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When laypeople misuse science and maths, (I am in this context a layperson btw) the consequences depend on the applicability of the subject to ordinary discourse and events.

Because I don't work in bomb science, power engineering or nuclear medicine, If I misuse facts about nuclear fission making decisions to hire a new staffer, the consequence is low. Nothing about nuclear fission informs what happens in the workplace. So the colloquial lack of understanding on my part as to what science actually says about nuclear physics is low.

When I mis-use understanding of I.Q. and g to make a hiring decision, the consequences are huge for the person hired and the organisation. Assumptions about normative behaviour, likely success, future hiring, application of applied knowledge, ability to learn, all these things have direct meaning and importance. The impact on the hire, or non-hire is also immense. Future promotion, reward, positional authority can all be affected by somebody in the psych space, working in H/R, mis-applying domain-specific knowledge around IQ and intelligence.

Its not nuclear physics, but its being mis-applied. Thats the problem. (that it's being mis-applied: not that it isn't nuclear physics. Although a quality of its mis-application is about it not being hard science: its guesswork, rei-fied through G and other statements of single-value measure against an imprecise measurement. I don't actually think social science is well named.)
Another gem from the comments is this part:

> London is now building so-called “co-housing” which sounds like it should be for retirees but is for the working young who have been priced out of even renting (let alone purchase) but IMO that is a shocking non-solution. It is forced barracks living–for people in their 20s and 30s (soon … 40s & 50s)–and seems very redolent of USSR communal apartments with shared kitchens etc. The common thing within the Anglosphere (and places that mimick it, like HK) is the abandonment of public housing for at least the last 35 years (since 1997 for HK), along with tax policies that promote unproductive property speculation.

I live in a former communist country, and as an urbanism-buff one of the projects I was thinking about in my head was to hunt down the remaining barrack-like buildings that are still extant (most of them have been built in the 1950s and the early 1960s as a temporary solution for a fast-growing urban population, very few actually still exist). Interesting to see that the "West" is resorting to the same ideas 50-60 years after we did.
This isn't actually discussing abolition of time zones---it's discussing going from ~24 time zones to having only 1 time zone. It essentially maximizes the errors inherent in having a finite number of time zones for an infinite number of locations on the planet.

Which is why we need not one time zone, but infinite time zones. Let time zones be continuous rather than discrete.

Now when somebody says "It's noon" we know the sun is exactly over their head. Not slightly off because they live to the eastern or western extreme of their time zone, but exactly.

Okay, so to the problem of "is it okay to call Uncle Steve in Melbourne?"

My increasingly-intelligent digital assistant (also known as a smart phone) knows who Uncle Steve is, and where he lives (thanks to his address and phone number, entered into my contact list). Based on his location and the (UTC) clock in the phone, the device calculates Steve's continuous local time. Now with greater precision than under the traditional discrete timezone system, I can determine where Steve is at regular to typical waking/sleeping hours.

Whereas lumping the world into a single timezone maximizes the divergence between the clock's reading and the sun's position, moving to infinite time zones minimizes the divergence to zero.

However, in this fully relative world it's more difficult to speak about specific moments of time. The State of the Union Address would be advertised as happening 7pm 77°00′32.63606″W

What does that mean in my own local time zone?

Well, once again technology will save us from this difficulty by automatically translating times on television announcements / Twitter posts / in telephone conversations from someone else's local time to ours.

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It's fun to imagine a world with infinite time zones, but I think the "abolition" article and this exploration illustrate together that the time zone system we have is a reasonable, human-friendly compromise between extremes.
You got detention for not counting Bose-Einstein condensates mate.
Hard right: everybody should take an IQ test
Libertarian right: I take drugs to increase my IQ
Libertarian left: there is no IQ
Hard left: everybody has the same IQ
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Not really. I'd prefer matrix (open protocol, federated) - but I seem to recall after reluctantly accepting that rc is a great product, I had a look.

And that bundling code inside a mysql container felt like it fell well short of the simple rc setup of db+app via docker compose...

https://github.com/mattermost/mattermost-docker-preview/blob...
well I think Code generation can suck. But it does not need to suck.

I like how grpc/protobuf work. And generating the code saving it in a repo and using it, is fine. for RPC-like stuff.

However, generating code with a compiler can actually suck. Like having your database layer (jooq like) generated while compiling so the code does not get checked in anywhere.
Overlooking that the value of the dollar stayed about the same from 1800 to 1914, and is now 1/25th of that value:

http://www.usinflationcalculator.com/

There's also all the relentless propaganda saying that inflation is a good thing, and if it isn't, it's caused by speculators & greed, not the government.

I don't invest in anything denoted in dollars (such as bonds).
Webflow is an web-specific IDE.

It's great for production work where you are explicitly targeting the web --- we've actually pointed some of our Kickstarter backers to Webflow after they explained their needs and we realized it'd be a better fit for them.

Subform doesn't target a specific platform.
Its focus is to help folks explore layouts and design ideas easily.
If you are familiar with industrial design, an analogy would be that Subform is somewhere between SketchUp or Inventor/SolidWorks, and Webflow is closer to a CAM tool.
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How much sympathy should we have for Grandma McMoneybags here when people making in situations just like hers are helping drive a housing crisis?

In California, this isn't a hypothetical. Especially because she pays property taxes as if the thing is worth a number much closer to $20k than $20mil.
This kind of response is, in my opinion, anti-academic.

A better response would be too try to find some literature on the subject.
Does this mean I'm allowed to use <tables> again without being crucified?
This is a good summary.

I've build an interesting NN-based model, and I've been thinking about using some of the early layers as feature for a search engine.

The obvious thing to do is to dump the feature vectors into Elastic or Solr or something.

Ideally what I want is to:

1) Put 1024 dimensional vectors of floats into the index

2) Use plain cosine distance as the distance metric

2b) Customize the distance metric (or preferably use a preexisting and optimized earth-mover-distance implementation).

My initial Googling indicated that 1 and 2 are harder than I expected - it seems both Elastic and Solr don't have good representations for vectors, and assume you want BM25 or TF-IDF for your ranking.

Surely I'm missing something? Not super-keen on having to drop back to using Lucene.
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There's a ton of evidence that IQ tests are not culturally biased. For example, the SAT is a form of IQ test. So the performance of practically every college student in the country vs their SAT score is available to us. The predictive value of IQ is solid regardless of your own culture or the university in question.
>At what point does Tesla start acting like a ‘real’ company and decide these kinds of defects aren’t acceptable?

Just as soon as people stop lining up to buy their cars.

edit: downvote if you please, but they're selling cars faster than they can make them. Tesla has zero financial incentive to start focusing on stopping those defects until the pre-orders dry up and people start voting with their wallets.

Corporations understand exactly one thing.
Bring back more interesting logos:

https://www.designweek.co.uk/issues/26-february-4-march-2018...
The $11.99 plan is only mostly ad-free. From the signup page:

> A few shows play with a commercial before and after the video.
You posted this same link in another comment. This article does not say distilled water is bad, and only demonstrates that extreme fasting is dangerous, which I agree with.
I call baloney. A simple google search for "honda door alignment issues" brings up a ton of forum posts of people complaining about this, from brand new current models, going back many many years.

No question that Honda likely has fewer issues, but to claim they are not 'even imaginable' is horse-puckey.
> these executables will be easily redistributable and work on any distro

While this sounds amazing and I'm sure is very useful in various situations, I think encouraging a culture of distributing software in such a fashion is an incredibly bad idea. This is a big issue I have with the Go culture. Downloading a statically linked binary from some site and just sticking it somewhere is extremely bad practise to encourage. The user will never get prompted to update it, vulnerabilities and bugs in the vendored libraries will never be addressed... the list of issues is endless.

Distributions are not really about distribution, they're about maintenance.
The problem with that line of thinking is to assume that you will get 10 years of honest service from your newly purchased appliance.

From what I have seen, it is a race to the bottom. Low-end stuff is sold on tight margins and the quality has been falling like a rock for the past few decades. High-end stuff is... just sad, it like they fired all the industrial designers and hired modern artist to fill the positions. Functionality is sacrificed left and right for the sake of making things visually appealing. Then, you cannot tinker with the damned thing without specialized tools.

In both cases, though, there's the issue of programmed obsolescence. This is not new, of course, but manufacturers are pushing this more and more. For the same money, you can have your 10 year old appliance running for 4-5 more years, and it will be just are repairable by then. The new fancy appliance will only last 5-7 years and then break for good.
Regardless of how much RAM you have, 800MB for a chat app is ridiculous. If every common utility started using so much RAM, "[u]se a machine with more RAM" stops being viable - you can only cram so much RAM in current machines, and if you start peeling off a couple of GB because you need to run more than one chat client that's a huge loss.
Yeah tuning the PID controller is in fact modeling the dynamics of the system. You can't really expect an untuned PID controller to just work.
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Cool, that's what I figured, but I'm not entirely done with this line of thinking yet...

Has anyone done any estimates on what kind of latency requirements are necessary for that? There's got to be some mention of the reaction time interval or something somewhere?

^ That would be interesting me also for the perspective of understanding what new markets would be opened by what new wireless technology (à la disruption curves in Innovator's Dilemma)

What about a two-driver solution with two independent internet links?
Yes, but not <blink> nor <marquee>.
There is tons of C software out there that depends on libc that is never going to be rewritten in Rust. Also think about interpreted languages like Python, Ruby, etc. I imagine they all depend on libc. The only real way for Redox to gain adoption is through cross platform compatibility.
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Yes. Especially if the cable companies lose share drastically, and they should.

They are like all-you-can-eat buffets, only for a few people with big appetite. I also don't like their click-and-bait tactics (you sign up for $80, you end up paying $150 in a year).
Is there a good guide on how to make libraries with C bindings in rust? I've been learning it for the past few days but without much of a use case. Fast libraries with a C API in a higher level language would be very useful though.
The F150 assembly line in Dearborn Assembly is ~650 trucks per 10 hour shift. They can't keep up with single shift numbers, much less weekly output.
Some people have researched this.

I remember reading "The Half-Life of Facts: Why Everything We Know Has an Expiration Date" by Arbesman, and IIRC psychology papers had some of the lowest half-lives of all the sciences. In math the half-life of a paper was something like 85 years, but in pysch it was closer to 10. I forget the exact statistics and don't have the book here but it was pretty interesting.

Scientometrics and Eurekometrics are two areas of research that delve into this sort of thing more.
Merriam-Webster[1] says: "wealthy people who own land ". I didn't realize there was a specific UK definition to this term though, thanks!

[1]: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/landed%20gentry
He's wrong about anticommutativity, too, though. An operation ∘ is anticommutative if a∘b = -(b∘a). It happens that this is true of subtraction, but that has nothing to do with 0 being the "subtractive identity" or with the - in front of "-(b-a)" visually resembling the sign for subtraction. Vector cross product is anticommutative too, because a×b = -(b×a), but 0 is not an identity for vector cross product and negating a vector is not the same operation as taking the cross product of two vectors. The 0 and the negation come from the operation of adding vectors, not cross-multiplying them.
Owner of a M3. My first Tesla. I have number 40xx.

I adore the damn thing. Seeing software updates
makes me happy. I compare it to my last favorite car, my Volt which claimed to support updates; but never patched it’s awful UI.

It is a bit raw. I had to leave the car at the service center due to some door handle issues. I received a loaner model S, and it’s was fixed impeccably. The X had a trunk issue for a ton of cars needing a rain proof cover on the trunk- and every owner got it.

There are quality issues. So far I’ve seen everything fixed at Tesla’s expense, with similar reports on TMC. It is a different paradigm though - far more a reliable software platform (where they fix things when they are broke) than the typical “here is your car” model.

There is a bit of fandom in which earlier adopters are willing to put up with issues. As I said, I love the car, and as long as they keep patching issues (HW & SW) that come up, I’ll accept some issues.

Don’t want the issues? Wait a half year. But recall that they have 18 months of backlog. Most would consider that a commercial success.
Can't be any worse than bootstrap's col / grid system.
> Using let instead of var still breaks a few browsers. I want to move to modern javascript without the babel requirement

It seems unreasonable to me to expect to run new language features on old runtimes, do you have a good reason to not use Babel and move on? I've been writing ES6 (with Babel) from > 2 years now and have never regretted the move.
You make a fine point.
Today I saw a X P100DL on the parking lot at work, I immediately noticed that both (!) the tail lights had moisture in them. This is a brand new 160.000 euro* car, this should in no way be acceptable. If that was my car, I'd would have returned it to dealership.

* In the Netherlands, the base price of a 'ludicrous' edition is 159.430,- euro.
Some have successfully used fiat money for several decades. Some haven't (Venezuela and Zimbabwe recently, Germany before World War II, probably others).
Parent I was responding to was complaining about iPhones being old designs with new internals.
This is emblematic of who Tesla's customer is until (if/when) the Model 3 gets really going. Almost no one can pay $100k to have a car "without a drivetrain hump" and that doesn't burn gas. Sure, those are nice things to have, but $100k is a lot of money to almost everyone in the world.
The current iOS calculator app is atrocious looking. However I usually use use spotlight for my calculations but that’s been hidden several swipes away if you’re in an app.

Where’s the minimalism in the amount of touch input needed? Replying to emails in Mail is a chore of taps.
So I suppose in your mind that whatever a company wants to do is fine, and that's your prerogative. But in the real world, that's simply not true. And in the real world, this data is derived purely from me. It absolutely is MY data, and they have no right to collect it without my consent, and they have no right to sell it to others without my consent. To believe otherwise is to believe that a person does not have personal agency, and that a person is not in charge of themselves.
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It's still selling the data.
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I think you're splitting hairs. If someone is making an OS they claim is "Unix-like", then it isn't unreasonable for someone to expect that the code that compiles and runs on AIX, HP-UX, MacOS, Solaris, and OpenBSD will also compile and run on this new "Unix-like" OS with minimal changes. If they're not going for POSIX compliance, or even getting reasonably close thereto, they're going to have a hard time being "Unix-like" in practice, certifications be damned.
Take a look at Angr (http://angr.io/), which implements symbolic execution + SMT solving to analyze program execution (not my work, although I know a number of the authors).

SAT/SMT solving can be quite handy for assisting fuzzers in selecting good paths, which is something I've investigated in the past. Angr can help with that too, although the most recent developments in practical fuzzing have been in coverage-testing approaches (like afl) rather than in symbolic execution approaches.

I also play CTFs a fair bit, and in those we sometimes use Z3 and Boolector (two numerically-oriented SMT solvers) to solve challenges. As an example: https://github.com/pwning/public-writeup/tree/master/9447ctf...
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I can't wait to see how they monetize it. That is something I like. Should be interesting.
how you seemingly experience only one outcome

(the Standard Model? of particle physics?)
Frigidaire also used to be a division of GM.
Without a randomized experiment on babies of different races born to surrogates, it is difficult to say that observed differences in intelligence between races is due to genetics or to prenatal and postnatal environment. 50 years ago, it was assumed that Chinese and Indians were stupid according to the correlational data available at the time, and Chinese Americans whose ancestors arrived in the US in the 19th century still perform poorly in tests of general intelligence, but it is now abundantly clear that this isn't due to a genetic racial disadvantage.

The left would say that environment can and should be fixed.
This is a really good comment and I thoroughly agree.
Exactly, essential words that we needed thousands of years ago as well as today sound similar. Because they are leftovers from when it was a single language. Modern words that were just invented tend to sound similar as well. E.g. "computer" in different languages. The vast difference is in words that came up in between split of Indo-European tribes and modern times.
Both sides are right about their concerns. The fears are legitimate.

Governments can and do use climate change as a pretext to seize additional power, and increasing the price of energy is unquestionably a regressive "tax" that harms the poor and working class a lot more than it harms the wealthy.

History demonstrates that if you legitimize any rationale for considering any group of people superior to one another, people will run with that all the way to the death camps. The PC doctrine of equality is a "noble lie" of sorts and a reaction to millennia of bloodshed and unbelievable suffering.

This has no bearing on the truth or falsehood of the research but I'm not entirely convinced these things should be ignored when discussing it.

If climate change is real and manmade and if IQ is mostly genetic and a significant predictor of success, does it follow that the poor should be made poorer through more costly energy and should be discriminated against on the basis of IQ scores?
> In the end, support chrome is simply supporting another Internet-Explorer-era. Maybe not as IE but it would be very similar.

IMO - it is foolish to put Chrome and IE in the same box.

> If you or your company only develop for chrome you're not better than any of the websites that proudly state they will only work under IE6. End of story.

I don't think anyone is going to make an argument to only support Chrome, there's clearly other browser tech out there that we as devs must support. I will however say that you should prioritize supporting the most popular browsing platforms (browser, screen, device, OS, etc) when building applications and/or during testing.

Since you're touting Linux utilization - I will say that I better have a helluva testing budget (time and money) if I'm going to even touch on the long-tail platform combos (anything < 5%). The only reason my apps are heavily tested in Linux is because they're developed on a Debian Jessie box =D
Sounds like you're more upset about who owns Hulu than any real experience or issues with it. They've had an ad-free version for quite a while now, and most shows are up immediately after they air and stay up all season.

There are a small handful of exceptions (example: out of all the shows I watch, one of them has a commercial, and it's only a single 15 second one before each episode and one other show only keeps 5 episodes at a time live), but for $12/mo it's still a great value compared to what you'd pay to your cable company.
Matches are bidirectional by definition, so the lower tier user in any match will have gotten a higher tier match without paying the fee. It also raises some ethical concerns with segregating users by social class.
Disclaimer: I'm not in the 'rust community' (nor would I want to be!). I'm not an evangelist for it, and I'm not very good at it. I like the language though. Anyway...

I really think people need to get over syntax. I don't find rust particularly good looking either, but I get over that because I like the semantics and it sits in a nice place in the ecosystem of programming languages. Likewise i don't like how C# uses PascalCase everywhere, or puts opening braces on its own line - yet when I program in C#, I adhere to those conventions.

Syntax is incredibly subjective, and also superficial. If you think the semantics of a language suck or are not a fit for what you are doing - that's a reasonable conversation. But you really shouldn't limit your language choice based on non-alphanumeric characters or whatever your objection is.