jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
For 36 years, Dr. Freeman has studied a group of 210 British children - some gifted, most not. In her new book, Gifted Lives, she concluded that, of the 20 identified as gifted, only six went on to adult lives that matched the potential of their early promise (one is a successful opera singer; another runs a hedge fund.)

I would think that 6 out of 20 is statistically significantly higher than any control group of their peers.

Sure, that means 14 of 20 didn't, but how many of the 190 not identified as gifted went on to similar levels of achievement? For parity, the answer would be 57. I'd wager the actual answer is no more than 1, with the most likely answer being 0.

It's not that being labelled as gifted as a pre-teen is some kind of express ticket punch to fame, fortune and Easy Street. How could it be? You've only spent 8 maybe 9 years not soiling yourself at that point.

There will be strife and challenge along the way, and not everyone will rise above those challenges, for a variety of internal or external reasons. I'd still prefer to be in the 20 rather than the 190. (Background: in a US program run by Johns Hopkins(SMPY-CTY), I was so identified @11, and while, in the subsequent 28 years, I may not have become an opera singer or run a hedge fund, I've done OK. I'll also observe that some of my past was very easy, other portions were fairly difficult. I could have achieved more, but I could also have acheived way, way less.)
I am sorry you're getting downvoted but this is absolutely right. Remember to never talk to the police. This sounds a little sarcastic but I promise you that it is not. Never, ever "help" the police, even if you are not a suspect.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wXkI4t7nuc

The police do not have a duty to protect you [nytimes]. Why do you have a duty to help them?

[nytimes] http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/28/politics/28scotus.html

(If you intend to downvote, please kindly leave a note as to why I am wrong.)
Why does Pioneer One have a video blog on Vimeo, and yet the only way to view the actual episode is through a torrent for a 1.1 gig file? Why do I have to wait an hour or more when videos on Vimeo start immediately? Even platforms like Hulu with ads (and legal, big budget films) start within a minute.

VODO seems overly focused on distribution, which is a solved problem. The hard part is promotion.
People earn $400-600K doing quantum computing research?
Same here. I was using OReilly Safari the other day, which also hosts PDFs like Scribd. I kept cutting and pasting sample code from I book I'd purchased, then wondering why the code had ransom spaces inserted into it that kept breaking things.

And then I remembered: Safari is Flash, Scribd is HTML. This is why Safari cut and paste doesn't work.

Scribd dudes: please talk to OReilly.
User engagement is a convenient metric to use, because it's something that only they have access to internally. If pageviews had gone up, that would have been proper proof that their strategy worked.

This is similar to a diaper company changing the fluff on the diapers and releasing a paper saying customer satisfaction is much higher.
Mathematics and physics are products of the mind, obviously. Mathematicians and physicists do their work by using their minds. They don't channel some divine truth--they merely filter what their mind makes through certain criteria. I don't understand this common tendency, exemplified by your comment, to shift attention away from how mind makes things, to the criteria according to which we filter them before we call them "science" or "mathematics". I've studied mathematical logic, and it has been of little use to me in mathematics. Philosophy of mathematics has been of no use at all. The practice of mathematics can get by perfectly well without that stuff. So maybe it's time to put aside the mysticism, and start looking at how our brains actually make what they make. Especially since we are just now starting to understand what brains are and how they've evolved.
when i was 19 even i used to contemplate on how to get smarter but ended up becoming a piece of rotten vegetable.now at the age of 25 i believe in doing volumes of work and imagining things.that's the only way of becomming smart.
Yeah but the more realistic ad wouldn't be quite as inspiring:

Imagine if you could buy concert tickets... in your underwear!

Imagine if you could attend a meeting... in your underwear!

Imagine if you could go to school... in your underwear!

You will, thanks to AT&T!
Take a look at the 54-59 second mark on this video:

http://vimeo.com/8186279.

Look at the chest area of the guy wearing a striped shirt to the right of girl in shorts. You'll notice the stripes look weird and are morphing. It's referred to as aliasing as well.
Yes, but prison, the word we've been discussing up to now, has different and much more loaded connotations than imprisonment.
This comes off as very "well akchtually"; more snarky than helpful.

A great example:

>It is normal that the Sept-, Oct-, Nov-, and Dec- months are numbered 9, 10, 11, and 12

>False. This is very weird. They used to be months 7, 8, 9, and 10, but some reform to the Roman calendar back in the day resulted in the creation of January and February, which messed everything up.

No software project cares what the calendar looked like during the roman empire. Sure, its quirky that OCTober is month 10 instead of 8. Doesn't affect anything at all.

> The current year is 2020

> False. It’s the year 5780 in the Hebrew calendar.

Obviously, anyone who says "the current year is 2020" is talking about the Gregorian calendar that everyone is familiar with. If your wife asked to have dinner at 7pm, are you going to scold her for not specifying the implied UTC offset? Its silly to even bring up.

That said, I will never willingly write code that deals with times / calendars.
Amazing ingenuity, but I’m scared by the amount of chemicals they’ve collectively inhaled.
I guess everyone already had forgotten the truecrypt fisaco.
That is truly awful, I couldn't take more than 20 seconds of it. I couldn't say I would do better but I have no delusions about being a rapper either.
https://algonfts.art
> Now he works full time spending his fortune on making the world a better place. Truly a great man.

Remember, he amassed his fortune through monopolistic practices that valued control and subjugation of competition over product innovation and creation of value.

Is it possible to both be a notable philanthropist and also not engage in business practices that perhaps run counter to the generous philosophy of philanthropism?
Their stream: http://www.spacex.com/webcast.php
footnotes are an antiquated paradigm and links exist specifically to make finding more info easier.

although hover over text is the worst.
First: What's with all the spam accounts?

Is this a research paper that wins the "2010 Winner of Stanford University's Lyle and Olive Cook Prize for the best Ethics in Society honors thesis"? I am working on my master's thesis for the Utrecht University in the Netherlands with similar interest and topics like this one (ethics, privacy, audience and transparency)

But the conclusion of this research is an open door ("not only the users are responsible for what they put online, the providers e.g. Facebook should regulate as well") and skimming through her bibliography I can't see any REAL work on privacy & regulation like Agre & Rotenberg, Nissenbaum or even Lessig only a bunch of blogs and some 'duh' journal articles.
The problem is that the majority of IE6 users are not in a position to upgrade (the ones that are have done so already). There's no point in telling them or bugging them since they are not in control of upgrades.

For example, the NHS (the UK's largest employer and one of the largest in the world) is still using IE6:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2010/jan/22/internet-ex...

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/02/01/doh_ie6/
From watching that I got the feeling that you could ask Ballmer about his thoughts on (for instance) the steel refining industry and receive a remarkably similar stream of business pseudo-speak.
Why on Earth do people have only one Facebook profile? If the software doesn't provide for better separation automatically, do it manually. Imagine it's a CLI and you have to write the commands yourself.
You are forced to use IE6 because the IT department decided that's all you need for your job. If sites stopped working in IE6 then people could make the case that they need a modern browser for their work. In the US and Europe, IE6 usage is around 5%. I think we're close enough to push IE6 completely out.
Well that's the problem with radicalism...they live on the other side of the chasm, ignoring all non-revolutionary paths that might lead in that direction from current reality, so they have virtually no effect on mainstream discourse. Just like to them, the Dems and Republicans are "the same". It's an attitude I'm sure they enjoy having but it sure is ineffectual.
I am looking forward to your constructive criticism here [1]

[1] https://forum.kde.org/viewforum.php?f=285
This is super awesome. I've been meaning to transition our folks to Flexbox for web apps that targets mostly modern browsers. The main objections are, of course, browser support. This is a good start for me to take more informed decision. :-)
I recommend Typora [1] as an alternative writer. It's a WYSIWYG Markdown editor available on Win/Linux/macOS with the focus mode and other nice features.

It has themes [2] too and you can easily create yours to match your blog design. That way, as you write, you have a live preview of your article.

[1]: https://typora.io

[2]: https://theme.typora.io
"it should fucking terrify you that a movement that’s been tasked with addressing pressing social problems is designed in such a way that any substantial criticism is met with aggressive punishment. "

Couldn't agree more. As someone very liberal that is also exhausted of wokeness, of the constant normalization of racism against whites, and against asians (as model minorities), this hits the nail on the head.
Sounds like a good argument for a steep inheritance tax.
I wonder if this might unintentionally incentivize _more_ cases of embezzlement. After all, gambling addicts with dysfunctional moral compasses could say, “and if I lose, grandma can still get her money back”. Much in the way that employees/friends/family members justify stealing credit cards because ‘they can just report it as fraud’.
Lol, thanks.

I think I kept working the joke in my brain, and it was too brutally simple at first. And then I worked it over, and now it reads too complicated. Ah well.

I think I was overthinking the joke.
And yet he hardly needs to given that any such opinions will be flagkilled in seconds. It's pure spite.
> why do the Signal developers trust SGX so much and have stayed completely silent about SGX vulnerabilities

Maybe because the marketing of their sketchy token scheme depends exclusively on the illusion of SGX security.
Yes. It's the same tax treatment that applies to gold bullion or barrels of oil - volatile commodities that are at least partly speculative investments rather than stable mediums of exchange.
Wayback Machine has it[1], but there's not much more content than in Gruber's summary.

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20150429225603/https://mesospher...
To point number 1: Depending on what sort of work the subject is doing with the clearance, he/she may never get a poly, or he/she may get one every time the clearance is updated (usually 5 years). If the subject happens to be living with a foreign national, and somebody writes a "letter of compelling need" for the subject (meaning the subject will retain the clearance in spite of the risk), then the subject will get a poly every year.

The poly is not limited to one session. The examiner will keep asking the subject to come back until they are satisfied with the results, or until the subject quits their job. Depending on the personality type of the subject, it can be extremely stressful, or just routine. Many engineers are "Type A" and that is the type most susceptible to stress.
I hate this "I do not fault the language for this". It is the argument always brought up with PHP as well.

You can write ugly code with Python, but the Python language and community clearly renounces itself from that and is all about readable code. Every feature addition or remove is done with consideration of code readability and creating one best practice to perform a task correctly.

JavaScript "maintainers" try their best to build a solid language on top of an ugly hack. The community tries every day to avoid its own language with another precompiler.

Java is all about defining solid interfaces, which creates new problems, but at least they try.

On the other side, Perl people were historically often proud of their crazy hacks.

PHP does not remove dangerous or objectively ugly language features. It could avoid SQL injections in new versions all together but instead is focused more on adoption and backwards compatibility.

The language is partly responsible for the type of code that is written in it.
In my multiple decades as a Ford Truck owner, never once has any of the trucks left be stranded, Sure they had mechanical problems, ran rough, etc but they still got me home.

Of Course I also take pristine care of my Trucks, don't abuse them, and change all fluids under old school time tables not modern "Life time" fluid bull shit marketing
"Making things simple is hard work." - Rich Hickey

When I think of the simple vs complex bifurcation I think of fractals, a "simple" set of rules expressed in a complex way. The complexity arises from their expression/expansion iterated over time, but the rules that govern that expression are economical and compact. Think of an acorn: the encoding of a tree is all there. Its self-similarity, recusively expressed, creates the complex output of a tree. But nature always prefers the most economical solution because in the physical universe, resources are limited.

It might make more sense to s/simple/economical/.
Those both look pretty awesome - great suggestion! I might just purchase some because of your suggestion. I absolutely loathe using plastic wrap haha.
This sort of thing could be useful. I like the format. Not wild about code explanations with 5 clause sentences. This kind of mental juggling is what I love about programming and reading David Foster Wallace, but the writer(s) of the app don't write like my brain or DFW.

I'm just saying, when you are trying to make a dry subject explicable, you need to break up the sentences and make your variable names more distinct.
Note the direct parent. It referred to industrial espionage, not metadata.

https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/strawman
We're using it in production at my job. (In a decent-sized polyglot system also made up of Haskell and Clojure).

There aren't as many libraries available compared to more popular languages, but I haven't yet had too much trouble getting things accomplished. For the above-mentioned languages we're using, I'd put the useful library situation at: Racket-> Haskell-> Clojure in order of least to greatest.

Depending on what you need it to interoperate with, it's totally usable in production environments as it stands.
lol , since when ChromeOs can run desktop apps?
this is the stupidest post ever.
this post should be called some ideas cant be captured by some wireframing methodologies and tools, who are used by people who are dumb.
I've been using ST2 a lot recently and while I really like it, feature wise, I've had horrible issues with documentation. The big issue is that it doesn't seem to meaningfully exist, especially if you're looking to quickly start modifying things and creating new functionality. Maybe I missed the boat on it somewhere, but it's a nightmare to find anything out about it that isn't pretty simple. I've ended up doing a lot of digging through the keybindings, experimenting with random keywords, and reading other peoples code to get things to work. While that in and of itself is a learning experience (and there's something to be said about reading other code), it's hard to rftm when there's not really an m.

I guess it may be that my google-fu is just sucking lately, but the docs situation seems bad after a few weeks of using it. If I'm wrong and anyone has any suggestions, let me know and I'd really like to check them out.
Think you'll be getting a shock in a couple of years if you think the EF is enterprise. It's changed massively and coding without it is becoming a little like coding javqscript without jQuery.

You can do it, but why bother writing all those crud operations yourself??

Even with complicated SQL you can hand roll it and then tell the EF which class you're.returning and it'll handle all the boring `rs.GetInt(rs.GetOrdinal("ID"))` crap.
There's application virtualization like Sandboxie (http://www.sandboxie.com/) or even Microsoft App-V (http://www.microsoft.com/systemcenter/appv/default.mspx).
If you become easily bored, distracted, and paranoid, then reading is the least of your problems.

Attention and focus can be trained-- this is what most meditation techniques consist of.

There are a lot of centers around teaching meditation, that don't require any membership, fees, or particular sets of beliefs you must subscribe to. See if there's one near you.
My prob with using a Mac for he last two years is instructions that use the alt and cmd keys (which are labelled on my MacBook keyboard as alt and cmd) as something else - one is called 'option', the other 'apple' but there is no key labelled either 'option' or 'apple' on the MacBook.
this was the case in Chicago in the 20's too - except then they called the protection rackets the mob.
I have a hard time believing that image search is any kind of a bellwether on the state of Google.
This is something that is completely confusing to me. Berlin seems to have a lot of interesting Jobs with "fun" languages (ruby, python, even some scala, ...).

Down in the south (Stuttgart), it's all C or Java and most projects seem to be boring on the first look :-/
Seriously. How do I turn this instant preview mess off? It is truly terrible.
What the article describes can absolutely be done. Well, sort of. China can't advertise its routes as the "fastest", because internet routing cares little about performance[1], but they can otherwise work to make them an attractive option. It's certainly plausible that they could have pulled in 15% of global traffic.

It's not plausible that they could have pulled in any traffic they so choose, but (depending on where their border is placed) they could have grabbed most of it. Also, it's not necessarily obvious to a casual observer what they could have grabbed.

[1] Internet routing in practice is based mostly on politics, a little bit on cost, and basically just uses performance as a tie-breaker.
nicely explained. one key trick they're missing: position:relative + position:absolute, which I find myself using more than position:absolute alone. With a parent of position:relative, child position:absolute elements are position absolutely within the parent. Nice for centering overlays and things like that.
A technical exercise - definitely not a production-ready icon set - that formed the basis for pseudo-element techniques that allow for multiple background canvases and full height pseudo-columns.
Probably a dumb question: Are the reviews private (or only shared with friends) or public like other sites?
I suspect that without exclusive licensing, many startups founded to commercialise this sort of research simply wouldn't get funded.
I use only 2 servers hosted with OVH. I see the problem here but there is no way to avoid it. Monitoring 37 providers will result in multiple "same DC" problems.
I plan to solve this problem by keep adding new locations with different datacenters. The more locations I have the less impact this kind of issues will have.
Simple yet untrue. Great engineers don't necessarily know or care to obtain their market value. H1B indentured servitude also helps.
At least send him a https link to wikipedia...

And a request to the site admins: could you rewrite all http links to wikipedia as https? This occurrence is common, and https-rewriting cannot be easily automated on all client browsers/platforms.
Well, you could bypass that by using String.fromCharCode() eventually?

i.e.

https://igot99inputs.appspot.com/andthisainttwo<img src=x onerror=document.location.href=String.fromCharCode(104,116,116,112,58,47,47,119,119,119,46,103,111,111,103,108,101,46,100,101); >

(that's google.com)
Hypothetical question. Imagine if for some reason everyone in the trial received the vaccine on a rainy day (maybe it occured in Seattle during a bad patch of weather). The vaccine shows immunity, but we can only be sure for a population that got it on a rainy day.

Now we're distributing the vaccine, but the bottleneck is that we have to keep waiting for rainy days. It's especially bad in Arizona and Nevada. Is your contention that we keep the rainy day requirement? Even when all are scientific and empirical priors tell us that the effect is de minims.

The example is kind of silly, but it makes my point. There's literally countless number of factors that go into any trial. There's no possible way that the way treatment is deployed in the field will exactly match the way it was tested. Yet doctors, scientists and public health experts use judgement and empirical priors to determine when and where we can relax the requirements.
Currently that is not the case:

>Mod­els in gen­eral are gen­er­ally con­sid­ered “trans­for­ma­tive works” and the copy­right own­ers of what­ever data the model was trained on have no copy­right on the mod­el. (The fact that the datasets or in­puts are copy­righted is ir­rel­e­vant, as train­ing on them is uni­ver­sally con­sid­ered fair use and trans­for­ma­tive, sim­i­lar to artists or search en­gi­nes; see the fur­ther read­ing.) The model is copy­righted to whomever cre­ated it.

Source (scroll up slightly past where it takes you): https://www.gwern.net/Faces#copyright
>the US... was engaging in this very kind of behavior.

The US is taking South Korean hostages?
One of the two ULP (Ultra Low Power) co-processors on ESP32-S2 chips is based on RISC-V. Boards using ESP32-S2 are available for relatively little, e.g. see https://www.mouser.com/ProductDetail/Espressif-Systems/ESP32....

It's admittedly a niche use-case but it's an option for playing with RISC-V hardware...
For those who aren't aware, Tanzu Application Catalog is a descendant of work done by Bitnami to build and curate OSS.

Disclosure: I work for VMware, but not on this.
You stop the sanctions by meeting the new demands. The US decided the original deal did not offer inspectors enough leeway to ensure Iran was actually halting nuclear weapons development, and so it added more stringent inspection requirements. Adopting or walking away from a deal is a mutual decision. Yes, the US decided to put new terms on the deal. Iran could have accepted adding real enforcement mechanisms to the deal and ended the sanctions, but decided otherwise.

This thread is being rate limited. The commenter below is incorrect. The post deal demands included restrictions on nuclear-capable ballistic missiles, too, but they also included changes to increase the access of inspectors. This was a substantial part of why the original deal was rejected, the new administration believed the original restricted inspectors to the extent that Iran could still develop nuclear weapons in secrecy.
That hasn't been their MO, historically. On macOS everything that's locked down by default can be unlocked (at least that I've encountered) regarding running software or other OSes on the hardware. They've made it "secure" by default, but not locked down, it's a simple switch to open it up.

If, say, the iPad or iPhone had gone this route (started off as open as Android and then became locked down) you might have a point. But they didn't, they started off restricted and have only (gradually, and to a limited degree) been opened up.