skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Spending time worrying about "climate change" is a luxury people can have when economic times are good. Only the most out of touch in the media class are going to fret about climate change when normal people are in bread lines and the currency is imploding, as may be the case over this time frame.

Current economic crash YTD is still in progress of crashing. It has already wiped out more wealth than dotcom and financial crisis combined already.

Looking at what hasn't crashed... it looks like major military mobilizations.

https://twitter.com/greg_price11/status/1525161726643257344

At a time of war... this isn't yemen, syria, or somalia. This is a high ranking democrats outright asserting the USA is at war with Russia.

>PS: I think your idea is generally close to correct and that climate change has a bit more to do with the sun, but I'd keep my mind open on this.

Climate change is war propaganda from Russia.
>"The study looked at the IQ scores of brothers who were born in different years. Researchers found that, instead of being similar as suggested by a genetic explanation, IQ scores often differed significantly between the siblings."

I can think of a multitude of reasons younger siblings should, on average, have a lower IQ than their older brothers. Could this independently account for the 'decline' that researchers are measuring?
As a retired software development manager (among other roles throughout the years), the problem is that industry, collectively, has no idea what determines success. The infatuation with boot camps, certifications, specific frameworks/libraries, even languages is detrimental to identifying real talent. Worse is CIO lust for a new technology regardless of its applicability to the particular domain, e.g., cloud and cypto. Consequently, interviewing and hiring an experienced software developer, who may be extremely talented, can be an uphill battle if they don't check all the right boxes. Up until the last two years prior to retirement, I worked for a very large, well known insurance company. The HR staff wouldn't even pass along resumes that didn't check the boxes or pass the automated review by the application software. The problem is further exacerbated by the ready availability of "certified", cheap resources from companies like Cognizant, et al. I went to the HR department and insisted that I see all the resumes which caused a bit of firestorm but fortunately the CIO supported my request. I was looking for talent, degreed or otherwise, for which I was willing to pay more, regardless of their specific technical backgrounds. All they had to do was be confident, frequent readers/learners, and convince me that they could learn our environment and deliver. In the end, my team had a higher average salary but a lower head count than competing teams (around 45 persons, mostly cheap Cognizant contractors vs. my 15, all employees) and we tended to hit our project targets with greater frequency. And never forget, particularly in technical interviews, the interviewers will often be out to show their peers and managers that they are smarter than the candidate. For example, around 2010, I interviewed for a VP position at a company that required nine phone interviews with different peer and subordinate managers prior to the in person interview. I scored well on 8 of the 9 but the last was with a potential subordinate who wanted to focus on optimizing Java/Oracle on a server. Every question was some technical minutia about Java, which fortunately, I had never had to learn. He, of course, voted against me. I withdrew my candidacy because the last interview suggested a culture I didn't want to be part of or fight to change. I explained the reasons but I doubt anything changed. So interviewing, if not terrifying, is at least intimidating and a royal PIA. Just be confident of your talents, continue to read and learn, and if it doesn't go well, F it, and keep looking.
So the Flynn effect (rises in IQ to a certain point in time) has been demonstrated in many many many cultures with many tests, many of which are difficult to explain in terms of formal western education. Like nonverbal pattern recognition tests given to traditional tribes in jungle areas. It's one of the mysteries about the Flynn effect and why it's so difficult to explain.

It's also not just the case that the "bottom is being raised", but also that the whole distribution was shifting.

I think these kinds of things make it unlikely education is explaining at least the rise part of the curve. To the extent the fall is in a subset of these types of measures of settings it also might not be (but it could be).

The more recent decline has been less well-documented although there are multiple studies using multiple measures that have shown this, so I believe it is a trend at least in some regions of the world (developed, western). I have a fuzzy memory that the decline is stronger with verbal measures (as opposed to nonverbal) but I might be misremembering that.

Education is strongly related to IQ/g/general cognitive ability but they're not perfectly correlated. I think when I looked this up a week ago or so, the best estimates were like 0.50 in a general population sample.

Clinically a discrepancy between IQ and educational achievement is important, as it points to someone not getting resources they need etc.

So yes, they're related, and yes, education could explain general population trends over time, but no they're not the same.
I’ve run high-ish traffic production sites on Dokku for years. If you need just one server, it’s a dream for Rails/PG/Redis setup. Amazing what reliability it provides. Almost completely written in bash!
I put the blame on my kids.
> Now that Republicans are voluntarily culling themselves in vastly higher numbers (at 2.73 times and higher death rates in "red" versus "blue" counties) by believing and repeating and acting on Trump's anti-vax anti-mask anti-science anti-education anti-health-care misinformation, there are also strong political factors. But I strongly suspect it's also correlated with lower intelligence, too.

You need to emphasize more with your fellow citizens instead of just insulting them. Some of them will think that you're a state puppet, that just parrots Fauci's propaganda, a good useful idiot, without any ability whatsoever to think by yourself, do you think it would be a kind interpretation of your position?

We can have close zero COVID deaths, we just need a ten year lockdown and ride this out. This is not done because there are tradeoffs, do you think maybe the red states were looking for different tradeoffs? Have you attempted to quantify this tradeoffs, it's extremely hard, see [0]. Were you aware that the death rate is not the single relevant datum? Maybe you should stop shouting science and inform yourself better on this topic.

[0] https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/lockdown-effectiveness...
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IMHO, the human race has degraded in maturity in the last 20-30 years, and today we do not have a critical mass of technically adept, intellectually mature and who are also skilled debating communicators capable of making this change without the entire process derailing, and the result being far, far worse than what we have today.

Just as described in the article: as soon as the opportunity presents itself, the business suits start mucking with the implementations and strategies, and at that point either the technically mature debating communicators step in and end the off-goal meddling or the entire process and effort is lost.

We do not have it in us anymore. We are not the generation that went to the moon. We're the consumer marketing ruined follow-on generation with a diverse mind filled to the brim with web3/crypto/socio-political-religious-end-of-the-world panic.

Case in point: https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/13/health/falling-iq-scores-stud...
If the box you are running in is a VM, the VM host is already providing hardware redundancy. It’s not full redundancy but in practice it’s sufficient for dog photo sharing sites.
Based on its fundamentals it should be a disaster. But it should have been a disaster for 10 years and hasn’t crashed yet.

I’m not certain it’s a disaster and I don’t hope for its failure. But I’m against it like I’m against best buy warranties or whole life insurance.

They are bad things that shouldn’t exist and no one should buy them.
> When they say "founder", they are talking about building BILLION+ dollar companies

Last time I checked the most successful companies in American corporate history are:

1) Standard Oil

2) IBM

3) Microsoft

All 3 of them managed outcompete any other company in their field and were only stopped by the U.S. Federal Government

None of them ever needed VC capital. VCs are like sirens, they are bankers in disguise.

Given all that you might as well do like the 3 aforementioned GOATs and just go to a banker if you need money.

There is nothing wrong with debt. When you have to add a liability to the balance sheet you might as well add a liability that looks and feels like a liability instead of falling for the sirens who promise to make that liability into an asset. It ain't.
Old thread now. But often a minimum load is needed for an LDO, particularly on older parts, to work correctly. Such that these are given in datasheets. This is continuously required so is effectively quiescent current. I think this is what the OP was trying to get at.

But failed capacitor reulting in instability seems much more likely.
First of all - great work, thanks. Will follow the progress.

I have been working with Go professionally since 2015 and quite often it makes me feel frustrated due to lack of full-stack web frameworks.

I was thinking to do something like your project, but with focus to full SSR/zero-js. Lucky me, you started it first . Maybe be in some things I will prefer different approach, however, your project already released (and it's excellent) while mine only in prototype.
After I read the documentation in your project it feels like you really stepped on a lot of minefields. Great job!

One thing is still bothering me though (or maybe I missed it in docs): how is Bud dealing with relative links? Very often JS writers forgetting about the situation when the application could be served under different root locations. Does Bud have helpers to construct relative URLs without relying on user-provided server url? (I made PoC for that - don't use it in production https://github.com/reddec/gin-template-manager/blob/eb09f4e8...)
Reddit is being funded by a fake company?
The government has abandoned its policy not to fund nuclear plants (they previously wanted 100% private funding) but now they say that they will effectively add a new tax on people's energy bills to partly fund them at a time when bills are already going through the roof.

Basically, the successive governments lack any ling term plan and refuse to fund strategic long term investments, which arguably are exactly where one would expect the government to intervene. For perspective on how nonsensical this all is: Hinkley C costs about 10 billion pounds less than the amount he government was happy to pour into the Covid track and trace program...
Things being so cheap due to fossil fuels that you buy new things instead of fixing them is wasteful. And there is value in CCs, even if you personally don't find them valuable. They money that is zero trust, private, and eliminates some mechanisms of manipulation (inflation). Let's not forget that bitcoin grew out of the financial crisis and the mismanagement of monetary policy leading up to it.
Does anyone know the price of these cards? Trying this out in a home setup would be extremely awesome, but most likely prohibitively expensive.
LFP is also a more stable chemistry which makes them safer but also it has more than double the cycle life and can be charged to 100% while still keeping that long cycle life. No need to choose to charge to 80-90% for daily use vs 100% for long distance, Tesla recommends charging the LFP to 100% all the time.

LFP's where getting ridiculously cheap recently, you can get 19" rack mount batteries with built in BMS for less than $300 / kWh to your door. I think most UPS are going to move over to LFP, they will be 20 year batteries in controlled environments.

I put some 12v replacements in my RV getting 4X the capacity of my lead acid at half the weight for about 3x the cost but the batteries will last 10+ years.

The main downside is a lower energy density than NMC which seems to be getting better I believe its about 20% less kWh/kg at this point. No nickel or cobalt is another advantage, iron is plentiful.
Nothing is crypto’s fault.

We get it.

It’s not cryptos fault that it’s a terrible currency. Just invest in it. It’s not crypto’s fault that it’s a terrible investment. Why don’t you want a great currency that government doesn’t control? It’s not crypto’s fault that half the money in the ecosystem is stolen. Why isn’t the government helping this anti governmental technology? It’s not crypto’s fault that the vast majority of the coins are scams. It only failed because Citadel and Blackstone attacked it.

No, crypto is pure and faultless. And anything that it does wrong is the fault of the government and/or Blackstone and Citadel and/or the Paper Hands.
It’s „weak people“?
This is fantastic. I've made a Game Boy emulator in the past, and I'm a big fan of Pico-8, so maybe I'll give this a try myself as a learning project. I wasn't aware this was really feasible.
What like a policy that bans extremely energy intensive things that offer no value other than to construct Ponzi schemes at rapid clip? Yeah we need that policy.

(Happy to hear what value crypto offers that can’t be done with more energy efficient mechanisms.)
This is one of those moments where "if you have to ask, you'll never know" is appropriate.
If it's safe to ship tons of LNG on big ships there's almost certainly a way to ship batteries safely. It might take a few 'incidents' though before best practise becomes clear.
"DPUs/SmartNICs are a partial industry response to AWS Nitro"

This comment (as well as the article) is quite heavy on storage(?) specific terminology AND products so as someone who isn't into that area it all appears very opaque in meaning since there isn't any context on the what particularly this solves and why it's needed. I know I've made this error a bunch of times myself when writing, and it's ok when you have a very specific audience but for a wider audience like here you lose a lot of potential interest.
The reason is right there in the article! For your edification;

A scorching heatwave has curtailed wheat output in India and domestic prices have soared to an all-time high.

"We were expecting curbs on exports after two to three months, but it seems like the inflation numbers changed the government's mind."

Rising food and energy prices pushed India's annual retail inflation up towards an eight-year high in April, strengthening economists' view that the central bank would have to raise interest rates more aggressively to curb prices.

Wheat prices in India have risen to a record high, in some places as high as 25,000 rupees (£263) per tonne, way above the government's fixed minimum support price of 20,150 rupees.

But a sharp and sudden rise in temperatures in mid-March means the crop size could be smaller than expected at about 100 million tonnes or even lower, a New Delhi-based dealer with a global trading firm told Reuters.

The government had estimated production would hit an all-time high of 111.32 million tonnes.
The media was long overdue for an update on Better. When last big in the news for the Zoom layoffs in December, the 10Y note yield was approx 1.5% and now approx 3.0%. 30Y mortgage rates went from 3.1% to 4.98%. Certainly not good for Better, but also not good for any mortgage originator whose revenue structure depends on transaction volume.

https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/%5ETNX/history?p=%5ETNX

https://www.freddiemac.com/pmms/pmms30
Can we make a black hole? And if we could, what could we do with it?
I dunno; from what I’ve seen, that depends on the personality of the person involved.

Some people will react the way you say, yes, but others, after spending $400k or whatever for a worthless NFT, or for some combination of “coins”, will double down, unwilling or unable to let themselves see the truth because that would mean they were wrong in a spectacular fashion.

So they push for crypto harder than ever, to get other people to come in, prop the system up, keep the value of their purchase up, and validate their worldview.
The Highway Code tops the bestseller lists, again
I love fantasy consoles like Pico-8 and Tic-80 (and all the various others). I haven't done too much with TIC-80 as I ironically find the less restrictive restraints compared to Pico-8 harder for me to work with. It's almost easier to get started when you have 8x8 sprites, a 128x128 screen and only 16 colors. Once you lessen those restrictions it can be more daunting.
You mean like monero (https://ciphertrace.com/enhanced-monero-tracing/) or something else perhaps? Are you sure it's private?

Private or not, which country are you in that would penalise you if you donated to Wikileaks?

Ultimately though, there's a decent argument for /not/ allowing completely anonymous money transfers as the list of organisations that you'd be penalised for donating to probably has a pretty strong overlap with the list of organisations that society as a whole, through it's government, has decided we don't want to receive money.

Crypto /might/ allow you to make an end-run around this system, but do we want it to, and even if we do, is it worth an entire country's electricity usage?
I grew up back in the days when many more people read books...there were used book stores everywhere...men sometimes carried a paperback book stuck in their back pocket...but that's not to say that everyone read a lot...but there was more reading in general...and one reason why we read more was that television was just not as good as it is today...

and reading does develop a certain sort of intelligence that is important and is very useful...I saw my own youthful reading and its good effects in the computer science classes that I passed and where 80% of the class just could not do the work...intelligence counts....when you spend your youth reading books for hours a time, year in and year out, your brain grows "smart muscles"...and that makes it easier to focus on difficult problems...

I saw a lack of that sort of intelligence when I worked for a large government agency and when people lacking in that sort of intelligence made a huge mess of designing the business processes for that agency...intelligence counts...

society at large and especially those at the top pretend that intelligence no longer matters...but they are wrong...
Reminds me of the old saying:

>If you owe the bank $1000, that's your problem. But if you owe the bank $100 million, that's the bank's problem.
> Personally I think crypto is a 50/50 chance of working long term.

The chance is actually 100%, because future national currencies will be "cryptographic" tokens. Think of it for 2 sec: is there a government on earth that would say no to a financial system where you can track (poor) citizens' money down to the last penny, always and forever? There's your answer...
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Unlike with BTC with Monero you can’t tell what I did with the coins in between the two fiat transactions. For most people that’s a very meaningful level of privacy, even if it’s not perfect.
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The ones I've seen are all just multi-storey car parks that go on the sea. This isn't a concern.
Umm... that's because "VC" as an asset class has only existed for a few decades, and didn't come out of the fringes until around the dot-com bubble. So pointing at companies started decades earlier with massive first mover advantages as a call against VC is a bit silly.

Perhaps instead talk about the % of VC funded decacorns over the last 10-15 years?
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Most of crypto is trash. However, Bitcoin will live for a very long time and take on appropriately high value. I don’t understand the folks who don’t see its incredible worth as a store of value. It doesn’t need to produce anything tangible to be valuable. Indeed it’s more valuable as a pure medium it seems. That’s the point.
I agree you're technically right, however I think the article does everything possible to obscure this fact, see some quotes:

> The research suggests that genes aren’t what’s driving the decline in IQ scores, according to the study, published Monday.

> The causes in IQ increases over time and now the decline is due to environmental factors

> It’s not that dumb people are having more kids than smart people, to put it crudely. It’s something to do with the environment, because we’re seeing the same differences within families

But I agree we need numbers, which was the most important thing the article could've provided.
Cloud has almost completely replaced the old datacenters however still the teams are spending a lot of time and money on managing it.

Heroku solved the problem very well for years but it's very costly and limiting at the same time.

Now it's time to replace Heroku with services that help you use the cloud providers which leads to substantial cost savings.

We're very soon launching https://www.utopiops.com which is an alternative for Heroku on AWS to address this particular issue.
this is so under appreciated.

I consider myself a person of average intelligence who learned very early on that preparation can set me ahead of the group.

I practiced interviewing, public speaking, coding, writing, test taking, etc, and it's helped immensely. I mean, most tests tip their hand later, which allows you to go back and revise earlier answers. most writing is formulaic, you just have to find a good example. any system that you are evaluated by can be learned.

To prep for grad entrance exams, I wroke up early every Friday, got ready, drove around, sat down and took a timed practice exam at 930 sharp. all to emulate my Friday 900am exam appointment. I got the score I wanted.