skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why not? My understanding is Mensa is kind of a lightweight scam based on collecting money off of people who are proud of achieving a certain score on an IQ test. This teacher said the school administration told him the kid's IQ was tested near 150 which I think is at or above the Mensa cutoff (don't care enough to look it up).

I think that there are a lot of validity and bias issues with the whole concept of IQ testing but I'm curious where your stated lack of belief comes from.

Do you not believe the teacher was told that specific tested IQ value, and that he made it up?

Do you not believe that school districts test IQ or that their scales don't reach that high?

Do you just not believe that somebody of that intelligence could behave in that manner?

(It's the third option that I'd find interesting.)
Now no one will be perfect!

I wonder if they'll calibrate the scores against past 10.0 performances
> Programmers don't make games fun; it's the game designers that make it fun.

Not really.

About half the devs on my old team were "gameplay programmers". Solid tech chops, but also with an eye towards gameplay you can bet they tweaked the shit out of our game system. We only had 3 'dedicated' designers so a non-trivial amount of work fell in the dev's hands.

To get concrete the smoothing/sticky algorithm and tuning of our aiming mechanism was created and owned by a single dev. Take a look at this[1] for a good breakdown of what goes into something like that.

[1] http://drstrangevolt.blogspot.com/2012/12/aim-acceleration-i...
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A Judge Blocked a New Law on Airbnb in NYC from Going into Effect Next Month
Current motorcyclist here! Same shit, man. Mirrors first, then head check. Saved my ass many times so far.

I wish people had to get a license for a moped/motorcycle before a license for a car. It would make the roads a lot safer, I think.
The one car length per 10mph rule barely gives you one second of following distance, assuming a car length is about 15 feet.
Don't be fooled by HN and the hype of the SV bubble - the vast majority of programming work in the real world is the digital equivalent of factory assembly line labor.
There are several more projects in the Oklahoma area that didn't get multi-state approval.
A "full Earth" would coincide with the sun fully illuminating the far side of the Moon, and a "new Earth" would coincide with the sun fully illuminating the near side of the Moon, so wouldn't you only get maximum darkness anywhere on the Moon during a lunar eclipse?

However, counterintuitively, I think you'd be better off with a full Earth and no direct sunlight than a new Earth and full direct sunlight, making the near side a slightly better place for an optical telescope. The near side of the moon even has the opportunity to experience eclipses.
I’m going to reply to this just based on (my) logic and zero experience.

The question is: does it increase my chances dramatically?

I believe the answer is: if your contributions are dramatic I believe it does increase your chances.

How dramatic it needs to be is another discussion.

If you can make significant contributions to a certain community or company, so much that they can see the difference, how can it not help you?
Eye-Controlled Robot Enables Paralyzed to Become IRL Avatars, Even Work Outside
I did the journey in early September, starting in Dushanbe, as part of my backpacking trip throughout Central Asia. Highlight of my trip.

Surprisingly easy to travel as a lone backpacker nowadays as you can arrange transport on the day on all the major stops of the main route. (Dushanbe -> Khrough -> Murghab -> Osh). Cost of the main route was something like $70 in shared taxi costs.
My understanding (from Patrick Hayden) is that in the center of AdS space, things look very much like normal space. Physicists are working in AdS space because they can actually do some analysis there, even though they would very much like to work in de Sitter space.
Sensors need to prove themselves, but I'm optimistic that senors will soon be better. I have one set of eyes looking in one direction (whatever my field of view is, lets assume 90 degrees for discussion). I can never look two directions at once, but in fact I need to be looking all 4 at once. If I allow enough margin of safety I can get by since danger general is coming from at most two predictable directions but there are situations where one of the other direction has a danger that I can't predict. (for example: right turns where I look left for the danger of cars coming and miss the pedestrian trying to cross from the right - since pedestrians are rare a the intersections I drive nobody expects them)
This reminds me when black cab drivers of London decided to protest against Uber by suspending their service.

Which gave Uber thousands of new customers.
VentureFizz Podcast – Rick Braddock, Former CEO of Priceline
There are minimum hold times, otherwise 2 things happen: short term capital gains(high taxes), and the SEC flags you as PDC(high liquid capital requirements, compared to non-PDC).
Context is king. When you're working on the timescale of days, low latency can be within minutes. By the same measure, when you expect to get a new event every microsecond, then nanoseconds matter.

In this case, Gambit (the outfit who sponsored this work) are a stat arb shop doing HFT. So I'd say the label fits.
> The article diagrams clearly shows a blind spot for lane splitting motorcycles

No it doesn't; it clearly shows a blind spot immediately next to your vehicle that can at best hide a cyclist who sticks right next to your rear passenger door, or rear left body panel. (Unsurprisingly: these are the parts of your car you don't see.)

You might nevertheless him or her in the rear-view through the rear passenger window or quarter glass.

Also, you can still see into that area if you tilt your head to the right. That's because the mirror was adjusted that way: to just see the edge of your car with your head tilted toward the side window.

I've always set up my mirrors exactly as this article suggests; I learned that in 1986. Before executing a lane change, I not only look in the rear-view mirror and side mirror, but also tilt my head left. Then just a glance left is required, because the lateral blind spot is so reduced by the positioning of the side mirror that it doesn't require a full head turn.

> A car following closely behind you impedes the rearview mirror.

Yes, a vehicle behind you can occlude a motorcyclist who is riding next to that vehicle. This will be the case even if you drive a convertible with its roof down, and turn your head to face in that direction.

If you tilt your head to the left, you may still be able to see that rider in the side mirror, unless the vehicle behind you is very wide, or positioned to the left.

In such a situation, that vehicle will be blocking more than just a stripe-riding motorcyclist; that vehicle will obstruct a significant view of the adjacent lane, preventing you from seeing a speeding vehicle a little ways back; you'd be foolish to execute a lane change while being tail-gated like that for reasons not related to stripe-riding motorcyclists.
With lenticular arrays you don't even need eye tracking (in theory), since you can directly synthesize a geometric light field (that is, a bundle of rays around each point with different colors for every direction), but you'd probably need quite a few pixels per lens. If the lenses are <1mm diameter, and you need say >10x10 pixels per lens, that's at least 100ppcm, or >250ppi, preferably a lot more. Latest phones do seem to reach that level.

In the end the satisfaction level needs to be evaluated experimentally of course, I wonder how nice one would be with current technology (say, an iPad Pro display), did you build a prototype?
Why are there more foreigners than Americans in tech
Yea, there are a few massive hydro dams in the Pacific Northwest around Portland/Seattle...just look at Chief Joe dam.
That's been the case for operating systems and it's quite effective
Well, the end idea is to have sandboxed native speed applications, immediately available without any installation.

The issue of "loading" needs to be tackled on. In that very specific case, it is just that the program was not designed for streaming of asset data. This is a technological demonstration of possibilities of running native apps in a browser. But lot of work are remaining to do.
It's really NOT plausible. In fact, stating that it IS plausible is a form of Holocaust denial and anti-Semitism, straight up, no chaser. If you have new research to add to the massive body of academic historical literature, then publish away, but dropping little one-line "actually, it might not have been that bad" comments is something that belongs on 4chan, not HN.

Here's a starting point for anyone who might have believed you for even a microsecond:

https://cla.umn.edu/chgs/holocaust-genocide-education/holoca...
You're right that the tech industry is by no means uniquely guilty for creating negative externalities or for the negative effects of capitalism in general. And while the other industries you mention have taken plenty of criticism over the past century or so (and continue to get it- it should be easy to find the equivalent negative take on Houston you're asking for, it just won't show up on the front of HN) there is a simple explanation the tech industry seems to be the biggest target: As the fastest growing segment of the US economy over the past decade, it's both the easiest to glorify and in turn the biggest target for condemnation.

There are maybe a few of other factors (some touched on in the article) that amplify the criticism if they aren't causal. The rate of change brought about by tech feels faster than others before it. Houston grew into a square of choking freeways with the oil industry; while SV has old roots the explosion happened in a couple of decades. The other factor is the concentration of the industry makes it a more tangible issue to the people effected. You can understand Big Oil is destroying the world but it's harder to picture than a Google bus in front of you in traffic.
That rule of thumb gives you about a second, assuming no one cuts into your lane or crosses the median. You are reducing but not eliminating risk enough to emphasize that it’s not risky.
"could have easily been supported"

While true in the abstract, who will do that support? Python core developers are stretched enough as it is. Why should they volunteer for that?

"not providing any tooling to automatically convert python2 to python3 code"

They did - https://docs.python.org/2/library/2to3.html ("2to3 is a Python program that reads Python 2.x source code and applies a series of fixers to transform it into valid Python 3.x code"). In practice that turned out to not be approach that most people wanted to do, but you can't say they provided no tooling.
Agreed, drivers often do not check for this. If I'm merging into a lane, I prefer to do so when not sliding next to another car. If it's inevitable, I do it slowly.
I don't have this problem. Can you describe what you mean by "blocks access to AppleID"?
The near side is bathed in radio (and other) waves from the Earth. It's not "radio quiet". Also, the Earth "leaks" a surprisingly large amount of air, especially when it's a full Moon and the solar wind is carrying outer reaches of the atmosphere with it.

The amounts are small, but scientific instruments are - by design - quite sensitive.
> openly say that well seniors could just sell their homes. Nice! Great solution. Just leave, old people!

Or...sell to a condo complex developer, get some cash + a unit in the new building + housing while it's being built. Win-win. An condo unit is less maintenance to deal with, which is a plus for a senior. They also get to unlock some of the value of their property, and turn it into cash they can use now, without having to move away from their existing networks of friends and family.
>The host OS just exists to run guest OSes.

so a hypervisor?
The Visible Human Project
If there's no browser then there's no need for WebAssembly. You can already download binaries and run them, that's what a game install is.
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And they pay taxes for the privilege (either directly or indirectly, by paying employees who pay taxes).
To be clear chromebooks ARE linux.
It's possible to define custom HTML tag in javascript, but I don't think that is what you want.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/CustomEleme...
You can’t outrun a bad diet, but you can outrun a sedentary lifestyle.

Also, the heaviest weight in the gym is the door.
During my childhood I lived in the most exclusive and with the (actual) most rich families of my hometown. I think, in fact, the factors you mention make it for better skin than using skin-care products.

I say this because in retrospective I remember a lot of the girls there did NOT use makeup of any sort, and they had beautiful, almost perfect skin (some with acne, but the skin itself was smooth), compared to my sister or any of my girl friends at school (living among the richest doesn’t mean I was). I lived there for 14 years, but studying the change between my neighbours and my friends (and myself) at school, wow, the difference was incredible.

Even these days, no matter how hard they try, I can pretty much all the time distinguish if a person really comes from rich backgrounds or not, by their skin and their voice tone/accents (no matter how hard some people try).
I wonder what the loss of space on one side will mean operationally. I often see people on both sides when they're doing work.

Also tickled me that they're just going to leave the existing cabling in place. It's like physical tech debt.

The whole thing did somewhat come across like a hacky patch though. Although I do have to wonder how feasible it would have actually been to remove all the benchwall (which is attached to the inner lining) without damaging the inner lining.

That said, if the hack works long enough to keep it up until all those AmazonBux buy a new crossriver tunnel, then good on 'em!
There will be plenty of money, at least for this initial contract. The full-shutdown contract was already issued, which will either lead to lots of legal wrangling as the MTA cancels the contract, the mother of all change orders that drives up the cost, or a little bit of A and a little bit of B.

The better engineering is certainly a plus, but the time to have brought this up would've been two years ago when they started talking about all this in the first place. Cuomo has been the governor for a better part of a decade, this reeks of political oppurtunism.
This isn't really impressive enough to be worth the risk of lying about, and anything that was impressive enough would be worth verifying so you couldn't lie about it anyway. If they're going to lie about something, it would be something they would have total information control over in the first place, like, "no, of course we didn't try to launch a rocket on this date".
Reminds me a bit of Jeff Vogel's blog post about the first Red Dead Redemption:

"What was more surprising, though in retrospect it should not have been, was how instantly attached my eight year old daughter became to the game the moment she caught an unlucky glimpse of me playing it. Of course, it makes perfect sense. This is a game where you own a horse, ride your horse, take your horse out into the brush, find wild horses, capture and tame wild horses, and make one of those horses your new horse."

http://jeff-vogel.blogspot.com/2010/12/red-dead-redemption-a...
Russia Charges US Citizen with Espionage
I saw a joke on Twitter, can't remember who said it. Is Netflix's new Black Mirror Choose Your Own Adventure a movie or a game? It's a movie, you can tell because everyone involved got paid for overtime.
Carmack is a hero for a certain generation of programmers, but id's most successful titles in it's heyday would be considered mid-tier indie successes by today's standards. Games derived from idtech (most Call of Duty games, most Valve titles) have seen orders of magnitude more success than anything released by id. I imagine at this point that most of Carmack's networth comes from the sale of id to Zenimax followed by Facebook stock granted for joining Oculus, not from game royalties.

Doom and Quake are more niche than many movies Spike Lee has directed if you are outside of a tech/gamer bubble. According to wikipedia Doom as a series has sold 10 million units (by comparison a single Call of Duty game sells 30 million+) and Quake sold 1.1 million units life time (Gone Home sold 700K units). I agree that Carmack's impact and influence on the industry isn't captured in his networth (although really he's still ridiculously rich...)
I'd agree with the OP - I'd never thought about it like that before.
My addition to the theory would be that left & right look identify the issue from different perspectives.
e.g. You can look at the planet as whole today, and see there are massive disparities - then try to drill down and work out how to fix it holistically.
Or, you can look at those immediately around you, sort that out, and hope that all people do this and it will ultimately ripple up.
I've been looking for something like this, thank you a lot! I wonder if something similar exists for HN book recommendations?
It's NOT layers in the block?

What happens if you move your head up and down relative to it (vertical angles), does the object not get vertical parallax?
The best thing is to live in a nice city and walk five miles a day just getting around.
True, the rule is measured in seconds. But, I can't accurately measure time without distance. If a car passes a pole at time = 0 at ~ 60mph, I will be a certain distance behind the car if I pass the pole 2 seconds later, traveling at approximately the same speed.

I find it a little easier to use distance to maintain this over time, because I can always see how far ahead of me the car is, but to measure by time takes landmarks and it's much harder to get a real accurate time measurement. In any case, I tend to err a little on the high side regarding distance for this reason.
Tech is a much smaller part of the SF economy than most would like to believe, and only part of why the city is prosperous. Finance, healthcare, education, government, professional services, and hospitality are all growing faster than the average in SF.
Do you have a wordpress plugin?
I double checked on the License specific to the demo (License.txt in the install), and it is indeed less restrictive. However this might be gray area
I feel like we're watering down the word epic, because even hiking or cycling can't compare to traversing it on a hang glider you built yourself, as I once did.

A lot of westerners think they can find epic adventure, but they can't. Not when they have a first world family or nest to return to. A true epic adventurer has no safety net, much like me on my homemade glider.
re "airless", the moon does have some semblance of atmosphere, but i think it's neither constrained to the near side nor in general particularly notable.
Ask HN: Did Toronto produce more tech jobs than SF, Seattle and DC in 2017?
Source:
https://www.economist.com/business/2018/12/22/indian-technology-talent-is-flocking-to-canada

“[Toronto] added more tech jobs in 2017 than the San Francisco Bay area, Seattle and Washington, dc, combined. “
If I have to work 8 hours a day to make 6 hours of income because of tax, then 25% of the risk of me being killed in a day is because of the tax. Probably more, because the extra 2 hours of work will be while I'm more tired and will lead to me being more tired on the trip home than leaving after 6 hours of work.
Don't take this as me wanting it to happen, but what would it take for the decision to be made to kill these monkeys, and who would make it?

Is there a state or federal agency that's ever determined an animal to be a threat to people in an area to the degree that they then tried to wipe it out? Does it matter that the monkeys got put here because some company thought tourists would like them?
Chromecast haxxx0r retreats, says they're 'afraid of being caught'
Investing in self-improvement is actually a very wise allocation of resources.
It's a toy model, but the hope is that the insights gained by playing with it will apply to ours: "On the physics side, it remains to be seen whether de Sitter universes like ours can be described holographically, in terms of qubits and codes. “The whole connection is known for a world that is manifestly not our world,” Aaronson said. In a paper last summer, Dong, who is now at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and his co-authors Eva Silverstein and Gonzalo Torroba took a step in the de Sitter direction, with an attempt at a primitive holographic description. Researchers are still studying that particular proposal, but Preskill thinks the language of quantum error correction will ultimately carry over to actual space-time."

Also, black holes at least superficially have a spatial boundary (the event horizon) so perhaps you can model what happens inside using the holographic principle.
That's just circular logic. Google/people take advantage of things paid for by taxes, because they paid those taxes.
China's warning is related with US randomly violence, gun shooting, robbery etc (if you understand Chinese: http://www.china-embassy.org/chn/lszj/zytz/t1597786.htm). US and China are very different countries, like in China, the downtown of metropolis is very safe at night, but in US is totally different. And also, gun shooting in US is really normal, but extremely rare in China.
This isn't Reddit. Please read the guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Specifically, "Be civil. Don't say things you wouldn't say face-to-face. Don't be snarky. Comments should get more civil and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive. "
Full post
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/science-isnt-broken/
2015
I didn't see the author prove the actual point made in the title.

I'd like to see a list of the average person's effect on the environment. What's the effect of one egg a day? What's the effect of taking mass transit vs driving each say? I'm a bit surprised such numbers aren't used as the main talking points.
Reminds me of the video game way back in the 90's called "Time Traveler". This was in the expensive section of the arcade and cost around a dollar to play - a huge premium over the nickel machines.

My brothers and I finally decided to pooled our money together to play the machine - the gameplay was weak but the visuals were cool!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_Traveler_(video_game)