skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well adoption studies show that environment doesn't matter much to IQ. Kids raised in the poorest families didn't have higher IQs than kids raised in the richest families (http://sci-hub.la/10.1007/s10519-007-9142-7). Adopted siblings have little correlation in IQ (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21807642). And intervention programs to increase IQ in disadvantaged populations always fail (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S016028961...).

Lung cancer is one of the biggest correlation found here. And smoking is pretty genetic (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15971021). Other things might be affected by diet and BMI, but that's also highly genetic.

This study also controlled for socioeconomic status.
"And if there is a scam, whats the motive of the people saying protect our climate?"

Well, one thing could be funding. This subject is highly politicised

Its a much more complex discussion which I learned when I decided to dig into it and understand what the skeptics actually was saying (instead of what the media and many climate scientists say they are saying.

I always get suspicious when someone claims there is no discussion that always means there is one. Especially something based on computer models.

One thing I learned which helped me understand the discussion a little better was that very few if any so called "climate deniers" say that there isn't climate change.

In fact, they all say that of course there is climate change and as long as there is a climate there is climate change.

Furthermore, most of them completely acknowledge humans affect the climate however and this is where it gets really fuzzy, the debate is how much and if it's enough to be concerned about.

Once you dig into the data you realize there are so many uncertainties involved in this and so much guess work. The ICSC have had to change their forecasts several times to much less problematic temperature rises in the future.

Even more, confusing to the layman, the arguments for on the "catastrophic climate change is coming" is changing and actually have been changing. That reminds me a little bit of the creationism which evolved into intelligent design discussion. There is something that needs more transparency if the argument changes. Now it's the ocean we have to worry about.

I am just a lay man and all of this might have a perfectly rational explanation but I have to say that I have changed my perspective on this quite a lot once i digged into it.

Then there is a whole other discussion which people like Alex Epstein is proposing about the morality of ex. oil and the fact that removing fossil fuels right now would do more harm than good.

It's a difficult discussion because people are so tribal about it which leaves very little room for freethinking and trying to explore different perspectives without being labeled either a climated denier or a treehugger.
Yeah, I know. Maybe the post(s) should not talk about performance for those badly fitting examples then.
Lets also not confuse means with ends. A room full of corpses is a room full of corpses. Regardless if they were put there from human sacrifice, nazi genocide, communist collectivization, or capitalist cost cutting (the sweatshop workers that get burned to death).

That the people who filled that room wanted a wonderful society filled with everything good doesn't detract from the fact they were monsters.
I find Floyd–Warshall algorithm much more facinating. It took me almost 25 years to realize that it was different from the algorithm that I had deviced myself for solving the problem.

Dijkstra's algorithm seems rather obvious to me, as I discovered it myself after I head the problem description. A note in my diary seems to imply that I implemented it in LISP.
My own experience in this department has been managers with engineering experience but no management training or experience. Sometimes it’s orgs that promote bad engineers into middle management to get them out of engineering. Sometimes it’s orgs promoting their best engineers into management roles for which they are a bad fit, or just ill prepared.

A number of the examples in the article are just bad management, and things I’ve heard from managers with years of engineering experience.

YMMV
>Meaning if power goes out and is restored in the middle of the night the lights could suddenly turn on full brightness.

That's the same with regular bulbs, so...
Again, from my personal experience, most of the time the decision maker doesn't know there is a problem or that it could possibly be improved.
In this case I think "real" interest rate means a rate derived in the free market, rather than at the whim of central planners (fed).
The fact also remains that the world we live in doesn’t have a lower capital gains tax rate. If we’re going to propose tax changes for the future, all proposals are as good as any other.
Rulers that want to stay forever... such as the King of Saudi Arabia?
I have a very similar experience with sit-stand setups. I have one at home and had one at work.

I stand up for routine tasks (email etc.) and sit down for deeper work. I find standing unconsciously restricts breathing (core muscles contract) so makes me exhausted more rapidly. I rarely work standing for more than an hour.

Reading comments here it seems a very common experience.

I think no matter how many studies on the subject there will be, personal experience dictates how we'll do it. Like you I'm just glad the option now is now socially acceptable to be a bit more mobile when doing desk work.
> It’s better to have no management than unqualified management.

If you’ve ever been on a project with more than 1 or 2 people without a manager—or where the manager doesn’t do their job—you would know how insane this sounds. It does not work. Once you’re coordinating groups of people you need a manager to keep them working together towards a common goal.
Yeah, and robots with laser eyes scanning for people sitting on the crapper...
So perhaps the best approach is to use your own servers for the guaranteed minimum load you will see and use more expensive AWS for everything else.
Based on those cables, he was bred by the party elite to rule. He and his family have been the party for 2 generations, the entirety of that horrific stuff has gone on under their moderate watch.

Xi is scarier than others like Erdogan and Putin because he's not an outright villain, but that benign acceptance and normalization of humans rights abuses goes on while we buy phones from them and he and the party get further and further cemented into power.

That's horrifying, with a villain at least people would wake up.
> You're saving on 2-3 days upfront on racking and cabling, on boxes that will last at least 3 years, probably longer.

"Infrastructure" is a little broader than just some cabling, much broader. You're also assuming that whoever will be in charge of DIY is a) more competent at scale than whatever will be scraped together for the cloud, and b) available with no resource cannibalisation.

The point the person you're replying to was trying to make was that for every "good" hire you're deciding where to allocate them, and sourcing plumbing from a cloud provider lets you allocate preferentially to product development (ie business growth). Even if you "pay more" for that setup, in theory business growth you will achieve more rapidly pays for it many times over (first mover advantage, market leader advantage, cost of money over time, etc).

The costs of pinching the wrong penny and making technical hiring more difficult, diluting your talent pool, can be the difference between huge success and too little too late. An undermanaged local setup that cost you 3 years on Time to Market will bite you long before 'eventually' comes, and you won't have oodles of cash to fix the problem.
Yeah this will break a lot of webpages. If all you are doing is inserting turbolinks, and the scripts on the page are not expecting turbolinks, then you will definitely run into cases where scripts depending on events associated with the page loading lifecycle are never triggered correctly.
Google auotmatically collects data on you the moment you visit and site with Google Analytics or a +1 button or when using Google Ads. Or using youtube.

While it's certainly not totally impossible to vote with your data, you should remember that you are the product for google. The customers are advertisers. Not you.
"At its heart, Dijkstra’s algorithm is really only a modified bread-first search."

First finish your bread, and only then attempt the search.
Are there any popular distros that don't let you skip an update?
Doesn't the stop make it easier to go back to 0? Sure you have to turn it more, but you don't have to worry about accidentally going past 0 and leaving the stove on.
Maybe it's because employers want >2 years experience from people straight out of college, and no one wants to train. Companies claim they don't want to train because you could just leave (at will) but it's relatively simple to draw up a contract that employees must pay back training costs if they don't stay at least a year or two.
What's funny is that crypto issues are actually not the biggest problem with IOTA.

The biggest problem is that it just makes no sense. It's not going to be decentralized & secure at the same time. It's LESS efficient than blockchain in every way. It's bad for IoT. It doesn't have any of fancy features like Ethereum.

Crypto issues is just an icing on a cake. They can change crypto functions, but they can't change the fact that coin is the worst choice for IoT (or pretty much anything).

The only selling point is that it's fee-less. But it's possible to make a centralized fee-less coin which would be much more secure and useful than IOTA.
From a background using turbolinks extensively, if you do:

$(document).on('turbolinks:load', insertFunctionHere);

Then you should be good to go in terms of loading functions after the trubolink(s). There should be a way to reverse this for this application. I personally, don't know -_-
“On the whole, there is a significant relationship between the number of American deaths abroad per capita and the number of travel warnings a country receives (r = 0.56, p = <.001)” the graph associated with his claim does not look anything like a linear relationship.
> the syntax looks similar to Java

Syntactical it is similar to java, although only the simplest Java. No generics, no inner classes, etc. And let’s face it, even at its most complicated, Java isn’t syntactically complicated.

> I wonder if it is really that easy to teach programming with this language?

Well, it’s been in use for a number of years, and is popular among non-traditional programmers, so the answer seems to be yes.
Some antivirus complain about any file compressed using kkrunchy (http://www.farbrausch.de/~fg/kkrunchy/). This is a known issue.

Some background here: https://conspiracy.hu/about/antivirus/

The only solution is to report the false positive to antivirus vendors, but it takes a lot of time.
>Bouncing to no-reply address will not help much either.

If someone does that, it's a good method to land on basically any spam blacklist out there.

Most larger providers like mailgun will tell you if you're bouncing a lot of mails and reduce your reputation. Same for gmail even.
That Speedmaster won't run "service free" for that long, though. If you go by this guy's account, it'll cost you over $100/yr to maintain such a thing: https://www.hodinkee.com/articles/the-service-industry-takin.... I think the correct takeaway here is: "don't use famous moon watches as your baseline comparison for 'dumb watch'".
> And this certainly isn't the case in the NHS in the UK where doctors have no financial incentives interfering with their clinical decisions (barring saving the service money)

This meme really needs to die. The NHS has massive financial incentives that impact clinical decisions. In fact, you literally go on to mention as such in your next sentence.

It turns out that having an incentive to "save the system money" results in a different set of clinical decisions. And no, those don't always work out in favor of the patient. (They're particularly problematic for the patient in cases of long-term care, which is why the NHS does rather badly on complicated and chronic conditions like treating cancer compared to the US and other countries).
> So do vegans have a workflow that makes their diet convenient.

I suppose so. More home cooking, sourcing ingredients, finding small markets, knowing the right restaurants, etc.

> The thing is, one has to start somewhere, and no one starts anywhere because they see the change as inconvenient.

That's probably and unfortunately very true, in software as well as food and CO2 reduction.
haha, I'm away right now, but I live in Whitehorse, I've been to Rendezvous many, many times :)

My first year it didn't get above -40... daytime high temps :)
When you give every kid a trophy, they all think that they are winners. We have raised a generation of children who have been infantilized and sheltered throughout their childhood and college years. The inevitable result, unfortunately, is a generation of adults that lack the ability to tackle adversity, think critically, or make valid self-assessments (something that is difficult even for the most enlightened). We have a system of social and academic promotion that has virtually no relation to objective metrics. Many universities (and law schools), even the most prestigious, are eliminating objective admission standards because so many applicants are unable to meet them. Its no surprise that those who have been conditioned since birth to believe that they are entitled to "achievements" have an inflated view of their abilities. The steady decline in literacy, critical thinking, and overall competence (from already low historical levels) mirrors the steady decline and atrophication of our society as a whole.

http://college.usatoday.com/2016/07/18/columbia-and-barnard-...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/grade-point/wp/2017/03/0...

https://www.fairtest.org/schools-do-not-use-sat-or-act-score...
Despite us starting with the simplest theorems and progressing to significantly harder and harder ones over time? Wow. That’s actually very impressive.
>it isn't unjustified to believe that this will be the downfall of China, and that we should be very worried about an upcoming war.

Why - will such a civil war spill beyond China's borders?
>Meaning if power goes out and is restored in the middle of the night the lights could suddenly turn on full brightness.

No, they just add 200 other failure scenarios of their own...
That's not true in general, I've been in environments where a team of 10+ very motivated individuals worked together without a manager. It's not common though.
Which ones?

In other news: http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/germany-books-...
This is exactly why H1B should be ended. It's very unfair to people. Replace the diversity lottery with an immigration policy that prefers admitting skilled people.
> Investors don't like to see big CAPEX numbers but seem fine with large OPEX ones.

If things go pear shaped large OPEX numbers resolve themselves as OP-erations get slimmed and shut down. Large CAPEX numbers, in the same situation, resolve themselves through liquidation and tears...

More importantly, OPEX comes from next years profits yielding a business I can loan against. CAPEX comes from last years profits, increasing the amount of loans I need to get it together.

It's the difference between thinking about short term profit margins and thinking about asset growth over time. Throwing a lot of optional cash today at a problem is better business than being forced to throw non-optional cash at a problem whenever the problem is feeling problematic. It's also quite freeing in terms of M&A.
A neural network can have many inputs but only one input. That could be useful?
I don't see how such an ideologically driven administration would raise taxes. Instead they will definitely attempt to cut domestic transfer payments and assistance to the needy. The money for the outrageous tax cuts for the wealthy 'needs to come from some where' after all.

When you look at the numerous members of the administration that have already racked up 20million plus taxpayer-funded tabs for private flights on personal business there is nothing to point to as far as fiscal discipline with this administration.
> Well adoption studies show that environment doesn't matter much to IQ.

Really? I remember a few adoption study where they found the opposite: They measured the IQs of genetically identical twins that were adopted into different families, and found that family environment mattered a hell of a lot.

I can't find the study that I remember, but here are some adjacent studies that have done similar things with similar results:

http://sciencenordic.com/adopted-children-have-higher-iqs-th...

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/6872626

http://www.pnas.org/content/112/15/4612
I'm by no means well-educated on finance. However, it seems like inflation has been the boogeyman of every major policy decision in the US for the decades I've been watching. So far, the dire predictions haven't come true, but we've faced growing wage inequality for 30 years.

I've read that the Fed has a dual mission - keep inflation/deflation in check and unemployment at healthy levels, but I only ever hear their concern for inflation risks.

As a result I tend to discount concerns over inflation, assuming that the major problem will be the issue we aren't addressing...is my reaction reasonable?
your first link is broken
Seems to me the hash function should just be H(x) = 0. Very efficient, just as secure!
I'm getting worried I won't be able to find a dumb TV when I need a new one.
Webgl Particle Visualizer
I don't think 'no managers' is a good idea. There are managerial 'things to be done' in every project.

As a thought experiment, if management were 'just a role' and people could switch into for a period of time and then go back to their 'real jobs' with no loss of pay or prestige, that might lead to some interesting effects.

(warning, anecdata:I've worked on teams where the 'manager' role was cycled among engineers/testers/designers etc throughout the project lifetime, and it worked well. I've also seen managers come back to being full time developers, and their perspective from the time of being managers really helped with their effectiveness as developers)
I find a good manager who facilitates the bureaucratic nonsense I don't want to deal with to be worth their weight in gold. They don't have to understand the details of what I do and build, so long as they support my work, are willing to shop it out, and give solid feedback.

I've worked with managers who thought they were somehow superior to the people they manage. This seems to be a common issue. They tend to experience a high attrition rate.
Historically for me, any time I've worked with managers who either managed my team or projects I've worked on, whether they helped or harmed things depended pretty much solely on "does this person have management training/experience, and a desire to be a manager".

I've worked with both engineers-turned-manager and "business" managers, and both have had ups and downs. But the tech industry's love of taking individual contributors and pushing them into management roles without any management training or even interest in managing people seems to be the failed experiment.
Clearing Up the Confusion About Salt
Google's network egress pricing vs Digital Ocean is much higher.
>The term “open source” is meaningless if the thing that is open source is harmful.

A note on "harmful" as an adjective: It depends on the speaker.

any open source project aiming to bypass the Great Firewall of China is "harmful", according to the Communist Party.
Science may be blocked in your country.
It would be nice if an org could review all of its failures every few years and drop nearly all of its processes and procedures and start out fresh again - vowing to build around the failures of the past

Indeed. That IT department is learning a lesson of what happens when your end users discover cloud providers and come into the office and tell their management how quick and easy it is. Managers don't know or care about the past - they only know that what should take minutes is taking months. If that department had been able to turn around a VM request in a day or two - not unreasonable - they would have been safe. Now they are being asked questions for which they have no good answers, such as, what exactly do all of you do all day?
> Unlike Huawei’s phones, the MateBook X Pro also will arrive free of bloatware – at least in the US.

I have Matebook X (not the pro) at home and there was a permanent search bar on the background, netflix link, half a dozen live tiles with games, demo versions, a nagging virus scan and other software that asks to be upgraded. Right-click and you see a "send to Huwaii share" menu item ... Takes less than an hour to get rid but I pity the average users being advertised to like that.

Great hardware, great laptop overall, highly recommended.
How Inflation Can Destroy Shareholder Value (2010)
> But we also need to think about what choices are available to people

As long as people act on what they can and not bog themselves down in analysis.

The main reason is that the more people act, the more they find more opportunities to act more, whereas the more they analyze, the less they act. In an entrepreneurial community like HN, it's like realizing that acting on your venture is the best way to progress. Of course, that doesn't mean to act thoughtlessly, but you don't have to think much for most low hanging fruit.

I would rephrase all your questions from passive analysis to active. For example, instead of

> Does my family have access to quality, local food?

I suggest

"What can I do to increase my family's access to quality, local food?"

Instead of

> Do I have enough information about my the way my produce, grains, etc. were grown to make a purchase decision based on its climate impact?

I suggest

"What can I do to improve how food is produced around me..."

We're not passive recipients of what systems created based on no-longer-credible beliefs about the Earth. We are active participants and can influence these systems.
Okay, how do we protect against this problem?

It would be nice to have a piece of code that detects the problem and shows a message "Hey, you have a browser extension that is not playing nice with this website; please turn the extension off".

What would that piece of code look like?
I don't even understand what you are trying to prove. That some sellers are not trust worthy ? That there will always be an intermediary taking the profit ?
Can you give a simple example, that shows the problem parsing J? IIUC the example in the link, the parser has to know the arity of the functions. This can be done in Racket using macros that look like functions. (For example, functions with optional arguments are actually macros that look like functions.)

I'm not sure that JIT is so important here, unless you are planning to generate bytecode on the flight and JIT it.
>Chinese values this deeply.

Taiwanese people don't value it deeply. They'd prefer to be left alone in their happy, prosperous, democratic, multiparty country.

Chinese people are highly brainwashed on the subject.
For iOS, there is this tool: https://github.com/nabla-c0d3/ssl-kill-switch2
I do worry about American activists, which is why I recommend that everyone use end-to-end encryption, especially if the data is stored within the US.