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Strongly agree with the body weight training, but also check out the bodyweightfitness subreddit [0] for good discussion and advice. They have a simple and concise starting routine [1] for people just starting out. There are also some mild critiques [2] of Convict Conditioning.

It's very good for a very practical kind of strength, but you will likely not get big very fast, if that's what you're looking for. I've been doing it for two years almost continuously with no injuries.

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/bodyweightfitness/

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/bodyweightfitness/wiki/kb/recommend...

[2] https://www.reddit.com/r/bodyweightfitness/wiki/kb/program_r...
> learning golang was seriously a breath of fresh air

This is completely irrelevant to the topic. Go, as currently implemented, could be the bee’s knees for the whole world for all I know; it’s not relevant to the discussion. To sidestep like you did and pretend that this is some form of criticism of Go itself is disingenuous hijacking of the discussion thread.
> As another comment pointed out, you can never prove something is safe, so the whitelist model is inherently flawed. Asbestos was once considered safe, that’s why it was used as insulation.

The rational conclusion there is that you should test more, not move to a blacklist model that allows everything until people drop dead, develop a serious illness or whatever.
"Ass to grass" squats will develop the posterior chain and the abdominals very well. The quads also grow, but in proportion (because the deeper the squat, the more the power shifts from quads to hamstrings/glutes). The abs are active the whole time stabilizing the weight. That one exercise is more effective than a dozen other isolated exercises.

It also develops neuromuscular control which most people lack. Being able to drive steady, strong, coordinated impulses from the brain to the muscles is critical for being strong, balanced, and capable of doing "anything". The only way to get that is by doing it - using many different muscle groups in a coordinated effort.

An added bonus of doing exercises like that with relatively high weight is that you even out the weak areas. With squats, most people will find abs to be the weakest link at first (if they're paying attention).
Payments are a cultural problem, not a technology problem. There is absolutely nothing technological that prevents more sophisticated payments systems from being rolled out in the US, except that people don't want to use them.

This is a poor example. You would have been better off going with high-speed rail, although even that is mostly a cultural problem - the cost is not in trains, but land displacement.
Wow we got really different interpretations out of that quote. In the context of a math textbook, I take that quote to be emphasizing the importance of abstractions and symbols for reasoning effectively.
I'd say all of Shakespeare, Jimi Hendrix, LeBron James, Martin Luther King (keep on going if you like) have a form of extreme intelligence not measured well by IQ tests. The kinds of problems in IQ tests are one thing our brain can adapt to solve but humans are so incredibly neuroplastic that IQ is much too narrow a concept to be definitive.
Correct -- I took the parent question to be about shifting cultural definitions of "smart" and not about IQ tests specifically.
Scrolling HN, I saw the two words I'm always weary of - "from scratch". Mostly because I will click on the link, hoping to learn the mathematics behind a particular algorithm, only to see they've import sklearn and skip over all the explaining of how things are ACTUALLY getting done. Not that these types of tutorials do not have their place, but its irksome to see "from scratch" including most of the hard part being done.

With that, thank you Victor. Specifically because you did not do this at all and instead wrote a very easy to follow guide. I think this type of learning material will be very useful for CS and mathematics. The idea that very complicated algorithms must be explicitly implemented and then walked through, rather than symbols in a white paper will help make the mathematics of CS more applicable to everyone.

And to anyone bringing up numpy, it is at a level of "prepackaged" I'm fine with. I'm not going to raise my own pigs and chickens to make a breakfast burrito, but saying I did it from scratch by microwaving a frozen one isn't going to cut it either. Numpy is like the basic ingredients to the recipe. While something like sklearn or tensorflow are perfectly acceptable, I wouldn't say that's the best method for learning CNNs.
What does that have to do with IQ though?
I'm not sure what that means, but not all hackers are in the US.
No, it didn't stop in 2000. To quote the article directly:

>A Reuters examination of many of those documents, as well as deposition and trial testimony, shows that from at least 1971 to the early 2000s, the company’s raw talc and finished powders sometimes tested positive for small amounts of asbestos, and that company executives, mine managers, scientists, doctors and lawyers fretted over the problem and how to address it while failing to disclose it to regulators or the public.

>A third verdict, in St. Louis, was a watershed, broadening J&J’s potential liability: The 22 plaintiffs were the first to succeed with a claim that asbestos-tainted Baby Powder and Shower to Shower talc, a longtime brand the company sold in 2012, caused ovarian cancer, which is much more common than mesothelioma.

And to address your second paragraph directly: That is literally why laws and regulations exist. There will be companies that break them yes, and laws exist in order to ideally punish them for doing so. What you're essentially saying is that 'murders still happen even though there are laws against it, therefore laws are useless' but applied at a company scale.
More powerful abstractions that reduce the amount boilerplate compared to Elm.
Since everyone is recommending sources of exercise and nutrition information, I'll throw in my vote for Renaissance Periodization [0] - multiple PhDs on staff who both research and compete in strength sports.

[0] https://renaissanceperiodization.com
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I think you misread the comment. At least, I read it as "no downside to ignore money laundering", not "no downside to crack down on it".
That seems terribly misguided. Intent may not be the biggest factor in terms of outcomes, but it's certainly the most important factor in terms of morality and personal development. Maybe I'm misunderstanding what you meant by "it doesn't matter", but it's a horrible idea to teach the literal interpretation of that message.
If 100% of the user pool for Debian, including all derivative distros (Ubuntu, etc), plus all users of the Tor Browser Bundle all used ESR Firefox, that would still make it a blip in the overall body of user internet traffic.
Are you suggesting it's just ... like porn then? You know it when you see it?

Do you not think in general, people who score higher on IQ tests are in fact "more intelligent" than people who score lower on IQ tests?

Even the ones that just have shapes in them and you have to find the correct next matching one for the position? How can those be culturally biased?
"“The system has trouble responding to vehicles that approach quickly from behind,” Fisher says. “Because of this, the system will often cut off a vehicle that is going a much faster speed since it doesn’t seem to sense the oncoming car until it’s relatively close.”"

I find this part to be the most dangerous as driving in California, you will see drivers often far behind on the right come in fast. If their sensors can't detect that, it can be a catastrophe. I can't imagine cutting someone off who is going 85 while i'm going 65.
All speculative, but:

Part of the IQ test I took years ago involved memorizing and repeating sequences of digits. When I was growing up in the 80s, I had a large number of phone numbers memorized for friends, family, businesses I needed to contact regularly, etc. Presumably, memorizing dozens of seven- and ten- digit numbers regularly improved my ability to memorize long strings of digits.

Today, I no longer know any phone numbers besides my own and my wife's. And I know hers only because it's just one digit different than my own. I'm sure children are not getting any practice at this sort of thing.

So, does memorizing strings of digits have anything to do with how smart you are? If this is still part of IQ tests, then I'm not surprised raw scores are decreasing.
I don't know about Win10, but the default Win7 media player is still a steaming pile of poo. Can't play many formats, stupid and uncustomizable keyboard shortcuts, occasionally decides to display some videos as audio+visualization instead, insists on trying to default you to the worst possible settings after every update.
I still don't understand why Apple would be compelled to offer the olive branch at all. Sure, advertisers have complained their business model is getting harder - what motivates Apple to help fix that? What possible leverage could advertisers even have? Apple doesn't need a negotiating tool if there's nothing Apple wants from the advertisers, just block the nefarious tracking and move on.
Financial software is special. It has to be. The value of our currency is literally directly dependent upon it. Imagine what would happen if tomorrow we woke up and it was revealed that there had been a persistent manipulation of the financial systems. When Walmart or some other large company goes to another country and says "we have $5 million, we need good and services" they would be met with "we don't believe those numbers in your bank software MEAN anything. PROVE they represent money and aren't just a bug." At that point, everything stops.

Well, everything that has no built-in means of proving legitimacy. I've read multiple times that the only real thing Bitcoin offers is protection against counterfeiting and no one gives a damn about that because faith in the system backs our money so counterfeiting isn't a big problem. In the hypothetical scenario, though, it becomes the primary problem, and overnight only cryptocurrency can be proven to mean anything at all. Everything else would just be unreliable nonsense numbers based on rotted code.
How? If the majority of what determines an individuals IQ is genetic then how could it possibly have declined in the span of a few decades? Worst case scenario our predetermined genetic base line IQ is not improving as rapidly as it use to in the past.

However, I don't think there is strong enough evidence to jump to that conclusion. From what I understand a simple bad attitude can dramatically alter an individuals test score. No, I think the testing methodology and the scale of the testing would have to dramatically improve before a statement like: "People are getting dumber." can be taken seriously.
Have you programmed anything on the web? fetch() has interface just like that.
In the spirit of saving you a click to find our the name and location of the "major utility":

Xcel Energy Inc. announced it will close its remaining coal-fired power plants in the Upper Midwest a decade ahead of schedule and add 3,000 megawatts of new solar capacity by 2030.
Honestly, who cares? You're not hurting anyone. Unless you feel you won't be paid appropriately, this isn't illegal or even THAT unethical. If anything, you'll learn something new and come out of this with some really good knowledge.

But if you really want to quit over this: listen to your instinct. I wouldn't, but that's me.
> Mark Rippetoe's Starting Strength

I like this gist of his program, but as someone who did it years ago, there's a few things I'd change.

First, remove cleans, and add barbell rows. Lots of people make this adjustment. I don't find the exercise to be beginner friendly. Second, deadlifts will be there own focused day almost immediately. Outside of one's probably first month, doing squats + bench + deadlift is nearly impossible to do in one workout.

On a personal note, I don't like his squat technique. In particular, bar placement. New people should do high-bar, exclusively. Mark's hybrid squat, and low bar squats, put a huge amount of pressure on your elbows and shoulders.
Irish regulator opens first privacy probe into Google
I took an IQ test recently. It was all finding patterns in shapes. Very different from, say, the SAT.

What about this would be culturally biased? The test could literally be administered in any language or even orally to someone who couldn’t read.
"Rip" was my trainer 25 years ago, before he became internet famous. Great guy, great no-bs instruction.

Anyone who wants to lift well should read the Starting Strength book.
While working in technology design & specs at Toyota HQ, I was told that one day, it might, in theory, be able to make cars free just funded by all the data it generates from you. Whether that will ever pan out is speculative but that’s a startling concept nevertheless.
The GP comment wasn't substantive, but personal attacks will get you banned here, so please don't do that.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
>unusual transaction flows between accounts

That's actually specifically what the linked article is about. Trump and Kushner were flagged for suspicious transactions involving Russians and Russian entities, not "loans and real estate deals" as far as anyone can tell.
> why C is a good thing and not a liability these days?

That's the wrong question. The question should be:

"If I rewrite this in a different language, will it be a net-benefit? If so, just how long will it take to reap said benefit?"

The trade-offs add a lot of nuance to that question and make it a harder choice.
There's no such thing as an IQ rate.
Oh wow, yeah I just checked it out

(https://exrx.net/WeightExercises/Hamstrings/BBStraightLegDea...)

Das ist no bueno. At least he's using light weight, so it's less likely that he'll bulge a disk, but still bad.
I don't think you read their comment correctly.

They are saying that their is no downside, outside of running foul of laws and regulators, for banks to take money without review instead of flagging transactions as suspicious.

Your response is about additional benefits for them taking the money without questions.
"Europe bans the use of chemicals allowed everywhere else"
In some industries this is such common practice that it's expected, and requirements are upscaled to account for it.

To the point where my organization issued a RFP asking for "engineers with 15+ years of experience" in something that did not exist five years prior. I asked the obvious question and was told "that's the only way we'll get anyone competent."

I left that job.
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In general work, try applying a threat modeling framework to guide your security measures. I like STRIDE: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/STRIDE_(security)

Other than that, there a lot of best practices for each framework on Medium or other blogs. Also, never store credentials in code, separate prod from dev, and apply patches regularly.
For folks w/ ruby experience, or little programming experience all together, Sonic Pi is a really nice program to learn w/.
> and I think you could make more money waiting tables there.

I was only an intern there, but I'm 100% sure you are blabbering.
If there’s journals that only publish interesting results, these get more attention.

Researchers trying to score points aim to be published by these.

This gives them incentives to try new stuff, disregard boring results (like negative results) and for those inclined, to cheat.

These tend to push the journal profile, at least until something like the replication crisis.

It’s a positive feedback loop in all it’s glory
People are a lot less candid with the door open. If a boss feels comfortable with the door closed with some employees and not others, the ones with the door closed will get more "insider" information and have an advantage.

Sometimes its about things you need to improve on and they don't want to embarrass you in front of others. Other-times you need to communicate that you are ineffective due to some personal issue. And still more are times when "unwritten" rules you didn't pick up on are being shared with you to help you navigate the bureaucracy.
Are you by any chance also a royalist?

To quote the IETF: “We reject kings, presidents and voting. We believe in rough consensus and running code.”
This plan should be everyone's plan until they have some very specific requirement. It's the most effective, most complete approach to balanced human strength (with the unexpected mental and energy benefits you mention).
no kidding
The headline is clearly clickbait and follows common clickbait patterns

- "a major US utility" instead of naming the utility and location in the title

- "is closing" as a major mischaracterization of the reality of "will actually close"
It seems pretty spammy to drop 4 links within 5 minutes for your project: https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=LeonidBugaev
More “let’s hate on Microsoft because it’s trendy” bandwagoneers. I guess the 25 year old vulnerability in bash was not a bad thing, eh? Or scp’s 35 year old vuln did not affect anyone? Come on, people. Stop acting like Microsoft is the only vendor worth criticizing
Definitely! Growth hormone (rbGH/rbGT) used in American diary products has been prevalent for decades where those were forbidden in Canada and Europe. FDA practically turned a blind eye on this (and later research proven FDA's screwed-up) and nowadays market and producers are taking self-regulating approach. [1]

[1]: https://www.centerforfoodsafety.org/issues/1044/rbgh/about-r...

And this is just one of hundreds if not thousands FDA mishaps out there. The lobbying influence is BAD.
One hypothesis which offers an explanation for this is the accumulation of deleterious mutations over generations, caused by a less harsh environment (e.g. medical care, technology) and advanced parental age, then accelerated by cultural changes [1].

[1] https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s40806-017-0084-x
>Pretty much no tutorials or articles are out there and reading sources for small projects is not viable for me either.

The lack of a good online tutorial is a problem for me as well. F# For Fun and Profit is decent, but I've not found it a good substitute for a book/tutorial.
I don't buy this idea that the programming language you use determines the quality of your work. There is no evidence to support this. These extreme programming fads were invented to sell books.

If novelists followed the same approach as programmers and they kept trying to find the perfect language to write their books in, they wouldn't manage to publish a single interesting novel.

A language cannot prevent someone from making stupid mistakes. At best, it solves one set of familiar problems and replaces them with a new set of unfamiliar (but equally bad) problems; then you have to learn to cope with those new problems until the next hyped-up language fad comes along claiming to solve those new problems and then you repeat the cycle.
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One of the biggest reasons for me is that you can run it on the backend too (on NodeJS, or Erlang, or some other VM - yes, there are several backends available)
Here’s another vote for Ben Franklin’s autobiography. It’s full of remarkably good advice and aged very well.
Running shoes are fine, but after you stop rotating at the hip, you've reached the bottom of the stretch for the hamstrings, and everything else is just stretching the lower back for no apparent reason; could lead to a bulging disk.
> "My understanding is that they always planned to have generics, they just didn't make 1.0 and now the Go community has sort of adopted the lack of them like a badge of honor."

As soon as Go adopts generics the community will turn on a dime and pretend they always loved generics (and perhaps even invented them.) That's how these sort of things typically play out. See also, copy/paste on iphones. When only android had it, copy/paste was a misfeature for idiots. When iOS implemented it, copy/paste became the best thing since sliced bread.
IQ is a measure of one's ability to think, speed of thought, capacity of thought, memory, predictions of the future. A century ago you had to be smarter to survive than now because there were more problems to be solved by the individual. People still built their own homes back then. Grew their own food. Fixed their own cars.

There were more constraints, so people had to be more clever to survive.
Multi-million euro cryptocurrency laundering service Bestmixer.io taken down
"Part of it is due to the fact that advertising has worked just fine without tracking for literally hundreds of years in a variety of different media."

Magazines, radio, and television are all tracked in different ways. When were ads not tracking users? On stone tablets?

"Wealthy people already subsidize lots of content for political gain, so nothing is changed by having it be targeted ad supported or not."

They do, but it would be a much smaller percentage if the content creators had a way to monetize it.

"Most small companies cannot use the legitimate ad networks because they don't have enough volume. So this is a non-issue."

How is it a 'non-issue'? Many startups, especially here on HN, rely on advertising as a business model.
Yeah, the half life is somewhere between 10 to 15 years.
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so 10 years huh

Count all the terrorist attacks that didn't happen with all those billions reintegrated in the financial system, all the dark money private armies that aren't taking over cities, all the organized violent crime that didn't increase

and then consider that maybe trying to flag every transaction and vilify privacy is only harming the productivity of the economy
I mean, sure, there might turn out to be safety issues that we don't yet know about. You could say that about any plane.

>The real purpose of MCAS might be to make an otherwise wildly-unsafe plane flyable

MCAS would never activate in a typical flight, so I don't think it can be that bad.

There's a simple and plausible explanation for why MCAS was added (the desire to maintain the same type rating). That explanation doesn't entail that the 737 MAX had fundamentally unsafe handling characteristics, only that its handling characteristics differed significantly from those of other 737s. I'll stick with that explanation absent evidence to the contrary.
The time I accidentally transported a brick of heroin from LA to Seattle
> decrease in quantity of healthy food consumed

Far as I can tell, this is the opposite of the trend, in the U.S. and Canada.

> I wonder if the drop in IQ is related to the increase in wealth inequality in these past 50 years as well.

Not sure what mechanism you think would enable that.
Thinking that the richest people in society are, in relative terms, more rich than you than before has no obvious effect on anything related to IQ.
Average and median PPP wealth and income continue to grow.
Sure. I'm even a casual host of TOR hidden services. Every time I make a clear text website I'll also host a tor hidden service for it. Things like amateur radio sites. In a lot of ways once you get passed the controversy tor is more like the 1990s web than any evil underground. And at least on TOR you own your domain rather than lease it from some entity on a whim.
Ok, we'll put that name in the title as well.
Well, the dangerousness of cosmetics probably doesn't express itself in death/life statistics.

The whitelisting model used in Europe is used to ensure that whatever substance causes the least amount of issues possible if released. You know, interactions with skin conditions, maybe breathing complications if inhaled etc.

The basic tradeoff here is potential (minor or not) health hazard vs. profit opportunities of companies.

Characteristically the EU chooses the first and the US the second.