skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
preface: the following comment is about environmental factors, not race!

Also, Norway has been a popular country for migrants for decades. If you come from a less developed country where, for instance, the quality of food and health care (factors relevant to IQ) aren't as good as in Norway then this surely influenced the IQ of your predecessors and hence you. If the share of such migrants is big enough to influence the average (I don't know!) then this could be an explanation.

https://www.ssb.no/en/befolkning/statistikker/innvutv/aar/_i...
Somebody has to be keeping those stores in business?

Norwegians
Why would immigrants have a lower IQ than native spaniards?

Also, does Spain only administer IQ tests to members of the military?

Or are you saying that members of the military have a lower IQ than the rest of the population?
This made me LOL out loud this morning, just wanted to share with you guys :).
These comments, particularly those about toilet habits don't really look too different from the comments I was reading 5 years about about the behaviour of Chinese tourists, so I'm not sure what to think about this.

If you took a contemporary Chinese sophisticate and transported him or her back to 1920s China, what would his or her comments be like?
Dysgenics is, unfortunately, starting to look undeniable:http://www.pnas.org/content/pnas/early/2017/01/10/1612113114...

IQ slightly increases male reproduction but massively reduces female reproduction. This may select for dimorphism in the long term, which does not seem like a good outcome.

We will have the means to select for high IQ with embryo selection or iterated embryo selection. Hopefully we are not so in denial about what we are losing that we fail to allow this technology to be used.

I know China and Korea will not shun it.
There is an Intl.RelativeTimeFormat proposal as well: https://github.com/tc39/proposal-intl-relative-time/blob/mas...
To prevent any one party from being able to deceive others about the timestamp.
document.body.addEventListener('mouseenter', e => {
console.log('this just in, erickj tracks mouse movements');
})
Aggressively “”’ing can help, but I think that also turns off useful stuff, like word stemming, when what I want it to do is not map to some other more popular term.

I’m sure people have been trained to use google effectively, but I switched years ago, and find it harder than the alternatives.

To be clear, this is all nitpicking. The last time this came up on HN the only query anyone found that actually showed practical differences between the two was the acronym FOSS.

Google rewrote to “free open source software”, with no quotes, giving poor quality results (eg bsd software).

Ddg gave the definition of foss, and relatively few results pointing at actual software, because that acronym was (is?) obscure.
Just in case you're like me and had to Bing what the difference is between Docker and Google App Engine, it's summed up really well in this Stack Overflow answer:

https://stackoverflow.com/a/49950687/3799

I wonder, though, if future development should target Docker/K8S and GAE should only be the domain of legacy applications.
Wrong https://twitter.com/thelarkinn/status/1006761134395834368?s=...
What, places like Pakistan, you mean?
I can give a list of things I'd like in a search engine:

1) Sticky topics - if I'm at work and I type Flow I am way more likely to mean Facebook's js library than I am Flow energy.

2) Different views on the information (Grid view/masonary that makes sense)

3) Ability to search within a set of search results

4) Ability to customise the algorithm with other programs I can write/plugins

5) Many more things for programmers and advanced "omni bar" style features that allow me to type shortcuts and autocomplete things.

6) More automation of programmer stuff - if I type a number and a unix timestamp it should show me a date etc. for possibly millions of things. Same for unicode char of a hammer, url decode, etc. etc.

7) Clean integration with your OS search that makes sense.

I'm aware Duck Duck Go does some of these things (relatively badly). I think I'll give it another go then and see if it's better.
Random Forest Algorithm with Python and Scikit-Learn
I can't tell if it's because I'm just getting older or because I'm surrounded by distractions (both electronic and caused by this open office nightmare trend), but my ability to _concentrate_ seems to go down every year. When I was in my 20's, I could focus on a math problem for hours at a time. Now, I need to take a break and look at something else every 10 minutes. Is the world changing to make it harder to accumulate knowledge and improve intelligence?
> Rather than claim that "IQ" has fallen they should give some examples of the particular questions which people have got worse at answering correctly, because "IQ" doesn't really exist; all that exists is the normalised score from a particular questionnaire.

No, because IQ (as much as any other concept denoted by a label in language) does really exist, and there isn't just a single test (“questionnaire”) for measuring it.
Not a whistleblower, a member of the European Parliament with FOIA requests: https://juliareda.eu/2017/09/secret-copyright-infringement-s...
How (and Why) Ed-Tech Companies Are Tracking Students' Feelings
It's really telling that every pro HTTPS opinion is ten years out-of-date (you can totally trust the certificate authorities), or completely and totally bonkers (my site being injected is somehow my problem).

It seems to me that HTTPS advocates will follow a trend for pageviews, and aren't afraid to paper over HTTPS's glaring flaws if enough stupid people will believe them.
If the 7 extended to Newark my commute would be amazing...
I don't know. From my point of view, it seems that empathy-oriented morality tends to divide people into an in-group (worthy of empathy) and an out-group(not worthy). In a situation where there is a perceived conflict of interest between the worthy and the not worthy, this can become quite murderous.

Within in-groups, though, empathy is very useful if not overdone. You can have too much, though. My wife is pretty much unable to rinse the wounds when the children hurt themself, because of the short term pain an antiseptic causes when applied.

A rule based ethics can, at least in some cases, be more resilient to these issues.

Of course, rule based ethics can be of the type "sodomites shall be stoned".

And below all that: What values do we use when evaluating what ethical systems are better, and where do THOSE values come from?
Introducing Multi-Leg Options Strategies
My hunch is probably there will be 2 versions maintained separately like visual studio and vs code. The version built in javascript will probably be free for personal usage, can have lesser features and probably fight for marketshare against google drive, libreoffice etc. I wouldn't be surprised if they even keep the source open. PR and market wise, this would be a great move.
>using the facebook name to make it sound worse than it is makes this either dishonest or ill-informed

No. Not only does facebook not get cover from "everyone else is doing it," they are actively perpetuating that cover existing for others. They are one of a few entities with the weight to set "industry standard" simply by changing their practices.

>while you can get up in arms about it, you need to get up in arms about the practice industry-wide

I am.
They could use the speakers as a microphone. Just because you're paranoid, doesn't mean they're not after you.
https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/Zuckerberg%20...

Quick search indicates the tracking information starts on page 84.

Page 86: "Device operations: information about operations and behaviors performed on the device, such as whether a window is foregrounded or backgrounded, or mouse movements (which can help distinguish humans from bots)."
Gossiping Is Good: The surprising virtues of talking behind people’s backs
>It's one codebase and it compiles to: Web Android IOS MacOS UWP WIN32 (only one that uses electron)

Ah yes, you can see here the strong love of Linux in Microsoft.
So are all those beautiful UI elements in the kitchen sink demo included?
Not only that, but it makes the sites literally unplayable on most devices and computers manufactured more than like 2 years ago. The technical bloat is horrendous.
I used to get excited about new-language posts on here, but I've gotten weary of them over time. So many are just slight variations on standard syntaxes that meet their creator's preferences. It's rare to see anything that's radical, and therefore truly interesting.
I kinda have the opposite question: I've honestly never understood lodash's popularity. Even before ES6, so much of it seemed to be just slightly different syntax for things that already exist.

I mean, clearly I'm missing something, lots of devs seem to love it and that can't be for no reason; but every time I've encountered it in code I'm maintaining it's been trivially replaceable with vanilla methods, which makes me wonder what the point of including it in the project in the first place was.
There are COBOL programs still running. I wouldn't get your hopes up.
> (well.. less Google, more Apple)

That's funny, because very recently, there was a discovery that fb gave most of the device makers deep access to user data, including Apple.

Against all evidences, Apple still gets a pass.
The only good that can come of this all is that the Time Warner name will finally go away. (yes i know this is the media company vs. the cable company but this is the end of it!) the rest of the deal, is not so great.

edit: not vs.* but 2 different entities with similar names.
No, it was the Ignatiy Lapkin version (linked from that page). That guy was something else.
Why not take the opportunity to learn other languages and see for yourself rather than ask someone to hold your hand? Show some initiative.
Please don't refer to those as "movies". They're really documentaries, just like Terminator et al.
I think this quote mirrors your point nicely (on psychometrics):

> According to a 2006 article by the National Center for Biotechnology Information, contemporary psychological research often did not reflect substantial recent developments in psychometrics and "bears an uncanny resemblance to the psychometric state of the art as it existed in the 1950s."
http://archive.is/01Vsg
That is the clearest, most succinct explanation of variables, types and mutability I’ve ever read.

I’m not deep into this yet but I dig the ‘voice’ being used. It’s difficult to break ‘obvious’ things down to those without background while staying concise.
That doesn't make sense...

This would add a net of four more Senators, which only might go Republican. Considering that California is generally considered solidly blue as it stands, this would almost certainly result in the balance shifting toward the Democrats in the Senate.
From Wikipedia on the Flynn Effect: "When intelligence quotient (IQ) tests are initially standardized using a sample of test-takers, by convention the average of the test results is set to 100 and their standard deviation is set to 15 or 16 IQ points. When IQ tests are revised, they are again standardized using a new sample of test-takers, usually born more recently than the first. Again, the average result is set to 100. However, when the new test subjects take the older tests, in almost every case their average scores are significantly above 100."

I believe the posted study is discussing the reason why this trend of increasing scores might no longer hold.
Archive.is is now the most reliable way of getting around paywalls for major news outlets:

http://archive.is/01Vsg
Sorry, I'm honestly not sure I understand how your comment relates to mine.

I'm talking about the gig economy from a workers perspective.
The real problem is DOM, not the language or its implementations.
How do these results correlate with the increase/decrease of wages and social services in said country, I wonder.
Not wrong, see the Windows 10 OneNote app for example, which already uses Typescript on WinRT/UWP. An Electron target will only be for legacy platforms, like Windows 7 and 8.

Also see https://www.thurrott.com/cloud/office-365/161295/microsoft-r...
Nintendo brings 'Fortnite' to Switch console
The standard library. There's a few things missing in ES8, but not a huge amount.

Also sugar.js is dead. I maintain http://agavejs.org, an ES8 based replacement, which is stil going.
Using mouse movements to detect that tab is inactive is an old trick. Compared to other facts, I think that tracking mouse movements is absolutely not a problem. Collecting things like IMEI or IP addresses needs more attention. For example, I think it is not necessary to keep IP addresses longer than week or two if you respect your users' privacy.
> > This alternative classical mechanics is non-deterministic, despite the use of deterministic equations, in a way similar to quantum theory.

> What does "a way similar to quantum theory" mean?

I'm not an expert (though I have studied undergraduate physics). I imagine what he's trying to reference is that while the equations of quantum mechanics relating to states are entirely deterministic, the measurements we make are probabilistic in nature (I am careful to not say "non-deterministic" -- because it would not be correct to phrase it that way). I've skimmed through the paper and I see no reason that this peculiar nature of quantum mechanics (which we still don't understand) applies to a mathematical reformulation of classical mechanics.

I imagine the reason the author mention quantum mechanics is that they have published the paper in the quantum mechanics section of arXiv...

But personally my biggest issue with the abstract is this:

> Since a finite volume of space can't contain more than a finite amount of information, I argue that the mathematical real numbers are not physically relevant.

This conflates several concepts from different fields in a single sentence and is utterly ludicrous. The author appears to be talking about the Bekenstein bound (which states that there is a maximum amount of entropy for a given region of space with a given amount of energy -- otherwise you could violate thermodynamics by placing such a system into a black hole). But he is conflating the concept of entropy (or "information") from thermodynamics with his own concept of "number information". If this conflation was accurate then one could assume that the amount of entropy in a system is related to the decimal expansion of variables related to that system -- which is just a ridiculous thing to argue (especially if you consider that you can change the decimal expansion of a number by changing units).
After your death all of your life's browser history, every facebook/youtube/reddit/HN/myspace/etc comment and submission you ever wrote, every photo you ever took, every off-hand remark you ever made in the presence of a smartphone with facebook installed .. will be published for all of the world to read and judge.

Better get that road rage under wraps!
I prefer Grace Hopper's version, "It is often easier to ask for forgiveness than to ask for permission."
Bullshit, the tests are all pattern recognition and specifically avoid anything that must be taught.
I'm not sure what table you're looking at, but at those links Surplus is still the fastest only behind vanilla JS.
Einstein was a great physicist, but I’m not looking to him for moral guidance. If he was awful for his time that would be sad, but if he’s merely average, I don’t see why we’d care.
I don't see what the big deal is ... everyone thinks stuff like this in their head, and it's a personal diary. Only recently do we live in a globalized & diverse economy which makes it less polite to say stuff like this. It is a big stretch to equate lack of politeness with racism.
The plan is a gerrymander that maximally concentrates people likely to vote Democratic into one state along the coast.

Democrats have had enough of gerrymandering, and California is pretty blue these days. This won't pass.
For some people, there is no difference ultimately. Because it's not that they aren't doing anything malicious with the collected data now, it's about the fact that they CAN do it if they desire to (ethical or not) in the future--the data is being collected, stored (perhaps indefinitely), and will always be accessible. In a world where capitalism reigns, to think that any large corporate business would treat our data with the best care and in our bests interests seems a little silly. I have always held the belief that businesses are not people and it's reasonable to expect that businesses may not be inclined to always do the right thing, especially if it gains them more money and power.
So it's essentially gerrymandering via the ballot box. Great.
Because I was simply coming up with a counter argument not advocating for a position.

I could support the fist line by saying investments are taxed at below average rates including loans (bonds) which are not double taxed. And a flat tax without any form of tax breaks is the only fair solution.

But, again not trying to support a position just disappointed with the way taxes are discussed. Arguably all people deserve a tax break, but the only way to do that is reduce spending.
The correct title should be: Boys that live in rich, white and suburban districts outperform girls in standardized test scores.
One goal is to automate most of the work of a transfer agent, not to eliminate them completely. And that’s the open question: how many roles in the process can be simplified and to what degree?

https://www.sec.gov/fast-answers/answerstransferagenthtm.htm...
Configuring MODx Revolution to Scale Horizontally
It can be a more difficult transition to go from high to low than from low to high. Not impossible, but frustrating and confusing.

But also - not to stereotype too hard - but low-level people often have that crusty-old-sailor syndrome where they've been doing things the hard way since before these youngun's even first saw code, and if they can manage their own memory for performance then god-dangit everyone else should have to too.
Yeah Narimiran did a good job of breaking it down. I prompted him to add details here and there, but he was quick to rein me in when I wanted to dig too deep.
It takes more than 17 minutes for the votes on a comment to reach a level worth mentioning.
Related: "... data ... from the UK Biobank... suggests genetic contributions to intelligence and educational achievement are currently disfavoured by natural selection". [1]

[1] https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2017/12/19/...
What is the current state of the art? I thought it was all progress towards eliminating things that are actually “knowledge” and so look more and more like the abstract IQ tests we see today.
Well, layering quic on top of udp means we're going back to userland networking too.
Probably both. My problem isn't that it is more difficult to concentrate as I get older, but that I spend more time to get back to a flow state after I'm interrupted.
Given that google is the de facto standard ATM and often returns irrelevant results, I'd wager that search isn't solved.

"That does not by itself mean there's room for a new search engine, but lately when using Google search I've found myself nostalgic for the old days, when Google was true to its own slightly aspy self. Google used to give me a page of the right answers, fast, with no clutter. Now the results seem inspired by the Scientologist principle that what's true is what's true for you. And the pages don't have the clean, sparse feel they used to. Google search results used to look like the output of a Unix utility. Now if I accidentally put the cursor in the wrong place, anything might happen."
http://www.paulgraham.com/ambitious.html
I think it's the distractions. I'm in my late 20s and when I was in college and didn't have a smart phone, I could hold my focus on a math problem for hours on a time. Now like you, I need to take a break and look at something else every 10 minutes.
I get the depressing feeling that a lot of Javascript programmers have no formal CS education at all.
> Investing in Coinbase Index Fund is the easiest way to get exposure to a broad range get of crypto assets. Much cheaper than 2 and 20% charged by most crypto hedge funds, and you get new assets automatically added to the fund as they become available on Coinbase. No rebalancing. [0]

From their actual site [1], the fees are 2% a year so barely better than those hedge funds and absolutely atrocious compared to normal index funds. You are effectively being charged 2% fees for them running some scripts every once in a while to re-balance the fund compared to stock market index funds which charge on average around 0.05%. To make matters even worse, their "index" comprises of only 4 coins! That's hardly an index at all.

[0]: https://twitter.com/brian_armstrong/status/10066914902721945...

[1]: https://am.coinbase.com/
I'm definitely looking forward to suffering side effects 5 and 6 at once.

1: This is not even a side effect, and it refers to the loss of water weight during the hours before entering ketosis, while the body is still burning glycogen stored in the liver (which is bound to water, which goes into the bloodstream and must be excreted).

2: This goes away after the first hours of ketosis and that's if you have never been in that metabolic state ever in life, otherwise there's none at all.

3: Not a side effect but the actual intended consequence, and a positive and healthy one.

4: Cravings go away. We actually crave more sugar the more we consume it, not the other way around. A period of 2 weeks without sugar, even in the context of a non-ketogenic diet, removes cravings.

7: That's due to a lack of electrolytes and not ketosis. People who attempt to switch often disregard electrolyte intake, which is obviously crucial. As urination is more frequent during the switch, electrolyte balance is harder to maintain. Adequate intake fixes this.

Try harder, please.
As an outsider and someone who is not even remotely close to the situation this sounds like a politically motivated move that is justified by unfounded claims.
Hmm, interesting.

I just had a slow look through http://kittenlang.org/intro/. In all honesty my stupid ADHD decided to conk out precisely at the Lambdas section, I'm not sure why. Up to that point, the only thing that I'd note is that "match (xs head)" is not described anywhere (on the page at all).

But I think it's interesting you posit Kitten as a systems language. Huh. (What's a "traditional" tokenizer?! Ah; I assume you mean "not pure Forth" as opposed to "buy APL keycaps here" (heh).)

I guess the only advice I can think of right now is, offer batteries included, and include the batteries you're most passionate about, because it'll mean the implementations are complete and well-tested. If that's web templating (random top-of-my-head thought), do that; if it's image processing, do that. It'll raise the chances the language becomes $thing-heavy because nobody contributes other code, but you can always stop advertising and spend time rounding things out if that happens.

I meant to install Kitten, but that didn't quite work this time around due to problems on my end. (First git was silently segfaulting due to inconsistently-upgraded shared libraries on my Slackware box, then I realized I needed Haskell and switched to Arch, then I was reminded that pacman doesn't really know how to resolve dependencies properly ("if you install something that needs the newest version of glibc, maybe I shouldn't need to have to upgrade glibc (and reverse-resolve its dependencies) myself?!"), then after half-installing Haskell I discovered (/) only had 19MB free, so now I have to go figure out what caused that... (I argue it's my 80KB/s ADSL2+ upload speed :P))

I'll definitely be looking at Kitten at some point though. Thanks for the reply!

EDIT: Got past the previous issues, now Haskell is sad. https://github.com/evincarofautumn/kitten/issues/206