skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Have you considered that the educational level in the developing world has increased dramatically from a low base, while pollution had so far been manageable in most cities until the most recent couple of decades?

When one increased the average education level by something like 5-10 years, as was the case in many Asian countries in the last century, it is not surprising there was a significant increase in intelligence. Thankfully the effect of pollution has not been drastic enough to negate all of those gains. It still does not mean we should neglect its likely significant negative impact.

From the paper:

> Cutting annual mean concentration of particulate matter smaller than 10 μm (PM10) in China to the Environmental Protection Agency’s standard (50 μg/m3) would move people from the median to the 63rd percentile (verbal test scores) and the 58th percentile (math test scores), respectively.
It's more complex than that - it almost seems more like the US is made of 50 countries with open borders. I've lived in 3 different states and each is different in terms of tax.

The US Federal Gov primary source of revenue is the federal income tax, while State Gov budgets are based on income taxes, property taxes, and sales(VAT) taxes. Some states have no income tax and some have no sales taxes, some have very high/low property taxes.

Additionally, some counties (several cities) and even cities have income taxes or additional sales/property taxes. It's very difficult to calculate what you effectively pay in taxes and where those taxes go.
Huh. So your comment made me wonder if there is a !gde bang. Turns out there is :D
At least the stasi took the effort to do it themselves (as it was a police state anyway). The Australian order would force you to comply.

Though as a company, for this law, I would be sure to take the possibility for bad press and loss of customers into the billing calculations. And those are huge.
Finally someone reasonable, thank you.

It looks like a mistake, FB is actively communicating it's trying to restore the content but still everyone is witch hunting.

I thought people here were more sensible to the fact that developers at all companies leave bugs/undesired behaviour behind them.

This may very well have been spec'd and developed 10 years ago, and now the reality have changed, but not the code. Because let's face it, it's not exactly an everyday use case.
China Is Treating Islam Like a Mental Illness
Really, your criticism of a study looking at those two factors in local detail and trying to correct for correlation with outside factors is "but globally they correlate"? (and also correlate with everything that's on a long-term upwards trend when nations are developing/industrializing)
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In my country (India), quitting is a nightmare, especially in the IT consultancies. We have to serve a 3 months notice period. HRs and managers will threaten you (had multiple personal experiences). Then if you somehow quit, you are still at the mercy of previous manager and HR for service (experience) letter, which is needed for future jobs.

If you are on H1B, quitting can be even more challenging. Some companies that sponsor your visa from India wants you to serve a 3-12 months notice period. You cannot quit from US, you have to come back to India and quit. Otherwise, you have to pay several lakhs of rupees to the company. Its not just Indian companies, some US companies who are top in what they do in the world also do this.

I have been wanting to quit my current job working for the US division of an Indian IT company for a while now, but the thought of having the talk with my manager makes me anxious. Same manager threatened me last time with service letter, and he got what he wanted.
This last point isn’t true at all. Lots of popular libraries do weird things. Lots of popular library functions do completely different things based on the types and combinations of provided parameters (Pandas being one of the most egregious offenders, but the stdlib does this all over too) or they overload operators to make a clever, magical DSL (e.g., SQLAlchemy). Or they use metaclasses to programmatically generate APIs (e.g., AWS sdk, SQLAlchemy, etc). I take notice because I use Python professionally and spend so much more time pouring over docs and source code trying to grok APIs than I do with Go.
Facebook Watch video service launches worldwide
> it's not that they are especially tolerant of dying a horrible death from lung cancer or a stroke (no one is), it's mostly that they don't really think it will happen to them...

Which is true most of the time..

I mean, people getting into an automobile for no good reason also thinks that they won't be the one that would end up dying or maimed in an accident. I mean, aren't we all guilty or dumb in that way?
What layers of abstraction are we stacking? Sure, there's electron/v8, but that's just one layer. You said yourself that notepad in an electron-based x86 VM is still pretty small, so clearly electron itself isnt the problem.

Maybe people just demand more from their software these days, and all these little conveniences just add up more than you'd realize? That would also explain why the system is not "doomed in the eyes of many" as you claim it ought to be.
Thank you, had no idea. I will consider this for photos and such.
Your complaints are totally valid until you get to this part

> There needs to be regulations which prohibit apps from generating content which incites such stupidity. Sure, freedom of speech is precious but when kids interact with one another under the impression that there is limited oversight, they do dumb things. We've all been kids and we can at least attest to that.

The appropriate entity to police children's behavior is the parent. Some parents do a crappy job, but the state tends to do it even worse.

Some people might feel just as strongly as you do about "violent video games" (defined in some arbitrary way) or "rap music" or "morally objectionable literature" [1]. You wouldn't want them to regulate your use of these, and they don't want you to regulate their use of social media.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_panic#Examples
The entire point of Bitcoin is the distributed trustless consensus mechanism. Read the Nakamoto white paper, it’s all about double spending.

A chain of hashed data dates back to Merkle himself, that’s what a Merkle tree is.

The entire point of bitcoin is distributed independent truth and that’s the entire point of a Blockchain.
Maybe, although I suspect that these libraries are but a shadow of what will follow the release of generics. Hopefully I’m wrong! :)
This was an awesome read. I watched Pumping Iron some years back, but this makes me want to watch it once more!
The list of side effects is quite long because they write anything on there.

My Ibuprofen bypackage lists "severe intestinal bleeding, shock, cardiac arrest and coma" at the bottom "less than 1 in 10 million" (IIRC that was the category).

There is a youtube channel that details some of these mishaps and a recent episode detailed someone who took anti-depressants, which lead to being unable to sleep and that person taking sleep drugs in response. Which eventually cause her colon to explode because the drugs in conjunction stopped almost all stomach movement (She survived but her colon was removed due to extensive necrosis).

Medicine/Drugs is always a risk game. There is always a chance that a simple appendectomy goes sour and you die on the operating table. Or that a vaccination leads to a fatal infection at the puncture site. Usually medical professionals try to play it safe and the actual risk for any individual is very low or as low as it can safely be made.

If it goes sour, it can go sour really fast, which is why IMO it's important that you speak with a professional instead of self-medicating for anything beyond cough drops and headache pills atleast once to ask if you can safely take it (even if they disagree that taking is necessary), especially when you already take other medication.
The parent is using the common definition of R^2, i.e. 0.66^2 = 0.44
This puts the article in perspective.

If people leave the polluted area, they'll restore their normal intelligence. When I hear "reduction in intelligence", I immediately think that they talk about permanent reduction (because a big part of fluid intelligence is genetics, the efficiency of synapses and the amount of neurons - although some research [1] indicates that nurture and training can have significant effects on fluid intelligence).

It's unclear if they talk about permanent and irreversible damage IMO. For me it seems like they want to frame it that way which could be a bit clickbait-y depending on the matter of facts.

[1]: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2383939/
Fill every room with Peace lilys or Florist's chrysanthemum.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASA_Clean_Air_Study
The MAPS studies tell a different story here, only a couple sessions and over a year later a large majority of the subjects were still symptom free or greatly reduced
What are common mistakes made in multithreaded programming?
Is the use of tongs for finger food all wrong?
But their UX is so sticky! Gotta keep that engagement up!

I am a UX director who hates Slack.
Eulogy for a Good Icon
“By definition” people are just making up “Blockchain” as a desperate technology, usually people who don’t understand how bitcoin works and don’t realize they are throwing the baby out with the bathwater.

Redefining the nature of the technology to get away from the difficult reality of it isn’t effective in the end.
Interesting, thank you. Why isn't this functionality accessible through the regular settings UI?
> What argues against Twitter sagas as literature though is their inherent transience.

Just like poems, then?
Sure. The objective data I provided shows a correlation and not a causation. But it contradicts the study of a "huge" reduction in intelligence due to air pollution.

If air pollution causes reduction in intelligence, IQs would not have increased so much in the past 100 years as air pollution skyrocketed.

Can't say air pollution causes huge reduction in intelligence while IQs have drastically increased in an increasing air pollution environment.

The study claims a causal relationship - air pollution causes huge reduction in intelligence. The objective data of the last 100 years clearly shows that's not true.
> First of all it's best done face to face, because you don't want to be misunderstood, and you want to give the other party a fair chance at replying.

You're making an assumption here: that one is leaving for amicable reasons (e.g., a better paying job elsewhere, a new career path, going back to school, etc.). There's another mindset that this sort of company is perfect for: "I don't give a hoot about my soon-to-be-ex-employer, I just want out."

In that case, a company like this might even be the better means of quitting -- as the saying goes, "if you don't have anything nice to say, say nothing at all." This company provides (IMO) a valuable ways of communicating without having to get personal feelings involved (at least for the departing employee).
Right?

As executed, it is irritating. And broken in ways several mentioned here up thread.
Then when you do the opposite of whats mentioned in the article, and put together a long, detailed, with failed attempt examples, question you don't get answers because its too much to read.

The middle ground is an incredibly thin line that moves arbitrarily depending on who is around with enough reputation points to close it.
One trick I've learned is to write out, (in a structured comment), what I am going to do an how I'm going to do it _before_ actually writing the code.

It seems redundant but it actually forces me to do a quick think-through of what's happening. Plus distractions get a lot easier to handle: I just need to read what I've written down to reload the context.

Paradoxically, I've found that this method of typing out _more stuff_ actually helps me finish much faster.
Price!

In the simplest version of my post, you're paying for media, the time for somebody to pop it in the machine, the hire of that machine while you copy data to it over the network, and the postage of a tiny little LTO back to you for archival.

On higher density tape, you could be looking at a one-off $100 total for writing 10TB of data to tape and mailing it back. There's a lot of room between that price and the nearest incumbent to make a strong profit there.

rsync.net seems very bespoke, so they may be able to give you a tape, but you're looking at $250 per "incident" plus hardware. They waive that fee if you store more than 100TB ($2k/month).

Yeah, they're much more available but most of us aren't after cloud storage, we want a lasting backup in case the NAS dies, or the house burns down. Restore speed doesn't matter.
Define "everyone"- your township, your state?

NJ has a program that provides education aid to underperforming students (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abbott_district). Chris Christie looked into defunding it while he was in office(https://www.nj.com/education/2016/09/christie_wants_court_to...), which makes me strongly suspect that this sort of thing isn't available in a lot of other states...
Your copy pasta is somewhat less effective when I linked the whitepaper to make my point.
Fish shell design guidelines
Cities are places of opportunity; most of it is in networking.
About the only place I encounter references to IQ regularly is here on HN - I've never heard of it in an educational or employment context in the UK.
The Guardian paradox: if air pollution makes us dumber, how can those who live in air pollution make this discovery?
Is it OLTP (frequent writes) or analytics?

If OLTP the best advice is create a reasonable load tester and use it for all future schema migrations. This will find all unexpected table locks due to DDL commands like CREATE INDEX, ALTER TABLE etc.
I am not a hardware expert but X1 Yoga feels somewhat more flimsy than MacBook Pro, although not as weak as a typical modern mid-range laptop out there. I mean, if I apply a little force I can bend it a little if it's open. Can't do that with MacBook Pro of course. Not sure if that analysis is worth anything. I think I need to add a few more comments on the touchpad. Apple touchpads are too awesome.
Talk is cheap: the myth of the focus group
I've a funny anecdote about this:

I'm Dutch and do my daily commute on my casual bike without a helmet. In the weekends I ride my road bike and wear a helmet. I've once had an accident on my road bike and broke my helmet (along with my collar bone). A few weeks later I went out on my casual bike (not wearing a helmet) to buy a new helmet for my road bike. On my way back, holding the new helmet in my right hand, my steer got tangled up in the helmet and I fell. Undeniable conclusion: Having a helmet with you on a casual bike actually causes accidents!
>Otherwise you have an inefficient database that has no reason to exist.

That doesn't mean it isn't a blockchain. A inefficient or poor implementation of something is still an implementation of that thing.

>People think you just need Merkle roots including previous blocks, like you do, but that’s useless and pointless without the rest.

I'm well aware of the additional properties required to get it to behave like bitcoin or have cryptographic safety. But those are to my knowledge not a must-have for a blockchain nor defining characteristics.

As the name implies, it's a chain of blocks, the less obvious part is you link them with something cryptographic.

And just because Blockchain was first used and defined in Bitcoin doesn't mean the definition or methodology cannot be separated from Bitcoin, in fact, I consider it heavily separated from Bitcoin by now.

And again, just because they are factors in making Bitcoin work doesn't mean you need them to make a Blockchain.
Is this a personal and subjective opinion of yours, or some sort of documented distinction?
That is up to the upper layers to decide which record wins.

In my implementation, the default is to take the records
from the "other" branch because you want 'devel' in 'master' not the other way around. Not sure I am clear. LMK.
Always find it amazing how strong the urge to authoritarianism is in Australia. You'd think we'd all be larrikins and chilled out on the beach inviting newcomers to the barbie.

But no, we're apparently terrified of immigrants and love nothing more than the smack of firm leadership.
EnTouch limits me to 1tb / month on gigabit fiber
Checkout Way of Kings, by Brandon Sanderson.
I wasn't referring to efficiencies. I was referring to dollars per unit of energy, as paid by the end consumer. That "study" explicitly says it didn't take that into account. Electricity is expensive, as anyone who has ever lived in an apartment with electric radiators knows. Natural gas is cheap. My electric bill exceeds my natural gas bill every month of the year, and I live in Minneapolis with electric AC, a high-efficiency natural-gas-fired furnace and boiler (the latter for in-floor), and a modern well-insulated house. My anecdotal experience led me to question whether that study actually showed what it suggested it did. On careful reading, it turns out I was right. People with an ideological ax to grind are bad at research, and bad at analysis. Data should lead the way.
His 1980 campaign was particularly weird in its combination of positions. It was during the height of his "Governor Moonbeam" reputation, and combined a grab-bag of left-wing and right-wing proposals, mostly culturally left but economically right-ish. Strategically this might've been an attempt to paint both Carter and Ted Kennedy (the other main primary candidate) as old-fashioned: Carter as staid and culturally conservative, and Kennedy (who had proposed a single-payer health plan) as the big-government, big-spending liberal, with Brown as a new modern kind of liberal who balanced budgets while advocating for acupuncture, solar energy, organic farming, and space travel. Very "California ideology", but it didn't really work nationally.

His 1976 campaign by contrast was oddly similar to his current persona, a kind of center-left, pragmatic technocrat. The conventional wisdom seems to be that he only lost because Carter figured out quicker how to campaign in the new primary system (1976 was the first year that primaries rather than state conventions dominated) and racked up a bunch of early delegates.
The main advantage for Quake 3 was that the server, client and UI code could be compiled into platform-independent bytecode modules. This was mostly a boon to mod creators, who had to build only one version of their mod that would work on all Windows, Mac and Linux systems alike.
Is there an analogy in the car insurance world? Let's say I know nothing about cars and I get in a collision somewhere far away from home. I need a repair th let's say I know nothing about cars and I get in a collision somewhere far away from home. I need some bodywork and a replacement for the flimflam crankslap in the engine. The shop knows that I don't know anything about cars, and they know that I am covered by insurance. What is stopping them from charging me an exorbitant rate for a new crankslap, and then me getting screwed when the insurance won't cover it?
A general idea could be to get your son to participate in a local university, if it is a good one, or take him to events/summer programs in a top university in another province for a few months each year.

Since your son is likely very good with English already, it might not be necessary for him to continue studying in an international school (I understand there are trade-offs). It might be worth it if he moves to a top local school, where more high achievers study instead.

For something more specific, I think I might be of some help. Please send me an email (in my profile) if you'd like.
> The only benefit of https I perceive in the case of static public content is that ISPs cannot easily monitor which specific pages on my domains are being visited

What about HTTP2?
Not to put too fine a point on it, but do you guys all realize that you've taken a child's post enumerating his/her primarily emotional concerns about social media, and turned it into a political argument about the primarily financial concern of school choice?

As if school choice would make any dent in bullying. I mean a school is a school. If there are teens in it, there will be bullying, drugs, posturing, fakeness, and (gasp) some of them might even have sex.

I think vouchers, or not having vouchers, may solve the problems you guys have with schools. Mostly because you, like me, are probably adults. But let's not pretend that they address these emotional concerns that are causing more and more teens to shy away from social media. It's just silliness to do that.
> It is interesting to me that they use years of education as a measure of intelligence.

I had a similar reaction when I read that line. I mean how does one correlate number of years of education to intelligence, which is already a somewhat abstract concept. That is like saying "If you wear this makeup, your partner will love you as if they were married to you twice as long"..
Small particulates are difficult to get rid of. They're so light that they don't settle, so anything other that a HEPA filter won't do you much good.
Memory Devices and How they work
Except your house is heated by literally anything that's doing anything inside it (like your own body, cooking, using a computer, taking a shower, ...), meaning it never reaches the outside temperature except if it's inhabited for a long period of time. Meaning cooling have to compensate for every bit of activity, whereas heating doesn't.
Faraday Future unveils first pre-production FF91 ‘ultra-luxury EV’ – Electrek
I've seen more people doing drugs in the UK than I ever have in the US.
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF01965761

Roland Fischer did an experiment in the 70s and found that students on lsd were able to identify parallel lines more accurately.

Iirc in gwerns experiment he dosed every day, and lsd tolerance builds pretty fast.
Polluted with bad opinions, worse politics and downright terrible journalism, just like every other large city on earth. ;)

Jokes aside, London isn't very polluted compared to a lot of large cities in the eastern hemisphere.
All the more reason to speed up the deployment and implementation of Binary Transparency:

https://wiki.mozilla.org/Security/Binary_Transparency

Even if this is only used to detect after-the-fact that an attack has happened, that will still help us to assess the scale of the risks that software users face, and maybe allow citizens to hold governments accountable for how they use the dangerous powers they are seeking.
Also clumping cat litter doesn't biodegrade in landfills and the dust is bad for cats / human respiration.
Glad to see more research happening on this. The outcome of these studies is very promising for people with treatment resistant PTSD. Support MAPS to help continue this effort.
Is 25 yo elderly for you?

Because by 2030 there will certainly NOT be 85% of the population as elderly (well except if some new sickness kills all the people below 65 obviously).

There might be 35% though, which is already quite high but not unmanageable.
There's a Pascal's wager in this situation. In the worst case, there's no cognitive effect from pollution, but you clean up the environment anyway. Even without the possibility of improving your ability to reason, there are many other obvious benefits to reducing pollution, quitting smoking, and many other major changes about which the effects have been debated and exaggerated over time.
The frame problem is unrelated to frame systems. A frame in the Minsky sense is more like a persistent object.
Dunning-Kruger.