skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think we pretty much agree... I don't think there's really any one test that can give the complete picture.

What I'm trying to get at is that it's possible to design tests that can indirectly measure general intelligence which don't require vocabulary and general information, or other aspects that may rely on social or economic privileges. And that these type of tests would allow us to draw comparisons on a broader scale.

I'd imagine if an illiterate person performed well on spatial and memory tasks, then if they had learned to read they would've also scored high on a vocabulary test, too.
Nope, about the same crazyness as in India.

Urdu, Pashto, Punjabi, Sindhi, English, Saraiki, lasi, Kutchi, Thari, Balochi, Brahui, Hazaragi, Chitrali, Kohistani, Hindko, Kashmiri, Shina and Balti are the main languages and dialects spoken in Pakistan.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Provincial_languages_of_Pakist...
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> It is also fairly common that people ship drugs to anti-drug politicians

Source?
The national language in Pakistan (Urdu) is incredibly similar to Hindi. It's just written with a different alphabet and has different words every now and then.

Urdu is fairly standard across the country with slightly different accents..

The regional languages are different though. Some (like Punjabi) are spoken in India too, and then there's Pashto (also spoken in Afghanistan) but then there are Sindhi and Seraiki which can be similar and different to other languages.

However, what excites me is the fact that Hindi is so similar to Urdu, the same tech could be repurposed for Urdu with much less work than a whole new language.
> will have similar life outcomes

I think my argument with you rests probably rests in the wording. I'm not willing to delve into each paper listed to check the controlled variables and selection biases, but a number are biased towards students already in universities, and one explicitly controls for socio-economic status. Even then I would like to see whether life outcomes in term of income, health, incarceration rates were measured in countries where Africans are the minority.

But it's my guess that you weren't so much interested in the similar life outcomes, but the correlates of IQ to competence being similar between African and non-African people.
I know many parents were at least the father started working more and often far away from their family.

Sure they need more money with children, but how good is the money if you only see them on the weekend?

Sometimes it sounds like an excuse so they don't have to hang around with them, but maybe I'm just bitter, because my father left me when I was 6 and even the years before I barely saw him :/
Mostly agree, though I'd quibble (as did Simon Kuznets) that GDP is a poor metric for national income. The entire field of national income accounting is rather fraught.

Going back to Adam Smith, "Wealth is the annual produce and labour of the nation". Elsewhere he argues that "the sole use of money is to circulate consumable goods". As a man not given to short sentences, I recommend paying attention when he uses them.

https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Wealth_of_Nations/Book_II...

Defining, and measuring, and allocating wealth has been a bit of a conundrum for the past 240+ years. And a while before by some reports.
I found the interaction between the C call stack, the implicit call stack of the interpreted language, and the garbage collector to be tricky. However, I do not see why copying would be any more tricky than compacting.
Yeah, but the emphasis on Urdu as our national language means almost everyone everywhere is comfortable speaking Urdu!
Could you elaborate on who you mean, and what facts you think are unclear?

Also your account is 46 days old, so I'm unsure what you know about seasoned HNers.

Sorry if I'm incorrect, but I read your comment as trying to seed distrust, as if the issue isn't clear and no side is right.

This is incorrect.
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Robert Murray-Smith has been talking about on YouTube for years, many people called him a scam artist, even though he never tried to sell anything.

https://youtube.com/user/RobertMurraySmith
and that's what makes it ridiculous. In my whole career I have not been forced to vocalize hard problems on a whiteboard in one hour, getting judged for how good of a dog and pony show I put on with "evaluating and discarding ideas" on the fly, out loud, in an interrogation setup. This is so artificial. Not even close to how real teams work. My best ideas start to really form after thinking about a hard problem for days, including in off hours, background mode. Often I have to talk to many people, including non-programmers, to cover all angles of a hard problem.

These "hard interview problems" that must be solved through some artificially staged contemplation really are useful for two reasons:

* it's sadly the only way to quickly try to get a random reading of a person in a semi-standardized way while minimizing time commitment, kind of like fast food is the quickest way to fill oneself, and

* people who pass these at least demonstrate that they can drill/memorize or otherwise prepare for a challenging activity, which takes time and discipline, which in general are desirable characteristics

that's it, pretending like this in any way models real work or has any other benefits is not right.
That only addresses the depth of the hole (even deeper), not the fact that the hole is a trap.

The whole discussion here was surprisingly devoid of how to get out (individually or as a society) and so was the article. From a solution-oriented crowd such as this I take that as a sign that it is indeed difficult. Even acknowledging it as a problem seems to be a struggle with an open outcome.
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I have some sort of mysophobia of digital footprint, and it often stops me from
signing up for new products/services. IMO, a product/service offering account
deletion can really increase my intention to sign up.

I would love to hear your thoughts about this.
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Does this work from single user mode?
i'm still wondering if that impression ( which i share) is real or not.

At the minimum, i'd say i feel apple release less innovating os versions while producing at least the same number of bugs.
We (http://toughbyte.com) organize a number of technical meetups ourselves and have found Meetup.com lacking. To scratch our own itch, we built Meetabit (https://meetabit.com/) which includes some additional features such as the ability to accept talk proposals and sponsorship offers, have speaker profiles, archive of talks and related materials, export data etc.

It does what we need and we haven't been actively developing or promoting it recently. Nevertheless, it has grown organically to 4K+ users. Now that Meetup has been acquired, I think there may be an opportunity to develop it further and actually start monetizing.

Is there anyone here that would be interested in helping out with that? Which direction should we take it in? Ideas and feedback, especially from fellow meetup organizers or sponsors, would be greatly appreciated!
What about a compacting collector? It gives the locality and fast allocation benefits of the copying while using less memory.
OT: Job advice needed (because I think many back-end devs will be here :D)

I'm thinking about going full-stack next year. I have a bit of experience building APIs besides being mainly a front-end developer.

Is going "cloud only" a good idea? I thought about starting with AWS Lambda, S3, DynamoDB and the Serverless framework.

Are the providers hugely different or is it a good idea to spread out and do some Azure and GCP too?
> and branding itself as the leaders of quality, stability
> and so on

The days of Mac vs. PC guy are long over. Apple usualy compares their products only to their other products now (best iPhone ever, not best smartphone ever, etc.)
Alas if you look around such vulnerable software makes it to production now and again, there is nothing new. Hindsight is 20/20.
> I think we pretty much agree... I don't think there's really any one test that can give the complete picture.

I don't think we agree. The score is biased if it doesn't test the gamut of competence. Removing language from the picture could give higher scores. Said illiterate person, could try to learn language and find themselves wholly incapable, but awesome at math, logic, spatial reasoning and attention. And as I highlighted, vocabulary and general information are considered to have a large bearing on the score.
I miss Snow Leopard.

:/
That’s changing; from the last quarterly report transcript:[1]

During the quarter we sold 46.7 million iPhones, up 3 percent over last year. We were very pleased to see double digit iPhone growth in many emerging markets, including mainland China, the Middle East, Central and Eastern Europe, India, and Mexico.

They report stuff like this every quarter.

[1]: https://www.macrumors.com/2017/11/02/apple-q4-2017-earnings-...
Of course. The point is that, paraphrasing Crichton’s Jurassic Park, debt finds a way.
I think the idea here is being that if NAT is used, in the most common meaning, that usually means that the machine behind the router is not Internet-routable. There is no address which can be reached from the internet, that will go to the machine directly. (Which has actual security benefits.)

Of course the abbreviation "NAT" really has a broader meaning, and one can of course set up certain network configurations where the machine would still be Internet-routable, even though NAT is used for something, or the other way around, etc.

Is this what you meant? Judging by the link it seems so.
A clarification could be important, so do you suggest perhaps that the question should have been more like "If my machine does not have a direct Internet address, due to NAT configuration, am I safe from ME exploits"?
Aha thank you for clearing that out.
If you had a heavy server then sure it is, making a nice enough wrapper might be a bit of a pain though.
They've added features over the years without removing or polishing them; there's Launchpad which was added in a period where OSX seemed to lean towards becoming touch-friendly, but it didn't replace any existing feature (iirc) and just feels off. Might just be me though. Notification center? Don't use it.
Android device automation tools?
I've been doing some preliminary searching, but have so far come up mostly inconclusive in finding way to automate interaction with android devices.

Coming from browser automation using https://github.com/segmentio/nightmare and an obvious DOM to interface with, I'm not sure how this might work on a real android device, or what tools are available. I do have an understanding of modern android and java development.

In this case, the goal would be to automate opening an arbitrary app already installed on the phone and without source code access, move a cursor or simulate touch events in specific areas, send keys to focused form fields, and ideally waiting for async events—like file upload—to finish.
1. It's not the same as the original language plus English.
2. It's not easy to find data for these languages. It's easier to add the modifications, apparently.
Nah, Apple really needs to realize that they need to step up their game. This might hurt some users, but it sets a much needed fire under Apple's ass.
Uber’s losses grew to $1.5B last quarter
Fiat money
The currency inflates.

If the situation lasts long enough, the standard of living falls.

Money exists to move goods around. If all the money is in one place, goods cannot move.

Money is not limited. It is an information measure of, variously, debts, or bidding rights to production. What it can bid on is limited, and how currency-denominated asset valuations change as money supply and circulation do, can also change.

But the problem in the case of a national disaster isn't that money cannot be produced. It's that those who would rely on money to address immediate needs (water, food, shelter, medical care, transport) have no bidding rights (currency, credit, grants) to transact purchases. You're balancing the interests of those outside the disaster zone (assuming there is an outside) with those in it. (Though this generally is the case.)

If the disaster is big enough, and rescue or infrastructure needs sufficiently high, those may affect national accounts and economic activity for a time, but it would take an absolutely massive shock for the impairment of raw productive capacity alone to impact the economy. Far more likely that buying power is lacking amongst a segment of the population.

And for that, money is precisely the cure.
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The phrase can and should be handled as a synonym of "stop" in the current context.
mcrae covered this well, but to add to that, the Edge servers are targeted for low latency services close to users, think self driving cars, IOT, adtech, etc. You can see more details at https://www.packet.net/edge/ and https://www.packet.net/blog/looking-over-the-edge/.
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Yeah, everyone seems to be forgetting that until very recent versions of MacOS you could just boot into SUM and make your own admin account to get access to a mac.
I dont understand how it will work with AppSync if both services practically do the same thing? am i missing something?
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Thanks. It will take me some time to digest this.
> Authoritarian governments are the exact violence the USA was founded to get away from

You might want to ask a black person or an Indian for their perspective on this.
Any examples offhand?
i am not saying something like this will always happen, but it can happen. No matter what kind of testing and QA you employ (and i bet it's gigantic in Apples case), not having critical bugs in something as complex as an OS every few years is kind of impossible.

Should it happen ? Obviously not. But even popular open source software used by millions and developed by hundreds is not free of issues like this, like Heartbleed showed.
Because that makes your marketing message confusing to the buyer. It seems to me that Asian sellers think it's highly valuable to include a 'free gift'. I've gotten many worthless 'free gifts' (in the same package as the order of the actual product (off AliExpress); so there's no advantage like described in the OP). So I conclude that this whole 'free gift' thing really works with their domestic customers, and many sellers are not sophisticated/specialized enough to realize that for Western buyers, they don't gain anything.

Under that world view, a) there is no reason to include the 'separate shipping' thing; and b) adding it makes your ad copy look complicated, to the point of discouraging a sale. If you say 'free xxx with every purchase!', that looks like a good thing. But if you have to add qualifications to it (and I don't mean legally required fine print that you don't actually want customers to read, I mean something you want the customer to internalize), it becomes a bad thing that confuses your marketing message.

Just my arm-chair speculation - I've wondered about this and similar issues numerous times over the last years though. So many things seem to illogical in that world, yet they must make someone somewhere money somehow.
About 15 years ago German car rental company Sixt migrated some mainframe based console UIs to XUL, while keeping the backend in COBOL. They focused a lot on reaction time and keyboard shortcuts as the tool was used in the call center to capture damage reports. I have no idea how much of this is still used.
Slides from an old talk about this: https://blog.mayflower.de/uploads/XUL_xtech2.pdf
Someone once said that stupid questions don't exist. I very much doubt it though!
The whole comment is written with fewer articles than you'd expect for good English - my guess is that the commenter is not a native speaker, rather than trying to be cutesy.
Sorry homeopathy is complete nonsense from my perspective, so I don't think I will even get a placebo effect. Thanks for your opinion though!
I'm not sure why I would compare the two.

If OpenOffice team gives out their software for free, does it mean that Microsoft is somehow morally evil for selling their own Office package?

Difference between effort/expense does not seem to be important here, the point is that Ethereum developers put something real into it (work, resources, etc - quantifiable and provable), for which they claim that they should be reimbursed in form of a pre-mine. This information is publicly available, and known by most network participants, who still voluntarily participate in it. I don't see any problem here.
This is pretty standard in Western Europe, it's about the same in Belgium, the Netherlands and France at least
Any idea if TPM is available on the bare metal instances?
I think Udi Dahan's course Advanced Distributed Systems Design is by far the best and most extensive resource on this topic. It costs money though. Perhaps you can find the videos somewhere.
Nothing wrong with incremental upgrades.
Massive inequality is among the things we really shouldn't want.

Massive rent-seeking, enclosures, network effects, and benefiting by public infrastructure and institutions, without paying back full costs, or by imposing dislocations on other economic sectors, as well.

Aviation accounts for 6% of transportation fuel use. For a small portion of passenger and minuscule fraction of cargo movement.
If you’re going to be pedantic, you need to define the audience. There are many people who read this page. This is a fix for the issue from a usability standpoint, but it is a workaround for the vulnerability from a software standpoint.
This is correct, and I think it's mentioned in the article. I think this is probably what most people would think of too rather than the heap based solution. Using the heap solution also requires you to know how to use a heap in whatever language your interviewing in, or you could implement one (which would probably a lot more effort), so I prefer this one.

EDIT:
Ah, I didn't read your comment carefully enough. I thought you were referring to a divide and conquer approach when you meant 'like merge sort', where you the list of lists in half for each recursion, the recombine the sorted halves using a standard merge sort list merge.

What you describe is basically the same as the solution given by the author. However, you don't give a way to find the minimum pointer, in the case of the author, a heap is used. Using a more naive data structure/algorithm (e.g. just finding the min over all pointers every time) will probably give worse asymptotic complexity than using a heap to maintain the least element
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The frequency of cooking oil change has a large impact on the taste of the fried food. Some places will keep using the same oil for a few days, only filtering it each day. Fries from a day when the oil is changed could be great while 2 days later they will taste crap.
Maybe if you're targeting techies. Most other people won't care. Personally I like the idea and imagine something like "We provide easy and complete account deletion (not just account archival)".
Blank password is not necessary. Any password provided on initial attempt WILL BECOME the root password. Blank is being circulated simply because that's what was discovered first.

Edit: Which also means it's possible to "secure" a vulnerable (unexploited) machine simply by attempting to log in as root with a long random password.
We ran an e-commerce mobile app. There were no real tools for this; things like Shopify were designed for web.

So we built a whole shopping cart and inventory management system from scratch. It was good enough that people were willing to pay for it. But we were only 98% confident in it so we kept it internal.

We also didn't have the funds to develop or keep testing it. If we shut down the company, I might open source it.
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Oh I didn't know he had released one on da Vinci! Thanks for the heads up.

Einstein is a great book. I also recommend the NatGeo series after reading it - it's based on the book.
If you’re manually SSHing into machines to manage them, surely you could include an “apt install tmux” in there.
GuardDuty and Macie are complementary. GuardDuty primarily covers network, Macie covers CloudTrail events/anomalies and S3 content policies.
You probably missed it, but the nature.com article that some commenters have referenced [1] has more details, including information on the charge rate.

> A full-cell incorporating graphene balls increases the volumetric energy density by 27.6% compared to a control cell without graphene balls, showing the possibility of achieving 800 Wh L−1 in a commercial cell setting, along with a high cyclability of 78.6% capacity retention after 500 cycles at 5C and 60 °C.

In your other comment you write:

>the standard is 80% capacity after 500 cycles at the normally specified (1C) charge rate

So I'd say that's pretty good.

[1] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-017-01823-7
As someone from the Balkans, I would have expected the job to be that of a notary. Notaries here typically intermarry to keep this lucrative business inside the family. It is common to walk past an office with the sign outside mentioning three notaries with the same last name, who might be three generations of the same family.
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Apple uses the slogan for High Sierra: "Your Mac. Elevated."

Kind of ironic that you can easily get elevated privileges with it.
How much of your product can customers self-host? I know the scanner is at least partly available as open source, but we would want support.
That is pretty cool. I wonder how this technology could be adopted by magicians? They could do some amazing card tricks with this I would imagine.
I think that's very reasonable, thanks for the insight :)
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This is hilarious. I wonder why it took so long for this bug to be discovered, I mean, wasn't High Sierra released back in September?
"Cryptos" is short for cryptocurrencies. It's because of the currency part of cryptos that articles like this one get published in media like vice.com.
> And as I highlighted, vocabulary and general information are considered to have a large bearing on the score.

There isn't just one test though. Like you alluded to above, there are 'culture-fair' tests, even though they may be less common. The heart of our disagreement is probably the role we see culture and genetics playing in socioeconomic outcomes. To me, the data seems to overwhelmingly discredit the culture-only hypothesis, and even though it's a bitter pill to swallow I think we need to soberly assess the genetic component of IQ. Our current public policy in the West is not sound, and generally a catastrophic failure, because we refuse to address the genetic issue.
Ah ok thanks, not super familiar with react. Had seen a video about fibers/async and saw something about 16 implementing them. Put 2 and 2 together and got 5.
Interesting, if there's one thing I really don't miss in Rust it's bloody headers.

Can't you simply use the docs? When I code in Rust I generally have the docs opened: https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/vec/struct.Vec.html (or more like likely the locally installed version).

Most crates have documentation available as well (generally linked directly from their entry on crates.io) and if it's not online for some reason you can just run "cargo doc" to generate it locally. Randomly taking the "image" crate as an example: https://docs.rs/image/0.17.0/image/

Beats grepping header files IMO.
Before Tesla and Panasonic joined forces to mass produce the batteries, there were many many rumors that samsung was in negotiation with tesla to supply the batteries. I wonder of Tesla will look into working with samsung.