skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This isn't just about China, the Shenzen example was exaggerated. What I meant was: Where I live I'm there's an insane dissonance where companies are on the one hand trying to only hire academics for jobs that they think require an academic skill, yet happily pay Hays/Accenture/$TEMP_AGENCY to procure workers for them when those academics can't be found or don't perform. They're not willing to give me a permanent job with competitive pay because of my lack of degree, but are happy to pay Hays 70-100€/h so they get me as a temp.. doing the exact same shit, pretty much in perpetuance.

In addition, Startups hire you as long as you have experience. We will see more of this in areas that don't require specific certifications.

>Russia has successfully decoupled from the entire western world.

Lol ask the Russian gov on where they plan on procuring chips after the war. Same for China. You need to be US allied to be allowed top notch silicon. In China this drives innovation at least, but Russia still hasn't been able to mass produce competitive silicon. Modern manufacturing processes are driven by automation, give it a decade and their industry will be lagging behind by a margin that's impossible to catch up.
That your thoughts are not fully under what you believe would be your direct control, and supposed absence of free will, do not strike me as particularly following from one another (at least as long as you allow that as a conscious agent you are more than just what you identify as your thoughts).
Not just western civilization, everywhere inequality is off the charts. It's particularly haunting in developing countries like in India's Mumbai I saw homeless families with small kids sleeping on the railway station floor while some dudes were racing their lambos just across the road.
There is another dynamic that helps the recommended hire succeed in the workplace environment. They initially get help navigating the workplace. This is extremely important for career development.
For e.g. If you know what to look for in a code base that might make a difference between a commit on day one versus messing around the code base for a week and trying to be really careful.
Either work. Though being rich is "only" useful when the family is willing to donate to the faculty/ university.
Full process/container isolation for many instances of untrusted code, perhaps? A serverless PaaS could use this to cut down significantly on the frequency of cold starts, all else being equal.
There are often times you want something that runs offline easily or can be distributed per-user without dealing with multi tenancy, etc.
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Malicious libraries can steal all your application secrets in Elixir
The takeaway:

"That said, the results indicate that the probability we are alone (<1) in the galaxy is significant, while the maximum number of contemporary civilizations might be as few as a thousand."

A thousand civs spread across a galaxy means there is a low probability of meeting live aliens, but does that mean xenoarchaeology could be a thing?
No need for a Hilbert curve, you can just flatten pixels the usual way (ie X = img.reshape(-1)). The main issue is that attention doesn’t scale that well, and with a 512x512 img the attended region is now 262k tokens, which is a lot. The other issue is that you’d throw away data linearizing colors (why not keep them 3-dimensional?).

The corresponding work you’re looking for is Vision Transformers (ViT) - they work well, but not as great as LLMs, I think, for generation. Also I think people like that diffusion models are comparatively small and expensive - they’d rather wait than OOM.
I am struggling to see what you are trying to say here, especially since you use somewhat arbitrary way to group people by race and sex. Can you clarify?

Is the founder white? Does he/did he live in a majority white country (you mentioned a college in Switzerland, a country which is most likely 90% white)? If so, why is that weird and why does that matter? Unless you think that "white men" are fungible, using this category makes no sense.
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I've been in the newsletter space for years. This is a really good breakdown of some creative growth tactics.
This is a reddit-level comment.
NativePHP solves the distribution problem, I’d say that’s precisely why it exists. Plus Laravel + Livewire is incredibly fun and fast to build with.
From my vantage point, if we take “as little magic as possible” to be a quality of an elegant model, then naive materialistic monism, which requires granting magical existence to really many things (you know, matter with all those atoms, neurones, etc.) and arbitrary rules for their behavior, while often denying existence to consciousness (the only thing we can directly access is an illusion type of argument), certainly doesn’t strike me as particularly elegant.

Why we assume that an elegant model has a higher chance of being correct, or is otherwise somehow better, in the first place—it seems to be pretty much implied that beauty and elegance are desirable traits of a model—is a good and on topic question, but perhaps too much for this particular thread.
Agreed! I think this is the main problem with Markdown:

> The most official reference manual for markdown is the original one written by John Gruber in 2004. It is unmaintained since that time and leaves various ambiguities, such that different parsers tend to parse input somewhat differently in detail.

Its ridiculous that it hasn't been updated, though there have been some attempts.
Because of Laravel and Livewire.
I disagree with your claim there's no free will and one's thoughts are out of one's control. I do not believe all of our actions and behaviors are determined. That's, like, just your opinion man ;)

Where determinism truly fails is at the transcendental argument level. The act of affirming determinism is self-defeating like affirming materialism: to rationally accept something as true you must have the freedom to weigh the evidence, but if determinism is true there's no true deliberation as everything is the result of prior causes, including its acceptance.

So you cannot trust your own belief system and thus your worldview is inconsistent at its core.

It also fails to account for our mental lives, given the experience we all have.
> The reason why grafting is necessary is that in most cases the trees grown from the seeds produced by a tree with big and sweet fruits may have small and sour fruits.

This. Any apples grown for consumption are from grafts. Apple trees grown from seed are wild or experimental to try to find a new graft, or to be the graft base. I was amazed when I heard that planting a Honeycrisp seed would not get you more Honeycrisps in your yard. Cloning only!
It was certainly marketed and envisioned as an international standard to have interoperability. Most external devices (mostly ROMs) could work between brands.

But remember PCS were for businesses until about the early 90s when games became more popular as the decade rolled on and PCs became affordable as well. IBM compatible was more a necessity for other brands to sell their PC as compatible for businesses, so it became a standard by popularity, not from a top to bottom decision.

People at home bought home computers roughly in the 80s.
They spent millions of dollars investigating at a bunch of beltway bandits and were only able to convict a handful for tax fraud, lying to law enforcement, etc. Note the distinct lack of any convictions for spying for Russia, or acting as a Russian agent.

Here is a list: https://www.axios.com/2019/11/15/trump-associates-convicted-...

The most serious was Manafort, and it was related to his previous work in Ukraine, before he was hired by the Trump campaign. Cohen was convicted for fraud and campaign finance violations, and then Papadopoulos, Flynn, and Gates were convicted of lying to law enforcement and got slaps on the wrist.

The Mueller investigation was a complete flop, and to top it all off they deleted their own cellphone records in potential violation of federal record keeping laws.

https://www.grassley.senate.gov/news/news-releases/doj-foia-...
I just explained why climate action is not being taken. I am not making any statement on the matter.

And I don't know what phone sanitizers are.
Anything that accesses the MFT directly will be faster than Everything, since Everything goes through the OS. That said, Everything has a superb design and indeed is extremely fast.
>Quality of life has massively degraded in absolute terms

by what metric?

>It has degraded because a huge fraction of productivity that used to be dedicated to improving the lives of average people is now dedicated to improving the lives of the extremely wealthy.

1. define "huge fraction"

2. define "productivity that used to be dedicated to improving the lives of average". I want to see statistics for it. If you're talking about government spending, US government expenditures as percent of GDP is either flat or slowly creeping up[1] in the past few decades. Medicare spending[2] has been creeping up for years and far exceeds GDP growth.

[1] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/FYONGDA188S

[2] https://www.statista.com/statistics/248073/distribution-of-m...
I am in the top 10% and live quite comfortably in a house I own, provide for two children, and have some disposable income. I would say I live a similar quality of life that my art professor father did, who was making ~$35/yr over most of his career, which was a comfortable but lower middle class income at the time.

Part of the difference may be that none of us have lived in HCOL areas.
I was really excited when I tried out the scuttlebutt protocol a few years back. Distributed, peer-to-peer, offline-enabled social networking seemed neat.

But a healthy ecosystem of clients never emerged. When I looked into why, I discovered it relied on node's particular method of JSON serialization[0]. Are you confident that the shelter protocol has avoided this pitfall?

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22910752
Yup. Wikipedia has some good visualisations.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citrus_taxonomy#Hybrids
Great resource! However, one thing left me with a question about the kernel:

From [0]:

> Since shebangs are handled by the kernel, and pull from buf instead of loading the whole file, they’re always truncated to the length of buf. Apparently, 4 years ago, someone got annoyed by the kernel truncating their >128-character paths, and their solution was to double the truncation point by doubling the buffer size! Today, on your very own Linux machine, if you have a shebang line more than 256 characters long, everything past 256 characters will be completely lost.

What is the reason for silently truncating someone's filepath? The kernel, of all places, should not be doing such things. Granted, 256-byte long file paths don't make sense, but 256-byte long path+argument strings will almost certainly happen sometimes. To just silently break someone's script is wrong.

[0]: https://cpu.land/how-to-run-a-program
My impression was that they think they've discovered nepotism, but what they've actually discovered is networking.
Pretty surprised at the difference in income in UK vs USA.
Top 10% in UK according to this article is 59,200 pounds [~$76,000] while in the US to enter the top 10% you need to make ~$173k. This is a very large difference. While I know that the UK provides certain benefits related to health care above what the US does I cannot think this comes close to $100k per year. The average cost of a house in the US is ~436k [which is insane] and the average cost of a house in the UK is $372k which again is pretty expensive.

Not really sure where I am going with this except to express surprise at what appears to be a massive wealth discrepancy between the US and what I had long considered its closest comparable economy. I had never really done the research though thus my surprise.
I just chose to believe him, even tho his experience goes against mine and most other carnivorous plant growers'. We're dealing with living things here and exceptions can happen, I guess?

I'm still certain that carnivorous plants are not a good pest control option, I would not recommend it to anyone (even tho it would be great for my business). Even if OP's plants can keep up with the flies' regeneration rate, they will quickly die in that setup.

I see posts like these very often, and they never show any real long term results for some reason... Rather, they are just sharing their excitement about putting cool plants in their house while having common misconceptions about them, I can't be mad
(author) I had a feeling HN would know who these people were. Anyone know which one was "Fred" (as in FredTVApp)?

(edit: looks like Fred Huxham per comment below)
There is of course a lot of unfair social dynamics at play in industry hiring, but at least there are a lot of industry jobs to compensate a bit.
I've thought about this for years at this point. But I haven't compiled all my thoughts into a coherent system. So I can't share anything with substance :/ It's just a dump for bullet points as of now. Also, I'm not a technical person (yet).

I haven't looked into Org mode, but this might include all you (we) need.
That was the best attempt to update it and improve upon it.

Its mostly successful, but not entirely. Wish Gruber would just link to that instead of his old, bugger, out of date spec.
Using the monte carlo methodology for scrum estimation imo is a waste of time -- even time boxing in scrum itself is bullshit. It's impossible to accurately predict how much time it takes to get coding tasks done...just like the concept of adding new devs to a late project won't make it less late - trying to estimate how much each task takes won't make the project run smoother it'll only kill motivation and productivity but i suppose it's a regular part of modern everyday development so it is what it is :)
I also think that there needs to be a “non-professor” track in grad school.

Too often, grad school applicants are just kids that have overachieved in academic settings and think to themselves “I’ve been good at school my whole life, why not just do school forever?”. A lot of them would actually thrive in industry but they just continue doing school out of inertia.

Grad school could help those kids figure out if they like working in industry by mixing in courses taught by industry folks and/or pushing for internships rather than traditional RA positions.
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You’re probably not alone thinking this because of all the noise about affirmative action. Academia is quite different behind the curtain than for students. Sure, they like hiring women because it helps improve their statistics, but the educational background, including institutions where the candidate did their undergrad and PhD is much more important.
Aside from the mining difficulties, I think the transportation costs of bringing large quantities of metal back to Earth would be expensive. Even if there were pallets of gold bars stacked neatly on the surface of the asteroid, it would be expensive to bring large payloads back on spaceships.
Jell Biafra quoted Marshall McLuhan "the purpose if pop culture is to soften to blow of evryday life."
so what's the query to find a file anywhere on my hard drive, including hidden folders/files?
Piketty's _Capital in the Twenty-First Century_, cited in the article, remains a fundamental resource for understanding how we got here. It's really essential reading. Given all that, the solutions presented in his later books appear to be inevitable. As for whether we're in a new Gilded Age, I'd say the we're way past that: it's more like ancient Egypt under Pharaoh.
The perl version of regexps is np-hard...

https://perl.plover.com/NPC/
Agreed, my network diagrams for AWS basically has nested squares. For example, a subnet inside an availability zone square, and that is inside a VPC, and that square is inside a region. Kind of like this but looks nicer: https://images.edrawsoft.com/articles/aws-diagram-examples/e...
(author) I had a residential T1 line for many years, and a friend of mine had one even earlier when most of us were still on dialup. It was certainly as possible as anything else was at the time.
That's exactly how it works in Perl.

strace -s 80 -f perl -e 'system("ls", "/");' 2>&1 | grep exec
...
[pid 1034640] execve("/usr/bin/ls", ["ls", "/"], 0x55b7f79873b0 /* 100 vars */) = 0
> We conclude that transitioning to regenerative agriculture involves more than a suite of ‘climate-smart’ mitigation and adaptation practices supported by technical innovation, policy, education, and outreach. Rather, it involves subjective, nonmaterial factors associated with culture, values, ethics, identity, and emotion that operate at individual, household, and community scales and interact with regional, national and global processes. Findings have implications for strategies aimed at facilitating a large-scale transition to climate-smart regenerative agriculture.

(Majority of farmers in the study are holistic practitioners)

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S09593...
The data stream for that would be staggering.
I read the review. There are many cases of this:

> It's more like getting rabies from a raccoon.

And only 3 potential cases of this:

> It's possible that the original SARS jumped 3 times total, based on the genetic evidence

You're saying animal -> human transmission of a human virus is equivalent to animal -> human transmission of a new virus. Those are two *extremely* different things. The palm civet SARS spike protein RBD did not gain the ability to bind human ACE2 many times. In fact, the evidence for that seems to only be a single time. The remaining two suggested origin events show mutation of the existing virus, followed be retransmission across species barriers.

Those are two completely different types of events.
What are you talking about? The article mentions that GCC 7.5.0 (earliest version supporting RISC-V) requires a C++ compiler.
Annealing metal requires starting at a high temperature and gradually lowering it. Simulated annealing does the same thing with some appropriate analog of temperature.

There's no temperature lowering happening in TFA.
It's not clear why we need to do this when the alternative is decarbonizing using cleaner technologies, then going heavy on carbon capture once that technology matures. Carrying capacity isn't fixed, it changes depending on how we produce food and other goods. Energy isn't fixed either, because we have the sun, which can provide all the energy we need short of a future science fiction scenario where we outgrow the solar system. I don't think that's a real concern right now.

And even in a science fiction scenario where we become a type 2 civilization, it's not clear that's a bad thing assuming we can expand to nearby star systems. Robin Hanson's Grabby Alien solution to the Fermi Paradox suggests this is what civilizations will do, and we might as well grab up as much real estate until we come into contact with the other expanding spheres of alien expansion (granted this is very long term).
He's also a bit of narcissist, and I mean that in a clinical sense not as an insult. I mean look at some of his stand-up specials, they central theme in them are basically talking about himself. True is self deprecating at times, but the focus is still on himself. I even heard in an interview he was pondering starting a religion but was talked out of it by people close to him (thankfully). Being seen as mesiah would really kick narcissism into high gear. But he found another route to attention through conspiracy theories. Shame because he does have a way with words.
>That's what the third to a half of what they produced paid for, the right to live and work on the lord's land.

You realize that the "rent" you pay includes the cost of the land, as well as the actual building on top. My point is that comparing whatever serfs paid and got in return (ie. only access to the land) and what the typical renter today gets (ie. access to the land and a finished building) isn't comparable.

>> All of that funds social services and the welfare state, something that serfs didn't

>No, but what "welfare state" did exist, such as transport infrastructure, was paid for by the lord, rather than directly by the peasant.

whoops my bad, missed a "get" at the end of that. The complete sentence was supposed to be:

>All of that funds social services and the welfare state, something that serfs didn't get
At least one existed in the dot com era. Forget the name.
From a quick test, about 5x faster:

tavianator@tachyon $ cat bench.mjs
#!/usr/bin/env node

import { fdir } from "fdir";

console.log(new fdir().withFullPaths().crawl("/home/tavianator/code/android").sync().length);
tavianator@tachyon $ hyperfine -w1 "node ./bench.mjs" "bfs ~/code/android -false"
Benchmark 1: node ./bench.mjs
Time (mean ± σ): 2.073 s ± 0.031 s [User: 1.372 s, System: 1.260 s]
Range (min … max): 2.022 s … 2.128 s 10 runs

Benchmark 2: bfs ~/code/android -false
Time (mean ± σ): 417.5 ms ± 6.8 ms [User: 592.3 ms, System: 2487.7 ms]
Range (min … max): 405.2 ms … 429.7 ms 10 runs

Summary
bfs ~/code/android -false ran
4.97 ± 0.11 times faster than node ./bench.mjs

Is there a way to call it that doesn't require holding all the paths in memory simultaneously?
Neurotechnology is coming way faster than most people expect, especially with AR/VR headsets (EEG) and wristbands with electrodes (EMG), which are pushed hard by Meta, Apple & co.

I wrote a few notes about it: https://kerkour.com/nobody-cares-about-the-metaverse-neurote...
250 billion isn’t much relative the revenue and expenditures of governments. Government operates in the trillions. California lost 40 billion in a couple months trying to administer unemployment insurance, something you would expect a government to be able to do with some competence, having many decades of experience. But nobody cares in the government if the government should lose 100 billion here, a trillion there, because hey there are still rich people we can tax to get more money! There are no consequences for losing tens or 100s of billions on dollars, you get promoted in the public sector because your budget was large, not because you spent the money well.

Government will never be incentivized to function properly until their revenue, like any and all successful institutions, is dependent upon their own competence. Endless skies the limit money with no consideration for how wisely or efficiently that money is used is an obvious recipe for national failure.
you claim that contracts at this level are executed on the basis of technical merit?
The potato, the tomato and the aubergine (eggplant) are all genus Solanum. They are close relatives.

The genus is related to the European nightshade family, colloquially known as "deadly nightshade" with good reason. When tomatos were first brought to Europe from the Americas, they were used purely decoratively as everyone believe they would be toxic as they were clearly similar to the highly poisonous nightshades.

One of the only uses of nightshade was for an extract to paralyse the muscles of the iris, leading to very dilated pupils and big dark eyes, considered a sign of beauty in women. Thus the Latin name: "belladonna" -- literally, "bella" (beautiful) "donna" (lady).
Thanks, that’s actually what I was wondering. Which, apparently, I should have just done my own research on rather than asking an off the cuff question here hoping somebody would know and be interested in sharing.
It's not as interesting as keeping a bunch of carnivorous plants, but I wonder if the author considered just keeping the compost in the freezer. No smells, no bugs.
One piece of feedback: The screenshot on the landing page is sooooo slow to load.