skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
IQ is the most replicated finding in psychology, and almost certainly the most used. It is very far from being of no value.

http://www1.udel.edu/educ/gottfredson/reprints/1997whygmatte...

Why g Matters: The Complexity of Everyday Life

LINDA S. GOTTFREDSON University of Delaware
Personnel selection research provides much evidence that intelligence (g) is an important predictor of performance in training and on the job, especially in higher level work. This article provides evidence that g has pervasive utility in work settings because it is essen- tially the ability to deal with cognitive complexity, in particular, with complex information processing. The more complex a work task, the greater the advantages that higher g confers in performing it well. Everyday tasks, like job duties, also differ in their level of complexity. The importance of intelligence therefore differs systematically across differ- ent arenas of social life as well as economic endeavor. Data from the National Adult Literacy Survey are used to show how higher levels of cognitive ability systematically improve individuals’ odds of dealing successfully with the ordinary demands of modem life (such as banking, using maps and transportation schedules, reading and understanding forms, interpreting news articles). These and other data are summarized to illustrate how the advantages of higher g, even when they are small, cumulate to affect the overall life chances of individuals at different ranges of the IQ bell curve. The article concludes by suggesting ways to reduce the risks for low-IQ individuals of being left behind by an increasingly complex postindustrial economy.

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.0963-7214.200...

Intelligence Predicts Health and Longevity, but Why?

Large epidemiological studies of almost an entire population in Scotland have found that intelligence (as measured by an IQ-type test) in childhood predicts substantial differences in adult morbidity and mortality, including deaths from cancers and cardiovascular diseases. These relations remain significant after controlling for socioeconomic variables. One possible, partial explanation of these results is that intelligence enhances individuals' care of their own health because it represents learning, reasoning, and problem-solving skills useful in preventing chronic disease and accidental injury and in adhering to complex treatment regimens.
Hopefully someone brings forth a patreon replacement. I'm not keen on how they've been acting in the last month and I kind of want to close my account, but I also want to continue supporting the groups I support.
Overreliance isn't quite the word. It's as if someone told them they "have" to do it, and they're happy to oblige. I have a feeling (unsubstantiated) that nobody has seriously studied whether screens are advantageous in the classroom. My anecdata suggests they are strongly detrimental, especially in middle school.
They also bring a bunch of small credit card charges into a single charge to save a bit of a fee. Not sure if they pass the savings on or not.
The article explicitly mentions concurrent access.
On a Bay Area programmer salary Netflix is dirt cheap, but for many people 120$/year is enough money to consider canceling. Making Netflix a nessesity is a great way to make sure it's one of the last things cut from any budget.
I think the core of Patreon's value is tying the payment to exclusive contents and access to patrons-only forums. That's why I think WordPress or SquareSpace would be suited to capturing Patreon's market. Creators can already create web stores in SquareSpace, it shouldn't be too much work on top of it to create recurring payments. It'd be more work, though, to wall off certain portions of the site to different payment schedules. And that's the real value.

One thing that Patreon does have that would be harder to recreate is the gamification of patronage. Like comparing subscriber counts on YouTube, Patreon makes it easy to compare different creators' Patreon income which I think serves as a rough estimate of clout.
The UK is running a large immigration program, but its cities are fundamentally limited in size due to restrictive green belts. As a result, any increase in population will lead to a direct increase in land values, incentivising corners to be cut on the actual building work in order to meet budgets.

The UK and other developed countries should set a population cap (they are all at or below replacement fertility anyway) and restrict immigration to ensure this cap is never exceeded.

We are seeing the same problems in other countries like Australia where heavy levels of immigration are pushing land values beyond reasonable levels and straining the construction and planning industry.
This has got me thinking, what if someone created a Patreon account to fund the creation of a Patreon replacement? If nothing else, I would appreciate the irony.
My only major pain point working with flexbox have been gutters. With flexbox, implementing gutters often involves some kind of hack involving negative margins, which is both inelegant and can sometime result in strange layout issues in my expereince.

For instance, if you want to render a dynamic list of items that wraps if the number of items don't fit in 1 row using flexbox, and want to add equal vertical spacing to each row _only when the list wraps_ (i.e. without introducing any extra spacing on the first row), you'd need to add a margin-top to every item and then add a negative margin-top to the flex container to counteract that extra margin.

I originally found out about this trick in this StackOverflow question: https://stackoverflow.com/a/30891910. I'd love to be enlightened if anyone know of a better way of implementing this using flexbox.

Similarly, adding gutters for horizontal spacing between columns involves adding 1/2 the gutter width as margins to each item on both sides, and then setting negative margins of 1/2 the gutter width on both sides of the container.

With grid, we can simply set the row-gap and column-gap properties on the grid container without any additional ceremony.
Is there anywhere in the US with a baseline property tax credit? Its not something I have looked into thoroughly but it seems so backwards that states aren't giving everyone 400 square feet worth of exemption from property tax. If the tax rates are exponential enough it would do a lot to help fix the housing crisis to pressure people into fully occupying their homes, punishing those who use them as investments, and incentivizing owning your living spaces.
Fuck adults, who even remotely come up with such ideas. They (also) are our enemies!
Do they? I thought income went private some time in 2018. I did use to enjoy looking at my favourite creators to see that indeed they were getting paid enough.
I’m currently on a two week vacation through Tokyo, Kyoto, Bangkok, and Krabi entirely funded by credit card points, frequent flier miles, and hotel points. I flew Japan Airlines first class to Tokyo, flying their business class back from Bangkok, and staying in some of the best hotels all for almost free (small amount of award tax out of pocket). The points and miles game is still very much alive.
Numerous ones already exist. Their moat is very thin.
NAT overloading private IPs onto a single IP (what 99% of consumer routers are doing) is an implicit firewall. Without additional protocols like UPNP or manual configuration of port forwarding, nothing behind this style NAT can receive unsolicited traffic.

“Mangling routing” to a single source IP requires state tracking of outbound sessions to know where to send inbound traffic. No outbound traffic, no session, no inbound traffic.
As someone that started programming in languages that count from 1, I kind of disagree with that essay.

Specially when dealing with Algol derived languages, where the indexes can be specified in a flexible way.
It's configurable by the user: https://support.patreon.com/hc/en-us/articles/115000392243-H...
In Dari (Afghan dialect of Farsi), doomba is the fat part that hangs off the rear end of a fat tailed sheep.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fat-tailed_sheep

https://books.google.ca/books?id=rcjmiBm8hHQC&pg=PA324&lpg=P...
This kind thing seems like a trend for China. Does anyone know of a list somewhere with all the nations China loaned money and resources like this?
Anyone have details on how they did the networking part of this?

I can think of several approaches (all using a single PC for all the IPv6 addresses), but curious which they chose.
That is a classic example of exception proving the rule.
When using kubernetes, I always wonder if we can transform all the tedious "kubeconfig"s into a collection that can be easily queried, modified, saved and retrieved, rather than maintinaing small text pieces in some directories. More ambitiously, maybe include container/image metadata as well?

After reading this document, well, I think I will give it a try. It might not be a perfect fit, but I don't quite like yamls.
>Patreon sounds like something relatively easy to replicate.

I think the real problem is upstream: The payment processors.

These companies set the rules and everybody else has to play along or risk being cut off from customers.

Any competitor will face the same issues sooner or later.
If you haven't seen it, check out graphtreon.com for charts, historical data, and categorization that I don't think Patreon makes public.
Realistically... Very easily? The default is to have auto-play on, I can imagine many scenarios where settings get lost. I've not heard general outcry about this so my best guess is that it's an edge case.
Given how well text-recognition works now, I'm sure it's absolutely wonderful at keeping out blind people.
Reminds me of this HN submission: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16809963

Apparently CSV is actually quite hard to parse.
It says you get up to 10^27 of them. While that’s a lot, it’s right back in the ballpark of usable v4 space.
Show HN: Wiv.js – A library for a more wiggly div
I did the exact same thing for a corporate client who had one room of machines running IE5.5 back in 2004-5.
WARC is the "standard" now for web archiving.
This reminds me of why I love the internet. Cool projects like this. Thanks for posting this.
Figure 20 from the paper is particularly interesting. Life solves multiple problems, and for unicellular life, one of them is the problem of locomotion. At least here Lenia and real world biology seems to have some amount of overlap.
Sort of. Texas has a homestead exemption which allows you to exclude a portion of the value of your home from having property tax applied. It caps out at $25k unless you're over 65. While that works for many rural parts of the state, it's almost irrelevant for much of Austin.

Ref: https://comptroller.texas.gov/taxes/property-tax/exemptions/...
I think it's definitely more complex than that: not just that we don't know what it is, we don't even really know how to quantify it. I'm no expert or even well-read on the subject but I recommend reading one of the articles about measuring conciousness, it's pretty interesting.
Was having a similar discussion about this subject with my brother today, I completely agree on the importance. The shift from it being all in the head to recognizing that in many cases there is a physical and treatable illness going on will be a revolution. And not an easy one either.
ZIP is a horrible, horrible format - it's best left in the past.
up/down/left/right/push
This comment is exactly what the OP was talking about...
If NAT is an implicit firewall, then so is an unplugged network cable. I guess it's technically true, but isn't a particularly meaningful assertion - you might as well say that NAT is also 'not a donkey'. Again, technically true, but doesn't really help.

Firewalls are packet filters. Confusing routing and packet filtering doesn't help anybody solve any problems.

We're talking (I think) about how to mitigate threats from the public internet by dropping unwanted traffic with IPv6. The answer is a firewall (as it is with IPv4).
I'm not an MBA, but I imagine there's something where if you wait until you know for a fact that customers are leaving for specific and known reasons, you're waiting too long to fix it.
Reliable, usable public transportation.
I’m not sure what you mean by “locally simulated”. If I need to run this in my house, I now need to deal with a new device when my wall clock would have continued to work by itself before. If this needs to be done at the city level, then I now need to depend on someone providing a municipal service that needs to work consistently and reliably, which I am less confident that a city can run over the federal government (though, considering this incident, maybe I’m misguided?)
Yes I would be there more if I could work some of the time. Our family property doesn't even have reliable cell service much less wired Internet.
I ran a simple experiment in 2016. Facebook lets you mark posts you don’t want to see, so I did that for any post with the string “Trump” in it, for about two weeks.

Didn’t work. Haven’t been back since.
Deciphering the Postcard Sized Raytracer
You don’t want to get to political, but the US is a totalitarian regime with a president who lied his way into office? I think you missed the mark a little there.
Yeah, to be clear, I don't think this is the only contributor - I'd imagine taxes and cost of living definitely have an impact, among others. I do think some of these factors might work in concert too though - it's not difficult to envision people entering retirement, who own their abode in gentrifying areas and have seen property values (and taxes) go up, deciding to sell and see that money go further in a lower-cost-of-living area.
Who doesn't like fitting a power law!
And so do the internals of its VM, being based on Warren's Abstract Machine. They did some internal experimentation and found that Prolog was nearly ideal for their use case, but the backtracking made it too easy to accidentally write O(N*N) algorithms.
I like Taleb's philosophy that he unlike most successful people, downplays the role of hard work and rationality for success and attributes most things to what we call luck and chance. Being a wall street trader, short seller, etc... may require this kind of mentality since all rules and conventions are broken every day and having a 160-IQ in this arena will be even more harmful than useful if you use logic and science for every decision. However, I don't really understand his disdain for academia and theoretical knowledge, his philosophy won't get him anywhere where strict and disciplined logic is needed, the kind of logic that actually advanced the civilization not the one he used to make money off his bets from pointless stock charts
I believe the plan was not total vacuum but only partial to avoid having to pull so far down. Also Hyperloop if it was built/buildable as designed is kind of the step beyond high speed rail.
C++ is dominant language in space of game engines, simulations, code that runs on low power devices, inner core of virtually all deep learning frameworks. We have been looking for devs who can work in all these domains. At least in our case, the code base is pretty new, no legacy maintenance stuff.
That's his schtick. It's how he remains part of the conversation. If he had more than three ideas ("Mandelbrotness", barbell strategy, skin in the game) to bring to the table, he wouldn't be hammering screwdrivers through walls.
> For a so-called "ghost town", that's too tech advanced :-)

Maybe they just never comment on anything! ;)
No, it's not, it is many, many times larger than 'usable v4 space'. Like, if each of the hypothetical 10^27 displays was given a single IPv4 address we'd run out and still need to assign billions of billions of displays.
I have just ordered a copy for myself. I haven't read this book in more than 10 years, but it is the best computer book I have ever read. I have always said, that if I had my own company, then I would place a copy of this book on the table of all new employees. Reading this book should be their first assignment. It is a truly amazing book that anyone, despite experience level, platform of choice, project type and size, will benefit from reading.

You should read it.
>Punish blue state earners with higher taxes. These folks flee into red states and hopefully bring some jobs with them.

Of course, that's hoping they don't bring their politics.

I also have a hard time believing that the Act was actually engineered to combat market concentration, rather than that being a happy side-effect of punishing people perceived as likely to vote Democratic.
Yaml is stupid.
JSON is fine, because it could be `import` from javascript as a real javascript object.
In general, make any configuration as a Javascript Object and you can program it whatever you want.
Many people have replicated it. Ko-fi now has a similar offering. Enty is a similar service in Japan. And, there's more that I can't recall off the top of my head.
"fleeing" is quite emotional, but given that this excludes natural growth, I don't see what's surprising or bad here. Crowded places need a constant flow of people leaving to avoid overcrowding. What do the numbers look like when births are included?
The title reminds me of the work done by Karl Simms and published in SIGGRAPH94

http://www.karlsims.com/papers/alife94.pdf

http://www.karlsims.com/papers/siggraph94.pdf

(video here:
https://archive.org/details/sims_evolved_virtual_creatures_1...)
Everywhere I used to use CompleteableFutures, except without ending up with completely unmaintainable code.

https://github.com/Kotlin/kotlinx.coroutines/blob/master/cor...
Most consumer grade firewalls that support IPv6 have easy to configure options for this.
Sen Rand Paul says it's a Christmas movie... https://twitter.com/RandPaul/status/1076824663794294784
I'm guessing it's a similar reason that church bells aren't carefully budgeted for to keep the town running. Do you use WWV?
I can hook grandma up with a $30 chinese NAT box, disable UPNP and she's mostly safe from all sorts of port knocking attempts - while still having internet that seems to work great for her.

What would be the ipv6 equivalent? You can call it a donkey all you want.
Taleb making shit up again.

I will give him the fact he can make smart people think he's saying something when he's saying nothing.

It's a profitable skill I guess.

But this article is just demonstratively wrong.
I believe in the 80’s here there was a rash of using coastal sand in concrete. The salt lead to very premature failure of the materials.
Yes. The MBTiles Format [1][2] is essentially just an SQLite database storing map tiles (thousands of square images of parts of a map). In that case it's mostly done because SQLite stores small files much more efficiently than a general purpose file system in default settings.

1: https://github.com/mapbox/mbtiles-spec
2: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/MBTiles
In theory cheaper to build (laying a dumb pre-manufactured pipe versus electrified rail) and cheaper to operate (build redundant vacuum stations). But yes, the main value prop is for areas with cheap (free?) electricity.
It was always envelopes. I actually remember when their streaming was first coming out and you were limited by how many hours/shows you could watch in a given week.

I agree with the above poster that 2013 - 15 Netflix was the best. Transparent ratings systems and (to me) more relevant content with higher quality originals on average.
Piketty argues for a wealth tax. Taking skin in the game seriously we see that for Taleb, a %1 er and his circle, such a tax would threaten a great deal of skin indeed. Such essays by Taleb are just an auto defense mechanism driven by self interest.
I think the correct answer is: depends on what Christmas is to you. Is Christmas the american generic holiday or the Christian holiday celebrating the birth of the Christ? That definition makes a big difference on answering whether or not something is a Christmas thing.
The 3rd chart on that page clearly shows this is a progressive tax increase, nearly entirely falling on those households making over $200k per year.

Again, it may be that more rich people live in blue states, but that does not make it punitive.

You could get the same graphic shown at the top for ANY tax increase. This article amounts to a general argument against any form of progressive taxation.
They do and their library is awesomely huge.
Part of the challenge with measuring stuff is we usually stop when we have a single measurement. IQ is a repeatable thing but the problem - to my naive self - is that its called intelligence quotient and the idea of giving it a single measurement is ridiculous as there are more factors than one.

Intelligence is probably going to be a maximum within the system youre measuring against. Maybe high IQ is great for researchers and professors, but not for investors, or business folks.
Also known as "attack ideas, not people".

At work, I find it much easier to get support for my ideas if I frame my arguments in a way that leaves those arguing against me a face-saving way to agree with me. If you come out and call them stupid, they have no choice but to argue against you tooth and nail, because to agree with you is to agree that they're stupid. Sometimes it's really tempting to leave a trap in an argument, leading them down a path where they're forced to start making contradictory or ridiculous claims. It feels good, but is counter-productive.
But what do you do when dealing with large numbers across platforms? Represent them as a string?

I have recently been moving to toml.
There’s also the licensing issue. You can’t just start broadcasting on that frequency. The FCC would have to assign it to you, or start up a licensing scheme.
Nope I thought myself. It's more persuasive revelation when you discovered the power of it by yourself than having someone teach it to you. I remember the moment it all started "clicking" and you feel like any software problem is now within your reach (which I give a ton of credit to SICP for teaching me the power of abstraction).
It's not the phase stability that's important, but the accuracy and drift over time.
When I open my data I usually publish both CSV dumps (for those who prefer using awk/sed and command line tools; this is usually easier) and MariaDB reconstructive files. I'll consider SQLite databases from now on, I like that idea.
David Perell's Links Page
"WARNING: This is a Google translated (originally Chinese) and reposted article that probably is mostly comfortably understandable for senior Golang developers."

The article is translated from Japanese, not from Chinese since Qiita is for the Japanese community.
The point was that Talib argues it has no value (above ~85), and then says it’s a good predictor of one’s value as a “slave” (very high IQ makes a good slave).

In any case, he comes off as childish and bitter. It’s all filtered through the idea that success means being a multimillionaire, and everyone else is a failure. His perspective seems limited to finance and academics in that sphere.
I answered that question in literally my first paragraph.

A free market for this would be defined as when everyone has to ability to actually own land, without anyone else in the world being able to charge additional rent on it.

So you buy land, and you own it. And no one can decide to charge you more rent for this, would be the definition of a free market.

Governments do not have this property of being a free market because they can change their mind and charge you money for it later. Therefore they are the ones who own the land and it is not a free market.

A free market would be defined as when you owe zero rent to anyone in the world, no matter if the rent is called taxes or not, and you actually own the land.
A nutritionist/dietitian would be your best bet. But my 2c about the sugar in fruits, they're not as bad as refined sugar because of the fiber. You have to look at food as a whole, not as macronutrients combined together.