skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This looks like a really good resource. I find some of the descriptions a little hard to parse in lamens terms, but the Gifs of exercises if you follow the links are really helpful. Found myself saying "Hey I have this problem and it looks like I'm doing some of the right exercises".

In particular, I have shoulder issues as described in the second or third last section, along with hip flexor weakness leading to splayed feet. I don't have access to the same machines they point to, but I like that there are good ideas for low overhead exercises. Shoulder exercises have always been quite difficult, as my shoulders click as I do anything that brings my elbows behind them and become painful quick—barbell squats out of the question.
Rows are a great exercise, but they aren't a replacement for cleans. The purpose of cleans is to build explosiveness and speed.

A more beginner way to do this is to do kettlebell cleans or snatches, which are way easier to do than barbell cleans.
Consider that a former US state governor was pinched within hours by his bank transferring a few thousand bucks domestically to an escort service.

Mysterious "software bugs" that allow people to transfer millions of dollars to questionable characters in known corrupt countries are excuses, not defects. I guarantee that if you or your LLC wired >$5k regularly to somebody in the Ukraine every once in awhile, the best case for you would be your account being frozen.
If they have made agreements with victims that means they have been held accountable. Unless they've been represented poorly, these people likely are better off to the tune of well over a million dollars each. Of course they are also dead.
Best distraction ever. Thanks for sharing
The further the complexity of civilization exceeds the population's ability to understand it, the more fragile it becomes. People absolutely should cultivate the habit of thinking, because thinking helps us survive disasters.
The point is that the US has more freedom. His "it was just a prank bro" defense wouldn't even be needed. Because the US has freedom, people can make videos like that all they want. It doesn't matter if there is a girlfriend to show. It doesn't matter if you happen to think "gas the Jews" is or isn't funny.

Well, you'd best never have a thought that offends anybody ever in your rapidly-changing culture. Someday that could be you going to prison for your 2019-era wrongthink.
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do you believe there has ever been a morally absolute society?
I do like all of LINQ's extension methods, but not the syntax myself.
Your comment couldn't be more asinine.

Did you even bother to google search them? Here I'll help.

https://www.stellar.org/

https://www.ibm.com/blockchain/solutions/world-wire
> the

Citation needed.
its not a single event that should, its the overarching point of view from your CEO and such, along with a long list of violations that should make you question you morals.
Except we can actually win the war on advertising if we chose to do so. Making large swathes of the back-room tactics advertisers rely on illegal is absolutely do-able and provides more value to all of us - any companies that contract with bad actors can be punished and we could move into an age where we just forget what popups even were.
A resource that covers more of these questions is covered here: https://github.com/JordanMartinez/purescript-jordans-referen...
Not all of it is up-to-date or presents the best arguments one could muster. Rather, it's goal is to be "good enough."

Also related (but unfortunately not yet finished): https://github.com/chexxor/purescript-documentation-discussi...

See these repos for an example of the language in action:
- https://github.com/jordanmartinez/purescript-jordans-referen...
- https://github.com/jordanmartinez/learn-halogen
- https://github.com/thomashoneyman/purescript-halogen-realwor...
> How do you build a spaceship without working together with others?

Ants don't build colonies because they consciously choose to participate in the greater good as individuals. It's pure instinct for them to work together. Imagine if some were more intelligent and could shape or direct that instinct. A "hive mind" if you will.
The risk would surely increase with doubled speed, no? The Concorde was unsafe because of all the design constraints imposed by being able to go that fast.
The author is the same guy behind the animated engines site:

http://www.animatedengines.com/

He explains how he did those animations:

http://www.animatedengines.com/howto.html

Which was rather laborious; perhaps his CAD and programming knowledge made it so that creating a physical animation engine was easier than other methods?

Regardless, I wish he'd open source it; he mentions that he might - but it's been a few years now, so...
I agree with you overall. This is purely speculative, but it seems that the rise of pre-packaged ML solutions has caused the meaning of "from scratch" to have changed to "with sklearn". It's easy to feel like a short python script using sklearn is "from scratch" when you were using a WYSIWYG solution before.

That said, the book "Data Science from Scratch" is great, and I'd recommend it to those looking for a deeper understanding than just "import sklearn".
> (General cost of living is not an expense).

General cost-of-living is an expense—just see how long you can keep earning that "profit" without paying it. This is partly accounted for by the standard deduction, which is approximately equal to the official federal poverty level.

To put them on even terms with corporations, individual employees and freelancers should be able to deduct any personal expenses which are reasonably related to allowing them to perform their jobs, including but not limited to food, shelter, child care, and basic utilities. Depending on the demands of the job and local conditions this may well exceed the official poverty level.
>And finally, if the private key really is generated on your service, we can just pack up and go home.

Yeah, thankfully that key is generated client-side (in the browser) when you register. Seems pretty end-to-end to me.

(And sure, you could always worry that the server will serve you malicious JS while you're registering to steal your client-side-generated key, but that would be pretty suicidal for any company, not a very realistic threat!)
No, of course not. Corporations must act within the law, and even the notion of shareholder value maximisation above all is contingent (based on specific economic theory), not necessary.
Well, this explains everything.
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> It's clear that to Boeing, their numbers are more important than lives.

BTW (I'm not folowing this very closely) is there already, or will there be a criminal investigation?
That's why I write all my programs in 16-bit real-mode 8086 assembly using MS-DOS's DEBUG.EXE. Aside from being fired from my job for this destroying my productivity and making my code unreviewable and full of security issues, everything is great, because there's no differences between programming languages at all!
True! If dealing with stuff like rotations is a concern, you could augment the training set by applying small random transforms to it (like rotations, cropping, scaling, color adjustment, etc).
I wonder if we’ve been agreeing with each other this whole time?
Aside from JS/Node and maybe C++, I can't think of any languages or platforms that are nearly as community driven. Java is probably the closest.
I mean IQ tests by proxy are pretty universal in intellectual employment. Personality issues and such that might interfere with job success can't really be evaluated in any short amount of time unless the person is so out of it that they are throwing the signals out left and right, but in most cases they obviously hide these issues the best they can. The ratio of bad hires that pass the interview tests for this system are probably lower than that of other interviewing methodologies anyway. Mental health issues will interfere with thinking on the spot and withstanding social pressure, potentially. I think most jobs still have the soft skills portion as well, which probably is more useful for the company than the problem solving, anyway. There's a lot of emotional involvement in problem solving capacity and consistency.
As an aside, if you like Erlang, take a look at Pony (https://www.ponylang.io/); it's another take at an actor-based, message-passing, concurrent language with both similarities to and differences from Erlang. It doesn't (yet) have the good robustness story, but there are a lot of good ideas already in place.
nice! i have job title envy now :-)
have you seen https://youtu.be/THNPmhBl-8I
Anyone seen technical papers on this? Interested in the training regimen and data used...
I don't buy the genetic argument. Intelligence is worthless.

In this society, a complete idiot with capital can achieve much more than a genius can achieve without capital.
>Sorry, I fail to see how asking to choose a specific geometric figure out of four can be culturally biased.

No, but whether that is a meaningful measure of intelligence is where the bias creeps in. In our times having high mathematical aptitude is considered to be a sign of intelligence and intelligence is associated with success, so the very same people who like mathy things design IQ tests and hand out credentials and make the most money, so the entire process is largely circular.

What constitutes intelligence is dependent on what environment you're in. If in 100 years all the technical things have been automated it's conceivable that people with high degrees of social intelligence or creativity who can leverage technology rather than implement it will get to define what intelligence means.
> Unless we embrace the culture of "there are no wrong answers".

For "name the next number in the series" questions there literally are no wrong answers unless you place further restrictions.

IQ tests typically use shapes and not numbers, but that doesn't solve this specific question. Finding the answer is more about finding the same answer as the official solution, which is culture dependant
> I think it's because intelligence doesn't help when it comes to earning money.

What evidence is there of that?

> The luck and social component is so strong that there is very little incentive for people to be intelligent.

People tend to make their own luck. For example, if you sit home and watch TV 6 hours a day, you are highly unlikely to get lucky. If you're out swinging the bat, you're far more likely to get a hit.
There's a concept known as linguistic relativity (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_relativity) that states that the language affects what thoughts you are capable of having.

We don't program in assembly language because it is very tedious and error prone. Higher level languages absolutely do eliminate classes of errors that are only possible at the assembly language level (accidentally altering the stack and affecting the jump return address for example). Another example would be garbage collection making it impossible to create a certain class of errors.

Another example would be doing long division with roman numerals instead of Arabic. The human brain can only process so much before it becomes overloaded. By "compressing" thoughts using new vocabulary concepts you can reason about ideas that are beyond your normal cognitive limits.
> > joining a company as a fresher.

> I'm guessing you're in India?

Yes.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/fresher

(India) A fresh graduate looking for his or her first job.
> Max Planck (quoted above [1]) suggested death is necessary for the progress of science.

Appeal to authority at best. Rather than "I said so", you're pulling a "he said so" - not much better.
> They're still delivering the safest method of transportation around, not only by distance, but also by time.

It's safe by distance and time because most accidents will occur on take-off or landing. For example, the two recent MAX incidents. It's the nature of flying, not the technology per se, that makes it relatively safe as compared to other modes of transportation. Once you're cruising at altitude the components have already passed maximum load, and you usually have lots of time to remediate issues when they do occur. You get distance & time largely for free rather than as a consequence of engineering.

If you look at risk for just the distance and time spent on take-off and landing, flying is roughly comparable with driving. Of course, the machines are vastly more complex so it's still a testament to the amazing technology and safety standards. But at the same time there's so much more that could be done, not only from an engineering standpoint but especially from a process standpoint.

One might even be able to make the case that Toyota has better quality control and safety engineering processes than Boeing. I mean, many of the most critical components in a plane, such as the engines, aren't even designed or manufactured by Boeing. I think Boeing executives know this and have increasingly tried to offload performance and safety engineering burdens to suppliers, maximizing Boeings profits. Engine manufacturers and other suppliers have begun to take notice, I think. And for areas where Boeing can't offload the burden, they've faltered.
Not sure about that. The Soviet Almaz space station had an auto-cannon. Also cosmonauts flew up with a survival gun in the event that they were stranded in Siberia.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Almaz#Defense_measures
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TP-82_Cosmonaut_survival_pisto...
Value types add complexity and they weren't necessary in 1995. They only became necessary due to hardware changes circa 2005. Similarly, AOT compilation has only become attractive for the kinds of applications people use Java for only recently, when startup time became important for serverless. The lack of neither has caused Java lasting damage; what has is the domination of the browser on the client, but that has affected all languages.

As to baking variance into the runtime, I think this is just a bad idea, which is so far used only in C++ and .NET, two languages/runtimes with notoriously bad interop (it's not just Scala; Python and Clojure have a similarly bad time on the CLR, as would any language not specifically built for .NET's variance model). It is simply impossible to share a lot of library code and data across languages with different variance models once a particular one is baked into the platform. This is too high a price for a minor convenience.

Specialization for value types (which are invariant), is another matter, and, indeed, it is planned for Java. Perhaps some opt-in reification for variant types has its place, but not across the board. I am not aware of other platforms that followed in .NET's misplaced footsteps in that regard. Those that are known for good interop -- Java, JS and LLVM, don't have reified generics.

What's worse is that it's a mistake that cannot be unmade or resolved at the frontend language level. Even Java's big mistakes (like finalizers, how serialization is implemented, nullability and native monitors) are much more easily fixed.
The point of this feature is to provide limited access to data that webpage JS is not normally permitted to have – namely, information about the user’s interaction with other sites. (Although data sharing between different origins is not always forbidden, Safari’s “Intelligent Tracking Prevention” tries to block it for origins that are used for tracking.) Therefore, making it an “application workflow” implemented by the page JS would not work, whether or not a remote server is involved.
"Unsubstantiated neglect" seems to mean here "we don't have enough information to come to a conclusion, further investigation is required."

I would also add that CPS investigations are holistic, and look at the totality of the children's care. It is possible for them to investigate something innocuous but discover other problems.
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The client side code is open source. The server hosting aspect costs money. Open source is not the same as free.
Better yet, don't make laws that are understood only by a few people.
It seems you misunderstood my post, like some others in this thread. I did not decide against Go because of the linked article, but rather because I have the same view on the language that is outlined in the article. I have a big problem with Google. And the fact that Google practically own Go is a red flag for me.
Misread as "Make the Leap from JavaScript to PostScript".

Now that I would have been on board with!!

:-)
Which is why top companies are founded by children of lottery winners and media celebrities, while poor immigrants never achieve anything significant.
> without some modern refinements

Did you mean "with some modern refinements" ?

Otherwise, I agree.
String handling, vectors, and record namespacing/access are quite annoying legacy burdens of Haskell, improved upon in Purescript.

The type system lacks some of the power, but is sufficient for most designs IMO.
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That is fascinating; I am honestly curious whether these are personal, ethical, or cultural differences (or all of the above).

* On one hand, I originally hail from a country where majority of population would have absolutely agreed with this - it "doesn't hurt anyone", it's fine, everybody does it. It's also, related or not, one of the countries where people will judge you negatively if you pay your taxes ("what are you, a schmuck??"), if you don't haggle, etc. It's a hard country in hard times and you're expected to do whatever it takes for yourself to come ahead.

* On the other hand, I've been living in Canada for 20+ years (not the least because the culture and ethical framework work for me:), and while absolutely definitely "shady stuff happens in unseen corners" and not everybody or every org is honest, on average, I could get a whole chain of workers and management fired if I brought something like this to light. Certainly, the average person in average situation would indicate this is unethical, it directly hurts the people potentially hiring you (as they're literally not getting good as advertised), it indirectly hurts your own company (through reputation etc) and market at large (through inflated requirements and misaligned expectations). It's effectively lying for personal gain. It's wrong. And most people have the luxury of treating it as such.
But I also know, as per #1, places where it's just how business is done... :-/
Well, a decrease from when? As far as I can tell, OP meant that the cited decrease is still under way, and hence contributing to an ongoing decline in average IQ.
> a company that is traded publicly cannot have a long term goal

You think Apple or Berkshire Hathaway have no long term goals? Why make such sweeping statements that are easily shown to be wrong, when you can make a more nuanced and possibly true statement easily?

> Most of the companies that have had long term clout or tried to invest in long term research have been acquired and butchered by venture capitalists for a quick payday.

See, this might well be true and point to a real problem.

Though I think the notion that public markets are dumb and impatient and private markets are wise and long-term is a caricature itself.
> An inadequate attempt to provide relief is not the same thing as actively killing people.

You can kill by neglect. I don't think you can simply dismiss the accusation as "complete hyperbole".
I do this, using an up-to-date chromium browser proxied through Tor for regular browsing. I do this instead of the regular Tor browser on the theory that there's less potential for 0-day exploits.

Of course, this does compromise anonymity a bit in some respects, since there are probably few people who run chromium on Tor and because it's not as resistant to fingerprinting as the regular Tor browser. That's acceptable to me, as I only use that browser on Tor, and use another browser for things that could potentially leak my real identity.
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Thank - I hope I don't come across as too bitter - I really do think there's an upside to all those limitations. I'm just past the exuberance of thinking that because it's so actively developed, that all these flaws are eventually fixable. It's a fast lifecycle, and probably at some point it'll be too impractical to continue as is, and then we'll just jump ship to some slimmed down alternate with a good transition story - and that's fine. So far: so good.
Air travel should be much safer than driving. That it barely is in the case of the 737 MAX is itself a huge indictment.
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One reason could be that less intelligent people on average get more kids. Especially here in Norway where you get generous support from the government for child care. https://www.amazon.com/s?k=9781845409852
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> how the Trustchain Private Key is "obtained".

The Trustchain private key is generated when you create a Trustchain. It is generated on your machine. You can try it and create a Trustchain yourself here: https://dashboard.tanker.io/

> And finally, if the private key really is generated on your service, we can just pack up and go home.

It is not :)

> What it sounds like you have is a PKI infrastructure with open source SDK and "end-to-end" encryption of things, as much as end-to-end applies for keys/trust roots generated anywhere but locally.

That's pretty much it. The trust root is that Trustchain key, and Tanker never sees its private part.

> Regarding the service, my main issue is that with an open source SDK you're aiming at a certain type of people, developers, like many of us, but I see no mention of the algos used which immediately causes me to lose interest (between that and the sales/marketing heavy website). If you're really targeting developers I would suggest losing the marketing babble and get down to brass tacks.

I take note of this. The parts targeted at developers available at the moment are the documentation, the code examples, and the SDK sources. We will write and publish something that explains how it works under the hood.
I'm pretty sure the same arguments were made about television, radio, and yes, even books.

If you look at social media today, it's all about creation. You create posts or photos or clever tweets and share them with your peers. This is the opposite of sitting down in front of the television for a few hours to watch corporate-generated programming.
Well if we didn’t devolved over the last 50 years something else must have changed to make the average person have a lower iq.
Because they took a stance on nuclear power and refuse to use it. The do not care about facts and safety of nuclear power, instead they choose to poison the air for surrounding countries and be the 9 out of 10 largest CO2 contributor of Europe. Renewables + nuclear power is the real deal in clean energy, having renewables + coal is definitely not going to cut it.
They use (or used) word tests for IQ.

Things like 'bear is to dog as fish is to: a) flower b) whale c) door d) donkey' ... kind of thing.

It's not supposed to test language proficiency, but it can have an effect.
Agreed, I think the relevance of the example is that in some parts of America, unsupervised children are to be investigated, not left to their own devices as unsuspicious.

Parent of my original comment states "There has always been unsupervised children everywhere that I have lived," and that's something that's changing in America as families don't want to deal with the possible legal consequences that may arise.