skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think there is some evidence for the benefits of acceleration that comes from an Australian study of gifted students that you may be interested in investigating. (By no means am I gifted, and it's entirely possible that I'm mischaracterizing or misunderstanding the results.) The book is Exceptionally Gifted Children", 2nd edition, by Miraca Gross. An excerpt can be found at [1].

There are some previous HN comments that discuss this including [2], which names Terrence Tao, UCLA math prof, as one of the participants in the study.

Two passages that I think highlight the extremes both in acceleration and outcome are:

“… 17 of the 60 young people were radically accelerated. None has regrets. Indeed, several say they would probably have preferred to accelerate still further or to have started earlier…. The majority entered college between ages 11 and 15. Several won scholarships to attend prestigious universi- ties in Australia or overseas. All have graduated with extremely high grades and, in most cases, university prizes for exemplary achieve- ment. All 17 are characterized by a passionate love of learning and almost all have gone on to obtain their Ph.D.s.”

“The remaining 33 young people were retained, for the duration of their schooling,… Two dropped out of high school and a number have dropped out of university. Several more have had ongoing difficul- ties at university,…”

[1] https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/EJ746290.pdf

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11510032
Interesting... I have a lot of trouble understanding this (as someone who does not have tinnitus). For most things that are permanent, we adapt to the new baseline and, well, "get used to it".

ie. "Oh, that ringing? Yeah, it's been there for years, I barely notice it anymore."

I wonder what it is about tinnitus that makes it hard to adapt to (or filter out) for some people.
Technical Manager: Dev, it's only a quick fix because there are no test cases for that area, and you're not adding any before refactoring, so then you don't think you're breaking anything.
I can't believe Python is reluctant to mandate floating-point when they require threads. I'm still on Python 3.6 because there's no simple consistent cross-platform way to do threads via system interfaces.
> Nvidia introduced LHR in February 2021 with the launch of its GeForce RTX 3060 models. Three months later, the company brought LHR to its GeForce RTX 3080, 3070, and 3060 Ti graphics cards. The reason: to make the cards less desirable to people mining Ethereum and possibly other types of cryptocurrencies.

What a bizarre move. Why would they do this?
This. I too am a bad programmer and readability is so much more important to me than the LOC count.

Sure, the pipes example might look nifty, but from a practical viewpoint, it's just not that useful. Next thing you know, someone throws an eval into the mix by mistake, and we end up with unintended consequences.
In the meantime I fear he is indeed that crazy. He repeatedly stated that his goal is to wipe out Ukraine at any costs. He is a like a little child that doesn't get his way and then blindly hits at everything in his reach.
Dagster – Introducing Software-Defined Assets
An interesting take on a new, declarative approach to managing data and orchestrating its maintenance - Software-defined assets
>"We decided to help mining and gaming community,"

I don't understand how this demand helps the gaming community. Wouldn't this drive up the crypto-motivated demand for GPUs even more and hurt the gaming community?
Wine has a similar stance regarding Windows source leaks and ex-Microsoft engineers who have worked on _any_ Windows code.

See: https://wiki.winehq.org/Developer_FAQ#Who_can.27t_contribute...
> We decided to help mining and gaming community

How does removing LHR help the gaming community?
You need to install the agent in all the pods in the cluster. You can then pick a specific one or use tags to target a set of them.

So you can add a conditional snapshot (a breakpoint that doesn't break) to the set of green containers. E.g. I can add a snapshot that has a condition to only grab the data for user X. I'll get the result regardless of the container that actually handles the request.
In Germany there is a big after school business with homework help that parents have to pay. There are old disilusioned teachers that has quit school and started homework help instead, making more money and actually helping the kids.

Sweden is also getting worse, we have some weird idea that everyone should be in the normal classes, even the ones with different diagnoses. "Everyone should feel included". This leads to a lot of youth not able to get anything done in school and having to get help after school to keep up. Some of them get aggressive because of their ADHD and disturbs the rest of the class.

And the grading system has apparently completely broken down. Now the kids in 7'th grade gets judged towards the goals for 9'th grade. So someone that feels they are doing great in 7'th grade gets an E (F is worst) because they didn't get to learn what they are supposed to learn in 9'th grade. How are they supposed to know if they are doing well or not?
You're right that the current state of battery tech is woefully inefficient for any kind of grid-level storage.

But energy can be stored by pumping heated water to deep wells in the bedrock for example or you can use excess power to generate hydrogen and feed it back to the grid via fuel cells when needed. All of this is doable, but also slow to build and currently expensive.
Ukraine’s Military Has Resisted Russia So Far
Good thing the nuclear reactor isn't allowed to run Java...
Russia-Ukraine war: Fire at Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant put out
Putin is an evil genius.

He attacks a nuclear plant and creates the risk of a meltdown. The result will be to remind the EU about how scary nuclear power is and ensures public opinion stays firmly against the one power source that can wean them off Russian oil.

Also, it has strategic value as limiting power to the rest of Ukraine makes it harder to wage war. No power, less internet and communication, slowing the stream of awful (for Putin) pictures and videos of his brutal war.

And capturing it would be a propaganda coup at home. Putin stopped the evil Ukrainians from blowing up a massive dirty bomb.

Pure evil genius.
' ...people are dying because of cheap power and gas.'

Cheap power raises living standards. How do people die from voluntarily choosing less expensive energy?
According to the Linear-no-threshold model [1], any level of radiation, no matter how small, causes cancer. According to this model, the 1,000 μsv/year of normal background radiation already cause cancer for 1% of people. And any additional dose increase the risk further.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_no-threshold_model

However this model is contested. And the analysis on the cancers incidence in Hiroshima and Nagasaki and Chernobyl seems to indicate that this model is flawed. The exact model is difficult to estimate because of the low number of extra cancer is lost in the noise.
If you wanted to promote vigilantism, that's pretty much exactly what you'd do.
You have a puzzling, and, I think, bespoke, notion of "Machiavellianism". If a cancer patient undergoes painful therapies to cure the disease, is that Machiavellianism, because the ends, curing cancer, justifies the painful means?

I would say no. That's simply an example of doing something unpleasant in pursuit of a larger goal. Typically, when people use the term Machiavellianism they are referring to doing immoral and objectionable things in pursuit of personal goals. That's not really the case here at all.

Free people have no moral obligation to transact with one another. There is no moral obligation to permit people to your chess tournament and no moral violation in denying them. When we decide that the crimes of the Russian government, acting, at least nominally, on behalf of the Russian people reach a critical point we can decide to discontinue business and relationships with the Russian people.

Perhaps you think, as others in this thread have suggested, that this is something like a civil rights action. Indeed, in the US we have laws prohibiting businesses from denying service to people purely on skin color. In my view this is more of an ethical choice than a moral one, but even if you think it's a moral necessity not to deny service to someone based on their immutable characteristics, that is irrelevant. Russians are being denied service not because the world has suddenly become slavophobic, but as a condemnation of their country's crimes. Put another way, it would be wrong for a restaurant to turn away a customer because they are black, but completely understandable for a restaurant to turn away a customer because that customer is OJ Simpson.

I assume you would say that individuals are unlike countries, and I think that's true. Some individual Russians oppose their government's attack on Ukraine. Alas, there is no way to scope sanctions such that they hurt only people with the wrong opinions. There is a simple way to scope sanctions such that they hurt Russians though - i.e. make the sanctions apply to Russia. (And here I use a colloquial sense of the word "sanction" that I mean to extend even to non-governmental groups making decisions to refuse service to or interaction with Russians).

Finally, I agree with what I think you mean - which is that it's very possible for things to work out in ways other than what are expected. I expect that the majority of "things" work out roughly as expected throughout history but it is unremarkable when they do. If most of our choices were going awry civilization would probably unstable.

That said, I agree with the spirit - it's hard to predict the consequences of our actions. But, so what? It's hard to predict the consequences of sanctions and hard to predict the consequences of no sanctions. My own reasoning is: a war is too much, nothing is too little, and sanctions seem about right. Sanctions must hurt or they are meaningless. I would not want to see a headline like "Russian school hit by stray bomb, hundreds dead." A headline like "Russian chess player kicked out of tournament" seems about right for unintended consequences.
But there's a real treath that he can become president again. The real problem is that there's big gap in how the democrats see the world vs how republicans see the world. From the outside it's really mindblowing how differently they see and interpret the world. And the same is happening all over the world.
This sounds really similar to Dutch Blitz! https://www.dutchblitz.com/ surprised I haven't seen anyone else call it that in this thread
> Ukrainians are far more European, yes that makes a difference

There’s also a gigantic diaspora: I had no idea I knew so many Ukrainians. Also the amount of posts on LinkedIn where people point out some portion of their dev team is in Ukraine, and now some Product Manager in Spokane is all in on supporting Ukraine because his front-end guy is in a bunker
You gotta be kidding me. The winter Olympics just ended. Who did you think Valieva was skating for? Herself? There's a huge team behind each competitor and they're based around nations. What about the ice hockey team? Bunch of neutrals who happened to have a history of playing together, having grown up in Russia, and got to the final? Totally disingenuous to not call them the Russian team, and nobody thought otherwise either. At some point you have to common sense and admit the whole neutral flag thing is just a convenient way for the IOC to avoid some tough decisions.
Anything can go wrong AFTER takeover. Russians can convert power plant into nuclear landmine and blow up it on retreat. This is war between two nuclear states, so nuclear weapon will be used eventually.
See the chapter on teaching critical thinking in:
Kosslyn et al, "Building the Intentional University: Minerva and the Future of Higher Education (The MIT Press)"

For decision making:
Heath et al, "Decisive: How to Make Better Choices in Life and Work"
It's possible to use Linux without any GNU userspace, see: Alpine.

I get the bit and of course GNU's contributions are incredible but it's not _always_ the case that GNU+Linux is the implementation of some distribution.
I imagine Nvidia doesn't own the rights to the complete source code of the driver. Even if they wanted to open source it things move slow in big companies.
I played this with my mother, and later my friends, quite a lot as a child. I'm glad you mentioned it, this brought back a lot of nice memories for me and I think I'm going to buy a few packs of cards the next time I'm out :)
Appologies, didn't mean to come across as dismissive. There are many types of depression. The type of depression that MAOIs worked best for were 'funks' - to help the person get an energy boost to get them out of bed. It is simplistic to try to treat depression as a chronic condition with palliative drugs.

I'm dismissive of Allopathic Psychiatry because those doctors hurt my friend, and force her to take prescriptions to make her substance abuse problems worse. Really all she needs is sobriety, adequate nutrition, and a few basic medical interventions. But she's much more profitable as a ward who will never get better.

https://www.madinamerica.com/2022/02/malignant-gooderism/

Someone reached out to me about this piece... Said she got the postpartum depression -> postpartum psychosis, and considers the actual effects of some of the drugs she was forced to take 'torture'.

Benzo's hurt a lot of people, without actually fixing anyone's problems. The only use for a benzo is as a single-dose regimen, e.g. to help get a claustrophobic person into an MRI machine. Gamma-Hydroxybutyric Acid (GHB) is a great pro-GABA drug that crosses the blood brain barrier. It's now highly controlled because it can also be used nefariously (date rape drug). Why fix people's problems when you can create them?

> as is lithium

My friend called me up and said she'd bought herself some lithium. I strongly cautioned against it. 8 or 12 hours later she was despondent. I pointed out how she'd poisoned herself that morning and told her to throw the rest away.

She did the same with... 5HTP? Something to increase serotonin 'naturally'. She tried it multiple times, it wrecked her each time. I told her to throw that stuff away too, I think she finally did.

Depression is fundamentally a metabolic problem: sometimes nutritional, sometimes thyroid function, sometimes amplified by emotional stress, sometimes energetic ('people who are depressed are always [energetically] homolateral'). People get seasonal depression when the sun goes away for the winter. Supplemental red light can't be put in a pill (red light refreshes cytochrome c oxidase [mitochondria]). Etc.

ECT tries to reset people's brains, without doing anything else. It's a simplistic treatment that needs to be treated like calomel/quicksilver (mercury).

Palliative drugs never fix the problem. Sometimes they can be useful (Reversible MAOI's, such as Methylene Blue) while you figure out what's going on.
It really depends of the schools and teachers. There isn't a Montessori curriculum.

Even in standardized countries like France or Switzerland, the gap between two classes within the same school can be large,so across city and country, it's a pipe dream to think education is equal.

School is all about maintaining the status quo on social classes.
I picked the bottom of the thread as I skimmed by, which was capped by a clearly egregious comment. That doesn’t mean there weren’t others that were also bad. No idea why you think caste comes into the picture at all?
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Thanks for the insight. I felt like this principle can be applied broadly.
That means they’re even more similar to us given that humans practiced “medicine” that quite often didn’t help in a good chunk of the cases for a large part of their history.
Appreciate your input. I'll admit I haven't looked into Dendron as deeply.
This is one of the niceties that macOS happens to inherit from the BSDs.
So when do we ban cryptocurrencies already? The only use of this crap is crime.
There is no way to predict where exactly the toxic cloud will go[1] and it can affect Russians as much as the rest of Europe. Just settings part of an outside structure on fire is too risky and is not "Pure evil genius" but total insanity or military incompetence.

I would be happier if they blew up Chernobyl again as at least there is no more pressure cooker that can blow this shit high into the sky a seconds time.

[1] https://gdb.rferl.org/94D46F09-409D-415F-B87D-836E88607ECF_w...
> What I find distasteful is dressing up this selfishness as somehow being moral or just.

You don't get to define what is everyone's view of morality.

Do you find it moral that copyright holders can keep charging forever for the same goods AND enjoy state protection at the same time? Piracy is what limits this behavior from becoming too extreme. Remove piracy, and you will see the most outrageous corporate behaviors in action in no time.

Checks and balances - that's the name of the game.
Every indigenous tradition out there has stories about learning medicine from animals. I don't know how we're still surprised when we find these things out.

I mean, just look at this:

> Humans have been using local remedies (such as roots, leaves, bark, and other animals) as medicine for at least 5,000 years, a practice that has been passed down over generations within societies all over the world.

"At least 5000 years"? What possible realistic view of humans has us discovering medicinal herbs for the first time in 3000BC?
I think the argument is that driver source being open could help the (tiny!) Linux gaming community, but I agree. This is about mining.
Just sell more GPUs. Nvidia makes more money. We get more and better GPUs.

I'm not sure how this is bad.
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The ones who are able to travel while their country is invaded, yes.
> I 100% believe NATO could equip Ukraine with enough weapons for certain victory

Also curious to know how many unofficial troops from NATO countries show up. Russia’s neighbours aren’t fans, and bored Slav, Baltic, and Scandi kids who did military service and wanna be heroes showing up in great numbers isn’t outside the realm of possibility
If cash is king, and they are putting real money in, then ask how much. They're saying their cash is worth 55% of the equity (assuming the 15% sweat equity is for each cofounder). Is it a couple of thousand or have they put hundreds of thousands in company accounts? Are you being offered a chance to match the contribution at the same valuation? Are they committing to funds going forward without expecting more equity, or are those "planned financial contributions" a way of diluting you right off the bat?
No? I know a person (editor/journalist) who just published a newspaper issue that is almost entirely anti-war. I have photos. It is a local paper, but it is among the most popular in the region (if not the most popular).
So, USA used nukes 2 times, while USSR blow up 1 nuclear reactor.

2:1
> If true, then that’s another war crime to add to the growing list.

So what?

Russia (like the USA btw) does not acknowledge the jurisdiction of the ICC. The dictator in Moscow (and his minions) will just laugh at any conviction from there.
You nailed it. Misalignment of incentives.

With DVDs, it cost the same to send A or B or Z, and they made more money if you rented more or got a more expensive subscription that let you get more. So, they were highly incentivized to have a huge catalog and send you stuff you actually wanted.

With streaming, they want to push certain content based on what they're paid by their content partners, or what SEO tells them you will accept, and they want to do it for the lowest cost possible.
coolso: "All for a guy who just wanted to drive on public roads high on meth and fenty. :/"

Yes, drug addicts' lives have value and police should not murder them.

It's amazing to me that that's a controversial statement.
Why do costs of these services rise so rapidly compared to food, as mentioned? Or computers, or cars, etc.? Do these other industries not have "pursuit of profit of investors and owners"?
of course you are correct, they coopted Chechnya, after the second Chechen war [1] Now a month ago they had a big scandal with an ex-chechen judge, forces under the command of kadyrov snatched the wife of the judge from a region that is not part of Chechnya. This was a big scandal, as the authority of the central government in Moscow is kind of put into question. Putin did avoid a conflict with Kadyrov, i think that makes sense in hindsight: he needed kadyrov and his forces for the planned war... See here: [2] All that happened a month before the outbreak of the war; that may be an indication, that the war was already a decided matter, at that point in time.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Chechen_War

[2] https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-chechnya-judge-flees-wife-abd...
Your comparison is absurd. I'm sorry, but while Trump was often hostile to the media, the media and almost all major news sources (especially liberal-oriented ones) gave the hostility right back, in spades, openly and with no real threat to life or liberty for the editors and journalists involved. Trump made a lot of noise about authoritarian measures and personal wishes but if anything, did less than some previous presidents to actually try muzzling the media or journalists. I repeat, he was if anything the most heavily media-criticized president in recent history.

You then claim that this is the "same authoritarianism" as that of Putin's Russia, where the press is firmly muzzled, where you can and will go to prison for in any way openly criticizing the United Russia Party or Putin himself and where reporters or political opponents are regularly, frequently murdered even abroad for going against the grain of Putin's narratives too often.

No, these are not cases of different stages, they're cases of entirely different worlds. Trump's authoritarian noises were mostly just noises and sloppy backlash. Putin's authoritarianism is the real thing.
For a long lists of reasons; I don’t like DRMesque features like LHR and don’t like the crypto craze.

(And to be clear, cyber-extortion is clearly a criminal activity.)

BUT, I think the ”helping gamers” sounds a bit hollow.
I agree Ukraine will be a much tougher situation for Russia to conquer and hold onto, but you also exaggerate the extent of their economic pain:

> Now, Russia has been completely isolated: Russian companies cannot do business internationally due to being unable to transfer money or process payments, the value of Russian company stocks has gone to zero, their stock exchange ceased operations (temporarily), their population are doing bank runs, their currency is worth nothing and its economy is expected to collapse soon.

Russian companies can do business with the world outside the "West", notably China, which is already a voracious consumer of Russian raw materials. The stocks that crashed to zero are the ones listed in Western stock exchanges, not the ones in Russia itself. Yes, the currency has halved, but it has done so many, many times before since 1990. So while the economy will certainly take a beating, it's not going to "collapse" entirely.
I am quite sure he's just evil. A nuclear disaster as a result of russian shelling will for sure result in a direct NATO involvement. And despite all of it's propaganda, Russia cannot win a conventional war against NATO and nobody wins in nuclear confrontation. So I'll call him an idiot, because there's no wining this one. It's just stupid bully tactics.