skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Assuming it has to do with evolution, it would mean that there are clear breeding preferences that where folks with 'smaller brain' mutations' are likely to reproduce at higher rates than your average person. ( Idiocracy Theory ?)

Is it possible that there is long term development of emergent traits in a species, through a process that is not evolution ?

I don't buy the domestication hypothesis, because I see no proof that aggression has been disincentivized over what we know about ancient human history. There might be unintended consequences, where those who don't go to war are more likely to live and therefore reproduce, leading to propagation of non warring = low-aggression genes.

Lastly:

> This may mean that smaller brains are being naturally selected for. Of course, this hypothesis relies heavily on premises that are both not confirmed and highly controversial.

When the only reason to reject a hypothesis, is that it is controversial, I am inclined to assign it a higher likelihood.
I say shuffle companies around until it’s BANANA
My apologies, I had no idea this essay was such an annual event. The essay entered my head today and I thought it would fulfil other curious minds. But as I see, it has already done that. I'll endeavour to find something more original the next time!
It's not a joke when the SEC isn't laughing.
And if you're so irrationally petrified of catching it despite being vaccinated you can choose to shut yourself in your house.

It's not like you can't catch it from vaccinated people, even if you could somehow tell them apart.
You have this backwards. We are dealing with orders of magnitude more information than we did in ancient times, and we are required to remember a good chunk of it and to be able to recall and use it at a moments notice.

Computers are a big factor in generating all of that information, even if they help process some of it the net effect is a huge surplus.
MAAMAN

- Microsoft Amazon Alphabet Meta Apple Netflix
The Poker Aces Playing a Key Hand in the $5T ETF Market (2018)
> Codeamigo appears distinctly different than Codeacademy in some key areas

I imagine that building and releasing _the exact clone_ of the product from a company that rejected you would be petty and legally dubious.
You patronized the entire community of thousands of cosmologists who have trained their entire lives to think about this. They have had every thought you've had, but with much more knowledge and context. Do you not realize that?
Two come to mind that I really enjoyed.

"Type-Driven API Design in Rust" by Will Crichton (Strange Loop) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bnnacleqg6k

"Opportunities and Pitfalls of Event-driven Utopia" (QCon) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjYAZ0DPLNM
> Edison's observation of gravitational lensing during an eclipse

There may have been electric lights and phonographs on the ships, but it was the

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

and while maybe you could say it was about gravitational lensing, the observatories (and Earth) was so far from any possible caustic that it's better to leave it at just deflection of light.

Here's a pop-sci treatment of the gravitational lensing of our sun for astronomy -- tl;dr it involves lonnnnng distance travel, more than 500 astronomical units (Pluto is at ~ 30-50 au). https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/using-the-...
Referencing the atomic bomb in this context is also manipulation. You're trying to evoke emotion, as opposed to arguing your point with boring facts.
Northern Lights (Aurora Borealis) forecast and alerts app for Apple iPhone and Android
https://aurora-alerts.com/
Comparing the success of FB to winning the lottery is disingenuous. Cry moar.
That must explain the terrible electricity and fuel costs.
How nimble Keyence grew into a $140B titan
It’s not a myth so much as it’s not particularly effective: large doses of it (dangerously so, I might add, people should not do this) are quite effective in getting rid of opioid withdrawals — and not just the peripheral effects.

In extremely large doses it has a distinctly weird feeling. I wouldn’t call it getting high, so I’d suppose that is indeed a myth, but gosh it feels hard on your heart at those doses.

Typically it’s addicts trying to avoid withdrawals (and who felt they did not have access to other opioid replacement therapies for various reasons) that tried that. Some died.
I didn’t get IDed either of the times I’ve bought a box.

First time was in 2019: I went to Walmart for something for my ears on flights, after some back and forth the pharmacist recommended me pseudoephedrine.

Second time was in Sobeys last month (can fly again, yaaay) and I asked for it directly. The pharmacist had some trouble finding it, but sold it to me with no further issue.
Trader Jeff Yass Parlayed Poker and Horse Race Handicapping into a $12B Fortune
Big Teacher Is Watching: How AI Spyware Took over Schools
First, I'm restricting this to the US!

I replied elsewhere, but will reply here, as well. I think there should be two "schedules":

1. A private schedule, which is tax-free which terminates at 28 years or upon any (or all?) of the authors' death, whichever is first; and,

2. A work-for-hire schedule, which begins at 0% tax, and increases by 1% every 7 years after that.

A "private" copyright can be converted to a "work-for-hire" by paying past taxes. A work-for-hire may not be converted to private.

First, when a copyright is "bought out", the payment is made to the Treasury — the copyright is granted by the people via the US government, that is the beneficiary of the buyout. Second, the buyout places the work into the public domain; this is not a transfer sale! Third, the copyright owner can increase the value whenever they feel like, but the valuation can never decrease. For example: the owner could value the copyright at 50 gajillion dollars; at the end of 7 years, if they can't pay the tax on the 50 gajillion dollars, the copyright lapses.

For patents, I think a tax is owed when the patent is enforced in a court of law. I don't know the schedule for that.
People that ignore expiry dates. And at least in our household's case, a clinically ignored case of endometriosis.
Yeah, the text chat is just crap. I think most people use a separate thing for that, probably Steam in the PC gaming use case.
> Don't they have to payback the loans at some point?

LOCs are often open-ended, so as long as they're at minimum paying the interest, the lender doesn't care. Presumably it will be cleared up eventually on death with the estate.
"Time and chance happeneth to them all" is a phrase you read once and it is with you forever.
I’m willing to bet he has more cash on hand than we will make in our entire lifetimes… what’s the point of arguing how much it is? the point is that he has so much money that nothing really matters.
I have no idea why FAANG is still a thing. Of the trillion dollars companies, Meta/FB is no longer one of them. Netflix no idea how they even got part of the league.

Should be ATAMA - Apple, Tesla, Amazon, Microsoft, Alphabet.

But really, it will be BTS - Bitcoin, Tesla and SpaceX. The $10T club.
G identifies as alphabet, but masses keep deadnaming it. And if corporations are people, G should be able to sue and cancel people (all of them).
If ya can't join 'em, beat 'em.
Compound phrases are only obvious if you know the context they inhabit. Perhaps in an alternate timeline, "vaccine passport" is the practice of traveling abroad for the purpose of getting medical care unavailable in your own country (what we here on ol' Earth-616 refer to as medical tourism[0]); in yet another timeline "vaccine passport" means an actual evil-Bill-Gates style ID-nanochip injected into you and required for travel.

Similarly, alt-Earth's "bit rot" is an equine gum disease, "air fryer" is a slang synonym for a smoking-fast fastball; and so on.

Anyway, part of the usefulness of dictionaries is to preserve today's meaning for posterity, when what consider to be obvious context may no longer be widely known. The Dictionarium Anglo-Britannicum, one of the earliest English language dictionaries from 1708, included compound phrases like the "Ropes of a Ship," which meant pretty much exactly what you would think it meant, but also phrases like "Equivocal Generation"[1] which might sound to contemporary ears like it's referring to hipsters or something, but actually means something totally different.

[0]https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/medic...

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spontaneous_generation
Cryptocurrency loan platform implodes in $130M hack
Dude, we're all just shootin' the shit on a random tech forum site. Saying "Damn, Zuckerberg must be a total narcissist to have come up with this shit" is not exactly like I'm writing "Narcissistic Personality Disorder" in his medical chart or something.

It's more an expression that "I think this idea is so bat shitty that I don't want to know jack about how someone came up with it, just seems like a narcissistic idea to me."
You can also spot the plane hanging above the baggage claim hall.
I don't think I have it backwards. I don't remember anything or know much about the world in general terms. I just know and remember enough key phrases for google to give me the answers when I need them which requires very little cognitive effort on my part. [1]

1: https://www.psychologytoday.com/intl/blog/the-athletes-way/2...
What about Epstein? His misdeeds were only acknowledged when he could no longer get away with them.

Edit: to be clear, I'm pretty sure they intended "right" to be sarcastic in that statement, not that they're actually endorsing something as depraved as cultural relativism.
I don't think the [dupe] flag was justified. This is the first time I'm seeing it and there aren't a lot of comments on most of those.
Production and logistics capacity. If you run a factory at 100% efficiency, anytime >100% throughput is necessary you get backlogged. If you have ~15% headroom as a GOAL, you can weather a shock without any downstream impact.

In the case of the Port of LA shipping containers, optimizing lot storage so that you always have exactly enough space (100% efficiency) breaks down as soon as that space requirement jumps to 110%.
Brb - starting a company whose name begins with "B"
“ This is faster than a number of standard functions. In particular, it's faster than memcpy, which presents interesting challenges when it comes to I/O”

Wow.
I am not sure if the article is presenting it as an unalloyed good, but I certainly agree with you.

We need to be thoughtful about how we design "epistemic communities." The current approach centered around normal institutions/academia I think is flawed (although I do think professional scientists are very important).

You can look at some philosophers of science who have thinking very much along these lines, ie. https://www.liamkofibright.com/research.html
_sigh_ ... Still no C++ API :-(
Yeah... I'm not sure I see an alternative to this being what most people do, unless spam filters somehow win an arms race when it's an uphill battle.

But, assuming this replaced AI spam filters rather than being used together, is it any worse than your friend's (or your mailing list member's) email getting classified as spam? At least this way you know they didn't receive it and if you really did care about them specifically you have recourse.

If it was just silently classified as spam you don't even know they didn't get it until weeks or months later if they ever notice it in the first place.
I don't think there is one correct way. Sometimes I like some noise, sometimes I don't, sometimes I like having people around, sometimes I want to be alone.

In the end it's about being able to control your environment to some degree. That's what open offices and cube farms have taken away.

Being able to control room temprature is also very helpful.
I'm pretty sure Earn.com was working exactly as intended, right down to the induction of impotent rage in the newsletter sender.

There should be more services like this.
To pile a bit on the parent's take, I think it's just hell if none can set boundaries.

During the stay home period it meant for us that everyday we scheduled who does 100% work at what time, and who takes care of the rest in the meantime (might mean light work while looking after things)

That meant switching back and forth the roles about once or twice everyday, including when the other needs to cook or go to groceries.

In this respect, I think there is just no way to have both parents 100% working at home with a kid needing attention, and trying to reach that will only make everyone miserable.
> 64 bytes of FizzBuzz per 4 clock cycles

That's borderline incredulous, given a single AVX2 instruction can last multiple clock-cycles. The reciprocal throughput also doesn't go below ~0.3 to my, admittedly shallow, knowledge. A remarkable piece of engineering!
This would be true if lockdowns didn't happen. As it is most of the wealth-owning class was told to shut themselves inside, isolate, then we got the vaccine and they manage to live on and keep their wealth. So not even plagues can save us anymore.
Goodbye Microsoft SQL Server, hello Babelfish
For the middle-class, the closest would be a home equity line of credit (HELOC). Reverse mortgages are also a variant of this.

Generally though, most 'middle-class loans' have an end date.
Maybe they can just buy Roblox.
> (weird, because I love his other stuff)

Mind an example? I'm curious, because I so far have not been blown away by the writing of the rationalist-adjacent subcommunity.
You know, for educational reasons ... :D
Not that I know of. One of the side effects of amphetamine usage is compulsively researching details about amphetamine, so that’s where my knowledge comes from :)

Certainly need to read some of the research literature and places like /r/DrugNerds (that community is super legit). The public health/doctor-y type websites are the worst for actually getting info since they never go into details and often give bad advice, so I’d stay away from the “traditional” resources if you’re trying to go deep
Your ISP probably hasn't tried to acquire IPv4 addresses recently. https://ipv4.global/reports/ shows prices around $40/address, so it would take 2-3 years to break even at $1.30/month.

(Although, people rent apartments with break-even periods well beyond 10 years, so maybe 2-3 is still fine.)
Maybe it doesn't cause permanent psychosis but people do become psychotic due to it and need to spend the night cooling off in the psych ED.
The point is exactly what I said in the rest of the comment. He has already paid taxes on the cash he has in hand. The only assets he has not paid taxes on are the shares in AMZN that he has not realized the gains on.
I have played with Python on my tablet (Pythonista).
Does that make me an “em-bedded” programmer?
It's interesting the MW says,

>The flop in teraflop stands for “floating-point operation”

Without noting that, in some circles, the 'p' is taken to mean 'per', and only 'flops' is valid (Floating Point Operations Per Second), and the term is not a plural.
If you look at recent case of switch to Ks from lisp, it is not the money but the community formation that is the key. No doubt it is nit either or. But more money may not be helpful if people just copy cat. Money ok as open source is not free source. But money is not the key.
Could this be done now?
> They can freely move it to banks in the US or to anywhere else they need it

But then they'd have a massive tax bill.
FizzBuzz is a constant.

It should never branch.
But on the other hand, you cannot really expect a full explanation of software patterns in 5 minutes.
> So the question, which traits are analogous to on-base-percentage? Take the FAANG-hire-resume, then subtract features (e.g. lose the top-10 university credential, remove a couple years of experience, ditch the years with a trendy package, etc). Which decreases the hiring cost the most with the smallest loss of long-term value to the hiring company? What data set would track/measure this and what could be deployed as a proxy?

The other question is: Why not simply match FAANG comp package by raising more money?

I'm being 100% serious here. Software is pretty much the only field which can scale almost infinitely and the only cost really is compensation (Compared to salaries, MacBooks are almost free!). Think about it, 3x comp to get a 10x engineer? Worth it.
Pathways: Google’s next generation AI architecture
Think about what you’re saying, does 12 launches per hour sound all that crazy? Maybe having 1000s of planes up in the air at the same time would have sounded similarly crazy to someone on the 50s
Viruses conform to the distribution of deadliness-vs-reproduction rate.

That's a fine rule of thumb but not something to literally bet your life on. When smallpox was introduced to North America, it wiped out a substantial percentage of the population of the continent (This [1] claims 90%, which might be much but it was a lot).

[1] https://www.pbs.org/gunsgermssteel/variables/smallpox.html
NAA(H)MAN
What Is the Complex Step Approximation? (2020)
Netflix has a reputation for providing high up front compensation packages instead of equity and other compensation models. For this reason it gets lumped into the larger technology companies with vastly higher head counts. FANNG is largely a descriptor of compensation levels.
And so you get an optimal, but broken, program. This helps nobody.
Maybe stupid question, if PGLAF is based in U.S.A., why not just tell plantiff to piss off and ignore any lawsuit in foreign jurisdiction? If no server is in Germany and no business is conducted in Germany why waste money on this instead of expanding project?
You can pump out a Modern C++ version in 5 minutes too that will run loops (haha) around the higher level languages. The readability won't even be very different...
> What a lot of high wealthy individuals are doing is using their portfolios as collateral against lines of credit. The LOCs give them cash to fund their lifestyle, and they don't have to liquidate their portfolios and take the capital gains charges (at least in the short-term).

> Someone can have both holdings and cash in this situation.

Ya, I understand this. This is exactly my point, though. If he's taken out loans against his shares, he is even more incentivized by the value of those shares than if he had not done so.

To the extent that he has pure (unencumbered) cash positions, he's paid taxes. To the extent that he has unrealized gains or loans against unrealized gains, he is incentivized by share price appreciation.

This was in response to the a comment suggesting that because Bezos had already cashed out, he didn't care about the value of his shares anymore.
What about it?

Desomorphine is not any more inherently dangerous than other opioids (so, still quite dangerous of course).

The synthesis pathway that Krokodil producers used are quite bad and unrefined, but quite surprisingly do work and does appear to produce desomorphine.

The problem was the producers were usually addicts who then injected the reactions solvent mixture, rather than extracting their product.
> * The POSIX-blessed way of finding an executable program is command -v, which is consequently built into most shells. Given the standard alternative, Adams said, "surely no one competent would choose to have a package depend on `which` when a standard POSIX utility can do a better job".*

This feels a little tone-deaf to me. I've been using the *nix command-line and writing (and reading) shell scripts for 20+ years, and I'd never heard of "command -v" until now. Now that I know about it, I'll probably start trying to retrain my muscle memory to use it (though it requires 2x the number of keystrokes).

Despite its lack of true standardization, "which" (along with "type -p") has been the de-facto "standard" I've seen in shell scripts for figuring out if a command exists. It was a surprise to me to learn that "which" isn't a part of POSIX, even.
Distributions that ship their own distro-specific custom version of an already popular tool need to have their heads examined.
This seems like an extremely niche use-case, compared to the prevalence of use-cases needing to check the size of a list.
Some people started early on this one in the post with the name change announcement

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29029385
Yeah that and the general inclusion of fent hotspots in Heroin and the like is why overdoes have skyrocketed over the last 5+ years. And then COVID [lockdowns] in my opinion cranked the growth in ODs even higher. It was growing at something like 11% in 2019 and then in 2020 it spiked like 30% to something like 70,000 overdose deaths in the US
They could create more products with their own teams. Apples cloud offering pales in comparison to Google's and part of the reason is they are just missing too many services. iCloud web feels like a bare minimum effort that doesn't get any attention.

I don't know how successful this would be, but they could also start building and selling more apps/programs but perhaps this could be seen as anti competitive.
Sure, there's balance. The idea that it was working fine so why change it leads to gigantic bloated software that nobody can really understand.

As an anecdote. I developed a product in a field where the main players were extremely well established with codebases dating back to punch card days. Their software could do everything you might imagine wanting it to do. But it was also so complex, you had to take a training course to learn it. But what's interesting is there were customers of those competitors who also bought my product because it was quicker and easier to get common things done. All that power actually let to a worse product in some ways.
Ok, a fair point. But in the end is the same thing: stupid public worker bureaucrats exerting their petty, ignorant power like the Gods they think they are.
it will. they're even changing their ticker from FB
Google just cut their fee by 15%. Apple can't be too far behind.
Honestly I always assumed Netflix was added because "fang" sounds nice and apropos, but if you remove the N then it's a very different word that's not nice at all.
Yes. I've been on/off (mostly on) them for around 20 years. It started when I was young and a girl broke my heart. I just couldn't get out of my "funk". I started taking Zoloft and it gave me a life again. I probably have social anxiety and I am def. more comfortable in public and around people I don't know when I'm on an SSRI. I am not as negative and cynical and have hope for the future. I don't want to take them, wish I didn't have too but even with consistent exercise, therapy etc. it just wasn't enough without the medical help.
The answer has to be Twitter.
Tangential: why not? Microsoft is a huge, enormously influential tech company that everyone has heard of, with a revenue of $160 billion (more than 10x that of Netflix) and nearly 200,000 employees (more than any FAANG except Amazon, if Wikipedia is to be believed.) Why isn't it included in the standard list of prominent tech companies?
> without knowing exactly what processor instructions you are trying to trick the compiler into generating

In fact, in this case you know exactly what processor instructions the compiler is going to generate. You are using AVX intrinsics after all.

And no, compiler optimizations work well with these intrinsics.
For a perfectionist like that dude, the imperfect "which" is nails on chalkboard. He also gets to scratch his ego which justifies any amount of time wasted by others.
Okay. Go try quickly scanning a table or spreadsheet with 1000 rows of that. Good luck.
So Zucks email will be data@meta.com?
Google is still a separate company, owned by Alphabet, the holding company. Facebook is changing their name entirely as a company. Facebook will only exist as a product that Meta owns after this.