skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Where I work we track: mouse movements, how long you spend on a specific page, the path that you took to get to a specific page, what you clicked, ip addresses, and basically all information included in the header of the request. We also screen shot everything from when you login to when you logout.
When I read this one obvious explanation would be that IQ tests are designed with biased assumptions based on the cultural environments in which they were designed, and that those biased assumptions become more and more foreign as more generations pass since the test was originally designed.

See? I can speculate baselessly too.
I'm sure I'll be downvoted into oblivion for making the observation but surely this isn't surprising given that people with lower IQs tend to have more babies and have babies earlier in life than do people with higher IQs. [0]

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fertility_and_intelligence
On Windows 10, they will target WinRT on UWP, with Fluent Design UI. Not Electron.
> Why is the war hypothesis considered more likely than say a widespread, long lived contagious disease that had significantly higher mortality in males than females?

Most likely because disease don't discriminate along clan lines and even if disease killed a portion of a clan's males, the other males of the clans can just breed with females and the relative diversity of the male clan line is still maintained. Also, the fact that it has occurred throughout the world indicates it wasn't disease but the structure of the clan and the warfare.

> If there was a period of widespread warfare for sustained periods, it's hard to see how "clans" would continue to engage in warfare beyond say 50% loss of the fighting forces.

Why do say that? Also, you are assuming that one clan won't have an advantage over the other clan and that one side won't be victorious.

> Wouldn't some women have joined the clan fighting forces also if it was an existential struggle?

No because it wasn't an existential struggle for women. It was an existential struggle for men. Women can breed with the conquering males. Perhaps a small number of women may fight but they'll be killed or subdued very quickly. Males are much stronger than females on average.

> - which was the pattern in many historical accounts of widespread warfare.

And the pattern is that males conquer and take the women, land, resources, etc.

If you want to see how conquerors genes spread. Look at mexico's mestizo genetics.

"A 2012 study published by the Journal of Human Genetics Y chromosomes found the deep paternal ancestry of the Mexican mestizo population to be predominately European (64.9%), followed by Amerindian (30.8%) and Asian (1.2%)"

"Also a study published in 2011 on Mexican Mitochondrial DNA found that maternal ancestry was predominately Native American (85-90%), with a minority having European (5–7%) or African (3–5%) mtDNA."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mestizos_in_Mexico

Amongst mixed race mexicans, 65% are descended from european males and 85-90% are descended from native females. And the european males didn't kill off all the native males in mexico. The european males, as conquerors, seized the most land, resources and power for themselves and their male offsprings. This gives an enormous breeding advantage that in just a couple of hundred years, native mexican male genetics is a distinct minority while the native mexican female genetics is a distinct advantage.

Keep in mind that at no time in mexican history were full-blooded european males a significant portion of the population. It's just the power of mathematics ( exponential growth ).

Think about it, if you have 10 kids and your kids have 10 kids and their kids have 10 kids, it adds up really quickly.
Not totally true because:

> WIN32 (only one that uses electron)

which happens to be the version most people use.
"have been unable to meet self-imposed production levels". Scaling car production takes lots of experience, takes lots of infrastructure. I mean, Ford's Ford Rogue River Complex is 1 mile x 1.5 miles, it has 93 buildings making up nearly 16 million square feet of factory.

Musk always overestimates what he will be able to achieve in a given period and that's a good thing. It keeps you busting ass to make your goal instead of getting complacent and lazy.

Investors and keyboard cowboys need to realize that Tesla is not Ford/GM/Toyota, that it is a company that is effectively still an infant and has never produced at any worthwhile scale and has to figure all that out.
"Unfortunately, our website is currently unavailable in most European countries. We are engaged on the issue and committed to looking at options that support our full range of digital offerings to the EU market. We continue to identify technical compliance solutions that will provide all readers with our award-winning journalism."

Does anybody have a copy of the article?
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Perhaps we should reflect on why people do indeed use his language, warts 'n all?

Are you suggesting C or Haskell are without their problems? What is your definition of a "good" language?
Not Electron. https://twitter.com/TheLarkInn/status/1006761134395834368
If the state does split in three I think it will only take about five minutes for the counties who want to split off and form Jefferson to submit an initiative to split Northern California. Likewise, Orange County and San Diego, while more similar to each other in ideology than Los Angeles or San Francisco, will be chomping at the bit to disassociate from each other as well.

Honestly, I don't think the state will ever split, but if it does a simple split like the 3 Californias proposal would make the most sense.
Sounds like an oblique way to say the upbringing is the problem.
Which is fine if you don't need your app to run in IE. They probably do.
That’s what the intro to the movie Idiocracy says :P
That's interesting, as I see it as an attempt to do the opposite and add more democrat seats. "Southern California" is realistically the only one of the three with the possibility of going red. If you were to remove San Francisco from "Northern California" and place it back in "California" then I could see it possibly going red at that point.
"States will be more accountable to us and can cooperate and compete for citizens." Translation: a corporate tax race-to-the-bottom that ensures lower tax revenues for all three states with zero net-new jobs.
So? When were the POSIX APIs designed? Probably before 16 bit was common. By that logic we should migrate off that as well.
Nobody is implying anything before 2018 is obsolete, but that these libraries that the author is showing are still alive and well and actively maintained/improved.

Sure, a js library from 2008 will still work great now, however it might not work well with new module bundlers, or it might do something that is consitered "code smell" in newer JS engines which could impact performance.

Newer doesn't mean "better", but it's still useful information to have.
sigh as a non US citizen could we please have less mentions of US politics and US political figures on HN? I don't know about others but the extreme US centric nature of HN is wearing me down. When I go on Reddit I go to /r/worldnews specifically to get away from US only news content but even then every second article concerns the Trump administration and its foreign policy.

How in all that is holy can you connect a bio-meteorological phenomenon to the Donald? When people say we are living in dark times I have to concur, public discourse is being destroyed with partisan and identity politics.

Also, not a supporter, but I think his rhetorical flourishes are quite arresting and quirky at times.
> The degree had courses on things like writing interpreters, compiler theory and you actually had to understand how it all worked.

You do understand that you can write interpreters and compilers in any language, right? That includes all the scripting languages. JavaScript is actually one of the languages used most often for writing compilers.

> I look at that same curriculum today and the starting development course is javascript (and also Java in year 1).

That's a problem with the curriculum, if anything, and not JavaScript nor Java.

> I don't believe you can start with Javascript as your first introduction to programming and become a good programmer.

In other words, you can never learn to ride a bike if your "introduction to locomotion" happens to be walking. That's harsh...

> nowadays [...] they work at a higher level of abstraction than we had to

That's called progress. And "nowadays" is misleading - the same has been continuously happening since the sixties, and the exact same argument was repeated again and again along the way. Assembler is too high-level, you can't become a good programmer by learning it before microcode (and how to hold a soldering gun!). Structured programming is too high-level, you can't become a good programmer by learning it before free-form assembly. Function calls are too high-level, you can't become a good programmer by learning them before goto. Object-oriented concepts are too high-level (and so inefficient!), you can't become a good programmer by learning OO before procedural or functional approach. It goes on and on and I honestly don't understand what makes people rehashing the same argument so often when even a very basic understanding of computing history would show that it's futile.

> I've seen devs that graduated relatively recently (last 5 years)

Check back in 5-10 years time and see if they still don't understand immutability or references. Not to mention that it could be caused by any number of factors (like, for example, a lower percentage of people coding from childhood in the recent graduates).

Anyway, learning programming takes vast amounts of time and a lot of sustained effort over the years. The bright side is that if you don't slack off, you'll become a good programmer eventually, no matter what you started with. Keep doing it, keep expanding your horizons, and at some point, you'll get to wherever you wanted to be.
That last sentence is an interesting point. The reason I stumbled onto this plan in the first place, is that I've had years of digestive discomfort, and realized that my system seems to handle starchy foods better. So I did some research on that, and learned that starchy foods are often the easiest for your body to digest and process.
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Web Views with native API's. So not truly native compilation.
Part of that is electron itself - I've heard it carries quite a bit of bloat - and part of that is the DOM. The DOM is very slow because of the guarantees it makes. You can edit any part of the HTML at any time - by hand or by API - and everything will resize and reflow implicitly. That's an incredibly powerful yet heavyweight feature. If they're using React Native, the only non-native thing is the raw JS logic itself, which is far, far less of a bottleneck.
I've been meaning to try this tutorial out on some non-programming friends of mine. But time is unfortunately a limited resource, so I haven't gotten around to it. I helped proof read the texts and clear up some stuff, so if you have any questions about it feel free to ask and I'll try to answer as much as I can! But it hasn't been "battle tested" yet and it might be updated should we find things people struggle with, both with Nim and programming in general.
That's a common myth. Higher than average IQ men have significantly more kids it's less significant and possibly negative for women.

"More rigorous studies carried out on Americans alive after the Second World War returned different results suggesting a slight positive correlation with respect to intelligence."

Critically these children are often had latter in life making studies based on younger age cohorts give different results.

Higher education also has a negative impact.
That's what I thought. It's tough to use Linux in a Windows shop. I have most of it figured out, though.

It would just be nice to be able to join Skype/Lync meetings with Screen sharing.
I don’t know about Norway, but here in Spain the % of people who sign up to the military who are immigrants has been steadily increasing these decades, so a drop in IQ does not surprise me at all.
Perhaps regression toward the mean counteracts this?
Do you think there's a better alternative or are you addressing that lodash is pretty old now?
> every dynamically-typed language has "weird" behaviour around type coercion, that's simply the nature of the beast.

No, that's not true at all. Dynamic languages don't necessarily have type coercion at all, much less weird behavior around it (and, conversely, statically typed languages they have coercion may have weird behavior around it; there's just no link between dynamic typing and weird coercion behavior.)
Actually, they "learned" from the "ping of death" that unusual packets are an attack. They have to unlearn that "lesson".
If California does split into different states such that Los Angeles and its water supply are in different states then you have an instant, protracted, bitter, and expensive interstate water rights dispute to pay for. I'm not sure either prospective California would be looking forward to that unless there is a plan in place to share water.
Didn't read the article, but isn't IQ always steady?

100 the average, 130 top 2% etc.

Sure intelligence can change, but wouldn't IQ scores adjust to that?
Can we ban propaganda sites from HN? They are almost never focused on technology and the headlines are clickbait.

All "news" sites should be banned. Or you should allow breitbart stories too. They are all the same thing, propaganda for the far left or the far right.
So does heroin, and creates a new class of problems.
Say no to defaults. A clickable guide to fixing the complicated privacy settings
I'm in Oil and Gas app dev, we are .net with no VBA. I guess I'm lucky.
I stumbled across Luxon, also under the Moment umbrella, not too long ago and I think it's pretty slick. It feels a lot more natural to use.
Studies show that happiness is more indicative of achieving success, than achieving success is of happiness.
https://www.ted.com/talks/shawn_achor_the_happy_secret_to_be...
http://archive.is/dL6iE

Yay GDPR nonsense.
This is true, but people like the orginal tweeter often pretend that this learning order is somehow the only "real" way to do things. I don't see why it isn't equally as valid to learn high-level concepts first and then learn the gory details later. I'm confused why there seems to be such a large number of low-level people so stubbornly insisting their order is the right one.
> I'm very glad that you've been omniscient enough to determine what "proper" parallel support is, though. How's that working out for you? Meanwhile, those of us using JavaScript simply run one process per core

Yeah, and I can do the same thing in Python, and it will be equally as lame: both languages are fundamentally single-threaded.

You act as if JS has all problems solved: Erlang/Elixir/Golang have far superior async & parallel stories and will happily thrash JS/Node in performance and efficiency.

How’s it working out for me? Well I do a lot of stuff in Haskell and Rust now, so pretty great actually.
What I find absolutely fascinating is that there are only 16 years between the release of GTA1 and GTA5. How could such amazing progress have occurred in such a short timeframe? It's unbelievable.
No, Craig Newmark did not kill local news
The only real merit of the plan in my opinion is increased Senate representation to be more representative of people - land doesn't vote. However that would probably cause contagious state Balkinization instead of doing the proper thing and doing away with the colony uniting artifact of fixed representation - which is politically pretty unviable.

But this is at the cost of probable administrative efficiency to redundancy and loss of their large size leverage. The sponsors are naked about their bad intentions however - wanting to disrupt bargaining power for sheer selfish reasons. Preventing Medicare bargaining was bad for everyone except special interests.
Uh, there is in fact, an absolute(position:absolute). It has caveats, but doesn't XAML? The 'certain location' bit is actually quite complex:

- how is it supposed to adapt to different resolutions?

- is an inner absolute component allowed to escape its container?

- how does it layer with other components?

The CSS required to position an element at an absolute location must take all of these into consideration, and I'm not sure how much better a native toolkit can make it.
> The ability to have your web team churn out lowest common denominator bloated JS based mobile/desktop apps was not a real requirement, more like a wish of some.

Come on, the requirement has always been there. It is "Shit out that underbudgeted project in half the promised time". Those small frameworks where you can hire a cheap front-end guy and have him manage the entire project alone or in a small team are perfect to fill that niche.
Hang on - the one time correlation does strongly suggest causation is when trials include randomized interventions, which i pretty much the case here (once in a while, move my mouse and see if network traffic spikes).
> Very very hard. Because the bot author does not have the giant database that FB has

You don't need to learn from all humans. You need to learn from very few (or just even one).

Not all problems are machine learning problem.
I saw that for the first time today elsewhere in this thread, and I really like it!
George Washington is a made-up Hollywood figure. Humanity only started around 60 years ago and the rest is just made up movie plots and children's books.
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I absolutely agree - I used something similar at my previous job.

But neither of us know Facebook's policy (although we can easily guess their intentions, based on past behavior), and nobody ought to be expected to cut them any slack.
I'd assume there would be a rule to prevent structuring
Except given the data they provide, boys in middle class families also seem to be doing better than girls.

Boys in general like math more than girls. Math is a competitive exercise and women are in general less competitive than men. It's you vs the formula, at least at the level of grade school math. There's less room for error than a subject like Literature which is more open to interpretation, where assignments often can't be "wrong", at least in an obvious way.

I believe that striving for equality in math outcomes, especially at high levels, ignores the way many women think.
I am not sure why this has been downvoted. Will somebody care to explain?
> getting crap done

Yeah you end up with crap.
Dev in finance here, VBA gets used more than I care to think about.
True, but that's less of a concern for timestamps, right? You can always point to the original pre-fork chain.
I like how they rewrite the code in different ways (type punning) and keep the "what the fuck?" comment intact.
More propaganda backed by clickbait. Ban news sites please.

Here's a guideline: If different people write the story than the headlines ban the site.
No, not at all. This is closer to what the parent was saying

By that argument, someone will:

* beat his wife - true

* murder an enemy - true

* shoot up a school full of children - true

* commit arson - true

* jump bail - true

* evade arrest - true

* die in a hail of bullets - true

You see, all these things do happen. The parent is not arguing that because something is possible any one individual will do it. You're arguing a very different thing.
> utterly fails

> $74b revenue

> 80% market share
There was real injustice, but it is important to also realize the vast usefulness these narratives had to the West (and in more recent times descriptions of the injustice of Saddam Hussein's Iraq were used in part to justify his overthrow). And conversely, the Soviets published many descriptions of the horrors of the Jim Crow US South for similar reasons.
Sounds like an oblique way to say that IQ tests are aimed at people brought up by the 1960's educational system.
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.

I took an IQ test once. One of the questions that I couldn't answer was to spot what was missing in a picture. It was the hat band. I can't tell you exactly what kind of hat it was, but it was worn by a man and looked like something I might perhaps see in an old film. One of the questions that I could answer was to spot the odd one out in a list that looked something like: spondee, dactyl, trochee, ... If people have got worse at answering those two questions then I am not surprised.
Thank you for doing the comparison. Would you do the same against the latest version (v0.5.0) please? Thank you.
I dealt with it peripherally in my last job. Apparently the only reason Office has a 64bit version at all is Oil and Gas was causing Excel to run out of ram and demanded it. We were developing a COM addin, and we had clients complain that we broke some of their VBA they were using (turned out it was another VBA addin they were using that wasn't doing proper error handling). But it was definitely common for us to see clients that were deep into VBA.
Servers are stateful.
I wondered if it was related to breastfeeding, since it is known to have a positive correlation. It turns out breastfeeding in Norway followed the exact opposite trend: falling from the end of WWI to 1970, and picking up since then ( source: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Donor-milk-banking-and... )
Ah! This drives me insane and it's only started recently. I can enter as little as two words in format 'uncommonProperNoun commonNoun', and the entire first page will be results of 'missing uncommonProperNoun'. It's maddening. It's like searching for 'the moon' and getting results back containing 'the'. Does anyone know how/why this started? Is there a way to enforce a query?
Yeah, but then you just end up making another charting library which is less flexible and limited by the constraints forced by your abstractions. There is a fundamental reason why D3 has remained relevant for so long in an ever-changing JS/Web landscape.

If you want reusability, build your abstractions or use a charting library, but recognize that this will in-turn limit the flexibility of your reusable code.

You can't have your cake and eat it too. It's the very reason why D3 is still so relevant today.
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I can say it’s going to rain 10 days from now based on whether it’s cloudy today. I wouldn’t say it’s a good prediction until it rains 10 days from now.

In other words: how effective has this salary prediction worked out in the past?
They must have started giving their employees royalties on what they work on. Oh wait, no place does that? Cool.

Don't read hackernews too much, you have socially accepted cuckolding to get back to.
I agree about South Park, they pivoted to be a compliment rather than a counter to current times
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I think if Einstein were alive today he would see his words and repent to them. Especially in light of other things he has said like: "Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.". Though this had nothing to do with race he understood something in those times that many others didn't in regards to human nature.