skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
unfold seems nicely designed for narrative and preset choices, what are your thoughts about including a parser to allow more freeform choices?
That would significantly increase the options you'd have to cover, but hints could focus the user in rewarding directions.
I'm interested in using this type of story-telling to teach language learning, so student output/writing is as important as reading/input.
I love NNT, but he could use https://www.grammarly.com/
There’s also Shapr3D on iOS: https://shapr3d.com
You should ask yourself what it would it take to falsify your working hypothesis and then see if there are research results which falsify it.
Are there other great and insightful blogs from important personalities like this one? Maybe warren buffet's blog?
Comically wrong. Defining ancestry is not that hard, sub-saharan africans will cluster together regardless of the diversity in Africa.

This is what the experts actually think regarding black-white differences in IQ:

"Asked: What are the sources of U.S. black-white differences in IQ?

0% of differences due to genes: (17% of our experts)
0-40% of differences due to genes: 42% of our experts [i.e., 42% = 17% said "0%" and 25% said "1% to 40%")
50% of differences due to genes: 18% of our experts
60-100% of differences due to genes: 39% of our experts [i.e., 39% = 34% said "60% to 99%" and 5% said "100%"]
100% of differences due to genes: (5% of our experts)

M=47% of differences due to genes (SD=31%)"

http://www.unz.com/isteve/taleb-iq-is-largely-a-pseudoscient...
Sure, Hiroshima was no worse than Dresden or Tokyo. I respectfully disagree that it was justified, I take the view all three are war crimes. I fully understand that a lot of people believe Hiroshima was necessary. And at the time I am sure a lot of the people involved believed it (not arguing this).

But this was kind of my point. And you pretty much say as much. They were happy to sacrifice a hundred thousand innocents for the benefit of reducing the hard slog. We know now the Japanese forces were close to spent (relatively speaking). We know now they had offered conditional terms to the soviets. It is arguable that the US, in communications with the soviets, also knew the soviets were preparing to attack Japan, knew of Japans lack of offensive capability, but were concerned that the terms of surrender may end in a carve up of japan with the soviets. This was a careful and premeditated attack to further american interests for the post war, rather than a do or die fight for survival.

Even with hindsight, (as in, if you knew then what you know now) people are loathe to admit it may not have been the correct course of action. Thing is, even when we know what we know now, and with the benefit of being someone without 'skin in the game', mentally, most people are with Thanos on these things. Somehow when faced with the scale of events people lose their shit, are unable to make morally defensible decisions. How about approaching it from an individual point of view and scaling up from there, what if a person burned someone alive because they believed it would deter some other person from invading their home?

And the reason I brought it up, it is a well known story where the views of the designers, the victims, the proponents are all well known. Only one of them quit during the project, they all knew what they were doing. They knew it would kill children. Some of them cared, not enough to stop doing it. No idea who designed the cluster bombs. The only other well known weapons designer who has brought as much havoc I could think of is Kalashnikov, but that case is less certain. The cluster bombs, the atomic bomb, they were designed to kill indiscriminately. They knew it.
Tires actually dry rot from ozone exposure, theoretically, if you store a tire in an airtight container - it won't have a problem.
I'm as surprised as you and I'm glad someone took the time to write that up (I was about to when I saw your comment). I don't understand why someone would call IQ "unscientific" without addressing research showing it to be a good predictor of future performance. Note that this still doesn't invalidate the point that people can be smart in many different ways (yet have the same IQ), which seems like a reasonable position.
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We would likely do better to deal with biomedical issues, like inadequate nutrition and unidentified health issues.
This thread is pretty much every Microsoft forum thread ever.
Ah, the "burn it all down" school of moral philosophy.
Honestly, at this point we should just focus on getting to genetically engineered solution. It’s really not that far away at this point. All the environment based solutions have extremely small effect sizes and are really expensive.
> This imbalance can't last forever

Why not? Debt doesn't necessarily resolve itself by default. Most of it is just lifecycle timing differences.

If I'm 40 years old, I'm saving for the future. I consume less than I produce, and I lend the surplus now so I can get it back later plus interest.

> interest rate paying spiral, slowing the growth of the economy

When I was 20 years old and early in my career, I didn't want to wait to pay cash for a house and car. Then I consumed more than I produced, and I'm thankful that debt allowed me to do that.

So more debt actually increases the growth of the economy, since it allows people to buy houses and cars earlier in their lives. Reduce debt and the economy shrinks (which is basically what happens when central bank raises interest rates).

> isn't it an indicator of rising inequality?

At any given moment, some families, companies and governments want to save, and others want to consume. Debt lets us trade time preferences so we all get more of what we want, when we want it.

In my example, I'm lending money to the United States so I can get it back 10 years from now.

That's not causing inequality, it's giving me the freedom to produce now and consume later.
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Grasshopper 3d (https://www.grasshopper3d.com) is a pretty intuitive tool based around similar ideas but for the creation of 3D surfaces and meshes.

My two main insights from using it is that 1. visible intermediate data matters a lot, as PANE points out, and 2. Grasshopper figured out a pretty clever and powerful system of trees and branches for grouping data together.

Ever since using it I've been thinking that the world needs something similar but for data in general. Hope that PANE will be it.
FIDO attestation is compatible with TPM, just its not required, so other device manufacturer can implement it without a TPM.
SolveSpace is not abandoned at all, and generally the best parametric 3D modeler. Simple, easy, elegant with most features.
>CV worthy programming languages.

What do you mean by this? Like languages that are worth putting on your CV because recruiters or did I misunderstand?
Electronics DFM is one of those things that's really, really hard to learn

Seeed Studio guide to DFM.[1]

https://www.seeedstudio.com/blog/2017/05/03/pcb-dfm/
It's kind of remarkable considering the UI did that decades after it became obvious that modernism is a disaster.
Theres plenty of ways to compare and separate the Republicans from the democrats, but war is really not one of them.
His main problem is that he’s dead wrong.
All of my responses got what seems like an equal number of downvotes (4) sometime in the last hour, and this thread got ejected from the front page well over an hour before this happened.

Smells like the product of small little online brigaide.
More often than not, the landing page represents the internal (dis)organization of business units vying for the most valuable visual real estate (e.g. sales team wants contact info, marketing team wants clickable advertisements, etc) and designers hands are forced to oblige by senior management. These distractions are constant battles that take tons of time iterating placement and user testing to get right from a UX perspective and often is neglected. Usability testing gets most of the low hanging fruit given a sufficient sample size.
IMHO, what he thought at 25 is more useful than what he thinks now.
I'd love to be able to feel scraping against the edges and protrusions of the trench when I ran my tie fighter up against them!

I saw Margaret's force feedback joystick there too -- that was really cool. And also a robotic bear in Marvin's office.

https://imgur.com/gallery/Rt43H

Here's an image of Henry Minsky sacrificing his Dakin Bear to a robot:

Henry Minsky has a look of trepidation at the idea of sacrificing his Dakin Bear to one of his dad's robotics experiments. — with Dakin Bear at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). [frame grab from the skeletal robot's video camera]

Henry wrote:

"This was the first image saved from Cog, Brook's humanoid robot head. I was going to skin the bear and put it over the robot head.

But I couldn't bring myself to do so, even though Cog looked like the Terminator."

MIT's Cog:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbZ9_rUZZMA

In 1992 my housemate had a Star Wars kiosk, which I sure got a lot of practice on...

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!search/%22bong$20hit%22$20...
Lagrange multiplers are used in equality-constrained optimization.

The KKT conditions generalize to inequalities.
More accurately would be the government murdered nobody recently. Sure they have in the past but California hasn't actually executed anyone in 12 years (13 in a few days). Also while California has the death penalty, it is fairly reserved in what can earn it: Repeatedly convicted first degree murder with a number of conditions, treason, intentionally derailing a train resulting in deaths, perjury resulting in someone else receiving the death penalty, or fatal assault as an escaped convict already in for life. With the exception of possibly treason, all of those seem like mostly reasonable conditions if a state had to have a death penalty.
They have not culled syntax and its a big language but very much worth learning from basics. Pick a good book first before jumping in (if you didn't already). If you did, which one?

About azure- I could ask the same q otherwise :). Remember HN is an echo chamber.
Consumer debt level had dropped sharply post 2008 and slowly came back up along with wage and saving rises. That's good.

Corporate debt level has risen sharply due to low interest rate. Corporate bond coming due will be re-financed at higher rate now. Bad for earning.

Government debt level rising is just new money creation to fuel the economies.
The guy is a fucking primadonna who has built a massive echo chamber around himself by simply ignoring everyone who disagrees with him. It’s pathetically juvenile.
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Lagrange multipliers can be applied to solve optimization problems with equality constraints. KKT generalizes Lagrange multipliers to allow inequality constraints as well.
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> His whole approach designed to cut through bullshit and seek the truth.

This is not the problem, the problem is that most of what he is saying in this article is bullshit veiled behind enough low level math to fool the masses.
> IQ is actual science with lots of evidence to support it.

...did you read the submission?

Don't worship science blindly; it's not nearly as black/white as you're framing it to be. IQ can have evidence to support it and still be deeply flawed/incomplete/entirely wrong.
> and reducing the actual active input space to the bare minimum.

That's because the the point of computers has shifting from allowing you do create to allowing other people to feed you content.

Also: The ad driven model always wrecks everything it touches.
No, those are designed specifically to test your level of education. An IQ test would be something like Raven's Progressive Matrices.
So far it doesn’t seem to be the case. FIDO has done a great job of pushing the standard adoption, and finally even Safari/Apple seems to be supporting it.

On the device side, there are also open source solutions (disclaimer: I work on SoloKeys).

Other than Vanguard, Amazon AWS also temporarily launched support for fido2/u2f only with yubikeys, but soon after they relaxed the requirements. It might be just a marketing/co-sponsorship move.

This is not to say that the risk isn’t there, but support for anonymous attestation is certainly a great feature, and it’s already available (though, not sure if implemented).
Some more detail on courier variants for screenplays. http://www.rolandstroud.com/Fonts-1.html

For trelby[0], we recommend courier 10 point, which renders much better on more environments.
[0] https://www.trelby.org/assets/courier10point.zip
I'm a big fan of literally sketching. One of my favorite things to do when approaching a hard programming problem is to enumerate a list of things I already know and then try to literally piece those together into an algorithm. I typically do this on paper, making diagrams of how things will fit together and examples.

But my "notation" here is always miles away from what code would look like, and I think "sketching" in pseudo-code or real code would fail to provide this same springboard. One of the biggest things with writing code is that data structures (especially in the form of objects) quickly lock you down to a certain design and it becomes progressively harder to think of the problem in any other way than your initial view of it. Plus, the hard parts typically require huge amounts of infrastructure to be in place before you can run them for the first time, which works much worse than an abstract brain model in my experience.

>It would be interesting if we had languages that would be great for prototyping but designed to be unusable in production.

The reality here is that people would find a way to make it usable in production and this vision of a good first draft would quickly fall apart :/
The us also has special rules such as the fact you can't show photos or videos of the supreme court sessions.

This stuff is just generally odd.
If it is not a real thing, how does it succeed in having an influence over results on a measurement device? Results on cognitive tests have a relatively high test-retest reliability.
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Just know that the Costco price will always be higher than the price you could achieve by negotiating, simply because dealers pay Costco a referral fee for each sale made through the program.

It's great for getting quotes though.
Can anyone in other west coast cities speak about the crime on the new transit systems? I'm in Portland, and for the first time in my life, I'm worried about crime on mass transit. Maybe it is just the automated news feeds that are circulating stories of stabbings and attacks that have heightened my internalized hysteria. At the same time, I've felt a larger presence of people on mass transit who seem to be dealing with a mental health crisis of some kind. And, it makes me feel less excited to bring my kids with me when I ride. This article does not touch on that.
Previous discussion from 4 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9196218 (108 comments)
FWIW this is from the ATAP group @ google, which is DARPA -> Motorola -> Google. Not Google X/moonshot/rollerblades.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_ATAP

I've seen the tech first-hand and it's super cool.
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You never had a cognitive test administered as part of your job interview?
I'm not sure I believe in varying levels of innate intelligence at all. And if it does exist, it is probably so removed from our standard measures of intelligence so as to make it inconsequential.

What I do believe is that what we perceive to be different levels of intelligence among people is actually learned ways of thinking and approaching problems. Some people are lucky enough to be exposed to habits and ways of thinking early on in their life that provide a compounding return for the rest of it.
Also, asteroid sample-return mission Osiris-REX acheived orbital insertion around its asteroid target.

Which was Really Hard, because that is a tiny object to use as a gravitational anchor. About the mass of a terrestrial mountain. The precision is incredible.

https://www.asteroidmission.org/
What were you thinking would happen? That you'd simply become the envy of magazine-reading normies and nerd conference attendees?

Anyone who's pirated software knows that electronic locky things are about as worthy as masking tape. But you gave all the work away such that it took all the brains of a jailbird methhead life-winner to rig up a formidable burglary tool with an arduino (which i've always derided as baby-talk-programming-for-potheads, how about that) Normally there would be some secretive jackass in the middle like those developing and selling the auto theft tools to the guys who manage car thieves... but you changed the world! Congrats.
If Jeep started suing people for modifying their Jeep with a Tesla Drivetrain, I would object to that as well.

Or even if Jeep started adding specific "features" that attempted to make it difficult for people to modify their car.

Apple used to literally sue people for this stuff. That's immoral. And the courts shutdown those frivolous lawsuits from Apple.

It is perfectly reasonable for people to modify products that they own. If you don't like then, then feel free to not modify your product. You own it, and all.
That is, essentially, the same question :) Except, of course, for triangular ones, which also exist.
IQ research is not part
of the reproducibility crisis.
The only points when "sanity prevailed" were when there was a clear Other to rally against and fight a war. The hyperpartisanship we're seeing is actually normal for the US.

The US was broken in the 1800s. It was broken in the 1820s-1840s with the fight over slavery. It was broken in the 1860s, and we had to fight a civil war to restore any sort of santy. It was broken in the 1880s after Restoration was rolled back. It was broken in 1900 with the rise of the Klan again. 1915 was WWI, in 1920 we were back to being broken. 1930s we were broken by depression and the fight against fascism, 1940s we had WW2. 1950s we had Korea, 1960s we were broken, 1970s we were broken, and that begun the decline of any sense of civility in the congress.

1980s we were completely broken, 1990s we were completely broken, 2000s we were completely broken, 2010s we were completely broken...

The lack of justice for Nixon broke any sense of normality left in the nation. And the Republicans nevertheless played off the idea that Nixon was somehow crucifed, and elected Reagan, then went on a witch-hunt against Clinton. Then they elected a historically bad president in Bush, started the longest wars in US history, and when people complained they crucified Obama in response. And then they elected the loudest finger-in-the-eye they could find in response.

The US has been somewhat broken for literally its entire existence but it has been actively unable to transact its internal business for about half of that... about half of that being in the last 50 years.
Well, I sometimes start by writing psuedo-code first before turning it into actual code, later.
-4 is the lower limit that a comment can be downvoted to, so the fact that they're all the same isn't particularly telling.
Hack[0] is also a very nice font for coding. I use it on my terminals and IDEs with joy.

[0]: https://sourcefoundry.org/hack/
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I was talking about the processor series.
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Incomplete, certainly. But entirely wrong? The results still need explaining and the IQ model will surely be at least related to any new, better model, given its ability to produce at least some reliable results.
You're very welcome! I'm glad you like it and thanks for helping to point people to it.
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(1) The details of popular IQ tests are considered commercial secrets by testing companies. The reliability data and validity data are kept secret to people other than selected experts connected to those companies. This opaqueness does nothing to enhance the credibility of IQ tests.

(2) The claims that IQ tests are supported by consensus of psychologists ignore that, scientific knowledge does not rely on consensus to justify its credibility, but the explanatory power and predictive power stemmed from such knowledge. Plus, most psychologists don't do research on IQ tests, the so-called consensus can be regarded to an extent as textbook claims in disguise.

(3) There have always been disagreements. Multiple intelligence theory is one that made its way to textbooks. But there are others. For example, the mutualism model by van der Maas, Kan, and Borsboom (2014) claims that IQ tests do not constitute as a reliable measure that can reflect the underlying mental capacity (if there is one, not none or multiple), the value of IQ tests can only be (weakly, in my opinion) justified by pragmatic considerations [0]. The mutualism model is somewhat tangential to the claims made by Taleb, but my point is that IQ tests are not something that should be glorified.

(4) Psychometrics in general, has deep issues. Operationalism plagues the discipline. The practice of many (I shall reserve properly that it's not all) psychometricians does not meet the idea of validity as instigated by current recommended guidelines, and what should be constitutive of validity is still somewhat an open question that remains to be explored. These are not direct evidence for or against the credibility of IQ tests, but nonetheless should make us cautious how we reach our judgments.

[0] https://www.mdpi.com/2079-3200/2/1/12

EDIT: grammar
These are doable.. you have to write them yourself, it's not terribly hard. Being able to programmatically define a tolerance Delta was extremely useful (for me); I was able to design an interlocking assembly and dynamically change the tolerance to make sure they fit my material in two printings (print once, measure dimensions, quickly adjust constant, print a second) with a trusty pair of calipers.
> Ensuring all layer 2 domains are loop free by design

Impossible, unfortunately, or we wouldn't need STP.

> and moving all redundancy to layer 3 and routing protocols.

Not always possible either, sadly. Works well for new deployments, can difficult to retrofit into older deployments depending on the scale and applications involved.
Weird that they don't mention New York's awful inefficiency, especially since it was reported by the same paper. NYC tax payers are already spending billions and not getting much to show for it.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/28/nyregion/new-york-subway-...
I see, thank you for the clarification. I was just surprised to read it takes several seconds on a 4GHz cpu. For example the chip we’re using in Solo is a STM32 at 80MHz so it’s prob impractical (But in fairness I don’t have numbers on DAA either.)
High energy and low anxiety seem more trainable than IQ, although even then they aren't infinitely trainable. Thomas Edison, by the common accounts, slept four or five hours a night plus a few short naps; most people couldn't do that.

There are some other important factors that aren't as flattering to modern Western society. I know some smart people who are stuck in dead-end jobs because their parents didn't know the right hoops to jump through to get them into an environment conducive to socioeconomic advancement and a good college, and some who aren't going anywhere because they just can't buy into the BS they're supposed to buy into. If you can't suck it up and agree with your professors, even when they're obviously wrong, you're going to have a hard time.

On the other hand, I know a guy who isn't very smart but got into Harvard because his parents were rich and he's the sort of person who reflexively identifies with and agrees with authority.