skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's like the idea of planting a bamboo plant, then jumping over it every day. It's a nice idea, but you won't ever be able to jump over a two story house. Instead, you'll eventually catch your foot and tumble. Likewise with the minefield. The result, is that you'll eventually step on a mine. At best, you can use a simulated minefield as an exercise, then use mine detection equipment and proceed with caution.

Or, you can avoid the minefield entirely.
Difficult to find hip-hop devoid of profanity, violence, lewdness, misogyny, or drug use (primarily marijuana, which was actively prosecuted back then).
I am going out of a limb and say that there is a chance that immigration is a factor as well.

Pre 1990, the immigration in Europe was very limited, and after the fall of Communism there have been large immigration movements within Europe, and now from outside it.

Two main reasons immigrants could cause IQ changes:

1. Genetic variation (you are actually not measuring the same population in the 80s, and the 2000's). eg, Denmark's minority/immigrant population has changed a lot since the 80s, going from 3% to almost 12% today. That could be affecting the score. You are not measuring just Danes, but 88% Danes, 8% Turkish, and 4% others.....

2. Lots of immigrants came either for economic reasons, or actually from WAR (Yugoslav wars in the 90s). Early child trauma, lack of nutrition, and the difficulties of restarting life somewhere could affect IQ scores, as we know environment, especially in early childhood could affect the score

If these measurements are coming from the Army, but they are not actually differentiating from first/second gen immigrants and original Danes, and then they are not really indicating that the local (original) population is having a decrease of IQ. Mostly than the newcomers have slightly lower IQs.

Since Denmark was mentioned in the article, here is a chart of their immigrant population change over time, and it is pretty drastic. From a homogeneous population to a more diverse one:

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Emil_O_W_Kirkegaard/pub...
On the flip side, this makes identifying and blocking ads super easy.
"The rig consists of a triangular sail set aft of the mast with its head raised to the top of the mast; its luff runs down the mast and is normally attached to it for its entire length; its tack is attached at the base of the mast; its foot (in modern versions of the rig) controlled by a boom; and its clew attached to the aft end of the boom, which is controlled by its sheet."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bermuda_rig
Thanks! We'll get that fixed tonight.
It came from the post above.
US bans will only serve to motivate the Chinese to work harder to develop its own independent technology ecosystem. It is painful today and tomorrow but it will be a boon for the Chinese in the long run. By looking at the long history or rising power vs established power, established powers always try to sabotage rising powers in order to maintain their status as long as possible. Eventually, rising powers will succeed. It has happened with the UK overtaking the Spaniards, the US overtaking the UK, the Germans overtaking the British before WWI. The US is desperate to delay the painful process.
Uprated because you gave lots of specific examples. Too many conversations get vague fast.
Otoh: ads do serve a purpose. Lots of ads equals low quality content in my experience. The more aggressive the ads, the worse the content. It's like websites are self-reporting their spamminess.
Dwarf – Full featured multi arch/os debugger built on top of PyQt5 and frida
Well, ad-tracking is a little different than "targeting," but a lot of data collection exists theoretically so that ads can be targeted more effectively, which then theoretically supports free services.

But, there's little evidence that targeted ads are more effective than normal ads based on rough guesses (e.g., The Verge is largely read by tech-savvy young and middle-aged men and you don't need tracking to figure that out). Their marginal increase in effectiveness is probably outweighed by the cost of administering them, not to mention to social cost of privacy erosion.

The sooner the tech industry stops pretending that ad targeting is anything other than a scam to trick advertisers, the better.
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Right; and I suspect this would explain the reason this affected more developed countries as they would have a higher percentage of people in urban areas with high localized CO2 levels even outdoors (e.g. breathing car exhaust while walking in Manhattan or sitting in traffic).

It also stands to reason that higher global CO2 levels would have some sort of correlation to higher indoor CO2 levels. What’s really scary about this is that if such a cognitive effect were to be true, it would ultimately impact our ability to address the problem.

But you’re right, no need to sound the alarm bells yet but I think this is something that needs to be looked into.
American newspapers are blatantly nationalist. It is very hard to point to problems in their companies. Obesity problems? Nestle is is the villain: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/09/16/health/brazil...

Environment accident with an American oil company? They are victims from a foreign gov: https://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/19/business/energy-environme...

Antivirus malicious companies? It's always Kaspersky problem:
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/01/technology/kaspersky-lab-...
EU Security Official Calls for Loopholes in 5G Standards
> Then browsers can start more aggressively blocking trackers.

Will browsers be able to? Are vendors encouraged to do so?
Being Black in Nazi Germany
F# with Giraffe is super simple to get up and running and it fits into the rest or the ASP.NET Core ecosystem
Furthermore, it misses that we might be somewhere better than here had we not had ads. (I'm not saying it's a foregone conclusion, just one of many possibilities not mentioned.)
I think even more so than Boeing itself, people's confidence in the FAA has been completely shattered. Personally I'm not going to take their word anymore for the safety of the planes I fly on; I'll be looking at the EASA's rulings.
https://medium.com/incerto/iq-is-largely-a-pseudoscientific-...
Downvotes should always be anonymous
httpa://discuss.getsol.us/d/1184-disabling-kernel-modules-preventing-them-from-loading/
Why isn't this just called "compressed pages"? Software-defined far memory isn't really needed, is it?
Retrofitting older buildings is a fantastic idea that isn't terribly expensive in the grand scheme of things.
Ministers Call for Scottish Police to Delay Rollout of Phone-Hacking Tech
I don't know if the NYT actually does publish more negative articles about Deutsche Bank than other banks. But if what you're perceiving matches reality, I would assume it is for the following two reasons:

1. Deutsche Bank facilitated a basket option trading strategy used by Renaissance Technologies, which has since earned the latter an investigation from the IRS for aggressive tax avoidance. RenTech is (unfortunately) synonymous with Robert Mercer's political activity in the eyes of many because he was a major partner and CEO of the hedge fund before he stepped down last year. This leads to my second point.

2. Deutsche Bank is (separately from RenTech) involved with Donald Trump in a number of real estate dealings, which other commenters have already cited. Regardless of your personal stance on the president, the NYT is going to spend time investigating any areas of financial misconduct it can find which may be directly or indirectly related to the president.
That is one way of writing programs. Python is very OO friendly. If any of the main features of OO make your code more maintainable; inheritance, polymorphism, encapsulation, overloading, then use those. Passing around a dict is an object, but it's often nice to keep methods for interacting with that object along with the data (for reasons mentioned above).
I was replying to this:

> IMO this counts as a kind of out-of-band arrangement because it doesn't involve using one of the normal return values to signal error.

My point is that if you're returning an algebraic data type Result that encodes Ok(val) or NotOk(_), you are using one of the normal return values, because the function always returns a Result. The whole purpose of the construct seems to me to be bringing the error case handling into band.
It (well, OmniSharp) is 95%. The 5% can be pretty frustrating (such as the lack of override autocomplete).
I feel like you'd have to content with test reliability, correlation with other measures of intelligence, and the general multi-decade upward trend (not specific to 1970s, the Flynn effect).

It's possible there is something to this.
> We know there are users who want this because loads of people complain about paywalls.

That's a false dichotomy. "Users don't like paywalls, so they must like ads"...no, users don't like paywalls and also don't like ads.

(We can skip the whole "then how will content be paid for" argument that's been had thousands of times. There are plenty of solutions that aren't paywalls or ads.)
Strongly agree. Go feels great to write. I hesitate when designing a new project in C++ because I need to figure out the right / clever way to implement something. Go feels a lot more straight forward where I can just write it in the one way it's designed to allow. It gets me writing code a lot faster than other languages.
Wondered about that as well, but another article, linked in the original one, mentions the original study dismisses that hypothesis, since it happens between members of the same family :

https://www.sciencealert.com/iq-scores-falling-in-worrying-r...

"In the new study, the researchers observed IQ drops occurring within actual families, between brothers and sons – meaning the effect likely isn't due to shifting demographic factors as some have suggested, such as the dysgenic accumulation of disadvantageous genes across areas of society"
I'm pretty sure it would be swamped by changes in precisely how big the average testing hall is, and how its heating system works.

I would not be surprised if typical school-air CO2 level has changed by 50% over the last century, but which direction I would struggle to guess. We have more indoor space per person now, but also seal buildings tighter. Especially in summer.
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Highly creative people have a stronger ability to see things from other peopl
The context for this proposal is NOT that, in a vacuum, ad-tracking is a desirable feature of HTML.

The context for this proposal is Apple has already been rolling out privacy protections for Safari and iOS, other players (like Big G) have had complaints, and this proposal undercuts those complaints. It's a negotiating tool, effectively.

Apple's privacy protections have made life harder for Google and other folks in the advertising space. Apple has basically tried to make it hard or impossible for anyone to stitch together user activity across different sites and build a profile of that user.

Advertisers have complained about losing ad attribution, and that complaint is legitimate. But, the existing techniques that are used to measure ad attribution also allow a excessive amount of additional data to be collected. Arguably, the ad attribution angle is just a PR-friendly fig leaf over what they're really worried about, which is user profiling.

So, Apple's counter-proposal: Here is a way to get ad attribution! Also, by the way, it doesn't allow user profiling, but that's ok, right? Of course it is. And now, ideally, we get to watch advertisers squirm as they try to come up with outlandish attribution scenarios that justify the collection of profiling data, while struggling to not admit what types of profiling they actually do and what fraction of their valuation that comprises.
I still might debate the role of ritual in Catholicism, Eastern & Oriental Orthodoxy,

> No karma to optimize

but I actually had the more karmic things in mind, i.e the importance of Works vs importance of Faith, which certainly does vary between different Christian sects.

> No hidden knowledge to uncover.

There are gnostic types of things. If perhaps less so today than in the Renaissance. But it's not as if it's absent.

So I still think this is a rather Protestant perspective.

Edit to say: Also, in fact even or perhaps even especially, Protestants were engaged in gnosticism/Christian mysticism in the Renaissance period.
Yeah right. Just like VW's emissions bug.
We're still alive? Except those that died.
The problem with the black list model is that companies come to considerable size before the dangers are known. And then they have the lobbying power to save their businesses on the expanse of the public health, and life.

Case and point, countless. Pain killers, tobacco, fire proofing chemicals, etc etc.
If the us corporations weren't so greedy as to disregard public health completely maybe a black model would be sustainable. But it doesn't seem the case
I'm not getting into a calculation of what you get in return for your money. I'm just talking about where the dollars come from to pay for whatever the government wants. I think it's important to compare the existing tax revenue mix because the proposals for expanding the U.S. welfare state focus on paying for those benefits through corporate taxes or progressive income or payroll taxes. E.g. Sanders' proposals: https://www.vox.com/2019/4/10/18304448/bernie-sanders-medica.... Nobody is proposing what e.g. Germany does, a 15% payroll tax essentially capped at incomes of $70,000.
But not in Connecticut, where CR tested the feature.
This is an interesting proposal...

While I am not super enthused about the idea of my browser being the one that reports this data (Actively), due to the current state of ads on the web this feels better than the alternatives.

We have already seen the effects of websites trying to get away with no ads and switching to a paid model. How often do we see complaints from users of sites like the Washington Post or the NYT that they can't read their news article.
For the most part, attempts to get money from uses (who are at this point used to a "Free" web) has not seen great success.
I would also argue that every site turning into asking for money is very problematic for anyone but the biggest players.
Just saying that using ad blockers really is not a solution, if everyone used ad blockers we probably start to see issues with the available content on the internet.

I don't really know how I feel about this yet.
It will be interesting to see if Microsoft and Mozilla (I doubt Google will jump on this one, at least not quickly) will get involved in this. If so, it might actually see some good adoption.
This is a little different because Deutsche Bank is already under scrutiny in this area and therefore this is one piece of a larger story. It is similar to when Facebook has bugs that expose private user information. It raises questions like whether the "bug" is truly a bug or whether it is intended behavior, whether no bug exists and this is simply an easy excuse for inappropriate actions, whether the company actually cares about fixing the issue, and so on.

EDIT: I am sure what happened in this thread. Several comments, including this one, were decoupled from the comment they were responding to even though the original wasn't deleted or flagged. Removing that context makes some of these comments harder to follow.
What does 2019-smart mean though? People's brains are optimized for better handing of super-stimulating entertainment? Does that translate into better problem solving and other important skills? Have the importance of those smarts related to those skills changed in 50 years? If not, adjusting the IQ tests to match these doesn't make sense.
It's a bad headline and low-content article, but that's not really the point. The bug presumably made some filter for suspicious transactions ineffective, and this was detected by some sort of manual process audit. The headline should have been "Deutsche Bank fails to properly audit its money laundering detection for 10 years".
But only because Switzerland isn't in the EU.
Giving that I've already been approached by gov officials to create an accounting software that helps with creative book keeping, I say don't assume incompetence on this one.
The order-processing system behind my site [1] is written in Common Lisp. It interfaces with Stripe for credit card processing and Easypost for generating mailing labels. The whole thing took me about two days to write and it has been working without a hitch for several years. It has more than paid for itself just in the time it has saved me in preparing international shipping labels manually.

I also have a prototype of a server-mediated version of the SC4 secure communications system [2] [3] written in CL. The code for this is a bit of a mess so it's not publicly released but if you're interested drop me a line. Contact info is in my HN profile.

[1] http://sc4.us/hsm

[2] https://github.com/Spark-Innovations/SC4

[3] https://stage.sc4.us/sc4/sc4tk.html
I wish there was more clarity here. It's my understanding that every large transaction requires some amount of manual approval at banks and this happens all the time every day. I have no issue believing Trump has shady banking/real estate deals, I think that's ultimately what might undo his Presidency, but transactions needing/receiving low level approvals doesn't read like a scandal to me.
Problems in Computer Vision that Deep Learning alone may not be able to solve
How does “culture” play a biasing role? Is there an example of a question that someone 1970-smart will answer correctly but someone 2019-smart will get wrong? Curious.
The Base Rate Fallacy [0] suggests there's often a lot more true negatives than true positives. In this case a true negative is ignoring a non-fraudulent transaction and a true-positive is catching a fraudulent transaction.

As someone who never engages in fraudulent transactions, if I were a DB customer I'd be much more concerned about the false-negative rate of such software.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Base_rate_fallacy
I'd contend that the very notion of muscular imbalance as pathology is somewhat in the realm of bro science. It's not that the mechanical descriptions in the article are inaccurate - weak abdominals will negatively impact your squat, sure - but there is no causal association of said imbalances or strength deficiencies with injurious outcomes. Doing a movement with less mechanical advantage just means you have to work harder to do it; but if you're physically able to do the movement, you're not going to injure yourself just by virtue of doing the movement, even if the movement doesn't conform to the mechanical ideal. The actual correlative with injury risk is stress. The cause of confusion is that doing the same movement with the same resistance but less mechanical advantage will be more stressful and thus have a higher injury risk.
PureScript really hits the sweet spot for me, and it's become my favorite functional language over the last six months. It really feels like a purpose built stripped down Haskell without some modern refinements (string handling, records, compiles to readable JavaScript). You can easily manage dependences to incorporate the absolutely minimum set of packages necessary to run your project, and I think its safety is unparalleled.

That said, the community is pretty small (but also really awesome), and it fits into what is starting to feel like a crowded space (ReasonML, Elm, ClojureScript [kind of], TypeScript, etc), but I'm still hopeful that PureScript gets some traction over the next few years and becomes more widely used in the industry, as it is a fantastic language and deserves to be more widely recognized.

Also, if anyone is looking to try PureScript with minimal effort, I threw together this guide a while back:

https://github.com/tmountain/purescript-reproducible
It's amazing that all US critical posts are being downvote-bombed...

Also the claim that the US is not lax in its regulation is a bad joke. Half of the parties available literally made de-regulation their damn group mantra...
Athena: Dropbox's Build Health Management System
The author is only looking at this from the client perspective of how 'they' will update the site.

There is not a single comment about security and how WP is consistently a target for hackers. Is the client suppose to know that they need to update WP? What happens when their site is hacked or host is now apart of a botnet? This 'client' will still need someone to monitor/update their WP site or else.
Presumably it would be set up before-hand? If you preferred the other email, you might deprecate the gmail account and set up an auto-reply for all traffic to update contact information. It would require giving up gmail early. The question would be if auto-reply keeps working after being banned
Starting Strength is good to have around for reference, but the nice thing about Stronglifts for me is the app. It's high quality and makes the program very easy to follow. https://stronglifts.com/apps/
If it was all so cut and dried as all that, China's own protectionism should have destroyed them.
If IQ isn't intelligence, then what is?
To my knowledge, China had already been running the scheme giving semiconductor companies 5 tax free years since 2012.

They were either obliged to run from some special designated industrial parks, or something like that thought.
A long time ago, I read this, and it got me thinking about muscular imbalances: "Somewhere inside every man's body, there's a weak link, a weak muscle waiting to fail."

https://www.mensjournal.com/features/everything-you-know-abo...
It's quite mixed and complicated. US government/media exaggerated and distort the situation or the nature of the problem intentionally or unintentionally that mislead Western public. A lot of Chinese admit that there are problems due to many factors. Things are already improved significantly compared to 20 years ago. But the progress will follow it's own pace, not external pressure.
From the article: "However, a 2018 study of Norway has punctured these theories by showing that IQs are dropping not just across societies but within families. In other words, the issue is not that educated Norwegians are increasingly outnumbered by lower-IQ immigrants or the children of less-educated citizens. Even children born to high-IQ parents are slipping down the IQ ladder."
”In fact it turned out that Web consultants didn't like Viaweb. Consultants, as a general rule, like to use products that are too hard for their clients to use, because it guarantees them ongoing
employment.”

A useful reminder of why much of web development is the way it is.
What about making the leap from javascript to a real programming language?
That works for some things, but I feel like it breaks down when others put tasks on your TODO list. For example, when I finish a task around the house, my wife adds more, so by procrastinating, I'm reducing the total amount of work I do.

So there's always some element of prioritization, which means procrastinating on some things and not procrastinating on others. I think my trouble is properly prioritizing, and I'm sure that's similar for others as well.
Technical analysis in major brokerages and financial media
If you read carefully most of the higher rated answers (name attached to work, management listen to me, etc) here can be summed to one primal thing: people want to feel they are important. That's what I also want and where I do my best.