skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for the thought through response. Here's what I think in turn:

1. The g-factor premise is that a sufficiently complex test reveals an "underlying" intelligence factor and performance in it will be predictive of performance in other complex tests (whether that's Sudoku or life in general).

2. Mensa in the UK use the Cattell Culture Fair II test which strongly correlates with WAIS without the fanfare (i.e. it's just non-verbal puzzles). Triumph for g-factor, thus I discount your "battery of tests are better or somehow more revealing of the brains potential" argument.

3. One would expect that intelligence and rationality would correlate since it'll directly impact your ability to solve complex situations. It turns out that it doesn't, and I think a notion of arational or irrational intelligence is without sense.

4. However IQ does seem to correlate with the ability to "think quicker" and "cut out the noise". E.g. https://eu.usatoday.com/story/tech/2013/05/23/iq-vision-brai... . If you follow the thread, you'll find that it also comes with disadvantages (e.g. being less able to perceive slow change).

5. I'm using "Turing complete" as a dumb analogy to computing. Something that tests the range of things that you can solve, at any speed. To continue the analogy, if I'm a slow Turing machine but you're a lightening fast pushdown automata, fast as you might be within your domain, there's still a world of things that you can't solve that I can.

6. Anecdotally, I've observed that amongst my guys, being a bad-ass mathematician and being able to actually model or understand the world are separate skills. A narrow example, but an example nontheless, in my opinion Physics > Mathematics in terms of expressing the potential of a rational thinker precisely because it requires more "Turing machine".... to wit, consider all the maths that just never would have happened without the bad-ass physicists (again IMO exactly for the same reason stated).
This is true. Each team owns their service end-to-end. It just happens that the console is usually an afterthought. Something to be left for the interns to work on.

The funny thing is, some of the AWS services are indeed quite primitive compared to their Amazon internal equivalent.
Facebook is now a major mobile browser in U.S
Also of note, they've raised the rate limit for certificates per registered domain per week: https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/certificates-per-registe...

> The ‘certificates per registered domain per week’ limit has been raised from 20 to 50.

https://letsencrypt.org/docs/rate-limits/
Thanks for the suggestion! I’ll check it out.
Now all my friends know my meager salary thanks to the latest breach at Chasebook.
The Power of Knowledge
I don't understand why MoviePass doesn't just close up shop. Their popularity stemmed from selling a dollar for 50 cents. There is no business here, they should quit while they are behind.
Governments, you know, those people you're counting on to make it illegal and catch ... themselves ? Are the primary users of facial recognition, as anyone who's gone through customs in any EU country can tell you.

Those very same governments are also the main problem with censorship, and of course, their agents (police, politicians, ...) have proven time and time again that they can't be trusted with a stick [1], and don't follow the law.

And this is ignoring the fact that governments frequently see themselves as exempted for the law. In many cases, they build this into the laws in the first place.

So what exactly are you proposing we do ? If governments use this, who really cares who else is abusing it ?

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_nAYd6Gpt4
Yeah, but both are very interesting, as are specific constraints that can be applied, like what's possible in 1D or 2D or 3D and how quantum mechanical phenomena enters into the limitations.
Hell, considering the UK is heavily deforested, probably a lot of people who would appreciate those new trees too.
>Teachers teach the curriculum they are assigned, that is all

A significant portion of my family is made of teachers and this is not true at all. In healthy (most) schools, teachers have enough wiggle room to tell students "This portion of your textbook is wrong/biased in a weird way". In some cases, they may be prohibited from saying specific things and other oddities, often by old and angry boards of education or similar, but if an educator actually believes in the importance of teaching children, they will find a way to impart the needed knowledge.

You can easily see this in situations like how heavily underpaid teachers still go out and purchase their own supplies because the schools do not give them the tools to do their jobs. Many teachers go above and beyond what their contract states.

Remember that teachers have often seen multiple different education standards and decrees come and go, and therefore understand actually educating is more important than meeting the minimum standard
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_sunshade

Thank me later.
How $500,000 Microsoft Azure Sponsorship might kill your startup
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At age 62 you can receive 45% the equity of your house as a lump sum or annuity and not have to pay it back while you own the house. This is called a reverse mortgage. The lender recovers costs fromthe sale of your house after you sell the house.
> The chain of industrial processes that converts oil to plastics are energy intensive

But that energy can come from renewables, no?
A lot depends on the detail of their definition of 'white label'.

Do they want just a version of the product that has their branding front and center, but which with even a cursory scratching of the surface is your product.

Or do they want a complete white-label version including domain names (incl. backend services not shown in the browser), email, payment processing, etc, etc.

In the later case unless they are willing to pay $$$$$ up front for the development it would seem very unlikely to be worthwhile.

In the former case, you could decide if it is worthwhile for a moderate amount of development effort and perhaps even include a 'Powered by ...' link in the footer. Then offer them a 30% discount on pricing: eg. a plan that costs $300\year normally you'll sell them for $210 and require they market it at a price of at least $300 ... if they can sell it for more and capture more profit take that as a signal to raise your prices!
The refurbishing costs of even their first reused booster was less than half the price of a new booster [1], so something above 50%*70% = 35% saving assuming that the booster is 70% of the cost of the launch. The new block 5 version rocket is supposed to reduce that refurbishing cost by a lot.

However, they have development costs of something like a billion dollars to pay back, and no reason to lower the price drastically at this point, so new launches on reused rockets are going for ~50 million instead of 62 million.

[1] https://spacenews.com/spacex-gaining-substantial-cost-saving...
All: there doesn't seem to be a whole lot of intellectual gratification happening in these threads, but please try at least to avoid things like gratuitous inflammation, generic politics, and all such low-information flameage. Those things do actual damage to the community, and for what?
The price seems fine, I'd be happy with it. The problem I have is the amount of tracking they're apparently doing. That's the bit that makes me not use the service (not that I can in my country, but my point still stands).
Abby Martin a crazy 9/11 truther who constantly lies and bends facts to fit her nerrative to the point where even pRopagandaToday had to boot her out.
Today she is affiliated with some Venezuelan news outlet but she still spreading her lies on the Empire Files and other outlets.
I've shared my experiences with Microsoft Azure Sponsorship Billing. Hope this article helps other entrepreneurs in the same boat.
Isn't it craigslist?
That's just abusive pricing. If you're stuck with Apple software then I guess you have no choice. I have a 10-core 128GB ram workstation that's two years old now, it cost me half as much as a MacBook Pro. I need a new laptop soon, but the difference between the i9 Dell and the i9 MacBook is $800 CAD. Plus the Dell is for sure going to work better with a Linux install, in terms of drivers, which is better for me for work than MacOS. I won't be buying Apple.
To Kill Climate Rule, EPA Proposes Redefining the Dangers of Soot
We haven't done $%# to try and execute Plan A i.e. reducing greenhouse gas emissions. It's the cheapest and easiest plan by far, so why do you think we can afford to switch to some fanciful plan B?

Most alternative are either distractions by/for those who can't accept the harsh reality, Get-rich-quick schemes by some industrialists or science-fiction by/for those who prefer to dream of a nice future rather than doing something now.

"The American way of life is not up for negotiations. Period." -- The People In Charge.
It is not arbitrary to include Nashua and Manchester NH in Boston statistics since those cities are included in the Boston Combined Statistical Area as defined by the US Census:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater_Boston#Combined_Statis...
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Are you suggesting the link is causal?
ASUS has literally dozens of current motherboards with PS/2 ports, including 5 Z370 models. I really have no idea where you get the idea that they "dropped it completely".

https://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&N...

https://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&I...
Nah, Auschwitz is more important.
This is so on point. I can't recognize more than 1 or 2 AWS things by icon. I've always wondered if I was the only one who found it kind of impossible to tell what's what in AWS.
Google scans apps before they are listed in the Play Store.

That's why scanning on the device is such a wasteland of awful.
>"As far as global poverty is concerned, between 1990-2013 more than a billion people were lifted out of poverty according to the World Bank. I'm sure you can point to local and anecdotal evidence that does not correlate, but to say efforts to reduce poverty have failed are just flat wrong."

Those "war on" phrases refer to specific projects in the US. For that one I wasn't too familiar but quickly looked it up and didn't see anyone claiming success:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_on_Poverty

Regarding cancer, I responded here:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17698877
I didn't know that. But the other house, the National Assembly, can have the last word and bypass the decision of the Senate (I think, I'm not a specialist)
Threadripper uses quad-channel DDR4-2666 memory. That gets you 80 GB/s memory bandwidth, which is possible because the processor sits in an enormous 4094-pin TR4 socket. Your Xeons were probably in 2011 pin sockets with DDR3-1866 resulting in 70 GB/s memory bandwidth. One Threadripper has more than double the pin count and slightly more total memory bandwidth than your dual Xeon machine.

Also, your the Intel setup has a 25 GB/s QPI bus between the processors. Threadripper runs an Infinity Fabric bus, with 42 GB/s between each die internally (aggregate 170 GB/s). While a couple of those internal dies are not directly connected to the memory, you should have little trouble sharing meals among those hungry processors.
But Movie Pass charges the same amount no matter where you live so you'd expect it to be much more popular in expensive places. It would be challenging to come up with a worse business model than Movie Pass.
My intuition tells me hyperledger is a bunch of bs.
True, he was using a private media outlet.

They do have a legal right to discriminate which they used against him.

But still that does not change the fact that the media outlets are the ones that choose who has a right to speak and discriminate.
You could euthanize large parts of the physical goods economy with a really good AR Google set. Kind of like the cellphone already made a dent into every carryable daily good supplying information. You wristwatch and paper notebook where are they?
About half the population has a below-average IQ. If we use it as a proxy for "intelligence", that leaves Jones with roughly a 100 million potential adult listeners, only in the US. That's enough to make him wildly popular.
If you click the pushpin icon in the web interface, you'll get a dropdown with the services and their icons. You can drag icons into your top bar as shortcuts.
How could mortgage not be considered debt? You're taking someone else's money, spending it for your own benefit, and contracting to pay it back on a certain schedule + a hefty profit for the lender. Sure seems like classic debt to me. Just because there's a lot of structure around it and it's very common doesn't reduce the fact it is actual debt.
It’s also his job to do what’s best for the people of this country. We have a lot of people in Washington who aren’t doing their jobs who continue to get elected because their constituents are either satisfied or apathetic.
While I agree the canary should be considered dead on principle, I don't find this particular argument very convincing.

I think the main point here needs to be that the entire notion of a canary only works if we can count on them being killed only for the purpose they were created. If it becomes acceptable to kill canaries because the signers are tired of signing them then we have a bit of a problem.

Now, for this specific case...

It sounds like you are arguing that a NSL has compelled them to make false statements. This seems fairly unlikely given what we know about the current legal situation. The idea that they may be lying for the sake of their business is more convincing.

However, if they are lying for whatever reason, why not just continue to sign the canary? The only plausible reason to do this is some sort of malicious compliance with a sloppily worded order compelling them to lie. It would make no sense for them to decide to lie for the sake of the business and then do all of this instead of just signing the canary.

If they have received a NSL this basically leaves two sequences of events, both of which contain some rather unlikely events. If I had to bet, I'd probably bet against them having received a NSL.

However, the canary should still be considered dead. They literally killed the canary. Their reasoning provided for it is really quite bad. Basically they ask users to trust their unsigned website because users already trust their (closed source) code. So they have either received a much more powerful NSL than thought legally possible, or are doing the worlds worst job of lying about not receiving a NSL, or they have not received a NSL and view a regular page on their website as a suitable alternative to their previous solution which involved three people in three different countries signing the canaries with keys stored on air-gapped computers. If you are counting on them for security, none of options are good.
Just to add on, the compelling of speech is made more difficult by the fact that the signing keys were held by people of three different nationalities, in three different countries.

The US Government can't force someone to do something if they aren't a US citizen and not on their territory. Their best option is extradition, but that would raise more eyebrows than they'd want.
We all acknowledge that it's a violation of the first amendment if the government simply makes it hard to access speech even if it's still technically available. The government can't order Google to stop indexing your website even if they allow your website to remain online.

Plenty of people here have argued for the gravely mistaken position that free speech protections should only apply to the government, but I've never heard anyone argue that private individuals and organizations are morally bound to protect free speech in certain circumstances but this only applies if they are completely wiping out the speech rather than just making it difficult to access. I don't understand why that would be the case.
I don't particularly agree with the delivery suggestion. Basically a volunteer UberEATS style delivery with bicycles? To say this is ambitious is an understatement. Bicycles are not nearly as used as you'd think, and decentralized delivery with volunteers will probably raise the cost of delivery (effort/petrol/time) as well as no one would actually trust this. So, suggesting a local delivery service would be more ideal, but that again is a pretty lofty goal with the amount of local options. So I suspect this will end up querying a few well known delivery services if they are available in the customer's country, and give a rough estimate of that cost.

Next, expecting the stores to bear the brunt of the store power also brings into question the technical knowledge of the store management. You'd need dedicated personnel for this since most people wouldn't know any of this. And granted, people who have the relevant knowledge to host and maintain the instance wouldn't be working in a store most likely anyway.

All that being said I don't want to complain too much. I like the idea but as it has been submitted there are a lot of practical holes in it considering the "market" it would best serve (areas not already touched by long ecommerce giant fingers) not having the necessary knowledge and infrastructure. Personally I'd suggest taking a look at how other popular decentralized systems work and seeing how ecommerce would fit into that (mainly, Mastodon).
But you can buy newspapers and use them in support of a candidate.
> Like what command is it for help 'h' or 'h?' or 'help' or 'H'?

It's all about smart desing of commands. In your example all of those options could work, plus options like 'he', 'hel', 'help', 'help!!!', 'Help???', and even 'HALP' or 'WTF?'. Combine this with smart autocomplete, and good hints (i.e. I don't understand 'hlp'. Did you mean 'help') and you can mitigate the drawbacks of CLI commands greatly.
As for Gmail, you are talking here about keyboard shortcuts, NOT commands, and that's something I completely different IMO.
In 2017 AMC made 5 billion in revenue and took home 500M in cash. I would say they are doing just fine.

https://www.nasdaq.com/symbol/amc/financials?query=cash-flow

I would disagree that movie theaters are hardly a monopoly. You usually only have one in a given geographical area. In a major metro you may have more options within a short distance but even then they are usually not walking distance from one another. And even if there are multiple options in same locale they may be same company and still a local monopoly. For example in Chicago, there are 4 movie theaters in downtown area, 3 of them AMC.
> Good thing I didn't

You literally did.
I see posts on Reddit fairly often where someone says that Chrome is warning them about going to Google.com. And then I see people "helpfully" telling them to just ignore the warning.

They're being man-in-the-middle attacked. And people are telling them how to mess with security, in a way that's completely harmful to them.

Messing with security so you can install a game is teaching you dangerous lessons. Shotgun aimed at face.
New features playing early on Sat and Sunday are $4-6 in Springfield, IL at an AMC. I haven't seen a feature at night in a very long time.
How are we going to make the ice cube? Where's all the heat from cooling the water going to go? Back in the atmosphere?

Maybe we should just make a massive solar array, power a large laser with it, and shoot the beam into space.
i before e except when you run a feisty heist on a weird beige foreign neighbor
The police already has the millions of faces databases. So does customs, border patrol, the IRS, and more.
Education is what needs to be innovated. We need more kids becoming scientists. Battery and storage technology need to be improved. We should be taking a multi-prong approach to coming up with working nuclear fusion.
> So you are saying that since the recipient of an email can forward it to a third party, we should abolish the privacy aspect of email altogether, and make all emails public?

That's absolutely not what I said, and I can't see anything in what I wrote that could be sincerely interpreted into such a weak straw man:

- My only mention of email was descriptive ("Even encrypted email only remains private if both parties keep it that way") not prescriptive ("We should do XYZ")

- The only prescriptive remark I made was to avoid delaying/constraining protocols with requirements that are difficult/impossible to actually implement. I believe that 'private sharing', as found on social media sites, is an example of such an impossible requirement.

- At no point did I say that any existing technology should be "abolished"

Based on this, I'm going to assume that your comment was not made in good faith. Even then, what you say doesn't seem to make much sense. In particular:

- Emails are public. That's why sensitive information like passwords and financial credentials should never be sent via email, unless the email body is encrypted before sending. Email transports are only encrypted opportunistically (STARTTLS), and even if a client/server enforce their connections to be secured, the message may hop between subsequent relays through unencrypted channels before arriving at the recipient. These days there are alternative mechanisms which might provide more security, e.g. composing a message in a browser connected to gmail.com over HTTPS and sending it to another Gmail address, but (a) this isn't "private" since our plaintext is being shared with a third party (Google, who is mining it to profile us; this is also why Facebook's claims of "privacy" are a lie) and (b) it's unlikely that any email protocols or formats would actually be used in such a setting; Gmail/Exchange/etc. are more like self-contained messaging platforms, which interoperate with email.

- I don't understand what "abolish" would even mean, in the context of email. Encrypting emails, whether it's with GPG or pen + paper, is not something that any centralised authority can 'turn off'; it's purely at the whim of the users. If we include steganography as a "privacy aspect" then it's not even possible to know if it's being used or not.
Dialing back based on tones is not sci fi at all. The glass thing is sci fi though. Good stuff!