skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The height difference between racial groups has a significant genetic component. Asian Americans are 8cm shorter than White Americans, despite being about equally wealthy.

This means that Asians are, on average, genetically disadvantaged when it comes to performance in, for example, basketball - meaning they are less likely to produce a star basketball player, all else equal, because there are less extremely tall Asians as a percentage of the population.

If we can't agree on this central claim then our differences are irreconcilable.

I understand that culture, nutrition, etc, makes a difference, and I don't dispute that, my only claim is that the genetics of race is playing a causal role here.
Thanks! I am happy for anyone to join in and help building it, it is a community-driven (wiki-like) database, so feel free to sign up and start adding/editing plants!
Here is the contact form for the Senator who is Chairman of the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. I'm pretty sure that's the committee who would be involved with this bill.

https://www.wicker.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/contact
You gotta be smart and able to think abstractly. You are building virtual legos and keeping that all suspended in your brain and that's hard to do. I hear people throwing out general terms like literacy and communication. Not really. There's a certain type of brain that's built for programming if it comes easy to you. If it doesn't come easy just bail now.
You're assuming good faith in elected representatives and their staff.

I wonder if anyone in the last decade has _ever_ walked into their rep's office, talked to them, and changed their vote on a key issue. I really doubt it.
It's not that we have to choose one of those two options. Work is still being done on static-analysis tools for C.

To speak of Frama-C specifically, it isn't competing with new languages like Zig and Nim, it's competing with rival tools like [0], and with SPARK Ada. Formal reasoning about code is, for now, a niche reserved for critical-systems development. That kind of work tends to use tried-and-true languages with tried-and-true tooling: C, C++, Ada, and occasionally even Java.

> the languages we did design would be designed to make it easy to make tools that help us use them.

This is already a factor in language design. It's one of the reasons C-style preprocessors are now unfashionable.

[0] http://www.eschertech.com/products/
This is a great work :) kudos!
How do you share the spreadsheet? Shared network drive? By email? With Excel?
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Tea ceremony presumably isn't about selling specifically (I don't know it's origins, but I'm guessing they're not 'sell tea').

The crepes thing is interesting to me -- would love to hear of earlier examples, or those from other cultures than UK -- as it turns cheap mass-produced (in house but pre-service) meal items into the highest priced item on the menu. I checked one of the YouTube examples and saw all other puddings (desserts) for £9 but crêpes suzette were £15. Sure it uses 5 minutes of a waiters time (min wage in UK ~60p for 5 minutes) but that's still an excellent markup, especially if a table of 4 have the crêpes and you prepare them together.
We don't sell your data to third parties. We plan to offer recommendations and save people money through our own platform.
Hiring for tech jobs has increased more than 100% in these Midwestern cities
Intel uses monolithic dies, meaning everything is on the same chunk of silicon. This has given them some improvements to latency[1] and power usage[2] in the past but hurt them on yields. AMD has a chiplet design, which improves yields[3] and may allow a more modular approach as mentioned.

[1] can be overcome via caching and other considerations, but purely from this aspect the impact is this.
[2] Longer traces lead to higher capacitance, and the power estimation formula P=C(V^2)f*a shows that this one aspect will change power use. Everything on one die means less parasitic capacitance.
[3] If the defect density is the same, and if you have 10 errors per wafer, then you will see different yields if you make 10 vs 100 vs 1000 chips on that wafer. Chiplets are smaller than monolithic designs, so we can put more of them on one wafer which improves yield independent of process
If you have many hours to spare, you can watch George Hotz dive into the details. One of the take-aways is that the Corona virus is a Sars, not a flu.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8vWaawiUteM

If your take is that Sars is just another flu, then I guess you just broadened the scope of the flu, and need to be open for the idea that the 'flu' could be more dangerous than you thought.
Found the USian !
Tried this out in early access and wanted to love and use it however a few things that made it not workable:

* wildcard subdomains aren't supported.

* Only CNAMEs to digital ocean's CDN are supported (can't have an A record).

* There was no way to run a console command.

* Bandwidth is 12x higher than usual droplets and unlike standard droplets there isn't an included bandwidth pool.
Good catch! The Wikipedia page confirms it.

Nothing in software development is as straightforward as we might hope.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbolic_Link_(SYLK)
Using Snowplow for simple visitor stats is like hosting your static website in Kubernetes.

It's a different use case and level of complexity.
> Fion is free because we want to make it easy for as many people as possible to track their spending across all their cards.

This sort of statement is unhelpful because while it's true in a sense, it's not your business plan. Your business plan reason for making it free is you will capture a lot of users, and will monetise through advertising and freemium options.

And that's fine.

Saying it's free because you want to help people just sounds like empty marketing.
Thanks for the recommendation will check it out
Industrialized farming is only so efficient because we sacrifice everything from ecological sustainability to taste to get that efficiency. Their comparative advantage is economical efficiency, which does far more damage than small scale agriculture. They are not ecologically efficient, which is what people mean when they talk about "saving the planet." (Medium to long term they're not economically efficient either - see the entire history of modern agriculture).

Trading human labor for machine labor and increasing density (land use efficiency) is what got us into this mess in the first place. With integrative pest control, crop rotation, and composting a small farm can get well within the ballpark of industrialized farming without contributing further to our planet's decline (source: eight acres). Yes, it's "inefficient" by some arbitrary measure that makes no sense now that we're past 400 PPM.

If anyone thinks we can survive the coming few centuries without some significant strategic deindustrialization or that any small group of people or issues will "save the planet", they're deluding themselves. Growing your own food, when done correctly on a few acres (especially if you grow your own meat), is one of the best ways to contribute now. We just have to throw away the efficiency metrics that got us here in the first place - it's our labor or the planet.
As a fellow YNAB user there would be no reason to switch anyways. YNAB provides far more control over your money/finances than a simple transaction aggregator.
I got the same symptoms of "long covid" and didn't even contract the virus. The lockdowns making it illegal to go to a bar or a sports game, worrying about finances and the economy, the incessant negative politics and media, wearing masks all day, replacing real human contact with computer screens and "Zoom Happy Hours"? All of these have given me the same symptoms: Anxiety. Fatigue. Brain Fog. Breathing issues. It seems like there is another disease going around and no one is talking about it.
here is my answer: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24696768
previously the game was designed by people wanting to make a MMO that they wanted to play (everquest refugees), with some elements to keep you subscribed over the long term, but it all had an end

these days most of the grinds are infinite, and everything is cynically designed with the express intent of increasing engagement metrics:

- farmville like mission table
- infinite gear treadmill (corruption/titanforging, azerite traits, etc)
- infinite azerite power grind
- infinite reputation grinds
- removal of player agency (badge removal, master loot removal, gear completely random via caches, etc)

unless the KPIs they're targeting have changed: it's all still going to be in the next expansion, if disguised slightly differently

it's really sad, because it was one of the greatest video games of all time
Discipline. It powerfully affects code and documentation quality, time management, operations, and interpersonal relations, just to name a few.
> not to mention hiring everyone at 10X the salary a startup can afford to pay.

This is how a functioning talent market works. It isn't unfair to the startup that big companies pay more, it's unfair to the startup employees that the startup isn't paying more. I'd argue that if a startup can't pay market rate for the employees it wants (be it cash or equity) then it wasn't properly funded in the first place.
It is not that programmers are removing the zeros, it is that you want to store a string instead of an integer.
Some metacontext for those who don't know: Curse was the de facto WoW addon manager. Then Twitch acquired Curse and absorbed the addon manager functionality into their client.

Now Twitch sold off the Curse/addon functionality to a party with a much less-polished addon system.

Thus, there is now a new market for addon managers, since there is a new major expansion coming out, and playing modern WoW without mods is not great.
Seems to be a pretty vitriolic viewpoint could you please provide some examples of why you think that?
List of TLDs with a a Record
Proper literary training. With it comes memorization skills, structuring of ideas, comprehension of abstraction, naming and defining skills.
Oh yes please.

At least you would know what's happening and be in control of it

"Hey, is that a date? I bet that's a date!" - Aaaargh Noooo!
Hmm. Guess I'll have to do some reading after all.

> New civilizations emerging at the periphery...

Well, they're unlikely to emerge within another's sphere, aren't they? Unless they're exceedingly civilised, civilisations behave like cuckoos to their neighbours.

> A rise in strongmen or dictators

Good point. I'll keep this in mind when reading Spengler, but as for two famous strongmen, I believe more parsimonious explanations are:

(a) Putin : neo-feudalism is what one gets when russians spend the 1980's deciding the capitalists had valid criticisms of communism, then the 1990's deciding the communists had valid criticisms of capitalism.

(b) Xi : his decisions are backed because they are popular in china, not the other way around.

and as for the third, I'm willing to wait until 2021 to collect more data, but note that his military has been, in writing, disinclined to cross the Rubicon.

> resurgent popularity of religion

[citation needed] Even in the US context, imx much more religious than ours, religion isn't resurging.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_in_the_United_States#...

TL;DR: unfalsifiable, true, false?

TIL Alea iacta est referred to ἀνερρίφθω κύβος (and is referred to by finyish du wedzha). https://laudatortemporisacti.blogspot.com/2017/12/let-die-be...
I guess the error rates forced them to make it part of the standard ;)
It's important to note that along with the new name they also reduced storage from Unlimited to 2TB on their $12/u/mo plan.
Use Type Faster - Edit Settings>Edit lessons>New lesson and paste whatever text you would like retype.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/typefaster/
Looks like my tiny little website is being attacked. This will take some time to deal with. Sigh.
Many people don't outwardly care about privacy because they've never had it violated (or never knew it happened)

Ask them their credit card number. They care.
The mix of Excel & Access as a new application would be a killer app. Hasn’t someone already built that in the cloud?
I never heard of PCPartPicker but you are right, it is similar just for PC parts.

And you are right about the "garden builder": If I can get enough people to contribute data, then things liek this are possible:

Give me a plant combination/guild which works in my hardiness zone, soil type and light conditions.

I imagine that people also can add some kind of rating or anything else to tell others how this combination worked for them and then you could get things like: "people with your soil type in your area are mostly successful with growing X,Y,Z together"
Which vitamins?
"Press". Guess the chosen people will have to learn how it feels to be ignored. Schadenfreunde.
I try to refresh when a new ram gen launches with a new socket. That gives me a good shot at long term upgradability. Waiting on zen 4 now for my next complete build.
Wait - what are you arguing? That Frama or some other code can come up with loop invariants by itself from the code? Even if this is true and doable, it's bad. The question always was: does the code satisfy the spec, not whether we can derive a spec from the code and prove the spec is valid. In the other case - no - it's just what I wrote above.
As an industry, going from vertical integration -> vertical modularity with interfaces that aren't just 80s microcomputers + layers of back-compat will also be revolutionary.

(How will that happen? Well say Apple is forced to allow Samsung to install iOS on their phones. You can sure bet Apple will break a gazillion interfaces to make this as difficult as possible for Samsung. But Samsung will do it anyways, and now we'll get way less legacy-encumbered commoditized building blocks as a result!)
penrose tilings is a contributions to pure mathematics, too
Fragments that were 67% similar really doesn't sound very similar when we're talking about DNA, considering us slower evolving mammals share a larger percentage of DNA with our pets, and by your own stat 43% of people's T-cells are not primed to respond at all...

We do designate strains of influenza transmitted from animals (and indeed other coronaviruses transmitted from animals) as novel threats.
while im not a lawyer, that does sound extremely far fetched.

you're also allowed to publish code with an MIT licence which can only be used with a 100% proprietary binary blob which can only be acquired by paying a third party.
the specified licence only applies to the published code after all.

said code might be useless without a licence to use that binary blob, but that has no meaning wrt the published open source code.
For a regular large sized company there are press pieces written every day that want an informative quote, shareholders cold-mailing you, customers trying all kinds of angles except the regular ones to get in touch, TV-shows that want your CEO on. All this gets managed in a way that at least suggests some uniformity in what you proclaim externally. Sure, there's domains that overlap PR / (internal) communication and marketing but generally they are treated as different tasks and organised as such.

TL;DR - They manage one single external voice. There's value in that. As other point out, Musk is a communications study in and of himself.
> Finally, as far as I know, the kernel does not use thread local/fiber local storage, instead heavily relies on per-cpu data.

It does use FLS. Everywhere you see "current->" or "current_thread_info()" in the Linux kernel, it's FLS, not per-cpu.

There's a lot of those, some of them wrapped in other macros and inlines. "current" refers to the current task, which is the kernel's name for what the article calls fibers.

Per-cpu data is used in the kernel as well, and I agree with you about using the analogous thing for coroutines which is TLS for certain things. Indeed, a FLS implementation almost certainly uses TLS for its root-of-data pointer and keeping tracking of the current thread's coroutine queue.

> Agner reports a reverse throughput of ~13 cycles on Neahalem. [...] it is not just a register load but it also has to update shadow limit registers

You're thinking of a segment register load, but these days we would use the WRFSBASE or WRGSBASE instructions, which don't update the segment descriptor (shadow limit etc) and don't use the GDT/LDT.

Windows has supported this for userspace scheduling for a long time (but Windows has good fiber support with native FLS anyway), Java coroutines want to use it for performance on Linux, and Linux kernel looks like it will enable this soon; the CPUs have supported it for years.

When those instructions aren't available, since the "current coroutine" is almost certainly a TLS variable itself that must be updated on context switch, use that as the base for FLS too. Then FLS access is one extra level of pointer indirection on access, but still hoisted and cached. For portable coroutines-and-threads code, use a portable TLS variable or pthread_getspecific() for this.
The ability to focus for extended period of time is important and well known.

I think that good programmers also have a better than average short-term working memory space, so they can keep relatively complex structures in their head.
A victim of complexity:
I remember my kid trying to open a child-proofed bottle of pills: "It's child-proof" I told her.
"How does the bottle knows I am a child?"
She asked.
The experience of being grilled by Steve Jobs
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I think modern players have killed the atmosphere. Vanilla has none of the convenience and all of the hyper competitive salt.
Artificial Intelligence Must Be More Responsible Than Humans
They've been working on r7rs-large for at least 7 years and last I looked had less than 20 SRFI approved. I know they do it on their free time, so no gripes about them. The point is that at the current rate, I'll be retiring before they finish.

r7rs-large also doesn't fix issues where some SRFI must be in the r7rs-small spec to ensure cross-implementation compatibility. They need a r7rs-standard which adds these features over the minimalist r7rs-small while retaining r7rs-large as additional libraries.
interesting. so the idea that this all happens just because every molecule interacts with every molecule many times per second, as advanced in the blog post, is not correct?
I’m not sure if context was lost in my comment but I tend to agree with what you’re saying here and was the point of my comment.
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Yep me too. Not only a genuine curiosity. But also a desire to quench the desire by learning.
Any solution you'd recommend for non-web analytics?
programming is most like looking at a lego set and being able to figure out the instruction working backward.

problem decomposition is maybe not the central skill, but the one that helped me most so far.
> If you have apps in other languages, you can quickly deploy using the App Platform by providing the appropriate Dockerfile in the source repo

I'm happy to see this. Makes it a viable contender to GCP Cloud Run, which has become my favorite way to deploy serverless apps.
I see lots of doubt here. I just got over COVID-19, I had it for around 26 days with very mild symptoms after the first 2 days where my temp never went above 101.5.

However I still have 'post-COVID' symptoms. I'm in my 40s and was very healthy prior:
- Unexplained fatigue that happens 12-24 hours after exercise. I have to shut my eyes for 30 minutes, almost like narcolepsy or similar.
- Random muscle aches that seem to be slowly going away.
- Minor heart palpitations, slowly getting better.
- Rare cases where I feel I need to take several deep breaths, maybe twice per day.
- Continued GI issues.

Finally, everybody I know over 40 who has had COVID-19, approximately 7 people, have reported these symptoms, some of them marathon runners who can no longer run a mile. Please set your doubts at rest, this is a real thing, not an anomaly, and will have major health impacts to many people over time.
The first question is 4-5% real or nominal. I.e. 4-5% or ~6-8% nominal?
The salient point for ops argument is that the company isn’t providing utilities, isn’t providing parking, cleaning etc etc.

Working from home saves the company money. A company that is good to employees would recognise this and return at least some of the savings via payroll or reimbursements.
How much cybin do you take? What time of day and how many days a week?

I tried recently and really think it helped, but the first hour or so i was a little off
Willingness and ability to learn and to never stop learning.
Thanks for your comment!
I didn't know farmbot until now but I will see if I can reach out to them. It would be cool if everyone who uses a farmbot would report back into the database how it went for them so others can learn and compare their yields.
Yeah, this bit me in the ass too. They close bugs that are valid but they just don't want to fix, so looking at their bug tracker gives you a misrepresentation of their project. It's a poor practice, and I've been hit by bugs in production that were closed in their bug tracker.

Also, you really need to read the fine print to understand the quirks of every backend (eg. Redis) when using Celery. For me, this plus the above means I'll never use Celery again.
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Development time and data accessibility. Everyone you might need to send data to has Excel, fewer have Access, and far fewer have a typical database software.

That's not saying Excel is the best way to store data, but it gets a lot of jobs done without multiple month delays that come with an IT project. Often times, waiting 2 weeks because they're already busy then spending another 2 weeks outlining requirements is categorically unacceptable to accomplish the business goals.
Feral pig populations have grown to unmanageable numbers
- Understanding cache hierarchies

- Selecting good names

- And thinking straight forward, being able to count from zero to one and two and so on.

And no, it is not just a joke, but my actual opinion, that understanding the underlying machinery, communicating well, and being to able to think on your own through complicated matters are the most valuable skills in programming.

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