skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This subject always seems to get everyone in a twist. That's because there are at least two different things being discussed: necessary vs. sufficient.

The Gladwell version of 10,000 hours was quite clearly a 'necessary' interpretation of deliberate practice. You look at success vs. amount practiced and see that those who practice more tend to be more successful, at least to a point. Fairly simple idea, wrapped up in a neat pop-sci quip.

The 'sufficient' argument is a radically different one that suggests that ultimate ability isn't that different between individuals. Immediately, this seems strongly at odds with other observed intellectual metrics such as IQ which is very highly heritable (h = 0.7 to 0.8) and does not suffer from many of the data quality issues that other metrics do.

A much better title for this paper would end with 'ultimate ability' or 'potential' or something, because practice is obviously necessary. There's just a lot of people talking past each other here, and several that clearly didn't read even the introduction to the paper which discusses this difference.
It is unclear which definition of "San Francisco" they are using. Is it just the city of San Francisco, the San Francisco-Oakland-Hayward, CA Metropolitan Statistical Area, or the San Jose–San Francisco–Oakland, CA Combined Statistical Area? I would guess that since San Jose is not listed separately, they are using the CSA, which includes a lot of outlying areas.
I feel strongly that the long term solution is to end our reliance on jobs for individual survival. If we automate the industries that produce what people need for survival, and we find some way of collectivizing those industries (I only support voluntary non governmental collectivization of industry via common share holding schemes), then we can make the marginal cost of living close to zero.

To me it seems perfectly reasonable that in 50-100 years people would no longer need to work to stay alive (as the norm). Productivity will continue to grow due to the high output (assisted by automation) of those who continue to work. The limits of a life supported by public infrastructure will still encourage anyone capable of doing useful work to do so, but no one would be cast away and suffering from lack of work.

I write about this at:
http://tlalexander.com/machine
Government worker says he didn’t want to help ICE deport immigrants. So he quit
Thanks for sharing your experience, I did not understand it in full.

Do you recommend using SF or not? you mention that you would do it again - was that only about moving from Windows .NET to .NET Core on Linux (ie. NET Core rocks?) and the rest about SF is crap or would you recommend SF in general for any future work (instead of for example Akka.NET for service coordination in a cluster) ?
What do you know about genetic testing? (Hackathon small survey)
I have a theory that real estate remains the only undervalued asset class left in the US. All of the attention has been in the stock market over this economic cycle, and people are likely still scarred from '07. Sure the housing market has gotten insane in the Bay Area and a few other large metros. But outside of that there are crazy deals to be had right now.
Put reflective Mylar over your windows.
From the study:

As a measure of cognitive ability, we used a 10-item vocabulary subtest from the WAIS. In this subtest, participants are presented with a target word and are asked to select the word from a list of five words that comes closest to the meaning of the target word (Cronbach α = 0.67, M = 6.96, SD = 1.90). The participant's score on this test was used as measure of his/her cognitive ability. Although the use of a subscale to measure cognitive ability may be less informative than full-fledged intelligence tests (see De keersmaecker et al., 2017), such tests tapping into a specific aspect of intelligence can be a valid alternative when administration of broad IQ tests are not feasible.

Although I don't think the study mentions "stupid people." And strictly speaking, you're probably not going to be able to administer even the 10-item vocabulary test before deciding how to make a first impression on someone.
? "music ability" eq "rhythm, melody, and pitch discrimination" (I'll be honest this bothered me that much i didn't read very much further)

Did they design a test specifically to make them feel special? rhythm is subjective within music (think jazz). A 'good' melody is only subjectively different from a bad one. Maybe pitch discrimination could be genetic; partial deafness.

They may not be technically wrong, but their definition of practice and perfect seem twisted to click bait.
>Very few people take Breitbart seriously but many will take CNN or NYT seriously.

Many people take Breitbart seriously and do not take CNN seriously. Alexa ranks it at 52 for US traffic. Many people take CNN seriously and do not take Breitbart seriously. Its site is ranked 25.
Education for what? Do you imagine that there is sufficient demand for technically skilled workers to absorb millions and millions more people? What happens when those jobs are automated as well?
You have a point and it does help not drinking coffee but I just feel like crap if I wake when it's dark outside. While if I drink coffee in the afternoon it's fine. I have had this for many years and I have experimented with it (like I mentioned as well) but getting up before 9-10 just makes me feel like shit while getting up after doesn't. When there is strong sun outside when I wake, then I feel fittest when waking up. When it rains or is dark and there is a lot of artificial, especially tl, light around, like an office early in the morning on a rainy day, I feel ill for hours. Always have. It passes after around 10 if it stays dark outside. So why not then just wake after 10 in the first place, it's not like i'm productive in that phase... It's just like working with someone in a slightly different timezone, no-one I ever met cared about it and actually most my colleagues have had the same or similar issues with getting up early.
Alan Kay on word processor architecture (1984) [PDF]
Ah, thanks. I wasn't aware of that
Ok, thanks for clarifying.

Incidentally, something's a little funny with this article. Missing spaces between words in a few places. E.g. "replacement formalloc()"
Between the copy-paste-ready talking points and the personal attack, this account is violating the HN guidelines and we've banned it.

This is not a site for ideological battle. When a topic is divisive and ideologically charged to begin with, conversation here needs to become more thoughtful, not less.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
It's been seen plenty of places in the world. Probably most, by area anyway. There are still places where a significant portion of the population are not only disdained and disenfranchised, but actively killed without much consequence: the Rohingya for a current example, or the lowest castes in India
Milllennial doctors forced to use fax machines, causing puzzlement
Notes on working with C and WebAssembly
People have been making these predictions, that machines are going to take away all of our jobs, for 'literally' hundreds of years.

So, have those doomsday scenarios come true? Or, instead, is the world a much much better place because nobody is spending 80 hours a week working on a farm to feed themselves?
Only Apple and Google seem to allow this. I've made the same request to every other email/cal/contact provider I've used but they never do it.

Fastmail seemed interested for about 5 minutes but nothing came of it.

Trying to sync all this custom stuff across walled gardens (iOS and Android bi-directionl sync for instance) isn't the work of just a moment though. So i understand the reluctance.

Perhaps Thunderbird having its own built in flexible fields setup would be possible but you still really need to sync them to be fully useful.
Please don't post flamebait here. Flamebait plus divisive topic amounts to trolling.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
E-Stop and Fuel, software that keeps you awake at night
Apache UIMA AS 2.10.2 released
I've only seen about 20 minutes of the first episode and couldn't enjoy it. I'd like to at least finish the first episode before I make judge for myself whether this one's worth my time (though I'm gonna first watch The Man in the High Castle). Generally though as a rule of thumb: Nice CGI doesn't make up for a terrible story, but a good story can make up for the lack of good CGI. E.g. I did not find the story good in the follow-ups of The Matrix.

I fully underline your statement regarding PKD's Electric Dreams as well as all the Black Mirror seasons. Furthermore, let us not forget that several other of PKD's works have seen a movie adaptations. I can recommend Total Recall (both; watch older first), Blade Runner (both; watch older first), A Scanner Darkly (if you can stand the art style; personally, I loved it), Minority Report, and The Adjustment Bureau (Screamers was OKish). There are series adaptations as well. Check Wikipedia for all the adaptations [1]

I'm not aware of any motion picture adaptations of Stephenson's or Gibson's works. Although I just found out via Wikipedia that the game Netrunner [2] is a derivative work of the Sprawl trilogy, and also The Matrix heavily "drawn" from the Sprawl trilogy as well [3].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_adaptations_of_works_b...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android:_Netrunner

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuromancer#Literary_and_cultu...
But not the lenders? They didn't have anything to do with convincing people to take their loans? They have to be subsidized with favorable bankruptcy laws?
OK, I am trying to install haskell again using the instructions given in this guide.

I removed my existing stack installation and my .stack directory, installed stack again, created a new stack project and then ran the recommended command in the guide to install ghc-mod and related tools: "stack build -j 8 --copy-compiler-tool ghc-mod hoogle weeder".

I get an error:

Error: While constructing the build plan, the
following exceptions were encountered:

In the dependencies for ghc-mod-5.8.0.0:
Cabal-2.0.1.1 from stack configuration does not
match >=1.18 && <1.25 (latest
matching version is 1.24.2.0)

...etc.

Can someone explain what's causing this?
Judging by how impacted CS programs are at colleges, and how hard working the interns I have been seeing come through my company lately, wages may be stalling sooner than you think.

Like many other skilled occupations in this country the future is probably going to be very highly paid elite workers and masses of low paid people who are just "good". Kind of inevitable in a capitalist society where human labor is losing its value.
What needs to make sense of her plot, exactly? She (or her sleeve?) was damaged or had an issue to the extent that all that was left was her stack. It was fascinated to me to see a AI help bring a human back as an individual & use methods it thought would help someone the best.
I also think this is flawed. Wind and orchestral string players (violin, cello etc) must develop a fine ear for pitch/intonation, pianists usually aren't given any choice as to tuning/voicing/regulation of the instruments they have to perform on and I think over time, many lose sensitivity to non Pythagorean intervals and ET deviations from just intonation.

So everybody's lumped together, those that play one instrument vs those than are proficient on 3 or more
Technical follow-up: It seems to me that implementing today's platform accessibility APIs (e.g. UI Automation for Windows, AT-SPI for Unix) would be difficult if not impractical for an immediate-mode toolkit like this one.

These accessibility APIs expose a tree of UI objects, which the client (e.g. screen reader) can freely navigate and query. This basically assumes that there's a tree of UI objects in memory, which is the case for all mainstream toolkits as far as I know. But that's not the case for an immediate-mode toolkit. At least with Nuklear, the content and state of the UI (e.g. the label and current checked state of a checkbox) aren't stored anywhere in the toolkit's data structures. So I guess applications would have to play a very active role in implementing accessibility APIs, much more than they would with, say, Qt or even Win32.
Ya, it sounds like a scare tactic. China does have advantages, mainly, they have lots of data with less concern for privacy.

The Chinese are making huge bets on AI, but they are beginning to sound like Japan in the 1980s with their Fifth generation computing project. Actually, there are so many analogues of China today to Japan in the 1980s (huge housing bubble, booming economy that doesn't seem to stop, a huge bet on AI....) that it doesn't really seem like a coincidence.
"Here, we examined... 10,500 Swedish twins"

Woah.

TIL about the Swedish Twin Registry: https://ki.se/en/research/the-swedish-twin-registry
I'm a fan of the market system but there are limits. It works well for solving one variable with it but our environmental issues are many and no one has found a business model that works to save it. Also, when the market solves for one issue it goes to extremes and often causes other unintended consequences. The market alone is not the answer but a combination of the market system plus our political system. But in reality it's just a matter of everyone understanding the problem and trying to help. Every resource we take from the environment has an impact no matter the size since it's multiplied by billions.
my core takeaway from HN these days is that life is but a meaningless expression of conscious carbon, quick to life and quick to death, with the only constant being endless futility.
Any recommendations on how to learn x64 assembly? I’d love to be able to throw a piece of code in godbolt and be able to understand the disassembled code.
I don't think it was hard to make backups, but that it was expensive, cost prohibitive by the 'have nots' who are unable to afford or acquire the ability to say, clone themselves on demand.
The reason people laughed in these people’s faces is that trade they had on cost ~10% a month and their time horizon was ~2.5years? Hmmmm
It's better to be single
97% of California Cities Failed to Meet State Housing Goals
Nonsense. The reason we have the concept of ‘it’ and ‘je ne sais qois’ is because we (many of us) find that a useful concept. Subjective assessment of art is absolutely allowed without rigorous metrics.

The differences in timing, attack, etc from a good player and a merely competent player are objectively measurable, but a non expert can hear the difference and form an option without understanding what they are using to discriminate.

Edit: fixed French spelling.
> It handles inputs and renders simultaneously.

I'm not sure that's the point. I think it's a good idea to decouple input and output (render).

The point of IMGUI vs traditional toolkits is, I think, rather that you don't have to communicate through an API to manipulate and sync state with the framework/library. The latter imposes lots of communication overhead and second guessing, and can't offer the same level of control.
That's simple. The jobs that are in demand and are needed. Software development, green energy, healthcare, etc. These jobs are not currently being upset by technology, which can easily be seen by the salaries that companies are willing to pay for these skilled workers. If you were correct about the speed of disruption then you should expect lower salaries across the board, but that is not what is being observed. You can cherry pick a few jobs of course, but even your example of paralegals is an exaggeration. (https://money.usnews.com/careers/best-jobs/paralegal)

People are very adaptable and given the option of living in poverty or going back to school, I'm pretty sure I know what most people would pick. Say what you will about coding bootcamps, but I'm willing to bet that someone who completes a 15 week course will have much better job prospects (and receive higher pay) than someone who does not. A lot of people just need a little financial help to make the transition and that is where the government can help.

There's no magic involved here. Just common sense policy and hard work.
Russian scientists are using lab supercomputers to mine cryptocurrencies
I have this idea that if they split off WebAssembly, WebGL and WebAudio into a external format for applications it would be easier to implement than a full browser.
Not at all, just listen to some of the musical channels on Twitch. Channels like pianoimproman (old man who is crazy good) and kylelandrypiano (young) are just leagues above the rest, yet there is no shortage of live musicians. I suggest watching just to see how pianoimproman gets a request for a song he has never heard, then plays his own version of that song based on only hearing a few seconds.

A sample from the young man: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/227075655
MyBatis Dynamic SQL
I ported V6 Unix to another platform ..... first I had to port the compiler ....
It will be interesting to see if facebook ends up like yahoo in the long term
You can see my reply in another response... IMHO the long long term answer is convergence. Well it's probably either convergence or total eradication by intelligent machines, so I'm going with convergence for now. :-)
>In drawing it’s most evident, some people can draw and others can’t, no amount of practice will help me.

That isn't remotely true, we just don't teach children to draw. Most teachers believe that it's an innate ability and have no idea how to teach it even if they wanted to. Drawing is a straightforward skill that can be quickly learned, but it's highly counter-intuitive to most people. If you think you can't draw, pick up a copy of Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain by Betty Edwards or Keys to Drawing by Bert Dodson.
To add to your list of questions,

Since it is so trivial to fake video evidence or transfer to a new body, why would a video confession have any value? And why on earth are their bank accounts DNA-locked when they can and do change bodies like they change cloths?

In the future so technologically advanced, why would a contract need to be physically printed and stamped?

Who holds the power in this universe? One episode Meths are gods, untouchable by mere mortals. The next, police show up and easily arrest not one, but two of them. One week a nobody can slaughter an entire clinic and walk away with impunity, the next a Meth is arrested for what can be arguably called a manslaughter, under influence no less. Who is the ultimate untouchable, Meths or CTAC? It seems it changes from episode to episode.

If people can live in the virtual, why wouldn't more people do so instead of simply dying? Living in the virtual should cost nothing or close to nothing. Why isn't everyone who can't afford a new body at the end of their natural lifespan simply move to virtual for the rest of eternity, or until they gather enough money for a new body?

I can go on and on. Nothing about the show made sense. The visuals were great, but everything else was terribly lacking.
Nearly a Million iOS Apps and Discovery Still Sucks (2013)
Just because something is trivial doesn't mean that anyone has to care enough to keep doing it.

It's not more common because we as an industry have a terrible habit of designing systems to be non self-maintaining.
Using intrinsics leaves a lot of performance on the table if there is any register contention. Even Intel's compiler doesn't do that good a job. I've seen gains of over 2x by hand coding.
The Wisconsinites who are capable of understanding this are probably also smart enough not to have voted for the jackass who made this happen in the first place.
I highly recommend the London Review of Books - it is my favorite print publication and has excellent current events and political writing (along with the book reviews, which are also quite encompassing).
A citation? I shudder at the idea of lending an air of academic gravitas to Bill Maher's Real Time, but yes it's clear that jumping on the “that’s racism” bandwagon, as the gp put it, is exactly what Affleck did.

He was so angered by the statement, "We have been sold this meme of Islamophobia, where every criticism of the doctrine of Islam get conflated as bigotry against Muslims as people. It is intellectually ridiculous." that he went on the offensive and said, "That's gross, it's racist. It's like saying you're a 'shifty Jew.' You guys are saying: 'If you want to be liberals, believe in liberal principles, like freedom of speech"

Whatever your opinion about the acceptability of criticizing Islam over violence, sexism or treatment of homosexuals, it's clear that some people do equate that criticism with racism.

Ideological intolerance can often make people blind to nuanced positions, such as being open to a group of people but not all of their traditional beliefs.

> " no one is being criticized for actual science"

Take a look at what evolutionary psychologists and biologists have been facing over the past decade. The criticism coming form people who have little experience in their fields, but intense political and social beliefs, has been intense.
L'orthographe français contient du... je ne sais quoi.
Better choose your utility metric carefully, because I’ll bet 90% of the world’s population aren’t necessary to achieving most people’s ideas of goals.
Open Project Management Methodology
I would agree with you 99% of the time, but not for these products.

Professional fund managers who want to insure against volatility can easily trade VIX futures or index options. They wouldn't use an ETP that can only replicate daily returns which erodes longer holding period returns, with high internal fees, daily roll costs, etc.

Same goes for other products like 3x inverse leveraged oil ETPs. The Southwests and Exxon Mobils of the world would never hedge with those. They'd go to ICE/CME or have a bank/energy producer write a bespoke forward contract.

The people trading these exotic products are the /r/wallstreetbets crowd. They're basically gambling instruments because of the amped up returns. They aren't suitable for the retail investor because they can't understand the mechanics, and professionals have better choices. Really no reason for these to exist, and I wouldn't be surprised to see more scrutiny after retail traders lost everything in inverse VIX this week.
Nice. I also recommend checking out Nanogui (C++) by Wenzel Jakob:
https://github.com/wjakob/nanogui
Which home assistant is right for you?
If good is defined by more factors than quality of translation, maybe. But translations between the two languages I speak, English and Spanish, are never good enough to actually use without a lot of follow up work by a human.
Better people? that is somewhat insensitive to people who use marijuana for medical purposes. for example i smoke in mornings to avoid nausea from medications and to curb migraines and i work better because of it.

If a more able bodied person is "better" still, I guess you're right, you / employers can be the judge of it; after all, no one would be so blatantly honest about discrimination, be it marijuana use or overall health... there's always another reason to give to a candidate or worker. I have to agree that I don't think more government regulation would help in that regard. But maybe that's based off of my apathy, lol.

Anyways, im hoping you can consider there are reasons to consume marijuana other than just getting fucked up. its not always a reflection of bad character or poor work ethic.