skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From the original article [1]:

>The growth in unpartnered adults has been sharper among men than women. In 1990, men and women ages 25 to 54 were equally likely to be unpartnered (29% of each group). By 2019, 39% of men were unpartnered, compared with 36% of women.

I'm really curious as to what's going on here. Do differing levels of partnering by same-sex couples account for this? Or more cheating by men? I assume there are more women than men in that age group, so I'd expect the opposite trend if anything.

1: https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2021/10/05/rising-...
Where I am, they pay out vacation time, but not sick time (unless it's a combined pool, in which case vacation takes precedence.) I don't know how common that situation is, but it certainly incentivizes getting "sick" right before you leave a job.
The real tragedy is that even theorists often have a hard time staying current with the theoretical developments in their field, because there are so many other theorists publishing new results. The same incentives that value publishing novel results apply to theoretical work as well. Theorists can often publish at a faster pace than experimentalists, because they don't have to spend time and money on experiments.

Genuine theoretical advances are often ignored or overlooked, because the incentives value novel results over simplifying and synthetizing known results. Fixing this, like many other issues with incentives, is much easier said than done.
please give an example with quote/s, link/s, and your summary analysis.
Because it’s no longer iMessage, but SMS. The other phones are sending to everyone they think is in the “room”. So you’ll be re-added. You’ll just have to tell them to stop texting you.
The trick for that is to realise that what actually happened millennia ago isn't really too important most of the time, and that yarns and fables reveal extremely important cultural information beyond what could be gleaned from a dry factual account.

Hell, even in the modern era there's loads of things that absolutely unequivocally did not happen, and everyone understands and agrees with that, yet collectively goes "but it's better if we pretend it did though".

There's some old adage about truth and good stories...
You might be surprised to learn that a lot of meth smokers are into very basic glassblowing.
Like the first comment said, how do they trust each other?
How did the buyer make sure you are not sending him a porn movie? I think the engineer knows all about that, but meeting is inevitable.
My lesson has been to neglect or ignore any statement made with certainty without any underlying data. The most credible statements ever made always had an element of probability/odds associated with them.

That being said, some of the points this chap brings up don't add up to they hyperbole.

AirBnB income - being double the actual rent in a particular neighbourhood ? How is this even possible. If you average out AirBnB rental income over a year, you probably will end up with a slightly higher percentage than rent perhaps 10-30%. Then it's not guaranteed, rental income is. So almost every landlord will choose a guaranteed rental income over the fluctuating AirBnB income. Unless they own multiple properties and can afford the risk. Also, good luck managing an AirBnB rental in Miami without ground support sitting somewhere in Manhattan.

Housing as a means of profit and leverage - To some extent this needs to be stopped. Shelter is a basic need and unlike food, hoarding costs nothing. I am yet to understand the mentality of hoarding houses. Many of my friends are owning 2-3 flats/houses for their kids etc. While, it is more prudent to invest that money in liquid index funds. There is still this perceived notion of 'houses are guaranteed sources of income that will keep increasing in value every year' amongst the average family man. This certainly needs to change, I don't know how. So housing as a source of profit and leverage is bad but I don't see a way out. Space is limited, everyone wants a 5000 sft house.

That being said, it's by no means a doomsday scenario as depicted in this article. I don't know why people get into such hyperbole just to bring about such unrealistic doomsday scenarios. The world is still a better place. To hell with these naysayers.
What? Are you telling me I can’t make a paper out of https://www.tylervigen.com/spurious-correlations ?
> I find the C# way of having a string.Join(sep, ...) instead of python's "some string".join(...) nicer to read because it's more obvious.

`str.join(sep, ...)` works in Python as well, because `a.f(...)` and `type(a).f(a, ...)` are (almost) equivalent.
Straight up corruption, bribery and kickbacks, is apparently a sound strategy.

At least it was for the Netskope, Platfora (now owned by Workday), Sumo Logic, and half a dozen other companies who paid hundreds of thousands in kickbacks to a Netflix VP. Didn't work out so well for the former VP, who's been convicted of wire fraud and money laundering, and is facing prison time [1]. But as far as I can tell, none of the companies involved have faced any kind of sanction at all for their involvement.

[1] https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndca/pr/former-netflix-executiv...
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alexberenson may have his own biases. But the situation is strange. From the opposite corner of the country, the ferry system in Puget Sound is already cancelling tens of crossing a day because of sick calls leading to "lack of Coast Guard documented crew". A vaccine mandate is looming for Oct 18 with 250 ferry employees still unvaccinated. "It wouldn't take much to cripple the system," said retired ferry Capt. Ken Burtness.

> Employee exodus could 'cripple' Washington ferry system as dozens of sailings canceled again Friday

> 'The new norm': Washington ferry workers call out sick in protest of COVID-19 vaccine mandate

https://www.king5.com/article/news/health/coronavirus/washin...
"Adoptium Eclipse Temurin"

....ok
Neat. A friend of mine heard that skunk cabbage, in the same family and also bearing calcium oxalate, was an indigenous staple and foolishly tried a mature leaf and ended up in the hospital. It's great that people are into learning about edible plants, but it's just as important to learn how they were prepared...
With respect, no.

What has happened is that everyone else has shifted hard right. NPR has stayed exactly where it was.
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Most of the "nuance" here is screened off by the questions, "do individuals in China act in China's interests as articulated by the CCP or not?", and "would they ever do otherwise if not located in China or under the influence of China's laws?"

For the former, I don't think the numbers overall add up to the relevance of the distinction you're making here, even if it's just the CCP being strict and wielding a lot of domestic power.

For the latter, it's a big hypothetical but Chinese influence overseas through NGOs and banking and students doing tech-transfer/brain drain etc also works in disfavour of it being true in the large, except for maybe Hong Kongers and Taiwanese with no strong mainland connections.
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It matters to a degree. Most technologists just think that correlation is causation. If the code is good then they must be making piles of cash.
One may want a high interest rate while you hold the property but you want low/declining interest rate as you approach sale
That's not what's happening here though. China has for years put enormous effort into promoting its worldview on the China/Taiwan issue in every way it can, even though that worldview contradicts the facts on the ground. Taiwan is de-facto an independent country with its own government and military sovereignty, and the majority of citizens of Taiwan are happy with that arrangement.

China saying that Wikipedia Taiwan is spreading misinformation is just an effort to warp reality to fit China's alternate-universe version of the facts.
> You can make either function take arbitrarily long by increasing the size of the input. The second one scales worse.

I think this is the point, the second one scales worse - absolutely (ignoring the bug you mentioned) however it really is more readable, and because V8 is so fast, why not use the second version?

Block comments and function names are important, but if someone needs to modify the code to add or change functionality nothing beats simple & readable code.
I would be interested in hearing more if you feel like elaborating.
Set them up as routers?
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Eyeballing the values on the graph, it looks like the price increase is around 4% YoY between 2000 and 2020, from ~0.40$ to 0.85$. If it were 15%, it would have reached 6.50$ in 2020.
How difficult is Cobol to learn compared to other languages? I admit I had a bias against it when I was watching Dave Plummer’s software drag race between it, C++, and Fortran[1] but I was absolutely blown away at it being faster than the Fortran implementation, and about 50% slower than the C++ one. For something so verbose, I wasn’t expecting it to compile to such efficient machine code.

[1] https://youtu.be/yYcHWGxtRQo
I'm using Firefox 93.0 on macOS and I don't see "contextual suggestions" anywhere.

In the address bar suggestions I do have everything ticked. The full list is: Browsing history, Bookmarks, Open tabs, Shortcuts and Search engines.

Edit: having now read the linked article, I realise this is a US-only (anti-)feature, at least for now.
I'd feel more comfortable keeping the VM personally.
They already have two senators. It’s just that the senators in question have no official vote.
Decades-old, duct-taped architecture is endemic across the airline industry though, and AFAIK Southwest isn't even particularly bad on this front. American Airlines's original reservation system Sabre, still a major GDS player today, was first put together in the 1950s and is by some reckonings the oldest commercial (as in, non-government/military/research) computer system out there.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabre_(computer_system)
I imagine constrained supply chain and shipping is part of it too.
> I regularly see websites that have noticeably slow javascript "startup" times.

True, same as any language or applications fast CPUs shouldn't be a free chance to completely ignore writing efficient code. Although I bet those websites are slow because they are doing silly things like adding 1000 items to the DOM one by one rather than being slow because someone didn't optimize their use of .forEach()
Given he has

> If you’d like to win a book and $100 in free cryptocurrency, head over to jaredabrock.substack.com

plastered right at the top, I would say, yes, he has heard of Bitcoin.
I work in a fortune 100 company.

I publicly spoke up at work about mandates being illegal, immoral and an affront to decent society. Especially, when there are alternatives we can provide (such as testing daily).

I made a post and shared it across multiple locations in the company.

As a people manager, I knew the risks.

My post was up only 10 min before being taken down.

Eventually, internal HR contacted me and told me they'd "take appropriate action" if I kept talking about it.

What they didn't expect is someone screenshot it and sent it around the company. I received hundreds of messages of support and I know many sent in messages on the side. Myself and many of the top people in the company wrote letters to their people leaders, CEO, board, HR, etc.

A week later they finally surveyed the company on their thoughts about the vaccines, A week after that the mandates were put on hold.

The majority of people don't believe others should lose their jobs over vaccine mandates. That likely is much higher (or lower) depending on industry or region.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/sixty-five-percent-o...

At the end of the day, this is expected. Polling indicated "70 percent of unvaccinated Americans would quit their job over exemption-less vaccine mandate"

https://theweek.com/vaccines/1004545/poll-70-percent-of-peop...

If this push continues, we may well all starve.
For enough money they will find someone willing to learn COBOL.
I'm mostly interested in the obfuscation advantage that WASM provides. Being able to encrypt the whole thing and embed it in the web page to avoid using fetch is allowing me to deploy apps in a more secure way.
Please define "buggy software." Can you point to a single confirmed case in the US of a person's bank account balance disappearing, or even a deposit not appearing, due to a software bug? I doubt it. Banks' core software is rock solid or they would be out of business very, very quickly.
> Does he really think a desire to leave is unique to the c-suite? Apallingly out of touch.

From what he writes, I think he believes most people think a CEO never thinks about leaving.

After all, why would you leave the company you started?
I think there are different cultures of this. Some want you to simply grieve with them, and some feel it's inattentive to ignore the problem.

People often act what's appropriate to their culture, which is a faux pas to the other culture. So you should probably be really careful and spot what the person needs. But listening and nodding is often the safer route.
Every time I was stuck, I waited too long to do this.

The walk solved the thing I was stuck on maybe like 75% of the time. It's unreal how effective it is.
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Here we have the FBI enticing someone to commit a crime. Obviously selling secrets is not OK, but how do we know there would have been another buyer if the FBI was not there?

I wonder if it would be possible to setup some sort of gamified system to capture people who are susceptible to this sort of enticement or entrapment. But instead of sending people to jail, it is something more akin to a lottery or an escape room. I don't know the psychology of people selling secrets, but if you could capture them in a game instead of criminal indictment, I think that would be a better use of tax payer money.
Does it perform better than pigeons[1] though? ;)

[1]: https://twitter.com/emollick/status/1388594078837878788/phot...
This will be false to whatever extent the nation-state can directly influence the behaviour of the population, making the population an apparatus of the state. And this will be true as long as the government can simultaneously be seen as just or powerful, while additionally having the government expand their influence to punish people who don't believe in its justice or power.

Both these conditions are true in China. The perception of legitimacy in the government is the only variable that can vary freely enough to contradict the claim that individuals are distinguishable from the state. However, this perception can be controlled if you can manipulate the livelihood of the individuals to stay in line, by e.g. monopolizing payment, communication, and reputation. So guess what.

China's influence on its population directly has only been growing and the way it yields the influence of its citizens to grow power in the West (without resorting to kinetic violence, leaving lawfare/financial warfare/demographic warfare/tech-transfer/propaganda/cabinet stacking) has only become more apparent.
"Herbivore men" doesn't refer to vegans; it's a translation of the Japanese term 草食男子, the definition of which varies but which largely seems to refer to men who have no interest in romance or getting married. For more nuance, refer to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbivore_men
That would be the motivation for the union, but the question was about the company.
50% slower than C++ is pretty terrible.

Verbosity is almost more helpful for optimization in a way, in the sense that C code ends up being fast because it's simpler than C is harder to optimize.

As for COBOL, isn't one of the issues that it's super complicated and not specified properly until recently?
Yes, when I was 12 I spoiled someone's secret.
I found this thread quite interesting on that topic:

https://github.com/WebAssembly/design/issues/1397
Hey! I actually handled the data coordination for the BraTS data sets. We used a combination of the best algorithms from prior years of the BraTS competition to pre-segment the data sets, and then we had experts (fully-trained neuroradiologists) make manual corrections, which were then further reviewed by my team before finalization.

The three tissue types of interest are fairly easy to identify in most cases. Edema is bright on the FLAIR sequence, enhancing tumor is bright on T1 post-contrast and dark on pre-contrast, and necrosis is relatively dark on T1 pre- and post-contrast while also being surrounded by enhancing tumor. These rules hold true in most cases, so it’s really just a matter of having the algorithm find these simple patterns. The challenge in doing this manually is the amount of time it takes to create a really high quality 3D segmentation. It’s painful and very tough to do with just a mouse and 3 orthogonal planes to work with.
This is great, would be useful to test scaling at some level too!
When you can train and evaluate quickly you can iterate through experiments faster and produce better models...
Actually waited to comment on this until I saw their analysis tonight. Figured they'd know about the lawsuits, which apparently they filed one friday.

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.txnd.35...
I have alway preferred syslinux over grub/grub2.

I am not really into chainloading or booting from different partitions. Keep it as simple as possible. KIASAP.

I want an OS I control. If that requires time, a one-time sunk cost to learn how to do something, like sports/hobbies require, it is worth it.
Good point; I read the press release and only now realized I hadn't seen the complaint itself.
Uh, you obviously didn’t read the indictment? The defendant offered to sell secrets to a separate, unnamed foreign nation for money. That nation then turned around and turned them into the FBI, who continued the pretense of being an agent of that foreign nation.

Literally zero enticement from the FBI going on here I can tell.
Hey, I'm really interested in this role. Can I send you my resume?
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A lawsuit was filed friday -- https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.txnd.35...

It's also illegal to do a walkout, so they did a "sick out"

https://alexberenson.substack.com/p/urgent-a-southwest-airli...
I'm pretty sure that fits the definition of fraud.
It's fast now because a bunch of mega-corps (Google, Apple, Microsoft before dropping the ball) put a huge investment in making JavaScript interpreters fast.
>> how do they trust each other?

They don't. The Russian agent places no value on the money. If it doesn't result in any useful information then it is a minor business loss. The American agent has accepted money from the Russian. He is already on the hook for espionage charges. He only continues the relationship to keep the Russian happy, to keep the money coming but also to keep the Russian from informing the FBI. The business deal becomes a continuing blackmail operation. Nobody trusts anyone.
I was watching a youtube video that how different densities of water caused by differing temperatures make sound waves to bend in water and under some circumstance it can render pockets of water invisible to sound waves there could be lot of know how on to induce that or how to find those pockets in deep sea etc.
But who doesn't own one of those if they care?

The last time I used a crummy app based guitar tuner was on a guitar at a friend's house that was basically a prop and no one played (so no tuner, also thank you Brian may for using a coin as a pick).
My dad is a commercial pilot for a different carrier. The tl;dr is there are typically a subset of pilots on-call at any given time. Pilots who aren't on-call won't be asked to give up their weekends to cover flights.

Pilots either "sit reserve" or "hold a line" based on seniority/airframe and to a lesser degree rank (ie a pilot may choose to sit reserve as a captain when they could be a line holder as an FO). Line holders have a set schedule that they bid on (again based on seniority). If someone calls in sick, misses a flight, or if a flight goes unscheduled, scheduling contacts a pilot that is sitting reserve who then fills in the missing position.

When sitting reserve they get paid to hang out near the airport. Pilots are typically based out of some airport, reserve pilots need to be able to get to their airport within a set amount of time after being called (iirc 2 hours).

It's not that there aren't real reserve pilots, it's that there are exactly the number of backups that there needs to be under normal circumstances. Airlines don't like paying people to sit around and they've got scheduling down to a science. I think I was in high school the last time my dad sat reserve. It felt like he had to fly almost every time (but not every time!) he was on reserve.
Worth noting that the article states that the current year crop is projected to be a record high:

>For cereal production, FAO projected a record world crop of 2.800 billion tonnes in 2021, up slightly from 2.788 billion estimated a month ago.

So the prices are not wholly related to production, nor mere supply and demand. The shipping container shortage, labor shortages in many countries are more significant contributors.
all key research is open and googleable. There is no need to do that.
Southwest runs 3 to 4K commercial flights per day, which is about 1 in 7 commercial flights overall in the US. They depend on aircraft doing many short hops over the course of a single day: 7 or 8 is not uncommon. When things go bad it tends to disrupt the system very badly.

These numbers come from the US DOT ontime database. You can access the data in ClickHouse at https://github.demo.trial.altinity.cloud:8443 (user=demo, password=demo). This is a public instance running on Altinity.Cloud.
Good for you. I believe the mandates are absolute fascism, of the kind everyone always warns about. The DNC is intent on starting a civil war it seems.
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It's a very poorly understood role and often over glamorized, much like VC itself.

I think CEO should be thought of as a responsibility more than anything. It's going to weigh a lot for obvious reasons.
One of my favorite charts is the percentage of gdp by sector in the US. It tells the whole story:

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/proxy/IbcnWz6KrHkAYuJLpPzu...

https://cms.zerohedge.com/s3/files/inline-images/fire_econom...
I think it peaks around 4-5 pm UTC which translates to about noon to 1pm eastern time. G2 is pretty minimal but the WSA-Enlil graphic show some interesting effects when you move the scroll bar manually. The Lasco Coronagraph does too (see https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/communities/electric-power-communi...)
Stop writing C code like this author does! C is a language for experts and there are lots of things that are wrong here. Especially when writing benchmark code, when you do want the compiler to optimize.

> int main()

The easiest way to find someone who's inexperienced in C is to find someone who declares a function that takes no arguments with an empty pair of parentheses. In C but not C++ you need to write "void" inside the parentheses.

> myNum *= i;

Signed integer overflow is undefined behavior. You are lucky if the compiler didn't just replace the whole thing with __builtin_unreachable().

Next the function doesn't use the computed variable. A compiler can just optimize the whole thing out.

The point I'm trying to make is that C is a difficult language to write; especially so when you want to benchmark.
Or, good old fashioned monetary inflation. A lot of money printed globally in the last 24 months.