skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a really peculiar aspect of IQ that many are not aware of. The heritability of IQ changes as you age - becoming more heritable over time. What this means is that environmental factors can play major differences in a youth's IQ. For instance a child that goes to great schools, has a supportive family, and so forth and so on will generally have a substantially higher IQ than a child from a less favorable environment.

But the weird thing is that if you take two adults and compare their IQs the difference there has a negligible weighting for environmental factors. Modern studies put the heritability of adult IQ upwards of 80%. This also has the extremely counter intuitive implication that our privileged child's academic advantage in youth doesn't necessarily carry over into adulthood. And similarly an adult who came from a less fortunate background will not often suffer (at least in terms of intellectual ability in so much as IQ can measure) for it, as an adult.

The reason I mention this is because the person coming from a privileged background would ostensibly have a much higher degree of belief in themselves and presumably a wider array of well supported interests. Our '8 year old solves nuclear fusion in spare time' clickbait articles invariably, coincidentally, happen to have a parent or two who is a nuclear physicist. Yet in the end that self confidence and supported interests don't amount to anywhere near as much as we'd expect.

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One other major argument against this is the sharp rise of parenting where parents genuinely belief, and work to prove, that their child is the next Einstein. And this happening at the same time that the Flynn effect has entirely disappeared, and in some cases substantially reversed, in much of the developed world. The Flynn Effect was the observation that IQs were increasing over time. IQ is a relative value with 100 always set as the mean with a standard deviation of 15 points. But a '100' in 1900 was scoring, in absolute terms, worse than a 100 in e.g. 1920. And this kept happening. But then sometime around the 1990s this trend began reversing. [1]

Flynn observed an average increase of about 3 points per decade. In many places in the world today we are seeing a decline of about 2 points per decade. Think about what that means in absolute values. That's a net change of -5 points per decade. That is one third of a standard deviation decline, per decade! Getting into hypotheses here is counter productive and outside the point I'm making which is simply that we've, in most parts of the developed world, decided to begin pretending that every child is special. If IQ were connected to self confidence and belief in oneself - we'd expect to see something at least vaguely looking like a positive correlation here. Instead we've seen a completely unprecedented and sharp reversal in IQ.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flynn_effect#Possible_end_of_p...
Is this book worth having as the K&R one or is it too outdated considering we are upon C2X?
Evidently, Amazon is ruining Whole Foods at breakneck speeds, too. The one near me was re-designed to a cold, commercial feel. Many items were removed. No more freshly roasted coffee on-site. etc. Cashier asked me if I was a prime member. No thanks, Amazon.
But code I write is also a potential source of failures, security vulnerabilities, and future maintenance burden. These are costs which, for the most part, apply to code whether you import it or write it yourself.

In fact, the imported code is arguably better in many cases because if there is a problem in my code it only gets fixed if I fix it. At least sometimes, problems in my imported code gets identified and fixed by other people.
Try going on a "trip" away from the internet, while staying at home. I mean turning it off for a while, and making a little kind of ceremony about it. It's almost like meditation.

In fact I think temporary internet deprivation is a decent way to describe meditation to most people in this era. But it's not just a deprivation because you'll probably find it quite interesting.

Maybe you'll feel a bit restless, but then remember you're on a trip, it's like you're camping, you need to amuse yourself. Maybe have a bath. Tidy a bit. Maybe even clean your downloads folder. Light a candle. Sit on the floor for a while. See what happens.

Offline life is a pretty good place to enjoy some coziness. The internet usually isn't very cozy. And coziness is nice. It's not like without internet you'll be actually suffering. It's kinda nice.

And then it's "just" a matter of habits. Getting acquainted with the niceness of offline life seems like a necessary first step to start forming any kind of offline habit.
Yep turns out all you need is a friend. This is a draw back and advantage of city life. if you want to be isolated, you can
There's a significant piece of information omitted from those instructions: From where do you download the installer? How do you know the source you are downloading it from is the official one?

And there's the dreadful download pages with ads that look like download buttons, which are more obvious than the real one.

Also, don't forget to inspect every option of the installer to ensure you're not allowing the installation of bundled adware, toolbars, and search page hijackers. And these are sometimes bundled by the distributor.

Every mainstream Linux distro has an "app store"-like GUI application, where you click install and it installs. Click uninstall, and it uninstalls. You should try it - you'll be impressed.
Mastodon has alternative front-ends, a lot of instances have:

* pleroma front/back-end alternative, e.g. https://soteria.mastodon.host/

* pinafore front-end, e.g. https://pinafore.mastodon.host/
How are European and Japanese societies regressive? And especially how are religious societies progressive? I think you got it exactly the wrong way around.
I'd argue the same with House of Cards; the longer format was enjoyable at first but it definitely went on too long, and I think lost some focus along the way.
The lack of filtering options is really something that penalizes Amazon as a customer experience for me as well.

But I'm starting to think they might be making it bad on purpose to give more visibility to their ranking schemes.
Selecting an approachable problem is also a skill that more experienced people have and often the younger people don't. Some problems are just not ready to be tackled because the field hasn't developed for it yet. It is a risk factor between choosing your own problem and floundering through the quagmire or getting help in choosing a problem you have confidence in solving in some years.

While I appreciate your brother's personal choice, to each their own after all. There is quite a lot of merit in your PhD advisor helping you in choosing a problem. That being said, good advisors provide students with an array of good problems out of which the student can choose one they are the most passionate about. This is what happened with me, I was provided with around 7 different choices to make. In the end, I chose 2 of them even though I wanted to chose 3 more but couldn't because of lack of time.
> until we have a federal government that is no longer slavish prostituted to business interests

If you lend an ear to some contemporary ideas about how technology changes our societies, there might be a chance we will see this happening in our life times. Current government models, democratic and authoritarian alike, seem to grow ever less capable of coping with technology and how it reshapes society. Yuval Noah Harari has a section devoted to it in Homo Deus.

I suppose Angela Merkel's famous "Das Internet ist für uns Neuland." [1] (engl. "The Internet is uncharted territory for us.") shows off just how overwhelmed even G7 economies are with a technology that became common 30 years ago. We generate tons of information which is barely translated to knowledge, especially if you leave out ad tech.

[1] http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/merkel-neuland-g...
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Distrust in cloud storage in which way? What are yafraid will happen. Which data are you afraid is going to end up in whose hands?

The data I really care about is encrypted right on my laptop,and I backup that encrypted data.
“Remember when we looked forward to every advance?”

No. Humans have always been afraid of change and skeptical of technology. Books and the printing press were considered destructive inventions that would prevent people from thinking for themselves. There were also extremely negative perceptions of television and the internet.
>I had a valid receipt, and in another era she could have just taken the umbrellas and the issue would have been resolved.

I think you're looking back with rose tinted glasses. Making returns in previous eras was very difficult. It was very much caveat emptor or make an enormous fuss.
I agree. Modern society will eventually die out if this world leads to something that alienates people so much that people don't socialize and reproduce anymore.

"Life will find a way." (Jurassic Park)

Speaking of movies, watch "Idiocracy": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-N9nVLXMhPc
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Worked with Dash this summer, its great but it's primarily intended to work with Dash components to display graphs and controls, not really for a generic web application.

The state management between the browser and the dash backend is not intended to be touched by a user.
> "It appears all the swans I've seen are white, therefore I posit all swans are white. Oh, wait, there's a black one, nevermind."

That's such a tedious way to to test a theory of swan color. You have to go find swans, which tend to live in hard to reach, dirty, obnoxious environments.

It's much easier to rephrase the hypothesis into a logically exactly equivalent hypothesis, "All non-white things are not swans", and test that instead. I can test that without even leaving my house. Just looking around the room I'm in there are hundreds of non-white things, and none of them are swans.

This situation is called Hempel's paradox, also known as the raven paradox or the paradox of indoor ornithology [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raven_paradox
It's a matter of trust as well.

My parents generation, now in the 70's, has this implicit trust in salespeople. They know "in principle" that there are "bad apples", but if a salesperson shakes their hand, looks them in the eye, and says "Of course Mr. <Insert name>, we'll take care of you", they buy it wholesale. Which is how my dad bought $600 tires for $1800 at a dealership, a $1200 "DSLR camera" which was actually a superzoom point and shoot, a wired phone headset which was actually wireless headphones with no boom, etc.

I have basically zero trust in the "specialized retail stores with specialized sales people". Any time I geek out a little bit about any retail area, I learn the 101 ways they have and do scam you, and my trust erodes further. A specialized expensive shoe store swore my shoes I bought specifically for air travel don't have metal shims in them; of course they do. The electronic stores are never staffed with people who know more than I do, or frequently anything at all other than to push extended warranty. Small car maintenance store I've dealt with regularly for 15 years have turned out to be skimming and scamming once I learned more about their product and service, all the while greeting me warmly by name and "taking care of me". And yes, my dad and his friends still go to them.

So yes, bring on the faceless online warehouse. I feel safer there - or at least, am better equipped to determine fake/counterfeit/exploitative than I am in person. For all the decades that Amazon and the like had to develop methods to scam us, in-person salespeople had centuries, and I ain't winning that game.
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There's a good amount of feminists who are absolutely against fembots and sex dolls, so I doubt SV/SF will ever lead the way here.
physiologist have studied the relationship between activation(arousal, "passion?") phase of the motivational process and the performance. It turns out that more activation doesn't lead to more performance, but each task has its own optimal activation level, and it seems to be inversely correlated with how hard intellectually is the task. While it might be linearly correlated for physical tasks like running from a predator.

See Yerkes and Dodson law[1] and I think Hebbs[2] also touched on this topic.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yerkes–Dodson_law

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_O._Hebb
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Ending a statement with a question mark is also bad grammar.
> Capitalism transmutes nearly all work into labor.

In your opinion, was there ever a system where that was not the case? If not, then you can't really say that it's capitalism which transmutes work into labor, no?

Do you think there could be a system where that is not the case (apart from an anarcho-communistic utopia as in the Culture series)?
I was never a Prime member, but I have bought stuff from Amazon in the past. As of about 2 years ago, I've basically quit Amazon for all the reasons listed in the article: confusing selection of products that I might want to buy (are those widgets the same as those other widgets or not?), the decreasing reliability of reviews, and the co-mingling of stock from different sellers.

Admittedly, I'm buying "weird" stuff online: principally woodworking tools and hardware for furniture. Tools are a high-value item that lends itself counterfeiting. Somebody I knew bought a 3' (90 cm) Starrett blade for their combination square (MSRP ~$340) from Amazon, and got one that wasn't straight. Was it counterfeit? Was it a second that slipped out the back door of the factory? Was it a genuine one that slipped past quality control at Starrett? Who knows.

He returned it and got a straight one, but there are other tools that are less obviously "wrong". Chisels with lower-grade steel, knock-off planes with poor quality castings or machining, counterfeit clamps (at $20-$30 a pair for basic handscrews you could probably make a tidy profit making sub-par ones and passing them off as the real thing).

For my money, I'll buy from somebody who only sells tools, and stakes their reputation on delivering the tool I ordered, and a genuine one to boot.

It turns out that dedicated retailers still exist for this stuff; beyond the US chains of Rockler and Woodcraft, there are a whole slew of independent vendors (Among others: Little Machine Shop, Infinity Cutting Tools, Lee Valley, Highland Woodworking).

And they take far better care of their customers. On the hardware front, I ordered a lock and an escutcheon from (I think) Whitechapel, and when they picked the order, they determined that the key wouldn't fit through the hole in the escutcheon. /They called me/ to make sure I ended up with an escutcheon that would fit the key.

To be sure, you pay for this level of service. Horton Brasses, Whitechapel, Brusso, etc all charge a handsome price. But at the end of the day, you know what you're getting, you can reach an actual human being if you need help picking something for your application, and they stand behind their products.

I'm going to extrapolate from my area of interest here. Amazon only makes sense for stuff that's essentially fungible (e.g. USB cables), or you're just muggling around and don't mind exchanging a bit of your time to make something that isn't quite right work for you once.

If you're doing anything in volume, predictability and repeatability matter a lot. Knowing that the X you order this year is going to work the same as the X you ordered 2 years ago counts for a lot.
There are 1400 reviews but the "initial selection" of ~8 Top Reviews has almost 50% negative commentary. I'm trying to learn more and more to look at the bars on the left; in this case, 92% are 4 and 5 star, and factor in that most people with no issues don't write reviews at all. So my very random modifier would make that something like 95% positive and take a chance on it. This assumes you don't get the dice rolled to a counterfeiter when you happened to load the page.

It would be great if you could filter the reviews not only by the form factor (8 pack, 1 pack, etc.) but also the vendor. If anyone at Amazon is reading this...

TBH I recently bought an end table that had 0 reviews, and it was kind of an adrenaline ride. "I'm supposed to judge this product simply by what I see on the page, and my own investigative capabilities? How quaint!". :)
I can only offer personal anecdotes. I was on many different diets since I was very little. I've been a strict vegan and a carnivore and gluten-free and diary-free, bla, bla ... way before any of these were fashionable. Everyone of these diets had their drawbacks. For example, veganism left me frail and weak whereas all-meat carnivorism did make me rail-thin, strong and agile, yet gave me terrible breath and complexion, not to mention digestive issues.

Now I eat everything (fried stuff in moderation, though) and do intermittent fasting. So far it works for me. My body took very well to time restrictions as opposed to food restrictions.

YMMV.
As has internet privacy. Any social site keeping EXIF intact will pay big in their bug bounty to hear about it because that's a GDPR nightmare
These, and/or lack of deep integration with platform's UI features (e.g. keyboard shortcuts), and/or UI occasionally blanking out with 404 or 500 page because of networking problems.

Yes, you can usually tell webapps from native apps apart pretty quickly.
Do you have an example?

If you're at the point where you're downloading software that isn't in the repo, and their packages don't create a shortcut, then you're at the level where you can figure out how to do it yourself.
The "black swan" story always struck me as ridiculous in confusing a phrase informally indicating rarity with a scientific belief that something doesn't exist or can't happen.
Thanks for suggesting this, I just downloaded VCV rack and its really cool!
Anyone knows an open source Backup Client that runs on Windows and that support SFTP?
How about addressing the cause instead of focusing on the cure? After WWII they adopted a view of masculinity as toxic. And women have a big part on this phenomenon.

> In a 2011 poll of Japanese boys aged between 16 and 19, 36% said they were not interested in having sex;
> the figure for girls in the same age group was at 59%.

https://blogs.wsj.com/japanrealtime/2011/01/13/no-sex-please...
There is some truth in this, but what happens next? Some other lawsuit for a smaller mark will rightfully complain how the burden of proof for bigcorps is now lower than for them. Where do you draw the line?
My first thought is "why don't you keep a backup?" I really don't know what the moral of this story is beyond "don't keep one copy of all your data, especially in the same physical location."

Online storage is cheap. Bandwidth is cheap. There's a multitude of solutions in the comments if a consumer solution like Dropbox or Google Drive isn't good enough for you.
Rural and sub urban areas can be way more isolating. I don't think it's a city phenomenon.
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I had the same issue. Being able to recognise it's a problem is already a big achievement, acting on it only follows naturally once you've realised how much time you waste.

For social networks, I blocked them at the DNS level in /etc/hosts (along with other annoyances) [1].
I've had the muscle memory to CMD+T , 'F', Enter for a few weeks after quitting cold turkey, but seeing the "Could not connect to host" message on the browser reminded me of why I did that.

A few months down the line, I don't regret my choice. Sure it's harder to keep up with friends, but it's a small step in making them realise what a social hazard those platforms are.

[1] https://gist.github.com/franky47/6835b4a7ca5c072e4b75efa08bc...
People do less and less chilidren in the western world, and Africa's population to double to 2.4 billion by 2050.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianoc...
Obviously when humans designed the universe, we didn't use the metric system. We used English units, which is why the speed of light is 1 foot per nanosecond!

(Actually that's a _really_ close approximation and very helpful in reasoning about special relativity).
>Apple’s Compression (is it still alive?)

Yes. Why wouldn't it be?
> sell it piecemeal with a social media profile

Isn't eBay basically a social media profile? Facebook selling groups are also scam hotbeds, I don't see how that works any better.
Because manufacturers don't typically have their own fulfillment infrastructure for retail-sized orders?

What you're proposing with somebody buying a bulk order and divvying it up is basically describing what the existing retailers do. The reputable ones are worrying about their reputations.

Retailers that aren't big enough to do this themselves go through suppliers, who in turn handle breaking a bulk order down into units to sell to smaller retailers. Those suppliers are worried about their reputations too, you just don't see that because you largely don't see them.

(Edited to clarify)
Thought experiment is the right term for it. It applies equally to a brain if you think that the chemical and electrical processes in the brain are identical to understanding. Searle believes that consciousness is a fundamental fact.
>we don't need Apple to fix that, we can fix it on our own once the first problem is addressed.

AOSP has been around for 10 years. People choose the Android model every day, and it droves higher than they choose the iOS model.
As a parent you go through a period of time - when your kid is young - that you take photos and videos of EVERYTHING that they do. Its silly now that i look back. Certainly it is important to capture moments, but to over-document everything is silly...now i take minimal photos/videos, and just be present in the moment. Oh, and my data accumulation has precipitously gone down since i've mellowed out. But, yeah family photos/videos adds up like crazy.
True and not true. Facebook, YouTube and Twitter make their money from advertisements. Netflix gets paid directly by the consumer. It's not obvious to me that it's in Netflix best interest to optimize the same metric as companies that rely on advertising revenue. If Twitter was paid, I'd already unsubscribed several times because I occasionally will try to "get off Twitter". It's a wasteful, unproductive time sink that makes unhappy in top of it. That's why I uninstalled the Twitter app. Now Twitter on occasion pulls me back in because I can just go to their website.
Netflix to me is a totally different beast. I feel many interactions I have with the platform are feeling more like a time sink. The interface feels increasingly optimize for wasting my time. It gets harder to distinguish shows I've already looked at from ones I haven't. They suggestions are more unreliable than ever. It's downright impossible now to decide at what point the obviously is nothing left on the platform I want to watch. In addition to the UI more and more of their content feels like generic, insightful material to keep you got to the screen. Not sure when that changed. I think it happened in tandem with Netflix being less about movies and more about tv shows. Not to mention the DVD to streaming move.

The more Netflix wastes my time like Twitter or YouTube the more likely I am to clean it from my life. Those services do not spark joy they just waste my limited time. No real reason Netflix cannot do better than them and treat me with dignity and respect, like a real customer and not like the product because in fact I'm not their product.
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