skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My experience is the same. I spent a couple of weeks playing with Go and had such an easy time with it. I can go back into the code I wrote and understand exactly what's going on. I can't say that about most languages I tried. I can even make sense of other people's code in large, complicated Golang codebases despite having little development experience.

This probably scares people whose livelihood depends on managing complexity in other languages. If anyone can get up to speed quick, anyone can potentially make the program that eliminates the need for that complexity.

I don't know that Google had this in mind while developing Golang, but they stand to benefit from commoditizing development. This is fine for someone like me who has zero interest in it as a career but does use a lot of scripts and plugins for creative work. Right now it's $10+ every time I want to do something with music/video/art where free or included stuff doesn't work or doesn't exist. If every DAW, video editing suite, and art/graphic design program had a scripting language as easy to use as Golang, I would never need to pay for add-ons.

The markets would still exist, but they wouldn't be as lucrative. Pricing would go from value to commodity.
You can add those quantifiers if you want, but jlawson's argument is still an obvious double standard.

Maybe we could get together and talk about it over a nice frosty milkshake?

Speaking of talking it out, I'm curious how you found this thread. Given it's age and moderation status I doubt it's organically.
They check passwords against other hacks, so if you used the same email-password combination somewhere else that would cause them to reset your account.

https://www.businessinsider.de/spotify-users-password-reset-... "Spotify's security team identified that some of the leaked user credentials might correspond to Spotify accounts"
How is measuring something racist ?
While certainly true, statements like these fail to ignore why tech folk grind so hard-- because if they don't and someone else does then they are at an objective disadvantage. That's not to say that means they cannot or will not succeed, but if one tech founder is working 60 hours a week versus 40 hours a week (assuming they are both efficient) then there is a clear advantage.

If your going to hustle, do it young when you don't have responsibility. Don't be the dude with a kid missing dinners and school plays. But if I'm young and want to grind to build something I'm passionate about then I don't think that is so wrong or toxic-- just don't fucking post about it on social media.
So, hypothetically, if objective measures of intelligence show correlations with ethnicity, we should just ignore them because they're inconvenient? Isn't that a little irrational? How can you make any use of intelligence measures if you cherry pick according to your preconcieved notions of what you want them to show? What then is the point in practicing any sort of psychology or sociology at all, if your conclusions are so unscientific?
I can't agree with that conclusion. There are plenty of brilliant idiots and idiotic geniuses in the world and it can often be more difficult to change the mind of a "smart" person who has drawn the wrong conclusions than a simple person who has done the same. Individuals who draw their sense of self-worth from their perceived intelligence a more likely to stand their ground, argue semantics, and log every cheap rhetorical grenade they can until they are blue in the face.

For evidence of the irrationality of intelligent people, I proffer the example of every pointless university faculty departmental meeting, ever.
> It is also not very smart to antagonize a world power that you also need for a lot of critical components, including lots of modern fabs.

That requires the ability to think and plan long term, which many recent US presidencies have lacked.
If it is subject to the ban, it would be a pretty bold move to ignore it and carry on in violation of US law. Not an easy position to be in.
I wonder if social media play any role in this. People tend to consume a lot of crap which I guess make them less intelligent.
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That is correct. Thanks.
Try mediation to identify and get more comfortable with the feelings that trigger the procrastination or task avoidance. Once you start on that path and identify the problems you can also make changes in your life, instead of just accepting the feelings.
better insulation leading to poorer indoors air quality ? put enough people in a closed room and CO2 will build up quickly leading to drowsiness, slower thinking, etc.
IIRC, I think Unity source is available if you purchase the appropriate license level, but Wolfram source is not available at all.
> there is nothing inherently unsafe about those handling characteristics

this is not entirely true. applying throttle to the max causes a pitching momentum, something you don't want during a deep stall when control surfaces are totally unresponsive, because it would make the exit procedure (throttle up, nose naturally pitches down, gain airpseed and regain control) unsafe (throttle up, whops the plane is now pointing upward and going backward)
This is totally my opinion, but I always think articles like these are totally bunk, laughably. I seriously doubt the world is getting dumber. I've seen these assessments, my kids have had to participate in them. I've found them to be either biased or subjective on several occasions. It depends on things like the disposition of the person giving the assessment. (I saw this on when seeing someone take the Stanford Binet assessment.) I'm not saying this happens on all of them, but that along with wild claims about IQs "dropping" makes me question their results.
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What are some of your favorite resources for trustworthy general-purpose security best practices?

To clarify, I am looking to better understand appropriate practices for things like password hashing & storage and authentication token generation, and considerations that should be taken when running a web server. My concern come from the fact that I don't know what I don't know.
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This is such an awesome idea. Here in Canada, I see these types of places referred to as a 'co-op'. Seems there's one in Toronto called Lunik.

Having worked in restaurant environments before, I can definitely attest that serving and making drinks alongside your coworkers is an excellent way to spawn a really legitimate friendship.
So sad to read this.

Been using antergos on my pc and laptop for couple of years now, best distro I've used.

Is manjaro now the only alternative for a simple arch setup?
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> the most popular onion service on the internet by a large margin is Facebook's

How do you know? It shouldn't be possible to collect this sort of data.
Were that the case, the highly regimented asian educational system would have yielded significantly sub-standard average IQs.
Lots of things are “rooted” in dark places. Rocket technology developed in wartime Germany. Some pesticides came out of gas chambers. Agent orange is a herbicide now. Should we throw out everything developed by someone who holds a bad idea by today’s standards?
I am pretty sure trying to face China on that front will have quite a different outcome than securing oil sources in Middle East countries, sadly for the whole planet.
You've done a great job at easily demonstrating how ignorant the typical HN commenter/downvoter truly is. Note how all the downvoting cowards have said NOTHING regarding your correction, and just hide.

Hey dang, stcb, you wonder why we have no respect for you? This shit which you refuse to rectify or even acknowledge is why. Your incompetence shows as brightly as the downvoters ignorance.
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I wonder if this all makes Huawei grumble and feel the costs of the kind of government they work under. I wonder if it has any effect towards more liberalism in China.
Very interesting.

I started thinking about possible other reason's this could occur and checked into the data about the Norwegian study. The data was all from mandatory conscription so it couldn't be tainted could it?

Guess again.

At the same time that IQ started dropping Norway changed their conscription policy...

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

"In practice recruits are not forced to serve, instead only those who are motivated are selected.[14] In earlier times, up until at least the early 2000s, all men aged 19–44 were subject to mandatory service, with good reasons required to avoid becoming drafted."

Hmmmm so IQ in the tested cohort started dropping when it was only tested in people who chose to take part in Military service rather than all 17-18 year old males?

That seems like it could have another explanation...

EDIT:

So it seems I missed some info ->

I went back and looked at the data in the study to see whether it used the preliminary research or only for successfully recruited candidates and discovered this:

"Cohorts born before 1962 were subject to a different scoring norm, and cohorts born later than 1991 faced a radically different conscription process with less than 50% invited for in-person testing after completing a web-administered survey. As a result, representative data are not available for later birth cohorts. Data for immigrants are excluded as information on full family size and exact birth order is of lesser quality, while selection into scoring is markedly different as immigrants typically do not face mandatory conscription testing but need to self-select into conscription."

So it seems the preliminary examination does not include enough information or the conscription in general has changed to radically for that information to be reliable.

After more investigation it seems that basically they're saying that from 1980 - 1993 IQ rose, then fell again from 1993-2007 reaching roughly the same levels as previously.

All data after that is tainted as too much has changed in the data source (conscription).

However one very important point about this is that all data is pre-smartphone.
I suspect it means that kids today are a little bit less interested in logic puzzles than their parents, who were themselves turn a lot more interested in them than their grandparents, and IQ testing simply isn't robust enough to accurately capture generational differences in cognitive performance if there actually are any. Instability of IQ testing over time seems a less contentious hypothesis than earlier generations being on average too stupid to accomplish anything...
I'd also wager that our increasing usage of computers (including/esp. the handheld kind) to perform tasks that used to require us to use our brains plays a role (e.g., I don't bother calculating the tip at a restaurant anymore, I just have a phone app figure it out for me).

And this will only get worse... until we're like the Eloi, surrounded and dependent on technology no one understands anymore.
I agree that just using a credit card number and the expiry date is definitely bad, but I am not aware of any authentication solution that fully solves this problem (but please enlighten me if there is).
We know passwords have many problems.
Two factor authentication with SMS has problems with SIM hijacks.
Physical tokens (e.g. RSA tokens) have problems when users lose them.

Feel free to enlighten me if someone has a better solution for all of this.
Imagine if Facebook charged you $5 to reset your password.

TLS isn't like say, LDAP integration. One of those is a fancy enterprise feature you can totally charge for (and probably should), and one of those is a basic critical feature.

It would be unethical to charge $400/year to properly store user passwords as hashed instead of plaintext, wouldn't it?
I'd guess on the order of 5 years. Taking silicon from idea to mass production is something that takes a long time and this isn't something that Huawei has done before.

EDIT: Apparently Huawei has been developing their own ARM cores via architectural liscence so they might be able to hack together a poor solution in less time than that by sticking with ARM in the short term and they might be able to get a decent MIPS SoC (for pre-existing Android compatibility) working in less time than 5 years.
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Thanks for noticing that.
It definitely is not equal. Having a kid likely means much less time for side projects and continuous learning and has a huge impact on sleep quality. It will most definitely have a negative impact on skill and productivity unless one makes up for it with more grit and harder work.

Totally agree that the only viable solution is for men and women to share the burden more equally and that starts with near equal leave, as you said.

Won't change the advantage that people with no kids will have, but they are giving up on "the most wonderful thing in the world" to get it, after all.
I don't feel confident that Boeing would accept the cost of grounding the fleet the next time something serious-but-not-yet-crashing shows up.

They wouldn't even ground the fleet if death and destruction occurs. Like they didn't do after the Lion Air crash.

Even after the Ethiopian plane they tried hell and high water, including a call to the president, to not have the plane grounded.

It's clear that to Boeing, their numbers are more important than lives.

Absolutely. Nicely demonstrated by lies, deflections, omissions and still smearing everybody else but themselves after killing more than 300 people by bad design and greed.
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In Korea, Japan, and many similar tech powerhouses, the link was two ways. With maturing technology and a desire to guard it, they developed better policy for protecting IP rights.
Lol, you got me, they can put a sticker on magazines, so there's no difference between print and online advertising.
private repos aren’t private
See my comment above, the data in the Norwegian study is VERY suspect
i agree wholeheartedly with you but just to point out it does look like this is from 2003
Ever used one of those Huawei routers? If you had, I think you'd be in little doubt about the extensive copying of IOS. Also the documentation, CLI... the entire business model was being a cheaper Cisco clone.

You can pull down tons of news reports and even the court filings if you are motivated, but why? Huawei themselves publicly admitted to stealing Cisco's code, the only disagreement was about the scope. I suppose we should just accept at face value their claims, when caught, that it was just a little bit, and only by accident.

Cisco is the only source for any part of the actual expert opinion. Huawei naturally declined Cisco's invitation to permit publishing the entire report; one can imagine how unfavorable it would be.

Those published excerpts are smoking guns - concrete demonstration of wholesale cutting&pasting of Cisco source code, down to whitespace and comments, outside the scope of what Huawei was willing to admit to.

By that time, though, Huawei had already achieved commercial success, and could afford to start cutting fewer corners & better comply with international law. So their plan worked pretty well.

Huawei is right up there with semiconductor mfg as a poster child for government-condoned (even government-assisted) industrial espionage as a tool to bootstrap strategic industries.

I'm not convinced that Huawei will backdoor their 5G gear, but I'm definitely on board with the plan to bar them from US commerce. Why play fair with opponents who cheat?
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I'm afraid this theory fails the reality test. If it was that easy, and that certain Huawei would succeed and surpass ARM, they would have done it already and wouldn't need to be forced into it.
I agree that a clever person such as yourself can construct a metric such that Ruby is the only language that comes out.
The problem is that the money only goes to actual people eventually, not when it is earned. A beneficial owner can simply sit on their share of the company as it earns profits and becomes more valuable, and incur capital gains taxes if and when they sell. They can defer these taxes indefinitely - if they need cash, they can simply use the stock as collateral for a loan in lieu of realizing capital gains taxes. And when they die, the cost basis gets reset, wiping out whatever taxes have been deferred (and replacing them with estate taxes, if those haven't also been optimized away).
The scenario under discussion was the use of ablative surfaces to prevent damage. I'm not sure (I doubt) this is actually an effective countermeasure though.

Compensating for damaged control surfaces isn't impossible in all cases though, for the most part, fly-by-wire systems are servomechanisms which will scale their responses until the desired feedback is produced.
>What types of problems do you have in mind?

Search comes to mind. Traffic information systems are going to become more important. Also, everything related to fighting fraud, spam, etc.
Is this really the future we want for humankind?
I don't think recovery from deep stalls is actually much of a safety issue with airliners. Are there any instances where an airliner has deep stalled and then successfully recovered? By definition, a deep stall is one where standard stall recovery procedures won't be effective.
This will work for a short while, but consistent long term openvpn-matching packets are now seen the the GFW's automated dpi systems, eventually the IP of your non-china VPN endpoint will get blocked.
From his profile, it looks like his current company[0] is the platform and he's talking about clients. Cool concept, I know someone involved in engagement in a large public company who's trying to handle the culture of execs vs employees.

[0] cultivatelabs.com
Is "the boy" a patriarchic stand-in for the word "child", or what? It seems like some kind of in-group slang. Reminds me of the British expression "old boy", meaning "man".
You call that thriving?
I agree. The only thing I can say in its defence is that it's from 2003. Not a million years ago but I'd like to think we've moved on a bit in 16 years.
Based on history, it may be a pirate reverse-engineered Android OS.
While that may be true, it also seems to me (anecdotal) that schooling today involves a lot more 'creative play' and self guided exploration, and lot less rote learning than it did 50 years ago. I wonder if it's possible to untangle the effects.
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> Chinese culture does not place the same value on pioneering as the US.

That's clearly not true and is visible everywhere in China.

> is also incapable of tolerating diversity, dissent, and free thought.

That's not true.

Chinese culture tolerates diversity and uniqueness much more than Japanese culture, for example.

Discussions would gain in value if people commented on what they have at least a modicum of knowledge about and were open to learn others' cultures.
It is also based on Firefox, and when possible improvements it makes to Firefox feed back into regular Firefox, strengthening their position in an ever-less competitive browser market. Not something everyone cares about, but it could be relevant.
> And a 3nm ( Whether that is from Samsung or TSMC ) Nvidia GPU will likely be 2022 or 2023.

That seems really optimistic to me.
"feel janky and disjointed."

What technology were you playing?
I wonder if obesity can be at least partly to blame.

Anecdotally I've talked to some teachers who say that children's media nowadays is simplified. Less 'difficult' words, always explaining (never leaving things to be figured out by the consumer).
Counting hits on HSDir(s) and extrapolating a statistic.
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People do not realize that READING is the single greatest way to increase one's knowledge and, in effect, IQ.

The slow decline of reading as a source of information acquisition is a great way to explain what is going on.

No other medium--not video, not podcasts--can equal the strength of reading as a mechanism for moving information into the human brain.

READ.
This is actually the ideal solution. It has the additional benefit of being the most privacy-preserving system, since individuals are no longer required to file tax returns or be means-tested for benefits. Everyone receives the same benefits, and the taxes are collected indirectly via the corporations whose goods and services are bought by (potentially anonymous) individuals. Meanwhile, the accounts of corporations are subject to greater scrutiny, as governments focus their efforts on auditing them.
I think it's really hard to be creative when you spend your time worrying about all of that stuff. Most of my peers spend an inordinate amount of time stressing out about every item you list. They get locked into ways of thinking that are nearly identical to each other and that lockstep voice bleeds out into other unrelated areas. There's a lot of group think.

I don't worry about any of that stuff and have a lot of extra energy to explore random topics and generally more positivity to power my endeavours.

It seems the like overt consumer marketing of the 20th century has morphed into a social/political marketing in the 21st century. Because this is a new phenomena people don't seem to realize it's happening and instead blindly contribute their mind the borg, so to say.
I have not been this impressed for quite some time.
Indeed. Since capitalism is "lots of smaller dictatorships(companies) with a set of rules for all", and the migration to communism was "get rid of the smaller dictatorships and make a nation-wide dictatorship".

"Communism" ala USSR, North Korea, etc just moved the problem to a strictly worse area, and something you could not get away with. At least in capitalism, there are better and worse 'masters'.
A lot of digital nomads don't actually have the right to work in the country in which they are located
ARM has design centers in the USA so this doesn’t surprise me.
Probably not, you can only escalate this trade war so many times before it becomes unsustainable by one or both parties.

China will probably retaliate by banning a major US tech company, maybe Apple? Keep doing this a couple of times and pressure/lobbying/economic damage will force a resolution.
I'm fairly unhappy with the available options for iOS. The screenshots for your app look more like what I'm interested in. Any plans to release this for iPhone?