skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree with this, but I think there's an additional point here. I'm from (I'm assuming based on context) a generation just past yours. I know many programmers older than me who had childhood experiences in which figuring out how to build their own games or random software was extremely formative. I think part of what made that so formative was that the gap between "professional software" and what they could build was extremely minimal, if existent.

For me, I can distinctly remember deciding to tinker with building games when I was very young. I was completely overwhelmed, however, by the jump from "basic Batch programs" to "OpenGL and C++." Obviously, that's an enormous jump, and I could have simply dabbled with Flash or whatever, but the point is that the software I enjoyed playing with was years and years of dedicated learning away from anything I could build or tinker with.

The web, however, was not. It was still nascent, there weren't mature, robust technologies for it, and I could build all the things I saw online completely on my own with maybe a dedicated weekend. This was huge for me, and kicked off my lifelong involvement in computing.

I guess the point that I'm getting at is that technology is so good now that the gap between what an average child can consume and what they can produce is enormous. When I tried teaching my nephew basic scripting, their first questions were "How do I make it do X" where X is some involved bit of graphical interactivity. That level of development simply is what software is to them now.

My hope is that this is cyclical. That there is always another frontier cropping up where the gap between "state of the art" and "hobby project" is incredibly small. I think that is naturally where you'll see kids getting into development.
I don't think that works when the companies aren't in the U.S.

>the Pentagon relied on one production line for key chips, and that production line, owned by Abu Dhabi-controlled Global Foundries, just sold it off to a firm that will shut it down.
It looks like the shares are AWS:32%, Azure:19%, GCP:7% of the total cloud storage market.

https://www.parkmycloud.com/blog/aws-vs-azure-vs-google-clou...
(illegal) data collection (in many jurisdications) that is now impossible to replicate is a major competetive advantage
Yeah! Bring back polio because this dusty document has a tiny asterisk here that says I can. Give me a break. No original thought here…just regurgitation of whatever is on Fox News.
So long as they’re getting paid for it. What’s the moral or ethical problem?

Reverse-engineering is not illegal (at least in Germany, to my knowledge).
> Legal immigration would be low supply high skilled workers

This isn't a requirement, this is a bad choice that one can make. There's no benefit in favoring highly-skilled workers other than that these are the workers that middle-class professionals associate with. The only reason IMO to favor highly-skilled workers in specific fields is to break professional cartels; you don't even have to favor them, just remove the artificial barriers to their employment that have been institutionalized.

> That's a bit of a stretch to think universities are progressive or that they're the ones calling the shots politically.

It's just sucker right-wing pseudo-populism financed by the same people who employ 99.9% of illegal immigrants.

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edit: those people would love to make the process of legal immigration so onerous that only they themselves could navigate it easily, to make laws against illegal immigration so draconian that every undocumented worker was living in constant fear, and to route all enforcement of those laws through an regulatory agency that they have completely captured.
It’s a good question. Is there a statistical test that can be / has been done with the data? Are the numbers between Pfizer and Moderna statistically different (and are they different than the incident rate in the general population)?
From Description of the lecture that summarizes this stuff [1]:

"Today, Silicon Valley is known around the world as a fount of technology innovation and development fueled by private venture capital and peopled by fabled entrepreneurs. But it wasn't always so. Unbeknownst to even seasoned inhabitants, today's Silicon Valley had its start in government secrecy and wartime urgency.

In this lecture, renowned serial entrepreneur Steve Blank presents how the roots of Silicon Valley sprang not from the later development of the silicon semiconductor but instead from the earlier technology duel over the skies of Germany and secret efforts around (and over) the Soviet Union. World War II, the Cold War and one Stanford professor set the stage for the creation and explosive growth of entrepreneurship in Silicon Valley. The world was forever changed when the Defense Department, CIA and the National Security Agency acted like today's venture capitalists funding this first wave of entrepreneurship. Steve Blank shows how these groundbreaking early advances lead up to the high-octane, venture capital fueled Silicon Valley we know today. "

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTC_RxWN_xo
If you accidentally reformat the ZFS drive, that will delete all your files and snapshots and then Syncthing will replicate those deletions.

I'm really not super familiar with Syncthing, but it sounds like it's niche is availability as opposed to durability.
I'm very happy to see "The Breeder's Equation" on Hacker News. Wow. I spent my graduate career studying mathematical biology and working with biologists.

It's a fascinating equation and I spent some time on it converting it from a discrete equation into a continuous equation along with explaining the use cases and motivations behind it here:
http://fromdata.org/2013/10/27/the-continuous-breeders-equat...

This of course, does not take into account mutation, transduction, conjugation and other sources of genetic variation.

Edit: Please take these approximate expectation equations with a grain of salt. They only apply to larger, discrete-reproducing, controlled populations. Applying results like these on spatially segregated or small populations does not really work. Also this equation does break down a bit when the phenotypic trait is a result of very complicated interactions between genetics and the environment.
The Index Pick-and-Place Can Build Itself
And incidence of myocarditis if you get Covid is even higher than if you have the vaccine ... who'd have thought it.
What is a "blended household"? I was only allowed my regular household, so just the 3 (then 4) of us confined inside our own walls for months.

>lockdowns prevented our healthcare systems being overwhelmed thus causing many more excess deaths

It is impossible to know if this is true. That is - if shutting healthy infants, children, young adults, and healthy adults in their own homes for months had any net gain. Personally, I've only seen downsides. Friends (also with kids) that have had latent mental health issues come to light, family losing their jobs and livelihoods, etc etc.
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>The talk about heritable IQ is pointless, even dangerous, because it leads to complacency around issues around structural racism and equality in education.

Can you say more about this? Why would it lead to complacency? If there is scientific merit to some ideas like IQ heritability, don't you think we need to find a way to incorporate those ideas safely into our formulation of society, rather than suppress them as heretical?
For me, writing a program is mostly writing a bunch of libraries that I then put together. So I am consuming my libraries mostly myself. Therefore, for me it is important that both the library writing and the library using can be done efficiently.

I assume that having a Rust library of something is a good thing. The question for me is: How easy and natural and quick is it to express a concept as a library in Rust?
Any source available on this?
Mailgun used to be a HN favourite, great service, great customer support, and quickly resolving issues / providing solutions to problems like this (and many others). Email is hard, and mailgun made it less hard, helping you solve problems along the way.

Several years ago, the customer service got worse, and the fixes / solutions stopped coming. I don't hold my breath that this (or any other issue) will be solved any time soon sadly.

What service do HN recommend these days?
This is the point that has definitely become super apparent to me in the last decade or so. It's not that companies have to be evil or fraudulent, but usually the companies that "win" end up being the most aggressive, and then there are just a ton of positive feedback loops that make the company with the slight lead even stronger. All people (potential employees, potential execs, VC firms) want to go with the winner, so as soon as one firm starts to pull away from the pack it becomes much easier for the firm to attract the best talent and funding.
I haven't heard of any spyware or anything being embedded in the hardware or BIOS. Seems like all pretty standard components. All I heard is that there's some Lenovo software/crapware in the Windows installation (don't all vendors do that though?). Haven't heard of any concerns running Linux on Thinkpads, could be wrong though.
I'm not wrong, because I wasn't commenting on the power of the exponent.

But thanks for being a typical HN.
It is. I built one.
Can this be used to incrementally backup the whole / (root) directory? Or is this only for non-system folders with data?
Exactly. Look no further than promotional processes that value launches over maintenance.
indeed, all of these issues were problems only because they were already dominant
Source repo: https://github.com/index-machines/index
Sorry it wasn't meant as a criticism of your work. I just had hoped for something simpler from the "Backups Done Right" headline.

To me if it requires complicated shell commands it is not really "done right".
This is factually incorrect. I'm not a fan at all of proof of work schemes, but it's important to criticize them correctly.

Energy consumption is not fundamental in any way. Proof of work depends only in the consumption of some resource that has economic value. It doesn't have to require any energy at all.

For example, Chia had a proof of work mechanism that uses disk storage instead of computation. It uses comparably very little energy and the difficulty is not substantially sensitive to energy efficiency because the cost is dominated by space rather than computation.

There are other examples that attempt to use things like spatially distributed network bandwidth as a resource. I'm not a fan of most of these, but the point is that energy is not fundamental.
Also, this isn't IF as popularly understood. IF usually means uninterrupted water-only fast for a certain part of the day, e.g. 18:00-10:00.

The paper is about "low frequency" IF, which in this case means a 24h water only fast, twice a week for a full month, then only once a week for the rest of the trial.
I've never seen anyone claim that the world is a democracy.
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Is there a good way to kill time using your phone?
What do you know, here's an article[1] from 2017 about Databricks making an unfortunate mistake that showed Spark Streaming (which they sell) as a better streaming platform to Flink (which they don't sell).

I really hope this is not the case again.

(yes, I understand my sarcasm is unneeded, I couldn't help myself)

[1]: https://www.ververica.com/blog/curious-case-broken-benchmark...
Because as explained on rustnomicon, there are many ways to access data in parallel ways, and the language only prevents a tiny subset of those cases.

However almost every time data races and Rust come together in the same sentence it is as if it would prevent all use cases.
The word "Untersuchen" doesn't contain any notation about into how much detail you go into. It can be used in pretty much any context where you "look into something" from marked research to reverse engineering.

Which brings us to the point that the article is missing details relevant for doing a judgement yourself, instead it does a judgement for you and then expect you to adapt that judgement without questioning it.

For example the article could have stated that the students investigated the inner workings of the competitors software, it doesn't. It just states that the uni did some research into the competitors software, without stating the depth of the research and kind of research they did into it. (E.g. they could have research usability of "xxx software solutions" across the marked (including SAP) with SAP using that to gain a upper hand (== marked research), or they could have researched how "subset of xxx software solutions" handle case Y internally (== not-just marked research).)
Indeed. These sorts of discussions always reminds me of Penn & Teller's 'Bullshit!' episode on vaccines: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhk7-5eBCrs
> Most IPv6 implementations do not have the detail scrutiny in firewall rules to prevent or filter, and IDS this type of thing from happening.

This sentence is nonsensical. Any firewall that will pass IPv6 can understand IPv6 enough to block it. And no firewall will default open for IPv6.

The same goes for any IDS made in the last 15 years. But regardless, IDS doesn't block anything, it only detects (and likely wouldn't trigger solely on sending an email).
Wow I didn't realize that about the dose difference, I wondered why they gave us a half dose for our booster
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German media seem to have a peculiar relationship with companies in their own country. Wirecard was hyped up by everyone, even when well-founded doubts were raised abroad. And now they are sawing SAP's leg. What are we to believe now?
Fair. Re: bleeding edge, my point was that you could keep the rest of your system stable -- building one component yourself lets you make that tradeoff.
Surely they can cut off emails before it reaches the SMTP server though? Don't they have a milter that drops email sent by accounts that don't have the domain registered? They don't really forward spoofed mail do they??
I've been thinking about learning Crystal recently and using it for a personal project. However, now that I have lots of experience with Node.js, Golang and others, I'm torn between the "use what's mature" and "learn a new language" decision. Sure, I'm using Crystal now to learn a new language, but what if this becomes a serious project? Anyhow, I agree with this blog post somewhat but it's always good to expand your repertoire of tools.
J2EE entirely spec’ed out a reproducible way to create and deploy reliable software reliably. It is so reliable that no-one uses it, except companies paying $14k per developer per month.

The truth is, the cost of unreliable software is not the same as the cost of an unreliable bridge or plane. And during the ascending phase of the Schumpeter cycle (70-year economic cycle related to an industry), entrepreneurs who move swiftly with agility always win.
You can get those cool features in languages such as OCaml/F#/Scala/Haskell, and then you don't have to worry about managing memory because you have a GC.
I’m simplifying things greatly here, but TSMC was founded by a man who took his US semiconductor experience to Taiwan and got his initial fab partially bankrolled by the Taiwanese government to get it off the ground. Personally, I’d say that counts as unfair advantage.
Pretty sure intentional political scheming is what’s hurting everyone.

What do I know having been in rooms with people of the sort to be invited to Davos talking about keeping power out of the hands of the masses, just as James Madison, author of the Constitution, meant when he wrote the Senate ought to protect the opulent minority from the poor majority.

Blue collar Protestant work ethic is the worst. Instigating anxious doing in rubes is tribal warlord 101; yes yes you stay busy while I sit here.

My value store isn’t dollars, it’s a network of people collectively building in all contexts, not just the ones that are preferred by politics (indeed the “god father” of market economics, Adam Smith, only mentions one market; a free labor “market” that can move between gigs as needed; not sitting still for one employer). That just gives rich nobodies a pass on real effort, loads me up on real work by gate keeping undesirables rather than training them.

It effectively creates constraints on agency at scale, and quotas for the poor; exactly the sort of economy the US is not.

I bet the rich didn’t have a hard time finding TP.

You’re letting someone grift alright, just not who you think.
Careful, getting a bit close to saying the quiet part out loud here: “The federal boogeyman is coming door to door to take our guns.” Got news for you, there are federal laws on the books that can do a lot of harm to you if you do something antisocial. And not getting the vaccine is antisocial, so no this is not a harbinger or something to come. It’s not something new or radical. But you know what is? January 6. Neofascist terrorism. Destabilization of democracy through foreign influence campaigns online—-maybe even this thread.
Lots and lots of flagged and deleted posts here. I thought Hacker News was outside of what Eric Weinstein likes to call the Distributed Idea Suppression Complex[1]. That the DISC is deeeeeply troubled by the comments on this story should tell you everything you need to know about this topic. Speaking of which, is there anything like Snoo for reddit that keeps track of deleted and flagged posts on HN?

[1] https://theportal.wiki/wiki/The_Distributed_Idea_Suppression...
Nice strawman.

Actual leftist policy would open all borders, recognize a universal freedom of migration (so small-L libertarian of them), and demand universal workers rights. To wit, the only form of illegal immigration would be against the migrant's will: human trafficking.

Throw in some really strong unions and as the theory goes, the issue of migrant workers being paid less / given less benefits would evaporate too.
>to trade career success or other personal preferences for being the baby making machine for some billionaire's experiment

Why is it assumed that this isn't a more attractive proposition compared the alternative. Certainly there would be many, if not most or all, that would be willing to make this choice.

The point you are implying is that "career success and personal goals minus children" > "making smart babies and being a mother"...where ">" can be more enjoyable or fulfilling. It's not clear that this is true. Part of "baby making" means leveraging that IQ in a productive way to raise strong, intelligent children, so it would not be going to waste.
There are well established projects using Crystal. At least I've heard of one: Invidious [1], an alternative frontend for YouTube. If your project becomes serious it might as well work for you too!

(I don't know anything about Crystal)

[1] https://github.com/iv-org/invidious
It's just crowdfunding, what's the point of calling it a DAO?
I wouldn't draw that conclusion. That's a 50% increase in break through cases with Pfizer, which seems like a far greater threat than even a 5x increase of myocarditis.

Especially when you take into account that your risk of developing myocarditis is higher if you get Covid.
I dunno - Bunny the talking dog has a YouTube channel that's fascinating. The dog talks about dreams, feelings, friends, family, and fart jokes. Koko the gorilla was a more interesting and empathic person than many actual humans I can think of.

Whales making fart jokes would make the entire enterprise worth it.

I think not having language is a limitation on the upper bounds of animal intelligence, and providing voices through technology will enhance animal cognition beyond what they could achieve naturally.

Humans providing education and training could make their lives more meaningful and nuanced by giving them the jump start of participating in our culture. Besides, imagine cooperative orca tribes assisting in human endeavors, like seasteading and ocean rescue?

Who knows, if orcas are smart enough, they could be the first nonhuman writers or scientists?
I've been lifting weights in and off over the past year and I've definitely noticed that my mood is better and more consistent in the weeks that I lift.
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Alphabet is an ad company that depends on collecting vast amounts of data. Search alone does not make money.
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You can easily find sources with a simple Google search. I searched for "myocarditis risk of covid vs covid vaccine" and the second organic result is from Nature [1] and states:

> Previous research co-authored by Balicer found that in this age group, becoming infected with SARS-CoV-2 made a person 18 times more likely to develop myocarditis — a much more significant risk than is observed following vaccination.

Sources are in the article. You can easily find sources for COVID, please try searching it yourself first.

[1]: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02740-y
Sure, copies are cheap, but producing the original is often not.

Unrestricted copying would discourage quite a few projects being started due to not having any chance to recoup investment.

While IP may be a flawed tool at times, it still is a useful tool.
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During the peak of US anti-immigrant frenzy, net illegal immigration was negative.
Dave Chappelle’s ‘The Closer’ Is Not a Simple Victim-Bully Story
Please demonstrate how your statement is not the fallacy then. It should be clear to be a fallacy to anyone who likes music and never heard of the dude you're talking about, and there are just so many of us.
great, now hacker news is full of conspiracy theoriests too
> Chia had a proof of work mechanism that uses disk storage instead of computation

And how do you think those disks get made? (And how do you run those disks without expending energy?)
The append-only mode can be implemented using https://github.com/restic/rest-server or services like rsync.net that offer read-only zfs snapshots. Doesn’t solve the asymmetric crypto of course.
The author is playing fast and loose with definitions here. Other sources[0][1] (that I would consider more reputable) define the breeder's equation in terms of populations, but this author focuses on arbitrary and ill-defined subsets of populations.

Crucially, the author defines R as "the response to selection", but he omits the second part: "from one generation to the next". Source [0] defines it even more clearly: "the change in the mean [of the population] over one complete generation".

Similarly, S is the difference in the measured trait among the entire population and the population that reproduces. So when the author considers "a set of parents with IQs of 120", it only fits the correct usage of the equation if we take that to mean that mean IQ of all parents in this generation is 120. If that's his argument, how is he defining the population of parents?

In my opinion, this is a wishy-washy argument that seems like a subtle way of advancing eugenics (or something similarly distasteful).

[0]: https://www.nature.com/scitable/knowledge/library/the-breede...
[1]: https://public.wsu.edu/~gomulki/biol519/presentations/Sjober...
something is a waste if it is not useful, making new uses makes it less of a waste by definition
But if something has a fundamentally monotonically increasing cost in terms of energy, when will we reach the point where it no longer worth the tradeoff?

Is taking more energy than Argentina really worthwhile for the few that uses cryptos?
For that age group it's not a risk at all though.
Got news for you. You don’t get to drink and drive, you don’t get to yell fire in a theater, and you don’t get to run red lights. Nothing new here but a bunch of cowards afraid of needles and doing anything not mandated by Fox News.
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