skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So I agree with you about SAT <-> IQ, and IQ <-> SES. However...

IQ isn't the only correlate of success. I think if you look at it all, there's a large dose of conscientiousness (which standardized testing companies are now going after), and attractiveness/charisma...

... but that's on the individual side of things. There's also a whole host of societal and random stuff that is outside the control of the individual, or maybe is significant to a person, but that studies tend to treat as irrelevant.

Also, saying that the SAT is useful as a selection device doesn't mean it's the only useful selection device, or that as a selection device it's very good. Offhand I don't remember the numbers, but standardized test score probably correlates .45 or so with first-year college grades? Think about that for a second. First, that's a ton of noise. That's not very predictive at all. Second, that's first-year college grades. Change the criterion but it's still the same: your best tool really is a pretty fuzzy predictor.

So now take this very fuzzy predictor, add some other fuzzy predictors that at best get things up to like maybe .6 correlation? Still fuzzy. Now you're going to be really selective on these things? What you're going to end up with is a lot of people who would have done as well but for whom the stars didn't align right at a particular period in their life. But now we as a society have this crazy income inequality, rent-seeking monopolies of all forms, and a general winner-takes all climate, so these small meaningless differences get amplified tenfold.

The conversations about this too have this kind of all-or-nothing quality, like you're forced to choose between "standardized tests are meaningless" or "standardized tests are valid predictors for a large portion of people so we need to treat them as infallible predictors for everyone." The truth is really much greyer than these positions: yes they predict, but they predict pretty weakly, all things considered, and generally for people who fit into a certain box. This all might be fine, except now we've structured our society in part around these oversimplified assumptions, pretending it works when it doesn't really. It might be ok when there's lots of second chances, lots of opportunities for people to get back on their feet from the vagaries of life, and good opportunities in general for everyone, but when resources gets hoarded by fewer and fewer, there's more noise, that's compounded by people gaming the system, etc. etc. etc.

Just as a thought exercise: what do most human traits look like in terms of distribution? They're pretty normal, pretty Gaussian. What does income look like? Not that, not at all. The discrepancy between them should be shocking to everyone.
Yeah 3dsecure is a pretty big hit to conversion rates.

It kind of stinks being a vendor. Stripe charges extra for certain security pre-cautions but it doesn't do a great job at protecting against fraud on its own, where as 3dsecure does do a great job but it kills conversion rates since it's something a consumer will see.

In the end, it's the seller that ends up having to pay the price. Either through fees for disputes (which are very expensive, it's $15 per dispute) or having to pay for extra passive services, or lowering conversion rates with 3dsecure or requesting a ton of info to help reduce fraud (full address, etc.) for a digital product that won't be shipped anywhere. That raises suspicion from the consumer and it's a lot more fields to fill out -- plus it's not a sure fire way to prevent fraud.
Yes, I'm pretty sure. Google has been explicit about that fact. I'd also argue they've been somewhat disingenuous by only focusing on organics and ignoring the carousal though.

As for their metrics on page speed, they've had objective measurements for some time. Lighthouse is their go-to solution now for measuring a website's speed.

As for AMP's ability to be pre-fetched and rendered, this benefit doesn't show in Lighthouse and only from search. For that reason I would bet it isn't included as a ranking factor either. But of course that's the "secret sauce", so we can only go off of their word.
I read "industry" as the "payment processing industry" not merchants.
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Border towns are very unsafe right now. I live in central Texas so it's not really bad, but I have family down on the border. There's a lot of home invasions down there right now. Their house has been broken into 3 times in the last 2 months.

I'm sure sitting wherever you are it's easy to dismiss this as mythical, but for people living down there, it's a real problem.

edit: downvoting doesn't make the problem go away.
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>You're overreading intent where there is little.

When I hear that "NATO will fight fake news" -- the same NATO that had been spreading fake news, carrying false flags, and even installing dictatorships and invading countries, for half a century, well, it's funny to me...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Gladio#Operations_in...

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

And so on...

It's like "There has been crime from this gang in your town, but now Vitto Corleone is coming to put an end to it".
What were you saying when you were 19 ?
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it landed in the sea.
First, we, as parents, have to learn to think critically ourselves. This is no easy task because, generally, nobody taught us that, and also because one needs some level of education and/or basic understanding of how the world works in general.

Then, start asking questions: can we trust the information we receive? Is it possible we receive a biased/incomplete/wrong information? Are we being manipulated? Who would benefit from supplying us with incorrect information? correct information? How can we verify the information?

Look at the history. What can we learn from historical events? Have we been lied to in the past? How did we learn that we've been lied to? Who benefitted?
Then summarize what you learned and write about it so other people can learn it too ... oh shit now you're a journalist
Well, certainly the country it landed in. It fell in the sea, so i guess it depends on nautical jurisdiction.
Nothing will stop someone who's disagreeable, assertive, non-conscientious AND given unchecked status from ignoring a step for capricious reasons.

But medical school is going to heavily select for conscientiousness (a personality trait that checklists work with), and also checklists are essentially another authority in the room.

So, yes, you could potentially have discussions over whether or not something has actually been done. But you aren't going to have discussions about whether it should be.
Thanks for sharing. Hadn’t ever read those novels (just sometimes see BBC remakes of the books).

While I don’t try to make people happy, I feel like I should put that on my business card :)
Cool! That looks like a great start :) I don't really do any l10n work myself so this was really just a bystanders perspective.
Stories are on the web (to view, not to publish)
There are many other ways to do heroin than on a busy pavement, next to your own pile of feces or in a state subsidized room. Addiction is terrible but it's not an excuse to mess up everything for others. Poster is not blaming substance use there.
I love stuff like this. It's not practical and likely breaks a lot of standards but I love it.
> A steadily growing number of fireballs are recorded at the American Meteor Society every year.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meteoroid#Fireball

It's not clear to me if this is because the frequency is actually increasing... maybe it has to do with an increase in the number of cameras, or growing awareness of the AMS website?
> But if the federal government is the one borrowing that money from itself (the Fed), it is much cheaper.

Then you're assuming that an entity that gets all the money it asks for at low interest rates is going to spend it efficiently and not have that cause price inflation. This is the opposite of what we see in practice when we e.g. subsidize student loans.

You're also then taking on all of the risk that the investors had been. You could pay millions of dollars and then lose it to anything from an act of terrorism to having bought a million dollar piece of equipment (or five thousand of them in five thousand hospitals) that then become obsolete overnight when someone releases a phone app that can replace it. But when that happens and you bonded against the government's credit, there is no filing bankruptcy to clear the debt, you still owe all the money even if what you bought with it is now worthless.
A few others have mentioned it, but this reminds me of shisa kanko, the pointing-and-calling system used in Japan.

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/pointing-and-calling-j...
It actually just updates window.location.hash instead, which does cause a flood of history entries (looks like just one per distinct animation state, though, at least in Chrome). See the "One Last Thing" section near the bottom of the article for the rationale. See the inline code snippets in the article, or view source for wavyurl.com to see the actual code used.
Likely they’ve just entered public consciousness in a new way after the Chelyabinsk event (which occurred six years ago).
For some people, I think it satisfies a human need to sort of brag about your knowledge.

For other people, it's simply a way to market their website/product by linking to their site when answering a question.
I'm probably an outlier, but I love open-office. I've worked in all the different environments over the last 25 years, single office, shared office, cubicle, remote and open office. Open office was weird at first, but I find it much more social. I don't get distracted by noise or movement so that could be a big factor, so I can code without any problems.

The least social for me was the single office. I would stay in there all day long and I would have privacy but I would literally not see anyone. The worst was a cubicle where it had none of the privacy (couldn't eat fish or fart or have private conversations) but you still have the lack of social interaction.
Hopefully, this will be handled in a better fashion in Europe than in India where online transactions dropped two digits after the changes were enforced.

For e-commerce platforms, refunding fraudulent charges is cheaper than a two-digit drop in transactions.
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There is also an excellent series (55 vids!) by Michel van Biezen on Kalman filters:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CaCcOwJPytQ
The link I provided does explain this, under the section “MIT and BSD don’t expect more contributors”, which reads in part:

“MIT and BSD terms include a space for a single copyright notice, because they were written for releases from academic institutions that own all the copyrights in their employees’ work. What about other contributors to the project? They hold copyright in their contributions.”

Apache 2.0 DOES address this issue in a complicated way, through the supplementary use of Contributor License Agreements. Other non-Apache projects like Fossil also require you to physically sign a CLA before contributing code to the project.

Blue Oak handles this in a more straightforward way, by explicitly saying that, as a condition of the license, every contributor in turn allows any use of their code that would otherwise infringe their copyright or patent claims. Who is a contributor? Anyone who contributes code. No CLA needed.
"Objective" testing in a country without safety nets, like the US, would enable (more) class discrimination. Here is a surprising example of that in France (where I observed that first hand) http://phdcomics.com/comics.php?n=1292
A fireball flying in from the north would scare the crap out of me if I lived near DC.
They tap into a very natural desire to help other customers to find information about products and express themselves at the same time.

Issue is.. it's low signal/noise ratio and can be gamed to death. But it makes customers spend time on their e-shelves anyway.
Time Sport in France have been doing this for road bikes for years (at least 10 years I think).

There's a video of them weaving forks somewhere but all I could find was this video a them weaving a tube.

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

Edit: Here you go. From 2008.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=66ffKebNPbs#action=share
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Congratulations, I read your comments on the Google Auto ML thread a few days ago with great interest.

If Auto ML has commercial value, why are you open-sourcing it?

I think it would be a bad idea to open-source your solution, unless you plan on competing on services, rather than an Auto ML product.
Heroin feels pretty great.
Ask HN: How to scale internet for 10B users?
The world population is growing, and newer generation are more and more on internet.

How do you envision an internet scaled for 10G users ?

Not in terms of technical scalability, load balancing, but in terms of organization: how to handle resources scarcity like usernames ? How to handle content moderarion ? Do you think federation can help (as it's like out human societies are organised) ?

Any idea ?
My impression of the IP lawyer is that they don't really understand the technical details, and are just worried about risk. There's a strong chance they just try to pay them off, while I worry that that attitude just makes you a target for more.

In terms of no record of litigation won, they claim they have been paid for use of this patent by some big names, so presumably some of those cases have been settled out of court, leaving no record of the result. Unless they've just made that up....
>point of impact

Atlantic ocean off of Deleware.
Doesn't this indicate some sort of malpractice in Scotland? I would think that forgetting important procedures leading to death is the definition of malpractice.
Might not be what you meant, but SuperCoco is an iOS app that teaches Spanish primarily through voice interactions.
Dobelli’s drivel is almost verbatim plagiarism of Taleb, by the way. And it’s published by “corporate media” as well.
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It happened to Steve Jobs even back in the 80s.
Horrible in the sense of being an obvious mismatch for how development happens on GitHub, which pretty much exists to make contributions easy across institutional boundaries. No one benefits from the choice of MIT as a GitHub default. It's a quagmire of legal confusion borne out of pure ignorance.
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> "The Checklist Manifesto" chose to overlook the studies about how transient the benefit of checklists is.

It's been almost a year now since I read this but I'm fairly certain Atul touched on this, either in this book or in his book "Better", that after those implementing the changes left, the departments often fell back into old habits.

Could this be the case?
This ensures that you know you're nothing more than a lineworker in a digital factory.

Open offices are the first half of that, and open desks are the other half.

Who does it benefit? The company in cost per person of space. Any other metric applied shows gross inadequacies of open offices.
It's a subset of HTML, built on WebComponents. The subset is defined by a separate standards board and built on web technologies.
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There's also probably a bunch of other junk down there to throw false positives. You'll make more selling the scrap metal you haul up than you will selling the meteorite (still won't be a money-maker though).
Why Taleb?

I hate that piece because most of what he's referring to has been dealt with for decades. It's like "narcissist who knows nothing about a field doesn't bother to learn anything about it and as a result takes down a strawman to make himself look good."
> but couldn't you just opt to not use AMP if you don't like it?

This is false. as a user I cannot easily opt out of using AMP
There is a Supreme Court ruling that IQ tests are assumed to unfairly disadvantage minority candidates. This was in the context of employment rather than college admissions, but I don't think anyone has been bold enough to test whether it applies.

Broadly speaking, IQ tests tend to include a lot of cultural assumptions and therefore members of the in-group will test higher than members of out-groups of the same aptitude. IQ tests are therefore treated as discriminatory (disproportionate impact) "by default." The administration of a particular test for a specific purpose can usually be OK'd by either showing that particular test is not discriminatory, or by showing that particular test has a measurable correlation to the specific purpose for which it's used. My understanding is that "specific purpose" in the employment context means the individual job description, not just hiring in general.
Some people can work even though they get interrupted and disturbed all day, others are very averse to being distracted and try to reach deep work or get in the zone. The problem with an open office is the first group.
Freakonomics Radio had Dr. Atul Gawande on a year ago (April 2018) and discussed medical checklists among other things.

http://freakonomics.com/podcast/atul-gawande/
That's terrifying. Thousands and thousands of lives have been lost simply because we were forgetting to do the right things? And we created a process to fix this in... 2019?
This paragraph from the article is odd:

‘Still, as gender transitioning becomes culturally mainstream, the desire of the revolutionary Stan (Eric Idle) to be a woman, to be called “Loretta” and to have babies, will strike a chord.’

In fact, actual the scene from the film will be highly offensive to anyone who has accepted the pro-trans dogma. “Loretta”’s companions point out to him the absurdity of his decision to “be” a woman, and Loretta’s comments could have been transcribed from the Twitter feed of any trans woman yesterday. They are kind to Loretta, and spend the rest of the film trying to treat him as he wants to be treated, and frequently apologizing when they forget. But there is never any doubt that this is the kindness of friends towards one who is just very confused.
Not sure why people don’t do checklists for everything. Professionally and personally.
However, it exacerbates other problems. As I mentioned in a sibling comment,
"Objective" testing in a country without safety nets, like the US, would enable (more) class discrimination. Here is a surprising example of that in France (where I observed that first hand) http://phdcomics.com/comics.php?n=1292
Having used Mathematica since 1993 I think I do know what I'm talking about :-)
I see the appeal and do it to some extent. However I haven't finalized on a system for it.

I've realized that there is quite a bit of overlap between some of my lists and have been thinking that I'd like it to be a modular system. A checklist consists of a any number of items and sublists so that one can quickly combine them.

For instance, travel might optionally include the sublist abroad and/or skiing or summer. A work-related trip might add another set of items etc.

I bet there are apps for this and I think I found a few when looking, but I'm afraid of the managing overhead and would like access to it on my phone and computers without cloud bloat. Maybe git + vim-wiki or something is good enough (would also work well enough on an android phone with termux).
maybe contrails don't exist because they are all chemtrails?
Does most of the continent "drain?" My understanding was that most/much of the ice is not glacial.. which I understood as not moving.
American politicians can't get elected without citing arbitrary deities in their speeches either.
The endless debate on nutrition is exactly because effect sizes and latency are too small and too large, respectively, to easily establish causality. Without relying on the corrupt narrative by big corporate media, you’d be happily ingesting lead and blaming evil spirits for the inability of your children to do arithmetic.
How does FireVault work with Google cloud ?.
I have a google cloud folder which is synced with my local drive.
Now if I enable Firevault, it will encrypt all the data... but im not sure what will happen to the Google Drive folder on mac.
How will google drive manage my encryption then.
A friend of mine likes to point out that only in programming would two people working together earn itself the moniker of 'extreme programming'.
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Modularity; Software Engineering problems :)
Well, there's also Instagram Stories, which is Snapchat with better UX and not resorting to stupid technical workarounds like doing screenshots of camera apps
I bet he cries himself to sleep at night on a pillowcase stuffed with cash.

I mean, yeah, it's a nasty feeling. But there were compensatory factors.
I'm a little disturbed that you trust the national inquirer more than, say, the Associated Press or Reuters. You can still ask why is a particular point of view being presented while absorbing the facts, which many publications still very much take seriously, bias or no.

It's also interesting that you lump collusion in with WMDs even though we don't have the full story on at least one of those topics. I feel like you've drawn a conclusion on it, but if not for the media, where are you informing your world view on the matter?
> I've also read it, for anyone thinking about buying it,

Or perhaps see if your local library has it.

I've reduced my book purchases, and generally only consider buying something nowadays if I still enjoy it after the second/third reading (from the library).
Agreed, sometimes it's nice to take a break from all the serious development and do something fun.
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I assume that all of those break ins have been due to immigrants, which you know for a fact? And do you think this is because the people who commit the crime are "bad hombres" or desperate?
If you're already using Chrome you likely don't care much about free software, but to address your specific complaints I would recommend GNU Icecat! It strips out some things like pocket, has some about:config tweaks out of the box with privacy in mind, etc. I will give the unfortunate tip that you should probably disable librejs which comes with it out of the box. I am not against its goal, but it breaks so much stuff. I also use umatrix and ublock origin so I already am often clicking around to unbreak a page. I didn't deal well with adding librejs on top of that. That said, if I made my own website, I'd strive for librejs compatibility for sure.
I disagree with the opinions of this comment, but I'm glad you made your opinion and your experience heard. Even when for most people an open office works worse, for some people it is preferable

new people: please don't down vote people just because you disagree.
I absolutely detest open offices but what' with downvoting disagreeing opinions? This comment was gray when I typed this comment
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I think it also crashed LittleSnitch
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukraine#Euromaidan_and_2014_re...

> However, Members of Parliament voted on 22 February to remove the president and set an election for 25 May to select his replacement.

That's not a coup.

> Petro Poroshenko, running on a pro-European Union platform, won with over fifty percent of the vote, therefore not requiring a run-off election.

That is also not a coup.
This is an insightful perspective.