skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Could be about half of Americans could use therapy

I'd say that's a conservative estimate! Most people go for dental work etc., why ignore the mind in your health support regime?
Mind linking the VictoriaMetrics benchmark? I found a couple of medium.com articles but not the benchmark itself but it sounds like a good read.
I've reviewed pitch decks and talked to founders of at least half a dozen companies aiming to provide pooling of workers with elastic hours across employers.

Including for hospitality, which has extremely high rates of attrition, and so while you can't just pull a random person off the street you can often pull a random person with experience from the same or similar chain from a database if you need urgent cover.

Reason I think at least some of those types of companies will make it is that I used to work on CRMs for hospitality, and saw the amount of staff moving back and forth between venues and different companies on our client list.

It won't replace middle management, but it may well reduce the numbers in larger chains.
> Wouldn't it be great to see more defense spending introspection and honesty.

This would be darkly amusing at the moment. Funding hardware to beat Russia isn’t as hard as it used to be.
> But it's not a case of one of us being right and the other wrong, it's just that some people are more extrovert, and some are more introvert, and we simply don't enjoy the same things.

I don't think the separation is across the intro/extra-version line. I'm an introvert and I strongly prefer the office over remote.
I learned yesterday from a local-language article on this news, that the Pillars don't actually exist anymore, for a long time already. We'll gawk at them for several hundred years still, before we see a supernova wipe them away. Supposedly this was discovered with the Spitzer telescope somehow—I'll need to find sources in English, but at least the local publication is not on the grade of Daily Mail.

Edit: sounds like this bit, and the journalists' info is then outdated:

> Evidence from the Spitzer Space Telescope originally suggested that the pillars in M16 may be threatened by a "past supernova". Hot gas observed by Spitzer in 2007 suggested they were already – likely – being disturbed by a supernova that exploded 8,000 to 9,000 years ago. Due to the distance the main blast of light would have reached Earth for a brief time 1,000 to 2,000 years ago. A more slowly moving, theorized, shock wave would have taken a few thousand years to move through the nebula and would have blown away the delicate pillars. However, in 2014 the pillars were imaged a second time by Hubble, in both visible light and infrared light. The images being 20 years later provided a new, detailed account of the rate of evaporation occurring within the pillars. No supernova is evidenced within them, and it is estimated in some form they still exist – and will appear for at least 100,000 more years. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eagle_Nebula)

A somewhat different account is in the article for the Pillars themselves, with more external sources:

> Images taken with the Spitzer Space Telescope uncovered a cloud of hot dust in the vicinity of the Pillars of Creation that Nicolas Flagey accounted to be a shock wave produced by a supernova. The appearance of the cloud suggests the supernova shockwave would have destroyed the Pillars of Creation 6,000 years ago. Given the distance of roughly 7,000 light-years to the Pillars of Creation, this would mean that they have actually already been destroyed, but because light travels at a finite speed, this destruction should be visible from Earth in about 1,000 years. However, this interpretation of the hot dust has been disputed by an astronomer uninvolved in the Spitzer observations, who argues that a supernova should have resulted in stronger radio and x-ray radiation than has been observed, and that winds from massive stars could instead have heated the dust. If this is the case, the Pillars of Creation will undergo a more gradual erosion. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pillars_of_Creation#Theorized_...)

TBH these mechanics are confusing to me, because one of them says the wave will reach the Pillars in a thousand years (from our viewpoint), whereas the other claims that since we don't see the disturbance now, it's all fine and dandy. Coincidentally, no sources are supplied for the latter view.
For anyone who likes academic drama (or who is interested in the underlying methodological disagreements among academic statisticians), it is worth pointing out that Jager and Leek's 2014 paper was a discussion paper, and that Ionnidas was one of the people invited to write a response to be published alongside with the original paper. He did (https://doi.org/10.1093/biostatistics/kxt036) and the response is extremely critical of Jaeger and Leeks' methodology and his contempt for the authors is not hard to read between the lines.
Because it’s incredibly difficult a priori to restrict only research that could lead to unethical eugenics without restricting that which could lead to ethically sound, widely beneficial eugenics or even unrelated advances.

You can (for example) ban research on things might lead to the development of novel poisons. But that ban is almost sure to prevent the development of some new cancer treatments.
It's a bit like the bit with the fake tan in Neuromancer.

"You think that looks real?"

"Nah, but it looks like you care enough to fake it."

If you care enough to move your ssh port you're probably not totally clueless at best, and at worst you're setting out bait.
If the simulation is for humans only it doesn't need to be simulated, might be just a static sky box.
> If you want to pass a struct-type around which has nullable fields, but you have already checked for non-null (like this one) you need to convert to a different struct-type, which doesn't have the nullability on its fields.

Which is exactly what IMO the author should have done. It's actually a reasonable use-case for inheritance:

#nullable enable

record SlackEvent
( int EventId
, string Content
, string? TeamId
);

record TeamSlackEvent
( int EventId
, string Content
, string TeamId
)
: SlackEvent
( EventId : EventId
, Content : Content
, TeamId : TeamId
);
“ Despite being referred to as a "war" there were no casualties on either side, aside from the pig.”
The transcript with timestamps does not make for easy reading either.

Ideally, there'd be a simple text only version if the intention is for people to read as opposed to be an index for the video.

Would be interesting to see reading engagement with that change.
that is reason many older developer tend to do everything biz logic etc all in db store procedure/functions/view, etc. The cost of getting the data is native, no connection pooling needed, and with V8/python integration in the PG, it is non trivial what language you use. If you are dealing with large amount of data in a db, why not just do everything there. DB like sql has cursor, merge, that makes manipulating large set of data much easier than moving it on to another language environment.
How is this even remotely comparable? Mengele "experimented" on living people, inflicting truly horrendous amounts of pain and suffering on his patients, it doesn't compare even slightly to what we're talking about here.
Just speaking as a student of Arendt, the most dangerous thing in the world is a rich country with suddenly unemployed middle managers. There's a straight up reason we keep those sociopaths busy.
I code on Linux, and I run Mac on my desktop.

For media playback, safe web browsing, and writing documents, I use the Mac.

For a sane coding environment and a workstation without non-consensual changes, I use the Linux VM. (Bonus: easy snapshots, including RAM state.)

Currently using a 7-year-old Mac and it's reasonably performant for my purposes.

The best of both worlds, IMO.

For distros, I recommend you spend a couple of hours trying several different ones (and several different VMs) until you find one which you like. Again, I avoid anything with a history of non-consensual changes, so Gnome and KDE are out, but there are plenty of other choices. Inside a VM, of course, lighter is better.
> Mailchimp, Constant Contact and their ilk are truly a scourge upon our inboxes. You know they're truly terrible companies because if they ever provided a global opt-out of all their email lists from all their clients, they'd go out of business.

I don't think the majority of internet users supports that view. I know many people who are subscribed to countless newsletters but don't want to unsubscribe, even if it's very easy. They like receiving offers from companies they bought from years ago. That's also why newsletters work so well for many companies.

So while many people here might dislike any email they didn't ask for, that's not necessarily the view of internet users as a whole.
Demodesk is hiring a product engineer in EU time zones
So the solution is to HTML the list and link it from the webpage?

> why such a fuss

Mockery isn't a fuss. And why? Because we can all picture having to deal with just this sort of idiot and their pet rule.
Congratulations on the release! What're your long term plans for the tool? What are you planning on building next?
"Murder" itself contains a moral judgment and is actually banned.

Some forms of eugenics are routinely practised in the West already. For example, pretty much every IVF clinic out there will recommend patients to scrap embryos that are proven to be aneuploid. (So either not viable, or, in some cases, viable but with Down syndrome.) This is accepted everywhere I know and is considered a part of your reproductive rights.

How is this not "good eugenics"? How would you frame it as unethical?
I have the feeling that for me it's the exact opposite. Born end of June, cutoff is the June the 30th, but my parents insisted to to let me start a year later. This lead to me being up to a year older than anyone else. School stuff was always too easy for me (I might be also a bit smarter than the mean, but who knows?), so I never needed to really work for school and when the topics came where rote memorization and repetition helps I always fell a bit back. To this day I never really memorized the multiplication tables for example. Ask me what 7*8 is and I have to do math in my head. And this is only the most basic example.

Because I never really pushed training the
binomial formulas I later run out of time when I had to solve more complex formulas where having those ingrained helps "finding the shortcuts" instead of "brute force".

We have a saying, that I "never learned how to learn".
But it may also be that I suffer from undiagnosed ADHD (on top of that).
please just run postgresql in EC2, there are many presentation why that is preferred over RDS.
"I don't know WHAT you're talking about, meatbag, I just wanna kill all humans." - Bender
Arch and Manjaro?
I wonder how many of them are in use for people beyond its creators/contributors, and in case of having actual users and customers, who are those (not theoretical profiles, but existing ones).

This is an actual question, if someone has an answer I will gladly like to learn more about it.
How is this not begging the question? "The universe is the universe" is not a satisying answer to, well, any question really.
also, play a castling on the board to protect the king|ceo (in German we actually use the word 'rochade'=castling commonly for lateral movements in management and politics)
Thankfully, Cloudflare's come about with basically free egress. They're just kind of a weird shape because the cloud services they offer are of a different shape than usual.
If someone can design a company structure where you decouple your employees from their superiors entirely, it'll be inhuman but I bet there will be people who will try. The AI hype is just so strong.
I think the anti-fascist agenda is consent.

Consensual changes to the system, consensual package installation, consensual inclusion of various system pieces, etc.
> By blocking intelligence research in the US, the US is basically ceding the ground to those competing countries on ideological grounds. As a result, they will get ahead and possibly discover new facts.

Couldn't the same be said about the OG Nazis? All of their medical "experiments" on prisoners of concentration camps [1] were unethical, there wasn't even anything of note found out because they were either shit at documenting "experiments" or the "experiments" were just the personal dreams of sadistic "doctors".

There are lines we damn well shouldn't cross, and where it is worth we should sanction violators. We are supposed to have learned from "historical Western traumas and sensibilities", because if not then all the suffering would have been in vain.

[1] https://www.spiegel.de/geschichte/ns-aerzte-experimente-an-k...
A similar phenomenon happens with various Western speakers in Japan: https://www.tofugu.com/japanese/aizuchi-japanese-listening/

It's a bit different as "aizuchi" is merely signaling that you're being listened to, rather than an actual switching of speakers. "Enthusiastic listening" is how I've heard it described, and it can be a distraction if you're not used to it.
Download a blocking list on each start >:(

That shows the discrepancy between linear program execution model (on the classic desktop) and the quasi permanently running model of modern apps.
Maybe the site should identify these rowdy browsers and give them a kick.
There are two sides to any coin.

Similarly put your self in the position of someone who is more attuned to a 'wait' mode who just had a conversation with you.

Only from your description above, they might walk away from it feeling you did not listen very well, rather one-sidedly just wanted to be listened to, and took the conversation all over the place.

In the end they might also walk away thinking how boring and wasteful of time and energy it had been
Depending on your definition of `Computer Science', [2] is already the link you're looking for. Church, Turing, von Neumann, McCarthy, Shannon and many other founding fathers of Computer Science are there. In fact, from your link, I believe the only people mentioned who are not in the Mathematics Genealogy Project are Lovelace and Boole, and that's because the PhD system didn't really exist in England at the time, so a specifically Computer Science based database wouldn't help with that.
I am endlessly fascinated by the effect your birth month may have on you. It begins with trivial things: if you are born in summer, then by the time you are 6 months old and have developed a vague awareness of your world, "going out" means adding uncomfortably many layers of clothing and being tossed into a cold and harsh environment. Whereas if you are born in winter, your first real playtime outside is a warm and wonderful experience, with flowers and butterflies and soft grass.

But the effect on your personality may go beyond this [0]:

> The season in which babies are born can have a dramatic effect on their future risk relating to the development of conditions such as neurological disorders, including seasonal affective disorder, bipolar depression, schizophrenia and type I diabetes. Research has shown that the season a baby is born in can have a major effect on whether or not they will become a heavy smoker.

> The risk of suicide increases by 17% for people born in the spring–early summer compared with those born in the autumn–early winter

Our daughter sleeps better and longer in winter, because it gets dark early - so her birth month correlates with the amount of sleep she got in certain stages of development during the last years.

In past ages, the birth month also directly influenced how much (and what kind of) food was available in certain stages of development.

This may sound esoteric, but I really think there is some deep truth in attributing personality traits to astrological signs.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Influence_of_seasonal_birth_in...
When I was reading about Internet censorship in Iran and what they have done in recent years, it made me think of WhatsApp.

They have blocked most of the popular messaging platforms including Telegram long time ago but for some reason they have not blocked WhatsApp.

Since the current round of protests in Iran started in mid-September, they also blocked WhatsApp, but only because they don't want people organizing, discussing and sharing in groups. Basically everything is blocked now and this new development is most likely a temporary thing until they can handle the protests.

But isn't the fact that they haven't blocked WhatsApp in these years suspicious? Maybe they have access to NSO's Pegasus spyware or something similar. I don't think NSO would sell it to Iran considering NSO is an Israeli company, but they could still do it by using a middleman and not letting NSO know who the real customer is. Or maybe they developed a similar tool themselves because they have the motivation and the money to buy the information even if they are not capable to find it themselves.
Because drama wasn't took care of in online communities before Fandom? Also, copyright claims do not change if you host in a walled garden.
Limited scope. Apple does a few things, Google a few more. Neither can imprison me or bar me from half of society in quite the same way as the government does.

If Apple goes all out on me, it sucks. If the government does, it's deadly.
Apologies! I was trying not to come across as starting a flamewar but looking back it does appear it was.
Well, a firearm is a practical thing: it’s a weapon you hold in your arms and potentially use to kill people.

I think the Lesenkoism analogy is more appropriate here: our best science demonstrates, at the most, that our strongest attempts to genetically influence general intelligence have weak effects, if any. So it’s not so much latent danger (the way rejecting firearms would have stopped much of Western history) as it is poor science that produces limited value relative to its financial and civic costs.
it was calculated how many lives were saved thanks to vaccines, wearing masks, social distancing, lockdowns etc. just because some people with different sets of values don't believe those numbers doesn't mean they aren't true...

"We estimate that across these 6 countries, interventions prevented or delayed on the order of 61 million confirmed cases, corresponding to averting approximately 495 million total infections."

"COVID-19 vaccination has substantially altered the course of the pandemic, saving tens of millions of lives globally. However, inadequate access to vaccines in low-income countries has limited the impact in these settings, reinforcing the need for global vaccine equity and coverage."
Please tell me, that this tweet is a joke or a fake.
I never understood the argument that genetic engineering must be bad because someone once practiced it in a evil way.

It's tantamount to claiming we shouldn't do brain surgery because someone once practiced it by drilling holes in people's heads to remove demons.
250 years is a long, long time in tech and science. 250 years ago, Watt was just coming up with the first efficient steam engine.

You can actually already edit genome of living things today, using tools such as CRISPR. Granted, they are still rather primitive, but they are getting better.

I am almost positive that by 2070, genetic engineering will be as ubiquitous as semiconductors are today.
Because degrading prison as a deterrent works so well, as evidenced in the low crime numbers of the US, as compared to rampant crime in Europe, where prison is much more human-rights-compliant.
This idea has been proposed multiple times before but, from what I remember (and I’m paraphrasing here) we’re identifying it as a disorder not because it’s a disease per se but because it affects the lives of those people and in general has been deteriorating ever since humans changed their lifestyles from hunters to farmers.

I think this video talked about this concept in more depth https://youtu.be/QUjYy4Ksy1E
You’re describing an interest bearing loan. This is more like being able to withdraw money that you already earned, you just don’t have it because it’s not the 25th of the month yet.

Floatpays in the latest YC batch is one of these.
> It’s factory education, and if you’re not a widget of the right shape it cuts you up.

That's a fitting description that matches a factoid I read about mandatory education early days: the goal was to have workers who could read and count to operate industrial machinery.
FreeBSD comes to Amazon's lightweight hypervisor
Efficiency is very important when your energy is costly. But other attributes like reliability, safety, environmental benignity, "fit" in the overall energy system, and aesthetics start to take precedence over energy efficiency at some point.

The way things are trending with PV, efficiency may recede in importance in a couple of decades. Currently electricity costs tens of dollars per MWh. With developments in manufacturing and install protocols, and tech emerging from the lab, and using DC directly from PV panels, that cost may fall to $0.1 per MWh. Using that to manufacture your ammonia means you won't worry so much about pure efficiency

I still prefer methane over ammonia. Much less toxic when things go wrong.
Of course.

Perhaps it is wrong to talk about middle management being replaced by AI. It seems that AI as of now is not very inventive. It is a clever mash-up of things that were already done by humans. But most employees just do that. They learn from others in school, college or on the job how to do things in their profession and then employ what they have learned. If they use a computer to execute then actually nothing stops them from being replaced by the computer itself.
The context is matching the eugenics research that China is known to have done, which includes human subject research. There was a pretty infamous example of embryo modification, IIRC, a couple of years ago.
Looking back at this episode - after we figure this out - will be similar to looking back at the period before the discovery of general relativity.
Right now, we're really quite clueless.
for now I'd checkout T0 or bloom, lots of models can be instructed already.

I created https://text-generator.io and have a whole bunch of examples on there of instruction following style prompts
No, a file with a single line: “11) You should not download the list by every start”
is enough
I loved how he nuked the image by entering wrong code. Having a live system is awesome, but in instances like this, we should start thinking about Kay’s notion of “computers all the way down”, i.e. virtualization. So no matter how much corruption you do to a system, it should be still able to fully restore its functions without a reboot.
For anyone who wants to get really into the weeds, here are all the articles in the sequence of discussion papers:

Main Paper (Jager and Leek): ttps://doi.org/10.1093/biostatistics/kxt007

Response papers:

- Yoav Benjamini and Yotam Hechtlinger: https://doi.org/10.1093/biostatistics/kxt032

- David R. Cox: https://doi.org/10.1093/biostatistics/kxt033

- Andrew Gelman and Keith O'Rourke: https://doi.org/10.1093/biostatistics/kxt034

- Steven N. Goodman: https://doi.org/10.1093/biostatistics/kxt035

- John P. A. Ioannidis (the spicy response): https://doi.org/10.1093/biostatistics/kxt036

- Martijn J. Schuemie, Patrick B. Ryan, Marc A. Suchard, Zach Shahn, and David Madigan: https://doi.org/10.1093/biostatistics/kxt037

Jaeger and Leeks' rejoinder to the responses: https://doi.org/10.1093/biostatistics/kxt038

edit: fixed some formatting and link to main paper
woah those shares are very high, thanks for digging it up.