skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for the feedback. I've done some work on the side recently to help with cash flow. The problem is that if I have work I can do to earn money that doesn't make me feel anxious, it's even harder to motivate myself to focus on the thing that makes me feel like a failure/impostor, even if I objectively believe that the risk-adjusted value of doing the latter work is orders of magnitude higher.
And other tests that actually measure something that exists.
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There's no contradiction between "IQ is largely bullshit, especially at the high ends" and "IQ is the most well proven concept in the social sciences".
The same reason we trust it to anyone else. I’ve never understood the “he/she is a comedian therefore unfit to comment on serious matters.
Could you expand with examples?
That's exactly what John Oliver did in the Brexit Update video a few weeks ago: https://youtu.be/MdHmp5EX5bE
Aren't most standardized tests - SAT, ACT, GRE, etc - essentially IQ tests? We don't call them that, but they're testing cognitive ability nonetheless.
Would you mind expanding on the idea that an angle measure is a logarithmic quantity and that sin/cos/tan are exponentials (or providing a phrase I could google)? I've never come across a formulation/characterization like that, and it sounds useful...
What ‘other qualities’ should (for example) the US Army test for if not IQ?
Xi Jinping’s China ignores the role the US, others, play in its rise
Like what tests?
I agree with most of these follow up points you’ve made.
My skills left me feeling more like Porkins but it was a great game!
"I think most people agree that the quality of health care is an issue..."

Really? I thought that good healthcare was one of the major positives of the high taxes paid in Sweden. That was alluded to in the article and I have seen positive comments in the past about it. I guess that is due to the 10%ers being the ones commenting(?). But then I don't understand how there is uneven distribution of quality healthcare.
To be honest, I thought that quoted sentence weakened the authors' argument. "based on the design principles developed over decades of research and practice of HCI and usability engineering" comes across as sour grapes.
I installed this immediately in Ubuntu Gnome and set it be the system font for documents & the interface. Courier has, for some reason, always been my favorite font. It looks great!
Very cool. Glad to learn about that!
This is perhaps reductive, but maybe we should treat these shows as exposure to a certain viewpoint and nothing more: You are still absolutely free to make up your own mind on a given matter.

Political Commentary is also not something to be rationed - as per se, it would be extremely misguided (and illegal, in the US) to regulate who can be televised on a given matter (Although I assume that you mean "we" as in society rather than the state?)
> We don't haggle over anything else

On the contrary, almost all big ticket items are negotiated. It's just cars are the most frequently encountered big ticket item for the average person.
Meditation and Why You Should Do More Than Just Talk About It
This is correct; the options in the US as of the last election cycle are center-right and far-right. A Sanders type party would be left or probably more accurately center-left. That’s not a value judgement (you’re not a bad person for picking one or the other) just an assessment relative to world politics.

Obama was a pretty center-right politician, and Hillary would have been also. He didn’t support socialized medicine, didn’t support socialized education, didn’t push for a $15 minimum wage, didn’t really bolster unions — though didn’t try and demolish them either — and didn’t really tax the wealthy. He was also fairly supportive of the surveillance state. To his credit he did a lot of good work bolstering environmental regulations and pushing forward climate science. I’m a leftist by Canadian standards and I liked and respected Obama and I can confirm he was no leftist.
Wow, that's impressive. I've always had a soft spot for X11. I still have fond memories for setting up a FluxBox ubuntu partition on an old socket 478 Celeron. With a now ancient 5900SE, that thing would really fly, and I bet it still would today despite being ancient. Compare that to the sad state of the comparatively bloated OSX/Windows/web with new frameworks every two years that are incompatible with each one just before it and it all makes you quite sad.
British democracy is brilliant, moronic, childish and wise: Many laws are indeed that old
2024 is still a few years away... maybe too soon to count those chickens since they haven't hatched?
Taleb is coming from the quant world. A trader can make or lose a lot of money, and that distribution of returns is fat-tailed, as exemplified by 2008 crisis.
Being pro democrat is not being left at all. It’s being center right. The left since Carter has pushed forth far right neoliberal economic policy. Bill Clinton is universally known for his right wing policy. Obama literally bailed out the banks rather then the people with mortgages. Obama could have easily bought up the bad debts from the bank at a discount and allowed people to restructure their mortgages with 4.7 trillion dollars. Instead he gave it to the banks, allowed everyone to lose their house and be bought up by predators like Blackstone Realty.
Bing Crosby and the Tape Revolution (2016)
I think that AR has a strong possibility of becoming more commonplace within 5 years. VRs future, Im not so sure of.
I hope this doesn't turn into a editor war but.... I used slickedit since 1993 Windows 3.1 for Networks and loved it, ... VSCode is the first time I've seriously considered switching because AFAIK it's the only editor that has eslint integration and that's proved invaluable. It's not just eslint linting JavaScript but the fact that their are library specific plugins for things like React, Vue, GraphQL, etc..

I have no idea how well it does for other languages. I assume it does well for C# and typescript.

It does feel (to me with my limited experience) that eslint's plugin architecture and uber configurable rule system are adding something I had not seen in other languages. Hoping that other languages will come up with something similar and maybe more editors will take up the integration.
> That is (in part) Nassim Nicholas Taleb's point: we use IQ to select for success, then say IQ is correlated with success. It is circular reasoning.

This would only be correct if the SAT were expressly an IQ test, and we selected people based on SAT score for that reason.

To put it another way, making this point is kind of like selecting for tall players for a basketball team, then saying weight is correlated with fitness to be on a basketball team. That height and weight are correlated doesn't make this circular reasoning.
> UEFI is perhaps the single most egregious pile of garbage ever concieved by humans

Don't forget systemd.
The problem with g is that it's a number. Who has higher g, Magnus Carlsen or Terence Tao?
Hmm... perhaps. But I'm pretty sure that the questions of e.g. the law exam are about laws, and the questions of medical school exams are about anatomy and medicinal procedures—not about the "which shape completes the pattern" puzzles from IQ tests. I'm quite certain they are not given IQ tests. The SAT, meanwhile, asks math and English questions.

Is Taleb saying that IQ is a bad metric, or is he saying that these other tests are academic and unrealistic, and then referring to them collectively as IQ tests because the results are correlated? Or something else?
But what if food was similarly abundant? Either because of natural abundance or massive AI/robot labor?
Did you mean “kudos”? ;)
It is, however: For better or worse, British political media is regulated. Around election time, for example, Purdah bans all political advertising apart from allocated x minute slots
Frankly, I'm incredibly disappointed in Taleb's recent writing. This article is one of many where the actual point being made is buried beneath unnecessary and divisive ad-hominem attacks.

Does the caption "Mensa members: typically high “IQ” losers in Birkenstocks." usefully contribute to a serious, scholarly conversation on IQ? Is it reasonable or fair-minded to immediately tar opponents to your argument as racists, eugenicists and "psychometry peddlers looking for suckers"?

I am uninterested in engaging with the substance of Taleb's arguments here, because the style is so needlessly vicious. I won't be buying Taleb's next book, because I don't want to endorse this kind of debasement of the public dialogue.
Taleb is barely this side of being a troll: he has plenty of interesting tidbits to say and is obviously a smart guy, but read enough of his stuff and he's clearly more focused on generating heat instead of light.

If you read through the article, he's not quite making the claim that one might assume from the headline: which is basically that IQ isn't much of a useful or well-defined metric.
Except for a quick Google as previously stated brings up every manufacturer under the sun.

Modern vehicles are full of cheaply made electronics that fail.

Another quick Google query shows that the average age of a modern vehicle is 11.4 years. Sticking with Tesla, the vehicles are only warrantied for 4 years or 50k miles and the batteries and powertrain for 8 or 100-120k miles

And as I stated previously they've already completely changed their battery tech once meaning the supply chain for new batteries for the original Roadster is effectively non-existent and given they are now 10 years old, they are outside of warranty and Tesla has zero obligation to manufacture replacement batteries, with ICEs it's extremely unlikely diesel or gasoline will suddenly be controlled by one supplier and be cut off from the market.

With ICE cars you have multiple people manufacturing secondary market parts (even for stuff like ECUs), with the most well known electric car company you have the manufacture as the only one making parts AND they do not sell them to consumers and they will not work on anything with a salvage title.

Working on an EV is also not really something you can do yourself if you do have access to parts. ICE vehicle you can realistically work on any part of the vehicle yourself, at home, with rented tools and a repair manual or YouTube videos from rebuilding an engine or transmission, replacing ball joints, changing brakes, replacing fuel line, completely rewire the vehicle, anything.

Sure on an EV you could change a ball joint or a suspension, but you can't work on the powertrain. You can't work on the power plant. You can't really work on any of the wiring either. The most important parts of the car pose potentially fatal shock if start monkeying with them.
Yet IQ test does not measure ability to acquire and apply knowledge and skills.
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This used to be my thought as well when I was a capitalist. But then I realized that this is a form of insurance. What we pay to maintain the welfare system in an insurance premium in case we need it one day. It is also a sort of social utility fee -- it reduces crime and makes society more livable. I'd gladly pay for these benefits...
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Your friends, family, etc. who funded you initially did so because they care about you and are excited for you to try this. Unless you specifically committed to paying them back, you really need not do this. They might even be better off if you were to take any funds you have left over to commercialize what you are trying to do.

Many technical experts are not great CEOs -- they can be perfectionists, or get anxious when dealing with people, or there are unlimited other reasons. You might want to seek out a business partner (or mentor, or advisor) who might help you on the business side.
What a mess. Tweetstorm was easier to follow.
Anything would be an improvement.

I was looking into getting my first car recently. Narrowed it down to a few Honda models and walked into the SF Honda Dealership.

Never seen anywhere so incompetent in my life. When I asked about car features the guy would just Google "honda fit sunroof on ex?" where I could clearly see. I finally asked for a price and he came back with something 3.0x the market rate for the car ... When I asked why it was so high he said computer error nothing he could do.

So yeah, let's Amazon it up.
Do you know why the people who digitized Courier made that (seemingly grave) omission? It seems like far too big of an oversight to simply sweep under the rug, after comparing the on-screen/printed-from-computer version with the typewriter version.
Apple really needs to stop removing documented APIs. If they want to announce that some APIs have been moved to "maintenance mode", that's fine—just make some effort to ensure said APIs keep working.

When I was deep into Windows development, I remember how crazy it was that MS refused to deprecate APIs.

Just the concept of a “string” when programming on Windows could be different depending on the API Microsoft had:

- standard C strings: a null terminated character array

- the standard 16 bit wide character string that was null terminated.

- a BSTR - a double byte character array where the first byte is the length.

- the C++ STL string class.

- a CString - not to be confused with the C style string. This was part of the Active Template Library

- CStringT - it’s been awhile. I have forgotten what this is.

Keeping APIs forever leads to bloat, is a maintenance nightmare, and increases the surface area for security vulnerabilities.

One of the earliest security vulnerabilities that I remember was that it was easy to run shell commands on a remote computer just by escaping the command in IE if the site was running IIS because MS overlooked a type of string encoding.

https://flylib.com/books/en/2.819.1.43/1/
It did seem like a lot of the article was making claims about the motives of IQ supporters. That seemed like a bit of a red flag to me, that this was more about politics than science (not that either exists without the other).

Thanks
The substance isn't much better than the style.

He makes substantial claims like IQ is not predictive of performance above 100 which in and of itself could be a whole article. And then just assumes the reader will take his word for it, even though there is a mountain of evidence to the contrary.
> Being “smart” implies there’s a set of “un-smart” kids that don’t have the same fitness or goodness

You don't like the implications of this, but is it true?

I'd never play soccer as good as Messi, even if I'd practice every day in my life for many hours. Do you think that everyone has the same innate ability to play soccer?

You can replace the example with any sport/music/whatever you like.

Do you think that intelligence is special and everybody has the same intelligence level?
Linux in general has been doing just fine. The one really notable change I've seen lately is a transition towards a hybrid click/touch interface, with ubiquitous "big" targets for tapping and swiping, as part of the switch to GTK+3. And that seems necessary if we're to work towards having a Linux desktop on smaller, touch-capable devices, so I have no real issue with it. The widget style has changed a bit, but it still looks quite traditional, avoiding the excesses of both "skeuomorphic" and "flat" design.
It also seems like even moderate damage, which would NOT be a write off on an ICE vehicle, results in them totaling it because Tesla refuses to work on anything with even relatively insignificant damage (and they won't touch anything that has a salvage title, so never buy a used Tesla with a salvage title. Ever.).
Perhaps but there is once between "IQ is largely a pseudoscientific swindle" and "IQ is the most well proven concept in the social sciences". Unless you are just taking a dig at the social sciences.
I present to you three small companies. All three provide the same type of service. One has an average worker IQ of 80, the next 100, and the last 120.

Which one would you feel most confident in using?
alangpierce commented with the original announcement, which has a much better close-up comparison: http://johnaugust.com/2013/introducing-courier-prime
Adobe has done a good job of this too.

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I had a chance to try out an early version of the game which was mounted on actuators; it would tilt and shake according to inputs and explosions and so forth.

It was also a little buggy, and you could easily get into feedback loops where the machine would jerk you around a little, which would cause your hands to wiggle the controls, which would cause a larger jerk and even more control wiggling . . . it was touchy and a bit wild and could get violent. I was told that it tossed one guy out of the machine.
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What difference does it make? Average app quality is surely a pointless metric given that people tend to spend their own money carefully (Or at least I do, I've spent £10 total on apps in my life)

Some people were up in arms about crap being pushed onto Steam, and it had no long term effect (Before or after anything was done about it)
> I think major beneficiary would be the cloners and fake product manufacturers in China.

I like how you assume that current US laws have deterred them from doing so thus far (hint: they don't, not even close)
I tried to read this, but the ads and spam for random crap is all over the site... how did this even make it to HN top page?
> Most "game AI" isn't "real" AI at all, in any meaningful sense

Unless I'm misunderstanding you, this sounds like the AI effect at work.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_effect
In Belgium, any price on email is valid in court.

Also, I have never seen issues like this here. The entire price has to be shown upfront and it's pretty boring actually.

Compared to the US, it seems great though
Even on the Mac itself, you still have all the classic Unix utilities. Will grep ever become obsolete?

But you can’t run 68K Mac software or PPC software on a modern Mac. Should Apple still include 68K and PPC emulators in MacOS.
You can break the exponential function into the part acting on a scalar and the part acting on a bivector, and then furthermore break those into even and odd parts:

exp(ρ + θi) = (cosh ρ + sinh ρ)(cos θ + i sin θ)

The angle measure in the above is the θ part. The “linear space” expression of the orientation/rotation is a 2-dimensional quanitity cos θ + i sin θ.

Or if you start with the 2-coordinate version x + iy, where x^2 + y^2 = 1, you can find the angle measure by taking the natural logarithm, imag(log(x + yi)).

Rotations are naturally a multiplicative concept. If you have a rotation a + bi and a rotation c + di, then you can compose them like (a + bi)(c + di) = (ac - bd) + (ad + bc)i (you might recognize this as the the “angle sum” identities from high school trigonometry class).

The idea of the logarithm is that you can convert a multiplicative structure into an additive one. So if you have rotations Q and R, you could normally compose them like QR, but as an alternative you can use a log-space representation (angle measure): QR = exp(log(Q) + log(R)).

A rotation inherently comes with an orientation. The i (“imaginary unit”) is in my opinion properly thought of as a bivector, oriented like a plane. When we express something as a scalar-valued angle measure, we have stripped the orientation out.
Given that we are talking about people who purposely portray themselves as doctors, I'm not sure how this is relevant.
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Yeah, but the issue is that the Soviet mines were bright green and being deployed in Afghanistan which is notably short on the greenery. By contrast America also had green mines, which they deployed in the jungles of Vietnam. I think the reality is that the Soviets had stocks of green mines and they used them before switching to regionally appropriate camo, but the PR damage had already been done. In addition America tended to use their mines in low population density areas as area denial weapons, while the soviets were a bit more... profligate in their spreading of these mines. About 40 people still die each year in Afghanistan from Soviet mines, and they’ve done fuck all to remedy the situation. In addition, the US involvement in Vietnam is still a national shame, but it tends to be focused on the broader picture of village massacres, Agent Orange, Daisy Cutters and death squads, as well as the sheer stupidity and cruelty of our intervention.

Finally, the US invaded during an existing civil war, whereas the Soviets just straight-up invaded to conquer another region. I grant these are fine distinctions when we’re talking about mining civilians, but I think it goes to explain the perception of each country’s activities.
The one who does best in a 3 month trial.
Yes, this is more or less what I am trying to do. I am considering added images as well
Honest question: why? Cars’ rapid depreciation makes a gently used car a much better buy than a new one in just about all circumstances. And CarMax does thorough inspections and provides solid warranties for cars they sell, so you don’t have to worry about “used” equaling “unreliable.”
I expected the javascript implementation to be a oneliner with Array reduce operation.
Unless of course there was a website you could log into and pick the top-10 things you want your tax dollars spent on. And an accompanying Law directing that x-percent (>60) of your (unmanipulated) choices be apportioned accordingly to the programs you choose.

The cost of that would be relatively close to nil (except for those who'd rather you see you with no choice at all).
There is solid python: https://github.com/SolidCode/SolidPython

I have used it extensively and it's better than raw openscad.
The point Taleb is making is that IQ works well in the lower half of the distribution, but not in the upper half.

Which makes sense, considering that questions for IQ tests are created by people with close to average intelligence. Imagine third-graders writing college-level math tests, or beginner chess players coming up with chess problems to separate masters from grandmasters.
No, these are some of the tests I work with. Pop culture turned them into a proxy for IQ or Inteligence etc. They're not. The SAT for example is highly targeted towards one specific goal: predicting level of success academically in the first year of college, and only the first year.

They make no other primary research claims about the utility of how the test results should be used, and in dealing with them they are very up front about the importance of a good all around picture of a student including HS GPA, rigor of courses taken, etc., along with SAT as one of multiple metrics.

I repeat, it is pop culture that has distorted these tests beyond all reasonable correspondence to their actual intent.
Its a lot less scary than it looks and I found it to be much much easier to use than freecad. My workflow on freecad was basically just typing numbers in to the properties panel for shapes so why not just do the same thing but as a text file so I can see more at once.
Hard to see, I know, but there actually are people who can't afford to party.
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I think he meant "things that doesn't exist outside a regulated state", not things managed at the state level.
Have you just discounted the entirety of the global south to make your point?