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I am new here but from what I understand the top stories are top because they were up voted by the members. This means the "problem" is not with the act of posting itself but with the act of up voting, which is reflective of the people active. That's democracy at work. The only way to fix it is the wrong way - discriminate and override, whatever those mean in this context.
I dug into SpaceX a little bit deeper the last couple of days, mainly to get an answer to the question whether reusabel launchers are financially feasible or not. I did not find an answer to that question, instead I found some other intriguing data.

The development sure is cheaper at SpaceX compared to Arianespace, so I assume the same is true for Boeing. On the launch costs, taken everything into account, including the WSJ article using SpaceX internal data up to 2015, there is not much of a difference between SpaceX and Arianespace on average. It seems that SpaceX is undercutting the commercial competition with government contracts. Also, Google most likely saved SpaceX from bancruptcy in 2016. That ULA, as a historical DoD monoplist, plays in different league all together is a different story. I am not yet finished, so yes I might be mistaken with my conclusion so far.
Tried the chrome extension - doesn't seem to be working. Can you guys look into this?
Specifically, I meant there's nothing to fall back on at the end if the gamble didn't pay off. Your family/friends are sick of you, you have nothing left to sell, any credit is trashed, and your venture didn't pan out.
Not only is HN full of smart people, people with high IQs are likely drawn to articles about high IQs.
It's the first time I heard of the Javascript Foundation. What's exactly it's purpose? Founding the projects it hosts?

https://js.foundation/community/projects
The ZF 8HP is used by probably half of the premium cars coming out of Europe.

It's in the Rolls Royce Phantom.

The Bentley Continental Flying Spur.

The Aston Martin V8 Vantage.

The Maserati Quattroporte.

The Lamborghini Urus.

The Jaguar F-Type.

The Range Rover Sport.

The BMW 1 series, 2 series, 3 series, 4 series, 5 series, 6 series, 7 series, X3, X4, X5, X6, Z4 and the M5... the Audi A4, A5, A6, A7, A8, Q5, Q7...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZF_8HP_transmission
If the standard is "likely[ness] to win a Nobel Prize" that makes sense. The Nobel Prize is not purely meritocratic, to say the least.
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Oh I know it can, my comment was more tongue in cheek not dismissive :)
I'm sure that other data you mention is worth a lot, but the data Google is able to appropriate from this is worth billions a year too.

Mozilla is engaged in the same double-standard, you simply can't be pro-privacy while you are default bulk-selling deeply privileged insight to Google.
> I can tell you - it's no joke :)

But still as a user I have no idea if I'm talking to a certified machine or not.
Stories like these make me think there is a real need for electronic devices made entirely in the US (or your preferred trusted country).

Products like the Yubikey are apparently made in the US / Sweden, but I wonder how many components are actually made elsewhere and just assembled in these countries. Are there any good examples of consumer devices actually made entirely in the US down to the microchip?
So after reading their pricing FAQ, it looks like you are billed for a minimum of 1TB, and every file is billed for 90 days minimum.

Based on their calculations, if you plan on storing files for more 16 days, it will be marginally cheaper than S3, but if you plan on keeping files around longer than 90 days, it is ~5x cheaper than S3.
All this is true. Similar issues arise in MIT Scheme as well. This can be partially alleviated by having specialized versions of VECTOR-SET! etc that avoid boxing floats. Presumably there are compiler optimizations focused on faster numerics as well. Anyway, for the purpose doing SICM-style problems (which are generally not computationally intensive), it's certainly fast enough.
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Try contacting their support. Maybe $0.15 is small enough they'll just remove it. Them spending 10 minutes on the issue costs them more than $0.15.
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I genuinely wonder sometimes if no one on HN has actually bothered to go through and take a full intelligence test.

You get a multi-page report back with measurements of all types of cognitive functions. An IQ number is given, but it quickly becomes apparent that number is just a summary measure. Just as a 3.95 GPA doesn't tell what subjects a student is good in, a high IQ doesn't tell you what areas of mental strengths and weaknesses someone has.

That 3.95 GPA student may have had to spend 4 hours a day studying math, while being able to write beautifully structured long form English essays in half that time.

Maybe that student did great in stats and had a horrible time in discreet mathematics. Or vis versa.

Summary numbers are useful in that large variances can indicate overall trends, that 4.0 GPA student did better all up, but that student with a 3.0 GPA may very well be better in a given subject than the 4.0 GPA student.

Likewise, someone with a high IQ can still have weaknesses, it is just that to get the really high score, any weaknesses will have to be offset by strengths in other places.

If you are reading this an are interested in finding out an objective scientific measurement of what you are good and bad at, pay for a full psychological intelligence evaluation. It takes a long time, the testing is long enough that you probably want to do it over multiple days, insurance won't cover it, and it is rather expensive (I think I paid around $1500 for mine, maybe more).

At the end of it all you'll get an IQ number, and a better understanding of why one number does not represent a person's capability.
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I have applied to Fold and I got an email to follow up, and until now it's a month of waiting already, still, nothing happens. Can you help with this? Thanks
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It almost makes you wonder if there is a process for ensuring companies comply with secret investigations and are forced to act publicly and privately as if they have never happened.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Foreign_Intellig...
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This was my thought. I've never heard of a JavaScript Foundation. What purpose do they serve?
The same way that uneducated and less nourished compete basically. We didn't burn down colleges because education is unfair to the uneducated.

We have had that and to some a degree being able to escape regulation a very good thing. Under that kind of thinking we need to ban farm mechanization because having a peasantry not preoccupied by labor intensive farming is dangerous. Just look at the cousin to that framework with the War On Drugs. Not only deciding prohibition on a larger scale would work but to research alone - psychedelics have proven useful for PTSD and we could have had widespread responsible treatment by the 80s at latest if we were really cautious about deployment. The petty evil of the motivation of the war on drugs against political enemies while leaving veterans from an extended war untreated because of it. I have seen many fearmonger that humanity isn't ready for the responsibility these advances - I say humanity isn't ready to restrain itself responsibly.
Correct me if I'm wrong but if you are referring to in PRISM the denials were quite vague. Both facebook and google said they never heard of a program called Prism but never denied being part of one. And facebook denied "direct access".
Even when those responses came out there was confusion about what they meant in the statements. There doesn't seem to be any confusion here.
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The reason being...?
Had Apple had a monopoly I can imagine that iOS would have to be a bit different though. At least in Europe it's quite possible that the default search engine would have to become a "first run option" in a similar fashion to the browser selection in Windows.
Anyone have a mirror of the article? I can't read it behind Bloomberg's computational paywall.
Boston. The other hotspots I've noticed are NYC, Austin, the Bay, and maybe Reston VA or Miami or Denver as regional plays.

I don't envy anyone going into an SDR role. I seriously enjoy waiting tables more and the payoff is immediate. Sitting at a desk getting hung up on all day kind of sucks mentally, physically, and financially.

Plus my rent is cheaper now that I'm not in a big city :)
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I really wish it didn't do the forced scroll across the whole artwork on first page load. Makes me feel seasick.
Never believe anything until it has been officially denied.
They won't be twins as they won't necessarily be carried by the same mother/womb and won't have the same age. (In the "cloning an adult" scenario).
Would love to hear answer to this from a quantum physicist. Any out there?
> Funny how HN is full of people with >120 IQ claiming that IQ doesn't matter

I’d assume a similar distribution to the general population, actually. Why would I think otherwise?
I know it's nice to blame China for everything... but it's not really the root of the problem here, supply chain management and control is.
Sounds a bit like "Progressive Performance (Chrome Dev Summit 2016)": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bZvq3nodf4
C'mon 80-ty y.o. is the new 60-ty y.o.

My Mum is 86 and my father turns 90 Saturday. I live at my Mum's summerhouse currently and most of the people around are around 80 y.o. There is a bias of course (some died and others ain't comming to their summerhouses) but they are active and taking care of themselves.

I have some re-modelling of the summerhouse done by a neighbor who is 80-ty, he has cancer, had a stroke but is very active, optimistic, friendly and God, he is good with his tools and when starts working he can't be stoped.

The healthcare ain't perfect but it is quite good, the pensions are OK and if you managed to stay active and relatively healthy then you can enjoy your time. That's my impression.
I'm inclined to think someone behind this was having a lot of fun, and it looks nice.

If it turns out not to be a joke/hoax/psychology/social experiment, I will be sure to remember - I made a note to check back later, using this special font that aids memory.
Or people recognize that statements like "The perception is that Apple is perfect and worth paying 3x the cost?" are hyperbolic nonsense.
An actual universe contains vastly more computational power than all simulated universes with that universe. Which means a thinking being is vastly more likely to be in the real universe.
For those who haven't heard of it, the JavaScript Foundation used to be called the jQuery Foundation.
Interesting, wish it had more details though. Also, the title should include (2017)
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Unfortunately someones authority was undermined and I was let go a few weeks later.

That is so depressing.
If “more difficult to read” indeed implies “better retention”, we need a browser extension that shows a captcha on every page load that uses text phrases supplied by the user.

I fear that’s a fairly fat if, though.
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It has roughly 30% predictive power after controlling for the most obvious confounding factors (like the ones you mention).
I hate to say it but Bing (ew) actually added this support recently. https://blogs.bing.com/search-quality-insights/2018-07/Intel...
Last week Facebook was reasonably transparent about a hack affecting tens of millions of users.
That article says nothing about a laxative effect.
I think it's pretty cool! Would definitely matter to me from a "what school should I go to" standpoint.
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Many of my coworkers and friends have Model3s and they got them in weeks. Neither of the three you mention will receive shipments in 2018 if you order today.

Clearly they can make a car "better" than the Tesla (if you're leaving alone drivetrain), but they generally cost more.

That's the rub. Due to battery costs, any manufacturer not having a lock on battery supplies will either have to produce a vehicle that's weak on range/power or will cost more for the same range/power as a Tesla.

That's why plugin hybrids are all that the big manufacturers offer that honestly compete with Tesla's offerings. You need 1/5th the battery for a hybrid as you would a full EV.
I hate leaving a brief unsubstantiated comment, but this is the new Cold War and I think it needs to be acknowledged as such and brought out of the dark.

I don’t want my intelligence agencies fighting a war we aren’t even publically acknowledging and subjecting to public congressional oversight. I don’t trust Congress, but I trust the NSA/CIA far, far less.

The economic sanctions against China are disproportionality minuscule if they are meant as a response to this level of attack.

If this is true, it should be proven in a court of law and trade sanctions should be a positive integer trillions of dollars.
Interesting article and worth the read ... and of note from the article:

"The new trade deal, the successor to the 1993 North American Free Trade Agreement, marks the first time the two countries have formally negotiated data's role in trade."
Have any sources?
Weren't they uner a gag order? Even if not that's a risky thing to acknowledge.
Seems trivial to disprove.

Dictators have lots of power and don't follow ethical rules you assert.

People destroy colonies of termites.

Nobody worries about millions of yeast destroyed when baking a batch of bread. Sorry, hundreds of billions. My bad.
He also does a rather good podcast on the BBC. More or less: Behind the stats at https://podcasts.files.bbci.co.uk/p02nrss1.rss
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Why is there always this foregone conclusion that everyone is going to do their hobby projects on AWS or GCP or paid cloud platforms? You can get fast baremetal servers off the gray market super cheap, pay once and you're set.
At my current company we have 4-5 independent teams and the PMs talk among themselves and come up with the roadmap, but then they bring it to their teams and there are multiple opportunities for devs to comment or raise any objections. It was similar at my previous, much smaller company.

Throwing the keyboard across the room and yelling "I QUIT!" is one way to give feedback to the management, but usually I've found that raising your hand and bringing concerns about performance or stability is enough to get people to listen since they also want to build a great product.
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In addition to sibling comment, you can do just that, add it to the Shortcuts widget, or (as I just did an hour ago) add Shortcuts to the Share sheet and it will show up there. This is particularly important because I have shortcut for sharing a web page with my wife. If I use Siri, it doesn't get the URL because Siri is in the foreground and no URL is obtained. But it works fine as a Share sheet object.
I'm no expert on the history, but I believe JS Foundation was the re-launch/re-brand of the merging of the jQuery and Dojo Foundation.
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The other Bloomberg article [1] says:

>"Three senior insiders at Apple say that in the summer of 2015, it, too, found malicious chips on Supermicro motherboards. Apple severed ties with Supermicro the following year, for what it described as unrelated reasons."

[1]: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-10-04/the-big-h...
How does this compare with Apache Kafka? Genuine interest :)
One would consider those activities to have taken place in "modern" times as well...
You have to engage in some really convoluted thinking to have something like IQ, which significantly predicts a whole bunch of important life outcomes, and somehow convince yourself that it doesn't have sweeping implications at the individual and societal level. It would be like convincing yourself that height had nothing to do with success in basketball. Surely it's not the only important factor, but it makes a huge difference.
All true, yet for PS1 there was the net yaroze dev system that was distributed for some time. I actually had a copy at one point.

Seems inconcievable it wouldn't just been easier to use a software emulator and the original data from the cd. But then I don't know if there is a good software emu for the PS1?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Net_Yaroze
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The most common version of it says good things about your own company.
I expect most people who believe the simulation idea to be true are Pagans, since they would believe in many Gods not just one.
“It’s you — Picasso, the great artist! Oh, you must sketch my portrait! I insist.”

So Picasso agreed to sketch her. After studying her for a moment, he used a single pencil stroke to create her portrait. He handed the women his work of art.

“It’s perfect!” she gushed. “You managed to capture my essence with one stroke, in one moment. Thank you! How much do I owe you?”

“Five thousand dollars,” the artist replied.

“But, what?” the woman sputtered. “How could you want so much money for this picture? It only took you a second to draw it!”

To which Picasso responded, “Madame, it took me my entire life.”
What kind of evidence are you hoping for? Say we measure particle trajectories very precisely and discover something that looks a lot like floating point rounding errors. Now what? How would you know that the physics of the real universe doesn't resembles floating point numbers? It is absolutely unjustified to jump from the universe looks smooth to us but our computer simulations have finite precision to the real universe is smooth and simulated universes might have finite precision.

It is an attempt to distinguish something we don't know from something else we don't know. Everything we know about our universe might be something that applies to real universes or something that applies to simulated universes depending on whether we live in a real universe or in a simulated universe. Even worse, we know nothing at all about simulated universes if we live in a real universe and we know nothing at all about real universes if we live in a simulated universe.
surprised no one has mentioned The Fabric of Reality by David Deutsch. it's a must read on the subject, in particular when it comes to all the irreducible hints and theoretical constraints that would allow us to rule out a simulated reality.
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Indeed.

I have a Thinkpad that has an i7-7700HQ, that's a 35W TDP beast and even under very heavy load I still get 90 minutes out of a 72 watt-hour battery and it gets pretty warm (and the TP has excellent cooling), 200W would melt your legs.
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The mediating factor for these studies is going to be reading time. Similarly I would presume reading a mathematics text out of order will also boost recall on a test.
to simulate our universe perfectly and in real time would take a computer the same mass as the universe.
$75k etron, est range 249 miles ( https://www.caranddriver.com/news/2019-audi-e-tron-quattro-e... )

$80k model x, est range 237 miles.

Tesla may have better battery tech at the end of the day, but it's very obviously not so far ahead. We're talking 10-20% differences at comparable price points even if Audi comes in under estimates.

And critically it's highly likely the Audi will have the build & interior quality of an $80k car, unlike the model x. Time will tell if people will ignore luxury to get a better 0-60 or not. Some certainly will, but most historically don't.
> a common IQ test ought to be able to be accurate to that

Accurate to what, even? The very notion of IQ is fuzzy, so naturally any test trying to measure the value would inherit that fuzziness.

The difference between 100 and 120 may be statistically identical to 99 and 99.99, but the practical difference is vastly different. At a certain point, the IQ test is "defeated", and any value above a certain threshold is nose.
It is weird to hear developers say this. The tooling around your app is essential to understanding how it runs, why would someone not know this stuff?
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/r/HailCorporate documents some of this type of activity on reddit, in case anyone is interested
The setup on my website (which is a bit out of date, compared to what I currently have) is not more work than an ordinary garden and an ordinary pond put together, which would be a proper comparison.

Not everyone who is willing to garden, does so. I've worked with a couple local clients who love the idea of gardening, but weren't sure how to start.

Permaculture design (on a back-yard level) is one of the services I offer, although I don't call it that.

In the meantime, I am in the process of updating my website. It's taking longer than I would like (day jobs: can't live with them, can't live without them yet...).

You can read more on the current state of my own yard, and the types of services and products I am offering, here: https://blog.automicrofarm.com/state-of-my-suburban-homestea...
Don't follow. I didn't say that personality, or intelligence, is a single-dimensional variable.
> Nobody in Switzerland would say "OK, Fred does seem to be a violent nutjob who beats his wife, but we can't very well stop Fred having a gun" but in the US taking away Fred's gun is genuinely considered a contentious idea.

This surprises me. I have quite a few family members who are card-carrying NRA members and they all seem to support restrictions for violent offenders and mentally ill.

I don't doubt that reduced access to guns would reduce gun deaths, but if there is a cultural element--for example, if inner-city cultures are more violent (this is an example; no idea what percentage of gun deaths are attributable to inner-city violence), perhaps we should tackle that problem instead of taking guns away from responsible gun owners.
Regardless if it works, its a pretty neat font. I didnt see a license though, does anyone know what is allowed?
You are right, even DL is still quite fuzzy, ANN would be a much better example.
Very few people have absolute 0 willpower.

Excepting those with a medical condition, low willpower individuals can invest that willpower in developing more willpower and get to average levels over time.

I've seen this many times working with the homeless and in addiction recovery. It's just like compound interest with investing.

Just because you start with a very very small amount doesn't mean it can't grow over time.

This is embarrassing as hell to admit, but in high school my ADHD was so bad the only thing I enjoyed was World of Warcraft. I would commonly play for more than 24 hours and couldn't get myself to stop for anything. It completely dominated and ruined my life. You can say video game addiction isn't a thing if you want, but I was definitely acting like it was. Tried alcohol, cocaine, etc.. and never had a problem, but I could not control myself with certain video games.

When I started developing my Willpower it was literally with 5 minute breaks every 4 hours. And it was extremely difficult. After a week, I extended those to 15 minute breaks, and it was 6 months before I got my total WOW time to less than 8 hours in a day. But I did it.

I'm in my 30's now, and this new World of Warcraft expansion is the only one I haven't played at all. Hoping to keep it that way.