skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> most of the people working on farms were slaves

Does that compute? Less than 10% of the US population were slaves and 90% were employed in farming. It seems unbelievable to me that farms were manned exclusively or even in majority by slaves.

Now most slaves were employed in farms, but I'm not sure if that relationship is bi directional
Interesting study, but the effects on earnings weren’t as extreme as the headline led me to believe:

> Stated differently, being the descendants of the Bernardi family (at the 90th percentile of earnings distribution in 1427) instead of the Grasso family (10th percentile of the same distribution) would entail a 5% increase in earnings among current taxpayers (after adjusting for age and gender).

A 5% difference in earnings between descendants of a 90th percentile family and a 10th percentile family may be statistically significant, but it’s still only 5%. A 5% difference in earnings isn’t going to move someone from lower class to upper-middle class lifestyle.

The authors found that some of this effect was due to certain families that tended toward elite professions like doctors and lawyers. I suppose we could make an argument for eliminating legacy preference in university admissions, but I’m sure some families would still bias toward certain professions in the interest of following in their parents’ footsteps.
Biden, Obama and Clinton were against same sex marriage until they "supposedly" switched. You can't judge a person based on what's reported on them. Have you read or talked to Brendan about why he thinks and why he thinks it? Being against same sex marriage does not necessarily mean he thinks same sex couple are lesser people or that he's greater than them, it means he has an opinion, people with means and opinions use their means to argue for their opinion, and there's nothing wrong with that.

Your idea of equality are skewed by popular mainstream media. We should not strive for equality because life is not equal, but we should strive for fairness. If you want equality between me and an NBA basketball player you'll have to break their legs or something because I can't play basketball if my life depended on it, so there, that's an example of life's natural inequality, which is fair.

Fairness means equality of opportunity, not the equality of outcome. Arguing for the equality of outcome is tyrannical and pure evil.
I read recently that Tesla would be out of business if it weren't for the tax credits and public money they received. That's not much of a compliment to one's business skills.
What about musculature? Human babies mostly just violently shake all hands and legs right after birth.
The difficulty with these articles is that they don't really clearly define what the organization looks like when they say "include all teams in incident management". Are they talking about a system where there is an "SRE Team" that all incidents go through? That sounds inefficient, and yes include all teams.

What does their problem SRE team look like, and what does their ideal SRE team look like. In my experience the SRE team is doing things like building the CI/CD platform, the Environments, Infrastructure, etc. So that when I make an application, and commit my code, it then creates the infrastructure, and deploys my code. In this paradigm, an incident with my application goes to me, and an incident with the infrastructure breaking is on the SRE team. An incident with a firewall being configured wrong doesn't make sense to go to the UI devs that put a new microservice up, and an incident with UI not displaying values right doesn't go to SRE.

Since this article says there is no CI/CD in the SRE team, it makes me think that this is some kind of operations incident response team, and thus I would say misnamed.
A silo refers to a team or org that's solely responsible for some aspect of the product, with other people being unwilling, unwelcome, or unable to participate.
Primarily that "all lab tests have errors" and if you test everyone who is hospitalized for any reason (which is sensible), you're inevitably going to get some false positives.

Secondarily, in any low-incidence scenario (such as might be the case for "COVID infections among the vaccinated"), even high specificity tests have a high false rate among positive tests.
Plus, when you double click a spot in a pdf you generated with latex, Sumatra opens up your default .txt application with the line highlighted.
I ran one of the first labs to validate the original CDC assay (we got the controls to work). Ct numbers were a slippery slope we should never have gone down for COVID-19 PCR tests because snot is not like blood, a homogenous substance with well known homeostatic parameters that are under tight physiologic control. Do you know someone went swimming? Do you know if they were crying? Did they just eat some particularly spicy tacos? Do you know if they have Sjogren's disease? What's the humidity? Are they dieting? Add in the presence of long COVID, and just long post infectious shedding, and it's mildly amazing we can get this to work at all. Yes, the test platform produces the data and no, it should not be reported. The only thing we can really do is confirm presence of the virus.
I grew up on a farm and we worked throughout the year on property my ancestors homesteaded in the 1840s. If there wasn’t field work to be done there was always a fence that needed to be repaired, a new trough to be replaced, or something.

I can’t see how it would be possible in pre-industrial time to have “not much to do” anytime of the year. Simply having the buildings stand up without falling apart is a surprising amount of work.

Nobody in my family history did anything but farming and joining the military btw
There is a new open source PDF viewer called sioyek that has many of the features of sumatra and has experimental linux builds.

https://sioyek.info/

(Disclaimer: I am the developer of sioyek)
Not the same person, but I have an agricultural license and run an LLC related to beekeeping/honey production. I don't think I would call myself a farmer simply because I don't make a significant amount of my income from it (I think my state sets the bar at 30%)
Can anyone give an opinion on the configuration file format? (compared with JSON and XML)
Exactly. I hate those things so much. In some cruel perversion of benevolence to give you a "friendlier" interface they build something you have to no idea how to tail for your own needs.

Reminds me of Google search (remember when you could write logic queries?) and chatbots
Matrix was designed to be extensible and with extreme ability to customize and interact with outside tools. A solid interface on top of Matrix could allow for everything from messaging to transactions to project management - and even massive timeline interfaces. Matrix is an interface for federation at scale - for any type of communication.

Here's a sneak peek at some of our interfaces:

https://www.icloud.com/sharedalbum/#B165qXGF1GxreFs
He may be fine with dying, but that doesn't mean that he doesn't want to be rescued. Since he is relying on the coast guard to rescue him, he has to play by their rules. If he had a real boat following him, that would be a different story.
1.5 hours should be close to Starlink's orbital period which means that they will be back at the place the are currently at.
That's literally what farmer is defined as: Someone who owns or manages a farm. If farmers aren't farming, what are they doing?
> a stockpile of granola and ramen noodles

Ridiculousness aside, are these good choices? I'm inclined to think not. Ramen is a good ratio of calories per dollar, but what he really needs are nutrient dense foods, probably with a lot of protein given how physically difficult this is likely to be. I would think dehydrated meat or something.
Starlink is a low altitude constellation, those satellites are moving relative to the surface not stationary like traditional communication satellites. They're setup in a mesh of orbits at give or take the same inclination just offset in phase so there's some moving north east and others moving south east over an area at any given time. So every satellite will spend a lot of time over oceans just because the Earth is mostly ocean.
> These days editors in major publications seem to be preoccupied mostly with ideology enforcement.

> ... precisely because editors of traditional publications became parasitic

Could you provide some evidence about what you mean? In these two sentences, you seem to be implying that there's some observable trend where editors have gone from:

1a. Not enforcing the political stance of their paper and
2a. Being indispensable to the writing process

to:

1b. Enforcing the political stance of their paper and
2b. Becoming adversarial to the writing process

This is very interesting. Could you provide some examples?
Compliments can be rare, especially for men. I still remember compliments I've gotten from strangers years ago and smile.
Funny enough, I only get a 403 Forbidden error when opening that website. And I am located in Germany with a German IP. Though my server at Hetzner (also in Germany) has no problem retrieving contents from that domain.
Cleaning Up Git History
Sneak peek of the interface we're building on top of matrix - a timeline focused universal interface for projects
ILM isn't dumb - this is a talenthire for sure. Amazing work from this guy and dedication to the niche (and they likely have some ideas kicking around in Marvel/Lucas writing rooms that are about bringing alllll the olds back to life)
>they look for either a mechanism that links the potential cause and observed effect, or for a large enough number to get statistical confidence

From the article.

>An analysis of penile tissue from two men receiving penile implants showed the virus was present seven to nine months after their COVID-19 diagnosis. Both men had developed severe erectile dysfunction,

Does a sample size of two, look large enough sample to you?

That was my point actually.
Yes, but your sentence suggests either of those would be protective against all of the former.
I wonder how many CPU cycles we burn running the many layers of abstraction we have built in the distributed computing world.. does this performance penalty exist in the mainframe world
This is an excellent comment.

The law-degree-heavy nature of Congress should be understood not as a Congress full of lawyers, but as a Congress full of the children of rich people checking boxes on their career path to high status jobs.

The modern rich kid angling to be a Senator one day might want a short stint in the military. They might want a degree in either political science or law. They might want a job as a public prosecutor or one as a TV personality (either one gives public exposure). These are essentially box-checking to be done in the years from 18-30, and after 30 you've checked a bunch of the boxes and are ready for your run for local, state, or federal office.

At no point in most of these people's lives did they have any intent of becoming a lawyer as a full-fledged career, and the convoluted nature of much US law-making is not due to the inherent nature of lawyer-politicians. The average politician spends approximately zero seconds per day writing legislation.
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For historical reasons the SHA-3 standard made extremely conservative choices with its security parameters, particularly the number of rounds. The result is that SHA-3 is slower than SHA-2 in a lot of cases, but it didn't have to be that way. The same team of cryptographers published the KangarooTwelve hash in 2016, with half the number of rounds. I think that implies that SHA-3 could've been twice as fast with no loss in security. KangarooTwelve also introduces a tree structure, which enables a lot of the same optimizations that you see in BLAKE3, and the two designs are interesting to compare. (See section 7.6 of the BLAKE3 paper.)
I bought a few replicas of the pictured token for my friends in Austin, all of whom have these Rasputin-ass facial carpets. https://www.beardtoken.com
That's rather missing the point.

People die in european heatwaves because they're not used to the heat and don't have the right habits, and the homes are not set up to handle them: AC is relatively rare (especially whole-house AC), homes are not set up for airflow, and almost none have ceiling fans. Unshaded southern / south-western windows are also rather common, as usually the goal has been to get the sun and heat in, not keep them out (in fact in the last few decades the building codes have drastically increased the required window surface).

Which of course doesn't mean you should follow a central or northern european set up for a city like Houston, you should rather look at southern-europe, or SEA. But overall it's probably going to look like favouring shade, greenery, and airflow.
Raised in a farming family. Worked in IT for 20 years. Bought my own farm from proceeds. Still keep my hand in with software dev. Like projects for the winter :)
I think we would have to look at the historic data to draw that conclusion.
Earth does not show up until you enable Javascript on the page.
It’s not clear to me what extent IPFS is already in use in matrix applications. If I want to use web torrents or beaker/hyperdrive instead that should be possible, no? What assumptions does the matrix protocol make about attachments / media uploads?

Haven’t tried developing for matrix yet but I’m intrigued by its inertia right now.
Expensive? $40 + $15 / employee / month is hardly noticable. It will be dwarfed by the employer contributions to SS

They do so much for that, the time savings pays it back.
A nuanced and sophisticated approach should be able to identify and address the more problematic aspects of this activity whilst also acknowledging that people engage in it for many valid reasons.

So, for example, it would be heart-warming to see efforts like this coupled with measures to help tackle some of the underling/driving issues that affect individuals such as unmet emotional needs, loneliness and emotional insecurity. Harm-causing factors from the broader social context also need to be explicitly identified and tackled, such as those social and cultural systems that weaponize and exploit naturally occurring human behaviours in service of various systematic and abusive control mechanisms.
please, stop comenting about this topic.

you are wrong about basic gpl code linking concepts.
Yes, it is like dieting, but I don't agree that it's necessarily a symptom of some underlying problem.

I used to think fat people were fat simply by choice. I mean, they are the only ones lifting the fork, right? But I no longer think it's this simple. We are the result of billions of years of evolution in a world where food was scarce. Those who didn't compete for food perished. Those who ate as much as they could when it was available survived. Nobody got fat because it was simply not possible.

Sex is similar. We are descended from males who mated with as many women as they could. Maybe not all men are like me, but there is a part of my brain that literally wants to mate with every attractive woman I see. Obviously this is not possible for many reasons, but like all men, I do have as much sex as I possibly can, it's just not that much (not more than once a day). But you can read stories from rock stars and the like who do have access to much more sex and it can ruin their lives. This high availability is analogous to the high availability of food in modern times.

Porn provides this high availability for normal people. It's like constantly available junk food. Even if I don't go looking for it, I am surrounded by it everywhere I look. Every other Youtube video is a woman with cleavage in the thumbnail. It's like being a fat person constantly surrounded with a buffet wherever I go. And remember, it's porn. It's not like I'm surrounded by cabbages and carrots, I'm surrounded by cakes and biscuits.

I fail to see how climbing a mountain or starting a business or any of the other wholesome pursuits you might be thinking of would curb the desire to eat or mate. The underlying problem here is deeply rooted in our animal brains. The best way to curb the eating problem is to ensure food isn't available. Don't keep any ready-to-eat food in your house. The best way to curb the sex problem is exactly the same.
This fantasy needs to die.

When pre-industrial farmers were not in the fields all day they were not idle. They were doing tedious low intensity tasks all day instead of doing laborious tasks all day. A large part of the purpose of Sunday being a day of rest in protestant religions is that if you don't convince people there will be literal hell to pay for not taking a day off they won't take a regular day off and they will work to the point of overwork and reduced output.

Even a naive napkin math estimation of the labor required to keep a 1810s farm house and barn maintained and a few work animals fed and watered should make it clear how much labor needed to be put in before you even get to the farming aspect of it. And it's not like your wife gets to share the labor since she has her hands full with feeding and clothing the family. Pre-industrial farmers did not have the luxury of factory made clothes nor grocery store butter nor a galvanized barn roof nor a tractor.

In the US most of these people were literate and we have enough written accounts that we can accurately reconstruct how they spent their time. It suffices to say that they didn't deforest the northeast and carpet bomb it with stone walls by working 40hr weeks.
I’m gonna guess pretty much everyone’s web analytics disagrees with you. Our analytics still show a non-significant* number of users using something other than chrome.

* for e-commerce all customers matter
Texas' ERCOT. It's a government appointed regulation body, not a branch of gov't.

Are you really doubting that this is something that "might" happen?

Edit: FAA allowing Boeing to self-certify 737MAX. FDA allowing/not allowing trials of drugs, or allowing a drug meant for one thing to be tried for something else totall untested (ex: AZT).
You make it sound like getting a well paying, interesting, low-stress job is a total cake walk. For most of us it's not.

I also love how someone inevitably trots out the "just invest $<more spare money than most have> at <unrealistic rate>% for <very long time>". Nothing is giving you guarenteed 8% post tax returns, and you might want to, I don't know, buy a house in the next 30 years.
I've had similar issues with people who make 3d models for gaming and I find it super frustrating. I just want a model of a Dwarf cleric and maybe other models in the future, but I don't want to subscribe to you.
You're telling us all that you have, on a regular basis, seen Americans telling non-English speakers how to pronounce English words while speaking the foreign tongue?
Thanks for the clarification.

Congrats on your round. Best wishes for turning that into a robust truly decentralized E2EE communications platform that the average person won't shy from. Btw, I hope SNEK sticks!
So you're mad because web developers are taking your JERBS. Got it.
No immediate plans, but perhaps in the longer term, sure. Right now it works completely autonomously on your iPad.
Sure, your Apple overlords are always right. Said like a true fanboy.
I would rather see more transparency once you are a reporter than shinier leaderboards. It is extremely frustrating to spend a week reverse engineering a vulnerability in an opaque cloud service only to be told it was a known issue (but private), won’t be fixed (but is within 48 hours), and that you don’t qualify for any compensation. I would like to see private issues shared with reporters when they are independently discovered. I would like to see status updates from developers. I would like to see some kind of shared compensation system that acknowledges it can take more than one person to investigate a problem before it is fixable and that even time spent replicating a vulnerability has value.
I think these constallations need to move to some sort of multi-nation joint system.

It's seems likely we'll have 5+ of these constallations up in the near future and all the crowding issues associated with that.

It would be a great humankind project to make 1 or 2 joint systems. Can have relevant base station control to the individual nations for their political and security preferences.
>most of the people working on farms were slaves

This is false. 90% of the US were farmers. This is going to be subsistence farmers and people who own farms, sharecroppers, etc. The highest rate of slavery was around 10% of the total population, as the northern states had higher populations, though some individual states had very high rates of slavery.

https://faculty.weber.edu/kmackay/statistics_on_slavery.htm
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Where about do you you live where you can currently buy a livable home under 100k? I’ve got family in White County, GA that can’t find a non-mobile-home option under $130k. Even then, sellers are being courted with 10-20% above asking price.

If there’s a place more low-cost than northeast GA I’m very interested to hear about it.
I actually need to build a short (500 yard) railway at some point in the next few years. Disease is spreading into my ash woodland and a very large amount of timber needs to be harvested before it dies. It’s the excuse I need to have a site railway.
Oh I get that. Kind of what my parents did that always pick up baby from waist(if he is sitting down) & holding him only at thighs/waist. I see some people pick up by from their underarms.
Working for yourself, at your own pace, and doing things you chose to do and can choose to no longer do (like growing rye or having chickens as the article names) are a lot less stressful than working for someone else, with their deadlines, doing things they chose to do, like growing rye or having chickens.

If you do it yourself you can set yourself boundaries. If some other schmuck does it you can get yourself a bigger rye field and just tell him it has to be all done by the end of the day, or whatever else you can make them do for 8+ hours a day.

I mean I wouldn't idealize farming per se, if it's your livelihood and you can't compete with the industrial farming complex, but I can see how it can be a lot less stressful if you're your own boss and are financially secure.
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Billionaire Charles Koch on Why Cannabis Should Be Legal
Strangely Mathworks is not among the usual cast of characters for DOE software grants, though they've made a fortune just from license fees paid by the labs. The last decade or so has seen a real shift away from Matlab.
I think it’s a research project and not a commercial VC-money-burning startup. I highly recommend PlantNet as well.
Usually, it means teams don't share within the organization. Each team basically toss releases over the wall to whoever is next. For example, my team wrote a feature, toss the entire thing over to QA team for testing, then toss the thing over to DevOp team for deployment, then toss it over to SRE team for monitoring and operations.
Gift card balances are liabilities on the balance sheet of each country or regional office in which that card is valid. From a software standpoint it probably isn't much more than a flick of a switch. From a financial reconcialiation point of view however....
I just got an M1 Mac after years on Ubuntu, and decided to give Safari a go. I literally could not figure out how to search for an extension (the extension menu's search box searches the app store). I'm probably missing something obvious, but I'm quick to reject unintuitive consumer software so I'm typing this from Firefox.

I know Firefox will inevitably decline one day, but honestly it's still a great browser and the compat complaints are over-blown.

Apple's hardware and integration is incredible, but I don't understand why people like their software on its own.