skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Economic freedom reduces poverty.

https://rd.springer.com/chapter/10.1057/9780230114319_3

> Compared to those that were less free, countries with higher economic freedom ratings during 1980–2005 had lower rates of both extreme and moderate poverty in 2005. More importantly, countries with higher levels of economic freedom in 1980 and larger increases in economic freedom during the 1980s and 1990s achieved larger poverty rate reductions than economies that were less free. These relationships were true even after adjustment for geographic and locational factors and foreign assistance as a share of income. The positive relations between the level and change in economic freedom and reductions in poverty were both statistically significant and robust across alternative specifications.

> Some fear that growth propelled by economic freedom will leave the poor behind. This was not the case during 1980–2005. During this quarter of a century, the developing countries that moved the most toward economic freedom achieved both strong economic growth and substantial reductions in poverty. This indicates that an institutional and policy environment consistent with economic freedom is an important ingredient for progress against poverty.

https://www.mohrsiebeck.com/en/article/the-relationship-betw...

> We study the relationship between economic freedom and poverty rates in 151 countries over a twenty-year period. Using the World Bank's poverty headcounts of those living on less than $1.90 per day, $3.20 per day, and $5.50 per day, we find evidence that economic freedom, measured by the Heritage Foundation's Index of Economic Freedom, is associated with lower poverty rates. We also test the effect of various components of the Index of Economic Freedom. We find that a government's integrity and a country's trade freedom are associated with lower poverty rates. We check the robustness of our results using alternative freedom indices.

See also https://cei.org/blog/why-economic-freedom-is-the-best-weapon....

If you're serious about learning, I suggest putting down outdated ideological texts and looking at the actual data.
I don't disagree with that, I'm not the OP who called it fake federation.

I do think that federated systems tend to become centralized, because the federating links tend to be unreliable. I think people confuse federation and decentralization, when they're very different things.
At 10,000 the air pressure is 1/3 less than at sea level, less density means less capacity for carrying heat, so the cooling might not be sufficient.
I'd always thought that it was just a "nice" way to hide processing/network latency.

I'd certainly prefer some small chirp of acknowledgement, but I think we need to reduce latency first.
> "Developers are using GPT-3 to create realistic dialogue, summarize complex documents, answer customer services questions, and make search better than ever before"

This is OpenAI desperately admitting: "nobody needs this, we'll pay you to help us find a market and a vision".

What do we do with all of these fancy, expensive models? Nobody knows really.

We don't really have a clear use for any of it, beyond the most rudimentary tricks. We put all of our focus into building a fancy solution, hoping we'd figure the problem out later. We're finally starting to realize none of this has a practical use.
I may not have been clear: I am very much opposed to the existence of a surveillance state; and while I am not opposed to taxation or public goods a priori, I consider our current mechanisms of taxation to be both inefficient and problematic (contrast with Henry George's LVT, Pigovian taxes on externalities, luxury taxes, etc).
YES! And also, scoop is much simpler and open - all packages go to a simple and accessible user folder, and it also can unzip files.
Not OP, but one modern option is Discord servers. There are lots of them these days on all kinds of topics.
I wasn't trying to make a barbed comment, I just couldn't think of another label to put on it.
Nice list! Most alternatives I use, found a couple which I didn't knew
That stupid toy has made is so I don’t have to work for the rest of my life and I’m 26 so your mileage may vary.
What an inane response. Perhaps I can counter with

Alcohol -> Cancer.

Safe amount = 0.

Alcohol content of fresh bread > 0
JetBrains Mono: https://www.jetbrains.com/lp/mono
What do you mean by other cosmologies?

"Belief in creation by God" is not mutually exclusive with believing that the Big Bang model correctly describes the structure and evolution of the universe. Belief in creation by God is not another option among an array of cosmological models, since it is not even a scientific model.

Anyway, I'm trying to understand what you mean my there not being a difference in leaps of faith required…

"Now faith is confidence in what we hope for and assurance about what we do not see. […] By faith we understand that the universe was formed at God’s command, so that what is seen was not made out of what was visible."

Perhaps there are scientists that depend on a certain model not being proven incorrect for their own research to be viable, then, they might hope for something that they do not see. If (<- not biconditional ;p) that model stands on a solid basis they might even have confidence and some assurance about its truth. Is this somewhat what you mean?

In any case, I don't think that believing that a certain cosmological model is correct requires someone to be confident with regards to it. The currently predominant model might not be 100% right and that's perfectly fine. Thus, "belief in other cosmologies" might not require one to have faith while the verse quoted above states that it is through faith that someone understands that God is behind the creation.

(Unless you want to say that confidence in the scientific method is required for belief in a scientific model, but then, confidence in history (or God!) might be required on the other side as well, and so on).

Then, at least 1 more leap of faith is required, wouldn't you say? I'm not sure, tbh. :-)

But then, faith being involved in a process is not necessarily wrong (nor necessarily good).
Are you making a general claim that the brain prefers object-action syntax vs action-object, or just in text editor commands?
AIUI, Plan9 is not quite fully SSI. It is a distributed OS, and gets quite close, but it's missing support for distributed memory (i.e. software-implemented shared memory exposing a single global address space); it also does not do process checkpointing and auto-migration, without which you don't really have a "global" system image.
Now that I think about it, I've come to realize that a large fraction of entertainment operates at the extrema of human experience, otherwise it would be too mundane and unentertaining. But if most of those so called entertaining things took place in front of you they'd be crazy intense, too intense for daily living. Even something ordinary like a makeup commercial, if you had women staring at you like they do in those shoots that be pretty out of the ordinary. In that regard everything is sort of exaggerated.
Enterprise vendors are culturally incapable of building opinionated hardware or software. That's a moat, but which side are the customers on?
This is why your identity online should never be traceable back to your real name. It's a pretty scorched-earth opinion on privacy, but the internet ultimately doesn't change if you use an alias. If you do so, employers will come back empty-handed when they try Googling you, and they'll have a harder time finding "that dumb Twitter post" that jeopardizes your job.

None of this is to say that you should be a bad person online, or otherwise take advantage of anonymity. Being anonymous just gives you a healthy personal shield, and the option to "cash out" and walk away from that identity, if you so desire.
The storage is always the difficult part in these architectures. Are you distributing across all nodes? It appears that each sled is an individual compute unit with 10 drives. Are the drives on a proverbial island and only accessible to that local node, or is there some distributed storage going on that you can talk about?

On paper with RDMA and NVMe-OF you could access any drive from any compute unit... but that's easier said than done :)
This idea is explored in Walkaway: A Novel, by Corey Doctorow. If you enjoy reading fiction, I highly recommend it!
The law is right because its the law?

(wow, apparently I can't even ask...)
Is the Swedish engineer trying to fix how traffic lights work a relevant case? His fine for doing math was deemed a violation of his free speech.

https://ij.org/press-release/oregon-engineer-wins-traffic-li...
/r/funny is how you teach people about the unsubscribe button
The headline is Pfizer and BioNTech Initiate Rolling Submission of Biologics License Application for U.S. FDA Approval of Their COVID 19 Vaccine

Biologics License Application for U.S. FDA Approval is the final thing. The next step after that is safety monitoring of the fully licensed product.

The 16 and over there is about the applicability of the resulting BLA.
They'd have to sell these at a significant loss to make up for the risk any company would have to take to build out a DC on first generation hardware from a startup.
The problem with pushing higher compute density is you're running into the limits of what most DCs can provide in terms of power and cooling for a single rack. Usually it's specialized HPC facilities or hyperscalers pushing the power and cooling to handle stuff like that. Those people aren't likely Oxide's customers - they've already got their own hardware solutions.
So to be clear, the viable path you refer to includes complete elimination of gasoline usage globally, 100% conversion to biojet fuel and biodiesel from jet and diesel respectively, and ~ 50% of the world vessel fleet to be converted to nuclear. In 8 years.
> "it needs to be done in the hardware itself (ie. keys burned into the silicon)" - this isn't true; this is confusing Trusted Boot and Secure Boot, which are not the same thing (nor is it the only way of implementing Secure Boot).

I meant as opposed to keys/signing done in software.

>Owner-controlled remote attestation is entirely viable, e.g. Talos II is capable of this with a FlexVer module.

I skimmed the product brief[1] and it looks like it's basically a TPM that has a secure communications channel (as opposed to LPC which can be MITMed)? I'm not really sure how this is an improvement, because you're still relying on the hardware vendor to send the PCR values. So at the end of the day you still have to trust the hardware vendor, although the signing is done by you, but I'm not really sure how this adds any benefit.

[1] https://www.raptorengineering.com/TALOS/documentation/flexve...
Yes, but up to 7 m over the next 200,000 years. You might want to short boardwalk futures.
Both David Sinclair and Rhonda Patrick seem to be getting younger ;-)
Thanks for this example, now I get it. It never really clicked for me when I read explanations on SO etc.
The corporate scientists have also figured out that the protomolecule needs biomass. And the head scientist has transhumanist aspirations, with a justification that humanity needs to evolve quickly to deal with the god-like aliens that sent it. Not that it's a good justification, but in the first book, it's actually presented as a big temptation, even for some of the good characters.
The difference is that you cannot meet face to face with the delta you from before you went to sleep, thus all rights and privileges reside within one continuous body through time. It depends if you are comfortable with having an extremely similar copy or multiple extremely similar copies inherit all your rights and privileges.
All my friends are moving to Canada. I intend to go there and buy an apartment for my children next year. USA is not more the dream country to emigrate to.
I've been a hardware engineer for 15 years. I've designed medical devices, DSP chipsets, and audio chipsets. for me to call my self a "Professional Engineer", I have to pass a test almost wholly focused on Civil Engineering. There is not a single "Professional Engineer" in my office.
https://www.obsessivefacts.com/blog/2020-07-10-we-are-not-pr...

I found this compelling as a response to the idea of cancel culture.

It's kind of interesting, but I think if anybody wanted to cancel me, they'd have a hard time. I have almost no twitter/facebook presence, no linkedin at all, most of my close friends and family don't give a shit about what a bunch of Twitter randos think, and I work at a small enough company that I'd probably get my case heard.

I realize that some of that is luck and not just "positioning" but why give yourself a larger attack surface than you need to at a time when one wrong comment from 20 years ago can end you?

Just walk away from it all.
Glad to hear it. L-threonate is actually what I had tried, and it caused the issues for me. Just constant "pudding poops" every time I took it. And I did the Rogan method of sandwiching the dose in the middle of a meal, so it would be around food in the stomach. Didn't help. I wanted to use it for its mental effects (depression and sleep issues), but unfortunately the stomach interference prevented me from ever using magnesium again. If you have any recommendations, I'd be happy to hear them. I hear such rave reviews about magnesium from so many people.
Social media is pure poison that exploits every frailty of human nature. And it is optimized to be this way, even if unintentionally, because that's what makes money.
I don't see how that would have helped OP. He wasn't called out for things he said or did on social media, barring a few people who piled on over extremely "sanitized" exchanges.

I think your "best solution" aligns well with what the OP appeared to be doing, and he still burned.

It's important to note that just because the mob forms on social media doesn't mean its consequences are limited to social media.
Does expiration date reflect a difference in manufacturing date? For the listed affected products between .1ppm & 2ppm Benzene, Expiration dates range from July 2021 to May 2023.

https://www.valisure.com/wp-content/uploads/Valisure-Citizen...
Sea level rise is measured at 3.5mm/yr[1] as of 2016 so at current rate it will take 2000 years to hit 7m. NYC may be underwater but it would in all likelihood be as irrelevant to the future as Tyre or Carthage is today.

[1]https://ocean.si.edu/through-time/ancient-seas/sea-level-ris...
Idea Validation Help
Bookmark problem - I have this issue for a very long time, I come across great articles and posts, I bookmark them and never revisit them again. The list gets bigger every day and it’s overwhelming to look at my bookmarks after some time. Does anyone facing the same problem and do you guys have any current solutions for it?

If you have this problem and currently don’t have a solution, do you guys think it’s a good idea to create a product around it? Thanks
If they were doing that I wouldn’t even mind too much, because that would force them to focus on the important stuff instead of drag-netting everyone.
Please do.

As someone that spent hundreds of thousands to get answers, and majority of my answers came from other people going through same nonsense.

For anything complicated you have to become your own doctor. Medical community is broken on all but straightforward cases.
Knowledge graphs are so under-utilised for practical things despite the fact that there is significant amount of useful research out there. Their problem is that they are expensive. I hope further research in ML would help elevate their relevance significantly. I am particularly fond of using knowledge graphs and graph theory for security related work.
Isn't there a cap on mortgage interest deductions at this point?
disclosure: I am not a licensed professional engineer (PE), but I do research that intersects frequently and extensively with the boundary negotiation between engineering training, licensure, the profession, and calling oneself an engineer.

My immediate take is two groups that dislike each other mutually acting like children in hopes of scoring cheap points and feeling superior.

I assume/expect that the professional speech doctrine will come heavily into play here [0]. This doctrine is grounded in either a 1985 or a 1945 supreme court case depending on who you ask. It has come into play in weird ways in engineering before because the term 'engineer' vs. 'professional engineer' vs. 'licensed professional engineer' may or may not be confusing to lay people...or at least confusing enough that people are willing to spend money on lawyers related to bicker about it [1].

Basically, if one is speaking using the auspices of a regulated and licensed profession, than commentary and comments related to that profession are bound by the responsibilities, ethics, laws, etc. governing it. If one was speaking as a member of the public - does not apply - but the boundaries are fuzzier than I think a lot of people would like. That being said, generally the red line has been the use of professional knowledge and expertise with a specified client. In those cases, it has been deemed in the public interest for the state to regulate speech...because the person is speaking in part with the backing of an assertion of qualification from the state. I suspect this is one of those cases where someone on the board took whatever strong towns has been doing (never heard of them before) a little personally...and is willing to cause problems by investigating whether this engineer stepped over the line.

Examples of its application include:

* preventing doctors from advocating for sexual orientation conversion therapy (CA)

* compelling doctors to make certain statements about abortion (e.g., PA)

[0] https://mtsu.edu/first-amendment/article/1551/professional-s...

[1] https://www.oregonlive.com/news/2018/12/federal-judge-finds-...
You're missing the point, JIT not allowed means programs may not modify themselves. They're in read+execute only memory and cannot allocate writable+executable memory.
>NVIDIA kind of did it with the NVIDIA Shield some years ago, and I think they're still supporting it.

Shield no longer receives updates. GeForce NOW still runs on it, though. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSWCJxS0-HA

Shield TV, the Android TV-powered settop box that most people nowadays call "Nvidia Shield", is still supported going back to the first version in 2015.
"listening in the ocean" by lammers can give you a resource for applications of audio programming. it's all about marine acoustics
I seriously thought that they were just cashing in and didn't care. It seems like the plot was just a way to move viewers trough Start Wars trope postures, encounters and sayings. Be familiar.

George Lucas is not the best director, but he is good at world building and can write a good story arch. Why didn't ask him to write?
> whereas before you could run away to somewhere new, a new town, a new country, a new frontier now you can't escape it.

I genuinely think about this a whole lot. It's wild to think about this being an actual thing...

> What can we do to fight it?

Organizing and labor unions. The latter isn't the most popular thing around here but it's really the last thing we have. We broke out the guild system and forced fundamental changes in the past and it can be done again, but do we have the will to do so?
Asbestos has to be in a “friable” form for it to be bad. The particles are so small they can get into deep your lungs.

I actually was at a landfill expansion project where a backhoe digging down through the trash hit some bags labeled asbestos. I’m glad it was raining. Also worked in a building with asbestos in the floor tiles. Fine when not disturbed, but anytime they had to remove them it was a production.

https://ehs.oregonstate.edu/asb-when

https://www.fs.fed.us/eng/toolbox/haz/haz07b.htm
I started using neovim when it had async and vim would hang. I think vim maybe caught up here, but I found I lost nothing in the move and the snappiness hooked me. I just haven't switched back.

The items here are really exciting.

VSCode is fine. I use IntelliJ sometimes for larger shared projects. Both I setup with their vim plugins for keybindings because I think in 'vi', but it's not 1:1. I usually can't do things like '!!sh' I have habits for.

I have a smattering of plugins that cover most of my language needs, but it would nice to have that more on-par with an IDE or whatever weird space VSCode sits in between an IDE and a text-editor.
I just mentioned it in another comment but Discord servers are one of the newest types of communities popping up (especially for younger folks, but they can be for people
of any age). For example, here’s one about gardening: https://discord.gg/D2kCbGY
Snowden probably can chime in here :)

>If I point out the design flaw

pointing a design flaw in a project which already got huge money sunk in wouldn't earn much popularity to say the least.
A relevant TED Talk I always think of when reading about these stories: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wAIP6fI0NAI

Which makes me think: who are these people with enough time of their hands to be morality warriors on internet? Also who are these _friends_ who jumps on conclusion without allowing for a defense? I shouldn't be difficult, in this digitalized world, to provide solid proof of wrongdoing.

I may not be the most aware of social cues, or maybe it's a cultural thing, but some of these people seems like absolute sociopaths.
Iran bans cryptocurrency mining for four months to stave off blackouts
Russia tried to spread dangerous lies about Pfizer vaccine, France suspects
The N suffix is for clojure.lang.BigInt, which are created with (bigint) which was added in Clojure 1.3 and still work to this day (I did these examples in the latest 1.10.3 release)

user=> (bigint "129110040087761027839616029934664535539337183380513")
129110040087761027839616029934664535539337183380513N

user=> (type *1)
clojure.lang.BigInt

The Java-platform bigint is java.lang.BigInteger which are created with (biginteger) which was added in Clojure 1.0. Printing one of these will not include an N suffix:

user=> (biginteger "129110040087761027839616029934664535539337183380513")
129110040087761027839616029934664535539337183380513

user=> (type *1)
java.math.BigInteger

Clojure BigInts are supposed to involve less unboxing and therefore be more performant. If you provide an integer literal that's too large to fit in a java.lang.Long, the reader will use a BigInt instead:

user=> 129110040087761027839616029934664535539337183380513
129110040087761027839616029934664535539337183380513N

user=> (type *1)
clojure.lang.BigInt

user=> 12345
12345

user=> (type *1)
java.lang.Long

If all this seems like a mess, well it sort of is. Clojure has a very strong commitment to backwards compatibility, so when the Clojure-specific big int representation was added, the old JDK-based one was not removed, because the operations that the two support are different.