skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In my experience even things which are explicitly prototypes can be dangerous, as it can appear to be in the short term interest of the business to take a prototype and modify it as little as possible to get it shipped. I've seen this result in massive headaches and thousands of wasted man hours, and for what? Shipping an "MVP" that can't be effectively iterated on 2 weeks sooner? The worst case of this I saw, the technical aspects of this were bad enough that it was (in my opinion) what caused the product to fail.
> reading the Wikipedia article, it says that scientific consensus among surveyed psychologists and educational researchers is that IQ is a valid and accurate mesaure of the important components of intelligence

That statement doesn't contradict or refute the original assertion. In fact, the original assertion was that the IQ concept is effective at identifying those who fall in the lower spectrum of intelligence.

However, IQ fails as an indicator of higher intelligence because it fails to correctly identify who is more gifted among their peers.

The basketball example used often in this discussion is very good at illustrating the difference. Just because some individuals feature higher in a specific ranking (i.e., height) that doesn't mean they are or will be better basketball players.
> A brilliant mathematician like Terence Tao may still very well consider themselves a dullard when faced with, say, the musical intuition of a piano virtuoso, or the effortless foresight of a chess grandmaster, or the rapt attention commanded by master storyteller, or the social intelligence of a smooth-talking Jobsian entrepreneur.

I'd bet all of those people would score high in IQ.

> For these kinds of intelligence, the IQ test is ill-suited

That's not what the science tells us.

> which is fine as long as we don't conflate IQ with the be-all end-all of intelligence

There is only one G. There's little to no evidence in support of the theory of multiple intelligence's; it's not really science, IQ is actual science with lots of evidence to support it.
From the same article: “Of cases filed from 1997 to 2016, according to Cornerstone, 48% have been settled, 42% have been dismissed and 10% are continuing.“ It later says median settlements range from $2.6 to $13.9 million depending on how far the suit gets and how established the firms are. Another interesting thing was that, recently, most of these suits come from individuals rather than institutional investors.
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I mean, some writers like to make up outlines and stuff to plan out books, though so do stream of consciousness style and clean it up in later drafts. I can see that planning out your code can be beneficial and honestly ideal. Just break it down in a sort of outline what all the program needs and then what each part of the code would need, etc.
I recommend finishing your plate but then adjusting the timing/size of your next meal according to hunger.
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Tool bit like Git stash, without git
"The terms "left" and "right" appeared during the French Revolution of 1789 when members of the National Assembly divided into supporters of the king to the president's right and supporters of the revolution to his left."

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"Those on the Left often called themselves "republicans", while those on the Right often called themselves "conservatives"."

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"The use of the words Left and Right spread from France to other countries and came to be applied to a large number of political parties worldwide, which often differed in their political beliefs"

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"The right is always the party sector associated with the interests of the upper or dominant classes, the left the sector expressive of the lower economic or social classes, and the centre that of the middle classes. Historically this criterion seems acceptable."

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"The differences between left and right have altered over time. The initial cleavage at the time of the French Revolution was between supporters of absolute monarchy (the Right) and those who wished to limit the king's authority (the Left). During the 19th century, the cleavage was between monarchists and republicans. Following the establishment of the Third Republic in 1871, the cleavage was between supporters of a strong executive on the Right and supporters of the primacy of the legislature on the Left"

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"The terms left-wing and right-wing are widely used in the United States, but as on the global level there is no firm consensus about their meaning."

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"Some political scientists have suggested that the classifications of "left" and "right" are no longer meaningful in the modern complex world"

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"In 2006, British Prime Minister Tony Blair described the main cleavage in politics as not left versus right, but open versus closed.[54] In this model, attitudes towards social issues and globalism are more important than the conventional economic left–right issues: "open" voters tend to be socially liberal, multicultural and in favour of globalism, while "closed" voters are culturally conservative, opposed to immigration and in favour of protectionism. This model has seen increased support following the rise of populist and centrist parties in the 2010s."

-- https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Left–right_political_spectru...
Climate change is certainly surmountable. What makes me sad is what’s lost along the way. Humanity survived the colonization of the America’s. But it also lost some irrecoverable things.
> Even if I had 50 years of study I would not think on the level of say Terrance Tao.

The whole point of that argument is that someone who thinks on the level of Terrance Tao would not be perceived as being as intelligent as Terrance Tao if he had zero years of study, while at the same time someone with 50 years of study who was less gifted would place ahead.
> Being “smart” implies there’s a set of “un-smart” kids that don’t have the same fitness or goodness, and since it’s innate, they’ll always be that way in an ungifted underclass.

Which is true. You're against teaching your children the truth?
> Except 1Password is a huge and very well known product

> AgileBits are a very small private company
Yeah, this is the definition of click bait, right here.

Saudia Arabia, a country that executes more people than any other sovereign state in the world, doesn't like a show that shows the country in a satirical, comedic light? And insists on having the show/episode removed from Netflix in it's own state to suppress dissent and criticism?

I'm shocked I tell you, absolutely shocked!

Edit: I take my statistic back, Saudia Arabia ranked no.3 for executions last year.

https://www.businessinsider.com/the-10-countries-that-execut...
Upvote for Launchbar. When I use it at work people look at me like I’m a wizard. All 3rd deliverable docs from that random project started 3 years ago? cmd + space + couple characters guessed from the title + 1 second, boom, its there.
> This article is one of many where the actual point being made is buried beneath unnecessary and divisive ad-hominem attacks.

This is consistent with his writing style though, at least since Antifragile. I had a hard time getting into Antifragile due to the constant, unending, and unnecessary ad-hominem attacks throughout the text.
> Don't gather what data you don't need not just because 'it might be useful'. There is literally no /good/ use for such needlessly personalized data, only evil.

This is some of the most egregious hyperbole I've ever heard. Why do you think people collect data they don't need at the time? Obviously because it's useful later for things you can't imagine at the time.

So, you claim that the only possible future uses are evil. Which makes you what, able to see the future? You can enumerate unknowns, like the Oracle at Delphi?
I recently re-watched "This is broken" and I think there's a subtle way things are broken related to "not my job" - called "I did my job". In any kind of non-trivial engineering, you have a spec to meet, and it is difficult to meet that spec under given constraints, so you don't go and look for more problems. You are happy that you did your job.

0. https://youtu.be/aNDiHSHYI_c?t=235
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On the other hand, it's probably easier when the air's moving the other direction.
Not really, these were mainly side-quests. You could do well over 95% of each book stand alone.
What categories has the thing been trained on?

I assume you need a fairly extensive training dataset to train a net, and that would limit your ability to provide a net trained for arbitrary tags.
It's an article about the future, so we don't need to bring up Facebook.
My point is that, of those orders of magnitude, some came out of innumerable penny savings accumulated over 200 years.
I think people get annoyed when the temp files don't get deleted after the process is complete and the files continue to accumulate forever.

I spent the better part of yesterday trying to figure out why ODBC drivers for an older version of MS Dynamics NAV would randomly cause crashes starting 5am on 12/31/2018. Looking at the queries, we noticed that only queries with ORDER BY clause failed with an error about not having enough swap space. The drive had plenty of storage so we weren't sure. Only when we looked into the Temp folder for SWP*.tmp files did we see an interesting result: 65535 file(s).

Apparently the driver created swap files in the temp folder to sort the results of ORDER BY. But sometimes it failed and left the temp files orphaned. The name of each temp file was SWP[int 1-65535].tmp. It appeared that at 5am it created the max 16-bit int swap file and from that point on, every number it tried already existed, throwing the 'not enough space' error. A simple delete fixed the issue.

The path we took to get to the solution was riddled with panic-fueled nightmares. DB corruption on the last day of the year when Finance was running their year-end reports would have been a terrible way to usher in 2019. We ran all the tools on the DB and its backups but nothing seemed to isolate the cause until we looked at the Temp folder on a whim.

Apologies for the long rant but just wanted to highlight a real-world (and still painfully sore) example of annoyance from temp files.
Wikipedia is not a totally reliable reference when researching non-quantitative information, especially in area with active stakeholders that likely edit wikipedia. And I would not trust "scientific consensus" in this instance given psychology's recent well documented reproducibility crisis.
I was looking for one a few years ago and had a difficult time. I was told they had recently changed manufacturing plants--the Mexico plant that used to make Fits was making more HR-Vs because they have better margins. Since Fits were now coming from Japan there was a backlog.

Maybe what I had heard was just a rumor, because it was definitely a few years ago and this recent article makes it sound like it hasn't happened yet.

[1] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-honda-production-mexico/h...
> There's a lot of good evidence that correlates race and IQ. Even when controlling for as many factors as possible. To the best of our current scientific knowledge, this is a thing.

Care to point to actual data supporting that statement?
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IQ is well supported, but raceXiq is very poorly supported.

Most of the HBD and 'race realism' stuff fails simply at trying to define race. Often it's 'colored people', and not any kind of grouping that even resembles human genetic diversity. This all relies on very straight-forward and well-established genetics, but they generally can't even come close to the mark here. They'll shout and scream about how "you're not allowed to study this!" despite plenty of scholarly work on human genetic diversity. It's not literally titled 'black people are human garbage', so I can see why they might have trouble finding it.

There's also a lot of cherry-picking, agonizing over particular sub-populations that happen to fit their narrative and acting as though that's case closed.

The reality is that most of the population diversity is in Africa and a bunch of isolated islands. Yet even in these extreme outliers we don't see much in by way of large effects (intra > inter, generally). But the race realist narrative, somehow and miraculously, comes to the conclusion that white people are super duper great, the somewhat less white people are somewhat less great, and black people are genetically .. unfortunate. Who knew?! They just got so damn lucky and happened to hate just the right people!

Plenty of detailed refutation for anyone interested:

https://old.reddit.com/r/AgainstHateSubreddits/comments/39t4...

https://old.reddit.com/r/AgainstHateSubreddits/comments/39bx...

https://old.reddit.com/r/debatepoliticalphil/comments/7m3lex...
I support OP, but censored without evidence. It is factually true. This article is against IQ as a measure and does not give an alternative, while even admitting that low IQ can be very predictive of problems.
Taleb doesn't know what he's talking about, he's not remotely an expert in the field; he's just a crank trader that snatched a bit of fame with his concept of the black swan and he's very bitter he isn't more famous than he is, so he lashes out like the raging narcissist he is and continually pokes his head into fields he knows little about and calls everyone there stupid. Ignore him.
These etilqs files consumed 60GB of this[1] person's hard drive space.

I think it was a good decision to change the name of these files because they give sqlite a bad name while the problem is not of their doing.

[1] https://community.wd.com/t/etilqs-files-in-temp-folder-consu...
Oh, also, you left your entire git tree in there, so I'm not sure if you meant to ship your entire codebase as well as a binary, but you did.
Do you have references to this?
I gather new images based on what users request.
Except when a curious child flips the switch when the PC is running.
I just watch a lot of Brian Foerster videos on YouTube e.g. https://youtu.be/AGBOf8mrWjs

Baalbek is a good place to see 1000+ ton milled stones: https://youtu.be/jo-oEk8itlo

Cuzco also seems to have some pre-Inca constructions that can’t be explained: https://youtu.be/66x9VLwZaDQ
Hey thanks yeah. Working on the code cleanliness to be honest.
Ask HN: What books offer a good introduction to your field for laypeople
I'm always curious to get a better understanding of new fields I don't normally get in contact with such as e.g. law, philosophy, ...

If someone was looking to get a good overview of the specific field of your work/research - what books would you recommend to get them started and provide them with the basics?
A really good alternative to Python and C: Clojure + Java

Mostly because

- Clojure is very very terse

- Java has the battle-tested libs

- they run on the same (J)VM - so no FFI required in your code
So I've apparently "ordered" a bot. What does that mean?
Assuming it's a traditional war. They might be able to create the right conditions for Taiwan to request annexation.

There are a lot of mainland Chinese in Taiwan and probably a lot of PRC supporters, some sort of coup, insurrection or civil war could be possible.

It's also possible for China to cripple Taiwan economically, take out some power stations and maybe other infrastructure and their industry collapses. This could even be done by foreign agents, they might not have to fire a shot directly.

Then there's the various cyber-warfare possibilities.
Earn more from my products (e-books / apps), wouldn't say goal but hopefully a stretch goal that the products profit can cover my living expense (~$700 a month, I live in a relatively third world country).

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That still wouldn't stop you from towing the car with the switch in the wrong position, which also destroys the transmission.
Those personality types are a lot more pseudo-scientific than IQ
> The fight now should go the other way - reverting current insane copyright term to its previous lengths. Copyright lobby might not be able to extend it more, but it doesn't mean that the current one is acceptable.

This proposal is not only just, but feasible.

The left should get on-board, since the retroactive copyright extensions effectively took away property that was promised to the public and reassigned it to media companies for a certain amount of time.

Constitutional conservatives should get on-board, since Congress's authority to establish a copyright office is rooted in the power "To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts," and excessively long copyright terms stifle progress rather than promoting it.

I posted a while back advocating for a coordinated reform effort [0], and I still think we can get this done. Who’s in?

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18016752
With or without Internet?
One country, two systems - so the same as Hong Kong?
I’m not the parent commenter but I’ll chime in, because when I was younger I recognized what the parent is talking about. One way to think of humility is as the ability to see that you may be wrong and having the courage to accept it take action and change your thoughts and self to become right. Now you may say so what I do that all the time I learn new things and am corrected occasionally, that’s good, but sometimes learning and reason fall to dogma. Really humility brings about a great opportunity to learn and steers away from dogmatic thinking. This doesn’t mean thoughts coming from dogma are always wrong it means reason with yourself and others for truth and be open to change your mind.

When your humble you are curious to learn from others, because you know you don’t know everything and separately you know that almost anyone can teach you something important if you just listen. I think one indicator of humility is empathy in a sense trying to put yourself in their shoes emotionally. A big part of humility when it comes to casual debate is understanding the argument of who your conversing with and finding common ground so that you can relate. In my religion humility is often related in different terminology as “an open heart and mind” where the opposite pride is described as being of “a closed heart and mind”. So, that shows you that it has both a feeling and thinking aspect as described above. Honestly I feel if people were truly and fully humble then we wouldn’t have as much toxicity in online debate like there is spread all across my Facebook feed and in other chat streams all across the internet heck we might even learn a lot more from it too.

By the way one thing humility is not is thinking less of yourself as too often people might think. You can be confident and humble.

In conclusion, humility is a catalyst for learning whereas pride (in this context) just helps you stay where you’re at and stop progressing to further knowledge which may even lead to degradation of knowledge. Of course it’s not binary there is a continuum.
Normally it means that my server would be in the process of training a neural network which would get sent to you. Did you specify categories? I see a request that was just empty, which was dropped by the server as looking like a fake request.
Taleb's output is getting weird.

See "G factor"[1]. There's a strong correlation between various metrics of "types of intelligence".

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G_factor_(psychometrics)
Usually, the definition includes the government determining what (basic) insurance covers and what price the insurers pay to the hospitals. Those two things are missing in ACA/Obamacare.

For example in The Netherlands, the government defines a extensive healthcare package that every insurer must provide to everyone, insurers must accept everyone for and all their clients must pay the same price, and they also determine what hospitals can charge for certain procedures. "Add-ons" like sport-related Physical Therapy are mostly unregulated.

That's far more far-reaching than Obamacare, which allows age-based price discrimination, only mandates coverage of 10 categories and does not regulate hospital pricing.
How about all the libraries and tools turn over every two months? Oh, there's JavaScript!
It seems a lot are coming to the defense of IQ tests so I thought I'd throw in my perspective having taken these tests 6 times over the years (WAIS and Raven's) for my diagnosis of ADHD (these tests cost thousands of dollars and are usually reviewed by psychologists).

An IQ score itself is an average of subtest scores that measure various abilities related to intelligence. So you could have some really high scores for certain abilities (e.g. executive functioning - ability to plan ahead) and some really low scores (e.g. spatial reasoning - understanding three dimensional space) and come out as average. Or you could have a really low score in a certain ability while having average scores in others and come out as below average.

Additionally, some test scores can change based on whether they're timed or not. So you could have certain abilities that are above average, but when timed, come out as average or below.

Notably, IQ tests DO NOT test for creativity nor emotional intelligence.

The problem with judging others by their IQ score is that you throw away their strengths by looking at a single score. Some of my abilities are above average and that could be useful to society. I certainly think creativity, emotional intelligence and other abilities IQ tests neglect are relevant to society as well.

For me, my IQ has ranged anywhere from 87 to 117 and this may be due to ADHD. The instability of the score doesn't give me much faith in its usefulness, nor has my intelligence seemed to affect my career as a software engineer (I've had plenty of success in my decade long career). It has however reliably demonstrated I have ADHD for schools and health insurance purposes, and that's really its primary usefulness.
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