skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One of the best examples of this problem is something entirely outside of software. Coke and Pepsi. It's well known that people prefer Pepsi to Coke in blind taste tests by a very wide margin. Yet in the market Coke outsells Pepsi by a very wide margin. This anecdote was used for quite some time as an example of the power of advertising. But it turns out the truth is something much more simple. While people do prefer Pepsi in blind taste tests, that's because in blind taste tests you're only getting an isolated sample of the product. To cut out the software metaphor, people prefer Coke when it comes down to drinking an entire bottle of the product. It has nothing at all to do with advertising or false preference - Pepsi was just testing the wrong thing.

The point here is that just because people think they want or like something doesn't necessarily really mean they do, especially when what they're 'consuming' is in some way different than the regular long term consumption of the product (as you hit on). I don't think it's much of a coincidence that some of the most famous marketers, most relevantly here probably being Steve Jobs, weren't particularly interested in what the consumer thought they wanted.
> Because lists are dynamically typed and heterogeneous, does that mean the underlying C is basically a contiguous segment of memory of python object references?

Yep, it is an array of pointers: https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/3.7/Include/listobjec...

> And when the list needs to be resized and doubles itself, it's just doubling the space for object references?

Basically yes. The growth pattern is not as aggressive as doubling though: https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/3.7/Objects/listobjec...
I am using raindrop.io and I am pretty happy with it.
Sure, being continuous is cool, but your parent is absolutely right that calling anything about this "biology" is way out of line.
TLDR: https://rclone.org/
Which metrics would one track to remain on the ethical path, if any?
He’s right, I’m afraid. The kinds of things that iq tests measure are whether you have the patience and training and whether or not you care about the kinds of problems that show up on iq tests. I’ve worked with computer programmers, and forklift operators, and I have to tell you that the forklift operators are just as smart as the computer programmers. Taleb is also correct that there are a few people who have suffered some sort of brain injury for whom iq might be a useful test; but you can tell who those people are with a casual conversation. All the rest is just training and personality.
In the absence of any evidence to the contrary, its a good working hypothesis. In a sense, the attitude that the study of consciousness is not a respectable scientific pursuit is a denial of this point of view, and this article is a celebration of the fact that this attitude is no longer an impediment to such studies.
That work is work, its not life.
Being dependent on other people to get uour work done is stressful.
Doing a yearly doctor check up is a good idea
Common sense. It does not. In fact I just tried it. Went offline, and clicked some settings in the Discord program. It worked. Chat messages from a channel also worked (those preloaded of course) and clicking a link opens the browser. No need for sending cursor information anywhere for this to work.

So tell me again, why does Discord need cursor movements to work?
Laws mean nothing unless they’re enforced. And, people have a reasonable expectation - and confidence - via anecdotes and lived experience, that you won’t be pressured via informal means to take actions prohibited by law.
Ash HN: What does dropbox care what filesystem is it being hosted on?
Recently, I came across the requirements of dropbox where it can not work on certain filesystems. I am curious why. I am curious how does the underlying filesystem matters to dropbox. Shouldn't it just have need to access inodes and directory structure and be happy?
Concrete arrows across America point the way to mystery
There are fairly cheap services that turn your emails into faxes. I've used them previously and they worked great.
> Notably, this does not stop us from making new cars.

We don't understand brains either but it doesn't stop us from making new brains.

The best way to make a brain is still the old way.
>...it is for many users just as closed as wrapping something in a word document.

Which users? I’m curious.

Cross platform, fully documented, Fred software, multiple implementations vs closed proprietary single platform commercial software. Really?
"For the time being, we will continue operate your clusters and make available Aiven services with the Apache License version 2.0 licensed versions of the components as necessary. We are committed and ready to maintain and possibly address bugs and/or security issues with the versions that we utilize.

Aiven is committed to providing a data platform based on open source software. We are in the process of formulating our longer term plan and actions with respect to the recent changes, and will communicate the plan in January."
The ‘clean plate’ mentality drives us to overeat?
Over 19,000 #Orange #Livebox #ADSL modems leak WiFi credentials
The ASVAB effectively is an IQ test. There's more of a breakdown than other tests, but you can calculate IQ from it.

The SAT isn't considered a proper IQ test.
The vacuum lets you travel much faster, potentially much faster than planes.

The problem isn't keeping the vacuum, it's making the whole thing safe and relatively cheap at the same time.

It seems like it's almost impossible to do that above ground with thermal expansion issues and very easy terrorism. But doing it in a tunnel solves some problems. The evacuation is still a big problem.
It is as you say. The key is that you always get what you optimize for. You can optimize for short term addiction or for long term sustainability. The issue is that large factors of these goals are incompatible.

This reminds me of a few years ago when they did "cash for clunkers" to stimulate the economy. Tons of people took advantage of it and car dealerships has two amazing months........ followed by four months of almost no sales. All that happened was that people who would have bought one in the next six months took advantage of the incentive now. It didn't create any new demand for cars or stimulate anything. If you only measured success during the first two months you might have been convinced that it was a roaring success.
No. There are examples in the past with privately financed lighthouses which people think of as public good. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/109114210730218...
I have used many adapters to achieve it before, ctoc cable + ZY1276(there is an newer version ZY1280 now) + usba to dc cable + dc to thinkpad adapter. Just because of lacking soldering skills...
rclone is such a great tool indeed. This is almost the only viable approach for transferring your data from one cloud to another. Huge thanks to the creator and contributors!
Its a budget cutback but it reads as if those in charge at NIST are threatening to shut off WWV and their clocks rather than cut research funding.

They should simply reduce research and keep the clocks running.
The risk is your back is hurt because it’s damaged. It needs time to heal. Taking ibuprofen hides the pain but doesn’t fix the problem in MOST cases.
Chatbots trying to pass the Turing Test during the Loebner Prize 2018
True. But users can be fooled in short term. In the long term consumers are collectively smarter then any corporation.

So in the long term being decent is really good for business but also costly in short term.

Optimizing for the short-term is what many killing companies and good products.
That's the total cut. Cost of the stations isn't in the article.
Reading around it appears to be ~6.3 million.
A trio of Jack Tramiel profiles by Kim Justice:

JACK ATTACK: The Story of Jack Tramiel at Commodore, Part 1 - Kim Justice
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nd9kmBn0M9k

Jack Tramiel Part 2: The Commodore 64 vs The TI-99/4A and the American Computer Crash - Kim Justice
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDJqocxoOBA

The Last Stand of Jack Tramiel: The Atari ST vs The Commodore Amiga - Kim Justice
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bMJt65Jm5E
Probably lots of things that require direct user feedback, like output from focus groups such as customer attitudes towards your product or customer impressions of utility and value.
Seattle Under Siege
The problem could be simply shareholders and their short term vision.
It stains my credulity to think he would fly cross-country just for an office opening party
Insightful answer, thanks !

What will I be faking until I make it ? Quite simply the ability to answer "yes" to the question "Hey, I'm product guy and here's designer guy. Do you want to be our dev at the local hackathon next week-end ?"

There's no way I could do that before going through a couple of language + framework tutorials. Probably JS + React + ExpressJS, or Bootstrap, Vue, and Django / Flask or even Phoenix/Elixir if I want to be hip. And I'm not sure how long it might take to be ready. Probably days not months tbh. I suppose I should just do it, but so far I've lacked a really good opportunity to motivate me to take the plunge.

I don't want to lie about this, and I'm introducing myself as an "engineer but not a dev" at startup meetups : because of that I know I've lost a few co-founding opportunities already.

Why the urge now ?
I guess because working with younger founders has suddenly reminded me that you don't need to know everything and do it all right to get to be a startup CTO. And the best way to be a startup CTO is definitely to be a co-founder : you rarely find those positions on LinkedIn.
> I have to tell you that the forklift operators are just as smart as the computer programmers

Based on what? Conversational ability? How much you like them?

It's painful to ever admit that one person is better at a fundamental thing than another. Our primate brains get icked out at the thought of something like that because we evolved in small groups where slights and insults like that could get your head bashed in with a rock. That said, it's important that we approach such questions objectively and with data over anecdotes.

IQ measures _something_. In the case of the progressive matrices tests it seems to measure an ability to recognize abstract visual patterns, which probably maps onto _some_ skills in a way that is important.

Wouldn't you expect people with higher aptitude for, say, identifying abstract patterns, to have higher aptitude for certain professions?
most sources suggest that Schumacher said this quote, not Einstein.

http://nanoscale.blogspot.com/2007/03/quote-verification.htm...
All three radio stations (Washington, Maryland, and Colorado) used atomic clocks.

Presumably they could handle the radio hand-off very precisely. ;)

But actually--the precision of an atomic clock (nanoseconds) is orders of magnitude higher than lag due to radio wave travel (many microseconds). And even if you account for this, you probably only know your distance from the atomic clock to within 10 meters, which is tens of nanoseconds of uncertainty.
Hey Tim! Een heel gelukkig nieuw jaar voor jou en je naasten. Groetjes ook aan Mark, Jacques
> We simply don't know what category to put consciousness in, and all attempts to solve it thus far have been category mistakes.

This is a case where more science could probably help philosophy.
No your facts are “hateful” and so nobody will engage with them. It’s a joke on hate speech
Do people generally understand that there's almost never a single inventor? That the popularly credited inventor may not be?

There's some air of hidden secret about these articles: Did you know that Edison didn't invent the light bulb! James Watt didn't invent the steam engine! etc etc.

I don't know about you, but I can only invent one thing at a time, and complex systems require a lot of invention. The incandescent light bulb requires electricity, glass, partial vacuum, and very precise tungsten, among many other things.

An efficient steam engine wants high quality steel, tight tolerances, good valves, and no explosions (relief valve, vessel proofing).

A machine gun wants smokeless powder, good belts, many excellent identical bullets with identical powder loads in identical cases with identical primers.

A machine gun needs some way to convert the energy of firing into the cycling of the action to feed and fire the next round.

A machine gun needs to fire when the trigger is pulled, continue firing until the trigger is no longer pulled, and stop firing when the trigger is released.

A machine gun needs a supply chain. It will consume at least 20x more rounds than an individual soldier (30 vs 600 rounds per minute). WWI was an industrial war.

A machine gunner needs a place to stand. A machine gunner wants to be not shot by snipers, not exploded by artillery or hand grenades. A machine gunner will attract attention.

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This merely scratches the surface, of course, but I do wish people had more respect for the complexities of the real world.
New study establishes timeline for famous thallium poisoning cold case
Joe Rohan covered this well [1]. What Sargon is supposedly being banned for according to patreon is using the n-word against Nazis that had been attacking him for a while. Patreon said context didn’t matter and that they didn’t like his “brand” whatever that means. He didn’t say this on patreon or even his own YouTube channel, and let’s remember again he used the language of literal Nazis against them.

Supposedly context doesn’t matter if you violate social justice beliefs, because somehow sharing the platform with someone that does wrongthink also taints you. It is a very dangerous way of thinking and we should not tolerate it from tech platforms.

[1] https://youtu.be/2wsQPFyZghc
That's really clever. I wonder if you could rig something up that lets you draw patterns or rainbows etc.
My current powerbank is ZMI 10 20000mAh with 45w usb-c port output. There is also a powerbank called quanhan pd20000 which can offer 65w.
I'm currently using this hack mostly with my surface, althrough recently yzxstudio has made some surface-to-usbc adapters.
Why is continuity in that sense important rather than the sheer experienceness of experience?
Don't forget '-Gender Studies'.
Well, everything you say here sounds like me to be honest.
But as I've mentioned in another comment, you rarely get to a startup CTO/co-founder position without recent everyday product coding experience, even if you have the big picture experience + current hands-on abilities in another field (infrastructure as code for me). That's the conundrum I'm trying to solve.
No, it's not.

It shouldn't be a priority for most folks. There are many more useful things to learn.

I'm not saying it's unnecessary or useless. It's just that there are more useful skills.
> When you venture into the realm of >100 IQ, it loses a lot of its predictive power, which is why (where I live at least) it is mostly administered to people, mostly children, suspected of needing 'special requirements'. In that sense, it is a very good 'unintelligence quotient' but not much beyond that.

According to whom exactly? There is a very large body of work predicting chess outcomes, productivity in maths, etc. in the upper range of the scale. Maybe it is not as proportionally meaningful (i.e. in most cases people are not running up against a limitation in general cognitive ability), but that doesn't mean it's meaningless, it means you're trying to predict the wrong thing with it.

I think a lot of this rhetoric stems from insecurity. I don't know my IQ, I don't personally care, but if somebody produces a study with me included then IQ (or similar measures) could yield good results.

It is not useful for all questions, nor is it useless for all questions; it is a simple measure of a specific stable characteristic of the mind, which is correlated to other characteristics which are harder to measure or predict any other way. IQ is not intended to judge your overall worth as a human being, it is just there to estimate your general cognitive ability. The fact that general cognitive ability is not sufficient on its own for you to succeed is immaterial to its utility as a measure.
No, it’s not. My concern isn’t this particular implementation, it’s that implementations will keep using up larger and larger chunks of adressable space.

Thinking something is unlimited is the fastest way to find out that it is.
Dude! That's freaking awesome. I've been wanting to set up a GPS-based NTP server for a while, but haven't gotten around to it yet. I'll have to read through and take a look at the transmitting equipment you used; adding WWVB to it would be awesomesauce.
Here’s a little corollary too: assume the population is divided into two groups, one who is healthy, and the other which has suffered at least minor brain trauma or lead poisoning or something. If the average iq of the two groups is 100, then that means the healthy group has an iq above 100 (in my anecdotal experience about 115).
You don't grasp. Gödel's incompleteness theorems is not dependent on chosen logic or any set of axioms. It stands in 3-, 4- and N-value logic as well.
Use money
Oh come on, they have a ToS like all other companies. It's not "censorship" to not do business with someone. Also, "the right" here is people like Milo and Lauren Southern who are out in the real world causing harm.
The article in the Sydney Morning Herald states that they were only allowed back in (and were escorted) to get their stuff and get out.

The 51 figure is saying that the NSW Police believe that those units are structurally unsound, but the rest of the building is still evacuated all the same.

I imagine GP misunderstood one of the article edits.
Even working for a govt contractor, I don't get the impetus to get rid of federal employees and hire contractors at 10x the price. Ive talked with one of my colleagues who came from federal, and said if you call an agency, 95% of them are actually contractors. Even the OMB and clearance work is done by primarily contractors. The fact that we outsource our security apparatus blows my mind.

I mean, sure there is corruption, which should be charged appropriately. (To be honest, I like how the Chinese handle corrupt govt officials - get hauled out in the public streets, and shot. I don't like how they dont get a fair trial.)
Charles Proteus Steinmetz, the Wizard of Schenectady (2011)
I am responsible for maitaining a Python 3.4 asyncio app at work, and recently in charge of building a new (not replacing) system in 3.7. The difference is truly enormous in a very pleasant way.
Not really, just thinking that an operation changes a variable when it in fact doesn't is enough to introduce a security vulnerability.
People often mean different things when they say "reductionism".

Sometimes they mean that the phenomenon under consideration is always reducible to a common set of basic physical underpinnings, which is something for which we have never conclusively observed a contradiction.

Other times, they mean to say that the phenomenon in question can be well understood using a lower level set of abstractions than we initially considered and that there is no need for further abstraction. This is observably not true, i.e. the workings of an internal combustion engine are not practically modelled by combining a model for each of its individual atoms.

I think consciousness might eventually be reducible in the first, but not in the second sense. Of course, crude initial models don't explain a lot, but I don't think that has much bearing on a thing being reducible.
Another comment mentioned something called 'progressive matrices', these tests are not based on any crystalized (studyable) knowledge.

You could practice solving the sort of visiospatial puzzles that they pose but then you'd ruin your results. People who use these tests are expected to have not had much/any experience with solving the types of puzzles it presents.
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Think it should be kept in mind that what Taleb is arguing here is the limited usefulness of IQ in predicting success above a certain IQ level, let’s say the mean. He 100% acknowledges its usefulness for predicting success of lower IQ persons.

He mainly just wants to point out that any other measure that was as bad at predicting higher levels of performance as IQ is would not be held in nearly as high regard. IQ therefore is in a vulnerable position as a hallowed metric, which he detects and proceeds to attack, hence the Twitter thread.

Think he could have done it with less bluster and fluster, but that’s all he’s saying at the end of the day. Not nearly as controversial as some are making it out to be
SSRIs are known to have a substantial anti-inflammatory effect though, as well as other drugs like Wellbutrin.

I don't know if you have actually used SSRIs but the stuff about withdrawal is wildly overblown. Believing scare mongering about terrible side-effects and dependence issues kept me severely depressed and is one of the biggest regrets of my life.
Genuine question: how will we know that we have reached the point where “every true statement” is provable? What about unknown unknowns? Is there a “concept” (for a lack of a better word) for these “unknown unknowns” in modern logic? I know neo-Platonism (Plotinus and his friends) was circling around this idea/concept, but truth be told I haven’t read all that much coming from them, plus they may be reguarded by modern logicians/mathematicians as maybe too “mystical”.
> However, I'm somehow not convinced that this building would survive should a small real earthquake occur (rare for Sydney, but there was a Newcastle one in recent memory).

The last major earthquake we had in Australia was in the 1989 (and was the 5.6 Newcastle one you mentioned). Since then there have only been 15 earthquakes, many of them less than 4th magnitude. A major earthquake almost 30 years ago is hardly recent. We're in the middle of a tectonic plate, earthquakes are extraordinarily rare.
I would say: talk to your customers, find out what their needs are and try to make your product better at fulfilling them. Focusing on metrics is going back in the direction of treating your customers as means to an end: like grain to be harvested or sheep to be shorn.

Instead try to think of your customers the way an old barber would think of his clients: as friends with individual needs who trust your experience in a particular problem domain.

Of course, this approach is extremely unlikely to lead to a billion+$ exit. But if your goal is to become a billionaire and you want to be as stridently ethical as possible, I don't know how to help you (and would invite you to further examine your priorities).
For NYC, it appears the city is growing when considering international migration (subject to various caveats about quality of data). More detailed information can be found here: https://www1.nyc.gov/site/planning/data-maps/nyc-population/...
This is amazing. Very creative. I like the minimal square and dot game. Simple graphic pure game play.
Makes me wonder if this could be used as an obfuscated comms channel? (I'm sure there's a term covering it, steganography doesn't quite describe it).
If you owned a bunch of ipv6 addresses on multiple ISPs, you could use the timing of pings from these addresses as a comms protocol. You could even rotate IP addresses and use the modulus of the address to add a layer of obfuscation.
Have you used classical psychedelics therapeutically?

If so how would you compare their efficacy for your issues