skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The context derived from WithContext is scoped to the lifetime of errgroup (after they all return, or any return with an error). This way the function passed to Group.Go can spawn other go routines that will get properly cleaned up.

Why those other go routines would spawn processes that they don't clean up otherwise? They probably shouldn't, but canceling the context should always be safe, and is more likely to safely handle what otherwise would be a bug, than it is to cause a bug.
Cool project but it seems odd that you didn't really save any money since mattresses appear to be so over-priced.
Even without getting hung up on the "biological" qualifier, that's groundbreaking news to some people, you know. The people who insist that not having 50% females in any occupation is them being underrepresented because they're repressed and discriminated against. (Never heard that female dominated occupations are discriminatory though, I wonder why)

Then this translates into laws, policies and scholarships that effectively discriminate against men.

Don't know what you mean by "individual level" policy but a lot of policy needs to change.
Well, as was pointed out elsewhere on this thread, 1) earlier this decade ivermectin was being studied for antiviral properties. 2) Azithromycin's use as a covid treatment seems to be controversial, even though a couple years ago it would have been considered a standard treatment for _viral_ pneumonia to combat the _possibility_ of bacterial infection.
> Whether that innate or learned is not clear.

Unless you also consider nationality innate, it certainly suggests that it is learned.
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The study authors draw a conclusion that wealth allows people to choose work that more reflects their intrinsic interest. To my mind, that's a claim at least as worthy of skepticism as the claim that wealthy people choose social-status-enhancing work (which differs based on gender due to cultural norms).
It also says "a story that is basically true even if not literally true".

I don't think mine was a false characterisation, but see for yourself. I think M-W are descriptivist zealots, who will never accept that there is an incorrect usage. Therefore they contradict themselves in their own definition of this word. I don't think it's just a poorer wording; there's an ideological difference, one so important that it's defence requires this lexicographer, whose business is publishing definitions, to make a definition incomprehensible.

This isn't the only example - M-W seems to be Google's preferred dictionary lookup for search terms (after some nasty spammy searches). I've seen a lot of M-W definitions that are contradictory, because of the ideology.

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Apple external keyboard feels like a scissor switch keyboard. It's not too bad, but it's not as flat as butterfly keyboards are.

Personally, the only mechanical switch I could stand was Kailh Choc Blue - low profile blue switch.
What percentage of laptops do you think are sold without a webcam? Maybe 0.01%? Probably less.
Okay, gotcha. So who are the two sides of this argument, and what are they arguing about exactly? I'm just trying to get clarification on who it is in particular that needs to stop “formulating needlessly metaphysical conceptions of gender” (i.e. making things up) and accept your biologically-grounded definition instead. Who are these strange, confusing people who even “educated” people can't understand?
Should being the key word. In truth the implementations of each hypervisor vary. Try it on each hypervisor that you use. I found KVM to have the most parity to bare metal performance.
You missed, disruptive and saleable.
Sorry, moving too fast.
“Judging by the number that have FB accounts, most?”
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I can share you mine https://gist.github.com/dorianmariefr/e8422538a4eefcc99aa92d...
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> As impressive as these examples might seem, we have to consider the fact that no company would ever publicise their results had they observed the opposite. No CMO is going to go on Medium and write an article called We dropped our spend by X%, and saw our volume drop by X%. Even if they did write such a case study, it's unimaginable that it should become part of modern marketing folklore in the way that Airbnb and Ebay's experiments have

In other words: Survivorship bias is the driver of these anecdotes. Obviously no company is going to brag publicly about shooting themselves in the foot by reducing advertising spend, so the only possible anecdotes that can exist publicly are positive ones.

Also: Most companies aren't established, household brand names like AirBnB or Uber or eBay. Those companies have built enough of a reputation and have enough word of mouth momentum that advertising campaigns aren't going to move the needle much.

I agree with much of this article. The original claims that performance advertising is a "scam" is playing to general distrust of marketers or a dislike of advertising. Any small companies trying to ditch advertising because AirBnB did it (after they were established and had saturated the market) are making their decisions for the wrong reasons.
Ok I take that as a yes then?

So what is that really telling us then? If you are already in the hospital and are vaccinated then its less likely that you have covid than in the alternate universe where you are in the hospital but unvaccinated. That seems useless. I guess I don't understand it.

How good is the vaccine vs immunity at keeping people out of the hospital? Or preventing death? Those are the fundamentals we would obviously care about and neither can be derived from this study. Yet the study will be presented as if it illuminates those fundamentals
Contexts are a workaround for the inability to terminate a Goroutine, by canceling tasks in the Goroutine.

Suppose that you spawn a Goroutine for handling an HTTP request from client A. While the request is being processed (e.g. calling DB, external services, etc.), client A drops the TCP connection. With contexts we can notify the handler to cancel any ongoing/pending task. Otherwise, the handler will be still running the remaining tasks, hence wasting resources.

Note that if we pass a context to a function, it entirely depends on the function as to when or whether it will cancel its tasks. It's a cooperative multitasking after all.

In Rust, it's easy to cancel a future: Just drop it. It's not that the Rust's approach is perfect. Rust has the opposite problem: Since a future can be dropped anytime (in any await point), dropping a future in the middle of an execution might lead to an inconsistent state, if the future isn't properly implemented.
"Despite being told I was doing something stupid over and over again, I continued to do that stupid thing."
Look at Hetzner / OVH. I got incredibly good deals from them on dedicated servers. I think I am paying around $150 Canadian for AMD 16 cores, 128GB ECC RAM, do not remember storage.

Updated: I also run some things right from my home office since I have symmetric 1Gbps fiber. For that I paid around $4000 Cdn for off lease 20 core 3.4GHz 512GB RAM server from HP
Not only all the records that they have, but it proves that the data isn't meaningful to de-anonymize someone. If they had to redact it we would wonder why and how that information would be useful.
The standard is that you "must produce it in a form or forms in which it is ordinarily maintained or in a reasonably usable form or forms."

It's probably fine here, but if you store it in binary, you should probably parse it into something human-readable.
Would you be willing to share either reports or the name of the audit vendor that you trust?
You can get much lower with modern SR-IOV devices.
OpenSignal is free too and works really well
I think "there's just no pleasing people" comes off as really harsh, here. Some people prefer the extra real estate (for wallpaper), others might find the non-uniformity of the notch awkward or visually distracting. It's just a preference.

...or to put it another way, indeed, there's no pleasing people, because "people" is not a homogenous unit but instead hundreds of millions of individuals. This is why customizable software - or even open-source software - is such a boon. Let people compute how they choose.

(OTOH: offer lots of knobs and people will complain that it's hard to understand, that time would be better spent making one version work well instead of a million combinations. Open-source it and there'll be whining about fragmentation, devs not fixing the right things, and on and on. Maybe there really is no pleasing people.)
In Copenhagen I can only claim a –5°C to 25°C range, but over 60% of people commute by bicycle.

Few workplaces have showers, and even where they exist, not many people use them. It's not necessary – we aren't training for the Tour du France on the way to work.

A reasonable bicycle costs around €250-600. It should easily last 5 years. The only bicycle-only clothes I own is a pair of waterproof overtrousers (€15-ish).

I seem to get a puncture about every 18 months or so. I can fix it myself for €1 (patch) or €5 (new tube), or pay someone about €20 to fix it for me.

The delay at either end is measured in seconds, not minutes. Cycle parking is almost always more conveniently located than car parking. My bike is "locked" the Danish way, with just a rear wheel lock. I have occasionally spent 5 minutes looking for my bike, when I park it somewhere busy and forget where I left it, or someone has moved it to sweep up leaves. (I have done the same with a car, except for the leaves.)

> Then there's the usual bike lanes/trails/crazy driver problem.

Make it safe enough for a 7 year old child to cycle to school, and the most expensive part of the job is done. The rest (parking, showers, free repairs etc) is just decoration.

(But copy the Netherlands if possible. Copy Denmark if the Dutch way appears politically unachievable.)

> Almost everything I stated was for the scooters too, it's just that they are slow and ridden by utter morons about 50% of the time, which shows I guess they are tapping a new market, since bike riders would never use them in that manner.

With the assumption that approximately everyone in Copenhagen is a bike rider, I claim that it's the rented e-scooter that turns people into morons. I don't know why, but something about them makes normal people decide to dump them in the middle of the footpath, or have 3 people zooming around on one through a pedestrian area.

After less than a year, the e-scooters rental were banned from starting or ending in the city centre.
I think all of us old unix admins have variously been fascinated by the Apple Network Server boxes, and this one is a prototype even!
It comes down to how much you talk on the job. Probably to people (as opposed to, screens).
That's not 'why' they exist, (at least, that's not my understanding, or why I have a set) it's not easy to not touch anything with anything else, but it's a nice safeguard while poking about somewhere you think is made safe.

What I haven't seen (and don't know why?) is a VDE screwdriver in the neon/LED voltage detection style.

Personally I even isolate lighting circuits to change a bulb. It almost certainly wouldn't be a problem if I didn't, but it's so easy, why not.
Discussed at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29042603
> It does not know anything.

I would argue that it "knows" an awful lot, but it can't actually reason with it.

However impressive GPT3 type models are, I am not particularly convinced that they're much more than glorified hashtables.

If the hash table is large enough, it can produce lot of answers to a lot of questions, or approximately imitate a lot of stuff it's seen before.

Whether it can actually combine "knowledge" it has stored in its weights into a pattern it's never seen before ... I'm not convinced.
Scientists identify the cause of Alzheimer’s progression in the brain
This is some "Sideways stories from Wayside School" logic here. (https://wayside-school.fandom.com/wiki/Joe_(book_chapter))

> This doesn’t make any sense. When I count the wrong way I get the right answer, and when I count right I get the wrong answer.

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The other story this reminds me of is Abbot and Costello's "7 x 13 == 28" skit.
Nothing any company can do about that. Spying programs and laws will only worsen unless people really voice their concerns and elect the right people.
Archive.org has it,

https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=J+Grams+-+Journal+of+Co...
How did Signal know who they meant?
This notion of an agent moving between computers has always been problematic for me to understand. If we accept that an agent ("actor") is a combination of code and state, and that code and state are both reducible to data, then an agent moving between computers is no more noteworthy than saying data moved between computers and that move engendered computation based on and over that data, which is a defined sequence of RPC calls: send code; send data; execute(code, data). What distinguishes an "actor" from passing scripts in RPC calls? I think it is a false conceptual paradigm: "actors" in general conceptual world carry their own processing ("mind") unit. This attribute is not reproducible in software.

So, if the Actor Model is in fact reducible to a complex RPC framework, the question remains if we should distinguish between RPC and local PC without throwing ~mystical bits about actors into the question.

In any event, I was wrong in my OP about Swift's approach: it is in fact the Waldo approach with distinct treatment of remote ops, except instead of annotations, it is language level support and instead of instrumenting existing code (ala Java byte codes), it is the compiler that writes the boiler plate for the underlying RPCs.
>After a while I concluded it must be a defensive mechanism designed to detect and repel foreigners. As evidence I adduce the fact that some words change genders between regions. Well-known example: die Butter and der Butter depending on where you are from.

It's not uncommon for a noun to change their gender at some point in history. As far as I know, it's often analogical changes. For example, feminine noun X describes an item of a larger class Y, and it just happens that most items of class Y are masculine. So the noun X, being feminine, is an exception, which is "fixed", and it becomes masculine.

An example from Russian language: most words denoting shoes and related items were masculine: boot, shoe, sock etc. Then there was the word for "slippers", feminine. I and my family still use the word in the feminine form, because the change is very recent. Today most speakers (especially younger ones) use the masculine form.

It's expectable that a change can happen in some dialects, but not in others.
Shib livestream scam giveaway on YouTube, $8M stolen (don't send):(
Wallet:

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Although there are many people doing this scam on youtube, this individual(s) is the most successful by a large margin having stolen about $8 million of shibe alone and millions of dollars worth of eth on other scams:

all tied to this person

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Correct - child bearing obviously continues as normal, but child rearing is delegated to the grandparents. This seems like an advantageous setup in both a pre-modern and post-modern context, where there’s significant value placed on women performing labor during the age of lowest-difficulty child-bearing.
My hypothesis is that the nature of sexual selective pressures is what is more likely to create differences between the groups. This wouldn't really apply in the birthmark case (unless it was some sort of secondary sexual characteristic).

Either way, society should allow for equal opportunity even if there are differences in average interest between groups since the variation within a group is larger anyway. It just means not seeing the same outcome doesn't necessarily mean something has gone wrong.
Trifacta is pretty cool way to do data engineering. Very efficient approach to assessing what is going on in a massive amount of data and then get suggestions on ways to transform it. Once you're done export to python code or just run from their app as a pipeline that is pushed down into spark or within a data warehouse.
China has been heavily investing in African countries via a targeted strategic loan program called the Belt and Road initiative[0]. It's entirely possible that China owns the rights to the area via one of these loans.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belt_and_Road_Initiative
I'm the lead paper author; the data for the study is all available from https://data.mendeley.com/datasets/2nxpvtz935/2 so you can look at, and analyse, the rain/UTCI impacts there. The models in the paper use absolute numbers - doing inter-city comparisons of weather is hard; you'll be criticized no matter what you choose to do.

The underlying weather data is from ERA5 - https://www.ecmwf.int/en/forecasts/datasets/reanalysis-datas... ... to answer questions like "is the weather in X, Y and Z as extreme as in A, B, and C" is going to be a deep question probably best assessed by looking at some of the other ERA5 data variables.
It’s being launched by the environmental defense fund, which it says right on the site.

They got $100MM from Bezos for their methane efforts which doesn’t appear to be on this site, but is no secret (EDF has talked about it since the grant was made). They have other methane efforts other than the ghgsat though that’s presumably the most expensive of their CH4 projects.
> As such less likely to pursue a costly STEM education in college. However, they become more likely to pursue a STEM education as the returns increase.

Is Matt Darling aware that in most European countries university education is (financially speaking) free or extremely low cost? And said cost is about the same no matter what you study?

Edit to make it more clear: As far as I know crushing student debt is an US and UK thing. Not continental Europe. I have no idea how things go outside US/Europe though.
I do agree with you in that regard, however, that's also a dangerous line of thinking.

There are attempts to provide horizontal scalability for RDBMSes in a transparent way, like TiDB https://pingcap.com/ (which is compatible with the MySQL 5.7 drivers), however, the list of functionality that's sacrificed to achieve easily extensible clusters is a long one: https://docs.pingcap.com/tidb/stable/mysql-compatibility

There are other technologies, like MongoDB, which sometimes are more successful at a clustered configuration, however most of the traditional RDBMSes work best in a leader-follower type of replication scenario, because even those aforementioned systems oftentimes have data consistency issues that may eventually pop up.

Essentially, my argument is that the lack of good horizontally scalable databases or other data storage solutions is easily explainable by the fact that the problem itself isn't solvable in any easy way, apart from adopting eventual consistency, which is probably going to create more problems than it will solve in case of any pre-existing code that makes assumptions about what ways it'll be able to access data and operate on it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallacies_of_distributed_compu...

To that end, i'd perhaps like to suggest an alternative: use a single vertically scalable RDBMS instance when possible, with a hot standby if you have the resources for that. Let the architecture around it be horizontally scalable instead, and let it deal with the complexities of balancing the load and dealing with backpressure - introduce a message queue if you must, maybe even an in-memory one for simplicity's sake, or consider an event based architecture where "what needs to be done" is encapsulated within a data structure that can be passed around and applied whenever possible. In my eyes, such solutions can in many cases be better than losing the many benefits of having a single source of truth.

Alternatively, when you actually hit issues with the above approach (and only then), consider sharding as a possibility, or, alternatively, do some domain driven design, figure out where to draw some boundaries and split your service into multiple ones that cover the domain with which you need to work with. Then you have one DB for sales, one for account management, one for reports and so on, all with services that are separated by something as simple as REST interfaces and with rate limits or any of the other mechanisms.

If, however, neither of those two groups of approaches don't seem to be suitable for the loads that you're dealing with, then you probably have a team of very smart people and a large amount of resources to figure out what will work best.

To sum up, if there are no good solutions in the space, perhaps that's because the problems themselves haven't been solved yet. Thus, sooner or later, they'll need to be sidestepped and their impact mitigated in whatever capacity is possible. Not all components can or should scale horizontally.
> It's entirely possible that China owns the rights to the area

Just because it's in Africa? I mean, wow, that's a stretch.
To be fair, in sociology this sort of thing might not make it out of preprint for certain reasons: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grievance_studies_affair
You can only make claims at a population level. So if you picked 1000 women at random and a 1000 men at random you would probably find more women have a preference for x and more men have a preference for y.

I don't know what x and y are but if being passionate about either led to higher paying career choices you'd see a difference in average wage between the groups. At the population level.
No, it's a legal problem. There are countries where groping women is not a big deal for example. Even in the most "ideal" EU countries, casual racism is an afterthought. Reaction is a problem because there is no adverse consequence to the perpetrator.

I don't need a browser extension, I need CEOs in prison. Then reactions will catch up.
Robert Brenner and Robert Sapolsky right now. Still interested about systems, especially in how capitalism works (or does not work depending on where you stand) and how it came about. But also a little bit more interested in how human work (as biological systems). Thanks for asking.
Needle Spiking at Clubs in UK