skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Otherwise how can you tell if the answer is correct?

For example: By taking much more time and access to all literature while designing the test, which differs from the test protocol.

IQ tests aren't quizzes: you don't need to be "clever" to design them, you need to know which aspect of thought process you want to measure.

The value comes from their stability: there are tons of tests based on different methodologies and different focus points and still they roughly agree on their ranking, and remain relatively stable for individuals over time.
> it explains at best between 13% and 50% of the performance in some tasks, minus the data massaging and statistical cherrypicking by psychologists; it doesn’t satisfy the monotonicity and transitivity required to have a measure. No measure that fails 60–95% of the time should be part of “science”.

Where did he get "fails 60-95% of the time" from? To me it looks like he either doesn't understand statistics or he is pulling numbers out of the air.
> we use IQ to select for success

We do? I have never seen IQ used for anything but online wankery. None of my most skilled coworkers have struck me as people outside the bell curve, and we have never had our IQ test results requested, or even measured in most cases.
Yes. But tariffs and protectionism are historically center stones of the left. So it’s a mixed bag. A normal leftist party would support tariffs strongly according to historical precedence. We live in strange times though.
> this conversion often conceals some of the structure of the original problem which can be exploited to solve the problem more efficiently

I had thought about this. My Q then is: Why do we study generalized versions of problems where the objective function is arbitrary f(x) instead of the specific function that we care about? Aren't we losing some potential efficiency here as well?
"Red or blue" is too reductive. Trump and Romney were both "team red" but could not be more different as candidates.

While the US has only two major parties, these parties are unusually flexible and can accomodate major shifts: the Reagan revolution, "third way" Bill Clinton, Trump... The intra-group conflicts do get played out in the primaries.
If there was an arcade game that I would make space for in my living room, it would be the cockpit version of Star Wars. I spent a lot of quarters, and then got good enough that I could play forever on just one quarter :-).

Finding Amplifone XY scopes (the monitor in the machine) is really difficult. I saw a paper that discussed using a 4K display and an FPGA to emulate those displays in real time. If that got reasonable I might get the other bits.
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If you actually believe that I honestly pity you.
> What do we do?

For me, it's "simple": I never ever ever ever write one to throw away (and I do mean that in a literal, absolutist sense, which is rare for me). This does mean that I often can't use wizard tools (so it can be less fun to build). I never use dynamic languages, and build on the JVM (Scala or Java), because I know it will scale, and there are battle-tested libraries that do nearly everything under the sun floating out there. (If your org has a different "blessed" platform for production services, then use that.) It isn't quite as quick to build the MVP as if I was just hacking something together. But I can do it fast enough, and still end up with a maintainable, evolve-able code base.

It's not a perfect process. My first version usually has only a few tests that verify behaviors that I had trouble modeling clearly in code and didn't feel confident about. Sometimes I miss error cases here and there that someone else has to find and deal with later. Also note that, because I use strongly-typed languages, I can push a decent amount of correctness verification onto the type system, so the compiler catches a ton of errors that I'd need a giant test suite to catch using many dynamic languages. The tests that I do write focus on logical correctness, not code correctness.

But at the end of the day, I deliver products on time that I feel much more comfortable being robust in a production environment than build-one-to-throw-away prototypes. Stuff that I'm fine holding a pager for if I need to. I have several "prototypes" that are still running in production several years after my first release, maintained by other people after I've moved on. And by and large they still contain a lot of the original code, and the design remains close to (and/or continues to be heavily influenced by) the original design.

On the flip side, I've had to deal with code that's been thrown together with the expectation that it could be thrown away later (of course it never can be), and it's incredibly difficult to bring it up to a robustness level that would be deemed acceptable for a generally-available product. These code bases constantly set off pagers for dubious reasons and write unactionable crap to logging systems... and it doesn't have to be that way!
DraftSight[1] is good tool for CAD and it is very similar to AutoCad. I am using it frequently. But it is free for only 2D drawing, it is the biggest limitation.

[1] https://www.3ds.com/products-services/draftsight-cad-softwar...
The beta is available now and I'm sending out copies to anyone who signs up!
Except when you move the PC. About 15 years ago I had an awesome demo all set up and ready to go on one of those cube PCs. Only problem was I did the setup and testing in the US, and the demo itself was in Germany. I came prepared with the correct power cable for Germany, but of course I forgot to switch the PSU to 240V and there went my awesome demo.
I found OpenSCAD was convenient for quick ad-hoc printed parts, but doing it all in the browser is even better. Thanks for this.
His most famous prediction was one he helped make true.

Microsoft's original mission statement was "A computer on every desk and in every home"
Yep, the sorting is all local, but the training happens on my server.

The space of "categories of images" is super large, but generally this will work well on things that you can find on the internet with simple keyword searches. It doesn't do very well with facial recognition, but I'll add that eventually since some users have requested it.
Business friendly? I am not so sure. Maybe "large/existing business friendly"? After all, the private sector spends a lot of money on pressuring government to maintain existing monopolies/status quos, and the government is happy to oblige.
I believe GP's point was that this is a geneticist making very broad statements about IQ test results, a very much debatable measure of general intelligence, and using anecdotes like “people who have to deal with black employees” as a reason for being “inherently gloomy about the prospect of Africa.” It's by no means the first time a scientist makes broad and what seems like unsubstantiated statements about something very tangentially related to their area of expertise. Saying he knows what he's talking about because he's got a Nobel prize is a simple case of appeal to authority[1].

[1][https://www.logicalfallacies.info/relevance/appeals/appeal-t...]
I'm assuming "molecular robotics" is intended to cover CRISPR-like technologies.
What about understanding broad categories for sorting memes?
coldfusion for the front end, php.net for the back end, F# for the REST endpoints, and cobol serialization into flat files for the relational database
i wish things like this were more common. i know from vast experience how hard it can be to get a job when youre autistic
Yep! A plastic coke bottle was just big enough to fit. When the bottle warmed and expanded, it was slightly too big and would break the flimsy cup holder. After replacing it once and having it break twice I gave up. I remember later seeing a different model year (I'm pretty sure with the same body style) where they had replaced it with a more normal cup holder.

I would also have the mirror adjustment knob on the door snag on my clothes and snap off.
What Happened to 90’s Environmentalism?
Not really. Most good laws prohibit things most good people wouldn't actually do, and are mostly effective even if a few people don't follow them. So you start off with 80% compliance before you even pass the law, then you get another 15% because the people who might have done it accept that there is a law against and it don't consider it worth breaking the law. So you get >95% compliance, which is generally good enough to be effective even if there is the occasional scofflaw.

Restricting information sharing on the internet is the complete opposite. If there was no law then everybody would do it, many people will fight you on principle to the point of overt civil disobedience, and if even one source is available the whole thing falls apart -- including from other countries you have no jurisdiction over.
Pretty sure current architecture (≥2000s) is indebted to modernism for its entire look, but also incorporating ideas of Scandinavian/German/Swiss industrial design (which itself is derived from modernism)—thus mixing utilitarian cleanness with ‘humanist’ shapes. And ‘after-modernist’ design in general builds on modernist ideas for materials but dispenses with pure geometry, returning to more pleasant contours instead.

There's no need to go overboard with ornamentation when you just want to get away from concrete. And notably, modern web and app design turned into a continuation of current publishing design—which played with geometric Swiss layouts for a while back then but left them behind, just borrowing good ideas.
Given the general snarkyness of the author towards 'intellectuals' in his words, i tend to write off his opinions whether there is validity or not. I'm quite sure there are problems with IQ tests. I'm also sure that they have value much beyond what is promoted here.
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> He didn’t support socialized medicine

i'm a bit confused... wasn't Obamacare, like, that? (nb not a US citizen)
Depends on what qualifies for "memes" I suppose. Could you give an example of a sorting system you would want?
Yeah. I read that part, but I didn't know about the idiosyncrasies behind the use of the font, so it wasn't fully clear to me why was important in this industry to heavily rely on a particular font.

Also, read the HN guidelines. Comments like this degrade the quality of the discussions. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I think the second question after interference is if you're happy. I can't fathom having the social life I had in my 20s. I rarely see anyone except my girlfriend and cats. I'm happier than I've ever been... mostly due to a few years of therapy. Turns out too much people qualifies as an addiction for me. It stresses me out, feeds itself, and makes me anxious and sad.

I'm gonna go unrepentantly watch youtube and pet a cat now.
Anecdotally, I would very much agree with this, with an added caveat: there are diminishing returns on mental horsepower after 2 stdevs (e.g. 130 iq). After a certain point obsessiveness separates the wheat from the chaff, by very wide margins. The long-game is underrated.
I highly recommend that people try to have a board made before they go about trying to build the entire thing by hand in a home pcb factory. The cost has come down a ton over the years on using actual
Quick turn fabs.

Depending upon your turn time you can get boards made for say $20-50 for say a 4-6 layer board. For assembly —- that is really the expensive part. Basically can be hundreds of dollars per board for complex boards. But there is zero way you are going to build a complex board on your own at home. Toaster oven style? I mean honestly unless the board is pretty simple it’s basically close to just hitting the button on a slot machine. Burn some money and maybe you win maybe you don’t. Best bet is to start small — like one micro plus some passives and solder all the components onto the board yourself. Once you determine your board is good then build up from that. Lots of SW folks are not used to spending money to prototype something — they still click the “still evaluating” button on winrar for like 10 years solid. So yea hw takes a bit of guts to click the buy button and wait and hope for the best.. my advice just do it! Definitely my personal phrase there..
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A Google search for "etilqs" reveals a lot of people asking about them, amusingly.
This definitely doesn't reflect my recent experience in the last year. Got several quotes online from different brands. Costco pricing is a good benchmark; you can probably do better if you're willing to put in the time.
it would seem they are interested in quantum entanglement
A US President will be unlikely to (voluntarily) start a war with China directly, but the US and Taiwan stand to mutually benefit from the US beefing up its military aid to Taiwan (the US because Taiwan is a massive allied economy that's enough of a threat to China for China to want to assert control, and Taiwan because they probably don't want to be steamrolled by a dictatorship).
Go big or go home. That's one thing I like about Google/Alphabet. Not being afraid to try completely new things outside the normal comfort zone of their traditional product space, and aiming for the most radical potentially game changing ones at that.

I'm glad that Sergey and Larry have been able to stay at the helm, keeping Google/Alphabet from devolving into just another short term quarterly earnings chasing company and continuing to set up institutions in place that will ensure the culture of innovation which has made the company so successful lasts long into the future.
The SAT, SSAT, GRE, MCAT, LSAT and GMAT are all glorified IQ tests. They’re used for entrance to selective colleges and graduate programmes. Lots of people will be quite happy to tell you where they went to school and what they studied which is the non-vulgar way of signalling your IQ.

Intelligence:Knowns and Unknowns

> are used for many purposes, such as selection, diagnosis, and evaluation. Many of the most widely used tests are not intended to measure intelligence itself but some closely related construct: scholastic aptitude, school achievement, specific abilities, etc. Such tests are es- pecially important for selection purposes. For preparatory school, it's the SSAT; for college, the SAT or ACT; for graduate school, the GRE; for medical school, the MCAT; for law school, the LSAT; for business school, the GMAT. Scores on intelligence-related tests matter, and the stakes can be high.

http://differentialclub.wdfiles.com/local--files/definitions...
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Try thinking of it this way:

"I'm a medical doctor, so that's why you should totally believe my made up BS about what's wrong with your car."

Having expertise in one field absolutely doesn't make you qualified to speak with authority on something else. Citing your unrelated credentials in another field is a bit like wearing a McDonald's uniform to prove you're important and should be obeyed in that it works shockingly often, but it really shouldn't. Any uniform at all, even a high school band uniform, gets reacted to by a lot of people like you are an authority whose orders should be obeyed, even though you really aren't.

Some mental shortcuts for deciding what you should believe can easily lead people astray. This is one of them.
70 miles of strait?
Interesting. This might finally enable those hologrammatic user interfaces as shown in many sci-fi movies.
Dr. Geoffrey Hinton, the creator of Deep Learning left academia in the United States and moved to Canada in part as a personal protest against military funding of research.
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There's a separate section for biotechnology. Molecular robotics is listed under robotics along with smart dust and swarming technology.
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I had the pleasure of trying this game for the first time well past its prime only a few years ago. There's an amazing classic video arcade near my hometown in Mesa, Arizona called Starfighters Arcade, and they have the cockpit version of this game in fantastic condition.

The graphics in this game are seriously impressive for 1983. Both the cockpit and the standup version have color vector CRTs, which really makes an interesting picture (it was only the second game to have this, after Tempest in 1981). You really have to see it in person to know what I'm talking about, it's not something you can reproduce with an LCD or OLED screen.

Another thing I really miss about arcade games from this time is just how difficult they are. If you're just playing it for the first time, you shouldn't expect your game to last more than 30 seconds. A good run could last you more than 15 minutes though, once you get the hang of it.
If you've spent any amount of time in education (or you have any faith in the data), then it is patently obvious that there is indeed a set of "un-smart" kids. We can quibble about how big that group is, but they definitely exist. It's not their fault, they just got a bad set of numbers in the polygenetic lottery or were subjected to environmental stresses that caused lasting damage. Pretending that they're smart is a brutal act of cruelty that only serves to perpetuate inequality.

Some people aren't smart. Some people aren't tall. Some people aren't athletic. Some people aren't beautiful. It is incumbent on us to build a society that affords everyone security, respect and opportunity, regardless of whether they're smart or tall or athletic or beautiful.

Still not convinced? Imagine a society where we just pretended that there was no such thing as physical disability. Paraplegics are just as capable of walking as anyone else if only they get the right training. We shouldn't give paraplegics wheelchairs, we should lend them $150,000 to spend three years at walking school. The blind don't need canes and dogs, they just need extra seeing practice. How barbaric, how inhumane, how very familiar.
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It seems like since the cash for clunkers program in 2009 the used car market hasn't been a very good deal. Last year I was looking at getting a 1-3 year old car and hoping to save money. For 5-10% more I could get it new and choose exactly what I want (my state charges the same tax rate on used cars).

My guess is that it's due to a combination of that program and wages not growing since the recession. It seemed like a lot of people used to buy brand new cars every few years. Someone like me could pick up something a year or two old for 50% off the original price and drive it for 5-10 years. I've heard stories of people buying 2-3 year old cars, selling them after a year or two for effectively the same price they bought it at. You may still be able to do that, just at a price closer to original sticker price.
> For constrained optimisation ideally you should be using Lagrange multipliers.

Lagrange multipliers is for ̶u̶n̶c̶o̶n̶s̶t̶r̶a̶i̶n̶e̶d̶ optimization... you're probably thinking of KKT.

EDIT: D'oh... typed too quickly, thanks for the correction. I meant to write they can't handle inequalities, which for some reason is what I always assume when I hear constrained optimization...
OK, that actually makes some sense to me.
Corporations and schools are biased toward IQs in the 115-125 range, so it is likely predictive of advancement. On the other hand, even higher IQs are associated with greater earnings.

Corporations (and schools) are also biased toward Te users (ENTJ, ESTJ, INTJ, and ISTJ) and extrovert + judger types (ENTJ, ESTJ, ENFJ, and ESFJ).
The frustrating thing from the perspective of an individual differences researcher is that Taleb is not at all correct about IQ becoming less predictive of performance at higher levels! Studies pretty consistently show that IQ is a valid predictor of performance all the way up the scale, so that, for example, someone with an IQ of 145 is likely to perform (at school, on the job, etc) better than someone with an IQ of 135. Here's one good reference, but you can easily find many others: https://www.jstor.org/stable/41038598?seq=1#page_scan_tab_co...

Taleb just seems to make the (incorrect) assumption that IQ is less predictive of performance at the high end--without any evidence--and then builds an extended diatribe on top of that falsehood. This thread is evidence of the damage that someone with very little domain knowledge, very high self-assuredness, and a far-reaching voice can do to the factual basis of public discourse.

I just can't get over how misleading it all is. He just made up those figures at the bottom of the article--they aren't based on any actual data at all!
Blaming people for having their contact info somewhere on the internet is not really relevant. There are many valid reasons why people could contact you or why you prefer contact information to be available somewhere, in this case for example to hire an expert SQLite consultant.

Problem is that a determined enough misguided user will also be able to find you in that case.
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Yes, IQ is as much overrated as formal education.

Tests, only measure the state of mind during(tests); not the capability in the past or future.
molecular robotics in a colloquial sense would cover any mechanichal process that is implemented at the molecular level of organization, this would include any sort of sequence determination; construction; or modification -- meaning most of any biotech, and nanotech.
Seeing that btech is a separate matter is interesting.
The SAT is not calibrated to correlate with IQ tests. Being correlated with IQ tests is an unavoidable consequence of what it is. It’s a high stakes test with limited subject matter meant to measure scholastic aptitude. That will unavoidably be highly g loaded. It’s not culture fair, like Raven’s Matrices, because it assumes you speak English at a native level and have been exposed to a middle school curriculum.
I swear, America is always at the height of a cold war that ended decades ago.
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Is that still true? I feel like that used to be true, but not anymore. Since the 2008 recession (and the "cash for clunkers" program) every time I've tried to crunch the numbers, a 1-2 year old car is only 5-10% cheaper than a new one instead of 25%-50% cheaper. Maybe it's the specific cars I was interested in? I figured the economics of used cars had just changed.
Do I really need to dust off my DeCSS Perl "this shirt is a munition" ThinkGeek shirt from way back?

When something is new or "scary" doesn't mean knee-jerk legislation will do anything other than lead a country to missing out and innovation strengthing other countries.
I actually worked in desktop support a couple of years ago but I never got anything about temp files, most of the time it was the usual stuff (Internet stopped working, computer won't boot, etc.)
Here's 10.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligence_quotient#Social_c...
That method is actually used by many shoemakers when you order a pair of bespoke shoes (in combination with a series of tape measurements). It's not accurate enough to produce a fitting shoe in a single attempt, however, so what usually happens is they make a "test shoe" based the measurements and drawing, then modify the last after having you try that on. This procedure can be repeated more than once if needed.

Knitted socks are quite a lot more forgiving than leather shoes, fortunately, since the material accommodates by stretching when you put it on. I'm not surprised it worked well for you and your aunt!