skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Think of how much brain power is lost to poverty and inequality.

How much exactly? Do you have an estimate?

A good rule of thumb for dismissing bad arguments is asking yourself: "would the same have been argued in the opposite circumstance?" Improving conditions for people in need is a moral imperative. If it were proven beyond the shadow of a doubt that this won't actually maximize economic growth or pace of progress, would you say "oh well" and abandon them? I'd wager you would not. This is one cause to suspect you are not arguing in good faith when you shoehorn their plight into this discussion.

Based of what we know about conditions in modern advanced economies, intelligence as measured by standardized tests is both a good proxy for scientific achievement potential, without any signs of plateauing in the upper ranges [1] and overwhelmingly genetic in origin, with a large number of specific associated polymorphisms already known [2] and parents and children getting closer in the trait rather than diverging with age due to random effects [3]; crucially, with little to no effect of social stratification on heredity [4]. This all but rules out any significant impact of your laundry list of plausible harms – which are, nevertheless, issues that must be addressed for purely humanitarian reasons. (Purported evidence for significant impact is usually invalidated by genetic confounding).
What this means, however, is that there is very little or perhaps no low-hanging fruit left (it having been picked by Flynn effect over the last century), and we are unlikely to directly accelerate progress by any popular progressive policy, as it would not increase our labor pool for cognitively demanding work. And the hardest, highest-impact problems remain dependent on uniquely capable individuals – not lone geniuses but entire teams and organizations of them, sure, and only more scarce for it.
People who have wrestled with available evidence seriously tend to arrive at the idea that we need to institute a program of voluntary genetic improvement and ensure its availability to all. The tech is already here; the price can be driven almost arbitrarily low at scale. Whether we become a society of geniuses or one stratified by genetic enhancement [5] is a matter of policy – and willingness to look truth in the eye.

1. https://my.vanderbilt.edu/smpy/files/2013/02/Ferriman_20101....

2. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41588-022-01016-z

3. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23919982/

4. https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1708491114

5. https://parrhesia.substack.com/p/america-in-2072-a-society-s...
Smart contracts are called triggers and automated workflows in other contexts. They have been around for decades. The crypto-world innovation, if you can call it that, is removing the possibility of undoing or reversing the action, and the misguided idea that programmers can write code that works reliably all the time, otherwise known as hubris.

DeFi by other names dates from prehistory.
If manufacturers were actually interested in quashing resellers they could bind the console to a specific user account during the order process, say for three or six months.
I second this notion. I was actually super well-qualified for Harvard, because I happened to go to a feeder prep school and I took calculus, Latin, and Greek. But I had some class gaps if you will, and sometimes kids with worse grades and qualifications made me feel stupid.

One snobby rule there that some kids had was to always pretend like you know more than you do, and never show weakness. So you have to say "Whaaaat? You've never heard of the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle?" -- even though you only learned about it last week. You psych out the competition so that you don't have to compete on a level playing field.
I would be quite interested in the answer to this question. How does one short a coin?
It might solve the issue I use bear as my org mode thing. But bear us iOS-mac only. Under Ubuntu …

Not sure I trust … you know it is probably the most important bits and pieces of my life. Especially action list. And it is another windows and in a different context as well (browser not terminal shell).

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Btw, I like vim in iOS. Under ssh to aws. With working-copy it is all good except the organisation part.

I use tmux attach to get back to my current state of operation. But it is not in 1 screen but quite a few. iOS meant textastic tab. It is not that convenient. But I can live.

If I am in macOS, the gvim (-Gtk) seems to work only sometimes in multi-os (not vim) windows mode (eg ^wL sometimes work sometimes not).

Btw, as gui in macOS need to be in the same swank thread, it is quite a lot of actual os (not vim) windows.

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Keyboard issue raised here I am a bit odd. Other than I really do not like meta cntl key combinations in emac, i am ok even with iOS soft keyboard. (Better the tailored one with textastic of course.)
The invoice, though, almost always says "hours x rate/hour = total labor".
The issue is that the market is too irrational to be able to go short. You can't know when it's actually going to go down.
Yes, the main value is that maybe you can sell them someday.

This is why it is incredibly stupid that the IRS makes you pay taxes when you get them.
the study says that 59% are overweight *or obese*

so people overweight and not obese are less than 59%.

While in US

The U.S. adult obesity rate tops 40 percent; highest ever recorded.

The U.S. adult obesity rate stands at 42.4 percent, the first time the national rate has passed the 40 percent mark, and further evidence of the country’s obesity crisis. The national adult obesity rate has increased by 26 percent since 2008.

so the difference is still significant.

average weight shows that

Europe 70.8 kg (156.1 lb)

North America 80.7 kg (177.9 lb)

European population 606 million adults, North America 263 million.

being overweight is not a severe condition, obesity is.

https://www.tfah.org/report-details/state-of-obesity-2020/
> Income and wealth after Gen X is trending down for same age groups according to your sources.

While I see what you mean, the effect seems minor at best. I wouldn't feel comfortable coming to that conclusion without more future data and comparative numbers for Gen Z.

> Another thing to keep in mind is with decreasing birth rates, future generations will have a higher tax burden to support the aging costs of the previous generations.

This does sound reasonable, though I don't necessarily know of any actual research supporting this conclusion.
> I don’t understand why people think that driverless cars need to deal with every one in a million scenario, it makes no sense.

That a particular situation is rare, does not mean that you won't encounter multiple rare situations in a given time frame.

(By the way, the article stated in the beginning that the garbage truck had to move? Either way, it required manual intervention and a human's situational awareness. How does the car ask for the proper help at freeway speeds within seconds--not even split seconds?)
It still doesn’t work because even the latest AI tech is unable to understand the complex rules of what problematic content is.

How can you identify socially acceptable bias. For example, you’d expect it to be biased towards cars with 4 wheels vs rare 3 wheeled cars, but how does it know that bias is ok but being biased to male lawyers isn’t.

And then the billion other similar situations.
The Hackintosh has been de facto dead for years, yeah. It's going to be worse now that they are moving to their super proprietary ARM stack
It’s definitely fun contemplating a future where there is nothing special on video.
The demand is insane.

> The PS5 has been selling 80,000 units in 82 minutes, on average.

Whether they are scalpers or not, they ultimately end up in the hands of consumers.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/paultassi/2022/05/26/ps4-sold-6...
individual contributor (i think)
It is. Yet I can't see how your comment is relevant.
Put off? Or lazy? At the end of the day the relationship comes down to "fit". Time and signals are very limited. A bad decision by either party is costly in a number of ways. You threw them a softball and they...couldn't be bothered?

Moi? I'd leave it. Them not looking tells as much as if they do.
FTX allows you to short some coins, don't know specifically if they allowed you to short LUNA/TERRA.
You do know that if you don't fill out the census form they come knocking on your door, and if you refuse to respond they ask your neighbors and go based on that.
Agreed. It is hard work. As it is mentioned, walk on and be water.
Bravery test: do you have a publicly accessible repo that uses this to accept pull requests?
I did this recently for a homeless woman on the street. In my case I was more concerned about COVID risk than the risk of her stealing my phone (as I had a bicycle and she didn't, and she looked tired and emaciated and unlikely to be able to harm me).

As a result, I overheard her entire long desperate attempt to persuade her mother to give her another other other other last chance. :-( :-( :-(
That’s one small reason, another is that in a democracy orders of magnitude more people have a voice so everything is slower.
Interesting. I was also thinking of:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cable_lacing
* AMD has even better GPU availability right now.

* There's always new product releasing in the future, and the hardware you buy will inevitably depreciate. If you can get value from buying now and using now, then it's not worth waiting. If you can't, then you didn't have to buy in the first place.

* Futhermore, new product releases are staggered. Taking the RX 6000 series as an example, the high-end 6800 XT and 6900 XT released several months before the 6700 XT, and the 6600 XT came a few months after that.
And you can have an NFC device on you to take money from the phone once it's unlocked!
Homogeneous metaprogramming is a thing...
For the same reason "finders keepers" isn't codified law. By that logic, nobody is allowed to controls the means by which their software is run. You don't get to decide if people have to pay you, or if people have to have your permission first, or if they're allowed to (legally) copy it, etc.
Sure, but that caveat is pretty dang important. I'm in a part of the US where it's not hard to be on a highway where there's 10 miles between exits, and some of those exits won't even have a petrol station. I'm planning a road trip this summer that will easily be over 3000 miles, with many stretches through national parks or just barren desert where even my petrol car is going to require me to remember to refuel before I proceed.

Or if I want to go camping, I need to make sure there's either a charger in whatever small town is near the campsite, or make sure I have the charge for a full round trip.

I know a friend of mine with a full long-range Tesla literally carries all the cables to work out how to charge from a basic outlet because his family lives out in the country far from any charger, so often the only way he can get back to town reliably is to unplug an appliance at his family's house and run the cabling out the window to where he's parked his Tesla in the yard to make sure he can get home.
The past has absolutely no predictive value. Thats why we have a news business in the first place.
Cost of ultra-rapid EV charging increases by almost 50%
What continues to surprise me about the shitcoin-skepticism (which verges on shrill around here) is not that people are skeptical, who wouldn’t be?

It’s that there’s nothing new here.

Maybe I’m just old, but I remember the late 90s and the 2001 wipeout. Companies were doing big IPOs with what we would now call a token white paper, selling garbage to retail investors that promptly went to zero. Under the shining flashlight of any and every Ayn Rand asshole who backed Greenspan in stomping on Brooksley Born over it.

But once the garbage collector ran and all the Luna, err, Pets.com garbage had been flushed out, there were a few real things. Google survived that, and in fact picked up all the leftover fiber and engineers and other infrastructure on the cheap.

It’ll be the same this time. Most of its garbage, but there will be one or two real things that will make it.
Thanks for the reply!

Maybe I should clarify that students in my classes only get As if they fully earn it on the assessments. Bad performance doesn't get As, grade grubbing doesn't work, etc. However, I find myself capping the difficulty level of assessments in type 1 classes, which makes As very accessible to almost anyone who puts in the work. The philosophy is, here's what I expect you to know, if you demonstrate that you know all of it, you can get an A. (Of course, the student in your story shouldn't get an A or maybe even a C if they don't know the material!)

I think a philosophical difference might be that I'm thinking about type 1 classes like a set of weights students have to learn to lift. If you can lift all the weights, you've accomplished the goals of the class and I have no problem giving you an A. If you struggle here or there but can mostly lift them, you can get a B or C. I'll still be okay passing you up to a class that needs you to lift objects to accomplish more complex tasks.

I'm getting the sense that your approach is more like a race, where people who finish way ahead of others should be rewarded with higher grades. Just a different approach.

Yeah, I worry about demotivating top students. If I get any extra time for adjusting my class prep I'll spend it on extra challenges or resources for them. But that's also what type 2 classes are for.
I didn't even go into the worst of it! I had a bullet come through one of my walls, clearly shot from the walking trail near my building. Cops came out and literally laughed about it and threw the bullet casing into a sandwich bag. Landlord threw some spackling paste over the hole. We literally started packing up the next week.

To this day, over 2 years later no one from SFPD has ever contacted me or followed up on the bullet. SFPD is a disgrace. The city is not safe for people. You're just once chance encounter away from something horrible happening to you and when it does, no one will take it seriously or do anything about it.
History has shown that inequality, when left unchecked, tends to "fix itself" by way of blaming others (race, sex, creed) for the inequality (Germany) or through terrible, bloody revolutions (France, Russia). The US passing the New Deal and focusing on improving the life of workers let the steam off the inequality pressure cooker for a bit, and we need more of that now.
I read between the lines, that there was a play trying to short reserve assets of the entity behind tether or something.
Just to take computing as an example analogy: the problem is that some physical limits are close at hand, like the heat dissipation possible per square or cubic centimeter, which constrains processor improvements more today than say, 30 years ago, and some limits are far away, like the number of bits that can stored per unit of volume given the inherent quantum noise, which is an enormous number of bits in a tiny space, and we are nowhere near close to this limit. So we can reasonably assume a long growth trajectory for storage density but a short and slow growth trajectory in compute.

Malthus wasn't really wrong, we just pushed back the boundaries farther than what he imagined. For example, there was a lot more farmland available than he thought or calculated; we grew up to and past that. We also increased yields per acre roughly 4x in the 20th century. There's no realistic 4x happening for that again; in fact, soil quality has been depleted to the point that yields are flat or even falling. (plus climate change supercharges weather patterns and lots of crops are lost). Though his words were clunky, he was basically saying that exponential growth will outstrip polynomial growth in the end. And that's inescapable.

Some resources on Earth are in tight supply, like helium and lithium, and others are super abundant, like uranium and water (though fresh water is tight!). But they are all limited and eventually the "ideas" we keep coming up to utilize them better will be no substitute.
> Census data is wildly inaccurate

What's your source for this claim?

As far as I could find for people who aren’t counted by either census workers or themselves like you mentioned, the Census Bureau tries to get their information through other methods.

This can be proxies, like other people who live in the neighborhood, other government data sets like social security records and postal service data, or through "imputation" which leverages statistical modeling based on the data they do know.

All of the sources I can find suggest that the census is extremely accurate at the large city level, and only obfuscated at lower levels because of the data privacy protections they've put into place.
Finally a way to restrict the library of babel to (seemingly) meaningful books!
>> One weird trick: try not to appear American.

That would mean losing a hundred pounds. Easier said than done.
So you would have to assume that investments would be worthless in a non inflationary state which is a big stretch of the imagination. You think there were no tech revolutions and investments going on while everyone was at the gold standard?
I heard about that recently, I can't imagine how that works.
"might" is kind of a weasel word. And don't forget Zulip exists.
Yes. Launch you must. There is never a perfect time to launch. Rome was not built in a day :)
https://archive.ph/BWJzQ
Lots of really lame arguments strung together, not saying much. Of course it's abstract. So is fiat currency since it left the gold standard behind.

He's right about a lot of stuff, but it doesn't add up to the level of confidence he has that this technology is useless forever.
great comment. thing i’d add for folks who want to play with this, follow this setup exactly and turn every rule on but don’t perform any blocking. then review the logs and dial back unnecessary rules. very “fun” exercise in a lab for a student xD
Paper is the Root of Trust for Silicon.
On the Proper Use of Post-Its
Catalogs and Context
Great Wall Motors Is Launching a Hydrogen-Only, Luxury Brand
Maybe they're just all /really/ smart?

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actually as an addendum to this (don't want to hide dumb statements). I realize my problem is not the high proportion of high grades, or the high average GPA, however you look at it.

If you have a group of student who for various reasons are very capable - there's lots of nonsense with Ivy's, but they do have entry grade filtering - you should expect more of them to get higher grades. The problem is, I don't think there's alternate evidence that each year is inherently more capable than the prior year. Assuming same entry restrictions, and so presumable capability, you should expect on the whole the average GPA to hover at a consistent level, sometimes going a little up, sometimes a little down, but generally hovering around the same place.

In that situation it would still be completely possible for one school to have a significantly higher average GPA than a /different/ school. The idea of grade is to measure capability, and for the sake of argument lets pretend every university/college used the same end of year tests for math, physics, law, whathaveyou. In such a case if you compared the average GPA from two schools where one was a community college in a remote rural america, and the other was something like MIT, an Ivy, ICs, etc you would absolutely expect a significant gap in those averages.

So the problem isn't what the average is, its that the average is moving in a consistent direction year after year, and that is an indication of grade inflation.

Growing up in NZ the national standardized tests, and university courses, had this concept called "scaling". The goal of scaling was to recognize than from year to year there may simply be unintentional variations in assessment difficulty. So what happened is at the end of a year/course, the average % score of the students is calculated, and compared to the prior, if the difference is significant every % grade is essentially scaled by some factor of the difference. That has the effect of pulling this years average grade closer to prior years, and ideally compensating for assessment variation.
Because the first is a function returning function, and you have to think how that works, and the second one is just a simple function that returns a sum.

Also, if you start a function with a word 'const' then it is less obvious that this is a function and not just a constant. In contrast, if you use a word 'function', then you understand what it is from the first word.
It is indeed interactive. You can pause the animation, rotate, zoom and proceed step by step. Well worth the price and disk space.
Some C compiler have a language extension to help with cleanup to help with memory and resource leaks. It lets you do RAII-type resource management that is popular in languages like C++ but the C version is way uglier.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resource_acquisition_is_initia...
LoL. Where does he donate hundred billions to can create something like Amazon? The federal government spend 10billions every day.
Paste keywords from posts into your resume and make them white on your resume's white background. Doesn't work on all screener, but will make it past some, getting your resume in front of a human.
On the 400 block of Arlington street, there are several large Victorian homes that have been empty for several years. There needs to be a tax on empty homes and a tax on people owning second homes that are empty.
Big +1 to all of that! Congrats on your gig - the launch day is always so much fun. I have a journal entry in Day One that reminded me that today was one year ago when it launched. I had screenshots of all the emails that came in for each sale, I couldn’t believe it at the time.
> The reason NFL wages are so high is...

...because they formed unions.
>Negative seigniorage is still seigniorage and many such papers treat it as such

Notice how you qualify your statement as many such papers treat it as such.

Yes, you can find some people, articles that refer to a loss as seniorage, but that’s a misuse and inconsistent with the actual definition. That’s also why when they do use the term improperly they typically add “negative”, specifically because the definition of Seniorage refers specifically to revenue/profit from printing money.
This is definitely a well organized list with helpful packages. For those interested in Nim, I'd recommend giving a go to https://www.libhunt.com/l/nim as well. (disclosure - I work on LibHunt)
Do it at any place that lets you borrow the coin. I’m not especially familiar with the offerings in the market, but I know Binance will let you borrow one coin and stake a different coin as collateral.

Borrow the coin you want to short, then sell it, and you now have a short position on that coin.
Why are you using the fft? I'd be cheaper to use a Goertzel filter. You can check one of the branches of the minimodem to see how they work
If the length of your working end is really long, it's easier to tie a farrimond hitch. I used to use the tautline hitch for tying tarps over my hammock, but sometimes I would have a lot of line left over after wrapping it around a tree and passing the end through the loop of the tautline hitch was annoying.
And especially given its income and tax levels... there's no excuse for SF to be so chaotic and disheveled. It's like having the income and taxes of Switzerland but living conditions of a third world country.
> I've seen it work, but only in very small teams

i have the same intuition

i think its once managers, pdms, other peer teams (android/ios/backend together) and scrum masters start getting involved, it starts to get convoluted... estimations take too much time, ceremonies start to fossilize, plans become too rigid, and retros are too general...

on the other hand, a team of 2 or 3 people talking about what to do for the next 2 weeks, going over blockers/issues once a day (or so) doesn't seem too bad

idk just my experience
In what city ?