skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you control for race and income the effect of blue eyes will probably go away. The effect of IQ does not.

Regarding brainteasers, there is no evidence that practicing a certain brainteaser will improve your performance on entirely different ones. IQ measures the ability to perform well on novel tasks.
Florida Bill Would Make Daylight Saving Time Year-Round
I got a used Nissan Leaf for $8000 and installed the Level 2 charging station that the seller threw in for free myself. Couldn't be happier. Also, that extra $30000-$100000k in my bank account (depending on the Tesla I didn't buy) feels good too.
> Isn't this just an argument about definitions?

No, it isn't.

> the experience of space "shrinking" with correlation to higher velocity

This is not a good description. Length contraction is not a real process of "space shrinking"; it's a matter of perspective, similar to the way objects can have different apparent sizes in ordinary geometry depending on which direction you look at them from. An object moving with a high velocity relative to you is "rotated" in spacetime relative to you such that it appears shorter; but the object itself is unaffected.

Notice that I said "high velocity relative to you"; this is another way of seeing why "space shrinking" is not a good description. Velocity is relative: "high velocity" relative to you is not the same as "high velocity" in an absolute sense (there is no such thing). So saying that "space shrinks at high velocity" doesn't make sense.
Weird, I had some stupid opinions but never got detention for them. But I also never interrupted class to say science was wrong about radiometric dating and evolution \-0-/
They're not just East, they're North. If you throw Burlington, VT into the AST, you've then got 8:30 sunrises in the winter.

I think you could make an argument for "double daylight savings time", so that you're 3 months of UTC-5 in the winter and 3 months of UTC-3 in the summer, with UTC-4 in between (which I guess would be AST with "daylight savings time" in the summer and "daylight payback time" in the winter), but when you've got 16 hours of daylight in the summer you've got to put them somewhere. Do you really want to have the sun set at midnight so that it's easier to sleep in in the mornings?
There’s one reason I could think of. Combining two Internet lines together to get a faster connection. I blogged about this a few years back

https://omri.org.il/2014/08/08/hacking-asymmetric-and-symmet...
In order for us to meaningfully assert that two things are different, there must be some information difference between them. If the same universe results from two paths, then they are the same path. Ultimately because your brain is in that universe, and it's current state is the thing responsible for distinguishing histories.

What you suppose is logically inconsistent with that fact, and the whole idea is going to be unfalsifiable. The human brains' ability to distinguish possibilities is contingent upon the presence of information.

>Do photons have their probability distributions with interference patterns on screens to resolve a some sort of preferential history information storage? Like there is not enough bits available to say which screen the photons went through so they must say both?

Yes, photons are said to go through both slits because there does not exist any information which would distinguish the paths. As soon as you arrange an experiment which provides such information, the chosen path becomes clear.
Apps don’t “want to be free”; customers want to try before they buy and there are not a lot of sane options presented for doing that in App Stores.

Why the hell isn’t there a simple “download now, pay if you keep more than 4 hours” kind of option, for example? Why no simple “upgrade to version 2.0 for 50% off” option? There are lots of common scenarios that app stores should provide, saving developers from having to hack special purchases into the product. Worse, stores basically don’t distinguish between those types of purchases and the many, many scams so after awhile potential buyers equate “any in-app purchase = scam” and that option disappears. And on top of it all, good, reputable apps can eventually be updated with scammy features that you never used to have.

Terrible app search engines. Terrible browsing with unchanging top-10 lists. Terrible monetization options. Endless garbage apps competing for space. Yet 30% comes off the top unless apps are free. So they’re free, and you get mostly ads.

What a complete waste of potential in the app ecosystem right now.
- The Apple TV interface is an abomination. The learning curve is so steep that my mother outright refuses to continue trying.
I happily pay Hulu the $12/month (plus tax) they ask for because it was an improvement over what I had. It pays, even a little something to the people and companies that are creating what I'm watching, it's easier than pirating shows, and I've not watched a single show with a pre- or post-roll advertisement. As for the existence of ads, I'd prefer that if they do exist, they run before and/or after the show. It's the interruption of the story that I don't like.

Frankly, this is the same reason why I pay DirecTV NOW the $35 that they ask for. I get what I'm interested in--with DTVN, it's live TV for the times in a month that I want it--for far less than I was paying and the experience is equivalent or better than what I had before.

For me, it's "just television." I don't hate or love it. It's moving pictures that tell a story or inform or just throw out jokes. Sometimes all three. If I can get a better deal with more flexible access (and I can and have), awesome.
Is there anywhere that you're legally able to pay $12/mo for completely ad-free programming? The vast majority of shows are ad-free, and a 15 second ad before an episode is hardly worth getting up in arms about when the alternative is ~16-18min of ads/hr.
Do you think IPv6 will change things for the better?
Tesla is already starting to see competitors... if they don't get better quality control, it will probably hurt them soon enough
Vector founder: “100 percent” confident in first orbital launch this year
A lot of that is going to have to be the higher-order work of getting rid of gerrymandering, fixing campaign finance, improving voter access, and so forth. Even setting aside the philosophical question of whether government is a good way to solve problems, it’s not going to be one in practice if it can’t even function.
I suspect you could (continuing the gradle example) write gradle plugins that would accomplish what you want to do as far as using your own data structures goes. Seems to me though the majority of what's in that textual database is standard C compile/link stuff that'd be handled fine by https://guides.gradle.org/building-c-executables/
I did an internship for a mobile games studio. They had really detailed estimates of competitor revenues because they were able to combine:

1) their own daily revenue from titles

2) publicly listed studios' quarterly revenue figures

3) the daily rankings of 1 and 2 in the two app stores

to extrapolate every rivals' revenue.

I'm pretty sure tinder grosses more than $1 m / day (excluding ads)

https://www.appannie.com/en/apps/ios/top/

https://thinkgaming.com/app-sales-data/
I'm on the far left, and while I am comfortable with whatever the scientific consensus on intelligence is at the moment and how it develops in the future, I am very recalcitrant about allowing that understanding into politics, policy or most discussions I want to have about anything.

Looking towards the past on how (pseudo)science about intelligence has been leveraged to commit atrocities, and looking at the reasons why so many on the right really really really like bringing up IQ and whatnot, I'll pass. At best the conversation dissimulates the urge to justify hierarchies of dominance-- the same fucking reason why the right likes to bring up anything from biology. At worst you get enthusiastic eugenicists; meeting such people at, say, conferences or other programmer venues (i'm sure programmers skew both towards higher IQ and views that the strong should crush the weak) is like stepping on a cow pie.

Not to mention, I know plenty of people who would score high on intelligence tests, perhaps much higher than I would. Some of them seem to leverage that intelligence to be far stupider than anyone dumber than them could manage (us programmers again...).

The point being-- the gap between scientific research on intelligence and what it means for A) society, and B) my personal life is a chasm I have no reason to bridge.
Merely because they're big enough to throw their clout around, which could be a good thing or bad thing depending on how you view it.

Could also be Apple, or Amazon, or maybe Netflix. Any large enough company really.
This is not a problem innate to cities, and it’s not even endemic within cities that have these problems.
>If we are not going to discriminate based on innate differentiators like gender, race, etc, then how can we discriminate based on intelligence, if it is innate?

I have to admit I feel a lot of anxiety trying to answer your question in good faith, because this is such a touchy subject.

Accurately measuring innate differences, if such things exist, is essential to determining if systemic bias exists and to what extent. If Ashkenazi Jews have a higher than average verbal IQ, maybe it's not surprising that they appear over-represented in top tier verbal IQ jobs (media, etc.). If East Asians have higher than average spacial intelligence, maybe it's not surprising that they appear over-represented in engineering disciplines.

Importantly, these statistical differences tell us nothing useful about any specific individual.
You've answered your own implied question. The price of MS Office is still high because it's in a category of its own, with no competition in sight. But all it takes is one well-motivated competitor to achieve feature parity and that would be the end of MS Office's cash cow position.

MS is already offering Win10 basically for free. Not because of competition, but because it doesn't cost anything to make it free. They can risk changing their business model without being forced to throw money down a hole.
ironically, a simple google search for "Honda falcon wing door alignment issues" brings up only Tesla results.
Basically every single other online streaming service? Netflix being the obvious one.
Not if I can spoof my IP6 address as easily as I can spoof an IP4 one, nope.
>* Intelligence is a statistical construct defined based on a group of rather arbitrary tests.

>That one is true.

In what sense are they "rather arbitrary"? It sounds to me that you might be suggesting that there is little correlation between performance on different IQ tests or different parts of the same IQ test. But the authors of the paper claim (with cited evidence) that "a common g factor accounting for about half of variance on cognitive tasks has been found across many human cultures (e.g., Carroll, 1993; Dolan, 2000; Dolan & Hamaker, 2001; Frisby & Beaujean, 2015; Gurven et al., 2017; Reuning, 1972)".
Is IQ an excellent "predictor of income, social status, and academic & job performance" or merely associated with those?
Except I think the vendor has to do something? I know some vendors immediately start failing and others seemingly work fine. Regardless of whose problem it is, it becomes a PITA for me.
That's the greek right there
Yeah, we were doing that with intermediate nodes. So,

Bob -worked_at-> Work node
Work node -from-> date
Work node -to-> date
Work node -employer-> WB, Disney, etc.

Then each instance of Bob working would be a node in the graph. Note that (and this might be counterintuitive) this is the same as how you'd represent marriage data as well.

These intermediate nodes are the only complexity that one has to think about in a graph model (even then it's not that complex compared to thinking through how 20 different tables are connected). Rest is easy peasy.
I think I've read every single Poirot, my favorites are:

Murder on the Orient Express

Death on the Nile

Appointment with Death

Cat Among Pigeons
The skeuomorphic design in the article is beautiful. It represents a real life object augmented with digital. It makes me want to use it.

Notice there are no textures. Maybe textures was the corny side of skeuo and what people didn’t like.
Perhaps you have JS disabled? It opens an interactive widget.
I managed to completely miss the point in the post. So much bloviating I switched off before I got half way through, and I'm someone who loves reading and routinely reads long blog posts.
Contrary to some other comments, heredity by definition excludes culture.

Heredity can be measured via twin studies - if twins are adopted into two different families or cultures: what commonalities can we still find, beyond random variability. The goal is to take culture out of the consideration and look at the biology. (You may argue how successful this can be, but it is the goal, and it is what is meant by ‘heredity’)

It’s reasonable to expect/have learned that all heredity must come through genes - which the headline illustrates - but we are starting to explore other mechanisms for heredity.

The article makes no comment on cultural transmission, which is entirely an independent concept.
Fallacy: Appeal to authority. Besides, obviously they have, which is the reason I said it.

And even further: researchers say that you can study for IQ tests to get a higher score. Presumably general intelligence is not something you can cram for. This is one of the reasons psychologists argue the IQ test is not an accurate system, and may or may not be just testing secondary effects of intelligence (like brain teaser ability).
Ok, lots of quality problems, but let's think about things in terms of their larger significance.

Have the Tesla cars, in spite of their quality problems, revolutionized the auto industry, pushing almost every major manufacturer to start BEV programs and thereby being a major force in dealing with global warming and hence the future of the human race? Yes.

Will Tesla, in the next year or two, greatly improve the quality of the Model 3? Probably.

Will Tesla autos continue to sell well? Probably.

So should you feel basically positive about Tesla? I say yes. Unless, of course, you are in the fossil fuels or ICE business.
> Since people are notoriously bad at being self-skeptical, the best way to learn what is actually true is by encouraging viewpoint diversity:

The problem with that concept is that if the available evidence actually does strongly support a position, seeking viewpoint diversity means actively selecting people who either cannot analyze the evidence or who wilfully ignore it's content.

Doing so within the research community may help the competent, and honest subset of the community avoid getting stuck in ruts formed by the subtle accumulation of confirmation bias from past results (if the other group doesn't end up getting filtered out by then over time, despite being present in the community, which is improbable), but it also means that you have to actively promote crackpots and their pet theories to do it; in terms of learning what is actually true, I don't think that's a net win.
Personally, when I look at the UI on the vast majority of cars, it's embarassing. Fonts don't even match, it's like looking at a website from 1996. I could say that all Fords should be labeled "Beta" until they can get up to Tesla quality. But, people just care about different things in a car. Some people do not care about how many millimeters the gap next to the hood is.
I really hope Tesla manages to pull it together because competition is good for everyone, but the quality bar they have to meet has gotten pretty high.

My Civic is still holding up exceptionally well in regards to materials and fit and finish at 12 years old. The only rattles come from the fact that I installed 3rd party speakers the car was not meant to handle.

I expect Tesla to be at least as well built as an econobox from the mid 2000s
I've had psychology professors tell me their industry is pretty much 'full of shit' ... how much damage has Freud et al done to our understanding of ourselves?
I suppose that in the case where the mission itself is critical as well, then indeed it's going to have an atomic clock signal.
> C++ programmers don't come to Go because they have fought hard to gain exquisite control of their programming domain, and don't want to surrender any of it. To them, software isn't just about getting the job done, it's about doing it a certain way.

For the first time, I think I'm motivated to learn Go. My big beef with C++ is there's no simple mode. Every single decision ever made in the syntax and libraries is geared for only the most complicated, high performance needed situations.

My problem is that 90% of my C++ code doesn't need performance at all, and could be Python for all I care.

To be fair, some of the modern changes are bringing some simplicity back. But, it still feels like wading through mud to write what should be easy things like file i/o, compared to Python or JavaScript. Using hashes and mixing hashes with other containers is so verbose and nit-picky in C++ compared to today's scripting languages that I just long to mix languages most of the time I'm writing general C++.
A counterpoint is that more can be simpler when it allows better abstraction.

For example, calculus is more complicated that arithmetic and algebra. However, calculus can unify and show relations between different algebraic representations. For example, when I learned physics in middle school, I thought that remembering

delta position = velocity * time

but struggled with

delta position = initial velocity * time + 1/2 (acceleration * time^2)

When, I learned about derivatives and integrals, the formulas all made sense.

In my opinion Go suffers from the ability to abstract which is most represented in its lack of generics. Instead, of being able to represent operations in a generic way, you are forced to cut and paste, and cannot express the relationship accurately, much as how I considered the relationship between acceleration and position to be opaque before I understood calculus.
It was terrible when the only thing you could do was alert your variables!
This is to be expected. Consumer reports ranks Tesla close to the bottom in reliability. So far people who buy Tesla are willing to tolerate low quality if they get the features they want. Camaro has low reliability as well.

The real question is if this strategy works when manufacturing volume grows.
There's a lot of different forms of intelligence that IQ does not measure.

The practice tests I've seen tended to ask a lot of abstract questions that, in some cases, seemed to rely on having a specific set of cultural experiences. I remember encountering a question that asked me to clarify the meaning of a 'common' expression, and thinking, "how lucky am I to have been exposed to and know just what this question refers to? Would I have a lower IQ just because I was an immigrant or something?" (It was the US version of the MENSA practice exam on their website circa several years ago)

I'm of the opinion that intelligence is unmeasurable, if even comprehendable by us mortals, and that the best proxy we have is one's propensity to learn and be curious.

Seems that measuring intelligence is yet another example of the folly of human artifice
Would your company be in a conundrum to let you go because you had a mortgage to pay?
> Since people are notoriously bad at being self-skeptical, the best way to learn what is actually true is by encouraging viewpoint diversity: https://heterodoxacademy.org/

I don't know if this is because of my European point-of-view but that site seems to be exactly the opposite. It seems to identify changes in opinion on universities as an inherent problem and that the former ratio should be promoted. Furthermore it clumps together far-left & liberal in some absurd common pool "proving" the lack of diversity of opinion. I mean a lot of European "diversity of opinion" is in precisely that single pool.
This is a general problem with organization and counting of abstract categories. All of my science, history, and social science courses in middle/high school were pretty much garbage, and as far as I can tell that is the norm in the US (and many other places; not through special fault of the teachers, but because the curriculum/textbooks are insipid).

“State of matter” is not a perfectly defined property, but only a simplified model of high-level aggregate behavior/interactions; individual particles have simpler interactions which are not categorized the same way. Scientists are happy to admit a new “state of matter” whenever they manage to observe a situation that doesn’t behave according to their previous models, and are happy to admit that the states of matter are just a simplified model, but some petty bureaucrats (like, sadly, many teachers) can’t handle this.

You can similarly get into trouble arguing about how many “kingdoms” there are of eukaryotes, or how many Romance “languages” there are, or how many “continents” there are, or the difference between crops and weeds or a fetus and a person or plagiarism and research.

Quizzing students on how well they can memorize and recall labels (and even worse, punishing them for knowing additional labels) is not just an incredible waste of human time and attention, but is actively harmful insofar as it disempowers students to ask and investigate their own questions and discourages them from seeking a deeper understanding of what they are learning.

I really appreciate the beginning of the MIT electronics textbook https://amzn.com/1558607358 which explicitly describes the abstractions used and their limitations, up front. Rare economics textbooks also do a decent job of this.
This is a refreshing change from cloudflare. Back when recursive DNS was the amplification de jour they complained about DNS instead of IP spoofing.

https://blog.cloudflare.com/the-ddos-that-knocked-spamhaus-o...
One can argue the quality of physical manufacturing process has a larger impact to the long term reliability and core functionality of a car than say... fonts in the infotainment system.

But maybe that's just crazy talk.
I see many people complaining about ads on premium content, but its so minimal you will hardly ever see it, and if you do its very short, anyways, hasn't bothered me at all.
Also, if you haven't looked at it in a while, it has changed a lot too. I alternate between Netflix and Hulu live tv, pretty happy with these services.
That boils down to preference though. A lot of people, myself included, find Rocket to be a highly ergonomic, state-of-the-art web framework. I think you're wrong to discount it because it doesn't look, at first glance, the exact same as the libraries you've used yourself.
I can't speak for OP, but most of my co-workers are in their 40s and 50s, but they live in SF or very built up inner-suburban areas. Not saying this is true of everyone, but this common trope does have some contradictory anecdotes.
> Also last time I checked, the big automakers investigated and then abandoned Toyota's manufacturing strategies, and it's the Korean manufacturers who have taken top quality marks lately while Toyota has fallen.

Is there anywhere I can read about this? I was still under the impression that Kanban/Kaizen and the whole package are the state of the art.
Ellsberg paradox