skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"I fail to see how asking to choose a specific geometric figure out of four can be culturally biased"

I think a lot of newcomers from very poor countries may not be exposed to some things as often, they might not be thinking about shapes and geometry in the same way - more importantly, the notion of tests and test taking.

Solving little abstract problems in a test format as we understand them ... I think is something that's only normalized in certain countries.

I think there's enough potential variance in those things to make a difference.

It's not like people can't grasp what a 3D cube is ... but some cultures just may have that much more exposure to things, more familiarity. Enough to move the needle.

I went to a French immersion school as a kid, in an English city. I studied mostly in French for most of the day until high school. When they did some kinds of testing, there were 'word tests' which depended on some degree of vocabulary.

Though my peers were basically 'a cut above' in almost everything (French immersion was basically public school's version of private school) ... we did noticeably more poorly on that test, granted the lexical nature of it makes 'cultural bias' more obvious.

I think it's 'a thing' though maybe a small thing.
IIRC, the off gassing from carpet that most of us recognize as 'new suburban home smell' takes 10 points off of a kid's IQ.
I've worked on a couple large Web-involved projects that would not have been viable, had they not used a Lisp (one Scheme, one CL). (The Scheme one, some advanced ancient astronaut before me had single-handedly made an architecture that did every complicated thing needed, and I'd say wouldn't have been viable to do in a non-Lisp.)

It's easier in the last few years to see why startups aren't using a Lisp, despite PG's early advocacy of that -- they want a very polished-looking Web/app frontend, and everyone is pushing you to buy into their frameworks and SDKs for that.

But I'd still like to see some students who played with Racket/Scheme/CL in college spin out to do a startup with a Lisp for prototyping/beta, and once they have real funding (when they should probably be rewriting prototype code in any case, or even pivoting) decide whether to keep going with a Lisp. (If they keep going with a Lisp, a bonus is that they have special access to a disproportionately high-skilled labor pool, like in other niches that attract nerdy enthusiasts.)
> I'm guessing you're in India?

Yes. No one else uses the phrase "joining a company as a fresher" .
No because I'm also making the argument that the browser is not much less secure than the other JS platforms.
I feel like IQ testing is kind of junk science anyways. Depending on which questions I get, my mood, mental sharpness on that say and such, Ive scored in the top couple percentile a few times, but i don't think its indicative of anything aside from i'm good at taking that kind of test.
Just ordered a 2015 MBP from the Apple Store, they're still out there!
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The thousand little things seem to be experienced on your end. That this makes you condemn an author for his choice of headlines - when you've said nothing about the substance of an article - makes it seem like you have no guy-group to hang with. Get one! It'll clear up the perspective the guy's coming from.
We aren't using Tanker, but it is possible to do this securely: https://www.cyph.com/websign
Because if I had responded to everything you had said, I would have had to have written an essay.

About 100 years ago, minimum wage used to be a socialist concept. Now, all parties in America support the minimum wage. The only debate is whether it should go up or stay the same. Your view on minimum wage and absolute deregulation is so radical that only the anarchist party is likely to share your views. I swear, some people just want to see the world burn.

The economics term you are searching for is probably a “deadweight loss”. In theory, when a $1/pack tax is introduced on cigarettes, there is a decrease in the volume of cigarettes packs sold. That volume reduction numeric value is the deadweight loss. In practice, cigarettes are an “inelastic” good and nicotine addicts keep buying packs to support their nicotine addiction even when the price goes up by a dollar. Thus, the deadweight loss on cigarettes is much lower than with usual goods.

Regulation does not delete a market. Just because we have printed nutrition facts and safety checks on almost all of our foods does not mean people have stopped selling food and people have stopped buying food. Just because drivers must stop at stop signs doesn’t mean people have stopped driving. Just because banks are required to only safeguard 10% or more of their account holder’s balance doesn’t mean banks are unprofitable and have ceased to exist. These all just mean the equilibrium has shifted in some amount in some direction and the market has established a new equilibrium.
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Some of them would be virtually impossible to build with Lego, as they rely upon machining just not really available in the Lego space (unless there's a wizard of Lego out there that could fashion such parts using certain strange Lego parts from certain sets, like the Bionicle series and such).

But a lot of the more basic mechanical movements could be easily constructed; those with simple pulleys, gears, levers, etc.

So you might not be able to construct all of them, but you probably could construct a great many.
Just "client side encryption", don't mention or even explicitly disavow "end-to-end" claims.
Chrome does not
Corporate officers are able to enter contracts, sue people, etc, as themselves. Not as the company, which is a separate person from themselves. When you buy a product from Apple and they refuse to respect their warranty, you don't sue Tim Cook, you sue Apple. You can only do that because Apple is incorporated.

>you have the argument about taxing the citizens of other countries
I just got a certified refurbished one from the Apple Store.
> Apple adopted our suggestion and added random noise to the ADC outputs

It will not stop Kalman filter

Just axe it away Apple
Agreed. Documentation is hard in all languages though, and it usually gets fixed slowly over time as langs mature.

If you had dependency problems you were likely using bower (where dependencies are "resolved", and this leads to broken states in some cases). You might want to try a "package set" approach instead - i.e. there's a curated set of library versions that are known to work together, so "dependency problems" become impossible for users: https://github.com/spacchetti/spago
I have such a hard time taking him seriously, he comes off as a salesman. His video titles are so click-baity they'd make Buzzfeed blush. And I can't trust that he's putting correct information over pumping out new videos with eye-catching claims. Are there really 2 episodes per week worth of useful training information to share? I don't know that he's necessarily wrong about much (he's probably better informed than many other youtubers, whatever that says), but he just feels slimy. Why do people trust him?
I'm surprised how many people here don't understand the inherit biases IQ tests have.

In order for something to test intelligence you shouldn't be able to improve your score by learning, practicing, or studying. Scores should be reproducible. I've yet to see an IQ test that didn't test skills you could improve by practicing.

They also assume knowledge. For example, the IQ test I had when I was young included word comparisons. This tested vocabulary more than intelligence. Someone who didn't have a formal education or didn't know English well would score lower regardless of their intelligence.

IQ is not highly regarded in psychology. It's more reliable than garbage like Meyers-Briggs but is not a true test of intelligence.
And it was a hell of a fight to even get _those_.

Alliant Credit Union, for example, only just rolled out SMS-based 2FA in the past ~year. No TOTP/U2F/FIDO* options at all (in fact, according to https://dongleauth.info/, exactly zero major banks/CUs in North America support anything better than SMS or TOTP).

When I can lock my GitHub account more securely than my _money_, it's a bit (read: lot) depressing.
Maybe for an individual, but do large cohorts have "moods"? Even if IQ tests only a narrow aspect of human intelligence, it's still something.
Plato tells us this is why Socrates eschewed writing. He considered the written word a crutch and just like walking with crutches all the time would atrophy your legs, writing atrophies the memory.
That argument is also quite faulty, but I'm only engaging with the other argument you made.
It depends on what you're trying to do.

A language without strong types might make tooling more difficult, not catch certain errors at compile time, make refactoring harder, and make working in teams harder. Or it might have little impact on you.

A language without a GC will be more complicated for certain tasks as now you have to manage the memory. It's harder for beginners, and doesnt make sense in many environments. Then again a lack of GC may be necessary if you do embedded work.

A language might let you write in one line of code, while another would take 20 lines for it. Is that more expressive? Maybe it's harder to maintain?

Do you like white space? Maybe you do, maybe you don't.

Many interpreted languages are slower then their native counter parts. Then again if your application doesn't need much compute performance, maybe it's worth it? Or maybe not.

It's all pros and cons. You don't want to make a "hello web!" web application In assembly when ruby/python/etc can do it in a few easy to read and understand lines.
Advertisers are not complaining - they can vote with their money. It's the publishers that are hit by making ads harder. Without allowing publishers to monetize, content will move behind paywalls or closed ecosystems (as opposed to open web) that do make ads easier. Also, over time, browsers that make it impossible to monetize will likely to be banned by publishers - this already started to happen, with some publishers not allowing incognito mode, etc.
You mean like this, right?

class A {};
class A<T> : A {};

I don't mind that. It can even be an aid to organization - all the generic stuff goes in the generic class, all the stuff that doesn't rely on that can go in the base class. But it would be nice to use something like <?>. Too bad generics don't inherit implicit casts, like A<int> to A<object>.
Well, there are well-known cases where companies have explicitly decided that money is more important than safety (see eg. [1][2][3]). As long as it's cheaper to pay damages than fix defective designs, corporations have gladly let people get maimed or die. The reason why astronomical punitive damages became a thing in the US.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liebeck_v._McDonald%27s_Restau...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mcgee_v._General_Motors_Corp.

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grimshaw_v._Ford_Motor_Co.
Is it possible that the IQ decline has to do with a reduction in sampling bias?

In previous decades the group of people taking IQ tests might have belonged to a resource rich group.

Now that IQ tests are more commonplace, we might finally be getting more signal from the below median side of the bell curve.

The article didn't mention if these biases were accounted for, and it is a critical detail to leave out.
They should, but they won't. Apple's whole "It Just Works" pitch is predicated on them controlling the entire stack. The browser is such an important layer of that stack these days that if they yielded that layer to third parties it'd inevitably lead to cases where some popular third party browser didn't work right with some sites or some other elements of Apple's stack. Which they don't want, because it undermines their entire strategic raison d'être.
More developers are coding in Windows than any other operating system -- almost more than Mac and Linux combined. The Hacker News filter bubble might lead us to believe otherwise.

https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2019#technology-_-...

Windows
47.5%

MacOS
26.8%

Linux-based
25.6%

BSD
0.1%

87,851 responses

(The Stack Overflow survey is a poor representation of the entire development community, but it's worth something, maybe the best we have.)
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The company you joined -- it's BrighterBrain, isn't it? This is not common practice in the USA or Europe, but BrighterBrain (f.k.a. Unbounded Solutions) is one of the few outfits scummy enough to try to get away with it. Ditch those scumbags at your first opportunity. Even if it's not BrighterBrain, you're working for scum.
Zip code is also a very good predictor of success in life. IQ could be a great predictor, but that still doesn't mean it's measuring what we think it's measuring.
I had to take an IQ test as part of my adhd diagnosis. I was asked about sherlock holmes, I have never read sherlock holmes, I haven't seen the series, and I mentioned that when the test administrator asked me questions related to it.
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> Is anyone else extremely reluctant to fly on a Boeing plane after this?

Well, 737 MAX and 787, for me. The 777 is rock solid, as far as I can tell - and it was designed before the significant changes at Boeing and FAA.
This is why I love production work (food, manufacturing), no analysis paralysis ever.
Here's a wrapper for express: https://github.com/nkly/purescript-express

Examples: https://github.com/nkly/purescript-express/tree/master/examp...
IQ tests just seem to be a scale of how quickly one can get boerd of something, and stop trying.
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There was a case in Maryland about this a few years ago that blew up into a big deal [1]

> Back in December, Rafi and Dvora made national headlines when police picked them up as they walked home from a local park. The children’s parents, Danielle and Alexander Meitiv, subscribe to the philosophy of “free-range” parenting, which holds that children develop self-reliance by exploring their neighborhoods or riding public transportation on their own, if their parents judge them ready. [...] After the first incident, Montgomery County Child Protective Services investigated and found the senior Meitivs responsible for “unsubstantiated neglect.”

> A few states have laws stipulating the minimum age when a child can be left home alone. In Illinois it is 14, in Maryland, eight, and in Oregon, 10. Maryland’s law further stipulates that a young child left in the care of a person under 13 is “unattended.” Many more states offer home-alone guidelines, which vary as widely as the laws do (age six in Kansas, age 12 in Mississippi). [...] In most cases, whether such home-alone rules extend to outdoor spaces is something lawyers could argue either way.

[1] https://www.citylab.com/equity/2015/04/the-murky-law-on-free...
I like your writing style, clear and concise. Your NN posts would have been super helpful when I was taking an Intro AI course.
> This wouldn't be mentioned by Bill Gates “If you think
> you’re a really good programmer… read Art of Computer
> Programming… You should definitely send me a résumé if you
> can read the whole thing.”

I don't think Bill meant it seriously....he never responded when I sent him my resume 20 years ago :-)
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>Obviously not, so if Facebook is not in violation of anti-discrimination laws then why can't they ban people?

You should be able to guess what my answer will be here. They should not be allowed to ban people on the basis of their political speech because a large portion of the public political debate currently occurs on Facebook, and people lacking the ability to meaningfully participate in the public political debate is a precursor to real world violence, the avoidance of which is more important than Facebook's private property rights.

>that doesn't mean that the logical mechanics of property rights are completely obliterated

Telling Facebook they can't ban people on the basis of their political speech is not an obliteration of Facebook's property rights.

>they're just utterly unimportant and not something society should care to ensure is available to the masses.

I'm not sure what you mean by unimportant. Do you mean to claim that peoples' opinions cannot be influenced by them? If Facebook allows memes from one side of the political debate, but bans memes from the other side, do you believe that would have no influence on e.g. the outcome of elections?

>There is nothing important about political discussion on Facebook

Are you suggesting that what takes place on Facebook has no ability to influence e.g. the outcome of elections? Why then do politicians invest resources there?

>What does that prove except that people use Facebook?

It proves that Facebook is currently a place where people are influenced by political content.

>nobody is harmed by not being able to participate in triviality

That's absurd on its face. Losing access to Facebook results in losing access to a massive audience, which results in harm to people whose livelihood depends on access to the audience there, such as political commentators that rely on individual donations, e.g. Alex Jones. More broadly, given the obvious fact that political speech is one way in which people advocate for their interests, taking away their ability to meaningfully participate in the political debate reduces their ability to advocate for their interests.

>or to file a petition and gather signatures

If Facebook banned all links to your petition, would that not have a substantial effect on your ability to gather signatures?

>lacking access to Facebook is absolutely not even close to the same as lacking access to "the public political conversation"

Lacking access to Facebook quite obviously reduces a person's ability to meaningfully participate in the public political conversation.

>but the political discussions on Facebook are wholly unimportant

What exactly do you mean by "unimportant"? Tens and tens of millions of people are exposed to political ideas on Facebook, compared to the virtually none that sit in on city council meetings or contact their representatives, and the low numbers of millions soaking up the output of any given corporate media outlet. Do you think that is "unimportant"?
I had this exact same question and couldn't find much out there.

Based on what I have seen ReasonML is being pushed more within the React community and has more of a JS syntax so there is less of an abrupt change in terms of language.

PureScript follows the Haskell syntax that I personally like more and find cleaner and more useful for FP programming.

The ReasonML code I've seen doesn't have as much computer science rigor or abstractions like monads. This means the ReasonML community generally works at a lower level of abstraction compared to the PureScript crowd.

The interop with JS looks a cleaner in PS.

The tooling looks better around ReasonML especially around fast compilation and automatic reloading.

PureScript has a richer type system.

Personally, I would rather use PS but I've studied Haskell a bit already. For people without the Haskell background ReasonML provides an easier transition so it is an easier sell for a team.
MCAS relied on a single AoA sensor for a plane that holds 300 people. Military cargo planes a tenth the capacity have three of them. Boeing's design philosophy is terrifying.
Running shoes are a bad fit for it because they both alter the mechanics of the lift by raising your heels above the toes (which is why you shouldn't deadlift in oly weightlifting shoes with thick heels either) and use amortizing cushioning that compromises your stability. You are better off using something with a thin flat sole (think chuck taylors) or just taking off your shoes.
Haven't seen a single comment defending Boeing.
The US are indeed only trying to delay the inevitable.

It's also a watershed moment for China (and the world) that the US will not hesitate to weaponise the overwhelming technological power they yield.

Clearly no country can accept this situation so I'm guessing that the issue has gone at the top of priorities for China and that the policy in government is now to remedy this whatever it takes and whatever it costs.
The emphasis on short-term shareholder value is a relatively recent trend in business culture and specifically American business culture. It's not intrinsic to the concept of the firm. However, it has become deeply entrenched not only in our business culture but also our political culture, so it would be quite difficult to extirpate.
What's the deal with the sketchy "PDF viewer" that they tried to force Chrome users to install? This is an example where a site actually worked better in Firefox and Edge.
Germany has a population of 80 million people. The largest US state is California with 40 million people.
So single rain drop believes it is to blame for the flood.
PureScript is heavily influenced by Haskell with a focus on purity, monads and lots of abstraction, while Reason is literally OCaml (which has a more pragmatic take on mutability) only they switched the ML syntax for a JS-like syntax.
I had the same message a few days ago. I have family premium, so, I checked the family invites, and, there were 3 unknown invites that I hadn’t seen before (they hadn’t accepted them yet though). It seems odd that I wouldn’t get an email saying that a family invite was sent out.
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That's unfortunate. You missed out on an interesting article.
Do you know how/why it is such a hard problem?

I assume you have:

* Browser data (UAS, screen size, network speed, localStorage)

* IP data (therefore some proxy of geographic data)

* Third party data (eg. Google Analytics demographic data)

* Odd click patterns (eg. from the same IP, bursts within a short window)

* Finally you can see who is benefiting from the clicks (eg. certain publishers) and suspend their account

I feel like all this data would generate a substantial click "footprint" that you could run through an ML model. At worst, these third-party advertising companies can suspend whoever is benefiting from the clicks if they gather enough suspicious evidence.
My recommended CPU for learning assembler is the 6502 (no surprise there), given its small, simple instruction set and very little in the way of "distraction". I do admit the Apple II series is probably a better learning platform than the VIC-20 or Commodore 64, given the built-in monitor and the published ROM source code.
The whitelist model doesn't require that you prove something is safe in all conceivable circumstances present and future before whitelisting it.

It just means you test the common and the reasonably predictable cases first, and compare to other products in the same category if any, so that you can be reasonably confident in it before approving.
Can you explain why it is faulty?