skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1) suppliers are getting wedged by large purchasers on 30 moving to 60 or 90 day terms. It's killing them.

2) Greensill decided to fund buying the debt, and offering the supplier a yield for immediate payment.

3) the purchasers loved it. Who cares what suppliers think being made to accept a 95% payment. Some of them are glad to get paid at all. Who'd be a farmer.

4) Greensill packaged the debt and sold it as a derivative.

5) covid happens, and the purchasers want to renege.

6) Greensill can't cover the margins, and the value of the derivative tanks.

This has to be (for me) a just desserts story: the real problem is the major league purchasers screwing suppliers. Normally, we talk about dis-intermediation as a process to remove friction and costs. Greensill intruded into something and so was re-intermediating and extracting rent from suppliers.

No matter with or without Greensill, suppliers are being ripped off. And, in the end, so are we the people being sold the wheat and milk and cheese.

Good riddance. This should never have been turned into a derivative and monopoly purchaser power should be defeated.

Suppliers in agribusiness need to go back to farmer owned cooperative models and get realistic pricing and terms back on the table.

Or, interest for the 90 days.
Not seeing such a slippery slope. And again, isn't this specific to Utah only? May I ask if you live in Utah?
A magnetic field causes charged particles to revolve around a set axis. Depending on their charge they revolve around in opposite directions. You can enclose this in a torus to make them go end to end but collisions cause these particles to jump loops and the plasma expands. The stronger the field the tighter the gyroradi. 3D confinement means they all run in circles in a Tokamak. But the more collisions the greater these particles move away from the center. Moving these particles back to the center to equator of the device is not possible with a Tokamak under normal operating conditions. Defeating this limitation would open new avenues of confinement. Hence the 3rd dimension of confinement is out of our reach at the present time with tokamak style confinement.

An entirely new kind of confinement could be possible. But it will depend on principles we have scarcely dreamed of.
Price is the biggest factor. You can get 10 cores with Intel for cheaper than 8 with AMD, plus with Intel you get integrated graphics as well which is really important right now considering the GPU shortage. Also, Intel allows virtual GPUs for virtualization in QEMU which AMD won't do.
We Think We’re Better Investors Than We Are(2016)
I wonder how much of this is just people no longer able to claim unemployment. Maybe things are different with the current downturn, but I don't remember states extending unemployment benefits for the 08 crash. Also wonder what the quality of the job is compared to before being unemployed.

> Workers in most states are eligible for up to 26 weeks of benefits from the regular state-funded unemployment compensation program, although seven states provide fewer weeks and one provides more.

https://www.cbpp.org/research/economy/how-many-weeks-of-unem...
Actually it's not. I used to be Mormon. (At least it didn't use to be for a long time).

President Monson even ran an ad campaign called "I'm a Mormon".

https://newsroom.churchofjesuschrist.org/article/-i-m-a-morm...

Of course his successor is trying to erase all of that by banning even using LDS ... now you must say they're a "Member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints"

There was a time when we simply preferred to be LDS, then we started embracing Mormon cause that's what people called us anyways so might as well go with it if it allowed opportunities to proselyte/teach the gospel etc...

I left the church in 2017 though after reading https://cesletter.com it woke me up to just how much of a cult the church is, and how white-washed their history is...

I was taught by my Bishop an ex member of the seventy that Joseph Translated the bible by using an ancient Urim and Thumim device in a breastplate with seer stones.

Church now admits nope: He used a stone he found digging a well, dropped it in a hat and put his head over the hat.

There's also too many similarities with The book of Mormon and other similar books of that time like "The Late War".

A good comparison can be found here: http://wordtree.org/thelatewar/

Anyhow, I think the new "rules" about ditching LDS, Latter-day Saints, and Mormon nomenclature at every chance came out iirc around 2017-18 it was after I had my membership removed... My wife's still a member but she's a lot less believing especially after how the church didn't really come out very strong in favor of protecting people from the pandemic and re-opened a lot of wards.

The prophet was a cardiologist he could've done more to persuade the members to wear masks but did not.
As a West Coast native, I wasn't familiar with this rather significant piece of American Natural History, until I started reading The Overstory, by Richard Powers. I highly recommend the book, it features several heartfelt narratives about the various people who have come to this country to start their own 'roots'.

I hope we can help the American Chestnut recover. From the descriptions in the novel above, it must have been quite a beautiful scene to have such large, hearty, majestic trees, dumping bushels of shelf stable food, and of course the beautiful color changes of deciduous trees.

The article goes into some genetic modifications to the chestnut, which is always a wonderfully hot topic. I'm glad to see the technology being used outside of securing corporate profits, but I still fear our hubris can lead to a disastrous outcome in the ecosystem. We're smart, but we're not always good at realizing our limitations.

Wonderful article, thanks for sharing.
The individuals are to blame, for sure, but so is the institution (at least) for failing so many students. Imagine a single teacher who fails 80% of his class while most teachers fail only 5-10%. Perhaps the single teacher is just unlucky that 80% of his students have no "individual responsibility" - or maybe there are other issues at play.

This is even more true, I think, when it is not a single teacher whose class is failing but a school's, and, I expect, a large part of that school system is failing. We should investigate and understand why and a satisfactory answer is not that one particular mother and child were derelict.
I've never understood why Wi-Fi latency is only 2-3ms while Bluetooth is 100-200ms when they use the same frequency band.

Is it intentional to ensure there's plenty of buffer so audio packets can be re-sent when they fail, and the audio is seamless? In other words, is 100-200ms just inherent at that frequency with expected interference?

Or is it actually just terribly designed?
SDL is intended for gaming and similar applications, it isn't intended for general purpose GUI development. That's what toolkits like Qt and GTK are for. These toolkits do compete with Electron.

With the disclaimer that I don't know a lot about this: Electron has solid support for both desktop and mobile targets. I don't think Qt's mobile support is as good, but I might be mistaken.
Looking at your link this may not be the original cause, but I always thought the purpose was to make it correctly fit the meter (sung to the tune of "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star" - or the tune of the alphabet song). "Do you have" or "Have you got" are both one syllable too long.
I worked as a tutor in prison, helping out in class. The teacher I worked with longest said that she felt safer working in prison than she did in public school, because there were guards right down the hall. Discipline is apparently a lot easier to enforce in prison than it is in public schools.

I felt like I was pretty successful providing individual instruction. For instance, I found a way to teach basic algebra that worked for guys with 3rd and 4th-grade level test scores. It didn't teach them the principles they would need for greater math education, but none of these guys were ever going to study college-level Calculus. They just needed enough math to pass the GED. Unfortunately, teaching that way involved a lot of moving around the classroom, and I didn't really want predators staring at my ass behind my back. So I didn't stick with it.

It says a hell of a lot that teachers find that kind of environment safer than public school. That suggests to me that discipline & safety have to be comprehensively addressed before any other changes will have a chance to work.
Thanks for the heads-up! Just fixed it.
Those Kivas are really interesting. We visited one of the sites in New Mexico at Bandolier National Monument. Very cool how they carved all the houses into the cliffs.

Most interesting fact that stuck with me was they ground all their grains using rocks that were too soft, so bits of rock would get in all their food, quickly removing all the enamel from their teeth and rotting them away. I can’t imagine how painful that must have been. Surviving meant the children had to chew all the food for the adults and spit it out for them to eat.
I find it really amazing that one of the things "saving" Intel at the moment is that TSMC is maxxed out on 7nm capacity ATM.
Totally agree.

We should not forget that our brain is great at adjusting to latency. In the old days, when I was excessively playing Quake 3 Team Arena it took me just a couple of minutes to adjust to network latency depending on the server I was connected to.

Professional musicians do this constantly and are much better at that.
What are the main aspects that are out of date? Can you point to a more up to date course?
Windows on ARM is already working on M1 Mac through parallels. The big issue now is licensing and I assume some niceties in terms of official drivers/fine-tuning support.

According to recent videos, Windows in a VM on M1 Mac today has same or better performance than Windows on ARM running natively on Surface Pro X.

https://www.macrumors.com/2020/12/22/m1-mac-windows-parallel...

https://twitter.com/imbushuo/status/1332484912549687297?ref_...
“Choose Intel because it’s cheaper than AMD” is one of those arguments that make you realise how quickly the world changes.
We do indeed see infotainment systems in cars that are the direct analogues of cell phones and cause distracted driving. They even connect to the phones and give similar touch screen apps.

These systems are legal but using the phone is not, so this really is a great example of trying to regulate technology rather than outcomes. All that happens is vendors put ports in their cars and route the phone interface to the driver in a fixed screen rather than in the phone's screen. Regulation bypassed.
Spend per pupil isn't meaningful beyond showing administrative efficiency.

Given the outcomes, intentionally and severely failing students to game well-meaning initiatives smells like high level corruption a la the Cash for Kids scandal.

Someone's getting that funding, sure, but it's not the students or their families.
Kalman filter for the win
The endgame is to be able to have your fingerprint in every device you own, and it is not going to be optional. So that no matter if you uploaded a photo from your phone, an ipad, your PC - they will know it was you. It's going to be embedded at every level of the stack, from a file - right down to the silicon (if Intel's involvement is any indication). They want to know every piece of content you create and distribute, not so that they can trace it back to you - but also so that they can ultimate shut you down if you don't live up to their standard of "good citizen".
Yup. On the other hand, the prisoners who are working on schooling may be more motivated students than many kids in lower SES schools (greater maturity, more incentive, less competing distractions, etc).
I'm more concerned by the explicit racism of the finger clamp blood oxy/flow meters not working on African Americans and the consequences for failing to detect decreasing oxygenation.

But yea, pantomime is large in covid
The world domination line fits for a Saturday cartoon but is far too reductive for real world geo politics.

I don't think Germany was any more into world domination than Britain and France with their extensive world empires.

Germany lacked secure access to strategic resources and they knew it. Their policies of autarky reinforced this view.

The Nazi leadership also appeared to believe there would be an inevitable conflict between what they saw as Jewish led Bolshevism and the world.
Exmormon here, and op is full of it. We used to call ourselves mormon for a long time, and many of my friends still active were like whatever I'll disregard that "commandment" to not use Mormon as a term... I mean there's still a pro-mormon subreddit called mormon, and until 2016 the church had mormon.org with multiple people sharing their testimonies using the phrase "I'm a mormon".

This is just a corporatocracy trying to "rebrand" under new management. Nothing more.
Who both buys consumer desktop CPUs (without ECC) and runs software that can use AVX512? Games won't use avx512 (not really simd math heavy work on the CPU, and also consoles don't have it). Web browsers won't use AVX512 (similar to games - not really SIMD-friendly raw math computation limited). Video & photo editing maybe will, but GPU acceleration is already more widely available & faster than avx512.

What else does that leave?
Yah. Because these broken families are going to produce more broken students next generation. The only option is to fix the system somehow.
You can do this directly in the tool.

Click 'Edit Graph'

Select the series 'Population' (Thousands, Not Seasonally Adjusted). Click 'Add'

Modify the formula to be 'a/b'. Click 'Apply'.
I remember when TIE Fighter came out. I was in my early teens. The new shading system and AI, and for the first time we got to fight for the Empire! It was a huge step up from X-Wing, and everyone I knew wanted (and eventually got) it. Then LEC re-released X-Wing with the updated graphics. The two made for a complete (at the time) PC Star Wars experience.

I killed hours between the two. I couldn't wait to get home from school to fly the next mission.
If I wanted more than 8 cores, the 12-core ryzen 5900X is $549, can you really get an intel 10-core cpu for the same price, or within 50 bucks plus or minus, that performs better?

I'm seeing the i9-10900K for $467, but in terms of dollars/performance per core I think it's still behind the ryzen which costs $82 more.

https://www.techspot.com/review/2132-amd-ryzen-5900x/
TS is something I can live without.
Been with Angular for the last 5 years.
Now using Vue2, without TS. The productivity increase is noticable.
Pumped out 2 sites with Vue that would've taken me months with Angular.

But that's not the point I guess.

I was used to "dynamic language", did PHP for over a decade and you know I really don't need the overhead of defining a type for every little variable.
Gonna wager some sort of cheap IoT/embedded device inappropriately abusing Microsoft’s NTP server with a typo in the configuration.
Pretending bitcoin energy cost is not a problem because fugitive gas in oil extraction or energy inputs to make aluminium is a bigger problem.

This is crap. Fiat currency has economic consequences but burning brown coal to make a dollar bill isn't one of them.
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Fourty Years On
One theory I didn’t see listed but maybe I missed it is migration and scorched earth. If a settlement had exhausted Hunter gatherer resources in an area they would move to another. However leaving structures behind would offer easy options to would be invaders for shelter which is after all a human need. So possibly they would burn the settlement as it could not be transported.
I honestly just looked at both AMD's and Intel's latest generation and compared from there.

Still, point taken. If I didn't get burned by the whole ordeal with the 3700x I think I would've taken a second look at the AMD 3000.
Yikes. For a 250MWe reactor:

> *Assuming the higher cost estimate for the REBCO tape, the materials costs for ARC total $428M and the total fabricated component cost estimates total $5.56B.

Given it's a novel nuclear project - it's probably safe to double/triple that cost estimate. Still wildly uncompetitive. That's actually really disappointing.
I looked at that program, but I was very cautious. It’s an open program, which means you don’t even have have to have an undergrad at all, albeit you do need to have an understanding of the prerequisites. While personally, I find this and the price point absolutely amazing, I have to wonder what that means for the value of the credential obtained. On paper it’s basically paying for a degree and an MS-EE at that. From engineers I’ve talked to, they don’t even trust accredited online programs.
Shameless plug, but might be useful for some people here.

I’ve created vocabulary books with the 2000 most frequently used vocabularies for 40 languages (so far). You can find that here: https://www.pinhok.com/

Those are real translations, not Google Translate, and all cross checked and proofread.

Came up with this for myself when learning Cantonese. Before that I found HSK (Chinese standard test) very useful which kind of follows a similar approach.

It’s not for everyone, but people who like 80/20, etc. might find this quite useful
The rest is needed to keep the pressure and the magnetic field.
Caring is not a binary. A product has a much larger ongoing cost than low latency audio, so there is more of a reason to kill it.
You currently use <button>s for your navigation (and in the footer) which means I can't use neither my scroll wheel button to open links in a new tab nor can I right-click and open it in a new tab.

I guess you could use <a href="/whatever" role="button"> to get the same semantics but also make it easier for people like me (and people using screen readers!) :)
Apple iCloud crashes due to last name “true”
As maybe politically incorrect as it is to say this, but something about the values of the underclass are not working right. And I admit that it is combined with a support system that does not help them much, and jobs/financial systems that deprive them of time + resources to be parents properly.

But the system of dumping more and more resources to try and make up for lack of family guidance/upbringing/discipline is clearly not going well. That system demonstrably fails often. How much can you compensate for failed families?

Sometimes the conservative line of "family values" is not just right-wing noise. There is something to middle class sensibilities and passing down (or at least even being able to impart) supervision, parenting, and discipline to your kids.

Otherwise, this is just going to continue and continue across generations of people?
Here's one example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wu4TJ4sBzAg

"Whatever it is, you can get it on eBay". Unless of course it offends someone.
And has been stated, didn't get degrees at that level of performance.

The piece we're missing is the actual curve of the student's performance, and I'm betting it's not linear, throwing information from simple averages out of the window.

I imagine there's a distinct dropoff between the students who actually show up and get degrees, to the students who don't.
Electrons move because you have an electric field. Like charges repel while opposites attract, so if you have a excess of protons at one point, an excess of electrons at another point, and a wire connecting the two points, then the electromotive force will push the electrons through the wire to try to balance out the charges (see Coulomb’s law [0]).

In the process, the electrons gain kinetic energy, and if you’re clever you can extract this energy to do useful work. Voltage [1] is defined as joules per coulumb, where joules is a measurement of energy, and coulomb is a measurement of electric charge — one coulomb is the charge carried by 6x10^18 electrons. A voltage is always between two points, so if the voltage difference between point A and point B is 1V, then moving 6e18 electrons from point A to point B will produce 1J of energy; or, conversely, it would require 1J of energy to move the electrons back “uphill” in the opposite direction. (Actually, that’s sort of backwards because electrons carry a negative charge and so flow from the negative side of a battery to the positive, but that’s not terribly important right now.)

Current [2] is the rate at which electrons are flowing, defined simply as coulombs per second. You can calculate the rate of energy flow by multiplying voltage (energy per unit charge) by current (charge per second) to get watts [3], which is defined as joules per second.

If you want to learn more, there’s lots of excellent resources online — but if you really want a solid understanding from first principles, you might be better off taking an introductory physics course at a community college.

[0]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coulomb%27s_law

[1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voltage

[2]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_current

[3]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_power
A related story is the human demographics analysis of surplus mortality and child birth rates in post 68 China. The numbers say that the scale of deaths in Mao's famine cannot be what was projected by some people because the traces in population stats don't support it, one child family not withstanding.

The argument gets swamped in "you heartless monster" arguments, comparisons to the holomodor, anti communist fervor. It's impossible to debate.

I believe Uigher repression is happening. I'm not a denialist or a revisionist about this problem. China has a lot of problems. We're getting a snow job on a structural fuckup of gigantic proportions from a political beaurocacy wiring itself into place against the coming storm of intergenerational change.
PBR Painting with WebGL
This is a quick and dirty tech demo of a PBR-based painting workflow using THREE.js.

This implementation makes extensive use of render targets to accelerate the painting, but there are a few items that have not been implemented yet. For example, there is no work to compensate for seams or brush size distortion due to UV mappings.
Why does hosting a magnet link make a torrent index 'illegal'? After all, you're not hosting any actual content on your server.