skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure, but for this scheme to work, the increase in inflation has to be unexpected. If the expected real return is too negative, nobody will buy the bonds in the first place.
If you think that Qt is more bloated than Cocoa I don't know what to say. That objc runtime is so heavy and slow, good luck making it run on microcontrollers
You also have to parse a binary protocol byte by byte, or at least the bytes you care about. But the question is, why are we parsing logs at all?
Take the CEO’s tweet and imagine that instead of running a game studio, he instead ran:

- a women’s wellness lifestyle brand

- a healthy meal delivery service

- a government IT contractor

- a pickup truck accessories manufacturer

- a gun manufacturer

- a Christian publisher

Draw the line for me when you think he would not be cancelled. See the point, here? Context is everything. This is the opposite of McCarthyism.
>And people claiming otherwise are the same people who come here and ask "What can I do, some Chinese company ripped of my website?!?!?!"

Something you made up in your head with literally not a single shred of evidence.
I run an Alexa top-2000 website. (Mangadex is presently at about 6000.) I spend less than $250 a month.

I have loads and loads of thoughts about what they could be doing differently to reduce their costs but I'll just say that the number one thing Mangadex could be doing right now from a cursory glance is to reduce the number of requests. A fresh load of the home page generates over 100 requests. (Mostly images, then javascript fragments.) Mangadex apparently gets over 100 million requests per day. My site - despite ostensibly having more traffic - gets fewer than half that many in a month. (And yes, it's image-heavy.)

A couple easy wins would be to reduce the number of images loaded on the front page. (Does the "Seasonal" slider really need 30 images, or would 5 and a link to the "seasonal" page be enough? Same thing with "Recently Added" and the numbers of images on pages in general.) The biggest win would probably be reducing the number of javascript requests. Somehow people seem to think there's some merit to loading javascript which subsequently loads additional javascript. This adds a tremendous amount of latency to your page load and generates needless network traffic. Each request has a tremendous amount of overhead - particularly for dynamically-generated javascript. It's much better to load all of the javascript you need in a single request or a small handful of requests. Unfortunately, this is probably a huge lift for a site already designed in this way, but the improved loading time would be a big UX win.

Anyway - best of luck to MangaDex! They've clearly put a lot of thought into this.
Just a record pointing to another ID? I mean no need to enforce FK constraint for symlink. For hard links - yes, an FK like concept?
Here is a quote from the study:

> However, for intelligence, heritability increases linearly, from (approximately) 20% in infancy to 40% in adolescence, and to 60% in adulthood. Some evidence suggests that heritability might increase to as much as 80% in later adulthood but then decline to about 60% after age 80.

It does not corroborate the claim "Intelligence is largely (~70-80% of variance) inherited".
"societal unacceptability" is only one factor. personal choice is another. there's no reason to assume that gender disparities in a given field or trade are solely the result of the existence of the former.
Is there a demo showing how the Plan 9 is similar to Smalltalk regarding the “meta” stuff (programmabilty, message passing, ..)?
Thank you for your detailed response. I too was looking for a markdown solution.

Did you get a monetary settlement with the companies? Was there an NDA involved?
Chia's nodes are not all running in the same data centers and owned by a single company like Amazon's. To imply that is disingenuous at best. They are operating all over the globe in independently owned data centers and people's private residences. Geo-location by IP will give a fairly good indication of that, but even just a simple survey of farmers from forums, chat, reddit, etc will give you a feel for the heavy presence throughout Asia, Australia, Europe and the US. Also, you can look at the number of unique pool public keys to get a feel for the ownership decentralization. (https://www.chiaexplorer.com/charts/networkDecentralisation) While not perfect, people do not tend to create lots and lots of pool public keys. Therefore, one can be relatively confident that the network has a high degree of decentralization.
Face shields as well. There was an Indian study showing that they reduced infections to nothing in social workers visiting unmasked people. Note that this also means that surgical masks should still prevent infecting others.
Vmware spent over a billion on their own cloud provider which failed utterly and the remnants were sold to Amazon.
This is a Beautiful, very promising approach!

It strikes me as the perfect balance between the no/low code approach and the ability to still treat programs as code (with text as the main medium).

Very cool alternative to yaml/domain specific/cli approaches.

I’ve seen a similar approach in the past be used to empower business users to write/maintain parts of larger systems. One example would be text to generate business rules / actions in Decision support systems (#brms) usually ux was via guided writing (think autocomplete for certain phrase types where certain parts of the text get locked and variables are become drop downs)

I love that it makes the description be the starting point, reminiscent of TDD.

I also can see the future ability to generate multiple languages, very cool.

I’ll give it a try.
We use remote scripted Indesign instances for creating catalogues, which needs Windows to run, and RDP for debugging.

I'd love to hear about alternative solutions that don't require Windows, and still spit out colour-accurate CMYK indesign files; the printing shops won't accept anything else.
UK fires up coal power plant on standby as gas prices soar across Europe
I've always assumed that (intelligent) progressives know this the same way they know many other things but they would never admit it publicly.
> Counting Social Security as a holder of the national debt is nonsense. Usually the cited debt excludes intragovernmental debt, since these internal government-internal IOUs are utterly meaningless with respect to the debt the country has outstanding.

Consider 2 situations.

1. Social Security lends the government a trillion dollars.

2. Bob lends the government a trillion dollars. Bob sells this loan on the public market. Social Security happens to be the organization that buys that loan from Bob.

What makes the former "Utterly meaningless", but the latter not?

It's not like Social Security is... Planning on forgiving that debt.
Your take is right for real life name accounts, but I think the system of reputation does not have to be linked to a real name, and could work on a pseudo based system, maybe even an anonymous one.

Imagine a reddit clone, but where your karma is not useless but actually reputation points : the better your reputation, the higher your post/comment is ranked.

Your reputation could be subreddit-scoped, and each subreddit could decide to value the existing reputation of a user based on their reputation on another subreddit : e.g. if you have a high reputation on /askhistorians, you automatically get a good one on /history_lovers, and inversely if you get a good reputation on /woman_beater you get a terrible reputation everywhere.

A specific system for new users similar to the one on StackOverflow could allow for a deeper check of new users/alt-accounts.

And in the end, people could vote on post to provide reputation without actually needing to see the name of the author, providing a better anonymity part : you're not anonymous to the website, but you're not doxxable by random users either.
When the Delta variant was identified most countries had not or had just started their vaccination program.
So if someone owes you money (a "debt" perhaps), but it's pretty clear that same someone won't be able to pay you and everyone else they owe --- what do you do?

I'm inclined to side with the other comment nearby: cutting payments to foreign creditors is easy, cutting payments to your own citizens is a disaster. Sure, there's this magic pixie dust of MMT, but with inflation already poking it's sharp edge into every day life, I doubt we can print our way back to prosperity.
Yeah, micro USB was terrible. But USB-C is a big improvement.
Each of those is its own political debate.

If there was political agreement that those plans worked then there would be no link to currency or debt. They'd be good ideas all weather and all systems.

But they aren't good ideas, they are increasingly clever perpetual motion machines, claiming to make things cheaper while moving the cost around (without making it smaller) until it isn't clear where it is. Because there isn't a step in them to make things cheaper that doesn't involve waving a magic wand and saying "but if the government says it is cheap it will be cheap".
> Since when does fascism / alt right need facts to further their agenda? Cutting off research funding for sensitive topics does nothing to stave off our fall into dystopia.

Did I say I wanted to cut funding to genetics? What I did was explaining a perspective which I don't share for the most part. What I said is that the idea of willfully designing the shape of a society based on some features of the body (blood, genes, shape of the skull, ...) stands in the tradition of horrible genocides. My grandfather was a Nazi, so this is not some abstract thing for me, but him explaining that e.g. people from the balkan region are "just thieves" because it is "in their blood" would be a thing that he would certainly also read out of genetics.

I am all for research of genetics for medical purposes, there lies great potential there. I think exploring links between sociology and genetics is also quite interesting.

What I am vehemently against is to divide people based on genetics and make policy based on that alone.

> I wonder why every progressive in this thread is suddenly afraid of having to discriminate people based on yet-unknown gene factors when their crowd is ok to discriminate based on known skin color (as long as it matches their notion of who should be discriminated against).

I guess american progressives think they need to do this to correct centuries of the pendulum leaning into the other direction. While I aknowledge the fact (centuries of opression against non-white people), I don't agree with the conclusions in extremo. Of course a majority white society has the duty to deal with it's racist heritage pay reparations to the ancestors of that violence and opression etc. If Germany pays reparation to victims of the Holocaust this isn't racism against Germans, it is the pure minimum any decent free society would do. Similarily the significant injustice that has been dealt to native americans or people of color has to be confronted in a serious and fair manner. Giving justice to that injustice can of course look from the outside as if they get a unfair advantage over us who had the luck not to have had such a history. That doesn't feel good, because one has to accept the injustices the own society and nation has done and it lessens our role in the story. But it is necessary.
> But a hundred years ago we could easily have the same conversation about simply reading and writing - they (the poor, women, or "lower class" ) luke not be taught to read. But it turns out that if you start young enough, and put enough effort in, 99% of everyone can learn

There is a thing called functional illiteracy [1], where people can write and read but mostly only their name and some very basic things like grocery lists. They also cannot comprehend texts even if they can read most words. It's more or less equivalent to being able to add numbers, maybe multiply numbers 1-10 but very far from algebra.

No first world country can claim a 99% literacy rate unless you count in these people, which would stretch things quite a bit.

1: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functional_illiteracy
I think it's that successful momentum can paper over internal business failures for a while, which means you lose a sort of natural selection where the worse employees -- and especially the worse managers -- would screw up in an obvious way and get booted out. And without that pressure around, people don't have to perform.

Basically, a company that's in an extremely strong position from prior successes may lose internal feedback loops that kept the people and culture on track.
It's not arbitrary. "Other causative factors" is boundless.
The problem is who gets to decide.

My english teacher/class master till 8th grade insisted I follow a profession that doesn't involve math -- she even recommend me to be a radio host for a children program -- she thought highly of me, but she thought math was not my thing.

She was half right -- I have ADHD and even though my blood relatives are highly successful (doctors, lawyers, judges) NOBODY was good at math.

Anyway, my parents thought otherwise and promised to buy me a PC if I get admitted to a math/programming class in highschool and paid for math tutoring. My math skills completely turned around in a year and I ultimately loved math, especially calculus.
Let's start off with defining what an Operating System really is because depending on where you draw that line the outcome will be substantially different. Ignoring mainframes and other large installations for the moment, strictly from a 'personal computer' point of view:

If you see the operating system as the task-schedular + IPC clearinghouse then the system is simple, well defined and it can be expected to perform in a deterministic and verifiably correct way (assuming working hardware).

If you define the operating system as 'everything and the kitchen sink' including media players, browsers and so on then there is no way to make any guarantees and determinism is going to be impossible to achieve.

Personally I prefer the leaner-and-meaner operating systems that have a larger ring of userland software built on top of them to create as small as possible a core on which the actual end-user applications are run.

Those systems tend to find good middle ground between reliability, speed and security because the amount of surface area exposed is going to be the minimum at every level.

Something like Windows is on one end of that scale, something like MacOS is somewhere in the middle. Linux can be stripped (or more accurately: it could be stripped) to something a lot slimmer than the default distros, and something like IRIX (no longer used in production as far as I know) was roughly where MacOS sat (custom hardware, custom OS tied closely to that hardware).

An ideal OS that limits itself to scheduling and IPC is currently not on the market for desktop usage, and the arrival of the mobile device market has blurred many of the lines that we thought were drawn pretty clearly in the past.

The 'lets move everything into the kernel' philosophy is as far as I'm concerned fatally broken and likely things will have to get a lot worse before they will finally get better, and it would not surprise me if everything that we do today will be discarded once that happens.
> The issue is not really the number of requests per second, probably, but the number of bytes, which they don't talk about at all in the article; reading manga with no ads is a pretty static kind of application, which could be satisfied amply with a web browser or even a much simpler program loading images from a filesystem directory.

I assume they are talking about their more dynamic content serving in this post (for things like search, tracking which chapters are read, new chapter listing based on what user follows etc.).

They have a custom CDN that is hosted by volunteers to serve the images for the manga pages. They provide some metrics for that at https://mangadex.network, there are also some older screenshots where they hit 3.2GB/s.
It's a lot easier to control what goes into the main branch than what goes into someone's feature branch. Who's going to police the feature branches to ensure the merges are cleaned up and rebased prior to merge to main?

My feature branches are full of useless commits (from the perspective of the main branch), and anyone that tells me to clean that up prior to a merge can pound dirt. Of course, my repos use squash merge, so I'd never get that complaint.
I'm not sure about that, i've hear Professor Emeritus Mallard talk about his youth in the genetical field and the first use of computers to assist geneticists, he told me that he basically never saw men doing computer work, and that changed in the 80s, along with the culture.
New ‘mu’ Covid-19 variant now found in 49 US states
My hypothesis is that people believe intelligence is less genetic and more changeable than physical features purely because it makes sense intuitively.

It's hard to change you height, but your mind? Of course you can change that!
Avoid proton mail like the plague.
Exactly my point. As useful genetics are in medical applications as dangerous genetics get when non-scientists try to explain their existing world view using it.
The catch here would be thinking in distributions, and from that separating individuals from said distributions.

A current topic would be representation within a given domain. Particularly since in most representation cases (high paying jobs, celebrities, top universities, etc), we're already looking at the tails of the distribution. There, small shifts can heavily affect the quantity of users in the right tail, especially for domains with stronger requirements (see your case with the runners).

Of course I won't try to discount potential cultural impact, but anyone trying to sell you a story of how it's all nature or all nurture is typically spouting bullshit.
Efficient algorithms for collecting statistics of large-scale IP address data
> "spends a lot of time thinking"

Why is this in quotes when it isn't a quote?
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> I found very large improvements in working memory from taking 20-minute afternoon naps

Sure. My ability to do anything also drops to near zero if I don't sleep enough. Yet I have not found unlimited increases in capability if sleep more and more...

> modafinil

Yeah, drugs are a quite different beast. Doping happens when individual athlete realizes they have hit the limits what their "natural" biology can do and yet still are not going to win the competition.
This was correct in the 1980s, it is definitely not correct today.
I don’t understand why so many take issue with the feature being called Tesla Autopilot. I’m a pilot and believe it is a pretty accurate name.

Do regular folks think an aircraft autopilot does everything? Traditionally, it is just a system that holds heading and altitude. Some are even simpler and can only hold a heading. There are more recent advanced implementations that have a sequence of courses and altitudes to cover a flight route and departure/approach procedures along the way —- but it is still a fairly unintelligent system.

Most aircraft autopilots are ignorant of traffic, weather, flight conditions, air law/regulations, etc. I say most because aviation technology continues to evolve and there’s some neat stuff emerging.

But the majority autopilots in aircraft in service today look very similar to Tesla Autopilot if you go down the features they cover.
This is a clear misunderstanding of practically everything about progressivism. Progressivism is an evolution of liberalism which acknowledges that liberalism had failed to bring the equality it promised.

Having scientific proof of differences does nothing. It's not the starting stats that progressives see as the thing that needs to be equalized, but the opportunities. Maybe the outcomes. It depends.
Yes and no, and yes again. And no.

For any given trait X, the question about how much it is "inherited/genetic" or "environmental" is a commonly used shorthand, even amongst professionals, but it can be subtly misleading. All traits are 100% inherited, and all traits are 100% environmental. What do I mean by this? How is the ability to speak Russian genetic? How is the colour of your hair environmental?

Well, put it this way: is the difference between a human child brought up in a Russian family and their pet dog who has lived with them for the same time genetic or environmental? And what is the difference between a pair of identical twins, one of whom bleached their hair with peroxide–genetic or environmental?

The above are of course exaggerations, but they're just obvious examples. The correct way of phrasing the question is this: given a population A, what percentage of the variability of trait X is inherited and what percentage is environmental? Given the population of mammals, is the ability to speak Russian mainly genetic? Yes. Given a pair of identical twins, is any difference in their hair colour environmental? Also yes.

So, to the question as to how much of a decline in intelligence can be accounted to malnourishment throughout life (and how much to other environmental factors, genetics, etc.) we need to specify what population we're talking about. I'd be willing to bet that:

1- the variability in intelligence due to malnourishment in the population of middle-to-upper class children is negligible,

2- the variability in intelligence due to malnourishment in the entire child population of a developed country is detectable,

3- ...and the variability in intelligence in the due to malnourishment in the worldwide child population is significantly higher.
I frankly don't see where containers could lower the performance.

Basically a container is a glorified chroot. It has the same networking unless you asked for isolation, then packets have to follow a local (inside the host) route. It has exactly no CPU or kernel interface penalty.

Maybe you wanted to say about container orchestration like k8s, with its custom network fabric, etc.
Actually listening to minorities instead of summoning some kind of sick quota for different ethnicities. Racists are in stark decline and it didn't even take a diversity program or a change in language rules.

The companies are then righting the wrongs on the shoulders of innocents, that most likely never were racists to begin with. In short, just committing to another mistake.
With the Northsea link:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Sea_Link

due to start sharing 1.54 TW of power next month I guess this will require coal power a lot less.

I wonder how much power will get transmitted to Norway though?
European civilization is built on ham and cheese
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biomass_(ecology)

"The biomass is the mass of living biological organisms in a given area or ecosystem at a given time."

Of course fish and insects are part of the biomass.
Im thinking of that 90s movie Speed. Where the loop a 1 minute video signal to the bomber, while they escape.
I guess its a reality now.
There was another comment I had just finished reading and merged them in my head. I'll go back through and edit, sorry for any confusion
This sounds like a deal breaker for some use cases: https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/iap-desktop/wiki/Trou... "Because of the way IAP Desktop tunnels RDP connections, it always uses NTLM for authentication and can't use Kerberos." There may be environments that lose the security benefits of Kerberos over NTLMv2 (e.g., mutual authentication) because they've been forced into a new compliance mandate that dictates adoption of Zero Trust in all available contexts.
Journald doesn't actually parse the log strings. Any parseable entities are stored in separate fields (see `man systemd.journal-fields`)