skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Higher incarceration rates don't seem to affect Hispanics.

Among adult men (20 years and older) in the largest race and ethnicity groups (White, Black, Asian and Hispanic), Hispanics were more likely to engage in labor force activity than were the other groups, with a participation rate of 79.1 percent, and Blacks were the least likely, with a rate of 65.6 percent. The labor force participation rate for Asian adult men (74.0 percent) was higher than the rate for White adult men (70.3 percent)
PBS spacetime is a fantastic series, highly recommended. At least for me it’s at the right technical level, that is to say just a tad above amateur.
Technically, the keys are in the processor's state. You are just trusting that it won't divulge the keys without a correct PIN. You are also trusting the processor is properly secured. And you are trusting that no one would go through the effort to extract the keys physically with scanning probe microscopy or something.
Sample size of 1 HN member. Seems skewed.

The paper is purely theoretical and not based on any empirical data. So wild claims and exploratory discussion are par for the course.
Globalization in its recent form has been all about exploiting labor cost differences.

Can that continue forever?

I'm not sure that will come back in the same way because I think there will be a lot of pressure from both sides:

* the most advanced countries have seen how quickly that edge can be lost if you outsource to this extent, which could lead to more proprietariness and a desire to enlarge gaps in absolute lifestyle instead of short-term cost-minimization; especially if armed conflict stays hotter than it was in the 90s

* on the other hand, if closing labor cost and standard of living gaps continue in the future, globalization makes less sense because paying the logistics penalties and shipping costs in a world with more-or-less equivalent labor costs everywhere becomes stupid - sooner or later you run out of cheaper places to outsource too. Both knowledge work and "real-world" production benefit from short turnaround times and easy communication, so barriers based on specialization alone seem very hard to maintain in that world, especially across countries where IP restrictions often aren't enforced that strictly. Outside of raw materials, what do you need from halfway across the globe that none of the millions of people within a few hundred miles couldn't figure out how to do or copy?
I have the advantage of knowing a few bright people in relevant fields.

Another point of interest is that our specific universe formed in a manner that left a "chaotic" biased imprint of early intial turbulence imprtinted across our sky in the Cosmic Microwave Background clumping.

While the variations are tiny deviations from uniformity they do exist and are thought to be random quantum fluctuations that expanded to a much larger size during inflation.

There is further conjecture about how these early random forces went on to seed the distribution and pattern of stars and galaxies.

In other words, the tiniest roll of dice during the seeding moments appear to have held sway over the form of entire galaxies.
My bet is they shift to Mexico, at least for some products.
Also, if anything is cheap to fly across the world, I'd say it's a chip?
Yeah, from that link:

"The long-term erosion rates are also one to four orders of magnitude lower than the assumed 1 mm yr soil loss tolerance value assigned to these locations by the U.S. Department of Agriculture."

So this paper shows the erosion is actually slower (better!) than we expected.
If she is out in 2-3 years then your estimate will still be right.
Just keep in mind that your VPN/SSH provider now has the same visibility your ISP did.
Wow. I can't believe I wasted my time arguing with someone so willfully confused.
During the Dust Bowl, a lot of the soil blew away into the Atlantic Ocean off New England. Not sure how they knew that but I’ve come across this a number of times. Absent organic matter, the soil becomes dust and literally blows away.
The context to my post are the reliability issues that def. can be instrumented and fixed.

Business and pricing model not so much unless the engineer is willing to add the Sales prefix to their engineer role ;)

But even the pricing model - measure and compare the costs, competitors, and value derived (ok, commodity now vs 5yrs ago) and work with people pitching prices.

That’s still designing, analyzing, measuring systems - prices instead of code - definition of engineering.
If globalization is inevitable why has the previous state of the world never globalized? Why have the parts that formed trading blocks previously eventually failed and collapsed rather than making a global world? If globalization was truly inevitable I would have expected to see it in the history by now.
I'd like to see globalization for everything non-essential.

I'd like food, medicine, weapons, and everything needed to keep those industry running at a basic level as close as possible.
Typesetting is in fact quite difficult, and avoiding orphans and splits is one of the harder things. See https://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/abcde.html
Security is not free. who is under-writing global maritime security and what do they get in return.. that is the bigger question.
I think they're fine, albeit with a PFD and paddling with a group. Personally, I own a Sea Eagle inflatable. It's allowed me to kayak in many amazing places with little setup. Stores nicely. I highly recommend one.

https://www.seaeagle.com/

Also note every single image each passenger is wearing a PFD.
Got it, thank you. Unfortunately I'm not in a position to do a clean install at this moment without some interruption to my work, but I'll try that later if I need to.
As I said I'm not a programmer and I'm only familiar with GN so take anything I say with a grain of salt but: Google/YouTube is telling me that VEX is an expression language. We don't have that in GN yet. No scripting of any kind, actually. Everything is done visually, on the nodes themselves, there's no "properties" window for nodes where you do the actual work, everything's sockets and noodles. Shape and color of the sockets tell you the data type (geometry, float, vector...). Scripting support is a common request, but devs usually respond with "it'll come but we need to nail the fundamentals first". It's still a very young system.

There's no Python (like the add-ons), all nodes are C/C++.

I looked into what "variables" are, it says stuff like "position", "current animation frame" etc. Those would be called "input fields" in GN. In addition to default attributes like position, normal, rotation etc you can also capture, store and recall custom attributes, either anonymously or as named ones (always written on geometry in a particular domain--point, edge, face corner etc).

Taking a look at an Entagma video on GN would be much more helpful I'm sure (they also have a course).
Efficiencies like moving kilotons of mass across the Pacific every day to save a few bucks?
Nah, it's not that expensive plus the redundancy has paid for itself I could switch to the home isp but with double tunnel (work vpn = slooow but usable).
It's Google's servers. I imagine every content hosting company has a heuristics based approach to detecting CSAM. Google has a habit of tuning moderation algorithms for false positives rather than missed positives.

Not having a human in the loop is terrible and a problem frequently when it comes to getting support from Google companies. That's a separate issue from Google or Dropbox being able to scan unencrypted files for CSAM. Google's policy of automating as much as it can has tons of downsides. But it's understandable when you look at the scale Google functions.

It's important to separate the policy of scanning from Google's terrible appeal process and the algorithm false positives.

I would feel differently if the story was that Android scanned an outgoing SMS or a photo saved locally. I am not sure where the balance point is to identify and report CSAM while also respecting user's rights to privacy.
If it turns out it was faked what are the possible consequences for Robert DePalma?

It'd be nice to think that something like this would ruin your career and you'd never be able to work in your field again, but realistically does anything happen to people who are caught falsifying data?
Apple ships components from all over the world to China for assembly already. This would just be one more.
> they just ate every other 3rd party "secure" backup services lunch...

Really? Isn't this the same Apple that told the FBI that they could get access to a suspect's data from their iCloud account. And the same Apple that was part of the US government's PRISM program to sell user data to the NSA? What makes you think people happy with competing services will jump to them blindly?

> They're not Goodle/FB/Amazon.

They are exactly like them. All of them claimed they care about user privacy, before massively collecting the private data of their users and then exploiting it.

> ... reliable, secure, private service ...

Reliable, sure. "Secure" is debatable when the keys are stored on the iDevices that only Apple can access any time. "Private" is laughable when every Apple product now comes with a disclaimer / popup permission informing that they will use your data to enhance personalised ads served to you by their ad platform.
If a person has to study leetcode for months, then either the person:

1. doesn't know much of anything about programming, and should consider taking programming courses

2. is just not cut out to be a high level programmer, and should consider a career path more suited to their abilities
>The theory treated sex as a valued good for which there is a marketplace in which women act as sellers and men as buyers. The initiation of a sexual relationship corresponds to a transaction in which men offer women other resources in exchange for sex. Those resources correspond to the price of sex [...]

>The analysis of sexual interactions as social exchange, with sex itself as a female resource, appears capable of supporting a broad range of testable predictions. It is also a potentially useful link between nature and culture
geolocking is not a globalization problem, it's a solution to globalization. It's not different from DVD region locking.
Of course you can use Java with an editor like Vim or Emacs for simple projects but I would advise to use an IDE like IntelliJ IDEA for bigger projects, e.g. for its support for refactoring. As a statically typed language the benefit of an IDE will be much better than for Python or JavaScript. The same is true for Rust. An IDE helped me to get much more productive because it can show the inferred types without invoking the compiler all the times.
The interview will be very short once you've gone through your questions, that's all.
For your 5-15 minute question, I don't know the nature of it, but why don't you just move on with reference to time? I'm sure you have a lot of other questions you should ask. It is on the interviewer to be the timekeeper of the interview.
Ancient Egypt relied on the Nile flooding the land. Now with the dams the flopding has stopped but they are also having trouble with the soil.
> I want to write a novel.

> Write 250 words every day.

what about keeping a journal or diary? i tried the "write x words every day" and it didn't work for me. it led me to uninspired writing and a mini burnout. keeping a diary and jotting down whatever important happened. or whatever i have noticed or learned during the day, was easier.
They still need a credit card or other KYC payment. Can't use paid iCloud.
Zeihan has been prescient for a while but is rarely quoted in anything mainstream, which makes me feel like I’m missing something about him.
Closer to scanning your vehicle for meth on the way to the freeway. Rather fraught analog either way perhaps.
Once again Africa draws the short straw.
It seems like they are willing to fight such requests:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FBI%E2%80%93Apple_encryption_d...
Of course you are correct, Apple is not giving that storage away.

They do make a family plan for Apple Plus ($30/month) fairly compelling: 2TB per family member, Apple TV both has some good original content as well as serving as a quick index into most other stream services, the Arcade Games are fun enough, Fitness+ is something I use about 90 minutes a week, and Apple Music. That is a lot of “stuff.”

Then there are some things that Apple gives away for free. Their podcast app is free and lets you subscribe to a lot of interesting stuff that I might otherwise subscribe to Spotify for. Handoff saves me about 5 minutes a day. Anyway, I don’t much like the walled garden aspect of Apple, but for value and convenience they must be difficult to compete against.
We really are repeating the early 1900s
> If you, say, use python, you better triple check that no dict is getting mutated under the hood when you pass it into a function, etc.

That's a bug in your code, not in Python.

The Julia correctness issues are things like basic math functions, called in simple normal ways, returning wrong numbers.
https://www.iata.org/en/youandiata/travelers/health/low-risk...
Thanks. Do you think the Nibbler would be compatible with Ben Eater's 555-based clock? I think it would be instructive to run it at slow speeds and use LEDs to see how the signals propagate.

What would you say was the hardest part of building the computer? How many breadboards did you end up using?
> The first social media platform, called SixDegrees

IIRC, iam.bmezine was in 1994. Granted, it was a lot more esoteric/niche because you either had to pay or submit an image of a body modification to their gallery.
> Globalization in its recent form has been all about exploiting labor cost differences.

What is the alternative? Richer countries voluntarily transferring wealth to poorer countries? Richer countries hoarding wealth because it is not politically popular to transfer wealth to poorer countries?

Can also replace countries with tribes of any size delineated by any given arbitrary characteristic(s).
>How does a grad student hold the lease to a famed fossil site? There is more to this story.

He likely bought it before it was famed. Southwest ND is almost all badlands and thus very cheap. Like under a thousand dollars per acre cheap.
This is why I gave up on Java years ago. There seemed to be a lot of cruft left in the language and libraries that you were just supposed to know to not use anymore. I guess for backwards compatibility, but as a learner it's rather frustrating.

Has that gotten better recently? It's been years since I've toyed with it.
IMO none of this is really operating on a high level of abstraction. We can observe black holes, we can observe that they attract light and matter, etc etc.

That said - I agree w/ the point about whether or not these questions even make sense to ask when we (collectively) ultimately know so little. This is why I wanted to ask it in a public forum in the first place - to test my understanding and to see if there are others I can learn from who might have a more advanced understanding. These aren't exactly questions that people will leap to answer in the office or in daily conversation. That's why I wanted to bring it here, where I feel people are generally more thoughtful and insightful concerning existential topics.

I've appreciated a lot of the links to other resources, and pushback on some of the assertions. They have been and are helpful!
So you’re comparing someone who has encouraged young women to kill themselves to someone who users eMacs? I think you need to reevaluate your life.
identical twin too - my brother and I were accused of cheating on standardized test once in elementary school because our answers were so similar. Got called into the Principal's office. Fortunately, we were sitting far enough apart that there was no way we could have cheated.
Certainly with my brother and me, our answers to any kind of test at that age were highly correlated, just from having had similar (or the same) teachers and having similar aptitude.
The usual instant knee-jerk downvote I see. I wonder what it is in what I wrote that you object to?
Basically, it is eroding a miniscule amount, and re-forming at a smaller miniscule amount. All of which well under the max 1mm/year.
Actually yes: container ships are extremely efficient modes of transportation. As are trains. The most carbon-intensive parts of logistics are often the first and last segment when goods are transported via roads.

Container ships produce a lot of emissions, but they also move a lot of cargo. On a CO2 per kilogram per mile basis, containers ships vastly beat out automobiles.
Elon Musk turns Twitter into 'hotel' for staff
Isn't it absolutely amazing that VCs are willing to pay you 4 months worth of income to do absolutely nothing?
So many memories! But how many of you are a god of twenty-first century computer science? https://www.geocities.ws/robrich18/Larry.html
Is the cost of switching that high? People at the phone store do 'data transfers' already (seemingly just texts, pictures/videos, and contacts), and, hilariously, the transfer to Android is a lot better than the 'move to iOS' app that has terrible reviews[0]. I bet most of the time being spent on switching will be on reinstalling all your apps and logging back into them.

0: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.apple.move...
Nations have clearly been trending larger over history, on average. Unless there's a good reason for this trend to stop after thousands of years, globalization will be the end result. But the process will happen organically, and slowly -- perhaps slower than some would like.
Some people like to not hand over complete sovereignty over their bodies to their state and live in freedom instead.

Oh, and the disincentivizing effect of the death penalty is a long refuted myth.
When you start with a 5-level Baudot machine as your 'terminal' -- it's pretty easy to remember that the Carriage Return key causes the, ahh, Carriage to Return, ready to over-print (if you don't do a Line Feed); or if you did a Line Feed, then you're at the beginning of a fresh, new line.

Unix using \n for carriage return + line feed was ok only because it was still possible to use \r (carriage return) to do overprinting.

And of course, the 5-level baudot machine had no lower case; but unix could output \L\O\W\E\R \C\A\S\E just fine...

And then, don't forget about trigraphs: '??(' == '[' and '??)' == ']' etc

Ahh, the joy of legacy hardware.
Amazon sued by DC Attorney General for deceiving customers who tipped drivers
I used to say that it's a bad idea to go into business with family.
https://soilsolutions.net/save-the-topsoil/

>According to this display the average depth of topsoil in the year 1850 across Iowa was 14 inches. In 1900 it had decreased to 11.5 inches. After another 50 years it had dropped to 8.5 inches and in the 50 years from 1950 to 2000 it had decreased another 3 inches to 5.5 inches. If our rate of loss has stayed steady over the last 18 years the topsoil depth should now be at 4.5 inches. If this rate continues our topsoil will be depleted by 2093.

It seems we may be aggressively depleting our topsoil like we are our petroleum resources. We could just be in the final era before the plunge for both. I hope we are using what we have left to fix the problem and find new solutions.
Even my smalltime telco in Australia uses ipv6.
That was announced at the same time, but is different from what the parent is talking about.

One program scans photos that were about to be messaged and if they look like nudity asks "are you sure you want to do that" (and also optionally notified the parents, although it looks like they aren't going through with that part). The scanning happens on device, and the results of the scanning are never sent to Apple or any other third party.

The other program scanned all images that were being uploaded to iCloud and if it found any that matched a government maintained image fingerprint database would notify Apple who would forward that information to the government. Big difference in scope and impact.
I might be wrong here (for a lack of in-depth knowledge) but isn't the full-body motion of the cubsat (for aiming) and the ARQ protocol the real development here?

I know the laser links themselves might not be new, and while it hasn't been done like this, we knew that it would be possible considering we've done a ton of variants (sat-to-sat, station-to-station, over fiber, over glass, in open air, in a vacuum), even just hitting the beacons on the moon and measuring the reflection somewhat shows that long-distance links could be done. Maybe the new-ness in the laser aspect is the small satellite and energy package compared to high-powered lasers you might expect?
During, the other author, also has an incentive to discredit DePalma so she can claim to be the sole discoverer of the asteroid timing.

Without conclusive evidence, it’s irresponsible to get out the pitchforks.
> Neither side on an internet debates actually owes you anything.

I disagree, the person trying to convince you of something always owes you an explanation.

Actual reading on something, while a good thing, never resolves an argument because you can't replace the person you are arguing with's premises with a generic premise from somewhere else and come to a reasonable conclusion.
China's GDP per capita has gone from $317 in 1990 to $12,556 last year (current USD)[1]. There are still many underpaid workers, in some places virtual slavery, and horrendous human rights abuses... but if you look at China in the 80s when there were no cars, no refrigerators, no sanitation, no indoor plumbing, let alone modern apartments or bullet trains, you can't say they haven't been banking some serious quality-of-life improvements.

1. https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.PCAP.CD?location...
I think you can make a pretty strong case for nurture here. The twins talk and hang out a lot, so they develop similar thought patterns.
Please sir, I'd like to subscribe to your newsletter.
Ya, and amazingly enough it's a written law.
kilotons of mass = economies of scale = a lot more than a few bucks
> Hate to say this but checking for correctness is your job.

Yes. But also No.

The "No" case being if you run your data through a well established program or library already known in academia to have been scrutinized to give accurate results to the 20th decimal place of precision.
Nobody can solve the halting program in general but it is certainly possible to write a program that could prove that the first program terminates, that the loop never gets entered, the same way a person could make the same logical argument that ChatGPT makes.
Speaking language agnostically… If you’re developing prod projects without an IDE, you are likely not being as productive as you could be. Can you frame a house without a framing nailer? Sure. But why? You’ll spend 30x the time and the quality won’t be as good.

I worked take a second look at IntelliJ and Eclipse; learn the keyboard shortcuts. Modern Java is incredibly well put together.
Sahara's Abrupt Desertification Started By Changes In Earth's Orbit, Accelerated By Atmospheric And Vegetation Feedbacks
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/1999/07/990712080500.h...

Via the wikipedia article on the Sahara desert. I think many deserts come and go based on climate patterns
Richer countries being self sufficient. Poorer countries being self sufficient.
they're just making small realities in order to transform text queries into novel graphic artwork, by creating billions of AIs some of which make new art, some of which create conditions for new art to be created, and a simulated space-time to give some base physical references to the ais, all of which is simulated.

Krang inputs 'teletubbies having tea with elon musk in the style of milo manara' and somewhere on deviantart someone makes it and the universe has a reason to be kept going.