skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It doesn't even seem specific to UI design but design in general! We've been visiting a newly built indoor pool lately. The male / female shower/toilet signs are stylized so around 50% of people who get there first don't understand which is which! Also, the changing rooms are unisex single cabins that open both sides to let you enter to the bath area - but with no signage on them at all. So if you enter from the clothed side and all cabins are taken you stand in front of a white wall of doors with no idea what you should do next.

Designers! Fcking stop and think what you're doing if you change designs that have worked for many decades!
Luna: a visual language for data processing
Makes sense: a scrollbar is super common and isn't something you interact with directly that often because there are alternatives (swiping, or on a pc the scroll wheel, up/down, pg up/down). But most other controls don't have that many alternatives and/or don't nearly always appear in the same position so then some actual visual recognition is needed. Of which the results are described in this and other papers.
Which isn't to take away from Kuleshov at all, cinema was a very new medium back then and this effect wasn't immediately obvious. Furthermore we might expect that people who grew up with cinema and video everywhere might be sophisticated enough not to be subject to the effect, but the recent replications of the effect and it's continued efficacy in advertising show that we still are.
By focusing all your scrutiny on racial minorities who you suggest didn't get accepted to college entirely on merit instead of other groups, like legacy admissions, then you could be seen as blowing the racist dog whistle.
True that, the air pressure would push the gum against the hole, rather than away from it.
Biased Algorithm Deterrence Act of 2018
Data for that is hard to find. Since IQ is at least partially hereditary one would assume that the picture amongst legacy admissions to be at least somewhat different than other forms of social engineering.

That said some people find legacy admissions unfair, but as a person that did not receive that I think it is fine because one of the purposes of any group is to provide advantage to the people in the group. The primary purpose of a long lived entity like an Ivy is to ensure the long term health of the culture that keeps it competitive, which includes providing continuity and a reason to invest for legacy families while also admitting new members from families that can provide mutual value to the entity.
I agree wholeheartedly but I will say my new LG microwave is pretty good. It lets you close the door, twist a knob and press start. All the complexity of weird preset modes is condensed down to a few essentials. You can dial up a frozen bread defrost setting, but it's done in a way that keeps the interface simple for everyday use.

The buttons are capacitive but they're very responsive and it's easy to wipe down.

https://www.lg.com/au/microwave-ovens/lg-MS4266OBS
I don't think that's a proper meaning for privacy.

I consider privacy to be that it is my choice how much of my personal data I reveal to a third party not directly involved with any of the parties I am doing business with.

Showing privacy-conserving ads doesn't violate what I consider privacy, some people might object to ads in general but there doesn't seem to be a better funding model (considering Mozilla doesn't want to continue being 90% funded by deals with search engines and donations being a drop in the bucket).

Open Source needs to figure out a funding model and Mozilla seems to be making positive headway into the realm of privacy-sensitive ads. Google and Chromium on the other hand is making headway into privacy-violation ads.
I’m not sure what this has to do with leftists, as the idea that Taleb is a leftist is absolutely risible. He’s a reactionary egomaniac who thinks all of his ideas are correct simply because they are HIS ideas, and obviously HE can never be wrong
This is really well put together and I think you hit the crux of the problem.

Regarding Taleb's post, I've heard a hard time reading it because it is so over the place and seems to contain many parts which aren't related to the topic at hand but simply appeal to emotion. As an example, I fail how this has anything to do with the IQ being a useful measure:

> To do well in life you need depth and ability to select your own problems and to think independently.

He constructs an argument that IQ doesn't predict anything related to the "real" life and "real" problems. Furthermore, he claims IQ scores are only correlated with the lower end of intelligence. He says

> It measures best the ability to be a good slave.

But then he supplies a figure where training success is but one of the things showing a correlation with IQ, with others including job performance, creativity and leader effectiveness, with decreasing degree of correlation. In fact, the figure shows the higher the complexity of the job, the more success at it is correlated with IQ (a moderate but certainly significant correlation of about 0.5).

I think he means to manipulate the reader's emotion here by equating high IQ = being a good sheep. But how does this figure show anything but the exact opposite of his argument?
Can people really see something that they imagine? I can only create a conceptual image in my head but I don't really see anything. It's like a symbolic version of the image. If I imagine a beach, I can tell where sand, ocean and sky are located but I don't see anything visually.
> But having no potential is virtually the same as not being able to perform.

That's true, but that refers to people with a low IQ. Thise with average IQ are quite able to outperform people with a high IQ if they have able to put in the legwork or even simply have an opportunity to improve their performance when some with a higher IQ does not.

The old addage that the brain is like a muscle is very orelevant: it makes no difference if a talented athlete does not train, because that only means he js squandering his talent. Meanwhile, least capable athletes that put in the hours do end up improving their performance and eventually outperform more talented athletes.

Potential means nothing if it's wasted.
Right, indeed I think that in this situation eating the salad does not prevent you from criticizing the party.

But this is the point, you were "forced" to pay for something and you would be okay with not getting it. If only the people who paid for the Christmas party were invited that would be okay.

Do you think this reasoning should also apply to streets and hospitals?

(I am specifically referring to using the word "forced" and the moral implication of using it)
So then why does he bother being an investor? He could probably find that level of success working at Walmart and concentrating on his home life.

Given that he’s successful at investing, he must have some other standards.
https://asktog.com/columns/067PanicCaseStudy.html
If they fork Chromium then Google has won and we enter the next IE-era of the web; one browser engine to rule them all, terrible for everyone involved except Google.
> But at the world level, it's just some of us choosing to consume more than we produce right now, and others of us choosing to consume less than we produce right now.

Thing is, since taking debt is inherently taking risks, if you look at it from a sociopolitical view, the effects of managing this risk badly can be disastrous for a society. For example, if incompetent governments take on debt that they cannot pay back, future generations will suffer, like it happens to Greece right now.
I keep spamming this link, but it's important to be repeated: Facebook already intentionally manipulated emotions of a "small number of users" (700k), proved it was possible, and released a paper on it almost half a decade ago.

https://slate.com/technology/2014/06/facebook-unethical-expe...
why is information density a meaningful metric for comedy? i agree with the rest of your point, it's formulaic and repetitive at this point
As a Swiss I can tell you - Swiss designers have lost their way IMO. The world should look much more onto Japanese design as an example to combine practicality and eye-pleasing shapes and textures.
Astronomy was replaced astrology but many people still use astrology to inform their beliefs. I doubt that the existence of better science would stop people from using IQ.
In mature markets, such as the EU and US, there are extensive requirements behind the FCC and CE marks. While no third party approvals are necessary, the requirements are still there. Especially the radio noise requirements can be difficult. How do you go about solving and documenting these?
That doesn't help much if you and your loved ones are just barely not-starving. :/
> No mention of smartphones or social media in The Road Ahead

The road ahead is from 1995 and is about the Internet ("Information Superhighway") which Microsoft almost missed, but got right just in time.

The Smartphone he saw coming earlier than almost anyone else, and Microsoft desperately tried to conquer that market. They initially failed because existing mobile phone companies (Nokia, Motorola, Ericsson) feared Microsoft too much and refused to partner. Then Microsoft had to enter the market with third tier player HTC, which had no distribution at all. Then they executed very poorly, trying to miniaturize Windows using a pen interface and killing the much better specialized numerical ui they had. Then they got surprised by the iPhone and touch screens, and took way too long to come up with a good implementation of that, with Windows Phone 7. And then finally with Windows 8, they redid everything again for no good reason, loosing any loyalty from customers they had left.

They missed smartphones, but not because Bill Gates did not foresee them.
I can very much relate to the feelings of vastness, freedom and sense of awe. I experienced the very same when I, as a kid, first came across Zelda. My first Zelda, though, was Ocarina of Time. Despite having a SNES I'd somehow missed Zelda completely before OoT and I didn't have a GameBoy before GameBoy Color.

Video games have always meant a lot to me, but Zelda is one of the few franchises which have blown my mind and made me reassess what games can be and do. (Earlier, I'd had that from the Magic Carpet games and later on I'd experience it again with Morrowind).

I can also relate to the idea that understanding more about what games are and how they work can take away some of the magic. It's no longer a vast world filled with freedom. It's a computer program with a scripted story. On the other hand, having learned programming as I grew up and having worked for the last few years in the video game industry brings a whole other level of appreciation for the craftsmanship and attention to detail in some of the best games.

That said, I do still feel like I can lose myself in the world of well-crafted modern games as well. All it takes is a game which is good enough to tickle the imagination and invite your immersion. It's funny, though, that the one game in recent memory which made me re-experience that sense of vast freedom and that treasured feeling of "can games do that?" was the Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild.
i am a mathematician and i have aphantasia. i am pretty certain that not having to train not to rely on visual intuition was very helpful for getting into the kind of mathematics i do (set theory and very transfinite topology). on the other hand i am always completely amazed by what some people can "see" and feel in 3 or 4 dimensions. i have absolutely no access to this kind of spatial reasoning.
Do you really need a video ? I think a clean and clear website is much better, and much faster to process by the potential consumer (it might depend on the target audience though).
> completely rewrite this into another language

You just opened the box of pandora for a million reasons most of which are unbeknownst to the both of us :) But for the sake of argument I will continue under this assumption

> language to be about as fast as possible

If you're interested in Mathy stuff like Machine Learning, FFT, ... then maybe. But even for those you usually have JNI bindings, so it's easy to use most of those mathy C libs if necessary.

But I guess that 95% of all software isn't about speed but about something else (correctness, maintainability, safety against threats, portability, ...) because costs today are usually dictated by manpower costs or those arising from safety/security incidents and much less often by hardware costs compared to say a decade ago.
Maybe you can check this observation of mine but it appears that ethnically Chinese (Han) people seem to often equate criticisms on Mainland China poitics as being synonymous with attacks of ethnic Chinese people. It is very normal to see criticisms of China met with objections from Chinese people who are Singaporean or from the EU.

It also seems to me that Taiwan and Hong Kong are sitting at a place where they feel they are ethnically/culturally connected but don't want the political aspects of being a part of the mainland. On the other hand, people from the mainland (or connected to the mainland) seem to view those as the same things.
This assertion is presented without any arguments to support it.
I think videos help, Atleast as a user, if I see a video I tend to click on it first (even before reading complete content)
Which is why Facebook should not be allowed to touch it with a ten-foot pole.
To me (non expert) this behaviour seems consistent. Certain substances such a omalizumab reduces T-cells https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3328586/ while at the same time is said to cause tumors as side effect in certain cases https://www.drugs.com/sfx/omalizumab-side-effects.html
Netflix would have dominated the Cannes Film Festival this year, but the french producers threw them out. So they dominated the Venice Film Festival a few months later, with the best film of the year "Roma", the best screenwriting with the new Coen Brothers movie on Netflix, and the best Italian drama. This caused a similar uproar in Italy as in France before, the Director of the Italian Producers had to resign, because he had co-produced the Italian Netflix movie.

Such hit pieces by the film industry will appear again and again, they are in big trouble. Last year the best film of the year was from Amazon ("Manchester by the Sea"), the big studios cannot produce anything of value anymore. Same thing happened with the TV shows before: "Sopranos", "Mad Men" not made in any big studio.

So the article should rather question the demise of the big studios who cannot attract any talent anymore.
I scored very well on the GMAT and it’s really testing how diligently you prepare for it, and that is the predictor of success, not the content of the test itself, IMHO.
This is, sadly, an accurate comment. Although to be fair to Google, they ported snoozing to regular Gmail and polished the UI a little.
I discovered zelda very late, as an adult, and I don't share your awe. It's a nicely designed video game with tricky puzzles, but I think the script is still very linear. You don't have much freedom (except freedom to get lost not knowing where to go to complete the quest).
Of course it is easier to build out new infrastucture to exacting specifications than it is to update 100+ year old infrastructure to meet modern demands.
>The whole point of IQ tests...

I think you're ignoring that the point of IQ for most people and throughout its history is to make statements about racial and/or gender superiority. Most of the posts here seem to focus on the hiring process but the vast majority of the time I hear about IQ it's within the context of a bigoted rant.
This was my very first experiment with LaTTe (https://github.com/latte-central/LaTTe) and with proof assistants in general. You can remix the short article in nextjournal (using the invite code curryon2018) to start playing around with LaTTe proofs.

This is also a nice explanation of the lambda calculus involved https://latte-central.github.io/LaTTe/102_Lambda_the_ultimat..., still I couldn't find exactly how LaTTe relates to the (I assume) more popular Coq, except both being based on the calculus of constructions. Anyone with some insights?
> This is a rather climate change like situation, isn't it? It's always advantageous to each individual to have more, and it produces economic growth - but if there is Too Much, then it's a problem to society as a whole.

Some people would call this a tragedy of the commons.
Beijing's subway carries over 10m passengers a day and definitely has less harassment and human excrement.
One area in which I think this could be big: deaf culture.

Instead of a device being triggered by voice, you can trigger commands by spelling them out via ASL and hoping NL can predict wisely or give choices -> wait for users response signal.
> it's illegal to even ask if people have children in interviews.

This is to avoid so discriminate against people without children, an objectively right objective.

Still you can accommodate the needs of people with children as a sort of "levelling the field". The same way you can accommodate the needs of minorities by making sure that office culture is respectful of their identities.

If I can go a bit off-topic in both cases the specific demography you are trying to help might be just an example of a common human trait that is just easier to see in some people. Sometimes single men want to work part-time and white rich people do not like racist jokes.
I tend to find videos helpful when I land on something completely new, because they summarise the key points in ~30secs, whereas the page itself takes a lot longer to grok.

I find them unhelpful when:

- the same information isn't also presented on the page
- they hide the seek bar, I use this to go over what I find most important
> For example, MENSA membership does not correlate with intellectual elites in any research field

It's mostly because MENSA membership is interesting for very small fraction of intelligent people.

If everyone applied to mensa, 150 mln people would get in while only less than 150 thousand are actually in mensa.

Even if every member of intelectual elite was above mensa threshold only 1 in 1000 would be in mensa. It's hard to correlate anything with that.
A Student’s Guide to the Digital World (2009) [pdf]
What’s the chance that the employees are licensed social workers or psychologists? Also, the software used in the initial data mining is going to come up. I expect discovery is going to be really painful.
I remember gesture controlled light switches, and other home automation being a thing at least since eighties.

Yet again, this fires up my skepticism about soundness of American patent system.
As an Italian living in London, with very light skin and blue eyes, I still get this question asked often enough - just because of my accent. Mostly, it's a way to start a conversation. Personally, I also ask the same questions to most English-sounding and looking people - to learn if they're from London or from somewhere else.
Hong Kong Island and the Kowloon Peninsula were ceded in perpetuity by the Qing Dynasty to the British Crown. It was only the New Territories that were leased, for 99 years beginning in 1898.

However, it was agreed under the Sino-British Joint Declaration in 1984 to return all of Hong Kong to Chinese sovereignty upon expiration of the New Territories lease on July 1, 1997.
I guess you did (1) in order to be able to (2).
How was that a mistake? You did not have savings or a plan?
(considering doing the same here...)
The real issue is not reading, it is editing the "canonical" wiki. Same goes for image hosting sites. Passive content consumption in a foreign language is not a great concern.
Node.js with TypeScript – Setting Up a Node.js App with TypeScript
> The way IQ testing is revered and misused arguably does great harm to many.

The problem is that I observe the exact opposite in my environment. Take, for instance, hiring for jobs. People are often hired based on unspecified voodoo like bogus personality tests, years of education or the "feeling" you get about a person from a non-standardised interview, which are methods that have been shown to have a large amount of bias and are unreliable for predicting future job performance.

On the other hand, we have things that have been shown to have positive, moderate-to-high correlation with job performance, such as standardised interviews, standardised job task test (i.e. putting the person in a test situation mimicking the actual job) and IQ tests. In fact, Taleb himself supplies a figure showing this (https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/900/1*RlEAvb8KejpEBFWslw...) and half-relies on it to argue that "IQ measures the ability to be a good slave but ignores all of the other implications. Taken together, these tests are an even stronger predictor of job performance. It seems unwise to discard this knowledge based on the kind of emotional drivel that Taleb seems to be displaying here.
Language is unfortunately constrained when discussing internal mental states; we use “imagination” to describe internal mental models of even non-image things.

Myself:

• I can “visualise” images moderately well; ditto the tingling feeling of UV light and pins and needles (the paresthesia, not the objects of the same names); and both real electric shocks and the experience of the same description that happens when withdrawing from SSRIs.

• I can “visualise” sounds, balance, sustained pressure, heat, and kinesthetic senses to the level they have sometimes become indistinguishable from my actual senses;

• I can sometimes switch off pain

• I cannot “visualise” smells or tastes at all. Pattern match to other similar tastes and smells is only possible while I am experiencing the thing I am trying to compare.
Definitely. I played the first one to death. And it had a plot!
It is the same as with sports, but not all sports.

With modest training people can run the marathon or put in a decent performance on a bicycle. This applies across a large age range, I am sure that there are plenty of seven year old's and seventy-seven year old's that could pedal one hundred miles in a day. Normally none of the do. If you do a charity ride once a year or so then you realise lots do, even with sub-standard bicycles, although the thousands seen on the charity ride event is a drop in the ocean compared to the population at large.

I too believe people are fundamentally capable of great intelligence, I also believe that most people value intellect in others. In Robert McKee's 'Story' he writes about how a good film can raise the intellect of the audience for the duration of the film to that of the script-writers, this can be done in real life too. So intellect is variable, much like athleticism. There are limits, age does not help, Alzheimers is a thing as is a lack of grey matter for learning new stuff.

A lot of 'intellectuals' on TV are charlatans, narrowly clever and with a false impression of how smart they are. It is almost as if they are wheeled out as entertainers. This applies on the left and the right, so you get Slavoj Zizeks and Niall Fergusons on the small screen giving 'intelligence' a bad name.

I quite like the Steve Jobs quote on how TV networks dumb down:

“When you’re young, you look at television and think, There’s a conspiracy. The networks have conspired to dumb us down. But when you get a little older, you realize that’s not true. The networks are in business to give people exactly what they want. That’s a far
more depressing thought. Conspiracy is optimistic! You can shoot the bastards! We can have a revolution! But the networks are really in business to give people what they want. It’s the truth.”

To return to the cycling/marathon analogy, today, like most days and for most people I won't be riding 100 miles on my bike. If I go into town and spend ages waiting to cross the road I will be cursing those lazy car drivers and wondering why they can't ride a bike once in a while.