skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes. Assange is an excellent barometer for this. When the info Wikileaks was publishing primarily supported the MSM agenda, he was a hero who was fighting for transparency. When it began to counteract that agenda, Assange was denigrated as "a patsy of Russian intelligence", and now "liberal" circles consider everything from Wikileaks tainted. It is especially sad, but not surprising, to see many in the hacker community fall for this blatant propaganda and turn their backs on Wikileaks and Assange so quickly.

The entire playing field is rife with people looking to manipulate and exploit. That should be no mystery to anyone. They do it because it's what works. It's the same in every country. Try to run a noble campaign that exempts itself from the game and you end up like Jill Stein or Bernie Sanders, just as trying to run a business while exempting yourself from the game results in fourth-rate also-ran status.

Trump pulled off an amazing feat in destroying this whole apparatus that was set against him (in many cases by simply beating them at their own game -- I'm not trying to claim that his side necessarily used clean tactics), and for anyone who thinks that can all be written off as "fake news" or the even more laughable "Russian interference", well, I have a bridge to sell you. That is a highly simplistic worldview that clearly demonstrates an overriding interest in allegiance to the Democrat tribe more than any serious consideration or critical thinking. To the extent that smart people are involved in propagating these myths, they are doing it for personal gain (see above about playing the game).
> Asked to rate a fictitious person on a range of character traits, people who scored low on a test of cognitive ability continued to be influenced by damaging information about the person even after they were explicitly told the information was false.

I think this makes more sense if you consider instincts around forming alliances, rather than raw cognitive ability. In the real world, a successful belief adoption strategy is not merely one that leads you to correct beliefs, but one that leads you to successful beliefs. In many cases, correct beliefs are the most successful. But social implications can easily override that.

For example, it seems obviously incorrect to believe that Moses wrote the Pentateuch, since it tells of his own death. But belief in non-Mosaic authorship of the Pentateuch was not a successful one in 16th century Europe, since it was considered heretical.

In this case, hearing negative information about someone provides evidence for at least four things:

1. The negative information is true

2. Other people believe the negative information is true

3. That person's social standing is insufficient to prevent this negative information from spreading

3. Assuming the information is false, someone else has reason to spread it

Only the first one of those relates to the objective truth of the information, or has much bearing on the person's character. The rest have much more to do with social consequences of allying yourself with the person in question.

Of course, people don't usually evaluate all of those factors consciously and then think "Well this person is probably good, but they're also a potential pariah who I should avoid associating with". Instead, we have instincts that lead us to better social strategies by shaping our beliefs.

That's obviously not the whole story, since these researchers did find that cognitive ability correlated with attitude adjustment. But I think the social side of this is a crucial piece, and may interact with cognitive ability in ways which might be difficult to control for. For example, it seems plausible that a person with intellectual social status would be more willing to adopt contrarian views, which would make it easier for them to give less weight to the social implications, and more weight to the objective question.
Yes that's what India did.
For python fans, I've been working on pyNuklear

https://github.com/billsix/pyNuklear
Not only are accelerometers precise enough for data transfer, me and my colleagues demonstrated data transfer at ~200 bps (after error correction) through the user’s finger to a wristworn smartwatch. Take a look: https://www.robertxiao.ca/research/viband/
This is indeed correct – the first iPhone with iOS 1 did not have any apps, or ways to install apps.

The very defining feature of a smart phone are the apps, though.

EDIT: Due to downvotes, here’s Apple’s own page advertising how iOS 2 (introduced with the iPhone 3G) adds apps to the iPhone: https://web.archive.org/web/20080912112138/http://www.apple....
I always find these kinds of things interesting, eg Bunnies hack of the XBOX (read the book!). This seems particularly damning[0]:

> * Is a bootrom bug
> * Can't be patched (in currently released Switches)
> * Doesn't require a modchip to pull off

[0] https://twitter.com/fail0verflow/status/953084954145181696
Always blaming the proximate cause and not the ultimate.

Ask yourself:

What causes someone to go on social media?

What causes that cause?

No. Here it is:

"Depression" is an unscientific word, with no falsifiable or predictive power.

Lame and lazy procrastinators will be lame and lazy. Don't blame their behaviour on "muh depression" or "social media". If you do that, then people will NOT change/improve fpr you have now disassociated them.
How do you define " managed growth" ?
We've taken that approach for quite a while in the US and the results are bad, to put it mildly.
Interestingly, in the UK I had to meet an energy effciciency standard before being eligable for solar panel subsidies.

http://www.energysavingtrust.org.uk/sites/default/files/repo...
How the Modern World Makes Us Mentally Ill
> Now compare this to online banking and seriously tell me that this is easier.

It's not. But compared to storing large amounts of dollars, pounds, or euros, it is easier.

> Yes, you can set up a system that is very resistant to failure. But my grandma doesn't understand the difference between minimizing a window and deleting her facebook account. I'm not excited about explaining SSS to her.

Your grandma won't need to know about any of that, because she'll probably continue to trust an organisation to look after her money for her.

Just because cryptocurrencies make it feasible for people to not trust other entities with their money doesn't mean that everyone will.
A decent UI toolkit has accessibility built in, so using such toolkit and adhering to the platforms design language takes you quite far in not obstructing disabled people. Something like an interactive website, for example, if one follows good practices, is effortlesly disabled-friendly.
Lisp interpreter.

Writing a GC and tagged values in particular are where pointers and memory management finally really clicked with me.
I don't think this was unexpected though. Hence the willingness to buy into other forms of social like Instagram, WhatsApp, and snap(attempted)
Sometimes turning off all the -O optimizations and making sure all the -g options are on helps with that.
Nope, it doesn't work that way.

The military budget is set by those who actually do have expertise in the area, not me. I don't need to show expertise to accept the judgment of experts. The OP is disputing those experts, and thus does need to show expertise.
Personally I wouldnt bother with this since I delete cookies as soon as I exit the browser.

I've a password manager for logins.
>keeping them locked up or otherwise away from the rest of society longer will very effectively reduce crime.

The problem with this is it only looks at the problem from a maintenance perspective rather than a preventative root cause analysis. Like adressing the relationship between cyclical poverty and cyclical incarceration
Create a Subway in Blender in 20 Minutes by Andrew Price
I love the way the articles trots out the line that Google translate is almost as good as a human translator, in view of Hofsdadter's recent article.
I use maven-enforcer-plugin to force resolution of dependency conflicts. It's a pain at first to go through and add all the exclusions. But then I don't have dig through the dependencies in, e.g., a war, to find duplicate versions of a package.

Edit: Then I cross my fingers hoping there isn't a breakage or unexpected behavior somewhere.
No Causal Effect of Music Practice on Ability (2014) [pdf]
Comparing Correlation and Causation in Large-Scale Facebook Experiments
> This goes double for long-term success. As the disclaimers say, past performance is no indication of future results.

Past performance is no guarantee of future performance, but it should absolutely be an indicator. Unless you view success in trading as a purely stochastic process, consistently beating the market is a strong signal that it can be done again in the future (by definition). If you do believe success in trading is a purely stochastic process, the disclaimer becomes moot in the “indicator” form or “guarantee” form because such a position is antithetical to trading in the first place.

To be more precise, if we're going to engage in deliberate trading at all, it's only productive to do so if we operate under the assumption that performance is random.
Compelling Reasons for Repairing Human Germlines
The Secret Ingredient to Photorealism
I am curious what you suppose the solutions are if not protectionism and tarrifs.

I cannot live in the US on a Chinese factory worker’s wage, and it’s my government’s job to protect me, not the free market.

I have said this repeatedly, so forgive the repetition, but this is not progess if we’re all going to live in poverty in slums paycheck to paycheck except for the wealthy.
It should be noted that a consistent, orthodox Christian view on this discussion is actually summed up in what is called Compatibilism[0]. (tl;dr — autonomous free will does not exist.)

The late Greg Bahnsen wrote on this topic[1] a lot. If you can find some of his debates on YouTube they are well worth the time if you are interested in this topic.

[0]: https://www.monergism.com/topics/free-will/compatibilism

[1]: http://www.cmfnow.com/articles/pt131.htm
That seems to start from the assumption that everyone would commit crime if they could.
Also: if we don't use the domain registration system to proxy for individual sites and presence on the Internet, then what alternatives might be substituted?

Note that domains don't solve the problem of a third-party controlling your point-of-access or presence, they only move it elsewhere.
So you think we should gamble the national security of the entire nation based on your (unqualified) opinion?

Do you seriously not see the problem with that?
Passively accepting defeat may not be “the solution” but it’s what approximately everybody does, including approximately everybody complaining about smart speakers.
They generally are too small to be useful. That's why I called it "tinfoil hatty". Most of the issues with them come from mechanically coupled vibrations in a system (from fans and the like) flexing the whole circuit board, so it's not as big an issue with phones. Also most of the capacitors are power supply decoupling caps, so difficult to sense variations from.

It's mostly just a fiendishly annoying effect in high-sensitivity test equipment.
You'll be fine in the States. Life expectancy is decreasing -
https://edition.cnn.com/2017/12/21/health/us-life-expectancy...

Meanwhile, in the rest of the civilized world, we are increasing pension age, replacing defined benefits pensions with defined contributions, and lots of micro effects. The pension system is, of course, workable. It just needs adjusting to longer expected lifespans and, of course, increased funding from people of working age.
The wav file is decompressed, so you can’t just look at the size of the file.
It’s not at all hard, and obviously so: for most crimes (e.g. assault, rape, robbery, murder), the perpetrator’s race is observable. The National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) and National Incident Based Reporting System (NIBRS) measure exactly this, and surprise, surprise: offense rates and arrest rates line up pretty exactly for every race across every category of crime.
Well, as long as they're promoting the idea they may as well get a taste of their own medicine. It's not like they don't have access to alternative arguments based on empathy or moral principles or empirical data showing that their highly punitive approach works poorly.
I learned C over 1990 Christmas break from university. At home, I programmed my father's Mac Plus and wrote a game similar to Light's Out but on a playfield not a square grid.
>As mentioned above, if you're just starting to think about these things when you're old enough to work two jobs, you've already made bad decisions that are going to be very hard to reverse.

I mean, I know people who were working multiple jobs in their early to mid teens. Are you suggesting that middle school is when you really need to be making choices about your career prospects? Its this kind of comment that really convinces me that you had a lot more "privilege" than you want to admit. A roof over your head, a stable home, and access to technology and resources are privileges that you appear to have had, and are not as universal as you seem to believe.

>my life was invalid

What does this mean? I'm absolutely willing to say that its inane to base your entire moral philosophy on a single person's experience. But that doesn't mean that your life or experiences are invalid, just that generalizing them to everyone is ridiculous. That's the entire point though not everyone's circumstances are the same as yours. That's the whole central point of what privilege is about. That doesn't make your life "invalid", again, I don't know what that means. Its real, I'm sure it happened. It worked for you. That's great. That doesn't make it generalizable. But you seem to once again be misinterpreting my statements that your experiences are not generalizable as your experiences not being real. That's completely untrue, and I don't know why you feel the need to so completely misinterpret my words.

I'm not making any assumptions about you beyond that you are a human being, a human being who suffers from the same cognitive biases as every other human being. In the absence of any compelling evidence to the contrary, that absolutely seems like a sane assumption to make.
Back when I built robots I could tell when they needed lube or bearings replaced by the pitch change in the motors on full power. I find it interesting that you figured out the same for a mainframe
Tools can be used beyond the area they were originally intended for and still be useful and appropriate.

Tim Berners-Lee probably didn't have single-page applications in mind when he invented HTML but hyperlinked documents are also inherently more dynamic and application-like than traditional documents. Just think about HyperCard, which is a similar concept HTML and the World Wide Web were inspired by.

So, yes in a way indeed HTML was also built for many of the purposes it's used for today.
I thought the book was 3rd rate "genre" (in the worst way) fiction.
A good UI toolkit with built-in accessibility helps, but in non-trivial applications, it still takes thought to make sure you use the toolkit correctly. In my experience, there are myriad ways to accidentally mess up accessibility. So I wouldn't use words like "effortless".
> This article fails to mention any privacy risks to the volunteers.

What privacy risk, exactly? Who has been harmed? 23andMe has been in operation since ~2007 and between them and Ancestry.com and the UKBB and the Japanese BB and others, there must be somewhere on the order of 10 million+ genomes cumulatively. UKBB alone has been the basis for what must be at least hundreds of papers at this point by thousands of researchers or groups. Even further: there are literally thousands of genomes available publicly online from groups like PGP for a decade now, which you can go and download right now, including mine. Is all this not enough? When should we expect to finally see these risks materialize?

> GWAS have proven to be, at best, of little value. In fact, due to the unfortunate way that many researchers chase p-values, these analyses often result in misdirection.

That is completely wrong. GWASes have an excellent replication record, and were founded on the basis of stringent p-values precisely because of how earlier candidate-gene studies were garbage due to researchers chasing p-values.
The AWT Page is just a long html table. This UI is simpler in a good way.

I’m not sure how much AI is actually used here.
Ah yes, Purplefish <3. A very magical tool for us OS peeps.

Not sure of the breadth of code in there though, as it seemed every org had its own way of managing its own source code. At the beginning, iPhone OS was basically a mono-repo, but I don't think you could find the iBoot source code in there. Plus, there was this whole hyperbolic "security clearance" leveling that only those working closely with Forstall and Jobs were given full access to UI code. Everyone else had some janky non-ui variant that worked well enough to test the lower level code. To be fair, factory workers were known sources of leaks, so it was a smart move to hide upcoming features.

At every software job I've ever worked, you were entrusted to take care of the companies IP. It's a lot of responsibility when you think about it, because so much of the worlds most powerful IP sits on laptops all over the place. How many of those get stolen or hacked and still thankfully never have things leak?! I've always been impressed. This is another reason we get paid so well when you think about it.
In my opinion, fake news isn’t nearly as prevalent or as dangerous as news that mostly tells the truth as a technicality or formality, but is presenting a radically skewed and biased narrative.

That kind of dishonesty fools even people on the upper end of cognitive ability.

Modern news cycles are edited together like reality TV shows. The bias is for sensationalism, and for supporting and validating the worldview of the journalists and financial backers involved.

The media’s gestalt can be a massive deliberate lie and con on the entire population, and they can easily achieve that without ever telling a single individual lie.

Which isn’t to say they don’t sometimes resort to flat-out lying, there’s a good amount of that too. But mostly what the “credible” news sources do is take a large selection of truths, and sum them up to a whole that’s deliberately engineered to deceive everybody for the sake of sensational, political and social bias.
This is very similar to optimized array-copy code generated by JIT compilers today.
The book definitely does not fail in this regard. The very way the murder is solved and presented to Bancroft is certainly not the stock "mystery solved, justice is restored" ending, though the mystery is solved, and justice is indeed sort of restored.
Macro Pi – Focus Stacking Using Raspberry Pi
I don’t see the problem with having the discussion. The US military is a disgustingly wasteful (pallets of cash in the desert “go missing”! [1]) organization that has squandered trillions of dollars. Dollars that could’ve been spent on something useful. It’s time for accountability and responsibility.

Do you seriously not see the problem with not questioning that? We can’t afford universal education and healthcare, but we can afford aircraft carriers that are obsolete for force projection (inexpensive surface cruise missiles from China) and F35s that can’t fly, kill their pilots, and are generally speaking not fit for purpose? [2].

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2007/feb/08/usa.iraq1

[2] https://www.thedailybeast.com/military-admits-billion-dollar...
Either why aren't 1% of people psychopaths in other developed nations or alternatively why are these 1% behaving in other nations.
I’ve been reading “Real World Haskell” and enjoying it thus far. Big bonus is it is available for free online:

http://book.realworldhaskell.org
Wow, I wish this existed when I was wprking with Haskell a few years ago. This is a compendium of useful information. I really love how Haskell makes me think and code in an entirely different way. It is fun, and I hope the language continues to grow.
Your strident advocacy is admirable, and that's why I upvoted your first comment.

But we have to deal with reality here. Some tasks simply require normal sight. Believe me, as a legally blind person myself, I wish I could drive, but I understand why I can't and accept it. The same applies for some software applications. So all I can ask is that developers pay attention to accessibility unless there's some reason why it just won't work for their application. I think that's what your interlocutor is getting at as well.
Personally, I really liked altered carbon. The acting was good, the sets great, and the story intriguing. The show doesn’t go out of its way to surprise you like GoT, but it had enough mysteries and twists to keep things interesting.

The only lesser part for me wasn’t the story but the technology. I’m ok with unexplained advanced tech, but it has to make sense. Why are the only things run by advanced better-than-human AI’s hotels and brothels? Why is it so trivial to transfer minds between bodies but so difficult to make a simple backup? Why are prosthetic replacement arms so powerful they can crush metal, and why if that tech is available don’t the special ops use bodies which are all-prosthetic? Too many things didn’t make sense.
A logical and reasonable assumption, and I think probably mostly true, but still unproven.
> And exploiting security bugs is not unlawful?

Not when you have all of congress (minus a very select very few) wagging their tails and eager to please you it's not.
For purposes of these discussions, it is always conflated with "right of center". Academics accept this as a forgone conclusion, or, at best, use some self-referential circular argument for why the conservative political allegiance is the domain of the less-enlightened, e.g., fewer conservatives went to institutions that are overwhelmingly liberal for career training (university, especially when advanced degrees are considered), or fewer white-collar workers are willing to express conservative views. Neither of these things have much of anything to do with intelligence or stupidity.

Rest assured, there are plenty of blistering idiots on both sides of aisle, in equal proportions that match the idiocy of the general public (roughly 95/5). The amount of people who have the right combination of raw intellect, disregard for social convention, etc., to make independent and objectively defensible arguments that aren't simple regurgitations of the party line is probably 5%. This is true for basically every group and subculture (possibly except those that are so small they don't qualify as their own group/subculture yet).

Even among groups that attract primarily intelligent people in the absolute sense, like software or physics, most don't have the social courage to speak up when they disagree or to align themselves with someone who is clearly in the minority, nor do they have the interest to consider material in-depth and fully understand it in a way that allows them to internalize its principles and detect fakes or imposters. For the most part, they'll happily follow the crowd, no matter how silly the basis.
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