!
Maybe NordVPN would argue personal data wasn't breached?

It's a bad look in any case.
Any photon is basically "something which induces motion in a charged particle". That's what it means to be electromagnetic radiation. The intensity to which that occurs has to do with the electrical potential landscape around that charged particle and the wavelength of that photon. If these two values are close to each other (coupled) then the motion of the charged particle is more likely.

Microwave radiation (especially in the GHz range) illuminating DNA has been long known as a phenomenon, of course it does depend on which frequency band in the GHz range you're in, too.
Putting it on the company to stop you from not doing things that make you prone to the most common and low-barrier password stuffing attacks?

People reusing passwords is risky and frankly stupid behavior.

The same way you are responsible for your financial identity and can be taken to court over these disputes, you are also responsible for your cyber identity.

The longer you avoid being held responsible, the worse the pain will be.
> Yes, network KVMs are expected of any co-location center. You want to be able to access the console and the power switches of any real physical server without having to send someone out to the center, and is a common feature of most high end data centers.

Power on/off should be done via APIs that issue commands to a PDU, like Atlantic.net started doing in the early 200s.

And there's nearly zero reason to access "console" - configure your server to always but off PXE and fall through to disk if that intercept is not needed.
I use Mendeley but I struggle to maintain a good noting higyene
I told my kid the benefits of good eduction and a willingness (but not fetish) for hard work was 1 - a more interesting life and 2 - the opportunity to "buy" more lottery tickets for the things you might ed up wanting (which aren't always $).
Who has the resources and interest to compete in that market who isn't trying to already?
nobody talked about systemd-networkd, that's a separate project and binary.
I want to read my own email.
Thanks for taking a look and pointing me to TopicBox! There are some overlaps (team collaboration based on email), but I think that's ok. There is plenty of room for improvement in this area. My focus has been on simplicity. I don't think we need to re-invent the listserv concept necessarily - but I do see a huge opportunity to make group email discussion lists (mailing lists) much more streamlined, simple, and intuitive.

Making group collaboration easier seems like a win no matter what.
Or not. Society might just as well support adults who are a net net loss and expense. There is no telling if the future generation would be productive.

Making progeny is not a ‘virtue’. Willing to procreate should not be considered a speculative way to raise monies for taxes.
> Divorce, scandal, drug addiction and various other personal issues can all be financially ruinous.

Smart people get past their personal issues and back on track stronger. If not, they aren't smart. A little bit above average is not smart, nor be really great at one thing (like computing) but not be able to fix your own lifestyle, money expending, health and eating habits.
I've spent this entire year taking a break to learn fundamental CS(I'm not a CS graduate)
Here are the books I found most useful/interesting:
1. The Annotated Turing by Charles Petzold : Used it because I had a hard time digesting the original Alan Turing paper
2. An Introduction to Formal Languages and Automata by Peter Linz : To grab the concept of state machines
3. The description of sequential processes by Iverson
4. Clrs: Have kept it for reference

Then I studied a matrix of math books, along with other CS books regarding compilers, operating systems etc. My aim was to get good enough understanding to comfortably digest the famous research papers.

I am yet to find definitive books that teach a way of thinking on their own merit as a single book. Cs like others is a matrix of knowledge that clicks as a whole 'chunk' of understanding, changing the way you have thought about things like programming in general. I'm having a hard time explaining this.

If you're not a CS graduate, I highly suggest simply going through academics of places teaching theoretical CS.
That's a good example, but I'd say that it's a relatively unusual case. There, the technology's customers were other scientists (more precisely, people-of-science), and so what was required to convince them was empirical evidence. But even though empirical evidence was exactly what Semmelweis had, they still wouldn't believe him.

Another example would be anti-vaxxers today. Here too, though, we have a special case. The technology was so successful that people forgot how bad of a problem it solved.

Interestingly, in these cases my statement about lack of success implying lack of benefit is wrong, but these are the very cases where the benefit is easily proven empirically.
As I said down-thread, my only immediate concern when I put the presentation together was presenting it from my own laptop. I appreciate that folks are wanting to read it on mobile, but I've got a lot of stuff on my plate (primarily work around maintaining Redux), and modifying my slides to work better on mobile has not been a priority.
It also could have been a date based on last edit.
There are so many possibilities, that it is suspect. Fair point.

Unlike you, I don't think it's all that important a detail as its omission (mistake or not) does not detract from the analysis.

Not to get too meta, but if it was intentional, why would it necessarily be, since it's so incidental to the narrative?
Target same day pickup is good. Not a Costco member, so have only used the pharmacy.

Bought a microwave from Walmart that came in a severely damaged carton, although there were no dents or scratches. But the microwave died a few months later. Never again.

Besides, Walmart was a huge factor in killing the downtowns of many small and medium sized towns and cities.
> it's not like second-hand smoking

Shouldn't smoke follow the inverse square law as well (in the absence of air currents)?
Probably because they prefer, or think they prefer, Google results to DDG results and don't realize that a decent company (ixquick developer) runs the domain StartPage.com https://www.startpage.com/ (which has a very AOLish, Web 1.0 sound to it). Startpage serves up Google results. DDG serves up everything but Google, I think.
> it Just Works™ for the vast majority of use cases, just like PulseAudio does.

I am not in the vast majority of use cases, then, because systemd is a serious pain in my butt. But then, so is PulseAudio (which is why I make sure it's never installed).

My issues with systemd (both technical and as an andicator of the direction Linux is going) are severe enough that I'm actively preparing to move all of my machines over to BSD.
Does creating a RAM drive in Windows still require third-party software/drivers or is it natively supported by Microsoft these days? I haven't tried to do it since Windows 7 I believe.
The large increases in US oil production is in the Permian Basin and the Bakken Shale, which both produce light crude. Some of this is exported, as most refineries in the US are designed to process heavy crude. California refineries generally are set up for lighter crude (historically a lot of Alaskan crude) and has been hit with higher oil prices due to the recent loss of Saudi production.
In life, you really don’t get to choose not to roll the dice, because there’s risk in everything including doing nothing.
You can increase your luck outcome simply by trying more.
That's very much a CCP thing. Chinese people are actually rather nice.
Solar forcing was considered well before CMIP6. The idea that it was "completely missed" is false.

https://www.geosci-model-dev.net/10/2247/2017/

> We compare the climatic effects of the CMIP6 solar forcing dataset to its CMIP5 predecessor by using time-slice experiments of two chemistry–climate models and a reference radiative transfer model... This solar-cycle response is slightly larger, but not statistically significantly different from that for the CMIP5 forcing dataset.

We may not know the exact values of cosmic ray, volcanic, etc. inputs into the systems, but we can make reasonable conclusions about their high and low end values and the likely impacts that result. A quick Googling will reveal plenty of research on (and mentions in IPCC reports) the things you assert are being ignored.
Does it mean they grew up in a different, more homogenous region than you? If you were never really exposed to black people, doesn’t that change a person? Shouldn’t we have sympathy for those who are underexperienced with blacks and other minorities?
Chinese way or Communist Party way? They’re not necessarily the same.
there's many HN articles from this domain. check out feedback there.

https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=greenteapress.com
2 things;

1) Init scripts varied by implementation very much, I have managed to successfully debug, make, read and otherwise modify/parse init scripts from basically every _major_ distro including OpenBSD and FreeBSD.

I am not particularly intelligent, so if I can do it, you can.

2) There is no reason to assume we go back to bash scripts per-se, there is a huge middle ground between a huge C program which execve()'s programs and watches them live, parses their output, logs it, enables socket activation, keeps an in memory DAG that it determines randomly on boot.... and bash scripts.
But what did the reviewers say about the paper? (http://arxiv.org/abs/1802.07068)

They used a normal distribution for "Talent", but that's false. There is plenty of evidence that , like everything in life , it's power-law distributed

https://www.forbes.com/sites/joshbersin/2014/02/19/the-myth-...

http://blogs.cornell.edu/info2040/2018/11/16/power-laws-reve...

And the assumtions of the model are rather childish: each random event either doubles or halves your capital (In real life, the multiplier can be much much higher or lower). In fact that's the most flawed point of their tiny "model": by changing the factor 2 and the multiplier distribution they can come up with any result they want.

Also, everyone meets lucky/unlucky events in the same frequency - the presumumption that smart people make paths that provide equal opportunity as the rest or take chances with equal frequency is just false.

They could at least have compared the lifetime wealth fluctuations with real data for a sense of how wrong thir model is. This is a model of a very simple casino game, not real life.

The paper has no discussion, no justification for its parameters, no critical presentation of its limitations , no sensitivity analysis.

Good conversation piece, everyone has an opinion on the subject, but the experiment is rubbish.
My amazon purchases have dropped to nearly zero because I refuse to eat this inventory risk. This is Amazons problem to solve.
NBA acted fine. They did not punish or discipline the Rocket's manager.
I wonder if this is an artefact of the rules of the sim. There's weak evidence that supports the sim in that it predicts the current wealth distribution somewhat, but that doesn't mean the sim represents reality, of course.

The part that sticks out to me is the variation in the talent param. It's N(0.6, 0.01), so the mean person has a 60% chance of capitalizing on their luck. I wonder if perhaps that number is actually substantially lower.

Well, just a thought. I found the paper's methods interesting (simulating the agents and events random-walking until they encountered each other, etc.).
2 Billion per year buys a lot of R&D. So, while Amazon is great for small to mid sized companies, BoA is huge and would need massive discounts to consider using Amazon.
You mentioned no concrete examples, without them, your comment is just your opinion, not really adding to the conversation.
> Before Mozilla's drama with DoH, which app(s) did that?

Chrome, for one?
When you live without a real safety net, no amount of money is ever enough to guarantee anything whatsoever. Plus decades of doing what you have to do to survive at all and not end up being a victim of such a system powerfully shapes your psychology. It's hard to just put it down one day after your net worth hits $X.
You cannot get a Tesla Model 3 for a little more than $8,500. They are ~$40,000 used.
If you do a half decent job of raising your kids you’ve also diversified your retirement prospects.
Nobody ever got fired for using AWS.
It seems Alpine uses Gentoo's OpenRC init system from a quick Google.

https://wiki.alpinelinux.org/wiki/Alpine_Linux_Init_System

https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/OpenRC
Cjf
I prefer this approach:

>Systemd is included by default but not enabled. You can scan your MX system and discover files bearing "systemd" names, but those simply provide a compatibility hook/entrypoint when needed.

>MX Linux uses systemd-shim, which emulates the systemd functions that are required to run the helpers without actually using the init service. This means that SvsVinit remains the default init yet MX Linux can use Debian packages that have systemd dependencies such as CUPS. This approach also allows the user to retain the ability to choose his/her preferred init.

Source: https://mxlinux.org/about-us/
> Buying or not buying WoW subscriptions is unlikely to change the root problems, if you value human rights in a foreign country even a little.

There are actually two root problems here:

1. Human rights violations in an authoritarian foreign country.

2. Successful efforts by that foreign country to export some of its domestic censorship practices using its economic might (by encouraging corporations to voluntarily enforce some of its censorship policies to avoid economic reprisals).

Actions against Blizzard will not help with problem 1, but will help with problem 2.
IQ might be more accurately termed SQ (Success Quotient), as it might be measuring the traits that could make one more likely to succeed than intelligence per se.
If it’s a frathouse with 20 somethings who don’t have enough time except with each other, how does sexuality come into play? Not at all?
I uninstalled HS, which was the last blizzard game i had.

The real pain point for me is that i stopped supporting blizzard content creators. Omnislash, Kripp, winter, serral, and others. Streaming is their livelihood and/or competing. Such is the colatteral damage.
> China accounts a small fraction of their income

100% probability that Blizzard is making more keeping Chinese customers than angering a few angry people on the internet.

> The government's demands are only going to get more onerous from here.

Proof?

> The Chinese government isn't going to let an American company have open access to their markets for long.

I see. "They" have a "plan." Sure. These are just empty words.
Caffeine and, occasionally, L-Theanine. I have dabbled with using 5-HTP a few times.
A linear extrapolation would have been more accurate than any of his 3 models.
> For example, eating barbecued meat causes cancer, but it we don't ban it.

Sure, but the absolute risk is very low and it's probably zero if you add veggies to your meal. And also causality was not established, observational studies on this topic suffering from the healthy-user bias in addition to a lot of confounding factors and in general for nutrition the evidence is very low quality, compared with medication research.

This isn't a boolean. Saying that "this or that causes cancer" is meaningless without giving the risk factor, which has to be statistically significant and in case of meat it isn't.

In other words if you want to compare the risks of 5G with anything, I think nutrition is a really poor choice due to the low standards for evidence we have and due to all the confounding factors and biases.

Not sure if assessing the safety of 5G is easier, but at the very least you can do double-blind studies. At the very least you can compare it with the placebo effect. Which in nutrition isn't possible.
If you manage things right its not that hard. Unfortunately there are not all that many good devops people. Expect to pay them as much as higher end devs. But overall you can save a ton of money hiring some of those and passing on the outrageous AWS markup on CPU and bandwidth.
Most people are looking at this from a consumer perspective but just imagine someone involved in the games competitively or professionally in one way or another. Can't necessarily just stop playing or being involved in Blizzard games. Would be like if the NBA created/owned basketball and a player deciding never to play basketball again. Obviously not a perfect analogy but gives someone an idea of the situation some people find themselves in at the moment. With that in mind, hopefully Blizzard fixes their approach here.
Sigh, this argument just has to come up in every discussion on Systemd. Anyone who dare to be critical about Systemd is apparently just a Luddite afraid of change. You know what, I have no problems with change at all, only when the change is to something worse.
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Nah, a South Asian that kind of grew up in Riyadh.
While the book is not perfect, reading Outliers from Malcolm Gladwell could hint on some not so obvious conditions that could make getting rich not so random.
There's a plethora of tax breaks and deductions related to children that you can claim. Besides that, the people who don't have kids are subsidizing the education of yours through their taxes.

Regarding social security, I'm fairly confident the system will collapse before I see a penny of what I'm paying in.
Delta updates, phased rollouts, and more with new Mender release
How does this quote demonstrate that the service provider was not at fault?
Blizzard loves engagement numbers and makes them feel they are robust against boycotts. You need to leave if you want to make a point.
People are quite misinformed about how wealth accumulation works. You don't become wealthy by working hard at any particular craft. You become wealthy by acquiring as much capital as possible and charging people a premium for access. How then do you acquire wealth-building capital in the first place? Birth lotto most of the time. Turns out, life isn't a meritocracy at all.
Which they weren't going to enforce against the Americans, until it was pointed out. Then they belatedly enforced it to show they were consistently applying the rules and that it had nothing to do with China.
This is only true because average teams get annoyed at having people trying to push the project along in ways they do not understand. In most of my jobs, average people really appreciate stability and do not like change. To fit in, you end up having to do less work and transfer your energy to side projects or hobbies
I think the article's own examples bear this out. Airplanes, cars, computers, and the internet were all adopted about as fast as they could be made available and usable. Early adopters invested time and/or money that could only be justified by the pleasure and satisfaction they got out of the process. The author points to instances of the nostalgia and generational anxiety that often accompany change, but he implies that they act as a brake on technology adoption without providing any evidence.
Another great piece. The world is changing, in the same way that the printing press caused change, people to break away from the control of the church. For many years it has been American views of freedom of the press that had a lot of sway in the world.

> And then China is building its own internet focused on very different values, and is now exporting their vision of the internet to other countries. ... There’s no guarantee [American notions of free speech] ... values will win out. A decade ago, almost all of the major internet platforms were American. Today, six of the top ten are Chinese.

> We’re beginning to see this in social media. While our services, like WhatsApp, are used by protesters and activists everywhere due to strong encryption and privacy protections, on TikTok, the Chinese app growing quickly around the world, mentions of these protests are censored, even in the US.

Scary to think that China can force censorship here via TikTok. I'm not a tiktok user, but that's terrifying. Hidden, defacto commercial censorship.

(edited to remove the > on the last thing above, that was my comment)