skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, the statement is literally just "the exact specific thing we said this project would cause happened." Lamentably the people listening already knew that, and the people who need to hear it won't listen. Honestly the wall doesn't even need to be political to be a bad idea. We could stipulate that every single reason given for needing to build it is true and it'd still only keep out roadrunners. :\
Easily changed by tweaking firmware, NAND, whatever.

Also, this technology is far from new. When usb thumb drives first became mass-produced a lot of thieves would buy small ones and change the flash memory to read whatever size, and sell them to unsuspecting customers. Man that was forever ago, like back when most were only a few MB in size.

In fact here[1] is an article from two years ago discussing it being done on SSDs as well, and lists several programs to try and find if you've been deceived.

[1] https://www.raymond.cc/blog/test-and-detect-fake-or-counterf...
> China is no longer the us' #1 trading partner.

China has never been the US' #1 trading partner. That has been Canada, because Canada imports ~300 billion, and exports ~300 billion to the US. China only imports ~100 billion from the US, but exports ~452 billion. Both numbers are growing, year over year.
I think at least some of those statements are independent of parenting, access to education and nutrition.

Give everyone perfect parenting, a great education and lots of nutritious food and some of them still won't be able to learn calculus.
Why do you need to cut them off? I mean, isn't the fact that most countries in the world are dictatorship (or failed states, and these are a much bigger problem) a surprise? China is different from other dictatorships only in size.

If anything, maximising interoperation with non-free countries only benefits free countries, making their position more exclusive. Say: Chinese rich are likely to settle in US and Europe once they made it, just because it's too scary to stay in China, but they spend and pay taxes there.

The world will never be "free" in the Western sense of it, because even the very concept of "society" is foreign to the vast majority of people, the concept of "public good" is foreign too, damn it, in the most countries people can't even queue: they fight for their turn to be served and everyone accepts it as fair. Not just democracy, but even freedom or "rights" in the very basic sense are not understood, or actively rejected by people from all walks of life in most of the world.

Just a thought experiment: if you could "fix" those countries, why not start with Saudi Arabia, instead of China or Russia? Extent of human right abuses in the former is bigger than in either of the latter; it's a no-brainer to invade and occupy it - it's a plain desert great for tanks and they have no nukes; and they have oil. Yet this isn't done for the simple reason - no one is going to benefit from it.
Neat site on mobile. Top half is the cookies crap and bottom is telling me I get two free articles. I can see nothing else.
Fantasy Cartography: Just Add Something Blotchy
Regardless of your credentials, as far as I am aware the scientific consensus on this topic is that genetics is nearly impossible to separate from other causal factors. Mainly other causal factors that we have clearer and more direct evidence of having an influence on cognitive ability.

So, quite frankly, I don't care if you spend a lot of time thinking about it, it's irrelevant. The consensus is clear.
I think this kind of fraud should be investigated and penalized
Here's a relatively recent study:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4270739/

I agree with your sentiment in the second paragraph. Human gets a little fuzzy, though...I think you really mean to point at personhood. There are humans who definitely aren't people, like those born without brains. And with the computers our grandkids will install--oh my! I'll cross that bridge when I get to it.
Tesla’s Fatal Error: Defensive Driving
That might be the "theory" (a word which does some heavy lifting in venues infected by "critical theory") but in practice it comes down to straight males and traditional male virtues being "toxic".
Suppose I don't mind binary logging.

I'd prefer it to be a separate independent component, the way syslogd is. (Yes, I know that in systemd the binary logging can be switched off, or even replaced with a different implementation.)

I care mostly about having an independent implementation with a different internal architecture, narrower scope, and a separate governance.
There’s no next big thing. The internet was the biggest thing humanity will ever do.
OP is missing the additional phrase "compared to the weight in the MSCI ACWI".
> Intelligence is largely (~70-80% of variance) inherited

I'd like your definition of intelligence.
Allright. I'll bite.

How many millions of people are you ready to kill in this mission of opposing dictatorships? How many of them your own countrymen, and how many of them foreigners? Just looking for an order of magnitude estimate, here.

I'd like to see the ethical calculus on this, before joining in on this maximum use of force.

Or, did you mean that everyone should talk a big game about opposing dictatorships? We're already doing that. Talk is cheap, as is foreign oil and other goods.
MS .NET burned me hard with WPF. After finally looking into it, it more or less was cancelled for greener pastures.

I don't think the newer Windows UI-Frameworks are loved that much and UWP is not really convincing for desktop applications. Just too much hassle for too little gain and the threat of vendor lock-in.
We should be careful of imposing irl laws on the net because this will only bring the problems of irl to the net. On the net one can have multiple identities, each with varying characteristics and this is a feature of the net. Reputation is for irl, the net works on merits because of limitless identies... if you mess up you can start over again.
Yeah, as the other child comment says I'm not sure what you're getting at with speech acquisition. Here's a study I plucked: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4270739/
Arbitrarily.
Secure Remote Access Tunnels to services in private networks in 20 lines of Rust
Would you mind elaborating on exactly how many studies you think are engaging in "statistical trickery"?
You don't remember the title/author by any chance?
There is probably not going to be an email service that does not share protonmail's threat model, i.e. national police investigation. A nation state has leverage, if the people running the service don't want to go to jail for you (and let's be real, people who would are outliers), they're going to comply with legal demands.

What people are looking for is a technical solution to a political problem.
My dad was a math and physics teacher and he had a very similar theory around the working memory. However he also thought that the problem for those students that had difficulties with math was that the working memory was often filled up with other stuff than the math that they were working on. It could be anything from difficulties to concentrate to problems with holding the pen correctly and therefore the working memory was overflowed.
The real problem with dominant software solutions is their scale. In the worst case that means that if you don't make the criteria for one job, you don't make it for any job. Even if you fail for something stupid. From the companies perspective you loose a lot of diversity which is a vicious cycle.

Maybe attaining monopoly-like status and convergence on global scale is part of capitalism. But hopefully though enough businesses will realize though that they are leaving money on the table and capitalism will incentivize the development of new solutions (software or not) to unlock this opportunity. But it will take time.
Any hope of jurisdiction bound federal law preventing something on the internet which is not politically or socially charged.

Hell, there’s a widespread issue of ransomware currently - certain governments overlook cyber gangs in all but the most (financially) extreme circumstances. There’s not a chance any political force would bother policing internet poker.
> But it’s not totally clear whether rural America is a viable customer base for Starlink. The biggest issue is cost. A Starlink subscription is $99. Speeds can vary greatly, but the average user should expect 50 to 150 megabits per second. You’d have to pay traditional satellite internet companies like Viasat (which operates geostationary satellites) double that amount to get the same speeds. Not bad.

"Same speeds" - sure, if latency wasn't a thing? (Latency was though discussed before this.)

Fact is, it is impossible to buy the same service for _any_ price at the moment. In fact, if random internet folks are to be believed, people in rural regions are already paying more for worse service.

While it doesn't make sense to serve high density areas with Starlink, it would make seem to make sense to provide an uplink for a small local ISP. One could perhaps get a bit bigger chunk than 50..150 Mbps for such a commercial venture, but everyone would be happy; Starlink would get money, local ISP co-op would do the local setup of fiber/wifi and deal with user support, end users would get decent internet connectivity. And competitors would get nothing.

However, the big test for the system is when the rural subscribers actually start using services such as Netflix. Too bad Internet proxies are a dying breed, otherwise such a local mini-ISP could easily address the problem for the most popular series. Maybe they can participate in the appropriate CDNs?
Have you ever been a teacher? Even a teaching assistant?

I have. Some people are dumb.

You try teaching these people (anecdotally they're less than 1% of the population, with no obvious markers, so you have to actually find one first) and then come back and tell me how it's like "getting algebra to run on someone with less working memory". If I wanted to continue that analogy, I might say that the task is like getting algebra to run on someone whose brain has a power supply that randomly shorts out and spends half its time browned out.

Because some people out there are just not easy to teach.
Yes, exactly like that!
That's the crux of the issue. Most of webdev is just managing a huge amount of very simple pieces of code, where I/O from somewhere, to somewhere dominates.

One particular issue I remember when talking with Alibaba engineers when I worked on a subcontractor for a custom DC project was "1 second kill"

That's a phenomenon when some super good deal is posted onto the front-page of Taobao, and they get squished when people from all over China smashing F5 click on the deal.

Purchasing looks like a lock, and write task from the DB side, and the whole of Taobao.com was tied onto a single point of failure MySQL cluster in 2016 abused to the maximum.

They went to Computer Science people which only said that there is no way around locking, and a single DB write origin.

External contractors wrote a super-duper performant "database gateway" which organised, and queued purchase reservations to the stock database at around 50hz.
They weren't working at all.
The percentage without context does not give any actual information. E.g. one could argue that environment affects 99 percent of intelligence as for example if someone dies due to environment there's no intelligence at all.

So there must be some poor environment A and good environment B, and some poor genes A and good genes B that a comparison must be made between to understand exactly what this percentage means and of course there must be a definition of intelligence and a way to measure it.
The main problem with tying specific skills to genetics is that it's not yet possible. We can't even figure out how to get a car to drive itself reliably, and we build the car from scratch. We are not even slightly close to figuring out how genes correlate to advanced complex behaviors that involve learned elements. There are endless factors and interplay between them that determine an already vague concept such as "intelligence". How could you possibly say "these three genes mean you are capable of calculus"? Perhaps you might find some correlations through statistical analysis but that entire in-between is still a blackbox and you can't draw conclusions at all about what is or isn't possible. It wouldn't serve any valuable purpose.

The cognitive dissonance is real - it's an echo chamber in here about how self-driving is a pipe dream, and yet a much more difficult problem of determining ability driven by genes is easily swallowed.
Browsing the web in 2021 is a terrible experience
My point is that if you can produce twins, one of which will be taught how to speak, read and write and the other not and the difference in intelligence between them will be so significant, then the genetic component can't possibly amount for most of intelligence.

Yes, it's the nature vs nurture argument all over again, but I think that regarding intelligence it's far from settled.
"g" is the way contemporary scientists think about it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G_factor_(psychometrics)

I haven't read the wiki article and so can't vouch for it
Again: describe a set of work principles explicitly that all agree on - it's a human communication and collaboration issue you were faced with.

A tool is not responsible for this breakdown. Lack of clarity around ownership and responsibilities is, by the look of it.

IM humble O.
Lol, not really: http://ravimohan.blogspot.com/2007/04/learning-from-sudoku-s...
I enjoyed this post, but I'm struggling to wrap my head around what relations you'd have in this OS. Sym links become foreign keys?
Peter Pan, Existentialist Fairy Tale? (2017)
The C64 mini (and maxi) are 64-bit computers (mosty likely) and offer everything a c64 can ;-)

If someone is interest in getting a C64, I urge them to get the maxi replica. It feels like a 64 without the pain of composite video and slow floppies.
How much images/features/data would Jetson need to keep in RAM for an Amazon-size (huge) warehouse floor? Or better yet, what is the dataset size per m2 needed for successful positioning?
The problem is of course that the world can't afford the current life style, or as you call it, reality of life, of the people of North America. So the question really is, how important is that trip between Seattle and Dallas in the first place?

Less than a month ago I spent 23 hours on different trains and an overnight ferry to let my children visit their grandparents that live in a different country. And since we do, rail connections are rapidly improving since there is a demand for them. And I know that isn't possible everywhere in the world. But if you really want your kids to spend time with their grandparents several times a year, then you better live closer to them. Even if it means a less interesting and well paying job. In our case, my wife and I are of different nationalities (and we are certainly not unique in this regard), so we can only live close to one set of grandparents. But that means that they kids only get to see the other pair of grandparents once, maybe twice a year, and we spend quite a bit of time on travel for that.

If people and politicians would have taken the climate threat seriously a few decades ago, when scientists started to tell us that this is real and dire, then you would already drive around in an electric car, you would already have fast coast to coast high speed trains, and maybe even something like hydrogen fuelled airplanes. We already have all the money and technology to solve this. Unfortunately the most important ingredient is missing, and that is political will.
writing this post probably took more time than doing that to be fair :)
Why an entrepreneur must have a mentor?
A practical demonstration of the difference between 'resilient' and 'redundant'
Lacking humor I see.

My point is that it is experience acquired from managing these for a decade. If you wish to acquire this experience you need to run it, which is now even costlier than it used to be.
Survivorship bias with a N=1 doesn't change the absolute fact that most if not all degrees are worth far less than the debt taken on.

Why your personal story is pertinent here is beyond me, OP was talking about the person in the article.

It's not dramatic at all when we have 1.73[1] trillion in student loan debt, with an average of 39k each student.

Starting your professional career years in debt is the definition of crippling debt.

edit to add source

[1] https://educationdata.org/student-loan-debt-statistics
It didn't push "8-bit as far as it can go": for example, an AMSTRAD CPC is more powerful and has still lots of potential left in it.

SID music isn't compressed in any way: it's a replayer routine with raw data to bang into the SID chip, which is a synthesizer. Rather than playing back the data, it tells the SID chip how to generate sound and which effects to apply to the generated wave forms. The SID will then easily generate megabytes of wave form data in seconds.

What it was though, is that the Commodore64 was the PC of the era so lots of people had it, and with such mass momentum there were and still are lots of innovations on it.
I'm not fluent in e-prime, sorry.
In your YubiKey SSH client you use the PIV applet with a maximum of RSA2048 when you could’ve used the auth key on the GPG applet for RSA4096. Is NIST compliance something you want to advertise today?
Hosting static files isn't really that hard. I used to host a website that at its best served around 1000 GB of video content in 24 hours. Of course, it wasn't the fastest without a CDN but it was just 25 €/month.
Software engineers with ~5 years of experience (and probably less) can earn $300k-$400k annually in the Bay Area or New York if working for a large tech company.
Thanks for your input. Are GIACs as recognized as CISSP? There are so many job postings for CISSP, I wonder if high quality employers care more about specific ones rather than mainstream ones.
I am not sure if indicating anyone lack of basic understanding of economics counts a personal attack, but calling people as assholes surely is.

Since you talked about PPEs, you can check what happened in Wuhan during the first outbreak. The Chinese government demands no price increase for PPEs such as face masks... and what happened? The hospitals asked the public for donation of N95 facemasks because they cannot get those from the market. Every one in China are of course entitled for protecting themselves, but the truth is, at that time supply is simply not enough for the whole population and medical workers who needed those most cannot get them even the hospitals have enough dry powder to pay up. The market was awfully inefficient at that time.

Having every single mask strapped to a face and zero masks in a warehouse is far from enough. In a shortage, you need MORE facemasks. You need to make sure there will be enough are being supplied at the market. With a pricing cap, there will be no incentive for putting stock in the warehouse on sale and producing more, and it makes things worse.
> Do you really need to know Algebra II to understand exponential growth? Couldn't you just get by with multiplication and seeing a pattern

If you could do that, you could probably pass Algebra II.
Stick a Final Cartridge III or Action Replay MK VI on it and there are no slow floppies any more. But there are now solutions like SD2IEC or Ultimate II, so that's even faster.

The mini and maxi aren't really the real thing.
> Servers are the #1 expense

If you buy top line Intel processors they are. But reliability, higher speed and lower power consumption used to make up for it.
The reason it is not “independent” is that it logs even during boot.

Something which simply was not solved with the previous generation of init systems and is greatly important. During booting the file system may not even be mounted, it could hardly be done by a separate process.
Give everyone the perfect genes and lack of environment can also cause them not to learn calculus.
I would like a city from scratch designed by Alain Bertaud.
You've made four claims and thus far provided a source for the first one. Any chance for the other four?
How does this not track? It's clearly obvious that there are intellectual boundaries that exist (E.g. if you're not this smart you're going to struggle).

Previous education, upbringing, cultural values, etc are all separate effects that may influence your overall ability, but intelligence __definitely__ influences your ability.

Low intelligence + good education = poor overall ability
I still prefer github's UI and PR style over those ugly kernel mailinglists, where there is no merge status and no good CI integration and no good search unless you force yourself into using some complex mail setup.
Thanks for asking, I should've explained. The percentage here is percent of variance (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variance). What it means, basically, is the extent to which you can predict a child's intelligence just knowing the parents' intelligence--not assuming the child was raised by those parents.

In your second paragraph, you've actually hit on one of the apologetic clichés that's popular now. People will say, "Yes, 70-80% of variance...GIVEN OUR CURRENT ENVIRONMENT". And they will act as if they've said something profound. Yes, that's true, and we don't know about the heritability of intelligence in environments that don't exist...but we can make really good guesses. Further, from a public policy perspective, we've got to work in the environment that we've got. And in that environment, the number is 70-80%.
> You can believe it's reasonable for a person who can create more value for any reason deserves to be paid more, without believing their "merit" as a person is any different to anyone else.

I think progessives care mostly about the economic consequences, not a judgement of someone as a person.
In their case (manga), seems like the vast majority of the content is cacheable.
Yes, I heard postmodernists say that everyone should stop boolean them.
There's a printer right there.

If the past 2 decades haven't blown the "deficit/inflation" correlation myth out of the water, just wait until the US goes all Japan and turns up the printers even more and have absolutely nothing of consequence happen to it (especially considering the US is even more isolated from raw resource allocation cuz of all the sheer size and diversity of the economy).
It's a legacy of socialist regimes enforcing gender ratios. Gender disparity is usually proportional to freedom of choice. ie. countries where there's less pressure to choose a particular field are more disparate in their gender ratios across disciplines.