skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That average 60-70 iq is from a very severe lack of education and high end jobs not genetic as far as we know.

Either way, parent post explained what the article is about.
They do. Not always to a 100% ( e.g. US prohibition of alcohol), sometimes with unintended consequences, sometimes even counterproductive consequences. Nevertheless, it works better, in theory and practice.
Isn't arbitrage like that just how markets are supposed to work? Still ends up with the cans redeemed and disposed, just goes about it in such a way that the maximum amount of value is extracted from them.
Ask HN: Does modern software development need any coding?
There so many standard tools, workflows and cloud techs out there that custom code is becoming more and more useless. All these tools are usually open source, well tested and reliable so unlikely you will write anything custom that’s better than them.

You need some data engineering and analytics? → Databricks. You need some APIs → API Gateway. Mobile apps? → Firebase. Deploying applications and CI/CD? Configure Git and have your apps build with a configured Jenkins to then have it all deployed by a configured Ansible/Terraform onto a configured Kubernetes Cluster. Assuming you don’t use some cloud tool that does it all like Azure DevOps. Need monitoring and logs? → Graphana, Prometheus, ElasticSearch. Need backend services? → go serverless use Lambdas. Need workflows? → Airflow and your DAGs in Yaml hook it up with Redis and you got it.
You get the point. If you ever need to write code at this point it’s probably some glue code just to hook it all together.

I know some of you will say they have some special custom app with very custom logic that is so unique that can only be done in code. Honestly chances are it’s already a solved problem by a standard tool out there and your team leads are simply unaware of it or don’t have the skills to operate those tools.

I’m a backend dev and still write code but a lot of my time goes into configuring some of those tools and more and more of the code is being migrated into them.

In 10 years are we all going to be some sort of devops yaml configurers?
Hey, glad my ramblings were of some use! Sounds like you're making a move that makes sense. We loved London when we were there but for family I think there are better places...
Before say 1 in 100 went into hospital, meaning 100k infections means 1000 hospitalisations

Now 1 in 1000 go into hospital, that's great from an individual basis and a population basis. Still means that 1 million infections leads to 1,000 hospitalisations.
Content warning: only nostalgia

Before I even played the video, I suddenly remembered the opening chord. I think I haven't listened to that track in 25 years.

Memory is weird.

It was part of my favorites in the mid-90s, but I've lost track of mods towards the late 90s as MP3s took hold. I've long wished to have modern reworks of many of those tracks, so very happy to have this one.

Perhaps Karsten Koch will be inspired to remake Blue Valley ;)

Edit: actually I listened to Space Debris much later! It just so happened that many of my favorites overlapped with Introversion Software's taste and were included in the soundtrack for the excellent hacker-game Uplink.
As i said, depends on your hand size. For me, the Pixel 6 is uncomfortably small. If I'm not mistaken Sony's weirdly named series (1-1 and stuff like this) have small-sized models ( even if on the longer side).
No he didn't. The very first sentence is, "Vaccines frequently prevent infection and spreading."
I don't follow the comment about analyticity. I thought fields were real analytic, which meant one needed to use a power series to expand them, which has a potentially infinite amount of information in the Taylor coefficients? So I don't see how the local data "effectively" captures non local information.
They all do though. Including the outright frauds.
This article seems to mirror a concept I have started employing everywhere in life, not just as a leader: go and see for yourself.

There is nothing that helps you understand how something works as well as going to the place where it happens and interacting with it, to build your own mental model of how things fit together. If you rely on reports or other people's retellings, you're interacting with their mental models, which are at least one step removed from the actual system you want to understand.

Of course, it's critical that people understand it's not about trust. I fully trust that people have reported to me things exactly as they experienced them. It's about understanding – I understand things better when I get to experience them too.

(Obviously, I've stolen this from Toyota management.)
"The History of Rome" and "Philosophize This". I finished them both in a superficial way, while driving on my daily commute. Now I listen to them in my spare time and try to really dig deep, take notes and read the original material on topics that resonate to me. After I finish them again this way I will search for something of similar quality. "Revolutions" seems to be it.
> In general: don't host the code in the same country of the company you will be pissing off.

Even better would be having automated mirrors on multiple providers, plus a private git instance to make sure you have your repos.
Significant? No, or it depends on your definition.

Marketing should sell your product, not tell you what to build. Same for accounting. They should tell you what is selling or what is not profitable.
Here is the Oxford study [1] it's brutal.

[1] https://www.imperial.ac.uk/news/232698/modelling-suggests-ra...
> The signal made by the nail stem cells — called Wnt, for all you bio buffs — can orchestrate growth all over the body. It even coordinates the formation of limbs and some organs during fetal development.

Lizards do it with Wnt

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28233575/

Presumably it's only a matter of time before the penis enlargement industry discovers Wnt.
i guess you're a glass half empty kind of person
This doesn’t really seem like the situation linked above. This situation is amazon blocking his reviews as “fraudulent”, not the vendor refusing to do business with him for leaving a bad review.
Wow, if you made a mistake like that, who knows what other kinds of mistakes you made?
Dec 17, https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-12-17/s-africa-...

> South Africa delivered some positive news on the omicron coronavirus variant on Friday, reporting a much lower rate of hospital admissions ... Only 1.7% of identified Covid-19 cases were admitted to hospital in the second week of infections in the fourth wave, compared with 19% in the same week of the third delta-driven wave ... Health officials presented evidence that the strain may be milder, and that infections may already be peaking in the country’s most populous province, Gauteng.
Man loses $7.3K in Coinbase account via SIM-swap attack
> The smartest people I’ve met reject the “Water in a Cup” theory. They focus less on consuming as much information as possible and more on cultivating the deepest possible understanding of the ideas that resonate with them most.

There's a letter by Seneca that I think about a lot, called "On discursiveness in reading" (https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Moral_letters_to_Lucilius/Let...):

> Be careful, however, lest this reading of many authors and books of every sort may tend to make you discursive and unsteady. You must linger among a limited number of master-thinkers, and digest their works, if you would derive ideas which shall win firm hold in your mind. Everywhere means nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends. And the same thing must hold true of men who seek intimate acquaintance with no single author, but visit them all in a hasty and hurried manner.

> Food does no good and is not assimilated into the body if it leaves the stomach as soon as it is eaten; nothing hinders a cure so much as frequent change of medicine; no wound will heal when one salve is tried after another; a plant which is often moved can never grow strong. There is nothing so efficacious that it can be helpful while it is being shifted about. And in reading of many books is distraction. Accordingly, since you cannot read all the books which you may possess, it is enough to possess only as many books as you can read.

I've personally found that when I spend more time with something, I get more out of it. For example, rereading books or rewatching movies. That's also a great way to separate the wheat from the chaff: if after the first time something starts feeling shallow, it's probably not worth keeping around.
Try to find out if the founders and your manager are psychopaths and or assholes.
By the way, isn't it there something like the "forgetting curve" for the immune system which could justify administering boosters in specific intervals and unjustify the naïve "better sooner than later"?
Typical human brain cells, they just want to play retro video games.
Past performance of UK models, https://data.spectator.co.uk/category/sage-scenarios
AI debates AI ethics at Oxford University. Only way to be safe is “no AI at all”
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I didn't have to because I'm German and very happy about that. Fuck FB!
Yeah, there is overhead, and of-course that you need to pay taxes where you are a tax resident. But, if that overhead enables you to charge much more than it is worth it.
I've got stock option to my LLC from one startup recently. It was much much easier than figuring how to do that for one person in other part of the world.
Covid. Covid lockdowns. New variants.

These are all things that we have to act on, as individuals. They are all bad news.

Then you have the rest of the 99.999% that you don't need to know, but you do need to know the very few stories. And for that you have to go through all the other ones.
Well, the way I see it is that in the counterfactual world where they didn't downclock, someone who doesn't "trust in Apple's PR" would conclude that the lack of downclocking is so that phones would turn off randomly, nudging people to buy a new phone.
>and KDE, which has technical issues that prevent widespread adoption

Which KDE technical issues are preventing its adoption? I'm running KDE full for a long time and encountered no issues.

IMHO, the lack of KDE adoption is the inertia of GNOME adoption by the major distros combined with the inertia of hate over KDE with the stereotype that "it's bloated" which hasn't really been the case in the last versions of Plasma.
The way I think about it is that you are applying mechanism that evolved and is useful for small close groups of people (morality) to the whole world (or a country).

Think about it this way: you have two countries at two ends of the world. They are independent, have their own policies, culture, economy. People in one are pretty smart about policies and hard work and build wealth over decades while people in the other can't organize, have constant struggle for power, zero social policies and end up not being able to feed their every growing population.

Is there any reason people in the rich country should feel moral obligation to not be rich and devote resources to lift the other country out of poverty? Additional problem is that the poor country won't easily give up independence and accept smart policies so the situation is kinda hopeless.

Now apply to the local level. Even if you feel moral duty towards those in need you can't do much if you don't get some authority over their decisions/culture/education etc.
we've been there, 1 in 20 household could afford to tech up, and even less could spare for anything but the most essential software. acquiring a cad or photoshop license was a significant percentage of yearly earning, and renting platforms was unheard of.

you say you do, but you don't.
Practical Big O Notation for JavaScript Developers
Is there a browser addon that would turn twitter links into nitter links automatically on click?

I access twitter only via links usually, when someone refers to a tweet.

A quick test by replacing "tw" with "n" in the URL led to "not found", so apparently it's not that easy.

Edit: Reading capability is a clear advantage. It's .net, not .com, actually it works. Though editing is less comfortable now, so question still remains valid :)
Those are lottery results from some province in Vietnam. I have no idea why they appear in the comment section.
How could SF give up on people any more than it already has?
Bug report: On Firefox dev edition with the goal "Test the software 3 Times in 14 days" I obtain 2 big non scrollable boxes. Even when I complete the goal, I only see these 2 boxes (now green).

I have the same problem on Edge (Windows).
Not all speakers talk at the same rate and with the same information density. Some forms of content aren't worth listening to at the default playback rate.
What are you on about? And how is this comment at all contributing to a healthy discussion?
But that is the number of cases, not the number in the hospital.

Since hospitalization lags, we cannot assume hospitalization based on case numbers.
I don't understand it either. It gets people to clean up litter and gives a lot of small handouts as rewards for keeping the state clean. There's probably overhead we don't see as consumers but it seems pretty beneficial to me.
No. Stop eating octopi. Please!
Or just looking at death numbers.
Since this was discovered by Dutch nuclear authorities, this is a better source: https://english.autoriteitnvs.nl/latest/news/2021/12/16/do-y...

I wonder if they've put up more information somewhere, though. It's pretty focused on "consumer knowledge".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sorites_paradox
I see 2 problems here:

major: it does not work on POSIX shells, because ':' is
not a valid function name and

minor: the function itself should be changed to use
the builtin 'case' instead of the bashims [[ ... ]]
You are correct and shouldn't be down-voted for saying something that is unpopular, but true.
We don't have 90-95% vaccinated in Australia or any state of Australia. It's of the eligible population and it's excluding the under 12 year olds. The whole covid is mild in children argument aside, the fact is the population simply is not 90+ vaccinated.
How fast can you collect a dollars worth of cans and bottles?
You should read the article. They are making the same kind of argument as you, but more carefully.

In particular, the key logic is: either intelligent life takes much longer to evolve than stars’ lifetimes, or about the same, or much less. We evolved at about 80% of Earth’s habitable lifespan. That would be very unlikely, if on average intelligence took less time to evolve than star lifetimes. Taking the same time on average is a knife edge case (I think this depends on the multiplicative nature of the probability distributions involved). So probably it is more. In which case, life is very rare.
…which is easy enough to fix with bar codes.

This is how it works in Germany. You pay a deposit on every bottle. To get your money back requires a machine to recognise each bottle/can as legitimate, based on the bar code.

Now, yes, people could print stickers with fake bar codes on… but I don’t think that would work well at the scale of the major fraud operation you’re envisaging…
Are you ? After all, YouTube is a recent phenomenon for us, and we've even known a time without widespread Internet when knowledge was still overwhelmingly in books...
Long-winded way of saying you think America should not allow poor people to immigrate because they might cost society too much, and poor Spanish speaking immigrants are probably illegal anyway.
But then what do you do with the time?
You could take a look at either Rust or OCaml, Swift feels like it's between the two.
It can never give you more than it cost — the redemption value gets added to the cost of the beverage. So a $1 bottle of Coke would cost $1.05 if the redemption value were 5¢ And it would cost $1.50 if the redemption value were 50¢.

The reason the redemption value has not gone up much is that people would balk at paying so much for the goods upfront, IMO. Adding 20¢ per can would add nearly $5 to the cost of a 24-pack or soda. The cost per ounce of soda drops dramatically when you buy in volume, so the redemption value would grow to be a substantial portion of the total cost for larger purchases.
This reminds me of a broader question: why our health systems are so incapacitate they can't handle every 1 in 1000 (or whatever the number actually is) being hospitalized?
Wait, you can also slow down YouTube videos, can't you ?
Hmmmmm shouldn't the Python runtime reap the socket and tidy up in this case?
At least in Belgium, I have the impression the nuclear reactors are end of life and based on obsolete designs. They already did a few emergency stops and underwent expensive repairs. The right question should have been if they should be replaced. Which is a lot harder to sell .
Is this something that is safe to rely on as python evolves?
I'm certain someone will come up with the idea of pairing a smartphone with a taser at some point, and closing the loop on this.
Stalin Elevated the Chinese Communist Party to Power in Xinjiang in 1949
Yes, that’s correct. Because conducting experiments on things like “does this approach to teaching fractions work better” is important for society. The ends are good and the means are reasonable. We aren’t injecting kids with chemicals—we can only experiment with “normal” educational practice. It shows why nuance is important— and why requiring informed consent isn’t always the most ethical choice for society.

Ethical action involves nuance! It is very comforting to think that the world is black and white, good and bad. But it isn’t. Why is this so difficult to communicate?
> Basically guests from both sides in the shows agree that the next election is going to be important

Every election in every country at any time is the most important decision we've ever faced, according to political analysts. Talking heads isn't a great way to gauge popular sentiment. I won't be surprised if _something_ happens, and I don't really know what people in Japan or Singapore think, but at least here, I would expect the atmosphere to be much darker if people were expecting an invasion by 2024.

> ordinary Taiwanese people do not really care if they are reunified

Ordinary Taiwanese care immensely, and that is reflected in the strong support for DDP. Not even KMT are indifferent towards unification, they're just pro-status quo, and they still can't catch a break lately.

> would the economics be bad if China finally annex Taiwan?

The per-capita GDP in Taiwan is ~$26k, while in China it's only $10k. If there was a successful unification, it's unlikely that Taiwan would be permitted to remain twice as rich as the rest of China. TSCM and other tech would most likely be relocated to Shenzhen, just like we're seeing finance get stripped out of Hong Kong. I can't see any circumstance under which Taiwanese people would be better off.

> Cash from China has been flowing into Taiwan for 40 years

This is true. Chinese money has flowed into Taiwan in an attempt to take it by economics rather than force. But, there are now laws restricting Chinese ownership of domestic entities. It's no secret that tons of the money in Taiwan was made using labor in China. Taiwan was a bridge between western markets and brands, and Chinese labor for a long time. Everything from Foxconn to Nike shoes. Most of those factories were opened using Taiwanese capital and management with mainland labor. No idea how all of that will unwind. Fortunately, Chinese labor isn't as cheap as it used to be.
Counting cases and advertising them every time the news shows start is useless, it just fuels the paranoia.

This virus won't just go away in a few months, we'll have to live with it, just like Humans have done with every other virus since forever.
Add "Python 3" (in quotes) to your google queries. In short time Google will figure it out and start sending you to Python 3 tutorials and docs.

In fact, I think that's the default now. Google may have associated you with Python 2, but I'm getting almost all Python 3 results for any search Python related.

You can also filter by time, but that's less useful because Python 2.7 pushed the end of life date so far back.
That's a bit silly.

Bottle deposit are there to incentivise some people to return them. They just need to be high enough to do that.
GitHub Copilot made me think of the same thing. I write the method description as a comment in plain English and it spits out a pretty good approximation of what I would have written. I've been using it only for a few weeks but I'm already so hooked up that I prefer to take a break when the service is down :D
There are three kinds of learning

- new contextual framework (There is no god, armies used to be retinues of retinues)

- new skills (make fire from sticks, algebra and calculus)

- new information (Henry V won at agincourt)

The big important ones are the contextual frameworks. Without them
humanity and individual humans are just floundering. And if there is
any big political divide it's because people are not in same contextual framework (eg Brexit)

Skills are how an individual can contribute inside that framework - and it needs practise. And information is the last. The strawman the author is moaning about is absorbing information without practise. This seems to be the failure to leap from podcast to khan academy.

solving that one for millions of people will be an incredible leap. So far we only have "my tutor moans at me if i don't"
I’m curious as to what you’re maintaining. Once we set our pipeline up with a consultant agency and build step-by-step guides on how to launch a docker container through it, the maintenance of the pipeline has required no human hands.

This is in an enterprise sized organisation with 10.000 employees.

We still have a sys ops team to handle security, network and all those other things, but deploying software? That’s really easy for our developers.

We use Azure DevOps, we deploy to Azure apps with a dev, testing, staging (5% traffic) and prod (95% traffic) slots. It takes maybe 5 minutes to go through the to-do-list when a new application or function or whatever is created and we have a very fascist naming convention. This isn’t an azure commercial, we’re only in azure because we’re the public sector and already so in bed with Microsoft that it’s the cheapest solution. I’m sure you could do the same in any other cloud.